Aaron Siri just revealed the real reason why New York launched a massive legal attack on unvaccinated Amish communities. “These kids are healthy.” “They don’t suffer from any of the chronic diseases that plague American children.” “If this was about health, New York State should be looking at these kids as models and asking, why are they healthier?” “Why do these… Amish children not suffer from the chronic health conditions that are plaguing over 40% [of children] according to the CDC?” “Some data reflects even higher.” “This is up from under 10% of kids having a chronic health condition in America in the early ’80s.” “What’s changed?” “Maybe they should take a look at this community instead of trying to force upon them the same type of lifestyle that… has resulted in that increase.” @AaronSiriSG

Aaron Siri just told me that New York’s legal fight against the Amish over their refusal to comply with vaccine mandates puts our First Amendment to a major test. “The state of New York has now told them… you want to stay in this state, you need to abandon your religious beliefs.” Watch our full interview below: theepochtimes.com/epochtv/in…

New York has fined three Amish schools over $100,000. Why? For refusing to comply with vaccine mandates. “That’s $2,000 per student per day.” “The state of New York has now told them… you want to stay in this state, you need to abandon your religious beliefs.” Aaron Siri sees this case as a significant threat to religious freedom in America. “The Amish want to be able to practice their religion in peace in New York.” “They want to continue engaging in the manner that they have lived for almost 200 years in New York.” “These are small one-room classrooms.” “Amish buildings on Amish land with Amish teachers.” “All paid for by the Amish.” “Even over $100,000 is far too much to ask the Amish to pay.” “The state of New York knows that.” “They are intent on having the Amish abandon their beliefs or leave New York.” @AaronSiriSG

Texas Governor Greg Abbott just exposed the reality of Chinese Communist Party transnational repression. “Some of [it] is more obvious.” “Some of [it] is more secretive… ” We’ve experienced this transnational repression from the CCP ourselves. The Epoch Times was founded by Chinese Americans. The CCP has not liked our reporting on China. And Governor Abbott deserves credit for leading the way in protecting Texas and its citizens from this kind of repression. His administration has led a dramatic shift in the approach to dealing with CCP infiltration across the board. Land ownership. Critical infrastructure contracts. State government contracting and investment. Technology and government devices. Higher education partnerships. K-12 curriculum. @GregAbbott_TX

Texas Governor Greg Abbott just revealed the real reason why he put a “halt” on new data centers. This will shock you. “Less than 20%” were in compliance with state law on water and power usage. “Data center growth in Texas was on an unsustainable pathway.” “Texas law required two things.” “One is for every data center that either was operational or wanted to operate, they must disclose to the Public Utilities Commission how much power they were using and how much power they would need in the future.” “And… they were all required to disclose to the Texas Water Board how much water they were using.” “For each of those categories, less than 20%… actually complied with what the law required.” “So there’s a pause on it until we get all the information.” “Here’s the bottom line.” “Going forward, these data centers must provide their own power as opposed to taking it off the power grid.” “They must do so in a way that lowers the cost of electricity.” “Second, with new technology invented right here in Texas, they will be able to have water that will cool their data center without taking an ounce of water from any of our communities.” “The last thing is they don’t need to be building data centers in our neighborhoods or in our rural settings.” “They have to be good neighbors, good partners, helping, not harming our residents in Texas.” @GregAbbott_TX

What do Tesla and Coca-Cola have in common? The CCP has stolen critical intellectual property from both. I asked David Shedd to explain how. He’s the former acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and co-author of “The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets.” In 2018, Elon Musk got a first-of-its-kind deal: Tesla could operate in China without a joint venture partner, something no other American automaker had. There was much fanfare about it all. But what Musk and others at Tesla didn’t know was that an engineer inside the company was preparing to secretly hand Tesla’s golden goose, its autopilot technology, to the CCP. That technology is “now currently found in…the BYD, EX Motors, and others.” “That's a billion-dollar heist.” Or again with Coca-Cola: “Why would China be interested in Coca-Cola?” “The Chinese weren't interested in the secret formula. They were interested in getting the chemistry behind the inside of the cans of Coca-Cola.” “Why?” “Because those cans have a formulation to prevent oxidation, while those cans sit on the grocery shelf or in your home, for the Coca-Cola acidity not to eat through the can.” “It's the lining now that is inside their ballistic missile fuel containers in order to protect against that oxidation.” Americans need to understand, says Shedd, that “every aspect of the Chinese economy supports the state…it is intended to both aggregate power to the state, but also to maintain the power of the state.”

The CCP’s security apparatus now uses robot dogs. Former acting DIA Director David Shedd says they were replicated from the work of a Ph.D. student at MIT. He explains how American research ended up in the regime’s hands, without anyone breaking in. “That was actually a joint project with Chinese collaboration, which now is part of the Ministry of State Security.” “It’s part of their public security apparatus.” “They have replicated this off of a Ph.D. student at MIT who provided all the CAD drawings and all that.” “So it was hiding in plain sight.” “I can’t even call that espionage.” “That student was required to, when asked, to prepare that paper and provide all those details, which were then transferred to China.” “And then the manufacturing took place, and now you see these dancing dogs that are robotic dogs.”

In Communist China, there is no truly private company. Under Article 7 of the regime’s 2017 National Intelligence Law, every Chinese citizen, at home or abroad, must support the CCP’s intelligence work when asked. Former acting DIA Director David Shedd explains what that means. “Every aspect of the Chinese economy supports the state.” “This is not to suggest that every Chinese person is a spy on behalf of the state.” “When asked, they are coerced to cooperate, or they have to volunteer, and I say that in air quotes, to support the request generally coming from the Ministry of State Security.”

In 2015, the CCP stole 22.5 million security clearance files from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Former acting DIA Director David Shedd’s file was one of them. He explains why that data is a goldmine for Beijing’s spies. “The SF86 is the form that gives up all your relationships in terms of family, friends, neighbors, and others in order to get your security clearance or maintain your security clearance.” “Your polygraph results, if you’ve been polygraphed.” “Imagine that data in the hands of the Chinese in order to find vulnerabilities.” “22.5 million records, so past and present up to that point, were taken.” “I think of my CIA career of nearly 33 years. I would set up its own directorate to exploit that kind of data.” “If you can find 1% to 5% of individuals that are vulnerable to blackmailing or to some other coercion form.” “What a target-rich environment that produces for the targeteers. That being the Ministry of State Security.”

The new “D” risk indicator on China’s Travel Advisory is a major signal. It means the U.S. @StateDept has formally determined that Americans face a serious risk of wrongful detention by in China: arbitrary imprisonment, to be used as leverage, with no due process. The threat level stays at 2, "Exercise Increased Caution," but the “D” is the key new warning. For context, the next threat level up is "Reconsider Travel," i.e. avoid non-essential travel. Upgrading to threat level 3 would likely elicit a CCP rebuke. Bottom line: "D" designation reflects the official U.S. position on how the CCP treats Americans.

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for women. Women are roughly two-thirds of Alzheimer’s cases and the large majority of autoimmune patients. At the Rose Garden today, First Lady @MELANIATRUMP and @realDonaldTrump just launched a new @NIH Women’s Health Division and a White House Women’s Health Task Force to focus on harnessing new technologies and working across the federal government to advance women’s health. The division will work alongside the existing NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health. Focuses include: heart disease, cancer, autoimmune conditions, chronic pain, endometriosis, infertility, maternal health, menopause, and Alzheimer’s disease, among other health issues that hit women hardest. The new task force will be co-chaired by HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr and White House Chief of Staff @SusieWiles47, herself a recent survivor of breast cancer.