Menwith Hill. The original Big Brother, its history, and its relationship with the Echelon
network.
'Menwith Hill is the worlds largest monitoring communications station and is situated just outside
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Its official title is R.A.F Menwith
Hill which is misleading since it is actually run by the US National Security Agency (NSA). '
'The official cover story is that it is an all-civilian base and is a Department of Defence
communications station, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) describing it as a "communications relay centre". '
'Little is known about the true activities of the station, although the word 'spying' seems to be
always associated with it. This could be due to its extensive 560 acre complex of masts, satellite dishes
and radomes (affectionately called 'golf balls' by the locals) and a fibre-optic link supplied by British
Telecom (BT) which has a call capacity of about 100,000 concurrent voice telephone channels (the
phone bill must be horrific). '
'The station is subject to much controversy, recently due to the planned installation of 'Star Wars'
equipment at the site. Two new radomes are to be built for the Space Based Infra Red System (SBIRS). The
Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) claim that the installation of the equipment
is unlawful under international arms control treaties. '
This site found via
Daelnet, a website about the Yorkshire Dales.
The Native Born. Contemporary Australian
Aboriginal art. Wonderful.
'The Native Born is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by distinguished Australian Aboriginal
artists from Ramingining, Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Arranged according to six different natural
environments found in this region:mangroves (larrtha’puy), forests (diltjipuy), waterholes (gulunbuy), jungles (retjapuy), beaches (rangipuy) and plains (ninydiyapuy), each painting and sculpture illuminates the specific cultural relationship between the Aboriginal people and the land. Two ephemeral commissioned works are featured: a large-scale wall painting and a sand sculpture.'
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