Month: August 2023

By Thomas Lifson

The United States may have the dubious distinction of being the “leader” in pushing trans ideology and the sexualization of children, but sexual leftists in other leading countries are pursuing the same destructive goals.

Pro Familia is a German member of the International Planned Parenthood Association, who describe it as  follows:

 Pro familia advocates for the rights to individual self-determination in sexuality and family planning and is committed nationally and internationally to sexual and reproductive health and rights. For pro familia, sexual and reproductive rights and health rank among human rights.

pro familia is the leading professional association on sexuality and partnership in Germany. With information and counselling services, pro familia wants to contribute to women, men and young people being able to live their sexuality and sexual orientation in a self-determined way, to parenthood being a free decision and to a satisfying sexual life without fear of unwanted pregnancies or sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and to people being able to participate in scientific progress.

The services offered in the 180 counselling centres nationwide include counselling, information and age-appropriate sex education on partnership, sexuality, sexual orientation, contraception, pregnancy, family, unfulfilled desire to have children and reproductive medicine, prenatal diagnostics, birth, financial support, unwanted pregnancy as well as separation and divorce.

Pro familia publishes information brochures for clients and specialist publications for doctors, counsellors and educators, organises specialist conferences, lobbies for sexual and reproductive health and rights and offers a wide range of further and advanced training. In the field of sexual education, it is committed to human rights education.

Recently, it advised daycare centers in Germany to host and facilitate what it called “sexual exploration” events for very young children – children were to undress and were to be instructed to participate in a form of child-abuse with each other at the adult’s behest. Via the feminist website Reduxx:

Germany’s leading professional association on sexuality and partnership, Pro Familia, is under fire after issuing a recommendation that daycares implement “body exploration rooms” and “sexual games” for young children.

The issue first came to light when news outlet BILD revealed that parents were sent an e-mail from an Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO) daycare center in the Hanover region which presented a list of ten rules explaining how children in the “body exploration room” would be encouraged to “pet and examine” themselves and other children.

“All children, especially preschoolers, are aware of the places in the facility where nudity and body exploration can take place,” reads the message. “Each child decides for themselves whether and with whom they want to play physical and sexual games. Girls and boys pet and examine each other only as much as is comfortable for themselves and other children.”

Other rules outlined in the communication stipulate that the children must be within the same age group with a gap of no more than two years, and that at no time should a child “stick anything into another child’s body openings.”

Reduxx is a broadly left-leaning website that deals with feminism, and women’s and children’s rights.  But the story has also been covered by both the mainstream center-left German media outlet Der Spiegel, and center-right Bild.

This isn’t the first time events like this have occurred in Germany.  Up until the early 1990s the German Green Party had as policy platform the legalization of “non-violent sexuality between adults and children”

In the 1980s, some members of Germany’s Green Party advocated the legalization of sex with minors. Now the party wants to come to terms with this dark chapter via an independent review of internal documents — some of which show that the influence of pedophiles on the young party was much stronger than previously thought.

And of course, Germany must reckon with the pedophiliac legacy of the notorious Helmut Kentler, who placed foster children with pedophiles.

The sickness thrives in the United States but is a global phenomenon apparenlty associated with wealth.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_sexualization_of_children_in_germany_too.html

Roma and Ukrainian refugees have clashed in the Czech Republic after a Ukrainian man was accused of murdering a member of the Roma community. Prague fears that violent protests could erupt due to similar tensions between the communities on several occasions this summer.

Nicolas Dirda was traveling on a train in the Czech Republic on June 10 when he was stabbed. Police have not confirmed that a Ukrainian refugee was behind the killing.

However, the case has provoked a strong outcry from the Roma community in the Czech Republic, which numbers around 250,000, who have resorted to violence.

The minority group also complains that Ukrainian refugees have been provided with housing, care and school places by the state since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

Roma living in the ghettos believe that the narrative of the populist political opposition, which sees government support for Ukrainian refugees as coming at the expense of local people, is a major contributor to the discrimination against them.

According to the United Nations (UN), there are currently around 350,000 Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic who have sought refuge from the war.

The escalating situation has not gone unnoticed by the Czech government.

“We recognize the need for urgent action in the current tense and delicate situation,” said Government Commissioner for Roma Lucie Fukova. She added that a working group had been set up to tackle the problem of prejudice-based violence.

https://rmx.news/czech-republic/czechia-fears-conflict-between-roma-minority-and-ukrainian-refugees/

The sock puppets were out late last night.

Joe Biden’s handlers posted the wrong tweet on the wrong account today.

Oops! Biden’s Sock Puppet Team Posts His Message on the Wrong Twitter Account via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/Ej0KGKYi7t

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) August 15, 2023

We all know that letting men compete as women is destroying women’s sports. Yet so powerful is the “marginalized” Alphabet Mafia that the grotesque farce continues:

A male powerlifter who identifies as a “woman” set a women’s national record at a championship in Brandon, Manitoba, yesterday. Anne Andres, 40, currently holds multiple records in the female division, including women’s deadlift and bench press, and has placed first in nine out of the eleven competitions he has participated in over the past four years.

Unlike some transgender athletes, Andres would be competitive even among his fellow men:

Andres’ total would have placed him amongst the top-performing male powerlifters in the entire championship had he participated in the men’s category.

Hopefully someone is keeping track of who really does hold these records, so that cheaters competing as members of the opposite sex can be purged once liberal hegemony has been overthrown.

Try not to grind your teeth as Andres insults the real women he unfairly competes against:

Anne Andres (male who identifies and competes as a woman) doesn't understand why female powerlifters are so "bad" at bench press….well idk Anne, but maybe it's because you have 20 times more testosterone than them. Just a thought…. pic.twitter.com/klxd4WaoYc

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 17, 2023

Moonbattery Male Powerlifter Sets Female Record – Moonbattery

Vice chairman of the AFD, Peter Boehringer MDB, joins @Nigel_Farage to discuss Germany considers banning the AfD political party as they surge in popularity in the polls.

NCF Senior Fellow Dr. Philip Kiszely appeared on Michael Portillo’s GB News show to discuss the BBC’s re-release of the landmark 1970s historical drama I CLAUDIUS this week. He also had a wider discussion about 1970s television and other programmes from the “golden age of television” — and why the BBC can’t produce these today.

Green party politician Annalena Baerbock’s VIP airliner is broken, and after the second failed attempt to fly to Australia Germany’s top diplomat has called off the planned diplomatic tour of Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji.

“This is beyond annoying” wrote German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock in the early hours of Tuesday morning, after her German Air Force (Luftwaffe) provided Airbus A340-300 VIP jet broke down a second time, stranding the minister in Abu Dhabi yet again. The minister announced her week-long planned diplomatic visit to the Pacific which was to include talks on ‘green hydrogen’ and rising ocean levels had to be canceled as she was unable to travel without her government jet.

She is returning to Germany today by a regularly scheduled commercial flight from Dubai, having been stuck for around 24 hours.

Baerbock had originally departed Germany on the German government’s Air Force One-like ‘Konrad Adenauer’ jet on Sunday to fly to Australia with a refueling stop-off in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. But on takeoff to complete the second leg of the journey the landing flaps malfunctioned, meaning the aircraft couldn’t achieve cruising altitude: citing safety first, the Luftwaffe sent the aircraft back to the UAE for repairs.

It was unclear how long this would take, with factors including the complexity of the failure, availability of parts, and even the German law-mandated minimum rest period for the pilots dictating when a second attempt to get to Australia for the planned tour could take place. As it was, after repairs and a successful test flight without the minister on Monday, Baerbock and her team re-embarked in the early hours of Tuesday morning and tried again.

Per a communication of the Luftwaffe, “the error occurred again with the now fully refueled machine”, meaning it was “mission aborted” and a third return to Abu Dhabi in two days for the Airbus A340-300 Konrad Adenauer.

Taking to social media, Baerbock herself seemed to vent her frustration, writing: “We have tried everything: unfortunately it is logistically impossible to continue my Indo-Pacific journey without the broken plane. This is beyond annoying.”

Her spokesman Sebastian Fischer, who was also on the plane, thanked the Luftwaffe for their “commitment” but also commented on how “very annoying” the failure was.

The Luftwaffe for their part appear to have signaled the degree to which the aircraft was beyond economical repair, announcing Tuesday morning that the planned retirement of the government’s two VIP-configured Airbuses was being brought forward to “as soon as possible, i.e. in the coming weeks”. The two four-engined jets are being replaced by three new Airbus A350s, which are twin-engine jets.

Air Farce One: German Foreign Minister Stuck in Abu Dhabi After Govt Jet Again Breaks Downhttps://t.co/O3V74uEQX1

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 14, 2023

The trip was supposed to take in Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. Among the engagements planned included an embassy opening, returning colonial-era artifacts to indigenous people in Australia, enjoying the women’s world cup, talking about ‘green hydrogen’, and learning about rising sea levels in Fiji.

Germany has longstanding issues with the serviceability of its military aircraft, which include the VIP-specification airliners for government travel. As previously reported:

Baerbock was stranded in Qatar earlier this year after her government jet broke down and former Chancellor Angela Merkel experienced a breakdown in 2018. Other government members including Usrula von der Leyen — then the Defence Minister and now a top Eurocrat — and Olaf Scholz have also suffered breakdowns.

As reported by Breitbart London, it isn’t just VIPs who suffer these issues. When Germany wanted to make a significant donation of military equipment to the Kurds fighting ISIS in 2014 including over 100 vehicles, thousands of battle rifles, machine guns, anti-tank rockets, tens of thousands of grenades, and millions of rounds of ammunition, they were considerably delayed because the aircraft meant to do the job broke down on the runway.

Worse still, when the Luftwaffe found they were unable to fix the aircraft, the backup plane they borrowed from another country to get them out of trouble broke down too.

This state of affairs hasn’t been without critics. Indeed, the parlous state of the German military was slammed by no less than the head of the Luftwaffe, Lieutenant General Karl Müllner, who experienced what was reported to have been a “not quite voluntary” removal from post over his criticism of Merkel’s leadership in 2018.

As reported, When Müllner ‘retired’ he was treated to a ceremonious flyby of four Eurofighter combat jets of the Luftwaffe over Berlin — then the only four combat-ready airframes out of Germany’s theoretical fleet of 128.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/15/germany-cancels-pacific-nations-diplomatic-tour-because-they-cant-fix-government-jet/

Jacqueline Wilson has slammed rewrites of adult English classics into woke friendly terms, saying that she is “very against it”.

Her comments come after classic books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton have recently been altered by their publishers.

They have chosen to remove certain words and phrases which they now deem to be offensive.

Wilson, 77, criticised rewrites of adult classic novels on the show. She cited her favourite book Jane Eyre and its depiction of a mentally ill person, which she believes would never be written today.

She told ITV: “I was just thinking about Jane Eyre the other day. I mean with the mad woman in the attic and the way she’s depicted, you’d never find that sort of treatment of people with serious mental health problems.

“And yet, I would be absolutely at the forefront of people saying: ‘No, leave it alone. It’s my favourite book.’ ”

However, she described herself as a “middle-of-the-road person” when it came to her thoughts on altering children’s texts.

Compared to her much harsher stance on rewriting adult books, the Tracy Beaker writer said that editing children’s novels can sometimes be justified.

“I think it depends how it’s done,” she said. “There are some things I think that would make us a bit worried if we returned to our old children’s favourites and read them with fresh eyes. We might be a little surprised.

“I think with children, they often absorb texts. They still haven’t got the power to sort things out and have a sense of history.”

The Roald Dahl Story Company and Puffin Books recently carried out a review on Dahl’s books and chose to remove a range of content – including references to weight, violence, race, gender and mental health.

They did this by hiring sensitivity readers back in 2020, whose job was to ensure that Dahl’s work could “continue to be enjoyed by all today”.

Some examples of edited words include “old hag” becoming “old crow in The Witches and replacing the word “fat” in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with “enormous”.

Meanwhile Blyton, author of beloved series The Famous Five, The Magic Faraway Tree, and Noddy, has had work revised, after slammed as being racist and xenophobic in her books.

Last year, Wilson wrote The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure, a re-imagining of the Blyton classic, with controversial phrases removed.

Alongside expressing her views on rewrites, the author critiqued cancel culture.

“You don’t have to agree with someone,” she said. “But whether I’d feel that in the midst of a baying crowd or not, I don’t know.

‘Life’s changed so much. And I think it’s good that people can make it clear what they feel, but I do think a little bit of discussion [is necessary]. There’s been a call recently for children to develop their oracy, to become more articulate, to be able to assemble their ideas, and I think that would be a good idea.”

The former Children’s Laurete who has sold more than 40 million books, has said that even some of her works wouldn’t get written in today’s climate.

Love Lessons, published in 2005, features a 14-year-old kissing her art teacher.

“It’s so different now . . . Nowadays, you’d see Prue as a victim even if she had initiated it and the teacher as a paedophile because he responded to her,” she told the Guardian.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/jacqueline-wilson-woke-rewrites-roald-dahl-enid-blyton

The Ecumenical Patriarchate published a statement in which it stated that some politicians had targeted religious activities in recent days and that the celebration of the Dormition of the Theotokos at the Panagia Sumela Monastery had been used for political reasons.

“We have been deeply saddened by the fact that our religious activities have been targeted by some politicians in recent days,” the Ecumenical Patriarch said

“Our visit to Trabzon, where we will celebrate the feast for just a few hours, has been targeted for political reasons,” the Ecumenical Patriarch added.

Finally, it is mentioned in the statement that “as a nation that has lived on this land for centuries, we condemn these unjust statements made against us” and that “we have full confidence in our government”.

Read the full statement below in English:

We celebrate the Feast of the Virgin Mary, which is celebrated by Christians all over the world on August 15 every year, in many churches in our country.

After having received the permission of our government, our Patriarchate will celebrate the feast (of the Dormition of the Theotokos) at the Sumela Monastery, which is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, as it has been for the last 10 years.

We have been deeply saddened by the fact that our religious activities have been targeted by some politicians in recent days. Our visit to Trabzon, where we will go to celebrate the feast for just a few hours, has been targeted for political reasons.

As a nation that has lived on this land for centuries, we condemn these unjust statements made against us. We have full confidence in our government.

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH

https://greekcitytimes.com/2023/08/15/turks-targeted-celebrations-at-sumela-monastery-for-political-reasons/

Some of their five common children, five months to nine years old, will probably remember the bloody deed of their father for the rest of their lives: In front of them, Badar M. (36) allegedly killed their mother by stabbing his wife Natra K. (33) with eleven stabs with a knife!

On Monday, the trial against the Afghan began at the Zwickau Regional Court. He is accused of premeditated murder. Prosecutor Barbara Gremm (57): “The defendant is accused of insidiously killing a person for base motives.”

Natra K. had already separated from her husband in September 2022 “because of repeated violence, also of a sexual nature”. Afterwards, she and the five children had first been accommodated in a women’s shelter and finally at the non-profit association FAB (Association for the Promotion of Training, Employment, Counselling and Care for Young People and Adults) in Crimmitschau.

However, the father had been granted the right to visit the children. On February 11, he went to the sports hall of the association to have contact with the children. At first, an accompanying person was said to have been present. When the person was gone for a short time, the Afghan suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed his wife. The first stab was already fatal.

The prosecutor: “Since he believed that she was his property and had no right to live independently, he did not want to accept the separation and punish her for her desire to live independently.”

The children screamed, their father fled, but was arrested by the police the same day. At the start of the trial, according to his defence lawyer, he was supposed to remain silent, but said (and the interpreter translated), “A lot of what I am accused of here, I guess I can’t accept it. I have many questions.”

He will not be allowed to ask these questions until next Monday at the earliest. The first witnesses are to be heard then. A total of eight more days of trial are scheduled, with the verdict expected on October 19. The accused faces a life sentence.

Prozess: Afghane tötet Frau mit elf Stichen | Regional | BILD.de