TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Patriarch Kirill Warns West: Destroying Russia Will Mean End of the World

Episode Date: January 20, 2023

The world is teetering on the edge of nuclear war, but are people aware of it? How many people are discerning the times? The spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church told his flock that the desire of Western leaders to destroy Russia will result in the end of the world. According to Patriarch Kirill, the root of the problem is that some “madmen” believe that Russia, which “has powerful weapons and is populated by extremely strong people… who had never given in to an enemy and had always emerged victorious, could be defeated under the current circumstances.” Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 1/19/23 You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielfIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day. https://www.rickwiles.com/final-day

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Let's read the report published by Russia Today. Russian Orthodox Church Issues Apocalyptic Warning. Doc, you don't see headlines like that very often. No, not coming from the head of a major branch of the Christian faith, certainly. The article says that any attempts to destroy Russia could spell disaster for the entire world. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, warned on Thursday. He said that speaking after religious service marking the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany, the prelate, the primate claimed that both

the international community and Russia are facing very huge threats. So after he had delivered his CLAIM THAT BOTH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND RUSSIA ARE FACING VERY HUGE THREATS. SO AFTER HE HAD DELIVERED HIS EPIPHANY MESSAGE, RICK, HE HAD SOME PERSONAL COMMENTS TO MAKE. NOW, ACCORDING TO PATRIARCH KURIL, THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT SOME MADMEN BELIEVE THAT RUSSIA, WHICH HAS POWERFUL WEAPONS AND IS POPULATED BY EXTREMELY STRONG PEOPLE, WHO HAD NEVER GIVEN IN TO AN ENEMY AND HAD ALWAYS EMERGED VICTORIOUS, populated by extremely strong people who had never given in to an enemy and had always emerged victorious, could be defeated under certain circumstances. Neither would it be possible to impose on them certain values that cannot even be called values so that they would be like everyone else and obey those who have the power to control most of the world, he noted. We pray to the Lord so that he enlightens

those madmen and helps them understand that any desire to destroy Russia will mean the end of the world. So this is coming from the head of the Orthodox Church, which has tremendous influence in Russia. It's the state church. Like Rick says, the state church. You can't, you know, we separate church and state here. In Russia, it's intertwined together. I mean, you can't separate the two. Doc, notice what he said. This is in quote four.

Neither would it be possible to impose on them, meaning the Russian people, certain values that cannot even be called values. Well, he's talking about America's deviant sexual values of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, drag queens all this pornography all this stuff that is spewing out of the west and the patriarch said these are not even values he's right they're not values how can you value sin

how can you put a value on sin well Satan would I mean that's literally what he's saying about us that that we're satanic, that we are promoting sin and calling it values. And then imposing those values on God-fearing people. Right. Holding other countries hostage until they adopt our values. And the other thing that he said in that sentence, he said, we pray to the Lord. Now he knows who the Lord is, the Lord Jesus Christ.

We pray to the Lord so that he enlightens those madmen. The madmen are the leaders of the West. Yes. Helps them to understand. Now this is what jumped out to me. That any desire to destroy Russia. He didn't say an attempt. He didn't say an attack. He didn't say if attack. He didn't say,

if you madmen attack Russia, it will mean the end of the world. He said, if you have the desire to destroy us, if you're thinking about it, if that's the desire of your heart to destroy us, it will end in the demise of the world. desire of your heart to destroy us, it will end in the demise of the world.

If you people just continue to talk about it. That's much more serious than saying if you launch an attack on us. Or strike him back. Yeah, he said if you continue to think about destroying us, if you continue talking about destroying Russia, what you're going to get is the destruction of the entire world. I didn't see that before, but now looking at that, that's an even more dire warning there for the West.

So this is the highest spiritual leader of Russia, and he has issued a warning about the end of the world. Doc, why isn't this on every newspaper headline in America? Why isn't it on CNN and Fox News? Why isn't every Christian media organization in America today, why haven't they stopped their programming and said, ladies and gentlemen, we have this important, urgent,

emergency announcement. The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church said today that we are facing the end of the world. Christ is coming. There's nothing here. No, because there's too much invested in the media, in politics, and in the church today

in making Russia the enemy and anything associated with Russia the enemy. And so even if someone as honorable as Patriarch Kirill says something like this, it can't be right because he's Russian. Yes. The sin of the West, their lust for sin. It's not that the West has become sinful.

They now lust for sin. It's an insatiable hunger for more sin. And to push sin everywhere it can go. And to threaten people with military extermination if they don't accept our sin. Or economic destruction if we don't submit to them. But America and the West, the collective West, if their lust for sin has blinded their eyes to see the truth about the warnings that are being issued, they're so deluded by their sin that they don't even recognize the warnings that are being issued. That really is, you know,

says it all about the state of America right now and Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, the European Union. We're so, as a people, we're so engrossed in our gross sins. Yes. That's a good phrase there.

That we don't even see and hear the warnings that our destruction is nigh. That's the saddest thing. I said to you just before we started the stream, I can imagine after the Lord Jesus Christ comes back saying to him, Lord, you want to know what the strangest thing was on earth before you came back? The signs of the end of the age were everywhere and nobody believed it. Nobody believed it. The signs were there everywhere and nobody believed it. We just

were sleepwalking into the end of the world. Yes. And only a small remnant of your church was awake. That's what I see is the most strange, bizarre description of modern society right now. We're on the edge of destruction. And God is sending warnings. He's sending messages. And there are people watching, listening to us today. You cannot go past today without saying you have not been warned. I'm going to say, look, last summer, last summer, Doc, we were on national television. I tried one more time on national television, national Christian television networks. And I kept that program as low key as I could make it.

We tried to just only talk about the word of God, bring up no news. The one network warned us, you cannot talk about the news. Folks, this is real. The one big Christian television network that we were on warned us, you cannot talk about the news. Folks, this is real. The one big Christian television network that we were on warned us, you cannot talk about the news on this new show you're doing. And one day, I just said, I looked in the camera and I said,

this is like July of last year, and I said, this is like July of last year, and I said, if God does not intervene and if there is not repentance in the land, we could be in a nuclear war by December. And the very next day, the president, the co-founders of that network canceled our program because I said that. Can I tell you something? That man died a couple of days ago. He's dead.

Doc, if I would have said to you last July, Doc, that Christian television leader who just canceled us because I warn people to repent and be born again, and come to Christ before there's nuclear war. If I said to you last July, Doc, in six months he's going to be dead, would you have believed it?

Not at that time. But he's dead today. But he is dead today. But he is dead today. I wonder what Jesus said. Did he say, you blocked my men from speaking the truth and you blocked them in my name.

Think of that sin. You used my name to block the real preachers from speaking the truth. And then you replaced them with men who would not tell the people to repent. He's not alive anymore. This is really serious, folks. This is very serious. And I've said many times, I never asked for this job.

I didn't apply for it. I didn't even want it. And you quit a whole bunch of times. I quit a lot. But the Lord won't let me quit. And he just says, go back out there and tell them again. Tell them again and again and again. Repent.

Destruction is coming. The end of the world is coming. Christ is coming back. Tell them again. But Lord, they don't want to hear it. Tell them again. Lord, Christ is coming back. Tell them again. But Lord, they don't want to hear it. Tell them again. Lord, they shut me down. Tell them again.

Lord, they're opposing me. Tell them again. That's been the history of my 25 years of ministry. Doors shut in my face. I get frustrated. Lord, I can't do this anymore. And he says, do it again. And that's what I've done, Doc.

You've watched it in real time. In the years that you've been here, you've seen the frustration. You've seen the weariness. Here I am again. Started this program, May 24, 1999, telling people to repent.

Because destruction was coming. And here we are. So now it's January 2023. And what am I talking about? The head of the Russian Orthodox Church today told the entire body of Christ in Russia, the end of the world is nigh. The West is ruled by madmen. If they continue to threaten us,

their desire to destroy our country will result in the end of the entire world. He didn't say the destruction of the West. He said the end of the world. He didn't say the destruction of the West. He said the end of the world. Yes. So I'm going to tell you again, those of you who have yet to submit to Jesus Christ as Lord, and I'm not going to, I'm not going to do this nicey thing. Oh, come on now. Jesus to come on and just give your heart to Jesus. Say this little prayer and ask Jesus to come into your life and all that. I'm not going to tell you that. I'm telling you to get on your knees and submit to Jesus Christ as King and Lord.

Repent before Almighty God of the wicked sins you've committed throughout your life. Ask him to forgive you. Be born again. Let his spirit come into you and quicken your dead spirit so that it comes alive and then be baptized in water by immersion in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. That's what I'm telling you to do. Some of you are rebels, and yet you watch me day after day after day, and you refuse to submit to King Jesus. How do I know whether Jesus is your King, whether you obey him. Obedience is proof. Obedience is proof that he is your king.

If you don't obey the king, he's not your king. You're a rebel. You're a lawbreaker. You're a rebel. There's a lot of rebels and lawbreakers inside churchianity.

And watching today. And watching right now. Nazi lovers, Hitler lovers, fornicators, adulterers, pornography addicts. You're out there and you're engrossed in your sins and you love it. You love your sins. It's one thing to be addicted and want to get out of the sin, but it's another thing to love your sin and to think that you're saved. That is absolute lunacy to love your sin and think that you're saved. I just don't get it.

I don't get it. I don't get these people that watch us and then hate us. Tell us how wrong we are. And keep coming back. And keep coming back because they're under conviction, but they're not under submission.

Your pride won't let you submit to King Jesus. You're under conviction. You'll come back day after day to hear more of Rick and Doc, but you won't bow your knees before King Jesus. I'm telling you, your time is running out. Your time is running out. Let's take a look at what Dmitry Medvedev said.

Former president of Russia, current deputy chairman of the Russian National Security Council. This is what he posted on Telegram this morning. That's right, Rick. So he's talking about the upcoming meeting in Germany tomorrow. He says tomorrow at NATO's Ramstein base, the great military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as the supply of new heavy weapons and strike systems to Ukraine. And this was right after the forum in Davos, where underdeveloped political partygoers repeated like a mantra, to achieve peace, Russia must lose. And it never occurs to any of the poor to draw the following elementary conclusion from this.

The loss of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war. The nuclear powers did not lose major conflicts on which their fate depends. He's saying a lot in that particular quote there. This should be obvious to anyone, even to a Western politician who has retained at least some trace of intelligence. And so basically he's saying, you think that we can just settle all this

in a conventional war setting? No. A nuclear-powered nation is not going to lose in the end. They may lose some battles in a conventional setting, but they are not going to lose the war because they'll take everybody out with them

in a nuclear exchange. And they have the philosophy. You can agree or disagree. They had the philosophy, if there's no Russia, then why does there need to be a world? And that was reflected in Patriarch Kirill's epiphany message as well. So both of these messages dovetail today. Right. These are two very important messages that came out of Russia today. They both dovetail. Medvedev said it and Kirill said it. If you even think about destroying Russia, it's going to result in the end of the world.

And both in Patriarch Kirill's message and in Mr. Medvedev's message is that underlying current that Russia and Russians must be eliminated. It's not a matter that they just lose. They need to be eliminated. That's the West attitude. Well, if you listen to the talking heads, the warmongers

in America and Europe, they want the Russians to be destroyed. I mean, there is vile hatred of the Russian people. And if you had this kind of hatred towards any other nation, you would never be allowed on television in America. Right. Imagine saying

Israel must be destroyed. We cannot stop until Israel is destroyed. They must be brought down. They must lose. You couldn't say that. Nobody could say such things. But we can about Russia.

You can about Russia. We can about Russia. There is a, it is a odd, strange, bizarre hatred of Russia. And the Russian people are not my enemies. I'm not going to allow these madmen to tell me who my enemies are. I refuse to go down that road. I'm not going to let anybody tell me, Rick, these are the people you have to hate. I don't have to hate anybody.

And I don't hate anybody. I don't hate the Chinese. I don't hate the Israelis. I don't hate... There's nobody I hate. There's nobody I hate. I hate the devil. That's hate. I hate the devil. That's it. I hate the devil.

But we're told that we have to hate Russia and the Russian people. I mean, that's the line that they push out there. And if we hate somebody, we have to destroy them. We have to eliminate them. We get emails from people furious with, you guys are Russia lovers. No, we're just saying we don't hate Russia.

We don't want a nuclear war. And they haven't done anything to me that justifies destroying their nation. There's some insane desire in the leaders of the West to destroy Russia. It's really, it's very bizarre, Doc.

It's very bizarre. Who was it? Medvedev the other day, I think, who was it? Who from the United States met with a Russian, with a Japanese leader? Well, Mr. Biden met with the Japanese minister last week

because they were a new military deal. Yes, okay, that's what it was. That's what it was. And, you know, Medvedev said, so there was, you know, Biden and the Japanese leader talking about a military alliance against Russia. Yes. And he goes, but we didn't use atomic bombs on you.

The country that used atomic bombs in Japan... You're partnering with them. You're partnering with the very people that blew you up with atomic bombs. Now, I don't want to get into the World War II thing, but the point he was making is Russia never attacked you with atomic bombs. Now I don't want to get into the World War II thing, but the point he was making is, Russia never attacked you with atomic weapons. The United States did, and you're getting into an alliance with them to attack us.

This is crazy. Yes. Lavrov, Sergey Lavrov, he spoke yesterday. Yeah, he stirred up some trouble. Oh, man, this is how it routes in this paper in Tel Aviv, Israel. Lavrov accuses the West of seeking the final solution of the Russian question. Well, you're not allowed to say those words. That's right.

You can't say. Only certain people, certain privileged people can say the words final solution. But Mr. Lavrov, he brought that out. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused the U.S. of assembling a coalition of European countries to solve the Russian question. In the same way that Adolf Hitler had sought a final solution to eradicate Europe's Jews. Now you can understand why he had stirred up so much trouble. He spoke at a press conference in Moscow, and Lavrov accused the U.S. of assembling the countries.

Now, the longtime foreign minister, this is number 11 for control, who drew fierce condemnation from Israel after accusing Ukraine's Jewish president, Vladimir Zelensky, of Nazism last summer, said Washington was using the same tactic as Napoleon and the Nazis in trying to subjugate Europe in order to destroy Russia. Now, using Ukraine as a proxy, they are waging war against our country with the same task, the final solution of the Russian question. Justice Hitler wanted a final solution to the Jewish question.

Now, if you read Western politicians, they clearly say Russia must suffer a strategic defeat. Now, it went on to say there that the Holocaust was the darkest moment in the history of humanity and a unique event, as spokesman for the Israeli foreign minister told Haratz. In other words, Mr. Lavrov, you're not allowed to say final solution. Any comparison or relating current events with Hitler's final solution plan for the extermination of the Jewish people distorts the historical truth, desecrates the memory of those who perished and the survivors

and should be strongly rejected. Such comparisons are unacceptable. So in other words, if we say that Russia is, or if Russia says they're trying to eliminate us as a nation and as a people, does that sound familiar? Does that sound like something that maybe has happened in the past that we can compare it to? No, he's not allowed to compare that at all. But if there were a Jewish nation in the 1940s in Europe and let's say someplace in Europe, there was a Jewish nation and that Jewish nation

believed that surrounding nations were going to try to destroy it. And that nation, that Jewish nation had nuclear weapons. They would have used them. Yes. Why? For their survival. Because their survival. And they would have been justified. So, Doc, if, you know, try to give an analogy to it. So if you and I were in an argument

and there was bad blood between the two of us, and you started saying things like, Rick, I know what you're planning to do. You want to kill me. You want to destroy me. You want to kill me. What would be a rational person's response? It would be, Doc, why do you feel that way?

Don't say such words. I don't have that kind of thought. Let's calm down. Let's calm down. But if you kept saying, no, I know what you're up to. You're planning to destroy me. Take everything I own and destroy me.

So if my behavior and my words confirm and affirm that your fear, your paranoia is exactly what I'm thinking, then it would drive you to get a weapon and strike at me before I'm able to hit you.

That's the mindset of the Russians right now. The West is not saying to Russia, what are you talking about? That's right. They're not saying that. We have no desire whatsoever to be at war with you. They don't's right. They're not saying that. We have no desire whatsoever to be at war with you. They don't deny it.

They don't deny it. They don't deny it. And the Russians have come to the place of openly saying, we know exactly what you're planning to do. You don't just plan to defeat us.

You plan to eradicate us. And I'm telling you, that is the spirit of Antichrist. YOU DON'T JUST PLAN TO DEFEAT US, YOU PLAN TO ERADICATE US. I'M TELLING YOU THAT IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST. THERE'S NO ONE IN THE WEST THAT'S SAYING, THAT'S ALL WRONG, YOU'VE GOT THE WRONG PICTURE. NO, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO ERADICATE YOU. WE JUST WANT TO SOLVE THE ISSUE IN UKRAINE. NO, THEY ARE SAYING THINGS LIKE, RUSSIA MUST LOSE, RUSSIA MUST BE DRIVEN OFF THE MAP, THEY MUST BE DISENGAGED FROM THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM, things like Russia must lose. Russia must be driven off the map.

They must be disengaged from the financial system, from everything else. They need to cease to exist as what they are now. Their president ought to be assassinated. Yes. These are the words

coming out of Western leaders. They don't deny that they are trying to eradicate Russia. They don't deny it. And the Russians are now openly saying, we know what your plans are, and we're getting ready to take action. That's what Nevada and Kirill said today.

We know what you plan to do, and we're going to take action. And for the most senior foreign minister of the Russian nation to say, you guys aren't trying to do the same thing to us that you did to the Jews back in the middle of the 20th century. They don't deny it.

They say, you can't use the word final solution. That's all they say. They don't deny it. You got a point, Doc. They don't deny the crime they're going to commit. They just say, you can't use these words about the crime we're going to commit. Financial Times in London. Always remember it's owned by the Rothschilds.

So this was published today. 300 nuclear missiles are headed your way. You must respond. What now? Financial Times. Yes. Where. What now? Financial Times. Yes. Where they talk about money and economics. But today, they decide to talk about war.

Not just war. Nuclear war. End of the world war. So what's this all about? Well, Rio Navaste did an explanation of the Financial Times article. So you see their headline here. The Financial Times describes the scenario of a nuclear strike on the U.S. So what's this all about? Well, John Thornhill, a journalist for the Financial Times, described an experiment during which

a nuclear attack from conditional Russia occurs on the United States. Now, according to the plot of the program created by Princeton University scientists Sharon Wiener and Moritz Kutt, created for virtual reality glasses, the test subject must take on the function of the American president. He'll have to decide on a response to a nuclear strike in the shortest possible time.

So there are three options in front of me on virtual maps. The first allows a limited retaliatory strike against Russian ICBM sites, as well as major submarine and air bases. Well, this will result in 5 to 15 million casualties, Russian nuclear facilities, which would entail 20 to 25 million casualties, Russian nuclear facilities, which would entail 20 to 25 million casualties, and the third option would add to the list of targets the main industrial facilities and Russian leadership, which would entail up to 45 million casualties, Thornhill said. The journalist did not dare to choose any of the options, believing that retaliatory measures would not be able to stop the attack

that had already begun. So in addition, the conditional U.S. warning system could start erroneously. Convinced that Washington retained the ability to strike back, Thornhill concluded that there was no need to rush to respond to the attack. Now, as Weiner later explained, there are no right or wrong answers. Some people who have gone through this experience are convinced that they did the right thing by striking back. Others who authorized the launch of the rocket immediately regret their decision and are tormented by what they did. That was a terrible mistake, the journalist said. So, Rick, they're playing wargaming this out, a possible Russia first strike against the U.S. And then what our response would be, and we're talking 45, 50 million people eliminated in Russia.

Well, the first thing that comes to mind, newspaper and television journalists won't be making the decision. That's right. They'll be military commanders. And they have war-gamed this out for 75-plus years, this particular scenario. And you're not going to have people freeze and say,

my conscience is bothering me. I can't do this. The one thing that I think about is the late Henry Gruber, who I knew. I think you probably knew him too, didn't you? Yes, yeah. And I talked to him many times.

He passed away a few years ago. But he had a vision back in the 90s of a nuclear attack on America. And he said what stood out in that vision was that when the U.S. commanders gave the command to launch a retaliatory strike, nothing happened. Right. I remember that. The technology froze. And Henry never could understand what would make that happen. I mean, this was back in the 90s when he had this vision.

It's easy now to understand, right? Cyber warfare, space-based weapons taking out satellites, no way to communicate, no way to initiate launch plans. In other words, the Russians take us, they take out our technology before they take us out. If they take out our technology first, we can't respond. And, you know, that may be what happens when this war comes, Doc. In all these discussions about a possible Russian first strike and everything, no one asked the question, what would prompt the Russians to do this? Why would they think it's necessary to perform a first strike on the U.S.?

Well, they'll say, well, because Putin's a madman. Yes. Not because we've provoked them. He's got parasites. Said we're going to eliminate them. He maybe has parasites infected in his brain and he's going crazy and he's, you know, we got to do. But see, that argument that he's a madman,

that's prepping the public for a U.S. first strike. We're going to have to hit them because their leader is insane. Well, how do you know he's insane? Because we say he's insane. Because he's doing insane things. He's opposing us. Yes.

The fact that he will not submit to us means he's crazy. He's opposed to the rules-based order in the world. We've got to eliminate him. But no one ever asked the question, what would prompt Russia for a first strike? It would be us planning and probing the bear. And giving weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers. That's going to be the thing that does it, Doc.

We're in it so deep now. And they had this meeting in Ramstein, which means more weapons are going to Ukraine. Lavrov said Russia will do everything to make the West sober up before it's too late. Well, they're drunk on war and weapons right now. Moscow will do everything to make the West sober up before it's too late. Well, they're drunk on war and weapons right now. Moscow will do everything to make the West sober up on the Ukrainian issue. This was stated on Thursday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference

following a joint meeting of the collegiums of the Russian and Belarusian foreign ministries. Now, as Lavrov pointed out, the West was realizing its task of making Ukraine anti-Russia in order to damage the legitimate interests of the Russian Federation, weaken it, and inflict a strategic defeat with an eye to calling into question its territorial integrity. Now, that's an interesting phrase there at the end, Rick. Let's think about it. Calling into question Russia's territorial integrity, what he's saying is that the West is planning to delegitimize

the borders of Russia. Yes. Possibly balkanize Russia. Now, these people who are absolutely presumptuous, these are people who put their irrepressible political ambitions, the attempt to realize

their sense of their own superiority, their colonial and neo-colonial dreams and illusions above the interests of their own people, he said. I hope that a sobering up will come. At least we will do everything to make our colleagues from NATO and the European Union sober up as soon as possible. Well, now, what do you think he's hinting?

We're going to do everything possible soon to get them to sober up. I don't think he's talking about diplomacy. No, I think they're going to make a major move in Ukraine over the next few weeks. Warm weather not stopping them at all. I think they're going to be moving from Belarus and from Russia into Ukraine, and there's going to be some sobering up real quick. Some of these EU leaders are going to say,

whoa, whoa, wait a minute. We weren't in for all this. I mean, we didn't bet on all this. This is a war. That war has come home now. we weren't in for all this. I mean, we didn't bet on all this. This is a war. That war has come home now. I don't see how the Russians can do anything short of,

they're not going to attack a western city to prove their point, but Kiev? They may drop a Moab on Kiev. And just suck the air out of every human being in the city.

I think Putin dreads doing something like this. I saw a picture of him yesterday. He looked tired and sad. Just his eyes, he looked sad. Like this war is wearing him down. And I don't think the man wants,

I don't think he wants to be pushed to making these decisions that bring about the death of large numbers of people. Already, tens of thousands have died. Maybe a couple hundred thousand people have died. We don't know. And I think it's weighing on him every day. But I think he also knows, because the inner discussions in the Russian Security Council, I think he's being pushed by the hard, think about people hardliner, more hardline than Putin. I think he's being pushed.

You're going to have to do something dramatic, something that makes the West gasp. What would that be? The elimination of Kiev? I mean, after that, Doc, what's left for the West to do? They have to go all in after that. Yes. Or back all the way down. That's it. So at that point,

that point is nuclear war or get out. And I think that's where he's going. I don't think he's going to allow this just to continue going on and on and on for another year and both sides, you know, receiving horrific casualties. I just, I don't think he's going to do it.

I think, why did Harry Truman drop an atomic bomb? He wanted to stop the war. And he calculated, all right, I'm going to kill a lot of people. One way or the other. Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But if I don't stop this war, the Japanese are going to kill millions of Americans.

And we had invasion plans on the table to invade Japan. Patton was prepared to ride a tank into Japan. I mean, that's how far down the planning was. But they calculated that the loss of life on both sides would have been so great in a land battle in Japan

that the cost was just far too great. And they said, let's end it with one strike. Well, it took two. Because the Japanese didn't bend. They didn't submit on the first one. It took two. So are we going to lose Kiev? And I don't think it'll be a nuclear strike.

I think he'll use a MOAB. I think he'll use the kind of weapons that the West uses on Iraq and Arab countries. I think he'll do something, but it will be stunning. It will be shocking. The whole world will gasp. There'll be a couple days

of people beating their chest and pulling their hair out and calling for retribution, but then they'll stop and think about it. Well, the alternative is nuclear war, because I think at that point, Putin will tell them, you take one swing at

us, and we take you out. And then the world is going to stop and think about this. And it's not going to go back. Not going to go back to the way it was. Lavrov said that he had a big press conference today. I didn't bring out the points that he said, but one of the things he said was, we are never going back to trying to be friends with the West. Never. Okay?

So the feelings have hardened. It's deep now. We're never going to go back. He said, we're not going to chase the West, our Western partners anymore and try to be their friends. We're never going back there now. The world has changed. And if Christ hasn't come back 30, 40, 50 years from now,

the world will still be affected by the war that started in Ukraine in the 2020s. This will be a marker. This will be a marker. This will be a game changer. The world changed when the war started in Ukraine. It's never going to go back.

It's going to polarize the world. You're going to have at least two world orders competing against each other. Maybe three. But it's not going to go back to the way it was because Russia has decided we will never submit to you. We know your plan.

See, Doc, the West had to take their clothes off in the past year. The Western leaders are running around naked now. All their flowery words and their propaganda and everything about how... And freedom in Ukraine and all this other stuff. Yeah. The Russians are now looking at him going, you're liars.

And he did. He called them liars and deceivers today. He said, we believed you. We signed treaties with you and you lied to us. You deceived us. You admitted that you lied to us and deceived us. And so the West now is buck naked. The leaders are running around and it's out in the open. We plan to destroy Russia. And the Russians are like, you finally have admitted it. We now see your plans and we see how you're going to do it and the whole world sees it that if you don't

submit to the globalists that run the west they'll destroy your economy they'll assassinate your leaders they'll start wars and revolutions in your country that's the way they do things and the world sees it now and a lot of small countries are very nervous right now. They're too small to challenge the West. But they now see what the West will do to them if they don't submit. And if some bigger countries form some new alliance, you're going to see those smaller countries going to that alliance. Right. Saudi Arabia is one of them.

Their finance minister this week at Davos said, hey, we're open. We're open for discussions. To dump them the dollar. Yeah, we're open. And also Saudi Arabia said today in Davos, if there's no Palestinian state, there's no Saudi Arabian relationship with Israel.

So they drew a line today. I was surprised. I applaud the Saudi Arabians. They said there must be a Palestinian state in order for Saudi Arabia to have peaceful relations with Israel. But they didn't say where it would be. No.

No, that's true. Because it could be land carved out of several countries. They didn't go there. They just said there has to be a Palestinian state. Let's get back to this. This is Euronews. The EU sets up first stockpile to respond to chemical and nuclear emergencies in Finland.

So they're expecting, at least the EU is, that if there is a possible response from Russia and Finland, that it will be maybe chemical, maybe nuclear. The European Union is ramping up its preparedness for possible chemical and nuclear emergencies as Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears the one-year mark with a stockpile of items to be set up in Finland. It was announced on Tuesday. A total of 242 million euros has been allocated to Finland by the European Commission to create the bloc's first strategic reserve against chemical, radiological and nuclear threats for use by all member states.

Now, the new reserve will include critical medical countermeasures, such as vaccines and antidotes, medical devices, and field response equipment to ensure better protection in preparation and in response to biological, radiological, and nuclear accidents. Nothing to see here, folks. Don't be alarmed. We're just stockpiling response items for a nuclear chemical biological attack. But relax.

Nothing to see here. Go back to your lives. Go back, yeah. Look at your phones again. Watch a movie. Don't pay attention to what we're doing. I want to skip now down to number 31. I have these out of order.

This is Hawaii News Now. U.S. Coast Guard monitoring possible Russian intelligence gathering ship off of Hawaii. And they believe it's a surveillance ship that's moving around the Hawaiian islands. We've got a video of the ship. And so this is off a government site that provides videos. moving around the Hawaiian Islands, we've got a video of the ship. And so this is off a government site that provides videos. So this is accessible to everybody here. So it's interesting that we're monitoring this.

Now, they are in waters where they're allowed to be and everything, but they've been out there for a while. And so the question is, what are they doing? The assumption is, of course, that it's an intelligence gathering ship. Well, Russia's... I mean, Hawaii's a long way from Russia.

It is, so... But there's a lot of traffic that goes between the Hawaiian Islands and the Asia-Pacific region, and so, you know, they're doing what we do. We do the same thing. We've got ships parked all over the place and we're listening in on what's going on too. Why?

Because we don't want to get blown up. And so the Russians are doing the very same thing. The next one is UK Minister of Defense Ben Wallace. And he's one of the most belligerent politicians in Great Britain. A real true war hawk, warmonger, works for the globalists. Oh, yeah. He's a good front man for them. He dances for them. He loves to talk about war. And this is what he said today about getting more weapons to Ukraine. The President Putin is banking on us getting

bored this year. He's wrong. We will plan for this year and next year and the year after and beyond. In 2023, it's time to turn the momentum that the Ukrainians have achieved in pushing back Russia into gains and making sure that Russia understands that the purpose I announced to Parliament that we will send a squadron of Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. We will send at least three batteries of AS90-155 long-range deep-fire artillery. We will send a number of armoured vehicles, including the, I think it's the Bulldog, which is a variant of the old 432 armoured personnel carrier, thousands of rounds of ammunition. And today, I can say we're also going to send another 600 brimstone missiles into theatre, which will be incredibly important in helping Ukraine dominate the battlefield. So if the message from this is one thing, it's we're not going anywhere, Mr. Putin. We're here for the long haul. We're standing by Ukraine. You need to recalculate. You need to

make a change. You need to leave Ukraine, return it to its sovereign borders and uphold the international law that you say you respect. Thank you. Did he say anything about hey we gotta stop this fighting we gotta get along with each other here's a way to here's a plan um no we we agree that we will never put a nato base in ukraine ukraine will never join nato and russia agrees it will always honor the Ukraine border. Why didn't he say that? No, because they need to ship some tanks to Ukraine. They want the war. Yes.

They want to crush Russia. So imagine you're a Russian citizen and you're watching Russia TV and you see Ben Wallace of the UK saying, you know what, we're going to be sending a lot more equipment to Ukraine so we can kill Russian soldiers. We're going to be sending tanks now. We're going to be sending heavy equipment. If you're a Russian, whether just an ordinary citizen or a member of the Duma, you've got to be looking at this and saying, you know what? There are combatants in this. Yes. They're in the war. They're Yes. They're in the war.

They're in. They're in the war. And you also heard the sermon by the patriarch of the Russian church today saying, anyone who thinks about destroying us is going to bring about the end of the world. So if you're a citizen of Russia,

you're putting this all together. And you're going, they're trying to kill us. We better get ready. We better get ready for the mother of all wars and we better get ready to die because that's the message that's coming to the russian people it's going to be a glorious death we all go to meet the lord they all go to hell and that's exactly what they're telling the Russian people. They're telling them the West is demonic. They're wicked.

And Russia is Christian. And we have to be prepared to die, but we're going to go up and meet the Lord. It's going to be a glorious death, but we're fighting Antichrist. Yes, that's their thinking. That's their belief,, but we're fighting Antichrist. Yes, that's their thinking. That's their belief, that they're fighting the Antichrist,

the Antichrist system of the West. Mr. Putin, according to the UK Ministry of Defense, of which Mr. Wallace is the chief minister, this was published in The Sun today, Putin considering high-risk move to introduce advanced Russian T-14 super tanks. Well, according to The Sun here, Vladimir Putin is considering a high-risk move that will involve the introduction of advanced Russian T-14 tanks.

The Russian tyrant could be set to deploy a small number of its new T-14 Armata main battle tanks in Ukraine after pictures were taken of the vehicles on a training area in southern Russia. Putin's upgraded machines are equipped with an anti-drone protection system, advanced sensors, and onboard drones. If we can put that still back up for number 33, you'll get an idea of what they're looking at here. These are the new Russian super tanks that we're now supposed to be responding to by sending in other tanks. This is the Financial Times in London reporting the U.S. finalizing plans to send 100 striker combat vehicles to Ukraine. And I'm going to jump down to a number 40 chart showing the number of tanks that European nations have in active service right now. Yeah, I found this chart today, Rick, to give an idea to our audience of the number of tanks that

are in the European theater. Now, right now, as it stands, the only number that really matters is that one up in the upper right corner. Russia? 12,420 tanks? If you combine all the tanks, and this was in 2022, okay, but if you combine all the numbers for the other nations there, it doesn't match

what Russia has. Russia has over 12,000 tanks. Now you understand why all we're talking about now is tanks. Now that number 2596, that's Ukraine there, okay? And so that number is probably a lot higher now than it was when this chart was created in the fall of 2022. Now, one of the things that's been going on is the European nations have been sending tanks, but the U.S. hasn't sent any tanks yet. And we just got an update here a little while ago. The Biden administration will announce as early as tomorrow another huge military aid package for Ukraine, totaling $2.5 billion that will include close to 150 more armored vehicles, but not the tanks that Ukraine has been requesting. Two and a half billion dollars worth of military aid to Ukraine.

And at the same time, the U.S. Congress is rushing to increase the debt ceiling because we're up to $31 trillion in debt and they need a higher ceiling to borrow more money. So we're going to borrow money to give away more money to Ukraine. Yes, and if they can't borrow it, they'll steal it. We'll talk about that later. And then we're going to have higher taxes on the American people to pay the interest on the debt. Who's insane? It is absolutely mind-boggling that this stuff just goes on. You know, if Russia just put half their tanks into action,

just half of it, 6,000 tanks, they could roll into Ukraine any day they wanted to. Well, they could roll into the rest of Europe. Yes. Well, maybe there's going to be a tank invasion of Ukraine. Maybe that's the big thing that's coming. Putin was supposed to make a big announcement yesterday. It didn't happen.

He gave a speech, but there was no big announcement. Whatever everybody was building up, expecting a really important announcement, it didn't happen. The next one, today was the Feast of Epiphany in the Russian Orthodox Church. Yes. And they have the Christians there

get baptized in freezing. Wherever there's water. Wherever there's water. But it is January and most of the water is frozen. I'm glad I don't have that ritual in the United States. Bless their hearts, they do it. But I want to show you the story is that Putin plunged into the ice to mark the Epiphany celebration.

This is a story put out by Novasti News Service. Now, they said that there was no video, no photographs. Could be his health is in bad shape. I don't know. Now, he's served in some capacity leading Russia for close to 20, what is it, 23 years now? Because he came in, you know, in 2000, right? But it's only been within the past five years that he's been participating in this event, which to me indicates that something spiritually changed with him about five years ago. But to give you an example, what some Russians do to commemorate the epiphany, which is the dissension of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at his baptism as they get-

In Jordan. Yes. They choose to get baptized. And as we mentioned it, you know, there's water everywhere in the world, but in Russia, this time of year, a lot of it's ice water. So they cut a hole in the ice in the shape of a cross and they get in there and I bet they get out pretty quick too, but they do get in the water. And this is a tradition that tens of thousands of Russians do every year. But it's interesting that Novosti pointed out that Putin did that and has done it for the past five years. It just shows to me, Rick, that there is a closer and closer relationship between the church and the state and Russia than we really realize.

There'll be those in the West say, well, it's all show, it's all fake. And the evangelicals here would say, well, it's all false and everything because we're right and they're wrong. But the fact of the matter is, the people of Russia are seeing this. They're seeing Vladimir Putin going to church. They're seeing him commemorate Epiphany by jumping in the water, just like they do. That means something to the Russian people. Yes, it do. We never saw George Bush do anything like that. We never saw Donald Trump do anything Christian during the four years he was there.

We certainly haven't seen Joe Biden do anything Christian in the two years he's been in the White House. This next story, boy, this, had you seen this yet, Doc, before? No, not this particular story on George Santos. So, lying George Santos, the lying deceiver who got elected as a gay Republican, you know, as far as I'm concerned, Republicans deserve this.

They want to promote gay candidates now? Well, you got one. And he's a liar and a deceiver. But there are claims being made that when he lived in Brazil, he was a drag queen. Doc, I don't know why the media

and the Democrats are making an issue out of this. Doesn't that make him a hero? That's right. I was going to say the very same thing. Shouldn't they celebrate his drag queenery? Yes. I mean, that's where they're at now, right? Yes. We welcome him in churches and libraries.

So why is it a scandal? Because he's a Republican. That's why it's a scandal. It's a scandal because God says it's a sin. But the point is the Democrats are treating this as a political scandal, whereas if it was a Democrat... They'd be celebrating it. Come to the local library, we'll show off. But yeah, the Republicans have a lot of problems on their hands with George Santos.

And so apparently U.S. Representative George Santos competed as a drag queen in Brazilian beauty pageants 15 years ago, two acquaintances told Reuters, adding to contrast they have drawn criticism of the openly gay Republican congressman's staunchly conservative views. They're not conservative views if he's gay. A 58-year-old Brazilian performer who uses the drag name Yula Rochard said it befriended the now congressman when he was cross-dressing in 2005 at the first gay pride parade in Niteroi, a Rio de Janeiro suburb.

Three years later, Santos competed in a drag beauty pageant in Rio, Rochard said. Another person from Niteroi who knew the 34-year-old congressman but asked not to be named said he participated in drag queen beauty pageants and aspired to be Miss Gay Rio de Janeiro. Now, the congressman said on Twitter on Thursday that claims that I am a drag queen or performed as a drag queen are categorically false, adding I will not be distracted nor fazed by this. Santos was the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat in Congress as a non-incumbent, but has positioned himself as a staunch conservative on many social issues. Well, Doc, that's the first press statement

I've ever seen in my 25 years doing this job. I am not a drag, I have not been a drag queen. That's a first. I'll have to write it down in a journal somewhere. But if he's lied about everything else on his resume, how do we know he's not lying about being a drag queen? That's the problem. When you're a liar, people assume everything you say is a lie.

And he's a known liar. He's a proven liar. And McCarthy's got him on two committees now. Well, he has to because McCarthy only has, what, a margin of four seats? That's right. They can't afford to lose Santos, the drag queen. It looked like he was wearing makeup in that Reuters picture, too. If he resigns, they'll have a special election in the state of New York. The fact that a Republican won a congressional seat

in the state of New York in itself is news. But he turns out to be a liar. The lying is worse than the gayness. All liars shall have their place in the lake of fire. Yes. Okay? But the Republicans, they can't afford to lose one person. And you've got a governor.

New York is a Democrat state. Not good odds that if there was a special election, the people were going to put in another Republican. Most likely, they're going to go back and elect another Democrat. Probably the Democrat that got defeated.

I think if he was a drag queen, he should embrace it. I mean, after all. Well, he could switch to the Democratic Party. Then they would embrace it, no doubt about it. London Times, Jess Staley of Barclays personally observed Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of girls. Yes, as this story continues to develop here, Jess Staley, the former boss of Barclays, has been accused of having personally observed

sexual abuse by the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. A woman suing JPMorgan Chase for allegedly facilitating Epstein's crimes made a series of allegations about Staley, who worked at the American bank before leading Barclays in an amended complaint. Staley, who's 66, is an American, had been well aware that Epstein was sex trafficking victims, according to the complaint. It claimed that the banker personally spent time with young girls whom he met through Epstein on several occasions, visited his victim stash house apartments on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and observed Epstein sexually grab young women in front of him. Now, a lawyer for Staley did not respond to a request for comment. Staley has previously denied knowledge of Epstein's abuse

and involvement in sex trafficking. Lawyers for the woman behind the proposed class action, known as Jane Doe 1, allege that Staley personally observed Jane Doe 1 as a sexual trafficking and abuse victim at times, including through his departure from J.P. Morgan in 2013. So you've got two banks implicated now in the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking scandal, which the FBI has never investigated. Never, ever. They can't. They can't investigate it. It would bring down the entire United States political establishment.

They can't investigate it. So you've got two banks, Barclays and JPMorgan. JPMorgan Chase, both of them implicated in the scandal. All the banks are involved. They're just tapping into JPMorgan and Barclays right now because that's where the payout's gonna be. Wall Street Journal, I'm not gonna be able to get through this entire article, but little known surveillance program captures money transfers between U.S. and more than 20 countries.

So if you have ever sent money through MoneyGram or Western Union or any financial services app, and you've sent it to somebody in another country, the U.S. government captured all the details about you, the recipient, and the amount of money. And it's been going on... Since 2014. Since 2014. And 600 law enforcement agencies have access to the data. Yeah, it started out as a way to monitor

the transfer of money between, it started in Arizona, transfer of money between traffickers in Mexico. They were using Western Union. And so the state of Arizona worked with some stakeholders and set up a nonprofit called TRAC. And it's the Transaction Record Analysis Center, a nonprofit there.

And it worked so well that other agencies started using it as well. And now, like you said, you've got 600 different law enforcement agencies that have used that. And it tracks every financial transaction from this little nonprofit in Arizona. It goes out of the country or comes into the United States. Yes. But they can't track the sex trafficking money that flows through JPMorgan Chase and

Barclays. Right. For some reason, the software doesn't work there, Doc. There's a glitch that if you're in the Jeffrey Epstein Israeli Mossad child sex trafficking network, they can't find that. They can't find the money. It just doesn't show up.

Well, while we're talking about banksters, Bloomberg reporting that Miss Yellen is getting ready to stick her sticky fingers into some retirement funds. They've actually already started one fund. They've been doing it. Yes. This ought to be illegal. Doc, a fiduciary, and you're taking money out of retirement funds

to pay for debt because you're an irresponsible handler of money and you're giving billions of dollars to a foreign country for a war and you're so broke you have to rob retirement funds yes and if they'll do that for these they have light access to imagine what else they can do later so the treasury department's beginning the use of special measures this is what she meant the other day yes special measures now we know what the special measures we're going to rob retirement accounts that's right

this is to avoid a u.S. payments default after the federal debt limit was reached Thursday. So now it's Thursday. They're telling us what the special measures are. So what is it? Well, the department is altering investments in two government-run funds for retirees in a move that will give the Treasury scope to keep making federal payments while it's unable to boost the overall level of debt. So Yellin reiterated that the period of time that the extraordinary measures will avoid the government running out of cash is subject to considerable uncertainty. In other words, we don't know how long we're going to do this, and urged Congress to act promptly to boost the debt limit. Last week, she said the steps

wouldn't likely be exhausted before early June. NOW, THE SPECIFIC FUNDS AFFECTED BY THE TREASURY'S MOVES ARE THE CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND AND THE POSTAL SERVICE RETIREE HEALTH BENEFITS FUND. OKAY, SO THOSE ARE TWO PRIMARY ONES THERE. THE TWO FUNDS INVEST IN SPECIAL ISSUE TREASURY SECURITIES THAT COUNT UNDER THE DEBT LIMIT. AFTER THE DEBT LIMIT IS INCREASED, THE THREE WILL BE MADE WHOLE WITH PARTICIPANTS UNAFFECTED. issue treasury securities that count under the debt limit. After the debt limit is increased,

the three will be made whole with participants unaffected. Well, if you believe that. What do you think the odds are that the U.S. government will return the money to the retirement accounts? Oh, you mean like the times they robbed the Social Security fund and returned the money there? Yeah. They never talk about returning the money into Social Security, do they? No, do you know what's in the vault at the Social Security, I guess it's the Treasury? Do you know what's in the vault?

This is serious about all the money, all the money that the US government has borrowed from Social, Washington borrows money from Social Security. And they leave an IOU. They put an IOU in the vault. That's right. No money. Here's your IOU.

There's your sign. There's your IOU. Washington, we owe you this much money. Well, sure. Social Security is solvent. And they count the IOUs as money in the bank. And then they tell the American people Social Security is solvent. And it's nothing but a bunch of IOUs. All right. So you've got the Civil Service Retirement Fund here. You've got the Postal Workers Retirement fund there. There's a bigger one out there

that they're just itching to tap into. This is number 65 for control. Last week, Yellen had advised that the Treasury also anticipated tapping this month the resources of a third fund, the Government Securities Investment Fund of the Federal Employees Retirement System Thrift Savings Plan. It's a long title,

but it's basically the retirement plan that every single federal employee participates in, in some form or fashion. They're going to steal the money to pay for COVID relief programs, social welfare. And war. And war. And war. And, oh, Doc, there's a bigger one they're gonna go after. Obama wanted to do it when he was in power. And I don't know if they ever got it passed in the law

that they could do it. Are you talking about the union funds, the union pension funds? 401. Ah. My friends, you just watch. Are you talking about the union funds, the union pension funds? 401k. My friends, you just watch. They're coming after your 401k accounts. They're going to take the money. They're going to suck it right out.

The U.S. government has first priority on it. These people are lunatics. No sane person would let them manage their money. And yet they have control of the United States of America. And they're bleeding us absolutely to death and they're going to leave us just as a country just bled out. All for the wars, all for their homosexuality, their abortion, all their sins. It is a demonic cult that runs this country. Nobody would manage money the way these people do it.

Yale and you call her a treasury secretary? Doc, she ought to go to jail for stealing people's money. So this would be akin to you taking money out of your retirement account to buy your day-to-day groceries. Yes. That you're so desperate to buy food and gasoline that you're having to actually extract money from your retirement

fund. That's how broke you are. Or somebody else's retirement fund. You're taking money out of your retirement account to buy guns and ammo for some guy that's in a war with somebody else. That's a better example, yes. Now that's really crazy. You're robbing your retirement account to give a gun to somebody else because he's in a fight with someone.

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, the bank that turned a blind eye to Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking scandal. He's at Davos. I saw him there. Both times I was there. Jamie Dimon says interest rates will rise above 5% because there is still a lot of underlying inflation. It's that mysterious invisible inflation that's there. He said his day at CNBC's Squawk Box but it was at the World Economic Forum

in Davos. Another one from CNBC. Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard sees high interest rates ahead with progress on inflation. That progressive inflation. Yes, yes.

So we've got underlying inflation now. But we're making progress, Doc. And we're just going to have to keep increasing interest rates so we make more progress on that stubborn inflation. Bloomberg reporting Discover credit cards drops. Their shares, the price of their shares today dropped after warning about rising credit card losses.

Now, keep this in mind. The reason why they're suffering losses is people aren't paying their credit card bills. They're borrowing against, they maxed out during COVID, and now it's caught up with them. They didn't max out during COVID. They're maxed out in the, and now it's caught up with them? They didn't max out during COVID. They're maxed out in the past.

Past COVID, yes. Yes, because of the Biden inflation. Right. All right, the Federal Reserve inflation. The people can't keep, their paychecks aren't keeping up with the inflated prices, and people are using their credit cards

to buy groceries, to buy necessities. And now they're maxed out. And now they're defaulting on their credit cards. So Discover Credit Cards today, the price of their shares dropped dramatically today when Discover announced that they've got losses because of increasing defaults on their credit cards. Then we go to the Hill. U.S. households' debt, this is personal income, I mean, excuse me, personal debt collectively of the American people. That would include credit cards, mortgages, so forth. $16.5 trillion. And this is based on a study by Nerd Wallet. And we've got a screenshot of their website.

I guess we don't. You know what? It's number 74. There you go. Yeah, there we go. That's the report that they put out, 2022 American Household Credit Card Debt Study. If we scroll down, there we go. So we can look at credit card debt, the average.

Now, this is the total owed by an average U.S. household on credit card debts, $17,000. The average amount owed on revolving credit cards. That's like department store credit cards. Yeah, so it would be like JCPenney's and so forth, $7,400. But that's up nearly 30% year to year. Yes. The average mortgage, outstanding mortgage, $222,000. And the average auto loan, $28,000.

And you added up the student loans also, $58,000. That's per household. Per household, yes. You have to add all those up per household. Right. So what's the grand total there, Doc, for the average family? Any type of debt over $163,000, $65,000 owed by the average household in the U.S.

That's every single household in the U.S. owes $165,000. That does take in mortgages, car loans, everything. But it does show what the burden is on that American household, and it's rising faster and faster every year. I came across another one. This was from Wealthion,

and it asked the question, car... Carmageddon. Carmageddon, all right. Auto Insider predicts car prices to fall this year. That insider is Mr. Lucky Lopez. And I watched his interview, Doc. I don't know if you saw it, but I listened to it this afternoon as I was working. Right. And I like cars, okay?

I was just interested in what's happening in the car market and learned a lot. But he said, you know, the bottom's going to fall out of the car market this year. If you're planning to buy a car, now this is the year to do it. Not yet. A little bit later. If you're planning to sell a car, you this is the year to do it. Not yet, a little bit later. If you're planning to sell a car, you want to do it right now because you're going to take a hit on your vehicle later. I got a small clip from the Wealthion interview with Lucky Lopez. Let's watch it. Without putting any curse words in the phrases, I would say it's absolutely going down.

When I see stuff like Cox Automotive saying that the economy is fine, that the car market is fine, there's not going to be any drops, it's going to be a slow, steady correction, everything I'm seeing is the complete opposite. I know they're taking data from just one or two sources, but where I collect my data from is multiple things. One, as a dealer, I'm literally going out there to the auction every day buying cars, which Cox Automotive, that's where they get most of the information. But also as what's called a portfolio buyer, where I deal with banks, my job is to go out and actually knock on bank stores and try to purchase auto loans from them.

And I get to actually see behind the curtains of how auto loans are actually performing, how a lot of these are not being reported to the public, how they're actually bundling them in different sections and selling them off to banks, different banks. And it's almost like a game of hot potato with bad paper. So what I'm seeing right now is the biggest thing is too many people have cars they simply can't afford. With rising interest rates and how inflation just got simply out of control it's gotten even worse and you know i like to tell this story back you know in 2020 when people started getting the stimulus money you know they were going out and buying these cars with a thousand dollar car payment so let's just say a dodge charger that's one of the things we saw

these people just going out buying these over inflated cars and back then they're like why i can't afford a thousand dollar payment because i'm getting four thousand dollars a month from the government and i have no bills i don't have to pay my rent well fast forward to 2022 and 2023 back then they probably could afford it you know with you know not paying their rent and everything else but now they're back to the regular jobs they're making half of what they used to um they basically everything has doubled since then, the cost of rent, the cost of gas, the cost of insurance. And we're watching more and more Americans. I think it's one out of every four is 30 days late. And it's one out of every, I think,

six that are 90 days late, which is real alarming. And normally we don't get scared because like, oh, there's people that are always going to have bad credit and there's going to be repos and so on and so forth. But the big indicator is the prime customers, the customers with good credit. We've seen default rates go from averaging of like one to 2%, doubling up to three to 4%, which doesn't seem like much in the scheme of things. That's why these cocks automotive people don't say anything, but that's nearly double than what it used to be. So that's some of the alarms that I was raising

over a year ago. And it's so funny because people thought I was nuts back then and everybody laughed. And then all of a sudden, as this thing started crumbling, I just watched all these views, like kind of grow on my channel. And a lot of the stuff I've been saying over and over again, and now it's the news, I guess, videos that

I recorded for like CNN, Fox News, and everything else, now they're starting to play. So we're slowly starting to see some of this stuff come to fruition. Doc, a lot of charities, a lot of nonprofits receive money from Amazon, a program called Amazon Smile. Yes. And so if you're an Amazon customer, you can assign a particular, your favorite charity to your Amazon account and a percentage of everything you buy on Amazon is donated to that charity. It's been a wonderful program. It's helped a lot of people.

A lot of organizations, but it comes to an end next month. Amazon announced today that Amazon Smile will end in February. Amazon is cutting their budget. Prices are going up. Trucks, everything that they're doing, fuel, everything, labor is going up and amazon is cutting their spending and so amazon small goes out of existence um things aren't going very well in the world of uh lying news media so cnn which has been a fixture in atlanta 35 years 1984 Atlanta, since 1984, right? 1984 is when CNN started.

And they are now leaving downtown Atlanta. I guess they're going to take their United Nations flags with them. But that is a big deal. CNN is cutting spending. They're downsizing. Yes. And they're leaving CNN headquarters. Right.

The only thing really that was left there was CNN International. That was left in the building. Most of the domestic operations had already been moved out to New York and to Washington over the past year, year and a half or so. There's still a few other tenants that are in the building as well. to New York and to Washington over the past year, year and a half or so. There's still a few other tenants that are in the building as well. A Florida-based real estate firm picked up the property. But it is the end of a iconic building in Atlanta.

Everybody, when you went to Atlanta, you went past CNN headquarters. It was just, I don't know, it was something you go see, right? I took a couple tours of it. I think you were with me one time. Yeah, I was. Got a picture on my bookshelf. Yeah, there you go.

Crypto. Bloomberg reporting crypto firm Genesis preparing to file bankruptcy. They are a victim of a fallout from FTX. So Genesis didn't do anything wrong, but they're being hurt because FTX has seriously damaged the crypto industry. And so here's one of your big casualties now, Genesis.

The company that owns Genesis also owns the crypto publication Coindesk. And Coindesk is in trouble. And one reason they're in trouble is that crypto advertising has dried up. It's a magazine. It's an online magazine. Well, all these major crypto companies are either folding up, going bankrupt.

Or they're slicing to the bone to stay alive. That's right. I don't know if you're an investor in crypto, but I'm not getting back in yet. I think the carnage is still taking place, even though Bitcoin raise went up a couple thousand and had about a 30% increase. About 35%, yes.

It was illusionary, Doc. It's all illusionary. There's more bloodletting coming. We haven't gone to the bottom yet. I think Bitcoin could go down to between 10,000 to 12,000 before it's over. Some people have said even as low as 5,000, but I think we're going to see it around 10,000 to 12,000. But Rick, it was 68 at one time.

Yes. One day it was 68. And it will be 100 someday. But I'm not going to get back in until I see that the bottom has been reached. And I don't think the bottom has been reached. I think there's a lot of bankruptcies that have to happen. And a lot of altcoins are going to go under and disappear. So for me, it's not time. Now, this one will make you laugh this is a wall street journal

the new chief of ftx says hey we may reopen ftx for business are you serious for real oh better find the money first hadn't Well, I give the guy credit for being a positive thinker, Doc. But everybody knows FTX robbed a lot of people of hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. Why would you go, even if the crooks are gone, why would you go back to the company that robbed the people? I don't even know where that guy's thinking. All right, some good news. Prime Minister Ardern

of New Zealand resigned. Hallelujah. Those of you in New Zealand, you're probably still dancing and shooting off fireworks. If you can shoot off fireworks, I don't know if you can do that in New Zealand. They're probably outlawed. She probably outlawed it, you know.

But she made a sudden, unexpected announcement that she will resign as prime minister by or before February 7th. Yes, we have a bit of a soundbite. That's so wonderful, Doc. She was a nightmare. Yes, we have a bit of a soundbite of her announcing her resignation. The country's been left in shock after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

announced her resignation yesterday at the Labour retreat in Napier. She says she still believes Labour can win the election, but she also knows she doesn't have enough in the tank to do the role justice. Ardern will finish her term as Prime Minister no later than February 7th, with a vote for the new party leader set for Sunday. I want to finish with a simple thank you to New Zealanders for giving me this opportunity to serve and to take on what has and will always be the greatest role of my life. I hope in return I leave behind a belief that you can be kind but strong, empathetic but decisive, optimistic but focused, that

you can be your own kind of leader, one that knows when it's time to go. Meanwhile an indication that the outgoing Prime Minister was losing favour with the public. The latest Taxpayers' Union Courier poll shows Ardern was a negative net favourability for the first time. Taxpayers' Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says it shows a massive reversal of fortune. The election date was also set yesterday

with a political scientist saying the date leaves plenty of time for twists and turns. Well, one thing that's interesting, Doc, is that Ms Ardern was a World Economic Forum young global leader. In fact, we'll show you her page on the World Economic Forum website. The Forum of Young Global Leaders Shaping the Future. There she is, Prime Minister of New Zealand.

And she announced her resignation suddenly while the globalists are meeting in Davos. I don't know if there's a connection. Did she get the memo? Hey, sweetheart, we're done with you. Move on. We have your replacement coming. You're finished. It's very unusual, just sudden.

Not only announcing she's not running for re-election, she's quitting. She's leaving the prime ministership in the next two weeks. What? I mean, what happened? Well, and another possibility, too, she sees the writing on the wall. There's no way she gets re-elected at all. I understand, but she didn't have to resign.

She could stay as prime minister up until the election of a new prime minister. She's leaving. She's packing up and going. That's what is very unusual. It's not just an announcement, I'm not going to seek re-election. It's, I'm resigning in two weeks.

I'll be gone. Somebody told her, your time is up. We're not going to back you. We have your replacement. And since she was a World Economic Forum young global leader. You probably got the message from Klaus. Klaus probably told her.

We got other jobs for you. We'll fit you in somewhere in the organization. I want to show you some of the highlights of why people absolutely despised her prime ministership. She did a lot of wicked things as prime minister of New Zealand. You know, just a few months ago, she announced that she was going to tax cattle $2,500 a year on every, not just cattle, all livestock. Right, cattle, sheep, whatever you got.

All right, for the green movement. But during COVID, oh, she was a, she was the queen of vaccines. She was the queen of lockdowns and she relished it. She'd have an evil smirk on her face that she would announce her lockdowns and her mandates.

I want to show you number, this is number 89. Well, let's show number 88. This is, she's saying there's not going to be an end to this vaccination program, we're going to vaccinate to eternity fine, so long as

there's people who are eligible who haven't been vaccinated, we've got work to do I don't think I'll ever be satisfied so long as there's someone who is eligible and hasn't been and that's why I've said this, there's not going to be an end point to this vaccination program. Once we've, obviously, we're rolling out boosters now. So we've got another, you know, wave of people that we need to make sure that we're protecting again. So those who were vaccinated six months ago,

we really need them to come back or we need to go to them. There's not going to be any end to it. They plan to vaccinate every single person in New Zealand, no matter what. That was the plan. Well, there was enough resistance that she was forced out. Obviously, she did not want to go out and campaign and be booed and heckled and humiliated. The one that I remember so much is that she said, we now have two classes of people, vaccinated and unvaccinated. Two different classes of people. If you're vaccinated or if you're unvaccinated, you have all these rights.

If you are vaccinated... That is what it is. So, yep. Yep. So she just admits it, you know. With a big smile on her face. Yeah, we have two classes of people. Well, guess what? You're defeated now. You had to tuck your tail between your legs and leave. We've got two classes of people, don't we? Winners and losers. You're a loser. She worked for Klaus Schwab. She did her job. She'll get rewarded somewhere, but it didn't last. In the end, the people of New Zealand chased her out.

That's the good news. One more. Oh, Al Gore. He's back in the news. Oh, my. look at Al. I haven't seen him for a while. He's at the World Economic Forum. He's one of those elite who was tapped by extraterrestrial.

That's right. And what a lot of people don't realize is how much money that Al Gore's made over the past three or four decades by claiming that the weather is really, really bad in the world. Back when he was running for president, he had a net worth of around $30 million, something like that, of course, family money and everything along with that. But since that time, wow. Arm and hammer money. Yeah. Now, of course, World Economic Forum is going on this

week. They had a climate change forum and Al Gore, they rolled him out of on stage and he had a conniption fit, as we would say back home. He went all nuts on climate change. In fact, claiming that the oceans are boiling right now, Rick. They're boiling. The oceans are boiling. It's Al Gore, so it's got to be true. So I don't have to cook my fish now. They just come out of the ocean boiled.

So here is Al Gore on his crazy rant talking about boiling oceans. We're going to bring these emissions down. And just to put the science in a slightly different context, people are familiar with that thin blue line that the astronauts bring back in their pictures from space. That's the part of the atmosphere that has oxygen, the troposphere. And it's only five to seven kilometers thick. That's what we're using as an open sewer. If you could drive a car straight up in the air at interstate highway speeds, you'd get to the top of that blue line in five minutes. And all the greenhouse gas pollution would be below you. We're still putting 162 million tons into it every single day.

And the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the Earth. That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach one billion in this century. Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees. What about a billion? We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world. We have to act. So in answer to your question, I would say we have to have a sense of urgency much greater than we have yet had.

And we need to make some changes. He's going to bust a vein. He's the evangelist for world government. That's what he is. He's the evangelist for world government. And the oceans are boiling. We were so close to him being president. Oh, my goodness.

Can you imagine? Oh, my word. The ocean... Next time you get an opportunity to go to the ocean, go out and look and watch all the boiling water out in the ocean. Okay? Yeah, if you live in Maine, step into the Atlantic right now. Tell me if it's boiling.

And watch out for those rain bombs. What's a rain bomb? That was a new term for me today, a rain bomb. And every day, Rick, 600,000 Hiroshima bombs are impacting the atmosphere. Every single day. He's gotten away with this act for a couple decades. And there's still people that sit there and listen to him. Right.

The inconvenient truth is that ice caps didn't melt. That's the really inconvenient truth for Al Gore. Well, the truth right now is that we are way over our deadline to wrap up this program

and we gave you a lot tonight. We usually don't go this long but there was a lot to present. And I hope you ponder it. I hope you go to prayer, talk to the Lord about the things that you heard tonight. The main thing is to get your heart ready for the things that are coming upon the earth and be at peace with God. It is a wonderful thing to be at peace with God, to go to sleep every night knowing that there's nothing wrong between you and the Lord. There's no conflict, no offense.

You're at total peace with your Maker. That is a wonderful gift to have. And you can have that gift by living every day in the presence of Almighty God, living in that secret place. I hope you, if you're not there, I hope you find it. I hope you get to Him. Just get as close to your Heavenly Father as you can get and just tell Him every day how much you love Him, how much you admire him, how much you worship him. And just pour out your love on him as your father. He'll pour out his love on you.

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