Category Archives: corruption

Australia’s captive regulators are paper tigers: The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS)

Posted on December 4, 2014 by mininganalystnow

Contents Overview – Catch 22……………….1 What kind of oversight system exists under IGIS’s watch?…….. 3 Five nations: Five-Eyes – a dismal case of oversight failure………….. 5 A personal account: the nightmare of dealing with IGIS. ……………..7 Fear and favours: ASIO, … Continue reading →

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Hoover, the NSA and the Art of Blackmail

Posted on November 12, 2014 by mininganalystnow

Contents The Banyan Tree and Realpolitik. 1 Who really runs America?. 1 Hoovers’ legacy: establishing the tools of a police state. 3 Leaks and Power 3 Privacy and Power 4 The Banyan Tree and Realpolitik Who really runs America? The … Continue reading →

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A new model of government: The West pivots towards authoritarian control for economic security.

Posted on November 8, 2014 by mininganalystnow

   Contents Introduction: the slow death of democracy.. 2 Australia: A US test market for authoritarian conversion?.. 5 The US is no Longer a “Functioning Democracy”. 8 Who are “They”?.. 11 Hoovers’ legacy: taking the US towards a police state.. … Continue reading →

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Reports of eye witness accounts of Freeport human rights abuses

Posted on October 14, 2014 by mininganalystnow

Freeport, by its own account, has co-operated with, financed and supported the Indonesian military in West Papua. More disturbing, there have been multiple eye witness reports of Freeport security taking direct part in human rights abuses in the past, with … Continue reading →

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My experience with the media – targeting legislators and officials

Posted on October 13, 2014 by mininganalystnow

  Contents Overview….p1 A personal account: meetings with the Fourth Estate…p2 The media and Elected Representatives…..p3 Reprisals against my Sydney MP Tanya Plibersek…..p4 Threats to the Commonwealth attorney general’s office…..p5 Former Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, MP…..p7 First meeting with Ruddock … Continue reading →

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Australia’s tryst with tyranny: ASIO hatchet jobs on politicians.

Posted on September 29, 2014 by mininganalystnow

Contents – Australia’s curious case of Ross Cameron, MP (page 1) – The government’s lawyers weigh in on how elected representatives ought to behave: (page 3) – Wikileaks Party, Professor Keane, ASIO and the September 2013 Australian federal election. (page … Continue reading →

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Wikileaks Party, ASIO and the September 2013 Australian federal election

Posted on July 30, 2014 by mininganalystnow

I attended a presentation by Professor John Keane (Director, Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at Sydney University) at the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) in Sydney 19 November 2013. The title of his presentation was “People Power in … Continue reading →

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FBI targets Wall Street analyst after report on US mining company Freeport McMoran

Posted on July 19, 2014 by mininganalystnow

I left the USA in 1999, a political refugee after a period of intense FBI persecution. Before my exodus, I was a young mining analyst working on Wall Street for British investment bank for SG Warburg (now part of UBS). … Continue reading →

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The FBX Blog: The Unfolding Story [updated 27 March 2014]

Posted on April 7, 2014 by mininganalystnow

 The FBI (and ASIO) stole my girlfriend [Updated 27 March 2014] http://www.facebook.com/Mininganalyst  Overview There is no hard and firm definition of what makes someone a ‘dissident’ in the US, no red line one crosses from being a regular citizen to … Continue reading →

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Reports of eye witness accounts of Freeport’s human rights abuses

Posted on March 19, 2014 by mininganalystnow

Freeport, by its own account, has co-operated with, financed and supported the Indonesian military in West Papua. More disturbing, there have been multiple eye witness reports of Freeport security taking direct part in human rights abuses in the past, with … Continue reading →

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