These Last Days News - July 16, 2024
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Xi Jinping and China: Running Out Of Time, Ready to
Strike...
THE APOCALYPSE Veronica - I'm looking up, and
the sky's becoming very lighted. And I am seeing thousands and thousands of
people marching. But they look like Chinese, or Mongolian. No, they're—I
believe they're Chinese; they're Asiatic. They're marching across the land,
and they're boarding some kind of transport. They're going onto the water.
Oh, it's a great War. Oh! Oh! Now Michael is coming over to the left side
of the flagpole, and he's looking down. St. Michael - "My child, we have
asked you to send the word to mankind that they will read in the Book of
life, the Bible, the words given to them that will fulfill the prophecy of
the latter days, Apocalypse. You are living the days of the Revelations.
Read them and be knowledgeable, and you will not be caught without the
light." - June 8, 1974
INVASION Veronica - I see a great body of
water. And now it's as though I'm riding in a boat and looking onto the
land. And it's seashore is now filling with all figures. They look like
they're going to battle. There are now tanks pulling up, and they're
lining up. It, it, it appears from here that there is going to be an
invasion. But the country knows of this coming invasion and is preparing
for the battle. St. Michael - "Part of this sword, My child, shall be
a great War! Nations shall disappear from the face of the earth. Eyes
will see and many will still not believe."
- July 15, 1975
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
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Why is Chinese President Xi Jinping moving so fast at this time
to exert control over peripheral waters? Prominent China analyst
Willy Lam wrote last October that China's leader perhaps sees a
closing window of opportunity and therefore is in a hurry to annex
territory.
Whether he goes to war or not, he is getting ready to do so. Both
the Financial Times and CNN have reported that businesses
have been establishing military units inside their organizations.
"Chinese Companies Are Raising Militias Like It's the 1970s," the
cable network reported.
Xi is engaged in the fastest military buildup since the Second
World War. In addition, he is purging military officers opposed to
war, trying to sanction-proof his regime, stockpiling grain and
other commodities, surveying the U.S. for nuclear weapons strikes,
and mobilizing civilians for war.
His economic policies emphasize war preparation, and he looks
determined to take China into battle, regardless of prospects. "Even
if we cannot win, we must fight," Xi is reported to have said to
military officers in 2017, in connection with Taiwan.
I believe that Xi wants war — or at least a ramping up of
tensions — to prevent senior Chinese leaders from moving against
him. He is not looking to rally the Chinese people with provocative
actions or even an attack; he wants to defang political opponents in
the Communist Party.
Xi may not yet have made the decision to go to war, but he has
clearly made the decision to risk war. That means he can strike when
we least expect it.
In recent weeks, China has surged its naval fleet into both
surrounding and far away waters.
Most significantly, the People's Liberation Army Navy sent two strike
groups into the South China Sea. The larger, centered on the Shandong aircraft
carrier, operated off the main Philippine island of Luzon before transiting into
the Western Pacific for blue water flight operations. The other is an
Expeditionary Strike Group led by a Type 075 Yushen-class
amphibious assault ship, one of China's largest and most advanced. Four
of China's Type 055 Renhai-class cruisers, described as "the most
lethal surface combatant in the world," escorted the two strike groups.
China's newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has been on its
third set of sea
trials.
China and Russia began "Exercise
Joint Sea-2024" at the Zhanjiang port in southern Guangdong
province, the headquarters of the Chinese navy's South Sea Fleet.
A total of 56 aircraft — the most ever in a single day, according to
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense — flew into
Taiwan's air-defense identification zone, some coming as close as 33
nautical miles of the southern tip of the main island of Taiwan. Another
10 Chinese planes flew outside the zone at the same time.
Chinese Coast Guard cutter 5901, dubbed "the Monster" because of its
12,000-ton displacement, was spotted near
Sabina Shoal of the Philippines, in the South China Sea.
Finally, four Chinese naval combatants transited nearby Alaskan
islands, staying out of territorial waters but coming
inside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, the band of water between
12 and 200 nautical miles from the shoreline. As James Fanell, co-author
of Embracing
Communist China: America's Greatest Strategic Failure, told
Gatestone, this is the fifth time since 2015 that China dispatched
warships inside the American EEZ.
"In the past couple weeks, the Chinese Communist Party has
demonstrated to the region—and more importantly to Washington—that the
People's Republic of China is the master of the seas in the
Indo-Pacific," said Fanell, also a former U.S. Navy captain who served
as director of Intelligence and Information Operations at the U.S.
Pacific Fleet.
Why is Chinese President Xi Jinping moving so fast at this time to
exert control over peripheral waters? Prominent China analyst Willy Lam wrote last
October that China's leader perhaps sees a closing window of opportunity
and therefore is in a hurry to annex territory.
At a June conference of military officers in one of China's most
famous revolutionary bases, Xi reportedly made dire-sounding statements.
"We are here in Yan'an to hold a military meeting, preparing for a civil
war," he said, in one version of his talk. The text of his remarks, now
widely circulating, remain unconfirmed.
Whether he goes to war or not, he is getting ready to do so. Both
the Financial
Times and CNN have
reported that businesses have been establishing military units inside
their organizations. "Chinese Companies Are Raising Militias Like It's
the 1970s," the cable network reported.
Xi is engaged in the fastest military buildup since the Second World
War. In addition, he is purging military officers opposed to war, trying
to sanction-proof his regime, stockpiling grain and other commodities,
surveying the U.S. for nuclear weapons strikes, and mobilizing civilians
for war. At the same time, he is reasserting state control over the
economy, financial markets, and virtually all other aspects of society.
He is, in short, bringing back totalitarian controls to China.
Those controls are, among other things, choking the economy. Beijing
on July 15 reported 4.7%
year-on-year GDP growth in the second quarter, but that number is hard
to reconcile with signs of a stagnating economy. The country, for
instance, is flirting with deflation, which is inconsistent with the
reported robust expansion.
The problem is that Xi refuses to empower consumers so that they can
create a consumption-based economy. Why would he reject near-unanimous
advice to put money into the hands of ordinary Chinese? Among other
reasons, doing so would undercut his efforts to build a wartime economy.
"Xi Jinping's propagandists desperately try to paper over the fact
that there is a growing crisis of confidence in his regime to reverse
the economic decline caused by the re-imposition of neo-Stalinist
Mao-era policies," Charles Burton of the Prague-based think tank
Sinopsis told Gatestone. "His repudiation of the progressive 'opening
and reform' agenda of Deng Xiaoping and his successors has led to a
severe downward spiral. This is matched by increasingly popular
dissatisfaction with Xi's repressive personality cult leadership."
Xi has a chance — perhaps his last — to reverse trends. The Communist
Party's Third Plenum, which started on July 15, is held once every five
years and is traditionally devoted to economic matters. Optimists had
hoped that Xi would signal new policies, but now expectations are
exceedingly low as it appears he will instead double down on state-led
initiatives to bolster manufacturing and infrastructure spending.
His economic policies emphasize war preparation, and he looks
determined to take China into battle, regardless of prospects. "Even if
we cannot win, we must fight," Xi is reported to have said to military
officers in 2017, in connection with Taiwan.
Why would he say something like that? After all, war, especially war
on Taiwan "compatriots," would be exceedingly unpopular with China's
unhappy people at this moment.
I believe that Xi wants war — or at least a ramping up of tensions —
to prevent senior Chinese leaders from moving against him. He is not
looking to rally the Chinese people with provocative actions or even an
attack; he wants to defang political opponents in the Communist Party.
"If the upcoming Communist Party Third Plenum fails to come up with
dramatic measures to restore faith in the Party's ability to turn things
around," Burton, also a former Canadian diplomat serving in Beijing,
said, "the sole option for Xi to stave off his inevitable removal from
office would be to put China on a nationalistic war footing and engage
in precipitous action against Taiwan or some other neighbor."
Xi's hero, Mao Zedong, rallied the Chinese people with the Cultural
Revolution not to obtain their support but to use them to take down
senior leaders who had been plotting to depose him. Xi might adopt this
tactic, except this time looking for a quick seizure of territory or
maybe just keeping regional tensions high.
The situation, however, could get out of hand, triggering conflict
around the region — or the world. Xi, unfortunately, could become
desperate, and if the situation continues to deteriorate he may not care
about the odds.
Xi may not yet have made the decision to go to war, but he has
clearly made the decision to risk war. That means he can strike when we
least expect it.
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RUSSIA & CHINA "Wars are a punishment for man's
sins. Syria holds the key to peace at this time. However, I place in front
of you, My children, a graphic picture for you to understand. It will be a
parable for some, and some will turn away not willing to hear what Heaven
has to say in these desperate times." Veronica-Our Lady is pointing up
with Her finger, like this, to Her right side, and high above Her the sky is
opening up-all the clouds are floating away and the sky is opening up, and I
see a map of the Mideast. And then Our Lady is pointing up farther and
that's another map of China and Russia. Our Lady is turning back now; She
was looking upward also. Our Lady-"My child and My
children, there are scoffers who will say there shall not be a Third World
War. They do not know and cannot conceive of the plan of the Eternal Father.
Be it known now that the Father has great heart for all His children, but
when the sin reaches a peak only known to the Father, the amount of sin
among mankind, then the Father will take action. He will allow you to go
upon your reprobate way until there will be few souls to save upon earth,
for the others will have died in battle and also at the hands of a corrupt
generation of the young."- Our Lady, May 28, 1983
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Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.
THE APOCALYPSE Veronica-I'm looking up, and the
sky's becoming very lighted. And I am seeing thousands and thousands of
people marching. But they look like Chinese, or Mongolian. No, they're-I
believe they're Chinese; they're Asiatic. They're marching across the land,
and they're boarding some kind of transport. They're going onto the water.
Oh, it's a great War. Oh! Oh! Now Michael is coming over to
the left side of the flagpole, and he's looking down. St. Michael-"My child, we have
asked you to send the word to mankind that they will read in the Book of
life, the Bible, the words given to them that will fulfill the prophecy of
the latter days, Apocalypse. You are living the days of the Revelations.
Read them and be knowledgeable, and you will not be caught without the
light." - St. Michael, June 8,
1974
RUSSIA PLANS ATTACK "My child and My children, I wish
that you all keep a constant vigilance of prayer going throughout the world,
your country, the United States, and Canada. I warn you again that Russia
plans an attack upon the United States. "You must remember, My children,
when you accept the talkings and the words of an atheist: there is no honor
in the atheist. There is no truth in the atheist. They will cajole you, and
buy you, until you no longer are what is called a 'free nation,' but you
will be enslaved-if they do not kill the multitudes before, My child. I say
'if,' because it is their plan to destroy your nation and rebuild it by
themselves. The cost of life means nothing to them, as you can recognize in
all of the countries around your world that have been invaded by Russia, or
Russia is the secret agent giving over the firearms and the destructive
missiles to destroy the United States and Canada." - Our
Lady, September 14, 1985
RUSE Shortly after Veronica finished reading the articles in the daily newspaper
pertaining to the "demise" of communism in the Soviet Union, and the subsequent
birth of the new Commonwealth of Independent States, Our Lady appeared in what
Veronica perceived as a message expressed in desperation:
"Do not be deceived. Their father is the father of all liars: satan. Their
master plan is in motion. Pray for the light. Minds are clouded. I repeat: it is
a ruse. Wake up America or you will suffer much." - Our Lady, December 18,
1991
"FOR IT IS THEIR PLAN TO SUBDUE YOU, ONCE
THEY GET THE BILLIONS THAT THEY NEED IN AID"
"As I counseled you all in the past, I said to you as quote: 'This is a ruse,' I
repeat again. This is the visit to your country, the once great and Illustrious
United States of the world, the nation, the United States of America, the
illustrious country that now is leading into a path of darkness. This has been
allowed because of the dire straits of your nation. The morality has now been
cast aside. Darkness has fallen upon mankind....
"I tell you now, and I will not tell you again. This is the last time you
will receive this counsel.
"As in the past Lenin, as in the past Stalin, and Khrushchev; and many
others had tried to deceive the United States. They all felt that by trying to
ensnare you with delusions of casting aside their communistic aspirations, that
they had become as you, a free nation for all.
"I assure you, My children, there is no freedom in Russia. It is all a
delusion.
"They seek the monies of the world from the nations of the world. And why
do you not learn a lesson? It happened in the time of Lenin; it happened in the
time of Stalin. And there you are all on the same road, ready to give billions
of monies that should be given to those of your nation and the free nations of
the world.
"Do not be deceived, My children, Russia is not free. It is a cosmetic act
to delude you. Lenin and Stalin used the same tactics, My children. Why do you
not learn from your errors?"
Veronica - Our Lady now, Our Lady is crying. Now She is looking up and She says:
Our Lady - "My tears fall on you, My children. And I must give you also the
conclusion to what I have spoken to you of. Lenin and Stalin are not with Us.
They were cast off to meet with their god, the prince of darkness, satan.
"It behooves Me to say, and it tears My heart in anguish, that they did not
seek to be saved. For those who approach them, as they will approach you in your
nation and try to convince you that their way of life without the Eternal Father
was a way that should be adopted by all - no, My children!
"I repeat again, because this will be my last discourse to the world on this
subject: This man, these two men are of the same creed, color, spirituality - or
should I say, My children, lack of spirituality. They have a father who is the
father of all liars, so what does it make them, My children - Lenin, Stalin,
Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev?
"That is the same old plan, My children, and those leaders of your nation
are as blind as they were in the past. I tell you for your own good, My children
of the United States of America, that once was a nation under God and
indivisible, that you will fall! If you do not come out of your slumber now, you
will fall!
"For it is their plan to subdue you, once they get the billions that they
need in aid, to bring up the economy and buy more armaments. They have not
disposed of their armaments, My child and My children. They store them in other
nations. They have the same goals as their forefathers." - Our Lady, June 18,
1992
CONSECRATE RUSSIA, NOT THE
WORLD
"When I came to Fatima many years ago, I knew that communism would go throughout
the world destroying many nations and attacking My Son's Church. Therefore, I
made a promise that if the Pope, the Pope of those days and the Pope today,
would unite with all the bishops of the world, all together on one day--not the
world--but the bishops and the Pope will unite and pray for the consecration of
Russia. I do not mean the world, My children; I mean Russia--Russia, the scourge
of mankind. You will pray for Russia. One day must be allotted in which Pope
John Paul II and, also, all the bishops of the world must unite on one day, I
repeat, and pray for Russia; or Russia will continue to be the scourge from God.
Russia will continue to go throughout the world annihilating people and places
and countries." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987
IN UNISON WITH ALL THE
BISHOPS "I repeat from My Mother Her words to the world some time ago--and I
believe, My child, you have been a voice-box before and a means for Heaven to
transport this message to the world--that is, that the Holy Father in Rome, in
unison with all of the bishops of the world, must consecrate Russia to the
Immaculate Heart of My Mother." - Jesus, March 18, 1989
RED HORSE
"The red horse is war! And war is in the balance next, My child. And what can
you do about this? This is My direction from Heaven—and
We hope, My children, that you will get this out to the world—unless
the bishops and the Holy Father in unity with all the bishops of the world—unless
they consecrate Russia to My Mother's Immaculate Heart, the world will be
doomed! Because Russia will continue to spread her errors throughout the world,
rising up wars and carnage and pestilence and famine." - Jesus, June 17, 1989
WORLD WAR III
Veronica - . . . Our Lady now is looking down sadly. And I see She's
pointing now to what looks like a map. Oh, my!
Now as I am watching—it's a map of... oh, I can see Jerusalem, and
Egypt, Arabia, French Morocco, Africa. Oh, my goodness! There seems to be a very
dense darkness now settling upon those countries. Oh, my!
And Our Lady is saying:
Our Lady - "The start of the Third World War, My child." -- March 29,
1975
INVASION WITH MISSILES
"My child, the last time We spoke to you, We
told you that there was a far greater message to be given to mankind. This is
the message: THAT RUSSIA PLANS TO INVADE THE UNITED STATES WITH MISSILES!
"There is much that you don't know, My poor children, or perhaps some think
it best that you don't know what is happening within your governments. Many of
the newspapers and other means of relaying this to you have been silenced.
"But I, as your Mother, beg intercession through Jesus to the Eternal
Father and the Holy Ghost to spare you these terrible punishments. If there is
a need for more victim souls, let them be satisfied to know that they have been
warned.
"My child, I know this has been a complete shock to you, but this message
must go throughout the world. Awaken those who sleep before it is too late."
- Our Lady, March 26, 1983
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