American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"2025: I believe that Bolivia will probably be the number one humanitarian crisis in Latin America, because the numbers don't add up. It's the same story as Venezuela, in terms of the same kind of external support [and] the same kind of socialist movement, with one difference. They didn't nationalize their industries the way that Hugo Chavez did in Venezuela, which has led to the economic calamity that they became. In the case of Bolivia, they were able to somewhat have stable macroeconomic indicators, but they were camouflaged with the large amount of public spending. So, people didn't realize that Evo Morales was spending pretty much the future of Bolivia by depleting his foreign reserves. And so now...they come back with this new socialist president named Luis Arce, who's actually the former economic minister, and they don't have [anywhere] near the foreign reserves.” - Joseph Humire 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1010JosephHumire

"Postponed gratification is the single biggest predictor of success or failure in life." Boys who grow up without fathers often are not learning postponed gratification, with detrimental effects for themselves and society, says Warren Farrell, co-author of "The Boy Crisis.” "Postponed gratification comes from a parent who's good—not at boundary setting—but at boundary enforcement," says Warren Farrell. It’s a skill that typically comes more naturally to dads than moms. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

It's been 6 years since Warren Farrell and John Gray published their groundbreaking book “The Boy Crisis" detailing how boys have been falling behind in many key metrics. Boys drop out, commit suicide, and end up in jail at much higher rates than girls. In this episode, we get an update from Warren Farrell on how things have progressed, especially in our post-pandemic world. What is much of society failing to understand when it comes to our boys and men? 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1024WarrenFarrell

"About half the states allow 3rd party strangers to come to your house and offer to pick up & deliver your absentee ballot. That's a mistake…If you look at the election fraud database that we maintain at @Heritage, you will find there are a lot of absentee ballot fraud cases." In this episode, Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and former FEC member Hans von Spakovsky breaks down the key vulnerabilities he sees in U.S. elections. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"The biggest problem across the country is that we have an honor system for registering. So states are not doing anything to verify that you actually are a U.S. citizen." Hans von Spakovsky is a former FEC member and Heritage senior legal fellow. In this episode, he breaks down key vulnerabilities in U.S. elections. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1022HansvonSpakovsky

"In 2500 years of literacy, there were possibly 300 million people who considered themselves to be authors to an audience…In the last 40 years, we have 5 billion. This has just exploded exponentially…When you have 5 billion people in a room, what happens? Well, it's gigantic noise. …How do you get attention in this enormous, gigantic room with 5 billion people in it all talking at the same time? Number one, you want to talk louder than anybody else, so yelling and screaming is favored by the structure. Number two, if I can get you to start yelling at me, and then people start leaning up behind me saying, 'oh yeah, he's a bad guy. He's one of those guys,' and suddenly I'm a leader of my tribe, I get way more attention." Media analyst Martin Gurri explains how the information landscape has radically transformed how we communicate. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1008MartinGurri

"70% of these crop care products or pesticides are produced in India and China—mainly in China…What happens if they want to hit the kill switch? Think about the productivity loss that will occur." “Any nation that's not food secure is only three meals from chaos. And I think Xi Jinping knows that very well,” says Kip Tom, a former US ambassador to the UN agencies for food & agriculture and a 7th generation Indiana farmer. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1019KipTom

America is less food secure than we think, says Kip Tom, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. agencies for food and agriculture. Over half of all US agrochemical imports are from China. Chinese firms now own major entities like Syngenta, a global leader in agrochemicals and seeds, as well as Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer when it was acquired in 2013. There are also concerns that the Chinese regime could launch potentially crippling cyber attacks on U.S. agricultural infrastructure and data systems, he says. 🔴 PREMIERE 10/19 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1019KipTom

"China, all at the same time, is moving to a position where it could soon achieve nuclear superiority, not just over the United States, but also over Russia. China is building a navy that is today larger than the American Navy, and by the mid 2030s could have the ability to, on its own, invade and take over a country like New Zealand, help a country like Argentina win a second war over the Falklands Islands, definitely will be able to invade, conquer, and massacre the democracy of Taiwan, or help the dictatorship in North Korea To conquer and destroy the democracy in South Korea.” - Richard Fisher 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S1005RickFisher

"I know that there was something missing from my education. I didn't exactly learn table settings or how to sit down or how to greet people. That kind of education has disappeared. So, I'm kind-of interested to bring back the eight hours of an etiquette course." Mikhaila Fuller is a podcast host, and the co-founder and CEO of Peterson Academy. "There's a veil of wokeness that has infiltrated most of the courses taught in university.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1017MikhailaPeterson

"We're getting top professors from institutions and we're not telling them how to teach. We're saying, 'teach this course if it was exactly the way you'd want to teach it, without guidelines from somebody else put on you'" says Mikhaila Fuller, co-founder of Peterson Academy. “We have chosen professors carefully that don't have a political bent. So, it's mostly trying to avoid woke ideology & politics in courses that shouldn't necessarily be political." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1017MikhailaPeterson

“If you look at countries in Europe, I don't know that a single country there encourages these new mRNA boosters for children or for young people…They're really focused on people who are older and/or have comorbid conditions. …In this country, it's completely insane. There's no data - literally, there is zero data for these boosters, in terms of clinical data, showing that they will do even a drop of good. And they're being promoted like everyone should get them.” - Florida surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo explains why he made the controversial decision not to recommend the new boosters. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1003JosephLadapo

"I believe regenerative agriculture - healthy soil - is the best pathway forward for humans, animals and the planet," says regenerative farmer and entrepreneur Mollie Engelhart. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1015MollieEngelhart

"More than 50% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. This is not a future crisis that we need to talk about [that] could happen if I don’t drive a hybrid. This is happening right now,” says regenerative farmer and entrepreneur Mollie Engelhart. "I really want to create a place for people to come eat food of the land and be on a regenerative farm to see the relationship between their food, the ecosystem and humanity, and then be the ripple effect and take that out into the world.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1015MollieEngelhart

“2019: New York passes a new rent control law, which is as draconian as the old one. And now the market value of apartments is going down, landlords are no longer renting out apartments in some cases, and we are going through the same old cycle before. So, the idea of having national rent control, as has been proposed by some people, is going to make a problem that is confined to the cities with rent control into a national problem. And it's been a disaster wherever it's been tried. Also, the cost of housing in the areas of rent control and around them go up because there's such a disincentive for building new supply, supply doesn't meet demand, and prices go up in everything except the rent-controlled units. So it does nobody any favor.” - James Burling, author of “Nowhere to Live” 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1001JamesBurling

Dr. Aseem Malhotra: "Everything has a role to play...but the most important thing - and what I tell my patients, is [that] the biggest impact on your health is going to be fixing your diet. ...You can't fix healthcare until you fix food." 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1012AseemMalhotra

"You spend $4.3 trillion on healthcare - highest health expenditure in the western world with the worst health outcomes. So, why is that? And it's because it's the most commercialized healthcare system," argues Dr. Aseem Malhotra. 🔴 PREMIERE 10/12, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1012AseemMalhotra

"Russia, China and Iran are creating these crises, or capitalizing on these crises, to catalyze for change, in terms of control of resources, and control of trade, and control of maritime security, but fundamentally creating a region that’s inhospitable to the United States.” - Joseph Humire 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1010JosephHumire

"With the U.S. close to a 40% shareholder of this [Inter-American Development] bank, it's not an exaggeration to say that the U.S. co-financed China's rise in Latin America...China is making Latin America a region more inhospitable to the U.S." - Joseph Humire 🔴 PREMIERE 10/10, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1010JosephHumire

"Gerrymandering is a real issue…We are electing people who are either further to the right or further to the left, and I think we need more members of Congress who recognize that there's value on both sides, that being fiscally conservative does not have to be a Democrat or Republican issue. Being responsible with tax dollars that are being provided by the people across this country, that's a responsibility that we all have. Drawing congressional lines so that you have safe Republican and safe Democrat districts, I think that we end up electing people who are really not that interested in the middle," says former congresswoman Jill Long Thompson. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0919JillLongThompson