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Olympic Statistics Western Media will NOT Report - Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide & Afghan Genocide
by Open-Publishing - Friday 15 August 20081 comment
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The world is obsessed with Olympic hype at the moment and we are being deluged with sporting statistics e.g. which truly marvellous athlete swam faster than who else by 0.01 second.
However the racist, lying Mainstream media, politicians and academics of the First World-dominated World simply IGNORE the statistics that everyone should know about but which are kept SECRET e.g. that avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) in British India totalled 1.5 billion over 2 centuries; that Indigenous excess deaths in post-1950 US Asian wars total, so far, 25 million; that in the man-made Bengal Famine in British-ruled India in 1943-1945 the British deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death in a deliberate scorched earth policy (see recent BBC broadcast involving me, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot... ); that violent and non-violent excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories now total 0.3 million, 2 million and 3-6 million, respectively (see: http://www.liberalati.com/?q=node/261 ) ...
An in-context summation of the avoidable deaths (excess deaths, deaths that did not have to happen) through wars, occupation and hegemony is given in my book "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" (G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/137... and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ) - 1950-2005 global excess deaths total 1.3 billion and 1950-2005 under-5 infant deaths total 0.9 billion; each year 16 million people die avoidably (9.5 million being under-5 year old infants); each day 44,000 people die avoidably (from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease) with 23,000 of these being avoidable under-5 year old infant deaths.
The 1950-2005 excess deaths in countries violently occupied at some time in the post-war era have been estimated (in millions, m) for all the major Occupiers of these countries: Australia (2m in PNG and Solomons), Belgium (36m), Ethiopia (2m, Eritrea), France (142m), Indonesia (0.7m, Timor Leste), Iraq (0.09m in Kuwait), Israel (24m), Netherlands (72m), New Zealand (0.04m, Samoa), Pakistan (51m, Bangladesh), Portugal (23m), Russia (37m), South Africa (0.7m, Namibia), Spain (9m), Turkey (0.05m, Cyprus), UK (727m), US (82m)(for details see:
http://globalavoidablemortality.blo... and http://globalavoidablemortality.blo... ).
Using estimates from the UN Population Division, UNICEF and top US medical epidemiologists, I have been "bearing witness" and reporting the continuing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide - post-invasion excess deaths 0.3 million, 2 million, and 3-6 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively; refugees totalling 7 million, 4.5 million and 4 million, respectively) (for the latest details and documentation see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/199... ; http://www.brusselstribunal.org/Mes... ; http://www.countercurrents.org/poly... ; for summary see: http://www.liberalati.com/?q=node/261 ).
Indigenous excess deaths in post-1950 US Asian wars now total 25 million (Australia - population 21 million yet fifth in the Olympic Gold tally so far - was involved in ALL of these Asian wars and is still involved in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan where 1,000 infants die every day under war criminal UK, US, NATO and Australian Occupation).
The victims of modern, high technology American wars are mostly Women and Children. The US War on Terror (initiated by the 9/11 atrocity that according to former Italian president, Senator for Life, Law Professor and Intelligence intimate Francesco Cossiga was done by the US CIA and Israeli
Mossad: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/185... ) is in horrible reality a War for Oil and Hegemony and a cowardly and racist War on Arab, Muslim, Asian and non-European Women and Children).
It gets WORSE because of carbon burning-derived morbidity (sickness) and mortality (death) from pollutants and from greenhouse gas (GHG) –based anthropogenic climate change.
As for carbon burning, one can estimate that about 7 million die people each year from the effects of various carbon burning processes; 0.3 million people die each year from carbon burning-based electricity generation (yet Mainstream Media in the Western Murdochracies look the other way); climate change already impacts the avoidable death of 16 million people globally each year; and Dr James Lovelock FRS estimates that over 6 billion people will perish this century due to unaddressed climate change (with Australia a major culprit as the Developed World’s biggest per capita greenhouse gas polluter and the World’s biggest coal exporter) (for detailed and documented analyses see the Climate Emergency Fact Sheets of the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group:
http://sites.google.com/site/yarrav... and http://sites.google.com/site/yarrav... ).
Holocaust involves huge deaths; Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention) involves "intent" to kill large numbers of people of a particular religion or ethnicity. "Intent" is established by "confession" (very rare) and more realistically by sustained, remorseless policy (e.g. the British have been mass murdering Iraqis on and off since 1914; the Americans have been actively involved in the mass murder of Afghans since 1979).
For a recent summation of the Humanist argument about these appalling statistics (that unlike the public deluge of sporting statistics are UTTERLY IGNORED by lying, "PC racist" mainstream media, politicians and academics in the Western Murdochracies) see "The Sounds of Silence, 2008 Olympic Hype.
Holocaust & Genocide Denial": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/245... , QUOTE: “Apart from myself, as far as I know the only writers on Earth (population 6.6 billion) actually referring to the Iraqi Holocaust and/or the Iraqi Genocide are Dr Mark Weissbrot (Just Foreign Policy), Dr Paul Craig Roberts (Father of Reaganomics), John Pilger (outstanding Australian-UK writer) and Tariq Ali (outstanding Pakistani-UK writer). Apart from myself, as far as I know, the only scholar referring to the Afghan Genocide is US law professor Ali Khan.”
My article ends with an APPEAL to all decent human beings: “you must know of great men and women and, through "six degrees of separation", know people who know people, who know people … who know great men and women. Please do your bit to ensure that important men and women speak out about the continuing massacre of the innocents and are prepared to use terms appropriate to the remorseless, criminal, racist
carnage - Holocaust and Genocide."
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15 August 2008, 20:17, by www.jbpeebles.wordpress.com
Pursuant to Chinese support for the Burmese junta responsible for the mass murders of thousands of civilians, I am boycotting the games whenever I can. ( I do watch them when others are in the room who want to watch—so I don’t leave—but I don’t read about or choose to view them myself.)
The media culture that placates Western society allows us to cocoon while the world dies. Some of us aren’t so tired from working our jobs or consumed with slurping at the federal trough that we can’t lift our heads up and see the truth.
The grind is killing millions and will get much worse as ocean toxicity continues to increase. I saw a few years ago how regularly reappearing algae blooms are decimating coastal estuaries in Australia. Acidification could be the worst consequence of global climate change—coal plants contribute particulates and mercury. Phosphates and nitrates from agriculture are creating massive dead zones all over.
The effort will need to be worldwide as faraway sources of pollution and GHG can have cascading consequences. The numbers of people who won’t be affected is shrinking, even in the US, which is the most irresponsible user of fossil fuels in the world.
Unfortunately, people have dumbed down and desensitized themselves to anything happening outside their personal sphere. I guess collective responsibility (exercised on a personal level) is a casualty of the age of mass consumption—which will surely need to die in order to create a sustainable world. Still, it’s worth remembering that when it’s easy (and cheaper) to shop green, people will modify their buying decisions. We environmentalists must not be so perfectionist with the public.
On the other hand, conservation is far more than a personal virtue, as VP Dick Cheney says. We need to push for laws, restrictions, and covenants that make polluters pay for the problems they cause, and not just accept the status quo in energy use and production choices by government at all levels.
We also need transitions, like new energy sources and the capital and willingness to adopt new energy technologies. It’s not enough to say things are bad. We need not only to practice conservation, but extol its virtues to the public at large. We can’t afford to alienate the public, or make change too daunting a prospect. Still, at some point they and government at large will be forced to change—it’s our job to shrink time frames.