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"We used to have salons, we used to read books, we used to discuss things with each other, and now we just kind-of sit by the sidelines & shoot spitballs. This is what the great promise of social media seems to have come down to is various levels and stages of trollery." In this episode, Dr. Robert Malone breaks down the methods that powerful forces use to propagandize and shape behavior. He is the co-author of “PsyWar” with Dr. Jill Malone. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1107RobertMalone

In this special livestream episode on Election Day at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, we’ll be sitting down with three brilliant thinkers: economist and Brownstone Institute founder Jeffrey Tucker, essayist and scholar of language and culture Thomas Harrington, and Cooper Davis with the Inner Compass Initiative. As Americans go to the polls, we’ll be doing a deep dive into the state of America coming into this 2024 presidential election, from the lingering trauma and economic upheaval of the COVID years to major shifts in culture and technology. This is the first in a series of Epoch Times and NTD livestreams on Election Day, culminating with NTD’s big Election Night show, starting at 6 p.m. ET. 🔴LIVE at 2PM ET: https://epochtim.es/LiveElectionResults

Only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy. “All of our food comes from these industrial systems [that have] been sterilized, and we’re not replenishing our microbiology,” says regenerative farmer Mollie Engelhart. Unlike conventional approaches that degrade the soil, regenerative farming improves soil health & increases biodiversity. It can involve a variety of methods, such as holistic planned grazing. "I'm a vegetarian. I never thought I'd be preaching the benefits of grass-fed, grass-finished beef…[But] when you displace an ecosystem & only grow one thing at a time, things are going to die. And when you let cows graze on grass & move, things get to live & flourish—and more life comes out of that." 🔴WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S1015MollieEngelhart

Do China’s economic woes spell trouble for the Chinese regime? "What you see is [wealthy] people trying to get out of China…trying to move their money overseas in underground ways, trying to bring their kids, their families, out of China, buying up real estate in the US and Australia and Canada. …And then there have also been reports of people having their passports confiscated…When you see that kind of increased control, you can see that the Chinese Communist Party is worried." - China Uncensored creators Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1102ChrisShelley

"The US has its problems, but the US and the Chinese Communist Party are not equivalent evils. That's something a lot of people believe…[But] the US does not use rape as a form of torture. We are not harvesting the organs of prisoners of conscience." The United States needs to counter the Chinese regime’s narrative warfare, says China Uncensored creators Chris Chappell and Shelley Zhang. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1102ChrisShelley

“From the beginning [of COVID] until September 2021, governments around the world spent $17 trillion to respond to COVID, but only 8% of that went to the health sector. So, you have a health crisis - a pandemic of a century, and only 8% of your funding is actually going to the area of government that's dealing with health. This gets back to the response itself. What were governments doing? They were trying to deal with the economic fallout of their policies. And I think there really needs to be a lot of work thinking about how the healthcare system can respond better to these inevitable surges in respiratory viruses.” - Dr. Kevin Bardosh 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1031KevinBardosh

"All educational gains since 2000 around the world were wiped out with the school closures... ...Public health has always had this tension between the authoritarian positions, and then the more classical liberal, civil society, philosophy… …We're interested in using the COVID years and the lessons to reform the way that public health thinks about itself and the way that it acts in the world. So, we have a big job ahead of us." Kevin Bardosh, Medical Anthropologist and Director of Collateral Global 🔴 PREMIERE 10/31, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1031KevinBardosh

"Effectively, the overwhelming majority of people in the UK who are adults, and in the US, are far from being healthy. And the primary driver…is poor diet. Now, what does a poor diet mean? It means eating predominantly ultra-processed foods. So, 57% of the calorie consumption in the UK comes from ultra-processed foods...Certainly above 60% of the calories in the US diet come from ultra-processed foods. So, what does that mean? It's what's being done to food that changes it significantly from its original form." - Dr. Aseem Malhotra 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1012AseemMalhotra

"Politics is not about debate anymore. It's about being correct and imposing the correct way on everyone else. …Science becomes no longer a scientific process of determining truth. It becomes: how are we going to administer the correct scientific truth through our institutions?" - N.S. Lyons, author of "The China Convergence" essay 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1029NSLyons

"Isaiah Berlin, talking about Russia, said that the most important knack any citizen can have in a communist system was the ability to follow the party line wherever it was moving." "The party line functions…as a measure of loyalty to the system." - N.S. Lyons, author of “The China Convergence” essay 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1029NSLyons

"The latest polling I've seen on this shows that 81% of Americans think [requiring voter ID] is a common sense requirement…It doesn't matter whether they're Democrats or Republicans or Independents, it doesn't matter whether they're black or white or Asian or Hispanic, they all think this is a good idea." - Hans von Spakovsky, former FEC member and senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"Even if there was a .1% chance that [COVID] came from a lab, the fact that it killed millions of people & caused trillions of dollars of economic damage should provide some pause, that we should do what we can to prevent that from happening again. …We all have the potential to do really bad things if we're put into situations where the incentives are to do bad things. This is a committee that removes the incentives to make bad decisions." - Bryce Nickels 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1026BryceNickels

"What we're talking about is bio risk management. It's the evaluation of 'should the project be performed,' not 'can the project be done safely,' which is another thing that the virology community likes to conflate. …They believe that what they're doing is so important that it's okay to lie. ...We want to make there be incentives to tell the truth, not to hide the truth." - Bryce Nickels 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1026BryceNickels

"2025: I believe that Bolivia will probably be the number one humanitarian crisis in Latin America, because the numbers don't add up. It's the same story as Venezuela, in terms of the same kind of external support [and] the same kind of socialist movement, with one difference. They didn't nationalize their industries the way that Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela, which has led to the economic calamity that they became. In the case of Bolivia, they were able to somewhat have stable macroeconomic indicators, but they were camouflaged with the large amount of public spending. So, people didn't realize that Evo Morales was spending pretty much the future of Bolivia by depleting his foreign reserves. And so now...they come back with this new socialist president named Luis Arce, who's actually the former economic minister, and they don't have [anywhere] near the foreign reserves.” - Joseph Humire 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1010JosephHumire

"Postponed gratification is the single biggest predictor of success or failure in life." Boys who grow up without fathers often are not learning postponed gratification, with detrimental effects for themselves and society, says Warren Farrell, co-author of "The Boy Crisis.” "Postponed gratification comes from a parent who's good—not at boundary setting—but at boundary enforcement," says Warren Farrell. It’s a skill that typically comes more naturally to dads than moms. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

It's been 6 years since Warren Farrell and John Gray published their groundbreaking book “The Boy Crisis" detailing how boys have been falling behind in many key metrics. Boys drop out, commit suicide, and end up in jail at much higher rates than girls. In this episode, we get an update from Warren Farrell on how things have progressed, especially in our post-pandemic world. What is much of society failing to understand when it comes to our boys and men? 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

"About half the states allow 3rd party strangers to come to your house and offer to pick up & deliver your absentee ballot. That's a mistake…If you look at the election fraud database that we maintain at @Heritage, you will find there are a lot of absentee ballot fraud cases." In this episode, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and former FEC member Hans von Spakovsky breaks down the key vulnerabilities he sees in U.S. elections. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"The biggest problem across the country is that we have an honor system for registering. So states are not doing anything to verify that you actually are a U.S. citizen." Hans von Spakovsky is a former FEC member and Heritage senior legal fellow. In this episode, he breaks down key vulnerabilities in U.S. elections. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"In 2500 years of literacy, there were possibly 300 million people who considered themselves to be authors to an audience…In the last 40 years, we have 5 billion. This has just exploded exponentially…When you have 5 billion people in a room, what happens? Well, it's gigantic noise. …How do you get attention in this enormous, gigantic room with 5 billion people in it all talking at the same time? Number one, you want to talk louder than anybody else, so yelling and screaming is favored by the structure. Number two, if I can get you to start yelling at me, and then people start leaning up behind me saying, 'oh yeah, he's a bad guy. He's one of those guys,' and suddenly I'm a leader of my tribe, I get way more attention." Media analyst Martin Gurri explains how the information landscape has radically transformed how we communicate. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1008MartinGurri

"70% of these crop care products or pesticides are produced in India and China—mainly in China…What happens if they want to hit the kill switch? Think about the productivity loss that will occur." “Any nation that's not food secure is only three meals from chaos. And I think Xi Jinping knows that very well,” says Kip Tom, a former US ambassador to the UN agencies for food & agriculture and a 7th generation Indiana farmer. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1019KipTom