American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"There is a lot of data that show that the amount that a child was out of school is directly correlated with lower education achievement. …There are all these other harms…that [are] going to be impossible to really quantify." Terminated sports seasons. Canceled proms. Mass isolation. What was it all for in the end? “We don't know exactly the kids who were lost, who just stopped going to school entirely.” David Zweig is the author of the new book “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0424DavidZweig

"I don't even call it side effects. I call them effects…These are the drugs that they use to chemically castrate criminals. Lupron. So that's not a 'side effect.' …Oftentimes, when you're doing a medical intervention, you make a choice between one difficult thing [and] another if there's some kind of really severe medical issue. However, we're taking physically healthy children, and then giving them these effects. That's the difference. And then calling it medicine, instead of helping them with whatever psychological distress they're having. …We're told over and over again that these drugs are reversible. … How can something that suppresses puberty be called reversible?…Boys end up with these micro penises. And girls, they don't develop their bones, their bone density doesn't develop. …You can't reverse the clock.” Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, author of "A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families" 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0422PamelaGarfield

"There's a psychologist called Diane Ehrensaft who said that boys who open up their onesie and dance around, they're expressing that they really want to be girls, because that's like a dress. Or if a girl…pulls the barrettes out of her hair that means she doesn't want to be a girl." "I think someone with common sense would just [say] well, these are fussy babies that just don't want to wear barrettes or don't want their onesie on, right? …Kids don't want to wear their shoes or throw off their shoes - does that mean they don't want feet anymore? But that is the philosophy, and a lot of people start to believe it, because people with these fancy letters that come from these fancy institutions repeat that over and over again.” - Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, author of "A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families" https://rumble.com/v6sf8j9-kids-need-to-be-grounded-in-reality-pamela-garfield-jaeger-the-truthful-the.html

“I felt like I was a Rip Van Winkle therapist. I left my profession due to a health condition in 2017…In 2021, I came back, and it was radically different. All the teens that I had worked with before had never talked about being trans, and then the new program I was working at, half the girls were identifying as trans.” - Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, author of “A Practical Response to Gender Distress” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0422PamelaGarfield

"Technocrats are trying so hard to bring us into this stage of transhumanism, and they've succeeded in outpacing the human mind already. AI is far more intelligent than we'll ever be, but [it] cannot measure, duplicate, [or] emulate, in any way, the human soul. It's become a real problem. And I believe, more and more, that the reason - the value of this thing we call ‘soul’ [or] ‘spirit,’ is, in some way, our umbilical cord - our connection to divine intelligence. ...The birds chirp in the morning. Do people even really stop to even listen to that anymore? Why do the birds chirp in the morning? Do you know they actually trigger the plant life to open up and to pollinate, and it triggers the insects to come in and spread that pollination? There's a whole orchestration that happens every single day right outside our bedroom windows. And so, what is it that's informing the birds?” -Mikki Willis 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0419MikkiWillis

"I think 80% of them said in their interviews that at some point, they had all reached a point where they felt that death was an easier life than dealing with the injuries that they were dealing with. But when they met each other, that all changed. They talked each other off the ledge and said, 'No, life is worth fighting for.' And some of them have improved and some of them have not. Some of them have gotten worse and probably will continue to do so, and probably have a reduced lifespan as a result of this. Not everyone has been injured, but that's the danger of when we start treating medicine as a one-size-fits-all situation. It's got to be very personalized and we have to understand how every body responds, particularly to new technologies that have never been injected into the bloodstream in this way before. It was very, very reckless.”- Mikki Willis https://rumble.com/v6sa5uv-mikki-willis-on-his-new-film-on-the-vaccine-injured-follow-the-silenced.html

"One of the things that keep us suffering is this feeling that I have to get somewhere. We've taken the beingness out of the human being. Like, how do I be a good dad? How about I just be with them? Really with them - not with an agenda, not with other things on my mind or whatever. But that’s one of the most generous things that we can do is to just really give people our attention - to be with them not with judgment or thought or analyzation or any other kind of hidden, covert [agenda], but just being." - Mikki Willis 🔴 PREMIERE 4/19,9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0419MikkiWillis

"The Journal of independent Medicine, which is a journal of the IMA, is a journal that is not sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry or any other kind of industry. It's basically self-funded. We fund our journal. It's a journal that accepts all sorts of scientific papers, but we accept them in a way that nobody knows who is the person writing the paper until the very end, because I don't want to have any bias. So, we have what I call a 'double-blinded method.'" Dr. Joseph Varon is a critical care physician and President of the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the FLCCC, whose mission is to provide and advocate for informed consent, medical transparency, and root-cause intervention of metabolic illness. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0417JosephVaron

"Xi Jinping is perfectly capable of taking China off the cliff. And he says he won't be bullied. He says he's not going to talk to us until we come begging... This is not going to be a good story for China, because remember, our economy is much bigger than theirs. Even with their inflated gross domestic product reports, their economy is less than two-thirds the size of ours. Last year, China ran an enormous merchandise trade surplus against us - $295.4 billion, which was 5.8% bigger than the merchandise trade surplus in 2023. They've got everything to lose. Now, they can retaliate, as they've done with the rare earth export ban. But they tried that against Japan in 2010. It didn't work. China collapsed in a couple months. They can tell Boeing: 'We're not accepting deliveries of planes,' but if President Trump prohibits Boeing from selling planes and replacement parts, there are going to be a lot of planes in China not flying.” Gordon Chang 🔴 WATCH FULL:https://ept.ms/S0416GordonChang

“When you are confronted with 20 television advertisements every hour that deal with medications to bring down cholesterol, for example, or that deal with some other stuff, and there is not one advertisement that tells you maybe you should go out into the sunlight and take your vitamin D, you know that we have a problem. The US and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world that actually allow advertisements of medications and stuff like that on TV. That’s wrong. I was listening to a comedian the other day, and the comedian said, “You know what? I want to go on this drug." And he says, "And the reason why I want to go on this drug, even though I don't need it, is because everybody's happy on that advertisement. Everybody's smiling and the kids are coming around.” In this episode, Dr. Joseph Varon and I dive into the launch of the Independent Medical Alliance’s new medical journal and the importance of it being free from conflicts of interest. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET https://ept.ms/S0417JosephVaron

"[The CCP] believe that we are an existential threat. And we're an existential threat not because of anything that we say or do, but because of who we are. An insecure regime in Beijing is worried about the inspirational impact of America's values and form of governance on the Chinese people. So, we will never have amicable relations with China as long as the communist party rules it. It's either them or us. There's only going to be one survivor. It'll either be the People's Republic of China or the United States of America - not both. I know that's a message that President Trump does not want to hear. I know it's a message that most every American does not want to hear, but if we don't start paying attention to what the Chinese are saying and doing, we're going to lose our country.”-Gordon Chang 🔴 PREMIERE @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0416GordonChang

"Hopefully, now with the new NIH Director, we'll be able to fund some of these studies for these repurposed drugs that are really going to cut the cost of health care expenses.” “If we don't do something about the current state of medicine in our country, we're doomed. We're really doomed.” -Dr. Joseph Varon 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0417JosephVaron

"China is mobilizing for war. It's not mobilizing just as military. It's also a general societal mobilization - calling up reservists, taking over civilian factories to make war material, standing up militia units & state enterprises...And we're not responding with urgency." - Gordon Chang 🔴 PREMIERE 8PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0416GordonChang

"If you want to understand President Trump's policy on Israel and other parts of the world, the first thing to note is that, just like his first term, he has literally expelled the State Department from the center stage of forging US foreign policy and national security policy. And during the first administration, by bypassing the State Department, he achieved the four peace accords between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and South Sudan. He understood, I believe, that following the State Department way of thinking about the Middle East would only lead him to more and more failures." - Yoram Ettinger 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0415YoramEttinger

“As long as you allow the regime to remain, you must not delude yourself that they will moderate themselves. You allow them to be contained, and they are going to erupt in a much more ruthless manner. There is a rule in the Middle East: When you commit yourself to any gesture towards terrorism, terrorists always bite the hand that feeds them. And any show of patience, of appeasement, of gestures towards terrorists is rightly viewed by terrorists as a sign of weakness. And weakness only wets their appetite. It does not change their appetite.” - Yoram Ettinger 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0415YoramEttinger

"The early pilgrims and the founding fathers...they considered the manner in which Moses governed the Jewish people to be [the] foundation for the system which they established: the separation of powers and, later on, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights." "Thank you Israel for bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981, which spared the US nuclear confrontation in 1991. How many trillions of dollars were spared? How many thousands of lives were spared?" - Yoram Ettinger 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0415YoramEttinger

"What happens between administrations, is every time an administration turns over and the opposite party is coming in, they try and cram through as much policy within the days between the November election and January 20. And that's what we saw with the dietary guidelines. So, essentially, what the Biden administration did was put into clearance, which is an inter-government term, and release for comment through the Federal Register an updated dietary guidelines that would have solidified that process very early on in the Kennedy secretaryship and Trump administration. And dietary guidelines have a controversial history, but they've been pretty stagnant for a while. But things that are within them are: do we love salt or do we hate salt?...all these different conversations.”- David Mansdoerfer 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0412DavidMansdoerfer

"Having the ability to have different vantage points come in and structure government is so crucial at a time when government has just been living on its laurels. Before Obama, it didn't matter which administration you ran. Every year, the agency would get the same amount of money +3%. We're excited about it. We can continue on. When Obama got here, we had, obviously, the Affordable Care Act, which represented a significant increase in expenditures to the health economy. And then, we had President Trump come in, create some efficiencies around that, and then, you had President Biden come in and then just blow it out of the water again. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0412DavidMansdoerfer

"We have not won this fight. We've begun the fight. And we have industry forces, which I would say [have] unlimited money, that are going to try to do everything to protect their bottom line, but also limit good policy ideas of a Sec. Kennedy & a President Trump." - David Mansdoerfer "This is what the population and the American citizen wants. They want a change to the status quo around health, and they want to have better health outcomes for themselves...and for their families." Can RFK Jr. deliver? 🔴 PREMIERE 4/12, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0412DavidMansdoerfer

China’s export economy is rapidly dwindling due to Trump’s 145% tariffs. Internally, the domestic market is already saturated. Their working-class citizens are living in 19th-century poverty. Can domestic consumption save the economy? 🚨 The pressure on Xi is mounting. China expert Christopher Balding explains. https://rumble.com/v6ryyrb--the-pressure-on-xi-is-mounting..html