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The UN and EU are targeting Bulgaria for moving to protect children

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By Jonathon Van Maren

Bulgaria overwhelmingly passed a ban on LGBT propaganda in schools, and the country appears determined to resist pressure from LGBT activists and their globalist allies.

In 2021, the Hungarian government passed legislation that introduced stricter laws protecting children from pedophilia and also making it illegal to promote homosexuality or “sex changes” (“gender transition”) in schools and in the press to minors. The Hungarian government made clear that the law did not impact content aimed at adults or entertainment but propaganda targeted at children. Hungary promptly became a target for the full fury of the international elites. 

The attitude of the European Union was perhaps best summarized by then-Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who warned ominously of the EU’s intention of “bringing Hungary to its knees” over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s opposition to the LGBT agenda, and billions of EU funds (including COVID recovery funds) were initially withheld from Hungary to that end. Within the EU, there are many countries with socially conservative majorities – but those countries have learned the hard way that the LGBT flag flies alongside the EU flag in Brussels.  

In fact, the European Commission at the European Union Court of Justice went so far as to launch a legal case against Hungary in 2022, with the intent of forcing Hungary’s parliament to repeal the bill – and 15 countries signed on, including the Benelux countries, Ireland, Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden. The message was clear: being part of the EU club comes with specific social obligations, the most important of which is submission to the LGBT movement and the national implementation of its agenda.  

Earlier this month, Bulgaria passed a bill banning LGBT propaganda in schools, with a supermajority of parliamentarians – 159 to 22 – voting in favor. In response, the LGBT movement has already swung into action. First, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell “expressed deep concern” over the law, urging Bulgarian authorities to “reconsider the law in light of the country’s international human rights obligations.” Throssell further remarked that “addressing stigma and misinformation is vital for fostering acceptance, tolerance, and the creation of inclusive societies.” 

Translated, of course, this is a United Nations spokesperson insinuating that the Bulgarian law targeting gender ideology and other aspects of the LGBT agenda may actually be a violation of international human rights and stating, in no uncertain terms, that Bulgaria must instead work towards the normalization of LGBT ideology and recreate its society to conform to the LGBT movement’s standards. An unelected progressive bureaucrat, in short, is telling a sovereign country to change its values and change its laws. 

LGBT activists are urging the European Union to step in, as well – especially when President Ruman Rudev declined to veto the bill on August 15. “This law is not just a Bulgarian issue — this is a Russian law that has found its way into the heart of Europe,” Rémy Bonny, executive director of the LGBT activist group “Forbidden Colours,” told Politico’s Brussels Playbook. “The European Commission must step in and hold Bulgaria accountable.” He did not mention the fact that the bill was passed with support from every major party, including those supportive of the EU. “Senior figures” from the EU’s LGBTI Intergroup also called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyden and Equality Commissioner Helena Dalli to “urgently condemn” the law. 

In response, the European Commission sent a letter to Bulgarian Education and Science Minister Galin Tsokov on August 13  “to request further information on the legislation,” with a spokesperson stating that: “The Commission remains steadfast in its commitment to tackling discrimination, inequalities and challenges faced by LGBTIQ individuals — including in education, as outlined in our LGBTIQ Equality Strategy of November 2020.” Other activist groups, including Action, Buditelkite, LevFem, and Feminist Mobilizations, have also urged action, and called on the Bulgarian president to veto the bill.  

Thus far, the Bulgarian government appears determined to ignore these predictable criticisms. Kostadin Kostadinov, chairman of the Revival Party that introduced the law, called it “a historic breakthrough” and stated that “LGBT propaganda is anti-human and won’t be accepted in Bulgaria.” The vast majority of Bulgarian parliamentarians agree with him – but that won’t stop the UN, the EU, and the LGBT activists who drive the international agenda from doing their best to force their agenda on Bulgaria through threats, soft power coercion tactics, and public condemnation.  

Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.

His insights have been featured on CTV, Global News, and the CBC, as well as over twenty radio stations. He regularly speaks on a variety of social issues at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

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  • Crowds cheered as the terrorists, armed and unmasked, carried the coffins, with celebratory music playing in the background.
  • The deceased were identified as members of the Bibas family, including the youngest hostages from the October 7 attack.

 

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During a ceremony in Khan Younis, Gaza, Hamas paraded the caskets of Israeli hostages through the streets, including what they claimed were the bodies of a mother and her two small children. The display occurred before the remains were handed over to the Red Cross as part of a prisoner exchange agreement with Israel. Crowds of Gazans were seen cheering and celebrating as the coffins were carried by armed terrorists.

Videos from the event show masked militants loading a casket into a Red Cross aid truck, while another militant, adorned with symbols of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, filmed the procession. Another video shows adults and children waving and celebrating as Hamas fighters, armed and in trucks, paraded through the streets. Reuters footage also captured members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) helping carry a casket, highlighting the involvement of multiple terrorist factions in the display.

Hamas presented the bodies as those of the Bibas family, who were captured during the October 7 attack. The children, aged four years and less than one year, were among the youngest hostages taken during the brutal assault that triggered the ongoing 15-month conflict. The fourth body was identified as 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz, according to Jewish News Syndicate. Hamas has repeatedly blamed the deaths on Israeli airstrikes, though no evidence was provided to support the claim.

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RFK Jr: There’s no medical justification for vaccinating one-day-old babies for Hepatitis B

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‘Hepatitis B is sexually transmitted from having sex with multiple partners in gay sex, or from sex workers, or intravenous drug use,’ explained the new HHS head. ‘Why would you give that to a baby?’

In a widely-viewed video shared on social media, the new U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., asserted that the majority of vaccines — including those he sees as unjustifiably being mandated for infants — have been developed primarily to create profits for Big Pharma.    

“Most of the vaccines after 1989 were added not for public health reasons but for pharmaceutical profit reasons,” said Kennedy.    

“Why are we vaccinating one-day-old babies for Hepatitis B?” he asked. 

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“The CDC said, ‘Don’t worry’” recounted Kennedy, “we’ll just recommend it for children and we’ll force everybody to buy it.”     

“So, that’s how it got on the [childhood vaccine] schedule,” he said, declaring, “There’s no medical justification.”   

There’s no downstream liability, there’s no front-end safety testing – that saves them a quarter billion dollars – and there’s no marketing and advertising costs, because the federal government is ordering 78 million school kids to take that vaccine every year.  

What better product could you have? And so there was a gold rush to add all these new vaccines to the schedule that we don’t need. Most of these vaccines are unnecessary. Many of them are for diseases that are not even casually contagious.  

It was a gold rush, because if you get onto that schedule, it’s a billion dollars a year for your company.  

And in many cases, NIH is earning the royalties. 

According to Kennedy, more obscene than the huge profits being horded by Big Pharma are the vast number of negative side-effects from all those untested vaccines. 

“Neurological diseases” have “exploded,” he said. 

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