Posted on 09/21/2016 8:01:16 PM PDT by naturalman1975
IT’S the top secret military facility in Central Australia that plays a key role in US intelligence and military operations around the world.
But rather than protecting us from a potential enemy attack, Pine Gap’s very existence makes us an ideal target.
That’s the view of Richard Tanter, a professor in the School of Political and Social Studies at the University of Melbourne, who told news.com.au the level of data collected from Pine Gap was beyond staggering.
Prof Tanter has conducted years of research into the facility with ANU colleague and leading authority on Pine Gap, Desmond Ball, and will next week deliver a keynote speech on the potential danger it brings to Australia.
Pine Gap will be just one of several topics discussed at the independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN) national conference in Alice Springs on Saturday week.
Peace activists, academics and antimilitarism groups will all travel to the red centre to mark the 50th Anniversary of Pine Gap, aiming to illustrate the huge role it plays in US military activity.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Pine Gap is what makes Australia significant to the US and to US interests. It's existence makes it extremely likely we can rely on the US acting to defend Australia in a dire emergency situation.
We hope the United States would act to defend us because we have been a loyal ally and we are a democratic nation that largely shares American values - but in the final analysis, a nation must act in its best interests. And Pine Gap makes that case.
Hey activists, you have MUSLIMS in your country. You are already a target by folks far more sleazy, dishonest, and just plain evil than any other countries.
Checked the map. It’s right in the middle of nowhere. It’s closer to the town of Ayers Rock than Ayers Rock itself. Tourists could be spies.
Ah, just noticed - he is a “professor” of political science.
An oxymoron if there ever was one.
Really, where do the lib arts departments get these clowns?
Who would notice that the middle Australia got slightly blowed up?
We used to test nukes out there for exactly that reason :)
“We hope the United States would act to defend us because we have been a loyal ally and we are a democratic nation that largely shares American values”
That’s certainlyl true! The few times I’ve been to your country, I found the people to be very pro American. Australia has always been there for the US and as soon as we rid ourselves of this worthless half-breed and replace him with Donald Trump, you will once again be able to call us a reliable friend.
Tanter has spent a life time being an idiot. The ‘antimilitarists’ mentioned are trotskyites from the Socialist Alternative red clan. The jew hater Pilger is a regular at their soirees. The are anti Australian and American military and any other army that is fighting their but buddies in Isis. They swoon over North Korea and the hairy armpitted chicks in the clan go weak at the knees about the Chinese military. In their former incantation back in the mid seventies they were full on apologists for the homicidal maniac Pol Pot. Just like the block jawed buffoon Chomsky was. Their latest cause celeb is backing Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela. Give em guns and you’d quickly see how antimilitarist they are. As for Ball he is the quintissential pompous acedemic. Burrowed away in a cave of books where the only light he sees shines out of his own fat ass.
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