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“We absolutely knew it was a weaponized bioweapon.” T. Casey Fleming says his firm BlackOps Partners knew early on that COVID was a manipulated virus. “We absolutely knew it was coming with all of our intelligence that we had.” “Open source intelligence… is much more efficient than solid government intelligence.” “We knew the nefarious intent from China.” “We already knew many years ahead of time that they were working on bioweapons.” “Everything that happens in China happens under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party.” T. Casey Fleming says the United States is already in a silent war with the Chinese Communist Party, just without most Americans knowing it. See what he reveals in this interview: https://youtu.be/mZo0PEcNecc

“There’s only two sides to this coin… You’re either free or you’re under communism.” T. Casey Fleming says even though many Americans don’t realize it, the U.S. is already in a form of conflict with the CCP and everything is at stake. “They are the grand puppeteer over Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela, North Korea, drug cartels.” “The 3,200-pound gorilla in the room is the Chinese Communist Party.” “The American people need to understand what the threat is.” “It’s the biggest threat of their lifetime.” “We’re in the fourth quarter, 2 minutes left and no timeouts.” “They need to be able to focus on one enemy.” “The number one enemy is the Chinese Communist Party.” “It is war. It is for all the marbles.” “The world will be won or lost in the next 10 years.” T. Casey Fleming warns the United States is already in a silent conflict with the Chinese Communist Party and most Americans do not even realize it. Watch the full breakdown here: https://youtu.be/mZo0PEcNecc

“The Chinese Communist Party is overtaking the Western world and the United States by over a hundred different methods of unrestricted warfare,” counterintelligence expert Casey Fleming told me during our interview. These unrestricted warfare weapons “go after the people in a ‘people's war’ that never involves the military. It's focused on every man, woman and child in the United States and the rest of the free world, but mostly in the United States.” Fleming is the CEO of BlackOps Partners, a strategy and cybersecurity consulting firm that he founded in 2008. He’s the author of the new book, “The Red Tsunami: The Silent Storm Killing Your Freedom.” “It may look like a book, but it's a whistleblower's exposé and survival guide… It basically tells you what to do to protect yourself… Number one, stop buying Chinese products and services and stop investing in companies that are investing in China,” he told me. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3Pn01QZ

Psychological scientist J.D. Haltigan told me the feminine impulse to be empathetic has been weaponized. “We’ve come to basically hijack the feminine ethic of care.” “And if a society becomes completely feminine, all kinds of chaos will ensue.” “Because you don’t have any sort of rule-based, lawful, statistically-minded, quantitatively-focused orientation to why we have laws, why we have rules, why we need order, why we need immigration law, and so forth.” “Masculinity is what will track, personality-wise, with systemization, and femininity is sort of the analogy with empathization.” But this feminization has become dominant in many areas of society with major effects. J.D. Haltigan warns that when feminization of society extends into law and policy, then “all kinds of chaos will ensue.” Watch my full interview with J.D. Haltigan below: https://ept.ms/3NhhidQ

“What’s happening now is the mental illness is becoming valorized.” Developmental psychologist J.D. Haltigan says mental illness is increasingly being turned into an identity people embrace. “Mental illness as identity is really something that is coming on.” “I have a disorder, I am defined by that disorder, and I’m some sort of a heroic person for having this disorder.” “It’s really happening across the disorders… mostly for depression and anxiety.” “It’s become so destigmatized that there is no stigma.” “You see this a lot on social media… if you claim you have a mood disorder, you get a lot of affirmation for that.” “That feeds back into it… and you get into this sort of niche group that valorizes it and affirms it.” “That’s not really helpful treatment to eliminate the disorder.” https://rumble.com/v77cqne-how-mental-illness-became-an-identity-jd-haltigan.html

“You can't abandon the concept of normality, or societies will just completely fall apart,” says developmental psychologist and social science scholar J.D. Haltigan. There has been a tremendous push in mental health to destigmatize mental illness, he says, and people are encouraged to regard themselves as “some sort of heroic person for having [mental] disorders.” This is true especially for mood disorders like depression and anxiety. People nowadays increasingly define themselves through mood disorders—especially women, who often are more prone than men to depression and internalization of anxiety, he says. Haltigan’s departure from the University of Toronto in 2023 coincided with his growing concerns about what he described as increasing ideological pressures in academic research and restrictions on what researchers could say about mental health and early child development. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3NhhidQ

“You can't abandon the concept of normality, or societies will just completely fall apart,” says developmental psychologist and social science scholar J.D. Haltigan. There has been a tremendous push in mental health to destigmatize mental illness, he says, and people are encouraged to regard themselves as “some sort of heroic person for having [mental] disorders.” This is true especially for mood disorders like depression and anxiety. People nowadays increasingly define themselves through mood disorders—especially women, who often are more prone than men to depression and internalization of anxiety, he says. Haltigan’s departure from the University of Toronto in 2023 coincided with his growing concerns about what he described as increasing ideological pressures in academic research and restrictions on what researchers could say about mental health and early child development. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3NhhidQ

Robert L. Suettinger says China has long been willing to arm Iran to keep the United States distracted in the Middle East. “I started working in the White House when there were great concerns about the shipment of weapons of mass destruction and various kinds of steel… that was going to Iran at very sensitive times.” “They’ve been happy to rearm Iran.” “There was… a very strong concern in the United States government about what kinds of missiles are going to be provided to Iran that they could use in local conflicts.” “They are perfectly happy to take advantage of forces in the world that are adamantly opposed to the United States.” “And use them to their advantage and to keep the eyes off of the problems in East Asia.” I sat down with Robert L. Suettinger to discuss his book, “The Conscience of the Party,” and how Hu Yaobang’s story may reflect the recent internal struggles inside the CCP. https://youtu.be/q7Vwa-kJhTs

Robert L. Suettinger says U.S. actions in Venezuela and Iran may be forcing leaders in China to reconsider how they view President Trump. “I think that there has been a level of shock that the United States has not only been able to, but willing to, engage in these kinds of operational military on-the-ground matters.” “I think it’s probably a matter of considerable concern and discussion… that they maybe have been wrong about Trump all along and that there is more to his policies than they had given him credit for.” “That has probably provided them with a lot of cause for concern.” “It is going to be a major topic of conversation in the hallways at the National People’s Congress, in the back rooms of Zhongnanhai, and certainly in the discussions that go on within China.” Internal debates and leadership struggles have long shaped China’s political system. Those dynamics are explored in Robert L. Suettinger’s book “The Conscience of the Party.” Watch our full conversation: youtu.be/q7Vwa-kJhTs

“There's no question of the fact that Xi Jinping is now less of a dominant leader than he was six eight months ago,” China expert Robert Suettinger told Jan during their recent interview. Earlier this year, Xi purged two top generals from the CCP’s military brass, following on the heels of earlier purges last year. Now only two of the originally seven members of the Central Military Commission remain. One of them is Xi himself; the other one, General Zhang Shengmin, is a political commander and has, like Xi, no combat experience. After the January purges, Xi issued an order to the military demanding that everyone acknowledge him as the head of the military commission. “The silence from all those military commands has been deafening and has been noticed by everybody,” Suettinger says. “The military is just sort of sitting back and saying, ‘Well, what are you going to do next?’… There's a level of distrust on both sides,” Suettinger told me. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://youtu.be/q7Vwa-kJhTs

Avi Loeb just told me that humanity may have been visited by extraterrestrials in our distant past. “We don’t know the history of Earth.” “Documented human history is only 8,000 years old.” “The question is: what introduced life here on Earth?” “Maybe it was an interstellar gardener.” “We’ve been searching for 65 years for radio signals, but that’s just like waiting for a phone call.” “In fact, we do not use radio communication as much as we did a century ago.” https://rumble.com/v7725js-has-humanity-been-visited-by-extraterrestrials-in-the-past-avi-loeb.html

President Trump seems to be on the brink of disclosing government secrets about extraterrestrial life. And President Obama just admitted that he believes it exists. So I sat down with physicist Avi Loeb to ask why the government has been so cagey about UFOs for decades. Here’s his response: “There are two ways of getting to this evidence.” “It’s either in the hands of government, because the U.S. government was monitoring the sky and the oceans for many decades.” “The defense budget is huge. It’s close to $1 trillion for 2026.” “In the process of collecting a lot of data, they may have noticed unusual phenomena.” Watch our full interview below: https://ept.ms/4us4Bxc

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb says AI could be viewed as a form of alien intelligence. But he believes humanity will ultimately learn far more from encountering real alien intelligence. “You might view AI systems as alien intelligence because they are made of computer chips … silicon chips, and not from flesh and blood.” “So you might say, okay, well, AI is a form of alien intelligence.” “But we can learn much more from a truly alien intelligence.” “All the AI systems that we develop were trained on experiences here on Earth.” “However, alien intelligence might have benefited from experiences well beyond Earth in interstellar space.” “And I think we will learn much more from that encounter than from our AI systems here on Earth.” https://rumble.com/v77101s-is-ai-a-form-of-alien-intelligence-avi-loeb.html

Is there intelligent life out there? Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb hopes there is. “I'm searching for a higher intelligence. I don't often find it here on Earth,” he told Jan. Loeb is not your typical astronomer. For many years, he’s been scouring the universe for the abnormal and the unknown. “Brushing anomalies under the carpet of traditional thinking,” as he put it, is anathema for him. In 2021, Loeb founded the Harvard-based Galileo Project to speed up the scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial objects. Since then, Loeb has been supervising the building of three state-of-the-art observatories in the US: one in Massachusetts, one in Pennsylvania and one in Nevada. They make use of machine learning models to identify unexplained anomalies and use triangulation to infer the distance of objects from earth. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4us4Bxc

“They treat this really peaceful, loving people of faith like guinea pigs.” Bob Fu says the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of Christians resembles some of the worst abuses in modern history. “They cage you in the concentration camp to the mind control transformation centers all over China.” “And I think basically they’re doing the same kind of practice and experiment like the Nazis to the Jews in the 1930s to 40s.” https://rumble.com/v76v3kg-the-ccps-war-on-christians-pastor-bob-fu.html For a look into the dark world of religious suppression under the CCP, watch my interview with Bob Fu below👇 https://youtu.be/DSiOEmqX4uU

The CCP is torturing peaceful Christians. Bob Fu shared haunting stories with me of women recounting what happened to them. “I received a stack of handwritten testimonies about torture from mostly a group of Christian ladies who were tortured in the most inhumane nature.” “From strip off their clothes, totally naked, to like 8 electric shock batons touching, torturing them from the head to toe, and including their private parts.” “One lady even described she was taken to a provincial police academy… 4 or 5 policemen… basically made her naked and started torturing her.” “She was crying out, basically asking the Lord to take her life… she said she would rather to be in the presence of the Lord than being tortured that way.” “Then all of a sudden, an electric shock baton was put into her mouth… and she passed out.” The persecution of Christians by the CCP is something the world needs to know about. Bob Fu breaks it down in this interview below 👇 https://youtu.be/DSiOEmqX4uU

“Their goal is to really eradicate Christian faith, from the map of China.” Bob Fu says the Chinese Communist Party is actively trying to eliminate Christianity in China. But he believes history shows they will fail. “But we all know they will fail and fail miserably because historically, how many Caesars in Roman Empire tried but failed miserably?” “And even in the history of People’s Republic of China, multiple political leaders have tried, but again, failed miserably.” “And even the revival of the church has happened instead of demise or destruction of the church.” The attack on Christians by the CCP is something many people do not realize is happening. Peaceful Christians are being arrested or worse simply because of their faith. Bob Fu breaks this down in the interview below 👇 https://ept.ms/3OWKiYH

“Xi Jinping wants to play God. The Communist Party treats [Christians] as a threat to the regime's existence. The goal is to eradicate Christian faith from the map of China,” says Pastor Bob Fu. And Western-built technology may be helping the CCP in this endeavor. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3OWKiYH

Zineb Riboua warns that China’s rise to global dominance runs straight through Iran. She says Operation Epic Fury is now disrupting that strategy. “I would say that China cannot rise without having the United States weakened in one of the most important regions in the world, being the Middle East.” “Iran has been that tool.” “China has built Iran’s military arsenal.” “It has collaborated extensively with its proxies, especially the Houthis who are doing this blockade in the Red Sea.” “And reversing that calculus is what Operation Epic Fury is doing.” “And I think that this is absolutely crucial when watching the next events unfolding.” https://rumble.com/v76qugk-how-operation-epic-fury-has-disrupted-the-ccps-strategy-in-the-middle-east-.html

Many Americans are concerned that war with Iran could spiral into another forever war that distracts from adversaries like China. Zineb Riboua says the U.S. is taking steps to make sure that doesn’t happen. “The United States is destroying everything that would make that possible.” “Every single launcher, every single missile facility, their whole navy has been absolutely crushed.” “I was doing a brief assessment this morning… you can see that it’s about 2,000 targets so far, and they’re hitting even more.” “They’re absolutely in the business of making sure that even if the next Iran wants to, it just cannot.” “The military aspect… is that they are structurally going to be incapable of launching things in the future.” Many Americans are uneasy with what’s occurring in Iran currently. Zineb Riboua sat down with me for a short interview breaking down why she doesn’t hold this view: https://ept.ms/4bqDsTX