American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

We are seeing a strange convergence of both China and the West towards a materialistic, technocratic approach to the world, argues N.S. Lyons. "There's a number of ideas that emerged out of, let's say, the Enlightenment period…the idea that human beings can and should manage everything, control everything…this idea that you can not only engineer things, material things, but socially engineer things like a government. …If you can engineer things to be improved to function the way you want them to, then the logical step is that if you did that well enough, if you had perfect knowledge & perfect engineering, you could create a perfect system, a utopian system." 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1029NSLyons

“The ‘boy crisis’ is boys falling behind in more than 70 different measurable metrics. [Boys are] far more likely than girls to commit suicide…to be addicted to drugs, to die of drug overdoses, to be addicted to video games…to drop out of high school." The greatest driver of the boy crisis is fatherlessness and the lack of good male role models, says Warren Farrell. It’s been 6 years since he and John Gray co-authored their groundbreaking book, “The Boy Crisis.” I recently sat down with Farrell to get an update on where things stand now. It doesn't look good. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

In an online hub facilitating Chinese migrants illegally entering the US, key figures promote prostitution and sex trafficking. One prominent user encourages others to join the trafficking "snakehead" business. He claims his uncle made $900,000 from trafficking 15 people. In this episode, Daily Caller investigative reporter Philip Lenczycki breaks down his investigations into the large online network. It was run by a self-identified Chinese "cyber police" agent. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1109PhilipLenczycki

"This channel facilitates Chinese illegal immigration by serving as a hub for documents that detail travel guides and routes into the United States. It identifies specific border wall crossing points and also has what we might call scripts detailing how to interact with Border Patrol agents." Tonight, Philip Lenczycki, a Daily Caller investigative reporter, breaks down his investigations into a large online network he uncovered facilitating illegal Chinese immigration and promoting prostitution and sex trafficking. It’s run by a self-identified Chinese "cyber police" agent. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1109PhilipLenczycki

Kip Tom, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. agencies for food and agriculture: "We'd be in FAO conferences, and we would hear these taglines of win-win & hand-in-hand, and it was usually the setup to where they wanted to use our money, our expertise, our intellectual property, to try to improve food security in places that would benefit China—and China solely—not an African nation, not the US, not anybody else. …So anything that we would do with FAO, anything we would do in Africa, we have to realize how much of this is actually benefiting China and not the nation that we're going in and intending to help." 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1019KipTom

“I had a psychology professor that told me rats weren't social creatures because they lived in cages - in an Intro to Psych course. And I remember turning to the person next to me saying, 'he just said that?'...I'm not traveling 40 minutes to the Psychology Department to learn that rats are solitary creatures because they live in cages." -Mikhaila Fuller on her journey to co-founding Peterson Academy with her father Jordan Peterson 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1017MikhailaPeterson

"Someone is making a decision about how people should think, what they should think, how they should feel, how they should behave in the world, & without consulting them." Nudge technology has evolved to "psychological bioterrorism," says Dr. Robert Malone, co-author of "PsyWar." "[Psychological bioterrorism is] propagated through the media. It's propagated through the internet in a global fashion, in a harmonized way, with almost no cost. It’s amazingly effective.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1107RobertMalone

"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