American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"DeepSeek has clearly used data coming from TikTok to train itself." “The next weapons, particularly AI weapons, are all driven by data…The more data you have, the more powerful weapons can become,” says former US Air Force & Space Force chief software officer Nicolas Chaillan. “It's foolish to give the CCP access to all that TikTok data.” The Chinese regime is collecting enormous amounts of data to understand how to manipulate Americans, he says. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0211NicolasChaillan

Is DeepSeek a Sputnik moment for America? No, says former US Air Force & Space Force chief software officer Nicolas Chaillan. But it does reveal something equally disturbing: The CCP can essentially manipulate our markets with just noise and false information and wipe out $1 trillion in market cap. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0211NicolasChaillan

“When the 1619 Project came out, there were a number of conservatives who said America is not stained, it's pure. And the virtue of the 1776 Project, which I had some small part in, was that we said, 'Yeah, that slavery thing - that was a bad thing. But here's the difference: Our criteria for moving forward is not that something is pure. Our criteria is, can it be redeemed?' And our view was that America, for all of her problems, is still on the path toward hope and redemption. Suffering is not an argument against life. That's the key here." - Joshua Mitchell 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0114JoshuaBob

"Environmentalist groups would sue the EPA over some alleged misconduct that's going on, on a piece of land or with a manufacturing plant or whatever, and the EPA would immediately settle and give them $100 million. It's a business model.” “I'm an environmentalist, but I think that environmentalism itself has gotten out of balance. It's going too far." Bad environmental policies played a major role in the devastation in LA, says Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy for the California Policy Center. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0208EdwardRing

"You either have to thin the forests or you have to let them burn…If you do these small fires, do small prescribed burns, you do grazing, you do mechanical thinning, you can bring the fuel down.” Bad policies played a major role in LA's devastation, says Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy for the California Policy Center. "The insurance companies got out…because they weren't seeing any evidence that we were taking the kind of precautions we need to mitigate fire risk. They also weren't permitted to raise their rates." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0208EdwardRing

“They're at war for the American mind. That's why you have TikTok out there. That's why you have DeepSeek. That's why you have the China Daily. They're out there trying to control information and your perception of reality. And we have to understand that.” Rep. Abraham Hamadeh (R-Ariz.) tells me why his first bill since he recently took office seeks to ban China Daily from widespread distribution in the House of Representatives. “I'm the son of immigrants from Syria. [I have] family from Venezuela, so I understand that if freedom is extinguished here at home, there's no place to go. So we can never allow ourselves to bend the knees to the Marxists, communists.” 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S0206AbeHamadeh

"I want to see these members of Congress trying to justify allowing a newspaper that is foreign-controlled by the communist Chinese." Rep. Abraham Hamadeh's first bill since taking office aims to ban the widespread distribution of China Daily in the House of Representatives. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0206AbeHamadeh

“They’re at war for the American mind. That’s why you have TikTok out there. That’s why you have DeepSeek. That’s why you have the China Daily. They’re out there trying to control information and your perception of reality,” says Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-Ariz.). As his first bill since taking office, Rep. Hamadeh is seeking to get China Daily, a registered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, banned from being distributed widely in the House of Representatives. . 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0206AbeHamadeh

"The US government should have a unified concerted effort to circumvent [China's] firewall." Michael Pack ran the U.S. Global Agency for Media (USAGM) under the first Trump administration and thinks it can be a powerful tool against America’s adversaries, especially the Chinese Communist Party. “USAGM has a pot of money for internet firewall circumvention technology, and there are similar pots of money in other parts of the government, like the State Department & the Defense Department, but they don't coordinate." 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0204MichaelPack

"Science continues to validate that a healthy lifestyle is the most powerful tool there is in protecting your brain," says Dr. Daniel Monti. This is a must-watch for anyone interested in brain health! https://ept.ms/NewEraOfMedicineFightsDisease

Inside the Brutality of the Chinese Communist Party After the persecution of Falun Gong began, some who proved their willingness to commit brutal crimes were even promoted to high positions. https://ntd.nyc/Ep3MassKillingInTheEast

How China's Growing Influence in Latin America Threatens the U.S. We hear about this serious concern from Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin America specializing in foreign policy, national security, and asymmetric warfare. https://ept.ms/S0123JosephHumire

The threat of terrorism looms—how much does it influence Trump’s decision to impose tariffs? We hear from former Trump official Paul Winfree about this and the impact the tariffs are having so far. https://ntd.nyc/DealWithCanada0203

What hidden financial details will DOGE reveal? A.J. Rice, editor-in-chief of The Publius National Post, talks to us about DOGE's access to the Treasury's payment system. https://ntd.nyc/DealWithCanada0203

For years, the Chinese Communist Party has been engaged in propaganda warfare against America. Should the U.S. government use its state-funded news networks as a soft power tool to go on the offensive against the CCP and other authoritarian regimes? "The budget is something like $900 million...It's really a potent tool, and it's designed to promote American ideas and values abroad,” says Michael Pack, the former head of the US Agency for Global Media. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0204MichaelPack

"R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris bought up the food companies long ago. And they saw there was this opportunity to diversify their portfolio, because they saw consumption of tobacco go down. And they said, ‘We can use the same science for food, to make it addictive. And we can make cheap, food-like substances and put chemicals in it, and people will eat it. And we will make a lot of money.’”- Vani Hari 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0111VaniHari

"The question is, did [the doctor] bring up food? Are you using food in your equation when you're diagnosing? How do you know what is causing what? Are you looking at the side effects from the medications? Maybe you’re just treating the side effects of the medication with another medication, and we go round and round. When you treat symptoms and not root causes, you don't really improve health." - Eric Berg, also known as Dr. Berg or “The Knowledge Doc” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0201DrEricBerg

People tend to think of green drinks when they hear the word "superfoods." But there's a better, more nutrient-dense superfood, which is very bioavailable: red meat, says Eric Berg, also known as “The Knowledge Doc.” "When you reduce carbohydrates, it then forces your body to go after your own fat as fuel. And so for weight loss, it's great. And for other things, it's good too.” 🔴 PREMIERE 2/1 at 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0201DrEricBerg

"The more technology use, the more lonely people feel in a country. …Hannah Arendt said: Totalitarian leaders can only seize control in a society where a lot of people feel lonely. …Once people feel lonely, people are very vulnerable to propaganda. And a new type of mass emerged in the 20th century…a lonely mass, where people no longer have to meet physically to form a mass, but could form a mass while they were all sitting in a lonely state in their houses, because they were all infused by the same narratives through the mass media." Mattias Desmet and Aaron Kheriaty on the epidemic of loneliness 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1228MattiasAaron

British MP and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman argues the UK needs to return to a merit-based society and have only two recognized genders of male & female. "An unapologetic, robust approach to your southern border is exactly what we need on our southern border. We have a crisis when it comes to illegal migration in the United Kingdom,” she says. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0130SuellaBraverman