Honduran Fugitive Wanted for Child Rape Arrested in North Carolina
A foreign fugitive wanted for heinous sex crimes against a child has been arrested in North Carolina, according to authorities.
On Friday, the Gaston County Police Department (GCPD) announced the apprehension of Elvis Cabrera Martinez, a Honduran national sought by INTERPOL for rape of a child.
GCPD says an officer stopped Martinez on June 2 and discovered he was on the lam.
A GCPD Fugitive Apprehension and Suspect Tracking (FAST) team quickly took Martinez into custody.
“The Gaston County Police FAST team is dedicated to cooperating with local, state, federal, and international partner agencies to ensure the safety and security of our citizens by apprehending Gaston County’s most dangerous criminals,” GCPD said in a statement.
Martinez’s immigration status is currently unclear.
Martinez was being held in Gaston County Jail pending extradition proceedings, according to the latest available updates.
Authorities continue to catch dangerous foreign criminals illegally present in the U.S.
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BREAKING VIDEO: Klaus Schwab Claims Globalist Minions Will Live Forever
On his Wednesday show Alex Jones broke down a recent clip of World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab telling his Young Global Leaders that they will indeed live forever, a statement not dissimilar to the serpent telling Eve in the Garden of Eden that she shall surly not die if she partook in the fruit of the knowledge of evil.
“You have za chance to look forward to a career of 50 years. In my own opinion, yeah, maybe, maybe more, you will some injections and some uhh, and so on, and umm um, and some, don’t forget your your avatar will continue to live, so uhh uhh and your your brain will be replicated, zeee buh so artificial intelligence and algorithm, umm, so we don’t know, but at least 50 years,” Schwab managed to say.
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Sweden Approves Defense Cooperation Pact With US
Sweden on Tuesday adopted a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with the United States, backed by an overwhelming majority within the Swedish Parliament, Swedish media report.
After almost six hours of debate, the deal—first announced last December—passed in the Riksdag with 266 MPs voting in favor, 37 against, while 46 were absent.
The Swedish government believes the agreement will deter Russia and, in the event of a conflict, shorten the distance between American soldiers, equipment, and supplies and whatever war zone they need to be deployed in.
What is the DCA?
Under the Defense Cooperation Agreement, U.S. military personnel can be stationed in Sweden for extended periods of time. While there, they can conduct training exercises and store weapons, ammunition, vehicles and other military equipment in the country—in the case of equipment, on the proviso that the Swedish government approves its first.
Aside from Sweden’s own recently acquired NATO obligations, the U.S. is required to invest money in buildings or infrastructure at one or more of the 17 military bases and training areas across the country.
The U.S. already has similar agreements with several countries in Scandinavia and the Baltic nations, including Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvian and Lithuania. Denmark is currently still in the negotiation phase.
“There is a common interest in getting this agreement in place as quickly as possible,” said Swedish Minister of Defense Pål Jonson.
Jonson expects Sweden to implement the agreement within a month and then send a note to the U.S. “We have said that a memorandum can be exchanged around August and then work could move forward,” he said.
Opposition Greens and Left parties, while agreeing with most of the treaty, have decried the absence of an explicit ban on nuclear weapons on Swedish soil.
Before its entrance into the NATO military alliance earlier this year, Sweden was known for its firm commitment to a world without nuclear weapons.
“Sweden is the only country in the Nordic region that lacks clauses in the agreement that provide protection against [the placement of] nuclear weapons,” argued Left Party (Vänsterpartiet) MP Håkan Svenneling during Tuesday’s debate.
However, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson last month declared that in wartime, the country could host nuclear weapons.
“If there is a war with us on our land, which Sweden is drawn into after an attack by others, then it is a completely different situation. Then the whole of NATO benefits from the nuclear umbrella that must exist in democracies as long as countries like Russia have nuclear weapons,” Kristersson told P1 state radio.
Defense minister Jonson countered the opposition’s criticism by stating that the agreement does not nullify Swedish sovereignty.
“It is very clear that Sweden is a sovereign country, there is no other country that can force Sweden to have nuclear weapons on Swedish territory,” he said.
The second-largest party in the Riksdag, the rightist-nationalist Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden Democrats) supports the treaty.
“The DCA is not about nuclear weapons,” Aron Emilsson, SD spokesperson on foreign affairs pointed out, asserting that “the presence of nuclear weapons on Swedish soil in peacetime is not an issue.”
He also emphasized that it is very important “not to lock ourselves into the notion that we would never, in various possible scenarios, find ourselves needing alternative courses of action in a wartime situation,” he told Dagens Nyheter.
Opposition parties Centerpartiet (Center Party) and Socialdemokraterna (the Social Democrats) proved equally supportive. Peter Hultqvist, spokesperson on defense policy for the social democrats, emphasized that democratic countries must stick together.
At the same time, he dismissed criticism of the transfer of nuclear weapons being unregulated through the agreement.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty—the landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology signed by both countries, among others—still applies, he said.
In 1966, the Swedish stopped planning for the production of nuclear weapons. Following its signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, parliament voted to end the program altogether.
Should Sweden allow U.S. nuclear weapons, it would automatically become—in the eyes of the Kremlin—a legitimate target.
Disabled Canadian Man Shares What it’s Like to be Pressured into Euthanasia
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon sits down with Roger Foley, a disabled Canadian man who has been offered Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) on multiple occasions and continues to speak out against the injustice of Canada’s euthanasia regime.
Foley explains that when he was young, there were no tests for his illness, spinocerebellar ataxia type 14, a disease affecting the brain. While a sickly, clumsy, and fatigued child, he always pushed himself, wondering if he was not eating properly or if he was lazy. However, Foley’s symptoms got “bad” in his late teens and early twenties, causing him to see specialists. Foley received his diagnosis in 2005.
While working for the Royal Bank in Toronto, he had to use a cane and then a walker to move. Eventually, his health became such that he could no longer work, having to rely on long-term disability. Foley also had to begin “home care,” which he says from the beginning was “very inappropriate, very fractured, [and] inconsistent,” and he suffered abuse. “It got to the point where I became very suicidal and it was a nightmare and there was no way out.”
Foley eventually found himself in a mental hospital because he became suicidal. While the hospital attempted to arrange home care for him, Foley says he would have been discharged only for the same thing or worse to befall him. Foley found out about individualized funding for home care or self-directive funding while in hospital. However, because of the province he lives in, it was not available. He has been in hospital for over eight years, entering in February 2016.
Foley says he has been pressured multiple times to use MAiD. “It’s very traumatizing when that’s offered, especially so bluntly and also in combination with being blocked with the supports that you need to live as well,” he tells Jonathon. “I just decided that I’m gonna continue fighting for my life and that my life still has value, even though I’ve been told to my face it doesn’t.”
READ: Disabled Canadian man says he has been offered euthanasia ‘multiple times’ while in the hospital
Foley was first offered MAiD in November 2016, and it became a “recurring pattern” until January 2018. He tells Jonathon it would be mentioned for the most part after he would tell hospital staff he was suicidal. He also recounts one instance in which a nurse did a safety check on him and asked him if he had any thoughts of self-harm or suicide.
“There’s a constant reminder of it, I would say it’s a harassment, and they don’t see it as coercion, they see it as informing, but it’s a real blurry area right now in Canada,” says Foley. “Words can’t describe how pillaged I feel and how scared I feel. The suicide prevention in this country for disabled and vulnerable people has been completely obliterated due to the assisted dying regime.”
“When persons with disabilities come out with their experiences of what they’re going through with this regime, in combination with the lack of rights and the lack of services and support to live, and when families also come out about their loved ones who have been wrongly assisted to die because of this regime, it’s a brush job at all levels.”
Meanwhile, Foley notes, the availability of MAiD seems to be increasingly expanding. He notes the suggestion by euthanasia advocates that mature minors and those with mental health issues be given access to MAiD.
While he is unsure of how much “awareness was raised” when his story first broke in 2018, Foley says that what he saw is that it showed that a good deal of people were paying attention. However, he adds that it did not “raise any eyebrows in the top levels to put more protections in place or even evaluate what’s going on.” He also notes that he was not the first person to go public with a story like his own.
When Jonathon asks Foley about his continued fight against MAiD, Foley says he was always a “positive person” who would always try to be as good at something as he could be and never give up. He also says he worries for other disabled people across Canada and the lack of services and recognized rights for the disabled.
“I’m only human so, eventually, if they keep doing what they’re doing, I’ll end up a casualty as well,” he says. “It’s so difficult to be blocked from what you need to live, to be blocked from reaching your full potential, or to be blocked from even freedom of association… to surround yourself with people who will work with you and not work at you, for people who will treat you as a human being and not an object.”
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Foley retains the hope that one day he can return home and have the care he needs to be able to live his life with others and contribute to the country.
Towards the end of the episode, Foley discusses the lawsuit he filed over his treatment. He explains the lawsuit is not only because of the damages he has undergone in the hospital, but also because of what goes on in the hospital system to other disabled people who cannot access the support they need, or do not have full citizenship or recognition of rights. It will also, he says, give treatment of disabled people a fair hearing in the courts.
Up to this point, Foley contends, the disabled have only had access to “a fast-food style of court that rolls out the red carpet for euthanasia and assisted suicide, but continues to close the doors on any cases for disability rights or damages done to the disabled because of our dysfunctional system.” He says his case needs to be heard, not only for himself, but also for others.
High School Fires Track Coach for Proposing Alternative to ‘Trans’ Males Competing Against Females
(LifeSiteNews) — An Oregon high school track coach was fired after he wrote to state officials requesting that they consider an “open division” for transgender athletes while preventing biological males from competing against females.
“I’m gonna fight now because I got wronged … I’m fighting for girls. I’m fighting for female sports. And I’m fighting that it be fair for everybody,” John Parks, the former track coach for Lake Oswego High School, told KATU on Tuesday.
Parks said he wrote two letters to Peter Weber, executive director of the Oregon Student Activities Association (OSAA), and to state Sen. Rob Wagner before and after the state championships.
“The damage to all the natural-born female competitors is real and devastating,” he wrote in a letter to the OSAA, according to The Oregonian. Referring to the fact that a biological male was unfairly being permitted to compete against females, he went on to complain, “Allowing this travesty to be carried out is making a complete mockery of the meet this weekend and in the future until the rules are altered to protect natural-born females.”
In a letter to Wagner, he proposed that the state alter its policies in order to prevent unfair competition while allowing trans athletes to participate in some way.
“My proposal to encourage transgender participation is to offer an open division that is so named so it doesn’t identify or discriminate but offers an opportunity to participate,” wrote Parks, according to KATU.
“But when it comes to championship events, these things involve scholarships, they involve things that they have an unfair advantage at,” Parks told KATU, alluding to the fact that a biological male could potentially be unfairly awarded a scholarship in favor of a female because he won an athletic competition.
He shared with KATU that the transgender male on his high school track team was booed after winning a state championship event against girls and views an open division also as a way to prevent backlash against transgender athletes.
“I support them like all other athletes and only seek a solution that is a win for all as we don’t need any athletes subjected to what happened last month,” he said in an email to The Oregonian.
Mary Kay Larson, director of communications for the Lake Oswego School District, confirmed that Parks was no longer working for the district, but she would not share why he was fired.
The 2016 policy of the Oregon Student Activities Association allows students to participate in the activity category corresponding with their “consistently asserted gender identity,” according to the association’s handbook.
Mandatory inclusion of gender-confused individuals in opposite-sex sports is promoted as a matter of “inclusivity,” but critics note that indulging “transgender” athletes undermines the original rational basis for having sex-specific athletics in the first place, thereby depriving female athletes of recognition and professional or academic opportunities.
There have been numerous high-profile examples in recent years of men winningwomen’s competitions, and research affirms that physiology gives males distinct athletic advantages that cannot be fully negated by hormone suppression.
In a 2019 paper published by the Journal of Medical Ethics, New Zealand researchers found that “healthy young men (do) not lose significant muscle mass (or power) when their circulating testosterone levels were reduced to (below International Olympic Committee guidelines) for 20 weeks,” and “indirect effects of testosterone” on factors such as bone structure, lung volume, and heart size “will not be altered by hormone therapy;” therefore, “the advantage to transwomen (biological men) afforded by the (International Olympic Committee) guidelines is an intolerable unfairness.”
New Jersey Doubles Down on Unconstitutional Newborn Screening Policy Despite Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) have reaffirmed their stance on the state’s controversial newborn screening policy following unsuccessful settlement negotiations.
The newborn screening policy, which requires every baby to be tested for 61 disorders within 48 hours of birth, intends to detect numerous rare and potentially deadly conditions in newborns.
However, the program sparked controversy when the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender revealed in 2022 that the New Jersey State Police had utilized years-old blood samples from the newborn screening program to aid in a criminal investigation. The State Police had subpoenaed the testing program to obtain a blood sample from a child whose father was a suspect in an assault case without probable cause for a warrant. The DNA analysis of the child’s blood was then used to secure a warrant for the father’s DNA, leading to his indictment for a 1996 sexual assault.
Moreover, a subsequent public records lawsuit filed by the Office of the Public Defender and news outlet New Jersey Monitor revealed that the newborn screening laboratory had received five subpoenas from four different law enforcement agencies over approximately five years. (Related: Mass genetic surveillance: Police now seeking access to newborn blood samples to build DNA database for future criminal investigations.)
In line with this, a group of parents represented by the public interest law firm the Institute for Justice (IJ) has filed a class action lawsuit demanding a change to this practice. The class-action lawsuit contends that the state’s retention of dried blood samples used in screenings and their repurposing violate privacy protections under the Fourth Amendment. The plaintiffs demand that the courts prohibit the state from retaining newborn blood samples post-screening unless parents are informed about the potential uses and give explicit consent.
The parents have engaged in repeated discussions with state officials, but these efforts have met staunch resistance from the state.
“I was hopeful that we could reach an agreement that would respect the rights of babies born in this state, but New Jersey still refuses to ask parents for consent to keep baby blood after the initial screening is done. New Jersey also refuses to recognize any wrongdoing in keeping baby blood and continues to deny parents the right to decide what’s in the best interest of their own children. I’m committed to continuing this lawsuit, so all babies born in this state can be safe from this government overreach,” said Hannah Lovaglio, one of the parents involved in the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs have requested the court set a deadline of June 25 for the state to respond to their complaint, a timeline to which state attorneys reportedly did not object.
“New Jersey had the opportunity to fix this problem without litigation. Instead, they’ve continued to operate under the flawed belief that these baby blood samples belong to the state, not the children from whom they’re taken,” stated IJ Attorney Christie Hebert.
Other states have faced similar legal challenges over retention of baby blood samples
New Jersey is not the only state grappling with legal challenges over the retention of baby blood samples. But unlike New Jersey, other states have agreed to destroy millions of retained blood samples from newborn screening.
For instance, in 2009, the Texas Department of State Health Services (Texas DSHS) announced the destruction of more than 5.3 million blood samples taken without parental consent from babies and stored indefinitely for scientific research after settling a federal lawsuit filed by the Texas Civil Rights Project.
In Minnesota, the state’s Department of Health had done the same in 2014 following a settlement with 21 families that resulted in about 1.1 million archived dried blood spot cards and newborn screening test results from its archives being disposed of.
Similarly, the state of Michigan agreed to destroy more than three million dried blood spots taken from babies and kept in storage after a partial settlement in the then-ongoing lawsuit over consent and privacy in the digital age.
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