American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

“40% is like a war." Edward Dowd breaks down insurance company data showing spikes in excess mortality among working-age Americans. Now, a new Society of Actuaries report shows excess mortality doubled for people aged 35 to 44 in the third quarter of 2021. Dowd is a former Wall Street analyst and BlackRock portfolio manager who has been analyzing excess mortality data from the CDC, funeral homes, and insurance companies. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0906EdwardDowd 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

There was a 78% spike in excess mortality for people aged 25 to 34 in the third quarter of 2021. For people 35 to 44, excess mortality doubled, says Edward Dowd, citing a new report from the Society of Actuaries. Dowd is a former Wall Street analyst and BlackRock portfolio manager who has been analyzing excess mortality data from the CDC, funeral homes, and insurance companies. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0906EdwardDowd 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

“The age cohort from 25-44…experienced an 84% rise of excess mortality into the fall of 2021…[a] parabolic spike." —Edward Dowd, a former BlackRock portfolio manager who has been analyzing CDC and insurance company data on excess mortality. 🎬PREMIERE 9/6 at 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

“We know that after baptism, you join a certain religion, right? This is the same. When you come, they put a red scarf on your neck… You take an oath: ‘When I grow up, I will definitely follow the Chinese Communist Party.’" SPECIAL EPISODE: China’s ‘Walking Dead’: Inside the Warped World of China’s Communist Officialdom 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0903WalkingDead 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

“If you think the #Chinese Communist Party would not persecute or kill people, you have not studied their theories properly.”—Former Chinese Police Commissioner and Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Public Security In this special episode, featuring never-before-released interviews with former insiders of the regime, award-winning filmmaker Kay Rubacek and Jan Jekielek dive into the warped world of China’s communist leadership. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0903WalkingDead 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"We live like walking dead—without souls." — Former Chinese Police Commissioner and Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Public Security An opaque regime, the Chinese Communist Party has managed to hide much of its inner workings with a massive propaganda apparatus and surveillance state. Those who expose the regime’s secrets face imprisonment, torture, or death. Kay Rubacek, an award-winning filmmaker, managed to find and interview a number of defectors around the globe. She’s pored through official documents and speeches to understand the worldview of people serving the regime. In this special episode, featuring never-before-released interviews with former insiders, Kay Rubacek and Jan Jekielek dive into the warped world of China's communist leadership, one largely hidden from public view by a massive propaganda apparatus. 👉PREMIERE SAT. 9/3 @ 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0903WalkingDead 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"Postmodernism…is literally a form of intellectual terrorism…When people can genuinely go to an art exhibit and stand in wonder looking at nothing, those are parasitized minds." Gad Saad, author of “The Parasitic Mind,” discusses why rational people fall for "parasitic" ideas, from woke ideology to COVID dogma to postmodernism. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0901GadSaad 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

“What I call idea pathogens, these dreadful ideas… parasitize our minds, leading us to quietly go into the abyss of infinite lunacy,” says Gad Saad. He is a Lebanese-Canadian professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of, “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.” From woke ideology to COVID dogma to postmodernism, we discuss the worst kinds of “idea pathogens” he sees in society today and why people fall for them. “What the Sam Harris story demonstrates… is that supremely intelligent and rational people are not inoculated from parasitic thinking,” Saad says. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0901GadSaad 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"What I call idea pathogens, these dreadful ideas…parasitize our minds, leading us to quietly go into the abyss of infinite lunacy. …What the Sam Harris story demonstrates…is that supremely intelligent and rational people are not inoculated from parasitic thinking." —Gad Saad, author of “The Parasitic Mind” 🎬PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

“The CDC does not have rulemaking authority delegated by Congress, yet the CDC did the eviction moratorium, the federal mask mandate… It was complete abuse. And unless there's a real change, I'm afraid this is going to happen again,” says Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. Younes has been leading a number of major cases against vaccine mandates and government-induced censorship on social media platforms. How much of big tech censorship is compelled or coerced by government actors behind the scenes—from the FBI to Biden administration officials to the CDC? "When the government gets involved in telling a private company what to do, that is no longer a private company's action. That's state action. And that implicates the 1st Amendment," Younes says. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0830JeninYounes 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"When the government gets involved in telling a private company what to do, that is no longer a private company's action. That's state action. And that implicates the 1st Amendment." Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes has been leading major cases against government induced-censorship on social media platforms. She argues they’ve coerced private companies into censoring individuals like Stanford professor of medicine Jay Bhattacharya or former Harvard professor of epidemiology Martin Kulldorff. 🎬PREMIERE 7:30pm ET: https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders

“Collectivists for decades and centuries have recognized that they have to capture the minds and the loyalties of the young. Every authoritarian dictator in world history has tried to infiltrate the classroom,” says Connor Boyack. He’s the author of the Tuttle Twins children’s books, which have sold over 4 million copies. He recently released “America’s History,” a new Tuttle Twins story-based textbook. At a time when revisionist history runs rampant, it offers an honest look at American history. “Give our kid a shield and a sword before we send them out into the intellectual battlefield. Give them a foundation of these ideas [so] that when they're listening to their teacher or reading a textbook or looking at TikTok…they can evaluate those ideas, rather than just absorb them like a sponge,” Boyack says. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0827ConnorBoyack 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

“Any parent who doesn't recognize that they're on a battlefield, that their children are ground zero in this effort, is going to lose…Collectivists are trying to co-opt and change the minds of our children.” —The Tuttle Twins author Connor Boyack 🎬PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"The people who are doing business with China and, in the process, enriching and propping them up...are making a very cynical calculation that they personally will be enriched for whatever time they're doing that work. And unfortunately, the Chinese play that game. They do enrich those who play along. But they...also use increasingly coercive techniques to make you do things that you don't want to do, like...selling your proprietary seed corn technology, for example, and putting your company ultimately out of business because they've supplanted you."—Frank Gaffney, executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy Watch the new episode, hosted by Jan Jekielek! 🔴 PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0825FrankGaffney 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"We need to disengage from this mortal enemy. The supply chain & other dependencies is a formula for our destruction."—Center For Security Policy executive chairman Frank Gaffney on the Chinese Communist Party "They said, 'We're not strong enough to use military force at the moment, but these are the ways we can conduct warfare against the United States decisively'...Their focus on recruiting, what has been called the 'old friends on Wall Street,' has been incalculably important to the Chinese Communist Party's whole agenda because it has enabled them to have us bankroll their unrestricted warfare against us.” Watch the new episode of #ATL with Jan Jekielek 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🔴 PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0825FrankGaffney 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"$3 to $6 trillion dollars has been moved by Wall Street…from the American investing public—pension funds, 401K plans, exchange-traded funds, index funds, mutual funds, and the like— …to our mortal enemy, the Chinese Communist Party." —Frank Gaffney, executive chairman of the Center for Security Policy 🎬Full episode 8/25 @ 7:30pm ET: https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders

👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0823JamesSherk 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1 "It is just a nightmare trying to fire a federal employee…More often than not, they get reinstated." During the Trump administration, unelected bureaucrats delayed and subverted much of his agenda, says James Sherk, director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. Sherk was deeply involved in the drafting of the Schedule F executive order under the Trump administration. Tonight, he breaks down what reform should look like.

"Federal bureaucrats think they're invulnerable because they've got these extensive protections." During the Trump administration, unelected federal bureaucrats delayed, blocked, or subverted much of Trump’s agenda, says James Sherk, director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. But firing a federal bureaucrat often requires costly litigation. “More often than not, they get reinstated. … And you’re going to have to cover their attorney’s fees and give them back pay,” Sherk says. Sherk was deeply involved in the drafting of the Schedule F executive order under the Trump administration. Tonight on American Thought Leaders, he breaks down what reform should look like. 👉PREMIERE 7:30pm ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0823JamesSherk 🔵 Enjoy Up To 50% Off 👉 https://ept.ms/3bsQ7t1

"Freedom is not the safest thing. It's our way of life though. We mitigate the dangers of freedom by making smart, safe, and responsible choices. Flying on an airplane is not safe. That's how I got here."—Maj Toure, founder of BlackGunsMatter 🔴WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0820MajToure_ 🎬CLIP ABOVE 👆 👆👆

"You shouldn't get to say these are the laws I like, these laws I don't like, I'm only going to work on these laws." A "cancer" of rogue, unelected bureaucrats can sabotage policy with almost no fear of being fired, says James Sherk, director of the Center for American Freedom at the America First Policy Institute. 🎥PREMIERE TUESDAY 8.23 at 7:30pm ET: https://www.theepochtimes.com/c-american-thought-leaders