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Skynet Down Under@ A Glance.

The Awarua Satellite Ground Station originally opened in January 2009, run by Rob Oneil (PHOTO HOLDING THE AWARD). Oneil is a friend of Green Candidate Dave Kennedy which I found out after he assured me the Centre had nothing to do with miliary operations because his friend said so. The Green in opposition are enow call for a one-year moratorium – which frankly based on their record for rolling over on the TPPA, Five Mass security laws, once in power I skeptical of.


Ditto NZ First considering their close ties to the US Defense Department.

Currently undergoing a major new $4.55 million expansion project that began construction in late June 2026 and is scheduled for completion in early 2027, The one dome present in 2009 when I warned Dave Kennedy is now 21 domes.

2026 today Colins announced a program to drive Artificial Intelligence (AI) uptake among New Zealand businesses. “The AI Activator will unlock the potential of AI for New Zealand businesses through a range of support, including access to AI research experts, technical assistance, AI tools and resources, as well as options for funding and grants”.

Judith Collin Science, Innovation and Technology Minister & Defense Minister visit Southland AI center. The CEO of SpaceOps New Zealand based in Southland. He was awarded the first-ever Prime Minister’s Space Prize for Professional Excellence ($100,000). He received the award from Collins for his pioneering work building satellite ground-station infrastructure at the Awarua Satellite Ground Station in Southland

More data than identified mystery clients. But we do know Mercury Energy own 12.5 shares. Why wouldn’t they when this is going to push power price sky high.

Able to mysteriously buy up & get ministerial approval.

Linked to local expanding (militarized) space industry Great South (the Southland regional development agency) has historically backed and nested both digital/data infrastructure planning—such as the Datagrid AI data center in Makarewa—and managed SpaceOps NZ (Space Operations New Zealand) as a core asset.

Large-scale digital infrastructure proposals in Southland—including Datagrid’s 280-megawatt AI facility—coordinate with regional high-capacity network and submarine cable concepts (such as proposals linking the deep south to international networks) that also benefit high-speed telemetry routing for satellite operations

Security is “Five Eyes” compatible. Explicitly highlight New Zealand’s Five Eyes alignment as a major selling point for global tech investors….who-ever they are Stating It provides a trusted, legally secure, and stable alternative for international data flows across the Asia-Pacific

Same company military ties acknowledged in Australia. Makarewa is fundamentally tethered to Australia through direct physical telecom infrastructure, regional energy comparisons, and trans-Tasman investment structures. 540 Tbps high-capacity fibre loop connecting Southland directly to major interception and data hubs in Sydney and Melbourne—provides the physical conduit needed to transfer immense workloads between New Zealand and Australia. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and New Zealand’s Space Squadron 62 rely heavily on real-time trans-Tasman data pipelines to share satellite tracking telemetry and threat monitoring. Modern Australian military operations depend heavily on AI models for automated satellite image analysis, naval tracking, and predictive drone warfare. The Tasman Ring allows these massive data packages to be collected at regional installations (like Southland’s Awarua Satellite Ground Station), processed locally in Makarewa’s cool-climate facility, and instantly routed to defence hubs across the Tasman

Comes as New Zealand begs to be part of Donald Trump’s AI cyber command. Donald Trump’s administration is directly driving New Zealand’s integration into AI-powered warfare through newly launched Pentagon initiatives, sweeping national security directives, and multi-lateral framework. New Zealand has officially partnered with the US Department of Defense on Project Arcadia, a fast-tracked military initiative launched out of Washington. The project acts as a shared, AI-enabled battlefield command network designed to unify data processing across all military domains—air, sea, land, cyber, and space.

Gee I wonder why they are being built.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF EYE SPY OR DID I.

I’m not sure which is more amusing that the Russian don’t get foreign intelligence is not the perimeter of the NZSIS. Or that the NZ media are so ignorant of how intelligence agency works in our country they also don’t get why this unlikely

EAB handle foreign intelligence usually from a desk in Wellington Treasury occasionally as an offshore embassy attache.

Meaning if this alleged spy reached out to the NZSIS it’s because he too doesn’t know how our services work. And he simply found them on the internet meaning their intel probably 2nd rate.

Possibly the Russians are trying to give someone some kind of credibility by establishing them street gratas. And if some one really did pay for intel it sure as hell wasnt the NZSIS. But rather some one wanting to put plausibility between them and that unnamed agency.

When spy craft is carried out on offshore soil standard jurisdiction is EAB for analytical diplomatic work and ‘the boys’ for dirty work.

The boys are usually ex Special Forces or such who have served on 2ndment to other Five Eyes intelligence nations. They won’t be paid by NZ govt directly but are usually embedded in NZ Corporations in return for government contracts. The vast majority of their work is done for allied intelligence services to provide plausible deniability. In State Secrets my primary source was CASPER a former NZSAS solider seconed to the Americans during the Vietnam war. During the Vietnam War, New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) troops—along with wider Kiwi infantry forces—were dubbed the “Faceless 26 Ghost Unit” or “Grey Ghosts” because of their secretive identities, exceptional jungle tracking skills, and ability to move unseen through the terrain. 68 Men out of 3500.

My guess this is ‘tit for tat’ for New zealand charging a NZ solider and the idea we got one of ‘theirs’ so they one of us and then they trade this no nothing for some one they actually want.

ANOTHER ‘STATE SECRET’ VINDICATED

— The KGB tried to penetrate government systems and infiltrate the ruling Labour Party during the Cold War, former prime minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer has revealed in 2020 “In an interview for The Service, a new RNZ podcast which explores Cold War espionage in New Zealand, Palmer said the Russian spy agency was “extremely active” and “had a full court press going” here from the mid-1980s until the collapse of the Soviet Union, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990.”

Really? Because I am pretty sure I said the same thing in 1999, only for Labour to claim this was a conspiracy theory and TVNZ declined the offer for us to debate whoever they picked.

My book, a New Zealand best seller, State Secrets states noted on page 300 “CASPER’s story was not the first time I had heard allegations tying Māori activism to the world of espionage. In 1991 during Operation Ivanhoe, I was serving on attachment to
Force Intelligence group, a Christchurch-based counterintelligence unit. A Military Intelligence officer reported that, according to his SIS contacts, the expulsion of Soviet diplomat (who was probably as stated a KGB agent) Sergei Budnik had not resulted from the KGB agent’s involvement in financing the SUP via Maori activist Syd Jackson, as had been hinted in media reports at this time. The real reason lay in the fact that Budnik had for two years been running an agent placed within the Labour Government’s own caucus – a person with Cabinet access. It is alleged that the MP was involved in an illicit affair, and the Soviets found out about it. Under threat of exposure, the KGB managed to run the Labour MP for two years before the SIS discovered what was happening. Once the treason was illuminated, the SIS ordered the MP to continue their relationship with the KGB but to only give them the information that the SIS provided. The MP had no choice but to become a double agent, until orders finally came from the Prime Minister’s office to close the operation down”.

Geoffrey Palmer stated in 2020 “It was difficult because you often knew the people whose warrants you were attending to and you had certain obligations. You couldn’t disclose who they were or what they had been alleged to have done.”

Former SIS officer Kitt Bennetts, who worked on the Russia desk for the New Zealand security intelligence agency in the 1970s and 1980s, said the KGB did have some success infiltrating the Labour Party. “I think they were successful to some degree“. Former SIS officer said Bennetts said some Labor MPs came forward to tell the SIS they had been approached by the KGB. No wonder the lights where on at the Prime Minister office in the wee hours of the morning on the day I published State Secrets. Once again my 1999 book keeps getting vinidcated by unfolding events.

Toxic War & Poisoned Truths

A former elected politician Ihor Mosiychu, previously subject to assassination by state services, reports US Deplete Uranium rounds (DU) stored in Lyiv. That on July 7, 2026, a missile struck targeting a logistics hub in the Kyiv region, with such munition, leading to a catastrophic explosion in the city of Vyshnev. The attack was spreading radiation through out the urban area. July 8 2026.

‘Fact’ checkers using information from the same agency (now blamed for Nord Stream by Germany and independent insurance investigators), instantly called that claim fake news.

This withstanding that the public was told radiation levels remained entirely normal. Only to then be toldjust weeks later that Russia was now using uranium weapons detectable radiation spikes.

For example, you have ‘Russia attacked an entire region with a deadly weapon for the first time: the consequences will be felt for years’

July 23, 2026, 1:55 PM Elena Klimenko experts identified background radiation levels 80 times higher than natural norms. Counterintelligence and investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine have uncovered new ‘evidence’ of Russia’s use of depleted uranium munitions during attacks on Ukrainian territory.

According to these intelligence service, dangerous components were found in Geran-2 attack drones, which the occupiers used to shell the Chernihiv region between April and June 2026. The state led investigation, accepted as truth by the media previously denying a DU triggered contamination, revealed that Russian troops adapted R-60M missiles for use on drones, and their warheads contain radioactive elements. During the inspection of the drone crash sites and the radiological examination of their warheads, SBU investigators, together with specialists from the State Emergency Service, recorded a significant excess of background radiation levels.

The driving distance from Chernihiv to the city of Vyshneve (located in Kyiv Oblast) is approximately 163 KM163Km a 2 hours’ drive.

The Russians are using DU in missiles stories all sourced back to Ukraine state media outnumbers the orginal DU arms depot explosion claims about 20 to one.

However, its increasingly becoming clear ammunition was indeed stored there illegally.

And the actual facts include a criminal investigation launched into the illegal depot, with the firing of several senior personal, for this illegal constructed unoffical depot.

While the reports, denying DU depot was hit, in their rush to downplay the report have also accidentally confirmed that yes DU, for both Challengers and Abraham tanks, have been sent to Ukraine (the breadbasket of the world) and have done so since 2023.

That’s the same year a train derailed in East Palestine sending up a green mushroom cloud covering six states. Mainstream media failed to state where the train came from and where it was going and what was on board. With the exception of a few articles that stated it was carrying Vinyl Chloride. But there was little curiosity on what the chemical Vinyl Chloride was used for.

And no one mentioned that Vinyl Chloride actually a byproduct in the cleanup process of depleted uranium used at the near by at the Paducah, Kentucky, uranium enrichment plant and at a Portsmouth site Ohio that houses a specialized Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Facility.

“The permeable treatment barrier technology is quite new, and the potential for its
success at the Paducah site is uncertain. The success of the barrier depends on
numerous factors, including the rate of groundwater flow, the length of time the water
resides in the treatment zone, the level of contamination, and the permeability of the
barrier compared to that of the surrounding geologic structure. If groundwater flows too
quickly through the barrier and thus spends too little time in the treatment zone, the iron
filings might not have time to fully treat the trichloroethene. In that case, the actions of
the barrier’s treatment zone could change the contaminant to vinyl chloride, which is more toxic than trichloroethene. Furthermore, it is uncertain how long the other
principal contaminant, technetium-99, will adhere to the iron filings in the barrier –. ‘NUCLEAR WASTE
CLEANUP -DOE’s Cleanup Plan for the Paducah, KentuckyUnited States General Accounting Office
GAO Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate June 27 2000.

Decades of operational maintenance at the facility used chlorinated degreasing solvents like trichloroethylene (TCE). As TCE breaks down naturally in the local groundwater aquifer over time, it degrades into vinyl chloride. Vinyl Chloride is deemed eve more toxin than depleted uranium. It is like the Cat in the Hat Story where attempts to wipe away a small stain create an even bigger mess.

Ironically at the same site the U.S. Department of Energy has announced a massive $100 billion private investment to build a high-capacity AI data center and energy campus on the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site in Kentucky as noted in the Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting as the American activist also warns about the impact to food and water caused by the heavy metals also used in AI data centres.

Two airplanes that crashed oin Ohio the same week as the East Palestine train crash are also worth mentioning.

One was killed five environmental field investigators flying to Ohio and in the second case an Ohio Fire Fighter with a background in geospatial data and drones of the same variety known to have be used at the train site — which can be used to detect both chemical and radioactive materials. His pilot, Eric Sheever, obituary photo shows a man in dark glasses wearing a hat with the known logo of CIA owned private charter service.

In August Trump announced plans to expand production of DU at Ohio site.

Meanwhile the UK Defence Ministry, in the rush to downplay the impact of DU used scientist who had previously stated it was very hazardous.

And the official report flies in the face of Harvard academic findings. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published a 1991 report indicating that deploying depleted uranium in the Gulf War could have caused 500,000 cancer deaths.

The causes & effects of Depleted Uranium munitions to soil and crops, causing cancers, diseases DNA damage and Genetic mutations, to future irradiated generations of contaminated organisms and Children.

In Iraq child mortality rates would explode sky high. Cities like Fallujah recorded unprecedented rates of infant deformities—including missing limbs, congenital heart disease, and severe neurological impairments—following heavy 2004 military operation. Research analyzing biological samples (such as hair and teeth) from children and parents near former military sites found elevated levels of toxic heavy metals like uranium and thorium. If the results of Iraq are anything to go by expect cancer rates to explode in Europe, then worldwide, as contamination of our food supply goes global.

And Iraq not a sole example of this willingingness to use forever metal that keep killng long after the war is over and the soliders have gone home.

In 1999, NATO used uranium ammunition during the Kosovo War.

Numerous soldiers subsequently developed cancer, and some were awarded compensation. In Kosovo, the soil remains poisonous too this day.

Approximately 500 military personnel successfully sued the state of Italy. The court awarded him compensation. The deployment of DU to the Balkans was part of the expansion of NATO Eastward in 1999 which breached the promise made to Russia during the Perestroika affair when US Secretary James baker stated NATO would not expand East “one inch”.

Since 911 we have had numerous attacks on investigative reporting and independent reporting as the drums of war promiting the goals of the Project for A New American Century which has driven the NATO Expansion since Clinton. An organistion and policy which rarely get mentioned by either the Neo Conservtive and their Neoliberal allies who began expanding NATO interest east long before Russia drew it a line in the sand in 2022. An event covered in depth by socialist leaning journalists, such as John Pilger, before the sound bites of Russia bad began spewing from military industrial complex embedded coprate media playing at progressive liberalism.

As early as 2014, Pilger presciently warned about the dangers of the U.S. and NATO’s involvement in Ukraine. In a 2014 article in The Guardian titled “In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia”, Pilger exposed how fascist forces were being unleashed by the U.S. and EU in Ukraine, tearing the country apart.

He wrote that “we in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler” during World War II. Pilger described how the U.S. had orchestrated the 2014 coup against Ukraine’s democratically elected government, and was now attacking ethnic Russians in Ukraine. View The Guardian would later leave out when ‘honouring’ Pilger following his death in 2023.

Also omittted Pilger reference to his 2000 document Paying the Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq which went into the logic of using Depleted Uranium “What the West would ideally like… is another Saddam Hussein.” Sanctions also justify the huge US military presence in the Gulf, as Nato expands east, viewing a vast new oil protectorate stretching from Turkey to the Caucasus. Bombing and sanctions are ideal for policing this new order: a strategy the president of the American Physicians for Human Rights calls “Bomb Now, Die Later”. The perpetrators ought not be allowed to get away with this in our name: for the sake of the children of Iraq, and all the Iraqs to come”.

Pleas ignored as journalism increasingly becomes propaganda that justify mechanised msss murder.

From Total Information Awareness (the fore runner to Palantir and the AI extension of Regan’s Rex 84 – logo right), the arrest detainment of Julian Assange’s, the exile of Edward Snowden, to even the NZDF calling investigative reporters “subversives”, journalism is in danger of letting the military industrial complex-controlled algorithm MK Ulta us silly, as they achieve what the Pentagon calls Information Dominance.

Dont think New Zealand’s immune. Radio New Zealand even fired a reporter in 2023 not for reporting fake news but simply attempting to report the war by including both sides perspective.

Apparently fair and balanced coverage is not a thing anymore.

The blind subservience to the state war machine must cease and desist.

Enough of what New Zealand Pulitzer winner Peter Arnet called the CNN effect – were reporting becomes part of the war propaganda effort. The adherence and education of proven methodology regarding honest, reliable independent news reporting must renew.

Because right now the media landscape is as toxic as a burning weapons depot in Kyiv.

THE BIG BANG THEORY@ A Glance.

Things look noisy and shaky in the Pacific Rim, have not seen anything like this since the 2004 Boxing date Tsunami in Indonesia. No actual conclusion and all that can really be said is the meteorite activity with such sonic booms is unusual in that they normally only occur around eight tie year around the world. Whereas we have seen over sixteen sighting in six weeks clustered near Alaska NW USA Massachusetts SE and lower SW Pacific New Zealand with unusual seismic activity clustering around US military facilities or strategic locations in Cuba Iran.

December 18, 2025, meteorite hits moon.

Meteorite with sonic boom seen NZ wide January 31, 2026.

Meteorite with sonic boom seen NZ Vancouver Alaska March 5, 2026 — Meteorite with sonic boom seen over Portland Vancouver March 23, 2026 — Meteorite with sonic boom seen over California March 27, 2026, same time as missile tested in Vandenberg Airforce Base after special cargo delivered via NZ Fiji from Rocket Lab.

Aust Syd May 21, 2026, multi meteorite sighted — May 26, 2026, Philippine same time lightening explodes upwards from Mayon Volcano. Meteorite with sonic boom seen over Boston May 31, 2026.

Meteorite with sonic boom seen over NE USA Kent NY Ohio June 2, 2026 – Meteorite with sonic boom seen over NE USA (Boston Cape Cod submarine base) June 23, 2026

Meteorite with sonic boom seen over Punjab NE India July 18, 2026 — Boston (Cape Cod Atlantic) July 28 2026 — Mass Dolphin stranding Cape Cod July 28

NZ wide meteorite with sonic boom spotted July 28, 2026.

NZ wide meteorite spotted with sonic boom July 29, 2026.

NZ wide meteorite spotted with sonic boom July 30, 2026.

Quakes

17 quakes 3+ Area 51Nevada April 29/30

4.3 May 26, 2026, Philippines as same moment volcano lightening occurred.

5.0 Iran Gulf of Hormuz a few hours before 6.0 Cuba quake June 8, 2026

7.2 and 7,5 24 June 2026, two powerful strike‑slip earthquakes struck northwestern and central Venezuela in rapid succession striking as sky light up with red light and sonic booms.

5.0 10 km struck The Anau June 26, 2026.

July 24, 2026, a wildfire breaks out at Area 51 in Lincoln County, NV, has spread over 13,500 acres, according to the Bureau of Land Management.

5.7 10 Km Iran July 22, 2026 — 5.0 10km Texas Pan Handle July 23, 2026. The Pan Handle sits just across the line at Cannon Air Force Base sits in Clovis, New Mexico, right on the western edge of the Llano Estacado high plains, just across the state line [1, 2]

The home of 27th Special Operations Wing (27 SOW) also known as “The Steadfast Line”. Jurisdiction of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) which activated at the base on 1 October 2007. Executes specialized and contingency operations using advanced aircraft, tactics to infiltrate, ex filtrate and resupply special operations forces (SOF) and provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and close air support in support of SOF operations.

Japan 7.5 earthquake, 10 KM deep, as sonic boom and lightening reported July 26, 2026.

NI 5.9 July 26 in New Zealand North Island in a spot where an earthquake has never occurred — 5.4 Fiji PNG July 26, 2026 — 5.6 10 km deep Te Anau July 26, 2026.

4.2 July 28, 2026, Clear Lake California same day as meteorite in Boston (Atlantic) — Meteorite with sonic boom sighted over New Zealand same day mass Dolphin stranding (largest ever) occurs Cape Cod July 28, 2026 — July 28- 29 2026 16 magnitude 5+ earthquakes past 48 hours throughout the Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomons region. —- July 29, 2026, 3.9 magnitude earthquake caused by an experimental explosion’ has been detected off the coast of Florida, nearly two weeks after a similar event occurred in the same spot on July 16, 2026.