Aboriginal Australians say there has been an explosion in 'box tickers' claiming to be indigenous to steal scholarships and job opportunities

Australians falsely claiming to be Aboriginal

Senior professors and politicians said to be among ranks

More Australians are falsely claiming to be Aboriginal to cash in on benefits, according to several prominent Indigenous figures and an amateur historian.

Amateur historian Roger Karge told Sky News there was a lot of 'fakery' with politicians and senior professors among the group pretending to be Aboriginal.

Mr Karge said it appeared they were avoiding the three-step identification process enforced by the Commonwealth to confirm their heritage.

His comment adds to previous complaints made by the Aboriginal community who spoke up about the fake claims last year and labelled the posers as 'box tickers'.

Many 'box-tickers' are motivated by the promise of indigenous-specific scholarships and monetary benefits, as well as reserved jobs with large salaries.

'The elites don't seem to want to follow these rules that the working class Aboriginal people have to follow,' Mr Karge told Sky News on Monday night.

His comment came as Sky News host Andrew Bolt questioned the heritage of a senior political figure who could not be named for legal reasons.

He said the 'evidence is pretty clear' and doubted the person in question had gone through the identification process.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11719739/Australians-falsely-claiming-Aboriginal-seek-benefits-historian-says.html

>>18298541

gotta get the respiratory virus going somehow

#pandemic2.0

3 February 2023

'Take your dirty hands off of Turkey', Ankara's interior minister tells US envoy

Suleyman Soylu hits out at the US ambassador in Ankara after Washington and eight European countries issued travel warnings over possible terror attacks in Turkey

"Every US ambassador who arrives in Turkey is hurrying to find out how to make a coup possible in Turkey," said Soylu, referring to US Ambassador Jeffry Flake, during an address made at a ministerial event in Antalya on Friday.

"I address the US ambassador from here. I know the journalists you made write articles," he added.

"Take your dirty hands off of Turkey. I’m being very clear. I very well know how you would like to create strife in Turkey. Take your grinning face off from Turkey."

Soylu continued by accusing US embassies in Europe of convening together in an attempt to control the continent. He added that US efforts in Turkey were futile thanks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Diplomatic tensions

The closure of western diplomatic missions has been met with scorn in Turkey.

In response to the initial security alerts issued on Friday, which warned against "possible retaliatory attacks by terrorists against places of worship," Turkey responded by issuing similar warnings.

Ankara cautioned its citizen against "possible Islamophobic, xenophobic, and racist attacks" in the United States and Europe.

Turkey later summoned the nine ambassadors, including Flake, for talks over the warnings.

On Thursday, Soylu condemned the closures as an attempt to meddle in campaigning for Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections, which are scheduled for 14 May.

He and other officials suggested that the western states had issued the security warnings in order to pressure Turkey to tone down its criticism of the Quran protests and resolve the Nato dispute.

"They are waging psychological war against Turkey," Soylu told NTV television. "They are trying to destabilise Turkey."

The Turkish interior ministry earlier this week said authorities had arrested a number of suspects after an allied country passed over a security warning.

"No weapons, ammunition, or signs of action were detected during the searches," the ministry said. "However, the investigation is carried out meticulously in all aspects, including digital material reviews."

A total of 15 suspects were detained, Soylu said, but only five of them were kept in custody.

Soylu and Washington have a longstanding animosity. In 2018, the Trump administration temporarily sanctioned Soylu and Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul over the arrest and detention of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a US citizen.

The following year, the US again sanctioned Soylu and other Turkish officials over Turkey’s offensive against US-backed Kurds in northeastern Syria. “There hasn't been any change in my declaration of property since the last sanction,” he joked at the time. "I don’t have any properties in the US.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-take-dirty-hands-off-interior-minister-us-envoy

>>18298657 3 February 2023 'Take your dirty hands off of Turkey', Ankara's interior minister tells US envoy

>>18298697

Massive Fire Completely Destroys Manufacturing Facility and Warehouse in Chicago

On Monday, a massive fire completely destroyed a manufacturing facility and warehouse in Chicago, a year after announcing a big expansion at the site.

According to city spokesman David Ormsby, multiple fire departments responded to an extra alarm fire at the Morgan Li warehouse located at 1101 Washington Ave. in Chicago Heights.

According to reports, the fire broke out at the facility at around 6 a.m., which quickly spread to neighboring buildings.

There were no employees present when the fire broke out, and no injuries have been reported.

Morgan Li issued a statement on its website following the incident.

A fire broke out on Monday morning, February 6, 2023 at our factory at 1001 Washington Street, Chicago Heights. While the damage of the fire is massive, the most important thing is that all our people are safe and accounted for.

Morgan Li is a family-owned and run business and we consider all our employees an extension of our family; we will do everything we can to rebuild what was lost and continue to support our people and the entire Chicago Heights community. The location of the fire is one of our five manufacturing facilities and we will continue to support our customers throughout the other operational locations.

We do not know the cause of the fire and are working with authorities and cooperating fully with their investigation.

With custom design, fabrication and installation of fixtures, furniture and graphics, we at Morgan Li forge collaborative partnerships with brands that are invested in creating unique experiences for their customers. And as a rapidly growing, family-owned company, no project is out of our range; we are big enough to take on large scale jobs, and flexible enough to treat each of our client relationships with the same personal touch and attention to detail. Through decades of team-driven knowledge, experience and solutions, we make the process of bringing your vision to life easy and take great pride in your success.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/massive-fire-complete-destroyed-manufacturing-facility-warehouse-chicago-video/

Davos Elites Cheer The Policies That Would Harm Those With The Least

While eating caviar and sipping on fine wine, wealthy elites at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos hobnobbed with an assortment of academics, government leaders, and environmental activists to discuss their plans for a global transition in agricultural production. They all agreed that the conventional practices now feeding the world need to be scrapped and replaced by organic-style farming, which they claimed would help fight climate change and make food systems more secure.

They emphasized tying aid to the world’s 600 million smallholder farmers with efforts to “encourage” the adoption of organic methods, which they described with all the familiar buzzwords, such as “regenerative” and “sustainable. But the new fashion is “agroecology,” which not only prohibits modern pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, and GMOs, but discourages mechanization as well.

One wonders if these entitled leaders took a momentary pause in their deliberations to consider the ongoing suffering and starvation in Sri Lanka, where past president Gotabhaya Rajapaksa took this kind of advice and bought into the fantasy of becoming the world’s first “fully organic and toxin free” nation.

Amid cheers from Davos-type eco-extremists, Rajapaksa proudly announced his plans at the 2021 Glasgow Climate Summit. Almost overnight, he banned agrochemicals and forced growers to adopt organic farming and become “in sync” with nature.

Shortly after in July 2022, Rajapaksa fled for life amid mass protests and chaos as agricultural output dropped by 40%. Even today, more than 43% of children under five suffer from malnutrition there.

The Davos elites trumpet organic agriculture as the way to end food insecurity, even though it yields 35% less food per acre on average and could not possibly sustain the current population, let alone the almost 10 billion predicted by 2050. Their Swiss experts admit, and researchers confirm, that it cannot be scaled-up to feed even half the current world population.

In fact, every sustainability goal touted in Davos would be undermined by a shift to organic. Being 35% less productive means 50% more land needed to grow the same amount of food. Massively increasing farmland means cutting down forests and destroying habitat. That would devastate biodiversity and produce 50% to 70% more greenhouse gasses (GHGs).

Organic promoters should admit that organic farmers use lots of pesticides. They’re just older, less-targeted pesticides like copper sulfate, which are broadly toxic to humans and wildlife and must be used in greater amounts because they’re less effective.

Just weeks before the WEF at this year’s Conference of the Parties, a.k.a. the UN Convention on Climate Change in Egypt (COP27) and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal (COP15), leaders were singing the same bad tune, calling for “regenerative agriculture,” “sustainable intensification” and the word on everyone’s lips: “agroecology.”

This cocktail of sustainability terms is just unsustainable peasant farming rebottled, and these efforts are the bastard children of policymakers infected with activist-fed misinformation.

It’s not just that more land is needed for organic. GHG emissions are increased because farmers must till (plow) fields or flood them to control weeds, rather than use modern herbicides. Replacing 100kg of synthetic fertilizer requires 2-3 tons of organic compost, and organic manures made from farm waste contain phyto-accumulated heavy-metal toxins from soils, promoting dangerous runoff.

Yet the European Green Deal – a prime example of failing organic policies similar to those tried in Sri Lanka – was still touted at these meetings.

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2023/02/06/davos_elites_cheer_the_policies_that_would_harm_those_with_the_least_879750.html

AHEM

Could the balloon have been used to decommission

the chips in US weapons systems?

>>18298873

In the name of the son, Yeshua, bind all evil and evil doers Father!

Mother has convinced her son he is she/he! This breaks my heart, and then makes me very angry!

https://twitter.com/TBifford/status/1619519407507783680

WALLS FOR ME, NOT FOR THEE: Fence Goes Back Up At Capitol Ahead Of Biden SOTU Address

Democrats claim walls don’t work and are racist, except when they think they need them.

Ahead of Biden’s state of the union address on Tuesday night, the fence has gone back up at the Capitol Building. The same fencing Democrat put up after J6.

What’s the point? Who are they trying to keep out?

FOX News reports:

Fence built around Capitol ahead of State of Union to protect Congress, despite Dem claim walls ineffective

A fence is being put up around the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday, despite Democrats halting construction of the wall at the southern border.

The Biden administration and congressional Democrats called the southern border wall costly and ineffective, as well as a sign of xenophobia, and have strongly opposed construction of a barrier to control the influx of illegal migrants pouring into the U.S. from countries like Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.

Biden is expected to give his second State of the Union address at the Capitol on the House floor, where most members of Congress in the House and Senate will attend in-person. Despite objections by Democrats to a barrier on the southern border, a large fence started being constructed Sunday around the Capitol complex.

Republicans say Biden must address the number of crises that developed over the past year, including the migrant crisis at the southern border.

Democrats are fine with the southern border being wide open, but they’ll fence of parts of Washington without even thinking about it.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/walls-fence-goes-back-capitol-ahead-biden-sotu-address/

Not Just Spy Balloons: The CCP’s Expansive Spy Campaign Against America

News that the Pentagon was tracking a Chinese communist spy balloon hovering over the United States this week is raising concerns about the extent of China’s espionage efforts against America and its citizens.

But just how far is the regime willing to go in order to spy on and undermine the United States?

The espionage efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, go much broader and deeper than mere sensor balloons. Such efforts include human intelligence gathering, transnational repression schemes, cyber theft and hacking, intellectual property theft, and even the harvesting of Americans’ genetic material.

In the words of one retired Air Force General, “If [the CCP has] any access to American society, then they’ll use that access to undermine American society.”

HUMINT and Transnational Repression

Key among the CCP’s efforts to spy on the United States is its traditional human intelligence (HUMINT) efforts, which relies on person-to-person exchanges of information, both wittingly and otherwise.

The CCP’s HUMINT network permeates American society at many levels, with many such efforts being overseen directly by the regime’s top intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

One of the most infamous such cases is that of Christine Fang or “Fang Fang”, the alleged Chinese spy who posed as a university student, and fostered relationships with numerous politicians in California and elsewhere, including Rep. Eric Swalwell when he was a city council member, and used that access to collect intelligence on up and coming politicos. Fang reportedly targeted at least two Midwestern mayors with whom she had romantic or sexual relationships.

Politicians aren’t the only targets of such espionage, however. Many everyday Americans, particularly those of Chinese descent, are frequently the preferred targets of the CCP’s spy and harassment campaigns.

In such efforts, MSS agents and their U.S. proxies have allegedly stalked an American Olympic figure skater and her family, conspired with New York police officers to gather intelligence on the Asian American community, and even plotted to attack a U.S. Army veteran running for Congress in a bid to silence and intimidate people holding critical views of the CCP.

FBI Director Christopher Wray testified that Chinese agents and their proxies actively stalked U.S. residents and planted bugs in their cars and homes.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-just-spy-balloons-ccps-expansive-spy-campaign-against-america

>>18298945

suicides will explode

>>18298987

got slammed during dayshift