American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"I'm hoping…that when the scalpel is applied it doesn't hit an artery." Trump has called on DOGE to use a "scalpel" not a "hatchet." It is important the US does not inadvertently cut certain spending that is crucial to national security & deterring the CCP, says China expert Cleo Paskal. Certain US engagements in the Pacific may not be well understood. For example, USPS's costly services in three Pacific Island nations is part of a strategic compact, securing US military access to key islands in the Pacific that the CCP is aggressively seeking to control. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0327CleoPaskal

"There is a proportion of people that when they come off these medications too quickly, a neurotoxicity takes place. You have someone on the drug for several decades. They go and see the doctor. The doctor says, 'Just half the dose, wait two weeks, half the dose again, wait two weeks, and then stop.' Some of those people will be in quite bad withdrawal, and they’ll call up the doctor and they'll say, 'This feels pretty bad. What should I do?' And then, the doctor will say, 'Well, it's a self-limiting problem,' because that's what they've been told to do. And so the person says, 'Well, I don't want to lose this progress. I just want to white-knuckle it through this.' And they do that. And then, maybe a month or two months later, the withdrawal hasn't gone away, and they start to develop global neurological problems.”- Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0325JosefWittDoerring

"If you have ambitions to be a Professor at Yale, Harvard, or one of these big institutions, the way you do that is mostly by getting funding for research. It's by getting a lot of publishing - a lot flying around the world to talk about something. You need all of these things to bolster your reputation as an international expert in this area. Now, the best way to do that, at least in psychiatry but I suspect in other areas of medicine, is actually to collaborate with pharmaceutical companies to run clinical trials. They write the publications for you - most of it, they do a lot of the grunt work, they give you the protocols, and then, essentially, they fund you and fly you around the place.”- Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0325JosefWittDoerring

"When they've gone out and asked people who actually use these [antidepressant] medications whether they're experiencing sexual dysfunction, approximately 60% of people” will answer affirmatively. And that's likely an underestimation, says Dr. Joseph Witt-Doerring. "Then, I returned to the pharmaceutical industry as a drug safety officer, and what I saw going through all of that was essentially that we really were practicing outside of what the psychiatric clinical trials and the evidence showed." 🔴 PREMIERE 3/25, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0325JosefWittDoerring

"Get your pension out of China immediately. It should have been out 10 years ago. It wasn't out 10 years ago. Get your pension dollars out of China right now. Think about this: If China invades Taiwan and the President is making a decision, Xi Jinping can sit there and say, 'If you decide to defend Taiwan, your people are going to lose about a trillion dollars table stakes, because Americans have roughly a trillion dollars in various forms - $1-$2 trillion invested in China. And we'll just turn that off immediately. Immediately.' The state and local governments' pensions probably have between $100-$200 billion invested in China. That all disappears immediately. So, now you have these pension systems going broke. You could fix that with a keystroke. Sell this index that has all this Chinese stuff. Move it to this index that doesn't have this Chinese stuff. That's a simple solution every state should do immediately." - Michael Lucci 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0322MichaelLucci

"If China goes to attack Taiwan, what is going to happen here in the state of Nebraska? How do we mitigate that today? How do we get our pensions out of China? How do we get our supply chains to be less dependent on their technologies, or not depend on their technologies? How do we harden critical infrastructure before that day comes? And they're coming back for, I guess, a trilogy this year. They have this huge package of awesome legislation. They want to register foreign agents from the bad guy countries - from the foreign adversaries. They want to punish crimes that are done on behalf of foreign governments differently than how we punish if it's just a couple of Americans. And they want to get China's genomic-sequencing devices out of the state of Nebraska entirely. They also say no tax credits for foreign adversary companies, and they're fixing some other problems as well. It looks like they want to do a broader pension divestment this year as well." -Michael Lucci https://ept.ms/S0322MichaelLucci

"[China is] trying to invade our homeland...and they likely have developed the capacity to make life very difficult, to create crises within the United States - whether it's power, whether it's wastewater treatment, whether it's telecommunications.” …We just heard from DHS that there are 12,000 Chinese cameras on critical infrastructure across the United States. DHS notified us of this because they're worried about the espionage risk." -Michael Lucci of State Armor 🔴 PREMIERE 3/22, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0322MichaelLucci

"This kind of administrative metastasizing that we see at institutions and bureaucratizing of institutions, where you create such a clerical class of administrators who start to actually exercise authority over areas they should have no business in, like the classroom, academics, curriculum - we see this happening at many, if not most, institutions. And so, one of the ways to attend to that is to make sure that you run as lean as possible, as few administrators as needed, and that those administrators understand that they have a really narrow set of responsibilities at the university.” - University of Austin President Pano Kanelos 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0320PanoKanelos

"In the competitive admissions world we live in for higher education, in order to get into elite universities or top-tier universities, young people are told that they have to have a checklist of things, that they have to follow a certain pattern, that they have to take a certain pathway, and that if they do the right things and they say the right things and they get the right gold stars at the right time, then they will be granted entry into an institution - an elite institution, a top institution - that will help propel them forward in life. Well, what are they learning? They're learning that success is dependent upon conformity. And what happens when those students get to universities? That message is reinforced. 'Come here, don't say anything controversial. Don't challenge what the dominant narrative is. Don't be highly concerned about the ideas that you express, because they might have a deleterious effect on your future.'" - University of Austin President Pano Kanelos 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0320PanoKanelos https://rumble.com/v6qy67u-how-universities-have-created-a-culture-of-conformity-u.-of-austin-presiden.html

“We've created a culture of conformity at universities ...A liberal arts education, in its purest form, is a comprehensive education that brings together all forms of human knowledge. …We're trying to generate graduates who are themselves builders and creators. This is an important part of our curriculum. ...There are things that we have initiated here that are already making their way out to other universities." - University of Austin President Pano Kanelos 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0320PanoKanelos

“They can use any ‘emergency’ to control your life. And they become the standard bearer of science, of health, of truth, of morality." “I was labeled as a quack or as somebody who should [lose my medical license] because what I said wasn’t the same as the government.” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Georgia) was an Emergency Room physician treating patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0318RichMcCormick

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Georgia) argues the U.S. should formally recognize Taiwan as an independent country, instead of continuing its policy of strategic ambiguity. I asked him why: "Same reason that Trump went out on a limb and recognized Israel and Jerusalem as the capital and did the things that he needed to do to shore up somebody who's a friend, somebody who's an ally. Taiwan is strategically important to us, not just because they produce all those great chips at TSMC, but because of that strategic location, that geographic location, those straits, where 70% of the world's traded wealth goes through every year, where 70% of the world's population is centered around that geographical area—and what it means to us to make sure that that country remains independent. Why not pick a winner and a loser? Why not stand up to them? This is why I believe in a strong military and deterrence." …I want to make sure that the quad is strong, that we have Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, all on the same team, not to mention South Korea. I want to make sure that China has a bunch of people in that area that make sure that they feel like if I do something out of line…then I'm going to be punished for it.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV https://rumble.com/v6qucuw-rep.-rich-mccormick-u.s.-should-formally-recognize-taiwan-as-an-independent.html

Three US army soldiers were recently indicted for stealing sensitive information for the CCP. “It’s not just those service members that should be prosecuted, but China should also be punished for what they’ve done,” says Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Georgia), a decorated veteran who served over 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy. As a lawmaker, he has co-sponsored legislation to challenge the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rampant economic espionage and tech influence campaigns, and a resolution supporting formal recognition of Taiwan. 🔴 PREMIERE 3/18, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0318RichMcCormick

This is what the Argentina model tells us about DOGE cuts: When Javier Milei took office, Argentina's economy was in free fall with inflation reaching 211%. Milei slashed federal government spending by 30%, axed 10 of Argentina's 18 government ministries, fired 34,000 public employees, and cut hundreds of regulations. Although Argentina did suffer a GDP reduction of 3.5% in the first year, the private sector grew quickly to fill the gap created by mass government cuts. Now, Argentina's economy is turning around, with projections of economic growth at 6% or even higher. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0313PeterStOnge

"The striking thing about really every one of [America’s] trade partners is that they need us a heck of a lot more than we need them. So to give a flavor, something like one to 2% of the American economy is producing for export to Canada or to Mexico. On the other hand, 20% of the Canadian economy is producing for export to the US. 1/3 of the Mexican economy is producing for export to the US. That means that we have massive leverage over these countries. … What Trump is interested in doing is getting them to lower those barriers. And what he's saying is, if you get rid of your barriers, we'll get rid of our barriers." In this episode, economist Peter St Onge breaks down Trump’s economic strategy, from reciprocal tariffs to DOGE cuts to a massive deregulatory effort. Will he succeed in turning America’s economy around and fixing the deficit? 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV https://rumble.com/v6qoyei-trumps-reciprocal-tariffs-will-they-work-peter-st-onge.html

The Code of Federal Regulations is now over 190,000 pages. One study says that each federal regulator effectively “costs the US economy the equivalent of 138 private sector jobs per year,” with each regulator equating to a $11 million annual loss for the US economy. “One of the great myths of government is that regulations exist because there's some public need.” In reality, the vast majority are bought, argues economist Peter St Onge. “They’re bought by lobbyists, and this has been true since the beginning of regulation.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0313PeterStOnge

Alina Habba on the Tate brothers: "The accusations against the Tate brothers are stomach-churning… That is for the court to handle… What I said was… I am always passionate about people that are vocal… that is very separate…than accusations of human trafficking." "There is no part of me that condones that behavior." 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/S0313AlinaHabba

Alina Habba on the long-awaited Epstein files: "We’re committed to transparency… but you have to protect [victims]… Just because you’re in a Rolodex doesn’t mean you went to Epstein’s Island. …Kash and Pam are serious about creating a pattern… where the American people can trust the justice system is being responsible." 🔴 WATCH on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0313AlinaHabba

Counselor to the President Alina Habba tells us new executive orders are in the works to combat human trafficking. She says she’s working with the different agencies involved to identify and rescue trafficking victims and prosecute the perpetrators. “I am drafting a couple executive orders…that I think will be important to properly get this moving for those kids,” she says. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S0313AlinaHabba

“In the first six to eight months of our existence online as a magazine, some 40 people who were connected to us on the ground were arrested in China. … Half of them simply disappeared.” There are few people that have played a more important role in broadly supporting the rights of religious believers in China than Marco Respinti, director-in-charge of the Bitter Winter magazine. His magazine has been extensively exposing persecution of religious believers in China for many years. For that, their sources have paid a heavy price. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S0311MarcoRespinti