Friday, November 24, 2017

There Is One Big American Spy Base Hidden In Australia’s Outback

The Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, photographed in 2014. Born at the height of the Cold War, the base near the town of Alice Springs was originally presented to the Australian public as a space research facility. Credit Kristian Laemmle-Ruff

New York Times: An American Spy Base Hidden in Australia’s Outback

ALICE SPRINGS, Australia — Margaret Pestorius arrived at court last week in her wedding dress, a bright orange-and-cream creation painted with doves, peace signs and suns with faces.

“It’s the colors of Easter, so I always think of it as being a resurrection dress,” said Ms. Pestorius, a 53-year-old antiwar activist and devout Catholic, who on Friday was convicted of trespassing at a top-secret military base operated by the United States and hidden in the Australian outback.

From the base, known as the Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap, the United States controls satellites that gather information used to pinpoint airstrikes around the world and target nuclear weapons, among other military and intelligence tasks, according to experts and leaked National Security Agency documents.

As a result, the facility, dotted with satellite dishes and isolated in the desert, has become a magnet for Australian antiwar protesters. Over the past two weeks, Ms. Pestorius and five other Christian demonstrators were convicted in two separate trials of breaching the site’s security perimeter last year. They could face seven years in prison.

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WNU Editor: That is one big base.

11 comments:

James said...

And it has a swimming pool and tennis court! No mention of covered parking. Besides the fact it describes an odd shoeless and alleged Catholic sect, the article says nothing.

Unknown said...

"And it has a swimming pool and tennis court! "

God Damn right! Unless people bring their dependents in many ways this is hardship duty.

It is not a war zone other than the skirmishers, but it is as hardship as you can get in peace time. Some people make lemonade, but others have problems being away from spouses or maybe putting their life on hold.

Traveling salesmen, businessmen, truck drivers and sailors.

Unknown said...

Ms. Pestorius ... Ms. ... 53


Ms. Pestorius < Cindy Sheehan?

"Nuns sentenced to prison for defacing missile silo"

http://azdailysun.com/nuns-sentenced-to-prison-for-defacing-missile-silo/article_aac83c20-968d-5f15-a6eb-578fd36da59d.html

' "a call for national repentance" for the Hiroshima and Nagaski A-bombings in 1945.'

GIs landing in Japan would have faced civilian bayoneting them or or trying to.

How many civilians and GIs would these assholes sacrifice to not attack Nagasaki?
That is a question those assholes do not answer.

Those Japanese were brainwashed. Some of them would have got the job done and others would have died trying. American soldiers would have to come to see women and children gunned down down as they charged. The ________ do not consider that. Nor do they consider they was a humongous war to the west was still being waged, where millions upon millions had died.

I've seen a civilian show their bayonet training. It was scary. All that brainwashing.

Unknown said...

Fusion,

Do you like the gadflies or worse throwing tantrums and entering military bases?

This Pistorius fella reminded of all the other a-holes that are anti-military or anti-nuke and make a nuisance or worse of themselves.

These trespassers take up time and resources that could be spent looking for people casing bases, which has happened in the last few years. There was a Fort Dix and there were other more recent cases.

So of course I dislike Pistorious fella.

Yes, I did go off on the Nagsaki nuke thing. That is one thing that the anti-military types like Pistorius harp on. These pissants count up the casualties and whine and whine. Those 'select'casualty counts are the only ones the Pistorius's of the world know.

Let's get real here. Take this for an example. Say Stalin had one nuke and he has a 99% of getting a 4 engined bomber or a missle to Berlin nuking and ending the War. It will save 10 million lives but will kill 200,000 Germans in Berlin. Would it be moral to nuke Berlin.

Noe after that example. I will ask you or anyone else was it moral to nuke Nagasaki?

You are not one of those type that would stop Desert Storm symbolically at the 100th hour (it is a nice round #). Or end the Great war on the 11 minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month? More people die because of stupid decision like that.

Please note that Hirohito had pen and he had a phone just like Obama. He also had a radio and could have broadcast in the clear.

Just remember that many people were dying throughout the Pacific in different theatres.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

It is repugnant to concentrate on Japanese deaths to the detriment of all other deaths.

Take for example Chinese deaths. They lost 15 million to 20 million during the war. How many is that per day? How many is that per month? Is it moral to extend the war days or months to decrease Japanese casualties (maybe) (at least those in Nagasaki and Hiroshima) to the detriment to Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian, Chinese, Korean and POWs?

The Japanese were beat after the invasion of the Phillipines. There were beat after the invasion Iwo Jima. There were beat after Okinawa. They were beat but they fought on, because they wanted to negotiate so that maybe they would not have to give up all their 'gains'. It was their intransigence that dropped the bomb.

fred said...

A nutter motormouth filled with venom for those believing other than him and a not bright guy who does not realize his mental limitations
And finally a bore

Unknown said...

Fred,

I will tell you what is crazy.

You voting for a party that thinks your daughter-in-law is a loser.

The Democrats have never disavowed the the emails much if at all. All they say it how did you get them.

I provided you with a link to Wikileaks, but you will not look.

At leas the minorities in my household are not daft. They know the affirmative action pecking order. Now other people seem quite daft, they'll pull the lever for Dems again no matter how many names they call minorities in internal emails. They will pull the lever gain and again expecting a different result.

I'll tell you what. I'll look it up for you. That memo needs the sunlight.

fred said...

You take care of you and yours and I will mine
Xxx

Jay Farquharson said...

http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-forgotten-coup-how-america-and-britain-crushed-the-government-of-their-ally-australia

Unknown said...

Just think if Gough Whitlam had succeeded in joining the Non-Aligned Movement, which is anything but.

Just think what we could do with a time machine. We could go back and not defend Australia. What would have happened to Gough? Japanese think it is shameful to surrender. Well, if he avoided a Japanese sword, I am sure he would have made the Australian equivalent of Vichy or Quisling.

This loser wanted to join the misnamed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)? Indonesia is a charter member. Indonesia is a member and all I can see in the wiki entry for the Non-Aligned Bowel Movement is criticism of the U.S. etc. Nothing about Russia or China. And this jerk wanted to join it? How does charter member Indonesia feel about the 9 dash line?
Not a word about it in the Wiki entry to the Non-Aligned Movement.


Good God, Nicolas Maduro is the president of the NAM now. Maduro is definitely aligned with China. This just shows that NAM is a joke. Cuba a Soviet client state was and is in NAM.

I checked Gough's war record. I think he had an easy war. His unit was operational for a whole 10 months, when he was around and then it was pulled back to be given new planes. In the 6 months before he got to his unit it only had 1 or 2 planes. For the next 10 months how many planes did they have and how often did he fly? He had a lot of time to campaign for the Labour Party. With experiences like that or lack of them, I can see why he was so messed up.

forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/14/how-traveling-back-in-time-could-really-physically-be-possible/#4ae8787712db

Jay Farquharson said...

LMFAO,

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mall_ninja

https://twitter.com/donaldtrumpdog?lang=en

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/24/flynn-flips-trump-jared-kushner-don-jr-russia-crimes.html

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/525771/

LMFAO


Unknown said...

So I provide an article refuting the liberal mantra on gentrification and Jay resorts to insults.

Tell me Jay.

If Jews buy houses, where Jews used to live, why is that gentrification?

It is a straight forward question and one which you cannot answer satisfactorily.