The Highwire with Del Bigtree - DR. JOE MERCOLA CANCELED BY CHASE BANK

Episode Date: August 8, 2023

Expert guests on The HighWire have given warning for years about trusting your hard earned money with big banks. Natural health champion, Dr. Joseph Mercola gives a first hand account of the hardship he’s facing in the wake of JP Morgan Chase suddenly closing his business bank accounts and accounts of his employees and their children without any valid explanation. Is your money safe in the bank?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

So many of us grew up reading those dystopian novels like 1984, Brave New World. There always seems to be this authoritarian entity. And I think that when we dreamed about it, you thought, well, there'd be police marching the streets, maybe house arrest, ankle bracelet. But maybe it's easier to control us than all of that. What if they just control your money? What if they can just shut down your bank accounts? This is something that we watched happen during COVID many times. Remember the Canadian truckers?

Remember those news stories that looked like. this. Bank customers are having their account shut down without much warning or explanation. Banks have already started to freeze the accounts of people involved in the protests. Banking services are being ripped away from controversial figures. Nigel Farage, his bank, just out of nowhere, pulling his account. And this is what's really disturbing is he's now approached seven banks since then, and none of them will open an account with him. We received about three complaints just within a couple of weeks' time span. The banks closed their accounts or held their money for weeks with no explanation.

More than 66,000 was frozen by Citibank last December. Branch manager and made her show everything from her Social Security card, passport, driver's license, even her birth certificate, but still wouldn't unfreeze her money. Check my bank account and saw that it was at zero. They had given me no notice. They just closed my account. I went to log on to my online banking and it kept saying account locked. The young lady said we decided to close your account. They never would tell me why they said that they chose to discontinue doing business with me.

It was the only reason they had given me. The Canadian government threatened him to freeze protesters' personal bank accounts if they do not comply. This is about following the money. If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The law is really not clear about what happens if a bank freezes or closes your account. When can they do that? How long can they hold on to your money? We don't have clear rules.

This is the cutting edge of the war between the global empire versus the people. How do you deal with this massive bank, this massive power that you have no control over? Well, there's been several headlines that were just as scary as those news pieces were. They look something like this. PayPal shuts account of parents group that campaigned to keep schools open during pandemic. Can't allow that. You know, all of these things seem scary, but I think they always feel like, well, it's long distance away from me.

And unfortunately, we don't tend to learn until it comes to roost at home or happens in our front yard. And that's really what's happened for me just last week, a good friend. And I think one of the greatest voices in health in the world, Dr. Joseph McCullough put out this tweet. This is what he said. Chase Bank has shut down our business bank accounts along with the accounts of my CEO and CFO as well as their family members, including spouse and child. They refuse to provide any reason for doing so. The oldest account has been active for 18 years. Pretty shocking. And we're going to get to the bottom of this right now. I'm joined now by Dr. Joseph Mercola.

Hi, Joe, how are you doing? I'm doing great. So what happened? I mean, how do you? How did this, you know, how did you, I guess the question would be since you're someone that's been sensitive already, given all the censorship you've been through, was there writing on the wall for this to be taking place? No, none at all. It was actually quite surprising. It just makes no sense. And we've been seeking to get an answer from them and they continue to provide us with one,

although they are more than willing to discuss this with the media and tell them that we, they're doing this because we were money laundering, which is a farce because if you were money laundering, that's a federal felony and they throw you in jail and shut down your accounts. That give you a month to transfer all the funds out. Incredible. Here's some of the headlines that are out there that we saw regarding this issue. Retail health company has Chase accounts suddenly terminated owner critical of COVID vaccines, the FDA.

And let's look at what Chase, we got the letter that they sent you. Let's take a look at this really quick. This is Timerickola Market of Cape Corral Chase. This is what it goes on to say. Financial institutions have an obligation to know our customers and monitor transactions that flow through our customers' accounts. After careful consideration, we decided to close your accounts because of unexpected activity on this or another Chase account.

And how long were you with this bank, with Chase? About 18 years. 18 years. When you look at this, I mean, If they can do this to you, an entrepreneur, a doctor in America, should we all be taking this seriously for our own sakes? Absolutely, but neglected to mention a fact that makes this far more egregious act than when PNC took our account. They just took my personal account and the businesses account. But this time, for no reason at all, they took the accounts, the personal accounts,

of my CEO and my CFO, who are employees. They don't own the business. They're just employees. And they took the accounts of their spouse and their children. And the spouse of my CFO has a debilitating condition and is hospitalized. And this really seriously impact her ability to take care of him.

So this is the tweet you sent out on that. Let me just go ahead and read this. Hello, at Chase, support at Chase. Please reinstate the account of my CFO, whose husband has advanced dementia and multiple health issues requiring 24-7 care in the Philippines. Her husband's pension and medical expenses rely on this account and will be exceedingly challenging for her to correct this matter under the current circumstances. I realize my opinions regarding COVID differs significantly from your CEO, Jamie Diamond, but there is no reason to punish my employee and their families. Tell me about this personal situation. Why is this difficult for her right now?

Well, because she was using that Chase account to fund the care that her husband was receiving. So she had to scuttle around and find alternatives to compensate for the termination of that account. And it's just not fair at all. She has nothing to do with this. But nevertheless, without any excuse, they terminated her account, my CEO's accounts, their family members, all with the same letter, identical letter. So it's interesting because I think, you know, they're trying to try to take high ground. This is the morally correct thing to do when it ignores the fact that they have known about Jeffrey Epstein's illicit sexual trafficking activities since 2008.

That's 15 years, 15 years. And that they continued to have no problems with working Jeffrey Epstein, but me. oh my gosh forget it you know i'm doing i'm warning people about the dangers of the vaccine and that's just unacceptable and jamiy diamond i think has had the policy of implementing a COVID vaccination mandate for his employees so he's he's full on board with the COVID-19 narrative yeah this is uh out of Forbes to go to the office you have to be vaccinated if you aren't going to get faxed you won't be able to work in that office, Diamond told CNBC last week. We're not going to pay you to not work in the office. We want people to get vaxed. I mean, I will say it's incredible that we find ourselves

in this moment. Censorship still taking place if you talk about the COVID vaccine. Yet we've been proven right, Joe. The vaccine did not stop transmission, couldn't do a damn thing. We've even got people like Dr. Paul Offutt, you know, which we're going to talk about coming up in the show, basically stating that it clearly has a causal relationship with myocarditis, which you and I have know, we've been reporting. So how is it we're, how, I mean, is this about a vaccine or do you think it's something more? Because we won this argument. We're, we're right. The world knows it, yet we're still being censored. Why? Well, it's, it's hard to say. No, I'm not in their mindset, but all we can do is speculate. It does seem somewhat odd of the timing of this.

since we've done nothing different in the last two years to catalyze this type of reaction. But it would seem that would be the logical conclusion because certainly now about our ostensibly illicit financial transactions. You know, it's just that's not the case in any way, shape or form. So it's interesting, now with respect to mitigating this, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but about two two months ago, May 2nd of this year, Florida passed legislation that makes it illegal, illegal to terminate anyone for political or religious viewpoints. So we are taking this to Florida State Attorney General and they will likely be suing Chase.

All right, well that's good to know. You know, I recently had Catherine Austin Fitz on our show and she was talking about that this was, the writing was on the wall, she had some thoughts on what we should do. Take a look at this. What has been happening now, and it's been ongoing for 20 years, is we are coming into a significant change in both the governance and the financial model. If you look at how the financial system works at the heart of making the financial system go as risk management, so it's all the people throughout those different bureaucracies who's

responsible. They have decided to radically centralized control into a much smaller group of people. And that's one of the reasons why what you're watching is a destruction of the small business economy in a way and a printing of money by the central banks. So if you look at the largest banks who run, who own and operate the New York Fed and run the government financial statements and financial system and bank accounts, they're responsible. So if 21 trillion is missing, they affected a great deal of illegal transactions. They're responsible. Why are we banking? with them. Pull your money out. Who? I'm with Chase. I got some of my accounts in Chase. Is Chase one of them? Get your money out. You're financing your enemy. You know, the best thing

for the small business economy is a healthy infrastructure of good banks and credit unions in your community. So get your money out of the big banks and head into them. What you're looking for is what is the institution that has good governance, good ownership, good management, and has a demonstrated record of really caring about the people in that community. Their business is banking. Their business is not trading derivatives on Wall Street. So I know you know all this. You talk a lot about this.

So the question I think some people are asking is, why were you still with Chase, given that, you know, you are one of the most vocal people on protecting yourself in every way you can and your resources. So why were you still with Chase in this moment? Well, I agree with Catherine. I think that's a phenomenal recommendation she had. And this would happen to me certainly should be a warning called everyone. They need to consider getting out of these big banks, not only chase, all of them, like Wells Fargo, you know,

all the big ones. The benefit of the big banks, and this is sort of the carrot that leads us to continue the relationship with them, is that especially for businesses like ours, that the limit of the financial insurance in case the bank goes belly, up is 250,000 and our pay rule far exceeds that. So, you know, there's a quantitative component to it. But nevertheless, her recommendation is solid. And I think everyone needs to pay attention to that. We found another bank that I think Old Glory Bank, which many people had recommended so we're in the process of establishing a relationship with them now. You know, it's interesting, too, with respect to some of the motivations, there was, I don't know, recall the name

with a specific bank, but it went belly up earlier this year. And it was bailed out by the federal government. Who do they give that bank, too? They gave it to Chase. And you have to wonder if there's any relationship there. We've seen through the social media and the Twitter files that the government is absolutely responsible for implementing and enforcing this censorship. So you have to wonder if this is extended now into the financial space. And I think it gives us a strong warning and a recognition that even though we're in a lull that there's no crisis ostensibly at the currently the next crisis is coming it's inevitable there's no way around it this was just a test a test run and it's going to be bad so we've got to get all our ducks in

a row and prepare for that and the last thing we want to do is going to it like a social credit system which this is the beginning the ear the the earmarks of that and they're they're going full force. CBDCs are implemented by many banks around there already and the majority of the banks will happen in the next few years, which is the worst implementation of it. And it makes getting out of a situation like Chase a piece of cake compared to when you have a CBDC, which literally can stop your money instantly at any moment for whatever violation they perceive is that you have made, even though there's no truth to it. So there's definitely some warranted action. here even though it doesn't appear that things are really dire they are and it's going to get

worse it's just inevitable and I don't to me to be a debby doomer but uh or downer I guess it's but uh it's coming the domer I think it's pretty there's doom ahead if we don't wake up and start really taking control the situation I totally agree with you and for some of the same reasons we we have people all over the country it makes it easier we're going to have to look at all those things. But I really look at this with you, Joe, as you know, you say we have to plan. It looks like they're planning for something. When you see in this lull that they're continuing to try and take things away, take away your voice or people like that, make it more difficult for you to do what you're doing. It seems to me they're preparing for something else down the road and they don't,

I think we thwarted a lot of what the COVID pandemic was attempting to do to this country. If they take a second shot at it, they want to win, and I think they're preparing as should we. Joe, every time these things happen, I know my heart sinks, and a lot of people in this country around the world get worried that that's it. Joe's just going to throw in the towel. You've done enough. You know, you're going to walk off for the sunset. Well, I pray you don't. What, you know, does this emboldened you or does it make you just think, oh, to hell with it?

I've done enough and moving on. Yeah, I'm quite truthfully very delighted that they decided to do. this because it's it definitely is a hardship not so much for me but for my staff and it's a challenge for them unquestionably but it does give us incredible exposure and we're grateful for that for helping get the the past increase in the likelihood that we're able to spread the message of things that they can do and actually one of the things that catalyzes that can a good thing that came out of this is i realized you know as i mentioned this the next crisis is coming it's inevitable so and they may take away the internet that may be the next thing that falls it absolutely is a serious possibility

and what do we do then because that's how we get most of our news and information so i'm right now in the process of compiling a course of literally 50 to 100 hours of what absolutely essential information that people need to retain their health because health is your greatest wealth and if it there's just no way you can continue to to survive in the next crisis unless you're healthy you've got to optimize your health so i'm putting my nearly 50 years of study and learning and education into in about 50 to 100 hours of solid information. I'm going to have that. And I'm working at it.

Now I've got a few modules done, but I'm hoping to have that available soon because it's necessary. What's the best way to find these materials you're putting out and sort of stay in touch with you at least while the Internet is up and running? Yeah. Yeah, because the purpose of the course is to give it to you so you can download it to your computer. they have it locally on your hard drive. So the best way is Mercola.com, my website.

We had to delete all our articles two years ago. And the new articles are up there for 48 hours, and they transfer to Substack. So it's likely this course will reside in Substack to protect it so that it's not damaged or obliterated in any way. All right. Well, I want to thank you for your courage. I've said it every time you've been on this show.

You're a guiding light, even when I was working at CBS. asked so many stories I was able to bring to the nation and the world because you've always been on the front lines and here again proving once again you're charging into battle ahead of many of us and taking the shots. It's an honor to know you and a privilege to be following you. And I just want to thank you for your courage and to your continued work out there in the world. All right. Well, thanks for those kind words down for everything that you're doing. That your ICANN network has been really instrumental in helping file lawsuits and expose the first and help people to understand the truth.

So congratulations on, you know, taking it to the next level and abandoning mainstream media and creating your own channel so that, you know, that it's outside of that platform and can educate people about the solid truths they need to know. All right, well, it's gonna take all of this, Joe. I look forward to the next time. Thank you for taking the time today.

Take care. Bye.