#pinegap — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pinegap, aggregated by home.social.
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Mission Impossible
Trump’s Hormuz blockade is live. Oil is at $102. China’s Defence Minister says the strait is open for Chinese ships and dares the US to stop them. A forty-nation coalition is forming against the blockade. And one of the last two tankers carrying pre-war oil on earth is heading to Australia. Urban Wronski on the war Trump cannot win. -
Hormuz Dateline
The war now has the smell of salt, oil, and old empires trying to defy the tide. Thirty-three kilometres. That is the width of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest navigable point: two shipping lanes, each two miles wide, one in, one out, with a median strip of Iranian territorial water between them. Through those lanes passes approximately 21 million barrels of oil every single day. That is one barrel in every five consumed anywhere on earth. Add the liquefied natural gas, and you have […] -
Not Reporting A War Part 2
Pete Hegseth is the Peter Principle applied to the largest weapons arsenal in human history. Pine Gap guides the missiles. Australian-made F-35 parts are in the payload. And our media calls it a partnership. Part Two of Urban Wronski’s investigation into what Australia’s press is not reporting, and what our silence is costing.https://urbanwronski.com/2026/04/12/not-reporting-a-war-part-2/
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Trump’s Invisible Airstrip Show
Trump burned two C-130s on an Iranian runway, declared total victory, and is now threatening to demolish the power grid of 92 million people. Tonight is the deadline. Urban Wronski on the Easter debacle built on assumption, sustained by bluster, and ending in wreckage that no quantity of “WE GOT HIM!” can unbog.https://urbanwronski.com/2026/04/07/trumps-invisible-airstrip-show/
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So we still have #AUKUS and #PineGap then
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The joint #US #Australian #satellite #surveillance base at #PineGap near #AliceSprings in the #NorthernTerritory. US information on military #targets in #Iran has been downloaded through the base. #auspol #TrumpRegime #WeakAlbanese #complicit #EpsteinWars #USPol
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The First Casualty
They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine. -
Gough #Whitlam, Australian PM 1972–75:
• free universal healthcare
• end of White Australia policy
• Racial Discrimination Act
• abolished university fees
• removed tax on contraception
• no-fault divorce
• equal pay for women
• extended maternity leave and support for single mothers
• abolition of conscription
• abolition of death penalty
• Aboriginal #LandRights and the start of #LandBack
• established Legal Aid and Aboriginal legal services
• doubled arts funding: established SBS, National Gallery, Australia Council for the Arts, National Film and Television School
• withdrew ADF from #Vietnam
• withdrew support for apartheid #SouthAfrica
• first Western leader to visit #China after WWII; re-established diplomatic relations
• independence for #PNG
• democratising the electoral system through One-Vote-One-Value
• first federal legislation on human rights, environment and heritage
• cut #tariffs
• Trade Practices Commission
• Law Reform Commission
• National Parks & Wildlife Service
• Australia Film Commission
• Australia Council
• Consumer Affairs Commission
• Technical and Further Education Commission #TAFE
• abolished appeals to the (UK) Privy Council
• accelerated rollout of sewerage system to disadvantaged communities
• sought to close #PineGapAll this in under three years. #Auspol
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#Auspol #AustralianLaborParty #Kerr #Whitlam #Carter
#PineGap #CIA #USPol #DemocracyThe role of the United States in the dismissal of the Whitlam Government
By Bevan Ramsden | 23 October 2025 -
Every time the #Australian govt receives threats or intimidation from the #TrumpRegime they should just reply with 2 words: #PineGap
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Two questions for those with some knowledge of Australian law:
Is it a crime under Australian law (whether federal or state) to incite the commission of #WarCrimes and/or #CrimesAgainstHumanity?
Would enthusiastic public advocacy for the Commonwealth government to (openly)* join the wildly illegal #WarOfAggression launched by #Israel + #US forces against #Iran (including celebrating the deliberate targeting of civilians)** be prima facie evidence of such a crime?
Since Australia has still not arrested #JohnHoward for his crimes in helping to launch an earlier disastrous war of aggression 22 years ago, I'm not holding my breath here, but I would like to know whether/which laws are being ignored when (for instance) a high-profile weapons lobbyist urges the federal government to commit illegal acts by joining this latest war of aggression (completely unauthorised by the UN Security Council).
*See: #PineGap.
**The 10+ scientists assassinated (often along with their families and neighbours) by Israel's initial strikes were civilians. Israel has openly admitted, even boasted, that these individuals (non-combatants under #InternationalLaw) were specifically targeted with overwhelmingly lethal force. -
Nah @SolQuill
Trump has shown that all bets are off - all contracts are null & void. I reckon tell them the rent has gone up (and to be paid in advance, of course) for all military and intelligence facilities. We should be able to screw enough out of them to more than cover the cost of those submarines that we're never likely to get anyway.#AusPol
#Trump
#PineGap
#NorthWestCape
#FiveEyes
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There are no allies in Trump's world
@fixatedpersonsunit only adversaries and suckers.David Pope,
"The Echidna" newsletter
12 February 2025#AusPol
#Trump
#PineGap
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CW: 2016: US military bases in Australia: Protecting us or putting us at risk? NewsDotCom
The USA is no longer our friend. At what point does it become our enemy. It flies its soldiers and its weapons in and out of the country in secret. They need to be evicted ASAP.
#PineGap Is the “poisoned heart of Australia”
“Some of the world’s best fighters and bombers, and Osprey hybrid aircraft, now regularly fly into Darwin and nearby #ShoalBay Receiving Station and #RAAFTindal in #Katherine, with huge ships coming down from a US base in Okinawa, Japan.
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“The Defence Satellite Communication Station at #Geraldton in Western Australia, along with #Kojarena 20km inland, was one of Australia’s spy bases. It is now shared with two large American operational military communication systems that pull down information on Indonesian and Chinese satellites from the sky. This is part of the Five Eyes surveillance system used in Iraq and Afghanistan…
”Australia paid $800 million for one of the satellites used by this system. But if America does not approve of an operation the Australian Defence Force requests, for example in Timor, it can turn off our access, says Prof Tanter.
“The US also has access to the #Delamere Air Weapons range and the #BradshawRanges (which are the size of Cyprus) in the NT, and the multinational training facility of #ShoalwaterBay in Rockhampton, which boasts a mock town complete with pub, mosque and church…
“Mr Doherty believes there are effectively almost 50 joint bases from #Broome in WA to #Richmond in NSW, since the US can use all Australian bases in a poorly defined “emergency”, and regularly does. The government insists there are only two joint bases, Pine Gap and #NorthWestCape, since troops rotate out of #Darwin — a claim Prof Tanter slams as “specious”.
#ADF #Auspol #IPAN #IndependentAndPeacefulAustraliaNetwork #USMilitary #TraitorTrump #PresidentMusk #PutinsPuppet #USPol #Tariffs #TradeWar #FiveEyes
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#Trump’s new #Pentagon chief said I’m “here today to directly & unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the #security of #Europe”.
Essentially #NATO without the #US
#ANZUS will go the same way. Trump has no interest in defending #Australia or #Aotearoa
Boot the U.S. military out of #Darwin & #PineGap.
Cancel any treaties & distance Australia from the current corrupt #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #auspol
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CW: CW - politics + war + genocide
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Simply juxtaposing #Yemen with #SouthAfrica seems like a safer bet than trying to explain the middle?
The attempt to explain being that #AnsarAllah do seem to be fairly objectionable but also seem to kinda have a point, but even that mild way of starting it seems fraut?
But it seems like a disturbing proposition of our leadership think the #Houthis are a bigger problem right now than the IDF?
So maybe I need to be more persuade?
It's probably too late now? It's not like they're gonna drag those eleven bastards home?
I should have done more sooner but that wouldn't have helped either? Thousands of Aussies protested Iraq invasion but we got dragged in anyway because John promised George?
#democracy is a sham? If we ever picked a government I actually liked the "defenders of democracy" would probably #RegimeChange it?
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#seppos #yanks #YanksGoHome #USA #UK #AUKUS #GiantGuam #PineGap #Maralinga #EmuSprings #auspol #auspol2024 #nakba2023 #palestine_genocide