Thursday 2 January 2014

Pine Gap: Australia's most secretive

location | News.com.au:

"LAST week, it was revealed that the Australian research facility Pine Gap might be indirectly responsible for US drone strikes which have killed Pakistani citizens."

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Govt keeping eye on Syria

fighters: Bishop | News.com.au:

"THE federal government is closely monitoring Australians travelling to Syria, after reports of some enlisting with a terrorist organisation to fight in the civil war."

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PERSONS OF INTEREST

a 20 minute taster.:




PERSONS OF INTEREST - a 20 minute taster. from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.



"PERSONS OF INTEREST - a 20 minute taster"

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Persons Of Interest - outakes #3 :

The former ASIO agent and Prime Minister Harold Holt. A strange connection.:




Persons Of Interest - outakes #3 : The former ASIO agent and Prime Minister Harold Holt. A strange connection. from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"Here, from the mouth of a former agent is the strange story of ASIO's attempts to find out what happened to Prime Minister Harold Holt, throwing a disturbing light onto their skills and methods."

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ASIO Vetting - an intro by Arthur Dent

formerly known as Albert Langer and Journalist Darce Cassidy:



ASIO Vetting - an intro by Arthur Dent formerly known as Albert Langer and Journalist Darce Cassidy from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"What Arthur has to say may seem a little shocking but it's how things work in the third world, in a revolutionary situation and here if the circumstances called for it. Its the reason people make straight for the files of the secret police when uprisings occur."

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Aussies join

new Syrian extremists | The Australian:

"AUSTRALIANS fighting in Syria are defecting to one of the world's most deadly terrorist groups, forcing Canberra to take urgent steps to deter future recruits and to punish those Australians already fighting there. During the past two months, ASIO is understood to have received intelligence of Australian fighters in Syria joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group responsible for summary executions and suicide bombings against civilians."

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Spies count

the cost:

"The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) may have made publicly available secret files opened on ''persons of interest'' during its Cold War on home-grown communism, but surveillance footage from that time is apparently not so easily accessed. Filmmaker Haydn Keenan, who made 1980s Australian cult movies Going Down and Pandemonium, scoured the ''darkened corners'' of the National Archives to find the astounding, disturbing and blackly amusing footage revealed in his four-part 2013 Walkley-nominated series, Persons of Interest."

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Muslim loses appeal

against ASIO ban | The Australian:

"A MAN with an "extremist interpretation of Islam" has lost his appeal against ASIO's assessment that he should be denied Australian citizenship because he was "likely to engage in activities prejudicial to security"."

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