Podcasts by Thought to Action
Thought to Action, Presented by the London Center for Policy Research, a series of programs where we discuss current and critical issues as they relate to national security and economic development regarding the United States and the world hosted by London Center for Policy Research President Tony Shaffer and LCPR Senior Fellow Tim Wilson.
We bring you conversations with and insights from leaders at the London Center, across the nation and around the world.
About our Hosts:
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (Ret.): https://www.londoncenter.org/fellows/57E72B62-8C75-11E9-AAC9-0BCD4829D8DB/profile
Lt. Col. Tim Wilson (Ret): https://www.londoncenter.org/fellows/9910BA16-8C7C-11E9-BC4D-0DCD4829D8DB/profile
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Ep 111: Why the Left Wants to Destroy the 2nd Amendment - Thought to Action from 2023-04-06T15:46
The American Left continues its assault on the 2nd Amendment, despite its legal antics continually being ruled as unconstitutional. What's really behind the Gun Control Agenda? Is this about gettin...
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Ep 110 - Exposing Disinformation from the Climate Change Agenda with Dr. Jerome Corsi from 2023-01-20T20:05:26
Accusations concerning "Man-Made" #ClimateChange have been used by the World Economic Forum and many national governments to control policy,, language and political discourse, all while based on fa...
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Ep 109 - Culture Wars: The Insurgency 6 - Information Suppression, Canada's Disturbing Euthanasia Policy from 2023-01-03T13:29:58
Our newest edition of Culture Wars: The Insurgency is up as our Insurgent Army examines:
Why we need to pay attention to the #Twitterfiles
#Government Intelligence agencies' control of i...
Ep 108 - Continued Ripple Effects of the FTX Scandal: What's Next for the #Cryptocurrency Market? from 2023-01-01T23:25:45
On this edition of Thought to Action, Project Sentinel Cryptocurrency Expert/Sr. Fellow Tim Furey and Project Sentinel President LTC Tony Shaffer break down the continuing investigation into the FT...
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Ep 107 - Challenging the CCP's Aspirations Toward Global Dominance: An Economic Strategy from 2022-12-27T12:57:11
In the second part of our series on China President Xi Jinping and his Geo-political aspirations toward world dominance, Project Sentinel President LTC Tony Shaffer, China Expert (and author of The...
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Ep 106 - Dangerous Side Effects of COVID 19 Vaccines; What You Need to Know from 2022-12-16T15:27:24
After years of the systematic suppression of information contrary to the government-approved line concerning COVID-19 and the safety of untested vaccines, more news comes out about the creation of ...
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Ep 105 - Xi's Aggressive Agenda: What it Means for the US - with Gordon Chang and MG John Kem from 2022-11-21T21:25:37
#China's President Xi Jinping appears to be more emboldened to push his aggressive agenda aimed at military and economic dominance in the Pacific with an eye toward the entire globe. This comes on ...
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Ep 104 - What Trump Needs to Do to Win the Presidency in 2024 from 2022-11-17T01:22:28
On November 15, 2022, former President Donald Trump made the announcement many expected: he will run once again for the office he held between January 2017 and January 2021.
This time around,...
Ep 103 - The Stalinization of the DHS and Social Media in the US from 2022-11-03T17:54:26
In a season of multiple October Surprises, perhaps the biggest one is that which we knew: The Intercept revealed leaked documents out of the Department of Homeland Security proving collusion betwee...
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Ep 102 - The 2022 Midterms: Strategies from 2022-10-26T14:13:31
As we draw more closely to Election Day, Project Sentinel looks into some campaign strategies out of both parties in the most hotly-contested races.
Project Sentinel and The London Cente...
Ep 101 - Culture Wars: The Insurgency 4 from 2022-10-18T17:07:04
On our latest Culture Wars: The Insurgency edition of Thought to Action, we take on what's affecting our everyday lives from our own neighborhoods, in Washington, throughout the cultural/entertainm...
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Ep 100 - Nord Stream Aftermath: Protecting our infrastructure and the New Rules of Engagement from 2022-10-09T12:36:42
While Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, NATO, western media and Youtube talking heads are pointing fingers over the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline, rarely have the mos important questions been asked...
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Ep 99 - How Should the U.S. Respond to Putin's Nuclear Threats? from 2022-10-05T13:40:01
While things have not gone quite as planned for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, the Russian President has taken up to threatening the use of tactical nuclear weapons on the former Soviet Republic. If Pu...
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Ep 98 - Culture Wars: The Insurgency III - with Cherie Currie, Jennie Matthias and Susan Olsen from 2022-09-19T12:57:03
Our Culture Wars: The Insurgency Continues as we discuss what's affecting our everyday lives from our own neighborhoods, in Washington and all the way to the what the sheltered World Economic Forum...
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Ep 97 - The Gaslighting of the American People with Dan Shyti, author of American Gaslighting from 2022-09-09T11:45:59
Why is it we see politicians continue to directly lie to their constituents, even with evidence to the contrary revealed prominently to the same people -- and why, despite such proof debunking thos...
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Ep 96 - Introducing Project Sentinel from 2022-09-02T12:12:03
On this edition of Thought to Action, we announce the formation of Project Sentinel, which will be Chaired by Navy Capt (Ret) Pete O'Brien, President LTC (Ret) Tony Shaffer and Head of the Project ...
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Ep 95 - A Listener Asks: Will There Be a Draft if the US Winds Up in a War with Russia or China? from 2022-08-21T17:13:28
The U.S. Military is in the midst of a recruitment crisis and reports have indicated major morale issues within, which have been attributed to the woke social engineering policies re-established by...
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Ep 94 - Government Weaponization of the FBI, IRS and DOJ vs Political Opponents from 2022-08-16T11:37:07
Recently, the FBI's raid of President Donald Trump's home has raised serious questions about government overreach and the selective use of the FBI and other 3-letter government organizations (CIA, ...
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Ep 93 - How Soft On Crime Pols Caused America's Law Enforcement Leadership Crisis from 2022-08-10T11:59:54
After years of "Defund the Police" chants, disrespect to rank-and-file police officers, officers not being backed by their cities' elected officials, mass quitting by personnel and constant media h...
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Ep 92 - The State of U.S. Intelligence When Run by Bureaucrats from 2022-08-02T13:40:32
The United States of America had arguably the top Intelligence community in the world for decades. As we all know, the quality of such units' work comes down to how experienced and formidable the l...
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Ep 91 - Culture Wars: The Insurgency Fights Back, with Tony Shaffer, Cherie Currie and Jennie Matthias from 2022-07-22T21:53:16
The term "Culture Wars" may be easily dismissed by some, but they are quite real and affect out everyday lives. The US, UK and other Western governments have attempted to whittle away individual fr...
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Ep 90 - The Legacy of Sgt Woody Williams, the Last WWII Medal of Honor Recipient and Atrocities Committed by Imperial Japan During the War from 2022-07-20T12:25:14
On July 14, 2022, Marine Sgt. Herschel "Woody" Williams was laid to rest at the U.S. Capital as an honor to his service and heroics at Iwo Jima in World War 2. Sgt. Williams was also the last World...
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Ep 89 - The Green Agenda's Continued Failures and Solutions to the Need for Cleaner Energy from 2022-07-13T12:07:43
While working on alternatives to fossil fuels in the future is a noble and practical approach, the current crop of "Green Agenda" politicians are pushing ideas which either are not working, not re...
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Ep 88 - The Empire State Strikes Back? Gov. Hochul's New Gun Control Laws Reap More Constitutional Concerns from 2022-07-07T16:29:25
It did not take long for New York Governor Kathy Hochul and the state's Democratic Legislative majority to react to the Supreme Court's striking down of its unconstitutional and often abused concea...
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Ep 87 - Cryptocurrencies and National Security: What You Need to Know from 2022-06-27T12:29:49
Cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity within all generations of investors as the potential for both massive growth and financial disaster looms for this new financial sector. In recent weeks, B...
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Ep 86 - Red Flag Laws and Potential Government Abuses: An Honest Conversation from 2022-06-21T16:45:44
As the Biden Administration and its cohorts in the Washington Left have continued milking school shooting tragedies to push their collective gun control agenda, it would seem some Republicans in Co...
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Ep 85 - Great Reset Roundtable 5: The WEF Lauds a Carbon Footprint Tracker to Monitor Your Energy Use from 2022-06-14T19:15:48
The world's elite wants to track and, eventually, control your energy use. If it sounds like a conspiracy theory, it is not: during the 2022 World Economic Forum Conference, Alibaba Group President...
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Ep 84: The War on Objective Truth: Fighting Suppression of Information with Tony Shaffer, Jennie Matthias and Nancy Quattro Glass from 2022-06-08T13:36:17
As Twitter's censorship and manipulative practices as well as the U.S. government's attempt to control the flow of information continue to be exposed, rather than admitting what happened, taking re...
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Ep. 83 - Preventing Veteran Suicides with Fallen Soldiers March from 2022-05-30T13:02:23
As we remember our fallen soldiers on Memorial Day weekend and throughout the year, a hidden epidemic of plagues our living veteran community: suicides by those who served our country. While the me...
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Ep. 82 - Fighting Back Against Government and Social Media Information Manipulation from 2022-05-25T14:18:17
Yes, Twitter has been exposed as a manipulator of information and discourse as many have speculated, but that took a billionaire's buyout offer and delving into the company's dubious operational pr...
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Ep. 81 - Constitutional Originalism vs Judicial Activism in the Supreme Court - with Former USAG Ed Meese from 2022-05-16T17:45:25
Washington politicians have historically tried to gain power by finding ways to override or outright ignore the U.S. Constitution, which is why the nation's founders installed a Supreme Court. Form...
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Ep 80 - Roe v Wade: A Constitutional Perspective from 2022-05-09T13:40:47
A leaked draft of a possible majority opinion presented the possibility of a ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case negating – effectively overturning – the oft-debated Roe...
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Ep 79 - Elon Musk's Twitter: What Happens Next and What to Expect from 2022-04-27T23:08:08
Elon Musk did what he said he would do: after an unjust suspension of the Babylon Bee account over a parody story, the Tesla founder bought Twitter and will take the company private after a transit...
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Ep 78 - The Gun Control Agenda's Anti-2nd Amendment Buzzwords from 2022-04-26T13:33:09
Like many activists on the Left, when bereft of intellectual arguments, those from the Gun Control agenda employ the use of triggering buzzwords to manipulate the emotions of voters who they are tr...
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Ep. 77 - Biden's Nuclear Posturing: A Historical Perspective from the Cold War Onward from 2022-04-19T13:40:15
US President Joe Biden recently tried to get tough with Vladimir Putin as the Russians continue their assault on Ukraine. While sanctions have not worked, Biden has few cards to play in what could ...
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Ep. 76 - Debunking Myths from the Gun Control Agenda from 2022-04-14T21:27:28
When politicians and gun control activists prepare to take aim at the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment and citizens' right to defend themselves, they often perpetuate falsehoods and set up straw m...
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Ep 75 - Challenging Political Mediocrity from the Grass Roots from 2022-04-05T22:08:35
American history consistently proves there are factions withing federal government which will do and say anything to remain in power while accomplishing as little as possible and real accountabilit...
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Ep 74 - Red Alert: China 8: Xi's Taiwan Strategy Amid the Russia-Ukraine War and US Response from 2022-03-29T14:19:43
While Russia continues its assault against Ukraine and the defending country keeps up its resistance, the Chinese Communist Party is watching the US and Western nations' arguably ineffective respon...
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Ep 73 - Putin's Invasion of Ukraine from a Strategic Standpoint from 2022-03-21T19:45:45
While he thought invading Ukraine would have been a bit easier, Vladimir Putin likely did not expect the resolve of the nation's people and President Zelenskyy's masterful skills to sway world publ...
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Ep 72 - The Truth About U.S. Inflation from 2022-03-14T16:20:44
Over the past two weeks, the Biden Administration has been quick to blame high gas prices and skyrocketing inflation on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While they are relying on Americans having v...
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Ep 71 - Thinking the Unthinkable: Putin's Nuclear Threat from 2022-03-07T13:24:47
You hear the term "unthinkable" from celebs and media pundits when describing the nuclear threat out of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russia-Ukraine War. Is it really that "unthinkable" ...
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Ep 70 - Great Reset Roundtable 4: How the WEF and Complicit Politicians Plan to Implement the #GreatReset from 2022-03-02T23:01:58
On this edition of the Thought to Action Great Reset Roundtable, our panel discusses how the World Economic Forum and political accomplices started to and plan to continue hammering the plan home, ...
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Ep 69 - Why the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Matters to Us in the US from 2022-02-25T14:03:05
The Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to escalate. Shortly after we taped this session, Putin's forces fired explosives into the former Soviet Republic.
While this is happening, pundits are a...
Ep 68 - Red Alert: China Part 7 - The Genocide Olympics Edition from 2022-02-12T15:37:27
The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing has been repeatedly referred to as the "Genocide Olympics" amid the Chinese Communist Party's human rights abuses and treatment of its Uyghur population. In addi...
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Ep 67 - Why We Need a Constitutional Amendment to Keep the Supreme Court at Nine Justices from 2022-02-10T14:52:15
Recently, the idea of packing the Supreme Court by adding activist justices to the bench has resurfaced as President Biden has faced Constitutional challenges to his Build Back Better Agenda. Like ...
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Ep 66 - US Government Took 16 Years to Answer an Able Danger FOIA Request from Judicial Watch from 2022-02-03T18:09:39
Sixteen years ago, Judicial Watch submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the US Government while doing research on the nation's Able Danger data-mining scandal, which led to intelligence...
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Ep 65 - How the Human Trafficking Industry Works with Andi Buerger, Survivor and Founder, Voices Against Trafficking from 2022-01-27T15:54:25
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and Andi Buerger, founder of Voices Against Trafficking and survivor, once again joins London Center for Policy Research President Tony Shaffer on Thoug...
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Ep 65 - How the Human Trafficking Industry Works with Andi Buerger, Survivor and Founder, Voices Against Trafficking from 2022-01-27T15:54:25
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and Andi Buerger, founder of Voices Against Trafficking and survivor, once again joins London Center for Policy Research President Tony Shaffer on Thoug...
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Ep 64 - Audience Question on the Left vs. Electon Integrity and NYC Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote in Local Elections from 2022-01-20T18:34:09
Our panel from the London Center for Policy Research answers a viewer's question about the Left's continued circumvention of election integrity including New York City's most recent move to allow n...
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Ep 63 - The Argument for a Properly-Armed Citizenry: Is it Time to End the Gun Control Experiment? from 2022-01-14T13:47:10
2021 could perhaps be called the "Year of Self-Defense" as there were high-profile legal victories for armed citizens protecting themselves as well as others and numbers of justifiable homicides in...
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Ep 62 - 2022: A Look Ahead from 2022-01-07T16:52:59
Our panel from the London Center for Policy Research kicks off 2022 with a look ahead to the top issues of the new year:
Will Putin invade Ukraine? What is his endgame?
Will the CCP Steam...
Ep 61 - How to Become and Stay Alert to Everyday Threats with Former DHS Special Agent Eric Caron from 2021-12-30T16:44:26
Life is not lived in bubble wrap; when you step out of your home, potential threats exist every day. It is up to us to become and stay alert to any dangers which may come our way.
On thi...
Ep 60 - Minimum Standard of Response, the Rule of Law and 2nd Amendment Suffrage from 2021-12-17T14:38:01
The right to self-defense was written into the Constitution, is an important American value, yet continues to be persistently fought by authoritarian politicians who want to not only disarm citizen...
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Ep 59 - #Putin's Power Play Against #Ukraine is Only a Small Part of His Overall Plan from 2021-12-10T15:03:22
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin moved 94,000 troops to the Ukraine-Crimea border in an attempt to intimidate the former Soviet Republic's president Volodymyr Zelensky over the disputed t...
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Ep 58 - A Deeper Dive into Self-Defense and the Rule of Law Post-Rittenhouse Verdict from 2021-12-02T15:41:07
There will be quite a bit more fallout coming after the Rittenhouse trial spanning several issues, perhaps the most important being that of self-defense and the rule of law.
On this edition o...
Ep 57 - The Rittenhouse Trial: A Case Study on Self-Defense Rights, Prosecutorial Abuse and Media Misconduct from 2021-11-22T21:21:47
Kyle Rittenhouse was found "not guilty" by a guilty after a controversial murder trial for defending himself against attackers at a riot in Kenosha. While this is a victory for one's right to defen...
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Ep 56 - Red Alert: China Series - New Threats From the CCP from 2021-11-18T21:12:54
Welcome to the 6th episode of our Red Alert: China series. In this discussion, our panel from the London Center for Policy Research look at US-China relations amid new threats including the CCP's r...
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Ep 55 - COVID19 Vaccines for Children Aged 5-12: What Parents Need to Know from 2021-11-14T14:44:14
"On 29 October 2021, the Food and Drug Association (FDA) extended its Emergency Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech “vaccine” to be given to reduce serious COVID-19 infections in children aged 5 ...
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Ep 54: Exposed: Anti-Jewish and Anti-Zionist Conspiracy Theories Are Being Taught at US Universities from 2021-11-05T17:53:41
While writing a tribute to his father, a survivor of the Holocaust who educated him on the importance of faith and Jewish values, Scott Shay was disturbed and dismayed to discover the presence of a...
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Ep 53 - The Ongoing Fight to End Human #Trafficking with Voices Against Trafficking Founder Andi Buerger from 2021-10-28T16:22:48
Even in the 21st century, slavery exists. Despite the lack of media attention, human trafficking is rampant all over the world. Coyotes smuggle children across the US-Mexico border, international s...
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Ep. 52 - Standing Up to #CRT and Other Poor #Education Policies From the Grass Roots from 2021-10-21T19:29:53
We have heard about parents expressing their disagreement toward school boards which endorse and implement education policies focusing more on wokeness rather than education, CRT over Mathematics a...
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Ep 51 - Holding Those Responsible For the Afghanistan Pullout Debacle Accountable - with Rep. Andy Biggs from 2021-10-14T15:59:19
American citizens are still stranded in Afghanistan at the time this episode has been taped, the Taliban has taken over the country while all or either of China, Iran and Russia might look to swoop...
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Ep. 50 - Operation Dragon and The History of Russian Disinformation Campaigns - with James Woolsey from 2021-10-07T14:35:07
Despite the fall of the Soviet Union decades ago, it would be a mistake to dismiss Russia as a major threat to the US. From Russian disinformation campaigns dating back to the Stalin years though t...
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Ep 49 - Biden Pushes to Grant the #IRS More Power to Snoop Into Small Bank Accounts: Is it Unconstitutional? from 2021-10-01T12:19:37
President Joe Biden is proposing to expand the IRS by 87,000 agents and to grant it power to snoop into transactions of as little as $600. As it stands now, that threshold it $10,000. This would al...
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Ep. 48 - Examining #Putin's Playbook with Rebekah Koffler from 2021-09-23T15:13:27
While America is in the middle of what some call an ideological civil war, the botched Afghanistan pullout, a new cold war with China and a Leftist academic indoctrination syndicate has come to fru...
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Ep 47 - Red Alert #China 5: Will the CCP Swoop into #Afghanistan After the Botched US Pullout? from 2021-09-10T15:45:25
New threats loom after the Biden Administration's failures concerning the US withdrawal of Afghanistan, not the least of which is the potential for China to either forcefully or diplomatically move...
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Ep 46 - Preventing Another Viral Outbreak - with Dr. Steve Hatfill, MD from 2021-09-02T14:51:30
With more news reports supporting the idea COVID 19 came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the question moving forward is: How can we do our best to prevent another viral pandemic in the futu...
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Ep 45 - Deep Dive: Ripple Effects from the #Afghanistan Pullout Debacle from 2021-08-27T13:25:51
While the Botched Biden Pullout of Afghanistan will go down in as one of the worse blunders in world history, we go beneath the headlines on this week's Thought to Action to look into the ripple ef...
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Ep 44 - How to Survive a Nuclear Attack from 2021-08-23T17:23:43
London Center for Policy Research Sr. Fellow and former British Ops LTC Tim Wilson explains how to survive a nuclear attack, whether it be from an enemy bombing or a ground-level terrorist-activate...
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Ep 43: Why Have Politicians and Bureaucrats Repeatedly Ignored Protecting Our Power Grid? from 2021-08-17T15:11
While the Biden Administration stressed "human infrastructure" and the politically stylish "green power" in its Infrastructure Bill proposals, ignorance of the need to protect the U.S. power grid i...
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Ep 42: Red Alert: #China pt. 4 - Why Did Biden Recycle Foriegn Policy Failures vs the #CCP? from 2021-08-05T16:53:23
As China makes aggressive moves economically and politically against the U.S. and neighboring countries while flexing its muscles around the South China Sea, President Biden's hand-picked blue-ribb...
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Ep 41 -: Red Alert: #China pt 3 with Gordon Chang - The #CCP's Underhanded Attempts to Gain Economic Leverage from 2021-07-28T21:38:23
China has spent the last many decades manipulating its currency, stealing technology and intellectual property, engaging in cyber warfare as well as other aggressive financial tactics to gain econo...
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Ep 40 - Deep Dive: Secretary Antony Blinken's Dangerous Invitation to the UN from 2021-07-22T16:45:38
Biden Administration Secretary Antony Blinken may have gone too far this time by asking the UN to investigate the US's level of wokeness and what he calls "systematic racism" in the US. This offer...
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Ep 39 - Red Alert: #China part 2 - The CCP's Quest for Industrial and Technological Dominance from 2021-07-15T13:47:58
Communist China has been quietly getting stronger for decades before temporarily overtaking the US as the world's most powerful economy in the mid 2010s -- all while reaping the benefits of "develo...
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Ep 38 - Red Alert: #China: Pt1: The CCP Threat to Taiwan and Hong Kong from 2021-07-09T18:06:36
Welcome to Part 1 in our new series on the threat Communist China's CCP poses to its neighbors and the rest of the world, presented by the Herb London Center for Policy Research. We will be looking...
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Ep 37: Fighting the Left's Maoist Agenda and their #Media Allies - with Monica Crowley from 2021-07-01T15:10:34
As regular people continue to challenge the establishment Cult of #Wokeness, their propagandists on the Left continue to double down on it. Still, beneath the surface, the Left's #CancelCulture, In...
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Ep 36: Why Protecting Our Critical #Infrastructure Matters and How to Get Politicians to Pay Attention from 2021-06-25T13:21:42
President Biden and Congressional Democrats are still trying to push an extremely expensive spending package disguised as an "infrastructure" bill aiming a plethora of funds toward Federal Universa...
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Ep 35: The Right to Self-Defense: An Historical Perspective with Dr. Stephen Halbrook from 2021-06-21T13:04:30
The right to bear arms is clearly stated in the US Constitution's 2nd Amendment. In recent years, politicians on the Left have stopped at nothing to try and curtail Americans' rights to gun ownersh...
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Ep. 34: A Federal Judge Shuts Down CA's Assault Weapons Ban: What's Next, Moving Forward? from 2021-06-14T23:04:51
US District Court Judge Roger Benitez recently overturned California's "assault weapons" ban. As 2nd Amendment supporters heralded the decision, anti-gun activists decried it with the help of much ...
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Ep 33 - The Antidote to Woke-ism in Games, Movies and Culture: with Jeremy of The Quartering from 2021-05-27T18:15:15
Wokeism, Pesuro-enlightenment and Political Correctness: Call if what you want, but it has infiltrated our lives, schools, workplaces and overall culture. If the "woke" are a loud minority, then wh...
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Ep 32: Solving #Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Exposed by the Colonial Pipeline Hack from 2021-05-20T18:14:33
The Colonial Pipeline hack, subsequent payment of cyber-ransom and government "response" has exposed the nation's power infrastructure's vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. What can we do to both res...
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Ep. 31: What's at Stake when SCOTUS Hears an Historic Right to Carry Case from 2021-05-13T15:26:44
The Supreme Court recently decided it would hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Keith Corlett, a case involving state limitations on an individual's right to carry a firearm. Second ...
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Ep 30: The Future of Energy and the Right to Self-Defense with Sergio de la Pena from 2021-05-07T19:00:08
Are wind turbines and other so-called "green energy" sources really the wave of the future? As western governments search for alternatives to fossil fuels, has politics blinded sense? Perhaps it's ...
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Ep 29: Why Protecting Our Grid from an EMP or CME Event Must Be a National Priority from 2021-05-06T13:52:14
While President Biden's infrastructure plan includes necessary transportation and highway upgrades, it has been criticized as a pork-ridden socialist's dream. One very important omission which is n...
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Ep 28: #Biden's Executive Orders and Fighting the Left's Latest Assault on the 2nd Amendment with Alan Gottlieb from 2021-04-23T21:20:30
President Biden announced an ambitions gun control agenda at the Rose Garden recently via executive orders. Proclaiming "No amendment is absolute," he touted the dismantling of 2nd amendment rights...
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Ep 27: Fighting False Narratives From Anti-Gun Politicians After Mass Shooting Tragedies from 2021-03-29T13:22:45
It seems every time a mass shooting happens in the U.S., anti-gun factions of the media and Washington pounce to push an agenda through the usual false narratives. Whether it be through false racis...
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Ep. 26: How to Fight Cancel Culture's War on Objective Truth from 2021-03-26T11:40:38
Cancel Culture, a longtime subject of ridicule, has engulfed a large number of Americans and Western Europeans to the point where this nation has become divided amid an ideological Civil War. Altho...
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Ep. 25: How US Bureaucracies Impede National Defense Tech Advancements and Capabilities with Julie Willis from 2021-03-18T13:51:28
Did you know the U.S. Military's technical and defensive capabilities are not exactly up to the level it should be? On this episode of Thought to Action, London Center for Policy Research President...
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Ep. 24: What Really Happened at #CPAC2021 from 2021-03-02T20:25:54
Despite the biased and trite media coverage of CPAC 2021 in Orlando, Florida over the weekend, a lot happened as speakers and attendees exchanged ideas and discussed potential solutions to issues a...
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Ep 23 -1He Was Wrongfully Prosecuted during the S&L Scandal and Held Powerful Bankers Accountable from 2021-02-28T12:24:53
You may not know who John Smith is, but what happened to him could happen to you. John was a banker in Texas who was caught up in the notorious Savings and Loan Scandal of the late 80s. He was fals...
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Ep. 22: The Systematic Suppression of Information from 2021-02-19T20:34:02
After the Time Magazine article where a leftist writer celebrated the massive manipulation of the 2020 Presidential Election was posted, calls to protect election integrity have rightfully increase...
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Ep 21-Exposing Corruption Within the Gun Control Movement with John Lott from 2021-02-11T13:35:35
John Lott, Founder of the Crime Research Center, joins London Center for Policy Research Sr. Fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tim Wilson for an in-depth conversation on corruption within the anti-gun movemen...
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Ep 20: Rep. Scott Perry introduces the Empower Our Girls Act to stop female genital mutilation from 2021-02-04T17:33:36
On this special edition of Thought to Action, Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) introduces the Empower Our Girls Act, which he will present to the House of Representatives on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021.
Ep. 19 - #China's Ambitious Agenda and US Foreign Policy Moving Forward - with Gordon Chang from 2021-01-21T13:54:54
Chinese Communist Party leaders seem to be looking forward to a Biden Presidency for many reasons. Still, is America really prepared for what's to come? Between the mounds of financial interests th...
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Ep 18 - Will America Be True or False: On #ElectionIntegrity and the Future from 2021-01-15T20:01:40
With the myriad of improprieties and statistical anomalies regarding the 2020 elections, will the new federal government address them? Will America be true or false?
This week on T...
Ep 17 - Are We Prepared for an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack? - with Ambassador Hank Cooper from 2021-01-04T15:58:54
Are we really prepared for the threat of an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) attack?
This week on Though to Action, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tony Shaffer talks with Ambassador Hank Cooper discus...
Ep 16 - The Dangers of Gun Free Zones and How to Make Schools Safer - with Andrew Pollack from 2020-12-17T16:18:48
After the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, major media outlets swarmed to the the Florida town to cover the murders and promote a very political anti-gun agenda. ...
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Ep 15 - What Happened to Journalism? With Blanquita Cullum from 2020-12-09T15:12:12
Have today's major news media outlets destroyed the public trust? Who removed the real journalists from top newspapers and cable news channels and replaced them with activists? What happened to jou...
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Ep 14: Why We Need Universal Suffrage for Firearms Ownership Rghts with Stephen Halbrook from 2020-12-03T22:23:46
While politicians in some states are working hard to whittle away American citizens' right to defend themselves, now id the time to advocate for universal suffrage for firearms ownership rights.
Ep 13: The Characteristics of Great Leaders with Rita Cosby from 2020-11-25T17:14:30
What makes a true leader? Is it inherently within a person? Is it learned through upbringing and experience? How do we find and nurture the leaders of tomorrow? London Center for Policy Research P...
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Ep 12: The Moral Case for Gun Ownership from 2020-11-19T18:38:02
Despite the politics and demands of politicians, there is a moral argument for the right to own firearms.
London Center for Policy Research Sr. Fellows Lt. Col. British Army (Ret.) Tim ...
Ep 11: Honoring the Service and Sacrifices of our Veterans with Tony Lo Bianco from 2020-11-10T22:42:28
We are dedicating this episode of Thought to Action to our nation's Veterans.
London Center for Policy Research President Lt. Col. (Ret.)Tony Shaffer and Actor, Writer, Producer and Pat...
Ep 10: Why the Direction of the US Economy is at Stake in the 2020 Elections from 2020-11-03T12:47:57
This week on Thought to Action, London Center for Policy Research President Lt. Col. (Ret.)Tony Shaffer and Stephen Moore, Economic Advisor to President Donald Trump and Economist at FreedomWorks, ...
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Ep 9 -President Trump's Middle East Policy vs. Past Administrations: What the Media Will Not Report from 2020-11-02T20:57:50
This week on Thought to Action, London Center for Policy Research President Lt. Col. (Ret.)Tony Shaffer and Distinguished Fellow Navy Captain (Ret.) Pete O'Brien discuss how the Trump Administratio...
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Ep 8: The Future of US-Israeli-Arab Relations with Ambassador Ido Aharoni from 2020-10-29T13:20:32
This week on Thought to Action, Tony Shaffer and former Israeli Consulate General to New York Ambassador Ido Aharoni look into the recent US-Israeli-Arab peace accords, the diplomatic methods of th...
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Ep 7: Exposing A Culture of Corruption with UBS Tax Fraud Whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld from 2020-10-22T12:57:45
While corruption runs deep in government and other powerful establishments, we rely on honest people to step forward and expose it. One such man, a banker named Brad Birkenfeld, alerted the feds to...
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Ep 6 - Why Do Many Millennials Embrace Socialism? from 2020-10-15T13:55:30
History proves the repeated failures and abuses of socialist and communist systems. While we continue to see the devastation these governments left behind, why do so many young people today, accord...
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Ep 5 - with Betsy McCaughey: Un-spinning media smears against Amy Coney Barrett; State of healthcare in the US from 2020-10-08T17:00:21
Tim Wilson and Betsy McCaughey un-spin the many leftist smears against President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, including alarmist fears over the future of health c...
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Ep 4: Carter Page on how the FBI illegally targeted him during the Russin collusion hoax investigations from 2020-10-01T19:15:56
Tony Shaffer talks with Carter Page, who was illegally targeted by the FBI during the Russian Collusion conspiracy theory investigations. Page tells the story in his new book: Abuse and Power: How ...
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Ep 3: How Gun Control Laws Hurt Minority Communities from 2020-09-24T17:34:47
London Center for Policy Research Senior Fellow Lt. Col.(Ret.) Tim Wilson and LCPR Associate Fellow Timothy Furey discuss how minority communities are most negatively affected by harsh gun control ...
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Ep 2: How COVID-19 exposed US overdependence on China's products with Gordon Chang from 2020-09-18T13:24:22
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tony Shaffer and Gordon C. Chang discuss how COVID-19 exposed the United States' economic over-dependence on Chinese products and what needs to be done to end it.
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Ep 1: What is really behind the Left's Anti-Gun Rhetoric and Agenda? from 2020-09-17T16:23:05
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tony Shaffer and Lt. Col.(Ret.) Tim Wilson discuss the Left's true motives behind their anti-gun rhetoric, even as the need to defend oneself becomes more important.
Ton...