History Is Made In The Shadows - 23 July, 2026

[00:00:00]Good morning. To Russ watching this in East Perth. Glad you are Russ and good to hear from you yesterday. And to you too Kevin, Kevin Lindberger, good friend for many years. Kevin one of the bravest, most courageous whistleblowers in this country's history.

[00:00:15]He's been fighting for justice related to the Heiner affair in Queensland, the ramifications of which go way beyond the Queensland border for something like three decades, maybe a bit more. I'll talk more about it another day. Whistleblowers are very, very important. They They shine the light in areas where governments and others want darkness. And oftentimes they pay a huge personal price for doing that as Kevin has, but he he pushes on relentlessly.

[00:00:47]Talking about conspiracies, Senator Malcolm Roberts likes them.

[00:00:53]And he's under a bit of pressure in the paper this morning because he's anti-AUKUS. Pauline Hanson is pro-AUKUS.

[00:00:59]They can spare enough that if they aspire to government that any divisions be scrutinized as long as they keep scrutinizing the other parties as well.

[00:01:07]Senator Roberts apparently is against AUKUS. Pauline Hanson is for AUKUS.

[00:01:13]So, they need to get their their ducks in a row, don't they?

[00:01:17]I just don't think we've been told the truth about AUKUS from day one.

[00:01:20]And I think what they're promising is still extremely unlikely.

[00:01:25]I think one of the things when you you watch what's happening around the place in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine, the way things are changing militarily so quickly.

[00:01:35]I wonder what these submarines are going to be used for a little way down the road. We're we're not far from drones that can go through the ocean. They'll be nuclear to all kinds of things are going to happen in the next 10 or 20 years, particularly with the exponential rise of AI that as of now aren't being contemplated or maybe they are being, but we just don't know about it. Which comes back to Malcolm Robertson, his his conspiracy theories.

[00:02:00]I think a lot of what happens in this world is a conspiracy. Conspiracy is just more than one person getting together and organizing things that everybody else doesn't know about.

[00:02:10]And I think a lot of history is made in the shadows.

[00:02:14]And we don't see it. Doesn't mean everything's a conspiracy.

[00:02:18]And I think Malcolm Roberts needs to go easy on a few of them.

[00:02:21]But of course, in our own lifetimes, we've seen a lot of conspiracies. The first one in my lifetime, I guess was the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November of 1963 in Dallas.

[00:02:32]I was thinking about that a little bit this morning.

[00:02:35]I woke up to see that the Ayatollah in Iran has said uh it's going to be an eye for an eye.

[00:02:43]That they're coming after the American leaders.

[00:02:46]And Donald Trump responded by saying, "Every time you fire at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, then we're coming after some of your infrastructure."

[00:02:56]That stuff creates its own momentum.

[00:02:59]I think one of the things we're seeing in Iran and the American attacks on it, the limits of American power.

[00:03:08]And it's just surprising they don't still understand those limits.

[00:03:16]And I'm sure China is having a a good close look at what's happening there at the moment and understand those limitations.

[00:03:25]But they also need to be careful because there are also unintended consequences.

[00:03:29]And it comes back to Kennedy.

[00:03:33]When John F. Kennedy came into the presidency in 1960, Fidel Castro had just taken over in Cuba.

[00:03:40]At that time, he was popular. He'd got rid of a a corrupt, unpopular dictator called Batista, who was supported by the American government and by the mafia.

[00:03:51]So, Castro came in, got rid of him.

[00:03:53]Then in 1961, some ex-pat Cubans came out of Florida and launched an attack on Cuba called the Bay of Pigs attack. That's where it happened, and it was defeated. People were killed.

[00:04:09]Castro was um empowered, and he then looked to Russia for help from the United States, and that of course led to the Cuban Missile Crisis a couple of years later.

[00:04:22]But in 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and a lot of the conspiracy theories revolved around Cuba being involved one way or another.

[00:04:36]Another conspiracy theory little talked about related to events in the first days of November of 1963, and that was the assassination of the South Vietnamese president Diem.

[00:04:45]Very good crime fiction writer Charles McCarry, a former CIA operative, uh wrote a terrific book called The Tears of Autumn, in which he outlined this hypothetical.

[00:04:56]And it probably isn't true, but it made a very good story.

[00:04:59]Because Kennedy endorsed the assassination of Diem hoping for a more friendly government in South Vietnam.

[00:05:08]So, the generals there took out Diem and his brother.

[00:05:13]Exactly 3 weeks later, John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas.

[00:05:19]So, sometimes conspiracies have a little substance to them.

[00:05:25]And it's also true about the unintended consequences of your actions.

[00:05:30]And I wonder what's going to happen next related to Iran.

[00:05:36]It's hard to know. Talk about good books, by the way.

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[00:05:52]But in Australia, you can just go to my website, gregcarey.com.

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[00:06:55]Appreciate it. Take care. Have a great day. Bye.