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Posted by skye on 11/21/2006, 5:34 pm David Bradbury is an Australian documentary film maker who created the NOTE HERE that henceforth, I will not use the deceptive term "depleted". His powerful documentary is titled "Blowin' In The Wind". I do hope at least Please join us to stop this insanity - violence only begets violence, and this beautiful environment deserves protecting and preserving. This is about the best précis the situation as we know it in the US of A. Are we becoming the next state of the USA?
Link: http://www.peaceconvergence.com/
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Following US Like Sheep to the Slaughterhouse....June
Next May/June will see Australia host the largest military exercises we've
ever had in peacetime. Talisman Sabre 07.
Twelve thousand Australian soldiers and nearly l4,000 US troops and sailors
will take place in bombarding our shores and fragile landscape, storming our
beaches, gunning down 'terrorists' in the newly built urban guerilla warfare
training centre, testing their latest laser
guided missiles and 'smart' bombs in some of the most pristine wilderness
I've ever seen on this planet - and in 30years of making films, I've seen a
lot of this planet.
Idyllic Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton will cop it all - live aerial
bombing, ship to shore naval firings, underwater depth charges exploded in
areas where turtles and dugong breed, nuclear subs using high level sonar
frequency which zaps the hearing of sea life and mammals, nuclear aircraft
carriers inside the so-called Great Barrier Reef marine
national park (!), land based artillery firings blasting the hell out of
areas where the most amazing biodiversity in Australia is to be found.
(Shoalwater Bay covers 740,000 hectacres and is almost unique in our
climatic landscape because it is a cross over point for tropical, sub
tropical and temperate zones giving rise to an amazing variety of many
species of flora and wildlife, birds,sea creatures etc).
Anyone who has seen Al Gore's film has to ask why are we allowing such
madness to take place and wanton misuse of resources to further add to the
huge level of CO2 put up into the atmosphere in exercises such as these at a
time when we all should be combining forces in the War for Our Survival.
These live munitions actions at Shoalwater Bay will run simultaneously with
US bombing runs by Stealth, B1 and B52 bombers (just one B52 bomber carries
30 tonnes of bombs -needs three semi trailers to load it up with its
bombload...) from Guam to drop their live payload from 5 kilometres high on
Delamare bombing range near Katherine NT and live fire exercises involving
many Abrams tanks rumbling across the landscape at Bradshaw
tank range (surrounded by Bradshaw national park south of Darwin, target
practising on country against the wishes of the senior Aboriginal elders,
custodians of that country...).
These military exercises and their coordination in both states will be
beamed live via satellite from tiny cameras on the tanks, bombers, landing
craft, army commanders's lapels etc to the coordinating War Room at
Newcastle where the US and Australian generals will call the shots of what
is fired next. Son of Star Wars has arrived in Australia!
I don't know how you feel about that, but I am still disgusted that
Australia supports the US so sycophantically in this bullshit War on Terror.
Our unholy crusade at the latest count had 653,000 innocent people in Iraq
killed - even if its half this number comprehensively and
methodically counted number, its still a national and immoral disgrace that
we have lent our name and support to such a huge number of innocent people
murdered in our nation's name.
Next year's Talisman Sabre exercises are a con for blatant continuing
militarism of a similar vein post Afghanistan and Iraq. We are now about to
pollute our own most pristine areas, far away from the centres of population
by letting the US military test their latest weapons here. There are big
plans by British Aerospace and the other arms manufacturers to quietly turn
the depressed Rockhampton area into a big arms manufacturing industrial
estate. So not only will we export our soldiers who are the best there is to
adventurist wars overseas, we are about to see an explosion in Australia
manufacturing and exporting weapons of war.
Not particularly drawn to military phrases, we have to 'draw a line in the
sand' and say when 'enough is enough'. Its time my friends, to stop this
madness and our complicity in it.
With a view to oppose these exercises, a group of people from around
Australia with peace activist credentials had a phone link up yesterday and
spoke for an hour about our willingness to combine forces and oppose these
exercises. We will link with activist residents of Shoalwater Bay (Yeppoon
and Byfield) that we made contact with last year during Talisman Sabre 2005.
We plan to put on a big concert at Yeppoon and have people come from all
over Australia to take part in that concert and choose, if they wish, to be
part of non violent actions to oppose the war and Australia's involvement in
such wars.
Through my contact with musicians like Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil (friends
from University days), John Butler, Deborah Conway, Robyn Archer, Kev
Carmody and actors Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, we
intend to put on a big concert which will spill into the evening with
relevant films and speakers to raise awareness of just what Australia
has signed up for with this new secret treaty then Defence Minister Robert
Hill and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer signed with Rumsfeld and Powell
back in July 2004. It is that secret treaty which is allowing the Americans
to come here and do what they want - without so much as an environmental
impact study being done before or after the exercises.
We need people in communities right along the eastern seaboard to be
actively involved in this campaign to build awareness amongst your local
communities and to take on the role of being local coordinators as the
campaign builds over the next six months, to help with the logistics of
organising people to come by bus, peace train, cars, planes to be there
in June for that concert and weekend leading into week of actions. Some
people with work or other commitments will only be able to come for a few
days, perhaps the weekend. No matter. We have to send a BIG message to the
rest of our apathetic and many indifferent Australians and the government
that this is not on any more.
Please look at this website and subscribe to it to keep generally informed
of what is happening, how to link up people in your local community if you
want to help make this peace convergence a BIG event.
If you would like to be part of the actual organising (that's why I'm
emailing you now in the hope thereof...) please email Dimity Hawkins from
MAPW (Medical Association for the Prevention of War)
dimity.hawkins@mapw.org.au and ask her to put you on the list for
organising. That way you will be told when the next national phone link up
is happening and other important info to let folks in your respective
communities know over the
coming months as we seek to build awareness and a 'buzz' about being at the
Talisman Sabre peace concert etc. But we want people who will DO, not just
talk about it.
Okay, thanks for reading this and taking it on board hopefully in a world
where we all have incredible demands on our time and stress, yours
sincerely,
David Bradbury
outstanding doco on Depleted Uranium munitions.
The uranium waste used for this purpose is NOT depleted. From now on, I am
describing this as "nuclear radiation dispersing munitions" - or similar
terms.
DIRTY BOMBS would do as well.
some of you have seen it. If not, you can contact David at
Here he alerts us to a forthcoming joint US/Australian military exercise.
Vast tonnages of munitions, much of it likely to be made from or cased in
Uranium 238. As you should know by now, U238 is not the most radioactive
form - but it is still radioactive and prolonged exposure is not good.
However, it what it become after it is deployed that is a very different
matter. It burns at a staggering temperature and turns into a very dangerous
nano sized particle aerosol that 'blows in the wind. In this form it becomes
an extremely toxic heavy metal. Particles can enter cell structures and both
radiate and poison from within. The consequences for animal life are
catastrophic. InIraq where the most massive quantities have been used, it
looks like it will bring about a genetic genocide of the people of that
tormented nation.
Now if there was a plan to test a mushroom cloud producing nuke - all hell
would break loose in the Australian population. Yet the dangers for the
Australian people from the use of U238 munitions in an 'exercise' would
likely way exceed the danger of fallout from a mushroom cloud. The people of
Australia should be rising up against this! 
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