Threats to the Western World, and Geopolitical Intelligence
Relations between Australia’s Muslim community and the rest of the population are near to exploding. As they face increasing suspicion and hostility from the rest of the nation, young Australian Muslims are being made to feel like foreigners in their own country. Is Australia’s response to terrorism to blame?
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It has fuelled a 17-year economic boom in which truck drivers can earn £60,000 a year, property prices have soared and there are not enough pilots to fly desperately needed mining engineers into dusty desert camps.
Australia is growing rich from China’s insatiable appetite for raw materials, selling billions of pounds worth of iron ore, coal [...]
That the news is familiar makes it no less alarming: 1.1 billion people, about one-sixth of the world’s population, lack access to safe drinking water. Aquifers under Beijing, Delhi, Bangkok, and dozens of other rapidly growing urban areas are drying up. The rivers Ganges, Jordan, Nile, and Yangtze — all dwindle to a trickle for [...]
Some of the world’s major concentrations of military power and potential hot spots are in Asia: for example on the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Straits and between India and Pakistan. Strong economic growth in our region is leading to the build-up of modern military forces in China and India, as well as in South [...]
DENILIQUIN, Australia — Lindsay Renwick, the mayor of this dusty southern Australian town, remembers the constant whir of the rice mill. “It was our little heartbeat out there, tickety-tick-tickety,” he said, imitating the giant fans that dried the rice, “and now it has stopped.”
The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere, once [...]
That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific
That Australia runs its own empire is unmentionable; yet it stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the ancient hinterlands of the continent and across the Arafura Sea and the South [...]
The Chinese Navy is using Australian technology to upgrade its warships, a move which experts warn may be detrimental to Australia’s national security.
Through a joint venture company based in China, an Australian business, AMD, has sold designs for the hull and propulsion system of high-speed catamarans to the Peoples’ Liberation forces.
The Chinese military has built [...]
AUSTRALIA will build the world’s most lethal conventional submarine fleet, capable of carrying long-range cruise missiles and futuristic midget-subs, to combat an expected arms race in the region.
New Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has ordered planning to begin on the next generation of submarines to replace the Royal Australian Navy’s Collins-class fleet with the aim of [...]
At the end of the summer, Russia dictator Vladimir Putin traveled to Australia to meet with Prime Minister John Howard, a close ally of U.S. President George Bush, in order to beg for a deal allowing Russia to purchase “yellowcake” uranium from Oz’s vast brick road of the stuff to fuel Russia’s nuclear reactors. Rich [...]
More generally, and more disturbingly, the US Studies poll shows only 37 per cent of Australians having a positive feeling towards the US and 48per cent wanting a more independent foreign policy. (By contrast, at the nadir of the Vietnam trauma in 1975, only 26 per cent wanted a more independent relationship.)
Australians’ dramatic loss of [...]
PINE GAP could play a direct role in a controversial new generation of ballistic missile defences developed by the US and Japan, the Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson, has told Parliament.
The rare statement on the secret facility near Alice Springs is likely to further alarm Russia, which yesterday joined China in criticising military co-operation between Australia, [...]
GROWING military co-operation between Australia, Japan and the US is worrying Moscow, as is work on US-Japanese missile defence co-operation, a top foreign ministry official said in an interview today.
“The strengthening of US-Australian-Japanese ties has got our attention…. Narrow alliances, especially tight military-political unions, are a worry,” Deputy Foreign Ministry Alexander Losyukov told daily Vremya [...]
SYDNEY (AFP) — Russia on Friday joined a rush by nuclear powers for access to Australia’s huge uranium reserves as President Vladimir Putin signed a landmark deal to import the strategic fuel.
The agreement he signed with Prime Minister John Howard came just months after Australia ratified a deal to sell uranium to China to [...]
The six-day-long exercise currently underway in the Bay of Bengal is one of the biggest war games the world will see this year. But not all its participants want that fact broadcast. The exercise, dubbed Malabar 07-02, involves warships from the U.S., Australia, India, Japan and Singapore — more than two dozen, in all, including [...]
Are the warships from the United States, India, Japan, Australia and Singapore that are exercising together this week off the east coast of India harbingers of a new military alliance in Asia to contain China?
Beijing may suspect they are, despite assurances from participants that the aim is sealane security, not alliance building.
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But then last year, China signed energy deals with Australia valued at well more than $100 billion in the coming years. Beijing is buying uranium, natural gas and oil. Already, it appears, Australia is becoming addicted.
“Here in Australia, the view is that whatever commodity you’re going to make, your always going to be able to [...]
The United States, Japan and Australia plan to hold their first-ever summit next month, Japanese government officials say.
The agenda will include discussion of North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and China’s military build-up.
The three countries’ leaders would meet in Sydney on the sidelines of the APEC summit due to open on September 8, the officials told Reuters.
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Australia possesses almost 40% of the world’s known low-cost reserves of uranium.
And ore from Australia’s three operating mines supplies about a quarter of the world’s uranium-oxide exports. Until now all this has gone to countries that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This ensures, in theory, that they will use it to produce electricity [...]
A FEW weeks ago US President George W. Bush issued an unusual request to the Australian Government.
He wanted to see the Australian ambassador to Iran, Greg Moriarty. The Americans don’t have an ambassador in Tehran and it is no news to anybody that the Australian and British ambassadors brief their US colleagues on goings-on there. [...]
The number of Russian spies in Australia has risen to near-Cold war levels, forcing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to train a new generation of counter-espionage officers.
The threat from Russian intelligence experts comes alongside a huge jump in the numbers of Chinese agents believed to be operating in Australia.
The Australian newspaper reports [...]
Have you noticed that those who try to resist the hysteria of multiculturalism are immediately stigmatized as racists, red necks, chauvinists or fascists? FSM Contributing Editor Philip Atkinson’s piercing analysis implicitly suggests that Western culture may be in decline.
Muslims, the traditional enemy of Christians, are allowed to become citizens of Australia, a Christian country, because [...]
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