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“We can’t do [surveillance] in China. They can do it here, and it's a huge vulnerability. They can easily find the people they want to take off the board - it’s mapped out from our phones.” Where you go, who you associate with, what you like is all easily discoverable thanks to third party trackers on your smartphone apps. “It’s publicly available. It's purchasable,” says Joe Weil, CEO of Unplugged. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4ibbcXp

Most people have heard of IVF. Scientists are now toying with a more radical idea called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG): reprogramming adult somatic cells (such as skin cells) into sperms or eggs. It’s been done in animals for years. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty explains what the implications would be. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4oKVwwe

An op-ed in the MIT Technology Review recently argued for the creation of lab-grown “spare” human bodies that they call “bodyoids.” These would essentially be human bodies created from human stem cells, but supposedly without brains or consciousness. They say they would revolutionize medical research and drug testing and create an unlimited supply of organs. What does it say about our society when leading scientists and professors at Stanford University are entertaining these ideas as if they're perfectly normal or reasonable things to debate or think about? This is what happens when utilitarian ethics supersedes traditional Hippocratic medicine. And this is the danger of “for the greater good” thinking, says bioethics expert and psychiatrist Dr. Aaron Kheriaty. He calls it zombie bioethics. https://rumble.com/v71x29i-scientists-want-to-create-brainless-human-bodies-for-research-and-organ-tra.html

Three Stanford scientists/ethicists recently argued that we should consider creating “bodyoids”—brainless human bodies grown in a laboratory from stem cells—that could be used for medical research and drug testing and provide an unlimited supply of human organs. It’s zombie bioethics, says Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a bioethics expert, psychiatrist, and author of “Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/4oKVwwe

🚨The story of Declan Ganley is an insane example of CCP lawfare at work. Declan Ganley is an Irish telecommunications entrepreneur who has been working on, most recently, a self-contained satellite-based communications system called the “Outernet” that has the potential to revolutionize global communications. Unlike our current internet system that’s dependent on highly vulnerable undersea cables that can easily be sabotaged, this system would have no touchpoints on the ground. Chinese investors approached Ganley, promising billions of dollars in capital. They promised equipment and 50% of the equity. When Declan refused, what followed was a “torrent, a tsunami of lawsuits.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/49T3hvw

Natalya Murakhver, co-founder of Restore Childhood, tells me the fascinating story of what happened when she met with Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, in the fall of 2022 and asked her to use her influence at the CDC to remove the masking mandates for school children. 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/4qVJP7y

🚨As much as 99% of global internet communications rely on a series of undersea cables that are incredibly vulnerable to sabotage—as China has shown us—and earlier this year China unveiled a special tool that can cut even the deepest undersea cables. Declan Ganley, CEO of Rivada Space Networks, estimates it would only take about $60 million for a nefarious actor or country to cut enough global undersea cables to bring down the internet around the world. “Approximately $60 million will do that job. Will take out the global subsea cables. That's how pathetically vulnerable the global subsea cable infrastructure is because it's just so big, it's so vast, you cannot protect it,” he told me. https://rumble.com/v71rfbw-heres-how-vulnerable-our-global-internet-system-is-declan-ganley.html

Entrepreneur Declan Ganley is building a technology that will likely revolutionize global connectivity and security—and China wants it. In fact, Chinese investors promised him billions in investment. Ganley declined. Now, he finds himself besieged by an onslaught of lawsuits that have already cost him and his company $36 million in legal fees. 🔴 PREMIERE 5PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/49T3hvw

💡This is one of our most potent weapons against the Chinese regime, says Ambassador Sam Brownback: "They have organized a group of dictators against the United States, and we need to go at them like they're going at us. And one of the key ways we could do it would be to support religious freedom amongst the people in China. Support the Tibetan Buddhists. Support the Muslim Uyghurs. Support the Christians that are in prison. Ask for their release. Support the Falun Gong practitioners. …It will drive the Chinese communists nuts, crazy.” 🔴 WATCH FULL: https://ept.ms/47fo4b7

Jan Jekielek asked filmmaker Natalya Murakhver what people will see when they watch her new film ‘15 DAYS’: “They'll bear witness to the stories of the people who experienced the closures directly…We started in 2022 so the pain was still extremely raw. …As we show the film, I see people. I watch their body language, and they shudder. It takes them back to a very, very dark time, and I don't believe we could have gotten those stories from those people today if we tried to recreate it.” https://rumble.com/v71nyze-how-school-closures-irrevocably-harmed-a-generation-natalya-murakhver.html

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