Politics and news.
WBF International.
31st of January 2016
Keeping up on the positive note, we want to share th news from "Agenda Europe" about the pro-family Italian rally held in Rome, on Family Day.
According to the article, about 2,000,000 citizens of all walks of life held this week a peaceful protest against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's attempt to legalize same-sex "unions".
Please find the article below:
https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/family-day-rome-2-million-citizens-rally-against-re-definition-of-marriage-and-family/
WBF International
15th of January 2016.
Europe not quite on its knees yet!
1. An interesting article produced by the Agenda Europe about Italy's fight for the preservation of marriage and traditions. It is always comforting to know that the West is not entirely taken over by the whole anti-family movement, that there is a fair level of dedication to what makes a society great.
According to the Agenda of Europe, the Italian Parliament is harboring resistance against a bill pushed by Prime Minister Matteo Rezzi which seeks to legal same sex "civil unions". What Mr Rezzi might have miscalculated is an op[position right from inside his own Democratic Party (Partito Democratico or PD).
Find the full article below ("Italy: growing resistance against bill on homo-partnerships", by the Agenda of Europe):
https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/italy-growing-resistance-against-bill-on-homo-partnerships/
2. On the same tone, we are being forwarded the encouraging news about how Poland rejected the attempt to spread homosexual propaganda through the European Handball Federation. According to the article, the Swedish team captain, Tobias Karlsson, was meant to wear a rainbow armband to show its support for "we know what" during the tournament. That was without counting on Poland's determination to keep sanity alive and kicking. A new rule has been introduced by EHF thereby the teams's captains ought to wear their country's colors, sweeping the never ending LGBT totalitarian attempts right under the carpet, thank goodness!
Find the full article below ("European Handball Federation bans homo-propaganda", by the Agenda of Europe):
https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/european-handball-federation-bans-homo-propaganda/
WBF International
11th of January 2016
For once WBF International is changing its tune and giving a voice to the champions of "post-modern tolerance".
We are becoming familiar with instances highlighting the injustices committed against defenders of the natural family unit, in the name of so-called "equality". According to LGBT activists, those facts apparently don't measure up to the harm they are exposed to everyday on the basis of their "sexual orientation". We do not seek to deny or undermine the reality of homophobic sentiments in some places of the globe. However we want to keep a critical eye and not fall into the trap of victimization.
According to the following article, produced by the World Economic Forum, men and women identifying as homosexuals or having undergone sex reassignment, are the most likely to commit suicide. This is true and it is a tragedy. But here is the issue: the article only addresses one part of the reason for this blight. It blames homosexual men and women's fall to depression and suicide on homophobic bullying, notably in places like school. What about the confusion, the inner hurt, , generally stemming from early traumatic experiences (like sexual or emotional abuse) and leading onto a path of uncertainty about one's own identify and sexual attractions?
Please find below the article ("The real cost of LGBT discrimination", by the World Economic Forum):
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-real-cost-of-lgbt-discrimination/
WBF International.
8th of January 2016.
Read below about the European Commission's bias towards citizens' initiatives that do not comply with their set of "values":
Original article: "EU initiative to allow the public to put forward petitions for new laws to be reviewed after campaign to oppose gay marriage received one million signatures", by John Stevens Brussels Correspondent For The Daily Mail.
"A scheme allowing the public to put forward new EU laws is being reviewed after a campaign to define marriage as between a man and a woman.The European Citizens’ Initiative was supposed to boost democracy by forcing the European Commission to examine proposals that were backed by more than a million signatures.
But Brussels officials have been accused of failing to recognise the whole point of the scheme after they complained the public were proposing the wrong sort of laws.
After Christian groups started gathering support for a proposal that gay marriage should not be recognised in European law, Eurocrats voiced concerns the petitions system could ‘generate euroscepticism’.
At a meeting in Brussels last month where EU commissioners were told that campaigners wanted to start the petition on the definition of marriage they ordered a review.
The minutes reveal: ‘During the ensuing discussion, the Members regretted that experience to date had shown that citizens’ initiatives did not always move European law or the European project forward, but tended instead to involve highly controversial and emotionally charged issues of greater interest to minorities than to the vast majority of EU citizens and, ultimately, generated Euroscepticism.
‘[They] called for a debate on how to rectify this situation and stressed that, in the current European context, the Commission should take account of the political consequences that this mechanism could have in the longer term.’
It was noted that the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, ‘was in favour of discussing these matters at the Commission seminar to be held early in 2016’.
Under the European Citizens’ Initiative scheme, which was introduced in 2012, the European Commission has to looks at proposed changes to EU law if campaigners collect one million signatures from across at least seven member states.
Previous petitions include one asking the EU to phase out animal testing, which attracted 1.2million signatures, and one to stop EU money being used to fund abortions or medical research that uses embryos, which got 1.7million signatures.
+2The ‘Mums, Dads and Kids’ petition about the definition of marriage will launch later this month
A petition to legalise cannabis failed to get enough support to be examined.
The ‘Mums, Dads and Kids’ petition, which will officially launch later this month, notes that ‘wide parts of the population are very uncomfortable with the surreptitious re-definition of marriage’ through same-sex marriage in some member states.
It proposes a new law that would allow individual countries to continue to offer same-sex marriages, but would protect countries that do not from not having to give homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Paul Moynan, director of Christian charity Care For Europe, said: ‘We want to see laws which support family life, and respect each member state’s right to make their own family policies.
‘With only 1.5 children being born to each European woman, there is an urgent need to encourage family life. Our populations are ageing and are less and less able to replace themselves. This spells economic and sociological disaster.
‘This is not so much a protest, but rather an urgent call for EU support for our most valuable institution, the family.
‘It is regrettable that the Commission which prides itself on standing up for minorities, here wants to dismiss the interest of the majority.
‘Family life is the foundation of our European society, and ‘Family’ is referred to many times in European law, but without any clear definition. This initiative takes the common-sense lowest common denominator of mum, dad and kids, as the starting point for European lawmakers.’
WBF International.
29th of December 2015.
Another blow to freedom of speech/religion: According to The Rebel (online news), unfortunately Sweet cakes by Melissa, the Christian bakery sued by a same-sex couple for "emotional abuse" after they refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple "wedding", which would have violated their beliefs, are reported to have eventually caved in and paid off the couple the $135,000 they were sued for. The bakery is located in Oregon, which has produced legislation designed to protect the rights of the LGBT "community".
The article highlights the issue of obvious double standard which constantly rears its head whenever freedom of conscience and religion vs sexual confusion are concerned.
Find the original article here:
http://www.therebel.media/christian_bakery_pays_135_000_to_gay_couple_for_emotional_suffering
WBF International
17th of December 2015.
Unfaithfulness: no harm?
Casual attitudes to marriage prove every once in a while to be potentially fatal to careless individuals. In this week's Times we are told the story of British Naami Keyghobadi, a married man who fell to his death following a row over payment for a sex encounter with four men posing as women (well "transgenders" if you prefer or in this instance, "ladyboys") in a hotel in Thailand.
Thailand is well known as a haven for sex driven tourists in search of pleasure without consequences.
No such luck for mister Keyghobadi! According to the statement of one of the men (the writer insists on calling them "women" but we will stick to common sense), the man, whose wife's whereabouts are not reported, had attempted to engage in sex acts with at least two of the "ladyboys", in his hotel room at Pattaya, but then a row ensued over "fees". Next thing: the unfortunate Naami Keyghobadi was falling off the fourth floor balcony of his hotel room. Until now, it is not know exactly what took place in his hotel room. Four ladyboys, who tested positive for drugs, are connected to the incident. Three of them remain in custody.
Original article: "Ladyboys held after British man falls to his death from balcony" by Zachary Spiro.
WBF International
8th of December 2015.
We believe in the strength and crucial role of the natural family. We think it is therefore right to denounce and stand against an UNBELIEVABLY horrendous phenomenon happening in Europe today: forced adoptions by the hand of a heartless branch of the social services! Through unscrupulous methods, the social services, supposed to protect and defend the rights of children and families, are now embarking on a crusade seeking to destroy family units by conducting unjustified criminal investigations aiming at portraying parents as potential child abusers, without proof whatsoever. On the 10th of July 2015 columnist Christopher Booker wrote a comment about it which is available online.
Please find the original article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870342/Forced-adoption-is-a-truly-dreadful-scandal.html
Although this is an old article WBF International wants to draw your attention on the reality of this phenomenon and make you aware that our fight for family values entails the defence of families assaulted against by anti-democratic, illegal procedures carried under false pretext such as children's rights when clearly the very right to be brought up by their biological parents is absolutely eroded. We are not afraid to identify this trend as a crime against humanity and yet another route towards further disintegration of society by shattering the family unit.
WBF International.
30th of November 2015.
Two good news were forwarded to us over the last week, which stand as proof that the battle is worth it and fruitful.
1.The first news concerned the UN LGBT activists who, on the 27th of November 2015, faced defeat when their resolution on "sexual orientation and gender identity" (as sex education clause in the documents for Children's Rights) were outright rejected, along with "Reproductive rights ". This resolution tried to justify itself by supporting the idea that it would modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages. Thankfully, with 84 votes against the resolution vs 67 votes in its favour and 41 abstentions, it was scrapped out of the Children's rights document.
The article lists several countries which spoke out against the content of the sex-education resolution, notably Egypt, Soudan, Nigeria, India and Russia.
Find the full article here: https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/gays-fail-un-abortion-language-also-rolled-back/
2. The second great news. forwarded to us by Massresistance, concerned the tremendous victory of Texas activists over the "transgenders" "BATHROOM BILL". The Bill was defeated by 61% no votes against 39% yes votes, on the 3d of November 2015.
What the "Bathroom bill" was about basically came down to allowing "transgenders" men turned "women" to use biological women's bathroom in public places, in the name of, in their own unoriginal terms, "equal rights".
Campaigning in favour of the bill were powerful giants : Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Apple, Hewlett Packard, NFL, to name just a few. Not to mention a lot of dollars raised from LGBT lobbies with the blessing of twice re-elected homosexual Texas mayor, Annise Parker.
The most beautiful aspect of this victory is that it looked indeed doomed from the onset. Texas, according to the article, is majorly a left wing state. The ring of pro-"bathroom bill" supporters had the money, the power and the influence to simply impose their will upon the population without facing any contestation whatsoever. That was not counting on the determination of a religious leader named Dave Welch and four other pastors, who came under vindictive scrutiny (the five of them nicknamed the "Houston Five") when they took upon themselves to push back against the bill through the campaign: "No men in women's bathroom".
It is worth looking at the full article here: http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/15d/Houston-vote/index.html
WBF International HIGHLY RECOMMENDS our supporters to read the article in full and learn a lesson from it, because our struggle to take back our society fundamental values promises to be every bit as intense as what the "Houston Five" went through.
WBF International.
24th of November 2015.
According to an online article issued by the Family Law week, surrogacy supporter Dr Kirsty Horsey of University of Kent, author of Surrogacy in the UK: Myth busting and reform seeks to debunk what she views as "fallacies" on the subject of surrogacy.
Notably, Dr Horsey rejects the idea that surrogacy can be likened to a transaction; she defends the actual position that it is driven by altruistic motives, when agreed for an amount of less than £15,000 for out-of-pocket expenses incurred. Dr Horsey qualifies this particular case of surrogacy in terms of "relationship".
The article reports that Dr Horsey is involved with a group of surrogacy supporters who are now working on reforming surrogacy laws in the UK under the following recommendations:
Please find the full article here:http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed151427
Throughout those recommendations great provision is made for parents of either category: natural or "intended". Not a single thought is given to children born of surrogacy, which is scientifically defined as: a practice whereby a woman becomes pregnant with the intention of giving the child to someone else upon birth.
Psychology and social studies have for decades highlighted the bond created between a pregnant mother and her unborn baby. The forceful separation endured by the child through so-called "altruistic" surrogacy process is nothing short of a traumatic experience , which has the potential to negatively impact the child in the long term. This is completely thrown out the window under the pretext of altruistic feeling where only the adults desire are taken into consideration. The reality amounts to the rapid expansion of an industry which deliberately deprives children of their natural parents for a so-called advance of "human rights", as well as of a very casual approach to parenthood and children's best interests.
WBF International.
15th of November 2015.
The Sunday Times reports a growing trend among men nowadays. Worrying, sad, an overall depiction of where the "battle of the sexes" has led our generation. It is called Men Going Their Own Way or MGTOW.
Original article: Martin Daubney: "MEET THE MEN GIVING UP ON WOMEN: They don't want girlfriends, they don't want children-they don't even want to have sex. The secretive MGTOW movement is a fast-growing online community of disillusioned males. But are they misogynists or misunderstood?"
MGTOW is reported in the article as having originated in the USA as an all male response to the most extremist expression of Western feminism, especially the emergence of the "rape culture".
It would be a philosophical movement which attracts men who, for varied reasons, have chosen to keep a cautious distance from long term relationships and women altogether. What those men seem to run away from is what they perceive as an anti-White male culture born, bred and spread by a vengeful feminist agenda at odds with original feminism. The main institution to suffer this trend is marriage of course.
Here are some comments reported in the original article:
David Sherratt, 18, chemistry student at the University of Cardiff: "Hook-up sex is risky for words. Girls can wake up the next day and claim you raped them. I'm genuinely too scared to go near a woman-just in case. At university, I'm made to feel like a rapist all the time...I've never had a relationship and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. It's just too dangerous.."
Stephen Allen, 49, part-time cleaner and musical maker, divorced father of three girls: "I've not been in any serious relationship for 10 years and have completely given up on love, because it plainly gave up on me years ago. I haven't seen my children in 10 years. I am lonely, but I'm far from damaged. I am just guarded. I would love nothing more than to be intimate, but I feel women use me. A couple of years ago I started a friendship with a woman and I did all her washing, cooking and cleaning, but I got very little in return. So, I've given up. No wife is a happy life and no child equals a healthy bank balance. My message to men is simple: do not g
et married. Under no circumstances have children, as you will be paying a high amount of your wages to the Child Support Agency and lose everything you have worked for. Marriage will destroy most men. "
Marriage according to MGTOW has become a snare for men of a particular background: White, possibly financially secure and sexually attracted to the opposite sex.
MGTOW, regardless of who joins it, turns out to be a retreat for men who positively identify marriage as an actual threat to their wellbeing rather than the foundation of a stable society. The Sunday Times article reports that the MGTOW community began in 2009 "encouraging men to reject marriage, fatherhood and women altogether".
MGTOW exists notably on social media and has its own community of viewers and posters. Started in America, it is slowly beginning to mark the British territory.
Without passing judgement on the reasons behind men's choice to resort to this movement, WBF International wants to put the focus on what MGTOW is breeding: a generation of wounded, wary and lonely human beings who, according to the article, would even consider gratification with robots rather than fellow human partners because of negative experiences.
WBF International.
2nd of November 2015.
The Daily mail has reported the case of Germaine Greer, champion of FEMINISM back in the 70s, who finds herself today at the heart of a controversy over her comments about male to female "transgenders" as "not being real women". The equality agenda strikes again by censoring Greer and labelling her a "transphobic" for stating something which simply proceeds of commons sense.
Germaine Greer had to pull out of a speech at Cardiff University after a petition was signed by feminist students following her "controversial" views.
This is a blatant and dangerous case of increasing censorship of freedom of speech where the "rights" of the ones override the liberty of others.
Please find an extract of the original article below:
By Professor Frank Furedi for the Daily Mail, 31st of October 2015: "Death of free speech: As Germaine Greer is branded 'transphobic' by student feminists, a top academic attacks the self-righteous zealots censoring history and literature and crushing debate in our universities"
Germaine Greer has spent a lifetime courting controversy in her relentless and often provocative battle to advance women’s rights but now it is the high priestess of feminism herself who has been accused of betraying women.
Greer said she was pulling out of giving a lecture at Cardiff University after female students there branded her ‘transphobic’, and lobbied for her to be banned.
What had the 76-year-old professor done to warrant this fury?
She had once expressed the opinion that even if a man had himself castrated, he would not look, sound or behave like a woman. She also said that ‘a great many women’ think ‘male to female transgender people’ do not ‘look like, sound like or behave like women’.
'Crushing debate': There are increasingly totalitarian attitudes on our university campuses, says Professor Furedi. There is bullying dressed up as tolerance and an obsession with political correctness and ‘identity’
This extraordinary saga was the second time in the past fortnight that the febrile gender politics of modern campuses have led to feminist activists making headlines.
Two weeks ago, Oxford student Annie Teriba, a high-profile advocate of black and gay rights, saw her reputation as a militant lesbian campaigner shattered by an explosive controversy over her public admission that she had engaged in sex that was ‘not consensual’.
For a strident activist who built her name fulminating about sexual aggression against women, it was a devastating confession, made worse when other feminists accused her of dishonesty about the real nature of the incident.
The Women’s Campaign of the Oxford University Students’ Union even claimed (using the kind of opaque language such people employ) that her statement was ‘rife with rape apologism’ because she had been equivocal in her description of what had taken place.
These sagas highlighted the increasingly totalitarian attitudes on our university campuses: the bullying dressed up as tolerance, the obsession with political correctness and ‘identity’, the pretentious, overblown language, and the eagerness to portray as many as possible as victims.
How bitterly ironic that this pernicious culture has led to Germaine Greer, who has dedicated her academic life to fighting for women’s voices to be heard in society, having her voice silenced by feminist students."
WBF International
25th of October 2015.
Unique and greatest news for today: On the 21st of October 2015 the pro-life/pro-family group CitizenGo (www.CitizenGo.org) informed us that the UN would NOT include "gay rights" and abortion in their development plan for 2015. This is a great victory for us as it challenges dictatorial anti-family legislations and helps to embolden the defenders of the natural family, including the unborn child.
Please find the article below:
http://www.citizengo.org/en/node/9488
WBF International.
19th of October 2015.
The SUNDAY TIMES, 19th of October 2015.
Original article written by Rosie Kinchen:The new sexual compass, WHIHC WAY DO YOU SWING?
In a very worrying depiction of what would be seemingly the reality of teenagers and twentysomethings, sexuality is being "redefined" in what the author calls a surge of carefree "gender fluidity". According to this theory, there are no longer just "straight" and "gay orientation." We would have now reached the ear of "new sex", which encompasses the following terms:
Pansexual: attracted to anybody, including "transgender".
Omnisexual: Latin version of pansexual.
Polysexual: similar to pansexual and omnisexual but for those who reject the idea that there are only two genders.
Demisexual: attraction based on emotional bond.
Autosexual: sexual attraction to oneself.
Gender fluid: male or female depending on the "feeling of the moment".
Non-binary trans: non identification to maleness or femaleness.
Grey-As: sexual attraction depending on circumstances.
Two-spirit: person embracing female and male characteristics, after native American culture.
Trigender: three sexual identities: male, female and combination of the two.
WBF International.
11th of October 2015.
The SUNDAY TIMES, 11th of October 2015.
1. Original article written by Credo Roderick Strange: "WHY SACRAMENTAL MARRIAGE IS AN EXCEPTIONAL GIFT"
This Sunday's issue reports interesting statements on marriage, from Monsignor Roderick Strange, professor of theology at St Mary's University.
Among other crucial elements, here is what he says: "Different agendas have been in play, tribal agendas for protection, political agendas for prosperity, family agendas for status, and personal agendas for romance. Underlying those agendas, however, whether consciously or not, is the intuition that marriage is an essential building block of society. How it is to be understood and who controls it is recognised as fundamental." "The Christian understanding of marriage as a union of one man and one woman, for better or for worse, for life, as the basis of the family, is not shared by everyone today."
"There can be no compromise on the indissolubility of sacramental marriage. in today's Western culture we need to be more aware than ever that this gift is indeed exceptional and not given to everyone"
Second article :The SUNDAY TIMES, 11th of October 2015.
Original article: MEN AND AFFAIRS: "It didn't make me feel guilty. It made me happy"
The second article we are reporting here is a collection of married men's accounts of their adulterous affairs. In spite of the headline, those accounts do not depict happy stories, at least not when the men were found out.
Here are some extracts of two men's testimonies about how the discovery of their affairs affected their marriage:
1. Steve Connor, 46: "Then one night in bed, Ally started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and said I'd been weird and distant for weeks. "I'm just going to ask you outright, are you seeing someone else?" she asked. I couldn't lie to her face. I just nodded. The aftermath was awful. my wife was furious and deeply hurt. I never went back to the gym, and ignored Craly's texts. ally said she'd thought about leaving, but ultimately decided it would be so much worse for the kids if we broke up. I knew Ally would lose her trust in me but I didn't expect it to be so painful (...)"
2. Robert Ballard, 64: " (...) I tried not to think about Susan. I told myself this was a blip. now I want to go back and slap some sense into my former self. I couldn't' give Selina up, and she had no intention of letting me go. after a few months, she bagmen to push me to leave Susan. I had no desire to do so; in my arrogance I thought I could have them both. After a tearful row, in which she accused me of using her, I realised I had gone too far and I broke it off. Too late. Drunk,. Selina emailed Susan and told her she was married to a "lying bastard". and that was when everything fell apart. Susan showed me the email, hoping I'd assure her Selina was a mad stalker. But the shock on my face gave me away. she threw me out, and the girls sided with her. It took years to rebuild a relationship with them, and Susan has now remarried. My life ended that night, all because I needed someone to tell me that I was marvellous. I wasn't, but Susan and our daughters were."
WBF International.
5th of October 2015.
THE INDEPENDENT, 28th of September 2015.
Whereas the UN held a meeting to discuss "gay" rights across the world and address discrimination issues against homosexuals (the full UN statement article features in our "legislation" column), THE INDEPENDENT reported the strong stand of Saudi Arabia on LGBT agenda as being "counter to Islamic law", and therefore to be removed from the UN developmental plan.
Here is an extract from the original article: The protest comes from the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, who told the UN General Assembly that “mentioning sex in the text, to us, means exactly male and female. Mentioning family means consisting of a married man and woman,” AP reported.
In spite of controversy, Saudi Arabia holds a senior position on the UN Human Rights council. It will be interesting to witness their response to challenge.
WBF International.
20th of September 2015.
THE TIMES, Sunday 20th of Septmeber 2015.
Original article written by Martin Daubney: LOVE BYTES.
In its pursuit of happiness away from the organic/natural family, the West is now taking another step towards “progressivism” with the introduction of the love robot.
THE TIMES reports that reality is now catching up with science-fiction as a human sized machine named Roxxxy, manufactured in the USA, and purposed to replace human contact within intimacy, is on sale for $7000 and others are on their way to flood the market.
According to Daniel Levy, leading expert on artificial intelligence and author of “Love and Sex with Robots”, soon enough the demand for those supposedly substitutional intimacy partners is expected to shoot up. Levy supports his claim by pointing at people’s loneliness and to Roxxxy as the answer. His words are: “The world will be a much happier place because all those people who are now miserable will suddenly have someone. I think that will be a terrific service to mankind”. The dangerous idea is that within 5 years robots should become “normalised”.
Roxxxy is supposed to incarnate a female body and companion, who can be assigned a character, according to “her” human mate’s preference. “She” is enabled to talk via wireless internet, and to move, just like a normal human being, and she is expected to fill the void in the life of “her” owner (companion?).
If the arguments in favour of this new step further from the laws of Nature evolve around the need for companionship and an active sex life, the case against it denounces the danger that such technology will only contribute to further relationships breakdown due to dehumanization of society. Among the strongest opponent voices is Kathleen Richardson’s, senior fellow research fellow in the ethics of robots of De Manfort University, Leicester.
K. Richardson equates the normalisation of robots to sex trade:
“To some, sex robots are a dream. To me they are a nightmare-a dystopian development that will reinforce detrimental human relationships in a society where depersonalisation will be the norm. the sex robot fits into a view that relationships are ultimately about one of the parties and not both. One part of the relationship is really about meeting the exclusive needs of the other. Take TrueCompanion’s Roxxxy. If you go for the higher priced version, you get “additional pre-programmed personalities” including S/7M Susan and Young Yoko. If anyone under the impression that this technology is developed separately from the sex trade, think again. Roxxxy has some curious features, the most disturbing of which is her mouth. It is not quite shaped like a human mouth. It’s not for talking-that’s not its principal purpose- the proponents of sex robots are also keen advocates of the sex trade and prostitution. They do not see the relationship in prostitution as problematic, but as a service exchange. But sex can never solely be a service exchange. The person selling sex can only survive by blanking out the experience. Prostituted women were treated like robots were made with animatronic mouths.”
Follow the link to a video:
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/robots/50b2ef3d02a76032d70006d8
WBF International.
18th of September 2015
Original article by Tom Whipple, THE TIMES, Saturday 18th of September 2015:
According to THE TIMES, IVF is taking one step further by opening up to British scientists the opportunity to modify genes of human embryos. The TIMES reports that British scientist have applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a license to genetically modify human embryos. The leading name of this application, Kathy Niakan, claims that the technique would be used to prevent women from losing their babies, in particular during the implantation stage of IVF. These embryos would come as a “donation by couples with some left over after IVF treatment”.
One other claim is that such scientific “advance” would permit to eliminate certain genetic diseases.
However, concerns are raised, rightfully, that the manipulation of embryos could also lead to a culture of “designer babies”, which we acknowledge stands at odds with the natural family.
The application is being considered for now.
WBF International.
12th of September 2015: THE TIMES newspapers.
Leading article: Top clinics exploiting women who freeze eggs.
Article written by Oliver Moody, Kat Lay and Florence Wildblood.
According to this week Saturday TIMES’s issue, women who resort to fertility clinics to freeze their eggs have very little chance to actually get pregnant when they finally decide to start a family. In fact the article reports a percentage as little as 2% chances, whilst women are paying those clinics fortunes of up to £12,000 (that only for the freezing and thawing phase) to secure their future pregnancy. It excludes the consultations, drugs and tests costs.
According to the national fertility regulator, the years between 2008 and 2013 register only 98 live births across the country in spite of a combined 24,406 eggs being frozen.
The fertility industry was pioneered by Lord Robert Winston, who, despite his recognised status as the IVF champion, is now taking on fertility clinics for their exploitation of women’s vulnerability and money!
Find out more about Lord Winston:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3114639/It-s-good-delay-having-baby-says-IVF-pioneer-Robert-Winston-believes-older-mothers-time-gain-skills-provide-stable-upbringings.html
31st of January 2016
Keeping up on the positive note, we want to share th news from "Agenda Europe" about the pro-family Italian rally held in Rome, on Family Day.
According to the article, about 2,000,000 citizens of all walks of life held this week a peaceful protest against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's attempt to legalize same-sex "unions".
Please find the article below:
https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/family-day-rome-2-million-citizens-rally-against-re-definition-of-marriage-and-family/
WBF International
15th of January 2016.
Europe not quite on its knees yet!
1. An interesting article produced by the Agenda Europe about Italy's fight for the preservation of marriage and traditions. It is always comforting to know that the West is not entirely taken over by the whole anti-family movement, that there is a fair level of dedication to what makes a society great.
According to the Agenda of Europe, the Italian Parliament is harboring resistance against a bill pushed by Prime Minister Matteo Rezzi which seeks to legal same sex "civil unions". What Mr Rezzi might have miscalculated is an op[position right from inside his own Democratic Party (Partito Democratico or PD).
Find the full article below ("Italy: growing resistance against bill on homo-partnerships", by the Agenda of Europe):
https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/italy-growing-resistance-against-bill-on-homo-partnerships/
2. On the same tone, we are being forwarded the encouraging news about how Poland rejected the attempt to spread homosexual propaganda through the European Handball Federation. According to the article, the Swedish team captain, Tobias Karlsson, was meant to wear a rainbow armband to show its support for "we know what" during the tournament. That was without counting on Poland's determination to keep sanity alive and kicking. A new rule has been introduced by EHF thereby the teams's captains ought to wear their country's colors, sweeping the never ending LGBT totalitarian attempts right under the carpet, thank goodness!
Find the full article below ("European Handball Federation bans homo-propaganda", by the Agenda of Europe):
https://agendaeurope.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/european-handball-federation-bans-homo-propaganda/
WBF International
11th of January 2016
For once WBF International is changing its tune and giving a voice to the champions of "post-modern tolerance".
We are becoming familiar with instances highlighting the injustices committed against defenders of the natural family unit, in the name of so-called "equality". According to LGBT activists, those facts apparently don't measure up to the harm they are exposed to everyday on the basis of their "sexual orientation". We do not seek to deny or undermine the reality of homophobic sentiments in some places of the globe. However we want to keep a critical eye and not fall into the trap of victimization.
According to the following article, produced by the World Economic Forum, men and women identifying as homosexuals or having undergone sex reassignment, are the most likely to commit suicide. This is true and it is a tragedy. But here is the issue: the article only addresses one part of the reason for this blight. It blames homosexual men and women's fall to depression and suicide on homophobic bullying, notably in places like school. What about the confusion, the inner hurt, , generally stemming from early traumatic experiences (like sexual or emotional abuse) and leading onto a path of uncertainty about one's own identify and sexual attractions?
Please find below the article ("The real cost of LGBT discrimination", by the World Economic Forum):
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-real-cost-of-lgbt-discrimination/
WBF International.
8th of January 2016.
Read below about the European Commission's bias towards citizens' initiatives that do not comply with their set of "values":
Original article: "EU initiative to allow the public to put forward petitions for new laws to be reviewed after campaign to oppose gay marriage received one million signatures", by John Stevens Brussels Correspondent For The Daily Mail.
"A scheme allowing the public to put forward new EU laws is being reviewed after a campaign to define marriage as between a man and a woman.The European Citizens’ Initiative was supposed to boost democracy by forcing the European Commission to examine proposals that were backed by more than a million signatures.
But Brussels officials have been accused of failing to recognise the whole point of the scheme after they complained the public were proposing the wrong sort of laws.
After Christian groups started gathering support for a proposal that gay marriage should not be recognised in European law, Eurocrats voiced concerns the petitions system could ‘generate euroscepticism’.
At a meeting in Brussels last month where EU commissioners were told that campaigners wanted to start the petition on the definition of marriage they ordered a review.
The minutes reveal: ‘During the ensuing discussion, the Members regretted that experience to date had shown that citizens’ initiatives did not always move European law or the European project forward, but tended instead to involve highly controversial and emotionally charged issues of greater interest to minorities than to the vast majority of EU citizens and, ultimately, generated Euroscepticism.
‘[They] called for a debate on how to rectify this situation and stressed that, in the current European context, the Commission should take account of the political consequences that this mechanism could have in the longer term.’
It was noted that the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, ‘was in favour of discussing these matters at the Commission seminar to be held early in 2016’.
Under the European Citizens’ Initiative scheme, which was introduced in 2012, the European Commission has to looks at proposed changes to EU law if campaigners collect one million signatures from across at least seven member states.
Previous petitions include one asking the EU to phase out animal testing, which attracted 1.2million signatures, and one to stop EU money being used to fund abortions or medical research that uses embryos, which got 1.7million signatures.
+2The ‘Mums, Dads and Kids’ petition about the definition of marriage will launch later this month
A petition to legalise cannabis failed to get enough support to be examined.
The ‘Mums, Dads and Kids’ petition, which will officially launch later this month, notes that ‘wide parts of the population are very uncomfortable with the surreptitious re-definition of marriage’ through same-sex marriage in some member states.
It proposes a new law that would allow individual countries to continue to offer same-sex marriages, but would protect countries that do not from not having to give homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Paul Moynan, director of Christian charity Care For Europe, said: ‘We want to see laws which support family life, and respect each member state’s right to make their own family policies.
‘With only 1.5 children being born to each European woman, there is an urgent need to encourage family life. Our populations are ageing and are less and less able to replace themselves. This spells economic and sociological disaster.
‘This is not so much a protest, but rather an urgent call for EU support for our most valuable institution, the family.
‘It is regrettable that the Commission which prides itself on standing up for minorities, here wants to dismiss the interest of the majority.
‘Family life is the foundation of our European society, and ‘Family’ is referred to many times in European law, but without any clear definition. This initiative takes the common-sense lowest common denominator of mum, dad and kids, as the starting point for European lawmakers.’
WBF International.
29th of December 2015.
Another blow to freedom of speech/religion: According to The Rebel (online news), unfortunately Sweet cakes by Melissa, the Christian bakery sued by a same-sex couple for "emotional abuse" after they refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple "wedding", which would have violated their beliefs, are reported to have eventually caved in and paid off the couple the $135,000 they were sued for. The bakery is located in Oregon, which has produced legislation designed to protect the rights of the LGBT "community".
The article highlights the issue of obvious double standard which constantly rears its head whenever freedom of conscience and religion vs sexual confusion are concerned.
Find the original article here:
http://www.therebel.media/christian_bakery_pays_135_000_to_gay_couple_for_emotional_suffering
WBF International
17th of December 2015.
Unfaithfulness: no harm?
Casual attitudes to marriage prove every once in a while to be potentially fatal to careless individuals. In this week's Times we are told the story of British Naami Keyghobadi, a married man who fell to his death following a row over payment for a sex encounter with four men posing as women (well "transgenders" if you prefer or in this instance, "ladyboys") in a hotel in Thailand.
Thailand is well known as a haven for sex driven tourists in search of pleasure without consequences.
No such luck for mister Keyghobadi! According to the statement of one of the men (the writer insists on calling them "women" but we will stick to common sense), the man, whose wife's whereabouts are not reported, had attempted to engage in sex acts with at least two of the "ladyboys", in his hotel room at Pattaya, but then a row ensued over "fees". Next thing: the unfortunate Naami Keyghobadi was falling off the fourth floor balcony of his hotel room. Until now, it is not know exactly what took place in his hotel room. Four ladyboys, who tested positive for drugs, are connected to the incident. Three of them remain in custody.
Original article: "Ladyboys held after British man falls to his death from balcony" by Zachary Spiro.
WBF International
8th of December 2015.
We believe in the strength and crucial role of the natural family. We think it is therefore right to denounce and stand against an UNBELIEVABLY horrendous phenomenon happening in Europe today: forced adoptions by the hand of a heartless branch of the social services! Through unscrupulous methods, the social services, supposed to protect and defend the rights of children and families, are now embarking on a crusade seeking to destroy family units by conducting unjustified criminal investigations aiming at portraying parents as potential child abusers, without proof whatsoever. On the 10th of July 2015 columnist Christopher Booker wrote a comment about it which is available online.
Please find the original article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870342/Forced-adoption-is-a-truly-dreadful-scandal.html
Although this is an old article WBF International wants to draw your attention on the reality of this phenomenon and make you aware that our fight for family values entails the defence of families assaulted against by anti-democratic, illegal procedures carried under false pretext such as children's rights when clearly the very right to be brought up by their biological parents is absolutely eroded. We are not afraid to identify this trend as a crime against humanity and yet another route towards further disintegration of society by shattering the family unit.
WBF International.
30th of November 2015.
Two good news were forwarded to us over the last week, which stand as proof that the battle is worth it and fruitful.
1.The first news concerned the UN LGBT activists who, on the 27th of November 2015, faced defeat when their resolution on "sexual orientation and gender identity" (as sex education clause in the documents for Children's Rights) were outright rejected, along with "Reproductive rights ". This resolution tried to justify itself by supporting the idea that it would modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women of all ages. Thankfully, with 84 votes against the resolution vs 67 votes in its favour and 41 abstentions, it was scrapped out of the Children's rights document.
The article lists several countries which spoke out against the content of the sex-education resolution, notably Egypt, Soudan, Nigeria, India and Russia.
Find the full article here: https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/gays-fail-un-abortion-language-also-rolled-back/
2. The second great news. forwarded to us by Massresistance, concerned the tremendous victory of Texas activists over the "transgenders" "BATHROOM BILL". The Bill was defeated by 61% no votes against 39% yes votes, on the 3d of November 2015.
What the "Bathroom bill" was about basically came down to allowing "transgenders" men turned "women" to use biological women's bathroom in public places, in the name of, in their own unoriginal terms, "equal rights".
Campaigning in favour of the bill were powerful giants : Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Apple, Hewlett Packard, NFL, to name just a few. Not to mention a lot of dollars raised from LGBT lobbies with the blessing of twice re-elected homosexual Texas mayor, Annise Parker.
The most beautiful aspect of this victory is that it looked indeed doomed from the onset. Texas, according to the article, is majorly a left wing state. The ring of pro-"bathroom bill" supporters had the money, the power and the influence to simply impose their will upon the population without facing any contestation whatsoever. That was not counting on the determination of a religious leader named Dave Welch and four other pastors, who came under vindictive scrutiny (the five of them nicknamed the "Houston Five") when they took upon themselves to push back against the bill through the campaign: "No men in women's bathroom".
It is worth looking at the full article here: http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen2/15d/Houston-vote/index.html
WBF International HIGHLY RECOMMENDS our supporters to read the article in full and learn a lesson from it, because our struggle to take back our society fundamental values promises to be every bit as intense as what the "Houston Five" went through.
WBF International.
24th of November 2015.
According to an online article issued by the Family Law week, surrogacy supporter Dr Kirsty Horsey of University of Kent, author of Surrogacy in the UK: Myth busting and reform seeks to debunk what she views as "fallacies" on the subject of surrogacy.
Notably, Dr Horsey rejects the idea that surrogacy can be likened to a transaction; she defends the actual position that it is driven by altruistic motives, when agreed for an amount of less than £15,000 for out-of-pocket expenses incurred. Dr Horsey qualifies this particular case of surrogacy in terms of "relationship".
The article reports that Dr Horsey is involved with a group of surrogacy supporters who are now working on reforming surrogacy laws in the UK under the following recommendations:
- The principle of altruistic surrogacy, which operates in the UK must be protected to reflect that surrogacy is a relationship, not a transaction.
- Parental orders should be pre-authorised so that legal parenthood is conferred on intended parents at birth.
- Intended parents should register the birth.
- Parental orders should be available to single people who use surrogacy.
- Parental orders should be available to IPs where neither partner has used their own gametes ('double donation').
- The time limit for applying for a parental order should be removed.
- Parental order/surrogacy birth data should be centrally and transparently collected and published annually.
- IVF surrogacy cycles and births should be accurately recorded by fertility clinics/ Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
- NHS funding should be made available for IVF surrogacy in line with NICE guidelines.
- The rules on surrogacy-related advertising and the criminalisation of this should be reviewed in the context of non-profit organisations.
Please find the full article here:http://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed151427
Throughout those recommendations great provision is made for parents of either category: natural or "intended". Not a single thought is given to children born of surrogacy, which is scientifically defined as: a practice whereby a woman becomes pregnant with the intention of giving the child to someone else upon birth.
Psychology and social studies have for decades highlighted the bond created between a pregnant mother and her unborn baby. The forceful separation endured by the child through so-called "altruistic" surrogacy process is nothing short of a traumatic experience , which has the potential to negatively impact the child in the long term. This is completely thrown out the window under the pretext of altruistic feeling where only the adults desire are taken into consideration. The reality amounts to the rapid expansion of an industry which deliberately deprives children of their natural parents for a so-called advance of "human rights", as well as of a very casual approach to parenthood and children's best interests.
WBF International.
15th of November 2015.
The Sunday Times reports a growing trend among men nowadays. Worrying, sad, an overall depiction of where the "battle of the sexes" has led our generation. It is called Men Going Their Own Way or MGTOW.
Original article: Martin Daubney: "MEET THE MEN GIVING UP ON WOMEN: They don't want girlfriends, they don't want children-they don't even want to have sex. The secretive MGTOW movement is a fast-growing online community of disillusioned males. But are they misogynists or misunderstood?"
MGTOW is reported in the article as having originated in the USA as an all male response to the most extremist expression of Western feminism, especially the emergence of the "rape culture".
It would be a philosophical movement which attracts men who, for varied reasons, have chosen to keep a cautious distance from long term relationships and women altogether. What those men seem to run away from is what they perceive as an anti-White male culture born, bred and spread by a vengeful feminist agenda at odds with original feminism. The main institution to suffer this trend is marriage of course.
Here are some comments reported in the original article:
David Sherratt, 18, chemistry student at the University of Cardiff: "Hook-up sex is risky for words. Girls can wake up the next day and claim you raped them. I'm genuinely too scared to go near a woman-just in case. At university, I'm made to feel like a rapist all the time...I've never had a relationship and I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. It's just too dangerous.."
Stephen Allen, 49, part-time cleaner and musical maker, divorced father of three girls: "I've not been in any serious relationship for 10 years and have completely given up on love, because it plainly gave up on me years ago. I haven't seen my children in 10 years. I am lonely, but I'm far from damaged. I am just guarded. I would love nothing more than to be intimate, but I feel women use me. A couple of years ago I started a friendship with a woman and I did all her washing, cooking and cleaning, but I got very little in return. So, I've given up. No wife is a happy life and no child equals a healthy bank balance. My message to men is simple: do not g
et married. Under no circumstances have children, as you will be paying a high amount of your wages to the Child Support Agency and lose everything you have worked for. Marriage will destroy most men. "
Marriage according to MGTOW has become a snare for men of a particular background: White, possibly financially secure and sexually attracted to the opposite sex.
MGTOW, regardless of who joins it, turns out to be a retreat for men who positively identify marriage as an actual threat to their wellbeing rather than the foundation of a stable society. The Sunday Times article reports that the MGTOW community began in 2009 "encouraging men to reject marriage, fatherhood and women altogether".
MGTOW exists notably on social media and has its own community of viewers and posters. Started in America, it is slowly beginning to mark the British territory.
Without passing judgement on the reasons behind men's choice to resort to this movement, WBF International wants to put the focus on what MGTOW is breeding: a generation of wounded, wary and lonely human beings who, according to the article, would even consider gratification with robots rather than fellow human partners because of negative experiences.
WBF International.
2nd of November 2015.
The Daily mail has reported the case of Germaine Greer, champion of FEMINISM back in the 70s, who finds herself today at the heart of a controversy over her comments about male to female "transgenders" as "not being real women". The equality agenda strikes again by censoring Greer and labelling her a "transphobic" for stating something which simply proceeds of commons sense.
Germaine Greer had to pull out of a speech at Cardiff University after a petition was signed by feminist students following her "controversial" views.
This is a blatant and dangerous case of increasing censorship of freedom of speech where the "rights" of the ones override the liberty of others.
Please find an extract of the original article below:
By Professor Frank Furedi for the Daily Mail, 31st of October 2015: "Death of free speech: As Germaine Greer is branded 'transphobic' by student feminists, a top academic attacks the self-righteous zealots censoring history and literature and crushing debate in our universities"
Germaine Greer has spent a lifetime courting controversy in her relentless and often provocative battle to advance women’s rights but now it is the high priestess of feminism herself who has been accused of betraying women.
Greer said she was pulling out of giving a lecture at Cardiff University after female students there branded her ‘transphobic’, and lobbied for her to be banned.
What had the 76-year-old professor done to warrant this fury?
She had once expressed the opinion that even if a man had himself castrated, he would not look, sound or behave like a woman. She also said that ‘a great many women’ think ‘male to female transgender people’ do not ‘look like, sound like or behave like women’.
'Crushing debate': There are increasingly totalitarian attitudes on our university campuses, says Professor Furedi. There is bullying dressed up as tolerance and an obsession with political correctness and ‘identity’
This extraordinary saga was the second time in the past fortnight that the febrile gender politics of modern campuses have led to feminist activists making headlines.
Two weeks ago, Oxford student Annie Teriba, a high-profile advocate of black and gay rights, saw her reputation as a militant lesbian campaigner shattered by an explosive controversy over her public admission that she had engaged in sex that was ‘not consensual’.
For a strident activist who built her name fulminating about sexual aggression against women, it was a devastating confession, made worse when other feminists accused her of dishonesty about the real nature of the incident.
The Women’s Campaign of the Oxford University Students’ Union even claimed (using the kind of opaque language such people employ) that her statement was ‘rife with rape apologism’ because she had been equivocal in her description of what had taken place.
These sagas highlighted the increasingly totalitarian attitudes on our university campuses: the bullying dressed up as tolerance, the obsession with political correctness and ‘identity’, the pretentious, overblown language, and the eagerness to portray as many as possible as victims.
How bitterly ironic that this pernicious culture has led to Germaine Greer, who has dedicated her academic life to fighting for women’s voices to be heard in society, having her voice silenced by feminist students."
WBF International
25th of October 2015.
Unique and greatest news for today: On the 21st of October 2015 the pro-life/pro-family group CitizenGo (www.CitizenGo.org) informed us that the UN would NOT include "gay rights" and abortion in their development plan for 2015. This is a great victory for us as it challenges dictatorial anti-family legislations and helps to embolden the defenders of the natural family, including the unborn child.
Please find the article below:
http://www.citizengo.org/en/node/9488
WBF International.
19th of October 2015.
The SUNDAY TIMES, 19th of October 2015.
Original article written by Rosie Kinchen:The new sexual compass, WHIHC WAY DO YOU SWING?
In a very worrying depiction of what would be seemingly the reality of teenagers and twentysomethings, sexuality is being "redefined" in what the author calls a surge of carefree "gender fluidity". According to this theory, there are no longer just "straight" and "gay orientation." We would have now reached the ear of "new sex", which encompasses the following terms:
Pansexual: attracted to anybody, including "transgender".
Omnisexual: Latin version of pansexual.
Polysexual: similar to pansexual and omnisexual but for those who reject the idea that there are only two genders.
Demisexual: attraction based on emotional bond.
Autosexual: sexual attraction to oneself.
Gender fluid: male or female depending on the "feeling of the moment".
Non-binary trans: non identification to maleness or femaleness.
Grey-As: sexual attraction depending on circumstances.
Two-spirit: person embracing female and male characteristics, after native American culture.
Trigender: three sexual identities: male, female and combination of the two.
WBF International.
11th of October 2015.
The SUNDAY TIMES, 11th of October 2015.
1. Original article written by Credo Roderick Strange: "WHY SACRAMENTAL MARRIAGE IS AN EXCEPTIONAL GIFT"
This Sunday's issue reports interesting statements on marriage, from Monsignor Roderick Strange, professor of theology at St Mary's University.
Among other crucial elements, here is what he says: "Different agendas have been in play, tribal agendas for protection, political agendas for prosperity, family agendas for status, and personal agendas for romance. Underlying those agendas, however, whether consciously or not, is the intuition that marriage is an essential building block of society. How it is to be understood and who controls it is recognised as fundamental." "The Christian understanding of marriage as a union of one man and one woman, for better or for worse, for life, as the basis of the family, is not shared by everyone today."
"There can be no compromise on the indissolubility of sacramental marriage. in today's Western culture we need to be more aware than ever that this gift is indeed exceptional and not given to everyone"
Second article :The SUNDAY TIMES, 11th of October 2015.
Original article: MEN AND AFFAIRS: "It didn't make me feel guilty. It made me happy"
The second article we are reporting here is a collection of married men's accounts of their adulterous affairs. In spite of the headline, those accounts do not depict happy stories, at least not when the men were found out.
Here are some extracts of two men's testimonies about how the discovery of their affairs affected their marriage:
1. Steve Connor, 46: "Then one night in bed, Ally started to cry. I asked her what was wrong and said I'd been weird and distant for weeks. "I'm just going to ask you outright, are you seeing someone else?" she asked. I couldn't lie to her face. I just nodded. The aftermath was awful. my wife was furious and deeply hurt. I never went back to the gym, and ignored Craly's texts. ally said she'd thought about leaving, but ultimately decided it would be so much worse for the kids if we broke up. I knew Ally would lose her trust in me but I didn't expect it to be so painful (...)"
2. Robert Ballard, 64: " (...) I tried not to think about Susan. I told myself this was a blip. now I want to go back and slap some sense into my former self. I couldn't' give Selina up, and she had no intention of letting me go. after a few months, she bagmen to push me to leave Susan. I had no desire to do so; in my arrogance I thought I could have them both. After a tearful row, in which she accused me of using her, I realised I had gone too far and I broke it off. Too late. Drunk,. Selina emailed Susan and told her she was married to a "lying bastard". and that was when everything fell apart. Susan showed me the email, hoping I'd assure her Selina was a mad stalker. But the shock on my face gave me away. she threw me out, and the girls sided with her. It took years to rebuild a relationship with them, and Susan has now remarried. My life ended that night, all because I needed someone to tell me that I was marvellous. I wasn't, but Susan and our daughters were."
WBF International.
5th of October 2015.
THE INDEPENDENT, 28th of September 2015.
Whereas the UN held a meeting to discuss "gay" rights across the world and address discrimination issues against homosexuals (the full UN statement article features in our "legislation" column), THE INDEPENDENT reported the strong stand of Saudi Arabia on LGBT agenda as being "counter to Islamic law", and therefore to be removed from the UN developmental plan.
Here is an extract from the original article: The protest comes from the Saudi Foreign Minister, Adel Al-Jubeir, who told the UN General Assembly that “mentioning sex in the text, to us, means exactly male and female. Mentioning family means consisting of a married man and woman,” AP reported.
In spite of controversy, Saudi Arabia holds a senior position on the UN Human Rights council. It will be interesting to witness their response to challenge.
WBF International.
20th of September 2015.
THE TIMES, Sunday 20th of Septmeber 2015.
Original article written by Martin Daubney: LOVE BYTES.
In its pursuit of happiness away from the organic/natural family, the West is now taking another step towards “progressivism” with the introduction of the love robot.
THE TIMES reports that reality is now catching up with science-fiction as a human sized machine named Roxxxy, manufactured in the USA, and purposed to replace human contact within intimacy, is on sale for $7000 and others are on their way to flood the market.
According to Daniel Levy, leading expert on artificial intelligence and author of “Love and Sex with Robots”, soon enough the demand for those supposedly substitutional intimacy partners is expected to shoot up. Levy supports his claim by pointing at people’s loneliness and to Roxxxy as the answer. His words are: “The world will be a much happier place because all those people who are now miserable will suddenly have someone. I think that will be a terrific service to mankind”. The dangerous idea is that within 5 years robots should become “normalised”.
Roxxxy is supposed to incarnate a female body and companion, who can be assigned a character, according to “her” human mate’s preference. “She” is enabled to talk via wireless internet, and to move, just like a normal human being, and she is expected to fill the void in the life of “her” owner (companion?).
If the arguments in favour of this new step further from the laws of Nature evolve around the need for companionship and an active sex life, the case against it denounces the danger that such technology will only contribute to further relationships breakdown due to dehumanization of society. Among the strongest opponent voices is Kathleen Richardson’s, senior fellow research fellow in the ethics of robots of De Manfort University, Leicester.
K. Richardson equates the normalisation of robots to sex trade:
“To some, sex robots are a dream. To me they are a nightmare-a dystopian development that will reinforce detrimental human relationships in a society where depersonalisation will be the norm. the sex robot fits into a view that relationships are ultimately about one of the parties and not both. One part of the relationship is really about meeting the exclusive needs of the other. Take TrueCompanion’s Roxxxy. If you go for the higher priced version, you get “additional pre-programmed personalities” including S/7M Susan and Young Yoko. If anyone under the impression that this technology is developed separately from the sex trade, think again. Roxxxy has some curious features, the most disturbing of which is her mouth. It is not quite shaped like a human mouth. It’s not for talking-that’s not its principal purpose- the proponents of sex robots are also keen advocates of the sex trade and prostitution. They do not see the relationship in prostitution as problematic, but as a service exchange. But sex can never solely be a service exchange. The person selling sex can only survive by blanking out the experience. Prostituted women were treated like robots were made with animatronic mouths.”
Follow the link to a video:
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/robots/50b2ef3d02a76032d70006d8
WBF International.
18th of September 2015
Original article by Tom Whipple, THE TIMES, Saturday 18th of September 2015:
According to THE TIMES, IVF is taking one step further by opening up to British scientists the opportunity to modify genes of human embryos. The TIMES reports that British scientist have applied to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a license to genetically modify human embryos. The leading name of this application, Kathy Niakan, claims that the technique would be used to prevent women from losing their babies, in particular during the implantation stage of IVF. These embryos would come as a “donation by couples with some left over after IVF treatment”.
One other claim is that such scientific “advance” would permit to eliminate certain genetic diseases.
However, concerns are raised, rightfully, that the manipulation of embryos could also lead to a culture of “designer babies”, which we acknowledge stands at odds with the natural family.
The application is being considered for now.
WBF International.
12th of September 2015: THE TIMES newspapers.
Leading article: Top clinics exploiting women who freeze eggs.
Article written by Oliver Moody, Kat Lay and Florence Wildblood.
According to this week Saturday TIMES’s issue, women who resort to fertility clinics to freeze their eggs have very little chance to actually get pregnant when they finally decide to start a family. In fact the article reports a percentage as little as 2% chances, whilst women are paying those clinics fortunes of up to £12,000 (that only for the freezing and thawing phase) to secure their future pregnancy. It excludes the consultations, drugs and tests costs.
According to the national fertility regulator, the years between 2008 and 2013 register only 98 live births across the country in spite of a combined 24,406 eggs being frozen.
The fertility industry was pioneered by Lord Robert Winston, who, despite his recognised status as the IVF champion, is now taking on fertility clinics for their exploitation of women’s vulnerability and money!
Find out more about Lord Winston:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3114639/It-s-good-delay-having-baby-says-IVF-pioneer-Robert-Winston-believes-older-mothers-time-gain-skills-provide-stable-upbringings.html