Not sure if it's cool to download photos and then publish them on my blog, even with a credit, but i'd people to see this picture and there doesn't seem to be any other way to embed it. The photographer is Derek Flynn and you can see his 5-photo series here at stuff.no.za.
Yesterday at the Waihopai Spy Base in Aotearoa/New Zealand, three men caused an estimated $1 million in damages by deflating "one of the two 30 metre radomes covering satellite interception dishes. The members then built a shrine and prayed for the victims of the war with no end - the so-called 'War on Terror' led by the U. S. Empire which also controls the New Zealand taxpayer funded Waihopai spy base." The consequences of their action, in the NZ legal system, can be followed at the Ploughshares Aotearoa website. At this time, they've been released on bail but can't associate with each other or get anywhere near a military base.
According to the national Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC), Waihopai is one of three Escelon bases run by the US in NZ under the "super-secret" UKUSA Agreement. If you live or travel in the Pacific, this is probably the place where your emails, faxes and text messages are intercepted, then analyzed to detect any terrorist polyps. The US can't put this equipment anywhere they can't also insure its security, which means that whether the people on Aotearoa like it or not, they live under the shadowed fist of the Pentagon, policing the world for no other reason than to protect its own infrastructure. This is vicious circle territory, significant if one lives in New Zealand but hardly a point of concern in the US during an election year. For more info on how Waihopai fits into the over-arching militarization of outer space, check out Global Network and the Federation of American Scientists' Space Policy Project.
According to the national Anti-Bases Campaign (ABC), Waihopai is one of three Escelon bases run by the US in NZ under the "super-secret" UKUSA Agreement. If you live or travel in the Pacific, this is probably the place where your emails, faxes and text messages are intercepted, then analyzed to detect any terrorist polyps. The US can't put this equipment anywhere they can't also insure its security, which means that whether the people on Aotearoa like it or not, they live under the shadowed fist of the Pentagon, policing the world for no other reason than to protect its own infrastructure. This is vicious circle territory, significant if one lives in New Zealand but hardly a point of concern in the US during an election year. For more info on how Waihopai fits into the over-arching militarization of outer space, check out Global Network and the Federation of American Scientists' Space Policy Project.
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