American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

“I've never seen a survivor of organ extraction before…People are basically being systematically killed.” - International human rights lawyer David Matas The first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting regime has recently gone public. 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. And in a stunning admission, the Chinese regime has recently publicly acknowledged doctors operated on Cheng without his consent in 2004. 👉WATCH NOW on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0907DavidMatas

“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 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0822ChrisOlson

While imprisoned in China, Falun Gong practitioner Peiming Cheng was forced to undergo surgery & woke up with a foot-long gash across his side. He lost part of his liver & lung. He's the first known survivor of China’s forced organ harvesting regime, says expert David Matas. And in a stunning admission, the Chinese regime has recently publicly acknowledged doctors operated on Cheng without his consent—supposedly to save his life. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0907DavidMatas

“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 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0817BruceLee

"One young lady had a son in college. He was an all-star athlete on his way to the majors, and he took an Adderall from a friend. And it turned out to be fentanyl." He was dead by morning, says Michael Brown. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0905MichaelBrown

China is the primary supplier of precursor chemicals for the illicit production of fentanyl, says Michael Brown, Director of Counter-Narcotics at Rigaku Analytical Devices. In this episode, he breaks down the fentanyl supply chain. 🔴 PREMIERE 9/5, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0905MichaelBrown

“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.” - John Lott on policing 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0815JohnLott

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 FULL: https://ept.ms/S0813GregAutry

"Under the communists everything had to be communist. Not just family, but communist family. Not morality, but communist morality. Not art, but communist art & so on & so on. …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. …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’... There are the teachers and there are pupils, disciples…All these things are necessary for the well-functioning of a society." - Ryszard Legutko 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0801RyszardLegutko

"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 FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0806PhilMagness

"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 FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0727RainerZitelmann

"The leading figures in 20th century science and winners of a third of the Nobel Prizes - and the most critical ones in my view - were Jewish. And this is just incredible. Jews are .2% of the world's population." - Author George Gilder 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0831GeorgeGilder

"It's an amazing phenomenon that a tiny country, occupying four percent of Middle Eastern territory, gets charged with being too big and imperialistic and occupiers." - George Gilder 🔴 PREMIERE 8/31, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0831GeorgeGilder

"All of our welfare programs…are built on that same model, one-size-fits-all. I lived in that…The rules were: don't work, don't save, don't get married. …We have pockets now of very, very broken communities…because we have concentrated poverty in those communities." America’s welfare programs are, in many cases, failing to truly help people in the long run, argues Star Parker, who was herself on welfare years ago as a young single mother. She’s the founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). In this episode, she lays out her vision for welfare reform. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0829StarParker

“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 the system that they don't own…& they can't transfer it to their heirs." Social security in America is hitting a dead end, says Star Parker, founder of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE). It's a "one-size-fits-all program that actually has a disproportionate negative impact on the very poor that we're trying to help,” she argues. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0829StarParker

“I basically just talked like Reagan around the house with my poor kids and my wife” - Dennis Quaid, who stars as "Reagan" in the new biopic film on the 40th U.S. President. Jan Jekielek spoke with the cast & crew of the upcoming film on the red carpet at its Nashville premiere! 🔥WATCH NOW: https://ept.ms/S0828ReaganPremiere

“I basically just talked like Reagan around the house with my poor kids and my wife” - Dennis Quaid, who stars as "Reagan" in the new biopic film on the 40th U.S. President. Jan Jekielek spoke with the cast & crew of the upcoming film on the red carpet at its Nashville premiere! 🔥WATCH NOW: https://ept.ms/S0828ReaganPremiere

"These children, whose brains are not fully developed, are being thrust into a very adult online world without the ability to handle it...Kids have access to adult content more than ever before in human history." - Clare Morell 🔴 PREMIERE 8/27, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0827ClareMorell

"What we're seeing actually is the outcome of about a 20, 30 year effort by the Chinese to establish control over the South China Sea—and they have generally done it without firing a shot. …Starting in 1974, they took some Vietnamese islands up in the Paracel group at the northern end of the South China Sea.…1996, they established fishing huts on a reef called Mischief Reef, which was Philippine territory. The Philippines have not been back there since. And then from about 2013 to 2015, they launched an island-building campaign…Now Subi Reef has been turned into a military base that is actually bigger than Pearl Harbor.” - Retired U.S. Marine Colonel Grant Newsham 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0820GrantNewsham

"It's the strangest thing to watch…In the blink of an eye, we went from 'the booming, growing economy, we're so happy, inflation's gone, things are fantastic' to suddenly 'Oh no! The recession is probably already here, the world's falling apart, what are we going to do? Sell, sell, sell.' To say the least, it’s an overreaction when, for one thing, the data is a month old…The other thing to observe about this is that it wasn't particularly bad relative to what it's been in the past. The decay in the jobs market has been very, overwhelmingly obvious to me and many others for at least two years, if not going back. We've never really recovered out of the lockdown period." - Jeffrey Tucker 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0808JeffreyTucker