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How can we begin to quantify the devastating harms of prolonged school closures on a generation of kids? Beyond the dramatic learning losses and test score declines, what about the students who simply never went back? All the promising young athletes who lost their chance? All the kids who lost focus or lost interest or both? Natalya Murakhver, co-founder of Restore Childhood, documents these heartbreaking stories in her new film "15 DAYS: The Real Story of America's Pandemic School Closures." 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4qVJP7y

“Religious believers are the only community left that we can work with inside of China that would stand up to this regime, and that's why the regime spends billions of dollars to oppress and suppress and control every single religion within the country. …Once Ronald Reagan started talking about the Jewish refuseniks, it gave them hope. They started fighting back more. They started resisting more because they had hope now that somebody was actually listening…and that's what we need to do for them.” - Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, author of the upcoming book "China's War on Faith" 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/47fo4b7

The world lost a hero recently. Daniel Suidani was one of the only people who dared to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party’s invisible takeover of many Pacific Island nations—essential strategic locations in the Pacific. Suidani died of kidney failure at age 55. As premier of the Malaita province of the Solomon Islands, Suidani refused a bribe, publicly challenged CCP influence operations in the region, and blocked CCP-linked companies like Huawei from operating in his province. As a result, the CCP managed to get him stripped of his position, used lawfare to destroy him, and even deprived him of medical care when he desperately needed it. It was my honor to meet and interview Suidani when he came to the United States in 2023. I recently spoke to Rep. Neal Dunn about Suidani’s legacy. Rep. Dunn made his trip to America possible by securing him a visa when he was initially denied one by the State Department. https://rumble.com/v71lyco-the-legacy-of-daniel-suidani-who-dared-to-stand-up-to-the-ccp-taking-over-t.html

There were virtually no pharmaceutical companies researching cures for rare diseases—also known as “orphan” diseases—before 1983, but that has since changed. Here’s why, says Patrick Girondi: “In 1983 the orphan disease act was introduced. Marlene Haffner, who at the time was called the godmother of the orphan disease act, she’s a wonderful woman. Even she said there's no money going into curing diseases because there's no money in it, because there's too few of them. And they came up with these rules and regulations, stimulations. They gave 50% tax credit to people who would invest in clinical trials for orphan diseases. Today it's 25%. They would give all sorts of stimulation through finance etc. to companies who would dedicate themselves to curing rare diseases. It was a wonderful legislation, and there's 6000 rare diseases. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4p2Zm3D

When Patrick Girondi’s son was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder, he made a deal with God if he’d only save his son’s life. Now Girondi is keeping his side of the deal. “When Rocco was diagnosed, I'll never forget it. We went to Piezo, Italy, to see about a match [for a bone marrow or stem cell transplant], and we found out that there was no match in the family. I guess that was probably the only time in my life I can ever remember being desperate, and I promised the Lord that if he would help me save Rocco's life, that I would dedicate the rest of my life to fighting these rare diseases. When he was diagnosed and they told me this word—thalassemia—I couldn't spell it. I could barely pronounce it. And then the explanation and the education about all of these rare diseases and all of these families who are stuck with this egregious, horrific news. And I'm more fortunate than others because…I had the resources. …So that's what I mean by: I will dedicate the rest of my life. And after I'm gone…I hope that the company is around, that we can continue to dedicate the resources,” says Girondi. https://rumble.com/v71kl7i-patrick-girondis-pact-with-god-to-save-his-sons-life.html

In the early 1990s, Patrick Girondi’s young son Rocco was diagnosed with thalassemia, a rare blood disorder caused by a defect in the globin genes. So Patrick Girondi set out to find a cure. Now his son will be among the first to receive his company’s new treatment for thalassemia as part of clinical trials starting in a few months. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4p2Zm3D

For years, Michael Shellenberger was demonized for advocating for the use of nuclear power as a rational solution to our energy needs. But it seems we’re seeing a major shift. There’s been a huge sea change in public opinion. The bad news, Shellenberger says, is that in the years it took for this to happen, many nuclear plants have been shut down. “We did lose a fair number of them. Saved a bunch of them...but they're still shutting down nuclear plants in Germany. Facebook needs so much power for their server farms that they bought all the power from Three Mile Island. That's the one reactor that has been operating since 1979. The reactor right next to it melted in 1979 and people thought that was some apocalyptic event…The radiation was contained in the containment dome, just like it had been designed to do. And now everybody wants that power, [is] desperate for that cheap nuclear power in a plant that's already built. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/494QOER

Is the era of climate extremists vandalizing priceless art finally over? This is what Michael Shellenberger told us: “It feels like it's coming to an end…Climate extremism has lost a lot of legitimacy over the last five or six years.” Even Bill Gates has recently rejected “doomsday” predictions and called for climate solutions focused on human welfare. “On those metrics we're doing well. We are more resilient to extreme weather events. The number of disasters has gone down…Fewer people are dying from hurricanes and floods. …Now it's clear that the activist scientists were manipulating models to show an acceleration in sea-level rise.” https://rumble.com/v71f2p4-why-michael-shellenberger-thinks-the-era-of-climate-extremism-is-over.html

“It's clear that the activist scientists were manipulating models to show an acceleration in sea-level rise,” says Michael Shellenberger, author of “Apocalypse Never.” “The only long-term, reliable source of data, which is called tide gauge data…shows no acceleration from the 1850s on.” 🔴 PREMIERE 11/8 at 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/494QOER

This is why the tiny Solomon Islands and other Pacific nations are CRITICAL to American national security—and why we can’t let them fall into CCP control, says Rep. Neal Dunn: They’re “right in the middle of access to China.” “Anybody who's ever studied military history, especially in the Pacific, realizes immediately that (1) the distances are huge and (2) you can't get to China…without going through all those islands. …[The CCP] want to control that. And by the way, controlling means controlling all their communications…fiber optic cables, they already own all those…and they have won over a majority of the parliament.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3WJ3hXm

It’s time to ban transplant tourism to China, says Rep. Neal Dunn, a former Army surgeon. As a starting point, he’s introduced the BLOCK Act which would prohibit federal reimbursement for organ transplants in China—and other places where the organ source can’t be verified—and for related medical services (ex. post-op and other medical care in America). “We don't want Americans to participate in any way, shape or form, in this kind of organ harvesting and transplantation scheme. …You can actually make an appointment…for a heart, lung transplant in China right now. …I want to make that illegal.” https://rumble.com/v71bv9s-its-time-to-ban-transplant-tourism-to-china-rep.-neal-dunn.html

“The idea of actually murdering someone to take their organs and give them to somebody else…we don't want Americans to participate in any way, shape or form.” It’s time to ban American transplant tourism to China, says Rep. Neal Dunn, a former Army surgeon. He’s recently introduced the BLOCK Act that would prohibit federal reimbursement for transplants and related medical services if the organ source cannot be verified. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/49D5ISL

🚨For decades, people with Lyme disease have struggled with a debilitating illness and often been gaslit about their symptoms. I recently learned that there’s actually a cure for Lyme disease—yet virtually no one seems to know about it. A few months ago, I interviewed entrepreneur John Miller, who told me that he was cured of Lyme disease by a therapy known as whole-body hyperthermia. It was developed by Dr. Friedrich Douwes in Germany, and I recently met his son Dr. Julian Douwes while he was speaking at the Food Independence Summit in Ohio. They first discovered it when they were using the treatment for stage four cancer patients. They heated patients to 106.8 degrees Fahrenheit—the highest temperature a person can have a fever spike to before they suffer permanent brain damage—and discovered that it killed all the spirochetes, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/43JjXBO

I recently discovered a whole new world of canning with Sarah Thrush. She cans meats, vegetables, fruits in bulk and stores them on her shelves to last an entire year—or even longer. "As long as they're in a good environment, away from the sun, cool, dry, they'll last for years on your shelves," she says. “It’s the ultimate food prep,” she says, and gives her full control of the ingredients in the jar. She says she saves $10,000 - $12,000 a year on groceries. There's been a huge surge of interest in canning since COVID, she says: "It's like we're waking up from a grocery store coma…This isn't the norm. This isn't how we have lived in this country.” https://rumble.com/v718gs2-its-like-were-waking-up-from-a-grocery-store-coma.html

There’s a powerful, growing movement towards self-sufficiency in America, and back in June I had the great pleasure of visiting Ohio Amish country and witnessing some of this firsthand at the Food Independence Summit. Here at the summit, people learned how to grow, preserve, and prepare homegrown food for their families. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/43JjXBO

This is what many don’t know about SSRI antidepressants: They can permanently kill smooth muscle cells in the penis, leading to scarring in patients as young as 11 years old, says leading sexual medicine expert Dr. Irwin Goldstein: “We're finding in our study that oxygen radical concentrations are increased in individuals who take these medicines. Oxygen radicals are very potent oxygen molecules that attach and kill smooth muscle cells in the penis, leading to increased scarring in the penis. That is not a reversible concept. We have identified in 11, 12, 15-year old people, scarring in their penises, adversely affecting function because of the use of these medicines. That's the sad part. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4p88og3

Many people prescribed SSRI antidepressants don’t realize that they can cause irreversible damage to sexual function, says leading sexual medicine clinician Dr. Irwin Goldstein. “While using the medication, it's widely appreciated that individuals will suffer sexual health concerns. But…when they stop the medicine, the usual teaching is that everyone returns to their pre-medication sexual function. And that's not what we're seeing in our sexual health clinic here. …These individuals in my clinic who have been given the medicines—our youngest is age 11. They'll never experience what one would otherwise consider a normal sexual life for using the medication.” https://rumble.com/v7138cc-potential-irreversible-damage-to-sexual-health-linked-to-ssri-antidepressan.html

Evidence suggests that SSRIs, a class of antidepressants, can cause PERMANENT damage to sexual function, says leading sexual medicine physician Dr. Irwin Goldstein. "It's an awful condition. It persists, causes frustration, embarrassment, humiliation," Dr. Goldstein says. Yet most patients aren't aware of this risk when they first get on SSRIs. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4p88og3

Here in America and Canada, we often underestimate the idea that families are meant to last—not just for a generation, but for many, says Bill High. In Japan, Switzerland, Italy—you’ll see companies that have lasted 200, 500, even 1,000 years. Because families there think in centuries, not just a single generation. What if we did the same? High is the co-author of “The Legacy Life” with David Green, the billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby, which is known for their Christian values and for giving away HALF of all their profits. It starts simple, High says: • Define your family values • Write down 3–5 words that will anchor your family. The Green family’s are: “God, family, people.” • Have a family mission statement. • Put them on the wall and on the doorposts of your home • Talk about them morning and night and at the dinner table • Live by them—together 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4qBuDMK

David Green doesn’t run his company like most retail CEO’s. He gives away half of the company’s profits to ministries. He closes all his stores on Sundays. He refuses to sell Halloween products. And he built a debt-free business from the ground up. And when the federal government tried to force his company to cover four specific contraceptives he believed would be similar to abortions—he sued, and won. https://rumble.com/v710f4g-this-retail-giant-gives-away-half-its-profits-closes-on-sunday-and-sued-the.html