TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - WW3 Goes to New Level as West Seeks to Arrest Putin…Medvedev Warns Lindsay Graham to Stay Out of Airplanes

Episode Date: March 17, 2023

World War 3 was elevated to a new level today. The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev referred to the arrest warrant as toilet paper. And Mr. Medvedev issued a veiled threat against US Senator Lindsay Graham that the South Carolina Republican could be killed in a plane crash.Tune in as your TruNews team is ready to give you the most complete report anywhere on World War 3 and the reason for it, the implosion of the Western financial system. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 3/17/23You 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

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a veiled threat against U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham that the South Carolina Republican could be killed in a plane crash. Doc Burkhardt and I are ready to give you the most complete report anywhere on World War III and the reason for it, the implosion of the Western financial system. Let's start with the arrest warrant. This is the Times of London. Arrest warrant issued for Putin over war crimes. Yes, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for war crimes, alleging that the Russian president was involved in abductions of children from Ukraine. The court said in a statement that Putin is allegedly responsible

for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population, but specifically children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation. It said, quote, the decisions of the International Criminal Court have no meaning for our country, including from a legal point of view. That's according to Maria Zakharova, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, and she stated that on her Telegram channel. We have video of the ICC announcing the arrest warrant earlier on Friday. Today, 17th of March 2023, the International Criminal Court has issued two warrants of arrest in the Ukraine situation. For Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and for Mayel Vova Belova, Commissioner of the Russian Presidents for Children's Rights, for the alleged war crimes of deportation of children from Ukrainian occupied territories into the Russian Federation.

It is forbidden by international law for occupied powers to transfer civilians from the territory they live in to other territories. Children enjoy special protection under the Geneva Convention. The contents of the warrants are secret in order to protect victims. The ICC attaches great importance to the protection of victims, especially children.

Nevertheless, the judges of the chamber dealing with this case decided to make the existence of the warrants public in the interest of justice and to prevent the commission of the warrants public in the interest of justice and to prevent the commission of future crimes. This is an important moment in the process of justice before the ICC.

The judges have reviewed the information and evidence submitted by the prosecutor and determined that there are credible allegations against these persons for the alleged crimes. The ICC is doing its part of work. As a court of law, the judges issued arrest warrants. Their execution depends on international cooperation. So, Doc, I can only try to, you know, reason why the ICC would come up with this accusation that basically they charged Putin today with child trafficking.

Right. As he was speaking, the thought that was in my mind is that the average person, if they're looking at this headline, the inference would be Putin sent Russian soldiers into Kiev, grabbed children,

and took them to Russia. And they're holding them hostage and maybe lighting their toes on fire or whatever. Something like that. They're doing really cruel, mean things to the children. And the West has to stop him. He's so out of control, he's kidnapping children. That's what they want you to believe. What's the reality of it? And I don't know if I'm right on this, but this is what I think it is. You have the breakaway provinces in Ukraine, Donetsk and the other regions that are populated with Russian-speaking Ukrainians. Right.

Who want to be part of Russia, not Ukraine, because Ukraine was part of Russia at one time. And so what's been going on in Ukraine for years is those breakaway provinces have wanted their independence because they consider themselves more Russian than Ukrainian. And Zelensky's army has been pounding them for years before this war started, which is one of the reasons the war started, is that Putin said, we can't stand back anymore

and watch Russian-speaking Ukrainians be killed. Some of the heaviest fighting has been in those breakaway provinces for the past year. Could it be that the Russian military is removing women and children from the war zone, transporting them into Russian territory to prevent them from being killed

by the Ukrainian army? And therefore, the West said, aha, we can charge him with child trafficking. Because they took children across international borders. Yes. That's what I think is probably going on. It probably is. And you got to remember too, that there have been a lot of children that have become orphans as a result of all the fighting over the past, you know, what is it now? Almost nine years of fighting since 2014. You know, people don't realize that the Kiev regime has been pounding the breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine for nearly a decade now. Yes.

And so... Nobody talks about it. Nobody shows the video. Nobody shows the violence that has been taking place and why the Russians said we have to go in and stop it. But on the other hand, to the International Criminal Court, it seems to be a handy tool to use depending on who's using it and at what time. Because there have been times where the ICC has charged the United States and Israel with crimes, and we just told them to take a hike. Okay, so does Russia have that same right?

Well, I think that's what you're going to see, the attitude of the Russians. Interfax, the Russian foreign ministry, said that the decisions of the Hague court have no legal significance for Russia. We're going to go down to number eight. This statement from Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who said that Russia is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and does not bear obligations under it. Russia does not cooperate with this body and possible recipes for arrest coming from the international court will be legally null and void

for us. So what does she imply? The recipes, the methods that they're going to use, who's going to go into Moscow and arrest Putin? Well, but they're going to also say, too, that if Putin goes out of the country... That's where they're going to try to get him. ...and happens to be in a country that participates in the ICC, then they could have put the arrest warrant in place then. Well, that would include airspace. Right.

That if he flies from Russia to another country and goes over the airspace of a Western country, are they going to intercept the presidential plane, force it to land, and handcuff him? I would say yes. They probably would. I think they would at least attempt it. If he goes to a conference, are they going to go on the stage and arrest him? But I'll just remind everyone again, the ICC has specifically, you know, labeled out charges against Netanyahu.

And no, nothing's going to happen there. They're not going to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. No, not at all. So. Dimitri Medvedev had his take on the arrest warrant. He referred to it as basically toilet paper. Yes. So the Mr. Medvedev said that the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin. There's no need to explain where this paper should be used and had the little toilet paper icon there on his tweet there on Twitter.

So going back to Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry, she also issued a warning to the United States to think twice about the consequences of aggressive steps. This is what she said. Yeah. The American authorities should understand that aggressive attacks against the Russian Federation will have consequences. And this was announced Friday by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. The exact quote is here. Washington should think about the consequences of its increasingly aggressive actions,

fraught with a direct military confrontation with Russia, and a repeat of a humiliating failure for the United States akin to or similar to Vietnam or Afghanistan, she stressed. Now, the next one, Doc, I saw this late this afternoon. Usually with Dmitry Medvedev, he's kind of my chuckle on Friday. He puts out some messages. They're usually sarcastic. They're strong, but there's some sarcasm enough to get a laugh out of you.

But what he put out today is not any laughing matter because it must be construed as a threat to shoot down Lindsey Graham's aircraft. This is the tweet that he put out today. So it's a drone case. Yankees got brazen, in other words, saying that the United States and NATO went too far with the drone. To be polite with them is wrong, especially at the time of military operations.

The military should surely keep in touch while people like Senator Graham say Russian planes should be shot down. And Lindsey Graham did say that this week. In fact, such beasts, he's talking about Lindsey Graham here, get into plane crashes sometimes. So it sounded like a threat there, Rick.

I don't think there's any other way that you can interpret it. There's a Dmitry Medvedev, who is the vice president, the vice chairman of the Russian, the Security Council of the Russian Federation, just told Lindsey Graham today, you're on Fox television calling for NATO to shoot down Russian fighter jets. You better be careful the next time you get in an airliner. Right. Because people like you sometimes crash to the ground. That's what he just said. So back that up, Doc, with Maria Zakharova.

You know, she's not a threatening woman. We've been quoting her for years. But today she said the United States needs to think about the consequences of its aggressive actions. So at first, when I saw the Lindsey Graham hint, you know, the hint that Medvedev was warning Lindsey Graham. Stuff happens to people like you. Planes blow up. My first thought was, would he actually carry out a threat like that?

Is it just, is he just playing with Lindsey Graham's mind? But the very next thing I found, I found an article in an Italian newspaper. I didn't bring to the program the Italian paper because it's quite lengthy. I have another story. This is, oh, before we go to that. You're right. Yes. I'm sorry. Let's remind everybody. We want to remind everybody, yes, what Lindsey Graham, this is a video clip of Lindsey Graham

on Fox News. One year ago. A year ago. And all the stuff that Lindsey Graham says is heard in Moscow. This is what Mr. Graham said on Fox News one year ago. How does this end? Somebody in Russia has to step up to the plate. Is there Brutus in Russia? Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military? The only way this ends, my friend, is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.

You would be doing your country a great service and the world a great service. And that was only the one time. Right. There's been numerous times that Lindsey Graham has openly called for the CIA to assassinate Vladimir Putin. so now he's he's on fox news sean hannity show and others saying joe biden needs to order the military to shoot down russian fighter jets as though this isn't going to create a direct confrontation with with russia the united states which you have to think that's what Lindsey Graham wants. He wants that war. He does.

He's foaming at the mouth to get a nuclear war going. He's wanting a war going in the Ukraine. He's wanting a war going in Mexico. But as Rick was alluding to, Dmitry Medvedev has also threatened others too. If these reports are right, and I have to think, Doc, that this next story we're going to show you, the one that I got out of the Italian paper, and it's reported by the

Daily Mail in London. Look at this. Russia's former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has promised Wagner $15 million if it assassinates Italy's defense minister. Now, if I had not seen that article today, minutes after seeing the tweet on Lindsey Graham, I probably would have just said, Lindsey Graham's on his nerves today, on Nevada's nerves today, and they're not going to kill Lindsey Graham. But then minutes later I come across the Italian right article where there's a bounty on the Italian defense minister yes so we're gonna go with the story by the Daily

Mail because they they did the interpretation of the Italian newspaper article and we'll tell you what they're reporting. So Russia's former President Dmitry Medvedev has offered a $15 million bounty to kill Italy's defense minister, Guido Corsetti, a newspaper is claiming. Italian Il Foglio newspaper said the country's intelligence service intercepted an order from Medvedev,

a former Kremlin president, to private military company Wagner. Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's powerful security council, allegedly ordered this assassination before Corsetto made a statement which he accused Wagner of contributing to the EU migration crisis by organizing the flow of migrants from Africa to Europe. It also claimed that Wagner has several cells in Europe, including Serbia and Estonia. The report stated there is a real threat that the Kremlin is against the Italian defense minister with a bounty on his head, $15 million. This at least is the reporting that came to the

top of the government by our intelligence. Doc, if these stories are true, then something has changed today in the war where the Russians are now saying, we're going to assassinate Western leaders. You know, this is sounding a lot like a lead up to World War I. I mean, World War I kicked off with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. And so, and that set things in motion and violations and treaties that there was no coming back from. The problem is now here we are a hundred years later, now we have nuclear weapons. And so if there is an assassination, it starts tipping dominoes all across Europe, Middle East, maybe even in North America,

then there's no coming back from that. We'll go into a full-fledged nuclear war. For what? What's the purpose? I'd like to know. What is the purpose? What are we getting out of Ukraine? What do we get? I mean, what do we win? How do we know we've won? If you're going to have a nuclear war

and destroy the world, shouldn't there be like a massive, big, awesome goal? I mean, we're going to risk everything on this war. So what is it? What's the payoff for the survivors? They get a photograph, autographed photograph of Zelensky? I mean, what is this all about? Doc, I read today, do you know, collectively, military and humanitarian, social security type of aid. Do you know the United States has already spent $115 billion in Ukraine this year?

Actually, I think it's higher than that. I think it's $133 billion. Maybe it is. And so if you count everything together, I mean, that's more than the entire military budget of Russia. Think about that. That's more than Russia spends on its defense. And what is the purpose?

What are we getting out of this? Our banks are collapsing. And we're shipping $133 billion to Ukraine, and Zelensky and his crooked government is siphoning off billions for themselves? I mean, you have to recognize it. Ukraine was corrupt. Before the war. Before the war. And up until two or three years ago, you could read articles in the Washington Post.

What do we do about corruption in Ukraine? In the Post the Washington Post. What do we do about corruption in Ukraine? In the Post, Washington Post. So if you're going to believe the Washington Post today, you should believe it then, right? And of all people, the Bidens have deep business relationships in Ukraine. Isn't it reasonable to suspect that of that $133 billion of U.S. tax money that's gone to Ukraine, some of it has been laundered into a secret Biden family fund? I mean, suddenly Biden's going to become honest?

I mean, this is, but the thing is, Doc, put aside the money. It's, we're put aside the money. It's, we're risking the human race, the survival of humanity. We're risking it over Zelensky. We're going to blow up the whole world. You're going to die. I'm going to die. You're all going to die. Your kids are going to die.

Your grandkids, your dogs are going to die. Everybody's going to die for Zelensky going to die. Your kids are going to die. Your grandkids, your dogs are going to die. Everybody's going to die for Zelensky. Why, why, why? What do we get out of it? What do we get out of it? Lindsey Graham, why? Why do we all die? What's the payoff?

You can't say freedom. Don't be hauling freedom out of it. We don't have freedom now. Our freedom's been taken away in this country. So it's not about freedom. I want to know why Washington, the warmongers, are so adamant that we have to go to war with Russia. What is this hatred of Russia about?

That they're willing to blow up the whole world. There's nothing in Ukraine that I want other than the lost souls. That's all. There's nothing there worth dying for other than lost souls. And the way that you get lost souls is not blowing up people.

And this message is finally, I think, starting to sink in with a few people, not the political leaders in D.C. Oh, no, they're adamant. But it's starting to get out there. People are asking the right questions now. What are we doing there? What's the purpose of the continued support?

And we know where that support's going to lead us. It's going to lead to men and women, young men and women, and the U.S. military being thrown into a meat grinder. We had Mr. Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, last week on Hungarian public radio telling his people, I know for a fact NATO is going to vote soon to send troops to Ukraine. That means American men, Canadian men, British men. Why? Why are we going to send troops to Ukraine?

That's a guaranteed nuclear war. You can't be naive enough to think that we didn't have NATO presence in Ukraine prior to all this happening. And we probably do at this very moment. It's just not out there. But it's all going to be coming out in the open here soon. Well, there's one winner. There's one winner in all this. It's China.

It's China. And if you realize that the Biden family works for China, then you might come to the conclusion that he is deliberately weakening this country for his paymaster. Which is China. Yes. The Kremlin announced today that Xi Jinping will be in Moscow on Monday for private talks with Vladimir Putin. So this two-day visit by Chinese leaders Xi Jinping to Moscow next week will be businesslike and unburdened by any additional ceremonial things. An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed. Yuri Yushakov told journalists that a one-on-one meeting between Putin and Xi will take place at the Kremlin on Monday afternoon.

And this is going to be within the same timeframe that Xi Jinping will also be speaking, at least on a Zoom call, to Zelensky of Ukraine. So is China about to pull another upset like they did with Saudi Arabia and Iran? Rick, if they broker a deal between Russia and Ukraine, that's... China's in the driver's seat then. Yes.

I mean, it really will be the Chinese century. Yes. But people, the conservatives in America will say Joe Biden is weak. He's allowed China to lead. He needs to step up his game. He needs to be strong. Not if he's doing what he's told to do. Yes.

Which is to be weak so that Xi Jinping can be strong. And we've created this opening, or Joe Biden has created this opening, rather. I think it's done on purpose. I think it's all by design to elevate China at this point. So if he pulls this off and pulls the world back from World War with nuclear weapons and gets Putin and Zelensky talking, they agree to a settlement, and then China goes in and rebuilds Ukraine. Where does that leave the United States?

Even if all Xi Jinping gets to with China and Ukraine is a ceasefire, just a ceasefire. That's a huge step. Yes. John Kirby had a call with journalists today, and a question was brought up about China bringing up a ceasefire. And John Kirby had the audacity to say, you know, a ceasefire isn't a good thing right now. Oh, really? We're going to stop killing people?

That's not a good thing? He actually said it out loud. It's because his strategy, NATO's strategy, is to bring as much damage as they can before they get to the ceasefire right the the peace talks they have they would the nato guys plan on peace talks just went on their time on their timetable but not now and so if if xi jinping works this out and Zelensky and Putin announce a ceasefire and then start talking, NATO's not a player anymore. Because what can NATO do? Are they going to send tanks and airplanes

to Ukraine during a ceasefire? What would that make NATO look like? A bully? You know, a conqueror? Interrupting peace talks? Or violating a ceasefire? So they got to back off. A third party violating.

Yes, they have to back off and stop sending weapons during the ceasefire and the peace talks. I want the war to stop. I just don't want Xi Jinping to be the man that brings it about. Look at the predicament that we're in, that people are going to be applauding Xi Jinping for bringing world peace. But he just solved the battle,

the contention between Saudi Arabia and Iran. And now the two countries are talking about business investments in each other's countries. Saudi Arabia is going to be putting money into Iran very soon. For rebuilding infrastructure, using the NATO model. What does that do to Israel? What does that do to Israel? Syria announced Assad was in Moscow.

He announced that yesterday there's going to be Russian military bases in Syria. What does that do to the United States and Israel? It puts a restraint on them. It puts a harness on them. They can't carry out their war plans. They have to change behavior. The NATO plan to have an Arab NATO, I don't think it's going to happen now.

No, and it looks like based on everything that's happening over the past few weeks, for whatever motivation that the U.S. keeps pushing Saudi Arabia away, is the Abraham Accords are going to fall apart. But if we push Saudi Arabia away, we push away the petrodollar, and the U.S. dollar falls,

and the Chinese yuan goes up. I think Saudi Arabia sent a very clear signal this week with their attitude toward the West. By their refusal to continue to invest in Credit Suisse, they've made it very clear signal this week, their attitude toward the West. By their refusal to continue to invest in Credit Suisse, they've made it very clear. We're backing up. We're done with you. We can do our own thing now. We're looking eastward. Yes. One more story. We're going to take a break here soon. South China Morning Post. This is today. China, Russia, Iran launched five days of Navy drills in the Gulf of Oman, close to U.S.-led Middle East sea exercise. And it says China, Russia, and Iran launched joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday as rival power in the United States hosts the Middle East's largest maritime drills nearby.

The joint naval maneuvers with Iran and Russia will run until Sunday, China's Ministry of Defense said, adding that they will help deepen practical cooperation among the navies of the participating countries. This would never have happened if the United States was not so arrogant and pompous and pushing other countries around, we literally, when I say we, I'm talking about the ruling class of America, the Yale and Harvard and Princeton boys who think that they're born to rule the world.

They have driven Russia and Iran into the arms of China and made them allies now. Something serious is taking place. The geopolitical landscape is changing before our eyes right now, and America is becoming weaker and weaker and weaker. We got to sign off on the Word Network. You can watch the rest of the program at truenews.com or on the True News app. If you're watching us online, just hang in there. We will be back in about two seconds. Take care.

All right, we're going to switch over to the implosion of the Western financial system, which is why they're pushing so hard for a world war. That way they can do a complete global financial reset. So today, Doc, SVB, I thought this was solved. SVB filed for bankruptcy today. That's right, Greg. So all the money got shipped to Israel and now the bank's broke again.

Why would people stay in a broke bank? Why did they file for bankruptcy today if they got bailed out on Sunday? You know why? Because everybody moved their money to Israel. Yes. And the bank is broke again. I don't know why nobody's asking these questions.

How could it get bailed out on Sunday and be broke on Friday? Because all the depositors split town, said we got to get our money back to Israel. I mean, you take any bank, Rick, and it experiences a bank run. And then even if it does get rescued, your money is secured. Are you going to keep your money there?

Do I look like an idiot? No, I'm not going to keep my money there. But the fact that an overwhelming 3,500 tech companies signed that petition, so you know it had at least 3,500 tech companies signed that petition. So you know it had at least 3,500 accounts that was related to the Israeli tech industry. It was in the billions of dollars. Yes. So they sucked it out.

The giant sucking sound this week was money headed to Tel Aviv. I mean, if someone had an evil mind, they would do this on purpose. They would cause the bank to fail for the sheer purpose of getting the money out of it. All right. So remember yesterday, the big story was Jamie Dimon being, you know, he was the hero of Wall Street yesterday. He made phone calls starting Wednesday night, started calling the other big bankers at Goldman Sachs and other powerful financial houses on Wall Street and said, let's not wait for a bailout for First Republic. Let's us, the bankers, let us step up and put money in First Republic and stabilize the bank and reassure the public that First Republic is not going to go under.

Right. So yesterday that looked really good, didn't it? Right. Because they were responding to the fact they knew that the feds probably weren't going to bail out First Republic, at least not immediately. But they put $30 billion into First Republic. Now, more details have come out. So these banks, like J.P. Morgan, they didn't buy First Republic.

They didn't bail them out. They didn't take over their debt or anything like that. They simply opened up checking accounts. Yes, and put $30 billion worth in. For 30 days. Yes. So they got 30-day notes, which was designed to give First Republic

a month to figure a way out of the mess it was in. How did it go over today? Well, let's take a look here. It didn't go well. So First Republic's $30 billion rescue fails to soothe investor fear. By the end of the day today, First Republic was down another 22%. First Republic staved off a potential collapse after a group of bigger financial firms agreed to park

a combined $30 billion in deposits with the lender. But the cash injection is only a short-term solution and investors are unsatisfied. The quote from the Bloomberg article here, the market may be interpreting that the $30 billion of new deposits that are going in may have staved off a depositor run, but it hasn't added any new equity to the bank. And that's coming from Arthur Wilmarth, Professor Emeritus at George Washington University's law school. He said the shareholders know that they are certainly at risk.

But adding to the market's worries is the fact that First Republic tapped a Federal Reserve liquidity line of as much as $109 billion in the days leading up to its rescue by the big banks. That's coming from Arnold Kakuta, a bank analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. First Republic has been exploring strategic options, including a sale. When you hear the sale sign go up, Rick, you know things are getting bad. Bloomberg News reported earlier this week, so maybe this $30 billion in deposits from big banks only buys time, but concerns remain.

And as I stated before, First Republic was down 22% by the end of the market today. So obviously people are worried, Rick, why would you keep your money in First Republic? I don't care if Goldman Sachs puts their money in there. We already know there's issues. Why would I keep your money in First Republic? I don't care if Goldman Sachs puts their money in there. We already know there's issues. Why would I keep my money? There's a psychology that's involved here. So you have to ask the question,

don't they know that people are going to react this way? What's the number one commodity that you want a bank to have? Money. But trust. Well, yeah. You want to trust. You want a bank to have? Money. What? What? Trust. Well, yeah. You want to trust.

You want to trust them with your money. Yes, you want to trust. You want to just be able to go to sleep at night and trust that the people running that bank. Have taken care of my money. Yes. And they're not giving $74 million to Black Lives Matter. Right. million to Black Lives Matter. And they're not doing inclusion seminars and forcing

their employees to accept transgender... I mean, just wasting money and time. You just want to believe that they're bankers and they like money and they like to handle money and they like to make money grow and that's what they do. That's all I want out of a banker.

And if I put my money with a banker, I can go to my bank and say, can I have my money? And they say, sure, because you trusted us with it. And so here you go. Here's your money. But can you do that at First Republic today? No, you can't. No, and the marketplace is responding today,

saying we don't have any confidence in First Republic anymore. Now, what Mr. Diamond did, Jamie Diamond, which was commendable, I give him credit that he took the initiative Wednesday night and began making phone calls to his peers at other banks and saying, we can't let this bank go down, First Republic. Because they were afraid other regional banks would fall asleep. Obviously. It wasn't just a charitable action, good Samaritan. He's obviously worried that the entire banking sector is going to go under.

But still, it was commendable. I'm not criticizing him for it. But Bloomberg gave us a story on how this all went down, how First Republic Bank received a $30 billion lifeline. And Bloomberg said, Jamie Dimon and Janet Yellen were on a call Tuesday when she floated an idea. What if the nation's largest lenders deposited billions of dollars into First Republic Bank, the latest firm getting nudged towards the brink by a depositor panic? So it was Janet Yellen that suggested it. She floated the idea and Jamie Dimon ran with it. So Dimon was game. And soon the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase and Company was reaching out to the heads

of the next three largest U.S. lenders, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. Can you imagine those phone calls? Yeah, would you guys put in five billion? I got a crazy idea for you. We're going to rescue First Republic Bank. So after two days of frantic phone calls, meetings, and some arm twisting, the CEOs of 11, obviously not everybody was in agreement with it, Rick, the CEOs of 11 banks

agreed to chip in a total of 30 billion for First Republic, promising to park the money there at least 120 days, so several months there. The hope that it is that's enough to save First Republic, known for its outsized business catering to wealthy tech executives, another tech-featured bank, or perhaps at the least the cash will give the firm enough time to find another solution, such as a sale. Well, we haven't delved into First Republic to see if those wealthy tech executives are Americans or Israelis. That's something that we're going to have to look at this weekend, aren't we? Okay, so, Doc, what Jamie Dimon did, again, the CEO of J.P. Morgan, Morgan Chase what he did was right out of the playbook of what his corporate ancestor did in the in the bank panic of 1907 all right so now I

had to get a history lesson today on the bank panic of 1907 because I knew about the market crash in the 20s, but beyond that, nothing ever came up on my radar. So we're going to tell people about the bank crash in 1907 and how eerily similar it is to what's going on right now. Yeah, and so this was in the days of Theodore Roosevelt, who was president at this time. Roosevelt was the leader of what they called the progressives, but not anything close to what they called progressives.

These were Republicans who were called progressives and had nothing to do with wokeism. It had to do primarily with reigning in the power of the super wealthy trust. Because back then it wasn't corporations, they were trust, the railroad trust, the banking trust. They were trust that had control of the economy. And Roosevelt was called a trust buster. And so he said, hey, these guys have too much power. These trusts have too much power. And he was busting up the power of the trusts.

They got this name, the progressives. But a lot of people confuse it with today's socialist. It had, again, absolutely nothing to do with today's group. So I want to show you a photograph. This is the man himself, John Pierpont Morgan, Sr., J.P. Morgan, the founder of J.P. Morgan Chase. Born 1837, died 1913. So the panic, he died in Italy. He was on vacation in Italy. J.P. Morgan, it depends on who you talk to about J.P. Morgan.

Difference of opinion about him. Some people say, oh, he was an evil man. He was a terrible person at that time. But he was actually a very devout Christian. He was a member of the Episcopal Church. He was involved in a lot of church projects and in the bank panic of 1905, he sent out a call to pastors.

Listen to this, Doc. J.P. Morgan sent out messages to pastors and said, please, in your sermon this Sunday, tell the people to be calm and to trust. He went to the churches. That's a historical fact you didn't know. No, I didn't know that. I question his motive.

Well, his motive. Well, his motive was to prevent an absolute financial panic in the country. I mean, there was panic. I'm going to show you some things. This is the panic of 1907. Now, the building that this crowd is in front of is the Knickerbocker Trust. And this would be like, comparable to today, this would be SVB.

Not that it was into wokeism, but I'm talking about a meltdown of the bank. It was a trust. It was just like we had savings and loans years ago. These were trust. And they did not have to have as much liquidity as a bank. So in those days, the national banks had to have at least 25% cash on hand of total deposits. So if they had a million dollars listed on the books for deposits, there had to be sitting in that bank $250,000.

But the trust and loan companies did not have to have 25%. Right, they only had to have 5%. And so now these trusts were used to kind of float loans to investors on Wall Street and different things. It allowed them the opportunity to be able to buy same day shares and stocks and everything. Books had to be closed at the end of each day, but with a minimal amount of cash on hand, they were more susceptible to potential bank runs if word got out that there was no trust in the trust, if you will.

So what I recalled, the trouble started with another financial institution. I think the Hudson. I think that's what it was. And then it spread to Knickerbocker Trust. J.P. Morgan was asked to bail out, because he was the richest man on Wall Street at the time. He was asked to bail out the trust, and he said no.

Now, all this happened over like a week. Yes. Then the crisis got worse. I'll show you the next one. This is a newspaper article. Rich man puts a bullet in his heart. Stock exchange is closed down. Look to the right.

Wall Street becomes quieter. So this whole week, middle of October in 1907, the market was in complete disarray, complete turmoil. So much activity was going on, they had to actually shut down the stock exchange early, two days out of that week. Today, the headline would say, banker plunges from rooftop. Right. And the plunge protection team was activated today. That would be the kind of headline that you'd see. Next one is stock market in turmoil. So these are real newspaper headlines from 1905.

Just think, Doc, if we'd had radio back then, we would have been covering this story. Today on True News. But within a few days, confidence in banks has returned. Now, this is where J.P. Morgan stepped in. So you see there on the left, New York, or no, New Week, open, bright in financial circles. What happened?

They went back to J.P. Morgan and said, you got to do something. So Morgan did the same thing that Jamie Dimon did. Now, where did Jamie Dimon get this idea? Well, actually Yellen, Secretary Yellen had the idea. And gave it to Dimon. Or maybe she said it in the call

and Dimon knew the history of Morgan Chase and said, wait a minute. We've done this before. We solved a banking crisis in 1905. And so Mr. Morgan, J.P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan, started communicating with the other bankers on Wall Street. And propped up the trust. And propped up the trust and restored confidence in Wall Street.

Now, it led to a lot of changes and rules that came into place. The trust went away within about a decade. They were completely gone. But it was replaced by something else. Yes, and so this next article, this is President's Signature Enacts Currency Law. There's Woodrow Wilson. Wilson declares it the first of a series of constructive acts to aid businesses. Now, remember, this is 1907.

Yes. By 1913, the U.S. Congress enacted the Federal Reserve Act. Yes. The Federal Reserve came out of the 1907 banking crisis. So the bankers said, they went to the politicians and they said, We need a central bank. We got to do something. We got to do something.

We can't let this happen again. And the politicians were afraid. And so they passed the Federal Reserve Act. And that's how we got this entity, the Federal Reserve, which is privately owned by the banks. The very, JPMorgan Chase is one of the owners of the Federal Reserve. The United States government

does not own the Federal Reserve. The taxpayers don't own it. The banks own it. That's right, Rick. But it all came out of that 1907 panic. So what are the lessons that we're giving you? Something's going to come out of this. Something's going to come out of this.

I think it's going to be one of the things that's coming is a digital dollar. They're going to get rid of cash. One way to stop a panic. Is to shut off the flow of money. Well, no. Shut off your money. No, Doc, well, yes. You eliminate the money.

Yes. There is no money. You can't have a bank run. There's no money at the bank because there are no banks. You can't have a bank run. There's no money at the bank because there are no banks. You can't have a bank run if there are no banks. So a bank doesn't have to keep anything on deposit. No, they're not going to have a bank. Right.

There's going to be one bank. One bank, the Federal Reserve. Where do you go to get it? It's going to be online. What are you going to do, run to your computer? Phone? You eliminate bank runs by eliminating banks.

And the way you eliminate banks is eliminate cash. They're taking us into a cashless society and it's happening this year. They're in the beginning of it right now. Look, it took from 1907 to 1913. Six years. Six years to get the Federal Reserve.

Will it take six years to get totally cashless? Maybe, but I think it's going to be a lot faster than that. I mean, aren't we essentially in many ways cashless now? Yes. I mean, how often, you probably more than others, how often do you use cash? I don't use it, but I carry it because I'm a boomer, okay? And I'm a Gen Xer. I don't trust boomers.

Okay, I know, but I have this joke with my son Jeremy. We'll be someplace, and he'll need actual cash for something. And I said, I don't have cash. He's got a card, and they don't take a card. And he says, I've got to go to the bank and go get cash. He says, no, you don't. I have cash in my wallet. He goes, you're carrying cash. I said, your dad's a boomer. Do you remember? I'm a boomer. We have cash.

And it's, you know, I'm saying it jokingly, but. It's a generational. It's a generational. So mentally they're waiting on all of us boomers to just go to the great place in the sky so that they have only people who have no memory of cash. You don't have to make a transition. They transitioned in their mind. You're not taking anything away from them, Doc. You're only taking cash from the old boomers like us who say, oh no, no, no, no.

I want money in my hands and I want it in a bank and I want to be able to go to the bank and the bank has to give it to me. And there's some of us that remember when you could actually go get gold. When the money was redeemable in gold. When did that disappear? 1973. Nixon and Kissinger took us off the gold standard. No longer was the money backed by gold. They moved us another step into a cashless society.

They took us into a goldless society. And so now the next step is the cashless society. Yes. You don't need gold, and you certainly don't need cash. But we don't have to accept it. No. They're going to tell you, you have to accept it. But what I'm saying is, most of the country

doesn't use cash now. So it's not a matter that they're going to resist it because they're not using cash now. So it's not a matter that they're going to resist it because they're not using cash now. The Federal Reserve is simply going to say, we have a new system. Well, what is it? It's a digital dollar. Well, isn't that what I'm using

now? That's going to be the cell. The only difference is they can't turn off the digits that are in your bank account right now. They're dead digits. They're dumb digits. They're going to give you smart digits. We're going from dumb digits to smart digits. Right now, we have an electronic money system. But the electronic money is dumb. They're going to replace it with smart money. And the smart money can be turned on and off.

It can be geo-fenced. And it doesn't have to have any collateral value either. It's whatever they say it is. Because even now, even though we have electronic money, the bank has to retain so much money on deposit based on that money. So when the Federal Reserve says, we're not going to take your money away from you. We're simply going to tell you the things that you can no longer use it for. You can't buy guns with it. You can't buy ammo. There'll be a day they say

you can't give it to certain churches. Yes. They're hate churches. You can give it to that church, but you can't give it to this church. The Federal Reserve

is going to start restricting what you can do with your money. And they're going to say, we're not going to permit any transactions for guns starting on this date. What are you going to do? It's not gun control. It's money control.

The banksters are going to control you by controlling the money. They're going to take away cash, give you a smart digital coin, and then program it to do what they say you can do with it. Then they will say you can't buy meat, but you can buy bugs.

Well, that sounds like something out of the book of revelation right just you can neither buy nor sell yes yes and that mark is coming they're going to keep tightening it and tightening it until that mark is there because the mark will become i believe the mark is the trends it will be the way that you do these cashless transactions. And there's nothing that you can buy or sell without this mark. Which means you can't get paid.

And if you do get paid for something, you can't spend it. You can't get medical care. You can't get education. You can't get a job. You can't do anything. You can't pay tolls driving a car. You can't buy education. You can't get a job. You can't do anything. You can't pay tolls driving a car. You can't buy a plane ticket or even a subway token.

Right. So where are you going to go? You're going to stay home in your 15-minute neighborhood. But you can't pay your electric bill. You can't pay your water utilities. You can't pay your taxes, Doc. They're going to seize your house. You didn't pay your water utilities can't pay your taxes doc they're going to seize your house you didn't pay your taxes you'll own nothing

can be happy you'll own nothing but you're not going to be happy but the people who behave the people who conform to the image of the beast will be rewarded all you have to do is conform to the image of the beast will be rewarded. All you have to do is conform to the image of the beast. Why won't you

conform, Rick? Why won't you conform? Don't you like to eat? Don't you like to travel? Why don't you conform? That's right. That's the way the system is going to work. You can see it now.

Don't have your vaccination? We got to shut your money down until you rethink your position. A lot of people right now say, I will never give in. Most of them are going to give in. Most will give in. Only the truly strong, devoted Christians

will be willing to go to the end without submitting. Those that endure until the end. Until the end. Shall be saved. Yes. I'm going to go through some because we're getting close to our time. Bloomberg is number 49. I'm not going to read all the articles. Coinbase Explorers oversees venue as U.S. ramps up crypto scrutiny. Bottom line is Coinbase is going to move out of the United States.

Right. They're going to find friendlier markets to exist in. And it will be illegal for you to do business with Coinbase because they're not inside the United States and being regulated

by the United States. Therefore, it will be illegal for you to have an account at Coinbase for cryptocurrency. So,

thank you, Sam Bankman-Fried, for collapsing FTX and causing that. So, that's where this is going. We'll go to the corruption, the crime report. The crime blotter today. So number 55, New York Post, Congressman Comer demands Rob Walker and Biden business associates behind the china cash give the details of joe biden's

role right so coming a little bit more serious now they're saying okay we mr walker come forward voluntarily and tell us why the biden family got money from china yes Yes, and so the congressman's office forwarded a letter to Mr. Walker asking him to consider coming and talking to us before we have to issue a subpoena to get you over here. So he's asked him to volunteer to a transcribed interview at this time. And it has until the 24th of this month in order to make that happen. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Walker has a case of Arkansas. He's running close here.

New York Times, the United States Justice Department investigating TikTok's owner over possible spying on American journalists using the TikTok app. I don't have time to read it today. You can see it at the New York Times. The next one, the Federalist. I wish we had time. Maybe next week we'll talk about this. Department of Defense is subsidizing the media rating scammers to create propaganda and censorship tech

for the U.S. government. This was reported by the Federalists. And a name that popped up, old friend of ours. Old friend, yes, News Guard. News Guard. News Guard. They are the keepers of ours. Old friend, yes. News Guard. News Guard. News Guard. They are the keepers of truth.

And they, I don't want to tell you what I sent back. I shouldn't have done it. Bad Rick did it. Evil Rick. It wasn't Pastor Rick that did it. It was Bad Rick. News Guard has been kind of one of those outlets out there that have constantly pegged us as anti-Semitic, anti-truth, conspiracy theory. Think of any

label out there that a lot of people now wear proudly. They've done that. Well, last year, it was over COVID. Yes, that was the latest. I got this official letter from a NewsGuard investigator. And he told me in the letter, we're writing our report about true news. And these are the things you said about the COVID vaccines and the mask mandates. And we want to give you the opportunity to retract these statements. And we will publish your retraction. So I gave him my reply. Was it similar to Mr. Mendeleev's reply?

Dimitri would have been amused by my reply. I shouldn't have done it as a pastor, but I just did it. I'm just telling you I did it. I'd like to have seen his face when he got that reply. Forgive him, Jesus. Yes. But he did understand there was no point in writing

back to him. Last things for today. The French are, man the French are feisty. Feisty French citizens. Emmanuel Macron did a presidential decree and changed the retirement

laws of France with no authority from the parliament. He raised the retirement age. Imagine if Joe Biden just said, well, I signed a presidential degree today and the retirement age is now 82. The French did not like it.

And they were only raising it from 62 to 64. Yeah, but he did it without authorization of the parliament. He just did it because he wanted to do it. We're going to show you some videos of what's going on in France in the last couple of days. So these are the crowds showing up for this. This is in the Place de la Concorde,

the main plaza there in Paris. And so tens of thousands of people showing up just because of the raising of the retirement age here. You know, I'm looking at retirement age of 67 or 70. No one's upset over here. We got a short report from Sky News reporting to the British people what was going on across the English Channel in France. Let's watch. I just want to bring you the latest pictures from Paris, where, of course, we've been telling you

that there have been protests this evening after French President Emmanuel Macron used a special procedure to push through a controversial bill to raise the retirement age. Look at those pictures on your screen now. Protesters seem to have set fire to cars there. It looks like tear gas is being used on the streets of Paris as well. Of course, we've seen that before. A lot of protesters on the streets of Paris there. The move, of course, triggered protests within Parliament too, with some politicians singing the fresh national anthem,

holding placards saying no to 64 years today. The government is arguing the retirement age must go up to make sure the pension system doesn't go bust. The measure has caused widespread process over recent months. And tonight, these scenes, the very latest from Paris, you can see that is Place de la Concorde with the needle there from Egypt in the middle. Police, they're in riot gear with water cannon. They seem to be charging towards protesters. And we saw on the streets of Paris, there are protesters battling the police,

battling them as they fire tear gas at them, setting fire to what looked like a car. I couldn't really quite tell what they'd set fire to. But clearly hundreds of police officers and protesters on the streets of Paris tonight. I've got a suggestion for President Macron if he's watching True News. Obviously, he raised the retirement age because the French Social Security system was running out of money. So what I would suggest, Mr. Macron, is that you stop sending billions of dollars to Ukraine to fight the Russians. And put it into your French retirement system for the benefit of the French people who paid the taxes?

Instead, the West is paying for the pension programs in Ukraine. I mean, Mr. Biden is bragging the United States is paying the pensions of the Ukrainian people. And in France, look what's happening, Doc. The West is going broke fighting this war. They're going broke fighting the war.

And who do they make pay for it? The people. Yes. And the people are getting upset now. We got one more video from France. This is a compliment to Reuters. Right. So some of these images you saw in the previous report, police are using tear gas. They're using water cannons against people. People are very motivated on this particular issue here because promises were made to them. And now the French government are backing down through the power of the pen of Emmanuel Macron. So this is going to, this is just the start of things. I think the main reason, Doc, is because he did it like a dictator and did not go to the elected parliament.

He just said, I'm going to do it on my own and I don't care what the people think. And the people said, well, we're going to show you what we think. One final story. This happens to come from France also. This was a France 24 report. 910 dolphins washed up on the atlantic coast and not all at

once it's been over the course of several months here between most of them february march right 910 what's killing the dolphins that now they want to say they're trying to say the dolphins. Now they want to say, they're trying to say the dolphins are getting hit by boat propellers. Suddenly 900 dolphins. I don't know. I'm just going to go swim right into a boat propeller. But why are whales washing up on the shores of New Jersey? Have you been watching this? No, this is the first I've heard of this. Oh, no, this is serious, Doc. There's a lot of whales washing up on the shores of New Jersey. What's going on in the sea? I think it's military, it's naval operations. I believe they're using frequencies that's killing the whales and the dolphins. Well, I'm sure that the left will blame climate change on it.

Yes, but I think the Navy is using frequencies underwater that's driving the animals mad, completely crazy. You know, God must look at us and just say, I wish I never made them. He said it once before. Yep. He's going to come. He's going to come suddenly one day and just gather up the sons and daughters who love him and he's going to burn everything else.

So you decide which group you want to be in. It's a choice. It's a choice. That day's coming for sure. You know what I'm going to tell you? It's Friday. Spend time this weekend with the Lord. Spend time in his word.

Go to church. Watch New Zion. Doc's got a good sermon this week. And spend time with the people you love. Just be still. Be quiet. Turn off the news. Enjoy the weekend. The news will be bad on Monday. The sun will still come up on Monday and the news will still be bad. And you'll have plenty of time next week to look at news. But this weekend, just be still, be quiet. Get alone with the Lord. Read the Bible. Just talk to your dad in heaven.

Just talk to him. Just talk to him like he's your dad in heaven. And just tell him how much you love him. Tell him your problems. Ask him for his advice. Just watch what happens if you just talk to him. But watch New Zion at True News and find a church to go to this weekend. And find the people who mean something to you and tell them that you love them. All right. We're running out of time to do the right things with people. And if there are people that you need to forgive, then get it done this weekend.

And if there are people who are mad at you, make it right. Get it done. All right. Your heavenly father will be pleased. Thank you for watching. We love you. We'll see you on Monday. You have been listening to True News with Rick Wiles. Thank you for listening. To find out more information regarding the broadcast, including prayer and financial support,

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