Senate Committee To Probe Twitter’s Treatment Of Anti-Abortion Movie ‘Unplanned’ Sen. Ted Cruz has announced that a committee he chairs will hold a hearing to investigate whether Twitter and other social media are seeking to censor conservative speech — and one prime topic of conversation in the hearing will be the anti-abortion film “Unplanned.” The film, which was released March 29, takes a critical look at Planned Parenthood. “As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive choices,” movie review site Rotten Tomatoes says in a brief description of the film. “Her passion surrounding a woman’s right to choose led her to become a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood, fighting to enact legislation for the cause she so deeply believed in. Until the day she saw something that changed everything.” Shortly before the movie came out, Twitter briefly suspended its page. “According to Twitter, Unplanned was not suspended on purpose, but rather was linked to another account that had violated Twitter’s rules,” the Hollywood Reporter wrote. The account was restored. Cruz said the hearing before the Judicial Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution will be held on Wednesday and has been titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technology Censorship and the Public Discourse. “Insiders say executives from Twitter, Facebook and Google have been asked to testify, as has Chuck Konzelman, the co-writer and co-director of Unplanned,” the Reporter wrote. When it comes to Unplanned, “The ridicule of the mainstream media and Hollywood is to be expected,” Cruz told The Hollywood Reporter. “But big tech’s attempted censorship of (Johnson’s) story during it’s opening weekend is deeply troubling and revealing. I have repeatedly asked tech companies for basic data on how many voices on their social platforms are silenced and to what extent it is politically targeted. I intend to keep asking these questions, and hold them accountable.” As far as I’m concerned, it’s part of a systematic bias against conservative media,” added Konzelman. “We were on Twitter for nine months and an error occurred on opening weekend? That’s not much fun. It’s the film’s theatrical debut. Couldn’t they check their facts a little bit?” Despite huge forces aligned against it, “Unplanned” pulled in big money in its opening weekend. The picture hauled in $6.1 million from 1,059 theaters, the Reporter wrote. That’s a bit more than the movie cost to make — just $6 million. And “Unplanned” pulled in an average of $5,770 per theater, topping “Captain Marvel” by about $650 per screen, Box Office Mojo reported. For the record, the latest super-hero movie cost nearly $150 million to make. The movie was hit with an R rating, which generally reduces viewership, especially for a movie about abortion. Some networks have used that rating as a excuse not to run ads. “Up TV cited the R rating when it also rejected the commercial, as did several Christian radio channels that also refused to air ads for Unplanned,” the Reporter said, noting that Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, HGTV and “several other cable networks” also refused to run ads for the movie, the Hollywood Reporter wrote last month. Lifetime, for example, told the film’s marketers that they declined to air the commercial due to the “sensitive nature of the film,” the ad buyers tell The Hollywood Reporter. The marketers though, note that the network — which is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture of Walt Disney and Hearst Communications — previously promoted an interview with Scarlett Johansson where she pitches Planned Parenthood. The Travel Channel, Cooking Channel, HGTV and Food Network, each of which are owned by Discovery, also refused to sell ad time for Unplanned due to the “sensitive nature” of the movie, say those who tried buying air time. Other networks that refused to advertise the movie include the Hallmark Channel and USA Network, the latter of which is owned by NBCUniversal. “We were looking to spend money, but they didn’t want to get involved,” said John Sullivan, a producer of Unplanned. THR reached out to all of the networks; Lifetime declined to comment while the rest did not respond. “Most of the networks didn’t go into detail beyond citing the subject matter of the film and that they didn’t want to get into politics. But we don’t believe we’re in the political category,” said Joe Knopp, an Unplanned producer. Meanwhile, the Twitter account of “Unplanned” has exploded. It had a mere 6,000 followers before it was suspended by Twitter, but quickly rocketed up to 352,000 followers on the social media platform — while Planned Parenthood has 260,000. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...s-treatment-of-anti-abortion-movie-unplanned/
https://www.catholicregister.org/it...dren-unveiled-at-toronto-s-sick-kids-hospital My dear State of New York which happens to be across the border from Ontario is in the process of catching up on euthanasia! Bills are in committee in both the Senate and Assembly! Safe in the Refuge of the Immaculate Heart!
Sad that I the only part that I like is your steady and sure answer. Let us all hold firm to the mantle of our immaculate mother.
Thank you Mario for sharing your family and for your witness. Your wife and you are blessed. I pray everyday that the Lord pour out His grace on my children as it is so difficult to raise holy children these days.....not impossible but it gets harder every year. We have been exceptionally blessed as well. The Lord has poured out a lot of grace on my kids and they are so far accepting His grace. They are good kids and pretty solid in their Faith. I pray they will take this into adulthood. So many walk away, myself included, with the trappings of the secular world. It is beautiful to hear all of your children have stayed in the Faith. I pray daily for all the MOG forum members and their families. It is so difficult. I think persecution is just around the corner. Scary how fast things seem to be moving now. But I trust in our Savior. I trust He has this....LOL. I have too because if I didn't have my Faith I would be a complete looney.
Tanker, "It has been slowed by this president here in the US." - I believe that this is true in many ways. *** On another note, Benjamin Netanyahu has been reelected Prime Minister of Israel. Israel's Netanyahu secures election victory: Israeli TV channels JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won the Israeli national election, securing a record fifth term in office despite running … Reuters · 30m*** In relation to some other posts above, I believe that it is also a strange coincidence that the Democrats who support same sex marriage and are pushing late term abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and often socialism in the USA also seem to be the ones who are anti-Israel. Remember this? AOC states she is not an expert in geopolitics but yet, "Ocasio-Cortez majored in international relations and economics at Boston University, graduating cum laude in 2011." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez And Remember this? Progressives defend Omar, prompting House Dems to delay ... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-delay-vote-condemning... Mar 06, 2019 · Yet U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, dismissed such action against Omar and said her presence on the committee isn’t tied to her comments Ref. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...gy-for-antisemitism-to-attack-kevin-mccarthy/
Ilhan Omar flirts with 9/11 conspiracy theories, lies about CAIR’s Hamas roots Jordan Schachtel · April 9, 2019 | https://www.conservativereview.com/news/ilhan-omar-flirts-9-11-conspiracies-lies-cairs-hamas-roots/ Video has surfaced from Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s speech at a private Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) gathering that took place in late March, revealing that she appears to be entertaining deeply disturbing September 11 conspiracy theories. “Here’s the truth: Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen. And frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” Omar started. “CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognize that some people did something, and then all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” she continued. Omar appears to be entertaining a conspiracy theory when she says that “some people did something” and then goes on to claim that Muslims were stripped of their civil rights thereafter. Her rhetoric echoes a popular 9/11 conspiracy theory circulated among only the most toxic political fringes in the United States. However, her notion remains quite commonplace in the Middle East. This conspiracy theory involves the idea that 9/11 was a false flag operation that allowed the Bush administration to invade Muslim lands overseas such as Afghanistan and Iraq. A Pew survey taken a decade after the attacks found that this conspiracy has become a mainstream idea in the Islamic world. Pew found: Nearly a decade after September 11, 2001, skepticism about the events of that day persists among Muslim publics. When asked whether they think groups of Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks on the U.S., most Muslims in the nations surveyed say they do not believe this. Unfortunately, 9/11 conspiracy theories continue to be very mainstream in the international Muslim community. Additionally, in claiming that CAIR was founded after 9/11, Rep. Omar misled her audience about the radical group’s true origins. CAIR was actually founded in 1994 by Muslim Brotherhood operatives dedicated to the advancement of the Hamas terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip. Since then, many CAIR officials have over time (one as recently as June 2018) publicly expressed support for the jihadi group. And in the post-9/11 environment, CAIR continued its Hamas-funding mission. Kyle Shideler, an analyst at the Middle East Forum, wrote in documenting CAIR’s post-9/11 work: In 2001, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, CAIR’s website featured a donation link to “Donate to the NY/DC Emergency Relief Fund”. The hyperlink led would-be donors directly to the Holy Land Foundation, the now convicted Hamas fundraising organization. And if entertaining 9/11 conspiracy theories and falsifying CAIR’s history wasn’t bad enough, here’s a reminder that Omar was featured at the event alongside Hassan Shibly, a CAIR official who is acting as the pro bono attorney for “ISIS bride” Hoda Muthana.
Near-total abortion bans seek to overturn Roe v. Wade https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...es-mount-direct-challenges-roe-wade/39326001/
Remember, "pre-Adamic"..... "human". Evidence of New Human Species Found in Philippines Fossils unearthed in a limestone cavern part of a previously unknown human species that roamed the island about 50,000 years ago https://www.wsj.com/articles/evidence-of-new-human-species-found-in-philippines-11554915601
Mapping Armaggedon: Earth's looming tsunamis and mega-quakes https://www.france24.com/en/20190410-mapping-armaggedon-earths-looming-tsunamis-mega-quakes
It's interesting to note that during that same time period, there was a species of kangaroo in Australia that was close to being or becoming a competitor with the human species for dominance.
No souls.....just creepy and dangerous: Scientists put human gene into monkeys to make them smarter, human-like https://www.brecorder.com/2019/04/1...into-monkeys-to-make-them-smarter-human-like/
This is a little old but I just found out about the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) two days ago here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_fatalities_and_injuries_of_the_2012_Benghazi_attack and then I found the following. Todd Starnes: We have to take a stand for religious liberty in the military Talk | Todd Starnes | Aug 14, 2018 During a recent show, Todd Starnes discussed Brig. Gen. Teichert, Commander, 412th Test Wing, Edwards Air Force Base, who is facing a threat from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which advocates for separation of church and state in the military. The organization accusing the General of operating an online ministry that promotes his particular brand of Evangelical Christianity to base troops, contractors and civilians which they say is in violation of Air Force and Defense Department rules about religious proselytizing. Mikey Weinstein, the group's founder, has sent a formal letter of complaint to Defense Secretary James Mattis. "The Military Religious Freedom Foundation believes that General Teichert should be removed from command and thrown in jail because of his religious beliefs. This is unbelievable. This is one of the moments that this radio program was created for. We've got to take a stand, we've got to stand alongside General Teichert here. We've got to encourage the Trump administration to ignore this guy, Mikey Weinstein, and ignore the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. It is offensive that people like Mikey Weinstein were given a platform during the Obama administration," Starnes said on the show. Listen to the story here: https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/08/1...-stand-for-religious-liberty-in-the-military/
More signs in Minnesota......were doing fine!! https://www.facebook.com/twincitieslive/videos/vb.53257384143/1169611986551288/?type=2&theater
Today on Spirit Daily: Mailbag: Of Photos And Quakes And Dream/Intuitions April 12, 2019 by sd When we reach into the mailbag (and if we’ve been a while answering mail, please be patient), we find the usual and intriguing amalgamation of photos, dreams, notions that ring a spiritual bell. + How can the photos [above and left and right]not remind us of the Holy Spirit/dove descending, and a Cross thence forming? + True Easter stuff. The Dove was first, followed by the Cross, which twenty-one centuries later is still our illumination. Notes a viewer who sent it, “The first was taken in my backyard in Tinley Park, Illinois, on March 27 at 9:27 a.m. looks like the Holy Spirit. The second was taken March 31 at 12:24 p.m. looked like Mama Mary, and a third was taken 12:34 p.m. same day. The sun is gone instead the big white Cross appears and in the center is the blue heart shape. The fourth was taken April 1 at 4:11 p.m. looks like a big white Cross like a sword or nail… with a diamond blue image at the center.” + And so it does: God, at certain moments, gleams at us. Spiritual forces also work through dreams. + Is this the Blessed Mother (left)? “I took this,” says another reader, “on January 2016, when I was in Charleston, South Carolina.” + Says another viewer from Voorhees, New Jersey: “I would like to share with you this dream that I had last night. In this dream, everyone was looking up at the sky and the right Arm of God appeared in the sky with the right index finger extended. “The person on the left of me asked me what this meant and I responded, ‘I know what this means; it’s a warning from God that unless we change our ways, justice will fall upon us.’ Then the dream was over. Afterwards I began searching in the Scriptures as to where I had read about the Arm of God, and this is what I found: Isaiah 52:10: ‘The Lord has bared His holy Arm in the sight of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God.’ Also, in Exodus, chapter 8, the Finger of God is mentioned in reference to the plagues brought against Egypt. The Finger and the Arm of God also refer to the power of God. Also the Ten Commandments were written on the stone tablets by the Finger of God. I found this dream to be very interesting, to say the least.” Others find a spiritual indicator is the strange things of our time, such as unexplained “rumbles” and “hums.” They are reported around the world, as we have previously related. A natural phenomenon? + Commented Patty Jensen: “My personal note is that people with a physiologically sensitive ‘body’ are being blasted by this noise all the time and it is getting worse. Sixty years ago, when I was a kid, we didn’t have this noise — so probably, a natural disaster will wreck the engines that are running, the microwaves blasting, the airplanes flying, etcetera. Perhaps God will have mercy on us and take down the worldwide web and grid one day to give us souls a chance to go forward…” + So they are a… harbinger? Is that the point? + Perhaps the clearest harbingers are in current affairs, such as the news that Chinese scientists have inserted a human brain gene into monkeys that they say, when born, have better short-term memories. It was just a decade ago that there was the far-out concern (see Tower of Light) that one day there would be chimp-human hybrids (“humanzees”). Such developments make some folks nervous. We address it at retreats. “I have a hunch the ‘three days of darkness’ are getting close,” writes another, sending a little video snip. Every Easter season we seem to hear about it, especially during Holy Week. Quite a dramatic prediction, was that. Is it plausible? For our (very cautious) discernment (again)!
Messing with the mind after it's been removed from THE connection to God the Creator. These days stay away from academia and such experimentation going on with AI. The Great Deceiver is in the middle of it....the one who can only "simulate" and tempt to believe. Are we living in a simulation? This MIT scientist says it’s more likely than not https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-...r-scientists-about-the-simulation-hypothesis/
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Signs ‘Heartbeat’ Abortion Bill into Law Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed a bill into law Thursday that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. “The signing of this bill today is consistent with that respect for life and the imperative to protect those who cannot protect themselves,” said the Republican governor, signing the bill in the presence of Republican lawmakers and pro-life advocates. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio, however, announced a challenge to the law on behalf of two Planned Parenthood affiliates and another women’s abortion clinic, even prior to the governor’s signature on the bill. “This legislation is blatantly unconstitutional, and we will fight to the bitter end to ensure that this bill is permanently blocked,” said Freda Levenson, legal director of the ACLU, reported the Toledo Blade. “S.B. 23 is one of the most aggressive, oppressive, and radical attacks against women ever seen in this state and this country.” When asked about the challenge to the law, DeWine responded it is a “time-honored, constitutional tradition” to pass laws that challenge a precedent set by the U.S. Supreme Court. “We live in a country with great respect for the law,” the governor said. “We will respect the law, and we will respect what the courts decide … It is in that spirit that I signed this today.” The law, which is scheduled to take effect in 90 days, would make it a fifth-degree felony for an abortionist to proceed with an abortion after a heartbeat is detected or to neglect to test for a heartbeat. Abortionists who fail to comply with the law could receive a $2,000 fine and up to a year in prison. Additionally, the state’s medical board could rescind the license of an abortionist who defies the law and fine the doctor another $20,000 to be given to a fund that supports adoption and foster care services. The state legislature had already approved the “Heartbeat” measure in the past, but former Republican Gov. John Kasich vetoed the measure and the state Senate came up short one vote of the two-thirds majority needed to override his veto. Ohio was successful in the courts with its anti-abortion legislation in March when a federal appeals court ruled the state may end taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood because the organization performs abortions. In that decision, Judge Jeffrey Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit wrote Ohio’s law to defund Planned Parenthood does “not violate a woman’s right to obtain an abortion,” that the state “has no obligation to pay for a woman’s abortion,” and that the law doesn’t impose “undue burden” on a woman’s access to an abortion. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...ewine-signs-heartbeat-abortion-bill-into-law/
This theory is very popular with some people. It might also explain why some can commit such horrible acts of violence against others. When a person is convinced the whole of reality revolves around themselves and no one else is real it is not good.
NY Post cover told the TRUTH about 9/11 and Ilhan Omar’s comments. Leftist politicians and journalists are angry about it Nate Madden · April 11, 2019 | https://www.conservativereview.com/...mments-leftist-politicians-journalists-angry/
