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Australia further in the grip of the USA, with the Amazon data spy hub – paid for by Aussie tax-payers!

Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles was ecstatic as he announced the secret deal now organised for Australia to pay for Amazon to set up secret spy databanks, just as he was ecstatic about the government’s AUKUS deal for buying nuclear submarines from USA and UK.

It’s not as if the public knew about either of these decisions beforehand, (the AUKUS one being largely arranged with scandal-ridden consultancy PWC). It’s not as if these matters were discussed in Parliament. On both occasions, the government just did it.

Points that haven’t been addressed: 

Australian taxpayers again foot  the bill to an America private company

Amazon private staff will be running the operation – with access to the data?

The whole thing perpetrates the lie about the data being “in the cloud” – but  there is no “cloud”. The data will be in gigantic steel containers, set out on a large area.

The data containers will require massive amounts of electricity. ? supplied by nuclear power

The data containers will require massive amounts of cooling water, in this dry, water-short country.. 

The whole set up, just like the now-being expanded Pine Gap. will form a dangerous target for terrorists, or for enemies of the USA. 

Like Pine Gap, it is probable that Australian authorities will have limited access to the information. And as artificial intelligence is involved – who IS goig to be in control?

The whole set-up will be the servant of the Five Eyes, secret intelligence of five English-speaking countries, ( no trust in Europe, or any non-anglophone nation)   but controlled by the USA. 

The vast amount of tax-payer money going to all this means the money is not going to Australians’ health, welfare, education, environment, climate action –  in other words to the common good.

As the USA Supreme Court has just made the U.S. president effectively above the law – this secret deal with Amazon and the USA puts Australia more firmly in the grip of the USA –  (and God help us if Trump wins)

July 7, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, secrets,lies and civil liberties