American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

Can states reduce their dependence on China and become robust manufacturing bases? Oklahoma Governor Kevn Stitt says yes. "If there is some kind of conflict between Taiwan and China, it could make the COVID pandemic x20 as far as supply chains. And so, we were trying to ask all of our state agencies, 'Hey, can y'all do a deep dive to see what what would happen with state government if we did lose some of that supply chain with some kind of conflict over there?'" 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4fjPTRW

Governor Kevin Stitt: "We just landed the largest aluminum smelting company that's going to be built in the state of Oklahoma. They haven't built a new smelter for 45 years. …We want Oklahoma to be the critical mineral capital of the United States. So, we've got tons of companies that are moving here for new processes and things that Americans take for granted. We have to bring that supply chain closer to home, whether it's batteries or magnets and the things that go into every part of our life." https://rumble.com/v6wy4ym-governor-kevin-stitt-on-reindustrializing-oklahoma-and-unplugging-from-chin.html

"I've signed MOUs with Taiwan and the UK and multiple other countries. They're going to the states now because Congress is so dysfunctional, it's so political, it's so partisan, that they're literally coming directly to the states." Governor Kevin Stitt is putting Oklahoma on the international radar 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/how-one-state-is-taking-on-the-chinese-communist-party-oklahomas-gov-kevin-stitt-5894627?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=KevinStitt

"Two days after the election in 2016, I was called up on the NSA phone. The person said I had to be on the intelligence community assessment that was assembling to finalize the Russia narrative. because we were going to prove that Trump was a Russian asset, and we were going to delay or block the inauguration of Donald J. Trump for the first term. I just couldn't believe it. This is what I was told on the phone. So, this was a deep state coup from the beginning that actually started in early 2016. We went through the process in November, December. The final product came out in the first few days of January, 2017. But bottom line - [in] the supposed Top Secret Review, there was nothing there to show that Russia was trying to manipulate the campaign or the outcome of the election in the favor of Donald J Trump,” says Col. (Ret.) John Mills. He served as the Director for Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3H5lMky

"What happened in South Korea - absolutely no question about it. This was an international election cartel that influenced the South Korean election. The numbers just mathematically made no sense. There were Chinese operators at the polling stations. You have this thing called the 'National Election Commission,' which is an unassailable body. It's un-auditable and un-investigatable by the South Korean government. And also a very, very problematic situation is it has members of the South Korean Supreme Court on the board of the National Election Commission - a clear failure to separate powers between parts of the South Korean government.” Col. (Ret.) John Mills, former Director of cybersecurity policy at the Dept. of Defense, has been monitoring the recent election in South Korea, and noticed disturbing patterns. https://rumble.com/v6wuxme-how-the-chinese-communist-party-influenced-south-korea-elections-john-mills.html

"[China is] absolutely advancing a relentless onslaught of info warfare - through their media, through their wolf warriors - to advance a Chinese communist message that just drowns out everything else. And there's no intellectual honesty in their viewpoint." - Col. John Mills 🔴 PREMIERE 7/29 at 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3H5lMky

Can Trump pull off a “reverse Kissinger” — and drive a wedge between Russia and the Chinese Communist Party? Gen. Michael Flynn says yes. “If there’s one person that can do it, he can pull Russia out of that orbit. If we don't, then we have an alliance that's much more dangerous for the existence of the United States of America. And there are people in our government that want that, they want that tension, and we can't have it. I'm not an apologist. … I'm looking at the geo-strategic dynamics that are going on globally. And I'm watching closely what the Chinese are doing. … It is the death knell for Russia. Russia will just become a satellite of China." 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3TZbGVb

Gen. Michael Flynn: "They made a conscious decision to weaponize themselves, not only against General Mike Flynn, but also the incoming national security advisor, which is a monumental role in our government…And they made a conscious decision to weaponize components of the government against the President of the United States himself. …The weaponization of the United States government against its own citizenry is very real. It happens on a daily basis. And it doesn't just happen to high-profile political figures. …They put the full weight of their authorities against any American who can't financially afford it, can't emotionally sustain it, and really doesn't have the wherewithal to be able to even understand what is happening. And the next thing that happens is they find themselves in a place where they have to plead guilty to something that they know they didn't do, because otherwise they're going to be completely crushed, and their families are going to be destroyed." In this episode, Michael Flynn reflects on the Russia investigation almost a decade later and Tulsi Gabbard’s release of revealing new declassified documents. https://rumble.com/v6wq0fa-michael-flynn-reflects-on-the-russia-investigation.html

Michael Flynn says he hopes Tulsi Gabbard will release all the transcripts of his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and others. “I was protecting the United States of America from enemies, foreign and domestic—and they knew it,” he says. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3TZbGVb

The trafficking of American citizens, primarily women and children, continues to increase in America, while prosecutions decrease. Despite sound anti-trafficking laws on the books, there is little enforcement, says Jaco Booyens. Gen Z, which spends much of their time online, is particularly vulnerable to predators who, over an average period of nine months, groom and desensitize them to gain proximity. “It's the exploitation of vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, Gen Z displays their vulnerabilities publicly. It's not hidden. They overshare publicly. It's easy to read them,” Booyens says. Jaco Booyens is founder of the anti-trafficking organization Jaco Booyens Ministries. https://rumble.com/v6wn74i-how-traffickers-prey-on-americas-vulnerable-youth-jaco-booyens.html

"Porn is highly addictive because it alters the neural pathways in the brain. It literally shuts down certain areas of the brain and fires up other areas. This is real. This is science. It's biology. It's physiology. The child is defenseless at this moment." - Jaco Booyens 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/46XHyRC

"The number one predictor for academic success for a student is parental involvement. So anybody that stands in the way of parents being involved is actually seeking the destruction of that child's education," argues Sam Sorbo. She's the co-founder of Parents Demanding Justice Alliance (PDJA) with Kelly Walker. They've recently put together a dossier of how certain parents were censored, surveilled, and smeared during the pandemic. "What's amazing is that there weren't more parents that found themselves in this position…There were so many parents who were willing to just lie down and let the schools do whatever they wanted…We need parents more involved and more aware,” Sorbo says. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3GZpdsP

"We’re getting death threats, threats to kill my children. We're getting doxed. Phone rings. An 18 year old barista picks up the phone. She's calling an f-ing c*** - you can fill in the blank. Our employees were terrified." Kelly Walker, a local coffee shop owner in Tucson, Arizona, never imagined how his world would turn upside down when he started speaking out publicly against COVID-19 mandates and the devastating harm to children. At a Board of Supervisors meeting, after he read aloud some of the hateful comments and threats his family had to deal with, he was surrounded by three officers, handcuffed, and booked for disorderly conduct. https://rumble.com/v6wjsl8-surveilled-silenced-and-smeared-how-parents-became-targets-kelly-walker-and.html

"They claimed that three large fathers had stormed the school, tried to arrest the principal. They made us out to be the worst kind of terrorists…I got sentenced to 100 days in jail & $10,000 in fines. I was told I had to scrub my social media and be quiet." Kelly Walker and Sam Sorbo, co-founders of the Parents Demanding Justice Alliance (PDJA), have recently compiled a dossier on actions taken by local authorities to censor, surveil and pressure parents who protested COVID-era policies and their harms to children. 🔴 PREMIERE 9pm ET on @EpochTV: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/surveilled-silenced-and-smeared-how-parents-became-domestic-terrorists-kelly-walker-and-sam-sorbo-5891066?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=AmericanThoughtLeaders&utm_term=SamandKelly

For nearly 20 years, we've been exposing the Chinese regime's murder-for-organs industry targeting practitioners of Falun Gong. The Chinese regime has since expanded this industry to target other groups, including the Uyghurs. They even advertise them as "halal organs" to Muslims in need of organ transplants. Here's what Rushan Abbas told us: "Starting from 2016, before this mass detention, the Uyghurs were subject to mandatory house checkups and DNA collections. And then when this mass detention started, we started to hear that crematoriums were being built next to the concentration camps. …The airports in the major Uyghur cities like Kashgar–there's a fast lane, special lane dedicated to people who are transporting human organs. …Just remember what's happening to us today, and imagine the future of the world tomorrow if we don't stop China." Rushan Abbas is the executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs and author of "Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom." 🔴 https://ept.ms/3GMJC4w

“24 members of my husband's family went missing, and when I talked about that, they went after my sister. The [Chinese] government detained my sister to silence me…to punish me. So this is actually a part of China's transnational repression, and it should be recognized as international crime. …The Chinese government is not only targeting people like the Uyghurs and the Falun Gong practitioners or Tibetans or Hong Kongers, but they're coming after all these people living in the Western free world. There are 102 Chinese police stations all over the world, [including] in the United States. The Chinese government uses those police stations to monitor and manipulate and make threats" to silence or force targets to return to China. Rushan Abbas is the executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs and author of "Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom." In 2018, the Chinese regime imprisoned Rushan Abbas’s sister Gulshan in an apparent attempt to silence Rushan. Her sister was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and she has since spent almost seven years detained—with no end in sight. https://rumble.com/v6we7ru-the-ccp-sentenced-my-sister-to-20-years-in-prison-to-silence-me-rushan-abba.html

"Your thoughts are owned. Your speech, your expression, even your movements are owned…Checkpoints, facial recognition software, emotion detection, iris-scanning systems…You are being monitored 24/7." "What the Chinese government is doing in East Turkestan to Uyghurs [puts] George Orwell's imagination to shame…[It's] one hundred times worse." Rushan Abbas, founder of Campaign for Uyghurs and author of "Unbroken: One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom” exposes the harrowing realities of life in East Turkestan. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/3GMJC4w

🚨 New FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells me that the FDA had previously approved gene therapy in Americans whereby the cells were gene-edited in Chinese labs. "Literally, the cells were taken from Americans, sent to Chinese labs where they were genetically altered, and then shipped back to the US, where those cells were infused back into American patients." 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/3IOkKtv

🚨In this EXCLUSIVE interview, FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary exposes major safety loopholes at foreign pharmaceutical plants: "In the US, we have surprise inspections, but overseas, we're letting them off easy by scheduling the inspection. Well, they're laughing at us. They know exactly the day and the time we're arriving. They were sending limousines to pick up the FDA inspectors to go inspect their facility. …When we found out about that, we put a halt…We're moving to surprise inspections, and we're also changing the way we do inspections to be smarter. So, we have got to stand up for ourselves…We have got to restore policies that bring back dignity and value to the United States and protect our children." https://rumble.com/v6wbcwa-dr.-marty-makary-explains-how-theyre-closing-major-fda-safety-loopholes.html

🚨Dr. Marty Makary: "These childhood vaping products - we don't even know what's in them. They're banned in China, and they ship them over to the United States. …Some of these devices are designed to look like a highlighter so a kid can use it in school and it be disguised. …We're learning a lot about what happened in the last administration. …The FDA would inspect these boxes, see these illegal Chinese vaping products, and they would then give them back to the manufacturer by putting them back on a ship to go back to China. ...They would then take those boxes and bring them to another US port. It's called port shopping. …I don't want to see these companies laughing at the United States anymore. We're taking serious action on them, and we're cracking down,” says FDA commissioner Marty Makary. https://rumble.com/v6wbcs2-dr.-marty-makary-exposes-disguised-vaping-products-for-children-from-china.html