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As many as 1 million U.S. citizens born via Chinese birth tourism could soon become eligible to vote in the coming years, says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. “The CCP is using birth tourism on an industrial scale,” Schweizer says. Wealthy Chinese women are flying to the U.S. on tourist visas shortly before their due dates, giving birth to “American” children, and returning to China within weeks with their newborns. Estimates drawn from Chinese sources and research firms suggest 50,000 to 100,000 births like this every year, says Schweizer. When those kids turn 21, their parents can also claim U.S. green cards. “It is a massive vulnerability,” Schweizer says. And no one in Washington’s tracking it. American birth certificates don’t record parents’ nationality. Schweizer’s latest book is titled, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” https://rumble.com/v759b5e-ccp-exploiting-birth-tourism-in-america-on-an-industrial-scale-says-peter-s.html

“The CCP is using birth tourism on an industrial scale…You have anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Chinese nationals a year doing this for 13 years,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, author of “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” From Chinese birth tourism schemes to Fidel Castro’s weaponization of the Mariel boatlift, Schweizer breaks down how immigration can be exploited by nefarious actors in this in-depth interview. Over the course of history, “migration has oftentimes been used as a weapon: a weapon of subversion, a weapon to overwhelm an enemy, a weapon to divide an enemy, a weapon to sow chaos,” he says. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/46jZhBH

“The CCP is using birth tourism on an industrial scale…You have anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Chinese nationals a year doing this for 13 years,” says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, author of “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” From Chinese birth tourism schemes to Fidel Castro’s weaponization of the Mariel boatlift, Schweizer breaks down how immigration can be exploited by nefarious actors in this in-depth interview. Over the course of history, “migration has oftentimes been used as a weapon: a weapon of subversion, a weapon to overwhelm an enemy, a weapon to divide an enemy, a weapon to sow chaos,” he says. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/46jZhBH

Five of the seven men who oversaw China’s military have now been purged. Among them were the last two senior commanders with real combat experience, CMC vice chairman Zhang Youxia and general Liu Zhenli. Veteran China analyst Heng He argues this isn’t about corruption or alleged leaks of nuclear secrets, but a major political struggle for control of the military. Heng believes Zhang Youxia helped senior CCP leaders curb Xi’s grip on the military last year. Now Xi is striking back—eliminating those who questioned both his authority and his plans to invade Taiwan. Xi is staking his legacy on a war many of his own generals believe China isn’t ready to fight. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/49SmhtY

“Even if you follow Xi Jinping, you still will be purged. So the hidden rule is broken. I think that will be the end of the whole system,” says China analyst Heng He. With the recent purges of two top military generals, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, five of the seven members of China’s Central Military Commission have effectively been purged or removed. Only two remain, one of which is Xi Jinping himself. The CCP, like a mafia, is governed by unwritten rules. Now, Xi Jinping has broken all the CCP’s hidden rules, He says. “Now nobody knows whom to trust,” and that’s a big problem for the CCP. Xi has essentially purged the two remaining generals with actual battlefield experience. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/49SmhtY

“We are witnessing the turning point of the Chinese Communist Party rule. … The chain of command in the military is totally broken,” says veteran China analyst Heng He. Two top military generals, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, were recently put under investigation for "serious disciplinary and legal violations." This comes on the heels of a series of purges of top Chinese military leaders. This means five of the seven members of China’s Central Military Commission have now effectively been purged or removed. Only two remain. One of those two is Xi Jinping himself. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/49SmhtY

Sixty years ago, studies were done comparing antidepressants with what is called “active placebos,” drugs that mimic the side effects of antidepressants. The conclusion? Almost no difference in outcome. Reading about the results of these 1960s studies was a lightbulb moment for British psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff. She was a junior psychiatrist at the time working in a mental hospital in the UK. Larger and more developed trials conducted decades later likewise show such small differences between an antidepressant and a placebo that they do not qualify as a clinically meaningful difference, she says. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3NEqDfB

In the early 1990s, a pharma campaign dramatically rewired how the public understood depression. Before they launched the campaign, pharma did market research on what people believed caused depression, says psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff. They found that the vast majority of people didn't think that depression was caused by an underlying medical condition, but instead by unemployment, divorce, abuse, and other terrible life events. And they generally did not think treating depression with drugs made sense. So antidepressant manufacturers funded a campaign to convince people that depression was caused by a “chemical imbalance in the brain” that should be treated with antidepressants. https://rumble.com/v751ep2-how-a-pharma-campaign-transformed-our-view-of-depression.html

British psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is the author of “Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.” She challenges the long-held belief that depression is caused by a lack of the hormone serotonin in the brain. “The serotonin myth… was first put out there in the 1960s, then picked up by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s, and widely propagated by them as part of their campaign to sell SSRIs—their new generation of antidepressants,” Moncrieff argues. "In the textbooks, we were being told we had these amazing new drugs… In reality, I saw hospitals where there were wards full of people who were zombified… heavily sedated, shuffling around." In our interview, she explains how the serotonin myth took hold. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3NEqDfB

“Do parents have the right to raise their children according to their sex, how they were born, how they were made naturally?” Incredible as it may seem, there is no answer to this question yet, says California-based attorney and parental rights advocate Erin Friday. “The judges are finding legal technicalities to avoid really adjudicating whether parents have a right to raise their child as their sex… So there are lawsuits going across the country, and this is happening in red states and blue states.” For the parents, she explains, it’s a desperate fight against time. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4sZ25hv

“She wouldn't call her daughter a male, and CPS (Child Protective Services) took her child.” Parents in Southern California lost custody of their children because they opposed their child’s gender transition, says California-based attorney Erin Friday. And once CPS has placed them into a foster family, California’s Foster Care Bill of Rights allows minors to undergo sex-rejecting procedures without parental consent, Friday added. Friday joined legal battles against CPS and the state of California after her own 13-year old daughter was socially transitioned at school without her knowledge. https://rumble.com/v74xx1q-she-wouldnt-call-her-daughter-a-male-and-cps-took-her-child-erin-friday.html 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/in-some-states-parents-risk-losing-custody-for-rejecting-childs-transgender-identity-erin-friday-5976565?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=ErinFriday

“When have we ever treated a mental illness by cutting off body parts?” says attorney Erin Friday. Friday is the co-lead of Our Duty, parent-led international organization that opposes social transitioning of minors and sex-rejecting medical procedures. Her own daughter was socially transitioned at school at the age of 13 - without the knowledge or consent of her parents. When Friday found out, she called the school and told them to stop. A week later, Child Protective Services showed up at her door—followed by the police a day later. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4sZ25hv

High-carb, high-sugar diets trigger chronic inflammation that destroys joint lubricants and accelerates arthritis, says former orthopedic surgeon Dr. Shawn Baker. He tells his patients to consider going on a low-carb, high fat diet or even a carnivore diet—instead of immediately opting for knee replacement surgery. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3YXBJ1E

“She was a chemist, and her job was literally to design food to be as addictive as possible.” Here’s what a woman working at a major food corporation revealed to Dr. Shawn Baker. “She wanted to come work for our company because she just felt so guilty about the fact that she was in part responsible for addicting millions of us to this hyper palatable, damaging food.” There’s a whole science behind addicting millions of Americans to food, Baker told me, and it goes back many decades. Psychophysicist Howard Moskowitz experimented in the early 1970s to find out which proportions of salt, sugar and fat make a food addictive. He called it the “bliss point.” 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3YXBJ1E

Many Americans have outsourced their well-being to a “disease management system” that keeps them on prescriptions for life, says Dr. Shawn Baker. As a former orthopedic surgeon, he spent years operating on joints—now he’s trying to keep people out of the operating room altogether. Food, he says, can make us sick—but it can also heal us: “We've been consuming this ultra-processed food, which I call human pet food…A lot of our food has become very similar to recreational drugs in the way we use and abuse them.” In our in-depth interview, he tells me how and why the adoption of low-carb, high-fat diets like the ketogenic and carnivore diets reduce inflammation and can even reverse chronic diseases like diabetes and cardiometabolic disease. There is even evidence that such diets can be used therapeutically for neurological and mental health issues like epilepsy and bipolar disorder, he says. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3YXBJ1E

A new experimental approach to Alzheimer's could potentially change the game for treating this devastating disease. The main culprit in Alzheimer's seems to be a sticky protein called amyloid beta that builds up in the brain, forming toxic clumps that are believed to damage brain cells. Biotech entrepreneur Lou Reese has been working on a synthetic peptide-based active immunotherapy UB-311 to treat Alzheimer's. It’s shown preliminary promise in phase 2 trials in slowing the disease’s progression. https://rumble.com/v74qmls-a-new-experimental-active-immunotherapy-for-treating-alzheimers-lou-reese.html

A new investigational monoclonal antibody could potentially help HIV patients who've developed resistance to other treatments. Unlike other HIV drugs, which target viral proteins and enzymes inside the infected cell to block replication, UB-421 works by targeting the human host cell — specifically the CD4 receptor on the surface of immune cells. This means, HIV would have a harder time developing resistance through escape mutations. So far, in limited trials, that seems to be true. The FDA is set to be taking a closer look at it in early February, says Lou Reese, co-CEO of United Biomedical and co-founder of Cana Life. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3NtjvCJ

Has the massive rollout of psychiatric drugs over recent decades actually led to better outcomes for patients? The evidence says no. Even former NIMH Director Thomas Insel admitted that despite overseeing ~$20 billion in neuroscience and genetics research during his 13-year tenure, clinical outcomes for patients did not improve. Recovery rates didn’t increase and hospitalization and suicide rates didn’t decrease. Yet instead of rethinking the approach, the field doubles down, says David Cohen, Professor for Social Welfare at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/49Sdwif

We’re approaching mental health all wrong, argues professor David Cohen. We’re told mental illness is “a disease like any other.” Yet no stethoscope, no physical exam, no bloodwork, no scans. Diagnosis is just a questionnaire — and the solution is almost always a prescription. But if it’s a disease, why don’t we treat it like one? A real medical workup would start by ruling out infection, metabolic disorders, autoimmune issues, brain tumors — and if none are found, we shouldn’t leap to “it’s all in the brain.” “Don't keep saying it's a physical disease, and we need medicine for it,” says Cohen, professor of social welfare and associate dean at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. https://rumble.com/v74m6oe-the-wrong-approach-to-mental-health-david-cohen.html

One in six American adults today are taking some form of psychiatric meditation. Yet it seems mental health outcomes across America have seen no noticeable improvement—despite the promises of the psychopharmacology revolution. If anything, mental health in America seems to be getting worse. “The needle has not moved,” says David Cohen, professor of social welfare and associate dean at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs. And that’s because many of the core assumptions of modern psychiatry are flawed, he argues. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/the-failures-of-the-mental-health-drug-revolution-david-cohen-5973742?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=DavidCohen