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"They claimed that three large fathers had stormed the school, tried to arrest the principal. They made us out to be the worst kind of terrorists…I got sentenced to 100 days in jail & $10,000 in fines. I was told I had to scrub my social media and be quiet." Kelly Walker and Sam Sorbo, co-founders of the Parents Demanding Justice Alliance (PDJA), have recently compiled a dossier on actions taken by local authorities to censor, surveil and pressure parents who protested COVID-era policies and their harms to children. 🔴 PREMIERE 9pm ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/surveilled-silenced-and-smeared-how-parents-became-domestic-terrorists-kelly-walker-and-sam-sorbo-5891066?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=SamandKelly

For nearly 20 years, we've been exposing the Chinese regime's murder-for-organs industry targeting practitioners of Falun Gong. The Chinese regime has since expanded this industry to target other groups, including the Uyghurs. They even advertise them as "halal organs" to Muslims in need of organ transplants. Here's what Rushan Abbas told us: "Starting from 2016, before this mass detention, the Uyghurs were subject to mandatory house checkups and DNA collections. And then when this mass detention started, we started to hear that crematoriums were being built next to the concentration camps. …The airports in the major Uyghur cities like Kashgar–there's a fast lane, special lane dedicated to people who are transporting human organs. …Just remember what's happening to us today, and imagine the future of the world tomorrow if we don't stop China." Rushan Abbas is the executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs and author of "Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom." 🔴 https://ept.ms/3GMJC4w

“24 members of my husband's family went missing, and when I talked about that, they went after my sister. The [Chinese] government detained my sister to silence me…to punish me. So this is actually a part of China's transnational repression, and it should be recognized as international crime. …The Chinese government is not only targeting people like the Uyghurs and the Falun Gong practitioners or Tibetans or Hong Kongers, but they're coming after all these people living in the Western free world. There are 102 Chinese police stations all over the world, [including] in the United States. The Chinese government uses those police stations to monitor and manipulate and make threats" to silence or force targets to return to China. Rushan Abbas is the executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs and author of "Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom." In 2018, the Chinese regime imprisoned Rushan Abbas’s sister Gulshan in an apparent attempt to silence Rushan. Her sister was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and she has since spent almost seven years detained—with no end in sight. https://rumble.com/v6we7ru-the-ccp-sentenced-my-sister-to-20-years-in-prison-to-silence-me-rushan-abba.html

"Your thoughts are owned. Your speech, your expression, even your movements are owned…Checkpoints, facial recognition software, emotion detection, iris-scanning systems…You are being monitored 24/7." "What the Chinese government is doing in East Turkestan to Uyghurs [puts] George Orwell's imagination to shame…[It's] one hundred times worse." Rushan Abbas, founder of Campaign for Uyghurs and author of "Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom” exposes the harrowing realities of life in East Turkestan. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3GMJC4w

🚨 New FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells me that the FDA had previously approved gene therapy in Americans whereby the cells were gene-edited in Chinese labs. "Literally, the cells were taken from Americans, sent to Chinese labs where they were genetically altered, and then shipped back to the US, where those cells were infused back into American patients." 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3IOkKtv

🚨In this EXCLUSIVE interview, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary exposes major safety loopholes at foreign pharmaceutical plants: "In the US, we have surprise inspections, but overseas, we're letting them off easy by scheduling the inspection. Well, they're laughing at us. They know exactly the day and the time we're arriving. They were sending limousines to pick up the FDA inspectors to go inspect their facility. …When we found out about that, we put a halt…We're moving to surprise inspections, and we're also changing the way we do inspections to be smarter. So, we have got to stand up for ourselves…We have got to restore policies that bring back dignity and value to the United States and protect our children." https://rumble.com/v6wbcwa-dr.-marty-makary-explains-how-theyre-closing-major-fda-safety-loopholes.html

🚨Dr. Marty Makary: "These childhood vaping products - we don't even know what's in them. They're banned in China, and they ship them over to the United States. …Some of these devices are designed to look like a highlighter so a kid can use it in school and it be disguised. …We're learning a lot about what happened in the last administration. …The FDA would inspect these boxes, see these illegal Chinese vaping products, and they would then give them back to the manufacturer by putting them back on a ship to go back to China. ...They would then take those boxes and bring them to another US port. It's called port shopping. …I don't want to see these companies laughing at the United States anymore. We're taking serious action on them, and we're cracking down,” says FDA commissioner Marty Makary. https://rumble.com/v6wbcs2-dr.-marty-makary-exposes-disguised-vaping-products-for-children-from-china.html

"One of my first actions at FDA was to remove all pharma and industry members of FDA advisory committees wherever statutorily possible," says FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary. He insists the scientific evaluation process must be "impeccably independent." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3IOkKtv

"When you have a trifecta like this—House, Senate, White House—the window of opportunity closes quickly, and we cannot ever allow perfect to be the enemy of good…We can't just vote no because it doesn't meet all of our demands." I spoke with Rep. Brian Babin and other House Republicans about Trump's $9.4 billion spending cut package. Can it pass before the 45-day deadline? Rep. Ralph Norman is worried it will be watered down or dragged out in the Senate. It's "very frustrating." Rep. Harriet Hageman tells me she "would like to see a rescission package brought to the floor every week."

Here’s how Hamas is manipulating what people hear about a US-backed aid distributing over a million meals a day in Gaza—outside of Hamas’ control. Critics say Gazans are being massacred by the IDF near aid distribution sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). But it’s a Hamas smear campaign - just like how the Gaza Health Ministry artificially inflates death toll numbers by conflating Hamas fighters with civilians, GHF executive chairman Johnnie Moore tells me. “The IDF has admitted that there were a few circumstances where civilians may have been inadvertently killed or harmed.…What isn’t reported is that Hamas intentionally harmed and killed probably many hundreds of people in order to try to claim that those casualties were either at our sites or at the hands of the IDF or in proximity to our distribution sites.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3IvbzOD

"You can chart every humanitarian response and every conflict for the last 20 years, and if the United Nations or one of its agencies is involved, they have made a choice that in order to get aid to people, they had to do deals with some of the worst and most dangerous people on the planet. And the net effect of it is it only empowers the bad guys. …This is one of the greatest scandals of our modern time. …The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has called the bluff of the system and proven that we can actually get massive amounts of aid in the most complex, deadly humanitarian environment in the world…There's a better way of doing it." ‘We have one mission: to feed the people of Gaza in a way that Hamas—a designated terrorist organization in the United States & Europe—can't steal the food… For many, many years, Hamas has been stealing the food of the Gazan people.” https://rumble.com/v6w831k-johnnie-moore-we-called-the-bluff-of-un-humanitarian-aid-system.html

"We have one mission: to feed the people of Gaza in a way that Hamas—a designated terrorist organization in the US and Europe—can't steal the food." Johnnie Moore responds to the firestorm of criticism of the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: “We can't control what happens outside of our distribution sites. And this is the weird thing that we always get asked questions that should be directed to the IDF…They want to hold us accountable for their problems with the IDF. We're not the IDF. You got a problem with the IDF? … Go talk to them. Don't talk to us.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3IvbzOD

Dr. Anna Lembke: "We have an innate tendency to want to avoid pain. On the other hand, pain avoidance and the pursuit of pleasure leads to more pain. And this is, the great paradox - that although we want to avoid pain, our efforts to avoid pain actually lead to more pain. And if you look at every major philosophy or religion in the world, they essentially come down to these kinds of similar messages - that we have to face struggles, that suffering is a part of life, and that suffering gives us really valuable information that helps us make our lives better. But this kind of ancient wisdom we've really forgotten in large part. And we have lots of narratives that tell us the opposite - that if we're uncomfortable in any kind of way, there must be something wrong with our lives or wrong with our brains, or we need to go get treatment, or we need to go on an antidepressant, and that really, we should be experiencing this constant euphoria, otherwise we're doing something wrong.” https://ept.ms/4676Psq

I asked Dr. Anna Lembke about what she calls the "drugification of modern life." "Almost everything that we eat & that we engage in, including traditional drugs like cocaine, heroin, nicotine, & alcohol, have all become more accessible, more potent, more novel, more bountiful, and those factors make them, in essence, more addictive. Even healthy behaviors, things like playing games or connecting with other human beings or exercise, have become drugified through the application of technology - again, made more accessible, more potent, more novel, more bountiful. So, we're living in this strange day and age when we've essentially bio-hacked all of the things that we do and really come to organize our lives around our little rewards. So, we wake up in the morning, we reach for our phones, we have our cup of coffee, we have our favorite muffin, we drive to work & we listen to whatever we want to listen to...” https://rumble.com/v6w2xzm-how-digital-distractions-are-restructuring-our-reward-pathways-anna-lembe.html

"When you have easy, ready access to any drug or any behavior, you're more likely to engage in that behavior. Your brain is more likely to be changed...and you're more likely to trip over into addictive, maladaptive use." Dr. Anna Lembke on her book "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4676Psq

“China is trying to use laws in the US…to eradicate people that they've decided to eradicate around the world. It makes me think of the Chinese government's opening a police station in New York to enforce their local laws. …They're trying to target the same groups that they would target in China—just here in the United States.” Religious freedom lawyers Lea Patterson and Justin Butterfield explain how the Chinese Communist Party is targeting the Falun Gong spiritual group in America. Shen Yun, the performing arts company founded by Falun Gong practitioners in America, has faced an unprecedented onslaught of threats, lawfare, and disinformation linked to the Chinese Communist Party in recent years. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3U6H2cq

"If you look at the [lawsuit] against Shen Yun, and if you were to replace all of the words 'Falun Gong' with the word 'Christian' or 'Catholic,' it would be completely unremarkable the activities that they're complaining about.” “But here the Chinese Communist Party's ideas are getting out there that, well, when the Falun Gong does it, something's wrong with it.” Religious freedom lawyers Lea Patterson and Justin Butterfield explain a recent lawsuit against Shen Yun, the performing arts group founded by Falun Gong practitioners in America. The company has faced an unprecedented onslaught of threats, lawfare, and disinformation linked to the Chinese Communist Party in recent years. https://rumble.com/v6w1p70-the-ccp-is-exploiting-a-frivolous-lawsuit-in-its-smear-campaign-against-a-r.html

"China is trying to use laws in the US…to target the same groups that they would target in China…They're trying to impose their own concept of what is legal, what is right, what is orthodoxy,” says religious freedom lawyer Justin Butterfield. In recent years, the CCP has been escalating its tactics against the religious group Falun Gong here—on American soil—with an onslaught of disinformation, violent threats, and lawfare. "In China…they expect your relationship with God to be subservient to the state. In the United States, we understand that people's relationship with God is the most important thing in their life." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-ccps-long-arm-targeting-a-religious-group-in-america-justin-butterfield-and-lea-patterson-5885666?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=ButterfieldPatterson

John Eastman: “People often ask me why I persist in fighting against the lawfare against me. Why not just throw in the towel and cut deals and be done? And my answer to them has been: I think our country was on the precipice—and may still be on the precipice—of losing freedoms that we inherited, that our grandfathers and even further back, our Founders pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor to achieve. And I'm not willing to let those things be lost for my kids and grandkids without putting up a fight. When the Georgia indictment was handed down against me, I was teaching a seminar of young, recent law school grads called the John Marshall fellowship that we run at the Claremont Institute. And everybody's phone starts buzzing. … So I know everybody in the room knows it, but I continue to teach about the religion clauses." 🔴 WATCH FULL:https://ept.ms/3I55DMe

"I forgave my father, so I let go of my anger, my depression, my feelings of rejection. I let all that stuff go, so I don't have anything dragging me back, and I can move forward in my life. And so, if you were abused in some particular way, is it beneficial to hold on to anger - that feeling when you were a child that was abused? Is it beneficial to hold on to that, or is it beneficial to release it? And so, the forgiveness is to release that. It's not to excuse their behavior, It's not to rationalize their behavior. Now, from there, if you want to get into a new relationship with that parent despite them abusing you, then that's purely up to you. In those situations, I would never say, 'No, you must take them back,' or anything like that. These are very difficult, extenuating circumstances." - Adam Coleman, author of “The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation & Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4eDb4OA