American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"In the last years, the Organization of American States lost 3 country members: Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba…We need to work on strengthening [democratic] institutions," says Rubén Ramírez Lezcano, the Foreign Minister of Paraguay, a candidate for secretary general of the Organization of American States. Paraguay is a very unique country. It’s notably one of only 12 countries in the world that recognize Taiwan instead of communist China. "We always support Taiwan, because they have democracy, they have human rights rules and protection, they have freedom, and they have a very clear rule of law.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0304RubenRamirezLezcano

"If these nerves are not functioning healthy and correctly, you're going to have problems all over your body, which is why these vaccine injuries and also long COVID are so systemic and it's a body-wide problem. And it's so hard for people to grasp what's going on in their own body, because stuff's firing off everywhere. And it doesn't make any sense, because all of a sudden, your GI tract literally turns off. You, all of a sudden, can't swallow, but then also your heart rate will just be going up. And then, all of a sudden, you pass out for no reason, all at the same time. And then you have tinnitus or pins and pricks all over your body. So, this 12-year-old girl was dealing with that level of problems, and she was having multiple seizures a day. She couldn't lift her head up for a very long time. She couldn't see correctly. They left her for dead. The drug companies did and the government did. And her mom did everything she could to try to heal her kid. And the only people that would help were people like you and people like me that were willing to just sit down and listen to her. And four years later, this kid is still in a wheelchair, and she's still fighting like hell to get her body back and to recover some functioning of life. She's working in physical therapy [for] hours every single day right now, just trying to get her feet to move, her toes to move, her knees to move." - Brianne Dressen shares Maddie de Garay’s story. She was injured during the Pfizer vaccine trials. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S0301BrianneDressen

"There were two united front operatives who were welcomed with open arms here in Washington just just a few weeks ago. They were two panda bears: Bao Li and Qing Bao. And if you look at the media coverage - these cute and wonderful panda bears, full of praise and a gift of the People's Republic of China. A little bit of irony there: Bao Li and Qing Bao…Chinese love puns.…Bao Li is a homonym for violence, explosive violence. Qing Bao can mean intelligence in the sense of spycraft, intelligence gathering,” says Piero Tozzi, staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0225PieroTozzi

"My dream situation is that Paraguay is the most important ally the United States has in South America, because we share those values with the government of President Trump & especially with the people." - Rubén Ramírez Lezcano, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Paraguay "I think that America abandoned for a long time Latin America. In the last year, United States lost a lot of markets, a lot of investment, and a lot of opportunities.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0304RubenRamirezLezcano

"We put a program together that calls for [letting] the teachers teach. So, we started stripping away the bureaucracy of things that we placed on teachers that have nothing to do with teaching, trying to make teachers social workers instead of teachers. …We concentrated on reading, writing, arithmetic, going back to the basics - all things that we promised on the campaign trail." - Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry Louisiana, which ranked 49th in the nation in education outcomes a few years ago, now ranks 32nd. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0227JeffLandry

"I think actually we're in a better position with regard to steel and aluminum than Europe. They are an example of what we need to fear and never go near. They have destroyed their industry because of these environmental regulations. So, for example, energy is far too expensive in Western Europe and the United Kingdom, to the extent that they have effectively outsourced their industry to China. And China's building two new coal-fired power plants a week. And they're building our solar panels and our windmills. How's that helping the environment?" -Andrew Hale 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0220AndrewHale

“The Islamic State, for example, or what we've seen with HTS with Jolani's group, or SNA (both of these Turkish-backed militias) - they want to go in and eradicate the Yazidis because they say that they're not people of the book. They’re not mentioned in the Quran and so, therefore, it's acceptable to take them as sex slaves. And they also beheaded and killed tens of thousands of their men. We found mass graves all over Iraq and Syria. And so, the Yazidis were then taken, and the women and young girls were sold in these sex markets or given to foreign fighters that came from our Western countries."- Charmaine Hedding, founder of the Shai Fund 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0218CharmaineHedding

"It's cleaning up shop really…and trying to get back to normal household budget management." Truflation founder Stefan Rust says DOGE’s cost-cutting efforts are a great step forward. In addition to Trump's massive deregulation effort, there should also be a time limit on rules and regulations, he argues. They should be reexamined and adjusted every five years, he says. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0215StefanRust

"The idea of post-nationalism is unachievable if you're a state. You don't remain just a post-national state, what you become is something else. A state which holds together lots of different nationalities is called an ‘empire.’ And the problem with an empire is, if it's full of different nationalities, they're going to tend to quarrel, and to argue and debate, and sometimes to take up arms against each other. So, you're going to have to have a class of people who run the society and negotiate bargains between these different nationalities and police those bargains. And that will mean that the literal police and the civil service - they're not regarded by the citizens of the country as brothers.” - John O’Sullivan, president of the Danube Institute, former editor-in-chief of National Review, and former speech and policy writer for Margaret Thatcher 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0213JohnOSullivan

"I was almost entirely bed-bound at this point & we were 5-6 months into this. We had tried all kinds of medications the doctors had given us. We took a picture of it one day, & it was literally an entire desk full from edge to edge of prescription medications that I had taken and failed.” Brianne Dressen was left severely injured after participating in the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trials. She’s the co-founder of the nonprofit React19, which helps people impacted by COVID-19 vaccine injuries. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0301BrianneDressen

"We have not done nearly enough to even comprehend what can be done with those [drone] swarming technologies," says former U.S. Air Force and Space Force chief software officer Nicolas Chaillan. "By the time you even understand what's going on, the attack is already over.” “It's probably one of the biggest threats, and not just from the CCP, but also from terrorist organizations quite honestly, the cost being so low nowadays and the technology being so accessible—there is really no barrier to entry,” he says. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S0211NicolasChaillan

"It's very convenient that there is no COVID vaccine injury diagnosis code, because then you can't actually query in the system to find a rate of incidents, to figure out what other comorbidities there may be with these people that have a vaccine injury,” says Brianne Dressen. “We can't be found in any kind of database that the public or anyone beyond the government can access,” Dressen says. She’s the co-founder of React19, which advocates and helps people adversely affected by the COVID-19 vaccines. 🔴 PREMIERE 3/1, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0301BrianneDressen

"California is a state where they equate sustainability with scarcity. They want to ration water. They want to get our water consumption down even further. They want to be super energy efficient.…It goes too far, and then it becomes an economic drain. …Instead of recognizing scarcity as our only path to sustainability, let’s look for ways to sustainably create abundance. …If California wants to set an example to the world, it has to be an example that people are going to follow. …For example, let's not close down all of our natural gas power plants. Let's instead retrofit them to use the absolute state-of-the-art combined-cycle technologies, where we can get 70-plus percent efficiency in terms of the natural gas going into the generating plant and the electricity coming out.…You could double or more the efficiency of these plants,” says Edward Ring, Director of Water and Energy Policy for the California Policy Center. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0208EdwardRing

"In order to define junk food, you really have to define what food is first to compare it. …Food is that which is eaten to sustain energy, the growth and repair of tissue, and nourishment. That's what the latin word for 'food' means. If we compare that to other things that we're eating, like junk food, can junk food actually sustain life? Can it repair our bodies? Can it help us grow? And the answer is no, because you're taking a food that's so refined, so processed, so dead, there's nothing else in it. They take all the nutrients out of it.” - Eric Berg, also known as “The Knowledge Doc” 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0201DrEricBerg

"We have a crisis of free speech in the United Kingdom…The police have the powers to record your information and log your details if you've said something that might be offensive to someone. It doesn't matter about the objective nature of what you've said. If someone, somewhere, happens to be offended by what you have said and it relates to a personal characteristic - race, gender, religion, sex - then that's it. The case is closed. You will be considered guilty of what we call a 'non-crime hate incident.' …There are thousands of these cases in the UK, or in England and Wales, where the police spend an inordinate amount of time policing social media." - Suella Braverman 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0130SuellaBraverman

"We're going to ensure that teachers get to educate kids and they're not indoctrinating kids. And I think that things like CRT, DEI and those other very liberal policies only indoctrinate kids. They don't educate them," says Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry. In this episode, join us for a deep dive with the governor on his approach to education, elections, and making his state ‘great again.’ "I can tell you, Louisiana is open for business!" 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0227JeffLandry

"I like the idea that we let loose the chicken industry to breed flu-resistant chickens & turkeys & ducks, rather than trying to jab them all with crummy vaccines or kill them all because they get infected. That's just one example of what can happen if MAHA is unchained." At CPAC this year, Dr. Robert Malone and Jan Jekielek sat down together to explore the mission of RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement. We discuss approaches to bird flu, Trump's MAHA executive order & the danger of the "One Health" agenda. 🔴 WATCH on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0226RobertJan

The Smithsonian National Zoo recently welcomed two new pandas from China. The Chinese love homonyms and puns. Guess what the names of the pandas are: “Bao Li” can also mean “violence.” “Qing Bao” can also mean “spycraft” or “intelligence gathering.” “One wonders if the joke is on us,” says China expert Piero Tozzi, who speaks fluent Mandarin and currently serves as staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. In this episode, join us for a deep dive into the Chinese regime’s covert United Front influence and propaganda efforts in America. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0225PieroTozzi

"We have at least three countries [in Latin America] that hate the United States and want to do us harm: Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. So, would they agree to being part of this now new North American project? And I say, 'Well, maybe they won't. But fundamentally, the conversation that we need to have with those countries isn't about whether they agree with us or disagree with us. It has to be: You want to be a dictator? You want to violate human rights? You want to repress your opposition? You can't do that with Chinese weapons, Iranian weapons, and Russian armaments.' That's the conversation. And I believe that if we can cut off the supply lines to those countries from those external actors, they become infinitely weaker than what they are today. So, I would like to see the United States look at Latin America from a strategic perspective. I think President Trump has well positioned the United States for this." - Joseph Humire 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0123JosephHumire

"Doctors felt pressure to do things they didn't agree with [during the pandemic]. We need to have good autonomy where a physician is doing things safely, but they're allowed to treat their patients in what they believe is the best." -Alberta COVID task force chair Gary Davidson "It still has to be regulated. You can't just have everybody off on their own," he says. But the loss of patient autonomy during the COVID pandemic did great damage to Albertans, according to a new Canadian government report on COVID. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0222GaryDavidson