TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Chinese Media Demands PLA Punish Nancy Pelosi if She Visits Taiwan

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited Texas Republican Michael McCaul and several other influential members of the House to travel with her to Taiwan later this month, according to NBC News. Congressman McCaul declined the invitation because of a conflict with his personal schedule. However, he encouraged other House members to go with Speaker Pelosi to Taiwan in a show of force against China. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army used American missiles to blow up an important bridge vital to the Russian military. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 7/27/22. It’s the Final Day! The day when Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day!  https://rickwiles.com/final-day

The following program is made possible by the faithful prayers and financial support of listeners just like you. To find out how you can help, visit nothing but the truth, so help us God. I'm Rick Wiles. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited Texas Republican Michael McCaul and several other influential members of the House of Representatives to travel with her to Taiwan later this month, according to NBC News. Congressman McCaul declined the invitation, saying that it conflicts with his personal schedule. However, he encouraged other House members to travel with Speaker Pelosi to Taiwan in a show of force against China. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army used American missiles to blow up an important bridge in Ukraine

vital to the Russian military. Doc Burkhardt and I have much more to tell you today on this edition of True News. Interesting that Speaker Pelosi invited several other members of Congress to go along with her. Yes, and they're already declining. Yes, I'll be washing my socks that night.

Yeah, I can't go that day. Can't go that day. You know, I meant to look before I came out here. Maybe while I'm talking, you can look it up or Eric can do it for us. When does the House go into recess? We'll find out. All right, that's an important date to know.

So let's take a look at this NBC article. Pelosi invited senior lawmakers to join Taiwan trip, quoting Congressman McCaul, who is a very influential member, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee. Right. And we got two quotes from this NBC report. Right. So Representative McCaul, the ranking member on the Foreign Affairs panel,

said both he and Chairman Gregory Meeks from New York have been invited by the Speaker on an upcoming trip to the self-ruling island that China sees as under its control. Remember, NBC is writing this article. McCaul's comments are the first on-the-record remarks confirming Ms. Pelosi's trip to Taiwan. Her spokesman has declined to confirm any international travel for the speaker, citing longstanding security protocols, and the White House also has not confirmed the trip. But it's just general knowledge that it's underway.

Mr. McCaul, the Texas Republican, said he declined the invitation due to a personal obligation that conflicts with the visit. The trip is slated to take place during the Congressional August recess, although McCaul did not provide the exact dates. He says any member that wants to go should. It shows political deterrence to President Xi. McCaul, a China hawk, said in a brief interview in the Capitol, but Xi should also pay attention to the military if it's going to cause a blowback and escalate things. Well, Rick, is it going to cause blowback and escalate things? If you follow the Chinese and Asian media, yes. What we're seeing today in Chinese media is their news commentators are basically calling for blood. They're using words like punish Nancy Pelosi.

They want the military to do something to Nancy Pelosi that would prevent her from visiting Taiwan. Well, there's only fairly limited what you can do to prevent her from going to Taiwan, and that is refuse to allow her to land or blow her plane out of the sky. So, you know, one other possibility, this would be extremely embarrassing. What if the Chinese military jets forced her jet to fly to mainland China and land on a Chinese military base. Now, that would be embarrassing. It would be extremely humiliating, wouldn't it? I was thinking the other alternative is they'd force the plane to go to Guam and not land in Taiwan.

Yeah, but that's U.S. territory. Yeah, I understand. The humiliation would be... Do you remember, it was in April of 2001, just when George W. Bush became president, and the Chinese intercepted an American spy plane or reconnaissance plane, and they forced it to land on a military base in China.

And the Americans on the plane were apprehended. And, of course, they were under instructions by the military to destroy all the equipment before it landed. So we don't know what the Chinese got their hands on. But that was in the first three and a half months of the Bush administration. They tested him immediately to see what he was made of. Now, some people, and that was just speculation back then, some people believe that George Bush actually delivered the plane to China. It's like, why didn't they ditch the plane in the ocean? I mean, the Pentagon actually allowed them, I mean, they were being escorted by the Chinese military, but it was with the

approval of the Pentagon. Some people back then speculated that the Bushes hand-delivered an American spy plane to China. Others said, no, China was testing Bush to see, you know, was he like his father? How far could they push him? What could they get out of him? I'm bringing this up because there is precedent for the Chinese military forcing an American military plane to land in China on a military base. And short of shooting down Miss Nancy, the second worst thing that they could do

would be to humiliate her. Can you imagine the video? Just imagine the video released by China. House Speaker under military escort. And lands in China. But imagine the video of her

on the tarmac, surrounded by PLA soldiers. You want to talk about bad optics? That doesn't look good in campaign videos in the 22 midterm elections. And that's another thing that we need to consider here too. They are doubling down on this trip. I mean, they're inviting,

Mike Pompeo says he wants to go and others. Now they're inviting other members of Congress here. I mean- Well, what if they held her hostage? Yes. Nobody here would want to pay the ransom. They'd be stuck with her. They'd have to lower the ransom.

We get down to about $2. And nobody would pay the $2 to get Nancy out of jail. But they're not backing away from this, are they? No. They're doubling down. It's becoming more serious each day. Next one. This is South China Morning Post, Hong Kong.

U.S. aircraft carrier group heads towards Taiwan as tensions over Nancy Pelosi's possible visit continues to grow. Right, so China and the U.S. are building up their military strength around the Taiwan Strait as tensions rise over U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's possible visit to the island. The American aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group, including a guided missile destroyer and a guided missile cruiser, set out from Singapore on Monday heading northeast towards the South China Sea. That's according to ship tracking information provided by Beijing-based think tank in the South China Sea Strategic Probing Initiative.

It goes on to say a Chinese Ministry of Defense spokesman has warned that the People's Liberation Army would take strong measures if the speaker insisted on going ahead. U.S. officials have told the Associated Press that if her visit does go ahead, the military will increase its movement of forces and assets in the Indo-Pacific region. They said fighter jets, ships, surveillance assets, and other military systems were likely to be used to provide overlapping rings of protection for her flight to Taiwan and when she arrives on the island. And so now we're moving significant strategic assets into place to protect such a trip. To escort Nancy Pelosi. Which all this to me, Doc, seems like this is a deliberate escalation. The House speaker, come on, we're not talking about a county commissioner from Idaho. Right. We're talking about the speaker of the House who represented this.

All right. She she this is a calculated decision and it must have the support of the Biden administration. Even though they can't say it. They can't say it. But the war hawks, the ruling class that wants war, they're sending her. They're licking their lips over this, aren't they? This literally may be her swan song.

I mean, this may be it for her. Honestly, I'm being very serious now. Nancy Pelosi could die in this. The Chinese could blow her out of the sky. And I'm not ruling it out that they take that kind of action. Although I think the most likely thing is they will attempt to make her aircraft land on a military base on the mainland China, milk it for all the bad publicity that they can give her, humiliate her. Well, no, I think they may retain her.

That would be really amazing if they did that. Just imagine that. Imagine Biden has to negotiate for her release. I think he dragged that out for a couple weeks. What's the U.S. going to do? They put Nancy in a jail?

And what's the U.S. going to do? Think of the way the media impact would be back here in the U.S. Why did we even let her go in the first place? That would be the question, right? So now the other thing that can happen is the Pentagon has moved all these military assets

to the Taiwan region. And when the Chinese military jets attempt to intercept Nancy's jets, there's a dogfight. Right. And at that point, yes, she could get shot down. And you have a shooting war at that point. Right. Is it worth it?

Is it worth it right now? Why are we doing this right now? That's the question. What was the issue that demanded that Xi get on a plane and confront China by visiting Taiwan? But, Doc, back in, what was it, May? Remember, we talked about August. We kept picking up in comments by various neocons and European politicians, they kept mentioning August. And we said sometime there in May, something big is coming in August. Did we find the date yet of the House recess?

There's supposed to be a couple of reports saying really it's the entire month, a five-week August recess. But when do they go, when do they adjourn? That's what I was looking for. It looks like the beginning of the second week of August here on the calendar that we're looking at. Okay, so then what we're talking about is sometime after about the 15th, Miss Nancy could be flying to... Things could get really hot in the last two weeks of August.

And now you couple that with Ukraine, and maybe the Kerch Strait Bridge comes down in late August. And we'll talk about other bridges coming down today. Here's an article from South China Morning Post showing that China is continuing to ramp up its military prowess. China's sending troops and tanks to Russia ahead of next month's military games.

This is a joint military game with several nations. So in August? Yes. The Chinese People's Liberation Army is sending a delegation to Russia to take part in Moscow's international army games next month, the first time the event has been held since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Train-carrying personnel, military tanks, vehicles recently left Mazzuli, Inner Mongolia and China's north, headed to Zybikovsk in Russia's Far East, the military channel of state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday without giving further details. If nothing else, it shows that there is continued alliance between China and Russia and that China continues to improve on its military activities in anticipation for what the U.S. may do in the future. Doc, this next story out of Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, I think there's an ominous message in this. Xi Jinping tells cadres to prepare for critical moment for China.

Yes. So Xi Jinping is telling cadres to prepare for that critical moment ahead of the Communist Party Congress that's coming up. Provincial chiefs and central government ministers have gathered in Beijing to study President Xi Jinping's governing doctrines, a signal that the ruling Communist Party will soon hold its twice-a-decade Congress. State media reported on Wednesday that Xi had addressed the key officials at a two-day study session emphasizing the importance of the Congress,

which is expected to be held in the autumn. Now, the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a very important conference that will be held at a critical moment in our new journey of building a socialist modern country. Xi was quoted by state news agency Xinhua as saying, we will discuss in a scientific manner major policies that are related to the future of the party and the country, the future and destiny of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, he said.

So they're getting ready to reset the plan at this point, aren't they? Yes, but he says China's facing a critical moment. Right. What is the critical moment? Is it the war? Is he telling them we're going to war with America this fall? That's one possibility to consider the meaning of these words. Any time that somebody like Xi Jinping uses phrases like critical moment, then those are buzzwords that he is sending out to his fellow communists. That we've got a major decision to make here in the next few months.

All right. Let's take a look at the next one. Let's see. It is ABC Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. U.S. rocket system enables Ukraine to strike key bridge in Russian-controlled region. So who supplied the rockets? America. Right. And they took out a bridge today. Didn't take out the Kerch Strait Bridge.

No, it's not the big one yet. But this was a practice shot. That's right. And so this story is an important one for our viewers. So Ukrainian troops have struck a strategic bridge essential for Moscow to supply its forces occupying the country south as Russia pounded several areas in Ukraine with rocket and artillery strikes. The Ukrainian military struck the Antonovskaya bridge across the Dnieper River late on Tuesday. The deputy head of the Moscow-appointed

administration for the Kherson region, Kirill Stamosov, said the bridge was still standing but its deck was pierced with holes stopping vehicles from crossing. The 1.4-kilometer bridge sustained serious damage in Ukrainian shelling last week when it took multiple hits. It was closed for trucks but had remained open for passenger vehicles until the latest strike. Ukrainian forces used the U.S.-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to hit the bridge, Mr. Stamosov said.

Knocking the crossings out would make it hard for the Russian military to keep supplying its forces in the region amid repeated Ukrainian attacks. And as Rick said, this is really the practice run for the big target, which Ukraine has made very clear that is the Kyrgyzstrait Bridge, the big one. And you can see the Russian reaction in the next article, which is from Novosti. Russian foreign ministry says Russia may respond harshly to the increase in arms weapons supplies to Ukraine and this from Novosti an increase in the supply of Western weapons Kiev could

force Russia to move to a tough response proportional to the range of multiple launch rocket systems used by Ukraine Konstantin Gavrilov head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, said. He also noted that the performance characteristics of Western weapons and equipment used in Ukraine pose a threat to Russian citizens. Gavrilov also warned of more than serious consequences of the use of American MLRS by the armed forces of Ukraine on Russian territory. He went on to say, under these conditions, we will push neo-Nazis away from our borders in proportion to the range of missile systems used by Kiev. And then we'll see, the diplomatic concluded. So to translate

this, they're going to push further into Ukraine in response to this. If the U.S. missile system supplied to Ukraine has, let's say, a 300-mile range, then the Russian military is going to push 300 miles into Ukraine because they pose a threat to the Russian citizens living inside Russian territory. Yes. So the end of this is there's more war. There's more fighting.

The Russians are going to double down, and they said we're going to push the nazis away from the border in proportion to the range of the american missiles so you know we heard weeks ago various politicians and others said uh they emmanuel macron was the the main. We're expecting it to get ugly, nasty in August. Things are about to change. I was thinking it would wait until it would probably be October. But the way this is moving, I don't even think we're going to get to September. I think the fighting is going to really intensify in August, and especially with Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan to September. I think the fighting is going to really intensify in August, and especially with Nancy Pelosi going to Taiwan. Can you imagine the Kurtz Street Bridge goes

down and Nancy goes down in the same week? Oh, man. You're really in full World War III mode there. It's World War III. But you'll still have people going with it. World War III hasn't started yet. No, because it doesn't affect them. They don't see any missiles flying in the sky or anything like that. Not that they would even know it if it was. So how is NATO preparing for this change of atmosphere that's about to take place in August,

Rick? Well, I found an article today that the U.S. is transferring a dozen F-22 Raptors from Alaska to Poland. So there's one example, Doc. We're repositioning assets from the defense of the USA to the defense of Poland and Ukraine. Yes. So that's a significant change of assets there. But the U.S. military is supposed to defend the United States of America. So when you move assets out of the United States, they're not here to defend the United States in a war. And primarily, I mean, think about it. If they're in Alaska, who are they defending themselves against? The Russians. The Russians and the Chinese, too. So we're going to be seeing a

lot of this shifting around here over the next few weeks and few months. August is the key month to be watching here. Bloomberg reported today European energy prices keep soaring as Russia tightens supply. Remember, if you didn't hear the news this week, Russia has cut off 80% of the natural gas flowing through Nord Stream 1. 80% has been cut off as of this week. So within the next week,

probably we might be down to 90%. And by the time we get into August... Well, sorry, we had to shut the whole thing down. We've got to clean it or something. Well, European energy extended a scorching rally as Russia tightened its grip on the region's supply, further threatening the economy and key markets. Natural gas increased as much as 14 percent, and this is within two days. And prices are more than 10 times higher than the usual level for this time of the year as supplies through a key pipeline slumped. The surge is crippling Europe's industrial output,

driving up household bills and pushing inflation to the highest in decades. It's also fed through to the power market, with German futures rising to unprecedented levels before easing back a bit on Wednesday. Well, this has caused some political leaders to come out from the shadows. So ex-German Chancellor Schroeder, he is in Moscow this week, Rick, for talks on gas supplies. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has arrived in Moscow for energy talks. Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday.

Now, according to their sources, Russian gas supplies via the Nord Stream pipeline will be the focus of the talks. Now, the media outlet added that it was unclear with whom the former German chancellor would actually meet. Schroeder said earlier in an interview with the New York Times that it was impossible to isolate a country like Russia in the long run, neither politically nor economically. Well, at least somebody's wising up to that.

Yeah, this is true. You know, they're sending Schroeder because Schroeder has, when he was the chancellor, he had a fairly good relationship with Russia. And wasn't he the one that actually negotiated with Russia for the construction of Nord Stream 2? Yes.

So that's significant. So he does have some clout or a little bit of rep with Russia for the construction of Nord Stream 2. Yes. So that's significant. So he does have some clout or a little bit of rep with Russia. But what is he going to be able to negotiate? I mean, whoever he meets with, they're going to say, stop in the sanctions against Russia and stop shipping weapons to Ukraine. And he's going to say, I don't have any say over that. Well, then what are you doing here?

And they're going to put him on a plane and send him back. Right. Because those are the two issues. Russia is not going to back down on these two demands. End the sanctions and stop sending weapons. But Germany has to look like they're doing something, don't they? Yes. So they had to send Schroeder, bring him out.

We can't send anybody else. So they had to bring him out to go to Russia. Yeah. I'm surprised that Russia is allowing him in. I think they're going to maintain good relationships with him. There's no reason to insult him and not meet with him. On the flip side, other nations are restricting people from Russia to visiting them. Lithuania has put Patriarch Kirill on the black list.

Oh really? Yes, that happened today. The Orthodox Church Patriarch. So I guess these only work one way, right? Yeah, I mean they're banning Russians from traveling. The Russians, they're not interested in having this fight, Doc. I mean, you know that. Right. But they're not running from it. And they're starting to give the New World Order boys a taste of their own medicine. And this is only going to get worse

because those guys are too rock-headed to back down and change their tactics. They're going to push it right up to the limit, maybe beyond the limit. That's what worries me, that we'll actually push it to the point that there is a nuclear war. I hope and I pray that we don't get to this point, but everything is moving in that direction. There's nothing going in the right direction. Nothing. You can't point to one thing that's going in the right direction. Nancy Pelosi's, hey, I think I'm going to go fly to Taiwan and start a war with China. Biden, I'm going to send more rockets to Ukraine and blow up a big old bridge.

What are we doing? We're heading to war, full-scale war. Yes. We're already in a war, but we're heading toward full-scale war. And it's not limited to just Russia and Europe. There are other places where really this is an energy war that's going on in the world right now. Right now. And that earlier Bloomberg story about European energy prices story, there's two words to describe what's going on.

Economic disruption. Right. The crazy foreign policy of the West has disrupted the global economy. And hundreds of millions of people are suffering for it. Right. And we see it with the American people. If families struggling to have enough money and hundreds of millions of people are suffering for it. And we see it with the American people.

If families are struggling to have enough money to buy food and gas and necessities, you're seeing it in those smaller countries that we've already seen governments collapse because prices got so high that people revolted. This is economic disruption, and they can't blame it on Putin and the Russians. It's the West that did it. And like we said the other day, the West, we've taken our shoes off and pulled out a revolver and shot off our toes and then blamed Putin that we don't have any toes on her feet. We've done it to ourselves and it's about to get worse. We'll show you the next one. Yeah, look at this.

With Nasrallah. Nasrallah is the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon. This is out of the Jerusalem Post. Would Nasrallah really risk war with Israel over the Koresh gas rig? Apparently, Mr. Nasrallah has made a veiled threat that the Hezbollah may blow up Israel's gas drilling rig in the sea. Right. And this gas rig is part of a multi-nation deal

that had been coordinated back during the Trump administration, related to Leviathan and all that. So less than a month before the Kourish gas rig is set to start operations, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has upped his rhetoric, threatening to use force to stop Israel from extracting gas. If the extraction of oil and gas from Quresh begins in September, before Lebanon obtains its right, we will be heading to a problem, he said, and we'll do anything to achieve our objective.

Nasrallah said this in an interview on Ah Mayadin TV on Tuesday night. No one wishes for war and the decision is in Israel's hands, not in our hands. So what it comes down to, Doc, is Israel is claiming 100% rights on that gas. And it's disputed with Lebanon. And Lebanon's saying no. Right. Part of that is ours.

So what Mr. Nasrallah is saying, if the Israelis start pumping gas next month. Without making some sort of settlement with Lebanon. And that's August. Yes. That's August. What he's saying is, we might just blow it up. And not limited to that.

He went on to say, this is making a calculated gamble that the negotiations over the disputed maritime border will end in favor of Lebanon. If not, Nasrallah warned that all fields are under threat and that no Israeli target at sea or on land is out of the reach of the resistance's precision missiles. And so this could escalate, another region of the world, escalate quickly into a conflict. It's all over energy. Doc, it's believed that Hezbollah has several hundred thousand missiles. We're not talking about ICBMs. Right. We're talking short-range missiles. But if that number

is true, let's say they have 200,000 short-range missiles, that's like metal rain coming down out the sky. Imagine Israeli cities and towns and Hezbollah opens up their arsenal and just fires off 200,000 missiles at one time. You know what I mean? Within a couple days. Israel, then, is in total disarray. Israel would then be, the IDF would be invading Lebanon. You'd have all-out war in Lebanon. At the same time, you've got Taiwan and China and Ukraine, Russia, and NATO. This is what's called a world war. Right.

Everybody's involved. Everybody's fighting. It's just an old-fashioned bar fight. Everybody picks up a chair and starts swinging. And that's what it looks like. The North Koreans are getting ready to do a test of a nuclear bomb. Right. Hey, what a time.

I have to wonder about Nasrallah. He's got close ties with Iran. And you have to assume that the Iranians are sending messages to him, blow up the Israeli gas rig. The world right now is without natural gas. Yes. Blow up the Israeli rig.

Because what the Israelis are doing is they're rushing to open up. This is why it's happening. They're rushing to open up that rig to get Israeli gas to Europe. Yes. Okay? So the Israelis are telling the Europeans,

don't worry. We're going to speed up the start of our gas rig. We'll get the gas to you. What if Hezbollah blows it up? Well, now you're short again. And that's going to take years to rebuild the platform.

It's not going to come back online two weeks from now. It would be years. It's not going to come back online two weeks from now. It would be years. It's an ocean platform. I mean, the world is about to change. If all this stuff happens at one time, the world is about to change this fall. And look, this is why we've been encouraging our audience this month AND LOOK, THIS IS WHY WE'VE BEEN ENCOURAGING OUR AUDIENCE THIS MONTH TO ASK GOD FOR MIRACLE MONEY. AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE THINK WE'RE JUST DOING A CUTE LITTLE GIMMICK.

AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT WHAT IT IS. HONESTLY, IT'S NOT. THIS IS AN EXERCISE IN LEARNING TO TRUST GOD. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. trust God that's what we're doing while the Sun is out okay yes while the Sun is shining all right do your exercises okay build up your strength build up your muscles now learn to trust God and so this this exercise is just asking God for miracle money is a way to demonstrate that God is actively involved in your life. And a lot of you have already taken up the challenge.

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I might ask God for miracle money. Yep, drawings Friday night. Yeah, then I could donate a half billion to True News and I'd still have a half billion. I'd make the pledge. All right?

Everybody, everybody, all right? Everybody asks the Lord for the mega millions, all right? Wouldn't it be great if somebody in the True News family won the mega millions lottery? As a miracle money pledge. Miracle money. And then you're on television telling everybody, I heard it on True News, and I made a pledge, and I said, God, if you give me miracle money, hey, let it happen.

All right. So the next thing I want you to see, this is a Russian article. Russia's ministry defense has proposed changing the rules of passage along the northern sea route. This is a big deal. It is, because it all relates to freedom of navigation for any nation that decides to use the northern sea route. Now, the Ministry of Defense proposed to amend the federal law on internal seawaters, the territorial sea,

and the adjacent zone of the Russian Federation. Now, the explanatory note to the document indicates that the legal regulation in this matter is related to the procedure for passing along the northern sea route. Now the rules for navigation in the NSR waters in force in Russia apply only to commercial vessels but not to foreign military vessels and other vessels operated for non-commercial purposes since they have sovereign immunity. But if it only applies to commercial vessels, look at this map that we have here. So this gives you an idea. There are two major routes to supply Europe and

China to move goods from China to Europe and vice versa. And so you've got the Northern Sea route and you've got the northern sea route and you've got the southern sea route. All right, so let's just look at the map. Zoom in with your eyes on each country so you've got an idea of what we're talking about. You see Russia at the north, China at the south, India. To the left, there is Iran, Saudi Arabia.

The upper left is Europe. You see the Netherlands. And so you have a significant travel distance between the two routes. Obviously the northern sea route gives a great advantage. It cuts travel time for moving goods back and forth across the continent. That could significantly change things for Europe as well. Another supply chain problem that Europe would be faced because, let's face it Rick, it would impact Europe more than anyone else. Yes. So the Russians are saying, well, listen, you convinced Lithuania to stop trains from transporting goods to Kaliningrad. Right.

What could we do? Oh, we could establish new a ship across the northern route. So if it gets lost in a bureaucratic drawer somewhere, well, we don't know what happened to your application. It's missing. Igor's on vacation this month. He won't be back for two or three months and your ship's not going the russians are are simply retaliating they're responding with without um they're doing it in a legal way right all right they're saying saying, our laws govern this northern route.

And up until now, we've been pretty easy about it, but we're going to change it. We're going to make it very difficult for you to get past our country using the northern route. And you want to mess with us? We're going to mess with you. And they always do it in response, in equal response to what the West has done to them. Yes. So you're going to restrict our ability to transport goods and services by rail, by ship? Okay. We can play the same game. But each one of these notches the level of tension up just a little bit more.

So how does this make the world better? And why are we doing this? Let's see. We're fighting for Zelensky. Zelensky, the obscene, profane, foul-mouthed Ukrainian comedian. We're fighting for him. We're going to go to World War III, nuclear war for Zelensky. Well, he's the new Winston Churchill, don't you know?

Yeah, right. Boy, they cleaned up the internet really fast when people discovered his obscene videos. Right. Yeah, like his piano playing video. All right. They got that stuff, YouTube and all the social media platforms they

took those videos down quickly because they didn't want people to see the real Zelensky he's a puppet so I have nothing against the Ukrainian people I've got a Ukrainian grandson you know I've got a Russian grandson and a Ukrainian grandson, the same age. Do you know if those two guys had not been, and I told one of them two weeks ago, I said, do you know if you had not been adopted by our family, do you realize the two of you would be shooting at each other right now? You're in your earlys. One would have been in the Russian army and the other in the Ukrainian army. Shooting at each other.

Shooting at each other, okay? So I don't have anything against Ukrainian people, but the Ukrainian government is corrupt. And has been for a long time. That's why they haven't been admitted to NATO. Yeah, they're too corrupt for NATO. That's really bad. So why are we going to war over Ukraine? What is

it? We're fighting for democracy in Ukraine. That's what we're told. This is about democracy. But we have rigged elections in America. They're trying to put President Trump in jail. Oh, we have democracy here? Yeah. Hunter Biden is corrupt, but he's not going to go to jail. You know, I mean, they could do this stuff if it didn't end up in a nuclear war. I wouldn't care. Go play your political games. But people are suffering because of it. Even without a nuclear war, a lot of people's lives have been disrupted. And it's a self-imposed disruption. A self-imposed suffering. And they make it worse every day. Yes. Some new story comes out, well, we're going to be really cold this winter

now because now they're going to cut off supplies to Europe from the Northern Sea route. Here's another way. Here's the next two stories. I've been watching this for a couple weeks. Not a lot of talk in the U.S. about this. This Jerusalem Post, this story actually came out July 5th. Russia orders Jewish agency to stop all operations in the country. A Jewish agency, it's kind of like a Jewish United Way. Right.

And their primary purpose or their stated primary purpose is to help Jews relocate to Israel from Russia. Yes. So at least that's the forward statement that they put out there. For some reason, the Russian government has ordered the Jewish agency in Russia to cease and desist operations. Right. And so we have a quote from this Jerusalem Post article. And remember, this is the 1st of July.

The Russian government has ordered the Jewish agency to cease all operations inside the country, the Jerusalem Post has learned. The order was given in a letter received from the Russian Justice Ministry earlier this week. Officials in the Jewish agency confirmed that the letter was received. They would not comment, however, on the response that is currently under consideration in the organization's offices in Jerusalem in consultation with the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office. Now, there's a quote from this article that says, people from the Jewish community have been feeling the iron curtain settling on them, and they fear they won't be able to escape the country,

a senior source in Russia's Jewish community told the Post. According to one source, a number of Jews have said that the Russian authorities are trying to arrest them and that they fear for their lives. All right, let's talk about this for a minute. Doc, there are no Jews being held against their will in Russia. Any Jew that wants to leave Russia can leave right now. That article from Jerusalem Post is making it sound like the Jews are locked up in gulags and they can't get out and Putin is going to put them in concentration camps. No, that's not what this is about. And when it says some Jews are afraid they're going to be arrested, yes.

People who are doing illegal things in Russia against the Russian government. And what this comes down to is that the Russians have said enough of this. This Jewish organization is being used to instigate trouble in Russia. Or to gather intelligence. To gather intelligence. We're going to shut it down and force them to leave. Force the organization to leave. Not Jews.

Not the Jewish residents, the citizens. Just the Jewish NGO, which we all know that George Soros has funded NGOs, non-profits, to infiltrate countries and to sabotage those societies. That's a normal activity. And it's not just Jewish groups that do it. I mean, the U.S. government funds NGOs to do the same thing. The Russians have simply said, we're on to you, we know what you're doing, get out, leave. And it's not limited to just the Jewish agency either. Jerusalem Post now,

multiple Russian Jewish organizations sent warnings by the Russian government. So this article is from a couple days ago. It said multiple Jewish organizations in Russia have received, now this is what they're saying, threatening letters in recent weeks from the Russian Justice Ministry regarding their work similar to the letter received by the Jewish agency earlier this month, the Jerusalem Post learned.

The Jerusalem Post has learned that several Jewish organizations operating in Russia are in a similar situation to that of the Jewish agency. Translation, they're under investigation. The agency has received a letter from the Russian government that said it might be considered a foreign agent, which could result in the organization being forcibly closed down. What foreign country would be operating through that NGO? Well, what country is their headquarters? It's in Jerusalem, in Israel.

By the way, I don't think I brought, I didn't include it in our lineup of stories doc but a big story today in the Jerusalem papers is that Russia Russian troops in Syria attempted to shoot down Israeli warplanes with an S 300 S 300 over Syria so that article yesterday and so it's interesting that that's the first and this is the first time that's happened, or the first time reported. So what do we have? Putin knows which side Israel's on. Right. NATO side, the West. Yes. And Ukraine, Zelensky's Jewish, and Israel obviously is backing Zelensky. And the Russians are now moving out of the country everybody that they think is involved in seditious activity they're also letting Israel know

our friendship with you is going to come to an end we're going to shoot down your warplanes over Syria Syria is our ally stop bombing them if you send warplanes into Syria we're going to shoot them down. So we're looking at the possibility of Russia being at war with Israel. Now you just said a lot of Bible prophecy experts here are on fire. Oh, I know. I know. They're going to say Ezekiel 38 and all that kind of stuff.

No. No, that's not what it is. No, this is global war we're talking about. Jerusalem is clearly the harlot city. It is mystery Babylon. The Bible tells us the city where our Lord was crucified. It can't be more specific than that. So, yes, Israel plays a role in end-time prophecy, Where our Lord was crucified. It can't be more specific than that. Right.

So, yes, Israel plays a role in end-time prophecy, but it's not on the right side. Okay? They're on the other side. They're on the other team. And that team loses. I mentioned North Korea, number 35. This is Chosun Ilbo in South Korea.

United States forces Korea conducting its first live fire drill in three years. I'm not going to read the whole story. I want to get on to some of the other things. CNBC, China's property sales are set to plunge 30% worse than a crash in 2008. Yeah, this is a significant story, Rick. And that's also pairing it up with the people who are refusing

to make their mortgage payments, which is... The protest. Yes. And so China's property sales are set to plunge this year by more than 30% than they did during the 2008 financial crisis, according to new estimates from S&P Global Ratings. National property sales were likely dropped by about 30% this year, nearly two times worse than their prior forecast, the rating agency said, citing a growing number of Chinese homebuyers suspending their mortgage payments. Such a drop would be worse than

in 2008 when sales fell by roughly 20 percent, Esther Liu, director at SP Global Ratings, said in a phone interview Wednesday. Rick, what are your thoughts on this? We've got another real estate crash in the works right now. The China drop in 2008 was 20%. They're now saying 30%. So that means the economic crisis that's on our doorsteps right now is worse than 2008. And we didn't have World War in 2008. And this is a significant impact on the U.S. too. The reason being is a lot of investment funds,

a lot of pension funds have invested in index growth stocks on China property. And you lose 30% of your pension fund. What happens then? It starts collapsing. You don't have funds to make pension payments. That's what happens. But look at the same things happening in the U.S. This is a New York Post.

U.S. home prices to plunge substantially on a cratering demand. Yes. So U.S. home prices are on the cusp of a major correction due to cratering demand among cash-strapped buyers, a prominent economist warned in a note to clients on Tuesday. Ian Shepardson, a chief economist at Pantheon Macro Economics, noted that single-family home listings have surged by 40%

in the last four months, even as unit sales plummet due to sky-high prices and rising mortgage rates. So given current conditions, U.S. home prices are likely about 15 to 20% overvalued compared to incomes, according to Pantheon's calculations, setting the table for major declines. Now, they went on to say that the market is adjusting to a new reality with much lower sales volumes and far more inventory. Prices, therefore, have to adjust to the downside, likely quite substantially, Shepardson said. Sales of new single-family homes plunged by 8.1% to 590,000 units in June, Commerce Department data showed on Tuesday. Sales have now fallen to their

lowest level since 2020, according to Reuters. Rick, you take in from year to year, we're down 50%. So from one year ago today, home sales are down by 50%. But the other key factor is now housing starts have just about hit bottom. So people are saying, I'm not going to build a new house now. And when you don't build a new house, the ripple effect throughout the economy, the lumber, appliances, carpet, name all the stuff that goes into a house, there's a ripple effect that affects all of the other industries and then you see layoffs um and then you have the fed today that hiked interest uh rates another three-quarter point so uh that's going to further constrict the housing market even more um this is

this is big if you were thinking about selling your house, it's too late. There might be some selected markets, but really... Here in Florida, it's still strong because people are fleeing Democrat states that come to Florida. This state is red hot right now. There's construction everywhere. If you're in construction and you're running out of contracts or work, you need to get yourself to Florida because everywhere you look, there's building going on, commercial and residential. But it's because there's so many people fleeing the Democrat-controlled states that they're coming to Florida. But the rest of the country, the real estate,

the market has changed. You've missed the top. And the house that you're in, you're going to be in it for another seven to eight years. The cycle's about a seven to eight year cycle. And so just sit tight. The only way, I mean, obviously the Lord can do anything. That's where you get miracle testimonies that in a housing downturn, you were able to sell

your property and get a good price for it. That's a testimony to God, but it's not the normal right now. You will need God to do it. Yes. So the problem is now that we have to understand that there are cycles that go up and down. If you had capital in 2008, man, there were bargains out there. But, Rick, if we're moving into a war cycle here, which looks like we rapidly are.

We've been in a war cycle., which looks like we rapidly are. We've been in a war cycle. It just hasn't happened. We're in the war cycle. We've been in it for years. So we're in the fourth turning. And the fourth turning has a major crisis, usually a war. World War II was a fourth turning. Civil War was a fourth turning.

So they usually turn out to be the fourth turning crisis usually are big wars. And each war gets worse than the previous fourth turning. And if you're wondering what I'm talking about, 2000... Early 2000s. Early 2000s. Okay, early 2000s. And it's a book about generations. It's a trend over 500 years. And there's four turnings. These are generations.

And in the fourth turning, there's a crisis. We're in the fourth turning right now. 1996. Is that when it was published? 96. Yeah. So there's going to be some type of crisis and it will threaten the existence of the country. It hasn't happened yet. I mean, when the COVID pandemic started, I thought this may be it. This may be something that goes down in the history books that takes out, you know, 40, 50% of the population.

I mean, we didn't know what it was going to be when it started. But really, that was the fire drill, wasn't it? It was the fire drill. Okay, so don't forget about the deagle.com predictions. Years ago, that the population of the United States in the year 2025 were only two years away. Would be 90 million. 90 million people, 90 or 99 million.

Right. That means two-thirds of the American population are going to disappear, and nobody knows who Deagle is or was, and nobody knows where these figures came from. And now they've taken that off the Deagle site. Yeah, it's all gone. It's all gone. It was up there for years and years and years. Yes. With a lot of other very accurate information that somebody painstakingly

kept current. But it's no longer there. And we're in a forced turning and all these things are coming together at one time. Economic crisis, war crisis, energy crisis, it's all converging at one time.

You need God. It's just as simple as that. You need God. And you need to be close to him. You need to run to him. You need to get under his wings. His arms are like wings and they protect his flock. And just get under his arms and cry out to him and just say, I need you, Papa. I need you to protect me and my family. Provide for me. He's big enough to do it. He'll take care of you. We may see some difficult times, but the main thing is that our lives be right with the Lord. And then you can have peace. You have total peace that no matter what happens,

you are at peace with your maker. And that's what I want everybody to do, to have peace with your maker. Doc and I will be back here tomorrow. Make that pledge to the Lord for miracle money. Don't let anything hold you back. Don't let unbelief or pride. You know what I thought about, Doc?

I think some people, their pride won't let them make the pledge. What do you mean? Oh, I'm not going to say something like that, miracle money. I'm too sophisticated. I'm too educated. I'm too macho. I'm too tough.

That's not something I would do. And then I've got to tell people. I think the fear is they're afraid that God's going to do it, and then they're going to have to tell people, and that's not going to be cool for their image. Really? Are you at that state right now?

Is that where you're at right now with all this going on in the world? You need to be talking about your father. Brag about him. Don't let pride, don't let any of those things hold you back from trusting him. And let me ask you a question. When, I ask you two questions. When's the last time you saw God actively involved in your life? Where you can say, that was God. That thing happened. That was God. There's no other explanation for it.

It was God. And number two, when is the last time you verbally boasted about God to the people around you, including nonbelievers? When's the last time your mouth has glorified God? Now, those are two questions you need to ask. How long has it been? When's the last time your mouth has glorified God? Now, those are two questions you need to ask. How long has it been? I think this is the reason for the Miracle Money inspiration to spur some of you to do something you haven't done for a long, long time,

and that is just trust the Lord and then testify. Boy, I love the old churches, man. When I was a young Christian, you know every Sunday a preacher would say, anybody want to stand up and testify? Yes. And people would jump up from their pews, raise their hand.

Pastor, I got to tell you what the Lord did for me on Tuesday. I haven't seen that for years. You know why? They don't have anything to testify about. Right. Because faith isn't being taught in the churches. Why should you teach faith if you got everything? Remember the Bible says about those,

I'm full. I have need of nothing. I need faith. I need it. Yes. I need it. I have need of nothing. I need faith. I need it. Yes. I need it because I know that times are not going to be good forever. Yep.

I remember my son, Jeremy, he's in his 40s now. But he had a dog named Toby. And Jeremy was about five years old when he got Toby. Somewhere about the age of I don't know, 11 or 12, Toby got kidnapped. He really did. He got kidnapped.

We didn't know what happened to him. He disappeared and he was gone for two weeks. Everybody had written off the dog. He's gone. He's done. He probably got hit by a car somewhere. You know, the buzzards have already eaten him.

You know, all the negativity. So you didn't know what had happened to him at this point. Had no idea what happened to him. And, you know, so all Job's friends were telling my son, Jeremy, the dog is gone. You know, he probably got hit along the road and a buzzard has already eaten him. I tell 12-year-old kids that.

But Jeremy grew up in a house that had faith. We had faith. And Jeremy asked the Lord to show him where Toby was at. Doc, two weeks went by. No sign of this dog at all. And here's what happened. Two things happened on the same day.

Two weeks later. This is a true story. I went to visit my uncle and aunt. And we would often take Jeremy and Carissa over to their house on a Saturday morning. And as we were leaving, my uncle said, man, something odd happened here earlier this morning. I said, what? He said, well, there were some kids here knocked on the door selling candy or something like that, fundraiser. And I asked them what school they went to.

And it was a school that was about 12, 15 miles away. And I asked, Well, what are you doing over here? Why aren't you selling candy over in your town? It was a good question. Why aren't you selling candy over in your town? Okay. Okay? It was a good question. Then as the kids were leaving, my uncle was watching them out the window and he saw a neighborhood dog on the sidewalk and the father driving the, put the dog in the car. Now, this wasn't Toby.

No, it was a neighborhood dog. Okay. And my uncle witnessed it. So someone pulled up, grabbed the dog, and put it in the car? No, the parents of the kids that were selling the candy. Oh, okay, grabbed the dog and put it in the car. Yes, right. Okay.

So he's telling us the story. So later, we went to the pound. It was SPCA. And I went in once again. I'd been checking with them. Have you found our dog? All right. And I would promise Jerry, we'll go over to the pound.

We'll walk through. We'll go to all the cages, make sure that he's not in the pound. So we were there again. They were used to us. We'd been there many times in two weeks. And so Toby wasn't there. And as we're going out the door of the kennel, one of the workers said, hey, I don't know why, but I just feel like I need to tell you something. Well, see, when somebody says that, that's the Holy Spirit.

Right. Listen very carefully. Yes. Listen, listen, listen. So I stopped and said, what? And she said, there's a suspicious house about 10 miles from here, and we've been watching them. Why are you watching them? Well, that man has a lot of dogs in his backyard,

more dogs than normal. And we're suspicious about where he's getting all these dogs. You got an address? Sure. Okay, give me the address. So we drove over to that house, which happened to be in the vicinity of the school that these kids were selling candy.

Right. Actually, it turned out to be their kids. That house? That house. That very house? Yes, the very house. The one that kidnapped the dog. I knocked on the door, and I said, do you have my son's dog? That kind of wasn't the most diplomatic way to start the conversation. I just looked at the guy. I said, do you have my son's dog? He goes, no.

I said, I have reason to believe you have my son's dog here. And it was tense. Jeremy ran off the porch. Again, he's about 11 years old. He ran off the porch. And I can't watch him because I'm dealing with the father. Right.

Okay? And he and I are staring at each other. And a few minutes later, Jeremy comes around the corner of the house, up on the porch, and he's got Toby. And I said, so where was he? He goes,

he was on the back porch. He said, he heard my voice, and he started barking, and I knew it was Toby, and I went in. He said, I opened up the screen door

and got Toby out, and I saw him looking at the guy, and I'm going, you thief. You stole my son's dog two weeks ago. And he goes, my children love that dog. My children love that dog. Well, my son loved that dog, too.

It's his dog, okay? The point of the story, that was a miracle, okay? For an 11-year-old boy, that was a miracle. Okay. For an 11 year old boy, that was a miracle. That he remembers the rest of his life. He still tells the story. All right. He stood up in church one Sunday and asked the entire congregation, would you please pray that I find my dog. The entire church prayed. The next time he's in church, I found my dog. The Lord led me to the man that kidnapped my dog. He testified before the whole congregation. When's the last time you've heard a testimony? When's the last time you've been in church and somebody has stood up and said, I can't keep this in me. God did

something for me. Where are the testimonies of faith? Well, you know, the Bible says that Satan is defeated in our lives by two things. Yes. The blood of the Lamb, and a lot of people claim the blood of the Lamb, but also by the word of our testimony. It takes both. It takes both. It takes both. You can't have a testimony without a test. Yes.

And your faith has to be tested. That's right. So people that are in Christ, and they're always, I plead the blood of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus. Okay, that's fine. But where's your testimony?

Right. You defeat the devil with both yes to agree to the lamb and the word of your testimony and this is what we're trying to get you to do is have a testimony it's a simple thing called miracle money okay if you don't like miracle money come up with something else right I believe God for something use your faith and get an answer from heaven and then stand up and testify. All right. Just like the old country song, stand up and testify. Tell people what Jesus did for you. That's what we're trying to do right now. We're just trying to light a fire under you.

Yep. Trying to light a fire. That's it. Okay. And folks, when this starts happening, it gets exciting. It gets fun. And you get, I look forward to reading the testimonies that we receive. I'm waiting for somebody in the true news audience to win the mega millions next week. And we receive $500 million and you get to keep 500 million. How about that? Your head. That's awesome. Or do the cash payout of 300 million each. Absolutely. It'd be fantastic. All right. We'll see you tomorrow. We love you very much. God bless you.

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