American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"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

🚨🌏 Here's how Trump is pushing a deep decoupling from China. His tariff strategy is isolating communist China as he cuts new deals with 70+ other countries. With a $300B trade gap favoring the U.S., how will China endure the mounting pressure? China expert Christopher Balding gives us insight into the trade war. https://rumble.com/v6ryykz--heres-how-trump-is-pushing-a-deep-decoupling-from-china..html

Watch the full episode here: https://ept.ms/S0409ChristopherBalding

In some industries, China produces up to 120% of global demand, fueled by heavy subsidies. Their manufacturing is 30% of world GDP—but their own GDP is only 15% of the world’s share. 🚨 Why aren't more nations doing anything about this? China expert Christopher Balding weighs in. https://rumble.com/v6ryy6x-how-trumps-125-percent-tariffs-are-dismantling-chinas-unfair-trade-regime-c.html

"The United States depends on China for 95% of the key components that are necessary to make our generic drugs. And if China shut the door on exports, within months our healthcare system would begin to collapse. That's how dependent we are, and it's not just us. The world is dependent, Europe is dependent, because China has a chokehold on those upstream raw materials and chemicals needed to make these active ingredients, which makes medicine, and that turns into the pills and vials that we have and take. …I can't think of any other product, any other food commodity - whether it's wheat, rice, corn, or energy supplies, that we have so allowed to be centralized in a single country - whatever country it is. It's a disaster waiting to happen." - Rosemary Gibson, author of “China Rx” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0410RosemaryGibson

"A Johns Hopkins trained physician walked into the Mayo Clinic one night - the emergency department -because he had some known problem that he self-diagnosed. It's very common, it wasn't a big deal, a healthy guy in his 40s, and they said, 'Well, why don't you stay overnight and we'll work you up tomorrow? Then you can drive back home' - because he was a far distance from home. Within 24 hours, he was in multiple organ failure and the doctors had no idea what was happening. The next week, his heart was removed, put on a machine, and three or four months later, he died a horrific death. And it was traced back and went through multi-district litigation, along with hundreds of other cases. It was contaminated blood thinner. The API was made in China. It was a highly sophisticated fake substitute for the real active ingredient and at high levels, it could cause death.”- Rosemary Gibson, author of “China Rx” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0410RosemaryGibson

"How [are] these products coming here? How do they get into our marketplace?" 98% of US generic medicines depend on some component from China. America needs a public-private partnership to make essential, generic medicine using advanced manufacturing, says Rosemary Gibson. In this episode, she breaks down the problems facing the US medical supply chain—from substandard drug quality, to a broken industrial base, to degraded trust between doctors and patients, to generic drugs that don't even work. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0410RosemaryGibson