Many readers have said that I have been covering maybe a tad too much of what has been recently happening right here in Canada, as this formerly free nation has once again sold its soul to the devil itself by "re-selecting" the anti-Canadian criminal Justin Trudeau in as our Prime Minister for the next 3+ years at least.... It was indeed a sad day for Canada, as most Canadians have been too brainwashed and propagandized to realize that we are regurgitating the same criminals in as our leaders again and again...Well, I figure I would go elsewhere and discuss some real history about another nation, Australia, that has also had its share of corruption in terms of its leadership... It is a fact that nations such as Australia are just as controlled as Canada, and their people are under the illusion of "freedom" much like in this country....BUT I do actually remember a time back in the 1970's when the Australian people actually elected someone who stood up for Australia, and for a short time actually freed the nation from control by what was then the British-American cabal....That man was Gough Whitlam, and right now I do want to present the following important article, written some 5 years ago this week, that comes from John Pilger, through the Guardian online website, at www.theguardian.com, that is entitled: "The British-American Coup That Ended Australian Independence"... This is a must see by everyone, and especially my readers from the land down under in Australia, to see how truly diabolical the criminals that run this planet can be in keeping their 'slave' nations in line... Here in fact is that article, and I do have more thoughts and comments to follow:The British-American coup that ended Australian independenceJohn PilgerIn 1975 prime minister Gough Whitlam, who has died this week, dared to try to assert his country’s autonomy. The CIA and MI6 made sure he paid the price Prime minister Gough Whitlam watches ACTU president Bob Hawke drink beer from a yard glass Melbourne, Australia, 1972. Photograph: News Ltd/Newspix/REXAcross the media and political establishment in Australia, a silence has descended on the memory of the great, reforming prime minister Gough Whitlam. His achievements are recognised, if grudgingly, his mistakes noted in false sorrow. But a critical reason for his extraordinary political demise will, they hope, be buried with him.Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had “reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution”. Whitlam ended his nation’s colonial servility. He abolished royal patronage, moved Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supported “zones of peace” and opposed nuclear weapons testing.Although not regarded as on the left of the Labor party, Whitlam was a maverick social democrat of principle, pride and propriety. He believed that a foreign power should not control his country’s resources and dictate its economic and foreign policies. He proposed to “buy back the farm”. In drafting the first Aboriginal lands rights legislation, his government raised the ghost of the greatest land grab in human history, Britain’s colonisation of Australia, and the question of who owned the island-continent’s vast natural wealth.Latin Americans will recognise the audacity and danger of this “breaking free” in a country whose establishment was welded to great, external power. Australians had served every British imperial adventure since the Boxer rebellion was crushed in China. In the 1960s, Australia pleaded to join the US in its invasion of Vietnam, then provided “black teams” to be run by theCIA. US diplomatic cables published last year by WikiLeaks disclose the names of leading figures in both main parties, including a future prime minister and foreign minister, as Washington’s informants during the Whitlam years.Whitlam knew the risk he was taking. The day after his election, he ordered that his staff should not be “vetted or harassed” by the Australian security organisation, Asio – then, as now, tied to Anglo-American intelligence. When his ministers publicly condemned the US bombing of Vietnam as “corrupt and barbaric”, a CIA station officer in Saigon said: “We were told the Australians might as well be regarded as North Vietnamese collaborators.”
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Read moreWhitlam demanded to know if and why the CIA was running a spy base at Pine Gap near Alice Springs, a giant vacuum cleaner which, as Edward Snowden revealed recently, allows the US to spy on everyone. “Try to screw us or bounce us,” the prime minister warned the US ambassador, “[and Pine Gap] will become a matter of contention”.Victor Marchetti, the CIA officer who had helped set up Pine Gap, later told me, “This threat to close Pine Gap caused apoplexy in the White House … a kind of Chile [coup] was set in motion.”Pine Gap’s top-secret messages were decoded by a CIA contractor, TRW. One of the decoders was Christopher Boyce, a young man troubled by the “deception and betrayal of an ally”. Boyce revealed that the CIA had infiltrated the Australian political and trade union elite and referred to the governor-general of Australia, Sir John Kerr, as “our man Kerr”.Kerr was not only the Queen’s man, he had longstanding ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was an enthusiastic member of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom, described by Jonathan Kwitny of the Wall Street Journal in his book, The Crimes of Patriots, as “an elite, invitation-only group … exposed in Congress as being founded, funded and generally run by the CIA”. The CIA “paid for Kerr’s travel, built his prestige … Kerr continued to go to the CIA for money”.When Whitlam was re-elected for a second term, in 1974, the White House sent Marshall Green to Canberra as ambassador. Green was an imperious, sinister figure who worked in the shadows of America’s “deep state”. Known as “the coupmaster”, he had played a central role in the 1965 coup against President Sukarno in Indonesia – which cost up to a million lives. One of his first speeches in Australia, to the Australian Institute of Directors, was described by an alarmed member of the audience as “an incitement to the country’s business leaders to rise against the government”.The Americans and British worked together. In 1975, Whitlam discovered that Britain’s MI6 was operating against his government. “The Brits were actually decoding secret messages coming into my foreign affairs office,” he said later. One of his ministers, Clyde Cameron, told me, “We knew MI6 was bugging cabinet meetings for the Americans.” In the 1980s, senior CIA officers revealed that the “Whitlam problem” had been discussed “with urgency” by the CIA’s director, William Colby, and the head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield. A deputy director of the CIA said: “Kerr did what he was told to do.”On 10 November 1975, Whitlam was shown a top-secret telex message sourced to Theodore Shackley, the notorious head of the CIA’s East Asia division, who had helped run the coup against Salvador Allende in Chile two years earlier.Shackley’s message was read to Whitlam. It said that the prime minister of Australia was a security risk in his own country. The day before, Kerr had visited the headquarters of the Defence Signals Directorate, Australia’s NSA, where he was briefed on the “security crisis”.On 11 November – the day Whitlam was to inform parliament about the secret CIA presence in Australia – he was summoned by Kerr. Invoking archaic vice-regal “reserve powers”, Kerr sacked the democratically elected prime minister. The “Whitlam problem” was solved, and Australian politics never recovered, nor the nation its true independence.•John Pilger’s investigation into the coup against Whitlam is described in full in his book, A Secret Country (Vintage), and in his documentary film, Other People’s Wars, which can be viewed on http://www.johnpilger.com/NTS Notes: Yes, the more you begin to read and understand our real history, the more you find out that everything that we have been "taught" about our history in the so called "history books" is nothing but pure unadulterated horse manure...Yes, Australia is as enslaved to the criminals in charge as every other nation is... We have all been living under the illusion of being "free" while actually being nothing more than pions for the criminals in charge...It is therefore so amazing to see how one man, Gough Whitlam, tried his best to free that nation from enslavement, and as shown was targeted for either assassination, or to be thrown out of office in a "coup"!It is amazing to find out a lot of the facts about what REALLY HAPPENED during that time in the mid 1970's in Australia, and how a true Aussie patriot who actually cared about Australia and its people was unceremoniously ousted in what was indeed a "coup".... Australia has never been the same since and is still enslaved to so many foreign criminal interests today....And speaking about my own nation, Canada.... I have some more reports coming soon about that heinous little snake in the grass Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whom the Canadian people were stupid enough to re-elect as our criminal Prime Minister just earlier this week.... People need to know the truths about that little SOB, and it is up to myself and others in the real truth movement to give them those truths... So stay tuned..More to comeNTS