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Reality Check With Ben Swann

California’s New Vaccine Law Puts Kids In Danger

The new law in California which bans medical exemptions for vaccines puts thousands of children in harms way. The law prevents doctors from exempting children who could and have had life threatening reactions to vaccines. This Reality Check is part of a full podcast episode which goes much more in depth on this issue.

 

Truth in Media Podcast

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Reality Check: Rep. Omar’s Comments On Israel Were Not Anti-Semitic

Leading House Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi plan to offer a resolution Wednesday condemning anti-Semitism in response to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s latest remarks on Israel.

House Republicans and others want Pelosi to go even further and for Omar to be removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee all because she questioned the lobbying efforts of a foreign nation.

What did she say? How are those comments being twisted?

Let’s give it a reality check you won’t see anywhere else.

Reality Check: Will U.S. Use “Humanitarian Aid” As Justification for Regime Change in Venezuela?

Is the U.S. military under the Trump administration about to forcibly create regime change in Venezuela?

For months I have been saying that would not happen but now, all signs seem to be pointing to this reality.  Will the U.S. claim, just like we did in Libya, that a humanitarian crisis is underway and that a military intervention is the only way to protect the people of Venezuela?

I’ll explain in this reality check you won’t get anywhere else.

Has U.S. Foreign Policy Created The Migrant Crisis in Honduras?

A crowd of nearly 7,000 migrants are moving from Honduras, currently in Mexico and on their way to the U.S. border.

President Trump says he will not allow them in and the situation is once again becoming a huge political debate over immigration.

But immigration is only a symptom of the actual problem. Reality Check, if you want to debate the actual problem then you have to talk about u.s. foreign policy in Honduras and Central American countries for over the last 100 years that has led to this migrant crisis.
Other media is going to ignore it but we’re not.

Lets give it a reality check.

Stop Funding Afghan Security Forces Who Keep Child Sex Slaves

Stop providing billions of dollars to Afghan security forces if those forces are sexually abusing young boys.

Seems like a pretty reasonable idea and yet that effort was recently blocked in the U.S. Senate.

Who would continue to provide billions of dollars to security forces when it has been proven that those forces keep young boys as sex slaves?

We’ll tell you in this Reality Check.

Facebook Purges 800 Pages For Posting “Political Content”

800 Facebook pages purged in one day for posting “political content”, including the Free Thought Project, the Anti-Media, Police the Police, Press For Truth and hundreds of others.

It is the largest single purge so far and yet this attack on independent media has been on-going for months. Its not just Facebook either, Twitter, Youtube, Google and Apple are all playing roles. Reality Check, problems create opportunities.

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Lets give it a Reality Check.

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3 Constitutional Reasons Bret Kavanaugh Should Not Be On Supreme Court

The FBI report on Bret Kavanaugh reveals no evidence of sexual assault allegations which have been made against the Supreme Court nominee. Earlier this week we told you why Christine Blasey Ford is not a credible accuser.

But are there legitimate reasons why Kavanaugh should not be on the highest court in the nation?  We are not talking about these personal attacks but because of his terrible judicial record in opposition to the 4th and 5th amendments of the U.S Constitution.

Lets give it a Reality Check

 

TSA Secretly Tracking Travelers Like Terrorists

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The TSA is running a surveillance program called “Quiet Skies” that involves monitoring people in airports who have not committed a crime or who are not on any watch list, but who are acting suspiciously.

Just wait until you hear the criteria and how unsuccessful the program has been.

Lets give it a Reality Check.

Are Social Media Companies Banning Because Of What Happens In “Real World”?

The fourth nail in the social media coffin of Alex Jones came when Twitter forever banned the Infowars founder and host. But it is why Twitter suspended Jones that we should pay attention to, because it affects every one of us.

 

Are social media companies banning users because of what they do in “real world” situations and not because of abuse of their platforms?

Lets give it a Reality Check.

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Bernie’s “Stop Bezos Act” Doesn’t Work, Here’s Why!

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders continues to push against Amazon and specifically what he sees as a perverse economy being created by the worlds richest man, Jeff Bezos.

Sanders has now introduced a plan called “The Stop Bezos Act”. This plan would require that companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart either pay a “living wage” to workers, or instead those companies will be forced to pay for the public assistance their workers have to live on to get by.

The “Stop Bezos Act” is sold as a way to make Amazon pay its fair share but would actually affect about 18,000 U.S. companies. On top of that, it won’t work.

Lets give it a Reality Check.

Are Media Matters and George Soros Behind the Social Purge?

A nearly two year old document reportedly issued by Media Matters for America lays out a plan for “defeating Trump” and Republicans over the next four years. But is this strategy actually responsible for the social media taking place on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google? After all, this purge only protects establishment “left” and “right”.

Let’s give it a Reality Check.

FDA’s Kratom Claims Are “Junk Science”?

A new white paper claims that the FDA’s claims that Kratom is a dangerous and even deadly substance are nothing more than junk science. Kratom is a naturally occurring substance that comes from a tree in southeast Asia and yet every day the FDA seems to have a new claim about the dangers of Kratom, even wanting the DEA to schedule Kratom as a Schedule 1 drug.

Let’s give it a Reality Check.

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Reality Check: Major Corporations Influencing Gun Control?

Major institutions across the U.S. are taking a stand in the debate over gun control.

Many gun control advocates believe this is a great move by American corporations. But what does it mean when corporations are punishing customers for behavior that is not illegal? Could these businesses become moral police?

This is a Reality Check you won’t get anywhere else.

In response to the latest mass shooting event in Parkland, Florida, major corporations and banks are now instituting their own gun control policies. Let’s first look at how banks are getting involved.

Bank of America announced just 10 days after the parkland shooting that it would begin conversations with its customers who manufacture guns to, “examine what we can do to help end the tragedy of mass shootings.”

Then in mid-March Citigroup revealed it would institute its own restrictions on gun manufacturer clients. The bank has since banned its business customers from selling guns to anyone under 21, and from selling high-capacity magazines and bump stocks altogether.

And now, Bank of America will no longer lend to gun manufacturers, including current loan customers Vista Outdoors and Remington.

While banks are private institutions, there are questions here about why banks would not lend to companies that are not doing anything illegal, but that the bank’s executives simply don’t agree with.

According to Bank of America’s annual shareholder meeting in April, a shareholder named Justin Danhof, the director of the free enterprise project, asked CEO Brian Moynihan how much business the bank was sending away, noting that Warren Buffett said he wouldn’t make a similar move in his business.

In response, Moynihan said that the choice was in response to those associated with the bank who were impacted by the parkland shooting. Without citing any figures, Moynihan said, “this comes from our teammates saying we have to help.”

Yet Bank of America, the second largest bank in the U.S., has made a unilateral decision that imposes a political view on its employees and shareholders.

Remember, these banks have trillions of dollars in assets. Bank of America alone serves 3 million small business owners in the U.S. and because their policies affect so many people, these banks can sway policy in our country without a single vote cast.

Now, what about the major retailers in the U.S. stepping into the gun control debate?

According to the New York Times, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart, two of the nation’s leading gun sellers, have opted to further restrict customers by raising the age to purchase any firearm to 21.

Dick’s Sporting Goods has removed what it calls assault-style weapons from all of its stores’ shelves.

And Walmart went even further. The retailer will stop selling toy and air guns that resemble assault-style guns.

The actions these major corporations have taken to address gun control highlights the power to punish customers for legal behavior.

But can’t customers vote with their dollar and choose to bank or buy products with a company that highlights their values?

Yes you can vote with your dollar, but it’s very hard when so few corporations are so large and impose their will. And that’s what you need to know.

The problem here is when major, private companies have centralized control. In a free market, corporations should be able to do what they want. If you don’t like it, you support a competitor.

But that’s not the system we have in the U.S.

Instead, it’s a system where cronyism has allowed a few large corporations to have massive control, and there are huge hurdles to anyone trying to create an alternative.

It is why, as I have said before, the decentralization of everything is what is so necessary in virtually every industry. Because it is decentralization that allows freedom.

That’s Reality Check, let’s talk about it right now on Facebook and Twitter.