As the Cosmos-482 station is about to re-enter earth’s atmosphere and burn up over Australia, I thought it might be a good opportunity to wish that piece of space junk well in a fight that even Australia, the nation, once lost.
Some have said that this junk may come down dangerously close to the Murchison Radio Observatory in Western Australia. Others say it could hit the US-operated global mass-surveillance facility at Pine Gap, located roughly in the center of Australia, striking a heavy blow against global fascism that even the Australian Prime Minister in the 70s could not.
In the mid-1970’s Gough Whitlam was the popular left-leaning elected leader of Australia. As soon as Whitlam took office, one of his first acts was to remove all remaining Australian troops from Vietnam and elsewhere, which of course made the American state quite angry. He also planned to reveal the details of the Pine Gap facility to the Australian people, and was moving towards cancelling their lease to use the land, but just before he could do that a Governor-General and CIA-linked official named John Kerr invoked a monarchy-era rule that allowed him to remove Whitlam, the popular elected Prime Minister of Australia, from the office.
Whitlam also criticized the CIA and closed a secret joint US/AUS facility in Chile, which was created to help oust democratically elected president Salvador Allende, leading to Augusto Pinochet’s bloody totalitarian regime.
Wait — wasn’t there another famous, well-known leader of a major country who ran afoul of the CIA and US DoD after trying to move away from wars and cold war? Who was that again? Was it the guy who “…had come to realise that his military hardliners were a greater threat than his arch-enemy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.”?, just before his assassination?
So anyway — back to comrade ‘Cosmos-482’ — here’s to reentry physics being more anti-fascist than John Kerr! 😂 😂 Since we have no control over our ridiculous, late-stage, increasingly fascist and insane governments or their endless offensive military operations, perhaps something from outside the planet’s atmosphere will do it.
(yeah, I know Pine Gap is like 1000 miles away from Murchison Radio Observatory.)
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