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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Wall Street to List America’s Protected Public Lands, Including National Parks & Wildlife Refuges on NYSE Starting November 17
Unless it is stopped – and let’s face it: what are the odds of that happening? – the United States government is planning to pass a rule on Nov. 17, 2024, to allow Wall Street to assume total control over America’s public lands, waters and other natural resources.
Before the end of the year, the plan is to list all of America’s protected lands, including parks and wildlife refuges, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under a new classification called Natural Asset Companies (NACs). As with everything else on Wall Street, NACs will be owned, managed, traded and ultimately controlled by money changer entities like BlackRock and Vanguard – and even communist China.
Wall Street is already trying to control the air through so-called “carbon credits” and other associated financial instruments, with little success. There was an entire carbon exchange that was created in the early 2000s that ultimately failed in 2005. There is still an ETF called the Climate Exchange-Traded Fund, but that, too, faces delisting.
Then came ESG and the attempted further monetization of the environment, a scam that is also failing as it faces “a perfect storm of negative sentiment.” Investments in ESG fell by $163 billion just in the first quarter of 2023. Net-Zero is also in the mix, and also threatens to blow up the carbon scam.
With all these “green” scams falling apart, the next Wall Street scheme involves monetizing publicly owned natural resources, allowing corrupt entities like Bill Gates to hold the ecosystem rights to land, water, air and even natural processes.
“Each NAC will hold ‘management authority’ over the land,” writes Elizabeth Nickson for Welcome to Absurdistan. “When we are issued carbon allowances, owners of said lands will be able to claim tax deductions and will be able to sell carbon allowances to businesses, families and townships.”
“In the simplest of terms, that’s where the money will be made. WE peons will be renting air from the richest people on earth.”
(Related: Did you know that every single “new job” created last year went straight to an illegal alien?)
Soon there won’t be anything left for the public to enjoy
If the money masters get their way, the following will soon be owned and controlled by the globalists:
– National parks
– National wildlife refuges
– Wilderness areas
– Areas of critical environmental concern
– Conservation areas on private and federal lands
– Endangered species critical habitat
– Conservation reserve programs
Even The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the largest conservation organization in the United States, is up for grabs as this 501(c)3 holds $6 billion worth of land on its books – land that was taken using your money, i.e., taxpayer-funded government grants and donations, and transferred to TNC to do with as it wishes.
“If this rule passes, America’s conserved lands and parks will move onto the balance sheets of the richest people in the world,” Nickson explains. “Management of those lands will be decided by them and their operations, to say the least, will be opaque.”
There is, or rather was, a comment period allowing the public to provide input about the proposal to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). American Stewards of Liberty, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition, the Financial Fairness Alliance and the Blue Ribbon Coalition have all commented, as have Republican senators Pete Ricketts, James Risch and Mike Crapo.
“NACs are asset grabs,” Nickson explains.
“Natural Asset Companies are an attempt to grab hard assets to make up for an inevitable collapse. But taking more land out of production makes it certain that collapse moves ever closer. Land needs to be used, cared for and maintained by the people who live on and use the land. Otherwise, it runs to desert and invasive species.”
Wall Street is a corrupt casino for the rich and evil. Learn more at Evil.news.
Report: 1.1 Million Migrants Applied for EU Asylum in 2023
The European Union’s Asylum Agency’s (EUAA) annual report for 2023, published a few days ago, highlights some of the key data about the state of Europe’s asylum system, including a further increase in overall applications and a consistently low level of deportation of failed asylum seekers—as well as the failure of the so-called Dublin system.
The 321-page report, published on June 14th, concludes that the EU countries continued to host “a record number of people in need of protection” in 2023, with 1.1 million granted temporary protection during the year and an additional 1.1 million new applications registered in the same time, marking a steep 25% increase from 2022.
In contrast, deportation rates of failed asylum seekers continued to remain low. According to the EU’s border control agency Frontex, over 420,000 deportation orders were issued in 2023, but only 90,000 (or 21%) were actually carried out, which “indicates room for improvement,” the report politely notes.
The report also shows just how dysfunctional the Dublin system is—a system supposed to ensure that asylum seekers remain in the first country where they submitted their applications. If the migrants travel further into the EU, local authorities can request ‘Dublin transfers,’ and the initial countries are supposed to take claimants back.
According to the data, 176,000 such requests received positive decisions (a 72% acceptance rate), yet only about 15,000 or 8.5% of those transfers were actually followed through. This underlines what conservative MEPs have long been saying, that the broken Dublin system is incompatible with the free movement of the Schengen area.
Despite the record number of successful asylum applications, there were still 883,000 asylum seekers awaiting a decision in the EU at the end of the year—the highest since 2015, when leftover pending cases stood at 916,000 in December.
The overall recognition rate in 2023—the rate of successful applications compared to the total number of decisions—stood at 43%. The remainder of the applications were mostly rejected, but in a few cases, they were granted other, national forms of protection.
During the same period, Frontex registered 385,000 illegal entries, corresponding to an 18% increase from the year before.
“This combined total placed asylum and reception systems under extreme pressure,” the authors state, adding that “the number of asylum seekers was reminiscent of the 2015-2016 migration crisis.” However, they said the way Europe stopped referring to the phenomenon as a “crisis” may also indicate better preparedness and management than eight years ago.
Moreover, the report highlights that the majority (over 70%) of the total asylum applications were submitted in just four countries. Germany tops the chart with 334,000 (+45% from 2022), followed by France with 167,000 (+7%), Spain with 162,000 (+38%), and Italy with 136,000 (+63%).
.@EUAsylumAgency‘s new report: 1.1 million asylum applications submitted in 2023. That’s up 25% compared to 2022 and third-highest after 2015&2016. 70% of those in just 4 countries?Meanwhile,@Frontex
— Tamás Orbán (@TamasOrbanEC) June 19, 2024
data shows that only 21% of deportation orders were actually carried out. pic.twitter.com/hg9LSmFcy9
Relative to each country’s population, Cyprus takes the lead by far with 13,000 asylum applications per one million inhabitants. The small island nation embattled by the recent influx of Syrian refugees is followed by Austria (6,500 per million), Greece (6,200), and Germany (4,000).
Broken down by nationalities, Syria, Afghanistan, and Turkey accounted for over a third of the total applications. Turkey may not remain in third place for long, the report notes, as it registered the highest one-year increase with 82% more Turkish migrants claiming asylum in the EU than in 2022.
However, since it’s a relatively safe country, the recognition rate for Turkish migrants was only 38%, while the highest recognition rates were recorded for Syrian (94%), Ukrainian (92%), and Palestinian migrants (87%).
Despite following the same EU rules, there was also a great variation in the recognition rate of EU member states. Estonia was the only one with an average that’s above 90%, followed by Portugal and the Netherlands; while the countries where asylum seekers were the least likely to succeed were Spain, Romania, and Cyprus.
New Reports Reveal Five Eyes’ Surge in Biometric Data Collection
Big Brother might be always “watching you” – but guess what, five (pairs) of eyes sound better than one. Especially when you’re a group of countries out to do mass surveillance across different jurisdictions, and incidentally or not, name yourself by picking one from the “dystopian baby names” list.
But then again, those “eyes” might be so many and so ambitious in their surveillance bid, that they end up criss-crossed, not serving their citizens well at all.
And so, the Five Eyes, (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) – an intelligence alliance, brought together by (former) colonial and language ties that bind – has been collecting no less than 100 times more biometric data – including demographics and other information concerning non-citizens – over the last 3 years, since about 2011.
That’s according to reports, which basically tell you – if you’re a Five Eye national or visit out of the UN’s remaining 188 member countries – expect to be under thorough, including biometric, surveillance.
The program is (perhaps misleadingly?) known as the “Migration 5,” (‘Known to One, Known to All” is reportedly the slogan. It sounds cringe, but also, given the promise of the Five Eyes – turns out, other than sounding embarrassing, it actually is.)
And at least as far as the news now surfacing about it, it was none other than “junior partner” New Zealand that gave momentum to reports about the situation. The overall idea is to keep a close, including a biometric, eye on the cross-border movement within the Five Eye member countries.
How that works for the US, with its own liberal immigration policy, is anybody’s guess at this point. But it does seem like legitimate travelers, with legitimate citizenship outside – and even inside – the “Five Eyes” might get caught up in this particular net the most.
“Day after day, people lined up at the United States Consulate, anxiously waiting, clutching the myriad documents they need to work or study in America,” a report from New Zealand said.
“They’ve sent in their applications, given up their personal details, their social media handles, their photos, and evidence of their reason for visiting. They press their fingerprints on to a machine to be digitally recorded.”
The overall “data hunger” between the 5 of these post WW2 – now “criss-crossed” – eyes has been described as rising to 8 million biometric checks over the past years.
“The UK now says it may reach the point where it checks everyone it can with its Migration 5 partners,” says one report.
Japanese Banking Giant Norinchukin Pulls Plug on Global Financial System With $63 Billion Treasuries, European Bonds Liquidation
As many predicted, the next phase of the global financial collapse currently in motion is striking Japan as banking giant Norinchukin, best known as Japan’s “CLO whale,” liquidates $63 billion worth of U.S. Treasuries and European bonds to address the massive unrealized losses on its balance sheet.
Many people missed it, but last fall Norinchukin was quietly added to the private Federal Reserve banking cartel’s Standing Repo Facility, which Zero Hedgeappropriately and simply describes as “the Fed’s foreign bank bailout slush fund,” effective Dec. 1, 2023.
Japan’s fifth largest bank with $840 billion in assets, Norinchukin will reportedly sell more than 10 trillion yen’s worth of its holdings of both U.S. and European government bonds during the year ending March 2025 “as it aims to stem its losses from bets on low-yield foreign bonds, a main cause of its deteriorating balance sheet, and lower the risks associated with holding foreign government bonds,” to quote Nikkei.
Just like what is happening right now here in the United States, Japanese banks in general are sitting on mountains of unrealized losses that eventually have to be settled. The powers that be(TPTB) are pulling out all the stops, including many of their usual financial rigging shenanigans, to try to save themselves, but unlike 2008 it appears as though there are no options left to kick the can any further down the road than it already is.
(Related: Did you hear that America’s largest private bus company just filed for bankruptcy?)
U.S. banks sitting on more than half a TRILLION dollars in unrealized losses
Since the world’s financial system is global and interconnected, what hits Japan also hits the U.S., and vice versa. In fact, all Western nations allied on the opposing side of BRICS face epic financial meltdowns once the falling house of cards really gets going.
According to the latest figures, U.S. banks are currently sitting on more than half a trillion dollars in unrealized losses as a result of the Fed’s interest rate increases over the past several years. Those increases were necessary, we are told, to fight inflation, but as they hike up the ladder the banks on the other side of the bad trade are failing one by one.
The Fed is printing its worthless Federal Reserve Notes (FRN) as quickly as possible to try to plug the hole of the sinking ship, jacking up the tab of the U.S. taxpayer along the way, but it appears as though the Western financial oligopoly has run out of schemes to save itself from an inevitable implosion.
While interest rates in Japan have barely budged all this time, the Fed’s efforts to sweep the overflowing sewer of unrealized losses under the proverbial rug, Japan’s financial system is already feeling massive shockwaves that threaten to topple its financial house of cards.
Western finance is a lot like those circus clowns that spin a bunch of plates on sticks, dancing around and creating a spectacle while trying not to drop any of them. The minute one falls or strikes another, they all end up falling, followed by a womp, womp – though there will be no laughter or goofing around when all these financial plates fall.
“Maybe Japan now and the U.S. later,” speculated one internet commenter. “We’re all headed off the cliff.”
“The obvious evolution of ALL fractional reserve banking was going to be the destruction of all currencies,” wrote another.
“History has proven this over and over and over. This allows the USSA and the Petro$ to live another day, but the die has been cast. The worldwide debt Ponzi scheme is imploding. There will be no lifeboats for anyone.”
They said not even God could sink the Titanic – then look what happened. Learn more at Collapse.news.
German Police Responding to Birthday Party Group Chanting ‘Foreigners Out’ are Surprised by What They Find
Germany has featured more and more incidents involving young people charting, “Foreigners out, Germany for the Germans,” over the beat of the hit electronic song “L’amour toujours” by Gigi D’Agostino. Now, police are being deployed in “operations” to respond to such instances. This time, police arrived at a birthday party in Cochem on the Moselle River, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, only to be surprised when they learned who was singing the song.
Once on the scene, officers learned that everyone calling for foreigners to leave Germany were actually foreigners.
“What is remarkable in this context is that the women were all non-German nationals and only one woman had any significant knowledge of German,” said the Mayen police department. According to Bild, all the people present only spoke Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian.
The police determined that they were singing the song due to its spread on TikTok and other social media platforms. They were allegedly unaware that those singing the song face criminal prosecution, according to police. However, in similar cases, prosecutors have already dropped such cases, saying they did not rise to the level of criminal prosecution. Top politicians in Germany have called for those singing the song to face the “maximum penalty.”
Police still opened an investigation into “incitement of hatred.”
As violent crimes from foreigners explodes in Germany, the media establishment and the country’s top politicians focus all their efforts on doxxing and ruining the lives of a few young people drunkenly singing.https://t.co/gVvVV4rre9
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 28, 2024
The first time the “Foreigners out” chant was sung was at a 2023 harvest festival in Bergholz, Germany. Since then, a number of high-profile incidents involving people singing the song have sprung up across Germany, most notably a video from the island of Sylt, which was released in May.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz responded at the time that “such slogans are disgusting. They are unacceptable.”
On Wednesday, during the European Football Championship match between Hungary and Germany, Hungarian fans chanted the song in Stuttgart. It is unclear if a criminal investigation has been opened due to this instance.
NOW: Hungarian football ultras TROLL Germany, singing the forbidden techno song “L’Amour toujours” over and over while holding “Free Gigi” banners.
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 19, 2024
The song has been embraced by the right to signal opposition to immigration.. #EURo2024 pic.twitter.com/M6bceEzYB6