Alert for Frosty - Watch SBS July 13

[heuristics]

Not only Frosty, of course - many of us will be interested in this one:

SBS TV

08:30 pm STORYLINE AUSTRALIA - DIRTY WAR (Eastern States schedule)
Since 9/11, the US wants to establish more bases in more countries as a key strategy in its ‘War on Terror'. Meanwhile a global toxic horror story is emerging from those living near present and past bases in the US and overseas. 14-year-old Erwinjohn Tuazon has just come out of a course of chemotherapy. He is one of many childhood leukaemia cases recorded in the close vicinity of the former bases at Clark and Subic in the Philippines. Proper treatment is way beyond the means of most families where the average daily income is five dollars a day. As far as the doctors are concerned, there's nothing more that can be done for Erwinjohn. The US has around 2000 bases in 140 countries worldwide. Military bases are places of major industrial operations – testing and use of munitions, fuelling, paint-stripping, tank-flushing, all using a lethal cocktail of toxic substances including heavy metals, dioxins, and PCB's. Against a geo-political backdrop of war, terrorism, and shifting global alliances Dirty War is the story of a David and Goliath struggle between a group of poisoned Filipino peasants and allegedly one of the largest and certainly most powerful polluters on the planet – the US military. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English and Tagalog, English subtitles) G CC WS
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[frosty]

thanks heuristic

I did already know ...... and by the program I think it may be on at 11.30 ( well here in WA ) due to the cycling

I know the film's maker Alan Carter ...... he got the idea after attending our first public meeting to oppose seaswap in fremantle in Dec 2002

the first place he visited when he started research was here (Lancelin ) but in the end he didnt come back and film here ....... there isnt much to see here yet and seems we are sort of unoffical with the yanks :lol: they have only announced they will use Shoalwater and Bradshaw ....... I guess bombing in such a small range so close to a capital city is not good PR <rolleyes>

regards
frosty

[Tezza]

Yankies Stay Home

Tezza

[Richard on Maui]

Yeah!

[Jim Bob]

War is bad for the environment.

I'd never have guessed it!

- Jim Bob, former infantryman

[spritegal]

Can't they just poison their own citizens first and then work on poisoning the rest of the world? How very rude of them.

Don't most Americans believe there is no "world" outside their own 52 states...or should that be 53 (the last one being Australia).

No wonder I'm moving overseas at the end of next year....its a very sad state of affairs for Australia.

[Tezza]

good one jim bob

Tezza

[soldierturnedfarmer]

When I was in the Australian army, there were talks of an American base being set up in Australia. Clearly it has its advantages and disadvantages. I think it would be a good idea if it was in the middle of nowhere and was monitored by the EPA and other enviromental agencies.

STF

[Richard on Maui]

I think it would be a good idea if it were in the middle of the United States and it was monitored by the EPA and it was only allowed to do creative stuff like clean up environmental messes and no destructive stuff like playing with guns and bombs etc.

[heuristics]

Enjoy your OS trip Spritegal, but I dont know how successful you will be in eluding the influence of the US (military).
I think we would have to arm wrestle Britain for the title of 51st state.... And Japan thinks THEY are the next state in line behind the official 50... so despite our Lil Johnny poncing around as a Deputy Sherrif in the Pacific, I dont know we rate as first in line on the arse-licking queue as we imagine.

And military base speaking - dont forget Germany. There is a HUGE presence there.

Read "Blowback"by Chalmers Johnson for a glimpse into the US activites in Okinawa Japan post WW2 to present, and other places across SEAsia.

And dont forget the banner that made Dick Smith gag: "The United States Welcomes You to the South Pole".... ie. the same South Pole Aussies explored and pioneered. Smithy found a HUGE military base down there when he went off on one of his adventures... and they were none too hospitable when he got into difficulties....