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beemill: houseofxlvii: beemill: Protests Erupt as Barack Obama Signs Philippines Military Deal The signing of a controversial 10-year agreement giving the US military greater access to bases in the Philippines has led to protests during US President Barack Obama’s state visit to Manila. see more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/protests-erupt-barack-obama-signs-philippines-military-deal-our-goal-not-contain-china-1446552 one thing ive come to realize about anything with military bases is that… we dont do shit over there. So although i see the concern of constant belief that my country is doing something shady… the constant “im bored” talks from my fellow friends abroad had told me very different. Some of them even wonder why they deployed them there. its like going from one city to another. People need to understand one thing about modern day politicians … they are way too pussy to be the bad guy too many john cenas no randy ortons at all. U.N is like watching a bunch of ratchet people argue. like you have that one guy thats screaming you pussy and that other guy yelling ahhhhhhh you mad …. why you mad tho. but no punches are thrown. Revolutions are one thing. The politics are another. but i do hope nothing bad comes out of this.  hmm. let me respond to this by briefly (and i emphasize briefly) providing you with a few links to stories about the us military here and the us military occupying countries abroad: 250,000 “GI Babies” in the Philippines -> http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2012-12-17/886826/five-times-more-g.i.-babiesthan-previously-thoughtThere are five times more American “G.I. babies” in the Philippines than previously thought — and they continue to multiply. This is according to a recent study by a visiting American social researcher and professor in Angeles City, Pampanga. Such finding categorizes military-origin Filipino Amerasians as a social diaspora. For, they forcibly are stripped of their citizenship, dispersed in slums, and suffer discrimination. Role of the US Military in fueling global sex trafficking -> http://www.equalitynow.org/take_action/sex_trafficking_action481In the 1980s, the U.S. Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines was the largest U.S. military base outside of the U.S. with an estimated 500 million USD generated by the brothels surrounding it. Local traffickers and brothel owners engaged in the business of buying and selling women and girls to meet the demands of the servicemen stationed there. Alma, who had dreams of becoming an accountant, was one of the women sold in the local sex industry. After three years, she was able to escape this life and subsequently co-founded Buklod ng Kababaihan, a group that helps other exploited women. Though the U.S. bases in the Philippines officially closed in the 1990s, the problem persists today as U.S. sex tourists travel there to take advantage of the commercial sex industry entrenched by the once-large U.S. military presence. Thousands of U.S. servicemen are still deployed in the Philippines where they continue to seek out local women in prostitution despite laws against it. Alma and Buklod continue to fight the exploitation of the estimated 300,000 to 400,000 women and up to 100,000 children in the Philippines commercial sex industry. Decades later, US military pollution in the Philippines linked to deaths -> http://www.stripes.com/news/decades-later-u-s-military-pollution-in-philippines-linked-to-deaths-1.98570Both the Air Force and the Navy polluted haphazardly in the Philippines.The Navy pumped 3.75 million gallons of untreated sewage each day into local fishing and swimming waters at Subic Bay, according to a 1992 report by what was then known as the General Accounting Office.The bases poured fuel and chemicals from firefighting exercises directly into the water table and used underground storage tanks without leak detection equipment, the agency found.At least three sites at the Subic Bay Navy base — two landfills and an ordnance disposal area — are dangerously polluted with materials such as asbestos, metals and fuels, the Philippines government found after an environmental survey there.Clark Air Base was a staging area during the Vietnam War. Its aviation and vehicle operations contaminated eight sites with oil, petroleum lubricants, pesticides, PCB and lead, according to a 1997 environmental survey by the Philippine government.Before the U.S. closed the bases, it drew up a rough bill for cleaning the hazardous pollution. Philippines: Toxic Waste Left in Former U.S. Military Bases -> http://llnw.wbez.org/archives/audio/wv/2008/10/wv_20081008b.mp3 A Toxic Legacy: The US military in the Philippines and Puerto Rico -> http://toxicmilitary.tumblr.com/post/69869979005/a-toxic-legacy-the-u-s-military-in-theThe U.S. military is responsible for the contamination of more than 29,000 sites worldwide, yet it has largely escaped responsibility for the damage it has caused to both the environment and the people living adjacent to these sites. American Targeted for Running Underage Prostitution in Philippines -> http://abcnews.go.com/International/americans-targeted-allegedly-running-underage-prostitution-philippines/story?id=18582802&singlePage=true Demanding oil pollution probe into Yongsang Garrion -> http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/06/18/15/0200000000AEN20130618005500315F.HTMLThe U.S. Army base is suspected of being the source of oil that has polluted at least 12,000 square meters of land and more than 7 million liters of underground water due to oil leakage since 2001 when the first oil spill was reported. Report Reveals toxic pollution at numerous USFK bases -> http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/480749.html More than 100 toxic chemical on US military bases (http://www.kpho.com/story/14973345/more-than-a-hundred-toxic-chemicals-on-military-base) Study find high pollution levels at most US bases in S. Korea -> http://www.stripes.com/news/study-finds-high-pollution-levels-at-most-u-s-bases-in-s-korea-1.44783 Idyllic Italian town protest US army base -> http://toxicmilitary.tumblr.com/post/65874315553/idyllic-italian-town-protests-us-army-baseThe MUOS is to be built on the Niscemi US Naval Radio Transmitter Facility (NRTF) base, where 44 antennas have been operating since 1991, 21 of which, according to US military documents, are still active today.Dressed in white, “Mothers against MUOS”, as they call themselves, held the banner, “Our children are not your guinea pigs.” Army get OK for depleted uranium at Schofield, Pohakuloa -> http://toxicmilitary.tumblr.com/post/65875850928/army-gets-ok-for-depleted-uranium-at-schofieldThe Pohakuloa facility covers 133,000 acres. The affected nuclear area is about 2,190 acres, Clint German, safety manager for U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii, said by email.Peace activist Jim Albertini said the license is inadequate.“The real issue is all live fire needs to be stopped at Pohakuloa and cleanup of all depleted uranium that is present,” he said.Depleted uranium likely is more widespread than the Army has acknowledged, he added Weapons Buried at Sea: Big, Poorly Understood Problem -> http://www.livescience.com/6777-weapons-buried-sea-big-poorly-understood-problem.htmlIn June, a clam boat happened upon some old military munitions off the coast of Long Island, New York. Mustard gas, released when the fishermen inadvertently hauled in the shells, blistered one crew member and reminded government officials, scientists and the public of the weapons arsenal that is buried deep below the surface of the world’s oceans.This arsenal includes ammunition, explosives and chemical weapons such as sulfur mustard (mustard gas), arsenic, cyanide, lewisite (a gas that blisters the skin and irritates the lungs) and sarin (now classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations).The problem isn’t going away anytime soon, experts say, because the dangers are hard to measure and because safe ways to remove and dispose of the weapons are lacking. Pattern of illness in S. Korean village children (Camp Caroll) -> http://www.kpho.com/story/15309712/story-3-koreaSince allegations surfaced that American soldiers buried Agent Orange on this military base, the small village of Waegwan has been thrust into the middle of an international controversy. And residents worry they might have been exposed for years.“I am concerned for the people of our country,” says Kyun-Ho Kwak, chairman of Chilgok County. He tells CBS 5 Investigates he has seen a high number of unexplained illnesses in his county.“The stream near the base leads to the Nak-Dong River,” says Kwak. “So, I believe that if the Agent Orange is buried there, it could have caused illnesses.” Marines failed to test Camp Lejeune water, possibly a million subject to cancer-causing toxins -> http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/05/marines_failed_to_test_camp_le.htmlA just-released study from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cited a February 1985 level for trichloroethylene of 18,900 parts per billion in one Lejeune drinking water well€” nearly 4,000 times today’s maximum allowed limit of 5 ppb. Given those kinds of numbers, environmental engineer Marco Kaltofen said even a testing method as inadequate as CCE should have raised some red flags with a “careful analyst.”“That’s knock-your-socks-off level even back then,” said Kaltofen, who worked on the infamous Love Canal case in upstate New York, where drums of buried chemical waste leaked toxins into a local water system. “You could have smelled it.” Okinawa: the junk heap of the Pacific: Decades of Pentagon pollution poison service members, residents and future plans for the island -> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/11/11/issues/okinawa-the-junk-heap-of-the-pacific/The history of U.S. pollution on Okinawa is almost as long as its ongoing military presence. Following the end of World War II, Okinawa earned the nickname the “junk heap of the Pacific” due to the large volume of surplus supplies abandoned there. During this period, one of the first known instances of contamination occurred when eight residents of Iheya village were killed by arsenic poisoning from a nearby U.S. compound in 1947. Private Company Manages Daily Bombing of Korean Village -> http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=8656 Six days a week, up to 16 hours a day, the skies above this tiny fishing village, fill up with F-15, F-16, and A-10 fighter jets, that hurl bombs at a small island less than a mile away from the community.The pilots come from United States military bases across the Pacific - as far north as Japan and Okinawa to Thailand in the south and Guam in the east, to this rural region just 50 miles south of Seoul on the west coast of the country. Contamination at NC Marine base lasted up to 60 years -> http://www.nbcnews.com/health/contamination-nc-marine-base-lasted-60-years-1C8880227Federal officials have known for years that the base’s water supply was badly contaminated, from fuel leaks and probably from a dry-cleaning plant as well. The Military Impacts in Hawaii should be a Warning -> http://warisacrime.org/content/military-impacts-hawai%E2%80%99i-should-be-warning-koreans-about-threat-jeju-island“Ke Awalau o Pu’uloa is a perfect example of the dangers of militarization. The U.S. invaded and occupied the Kingdom of Hawai’i in order to take Ke Awalau o Pu’uloa as a strategic port. What was once one of the most productive fisheries for Native Hawaiian people with extensive wetland agriculture and aquaculture complexes that fed many thousands on O’ahu island has become a giant toxic Superfund site. Today there are approximately 749 contaminated sites that the Navy has identified within the Pearl Harbor Naval Complex. The seafood from Ke Awalau o Pu’uloa is no longer safe to eat. The famous pearl oysters are no more. 23 military bases have tainted water -> http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20070618/NEWS/706180350/23-military-bases-tainted-waterCongressional lawmakers who were examining extensive drinking water contamination from the 1960s through the 1980s at Camp Lejeune, N.C., now say that the problem extends to 22 other bases throughout the country, to varying degrees. Stop bombing Pohakuloa -> http://www.dmzhawaii.org/?p=10795According to military documents up to 14.8 million live rounds are fired annually at the 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), the largest military training area outside the U.S. PTA is located at 6,500 feet elevation in the center of the Hawaii Island. All branches of the U.S. military train at PTA and all sorts of weapon systems are fired there, from small arms to heavy bombers. PTA is contaminated with Depleted Uranium (DU) and other military toxins. Continued live-fire training, frequent high winds, flash flooding, increasing traffic through the area, all risk spreading the contamination. Panama hopes US will clean up chemical weapons it left on island -> http://www.stripes.com/news/americas/panama-hopes-us-will-clean-up-chemical-weapons-it-left-on-island-1.246058Even as the United States presses for the rapid destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, a dispute lingers over unexploded chemical munitions that U.S. soldiers left on a Panamanian island more than 60 years ago. Registry would gather info on US vets exposed to toxins at Canadian base -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/registry-would-gather-info-on-us-vets-exposed-to-toxins-at-canadian-base-1.214483In 2007 the Canadian government admitted to working with the United States military in testing the herbicides Agent Orange, Agent Purple, Agent White and other unregistered pesticides at locations around the base in the late 1960s and began paying one-time settlements to its own veterans who served on the base. 20 years later, Fort Gillem contamination still spreading -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/20-years-later-fort-gillem-contamination-still-spreading-1.216592In the early 1990s the U.S. Army discovered hazardous chemicals dumped at Fort Gillem seeping into residential wells. Two decades later, officials say the Army still hasnt done enough to clean up carcinogens that are migrating from groundwater into surface water and, potentially, into the air residents breathe. Former Naval Air Station Alameda turned over to city -> http://www.stripes.com/blogs/stripes-central/stripes-central-1.8040/former-naval-air-station-alameda-turned-over-to-city-1.227519 But the Navy isn’t gone entirely. Environmental cleanup is likely to continue for years, as Navy crews remove 60 years’ worth of industrial solvents, paint thinner, acids and other toxic chemicals used to repair airplanes. Fort Jackson pollution question still unresolved -> http://www.stripes.com/news/army/fort-jackson-pollution-questions-still-unresolved-1.254109Roberts, like some others who attended the session at the fort, said she’s worried about how the RDX pollution from Fort Jackson might eventually affect her private water supply. RDX, which may have been used in hand grenades since the 1940s, still is a key component in the approximately 100,000 grenades thrown by soldiers each year. Air Force considers toxic cleanup options at former George AFB -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/air-force-considers-toxic-cleanup-options-at-former-george-afb-1.235142The U.S. Air Force is presenting plans to clean up hazardous waste at the former George Air Force Base and will gather community input for its final decision at a public meeting Wednesday. Given disposal options 50 years, Army decided to dump munitions-filled barrel in Lake Superior -> http://www.stripes.com/news/given-disposal-options-50-years-ago-army-decided-to-dump-munitions-filled-barrels-in-lake-superior-1.210456 Secret Cold war tests in St. Louis raise concerns -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/secret-cold-war-tests-in-st-louis-raise-concerns-1.191877After learning the Army conducted secret chemical tests in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, Doris Spates wonders if her own government is to blame for the rash of cancer deaths in her family. F/A-18 maintenance facility workers exposed to toxic materials -> http://www.stripes.com/news/f-a-18-maintenance-facility-workers-exposed-to-toxic-materials-1.188468SAN DIEGO — Workers at the Navy’s top maintenance facility for F/A-18 warplanes have been exposed to “extremely toxic materials” such as lead, cadmium and beryllium, according to surprise inspections by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration.OSHA has given the Navy until Sept. 26 to fix the problems at the Fleet Readiness Center Southwest at North Island Naval Air Station on Coronado or face an order to shut down the facility. The violations were revealed Thursday. US bases blamed for oil-tainted groundwater in S. Korea -> http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/korea/u-s-bases-blamed-for-oil-tainted-groundwater-in-s-korea-1.146053 4 Decades on, US starts cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam -> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/world/asia/us-moves-to-address-agent-orange-contamination-in-vietnam.html Tracking Toxics: Cleaning up After the American Military -> http://toxicmilitary.tumblr.com/post/67734304081/tracking-toxics-cleaning-up-after-the-americanThe American military has left behind a trail of barrel dumps, illness, and death in the nation’s last frontier, but a tiny group of Alaskans is righting the wrongs. B-2 pilot charged with rape and later acquitted offers glimpse into Air Force justice -> http://www.kansascity.com/2013/11/23/4645786/a-womans-word-meets-the-military.html A Marine was Assaulted. Her Commander said she deserved it -> http://www.upworthy.com/a-marine-was-assaulted-her-commander-said-she-deserved-it-for-wearing-running-shorts-really?c=to2 Legal group files petition against US government of Human rights abuses in Vieques from decades of bombing practice -> http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-24/world/42345798_1_vieques-u-s-navy-human-rights Okinawa bacteria toxic legacy crosses continents, spans generations -> http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/06/04/issues/okinawa-bacteria-toxic-legacy-crosses-continents-spans-generations/Given the presence of these weapons of mass destruction, the storage of rainbow herbicides on Okinawa should come as no surprise. Dozens of U.S. veterans and Okinawa base workers claim these substances were warehoused on the island and sprayed around the bases’ fences to keep back the vegetation, a practice also common in South Vietnam at the time. Although the Pentagon denies such allegations, many of these former service members have illnesses consistent with dioxin exposure. Moreover, their children — and grandchildren — are sick, too. A US base returned to Jeju proved to be most contaminated -> http://toxicmilitary.tumblr.com/post/67148487131/a-returned-us-base-in-jeju-proved-to-be-the-mostThe number of 42,500 exceeds about 85 times of 500 that is the standard TPH in the area. Its soil contamination by oil is proved out to be most serious among 16 returned bases in Korea, by the  investigation by the Ministry of Environment.  The TPH not only brings serious environment contamination. It makes impossible of plant survival itself but also contains poisonous material fatal to human body.The investigation on environment basis on the 16 returned US bases has been carried out twice respectively from April 2008 to March 2012. Military Pollution: The Quintessential Universal Soldier -> http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0327-21.htmThe U.S. Department of Defense is the largest polluter in the world, producing more hazardous waste than the five largest U.S. chemical companies combined. U.S. Bombing Range in South Korea: “Hell on Earth” -> http://www.projectcensored.org/21-us-military-bombing-range-destroys-korean-village-life/Every weekday for the past 50 years, from eight o’clock in the morning to eleven o’clock at night, U.S. fighter planes in Korea have dropped 400 to 700 bombs on the Koon-ni range less than one mile from local villages. The targets for the bombs are islands in the beautiful Aia bay where the people derive their livelihoods by fishing. As the A10 and F-16 U.S. fighter aircrafts swoop over the countryside, they drop depleted uranium (DU) shells. The DU shells add radioactive contamination to the other toxic wastes and oil that have been accumulating near these villages for the last half century. US Military Bases Known to Be Contaminated -> http://www.gmasw.com/ao_bases.htm US Military makes partial apology for S. Korea subway incident -> http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/korea/us-military-makes-partial-apology-for-s-korea-subway-incident-1.206871Railway police said the soldiers were acting up on a Dongducheon-to-Incheon train Saturday night — playing a “boom box” loudly while dancing and shouting — when a Korean woman in her early 20s asked them to quiet down.That prompted the soldiers to verbally and physically harass the woman, while taking video and photos of her, police said. During the confrontation, one or more of the soldiers may have touched her breasts, they said. US sailor to appear in Australian court over sexual assault -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us-sailor-to-appear-in-australian-court-over-sexual-assault-allegation-1.254644 Toxic woes fester at Camp Pendleton -> http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/military/20051122-9999-1n22pollute.html Marine arrested, accused of assaulting woman at Japanese ski resort -> http://www.stripes.com/news/marine-corps/iwakuni-marine-arrested-accused-of-assaulting-woman-at-ski-resort-1.257987 GI drinking problemss rise in Hawaii -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/gi-drinking-problems-rise-in-hawaii-1.256529The Army is reporting an “alarming increase” in drunken driving by soldiers in Hawaii as the military continues to struggle with the consequences of war and a return to “garrison” life. Soldier arrest, accused of causing 2 crashes on same night -> http://www.stripes.com/news/soldier-arrested-accused-of-causing-two-crashes-on-same-night-1.253653 How clean is clean at issue on base -> http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1N1-10216120BA4B4EAF.html States Accuse Pentagon of Threats, Retaliation -> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803435.html“Alabama, for example, ordered the Army to clean up a former chemical weapons school, Camp Sibert, after a study ranked it worst in the nation among old military sites for the hazard of unexploded weapons. Soon after, the Pentagon withheld oversight money and held fast until Alabama revoked the cleanup order, said Dania Rodriguez of the association representing the states. “ Deadly Toxic chemicals from El Toro Marine Base Affect Woodbridge in Irvine -> http://www.salem-news.com/articles/january142009/el_toro_1-14-09.php SF Hunters Point Naval Shipyard is one of the most toxic superfund sites in the Nation -> http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/08/01/18613592.php In Pueblo, another chemical weapons stockpile lingers -> http://inewsnetwork.org/2013/10/27/in-pueblo-another-chemical-weapons-stockpile-lingers/ American military creating an environmental disaster in Afghan countryside -> http://www.voltairenet.org/article165307.html US military turns Iraq into a toxic dump -> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/u-s-military-turns-iraq-toxic-dump-oil-drums-acid-cans-investigation-finds-article-1.179295 America Most Contaminated Nuclear Site Contains Leaking Radioactive Waste Water Containers -> http://toxicmilitary.tumblr.com/post/69870124497/americas-most-contaminated-nuclear-site-contains Group to explore making US military in Japan more accountable for environment -> http://www.stripes.com/news/group-to-explore-making-u-s-military-in-japan-more-accountable-for-environment-1.123643 Admitted child abuser keeps his Navy career -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/admitted-child-abuser-keeps-his-navy-career-1.256639 Reports of sexual assault in the military climed in FY 2013 -> http://www.stripes.com/news/us/reports-of-sexual-assault-in-the-military-climbed-in-fy-2013-1.270162 Possible radiation leak at New Mexico military nuclear waste site -> http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/16/us-radiation-leak-newmexico-idUSBREA1F06Y20140216 etc etc etc… -- source link

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