US MILITARY ABOUT TO INVADE ARNHEM LAND
(Detailed version)
In 2017, the Australian Government announced an exciting new event... a civilian aerospace facility proposal in the Northern Territory.
Moreover, this was to be situated on land recently leased to the facility's developers by the Gumatj tribe in Arnhem Land. Experts had already declared the facility to be completely safe for the Aboriginal people of this and surrounding regions. It was also claimed this would mean wealth and job opportunities for the Gumatj people (a claim later muted).
There was no mention of the 1987 government study that ruled out rocket launching installations in the Top End as too dangerous; nor was attention drawn to the volumes of chlorine gas dumped in the lower and upper upper atmosphere by US rocket's solid fuels; which are known to significantly damage the ozone layer.
The local independent Member of the NT Legislative Assembly, Aboriginal Mark Yingiya Guyula, asked me to research the legitimacy of consultation with local clans; there being some doubt that the land leased was indeed Gumatj-owned. It being analytical research policy to never assume anything or take anything for granted, I commenced with a search for all entities and events associated with the rocket base proposal... and discovered something quite startling.
Four years prior to this, preliminary discussions between US mega weapons corporations Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, and Australia's Department of Defense had already occurred. If, as seems eminently likely, there is Federal Government dialogue continuity on the rocket base proposal, this has enormous implications, not only for Arnhem Land people, but for all Australians.
Despite additional research by Yingiya's staff, and the expanding range of US military development in the NT, Government continues to maintain the pretense of exclusively civilian aerospace activity. If the continuing government tight-lipped silence is any indication, proof to the contrary will never be accessible until after the fact; so let us look at the available evidence and see where this points.
Initially, my plan was to confront government with all the evidence we can uncover locally and demand a confirm-or-deny response. I was confronted by a wall of silence; on the part of our political representatives, the ABC, and corporate media. What am I supposed to make of this? Not even presentation of empirical evidence provoked comment. Normal governmental response to such queries is delicate sidestepping wrapped in a soothing form of wards. Traditionally, stone-walling is reserved for what political aids refer to as hyper-flammable hotspots.
Two tentative conclusions occur to me:
All the evidence comprises a law-of-averages-confounding series of coincidences and the aerospace proposal is indeed purely civilian; or,
Neither Government, nor the negotiating parties (DEAL and ELA) are prepared to reveal the truth. Ergo, we are being arrogantly stonewalled. This being the case, it can be interpreted as denying the Australian Electorate information which might have a life-or death impact on thousands of citizens; an act unacceptable in a democracy.
Before I am accused of jumping to conclusions, let us all examine the relevant sequence of events in more detail and you, the reader, can decide for yourself. Whatever your conclusions, please convey your comment to us, either through the comments facility at the foot of this article, or to [email protected], or dial 0497162210.
The history of this aerospace facility, as revealed by easily available evidence...
As plans evidently progressed, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and the Department of Defense dropped out of publicity and a couple of new organisations emerged: DEAL (Develop East Arnhem Land) and ELA (Equatorial Launch Australia). The word civilian has been stressed, again and again and again. The repetition is far from subtle and this has triggered wide-ranging speculation in many cynical quarters.
The functional identities of the three initial partners are:
So far, it has become obvious that whoever initiated this project wants the words war and defence eliminated from publicity. Significantly, by the time I had brought the Raytheon/Lockheed Martin factor to Yingiya's electoral staff's attention, this article had been removed from the internet.
Again, shouldn't we wonder why?
So… I asked myself... what other factors might possibly relate to rockets and defense and leasehold land in the Northern Territory's Gove Peninsular, or associated regions? Research produced the dots, which were then joined and this became an exercise in painting by numbers. The following picture emerged:
Geopolitical context
Synopsis: The people of Guam and Okinawa, where there are giant North and Mid-Pacific American military bases, are fed-up with their women being raped and assaulted by US servicemen; having sleep interrupted around the clock; and they do not want any more poisons from military bases destroying their water supplies and sea.
They also fear their land will be nuclear bombed by China or North Korea in the event of war with the USA. With the neo-con element of the Pentagon and White House daily undermining conciliation with North Korea and provoking a barrage of conflicts with Russia, the people of Okinawa and Guam want America out… now!
Obviously, the US needs a new site for another and more comprehensive military base and this must be supported by a China-confronting South Pacific deep-water harbour. We have long heard rumours that the Pentagon wants to move to Melville Bay, on the Gove Peninsula.
More localised events: The US Navy Chief of Operations, Admiral Jonathon Greenert, was in the Top End quite recently, for discussions. "The entire Pacific Rim is important and a major part of the global economy, but the Western Pacific is the key to this" he said. He described the Marines presence in Darwin as also being key to American military operations in the Pacific. More on this.
The Admiral was clearly talking tongue-in-cheek for the sake of diplomacy and military security. There is absolutely no way the US Navy would place its military naval fleet in a harbour leased for 99 years, by its most likely enemy, China. Possible alternative site, Bynoe Harbour is without fresh water; the only remaining viable location being Melville Bay... which is a mere 40 Ks from the proposed rocket base. But I stress, the Melville Bay speculation is based on circumstantial evidence regardless of how convincing this may be. Not so the aerospace site which is empirically qualified as military in NT Government Estimates Hearings documents.
If Australians knew the unpalatable truth about the seven hundred and fifty foreign American bases around the world they would say a loud NO to such a base here. So, if this is what is on the Pentagon’s mind, it would certainly make sense to move with utmost stealth.
With a little imagination, reinforced by our knowledge of actual events in history, we can speculate on the likely future progression:
As it happens, the eyes of every grubby shop keeper and trader in the only Gove town, Nhulunbuy, are already glittering at this prospect...
Additional evidence of collaboration slips into focus: With commendable foresight, government (Commonwealth Department of Defense and NT Govt, jointly) has already budgeted for $50,000 and $75,000 to help out, among other things…”increasing the American Defense Presence” (a statement made to the NT Government Estimates Committee by Luke Bowen, formerly of Cattle Live-Export infamy and now General Manager of the NT Government’s Northern Australian Development Office. Bowen is in charge of major projects and strategic infrastructure). (Ref: Estimates transcript - Day 1 – 28 November 2017 page 49… (URL available on request to NT Government).
One must surely ask why the Pentagon is involved in a “civilian space rocket launching facility”. To claim this a civilian is like being partially pregnant.
Meanwhile, the current number of US Marines in Darwin is around 2600 and the NT Government has announced a new suburb for more US military personnel. Infrastructure proposals are more commensurate with a new American colony than a military outpost.
America, for its part, has been making regular references to North Korea’s ability to drop nuclear bombs on Australia; which is absurd as North Korea does not have the prerequisite guidance systems, nor miniature war heads. This is jingoism, nothing more.
Conveniently, the entire media circus surrounding the prolonged North Korea “crisis” ignores the contextual nature of the original American attack on North Korea; the (criminal) fire-bombing of entire cities of civilians (an estimated 20% of all men, women and children, in contravention of the Geneva Agreement); the ongoing trade sanctions which starved to death more women and children; and the provocative fly-overs by nuclear bomb capacity planes; and cruise-bys by American warships. Seventy years of intimidation has most certainly created a very justified paranoid attitude in North Korea’s government, and nuclear defense was clearly the only way to end this. All nations have the right to self-defense.
Transparently, the ‘North Korean Crisis’ is a manufactured false flag exercise, intended to intimidate America’s client states, of which Australia is one of the more gullible models.
As a slightly comforting aside, one might note that the South Korean Government quickly realised that it was about to become a sacrificial lamb and has hastened to extricate itself by establishing bilateral dialogue of a quality not seen in 70 years. For all his faults, Trump has been the only politicians in the west to initiate conciliation, which has earned him powerful enemies in the Pentagon and within the military industrial complex.
Meanwhile, if we list all relevant US Military or quasi-military developments in the NT's 'Top End', and fill in the gaps with likely projections, a credible albeit very disturbing picture emerges.
What we already know:
Only the final two elements of a fully-comprehensive South Pacific US war machine have yet to be installed:
Melville Bay is the perfect deep-water harbour for a naval base, and the nearby “civilian” rocket installation completes all elements of the Pentagon’s ‘Strategic Military Acquisition’,
By the time the South Pacific Naval Base Strategy becomes public knowledge, Australians will be inured to the US military presence and, anyway, a surveyed 60% of Australians believe we must put up with bully Americans because we need the superpower to defend us from China or Indonesia.
Are they right?
According to former Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, the answer is NO! and NO!
Before he passed away a couple of years ago, Malcolm Fraser several times warned Australians to cut the military alliance with America because, he said, "... the US cannot be trusted".
Fraser pointed out that when Indonesia planned invasion of North Australia in 1975, America took Indonesia’s side against Australia. And according to our own military intelligence, the information produced from the joint survey of Timor and Arafura oceanic floors, was shared between the US and Indonesia. Australia was left out in the cold.
Since 1946, the US has militarily and aggressively invaded and occupied 56 sovereign nations and confiscated their resources. Arnhem Land is one of the richest resource zones in the world and we know America wants to own this too. That taking over the Top End will also create a vast new complex of American military bases, is simply a magnificent bonus. In this context, the American Admiral's comments are revealed as pregnant understatement.
Does Australia need a big power ally?
No.
It has long been recognised in better-informed military circles that Australia is simply too expensive to invade.
This is the reason for the old expression “The Brisbane Line”, which means that, by the time an invader has brought ammunition, transport, fuel, water, personnel, and equipment to the north Australian coast, the costs would already be unsustainable; and for every 100 Ks inland penetration the costs would magnify exponentially. For most nations around the world, their economy would be destroyed by the time they had ventured 1000ks inland. To progress therein towards the nation’s capitals would be economically impossible.
Obviously, the invasion would need to be on the rugged East Coast. However, with its Great Barrier Reef, vast stretches of coastal cliffs, and powerful landing-craft-devouring surf from the Sunshine Coast southwards; and the Great Dividing Range and Blue Mountains guarding the hinterland; the logistics would be just as outrageous as in the north.
Because the continent is so vast and the terrain so inhospitable, this would make viable occupation quite impossible. Tiny forces of guerrillas could have an invading force running in catastrophic circles.
This is why the investment banker consortium which has been behind all major wars since the Battle of Waterloo, gave up the idea of invading our country and instead simply destroyed our manufacturing and domestic food production with free trade ideology, and flooded our labour pool with 3 million refugees and immigrants. Thus, we have already experienced new-age invasion.
How will a American Bases in Gove affect the people in Arnhem Land?
Based on the kind of security exclusion zones imposed on other US Bases (ie Okinawa and Guam), we can guess that the Wessel Islands and mainland as far south and west as Gurrumuru Homeland will be off-limits to Yolngu and other Australians.
Those people not killed in the immediate blasts (ie estimated 230 K² firestorm zone per strike), will die from nuclear fall-out; some quickly, others in the years that follow. This scenario exactly mirrors the warnings issued by Malcolm Fraser.
As then PM, and with privileged information, he was in possession of the disturbing facts. We would be wise to heed Malcolm Fraser’s warning, which he clearly intended as his legacy to the Australian People.
© Copyright Tony Ryan 2018
MESSAGE TO READERS
We face a complete mainstream media ban on this topic ever being published. Even the ABC will not touch it. (The rocket base is supported by NT Government's Chief Minister Michael Gunner, whose wife works for the ABC and who offers parallel media support). Draw your own conclusions regarding the implications such complicity has for democracy. And then there are the ramifications this protected invasion by the American Military has for Australia's national sovereignty and independence.
Relay this information to everyone that you know, especially in the independent media and foreign online news.
Meanwhile, everyone needs to contact their local MHR and Senator and ask them to confirm or deny what is written here... that is presuming that they indeed know about this, which, sadly, is open to question.
Tony Ryan
[email protected]
Moreover, this was to be situated on land recently leased to the facility's developers by the Gumatj tribe in Arnhem Land. Experts had already declared the facility to be completely safe for the Aboriginal people of this and surrounding regions. It was also claimed this would mean wealth and job opportunities for the Gumatj people (a claim later muted).
There was no mention of the 1987 government study that ruled out rocket launching installations in the Top End as too dangerous; nor was attention drawn to the volumes of chlorine gas dumped in the lower and upper upper atmosphere by US rocket's solid fuels; which are known to significantly damage the ozone layer.
The local independent Member of the NT Legislative Assembly, Aboriginal Mark Yingiya Guyula, asked me to research the legitimacy of consultation with local clans; there being some doubt that the land leased was indeed Gumatj-owned. It being analytical research policy to never assume anything or take anything for granted, I commenced with a search for all entities and events associated with the rocket base proposal... and discovered something quite startling.
Four years prior to this, preliminary discussions between US mega weapons corporations Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, and Australia's Department of Defense had already occurred. If, as seems eminently likely, there is Federal Government dialogue continuity on the rocket base proposal, this has enormous implications, not only for Arnhem Land people, but for all Australians.
Despite additional research by Yingiya's staff, and the expanding range of US military development in the NT, Government continues to maintain the pretense of exclusively civilian aerospace activity. If the continuing government tight-lipped silence is any indication, proof to the contrary will never be accessible until after the fact; so let us look at the available evidence and see where this points.
Initially, my plan was to confront government with all the evidence we can uncover locally and demand a confirm-or-deny response. I was confronted by a wall of silence; on the part of our political representatives, the ABC, and corporate media. What am I supposed to make of this? Not even presentation of empirical evidence provoked comment. Normal governmental response to such queries is delicate sidestepping wrapped in a soothing form of wards. Traditionally, stone-walling is reserved for what political aids refer to as hyper-flammable hotspots.
Two tentative conclusions occur to me:
All the evidence comprises a law-of-averages-confounding series of coincidences and the aerospace proposal is indeed purely civilian; or,
Neither Government, nor the negotiating parties (DEAL and ELA) are prepared to reveal the truth. Ergo, we are being arrogantly stonewalled. This being the case, it can be interpreted as denying the Australian Electorate information which might have a life-or death impact on thousands of citizens; an act unacceptable in a democracy.
Before I am accused of jumping to conclusions, let us all examine the relevant sequence of events in more detail and you, the reader, can decide for yourself. Whatever your conclusions, please convey your comment to us, either through the comments facility at the foot of this article, or to [email protected], or dial 0497162210.
The history of this aerospace facility, as revealed by easily available evidence...
As plans evidently progressed, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and the Department of Defense dropped out of publicity and a couple of new organisations emerged: DEAL (Develop East Arnhem Land) and ELA (Equatorial Launch Australia). The word civilian has been stressed, again and again and again. The repetition is far from subtle and this has triggered wide-ranging speculation in many cynical quarters.
The functional identities of the three initial partners are:
- As we all know, the Department of Defense deals in wars; invariably American wars, which have nothing to do with actual threats to the Australian continent and its residents.
- Lockheed-Martin makes bombs, fighter aircraft (F-35) and missiles;
- Raytheon makes only war machines, particularly bombs, rockets and missiles. It’s best-known is the Patriot Missile.
So far, it has become obvious that whoever initiated this project wants the words war and defence eliminated from publicity. Significantly, by the time I had brought the Raytheon/Lockheed Martin factor to Yingiya's electoral staff's attention, this article had been removed from the internet.
Again, shouldn't we wonder why?
So… I asked myself... what other factors might possibly relate to rockets and defense and leasehold land in the Northern Territory's Gove Peninsular, or associated regions? Research produced the dots, which were then joined and this became an exercise in painting by numbers. The following picture emerged:
Geopolitical context
Synopsis: The people of Guam and Okinawa, where there are giant North and Mid-Pacific American military bases, are fed-up with their women being raped and assaulted by US servicemen; having sleep interrupted around the clock; and they do not want any more poisons from military bases destroying their water supplies and sea.
They also fear their land will be nuclear bombed by China or North Korea in the event of war with the USA. With the neo-con element of the Pentagon and White House daily undermining conciliation with North Korea and provoking a barrage of conflicts with Russia, the people of Okinawa and Guam want America out… now!
Obviously, the US needs a new site for another and more comprehensive military base and this must be supported by a China-confronting South Pacific deep-water harbour. We have long heard rumours that the Pentagon wants to move to Melville Bay, on the Gove Peninsula.
More localised events: The US Navy Chief of Operations, Admiral Jonathon Greenert, was in the Top End quite recently, for discussions. "The entire Pacific Rim is important and a major part of the global economy, but the Western Pacific is the key to this" he said. He described the Marines presence in Darwin as also being key to American military operations in the Pacific. More on this.
The Admiral was clearly talking tongue-in-cheek for the sake of diplomacy and military security. There is absolutely no way the US Navy would place its military naval fleet in a harbour leased for 99 years, by its most likely enemy, China. Possible alternative site, Bynoe Harbour is without fresh water; the only remaining viable location being Melville Bay... which is a mere 40 Ks from the proposed rocket base. But I stress, the Melville Bay speculation is based on circumstantial evidence regardless of how convincing this may be. Not so the aerospace site which is empirically qualified as military in NT Government Estimates Hearings documents.
If Australians knew the unpalatable truth about the seven hundred and fifty foreign American bases around the world they would say a loud NO to such a base here. So, if this is what is on the Pentagon’s mind, it would certainly make sense to move with utmost stealth.
With a little imagination, reinforced by our knowledge of actual events in history, we can speculate on the likely future progression:
- First, a tiny civilian rocket base will be established as planned, with maximum publicity blurbs about Australia finally joining the exciting Space Exploration Frontier. Indeed, this was the exact line adopted by Alan Duffy, ABC TV’s celebrity astronomer… not conspiratorially, I hasten to add, but demonstrating the kind of scientific naiveté that governments have learned to rely upon to establish credibility and believeability. By the way, Duffy also happens to be part of ELA.
- Next, will follow a few minor reconstructions to Riotinto’s bauxite plant in nearby Inverell Bay to enable “civilian” ships to call in with “civilian” communication technology, installations and equipment (ignoring the civilian barge landing 500 metres away). At some stage, there will be a projection of jobs for Aborigines and former mine workers. Gumatj already claim many jobs will become available but the total advantage to them so far is $50,000 in site lease payments per year... less than a single job is worth.
- Then, as the US creates more tension in the Asia Pacific, there will be the Australian Government’s inevitable ‘musing’ that our security might well be served if the civilian installations also provide minor assistance to the Depart of Defense. No doubt, the term “cost-effectiveness” will be injected into media releases, as will the exciting potential for passenger ship visitation and a lucrative explosion of tourism.
As it happens, the eyes of every grubby shop keeper and trader in the only Gove town, Nhulunbuy, are already glittering at this prospect...
Additional evidence of collaboration slips into focus: With commendable foresight, government (Commonwealth Department of Defense and NT Govt, jointly) has already budgeted for $50,000 and $75,000 to help out, among other things…”increasing the American Defense Presence” (a statement made to the NT Government Estimates Committee by Luke Bowen, formerly of Cattle Live-Export infamy and now General Manager of the NT Government’s Northern Australian Development Office. Bowen is in charge of major projects and strategic infrastructure). (Ref: Estimates transcript - Day 1 – 28 November 2017 page 49… (URL available on request to NT Government).
One must surely ask why the Pentagon is involved in a “civilian space rocket launching facility”. To claim this a civilian is like being partially pregnant.
Meanwhile, the current number of US Marines in Darwin is around 2600 and the NT Government has announced a new suburb for more US military personnel. Infrastructure proposals are more commensurate with a new American colony than a military outpost.
America, for its part, has been making regular references to North Korea’s ability to drop nuclear bombs on Australia; which is absurd as North Korea does not have the prerequisite guidance systems, nor miniature war heads. This is jingoism, nothing more.
Conveniently, the entire media circus surrounding the prolonged North Korea “crisis” ignores the contextual nature of the original American attack on North Korea; the (criminal) fire-bombing of entire cities of civilians (an estimated 20% of all men, women and children, in contravention of the Geneva Agreement); the ongoing trade sanctions which starved to death more women and children; and the provocative fly-overs by nuclear bomb capacity planes; and cruise-bys by American warships. Seventy years of intimidation has most certainly created a very justified paranoid attitude in North Korea’s government, and nuclear defense was clearly the only way to end this. All nations have the right to self-defense.
Transparently, the ‘North Korean Crisis’ is a manufactured false flag exercise, intended to intimidate America’s client states, of which Australia is one of the more gullible models.
As a slightly comforting aside, one might note that the South Korean Government quickly realised that it was about to become a sacrificial lamb and has hastened to extricate itself by establishing bilateral dialogue of a quality not seen in 70 years. For all his faults, Trump has been the only politicians in the west to initiate conciliation, which has earned him powerful enemies in the Pentagon and within the military industrial complex.
Meanwhile, if we list all relevant US Military or quasi-military developments in the NT's 'Top End', and fill in the gaps with likely projections, a credible albeit very disturbing picture emerges.
What we already know:
- A US Air Force Base in Tindal is gaining in military significance (and is already poisoning the region’s soils, ground water, and the Katherine River);
- A US Marines Base in Darwin is destined for rapid expansion;
- The Australia-epi-centred hemisphere spy and navigation satellite relay bases in Shoal Bay and Middle Point (which have been active for decades and are off-limits to all Australians, and which serve only American interests ie Echelon phone and email tapping), will gain in regional military target significance for China;
- The ongoing militarisation of Darwin International Airport for nuclear-armed B52 staging (which has happened in the past and made Darwin a double nuclear target for the USSR during the First Cold War). International awareness of this vulnerability might well harm tourism visitation through Darwin.
- There is now, apparently, a US Nuclear armed submarine base in Darwin harbour, which we always thought was built for Australian Collins Class submarines.
- The Australian and US Governments have refused to reveal the obvious intention to park nuclear ships and submarines in Top End harbours (as asked by the NT News).
- ELA: The corporation created to construct and operate the rocket base is titled Equatorial Launch Australia, better known by its acronym, ELA. The executive membership of ten persons is made up of: four with defense links, two technical/scientific, and the rest in essentially PR roles. It is lead by Scott Wallis who has a background in Air Force aircraft testing, space research; was Desk Officer for the Five Eyes Initiative, and Leadfoot II Weapons Effect Project which involved 200 personnel. One of his associates was Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The US links appear to be strong and profoundly influential.
- DEAL: The primary support organisation for ELA is DEAL (Develop East Arnhem Land), which is ostensibly a government-sponsored not-for-profit entity designed to precipitate economic development in the wake of Riotinto's imminent departure. DEAL has an executive of seven. Six of these conform to the profiles normally identified by governments as constituting experts in rapid industrial development. However, one, Ian Smith, is powerfully connected to US lobbies... vertically and horizontally. He is a global consultant in getting things done. His wife is former unilateralist politician Natasha Stott-Despoja. His partner in another venture, Bespoke Approach, is Andrew Butcher, a former spokesman for News Corp and its CEO Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch owns 70% of Australian media and probably controls all of it; and also works directly to the Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission (TC, an employee of which is economist Ross Garnaut. The TC is the world's biggest military-industrial-intelligence complex, created in 1973 by Zbigniew Brzezinski for David Rockefeller).Andrew Butcher is married to Sara James, formerly of America's NBC and regular guest on ABC TV, and who also worked for Alexander Downer. I am tempted to view DEAL as a spear, the business end of which is Ian Smith and his ultra-powerful connections.
Only the final two elements of a fully-comprehensive South Pacific US war machine have yet to be installed:
- A major navy base; and
- An Intercontinental ballistic missile-launching platform.
Melville Bay is the perfect deep-water harbour for a naval base, and the nearby “civilian” rocket installation completes all elements of the Pentagon’s ‘Strategic Military Acquisition’,
By the time the South Pacific Naval Base Strategy becomes public knowledge, Australians will be inured to the US military presence and, anyway, a surveyed 60% of Australians believe we must put up with bully Americans because we need the superpower to defend us from China or Indonesia.
Are they right?
According to former Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, the answer is NO! and NO!
Before he passed away a couple of years ago, Malcolm Fraser several times warned Australians to cut the military alliance with America because, he said, "... the US cannot be trusted".
Fraser pointed out that when Indonesia planned invasion of North Australia in 1975, America took Indonesia’s side against Australia. And according to our own military intelligence, the information produced from the joint survey of Timor and Arafura oceanic floors, was shared between the US and Indonesia. Australia was left out in the cold.
Since 1946, the US has militarily and aggressively invaded and occupied 56 sovereign nations and confiscated their resources. Arnhem Land is one of the richest resource zones in the world and we know America wants to own this too. That taking over the Top End will also create a vast new complex of American military bases, is simply a magnificent bonus. In this context, the American Admiral's comments are revealed as pregnant understatement.
Does Australia need a big power ally?
No.
It has long been recognised in better-informed military circles that Australia is simply too expensive to invade.
This is the reason for the old expression “The Brisbane Line”, which means that, by the time an invader has brought ammunition, transport, fuel, water, personnel, and equipment to the north Australian coast, the costs would already be unsustainable; and for every 100 Ks inland penetration the costs would magnify exponentially. For most nations around the world, their economy would be destroyed by the time they had ventured 1000ks inland. To progress therein towards the nation’s capitals would be economically impossible.
Obviously, the invasion would need to be on the rugged East Coast. However, with its Great Barrier Reef, vast stretches of coastal cliffs, and powerful landing-craft-devouring surf from the Sunshine Coast southwards; and the Great Dividing Range and Blue Mountains guarding the hinterland; the logistics would be just as outrageous as in the north.
Because the continent is so vast and the terrain so inhospitable, this would make viable occupation quite impossible. Tiny forces of guerrillas could have an invading force running in catastrophic circles.
This is why the investment banker consortium which has been behind all major wars since the Battle of Waterloo, gave up the idea of invading our country and instead simply destroyed our manufacturing and domestic food production with free trade ideology, and flooded our labour pool with 3 million refugees and immigrants. Thus, we have already experienced new-age invasion.
How will a American Bases in Gove affect the people in Arnhem Land?
Based on the kind of security exclusion zones imposed on other US Bases (ie Okinawa and Guam), we can guess that the Wessel Islands and mainland as far south and west as Gurrumuru Homeland will be off-limits to Yolngu and other Australians.
- If events follow the usual American pattern, all communiities situated within the military security exclusion zones: Gunyangara and Wallaby Beach and all nearby Homelands and facilities (Garma and Dhupuma), will be bulldozed and the residents relocated to a new town to be located on country west of Gurrumuru.
- The kinds of toxic substances used in military bases will eventually poison the local coast, creeks, and groundwater (as has already happened in Katherine).
- Americans typically treat local indigenous people with contempt, and so any interaction with US personnel will not be a positive experience. Abuse and rapes will become commonplace. With Riotinto already in position, this ruthless mining corporation may follow its South American tradition of eliminating Aborigines with introduced diseases. Handily, even its traditional agent for distributing disease-infected clothes, The Summer Institute of Linguistics, (a bible-interpreting service which undertook this role for Riotinto in South America) is already in the Top End. (The killing of Indians in South America was an event recorded by Australian historian, journalist, explorer and war hero, Frank Alcorta - NT News).
- If the US provokes war with China, Russia, or North Korea (which currently appears likely), this is apt to precipitate World War III. If this happens there will certainly be nuclear missiles directed to:
- Melville Bay,
- The new rocket launching site,
- Darwin Airport;
- The satellite relay signal installations at Middle Point and Shoal Bay; and
- Pine Gap and other bases.
Those people not killed in the immediate blasts (ie estimated 230 K² firestorm zone per strike), will die from nuclear fall-out; some quickly, others in the years that follow. This scenario exactly mirrors the warnings issued by Malcolm Fraser.
As then PM, and with privileged information, he was in possession of the disturbing facts. We would be wise to heed Malcolm Fraser’s warning, which he clearly intended as his legacy to the Australian People.
© Copyright Tony Ryan 2018
MESSAGE TO READERS
We face a complete mainstream media ban on this topic ever being published. Even the ABC will not touch it. (The rocket base is supported by NT Government's Chief Minister Michael Gunner, whose wife works for the ABC and who offers parallel media support). Draw your own conclusions regarding the implications such complicity has for democracy. And then there are the ramifications this protected invasion by the American Military has for Australia's national sovereignty and independence.
Relay this information to everyone that you know, especially in the independent media and foreign online news.
Meanwhile, everyone needs to contact their local MHR and Senator and ask them to confirm or deny what is written here... that is presuming that they indeed know about this, which, sadly, is open to question.
Tony Ryan
[email protected]
