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Last April, the penultimate leg of our wonderful Hong Kong/Cruise/France/BookCrossing holiday involved a Singapore-Sydney flight. Coming back over Australia, we flew right over a curious site, and I pulled out my camera for a few shots. Loaded them up on Flickr and thought no more about them.

Since then, they have consistently been the most looked at photographs on my Flickr page. Forget all the great travel photographs, shots of people smiling at me, Ringbear and books. It's this one:
Pine Gap

It's becoming (in)famous. During a routine Technorati search on my name, I spotted a curious site. Let me quote:
The fearful factor about such discoveries is that these 15 families already dominate world economy and international finance. The rest of the nations are expected to submit to their demands and work up a mutual treaty. The current global economic crisis could be a step towards the systematic economic destabilization that will mark these internationalists’ systematic rise to power.

Nutty, hey? And they used my photographs - with attributation - to illustrate the article.

Date: 2009-08-29 04:22 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Watch out! Next thing we know you'll be hauled in as a potential terrorist ...
Jen

Date: 2009-08-29 08:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skyring.livejournal.com
Google Earth has the same site available, at a far greater level of detail, so obviously the existence and physical layout of the place is not considered secret enough to warrant any sort of "blacking out" such as the infamous White House roof censorship.

Date: 2009-08-29 11:12 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I don't think the location's a secret at all. There's too many local workers from Alice Springs for it ever to be a secret. I hear they even run regular shuttle buses from town...

Date: 2009-08-29 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] awaywithfairy1.livejournal.com
Oops, the above anonymous message is from me (typing while not logged in)!

Date: 2009-08-29 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skyring.livejournal.com
Two anonymous comments. This is a worry!

Actually the first one was from my sister, who doesn't have an LJ account.

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