“Experiment in a bottle. Corral the whole population of Australia, spy on them non-stop, inject them with toxic debilitating vaccines, and keep them in a state of ignorance about what is happening to them and their nation.” Jon Rappaport.
This report on Pine Gap is the hors d’oeuvre to Christopher Brooks’ report on his “Respectable” Global Looters post.
On July 6, Rappaport in an article entitled “Australia: human experiment in a bottle“, wrote:
“The kind of top-down control that exists in Australia is unique in developed nations, because of two factors: geography and population (24 million people).
…Consider this quote about surveillance in Australia, from the Sydney Morning Herald, 6/7/2013, “Australians at risk in US electronic surveillance program”: “During criminal and revenue investigations in 2011-12, government agencies accessed private data and internet logs more than 300,000 times.”
(And) “Under Australian law state, territory and federal law enforcement authorities can access a variety of ‘non-content’ data from internet-related companies, like Telstra, Optus and Google, without a warrant.
…Government requests for private information in Australia jump about 20% per year. …Spying “density” per capita in Australia may exceed that of any other nation.”
He goes on:
Pine Gap, the glittering jewel in the crown of international NSA spying. This joint US-Australia institution must be protected and maintained at all costs—and the Australian population must therefore be kept under control. No rebellions permitted.
Pine Gap is now a “multi-purpose mega-intelligence centre,” as Australia and our allies massively increase interception of global satellite communications, reports SMH.
Former US intelligence analyst David Rosenberg worked at Pine Gap for 18 years and wrote a book. He told 7.30 Report “I believe that Pine Gap is very vital to Australia,”. Rosenberg’s book “Inside Pine Gap” (sub-title “The spy who came in from the desert”) can only reveal so much as it was “truly vetted” by the agencies. And he says his book’s objective is partly to debunk claims made by anti-base protesters. His book does seem to be a “what the public need to know” script.
But is Pine Gap more about privatisation and corporate control?
For who? Another Sydney Morning Herald (15/6/15) article:
“…security experts fear that “corporatisation” is eroding Australia’s knowledge of what goes on at the key intelligence facility. A new study …revealed the full extent of private enterprise”.
Few Australian politicians ever visit the facility. Or is it “Prohibited Area” to (most) of them to? Defense Minister Robert Hill visited the facility in 2002 and reported (as does every Defense Minister) that “All activities at the joint facility are carried out with the full knowledge and concurrence of the Government”.
When Gumshoe interviewed (below) the late former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser last year, he talked about about Pine Gap (4:00 min). He concluded, “We should pay the price for our own independence.”
Pertient to “control from above” I found this item by Boston attorney Oren Nimni.. It also sheds light on my Magna Charta Anniversary Essay on Strip Searches. Recall that Albert Florence got jailed because of an incorrect arrest warrant. I ihad a feeling at the time that the failure to correct his warrant may have been deliberate. Now it looks like this is policy. How clever of them!
“In the city of Ferguson, nearly everyone is a wanted criminal.
That may seem like hyperbole, but it is a literal fact. In Ferguson — a city with a population of 21,000 — 16,000 people have outstanding arrest warrants, meaning that they are currently actively wanted by the police.
That statistic should be truly shocking. Yet in the wake of the Department of Justice’s withering report on the city’s policing practices, it has gone almost entirely unmentioned. News reports and analysis have focused on the racism discovered in departmental emails, and the gangsterish financial “shakedown” methods deployed against African Americans. In doing so, they have missed the full picture of Ferguson’s operation, which reveals a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka’s ghastliest nightmares.”