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#DEI #Harvard #Plagiarism
“The [academic] institution wanting to protect people who have committed fraud is another level of fraud. So, that's like another story. So, you have: plagiarism is one, entire bodies of literature that are corrupt, institutions protecting people who ‘cheated’ - there's really no there's no politic or polite way to say it, nor should there be. And then you have other things that we can talk about, like citation cartels, etc. But those are the three areas of corruption to me.”- Peter Boghossian
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“The [academic] institution wanting to protect people who have committed fraud is another level of fraud. So, that's like another story. So, you have: plagiarism is one, entire bodies of literature that are corrupt, institutions protecting people who ‘cheated’ - there's really no there's no politic or polite way to say it, nor should there be. And then you have other things that we can talk about, like citation cartels, etc. But those are the three areas of corruption to me.”- Peter Boghossian
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“I often joke that it takes intellectuals to come up with some of the dumbest ideas.”
In this episode, we sit down with Gad Saad, professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of “The Parasitic Mind” and most recently, “The Saad Truth About Happiness.”
What is the recipe to a good life? How do humor, grit, and gratitude factor into it?
What are parasitic ideas and how can we build resistance to them?
And how has basic scientific inquiry been flipped on its head?
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Today, I sit down with Julio Rosas, a senior writer for Townhall and a U.S. Marine in the Reserves. Since 2020, he’s been traveling to the middle of the action to report on chaotic, and often dangerous, situations.
“These are big stories, and we can't rely unfortunately on the rest of the media to accurately relay the importance of it or tell the story,” says Rosas.
We discuss the recent hearing on the border crisis in Yuma, Arizona, in which the House Judiciary Committee spoke with local residents about mass migration has affected their community.
“The only major hospital for many, many miles around…they're out $26 million dollars because of medical care that they've had to provide to illegal immigrants. But they're not paying them back, the migrants,” explains Rosas.
We also discuss his book, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful: The 2020 Riots and the Gaslighting of America,” and how well-intended policies and our obsession with race have ended up exacerbating racial tensions, enabling crime, and stoking further division.
“There are so many parallels between the border crisis and the crime crisis because just like with the cartels, the criminal elements are more emboldened than ever,” says Rosas.
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"All ideas should first be tested at the state level before they're allowed to get to Washington. If somebody says, 'I got a great idea,' say, 'Experiment on Rhode Island. Let us know how it turned out.'"-GroverNorquist
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“They’re going to go element by element through their economy and see which of those is still open to attack from the West … to seal those up prior to invading Taiwan.”
Previously, in part one of my interview with retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding, he broke down the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare, which is detailed in his latest book “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination.”
Now in part two, we discuss what’s really going on behind China’s new round of draconian lockdowns. Is it potentially related to Xi Jinping’s plans for Taiwan?
“The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t do things willy-nilly. It’s very deliberate,” Spalding says.
How can the United States effectively counter the Chinese communist threat to Taiwan and the rest of the free world?
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“When you subsidize something, you hide the cost to consumers. So they purchase more of it than they want to, than they meant to. More people will make it, but there's less real demand for it … All subsidies and taxes turn prices into lies.”
In this episode, I’m joined by Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform. In a time of soaring inflation and economic hardship, we sat down to discuss what Americans can do to legitimately reduce their taxes.
“Consider moving to a state that doesn't have an income tax or that has a single-rate tax,” says Mr. Norquist. “New York City: city and state personal income tax? About 14 percent-plus. Move to Miami: state and city income tax? Zero.”
How do corporate income taxes, subsidies, and bail-outs impact the economy? And what can the federal government learn from individual states about how to formulate its tax policy?
“Governments shouldn't fix recessions. They should step out of the way, reduce taxes, reduce regulations, let prices reassert themselves … And as happened in 1921, and earlier ones, short recessions fix themselves quickly if everybody's allowed to reallocate their resources, their time, switch jobs, and so on. But if the government says, well, here's how we fix things—that's how we got into the problem in the first place,” says Mr. Norquist.
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"Chevron, more so than any other doctrine out there, facilitates the most egregious power grabs. And, indeed, over the last 20 odd years, has facilitated an alarming growth in what is known as the administrative state."
Will Yeatman is senior fellow at the Pacific Legal Foundation's Center for the Separation of Powers. He recently filed an amicus brief in the case of Loper Bright Enterprise v. Raimondo, in which he argues for the Supreme Court to overturn Chevron deference, a legal doctrine that allows the government's interpretation to prevail when a law is unclear.
"The problem here is that all laws are rife with ambiguity. This means the upshot, in essence, is that the government always wins when it's able to invoke the Chevron Doctrine. Effectively, it puts a thumb on the scales of justice in favor of government," says Mr. Yeatman. "By, in essence, having the judiciary abdicate its law interpretation responsibilities to the executive branch and by having, at the same time, Congress abdicating its lawmaking responsibilities to the executive branch, we're seeing this unhealthy imbalance in our separated powers."
Mr. Yeatman claims the principle of Chevron deference has been effectively shelved by the Supreme Court, yet continues to thrive at the lower courts, largely because of the Justice Department's influence.
"The Supreme Court, as its composition has changed, has become evidently skeptical of Chevron deference. And how do we know that? We know that because the court hasn't referred to it and hasn't used this principle in more than six years," says Mr. Yeatman.
“They’re going to go element by element through their economy and see which of those is still open to attack from the West … to seal those up prior to invading Taiwan.”
Previously, in part one of my interview with retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding, he broke down the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare, which is detailed in his latest book “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination.”
Now in part two, we discuss what’s really going on behind China’s new round of draconian lockdowns. Is it potentially related to Xi Jinping’s plans for Taiwan?
“The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t do things willy-nilly. It’s very deliberate,” Spalding says.
How can the United States effectively counter the Chinese communist threat to Taiwan and the rest of the free world?
Cleo Paskal: “Xi [Jinping] in particular has staked his reputation on delivering Taiwan. But it doesn't stop with Taiwan.” The CCP’s goal is to “push the Americans out of the Indo-Pacific … and push American functional operational capabilities back to Hawaii." - - - #shorts #short #shortsvideo #shortsfeed #china #chinanews #military #xijinping #Taiwan #nuclear #ccp #communism #worldwar3 #worldwar2 #pacific #war #history #freedom #communist #putin #putin_zelensky #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #russiaukraine #kiev #russian #russianarmy #invasion #vladimirputin #stalin #tactics #nato #belarus #nuclearwar #humanity #VictorDavisHanson #chinataiwan #taiwannews
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“I'm a black woman and I'm being called a white supremacist. That had never happened in my entire teaching career. And not only that, I’d never seen teachers calling each other names like that.”
In 2021, Dr. Tabia Lee was hired to direct De Anza College’s Office of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education and to reduce the wokeness of the institution.
“I just went beyond the smaller bubble to the larger community, and said, ‘Who wants to work on actual inclusion and doing some things we've never done here before?’” says Dr. Lee
But after two years, Dr. Lee was terminated for her heterodox perspectives and inquiry-based approach to DEI.
“I've lost everything, basically. And that’s tough,” says Dr. Lee. “But what I've gained is so many people coming and saying, ‘Thank you for having the courage. Thank you for raising the issue.’ They’ve said, ‘You inspired me to ask about my equity policy. You inspired me to go into my child’s school and ask to see that curriculum, and to make a public records act request if needed, if people aren't being forthcoming with the information I'm seeking. You inspired me to push back when I wasn’t going to, and I hadn’t in the past.’ And to me, that's worth everything, because that's what it's going to take to take our nation back.”
We discuss Dr. Lee’s heterodox approach to DEI, inquiry-based learning, the difference between classical and critical social justice, and what it means to genuinely practice inclusion.
“We’re making that small impact with our students,right? But the broader system is just being destroyed and dismantled right before our eyes. And we're complicit in that because we're not saying anything,” days Dr. Lee.
Tim Ballard: "They want to get rid of the term 'pedophile', and call it a 'minor-attracted person.'"
At least 2 million children are being exploited by the global sex trade. The new action drama film "Sound of Freedom” is based on the incredible true story of Tim Ballard rescuing children from sex traffickers.
“They depend more on us than we depend on them…Fundamentally, the rise of China does not really continue from an economic perspective without access to Western markets, Western capital and Western technology,” says Jonathan Ward. He is a China scholar, founder of the Atlas Organization, and author of “The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China.”
“It's not just a military and diplomatic contest. It's a contest for what sorts of beliefs and possibilities lie ahead of humanity in the 21st century,” Ward says.
What would it take for the U.S. to out-maneuver and triumph over the Chinese Communist Party? What are the key strategies the U.S. should deploy when it comes to the economy, diplomacy, the military, and the ideological arena? Why is rebuilding America as an industrial base absolutely critical?
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“We're incentivizing the traffickers … The United States government is paying for the flights and the bus tickets to deliver these children to people who view children as assets,” says Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Rodas.
A federal employee for two decades, including 17 years in the inspector general community, she was among a number of people who answered a call from the Biden administration to help with the crisis at the border and a surge in unaccompanied minors.
“Everybody just believed we were reuniting children with families … I thought I would be able to help, you know—be that smiling, welcoming face to the children when they came. I just had no idea that the children didn't know who they were going to,” Rodas says.
Large numbers of unaccompanied minors are being sent by HHS to sponsors that are not being properly vetted, Rodas says. In some cases, kids are being released to apartment buildings where dozens of other children have also been released. In other cases, there are sponsors using multiple addresses to sponsor children, she says. And in some cases, sponsors are submitting fake documentation—that no one is checking.
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“Right now the topic is: will there be war with China? How soon? Someday, there might be another set of questions. Can we win a war with China? If so, how?” says Michael Pillsbury, senior fellow for China strategy at The Heritage Foundation and a co-author of the new report: “Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China.”
“We have to be able to think through: what are our advantages? What are our weaknesses? And how would this war be conducted?” Pillsbury says.
Dozens of laws to counter the Chinese Communist Party threat have been proposed in recent years, but how many have actually been passed and implemented?
“If you just watch television, you see all these members of the House and Senate bragging about their new legislation. So of course, I would think—and others would think—we’re doing a lot to stop the Chinese. What if it’s not true?” Pillsbury says.
“They’re going to go element by element through their economy and see which of those is still open to attack from the West … to seal those up prior to invading Taiwan.”
Previously, in part one of my interview with retired Brigadier General Robert Spalding, he broke down the Chinese regime’s strategy of unrestricted warfare, which is detailed in his latest book “War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination.”
Now in part two, we discuss what’s really going on behind China’s new round of draconian lockdowns. Is it potentially related to Xi Jinping’s plans for Taiwan?
“The Chinese Communist Party doesn’t do things willy-nilly. It’s very deliberate,” Spalding says.
How can the United States effectively counter the Chinese communist threat to Taiwan and the rest of the free world?
Tim Ballard: "They want to get rid of the term 'pedophile', and call it a 'minor-attracted person.'"
At least 2 million children are being exploited by the global sex trade. The new action drama film "Sound of Freedom” is based on the incredible true story of Tim Ballard rescuing children from sex traffickers.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treats people of faith “as though they carry an infectious disease [that] needs to be cured … ‘Reeducation’ is a code word for human reengineering,” says Nury Turkel, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He was born in a reeducation camp in China during the Cultural Revolution. It’s been 19 years since he last saw his mother, who remains in China.
We discuss the CCP’s high-tech tyranny, its war on religious faiths—detailed in a new USCIRF report—and the influence of Chinese lobbying in America.
What was America’s greatest strategic blunder in its relationship with the CCP? And how can it be rectified now?
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In this episode, I sit down with Adam Andrzejewski.
Through tens of thousands of Freedom of Information Act requests, this government watchdog has compiled and made public almost all U.S. money taxed and spent, at every level of government, across all 50 states.
"[The Government Accountability Office] were charged by Congress at taking a look at the payments into China; they found $49 million. We found $490 million because we actually dug a little deeper. We dug into the sub-grants," Mr. Andrzejewski says.
“We do the hard work so you can hold the political class accountable for tax and spend decisions.”
We discuss the problem of earmarks—what Mr. Andrzejewski calls Congress’s “currency of corruption.”
“Earmarks were brought back after a 10-year ban because of secret votes in the Republican caucus, where they voted to join Pelosi Democrats to bring back the practice,” he says.
We also discuss government contracts and grants to adversaries nations and the militarization of our federal agencies.
“There are 76 traditional, paper-pushing, regulatory, civil administrative agencies that have now armed up,” says Mr. Andrzejewski. “Who knew that the National Institutes of Health had a police force of over 100 officers?”
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“This is happening nationwide. Our students have lost that ability, I think, to tolerate critical thinking and to hear perspectives that are different than the main narrative or the main party line that is being pushed."
Board-certified pediatrician Renata Moon had been a professor of medicine at Washington State University for six years, until the medical school terminated her employment, ostensibly in response to her speaking out about risks related to the COVID-19 genetic vaccines.
"They said in the memo that they had an ethical obligation to report my words to the medical commission of my state, Washington state, because I may have spoken misinformation. And they also said in that same memo that I may no longer be suitable in teaching their medical students because they follow the evidence. And at the end of June, they failed to renew my annual contract as a faculty member," says Dr. Moon.
Prior to Dr. Moon's termination, she was invited to a U.S. Senate fact-finding subcommittee to provide testimony on what she was seeing in patients who had been giving the mRNA shot. It was there that she revealed a vaccine package insert that had been intentionally left blank by its manufacturers.
"What is in that vial that's in that box that someone has been asked to inject into a child? How can anyone know what's in there when it doesn't tell you in the package insert?" asks Dr. Moon. "We're talking about little children who have a statistically zero risk from the infection itself. And this shot doesn't even prevent the infection, right? So, what I'm most concerned about is the health of our nation's kids. That's what my job has been for my whole career. And we have every right and the obligation to speak out and to have this discussion. And instead, we have been silenced and we have been threatened, as evidenced by the loss of my job, apparently over this."
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Across the Western world, we’re hearing growing calls to stop eating meat—and especially beef—to combat climate change. But is this really about saving the planet?
“They're trying to take the animal and the soil out of our consumption model, and turn it into basically something that's grown and produced in the labs,” argues Texas Slim, founder of the Beef Initiative.
The campaign against beef is just one part of a radical change in both our food and our health over the last half-century, says Texas Slim. A study in 2018 showed that 88 percent of American adults are metabolically unhealthy. What are the root causes? And how do we turn this situation around?
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Tim Ballard: "It was one of the most transformational moments in my life..."
At least 2 million children are being exploited by the global sex trade. The new action drama film "Sound of Freedom” is based on the incredible true story of Tim Ballard rescuing children from sex traffickers.
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"If the government has a license to treat people differently, depending upon their identity, then they now have a license to punish & reward as they wish."
Bruce Pardy, executive director of Rights Probe, explains why the push for equity is fundamentally at odds with a society based on rule of law.
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Across the Western world, we’re hearing growing calls to stop eating meat—and especially beef—to combat climate change. But is this really about saving the planet?
“They're trying to take the animal and the soil out of our consumption model, and turn it into basically something that's grown and produced in the labs,” argues Texas Slim, founder of the Beef Initiative.
The campaign against beef is just one part of a radical change in both our food and our health over the last half-century, says Texas Slim. A study in 2018 showed that 88 percent of American adults are metabolically unhealthy. What are the root causes? And how do we turn this situation around?
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One year on, what is the legacy of the trucker convoy protests? Why have so many people bought into the idea that a society and its problems must be managed and controlled by so-called experts? And why are laws that pursue equity fundamentally at odds with a society based on the rule of law?
“If the government has a license to treat people differently depending upon their identity, then they now have a license to punish and reward as they wish,” says Bruce Pardy, the executive director of Rights Probe and a professor of law at Queen's University in Canada, in this episode of American Thought Leaders.
“In many ways, the most disappointing thing about this experience during COVID was the fact that a great many people supported the regime, and they didn't seem to have very much appreciation for the aberration that it represented,” says Mr. Pardy.
“Right now the topic is: will there be war with China? How soon? Someday, there might be another set of questions. Can we win a war with China? If so, how?” says Michael Pillsbury, senior fellow for China strategy at The Heritage Foundation and a co-author of the new report: “Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China.”
“We have to be able to think through: what are our advantages? What are our weaknesses? And how would this war be conducted?” Pillsbury says.
Dozens of laws to counter the Chinese Communist Party threat have been proposed in recent years, but how many have actually been passed and implemented?
“If you just watch television, you see all these members of the House and Senate bragging about their new legislation. So of course, I would think—and others would think—we’re doing a lot to stop the Chinese. What if it’s not true?” Pillsbury says.
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“We're incentivizing the traffickers … The United States government is paying for the flights and the bus tickets to deliver these children to people who view children as assets,” says Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower Tara Rodas.
A federal employee for two decades, including 17 years in the inspector general community, she was among a number of people who answered a call from the Biden administration to help with the crisis at the border and a surge in unaccompanied minors.
“Everybody just believed we were reuniting children with families … I thought I would be able to help, you know—be that smiling, welcoming face to the children when they came. I just had no idea that the children didn't know who they were going to,” Rodas says.
Large numbers of unaccompanied minors are being sent by HHS to sponsors that are not being properly vetted, Rodas says. In some cases, kids are being released to apartment buildings where dozens of other children have also been released. In other cases, there are sponsors using multiple addresses to sponsor children, she says. And in some cases, sponsors are submitting fake documentation—that no one is checking.
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"We're all being told we have to have smart meters in our homes…and that will give central government the ability to just switch off appliances in your home, when the wind isn't blowing. Now, they don't like to talk about it very much, but that is what they will do,” says Andrew Montford, the director of Net Zero Watch and author of “The Hockey Stick Illusion.”
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"We're all being told we have to have smart meters in our homes…and that will give central government the ability to just switch off appliances in your home when the wind isn't blowing. Now, they don't like to talk about it very much, but that is what they will do,” argues Andrew Montford, the director of the UK-based organization Net Zero Watch and author of “The Hockey Stick Illusion.”
What would achieving net zero actually look like? How much would it cost?
"The reality is that the only way they're going to get energy down to the extent that they need to is essentially by rationing of one form or another,” argues Montford.
Will cars, air travel, and reliable power become luxuries of the rich?
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“This is the new technology of speech in America: You can dial people all the way up to ‘everybody sees it,’ and you can dial someone else down to ‘it's almost impossible to see them.’ And that is extremely dangerous, and it's especially dangerous if it's done in secret and nobody knows exactly how it operates.”
In this episode, Jan Jekielek sits down with investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. He was one of the key investigators of the Twitter Files, which exposed collusion between social media companies, the nonprofit sector, and the federal government to censor Americans on a mass scale.
“In parallel to this censorship program, I think what they're doing—with things like shadow banning and denylisting—is they're trying to simplify controversies and reduce everybody's intellectual field of view and, in doing so, kind-of drain our will to be curious, to stand up for ourselves, [and] to think about things in a complicated way,” says Mr. Taibbi.
We discuss the current state of journalism, government information operations, internet culture and addiction, and the importance of free speech and free inquiry.
"All of these agencies that were once involved with counterproliferation, counterterrorism, trying to counter messaging to disaffected young Muslim men in foreign countries … they are now turning all those techniques inward on our own populations and trying to get them to believe in a different kind of political consensus,” says Mr. Taibbi.
“Instead of, ‘don't join al-Qaeda,’ now they're saying, ‘don't vote for Donald Trump,’ or ‘don't join the Canadian trucker protests,’ or ‘don't join the Yellow Vest movement.’ It's actually not a left or right thing—it's just: stay in the safe place, stay with consensus.”
At least 2 million children are being exploited by the global sex trade. The new action drama film "Sound of Freedom” is based on the incredible true story of Tim Ballard rescuing children from sex traffickers.
"This is a huge weapon to evil," says actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Tim Ballard in the film. I sit down with the two of them for a deep-dive on American Thought Leaders.
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“I’ve communicated with some people inside of North Korea, and I heard from them that the recent famine is very similar to [the] 1990s famine. And, as we all know, almost 3 million people died of starvation during that time.”
Hyun-Seung Lee, otherwise known as “Arthur” Lee, is a former member of the North Korean ruling party. He and his family were fiercely loyal to the communist regime. But being on the side of economic reform and having witnessed several brutal internal purges by Kim Jong Un—including that of Kim’s uncle—the family made the decision to defect.
“Many people, especially top people, and even [the] general public in Pyongyang City, don't know what's happening outside Pyongyang because of the isolation of the information. The regime structure controls the information distribution,” says Mr. Lee.
We discuss North Korea’s current food crisis, the regime’s nuclear weapons program, the value of free information, and what can be done to bring about change.
“North Korea’s regime keeps saying that once we have nuclear weapons, we’ll live [a] better life … and we will be a strong country in terms of economy and the military side. Now, they have enough nuclear weapons—and the people are still suffering from starvation,” he says.
Despite the political and cultural divisions in the United States, Mr. Lee believes that it is one of the world's greatest nations in terms of its commitment to democracy and individual freedoms.
“American people should respect this society, because many people in the world think that still, America is the best. The freedom they have cannot be compared to the other nations,” says Mr. Lee.
Defecting From the ‘Ultimate Propaganda Country’: Hyun-Seung Lee on North Korea’s Oppressive Regime, Its Relationship With China, and Its Nuclear Bluster - - -
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“The economic growth of China is largely a wealth transfer from the United States,” says Robert Lighthizer. “You’re transferring the wealth of our children and grandchildren and their children overseas.”
Mr. Lighthizer served as the U.S. Trade Representative in the Trump administration and also served as deputy trade representative in the Reagan administration.
In this episode, we do a deep dive into his new book “No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers.”
“Nobody practices free trade. And for sure, if you look at the great countries that run the big surpluses, they don’t have free trade. China doesn’t have it, not remotely. It’s not even capitalism. And Germany doesn’t have free trade. Europe doesn’t have free trade…It’s all just a false god. It just literally doesn’t exist,” Lighthizer says.
Is the free trade ideal actually a myth? What should the U.S. do to tackle its massive trade deficits? Why should the U.S. strategically decouple from China and what would that actually like?
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Across the Western world, we’re hearing growing calls to stop eating meat—and especially beef—to combat climate change. But is this really about saving the planet?
“They're trying to take the animal and the soil out of our consumption model, and turn it into basically something that's grown and produced in the labs,” argues Texas Slim, founder of the Beef Initiative.
The campaign against beef is just one part of a radical change in both our food and our health over the last half-century, says Texas Slim. A study in 2018 showed that 88 percent of American adults are metabolically unhealthy. What are the root causes? And how do we turn this situation around?
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"They were given money to withdraw from my government…[&] vote me out."
Daniel Suidani was ousted from his position as premier after he refused a bribe & barred CCP-linked companies from operating in his province in the Solomon Islands.
This is the first 6 minutes of this exclusive episode. In this episode, he and his advisor Celsus Talifilu break down the Chinese regime’s tactics in the Pacific.
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“Independent voters will look at some of these charges and say, gee, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. But of course, where there’s smoke, sometimes there’s arson,” says Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus of law at Harvard Law School.
“I think a lot of these fires have been set politically in order to get Trump,” Dershowitz says. He’s the author of the new book, “Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law.”
We discuss the many cases being litigated against former President Donald Trump, what his vulnerabilities actually are, and the broader assault on civil liberties.
“Justice Thurgood Marshall said the First Amendment has two sides: one, the right to speak, and two, the right to listen and the right to hear. And the right to hear is just as important as the right to speak. And so people who have been denied the right to hear have the power to bring lawsuits,” Dershowitz says.
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"I meet people all the time that would say: 'I've gone out of my way to take all the struggle away from my kids. I don't want them to have to experience what I experienced.'…'So how's that going?' 'Well, I have two sons, and they both live in the basement. One is 23. One is 27.'"
Lee Benson breaks down why protecting your kids from adversity can actually maim them—and what steps to take to help your children become resilient & independent instead.
#Parenting #Children #Education
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