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Hi, Bob Barney, and it’s beginning 2026 in Man’s Pagan Calendar calendar, and we’re going to give some 2026 predictions that I think is going to be what we need to consider what’s going to happen this year during the calendar year of 2026. Remember one thing, God’s real calendar is different than Man’s Pagan calendar that came out of the Roman Empire, which was full of paganism, and it’s the seat today of Babylon, but the calendar of God, in which we will go over again in March, happens on the spring equinox in March, about March 20th every year, and God’s calendar is a solar calendar that is fixed of 12 30-day months, and then the last five or six days of the year until the next equinox are not counted in any month. That’s the way it’s done.I know it doesn’t sound like you want to believe that, but that’s the way it’s done, and I can prove it in the Bible. I’ve done so in many, many, many articles, as well as some of these podcasts, and you can go back in the Plain Truth and start looking up things about the calendar. Sometimes it’s really easy to do it on the message board, but you can use the search feature in the main page of the Plain Truth as well, and see the different stories and podcasts that we’ve done about the calendar, God’s true calendar, which always starts in the spring.Doesn’t that make sense that you don’t start a calendar in the middle of the wintertime when everything is dead and dying and not going to come back to life for another three months? But anyway, we’re going to go into man’s 2026 year and some of the predictions I think to look forward to. Maybe I’ll play them again next year, December 30th or 31st, and see how accurate some of my ideas were. But we’re going to start off with economic predictions for 2026.I believe you’re going to continue to see gold raise in value. It’s about $4,400 today. It was $4,500 as a high about a week ago.Then it had about a $200 or $300 pullback, and that is because at the end of the year, people decide to sell a lot of their assets in order to raise some cash for the holiday season, the payout bills and stuff like that. So silver and gold took a plummet. So did the stock market, especially Bitcoin in the last six weeks has absolutely lost about $40,000 in value.Even though I own a little bit of Bitcoin, I would not recommend anybody to do so unless you had some money to burn, because Bitcoin is absolutely a scam. You think it’s not. If you get into it, and you have money to play around, and you want to gamble, it’s nothing different than playing poker with somebody.You can make some very good, fast money with Bitcoin. I have, but I’m also a realist to know I could lose it overnight. So I would invest in gold.And if you’re kind of poorer, I would do it in silver, because silver is the poor man’s gold. It’s going up the same amount as gold. In fact, in the last two years, silver has outpaced gold every year.So if you had $1,000 in gold, which is not even a quarter of an ounce, and you had $1,000 in silver, which was about, I don’t know what, 15 ounces, then you would have seen a better rate of return on that $1,000 if you had silver over the last year than if you had gold. If you started out with $1,000 worth of silver in January of 2025, you would be worth about $2,000 today, and you would only be worth about $1,875 in gold. So silver is a good investment, and it’s an easy investment to physically own silver, because the coins are quite easily bought online, and you do not have to pay that big of a premium in order to get silver coins or even silver ingots that’s an ounce, five ounces, ten ounces, even a hundred ounces.I have a few hundred ounce bars of silver, which when you bought them, they were worth about $30, and now they’re worth about $750. So like I said, silver is a good investment. The real GDP growth of the whole world, most economists say it’s going to be about 3%.That is if we do not have a worldwide panic and depression. I do believe it’s coming. I’m not sure it’s going to come in 2026, but the world itself, not just America, is acting like spendthrifts and morons.The whole world is doing the same thing. If you think China or Russia has got their act together, China is doing quite well economically right now, but at what cost? And the cost is going to be someday a major downturn in the Chinese economy, because they keep devaluing their yen in order to keep prices cheap for the world to buy their products, so their people, some almost 2 billion of them, can stay employed. It’s a socialistic view of a capitalistic problem, which will eventually fall in on China, and they will end up with a kind of debt load that the United States has done, practicing the same stupid economic policies.And China is, because it’s growing every year, it can outgrow its deficit, but eventually its deficit is going to catch up with them as well. But even experts believe that China raising 5%, 6%, 7%, 8% a year, as they have over the last 10 years, is probably going to be no more than 2%, maybe 2.5% in 2026. Why? Because most economists realize that China, because of the tariffs, Trump’s done one thing to hurt China, that many companies have gone elsewhere to have things manufactured.They haven’t come back to the United States, as Trump promised, but they are going elsewhere to manufacture outside of China, like Vietnam, or Malaysia, or India, or Singapore, and that is putting a hurt on the Chinese manufacturing economy. Don’t you kid yourself, it really is. It’s not helping the American economy one bit, by the way, but it is helping the hurt the Chinese economy at least.Inflation? Well, most experts that I’ve been reading about, and I look up at this, think that inflation is under control. I do not believe inflation is under control. I believe this year, if we don’t have a crash in 2026, the experts, if you watch TV, is going to convince you that the inflation is running around 2%, 2.5%. And that is because the things they do not count in inflation that every household has to pay.The price you pay for medicine is not in the inflation number. What you pay for your health insurance, if you’re paying for it, is not in your inflation report. What you pay for items such as home heating fuel, and things like that, gasoline, that’s not in the CPI number.The things that are in the CPI number, basically, is easily manipulated. And that happened, by the way, back in Jimmy Carter. Before Jimmy Carter became president, the CPI inflation number was quite accurate, because it included about everything.And then Jimmy Carter, in order to try to do away with that 35% inflation he was having, changed the metrics of how you count inflation. There’s many metrics as how to count inflation. And he took one that had the lowest inflation index, and so he was able to lower inflation from what they thought was about 25% to about 14% or 12%.It was all just lying with statistics. And that’s really the problem with inflation. But I think if we do not have a crash, inflation will keep running at about 4% to 8%.If you add your homeowners insurance, the cost of housing, the cost of gasoline, the cost of a lot of things are going to go up. Gasoline is not going down like people thought it would go down, because the economy is heating up somewhat around the world. And if we have a depression around the world or a great recession, then you’ll see prices fall, but not in case that is the case.I hear a lot about AI and what AI is going to do. And I have to admit, AI has been pretty impressive that I’ve looked into chat GPT and other AI sources of what it can do. But also what it can’t do is also glaring, in my opinion.Just get on one of these bank teller lines where you’re talking to a robot, maybe called Erica, if you’re Bank of America, and realize just how inferior AI still is compared to talking to a live person. It’s always been said, junk put in a computer, you get junk out of that computer. And it takes people to program AI.Now, AI can learn from itself. Some people find that to be dangerous. Watch some Twilight Zone episodes.But AI is going to make some inroads, but I think it’s overstated so far about what it’s going to do for the economy. It’s reminding me and other people, not just me, of the tech bubble of 2000. And I think we could be there again.I’ll be right back after a word about theplaintruth.com. Theplaintruth.com is the one site to go to, to find out what’s happening in today’s news, what it means for you, your family, and your future, and the future of your family. It also helps you with your health, what you should eat, what you shouldn’t eat, what you should do to keep healthy. It also helps you with other things as well.That’s theplaintruth.com. And these broadcasts, The Plain Truth Today, are all found at theplaintruth.com. Please visit it every day. And we welcome you if you’re new. Thank you.Bye-bye. Well, we’re back again with the prediction of 2026. And I was going over some outlooks about what’s happening.We’re going to talk economically now, but also politically, and just in general. We were talking about China and how I think China’s growth is going to be moderated somewhat. The European empire that’s in the process of being formed is going to be a bigger and bigger story every single year for a long time.Europe is gaining power. It’s going to unite Central Europe, especially. And it’s going to unite in a response to the weakness that the Donald Trump administration is showing in world affairs about standing up to Russia, standing up to any enemy of the world, including in Iran and other places.And I think you’re going to see Europe being dominated by Germany. It still is and always has been. And it’s going to unite into a one nation, one empire, the Holy Roman Empire, as predicted in the book of Daniel and in Revelation.It’s going to happen. I’m not sure it’s going to fully happen in our lifetime, or my lifetime, or your kid’s lifetime. I’m not one of these holy rollers that predict the end of the world and give you a date and everything else.That just simply is not found in the Bible. We just know what is found in the Bible is Christ is someday coming back again to save us from ourselves, probably from some nuclear war that we get ourselves into, where we could blow the whole world up seven times over, and nothing would survive without the intervention of God Almighty in the name of Jesus Christ in preventing the inevitable to happen, which mankind would cause if he was not stopped. And that is the return of Jesus Christ mentioned in the Bible.It’s going to happen. When? I’m not sure. But we have to find certain things that are going to happen.Some of these things could happen in 2026. More uniting of Europe, especially Central Europe. That’s Italy, Austria, and Germany, and surrounding countries around them, as well as we’re going to see an empire start growing and taking place in Japan.I believe they already have nuclear bombs. I really do, even though they do not admit it. They are the most advanced nuclear country in the world without atomic weapons.They have all the power plants. They have all the uranium they need to make bombs. They have an enemy in China, and they are preparing for that enemy.The plain truth, if you’ve been paying attention to these podcasts or just the pages of The Plain Truth Now, we have been predicting for years that Japan is going to rearm, and they’re going to rearm because of the weakness of the United States to protect them, as we’re showing to Europe as well, and to Ukraine with Russia, and they are going to build a major military operation again, and militarists controlling the Japanese military and economy and government is not good for world peace. We already know that, and we’ve seen that in history, and history always tends to repeat itself, and Japan is going to rearm. They’re going to rearm with nuclear weapons, and China is going to be finding themselves in trouble with Japan because China will not be able to defeat Japan.In fact, Japan could easily defeat China once they rearm because the Japanese are fighters. They are warriors, and the Chinese people basically are peaceful, peace-loving people who like to work hard, and they are not people who are an aggressive people as the Japanese are when the military runs them, and so Xi Jinping and China have some problems coming, not with the United States, but with a rearmed Japan, already with a big aircraft carrier, the first one since World War II, and like I said, I believe they have nuclear weapons already, even though they haven’t said they do. Just keep an eye on Japan in 2026, keep an eye on Germany in 2026, and keep an eye on both the United Kingdom and the United States of America.We are the true nation of Israel. We have the name because we are the tribe of Joseph, and the name Israel belongs to the tribe of Joseph, not to the Jewish tribe, which is Judah in the Bible. Judah is never called Israel, and the Jews have no right to the name Israel, but watch the United States and the United Kingdom continue to decline in power worldwide, become more and more subject to other nations than we want to be.Again, it’s predicted in the Bible, it’s going to happen, you’re not going to stop it from happening. You can delay it from happening if this country, England too, as a country returned to God in prayer, fasting and reading the Bible and obeying their God, God would delay what would happen to us for a long time, but the American people have become very stubborn. I did a show, a 7-Eleven short show about Christmas.Would you be willing to put Christ in Christmas and give up everything that has nothing to do with Christ at all, like giving gifts or having a Christmas tree or having mistletoe or all of the traditional things you do for Christmas. They have nothing and you cannot find in the pages of the Bible, and I told you in that 7-Eleven short broadcast, you wouldn’t be willing to do it because you are more worried about your own greed and your own self if you’re the average American than what God thinks, and if you follow in Christmas, you’re proving my point. Now, if you’re going to give up Christmas and realize the truth about Christmas, then you’re not one of the people I’m talking about.Turning toward American politics in 2026, well, if you’ve been listening to me and I am pretty much a doomsdayer on the Republican chances of winning anything in 2026, especially because of the policies that the Trump administration has done, which contrary to what people want to think, that believe in Donald Trump and they want to see him succeed and they believe all the news is fake and all the polls are fake, I don’t believe that’s the case this time around. I believe, and I do talk to a lot of people. We run a company, we run a paint company, and we sell online to many people around the world and around the nation, and we talk to a lot of people, a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump who are very disappointed that they did.I have personal friends who have voted for Donald Trump and wish they never did. Now, I voted for Donald Trump three times and I’m glad I did. I wouldn’t want to see any Democrat.And my biggest fear, and I say this all the time to my friends who want to disagree with me, my biggest fear is that Donald Trump is going to cause his own ruined presidency as he did in 2019 and 2020 when it came to COVID. He put the entire thing in Dr. Fauci’s hand who destroyed the Trump agenda, the Trump administration, and the Trump economy. He should have never allowed this government to be locked down and the states that did not do so, i.e. I mean Florida, did not have the economic ruin that this country had as a whole because of what Donald Trump did.He set himself up for failure. I’m not going back, by the way, and saying that the 2020 election was not stolen because I believe it was stolen. I believe all elections the Democrats have stealing down to a science, and so you have to be really, really in front of your opponent if you’re a Republican to win in a national election against Democrats who’s got stealing elections down to a science.But it can be done. For example, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton was stealing the election in 2016. Everybody thought she was going to win in a landslide, but Donald Trump was able to convince people, enough people, to be able to win over Hillary Clinton in such a big number that you can’t fix that kind of numbers.The truth is you can fix an election if it’s somewhat close. You cannot fix an election if it’s nowhere close and that it’s just, if you are alienating your voters, you’re in trouble. Donald Trump is alienating what you would call Trump Democrats, Trump working people, and the Trump middle class, middle-of-the-road people who are not doing better.They are not seeing lower prices. They are not themselves hearing, even though they hear from Donald Trump how great this economy is, they don’t feel it. They’re hurting, and they’re kind of agreeing with Jamie Dimon, by, you know, remember what Jamie Dimon said to Donald Trump, stop making things up.I have a very good friend who is an absolute big-time Trump supporter and told me the other day, he said, I just wish he would stop lying. I wish he would start telling the truth. That’s pretty bad when you think about a person who thinks Donald Trump’s doing a great job.Even right now, he thinks this economy is going to turn around big time in 2026, and yet he admits that all he does is lie. This is a Trump mega supporter telling me this. He laughed when he told me that, but it’s a problem, and if you don’t think it’s a problem, wait to the November of 2026, and I think you’re going to find a bad result for Republicans.I’ll be right back. Talking about the 2026 elections, The Plain Truth is the place to go to find out what’s going to happen. We’re going to have predictions.We’re going to have accurate, what we think is the accurate polling, and we’re going to have that day coverage on theplaintruth.com, live coverage of what happens in 2026. Will the Democrats be able to pull off a major victory over Republicans, or will the Republicans find a way to save their majority in the House and the Senate? That’s the elections of 2026, and theplaintruth.com is the place to go to try to find out what’s happening, what is happening, what will happen, and what did happen. Theplaintruth.com, go there every day.Thank you. We’re back with the last 10 minutes of the 2026 predictions, and I wanted to get into what I think is going to happen in Congress. I think the Democrats are going to win the House by a large majority.They will probably have a 20-seat majority, and they probably may get within fighting distance of gaining the Senate back, in my opinion. Many, many Republicans are leaving office. They’re not even going to run again next year, a record number, because they see what I see.I’m sorry that so many people out there who just think that all of this is fake news are going to be awfully disappointed, as they were when I warned people. I started warning people back in 2019 about the QAnon situation. I said it was bogus.This stuff is not true. Oh, you remember? Oh, Donald Trump, this is all planned. All this stuff is planned.He’s going to win in a landslide. He lost. It was all nonsense.Everybody now is saying about all of this stuff’s going to happen. The polls are fake. The Democrats are in disarray.They’re not going to be able to win. You’re going to be very upset, and you’re going to say it’s another stolen election. You’re going to say that every single congressional election was stolen.That’s going to be turned over. I want to tell you something. It’s very hard to steal congressional elections.Yes, you can steal presidential elections. You can even steal some state senator elections, but it’s pretty hard to overturn elections in a House district. It just is.If you know anything about politics, you know I’m telling you the plain truth here. You’re going to see, I think, a sweep of the House, like we haven’t seen probably since Obama’s 2010 disaster, when the Tea Party was able to flip, what, 65 seats. It could be that bad for Donald Trump, unless something changes in 2026 that I don’t see changing.As long as you keep tariffs, I know they’re starting to back off on tariffs. All of a sudden, tariffs are not the central force of anything. But as long as you keep tariffs, as long as prices stay high, as long as we don’t have a deflation of prices for the middle class, as long as insurance rates keep going up, housing values keep coming up, and if there is a crash or there’s not a crash, both scenarios don’t bode well for Republicans.I’ll tell you something else that doesn’t bode well for Republicans, and that is Obamacare. Although I was against Obamacare, I’m still basically against Obamacare. The problem is, it’s like Social Security.Once people have it, and most of the people who have it, by the way, are Republican voters, not just Democrat voters. Once you give something to somebody and you try to take it away, even if you have good motives to try to take it away, you are going to find the wrath of the American public at polling day when they vote against you. Because when something is given to someone, it becomes an entitlement, and Americans love entitlements.You want to believe that or not, they do. I don’t care if you are a so-called conservative Republican or a liberal Democrat. Once you get entitlements, you are not willing to get rid of them if you are not rich.Rich Republicans who have all the money in the world, who claim to be conservative, yeah, they’re willing to take away your health care. They’re willing to take away your Social Security, Medicare, even their own, for that matter, a little bit, because they’re well-off. But if you’re not a well-off conservative, you’re not going to want to give up your Social Security, you’re not going to want to give up your Medicare, and you’re not going to want to give up your Obamacare, and you’re going to be pretty upset with Congress people, especially Republicans here, who’s going to be telling you, you don’t need it.I’m just telling you that right now. That’s not going to go over well. That’s called the third rail that Ronald Reagan learned about when he wanted to talk about Social Security cuts.And Jim Baker came to him and said, Mr. President, that third rail will do you in. And Ronald Reagan, unlike Donald Trump, listened to good advice. He did not arrogantly go on his own way in spite of what the plain truth is.So 2026, in my opinion, is a pivotal year. I, I, I, that sounds like kind of wishy-washy. I think we’re going to go into economic downturn in 2026.I think gold will be $7,500 to $8,000 by next December. Silver will be $100 to $125 by next December. Oil will probably be in the same range it is now, unless we have an economic downturn and oil will go down.I don’t see oil going up much, but maybe up to $75, $80 a barrel, but I really doubt it. I think war is the big problem we have to look forward to 2026. Wars between Russia and Ukraine continuing, Iran coming back to life as I predicted they would be against Israel, Hamas coming back to life, China trying to do things to Taiwan and North Korea to South Korea, and a rearmed Japan becoming the powerhouse of the Pacific Rim again, like they were in the 1930s and early 1940s.And the emergence of a strong European army, probably under the control of Germany, maybe Italy as well, with a strong alliance with the Catholic Church and this new Pope emerging in 2026. That is what I think you’re going to see happening, and I think it’s going to happen in 2026. We will check back in December, I guess, to see how accurate these predictions were.God is not telling me what to predict, by the way. This is just my own knowledge, my own ideas. I could be 100% wrong, but as I often say comically, I often say that God doesn’t have breakfast with me and tell me everything except what’s in the pages of the Bible.I know what God wants done by reading the Bible, and that’s what I recommend everyone do, is read the Bible for what God says you should do in your life, what laws you should follow, what foods you should eat, because God has a list of foods you should and should not eat, by the way, and just generally how you should treat your neighbor, how you should treat God, and how you should treat one another. That is called the Bible, and follow the Bible, and follow what God tells you to do, and you will have a better life. God can give you a better life if you really want one, but you got to follow God’s way.You cannot go your own way and expect God’s going to bless you, because God will not bless you. God actually can become your enemy quite quickly. But anyway, that’s the show for today.I do welcome everybody to theplaintruth.com who’s not been here before, and to these broadcasts. The Plain Truth Today is a place where it’s not just my opinions, we try to put up other people’s opinions as well, and we try to tell you what the plain truth is in both theplaintruth.com and the Plain Truth Today broadcast. That’s theplaintruth.com. I really hope everybody goes there every day.We have the message board, we have Your Health Today, and we have these podcasts as well as the main page of The Plain Truth with very good articles. That’s theplaintruth.com. Please go there every day. Until then, this is Bob Barty saying thank you for listening.We do appreciate you, and until tomorrow, bye-bye.