8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#19377369 at 2023-08-17 19:23:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23797: Election Crime Bureau Edition
China deploys swarm of satellites to monitor military exercises in Australia
Hundreds of Chinese satellites are currently passing over Australia collecting intelligence on military training activities involving the United States and other regional partners.
Key points:
Three Chinese geostationary orbit satellites manoeuvred into position over northern Australia to monitor July's "Talisman Sabre" war games
Hundreds of smaller satellites are surveilling "Exercise Malabar", which involves warships from the US, India and Japan
Experts say Beijing has extraordinary capability to gather intelligence on Australian military operations
Commercial space data obtained by the ABC details the full scale of Beijing's surveillance on the recently completed "Exercise Talisman Sabre", as well as the "Exercise Malabar" naval drills now being held off Sydney.
In July, Canberra-based defence company EOS Space Systems tracked three Chinese geostationary orbit satellites manoeuvring into position below the equator to monitor the Talisman Sabre war games across northern Australia.
China's Shiyan 12-01 satellite was detected drifting westerly over the northern Australia region, while the Shijian-17 and Shijian-23 satellites were tracked drifting easterly to observe multiple areas where exercises were being conducted.
Since Exercise Malabar began on August 10, hundreds of much smaller low-orbit satellites (LEOs) have also been tracked completing thousands of flights at much lower altitudes over the Australian continent, focusing on the activity of warships around Sydney Harbour.
"We've been collecting optical surveillance data on Earth observing Chinese satellites during the Talisman Sabre and Malabar exercises and what that's showing is quite a lot of activity surveying the ground during those events," James Bennett from EOS Space Systems said.
"We've seen over 300 satellites surveying ground-based activities and the number of overflights is over 3,000 since the start of the Malabar exercise centred around the Sydney Harbour bay area," Dr Bennett added.
Exercise Malabar involves joint naval exercises between Australia and warships from the United States, India and Japan.
Space is considered an increasingly important domain for modern war-fighting operations across the globe, with Australia's recent Defence Strategic Review categorising it as a key element of a more integrated force.
The data on China's recent space activity was collected using telescopes stationed outside Canberra and at Learmonth in Western Australia, which was then analysed by EOS staff to precisely identify the satellites and their flight paths.
Dr Bennett said the large number of geostationary and low-orbit Chinese satellites currently above Australia is providing Beijing with extremely detailed and "persistent observation" of what is occurring on the mainland and offshore.
"They can glean military intelligence on what the capabilities and equipment are, as well as processes of ground military activities; they can use this to drive a fair bit of intelligence on military operations in Australia."
The Defence Department has declined to give details on how it was monitoring and mitigating any risks posed by the substantial Chinese satellite activity over Australia during what it describes as "well-publicised, complex war-fighting exercises".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-18/china-deploys-swarm-of-satellites-to-monitor-military-australia/102742594
#14344080 at 2021-08-13 13:59:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18146: Cyber Symposium All Nighter Summary Edition
>>14344044
Thank you.
Anon, as I have posted before;
James Bennett was VP under George w Bush in the Tom Clancy books. (essentially Cheney) His code name was Wrangler.
There was a dog comm recently for Wrangler, which I said was probably Cheney's death announcement.
#10872021 at 2020-10-01 18:33:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13915: The Lion Has Woke Edition
"Hong Kong Is China" - NYT Gives Communist Party "Free PR" With Op-Ed By Pro-Beijing Lawmaker
Publishing an editorial by a sitting US Senator is enough to force the top editor of the NYT's Opinion section to quit their jobs in disgrace, after the paper's "woke" reporting staff - who can't possibly fathom why trust in their "reporting" has eroded to such a profound degree - rebelled, and condemned the decision to publish the views of Sen. Tom Cotton a bridge too far. One reporter even claimed that the decision to publish the editorial put the lives of black reporters in danger. Asked to explain how, the reporter offered some nonsense about systemic racism.
The NYT's opinion page has published editorials penned by Hitler during the run-up to WWII, and by members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. It's part of the Gray Lady's commitment to bring the views of all pertinent people and political groups to the NYT's readers without editorial slant. It's an important opportunity for these influential parties to express themselves in their own words. Adding a delicious irony to the scandal, it was revealed after James Bennett quit the NYT that he and his editors actually solicited Sen. Cotton to write the editorial.
Now, in the latest example of how the NYT's sanctimonious, "woke" moralizing only applies to the domestic political enemies of its Democratic readers and supporters, the NYT has published an editorial from a member of Hong Kong's executive council arguing that - like it or not - Hong Kong belongs to Beijing.
Of course, millions of Hong Kongers marched against Beijing's crackdown, and in the months since, Beijing has forced through a National Security law essentially robbing the city-state - once seen as the gateway to the mainland - of the political freedoms guaranteed by the "Basic Law", the Constitution created by the British, which is legally the law of the land in Hong Kong until 2047, when China assumes complete control of the territory.
In the editorial, Regina Ip, a pro-Beijing legislator on the city's executive council, argued that Hong Kongers were craving stability when Beijing stepped in to restore calm.
At the end of the editorial, the author offers Hong Kong a kind of compromise: accepting its new status as "the freest and most international city" in China. To quote the comedian John Mulaney, that's like being the smartest horse.
Read the full editorial below:
No amount of outcry, condemnation or sanctions over the Chinese government's purported encroachment in Hong Kong's affairs will alter the fact that Hong Kong is part of China and that its destiny is intertwined with the mainland's.
Hong Kong has been rocked by a series of crises after the eruption of protests last year over a proposed bill (long since withdrawn) that would have allowed the extradition of some suspects in criminal cases to mainland China.
Hong Kongers who wanted the city promptly to return to peace thought the authorities' handling of the situation, which dragged on for months and grew more and more violent, was incompetent. For other locals, many outsiders and apparently much of the global media, a people's legitimate quest for more democracy was being suppressed.
Something had to be done, and the Chinese authorities did it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hong-kong-china-nyt-gives-communist-party-free-pr-op-ed-pro-beijing-lawmaker
#9533601 at 2020-06-08 15:53:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12202: Troops Outa Germany USA (1) Cabal BTF(0) Edition
A New York Times claim that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called for using military force against protesters was quietly altered after criticism from the senator.
Cotton's recent op-ed in the paper calling for using federal troops to quell riots drew criticism from some readers, leading to the resignation of the editorial page editor. In the piece, Cotton made clear he was proposing using the military against rioters.
"A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn't be confused with bands of miscreants," Cotton wrote in the opinion piece.
But the New York Times has multiple times, including in an article about the resignation, claimed Cotton called "for military force against protesters."
"This is false and offensive. I called for using military force as a backup-only if police are overwhelmed-to stop riots, not to be used against protesters," Cotton said in a statement on Sunday.
By Monday morning, the piece was stealth edited, a term referring to a quiet edit that isn't marked with an editor's note.
The article now states that Cotton called "for a military response to civic unrest."
There is no editor's note or correction.
A spokeswoman for the paper didn't respond to a request for comment.
A tweet containing the original lede is still live.
Cotton's perspective, held by a majority of voters in a recent poll (pdf), was castigated by a large set of New York Times reporters, culminating in the ouster of James Bennett, the op-ed editor.
Katie Kingsbury, a deputy editorial page editor, is now the acting editorial page editor through the November election.
In a memo to staffers over the weekend, she said that anyone who sees "any piece of Opinion journalism-including headlines or social posts or photos or you name it-that gives you the slightest pause, please call or text me immediately.
Cotton has said he stands by his opinion piece.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-york-times-stealth-edits-article-after-cotton-criticism_3380592.html
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (2)
#13827063 at 2021-06-04 08:48:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition
>>13819231
Former ALP official and Catholic priest jailed for 17 years over child abuse tourism
Jenny Noyes - June 4, 2021
A former NSW Labor Party official and priest who abused boys on "abhorrent" child sex tourism trips in south-east Asia, during which he also produced abuse images, has been jailed for 17 years.
Peter Andrew Hansen pleaded guilty in February to 31 charges, including eight counts of engaging in sexual intercourse with children under 16 outside Australia, and 20 counts of producing child abuse material.
In addition to the Commonwealth offences relating to the production of child abuse material in Asia, the 31 charges include two counts of the NSW offence of possessing child abuse material. Hansen received a separate sentence for those counts of four years and three months, to be served concurrently with his 17-year sentence for the Commonwealth offences and backdated to his 2018 arrest at Sydney airport.
From 2014 until his arrest, Hansen used Facebook and an encrypted instant message program called Brosix to connect with fixers and other consumers of child abuse material to discuss and share the material and arrange meetings with young boys in the Philippines and Vietnam.
In messages from October 2016, revealed in court documents, Hansen complains to a user called 'Maliboy Hornbag' about a "dud" experience in Cebu, and discusses plans for an upcoming "nude party", including his location requirements - "high wall", "locked gate", "caretaker not onsite".
Hansen says "I could have 5-8 in the house, we could lock the doors and pull the curtains".
He tells Maliboy Hornbag he hoped to "keep the camera busy" on the trip and describes one small boy as a "sucker".
On November 5, Hansen arrived in the Philippines and met with his fixer, 34-year-old Filipino national Joey Donozo, with whom he communicated on Facebook.
Donozo took photographs of local boys in Cebu under the pretence of a modelling shoot and would send them to Hansen, who would tell him which ones he liked and wanted to meet. Hansen would pay Donozo the equivalent of $8 AUD each time he brought children to his hostel.
On November 11, Donozo met with 11 boys and took them to a rented villa where Hansen was waiting with gifts of polo shirts and swimming shorts, which he instructed them to change into from their school uniforms. Hansen took several photos of the boys while clothed before they were instructed to go to his room and undress.
Hansen, then in his underwear, took further photos of the boys as he instructed them to remove their clothing. He took photos of them in various sexual poses before instructing them to stand in a line. He then performed sex acts on each boy.
Prior to his arrest, Hansen had been the president of Labor's Cabramatta branch. He had also run as a Labor candidate in the 2016 Fairfield Council election. He was a Catholic priest in Melbourne from 1996 until early 2011 and, before that, a lawyer.
In his sentencing remarks in the NSW District Court on Friday, Judge James Bennett said Hansen's "abhorrent conduct" included a high level of planning and organisation.
He said he was not persuaded that the offender was "contrite" in his evidence, that he "had the capacity for manipulation" and sought to deflect responsibility by repeatedly using the term "compulsion" to explain away his "prolific and prolonged" conduct.
The remorse Hansen expressed was "more concerned with his own predicament" than what he had done to the children, Judge Bennett said, adding it "beggars belief" that Hansen said he did not appreciate the extent of the harm to his victims until he read their statements.
"Protecting children from such behaviour is important," Judge Bennett said. "These images can be stored anywhere and published anywhere in the world for many years. Each time the victims are revictimised by such occurrences."
Appearing in court via video link, Hansen did not react as Judge Bennett read out his sentence.
He will be eligible for parole in October 2032.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/former-alp-official-and-catholic-priest-jailed-for-17-years-over-child-abuse-tourism-20210326-p57e8y.html
#13819231 at 2021-06-03 08:09:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition
Ex-priest and Labor Party figure Peter Andrew Hansen faces sentencing for possessing child abuse material
HEATH PARKES-HUPTON - JUNE 3, 2021
WARNING: Disturbing content
An ex-Sydney Labor Party figure and Catholic priest told a mystery friend he liked to "keep the camera busy" as he sexually exploited young boys while on depraved holidays in Southeast Asia.
Peter Andrew Hansen faces sentence in the NSW District Court after pleading guilty to 31 charges, including sexual intercourse with a child and 15 counts of producing child abuse material, after his vile work was uncovered in 2018.
The former lawyer confessed to filming and assaulting young boys aged between 10 and 14 for his own sexual gratification while overseas, with the earliest of his raft of offences coming in 2014.
On Thursday the court was told Hansen, now 63, sexually abused nine different children and photographed and filmed several others during trips to Vietnam and the Philippines over four years.
Judge James Bennett read perverted online exchanges Hansen had with a person dubbed "Maliboy Hornbag", during which they rated their sick images and complained of the prices for meeting up with kids.
In one exchange Hansen, the Labor Party's former Cabramatta branch president, sent two pictures of naked boys to the mystery man and asked, "Did you like the two in the garden?"
The one-time Fairfield Council candidate went on to say he "hope(d) to keep the camera busy" during his next meeting with children.
"I am still thinking how I can milk the max out of my poolside weekend," Hansen wrote.
Hansen also discussed how much he paid to spend time with the boys, revealing that he bought them "stunning" striped Bonds underpants as gifts from Woolworths.
"Most get 250/300 (pesos) and a gift plus an outing and food," he said.
"Outstanding performers and those I really like I might pump up to 500 but that's the absolute limit."
In another message he bragged that his position as a "businessman" meant the frequent trips to Asia would not be seen as suspicious.
Judge Bennett said the "abhorrent nature of the commentary" in the messages "illuminate the attitude of the offender ... toward the egregious misconduct on which he is to be sentenced here today".
The court was told Hansen organised for boys to be sent to the hotels where he was staying. He would let them swim in the pool before taking them to his room to photograph and perform sex acts on the children.
Judge Bennett, reading the agreed facts tendered to the court, said Hansen "talked dirty" to at least one of his victims as he sexually assaulted the boy.
Hansen was arrested on his arrival from Singapore into Sydney on October 6, 2018, after Australian authorities were tipped off about his predatory conduct.
Among the 100,000 files Australian Federal Police discovered on his electronic devices were videos and pictures of young boys lying naked on beds or in bathtubs, sometimes in groups or masturbating.
Some of the material had been downloaded as early as 2008 and as recently as 2018. It was all meticulously filed under categories specifying where the material was filmed, what child was shown and acts depicted.
At a sentencing hearing in February, Hansen told the court he was "ashamed" of himself, saying he had fallen short of his own standards.
"I didn't only exploit their age, I exploited the fact they came from a poor Asian country," he said.
Hansen, who has been in custody since his arrest, served as a Catholic priest in the Melbourne Archdiocese between 1996 and 2011.
Hansen's sentencing continues.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/expriest-and-labor-party-figure-peter-andrew-hansen-faces-sentencing-for-possessing-child-abuse-material/news-story/94b9d78d332f8ebad845ef8a65e7ae4d