TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - DeSantis Vows to Ban Fed’s CBDCs in Florida…Ted Cruz Wants National Ban

Episode Date: March 23, 2023

Based on news accounts, the US Federal Reserve is working on a scheme to replace the US dollar with a central bank digital coin known as a CBDC. If the US Federal Reserve follows through on its plans to introduce a central bank digital coin, it would be a game changer for financial services and payments.The Fed says the currency could offer a means for instant and seamless cross-border transactions, but it will also require biometric identity verification. A Fed-backed CBDC would be programmable, meaning that it would be a smart coin that could be turned on or off by the Fed. However, opposition to the Fed's CBDC scheme is growing. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are two Republican leaders who have publicly declared their opposition. Gov. DeSantis wants to ban it in Florida. Sen. Cruz wants to ban it in all 50 states.Host Rick Wiles will cover these stories and much more in today's edition of TruNews.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 3/15/23You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielfIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. You can order the second edition of Rick’s book, Final Day. https://www.rickwiles.com/final-day

You are listening to True News with Rick Wiles. We appreciate you tuning in. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support, please visit our website at www.truenews.com. Our mailing address for all correspondence is True News, P.O. Box 690069, Fairview Beach, Florida 32969. This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. Based on news accounts, the U.S. Federal Reserve is working on a scheme to replace the U.S. dollar with a central bank digital coin known as a CBDC. If the U.S. Federal Reserve follows through on its plans to introduce a central bank digital coin. It would be a game changer for financial services and payments.

The Fed says the currency could offer a means for instant and seamless cross-border transactions, but it will also require biometric identification. A Fed-backed CBDC would be programmable, meaning that it would be a smart coin that could be easily turned on or off by the Fed. Opposition to the Fed's CBDC scheme is growing. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are two Republican leaders who have publicly declared their opposition. Governor DeSantis wants to ban it in the state of Florida. Senator Cruz wants to ban it in all 50 states.

Welcome to True News today. Doc Burkhart is away and will return on Monday. Today's True News will be 30 minutes in length instead of our normal one-hour format. Well, let's start by looking at this article published by Business Insider. There you see the headline, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposes banning a digital currency from the Fed, arguing that it will stifle innovation and promote surveillance. So this is what the business insider is saying. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is not on board with the potential launch of a central bank digital currency by the Federal Reserve. On Monday, DeSantis proposed legislation that would make Florida the first state in the country to ban the use of digital

currencies issued by the Fed or any other central bank. The Fed has been studying the feasibility of a CBDC at the direction of President Joe Biden. The Business Insider article said proponents of CBDCs argue that a digital dollar would enable faster transactions with lower fees, improved efficiency with cross-border exchanges, and improved accessibility to the unbanked population. But according to Governor DeSantis, a digital currency issued by the Fed is about surveillance and control and would ultimately hurt innovation, said the Florida governor. We've got a video of the governor making his comments that he wants legislation passed by the Florida legislature to ban a CBDC in the state. Let's watch.

Are you interested in giving these economic central planners more power over our economy, more power over your daily life and your economic activity? And I answer that question, H-E double hockey sticks, no. We cannot have that happening. And so that's why we're here today. So last year, President Biden issued an executive order to explore the creation of a U.S. central bank digital currency, effectively converting the dollar into a centralized digital currency. And this is different than things like cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. A centralized digital currency is directly controlled and issued by the government to consumers, and it provides the government with a direct view of all consumer activities. And so today, I'm here to call on the legislature to pass legislation to expressly forbid the use of CBDC as money within

Florida's uniform commercial code. This will ensure that Florida continues to be a state that supports innovation in the financial sector through the market while protecting against government surveillance over your personal finances. But our legislation shouldn't stop there. Given the continued increase in Chinese influence in worldwide affairs and increase in plans to adopt CBDC worldwide, our legislation also prohibits any CBDC issued by a foreign reserve or government-sanctioned central bank. This will ensure that any effort to adopt a worldwide digital currency will never occur in the free state of Florida. Now, in 2018, it was the winter of 2018, I traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to attend for the first time the Mobile World Congress, which is the world convention of the mobile phone industry.

And that's where I first heard about 5G, the 2030 agenda, and the Internet of Things. And I came back to America and I began to tell the true news audience what I had heard in Barcelona. And particularly, we talked about the Internet of Things, which is the concept that every single thing manufactured would have microchips. And many of them would have listening devices and cameras, miniature cameras and microphones. And so we began to warn our audience about that in 2018. It's finally catching up with some folks in Washington, what is underway. It's quite late for these guys to figure it out. But the Daily Mail in London is reporting this story. Is your refrigerator spying on you? Senate committee approves bill forcing manufacturers

to tell buyers if there are cameras and microphones inside washing machines or refrigerators. So we told our audience years ago, yes, there are microphones and cameras. I personally sat in a session at one of the conferences where they talked about how to plant listening devices in everything. I mean, they want it. It'll be in your shoes. It'll be in your clothing.

It'll be everywhere. Manager listening devices. So this is what the Daily Mail said today. The United States is close to bringing in laws clamping down on spy devices in the home amid concerns that your refrigerator, dishwasher or washing machine could be recording your movements. for several years with high-end products promoting features such as alerting you when a certain product is low in your fridge or warning you when you're cleaning products inside the device run low. The Daily Mail says yet two senators, Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and Maria Cantwell, Democrat from Washington state, have introduced a bill to force companies to declare far more prominently that their products contain cameras. So I hope this bill makes it through the U.S. Senate and the House. Another big issue that's very, very controversial in the state of Michigan right now is the construction of a Chinese Communist Party corporation in Michigan.

This story is from Center Square. And it says Goshen pauses Big Rapids battery plant after locals ask question. It is amazing that this story is not getting national attention. Thanks to Tudor Dixon and some other people in Michigan, those of us in other states are starting to learn about it. But China is building a factory in a small town, Goshen, Michigan, and the Communist Party will be inside that factory, an actual office of the China Communist Party. It's mandated. It's required. And Governor Whitmer obviously knows about it and approves of it. Imagine that. This is what the Center Square article says. A planned electric vehicle battery plant has been paused after locals asked questions about Chinese ownership of the company.

The Big Rapids Township Board voted for a federal review of national security risk with the Chinese company Goshen. Excuse me, I made that mistake earlier that I said the town was Goshen. The company's Goshen. The town is Big Rapids. A subsidiary of China-based Goshen High Tech Company Limited, a global manufacturer of electric vehicle batteries. Dubbed Project Project Elephant, the plant as previously approved, required 408 acres in Green Township and 115.33 acres in Big Rapids Township. According to a Big Rapids Township facts and questions page, state and local officials have pledged, look at this, $715 million of Michigan Strategic Fund taxpayer dollars for the project. It is amazing. And as you will hear from this video with Tudor Dixon, who appeared on Fox News last night on Tucker Carlson's show, she brought out the fact that the company is mandated by the China Communist Party

to have a CCP office inside the corporation's facilities in Michigan. Here's an excerpt from that interview. This is one of the stories. It's hard to believe it's real. How could Gretchen Whitmer have gotten away with this well how did she get away with this but how is it not a bigger story what we've recently found out because we gave the the state of michigan lawmakers and gretchen whitmer have decided to give this company 715 million in taxpayer dollars but in the company bylaws that are on the company website, it clearly states that when they get to Michigan, they have to have a CCP organization on site, a Chinese

Communist Party organization on site, a propaganda arm of the CCP right in the center of the country in Michigan, one square mile of CCP in the center of Michigan, and that has to influence the grassroots of the corporation. So think about that. They have to have the CCP there. This is in the bylaws. Clearly, the lawmakers and Gretchen Whitmer read these bylaws. You would have to say, you would have to know what the company's operations are going to be. This is nowhere near any of our car manufacturers, any of our automobile

manufacturers. So what exactly are they doing in this rural area in Michigan? There is only one explanation, that American politicians are bought off. They've been bought by the China Communist Party. They are carrying out the instructions of the China Communist Party, and America is quickly falling. I mean falling at a very frightening and rapid speed into the control of Beijing. This is an alarming development. We've watched this taking place for years, but now it is a snowball. It is rolling. And they're openly now saying, we're mandating that China Communist Party offices be inside these facilities, these Chinese corporations that are being built in America. They're not even hiding it.

A Communist Party headquarters in Michigan. That's what's happening right now under Biden. When you want to talk about the issue of the Bidens, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, James Biden, and China, this is what it looks like. This is the face of Chinese penetration inside the USA. This is what it looks like when China owns the president of the United States. They can put a China Communist Party office in the state of Michigan and the governor of the state supports it.

Has anybody questioned Governor Whitmer about this China Communist Party office? I seriously doubt it because the news media won't do it. They're all in. The big fix is in. We're being taken down. And this won't go on much longer. I don't know how many years we can, we, the freedom-loving people, I don't know how much longer we can hold out and push back on this thing if there is not a serious uprising in this country now to deal with the communist revolution. We had a coup in this country in 2020. The elections were rigged. It was a Chinese Communist Party coup. They overthrew the president of the United States, the elections are rigged,

and we now have a communist-controlled president in the White House. And it is happening right in front of our eyes. And few people see it, and even fewer are outraged by it. Let's go on with today's true news. So, Mr. Biden, this is according to New York Post, Biden and Trudeau set to meet in shadow of Chinese influence accusations. New York Post says President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet Thursday for two days of discussions on a range of topics, but both men face Chinese manufactured crises at home that they may be keen to escape. Justin Trudeau has been claiming for months

that he had not been briefed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service about Chinese interference in Canadian elections, says Maxine Bernier, leader of the People's Party of Canada. She said this to Fox News Digital. She went on to say, we've learned recently through leaks by a CSIS agent that this wasn't true, of course.

Biden and Trudeau each face allegations of appearing either soft or having potentially problematic connections to China. Oversight Committee that his family received more than $1.3 million in collective payments through one of Hunter Biden's associates who worked with a Chinese energy company. Hunter Biden is the president's son. Quite shocking. So Trudeau, whose hands are dirty. Look, Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, was a Soviet Union stooge. He was an agent of the Soviet Union Communist Party. A lot of people believe that Justin Trudeau's real father is Fidel Castro. He doesn't look like Pierre Trudeau. He looks like Fidel Castro.

The Communist Party is alive and well in the world, and they've never given up on their plan of global domination. They realized a long time ago that they were not going to take over the world with guns. They had to conquer mines. And so their strategy changed. Instead of invading countries with tanks, the people to accept communist ideas. That's what's taken place. We now have millions of young Americans who prefer communism over freedom and free enterprise. They're winning the battle for the control of minds. And everything that we have to do, the only way that we can turn this around is through the power of Jesus Christ and the renewing of minds. We have to get the word of God into people's minds. The word will renew their minds and turn them from communism.

The Holy Spirit will do it if we can get the word of God into the minds of more people. That's our only hope. Jesus Christ is our only hope. Well, while Hunter Biden is still walking around free with no fear that he will ever go to prison for his traitorous relationships with the Chinese Communist Party. President Trump is going day to day waiting to see if he will be arrested on sham charges. Now, once again today, the Manhattan grand jury did not meet again today to talk about a Trump indictment

and an arrest of the former president. What happened? Last week, President Trump posted a message on Truth Social that said, they're going to arrest me on Tuesday. That was yesterday. He expected to be arrested yesterday. It didn't happen. What blocked it? What prevented the arrest? Well, I believe it was the fact that a gentleman, Robert Costello, bravely came forward. He's an attorney, former prosecutor. He came forward and publicly said, Michael Cohen is a liar. Well, what makes his opinion important? Mr. Costello was the legal advisor to Michael Cohen. And he knows for a fact that Michael Cohen is lying.

And he went to the grand jury and told them. And now the DA in Manhattan doesn't know what to do because his plan, his scheme, his plot, you know, he got elected with George Soros money. We're back again to the Communist Party. His plot, his scheme to put handcuffs on Donald Trump has fallen apart. And I think he's afraid to make the move now. I think he's really worried that his scheme is not going to stand up. News Nation did an interview with Robert Costello, and he talked about why he came forward. I want to show you that interview. I'm the one who decided to do this. A lot of people cautioned me against it because I had nothing to gain. The only thing I'm doing is trying to tell the truth to the grand jurors because I read all these lies in the media that are being promoted

by one side. If you see the full picture, you know, listen, if they want to go after Donald Trump and they have solid evidence, so be it. But Michael Cohen is far from solid evidence. This guy, by any prosecutor's standard, and I used to be deputy chief of the criminal division in the Southern District of New York, I wouldn't have touched a guy like Michael Cohen, especially if he's a convicted perjurer. Not to mention, as I said, the 50 to 100 lies he told us that are in those 330 emails. How do you think you've deflated the grand jury from indicting the former president? I can't say that because you really you just don't know. I can't read people's minds. I could see certainly a few of them were doing what you're doing right now, shaking your head

up and down, but not everybody. So I just don't know. I would love for those people to watch TV or something tonight or just remember what I said and say to the prosecutors, listen, we'd like to see the rest of those emails. Don't cherry pick six emails out of 330 and then ask Costello questions about it. That's not fair by anybody's standard. That have a statement here I'll give to you people. Yeah. That's what he told us. Yes. Not his own money.

Money that he borrowed pursuant to a HELOC loan. Yeah. And why did you take the loan, Michael? I wanted this secret. I didn't even want my own wife to know. Much less Melania Trump. Just to be clear, did he ever specifically tell you that Donald Trump does not know about this? Yes, absolutely. He said that.

That's what he said at the time. Is it true? I don't know. Did you tell the grand jury that? Yes, I did. But I had to force that into an answer. They were getting upset because they'd asked me a limited question based on one of these six emails, and I would volunteer information that I thought the grand jury needed to hear. Amazing. The extreme hatred of Christianity and of Jesus Christ by Zionism is finally coming to the surface. There is a bill in the Israeli Knesset you're convicted of witnessing your faith about Jesus Christ. This is a Times of Israel article. Despite Prime Minister's assurances, meaning Mr. Netanyahu, Christian Zionists are bedeviled by anti-missionary bill.

What is going on? Well, I'll tell you what's going on. The most radical Zionist government in decades is in power right now in Israel. You've got people in that government that want to burn down Palestinian cities. You've got people in that government that want to ban Christianity in Israel. It is a radical government. And for the first time in what, 80, what, 70 some years, 1948, there's actual talk in Israel of civil war between the Jews. Not war between the Arabs and the Jews, but civil war between the Jews because of how radical this government is. I want to read some quotes from this Times of Israel article. A bill making religious

proselytization punishable by jail time induced alarm among Christian Zionists in Israel and around the world, despite assurances by government officials that it would not become law. The proposal submitted by United Tourist Judaism, Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Asher, claims that missionary groups, mainly Christians, have stepped up efforts to convert people in Israel. Well, imagine that. Imagine somebody preaching the gospel in Israel. The article says the language of the bill

would make soliciting an adult to change his faith punishable by one year in jail. The penalty would increase to two years if the individual being solicited was a minor. On Wednesday morning, the foreign ministry began receiving calls from heads of parliamentary friendship groups, diplomats, Christian Zionist leaders, and Jewish leaders around the world and israeli diplomats said foreign ministry staff prepared reports on the fallout of the bill

for foreign minister eli cohen and director general ronan levy the diplomat said quote it wouldn't lessen my support for Israel, said a Christian man who has lived in Israel his entire life, but asked for anonymity because he has not been granted permanent residency. You want to know why he can't receive a passport? Because you have to renounce Jesus in order to get a passport in Israel. That is the truth. That's why that man, he's lived his entire life in Israel, but he's a Christian. They will not give him a passport because he must renounce Jesus. But this man says, even if this bill passes and it becomes illegal to say the name of Jesus in Israel, It won't lessen my support for Israel.

He says, as a Christian living here in Israel, I just do what the Lord asked me to do personally. And that's not necessarily to proselytize or try to convert people to my faith to Jesus. Really? You're a Christian and the Lord doesn't expect you to go into all the world and preach the gospel of the

kingdom and make disciples of all men and baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? Where did that come from? Is that only in my Bible? Apparently not this man's Bible. He said, I'm called to serve as a light on the earth and salt on the earth. I feel that I'm doing that through helping the Jewish people in different ways, bringing the Jews back to the land to help Holocaust survivors here and just basically love the Jewish people as much as I can. Well, that's good. Love the Jewish people.

Love the Arabs too. Sir, do you go out and love the Arabs? Do you love the Arabs that the Jewish Zionists are stealing their land? Do you love the Arabs? You have to love the Arabs and the Jews, not just the Jews. You have to love the Arabs too. And it's hard to love the Arabs when some Zionist is taking their home so that they can live in it. So it's amazing what's happening here.

There's more in this. He says, for me personally, it doesn't mean to share the gospel per se. Hopefully it's not the start of an attempt to throw all the Christians out of the country. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. We've been mourning for years at True News.

They will eventually eradicate all Christianity in Israel. The plan is to eradicate it in all of what they consider greater Israel, which includes Jordan and other surrounding countries. They are seeking to eradicate the name of Jesus Christ. And now some people are starting to wake up to it. Glenn Plummer, good man as a bishop. He's a supporter of Israel and a bishop in the Church of God in Christ

said that while the bill itself is nothing new, the atmosphere in the country is new. The government is a new government. He told the Times of Israel that he fears that even discussion of the law could engender hostility towards Christian supporters among Israelis. He's afraid to even talk about it. Well, Mr. Plummer is going to have to talk about it. And, you know, we're going to talk about it. We're going to tell people what is happening in Israel. This is a very dangerous government that has come into power. I think I have enough time. This is a short video from Newsmax. I think I've got enough time. Let's watch it.

Conservative Christian leaders are calling on prime minister benjamin netanyahu to stop a bill proposed by members of his coalition to make it criminal to tell people about jesus in israel our joseph correspondent daniel cohen is live near tel aviv with more good morning daniel good morning allison good morning everyone a big story just before our days before palm sunday good friday and eas, sacred time for Christians. Hey, we're not gonna have time for that entire video because we're gonna end today's newscast in just a few minutes.

I'm only doing a 30-minute newscast today. Another story, this is Haratz. They're also covering the story, evangelical Christians urge Netanyahu to scuttle ultra-Orthodox Bill banning Christian proselytizing in Israel. It is a big story right now in the Middle East as Zionists are seeking to outlaw the name of Jesus Christ in the Holy Land of Israel. Well, they crucified him 2,000 years ago, but he is alive, and he will still be alive a billion years from now. He is the Lord Jesus. Got to go. See you tomorrow. Bye.

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