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A disturbing trend continues: the high number of suicides by people who served our country. There have been several studies trying to find the root causes and solve this epidemic of Armed Forces veterans taking their own lives. London Center for Policy Research Distinguished Fellow Navy Captain (Ret) Pete O'Brien discusses this in a special Veterans' Day edition of Thought to Action. From a recent piece by Capt. O'Brien titled Left Behind: "The “Department of Defense (DoD) Quarterly Suicide Report (QSR),” details that from April 1 to June 30 of this year, a total of 139 Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines committed suicide, 99 “active component,” 14 reservists, and 26 National Guard. Of note, 60 of the 99 were Army." In the video and article, Capt. O'Brien discusses the need to help veterans coming home from overseas re-adjust to civilian life in the US, important mental health services and resources for service people who are battling depression or have contemplated suicide and their families. Read Capt. O'Brien's full article here: https://www.londoncenter.org/Left_Behind Thank you for watching; please feel free to comment, share and subscribe. Or, please feel free to make a contribution here: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1338653 Thought to Action is presented by the London Center for Policy Research https://www.londoncenter.org​

While writing a tribute to his father, a survivor of the Holocaust who educated him on the importance of faith and Jewish values, Scott Shay was disturbed and dismayed to discover the presence of anti-Zionist professors on the faculty of his alma mater, Northwestern University. As a student of Jewish thought, history, and current events, who has written extensively on contemporary Jewish issues, he was compelled to take a deep dive into the world of anti-Zionist conspiracy theories and academia. Scott chronicled his shocking revelations in his book, Conspiracy U. Scott Shay talks about his findings as a microcosm of what's happening all over Academia with London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer In the bubble world of Academia, critical thought has been replaced by indoctrination and propaganda as disproven conspiracy theories, Shay's case study within the book zeroes in on two professors at the Chicago Area's Northwestern University Thank you for watching; please feel free to comment, share and subscribe. Or, please feel free to make a contribution here: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1338653 Thought to Action is presented by the London Center for Policy Research https://www.londoncenter.org​

While writing a tribute to his father, a survivor of the Holocaust who educated him on the importance of faith and Jewish values, Scott Shay was disturbed and dismayed to discover the presence of anti-Zionist professors on the faculty of his alma mater, Northwestern University. As a student of Jewish thought, history, and current events, who has written extensively on contemporary Jewish issues, he was compelled to take a deep dive into the world of anti-Zionist conspiracy theories and academia. Scott chronicled his shocking revelations in his book, Conspiracy U. Scott Shay talks about his findings as a microcosm of what's happening all over Academia with London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer In the bubble world of Academia, critical thought has been replaced by indoctrination and propaganda as disproven conspiracy theories, Shay's case study within the book zeroes in on two professors at the Chicago Area's Northwestern University Thank you for watching; please feel free to comment, share and subscribe. Or, please feel free to make a contribution here: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1338653 Thought to Action is presented by the London Center for Policy Research https://www.londoncenter.org​

Even in the 21st century, slavery exists. Despite the lack of media attention, human trafficking is rampant all over the world. Coyotes smuggle children across the US-Mexico border, international syndicates traffic and sell people, sex slaves are bought and sold around the globe. Human trafficking may also be happening in your own neighborhood. London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer discusses this worldwide tragedy with Andi Buerger, a trafficking survivor and founder of both Voices Against Trafficking and Beulah's Place Andi reveals trackers' mindsets, how they find victims and what has really been going on with sex trafficking both in the US and internationally. She also exposes the reality of family trafficking -- where one's own relatives and family friends are the perpetrators. Andi founded Beulah's Place and Voices Against Trafficking to both help in the fight against this heinous crime and to help victims of such abuse. To learn more about Voices Against Trafficking, see their website: http://www.voicesagainsttrafficking.com. Visit Beulah's Place's website at: https://www.beulahsplace.org/ Thank you for watching; please feel free to comment, share and subscribe. Thought to Action is presented by the London Center for Policy Research https://www.londoncenter.org​

We have heard about parents expressing their disagreement toward school boards which endorse and implement education policies focusing more on wokeness rather than education, CRT over Mathematics and Social Promotion over preparation. While the Federal Government reacts by treating parents who dare question these poor policies as terrorists, the real solution lies in becoming active from the grass roots. One such person, Alysha Legge, decided to fight back by running for the Hillsborough County School Board in Florida. Alysha talks about this with a panel from the London Center for Policy Research including LCPR President LTC Tony Shaffer, Senior Fellow Jay Homnick and Distinguished Fellow Bryan Griffin. Thank you for watching; please feel free to comment, share and subscribe. Or, please feel free to make a contribution here: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1338653 Thought to Action is presented by the London Center for Policy Research https://www.londoncenter.org​

Our panel from the London Center for Policy Research discusses what is happening with missions rescuing American citizens who are still in Afghanistan (the London Center is participating in these efforts) after the botched withdrawal from the war-torn nation and as the Taliban increases its stranglehold there. This is a clip from the latest LCPR Ask Us Anything session. Find out what it is taking to help those still stuck in Afghanistan and how you can help the London Center aid in facilitating these missions. Donations can be made through our GiveButter page: https://givebutter.com/afghanproject

American citizens are still stranded in Afghanistan at the time this episode has been taped, the Taliban has taken over the country while all or either of China, Iran and Russia might look to swoop in on the war-torn country's natural resources and strategic location. The blundered Biden Administration pullout of Afghanistan is the defining moment of the 46th US President's reign. The question, however, is: How do we hold those responsible for the Afghanistan withdrawal failure accountable -- and will anyone actually do it? Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) talks about this with London Center for Policy Research President LTC Tony Shaffer.

Despite the fall of the Soviet Union decades ago, it would be a mistake to dismiss Russia as a major threat to the US. From Russian disinformation campaigns dating back to the Stalin years though those stemming off of the Russian Collusion Hoax of 2016, Russian leaders have been working stealthily to take down America. These days, with social media and easy access to the minds of millions, Russian leaders do not need to rely on a friendly New York Times reporter to do publicity for them as Stalin had with Walter Duranty. Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey talks about this with London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer on this edition of Thought to Action, presented by the London Center, with a focus on Operation Dragon, a campaign involving the KGB as a means to keep the focus of the murder - executed by Lee Harvey Oswald - away from where the real evidence points: toward the man who ordered it, then- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Russian propaganda sowed and nurtured contempt for the US, and its operations have morphed into many forms, including the recruitment of global terror groups and the backing of enemy nation- states.Still, as Woolsey explains in his book, OPERATION DRAGON: INSIDE THE KREMLIN'S SECRET WAR ON AMERICA, it was the JFK assassination with its explosive aftermath of false conspiracy theories, that set the model for blaming America first -- a sentiment which has gathered strength into today. Thank you for watching; please feel free to comment, share and subscribe. Or, please feel free to make a contribution here: paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/1338653 Thought to Action is presented by the London Center for Policy Research https://www.londoncenter.org​

President Joe Biden is proposing to expand the IRS by 87,000 agents and to grant it power to snoop into transactions of as little as $600. As it stands now, that threshold it $10,000. This would also extend the IRS' reach into Paypal, Venmo and other similar accounts. To add perspective to this notion, had this been proposed during Nixon's Presidency, the equal threshold to Biden's proposal would have been $100. Not only will this allow the government to come down hard on the little guy, gig worker and small businessman, its seizure and investigation practices are causing serious concerns over possible violations of the 4th Amendment. With that, there is the looming danger of the Washington leadership to do what former President Barack Obama did and use the IRS as a political weapon to come after dissidents. On this edition of Thought to Action, a panel from the London Center for Policy Research discusses Biden's attempt at a new power grab and its potential ramifications. Our Panel: LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer - President, London Center for Policy Research Monica Crowley - Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Bryan Griffin - Distinguished Fellow, LCPR Navy Capr (ret) Pete O'Brien - Distinguished Fellow, LCPR

While America is in the middle of what some call an ideological civil war, the botched Afghanistan pullout, a new cold war with China and a Leftist academic indoctrination syndicate has come to fruition, is this all part of Vladimir Putin's plan to take down the United States of America? Former DIA Agent Rebekah Koffler, author of Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America, talks with Herb London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer about how Putin and his inner circle have used holes in the American social structure and its elected leadership to his political advantage using examples from the Russian Collusion Hoax to indoctrination of Western Youth.

During our September 2021 Ask Us Anything session, a viewer asked our panel form the Herb London Center for Policy Research about reports indicating the Biden Administration is easing up on the vetting process for Afghan refugees coming to the U.S. If you would like to see the Ask Us Anything session in its entirety, please join our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thoughttoaction Find out more about the London Center at https://www.londonocenter.org

New threats loom after the Biden Administration's failures concerning the US withdrawal of Afghanistan, not the least of which is the potential for China to either forcefully or diplomatically move into the nation and create ties with the new Taliban government. Chinese influence in the Central Asian nation not only give the CCP strong presence at a globally strategic location, but potential control over Afghanistan rich natural resources, including coveted Rare Earth materials (the latter of which China is said to have control of 80-90% of the world's supply). This could have severe implications in technological advancement, economics and overall political power for President Xi and his party. On this edition of Red Alert: China, presented by the London Center for Policy Research, our panel discusses these potential threats and China's possible moves involving Afghanistan and its new Taliban leadership. Our panel: LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer - President, London Center for Policy Research Ambassador Hank Cooper - Member, LCPR Board of Directors Navy Capt. Pete O'Brien - Distinguished Fellow, LCPR David Goldman - Senior Fellow, LCPR

With more news reports supporting the idea COVID 19 came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the question moving forward is: How can we do our best to prevent another viral pandemic in the future? Dr. Steven Hatfill, MD joins LTC Tim Wilson (Both Senior Fellows at the London Center for Policy Research) discuss safety procedures which need to be taken at every similar facility and what needs to be done to fix the multi-layered issues when it comes to safety in China including serious leadership problems within the CCP. Dr. Steven Hatfill is a virologist the author of Three Seconds Until Midnight.

While the Botched Biden Pullout of Afghanistan will go down in as one of the worse blunders in world history, we go beneath the headlines on this week's Thought to Action to look into the ripple effects of the fiasco. Our panel from the Herb London Center for Policy Research not only looks at what went wrong and why, but what needs to be done to solve the problems stemming from the poorly-executed Biden Administration withdrawal plan and what could happen next as the China's Communist leadership and Russia are setting their sights on the nation, which is rich in natural resources including Rare Earth elements. Control of the latter would change the world's balance of technological advancement and power. We also look into what signals the latest of Biden Administration policy failures sends to our Western allies, rival nations, China and terrorist organizations around the world as well as how to repair this increasing perception of weakness in US leadership. Our panel: LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer - President, London Center for Policy Research Navy Capt (Ret) Pete O'Brien - Distinguished Fellow, LCPR Bryan Griffin - Distinguished Fellow, LCPR Marine Capt. Bill Heinzelmann -- Special Guest Panelist.

London Center for Policy Research Sr. Fellow and former British Ops LTC Tim Wilson explains how to survive a nuclear attack, whether it be from an enemy bombing or a ground-level terrorist-activated nuclear blast. His full pamphlet on nuclear attack survival can be found on the LCPR website: https://londoncenter.org/publications/surviving-a-nuclear-attack/view

While the Biden Administration stressed "human infrastructure" and the politically stylish "green power" in its Infrastructure Bill proposals, ignorance of the need to protect the U.S. power grid is not new; past administrations and Congresses have also dropped the proverbial ball on this glaring issue, which is imperative to national defense, the supply chain, the economy and individuals' survival. Ambassador Hank Cooper, a member of the London Center for Policy Research's Board of Directors, has been warning national leaders about the dangers of not protecting the US power grid from cyber warfare, an EMP attack or CME event. His in-depth research is summarized in a series of articles published on the Newsmax website, the LCPR website and in this as well as other Thought to Action episodes. Ambassador Cooper is the Chairman of High Frontier: http://highfrontier.org/ Ambassador Cooper and LCPR Sr. Fellow LTC Tim Wilson (British Army, Ret) discuss why politicians and bureaucrats have ignored this issue far too long and why they need to move on it quickly.

As China makes aggressive moves economically and politically against the U.S. and neighboring countries while flexing its muscles around the South China Sea, President Biden's hand-picked blue-ribbon team to deal with the machinations of the CCP consists of failed re-treads from past weak-on-foreign policy administrations led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Deputy Sec. of State Wendy Sherman. The duo were recently dressed down publicly by Chinese officials on separate trips to Beijing, but also known for several past fiascos including Binken's hand in poor Syria Policy, the deterioration of Libya and weak response to Russia's annexation of Crimea while Sherman is best known for a nuclear agreement with North Korea which was celebrated by the Clinton Administration, yet accomplished nothing more than the Kim regime continuing its nuclear weapons program. This week on Thought to Action's special Red Alert: China series, London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer and Distinguished Fellow Navy Capt (Ret) Pete O'Brien discuss President Joe Biden's insistence on recycling failed Obama and Clinton officials only solidifies the confidence the CCP has been showing in 2021 when it comes to pushing influence and gaining political leverage, making Communist China more dangerous to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, the US and the rest of the world.

China has spent the last many decades manipulating its currency, stealing technology and intellectual property, engaging in cyber warfare as well as other aggressive financial tactics to gain economic leverage against the U.S. and the rest of the world. How did we allow this to go on for so long and why are the current (and most of the past) administrations doing nothing about it? On this third installment of Red Alert: China, London Center for Policy Research Distinguished Fellow Gordon Chang and LCPR President Tony Shaffer delve into and break down the situation, President Xi's tactics and how much influence the CCP actually has on Wall Street and in Washington, DC today.

Biden Administration Secretary Antony Blinken may have gone too far this time by asking the UN to investigate the US's level of wokeness and what he calls "systematic racism" in the US. This offer for foreign interests to have access to our nation at an unprecedented level is both bizarre and dangerous on several levels. This week on Thought to Action, the London Center for Policy Research delves into the dangers of Blinken's offer, the political motivations behind it and its potential ramifications now and in the future.

Communist China has been quietly getting stronger for decades before temporarily overtaking the US as the world's most powerful economy in the mid 2010s -- all while reaping the benefits of "developing nation" status internationally as the western world has systematically weakened themselves most years over the last decade-plus. US companies, politicians and media have also propped up the Communist China regime in that time span. On this week's edition of Thought to Action Red Alert: China, London Center for Policy Research Senior Fellows Lt Col (British Army, Ret) Tim Wilson and David Goldman delve into the CCP's economic ambitions, quest to dominate the globe industrially and technologically and a look at President Xi's leadership circle.

Welcome to Part 1 in our new series on the threat Communist China's CCP poses to its neighbors and the rest of the world, presented by the Herb London Center for Policy Research. We will be looking into China's recent actions, ambitions, tactics, history and how it all affects President Xi and the CCP's game plan for world domination. In our first installment, our panelists discuss President Xi and the CCP's aggressions and agenda toward Taiwan (which Bejing still believes to be part of the mainland) and Hong Kong. The CCP has long claimed Taiwan to be a non-independent piece of China while also taking a heavy-handed approach to Hong Kong's citizens who dared stand up to the dictatorial regime. Our panelists, LCPR President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer, LCPR Distinguished Fellow Navy Capt (Ret) Pete O'Brien and Claidia Rosett, Women's Forum Foreign Policy Fellow/Hudson Institute Fellow discuss Xi's plans to "reunite" Taiwan with the mainland, the dangers the party poses to Hong Kong and Taiwan, the cruelty of Bejing's methods toward such goals and how US and other leadership must better contain China's leadership on the world stage.

As regular people continue to challenge the establishment Cult of #Wokeness, their propagandists on the Left continue to double down on it. Still, beneath the surface, the Left's #CancelCulture, Intersectionalists, Critical Race Theorists (#CRT), Washington Cronies and Media Propagandist Allies have been pushing their own #Maoist Cultural Revolution in the US. On this week's Thought to Action, London Center for Policy Research President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer and Senior Fellow/Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs (Trump Admin) Monica Crowley go in-depth to expose the parallels between the American Left's agenda, Mainstream Media members and Mao's Cultural Revolution as well as how much of a credible threat President Trump was (and still is) to their motives and established political oligarchy, plus what it would take to continue fighting against the Woke SJW Collective Agenda.

President Biden and Congressional Democrats are still trying to push an extremely expensive spending package disguised as an "infrastructure" bill aiming a plethora of funds toward Federal Universal Pre-K, Child Care and Free Community College tuition, there is little to no financial attention toward protecting the nation's national power grid and critical infrastructure. As Congressional Moderates are working on a bipartisan agreement, those on the farther side of the Left continue to clamor for the Trojan Horse provisions in the Biden Infrastructure Plan which could easily be proposed in a separate bill subject to Congressional debate. Still, there is no money or media attention paid to the need to prepare for potential cyber attacks, EMP attacks or CME event. On this installment of Thought to Action, London Center for Policy Research Senior Fellow LTC (British Army, Retired) and Distinguished Fellow Navy Capt. (Retired) Pete O'Brien go in-depth as to why we need to protect our critical infrastructure, preparing for interruptions to our grid as individuals and how to get politicians to pay significant attention to this issue.

The right to bear arms is clearly stated in the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment. In recent years, politicians on the Left have stopped at nothing to try and curtail Americans' rights to gun ownership, much like what happened in Britain.. Still, infringements on the right to self-defense have been going on by powerful rulers throughout history. Steve Halbrook of the Independent Institute and author of the book, A Right to Bear Arms, talks with London Center for Policy Research Sr. Fellow LTC (Ret, British Army) Tim Wilson about the historic perspective to defensive weapons ownership versus modern efforts to marginalize the 2nd Amendment. LTC Wilson and Halbrook discuss how the US anti-gun politicians will grasp at proverbial straws to circumvent the Constitutional Right to bear arms, including using the Misdeal 1328 Statute of Northampton as a precedent for their claims. They also look at how gun control has affected crime activity in the UK as well as several states and municipalities in the US.

US District Court Judge Roger Benitez recently overturned California's "assault weapons" ban. As 2nd Amendment supporters heralded the decision, anti-gun activists decried it with the help of much of the mainstream media. The latter group includes embattled California Governor Gavin Newsom, who angrily responded to the decision, throwing verbal barbs at Judge Benitez. What does this mean for the fight to protect the 2nd Amendment? What happens next? Will this fight go all the way to the Supreme Court? If the overturning decision is upheld. how do Constitutionalists and others in favor of the 2nd Amendment move forward? At what length will the leaders of the anti-gun agenda and media allies go to try and rebuff progress on protecting the right to self-defense? In this special edition f Thought to Action, presented by the London Center for Policy Research, our panelists address these questions. Panelists: LCPR President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer Sr Fellow LTC (Ret, British Army) Tim WIlson Distinguished Fellow Navy Capt (Ret) Pete O'Brie Fellow Tim Furey