Is Mass Surveillance Making Us Crazy?
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Mass surveillance could be a cause of mass paranoia. New studies show that surveillance has an impact on the brain, and that instead of causing good behavior, it may be a factor in an epidemic of stress.
Also, the Chinese regime is launching a new campaign to lure U.S. influencers to China for propaganda tours. This comes alongside other findings that the Chinese Communist Party has broad campaigns to infiltrate American society.
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| 0:00.0 | Mass surveillance could be a cause of mass paranoia. New studies show that surveillance has an impact on the brain, |
| 0:07.1 | and that instead of causing good behavior, it may be a factor in an epidemic of stress. |
| 0:12.7 | Also, the Chinese regime is launching a new campaign to lure U.S. influencers to China for propaganda tours. |
| 0:20.1 | This comes alongside other findings that the Chinese |
| 0:22.8 | Communist Party has broad campaigns to infiltrate American society. I'm the Epic Times |
| 0:28.8 | senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to Crossroads, a show by the Epic Times where we bring you insights beyond the headlines. Now as always, don't forget to hit the like button, help us get this live stream out to push down to more people. |
| 0:49.3 | Briefly, folks, some breaking news you might have sent it yesterday. Donald Trump, abruptly, it seems, left G7. |
| 0:57.3 | And right around that time also started posting on Truth Social, |
| 1:00.8 | telling people in Iran to get out of Tehran, the main city. |
| 1:05.0 | He has clarified the United States is not getting involved in the war between Israel and Iran. I know a lot of people are |
| 1:13.0 | concerned about that saying, are we going to war? As of now, the United States is not getting |
| 1:17.6 | involved. Iran did launch several rocket attacks on Israel, as far as I saw, none of those really |
| 1:23.6 | made it through. Israel is now striking Iranian weapon sites. They're going after the |
| 1:29.4 | capabilities of Iran to develop nuclear weapons. Anybody concerned right now, this is going to |
| 1:35.1 | erupt into World War III. So far, Russia doesn't seem they're interested in getting involved. |
| 1:41.3 | There are reports of China supplying, you know, maybe weapons to Iran. |
| 1:45.8 | Beyond that, this is not expanding. And so I will keep you updated on it. Also, very briefly, |
| 1:51.6 | also breaking news, FBI director Cash Patel has now handed over evidence to Congress, |
| 1:57.6 | alleging that they were aware in 2020, there were reports coming out in the agencies that the |
| 2:03.9 | Chinese Communist Party was printing and had plans to make fake driver's licenses with the intent |
| 2:10.8 | of getting mail-in ballots to impact our elections. Apparently this was hidden from the American |
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