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The gravest risk of incurring nuclear and conventional strikes on the Australian mainland is our military alliance with the US... paraphrasing former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
HOW AUSTRALIA CAN SECURE A RINGSIDE SEAT AT WWIII
by Tony Ryan
History versus propaganda: To navigate towards a safe and secure Australian future we need to set anchor on the real events in history.
Release of wartime documents in the US confirmed what was for many years, esoteric knowledge about the war with Japan and its causes:
As has been so sagely noted:
If we do not learn from history we are doomed forever to repeat it.
We need to take on board the lessons learned from the war with Japan. The obvious first is that, as former (and now late) PM Malcolm Fraser twice pointed out, America is a grossly unreliable ally: It has twice turned against Australia in our confrontations with Indonesia, and it has twice created illegal wars in which Australians have died: Vietnam and Iraq, and many now realise that in all other respects Afghanistan is another eternal Vietnam.
But even before the last gun barrels of WWII had cooled, America had already calculated a heinous double-cross of Australia's Jap concentration camp casualties and survivors: The Japanese war criminal generals held captive in 1946, killers and torturers of thousands of Aussie POWs, who we were told were to be executed, were quietly set free as leaders of the post-war Japanese Government. Later Australian governments negotiated with these same war criminals... for decades. Complicity? They must have known.
Malcolm Fraser was well placed to assess the newly clarified dangers and, in a context of the warnings of history, America is posturing in ways that can only precipitate war with China; with Australia needlessly chained to the reprisal targets. The new free trade deal with China makes Australia doubly vulnerable.
More recently, Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop ensured we are pointlessly locked into America's confrontation with North Korea, Syria, Iran, China and Russia, which also ignores the US $5 billion role in subverting Ukraine's former democratically elected government. Ukraine's civil war was entirely of America's making.
With both major Australian political parties locked into blind US sycophancy, the only way Australians can prevent future involvement in WWIII is if we agitate for a new law requiring any involvement in war to be preceded by a mandating national referendum. This should also apply to actions that can precipitate war, such as the stationing of armed US troops on Australian soil.
Is there urgency?
The above narration covers only one hundred years of history. It does not draw attention to a dangerous crisis evolving under our very noses, as the following article reveals (permission to republish by Gumshoe)...
America’s 51st state of North Australia
By Tony Ryan
Australia’s celebrated Arnhem Land Aerospace Project, rather than being dedicatedly civilian as the nation was media-led to believe, will have a US military component.
This was admitted quietly in the Northern Territory Government’s Estimates Committee Hearings (28 November 2017, P49).
Just a little bit military?
This is like being a little bit pregnant. When military are involved this becomes, by definition, a military project with the usual tight security provisions; and the only kind of military rocket that makes sense in today’s tense global context is an ICBM; inevitably aimed at China.
This means that the Arnhem Land rocket base will become one of China’s automatic nuclear strikes. Other probabilities are Darwin airport; the two Echelon and spy/navigation satellite bases in rural Darwin; Tindal air base; Pine Gap; and at least one other in coastal Western Australia. This is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘clever’ defense policy.
But wait, there is more.
Only 40 kilometres from the proposed rocket base is Melville Bay, a deep water harbor long coveted by the Pentagon as the Southern Hemisphere Asia-Pacific naval base, now urgently required because of the demands of the people of Guam and Okinawa that Americans depart pronto. The host nations have good reason to want the Americans out: day and night aircraft noise; their women regularly raped by servicemen; and the usual toxicity associated with military aircraft bases polluting their drinking water.
US Tindal air base has already poisoned Top End water, polluting the Katherine River. This was oh so predictable.
What will happen if Turnbull approves a Trump-owned Melville Bay? Based on the security exclusion zones applied to other foreign US bases, everywhere within a 20 kilometre radius of Inverell Bay, within wider Melville Bay, will be accessible only to people with US military and/or intelligence security clearance.
The rocket base will feature an even tighter security exclusion zone, both bases forming a geographical figure eight. As this would entirely encompass the Central Arnhem Highway for a distance of 40-50 kilometres, it is likely that Yirrkala Aboriginal community will also be removed. And goodbye Garma Aboriginal Festival.
Exclusion will also mean that Ski Beach and Wallaby Beach Aboriginal settlements will have their populations relocated, no doubt the land redeveloped to become beachfront accommodation for senior US Naval personnel.
Can the town of Nhulunbuy be permitted to survive? Probably not. Rio Tinto’s bauxite mine will soon close and the only other functions of the town are as a servicing hub for local Aboriginal communities and as a staging post for tourism. Obviously, both roles will end.
How will this affect Nhulunbuy’s population? There will be no compensation. The White House will apply its own lucrative corruption of the US Law of Eminent Domain, which was originally intended to pay market value for real estate acquired for public service. The cunning Catch 22 now applied is that once word is out about the security exclusion zones, the value of Nhulunbuy real estate will collapse and all properties will be unsaleable. Australian government valuations will follow the inevitable pattern of descent, following in the footsteps of the tragic US experiences (ie New York and New Orleans).
And the Indigenous population? Without access to Songline sites, especially for Gumatj, Rirratjingu, Galpu, and Wanggurri clans, morale will collapse and Arnhem Aboriginal culture will go into terminal decline.
No prizes for now guessing what wider part of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has turned over to the US military in return for Trump’s tariff concessions; the new colony of American Top End. Sixty percent of Australians believe we must pay any price to keep the US as our ally. Malcolm Fraser, a former Prime Minister, vehemently disagreed. He warned Australians that America cannot be trusted.
Fraser pointed out that there is no treaty requiring America to protect Australia and that the US has already betrayed us; twice taking Indonesia’s side against Australia.
Moreover, he said, the US intends confrontation with China and Russia, which will mean WWIII and several pre-emptive or retaliatory nuclear strikes on Australia. If the Melville Bay and rocket base deals go ahead we will certainly experience nuclear strikes right here in North East Arnhem Land.
As they say, if you want to lose everything, just do nothing.
© Copyright Tony Ryan 2018
Tony Ryan is a cross-cultural researcher and geopolitical writer. Previous careers have been in cattle, education, welfare, government research projects, safari operations, real estate, and landscaping. He firmly believes that you must live your subject matter to deserve credibility. Contact tonyryan43@gmail.com
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HOW AUSTRALIA CAN SECURE A RINGSIDE SEAT AT WWIII
by Tony Ryan
History versus propaganda: To navigate towards a safe and secure Australian future we need to set anchor on the real events in history.
Release of wartime documents in the US confirmed what was for many years, esoteric knowledge about the war with Japan and its causes:
- Following a series of racial attacks by the US, commencing with Woodrow Wilson's 1913 denial of land purchase rights for Japanese Americans living in California, nationalist outrage gradually pervaded Japan.
- At that time, the fifth most powerful industrial nation in the world, Japan had been a long-time western ally but by the 1930s Nippon became exclusively focused on counter-reciprocal invasion of its historical enemy, China. With the occupation of Manchuria a full decade under way, the US chose this juncture to arrange an allied blockade that denied Japanese access to South American rubber and oil. Whether this was a blunder of diplomacy or a calculated act of racist aggression, remains open to interpretation.
- With only months to head off industrial collapse Japan angrily halted its invasion of Manchuria and instead annexed Malaya and Indonesia in order to access the only alternative oil and rubber resources available; lands then under Dutch and British imperial control.
- But the real reprisal over the trade embargo was the bombing of America's First Supply Fleet, then in Pearl Harbour. The Second Supply Fleet was unreachable in the Indian Ocean but, four months later, while it was taking on supplies and maintenance equipment in Darwin Harbour, the Japanese bombed this too.
- Significantly, communications (ie the post office) were annihilated but the easy target of the Darwin railway was not touched and some hold the view that Australia was merely a target incidental to the reprisal against America's Second Fleet, until well after initial bombing, when attitudes in Japan changed. Another view was that the rail was spared for later occupation but this was inconsistent with the deliberate destruction of the wharves. Without the wharf the rail was valueless. It is hard to not conclude that the war against Australia was purely incidental to the war against the US... then increasingly on Australian soil as America spread down the Stuart Highway and to coastal Aboriginal communities. That there was up to 1800 American soldiers and airmen in the Batchelor region alone, is significant.
- What then followed was 22 months of sustained bombing raids across north Australia, from Broome to Queensland's East Coast, 64 of these on Darwin. This was the Battle of Australia. That the Japanese eventually targeted Australia, seems undeniable, but it was clearly the US military presence that precipitated our war with Japan. Ergo, war with Japan was an automatic outcome of our alliance with the US and, to some extent, with British rearguard actions in south Asia.
As has been so sagely noted:
If we do not learn from history we are doomed forever to repeat it.
We need to take on board the lessons learned from the war with Japan. The obvious first is that, as former (and now late) PM Malcolm Fraser twice pointed out, America is a grossly unreliable ally: It has twice turned against Australia in our confrontations with Indonesia, and it has twice created illegal wars in which Australians have died: Vietnam and Iraq, and many now realise that in all other respects Afghanistan is another eternal Vietnam.
But even before the last gun barrels of WWII had cooled, America had already calculated a heinous double-cross of Australia's Jap concentration camp casualties and survivors: The Japanese war criminal generals held captive in 1946, killers and torturers of thousands of Aussie POWs, who we were told were to be executed, were quietly set free as leaders of the post-war Japanese Government. Later Australian governments negotiated with these same war criminals... for decades. Complicity? They must have known.
Malcolm Fraser was well placed to assess the newly clarified dangers and, in a context of the warnings of history, America is posturing in ways that can only precipitate war with China; with Australia needlessly chained to the reprisal targets. The new free trade deal with China makes Australia doubly vulnerable.
More recently, Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop ensured we are pointlessly locked into America's confrontation with North Korea, Syria, Iran, China and Russia, which also ignores the US $5 billion role in subverting Ukraine's former democratically elected government. Ukraine's civil war was entirely of America's making.
With both major Australian political parties locked into blind US sycophancy, the only way Australians can prevent future involvement in WWIII is if we agitate for a new law requiring any involvement in war to be preceded by a mandating national referendum. This should also apply to actions that can precipitate war, such as the stationing of armed US troops on Australian soil.
Is there urgency?
The above narration covers only one hundred years of history. It does not draw attention to a dangerous crisis evolving under our very noses, as the following article reveals (permission to republish by Gumshoe)...
America’s 51st state of North Australia
By Tony Ryan
Australia’s celebrated Arnhem Land Aerospace Project, rather than being dedicatedly civilian as the nation was media-led to believe, will have a US military component.
This was admitted quietly in the Northern Territory Government’s Estimates Committee Hearings (28 November 2017, P49).
Just a little bit military?
This is like being a little bit pregnant. When military are involved this becomes, by definition, a military project with the usual tight security provisions; and the only kind of military rocket that makes sense in today’s tense global context is an ICBM; inevitably aimed at China.
This means that the Arnhem Land rocket base will become one of China’s automatic nuclear strikes. Other probabilities are Darwin airport; the two Echelon and spy/navigation satellite bases in rural Darwin; Tindal air base; Pine Gap; and at least one other in coastal Western Australia. This is Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘clever’ defense policy.
But wait, there is more.
Only 40 kilometres from the proposed rocket base is Melville Bay, a deep water harbor long coveted by the Pentagon as the Southern Hemisphere Asia-Pacific naval base, now urgently required because of the demands of the people of Guam and Okinawa that Americans depart pronto. The host nations have good reason to want the Americans out: day and night aircraft noise; their women regularly raped by servicemen; and the usual toxicity associated with military aircraft bases polluting their drinking water.
US Tindal air base has already poisoned Top End water, polluting the Katherine River. This was oh so predictable.
What will happen if Turnbull approves a Trump-owned Melville Bay? Based on the security exclusion zones applied to other foreign US bases, everywhere within a 20 kilometre radius of Inverell Bay, within wider Melville Bay, will be accessible only to people with US military and/or intelligence security clearance.
The rocket base will feature an even tighter security exclusion zone, both bases forming a geographical figure eight. As this would entirely encompass the Central Arnhem Highway for a distance of 40-50 kilometres, it is likely that Yirrkala Aboriginal community will also be removed. And goodbye Garma Aboriginal Festival.
Exclusion will also mean that Ski Beach and Wallaby Beach Aboriginal settlements will have their populations relocated, no doubt the land redeveloped to become beachfront accommodation for senior US Naval personnel.
Can the town of Nhulunbuy be permitted to survive? Probably not. Rio Tinto’s bauxite mine will soon close and the only other functions of the town are as a servicing hub for local Aboriginal communities and as a staging post for tourism. Obviously, both roles will end.
How will this affect Nhulunbuy’s population? There will be no compensation. The White House will apply its own lucrative corruption of the US Law of Eminent Domain, which was originally intended to pay market value for real estate acquired for public service. The cunning Catch 22 now applied is that once word is out about the security exclusion zones, the value of Nhulunbuy real estate will collapse and all properties will be unsaleable. Australian government valuations will follow the inevitable pattern of descent, following in the footsteps of the tragic US experiences (ie New York and New Orleans).
And the Indigenous population? Without access to Songline sites, especially for Gumatj, Rirratjingu, Galpu, and Wanggurri clans, morale will collapse and Arnhem Aboriginal culture will go into terminal decline.
No prizes for now guessing what wider part of Australia Malcolm Turnbull has turned over to the US military in return for Trump’s tariff concessions; the new colony of American Top End. Sixty percent of Australians believe we must pay any price to keep the US as our ally. Malcolm Fraser, a former Prime Minister, vehemently disagreed. He warned Australians that America cannot be trusted.
Fraser pointed out that there is no treaty requiring America to protect Australia and that the US has already betrayed us; twice taking Indonesia’s side against Australia.
Moreover, he said, the US intends confrontation with China and Russia, which will mean WWIII and several pre-emptive or retaliatory nuclear strikes on Australia. If the Melville Bay and rocket base deals go ahead we will certainly experience nuclear strikes right here in North East Arnhem Land.
As they say, if you want to lose everything, just do nothing.
© Copyright Tony Ryan 2018
Tony Ryan is a cross-cultural researcher and geopolitical writer. Previous careers have been in cattle, education, welfare, government research projects, safari operations, real estate, and landscaping. He firmly believes that you must live your subject matter to deserve credibility. Contact tonyryan43@gmail.com
Tony Ryan
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