TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Tucker Carlson Silenced: Eerie Dark Cloud of Censorship Descends over “Land of the Free”

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

Last week it was Dan Bongino whose voice was silenced at Fox News. This week it was Tucker Carlson who was expelled from Fox News. Who is next? An eerie dark cloud of censorship has descended over the United States of America, once called the land of the free. George Orwell's Newspeak has become the official language of America's ruling elite. If you refuse to speak their language, your tongue will be cut out of your mouth. How long will free men and women tolerate this tyrannical oppression? It remains to be determined if freedom will ever be experienced in America again. We'll discuss the USA's changing political and spiritual atmosphere in this edition of TruNews.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart Airdate 4/25/23

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official language of America's ruling elite. If you refuse to speak their language, your tongue will be cut out of your mouth. How long will free men and women tolerate this tyrannical oppression. It remains to be determined if freedom will ever be experienced in America again in our lifetime. Dr. Burkhardt and I are here to discuss the changing political and spiritual atmosphere in the United States of America. You know, it's hard to imagine here we are. We're living in an age where the number one draw on a network and Tucker Carlson was by far the number

one draw on the network right now as far as eyeballs are concerned is removed from the network. And they can say it's a mutual thing and everything, but we know what the climate is. And not only the number one program on Fox News. But beating everybody else.

Number one compared to all the competitors. Right. And so he was fired for what? Words? Words. Today in America, words will get you banned. Or impeached, or get you deplatformed, or...

Or maybe killed. That's right. You might be singing Amazing Grace. Yes. So what atmosphere are we living in right now in the USA? It's very surreal. I think all of us have this feeling, something very strange, very odd, eerie, creepy

is happening in the USA. It doesn't feel like home anymore. It just doesn't feel like home. Yeah, you've really put the pulse on it there. It doesn't feel like home. I don't feel like I'm in the country I was born in and grew up in. It's just not the same. It's a strange, bizarre, creepy, scary country that we're living in.

A foreign, some type of foreign power. And I don't mean political foreign power like a country. But some entity. Oppressive spiritual. A very oppressive spiritual power is ruling this country right now. And, you know, I just thought about this, Doc. This would be, well, i'm gonna go back 2010 2011 sometime in that in that era um the lord showed me i just had this brief vision and i saw and if you went back through

the archives you'd find it somewhere in our old radio shows. The Lord showed me this canopy, this dark black canopy that came over America. And we, this ministry, and others, were punching holes in it. I mean, it was stretched across the whole country. It brought darkness to the land. And there were a handful of people

that were punching holes in it to let light come in. But it was a very, very difficult task just to get some holes in it so that all light was not extinguished. I forgot about that. It was around 2010, 2011. That canopy is here right now. It has spread across America. Light has been extinguished. Freedom is being snuffed out. It is dark. It's evil. It's sinister.

And it's hellish. It's diabolical. This is not a good force. It's something very wicked and very evil. And the body of Christ has got to come to their senses, and we have to stop staring at it, saying, what is this thing? You know, I'm just trying to express how I feel about it. Right.

You know, and you and I come out here every day, and we're trying to tell people, okay, this is what they did today, and this is what they're doing. And, okay, we're at the place, as you and I, all of us, we've reached a place where we have to stop staring at this thing in wonderment and talking about it. Right.

We need to stop staring and start wrestling. Yes, this thing is intending to choke us to death, to suffocate us. So the Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. But it's not a staring contest. We wrestle with this.

That's right. And the Bible, I don't see very many Christian wrestlers out there. No, no one's wrestling with the issues of the day, the, the, uh, the oppressive darkness of the day. Cause they'll get hurt. You come out here and do what we do. You'll get hurt. If you're, if you're a wrestler, not, not the fake professional wrestling, but you know, collegiate wrestling. If you're a wrestler, you're going to get hurt. You're going to get tied up in a knot.

You're going to get pinned to the mat. But you're also going to win matches. And a lot of ministries and a lot of ministers are afraid to come out on the wrestling mat and wrestle with these things that we talk about because they don't want to get hurt. They don't want to get

their little uniforms messed up. They want to sit in the bleachers and eat popcorn and stare at this thing and talk about it. Well, come on out. As Teddy Roosevelt said, come on out. As Teddy Roosevelt said, come on out into the arena.

You ever read Roosevelt's arena speech? No, I haven't. I'll have to make a note of it now. You know what? Let's do that and let's read it tomorrow. I have the actual Roosevelt book in my office with the original copy of the book. Right, in your Roosevelt collection.

In my Roosevelt collection. It's one of the best, I think it's the best speech he ever gave. The man in the arena. That's what it's called, the man in the arena. I probably have heard it,

but I'm just not recalling it at the moment. So this is where we're at today. Tucker Carlson was silenced yesterday. The week before was Dan Bongino. Next week it's going to be somebody else. is suffocating the voices that are speaking alternative messages contrary to what this entity wants to be said. I mean, this entity, this is not political.

It's spiritual. It is demonic. It is a demonic spirit that is ruling over America. It's a plural voice, but speaking with one voice. Yes, yes. And we're going to have to attack it with spiritual weapons, spiritual power. So it's just a surreal time, a bizarre, weird time. And again, I think we all, we're all feeling it.

You know, I mean, Montana, state of Montana, the legislature invaded by transvestites. They disrupted the legislative session of the state of Montana. Well, that's the thing to do now is to disrupt the political process while it's going on.

Yes, because they're trying to save democracy. Right. They're trying to save it from people who are destroying democracy. But did you ever imagine that you would say the words, the Montana state legislature was disrupted by transvestites? Not in my wildest dreams. It's weird. Everything's weird and bizarre. And one of the strangest things that happened today is the oldest president in the history of the nation

who is unpopular, is senile, is an asset of the China Communist Party, announced that he's running for president again, and nobody talked about it. It's so weird. It is so strange. Try to find the announcement. Try to find the video of Biden.

I can't find the video, so I'm assuming that Biden messed up, that he said something stupid, because you can't find the video. So I'm assuming that Biden messed up, that he said something stupid, because you can't find video of this guy. No, it's no, it looked as well. But there's the president of the United States, and he announced his candidacy today, and he's the oldest man ever to be in the White House.

He'll be 86 years old at the end of his second term. Don't you think this would be a big news story on every news website? But they buried it. Why? Why are they burying it? It's not because the news media doesn't want Joe Biden. They don't want the people to think how weird this is Because the fix is already in. Why make a big deal about his campaign? He's going to win anyway, right? He's going to win anyhow.

Doesn't matter that the people don't want him. Doesn't matter that he's incompetent, that he's senile. Doesn't matter that his son should be in prison. Doesn't matter that Biden himself should be in prison for treason. He is a traitor. He's not just corrupt. He's a traitor. He has sold himself to the China Communist Party. He's a traitor. And he should be dealt with as traitors are dealt with. But we don't talk about it. It's bizarre. It's weird.

So he did make this announcement today. We saw, you know, we found this ABC News story, announces he's running for president again, setting up a possible Trump rematch. But that's not the main story on abcnews.com. No, it's not. You have to look for that story. It's in very small print. And likewise on Daily Mail too. It's not the top story on Daily Mail either. So you have this Biden versus Trump round two, Joe 80 finally confirms he's in running in 2024 with Kamala Harris in video attacking Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis.

Now, this attack video, you can find this. Right. This is their video announcement, but nothing lost. You can find the package video that they want you to see, but you can't find the video of the real event of Biden announcing that he's running today and i'm just assuming that he said something really stupid and messed it up and so they buried the video that maybe that's not true that's but why would i think that because every time he opens his mouth he says something stupid or he's eating ice cream Or he's eating ice cream. That's all he's doing. He's eating ice cream.

So I think we have, so this is part of the video that the Biden campaign put out today. Freedom, personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans. There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred. That's been the work of my first term, to fight for our democracy. This shouldn't be a retribution. To protect our rights, to make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally, and that everyone is given a fair shot at making it. But you know, around the country, MAGA extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms,

cutting Social Security that you've paid for your entire life while cutting taxes for the very wealthy, dictating what health care decisions women can make, banning books and telling people who they can love, all while making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. When I ran for president four years ago, I said we're in a battle for the soul of America, and we still are. The question we're facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom,

more rights or fewer. I know what I want the answer to be, and I think you do too. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election. Well, one thing that Mr. Biden said that I agree with him, this is a fight for the soul of America. It is. And it is a fight for freedom, too.

It's a fight for freedom. He is destroying the soul of America with wickedness. Homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion, war, corruption. He's doing great damage to the soul of America. You know, when he says in his video, they're banning books. What books? You mean books teaching little first graders how to be homosexual? Is that what he's talking about? Yes, Is that what he's talking about?

Yes, that's what he's talking about. He doesn't say, I stand for the distribution of pornographic literature to children because that's what his position is. And of course, he doubled down on red herring ideas using the word MAGA, doing images of January 6th. And so all these things roll together because he knows that resonates with the folks on the left there. So the Republican Party used artificial intelligence to generate a video which which shows what if Biden is reelected.

What would it look like on the day he's sworn in for his second term? And this is the video that the Republicans put out today. This just in, we can now call the 2024 presidential race for Joe Biden. What federal emergency? This morning, an emboldened China invades Taiwan. Financial markets are in free fall as 500 regional banks have shuttered their doors. Border agents were overrun by a surge of 80,000 illegals yesterday evening. Officials closed the city of San Francisco this morning, citing the escalating crime and fentanyl crisis. Who's in charge here? It feels like the train is coming off the tracks.

It just sounds like what's happening right now. Yes, on a Tuesday in America. We've lost most of our allies. The dollar is falling apart. And Mr. Biden is a joke around the world. And people make fun of him. And this is the state of the United States of America right now. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a statement about Mr. Biden's campaign. He said, I've known and liked Joe Biden for many years, but we differ profoundly on fundamental issues such as

corporate influence and government censorship, civil liberties, poverty, corruption, and war policy, among others. I look forward to engaging him in debates and town hall meetings in a primary election that is honest, civil, and transparent. I invite him into a new era of respectful dialogue in these times of division. Well, the problem, Mr. Kennedy, is the Democrats are trying to shut down the debates. They don't want to have debates. I can't imagine the Democrats allowing Joe Biden to be on stage with Robert F. Kennedy. I mean, I would pay to watch it. I mean, I really would. But I would also probably cry because I don't want to see an old man get beat down.

By old man, I mean the president because that's where it's going to be. It's going to be atrocious. Now, Mr. Kennedy went on to explain in a follow-up tweet here following, he says, and I liked what he said here. He says, I'm a multi-generational Democrat, but I think our party has gone off track. Remember when we upheld the interests

of the poor and middle class against big corporations and Wall Street? Remember when we were the party of peace, civil liberties, and people power. I aim to reclaim my party and its traditional values. Now, you are hearing a Kennedy, a Democrat, saying, let's get back to traditional values. I mean, you know, this is going to be interesting.

And I understand why the Democrats are trying to shut down any kind of debate going into the primaries, especially in South Carolina. I wish Robert Kennedy well in this campaign. I hope he does well. You know, the news media guys, you know, they keep putting articles out why Kennedy can't win. And they always talk about his crazy views on vaccines and everything. So they're not crazy. What's crazy is believing that the pharmaceutical industry got away with injecting people with gene therapy. Which, by the way, we'll talk about later today.

The FDA today ruled, hey, you don't have to say that a vaccine prevents infection and transmission. We'll get a new definition for vaccines. Now, they're very afraid of Robert F. Kennedy, and they don't want him on a debate stage. By the way, Donald Trump said today that he will not debate anybody. He said, why should I debate? Why should I give, I'm the runaway leader. Why should I go on a debate stage with anybody? Oh, I would advise him exactly the opposite. That was his strong suit in the primaries. Well, he said today he's not going to debate anybody. That was his strong suit in the primaries. Well, he said today he's not going to debate anybody. That's interesting. So, you know, Joe Biden's not going to debate

Robert F. Kennedy. So why are we even having an election if we can't even hear the candidates express their views to one another? Do we just get the prepackaged views? Why would you have views expressed? There's no free speech allowed in the country anymore. Back to our original theme here. The Politburo decides who is going to win. The ministry of truth. Yes. Before I walked out here today,

it just came into my mind, a scripture. And, you know, there's some scriptures in the Bible that I don't like reading, even though it's truth. And Amos, Amos chapter, Amos 5, 5.13. Amos 5.13.

So set the context. God is speaking to Israel through Amos 5, 13. So set the context. God is speaking to Israel through Amos and the country is corrupt. There's corruption everywhere, violence and corruption. And he said, therefore, a prudent person keeps silent in such a time for it is an evil time. Now, Doc, that scripture goes against my personality. Okay. The keeping silent part. Keeping silent because my mindset is, hey, it's evil. I'm speaking against it. I'm not afraid of it. I'm going to speak against it. I'm not going to be told to be quiet.

But the Word of God says, there are times when society becomes so evil that a wise person remains quiet. And look at verse 10 there too. It says, They hate him that rebuketh in the gate and abhor him that speaketh uprightly. Isn't that today? If you speak righteousness there, they hate anyone that speaks righteousness. They hate anyone that rebukes sin in the gate.

Mine says they hate the one who prosecutes at the gate and abhors the one who speaks with integrity. So prosecutes at the gate is a government position at the gate. So one who prosecutes at the gate. They hate the one who comes against corruption. Yes. They hate the people that come against corruption. They hate the man or woman who speaks with integrity. And God says there are just times when a society becomes so evil and wicked and violent

that it's just prudent, it's wise to be quiet until God deals with the wickedness. It seems like that's where we're at right now, Doc. And again, I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like the, I don't like it. I mean, my nature, you know it,

you work with, my nature is to speak out. My nature is to show no fear of anyone and just tell them the truth. But I look at that scripture and I go, are we living in that time right now? Does this describe America?

This happened in Nazi Germany. If you lived in Germany in the 30s and early 40s, it was extremely dangerous to speak. You'd just die. They'd just come and get you, take you out of your house and kill you. That was reality. The Soviet Union, when Russia, Christian Russia, fell, 1917, the Bolsheviks, the Jewish communists, it was dangerous.

It was very dangerous to speak against the revolution. Castro, Cuba, he spoke against the revolution, he died. Where are we at right now in America? They're not at the place of killing people yet. Dragging them out of their homes and killing them. But they're digitally executing them. Yes, yes, but they're dragging them out of their jobs. They're dragging them out of their homes and killing them. But they're digitally executing them. Yes, yes. But they're dragging them out of their jobs. They're dragging them out of their careers.

They're killing their careers. They're killing their reputation. They're killing their name. And that's not far from killing their bodies. This is where we're at right now. It's a very evil time in America. A time

that the wise have to think, is this the time to put your life, your family at risk to oppose something that is this powerful.

Like I said, my nature is to say, I'll die fighting these people. And the challenge I have for myself is, you know, no matter how many times I've read the New Testament, I never see any criticism of Rome or the political process or Rome's treatment of prisoners or anything. Or its wars or its perversion. Or its money or its manipulations of weights and measures

and its currencies. All these things which were evil and the Bible speaks about. But there was a day that Rome fell that's right and it was it was a mute topic at that point what does it matter it's gone it's over and that's what's going to happen to America if this country doesn't repent one day it will fall right and Paul even embraced his Roman citizenship as it served as a means for the proclamation of the gospel. And he used the

Roman roads to travel. That's right. And the Roman court processes in order to bring the gospel right to Caesar's palace in Rome. So this is a conflict for me. I know a lot of our friends in the evangelical world, they hold to Romans 13 theology and everything that kind of mixes government and Christianity in a big way. But we have to ask ourselves, is this the evil time that the wise man tells us about, that the prophet Amos tells us about, and that we need to consider the time? In fact, if we go back to our discussion about establishing Daniel 11 churches, the emphasis in times of persecution

is teaching the saints. Not even trying to battle the world around it, but to teach the saints. Because if you read Daniel 11 and you realize that even the saints were falling away. And it's the wise among the saints that are teaching people about God. And those who know their God do great exploits.

Yes. This is where we're at spiritually. Look, God never tells us to be quiet about preaching the gospel. In fact, we're obligated to speak up. There's one thing. You will never see anything in the Bible saying, hold your peace, don't say anything, don't talk about God. We are to talk about God.

We are to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ. But there are times that we may not be able to talk about politics. When Joseph Stalin was ruling Russia, do you think Christians argued with Stalin? When Adolf Hitler was coming down the street and everybody was going, how Hitler? Do you think people argued,

Christians in Germany argued with Hitler? No, they had to remain quiet to stay alive, but they continued to do the work of the Lord because the times were evil. And what I'm telling you right now, in America, the times are evil and we need to get busy about the Father's work, preaching the gospel and organizing the saints into groups and linking together and taking care of one another as the

body of Christ, because there's a greater wave of wickedness and evil coming, and we've got to get ready for it. And news isn't going to do it. We've got to get ready. The Word of God is what we need, the Spirit of the living Lord. We're going to take a break. We'll be back in about 30 seconds with the second part of True News. Are you concerned about this economic storm and how your IRA and 401k will fare during these turbulent times? Top experts are predicting now is the time to be protecting your assets with physical gold and silver. Find out why Genesis Gold Group is the number one recommended company by your favorite preppers and homestead channels. Receive Genesis Gold Group's free definitive gold guide today or give them a call at 800-200-GOLD.

Hey, and when you contact Genesis Gold, please mention True News. Tell them you watch us and you support them. You appreciate them supporting True News with their advertising. It has been a help to us this month. Tucker Carlson gave a speech last week, and this speech may have been the final straw. I mean, he has said a lot of things about COVID vaccines, about the war in Ukraine, about January 6th, about transgenderism. He said a lot of things that have angered the ruling elite in America. But the speech that he gave last week

at the 75th anniversary was the 75th anniversary? I think the 50th. Or 50th. 50th anniversary of the Heritage Foundation. He used to work there at the think tank in his young days. And he gave a speech at a

banquet and he he talked about the the evil spirit that's over america and it was amazing to hear tucker carlson saying you you can't describe this thing in political terms. This is something different. Our old tactics aren't working, and we better start praying about it. That was his message to that audience. So Tucker Carlson is discerning that what we're facing, what we're dealing with is not political. It is spiritual. And it is not just wrong. It's evil. It's wicked.

It is hell itself coming against our country. And even kind of blossomed up some of his Episcopalian roots. He referred to that. He said, hey, I'm not from the strongest religious tradition, but there's something evil going on here. Well, the Episcopal church used to be. It used to be one of the strongest churches in America. Most of the patriots in the revolutionary days

were members of the Episcopal Church. And it was a strong, strong Bible-believing church. But they got watered down. They got infiltrated. But anyhow, he's still in the Episcopal Church. We took a six-minute clip. I want you to watch the entire video. Here it is.

It might be time to start to reassess the terms we use to describe what we're watching. So when I started at Heritage, the presumption was, and this is a very Anglo-American assumption, that the debates we're having are kind of rational debates about the way to get to mutually agreed upon outcomes. Right. So like we all want the country to be more prosperous and free and people to be less oppressed or whatever and so we're going to argue about tax rates and I think higher tax gets us there. I'm a Keynesian and you disagree.

You're an Austrian or whatever. But the objective is the same. And so we write our papers and they write their papers and may the best papers win. I don't think that's what we're watching now at all. I don't think we're watching a debate over how to get may the best papers win. I don't think that's what we're watching now at all. I don't think we're watching a debate over how to get to the best outcome. I think that's completely wrong.

And I've come to this conclusion, and I should say at the outset I'm an Episcopalian, so don't take any theological advice from me because I don't have any. I grew up in the shallowest faith tradition that's ever been invented. It's not even a Christian religion at this point. I say with shame. But I'm just saying this as an observer of what's going on. There is no

way to assess, say, the transgenderist movement with that mindset. Policy papers don't account for it at all. If you have people who are saying, I have an idea, let's castrate the next generation. Let's sexually mutilate children. I'm sorry, that's not a political debate. What? It has nothing to do with politics. What's the outcome we're desiring here? An androgynous population? Is that really what we are? Are we arguing for that? I don't think anyone could defend that as a positive outcome. But the weight of the government and a lot of corporate interests are behind that. Well, what is that?

Well, it's irrational. If you say, well, I think abortion is always bad. Well, I think sometimes it's necessary. That's a debate I'm familiar with. But if you're telling me that abortion is a positive good, what are you saying? Well, you're arguing for child sacrifice, obviously. It's not about like, oh, a teen girl gets pregnant, and what do we do about that, and victims of rape.

I get it. Of course, I understand that, and I have compassion for everyone involved. But when the Treasury Secretary stands up and says, you know what you can do to help the economy? Get an abortion. Well, that's like an Aztec principle, actually. There's not a society in history that didn't practice human sacrifice. Not one. I checked. Even the Scandinavians, I'm ashamed to say. It wasn't just the Mesoamericans. It was everybody. So that's what that is. What's the point of child sacrifice? Well, there's no policy goal entwined with that. No, that's a theological phenomenon. And that's kind of the point I'm making. None of this makes sense in conventional political terms.

When people or crowds of people, or the largest crowd of people at all, which is the federal government, the largest human organization in human history, decide that the goal is to destroy things, destruction for its own sake. Hey, let's tear it down. What you're watching is not a political movement. It's evil.

So if you want to assess, and I'll put it in non, and I'll stop with this. I'll put it in non, I'll put it in non-political, or rather non-specific theological terms, and just say, if you want to know what's evil and what's good, what are the characteristics of those? And by the way, you know, I think the Athenians would have agreed with this. This is not necessarily just a Christian notion. This is kind of a, I would say, widely agreed upon understanding of good and evil. What are its products? What do these two conditions produce? Well, I mean, good is characterized by order, calmness, tranquility, peace,

whatever you want to call it, Lack of conflict. Cleanliness. Cleanliness is next to godliness. It's true. It is. And evil is characterized by their opposites. Violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization, and filth. So if you are all in on the things that produce the latter basket of outcomes, what you're really advocating for is evil. That's just true. I'm not calling for a religious war. Far from it. I'm merely calling for an acknowledgement of what we're watching,

which is not what, and I'm certainly not backing the Republican Party. I mean, ugh. I'm not making a partisan point at all. I'm just noting what's super obvious. Like, those of us who were in our mid-50s are caught in the past in the way that we think about this. One side's like, no, no, no, you know, I've got this idea, and we've got this idea, and let's have a debate about our ideas. They don't want a debate. Those ideas won't produce outcomes that any rational person would want under any circumstances. Those are manifestations of some larger force acting upon us. It's just so obvious. It's completely obvious. And I think two things.

One, we should say that and stop engaging in these totally fraudulent debates where we are using the terms that we used in 1991 when I started at Heritage as if maybe I could just win the debate if I marshaled more facts. I've tried that, doesn't work. And two, maybe we should all

take just like 10 minutes a day to say a prayer about it. I'm serious. Like, why not? And I'm saying that to you, not as some kind of evangelist, I'm literally saying that to you as an Episcopalian, the Samaritans of our time. I'm coming to you from the most humble and lowly theological position you can. I'm literally an Episcopalian, okay? And even I have concluded it might be worth taking just 10 minutes out of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will. What do you make of that, Doc? They get the Episcopalians praying,

and it might change things. I can't get the Pentecostals to pray right now because they don't see a problem. They really don't see a problem. But I think people are starting to see something strange is taking place, something disturbing,. Something disturbing. Something very disturbing. It's interesting that he caught on to that oppression, too, that he mentioned that.

I think Tucker Carlson has a long way to go. He still is seeking a political solution, a societal solution. And speaking of that, have you considered the possibility that now that he's a free man and doesn't have to report to Fox News in the morning, he may jump into the 2024 presidential campaign? I mean, it's entirely possible. I remember back when President Trump was visiting Korea

and Tucker Carlson went on that trip too. And they were floating back then. They were floating the trial balloons of Tucker Carlson as a possible VP because there wasn't that confidence in Pence on the Trumpist side, if you will. But it would be interesting. Would Donald Trump reach out to Tucker Carlson and say,

I'll make you my vice president right now. We will campaign as a team. It will be Trump, Carlson, and everybody will know exactly what they're getting in November of 24. At that point, you wouldn't even need primaries going forward. I mean, there's no way that DeSantis or Haley, you know, Pompeo's already out. That sucks all the air out of the room. A Trump-Carlson ticket. Has any presidential candidate, I think we were talking about this the other day,

pre-announced their vice president before a convention? The only one I remember is Ronald Reagan in 19, let me think, he ran, was it 68? He ran for president once before he won. He won in 1980. But I think he ran in 68 because he had been the governor of California. a liberal Republican of Pennsylvania as his vice president before the convention to try to convince the Rockefeller Republicans that they shouldn't be afraid of Ronald Reagan. It didn't work. But I think he's the only one that ever did that. But this would be, this would be a bold move if Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson teamed up. Now,

based on the things that were reported in that lawsuit with Fox, Tucker Carlson said some critical things about Donald Trump after the 2020 election. But it wouldn't be the first time people kiss and make up and become

political friends. Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy did. Right. And for Trump, Mr. Trump, excuse me, President Trump, it would just be a matter of business. It's a business deal. It's just a business deal. But it would absolutely shut down the primaries. Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson campaigning together would end everybody else's campaign.

Governor DeSantis, Nikki Haley. You told me the other day, Mike Pompeo has already decided he's not running. So I wouldn't rule it out. Now, the owner of One America News, OAN, has offered Tucker Carlson $25 million to join OAN. There's a Robert Herring. He's been around in media since Noah was a boat builder.

But yes, that's the offer on the table right now. And so we have this from Will Tucker's next stop be One America News. So One America News is saying Tucker Carlson was leaving Fox Nation. Maybe Fox News' loss could be OAN's gain. Founder and CEO Robert Herring would like to extend an invitation to Carlson to meet for a negotiation. That's right on the OAN Twitter feed and on their website. So an open invitation there

to Tucker Carlson to join the network. Where would you be seen? Because OAN has been deplatformed. So where would you see it? See, the voices are being silenced. Everybody's voice is being shut down. You better be speaking for God because your voice will not be shut down.

If you're speaking for Jesus Christ, your voice will not be silenced because God himself will fight for you and sustain you. But everybody else, you're on your own right now. I mean, they've shut down Donald Trump. I mean, look at what happened to him. The social media platforms, they deplatformed the sitting president of the United States.

Unthinkable. That's the atmosphere that we're in right now. Dmitry Medvedev, this is his social media post today about Joe Biden running for re-election. So he's basically mocking this announcement. He says Biden has made the decision after all. A daring geezer. In place of the American military, I would immediately make a fake trunk with false nuclear codes in case he wins so as to avoid fatal consequences.

So Dmitry is coming out with both barrels mocking both the age of the president and his behavior of late. But a more serious social media post from Mr. Medvedev today is that he said the world is sick and on the verge of a new world war. And to quote him, we'll just go right to the quote control room. the world is sick and it's quite likely that it's on the verge of a new world war. Is it inevitable? No, it is not, he said.

And during a conversation with participants in the knowledge marathon that he was overseeing here in this particular story. So, you know, at least he's saying it's not inevitable. But I think it is inevitable at some point that there's going to be a conflict between the West and Russia. They've got it on the schedule to come about at some point. How violent it's going to be and how bloodthirsty it's going to be is yet to be seen. Because really, it's going to take a miracle. It's going to be is yet to be seen because really it's going to take a miracle.

It's going to take God walking into that situation declaring peace because they're just, the West is hell-bent on creating World War III. Sadly, that's what's happening, Doc, and our only hope is Jesus Christ that he will intervene and prevent World War III. The next one we're going to show you, this is an official document from the Parliament of Great Britain. These are questions and answers for questions from members of Parliament to members of the cabinet. And so Mr. Kenny McAskell,

a member of parliament, asked the Secretary of State for Defense how many depleted uranium rounds the UK supplied to Ukraine for use with the Challenger 2 tanks and how many of those rounds had been fired. So James, is it Heapy?

I've seen a couple different pronouncements of that, of Heapy. Heapy, okay, James Heapy, who is the Secretary of State for Defense, said, we have sent, look at this, thousands of rounds of Challenger 2 ammunition to Ukraine, including depleted uranium armor-piercing rounds. For operational security reasons, we will not comment on Ukrainian usage rates for the rounds provided. So it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot. And yes, Ukraine has already fired depleted uranium shells. And the Russians said that was the red line. Yes.

So we're back to that World War thing. And the jibe, hey, the senile old man, the military better give him a fake suitcase with fake launch codes in it. In case he accidentally fires a nuclear missile. Yeah. But the Russians said months ago that the use of depleted uranium shells in Ukraine would be the red line that they would not tolerate. A couple more stories.

Reuters reported that Chile plans to nationalize its vast lithium industry. And this is actually a very big story. Reuters reported that Chile's President Gabriel Boric said he would nationalize the country's lithium industry, the world's second largest producer of the metal, essential in electric vehicle batteries to boost its economy and protect the environment. The shock move in the country with the world's largest lithium reserves would, in time, transfer control of Chile's vast lithium operations from industry giants SQM and Albemarle to a separate state-owned company. Now, we're going to show you a chart here of some of the various countries and the reserves that various countries have. South America has an immense amount of lithium reserves, Chile, of course, and then third down is Argentina, Australia,

massive amount as well. China, though, is coming in fourth. USA, way down the line at fifth. Look at the comparison between the USA and Chile, Rick. I mean, 9,200 metric, millions of metric tons in Chile as compared to 750 million. But compared to 750 why does the usa need lithium because we we're going to need batteries for all our electric cars because we're getting rid of oil and gas and nuclear power and going electric and yet look at our supply of lithium it all comes not all of it but most of it comes from chile which so far has been a friendly country to us but the government said um said hey we own all of it right now imagine last friday you owned a profitable lithium mine in chile and you went to bed friday night thinking i'm rich life is good I own a big

lithium mine my kids will be taking care of my grandkids it can't get any better and then you get up Monday morning and the government said we own it which is exactly what is happening in Chile that's called socialism

that's what socialism looks like they nationalized it they took ownership they took the wealth that someone else built yes and gave it to basically giving it back to the government yes so what uh what i read into it is uh officially doc you have to, if you own a lithium mine, you are required now to make the government an owner, a part owner of your corporation. You have to give up X percentage of shares of your corporation. They didn't take complete ownership. They simply said, we're your new partner, the government. Aren't we simply trading one energy supplier for another?

I mean, we're shifting it from we've been dependent on oil. Now we're going to be lithium. Dependent on lithium. Now, that brings it here to the Western Hemisphere and changes the balance of power, but this very ill-advised advance toward trying to roll out so many electric vehicles over the next several years is going, I guarantee you, it's going to come back to bite us in a big way. You better believe it.

India this week has now reached a point of being the most populated country in the world. It surpassed China this week. That's right. This is it. So the population, a little over 1.4 billion people is outpacing China at this point and will likely stay in place for at least the next several years. Doc, China and Singapore. Singapore is a city-state. Yes. You and I have been there. It's a wonderful place to visit. But China and Singapore have launched its first joint military drills. So Singapore is supposed to be a U.S. ally. That's right. So Hong Kong's South China Morning Post is reporting that China and Singapore will

hold a joint military exercise as soon as this week, their first combined drill since 2021. And this is as Beijing deepens its defense and security ties with Southeast Asia, a region with strong existing U.S. alliances. Now, the Chinese Navy will deploy a missile-bearing frigate, the Yulin, and a mine-hunting ship, the Chibi, to the joint maritime exercise, which will last from late April to early May, the Chinese Defense Ministry said in a statement on its website on Monday without specifying the location. Why is this important? Singapore is a crucial transit point for hundreds of ships.

I still remember when we were in Singapore and we had the view over the harbor. There were hundreds of tanker ships and container ships out there. I was overwhelmed by the number. I knew there were a lot of ships, but I just didn't realize how many were moving in and out of a single port every single day. And so whoever controls that, a very essential there at Singapore, really controls most of that region. And Singapore, it appears, has decided they're not interested in being a participant in World War III. Something else with Singapore, Singapore has also, it's the Switzerland of Asia. They have built vaults, and a lot of people have moved their gold and silver to Singapore.

And so there's a vast amount of gold stored in Singapore. So Singapore swinging over in alliance with China is a big deal because there's gazillions of dollars worth of gold stored in Singapore in the vaults. The top foreign policy diplomat of the European Union wants European naval ships to patrol the Taiwan Strait. He's just looking for a fight, isn't he? Yes. So Germany's DW News is reporting that the European Union's foreign policy chief,

good old Joseph Borrell, called on the bloc's navies to patrol the Taiwan Strait in a show of commitment in an opinion piece that was published in a French weekly on Sunday. Writing in the Journal des Demandes, Joseph Burrell said that Europe must be very present on this issue and that it concerns the continent economically, commercially, and technologically. It goes on to quote, Taiwan is clearly part of our geostrategic perimeter to guarantee peace, Burrell said at the time, is not only for a moral reason that an action against Taiwan must necessarily be rejected, it is also because it would be in economic terms extremely serious for us because Taiwan has a strategic role in the production of the most advanced semiconductors.

So I don't know if you've ever looked at a map of the world, but Germany's here, and Taiwan is way over here. And so that's a long way to go for a commitment, obviously under pressure from the U.S. And I think in response to Emmanuel Macron going to Beijing and kissing up to Xi Jinping. So you see that kind of power struggle going on between France and Germany for dominance in Europe, in the EU.

That's right. That's right. I'm going to skip down to the next one. I want to go to number 22. Now, this story is about, I don't know, 12, 13 days old. And I've been wanting to bring it out and we've just gotten behind in a lot of things each day.

But China rolls out fresh wartime recruitment rules. And this was the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong. Look at what they're saying. The Chinese government issued new wartime military recruitment rules.

In other words, the draft. Yes. So in February, Chinese lawmakers approved a resolution giving the military the power to change how the criminal procedure law is applied during wartime to safeguard military missions and improve the PLA's ability to win in combat. And during the annual parliamentary two sessions in March, the PLA deputies called for the introduction of laws

such as the mobilization of reserve forces as part of a need to study and speed up the introduction of, listen to what they're saying, wartime legislation. So when you see words like this in the front-facing English-language Asian news outlet that's owned by Alibaba in South China Morning Post, and they're using words like wartime, that should be a strong signal for us. Yeah, kind of like Japan in 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. There were signals. People that were paying attention to world news at that time knew

there's going to be a big war. Something big is about to happen. China is gearing up to expand its military for war. War with whom? The United States and maybe Europe. If Joseph Burrell has his way, Europe's going to be in this war too. And I'm telling you, Europe cannot afford to get into a war with China. They just can't. All right, a couple more that are important before we turn out the lights. Number 25, Bloomberg.

This goes back a couple days also. U.S.-Ukraine allies consider near total ban on exports to Russia. Bottom line is the G7 is considering a complete total ban from Western states of exports, sales of products to Russia. I mean, absolutely nothing would go from the Western countries to Russia. But who would that hurt the worst? Well, let's look at a graph here of the countries that would be impacted the most.

So right in the middle there, see that dark blue country right smack dab in the middle? That's Germany. And they're the darkest blue. And what is the darkest blue? That means they are the most reliant on Russian goods right now. And so basically, if they do a total ban on Russian goods to Europe... Russia's going to retaliate. That's right. Who's going to be hurt? The strongest economy in Europe, they'll take it down.

For what reason? To fund a corrupt government in Ukraine? There's no logic to this, Doc. There's absolutely no logic to what the West is doing. Mr. Medvedev has responded to the threat. First of all, let's put up number 27. This is Interfax. Kremlin warns of serious consequences

of a complete ban on exports to the Russian Federation. And then we'll go down to number 30. Medvedev warns G7 against banning exports to Russia. Medvedev said Russia may quit. This is RT. Russia may quit the Ukraine grain deal if the G7 nations place a total ban on the export of goods to the country, former president and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev,

wrote in his Telegram channel on Sunday. The Green Deal is that alliance they've made with Turkey to make sure that grain gets out of Ukraine, using Turkey as an intermediary. But they're out if the G7 makes a decision to do a total ban on exports. That's right. And one more story. Over the weekend, the United States refused to allow Russian news reporters to enter the United States to attend a United Nations meeting where Sergei Lavrov was actually chairing an event, an official meeting of the United Nations.

He was chairing it. Right. And so Russian journalists, they were denied visas by the United States Department of State. And the way that Anthony Blinken framed it is that, well, you just don't know how much information can be returned back to the Russian government.

It might be spies. Actually, what he said, Doc, he said, the reason the U.S. wouldn't let the Russian news media in is because the Russian news media is propaganda. Yes, that's what he said. The Russian news media is propaganda. Takes, that's what he said. The Russian news media is propaganda. Takes a lot of nerve to say that. He said it out loud.

The U.S. news media is propaganda. But I want you to see the one quote. This is number 32. This is what Lavrov said. We won't forget. We will not forgive this, said Lavrov, who scheduled to chair several un security council meetings starting april 24 is the un security council meeting right uh in new york as russia assumes

the rotating presidency of the council he said we will not forget we will not forgive there's going to be retaliation i i don't know what they're going to do, but they're going to get even. This is what happens. World War III looks like. That's what it looks like. So the U.S. and the West is going to cut off the sale of products to Russia. Russia is going to cut off the sale of products to the United States.

Russia is the biggest producer of fertilizer. Yes. We're going to cut off all the Russian fertilizer from coming into the United States. You got it. We're going to take a gun and start shooting off our toes. Oh, I forgot. We don't need the farms

because we're going to eat bugs. I'm not eating bugs. But isn't that the plan? Yes, it is. The plan is you're going to eat bugs. You're going to eat bugs. All right? I'm not eating bugs. But isn't that the plan? Yes, it is. The plan is you're going to eat bugs. You're going to eat worms. You're going to eat insects.

And you're going to like it. And you're going to like it. I'm not going to like it because I'm not going to do it. The times are evil. The times are evil. I want you to know that we are very much working on the Daniel 11 microchurches. I know I've not said much. I can't say a lot publicly on this program

because the enemies of the cross watch us. They watch, they monitor, and then they think of ways to stop us. And I know some of you are going, well, tell us what's going on. I you will tell us what's going on. I can't tell you what's going on all the time. How do you build

an underground church when you publicize everything you're doing? That's why you're underground. See where we're at today? The enemies of the cross are looking for every opportunity to stop the servants

of Jesus Christ. But I do want you to know that we are working, and we are being very diligent, and we will be bringing forth in coming weeks or months some exciting new things. Pray for us. Pray for us. It's very important that you pray for us and lift us up in prayer and help us financially.

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