Bernie Gets Called out for ‘Blatantly Dishonest’ Tweet

On Monday’s episode of “Dear America,” host Graham Allen called out Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) after the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful posted an intentionally misleading statistic about gun-related deaths on Twitter Sunday.

“That is blatantly dishonest, and I want to explain that to you,” Graham said. “Because the left wants you to think that there were 40,000 people who died due to mass shootings … because they want to push their agenda on gun control.” . . .

“What they blatantly leave out, on purpose, is that two-thirds of those deaths were due to suicide,” he said, emphasizing that it was not his intention to downplay the tragedy of suicide but to demonstrate the way the information had been presented to be misleading. . .

“The same people who want you to get rid of guns because of 40,000 gun-related deaths in 2018 … are pushing abortion rights, when over 70,000 babies were murdered in Florida alone last year,” said Graham. “So, you wanna come at me with some blatantly B.S. statistic that you lie about and try to tell me that you care about people when all you really care about is disarming America?” (Read more from “Bernie Gets Called out for ‘Blatantly Dishonest’ Tweet” HERE)

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This Ad Shows Just How Much Chinese Consumers Trust Facial Recognition Technology

In a scene reminiscent of a Hollywood blockbuster’s trailer, a Chinese policeman dons a pair of futuristic facial recognition–equipped sunglasses. He scans each member of the crowd at Shanghai’s People’s Square subway station. Before long, he pinpoints a crook—whose disguise may have fooled humans, but not technology—and starts chasing him down.

The video is an advertisement for state-owned telecom giant China Mobile’s new 5G network. The voiceover in Mandarin at the end of the clip doesn’t endorse facial recognition outright, but it does boast that 5G is speedy enough to make “smart cities possible.”

People around the world are grappling with facial recognition. Earlier this month, it was officially banned in San Francisco. Congress recently held a hearing about the pitfalls of the technology. Meanwhile, a backlash broke out in the U.K. last week after a Welsh man complained that the authorities breached his privacy with facial recognition, prompting police to defend what they call a valuable crime-prevention tool.

All that pales in comparison with China’s usage of the technology. Critics have accused the Chinese government of using such technology in its suppression of the Uighur minority, with experts digging up copious amounts of evidence to back up those claims. There are also concerns that facial recognition will be abused nationwide. Cameras equipped with the technology have sprung up alongside most major Chinese city streets, and even in some public bathrooms.

Alarming as such widespread state surveillance might seem to many Westerners, much of the Chinese population has welcomed its increasing ubiquity. As author Jianan Qian wrote in a New York Times op-ed, “Many people in China seem to be happy about the physical security promised by the surveillance network. Our mind-set, long ago, was wired to see safety and freedom as an either-or choice.” (Read more from “This Ad Shows Just How Much Chinese Consumers Trust Facial Recognition Technology” HERE)

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Watch: Cruise Ship Crushes the Dock and Smaller Boat in Horrifying Video as People Run for Their Lives

By The Daily Caller. The massive cruise ship absolutely crushed the dock and a smaller boat while in Venice, Italy. People on the dock took off running after it became clear the cruise ship was about to make impact. . .

You have to love the speed of the people on the dock once they realized a massive cruise ship might crush into them. They looked like they were running the 40 yard dash at the NFL combine.

Best of luck to the people running the show when they have to explain how the hell this happened. I don’t envy their position at all. (Read more from “Watch: Cruise Ship Crushes the Dock and Smaller Boat in Horrifying Video as People Run for Their Lives” HERE)

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Cruise Ship Rams Tourist Boat in Busy Venice Canal, Four Hurt

By CNN. . .The cruise ship, MSC Opera, rammed into the San Basilio terminal, and hit a smaller tourist boat — the River Countess — that was docked there, the local port authority told CNN.

Four people suffered “light injuries” in the accident, it said.

The incident happened at around 8.30am local time on the Giudecca canal, one of the busiest in the Italian city which is hugely popular with tourists. . .

The cruise ship operator, MSC Cruises, said in a statement that the vessel “experienced a technical issue” while heading towards the terminal for mooring. (Read more from “Cruise Ship Rams Tourist Boat in Busy Venice Canal, Four Hurt” HERE)

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YouTube ‘Looking into’ Steven Crowder, and He Responds… Via YouTube

YouTube is now investigating conservative comedian, BlazeTV host, and YouTube star Steven Crowder, after a Vox writer who frequently targets conservatives for de-platforming asked them to. And Crowder has a response.

It started – well the current scuffle started – when Vox’s Carlos Maza took his case to his Twitter feed to complain that Crowder was harassing and bullying him. In his Tweet thread, he included a heavily edited montage of excerpts from Crowder’s shows, where he made fun of Maza.

And that is exactly what Steven Crowder talked about in this response. Watch:

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Crowder characterizes this as a David vs. Goliath battle. It is also yet another example of how there is a fine line between corporate freedom to select their content, and coordinated censorship of one point of view by the culturally acceptable other side. (Read more from “YouTube ‘Looking into’ Steven Crowder, and Crowder Responds… Via YouTube” HERE)

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2020 Candidate Comes out Against Socialism – the Crowd’s Response Is Concerning

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper received an unwelcome reception at the California Democratic Convention on Saturday after the one of two dozen presidential candidates told the crowd that “socialism is not the answer” to defeating incumbent Republican President Donald J. Trump. For this remark, he received a loud and steady “boo” of disapproval from the audience.

“If we want to beat Donald Trump and achieve big progressive goals, socialism is not the answer,” Hickenlooper said to more than 4,500 delegates on Saturday, reports CNN. The otherwise quiet observers began to boo and voice their condemnation of the statement. Their reaction lasted more than 30 seconds. Hickenlooper tried to reason with the crowd, saying, “You know, if we’re not careful, we’re going to end up helping to re-elect the worst president in history.”

Finally, the crowd quieted down and then Hickenlooper really ground their gears when he suggested the Democratic party needed “pragmatism” moving forward on policy issues like healthcare and the environment.

“We shouldn’t try to achieve universal coverage by removing private insurance from over 150 million Americans. The booing the reinitiated. Nevertheless, he persisted, saying, “We should not try to tackle climate change by guaranteeing every American a government job.” (Read more from “2020 Candidate Comes out Against Socialism – the Crowd’s Response Is Concerning” HERE)

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Watch: Footage Shows Thousands of Illegal Aliens Going Through Border

As impeachment fever soaks up the oxygen in Washington D.C., the crisis on the southern border with Mexico continues to get worse by the day.

Yesterday marked a new and grave milestone for Border Patrol agents as more than 1,000 illegal aliens, the vast majority falsely claiming asylum, poured over the border into the United States.

“The apprehension of 1,036 individuals in a single group – the largest group ever encountered by Border Patrol agents – demonstrates the severity of the border security and humanitarian crisis at our Southwest border,” Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez released in a statement. “The dedicated men and women of CBP, and in particular the U.S Border Patrol, are doing their very best every day to address the influx of family units and unaccompanied children.”

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Watch: Obama Decides to Uncontrollably Lie About Guns in U.S.

Former President Barack Obama told multiple lies on Thursday to a crowd in Brazil while discussing gun laws in the United States — something that he repeatedly did during his presidency.

In a clip flagged by Grabien’s Tom Elliott, Obama stated: “Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time. Without much, if any, regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns.” . . .

Stephen Gutowski, a Second Amendment reporter for The Washington Free Beacon, highlighted some of Obama’s in a series of tweets on Friday.

“Former President Obama just straight up lied about America’s gun laws while at an event in Brazil–a country with strict gun laws and an unfathomably-high gun murder rate,” Gutowski tweeted. “Former President Obama told the Brazilian crowd ‘anybody can buy any weapon any time without much, if any, regulation’ of our gun laws which is just plain false on its face. A complete lie.”

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Watch: Climate Warriors Are Asked How We Can Save the Planet. Their Answers Will Leave You Speechless.

By The Blaze. “Slightly Offens*ve” host Elijah Schaffer attended a climate change march in Los Angeles to ask attendees for their ideas in finding solutions for what they called the “climate catastrophe.” . . .

Here are some of their answers:

“All this travelling, constantly moving, by car, by plane, [is] wasting and putting all this crap out there in the air. There are diesel engines, or gas, or you know, there’s non-gas alternatives, and we can use all that.”

“Everybody knows that there’s a climate crisis, but what’s the solution? Elon Musk? He says let’s go to Mars, abandon Earth. Some people say let’s kill everybody. Let’s build a wall at the border because as the planet gets hotter people are going to want to escape violence and plagues and death and famine, and so come to the U.S. — so just build a wall, send people to camps, kill people and that’s a way to deal with the climate catastrophe. I think that morally that’s kinda f***ed up.”

“We talk about what’s happening to the environment. We talk about how we can change, you know. My family, like, we have a compost system, like we recycle, like I come to these marches. What was the question?”

[Warning: video contains explicit language:]

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Biden Nearly Flunks Climate Change on Greenpeace Report Card

By Bloomberg. Joe Biden got a D-minus on a climate change report card ranking Democratic presidential candidates released Thursday by the liberal environmental group Greenpeace.

Biden, the Democratic front runner, has yet to release a detailed plan on how he will combat climate change. But the scorecard evaluated 19 candidates on their commitments to ending the use of fossil fuels and support for environmental policies based on statements, legislative records and published plans. Some candidates also responded to a 29-question survey from the environmental group.

“If he wants to translate his front-runner status in the polls to actual leadership on climate, we need him to come out with a bold, concrete plan in line with the scale of the crisis we’re facing,” said Janet Redman, climate campaign director for Greenpeace USA.

The Biden campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. During a campaign swing in New Hampshire earlier this month, the candidate called for an “environmental revolution,” though he has yet join many of his Democratic campaign opponents in signing onto the Green New Deal. (Read more from “Biden Nearly Flunks Climate Change on Greenpeace Report Card” HERE)

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Hear Planned Parenthood Agree to Take Money to Abort Black Baby

When Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to act on various abortion-law cases because of the industry’s threat “to achieve eugenic goals,” one pro-life group immediately reached into its archives.

Live Action posted a video in which Planned Parenthood representatives agree to accept a donation to pay for the abortion of a black baby. . .

Among the responses was “absolutely” and, “We would certainly, uh, make sure that that gift was earmarked specifically for that purpose.”

An employee said it was “understandable” when the “donor” on the telephone said, “We just think, you know the – the – the less – the less black kids out there, the better.”

Twitter news aggregator Twitchy wrote: “In reality, Planned Parenthood is continuing founder and eugenicist Margaret Sanger’s mission to abort poor and minority babies in the name of ‘racial betterment.’

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Watch: Pro-Lifer Demolishes Common Pro-Abortion Talking Point from Feminist

During a speaking engagement for her “Lies Feminist Tell” campus tour at Miami University of Oxford, Students for Life of America president Kristan Hawkins broke down the severely flawed and oft-repeated talking point from pro-abortion activists regarding pro-lifers allegedly only caring about children in the womb. . .

“An unborn fetus, that cannot live outside the mother, what right do you have to tell me to carry it to term?” [an audience member] asked. “If it’s an unplanned pregnancy, and odds are, that if it goes into the foster care system, it will face severe neglect and abuse.” . . .

“You just said that, if you knew that for 100% certainty, that the child you’re birthing is going to have a lifetime of suffering, that it would be better for the child, for you to kill, to end the life of the child, than for the child to suffer. So, instead of attempting to try to solve the suffering of the child, you’ve just eliminated the potential sufferer. Right?” Hawkins again reiterated.

“My question was, how do we end that suffering to make bringing a child that is unwanted into this world justifiable,” the feminist said.

“As pro-lifers and as Americans, we care about the children in foster care, we care about children who are being neglected, who are living on the streets with their parents,” said Hawkins, adding, “I actually don’t believe anyone in this room, regardless if you’re pro-life or pro-choice, thinks that childcare should be suffering in foster care, or children should live through hunger and homelessness.” (Read more from “Watch: Pro-Lifer Demolishes Common Pro-Abortion Talking Point from Feminist” HERE)

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