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American Thought Leaders

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.

1652 - Government Land Grabs, from ‘Natural Asset Companies’ to Agenda 2030: Margaret Byfield
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  • 1652 - Government Land Grabs, from ‘Natural Asset Companies’ to Agenda 2030: Margaret Byfield

    “They’re trying to create this new asset class ... and they get to arbitrarily decide how much they are valued. So, it’s not that the marketplace is going to value them. It’s going to be a bureaucrat sitting in a room saying that the air you breathe is worth X, and the air I breathe is worth Y.”

    Margaret Byfield was raised on a 7,000-acre ranch in Nevada. For nearly 30 years, her family fought the federal government to maintain ownership of their property and its resources. But ultimately, the government prevailed.

    “The federal government was never supposed to own the land. In fact, that was one of the big conflicts after our Revolutionary War,” says Ms. Byfield.

    Today, she is executive director of American Stewards of Liberty, working to protect the production of food, fiber, minerals, and energy from agendas that seek to erode individual property rights.

    “Agendas like 30 by 30, well it’s going to really harm our food production. How are we going to feed our nation and the world? Well, that’s not a problem to them because their belief is there are too many of us and therefore this is just the way to get rid of part of us through starvation,” she says. “Either you have the right to own property, or you are property.”

    We discuss Natural Asset Companies, ecosystem services, the United Nations’ sustainable goals, and other government land grabs being carried out in the name of conservation and protecting the environment.

    “Fifty percent of the West is owned by the federal government. So, the East is privately settled, which is how our country was supposed to be settled,” says Ms. Byfield.

    Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 36min
  • 1651 - Gov. Jeff Landry: Has the Supreme Court Forgotten the Importance of the 1st Amendment?

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    Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, the landmark free speech case revolving around government communications with Big Tech companies.

    “I left the court really scratching my head at some of the questions that the justices offered to the new solicitor general from Louisiana,” says Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who was among those who first brought the case against the Biden administration back when he was Louisiana’s attorney general.

    “Some of the questions seem to really leave you wondering whether or not the Court still has a real appreciation for the First Amendment,” Mr. Landry said.

    Where is the case headed? What might the Supreme Court decide?

    We also take a look at Mr. Landry’s first few months as governor and get his take on the Supreme Court allowing Texas to enforce a law on arresting suspected illegal immigrants.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 36min
  • 1650 - After Cross-Sex Hormones and a Double Mastectomy, I Detransitioned: Laura Becker

    “What I had been taught online and in high school was that this is actually a legitimate thought to have: Okay, maybe I should have been a gay man, maybe I’m trans.”

    As a teenager, Laura Becker lived in an abusive household and suffered from depression, social anxiety, and substance addiction. She became convinced that transitioning would cure her of her trauma.

    “It wasn’t framed to me as queer theory. When I was in middle school, like 14, it was framed as social justice. ... And I latched on to that immediately,” says Ms. Becker.

    By age 19, she had come out as a transgender gay man using they/them pronouns and was prescribed cross-sex hormones after a one-hour consultation with a gender clinician. One year later, she had both of her breasts removed. Today, at 26 years old, she regrets those decisions.

    “How do I exist as a female when I’ve mutilated my body? ... Like, what do I do now, because that didn’t work out? I didn’t transcend my body. I didn’t transcend the trauma,” says Ms. Becker. “I take responsibility for my delusions, but I don’t take responsibility for the medical neglect and the medical malpractice that occurred.”

    Laura Becker is now an advocate for detransitioners. She considers herself “pro-human” and encourages practicing “radical acceptance” of the “necessary imperfections” that we are all born with.

    “If we accept the burden of being alive, we must accept that there are necessary imperfections,” says Ms. Becker.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 50min
  • 1649 - My Bank Account Was Unlawfully Frozen by Prime Minister Trudeau. Now I’m Suing: Edward Cornell

    “There I was: no cash, no access to my credit cards, nothing. And I left on a Monday morning. I had other jobs that I had to take care of while I was there, and I had no money for gas. I had no money for lodging, nothing for food ... For what? What did I do?”

    In 2022, Eddie Cornell was at home in New Brunswick, Canada, when he began to hear chatter of a trucker’s convoy making its way to Ottawa to protest the COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

    “And I thought, ‘I need to be there,’” says Mr. Cornell.

    Little did he know that he would become publicly marked and have his bank account frozen.

    “I felt betrayed. I’ve never been convicted of a crime, I wasn’t charged with a crime. And yet my government found it necessary to label me and freeze everything I own,” says Mr. Cornell.

    Today, he is the co-founder of Veterans for Freedom, and has filed a civil lawsuit against the Trudeau administration.

    “Citizens and ex-military people didn’t return any violence—nothing, not a punch, nothing. And to be beaten that way and treated like that. The world saw. They know what happened,” says Mr. Cornell. “Even the police intelligence units were saying, ‘This is the most peaceful thing that we could possibly imagine. There’s no violence here.’ So, the government tried to paint a very different narrative.”

    We discuss the recent Supreme Court case, which ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergency Act during the Freedom Convoy was unconstitutional. We also discuss Mr. Cornell’s current case against Mr. Trudeau, and what the media got wrong in their coverage of the truckers’ protest.

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

    Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 37min
  • 1648 - How US Dollars Built—And Continue to Build—China’s Military: James Fanell and Bradley Thayer

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    “The first rule of strategy is don’t assist your enemy. And of course, we violated that time and time again,” says Bradley Thayer, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.

    After aggressively building up and modernizing its military, China now has a larger navy than the United States.

    How does the Chinese military compare to America’s overall?

    What would an invasion or blockade of Taiwan look like for the United States?

    Mr. Thayer and James Fanell, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, are co-authors of the new book “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure.” They are founding members of the Committee on the Present Danger: China.

    How has progressive, communist ideology subverted America and America’s military?

    Did the United States get distracted by smaller wars and lose sight of the bigger looming conflict?

    Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.


    Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 1h 13min
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