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🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0907DavidMatas 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "It really is unusual for someone to survive…People are basically being systematically killed through organ extraction—even when it's not necessary for a particular organ to kill them." - International human rights lawyer David Matas The first known survivor of the Chinese regime's macabre organ trade has recently come forward. Medical examinations revealed Peiming Cheng, a Falun Gong practitioner, was missing a significant portion of his liver and lung.

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0919JillLongThompson 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Greetings everyone! Over the last year, I’ve become increasingly concerned about the polarization that’s tearing apart America and the dehumanizing rhetoric on both sides that has become commonplace. Jill Long Thompson is a former U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana who served in the 1990s. She represented a heavily Republican district as a Democrat and a fiscal conservative and frequently worked with other legislators across the aisle. Now, extreme polarization and gerrymandering, the redrawing of district lines for partisan benefit, has made people like her few and far between in Congress, she says. In this episode, she makes the case for a return to bipartisan cooperation and civil discussion across the political aisle. She’s the editor of the new book “Across the Aisle: Why Bipartisanship Works for America." It features essays from a number of current and former members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, and opens with an essay sounding the alarm that is co-written by two former Senator Majority Leaders, Trent Lott, a Republican, and Tom Daschle, a Democrat. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

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🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0917MartyMakary 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon, professor at Johns Hopkins University, and author of "Blind Spots: What Medicine Gets Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health." "We've got to recognize now the best practices are exactly opposite of what the medical establishment pounded into pediatricians for 15 years," he says. In this episode, we explore the culture of medical groupthink and cases where health recommendations have produced disastrous results, looking at diabetes, peanut allergies, opioids, C-sections, and the low-fat diet. "The medical establishment created a dogma in 1955 that fat was bad for your health. It was based on one guy: Dr. Ancel Keys," says Dr. Makary. How can America reverse the trend of chronic disease and poor metabolic health? Is there any hope? "The foundation of the medical profession is not to have a one-size-fits-all. It's always to consider nuance and to consider scientific detail," says Dr. Makary. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0831GeorgeGilder 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "Israel was transformed by the Jews. And it was the transformation - the water galore that was supplied with the desalinization & the drip irrigation, starting with 538 wells drilled in a massive effort [with] bridges & waterworks, all launched in Israel - that made it a magnet for Arabs around the region, and resulted in a massive migration of Arabs to take part in the suddenly blooming desert phantasmagoria that the Jewish imagination and vision and creativity fostered. So, that's the Israel test. How do you respond to this amazing achievement in the face of six invasions - six wars attempting to completely obliterate Israel? You know, these neighbors didn't disguise their goal. Their goal was to exterminate Israel. And they don’t talk about two state solutions. They want one state. They somehow believe that wealth springs from the land rather than from the mind. And this is the great Jewish gift to the world. They show that our opportunities are really unlimited because we live in an infinite universe of mind." - George Gilder

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0914SarahCook 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter From fake online personas to manipulated audio and deep fakes to artificial amplification networks, the Chinese Communist Party is becoming more creative about how they manipulate Americans, Canadians, Taiwanese, and other targets online. Independent China researcher Sarah Cook has been studying the Chinese regime’s online campaigns for years. She says there are five key tactics the regime uses to influence our media and the global information space. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0829StarParker 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "The way that it's designed, current workers paying for current retirees, it cannot work over time. You just mentioned what kind of debt we're in. Most of the reason we're in that kind of debt is because we keep this Ponzi scheme going. We keep it going, even though, when it was first established, you had 40 workers for every retiree. Today we have three workers for every retiree. You also have people living longer, and you have all people forced into the system that they don't own…and they can't transfer it to their heirs." Star Parker, founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), argues social security in America has major flaws. In this episode, she lays out her vision for social security reform.

🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0827ClareMorell 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "I'm arguing, and pleading actually, with parents to push these technologies out of childhood entirely - to say that the smartphone and social media, these technologies are too dangerous and too harmful to children. The harm-reduction measures that big tech and their libertarian allies and even pediatricians have told parents is that you can mitigate these harms with screen time limits and parental controls. And I'm trying to say, that is actually not possible, that the levels and the nature of the harms can't be effectively mitigated by screen time limits and parental controls. And so, I'm really urging parents to not accept this kind of premise that these technologies are an inevitable part of childhood. Actually, you can give your child a childhood free of social media and smartphones and other interactive screens, and protect their childhood and their brain development, so that they can enter adulthood as a successful, independent adults with agency and freedom and self-control and delayed gratification, and that we don't need to just accept that these technologies are part of childhood if we know that they're inherently harmful for kids. And they're harmful for adults. But again, there's a deeper concern with children, which is that their brains and bodies and habits and everything are still being developed. And we really want to protect this period of special vulnerability, so that they can develop into mature and healthy adults. And so, I try to explain to parents that this actually is possible. Parents and families have done this and they are flourishing because of it. And so, the book really tries to actually hold out a positive vision of what childhood can look like, and what's possible when we leave these technologies behind,” says Clare Morell.

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0912EJAntoni 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter EJ Antoni is an economist and fellow at the Heritage Foundation, whose research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy. In this episode, we break down the discrepancies between government data, media reporting, and today’s economic realities. "Essentially, a third of all the jobs we thought we had added over that year are gone. They never existed. It's like taking four whole months of job creation and ripping them off the calendar," says Antoni. Are the financial models no longer trustworthy? "We don't see the numbers quite matching up to a lot of the government statistics," says Antoni. "And we get into some very perverse situations where the [Bureau of Labor Statistics] actually counts something as an increase in quality when, in fact, it's a decrease, and the consumer is paying more for it." Antoni analyzes various indicators and inputs to determine what the real data reveals about the state of our economy. "Where I think this becomes scandalous is the fact that these statistical problems first became evident in the spring of 2022, so more than two years ago, and nothing has been done to correct them." Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

“Up until 2016, the evidence was right in front of us, at least if you spoke Chinese or could read Chinese, because hospitals were advertising, in kind of a terrible rendition of a market economy, that you could go there for such and such a price and get a new lung or a new liver or something on 24 hour’s notice. Now, what kind of organ industry can advertise that you can shop around on a very, very short notice to get a vitally needed organ? That can only happen if you have a sort-of supermarket Walmart approach, where organs are right there, ready on demand. And how was that? And here's the way the evidence works. It's important for people to realize that hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions of people, if they were taken into police custody, would then be blood-typed. And there's not really other countries around the world [where] you're taken into jail, and not just fingerprinted or something, but your blood-type is checked. And then, there [were] massive disappearances or long-term incarcerations of members of Falun Gong, of Christians, of Uyghurs, of other groups. And the evidence is very compelling that what was happening is that the purpose of the blood-typing was to match a donor organ with a person who could pay for it - a party member, an industrialist, or something like that. And so, you had a terrible system of Chinese, or even some apparently tourists coming - medical tourism in a sense - and taking advantage of their fellow men and women. Those things came down in 2016, but it appears that it continued beyond 2016.” - Eric Patterson 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0824EricPatterson 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter

“If the rate of [digital] crime targeting just senior citizens in the U.S. were happening on the streets, we'd have the National Guard on every street corner. This is not just something that happens to people once or twice, and they fall for it. This is a persistent level of attack. 2-3% of everything served to senior citizens in certain environments is attempting to do something bad to them.” - Chris Olson

🔴 Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 Interview originally aired in August 2023 on Epoch TV “These kids that are going through gender-affirming care, they become lifelong patients. They end up disfigured and many of them end up sterilized. They become lifelong consumers of pharmaceuticals,” says Dr. Miriam Grossman. She is a child psychiatrist and the author of “Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide out of the Madness.” In this interview, Dr. Grossman breaks down what’s causing the sharp rise in teenagers saying they’re transgender, what every parent needs to know about so-called “gender-affirming care,” and what parents can do to protect their children. “What you want to do is put the school on notice, even if your child is only entering kindergarten. You want the school to know that you do not want your child exposed to gender ideology. … You do not give your permission for your child to meet with the guidance counselor without your knowledge or with any other third party without your knowledge. And you certainly do not give permission to the school to socially transition your child,” Dr. Grossman says. - - - 🔴 Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 ------------------------------------------------- © All Rights Reserved.

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0907DavidMatas 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Greetings everyone, While imprisoned in China, Falun Gong practitioner Peiming Cheng was forced to undergo surgery and woke up with a foot-long gash across his side. He lost part of his liver and lung. He's the first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting regime, says international human rights lawyer David Matas, co-author of “Bloody Harvest.” And in a stunning admission, the Chinese regime has recently publicly acknowledged doctors operated on Cheng without his consent—supposedly to save his life. What is the significance of this case? And what’s next? In this episode, I sit down with David Matas and also speak to several others now speaking out for Cheng’s case: Robert Destro, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and was instrumental in getting Cheng to America; former Congressman Frank Wolf, a fierce champion of human rights in his three decades in Congress; and Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute.

“We have, over a period of many years, ebbed into this thing of 'Gee, the federal government is the big boss,' and almost to the point where the states are the administrative arm of the feds. 'Isn't that what it's supposed to be like?' But that's not correct. The states actually created the federal government, not vice versa. Unlike many countries around the world where you have the national government creating these subsections, we created the feds ourselves and gave them specific powers, and retained everything else to the states." - W. Bruce Lee 🔴 Try EpochTV for 25 cents per week: https://ept.ms/3LG4rxt 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0817BruceLee 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0905MichaelBrown 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "Currently, there is a surplus of fentanyl pills in America. The surplus, I believe, is driving increased addiction rates, because now fentanyl pill prices are going down. Drug usage is going up. Addiction rates are going up." In this episode, I sat down with Michael Brown, a former DEA special agent and the current director of Counter-Narcotics Technology for Rigaku Analytical Devices. The cartels are now mass producing or have the capacity to mass produce multi-ton quantities of fentanyl, which is a direct indication that they're receiving more precursor chemicals from China," said Brown. We dug deep into the fentanyl crisis and illicit drug trade in the United States and got an insider’s look into the narcotic supply chain, from China, to Mexico, to the southern U.S. border. "We've passed the point of no return in terms of reducing addiction in rate to what's coming into the country in terms of narcotics—meaning, until we can reduce the supply chain, we're not going to be able to reduce the addiction rate," said Brown. But how best to reduce the supply chain? Is it merely a matter of sealing our border? "We know that 98% of all the narcotics coming into the United States are transported in vehicles—in commercial cargo that come across the United States. So, for me, the vulnerability for the cartels is that transportation cross-border network that they have," said Brown. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

“You had lots of big cuts in many places in 2020-2021. In the last year or so, they've started to go back and hire police. But you also had a lot of retirements that were occurring for police officers. So, you may have lost somebody who had 15 years of experience, and now you've hired somebody who's been on the job for six months or a year. They simply aren't going to be as effective as a police officer as somebody who had 15 years. I did want to mention one thing on the murder, and that is: One big problem that we have right now is that a huge number of police departments are no longer even reporting data to the FBI. So, starting in 2021, there were changes in the rules there for reporting. And in 2022, for example, 32% of police departments were no longer reporting any data to the FBI. That compares to about 3% in 2020. And another 24% of police departments were only partially reporting crime data. So, that means less than half of police departments now, as compared to 97% before, are reporting complete crime data to the FBI.” John Lott 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0815JohnLott 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter

🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0813GregAutry 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter Much of US manufacturing was gutted and moved to China in the last couple decades, but there's one industry where American manufacturing and innovation has flourished: space tech. Why? Because laws prevented US companies from transferring space tech licensing and know-how to China. "It totally contradicts the academic theory that you can't do that, that you can't put barriers up and have a successful industry, that they'll become weak and non-competitive. That doesn't have to be the case." Space expert Greg Autry says America's space industry boom is a "bellwether of what could be done in other industries."

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0801RyszardLegutko 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "This system initially should have retained and preserved a lot of non-political areas. Just let people do what they want. There are certain areas of life that should be protected against the intrusion, the political interference. But that's not the case...Under the communists everything had to be communist. Not just family, but communist family. Not morality, but communist morality. Not art, but communist art, and so on and so on. So now, everything has to be liberal- democratic, or liberal, or democratic, or liberal-democratic, whereas there are a lot of institutions or communities or human activities that cannot be either liberal or democratic. Art is not democratic, right? Family is not a democratic institution. It's a hierarchic institution. So, trying to democratize family is, in fact, a step towards the destruction of the family. Schools & universities are inherently hierarchic or, I will use this word which is a hateful word nowadays: 'aristocratic' in the original etymological sense, right? 'Aristos' in Greek means "the best"... So, these are aristocratic Institutions, hereditary. There are the teachers and there are pupils, disciples. There are the masters and those who try to follow the masters. All these things are necessary for the well-functioning of a society." - Ryszard Legutko

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0806PhilMagness 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "There was a disconnect between this reputation of Marx as this major figure of the 19th century versus Marx being discredited by the economics profession and not really studied anymore—until Lenin comes along." Karl Marx died in relative obscurity, with only about a dozen people attending his funeral. He was not really a major figure on the intellectual map at the time, says economic historian Philip Magness. In this episode, he breaks down his research into the mythology surrounding Karl Marx's rise.

🔴 WATCH the full episode: https://ept.ms/S0727RainerZitelmann 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter "The European Commission now banned the registration of cars with combustion engines by 2035. It's not allowed to register any new car with combustion engines. Everything should only be electric. China is happy about it because they can make these electric vehicles much cheaper, and now they export theirs to Europe. And what do they [give to] Europe? Higher tariffs. You know, my country - we were so proud about our Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen. And now, have you ever heard that a country voluntarily forbids its most successful product? How crazy should the government be to do these things? And this is what the European Commission does. And the Chinese - they are much smarter. They produce the electric vehicles much cheaper and they go on also producing cars with combustion engines. So, it's really crazy." - Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0831GeorgeGilder 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter We’ve heard a lot about how Israel is a beneficiary and dependent on the United States. But is that really the case? "Our economy is heavily dependent on Israel. And there's this illusion that really irritates me—that somehow Israel is a dependent of the U.S., or some kind of abusive child or something. But Israel really gives us far more than they take," argues George Gilder. He is an investor, economist, and best-selling author of 23 books, including the post-Oct. 7 updated edition of his 2009 book, “The Israel Test: How Israel’s Genius Enriches and Challenges the World.” "You destroy Israel, the value of the world economy would drop by 50 percent," says Gilder. "It's knowledge that enables wealth. And knowledge comes from human minds created in the image of their Creator. And this is the great monotheistic vision that Jews have vouchsafed to the world and that is crucial to Western civilization." From the first pogroms in ancient Egypt and up to the present day, what role has envy played in anti-Semitism? "I think the evil in men's hearts is to tear down accomplishment, excellence, and genius. It's really a perverse envy that we all have to labor to overcome. I mean, envy is natural to all of us, and it's our Israel test. It cleaves the hearts of the world and it continues to challenge us," says Gilder. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 This Interview was first released on Epoch TV on August 3, 2024 To understand Venezuela’s disputed election and the bigger picture of what’s really going on in the region—including how China, Russia, and Iran are involved—leading security expert Joseph Humire gives a comprehensive deep dive. “This is probably the biggest electoral fraud in the history of Latin America, at least in modern times in the 21st century. The difference of what we’re talking about is not in the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, it’s in the millions of votes,” Humire says. "To solve the crisis at the southern border, we must address Venezuela. To combat drug smuggling and trafficking, which originates from the Colombian-Venezuelan border, we must tackle the Venezuela problem. To address democracy and election fraud, we must address Venezuela. This is a problem that requires a hemispheric response, and the United States needs a regional strategy." Humire is executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. 🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5

🔴 Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 Jan Jekielek recently had the chance to chat with “Reagan” star Dennis Quaid, producer Mark Joseph, and others at the Nashville red carpet premiere of the new biographical drama on the life of the 40th president of the United States. What was it like to make a movie about such an iconic individual? And what do the cast and crew hope the film can convey? “Reagan” will be released in theaters on Aug. 30, 2024. - - - 🔴 Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5

🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0829StarParker 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter “When [social security] was first established, you had 40 workers for every retiree. Today, we have three workers for every retiree. You also have people living longer, and you have all people forced into this system that they don't own … and they can't transfer it to their heirs,” says Star Parker. She is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) and editor of the book “The State of Black Progress.” America’s social security system is broken, Parker says. And it’s not just social security. She argues that America’s welfare and safety net programs are all built on a one-size-fits-all model that fails to actually help the poor. Instead, they entrench generational poverty in certain communities, she argues. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html

🔴Try EpochTV for just $1 per week: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5 🔵 Watch the Full Episode 👉 https://ept.ms/S0827ClareMorell 🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter One of the last things that Thomas Crooks reportedly searched for on the internet before he tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was p*rnography. It’s brought the taboo issue of p*rn addiction back into the limelight. “What we have to understand about p*rnography is that it literally rewires the brain," says Clare Morell, senior policy analyst at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Their prefrontal cortex—which is that part of our brain responsible for our self control, our impulse control, emotional regulation—isn't fully developed till the age of 25.” Morell is an advocate for child protection and a leading voice in the conversation about digital safety. She's also the author of the forthcoming book, "The Tech Exit: A Manifesto for Freeing Our Kids," which looks at the disastrous effect that p*rnography and other violent and sexual online content has had on society. “Kids don't even need to go looking for it anymore. It finds them on social media," says Morell. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 💛 Support us to fight for the truth 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders Find out where you can watch us on cable TV: https://www.ntd.com/tv-providers.html