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“Two cases of child rape. Three and a half years in jail. Why is that acceptable today?” Peter McIlvenna, co-founder of Hearts of Oak, has been following the UK grooming gangs scandal for 15 years and has fought for harsher punishment and financial compensation from perpetrators to victims. “We have shockingly lenient sentences from our courts, and the way you deal with this is to put a 25 year sentence, a life sentence, for child rape. Then we will maybe begin to see changes. But if you let these people out for three and a half years for good behavior, that's the problem. There's no punishment for the crime.” “My anger is against the authorities for turning a blind eye. My anger is against the police for arresting the fathers who complained their daughters were getting raped. My anger is against the politicians that cover this up.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4smT0gE

Flávio Bolsonaro told me he is “ready to rescue my country’s democracy” from lawfare and political persecution. This may be one of the most consequential elections in Brazilian history. “There is a lot of political persecution… symbolized by President Jair Bolsonaro, the greatest victim of this lawfare,” he says. “He was convicted not because of corruption, money laundering, or a violent crime.” “He was convicted for standing up for the truth and not kowtowing to a system that persecuted and interfered with his administration.” “Given he is now barred from running for President, he has named me as the candidate.” https://rumble.com/v786tec-im-ready-to-save-brazil-flvio-bolsonaro-fires-opening-shot.html Watch our full interview below: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/flavio-bolsonaro-on-his-presidential-campaign-and-his-fathers-ailing-health-6006776

“We do not want to emulate a techno-authoritarian CCP surveillance state.” Wynton Hall warns that in the AI race against China, the U.S. must not become China “So President Trump is exactly right.” “We have to beat China.” “We have to beat China without becoming China.” The U.S. is leading in AI, but many like Wynton Hall warn that staying ahead will require constant vigilance and smart policy to maintain that edge without becoming like our adversaries such as the CCP. For my full interview with Wynton Hall watch below: youtu.be/JxSseMf_fKo

“99% of people use AI, even though 64% of us in America don’t realize when we’re using it.” Wynton Hall says most Americans already use AI daily without realizing it “It’s baked into the algorithms of our daily life, from our weather apps to our streaming services.” “And so the point is, if we’re already using AI, we want to learn how to use it to the best of our ability to gain the upside, but also avert all the landmines.” “I think there are a lot of political landmines.” https://rumble.com/v782dfk-most-americans-already-use-ai-daily-without-realizing-it.html

Silicon Valley isn’t just interested in building smarter machines—they’re racing to augment humans themselves with AI, says “Code Red” author Wynton Hall. “Now we have the AI glasses, the meta glasses - now it's a little closer. We're going to have a listening device that will be able to feed the information in [our brain]… and with neuralink we already have the chip, and so now you're able to have superhuman accessibility.” What once sounded like science fiction is quickly becoming a real-world arms race. And that raises a question that may soon confront every parent, Hall argues: 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/from-ai-girlfriends-to-brain-implants-how-the-ai-revolution-is-radically-reshaping-our-world-wynton-hall-6007746?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=SocialM&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=WyntonHall

The Covid censorship regime at Facebook, at the behest of the previous White House admin, was blocking the creation of Facebook groups for people reporting vaccine injuries. Lawyer Mark Chenoweth breaks down a recent landmark settlement and what it could mean for free speech. “[@BrianneDressen] who was vaccine injured… realized we need to have support groups for these folks.” “But as she tried to set these groups up, Facebook kept shutting them down.” “We have the evidence that they were doing that at the behest of the White House.” “One of the other clients in that case lost his son just a few days after his son got the vaccine.” “There were definitely active efforts on the part of the last administration to prevent people's speech from getting out there on topics that were important to all Americans.” Censorship during the COVID regime must never be allowed to happen again. Watch the full interview below: https://ept.ms/4e67RIS

“The First Amendment protects false speech, or what the government thinks is false speech.” Attorney Mark Chenoweth recently won a landmark settlement in a free speech court case. He breaks down the precedent it sets for protecting speech the government labels as “misinformation.” “Just because the government labels something as disinformation, misinformation, or malinformation, that doesn’t mean the government can take it down or censor it.” “That's still protected under the First Amendment.” “The First Amendment wants us to be able to engage in that robust debate.” @CPAC https://rumble.com/v77zcv6-attorney-mark-chenoweth-recently-won-a-landmark-settlement-in-a-free-speech.html

“The bottom line is that the federal government has now admitted that it was engaged in a very systematic operation of social media censorship,” says NCLA President Mark Chenoweth. Recently, NCLA secured a major settlement, concluding the landmark Missouri v. Biden lawsuit against government-induced social media censorship. The ten-year consent decree blocks the surgeon general, CDC, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) from pressuring social media companies to censor speech. So what does this mean exactly? What legal precedent does this set? What happens after the ten-year mark ends? Will it just be open season for censorship again after? 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4e67RIS

“We have over 3 million Trump accounts opened.” Commissioner of the SSA Frank Bisignano says millions have already taken advantage of Trump accounts for their children. “We’re about to pierce a million babies born that are gonna get the $1,000.” “You can register your child, get $1,000, and put in a Trump account for them.” “You can register anyone up till 18.” Millions of people are already taking advantage of Trump accounts for their children. SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano says the Trump administration is expecting that number to grow rapidly. For my full interview with Commissioner Bisignano click below👇 https://youtu.be/3g9zTf6xfHk

Commissioner of the Social Security Administration Frank Bisignano says they’ve found illegal immigrants and dead people in their Social Security master file. And that they are doing everything they can to clean this up. “We’re ensuring that people on file are valid citizens that we have proof of.” “We like to believe that we've made a large dent in it.” “We're only paying those who should get paid.” “We took people off the system who we figured out weren't still alive.” Waste, fraud, and abuse in systems like Social Security have become a major focus for the Trump administration. SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano breaks down what has been uncovered and what is being done to fix it. For the full interview watch below: https://youtu.be/3g9zTf6xfHk

Frank Bisignano oversees not one, but two of America’s most consequential institutions: the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Before stepping into government, he built a career at the very top of finance as the youngest senior vice president in American Express history at just 25, co-COO of JPMorgan Chase, and CEO of the massive payment processing company Fiserv. Now, he’s taking on a different kind of challenge: bringing, in his words, “accuracy” to massive federal agencies that impact every American. He’s cleaning up records—including moving records of 12.4 million people aged 120 and over into the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File—and digitizing records to streamline systems. 🔴Watch the premiere at 5PM ET: https://ept.ms/4bTi1Ki

Adnan Alkhalili says technology is rewiring people to chase easy dopamine instead of doing what’s actually healthy. “Young people are aware that they’re not eating well… and when they do eat well, they feel slightly better, and yet they’re still not eating well.” “This comes from… the virtual world or what I call the escapist reality.” “They’re constantly on devices to escape from the real world.” “They know it feels good to eat something healthy.” “But it feels even better… to quickly feel this big spike of dopamine.” “That comes from going on their phone.” “It’s a lot better to escape your thoughts.” “What time in history have you been able to just avoid anything you want, anything that's hard and difficult, by just going online.” In this conversation, Adnan Alkhalili explains why so many young people keep choosing what they know is bad for them. Click below to watch this full discussion:https://ept.ms/4sB436U

“This is literally the scariest time to live because this is the first time we're not being human and having rituals.” Adnan Alkhalili says modern technology is stripping away the basic human rhythms we’ve lived by for thousands of years. “We had rituals for most of humanity.” “You’d wake up because the sunlight… and go to bed because the sun went down.” “People would gather… every single day.” “These are things that we just did because that’s just how we are as humans.” “We don’t have those rituals anymore.” “I wake up… in a dark room… from an alarm.” “I go to bed… not because of the sun.” “You’re basically not living like a human anymore.” “You’re living completely out of what humans have lived for hundreds of thousands of years.” https://rumble.com/v77oype-technology-is-stripping-away-the-basic-human-rhythms-weve-lived.html

“This is literally the scariest time to live, because this is the first time we're not being human,” Gen Z entrepreneur Adnan Alkhalili told me. The online world traps Gen Z into an escapist reality that their parents do not comprehend. Even good parents, he said, have no idea what their kids are doing online and to which extent they live online. What does living virtually do to people, I asked Adnan. What did it do to him? “I started to feel really, really sick and unhealthy.” Now he’s helping Gen Z get out of the “matrix” and back into the real world. That’s how the Touch Grass Together movement was born: “Somewhere within their minds they [Gen Z] know that they're literally not touching the earth anymore… No humans have just stayed inside all day, which is scary, if you think about it.” But how to achieve that? In the interview, Adnan talks about the constructive role technology can play in helping Gen Z to escape brain rot within the matrix. 🔴 PREMIERE 9pm on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4sB436U

“This is literally the scariest time to live, because this is the first time we're not being human,” Gen Z entrepreneur Adnan Alkhalili told me. The online world traps Gen Z into an escapist reality that their parents do not comprehend. Even good parents, he said, have no idea what their kids are doing online and to which extent they live online. What does living virtually do to people, I asked Adnan. What did it do to him? “I started to feel really, really sick and unhealthy.” Now he’s helping Gen Z get out of the “matrix” and back into the real world. That’s how the Touch Grass Together movement was born: “Somewhere within their minds they [Gen Z] know that they're literally not touching the earth anymore… No humans have just stayed inside all day, which is scary, if you think about it.” This framework, he explained, is based on four core components: Light, movement, nourishment and human connection. This means: Getting Gen Z off their devices and out of their rooms, getting them to do stuff together outside and eating healthy food. But how to achieve that? In the interview, Adnan talks about the constructive role technology can play in helping Gen Z to escape brain rot within the matrix. Is there also a constructive role for AI? What about Social Media? And should schools forbid smartphones? 🔴 PREMIERE 3/26 at 9pm on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4sB436U

“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