TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Mark of the Beast: Panera Bread to Scan Customers’ Palms for Checkout Payment

Episode Date: March 22, 2023

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So help us God. Doc Burkhardt is away and will return on Monday. Panera Bread has just become the first national restaurant chain in America to introduce Amazon One's Palm Scanner in stores. says it is using Amazon's palm recognition technology as a loyalty identification and payment system for its MyPanera program, which currently has 52 million members. Amazon teams with Panera in its first restaurant deal for the tech giant's palm scanning payment tech, says Greek Wire. Amazon One is a customer checkout system that allows customers to scan their hand with a special palm reader to pay for items at select locations,

including Whole Foods and Amazon Go grocery stores. The tech is also used by retailers at airports and sports stadiums. The system uses computer vision technology to scan a consumer's hand, and the palm prints are then linked to the credit cards. The Amazon One palm scanners are located near the registers, where customers link their MyPanera loyalty accounts to Amazon One and can hover their hand over a palm reader to complete their purchase. Now, as you see this article from CNBC, Panera Bread tests Amazon palm scanning technology in St. Louis. So the company says this will allow customers to

easily check out while they're in the restaurant without having to leave their table, which can help speed up the checkout process. The system is currently deployed at two St. Louis locations in the fast casual chain plans to expand it to 10 to 20 more locations in the coming months. Panera says it is trying to improve its guests in-store experience with this new technology which helps the chain to deliver more personalized customer experiences. The company says it will be able to recognize each guest's eating habits and preferences. Well, let's take a look at what Panera is rolling out in St. Louis. And as we just heard, 10 to 20 more Panera Bread locations in the coming months. This is the beginning of the, I believe we're walking into the Mark of the Beast system now where we're going to pay with our hand. And eventually it's going to

end up that there will be some type of mark, some type of chip, and we're going to be doing all of our transactions that way if you participate in that system. Let's take a look at some of the other stories that are about this Panera Bread Amazon One partnership. I've got a video from Amazon One showing how this palm scanner system works for the checkout process. Let's watch it. Signing up is simple. You can pre-enroll online by visiting one.amazon.com and selecting sign up now. Sign in with your Amazon account and follow the on-screen prompts. Once you've pre-enrolled, you'll receive a QR code. Visit a nearby Amazon One device and add your palm to complete enrollment.

Scan the QR code and hover your palm or both palms over the Amazon One device. And you're done. Ditch your wallet and just hover your palm over an Amazon One device to enter, identify, and pay wherever Amazon One is available. So go for it. Visit one.amazon.com to get started. So the question is, will you use it or will you resist it? If you resist it, how long will you resist it? Will you eventually wear down your resistance and a year or two later give in and start using it? This is a question that all of us are going to have to face in the very near future as these palm scanners are being introduced into retail stores. Now, they've been in schools for quite some time. They've been training children, indoctrinating them into the mark of the beast system for years. But now it's being introduced in the general public.

I found a story from, this is a TV report from KXAN in Texas. And it's actually a year old, April 2022. And it's the news team talking about Amazon One. And I want you to listen to what these young women say as they're sitting there at the news set talking about whether they will use Amazon One's palm scanner and then listen to the reasons of why they think it's a really cool thing. Starting today, you can pay for your groceries

at a local store with the palm of your hand. That's interesting. The Whole Foods store on Arbor Trails is introducing Amazon One. Amazon owns the stores, so here's how it works. You can first sign up. You'll insert your credit card into the machine. You can see that right there. Then it will make an account for you and you have to scan both of your palms like the guy's doing

right there put in your phone number then when you go back to the store in future visits you just need to hover over it that's right and you don't need to have your card at all whole foods plans to add amazon one to its stores at the Domain and other parts of Austin, Bee Cave, and Cedar Park. What do you guys think? The future is here. I mean, I know they say that fingerprints aren't, you know, one and the same, but what about your, I don't know. Well, actually, Amazon said that none of the information will be stored on the devices. They've actually created their own highly secure cloud where all that is going to be built saved yeah as a mom I think that's huge like when I'm trying to juggle kids right purse and a diaper bag and

groceries like swipe I don't know I'll do to me yeah I mean there's always that that moment of like is my wallet in my purse you know that sinking yeah this is gonna be the one time I forget so now you no longer have to worry about that fear. There you go. Just like, boop. And that's how I got, I'm carrying kids. I got my purse, you know. All I have to do is just wave my hand and I can get checked out.

That's the mindset. People are going to accept the mark of the beast. There's going to be very little resistance. And the Bible tells us that everyone who receives the mark of the beast shall be cast into the lake of fire on the day of judgment. There is no gray area. There's no compromise. God has no compromise at all on this item. The mark of the beast will send your soul to the lake of fire. That's all there is to it. Is it going to be convenient? It's going to be extremely convenient. You're going to look like a weirdo for refusing to go along with the system. Eventually, there won't be a way to do any transactions without the mark of the beast.

It's going to become so common. You know, years ago, many years ago, Christians thought that there was going to be, you know, gunpoint coercion. They were going to round people up and force them to take the mark of the beast. That's not going to be the case. People are going to happily, joyfully volunteer to get the mark of the beast. It's convenience. And the American people want to be convenient. They love convenience.

Make their life easier. And the devil's going to give them a way to make their journey into hell very, very easy. And they're going to go for it. Only a small percentage of people will resist and persevere to the end. And I don't know how we are going to survive, but we will. We will.

God's grace will provide a way for us. But this system is being rolled out right now. Something else I saw today. The United Nations, this is an odd paragraph, BBC. United Nations warns against vampiric global water use.

I didn't know vampires drink water. I thought they drank blood. But apparently the UN thinks that if you're using a lot of water, you're a vampire. I'm not going to read the entire article, but there are two sections here I want you to pay attention to. UN Undersecretary General Urshan Rao Manari, who is the official host of the UN Water Conference, told the BBC that resources would need to be managed more carefully in the future. Quote, there is enough water on the planet if we manage it more effectively than we have managed it over the last decades. End of quote. Now that sounds okay, right?

Good management of natural resources, but let's go to the next segment. And the quote is, I think we will have to find new governance models. Hmm, like United Nations governance. New finance models, like socialism. new models of using water and reusing water than ever before. I think that technology and innovation will play a very large role in looking at how to manage the water sector and the use of water. Yes, smart meters that will

be turned off when you're using what somebody says is a vampiric amount of water. That's how they're going to use technology to manage water usage. If you're speaking views that they don't like, they may have to restrict your water usage because there's going to be new governance. Where are they going with it? This has been underway for quite some time. I would say as long as I've been doing true news for 25 years, we've been talking about this issue. Eventually, the game plan is for the United Nations to own and control every drop of water on the planet. That's where they're going. They're going to declare water a global right,

and it must be governed by the entire planet's population. Of course, the United Nations will be the ones that they appoint themselves as the governor of the use of water. They will eventually control, they'll control mud puddles. They'll control creeks and streets, everything. They'll control water wells on private property. They will say that there is no private ownership of water. It all belongs to the United Nations. That's where they're eventually going with this plan. I wanted

you to see it. You need to be aware of what these people are doing every day while we go about our business of making a living and paying our bills and our taxes and raising our children, so forth. They are building a global government. Let's look in at the circus to arrest former President Donald Trump. Big development today. Manhattan DA tells the Trump grand jury to stay home. Reasons unclear, according to sources. WNBC TV4 in New York City. And the report is, I mean, what's, you know, the word on the street is that there is a lot that Mr. Robert Costello came forward a few days ago, made his appearance on Fox News on the Tucker Carlson show, and said that he gave the DA 600 pages of documents about Michael Cohen, that he told the DA, told the grand jury, that Michael Cohen is a liar, that he repeatedly said, Mr. Costello was Michael Cohen's legal advisor. And Cohen waived his right of attorney-client privilege. And so Mr. Costello is free to talk. And he said that because he saw what was being done to Donald Trump, and

Mr. Costello indicated he's not a Trump supporter, but he's a supporter of the rule of law and fairness and a just legal system. He said he couldn't remain quiet knowing that Mr. Cohen repeatedly told him in private that he would do anything, say anything to get out of prison. And he said, you have to know that that means he will lie. He will perjure himself.

Well, what's Mr. Cohen been convicted of? He is a convicted perjurer. He's facing prison for lying. And so once again, he's saying, I'll say anything. I just don't want to go to prison. So I think there is now a strong possibility that the entire case is collapsing. If Mr. Costello had not come forward several days ago, I think Donald Trump would have been arrested by today. But because he did the right thing and came forward and publicly told the truth, it has thrown a monkey wrench into the plans to arrest Donald Trump. And thank God that this has happened. I'm very, very grateful for Mr. Costello.

We don't need to see this circus go on anymore. Another one. This is a short report from NBC Channel 4 in Manhattan. This is their announcement today. We're following breaking news in the possible indictment of former President Donald Trump. The grand jury will not meet as planned today. According to two sources familiar with the matter, the district attorney told the grand jury to stay home today and to be on standby for tomorrow. The grand jury was originally scheduled to meet today at 2 p.m. and we're waiting to find out what caused that delay. The former president said he expected to be arrested yesterday by the Manhattan D.A., but that didn't happen. This is all part of an investigation into how a hush money payment

was made to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. The president has denied any wrongdoing. Well, artificial intelligence is being used to generate fake images of President Trump being arrested. I'm going to show you one. This is the president, supposedly, again, this is fake. This was made by artificial intelligence showing police officers apprehending the former president and getting ready to handcuff him. And then we also have another AI-generated photograph of Mr. Trump standing inside his home waiting on the police to show up. Again, these images are fake. They're made by artificial intelligence,

but it's very difficult to tell that they're not real. And so this is the world that we have entered this year, the age of artificial intelligence. This next story is from the Daily Mail in London. Has Antifa infiltrated Trump protest? Demonstrator with anarchist tattoo on his neck is spotted whipping Trump supporters into a frenzy in Manhattan. Let's read a few paragraphs of this Daily Mail article. A protester was caught whipping Trump supporters into a frenzy in Manhattan just moments after he covered an anarchist tattoo commonly worn by Antifa agitators leading a chant of Let's Go Trump. The man started questioning another protester's allegiance to the former president ahead of his potential indictment by Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. Not long before leading the frenzy, he was spotted by a photojournalist on the scene hiding a tattoo of the anarchist's A symbol emblazoned on his neck. The scenes erupted after a man dressed similar to the notorious QAnon shaman from the January 6th

riots was swarmed by furious protesters for apparently faking his support for Donald Trump. The Daily Mail said the individual with an anarchist tattoo ordered him to prove that he was not wearing a wire, meaning a recording device for the police, while several others joined in and accused him of being a plant. While the shaman bore his chest and fired back, do you want to see? The suspicious protester closes in and again orders him to prove he isn't wearing a microphone. He's got more wires than a PlayStation.

He jokes, show us the wire. The whole thing is staged. Every part of this is staged. These are infiltrators. These are actors. This was an attempt to create a violent scene in New York for the benefit of the news media and to say that Trump supporters are once again ready to riot. We've got some video that was recorded at that event yesterday. You're fired up. This is my friend of a generation. All right, sit in. Sit yesterday. You're wired up.

This is my friend of expression. All right, so then, you're a plant right now. You're a plant here. You want to be alive. Show us your wires! You got more wires than a playstation. Show us your wires! You got more wires than a playstation.

Show us your wires! Show us the wires! Show us the wires! Show us the wires! I'm not wearing the wires. You're going to take off all your clothes and you put them on the wires. Show us the wires! Show us the You're going to take off all your clothes and you're going to wear a wire.

Show us the wire. Show us the wire. You're taking off all your clothes and you're wearing a wire. All right. You're approving to us. All right. He's a player. He's a player.

Show us the wire. I'm going to do it. I'm going to show you. Show us the wire. I'm not wearing a wire. Show us the wire. You're going to strip me, Julio. I'm not wearing a wire.

All right. Show us. I'm not wearing a wire. You're gonna strip me, Julio. I'm not wearing a wire. All right. You a. I'm not wearing a wire. Come on. Now you out here stripping your friend in public. They gonna lock your ass up. I'm not wearing a wire. I'm not wearing a wire. You wanna see?

You wanna see how I do that? You strip out here. You got a wire. You ain't going nowhere. I'm not wearing a wire. You wanna see? Yeah. All right.

Look, here's a manly shirt. It says, take a picture. That's a manly shirt right there. All right. You wanna see? I'm not wearing a wire. You gonna strip me, Julio. You gonna strip me, Julio. I'm not gay, you want to see? Yeah! All right? Look, here's a manly shirt. That's a manly shirt right there. All right, you want to see? That's a wire.

I'm not wearing a f***ing wire. That's a wire. Yeah! Yeah, Trump! Let's go, Trump! Let's go, Trump! Let's go, Trump! Let's go, Trump!

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Most of the true news audience already knows it. I'm speaking to people that might be brand new watching us for the first time. What you just saw was fake. None of those people were Trump supporters. They were Trump haters. They were paid actors to put on that scene in public. Seymour Hersh, the respected journalist who published the story that the United States of America blew up Russia's Nord Stream pipeline. He made some more comments about it this week. Now, this is, he's writing on his Substack blog, and it's called The Cover-Up. I'm talking about the article that he wrote. By the way, think about it. Somebody as distinguished as Seymour Hersh, who's one of the best independent investigative journalists in America in the last 100 years,

and he's writing for Substack because no newspapers will publish his articles. That's how deep the censorship is in the American news media now. That somebody of his caliber, of his reputation, cannot even get published by a major newspaper. But in the remaining minutes I have in this segment, I want to tell you what he wrote this week on his Substack's blog. He said, in early March, President Biden hosted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington. Now, to my knowledge, nobody knew anything about this. We certainly didn't report it. The trip included only two public events, a brief pro forma exchange

of compliments between Biden and Schultz before the White House press corps with no questions allowed and a CNN interview with Schultz by Fareed Zakaria, who did not touch on the pipeline allegations. The chancellor had flown to Washington with no members of the German press on board, no formal dinner scheduled, and the two world leaders were not slated to conduct a press conference, as routinely happens at such high-profile meetings. Instead, it was later reported that Biden and Schultz had an 80-minute meeting with no aides present for much of the time. There have been no statements or

written understandings made public since then by either government, but Mr. Hirsch said, I was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline expose. And as a result, certain elements in the Central Intelligence Agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence that would provide the American and German press with an alternative version

for the destruction of Nord Stream 2. In the words of the intelligence community, the agency was to pulse the system in an effort to discount the claim that Biden had ordered the pipeline's destruction. Well, I think we know what that alternative explanation was the mysterious group of people rented a yacht and sailed out in the sea and found the pipeline under under the water and and divers from the yacht went down planted the explosives blew up the pipeline and they returned the yacht to the place where they rented it and got their deposit back. Honestly, that's the story. That's what the CIA and the German

Intelligence Agency came up with because Mr. Hirsch was the one person who published information that said Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the pipeline. In fact, he spoke at the National Press Club and he reiterated this claim. This is Seymour Hersh, Biden bombed Nord Stream. Everyone's on our hit list, meaning the United States has every country on its hit list. I'm going to give you a couple of quotes from this article. In another blast of surprise information, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh shocked the media at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday when he claimed that President Joe

Biden was responsible for ordering the Nord Stream pipeline's explosions in September last year by using C4 charges planted by U.S. Navy divers. Quote, we've got to cut, we've got to get these lunatics, Hirsch told the audience, referring to Biden's officials naming U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Undersecretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, quote, he did it. He did it, Hirsch reiterated at Biden's involvement. I'm telling you he did it, said Seymour Hirsch. During the event, Hirsch recalled that in January last year, top Biden officials decided to see if we can find a way to blow those pipelines and put the Russians back in the dark ages. Last month, the prominent journalist revealed that it was Norway

that pointed out to the United States the location of where the underwater pipeline was closest to the surface to facilitate the U.S.'s operation. Hirsch wrote last month that Norway's Navy has a murky history of cooperation with U.S. intelligence since the Vietnam War. Quote, the Norwegian Navy has a long and murky history of cooperation with American intelligence, Mr. Hirsch said. Well, I think any thinking person concluded a long time ago that the U.S. government blew up the pipelines. It was an act of war. And the Russians have every legal right to take action against the United States of America. And Mr. Biden and his team of clowns have put us all at risk of being blown up by the Russians because of his reckless actions. This is what happens when you have somebody of Biden's caliber in the White House. I've only got

about a minute and a half before we take a break on the Word Network. I want to go to the next story. This is, I don't know if we're going to be, yeah, we're going to have to skip the video. So this is South China Morning Post. Xi and Putin pledge more cooperation in new era of China-Russia ties. And what we're seeing is that the Russians and the Chinese have cut deals that are going to change the world. And we're going to be talking about it

in the second half of this program today. And I want you to stay tuned. If you're watching on the Word Network, you can always watch the second half of True News by going to truenews.com or downloading the True News app. And we go for another half hour. We have to sign off at the 30-minute mark on the Word Network. But hey, I come back with another program immediately, which is Morning Manna, and we teach the Word of God. So Doc Burkhardt and I pre-recorded several editions of Morning Manna because Doc's on the road and will be traveling for several days and will not be back until Monday, but we were able

to get three more Morning Manna episodes recorded as we teach about the parables of Jesus Christ. If you haven't seen any of these teachings on the parables, you're missing some great teaching. I'll be back in just a few seconds. Okay, so let me see where I am at right here. Yes, so we just saw Xi and Putin pledge more cooperation in a new era of Russian ties. This is the next one. This is the one that's really important I want you to see.

Daily Mail. Xi Jinping delivers chilling message for the West as he tells his dear friend Vladimir Putin, change is coming. That hasn't happened in 100 years and we are driving it. The Daily Mail said China's President Xi Jinping told a grinning Vladimir Putin, change is coming, in an ominous parting message as he departed Moscow on Tuesday evening following talks with his Russian counterpart, change is coming. That hasn't happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together, Xi told Putin via his interpreter. Words sure to set alarm bells ringing in the West. We've got a video of the exchange,

and he went on to say, please take care, dear friend, gripping Putin's hand warmly before being waved off by the Russian desk. Of course, he's a despot. Who bid Xi a safe journey. I want to remind you, here's the video. Go ahead, let's watch it.

So there they are, they're coming out. And you can see the titles here, Change is Coming, That Hasn't Happened in 100 Years, and We Are Driving This Change Together. As the two are talking to each other, handshake, please take care, dear friend. And I would echo those words uh there is a change that's underway as i said yesterday the old new world order died last year the new new world order is being born this year and America isn't in it. That's the fact. We're not in the new,

new world order. Now, what will happen is the Western nations will attempt to restart their old new world order. They will reinvent it. They will give it a new face, a new name. But they're not going to be the dominant force in the world. They will have to share the planet with this new world order. What we're really going to see are two competing world orders that probably will be at each other for the next 100 years, definitely the next 50, 70 years. The world order that just died started in 1945 at the end of World War II. And so it went from 1945 to 2022. Now we're going to see a new one from 2023 going out another 70,000 years that will dominate this planet and change the way civilizations are run.

There will be new structures, new government institutions. What came out of the old world order was the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, the Swift Bank Wire system. I think the Russians and the Chinese will pull out of the United Nations. I think there will be a new entity that will be created. Perhaps the West will create a new entity also. Maybe together they all, because if nations start withdrawing their membership from the United Nations, Eventually, the United Nations will collapse. And then there will be two world organizations. But they really won't be world. They will be regional.

There will be a Chinese-Russian-led organization of states, of nations, that will include countries in Asia, some in Eastern Europe, some in the Middle East, some in Africa and Latin America. Likewise, the United States and Europe will also be leading some type of alliance, some type of new disunited nations will come together. And the two will compete with each other for decades to come. There will be two internets, two banking systems, two money transfer systems, two education. Everything will be double. Nothing will be uniform. The era of globalization has ended. You're not going to hear that word globalization

for quite some time. Now, both of them will want to globalize the world again. Don't think that they will give up on that idea, but they won't be able to globalize the world for quite some time because of this division that has taken place. It didn't have to happen. Vladimir Putin, decades ago, wanted Russia to join NATO. He wanted to be part of the European Union. The West told him to go away. He has finally gone away. And we've pushed him right into the hands of Xi Jinping.

It didn't have to happen that way. He could have been our ally. Russia could have been aligned with the United States and Europe. But the rulers of the West would not entertain that idea. They needed a boogeyman to keep NATO going, to keep the defense industries going. And so now we've got this great war, and now we've driven Vladimir Putin into the hands of the Chinese. Xi Jinping worries me. I'm not worried about Mr. Putin. Xi Jinping bothers me. He worries me. The Chinese people are not my enemies,

but the Communist Party is my enemy. And the Communist Party has always had as its objective the domination of the entire human population. So don't be deceived in thinking that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't have a plan to conquer the entire world. They do. And we have to face that. But we just made them stronger by our reckless foreign policy that has forced Russia to find an ally so that they don't get clobbered by the West. I'm going to talk about this some more. I also have some video. This is from Chinese television, CGTN, and this is a video of Xi Jinping presenting to Vladimir Putin the Order of Friendship Medal. It happened in a ceremony yesterday. Let's watch it.请习近平主席 I would like to invite Chinese President Xi Jinping to present the Order of Friendship of People's Republic of China to President Vladimir Putin. All right, I need to correct myself.

That did not happen yesterday. That happened in 2018. That was my mistake. Now, a story here from the Straits Times. This is from Singapore. And it says, TikTok CEO to promise the U.S. Congress no American user information sharing with the Chinese government. And as I read this article, I realized how big TikTok has become in the United States. I mean, I know that TikTok is very popular, especially in Asia, but I did not know TikTok had gained the market share that he claims in this video that the Chinese app is currently at

right now in terms of the number of people using it. So the Straits Times said, TikTok is not beholden to the Chinese government and will not share information about American users with it. The social media app's chief executive is expected to promise the United States Congress at a crucial hearing on Thursday. Mr. Qiu Shouzei will make the case to lawmakers that banning the app will hurt American small businesses and damage the country's economy, as well as impinge on the freedom of speech of its more than 150 million U.S. users, according to his prepared testimony released on Tuesday night ahead of the hearing in Washington. Quote, let me state this unequivocally, ByteDance, that's the company that owns it, is not an agent of China or any other country, said Mr. Chu,

a Singaporean who will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday. TikTok is facing fierce opposition from Republican and Democrat lawmakers concerned about data privacy and national security, particularly whether parent company ByteDance would be compelled to hand over user data to the Chinese government. Calls for the app to be banned have mounted, with Congress advancing legislation that would give President Joe Biden the power to restrict or ban the app in America. The Biden administration is pushing for ByteDance to sell the app or be banned in America, according to U.S. media reports. But TikTok has become a cultural behemoth in the United States,

with more than half of America's population using the app on a monthly basis. Mr. Chu said the average U.S. user today is an adult who is well past the typical college age of 18 to 22. Americans comprise about 10% of the app's global users, but form about 25% of the total views around the world, he added. TikTok has never shared or received a request to share U.S. user data with the Chinese government, nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made, said Mr. Chu. I've also got a video that the TikTok CEO released prior to his testimony tomorrow in Washington. Let's watch it. Hey everyone, it's Sho here.

I'm the CEO of TikTok. I'm here in Washington, DC today, and I have some news and updates to share with everyone here. Today, I'm super excited to announce that more than 150 million Americans are on TikTok. That's almost half of the US coming to TikTok to connect, to create, to share, to learn, or just to have some fun. This includes 5 million businesses

that use TikTok to reach their customers, and the majority of these are small and medium businesses. Now, these numbers are amazing, and I'm so thankful to all of you and the 7,000 TikTok employees in the US who are helping us build this incredible community in America and around the world. Now this comes at a pivotal moment for us. Some politicians have started talking about banning TikTok. Now this could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you. I'll be testifying before Congress later this week to share all that we're doing to protect Americans using the app

and deliver on our mission to inspire creativity and to bring joy. Let me know in the comments what you want your elected representatives to know about what you love about TikTok. I want to give you an update on World War III. We talked yesterday about the introduction of depleted uranium shells into the Russia-Ukraine war. Great Britain announced that they're going to ship DU shells to the Ukrainian army,

and the Russians are not happy about it. They clearly have said it's a red line and they will respond appropriately. And the Vasti News Service says Russia urges United States to not test Moscow's patience. The United States intending to, is continuing to fly drones.

Now this statement is about the drones over, it's not the DU. It's about the drones. United States intending to continue flying drones over it's not the du uh it's about the drones the united states intending intending to continue flying drones over the black sea is asking for russian countermeasures says deputy foreign minister sergey ryabkov the americans this is this quote the americans defiantly cynically openly publicly deny the legitimacy of such steps such as the introduction of temporary regime for the use of airspace or declare their intention to continue their activities of this kind. We warn them against trying to play on the nerves or testing our patience, Ryabkov said. So this is a statement directed at the United States about flying

spy drones over the Black Sea to spy on the Russians. They brought down, they didn't shoot it down, they brought down an American spy drone several weeks ago. I think it was Secretary of State Blinken today or maybe yesterday said that the Biden administration will have ready to present to the U.S. Congress a new strategy have a feeling that they are going to have Eastern European countries that also border the Black Sea to start making claims of ownership, of jurisdiction on the Black Sea so that the United States can get warships into the Black Sea. I think you're going to see things heating up. All the indications that we've seen in the past week is that the West is planning a big military offensive with the Ukrainian army sometime in May of this year. So things could heat up considerably in the next several months. Mr. Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, suggested how Russia will respond to the supply of shells with uranium to the armed forces of Ukraine.

This is what he said. Russia can transfer ammunition with real uranium to Belarus if the UK supplies Ukraine with shells with depleted uranium, the president of the republic, Alexander Lukashenko, suggested. So you have to guess, what is ammunition with real uranium? And he said, Russia will supply us with the ammunition with real uranium. If the Western countries are crazy, then they will give an impetus to this process. Lukashenko warned that the use of depleted uranium shells by the Ukrainian armed forces would not go unpunished. Quote, as soon as these munitions explode on the positions of Russian troops, you will see that the answer will be terrible. It will be a lesson for the whole planet, the president said. Oh, you got to just think about what we're hearing here, what we're reading.

When shells with depleted uranium are used, radioactive dust settles on the ground. It is extremely toxic and cannot be decontaminated. Military expert Konstantin Sivkov pointed out, experts note that the use of such ammunition can lead to the outbreaks of cancer. U.S. troops used depleted uranium rounds during Operation Desert Storm and the bombing of Yugoslavia and the invasion of Iraq. I think that's all of that article. But Mr. Lukashenko said the Russian response will be terrible. He didn't say just for the United States. He didn't say it's going to be terrible for Ukraine.

He didn't say it's going to be terrible for the United States. He said it's going to be terrible for the United States. He said it's going to be terrible for the entire planet. What other answer can you come up with other than the Russians' plan to nuke the West? I don't know what else to conclude. They've made it a red line they've said months ago if the you if if great britain if the west brings depleted uranium shells into ukraine that's a red line and the russians will respond and according to the papers this week great britain plans to ship the ukrainian the to the ukrainian army they're going to ship them the DU shells very, very soon.

Again, it's all pointing towards, I mean, we're almost going into April and this big offensive is supposed to be in May. So it looks like they're trying to get the tanks, the jets, the DU shells, get all that in place in Ukraine in the month of April. And then the big counteroffensive begins. And I guess when that happens, the Russians are going to let loose and let the whole world know they've had enough of it. So, you know, you might want to eat your comfort food in the next couple of and just get it over with because life's going to change. If we allow this to continue, life is going to change for all of us if we're around, if you survive it. It's so surreal. I can hardly believe I'm reporting these things. RT reported, ex-U.S. envoy wants Russian billionaires to pay their way

out of sanctions. Wait till you hear this one. I mean, this is the height of arrogance. Russian billionaires should be removed from Western sanctions list if they donate most of their wealth to Ukraine, says former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. He stressed that the idea is not supported by the Ukrainian government, to which he serves as an advisor. McFaul was speaking in an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor and chief of the self-exiled Doz Rain TV channel, during which he claimed that all billionaires in Russia should be on the sanctions list.

The U.S. and its allies have imposed personal sanctions on dozens of wealthy Russians, accusing them of having close ties to the Kremlin. The individuals face asset freezes, travel bans, and other restrictions. Instead of deciding on a case-by-case basis, McFaul argued that there should be a blanket sanction against all wealthy Russians. However, the former diplomat added that, quote, the problem with sanctions today is once you are on it, there is virtually no mechanism to get off.

He proposed getting several, or he proposed setting several conditions under which Russian billionaires could curry favor in the West. According to him, they would have to publicly condemn the Russian government for its military operation in Ukraine. They must vow never to invest in Russia again. They must donate the majority of their wealth to Kiev for the reconstruction efforts. He claimed that a donation of 90% of their wealth would be appropriate, acknowledging that these were very high bars, but asserting that it was a reasonable price to pay. Can you imagine if Putin said,

because of the United States helping the Ukrainian army, I am demanding that every wealthy person in America publicly renounce Joe Biden and the U.S. government, promise to never invest inside their countries again, and donate 90% of their wealth to Russia. And then we might let them get off the list. Can you imagine? Nobody would ever think like that except the Americans. Except the Americans. The arrogance is so off the chart

you can't even comprehend that people think this way. To say, we're going to order all the wealthy people of another nation to surrender their wealth and then we'll let them off our list. You know what they're going to tell us to do? I can't say it on TV,

but you can fill in the blanks. You know their response to us. Let's take the next one. I also got this one from RT. A lot of this stuff is in RT, and I tried to track it down in the United States. Man, the news blackout is so heavy in the United States. Another 50 U.S. banks could fail, says ex-Lehman Brothers VP. Wait till you see this one. The banking crisis could swallow another 50 regional lenders in the United States if the country's authorities don't take appropriate measures to resolve structural issues, former vice president of Lehman Brothers Lawrence McDonald said in an interview with Novasti.

Quote, policymakers will most likely be forced to introduce a much larger withholding to maintain outflows of deposits from bank accounts that significantly exceed $250,000, he said. According to McDonald, the current problems facing, challenging the United States banking sector are very similar to those preceding the infamous collapse of the financial giant. The former executive added that U.S. regional banks are expected to lose hundreds of billions of dollars with these funds inevitably moving to larger lenders and then to treasury bonds. The U.S. authorities will have to heavily boost deposit guarantees compared to the existing ones.

McDonald accused Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell of following inadequate policies in tightening monetary policy. They seem to be, listen to this, they seem to be smoking in a dynamite shed. Ten days ago, Powell on Capitol Hill told us that the banking system was okay. He either lied or he did not understand what he was doing, the former banker suggested. According to McDonald, the Fed will have to cut rates and then have a deposit guarantee, a larger one. That's what they're going to come up with. That's a bailout.

That's basically the federal government taking on bank deposit risk, he concluded. Well, what did the Fed do today? They didn't cut rates. They increased rates. They went up a quarter percent today. So they didn't take Mr. McDonald's advice. But yesterday, Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, former Fed chief, said there are no limits now. The $250,000 limit, you know, imposed by federal law, we're not going to pay attention to it anymore. If a bank is going under and we need to increase the guarantee to anything, we'll do it because there are no rules anymore. All rules are gone. We're living in a surreal world where there are no rules. And so that's just an indication of how bad the financial system is that they're saying we'll bail out anything

doesn't matter you got you got a billion dollars and and the cap is 250 000 don't worry about it we'll guarantee the billion dollars don't worry about it they just did it last two weeks ago for svb with tens of billions of dollars that they shipped to Israel. There's no limit anymore because the Titanic is sinking and they need a world war. That's where we're at right now. If we let these people continue. Hey, I'm going to wrap it up for today. Thank you for hanging in there with me one hour by my lonesome. And Doc Burkhart will be back on Monday. He and his wife Mia had to take a little trip and they deserve some time off.

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