{"id":731,"date":"2019-10-08T23:48:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2019-10-08T23:48:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:48:19","slug":"coup-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"Coup in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the &#8217;70s, I remember Gough Whitlam, PM in Australia, was summarily dismissed by the Crown in the person of the Australian Governor-General.  I never knew why it happened and just attributed it to some sort of internal politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I read that it was because Whitlam wanted to close down Pine Gap, the 5-eyes listening station in Oz, because the US and the British had been spying on his cabinet.  A few discussions between the CIA and MI6, and voila.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/10\/04\/after-us-senator-asks-public-imagine-cia-interfering-foreign-elections-historians\">https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/10\/04\/after-us-senator-asks-public-imagine-cia-interfering-foreign-elections-historians<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow.  Was it really that simple?  Anybody know more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8217;70s, I remember Gough Whitlam, PM in Australia, was summarily dismissed by the Crown in the person of the Australian Governor-General. I never knew why it happened and just attributed it to some sort of internal politics. Today I read that it was because Whitlam wanted to close down Pine Gap, the 5-eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}