WHO (2010): Occupiers only permit annual per capita total health expenditure of $29 in Occupied Afghanistan

WHO. Occupiers only permit annual per capita total health expenditure of $29 in Occupied Afghanistan

The World Health Organization (WHO) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends (see: http://www.who.int/about/en/ ).

WHO on “Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births)” and “Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006)” (2010):

“[Occupied] Afghanistan … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 257… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 29;

[Occupier] Australia … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 6… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 3,122;

[Occupier] France … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 5… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 3,554;

[Occupier] Germany … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 5… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 3,328;

[Occupied] Haiti… Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 80… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 96;

[Occupied] Iraq… Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 47… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 124;

[Occupier] Netherlands … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 5… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 3,383;

[Occupied Somalia] … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 145… Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2001): 18;

[Partly Occupied] Syria … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 13 …Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 109;

[Occupier] UK … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 6…Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 2,784; [Occupier] US … Probability of dying under five (per 1 000 live births): 8…Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2006): 6,714.” [1].

[Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War demand that an Occupier must supply life-sustaining food and medical requisites “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” (see: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/y4gcpcp.htm )].

[1]. WHO, Countries (2010): http://www.who.int/countries/en/ .

UN Population Division (2010) on huge Afghan infant deaths

UN POPULATION DIVISION. Occupied Afghanistan, 2001-2010: total non-violent excess deaths from deprivation 3.4 million; under-5 infants deaths 2.4 million (90% avoidable)

The UN Population Division is a section of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and provides updated demographic data about countries and regions of the World (see: http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm ).

UN Population Division, World Population Prospects: the 2008 Revision Population Database, data on US Alliance-occupied Occupied Afghanistan (2010): “2010 population 29,117,000 … 2005-2010 crude death rate 19.7 deaths per 1,000 population … 2005-2010 crude birth rate 46.6 births per 1,000 population … 2005-2010 under-5 mortality (both sexes) 235 deaths under age five per 1,000 live births …2010 population aged 0-4 5,166,000.” [1].

[From the above data and assuming an expected death rate for peaceful high birth rate countries of 4 per thousand of population per year, the above data, as of mid-December 2009 it is estimated that in Occupied Afghanistan post-invasion non-violent excess deaths total 3.4 million; post-invasion violent deaths total 1.1 million (assuming expert US-Australian advice that the level of violence has been 4 times lower in the Afghan War than in the Iraq War); post-invasion violent and non-violent avoidable deaths total 4.5 million; and post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 2.4 million (90% avoidable and due to US Alliance war crimes in gross violence of the Geneva Convention – Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War demand that an Occupier must supply life-sustaining food and medical requisites “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” (see: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/y4gcpcp.htm ) but according to the WHO (see: http://www.who.int/countries/en/ ) the “total annual expenditure on health per capita” permitted in Occupied Afghanistan is $29 as compared to $6,714 in Occupier US and $3,122 in Occupier racist, white Apartheid Australia)].

[1]. UN Population Division, World Population Prospects: the 2008 Revision Population Database, data on US Alliance-occupied Occupied Afghanistan (2010): http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp?panel=2 .

UNICEF. (2010): 338,000 under-5 year old infants die each year in US-occupied Afghanistan

UNICEF. 338,000 under-5 year old infants die each year under US Alliance guns in Occupied Afghanistan

UNICEF was established on 11 December 1946 by the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China. Its full name was the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. In 1950, its mandate was broadened to address the long-term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system in 1953, when its name was shortened to the United Nations Children's Fund. However, UNICEF retained its original acronym. UNICEF's work is carried out in 191 countries through country programmes and National Committees. Some 88 per cent of the organization's approximately 7,200 posts are located in the field. There are eight regional offices and 126 country offices worldwide, as well as a research centre in Florence, a supply operation in Copenhagen and offices in Tokyo and Brussels. UNICEF headquarters are in New York (see: http://www.unicef.org/about/who/index_faq.html ).

UNICEF on under-5 year old infant deaths in US Alliance-occupied Occupied Afghanistan (2010): “Total population (thousands), 2007 - 27145 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 2007 - 27145 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Annual no. of under-5 deaths (thousands), 2007 – 338 … GNI per capita (US$), 2007 – 250 … Life expectancy at birth (years), 2007 – 44. [1].

[1].UNICEF: Afghanistan statistics (2010): http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan_statistics.html .

US Law Professor Ali Khan: NATO committing Afghan Genocide

KHAN, Ali. US law professor: NATO committing Afghan Genocide as defined by UN Genocide Convention

Professor Ali Khan is a professor of law at the Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas (see: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19235.htm ).

Professor Ali Khan on Afghan Genocide (2008): “The Law. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (entered into force, 1951) is binding on all states including the 26 member states of NATO. The Genocide Convention is jus cogens, the law from which no derogation is allowed. It provides no exceptions for any nation or any organization of nations, such as the United Nations or NATO, to commit genocide. Nor does the Convention allow any exceptions to genocide "whether committed in time of peace or in time of war." Even traditional self-defense - let alone preemptive self-defense, a deceptive name for aggression – cannot be invoked to justify or excuse the crime of genocide. In murdering the Taliban, NATO armed forces systematically practice on a continual basis the crime of genocide that consists of three constituent elements - act, intent to destroy, and religious group.” [1].

[1]. Professor Ali Khan, “NATO genocide in Afghanistan”, Information Clearing House, 30 January 2008: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19235.htm .

Genocide Professor Adam Jones "silenced" over Afghan genocide comments

JONES, Adam. Genocide professor "silenced" over Afghan genocide comments

Professor Adam Jones is a Canadian professor of international studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is executive director of Gendercide Watch, a Web-based educational initiative that confronts gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. Professor Adam Jones claims he was "silenced" on H-Genocide, an academic mailing list for the genocide-studies community, after attempting to post materials and commentary on the U.S.-led military campaign against Afghanistan. He is the author of “Genocide: a comprehensive introduction”(see: http://www.counterpunch.org/jones.html and http://www.genocidetext.net/ ).

Professor Adam Jones, in three consecutive rejected posts to the H-Genocide list, to which he subscribes, cited testimony from humanitarian organizations and United Nations staffers to the effect that the bombing campaign against Afghanistan was the major impediment to the delivery of desperately-needed food aid to the Afghan civilian population. In the first post (12 October 2001): "If coalition leaders are aware of the present situation, as most of the major humanitarian agencies and international media appear to be, and choose to continue the bombing in coming weeks ... could any resulting largescale mortality legitimately be termed genocidal?" [1].

[1]. CounterPunchwire, “Genocide scholar “silenced” on academic list for comments about bombing of Afghanitan”, 26 October 2001: http://www.counterpunch.org/jones.html .

Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War

GENEVA CONVENTION. Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War: Occupier must supply life-sustaining requisites "To the fullest extent of the means available to it "

Dr Gideon Polya summary of the carnage in Occupied Afghanistan and in the Muslim World in general from violent deaths and non-violent excess deaths from deprivation due to the US Alliance (5 December 2009): “Obama is complicit in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide, these atrocities being associated, so far, with post-invasion non-violent excess deaths of 0.3 million, 1.0 million and 3.2 million, respectively; post-invasion violent deaths of 11,000, 1.3 million and 1.0 million, respectively (the latter figure assuming the conservative US adviser estimate that violence in Afghan War has been 4 times lower than in the Iraq War); post-invasion under-5 infant deaths of 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively; and refugees totalling 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively, with a further 2.5 million refugees from NW Pakistan generated under Obama war policies – a Palestinian Holocaust, Iraqi Holocaust and Afghan Holocaust and indeed a Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention.

Indeed the Iraqi Genocide (1990-2009) involves 4.2 million violent and non-violent excess deaths and 1.8 million under-5 infant deaths as compared to the Afghan Genocide (2001-2009) involving 4.2 million violent and non-violent excess deaths and 2.3 million under-5 infant deaths, with the carnage of non-violent avoidable deaths under occupation due to US Alliance refusal to supply life-sustaining food and medical supplies demanded unequivocally of an Occupier “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Indeed WHO informs us that the total annual per capita health expenditure permitted by the US Occupier in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan total $124 and $29, respectively , as compared to $6,714 in the US. [3].

The violent and non-violent avoidable deaths in both the Iraqi Genocide (4.2 million dead) and the Afghan Genocide (4.2 million dead) are of a similar magnitude to the death toll in the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million, dead, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation).

Indeed the current "annual death rate" for Occupied Afghan under-5 year old infants under the US Alliance is 7% - as compared to that of 4% (for Poles under the Nazis in WW2), 5% (French Jews under the Nazis and the Nazi-collaborator Vichy régime in WW2), 13% (Australian POWs of the Japanese in WW2) and 19% (Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe)” (see Gideon Polya, “Peace Laureate Obama expands Afghan War. Obama lying by omission and commission”, MWC News, 5 December 2009 : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/34834/42/ ).

This US Empire carnage is due to UK, US, Australian, Coalition, Israeli and NATO violation of the Geneva Conventions which demand that Occupiers must do everything in their power to keep their Conquered subjects alive. Thus Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War state:

“Article 55

To the fullest extent of the means available to it the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring the food and medical supplies of the population; it should, in particular, bring in the necessary foodstuffs, medical stores and other articles if the resources of the occupied territory are inadequate.

The Occupying Power may not requisition foodstuffs, articles or medical supplies available in the occupied territory, except for use by the occupation forces and administration personnel, and then only if the requirements of the civilian population have been taken into account. Subject to the provisions of other international Conventions, the Occupying Power shall make arrangements to ensure that fair value is paid for any requisitioned goods.

The Protecting Power shall, at any time, be at liberty to verify the state of the food and medical supplies in occupied territories, except where temporary restrictions are made necessary by imperative military requirements.

Article 56

To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties.

If new hospitals are set up in occupied territory and if the competent organs of the occupied State are not operating there, the occupying authorities shall, if necessary, grant them the recognition provided for in Article 18. In similar circumstances, the occupying authorities shall also grant recognition to hospital personnel and transport vehicles under the provisions of Articles 20 and 21.

In adopting measures of health and hygiene and in their implementation, the Occupying Power shall take into consideration the moral and ethical susceptibilities of the population of the occupied territory. “ [1].

[1]. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm .

Dr Polya's Open Letter re MWC News

Dr Polya's Open Letter to editors and supporters of MWC News

Originally published as Gideon Polya, “Dr. Polya's Open letter to editors and supporters of MWC News”, MWC News, 27 November 2008.

Dr. Polya's Open letter to editors and supporters of MWC News.

According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAASA, the world’s biggest general scientific organization and the publisher of the world’s top scientific journal, Science) the world is at greatest risk from nuclear weapons (potentially 6.6 billion victims), global warming (over 6 billion victims this century according to top UK climate scientist Dr James Lovelock FRS) and poverty (16 million avoidable deaths from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease each year) (see: here ). MWC News is at the forefront of international media in that it disproportionately reflects those major threats to Humanity with authoritative, quality writing about war, climate change and First World hegemony and occupation.

As one who has donated significantly to MWC News in time and money, here are some thoughts about sources of financial support from donation or advertising (in various forms).

1. As a major medium for writing about Risk to Humanity, MWC News should seek revenue as donations or as advertising from Insurance Companies and risk-related Humanitarian advocacy groups (e.g. Green, medical, human rights, anti-war groups).

2. MWC News is a world-leading medium for writing about continuing Western wars, war crimes and occupations (US or US surrogate occupations of Somalia, Palestine, Syria, Diego Garcia, Iraq, and Afghanistan; 9-11 million excess deaths associated so far with the Bush Wars, 1990-2008; our hero “yes we can” Obama wants to extend war and occupation to the Sudan and Pakistan) . MWC News should approach for support human rights groups, Muslim and Arab companies and major “non-political” individuals (e.g. Mr Mohammed Al Fayed, owner of Harrod’s, London and tireless in his demand for the truth over the death of his son Dodi and Princess Diana). Care should exercised because, for example, a donation to a direly stretched hospital in the Gaza Concentration Camp could attract up to life imprisonment under Australian anti-Terrorism laws.

3. The World faces a Climate Emergency (see what top scientists say and also ) but you would not think so from reading Mainstream Media. MWC News is a major medium for Green issues and should seek support from Green groups (Green groups and parties are forced to advertise at huge expense in the climate criminal, often climate sceptic Mainstream Media – why not a bit in MWC News?).

4. Risk management (whether in aviation and hospitals or in family finances) successively involves (a) data, (b) scientific analysis and (c) systemic change to minimize risk (hundreds of millions of people dependent or prospectively dependent on pension or superannuation schemes – including me - have lost a fortune in the last year from the devaluation of shares-based investments). However Lying short circuits this process, most notably the lying by omission and commission of the lying, racist, genocide-ignoring Mainstream Media of the Western Murdochracies. MWC News is at the forefront of telling the truth that the Mainstream ignores and should seek support from libertarian, legal, human rights and related organizations and individuals.

5. A major Climate Emergency advocacy group with which I am associated has raised over $10,000 to send a copy of the important book “Climate Code Red. The case for emergency action” by David Spratt and Phillip Sutton (Scribe, Melbourne, 2007) to 500 important and influential Australians (see: here ). The key book “Our Water Mark” about the worsening Australian water crisis was funded by about $1 million in donations to the extraordinarily effective Victorian Women’s Trust to enable distribution of 35,000 copies around Australia. I have been acting in a similar way as an individual to send my recent books ( “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ; “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) to top people and libraries around the world. Yet an Alternative Model is to send a 1 page “Facts and Actions Summary Sheet” to everyone you can – and an even more cost-effective way is for this to be done via Ethical Media such as MWC News.

6. Further to points above, MWC News is already “punching above its weight” as revealed by the following statistics. Yahoo Search the words “Manhattan Madonna” for my article on MWC News and the image of my huge painting of the same name and the link (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10766/26/ ) will come up as #1 on page #1 out of 10 million results (Google censors this by “burying” the article). Similarly, a Yahoo Search for the words “Churchill’s crimes” for a potentially explosive article about things censored out by 70 years of Mainstream media, politician and academic lying, and the link to my article on MWC News entitled “Media lying over Churchill’s crimes. British-Indian Holocaust” (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/26713&Itemid=1 ) will come up as #1 on page #1 out of 4 million results (Google also censors this holocaust reportage by “burying” the article). Using such examples, MWC News can sell itself as a MAJOR Ethical Medium for ALL people wanting to get out a Humanitarian message for people wanting to get through the Mainstream media Wall of Silence to tell the world about all kinds of (relatively) “hidden” or “forgotten” matters from the Armenian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide, Palestinian Genocide and Australian Aboriginal Genocide to the huge potential avoidable mass mortality associated with the legislatively-mandated biofuel perversion and unaddressed man-made global warming (Biofuel Genocide and Climate Genocide).

7. Further to point #6, MWC News should urge Everybody to re-publish MWC News articles FOR FREE (but couple this with a “buddy can you spare a dime” plea). I am very happy for anyone to re-publish MY articles (with attribution and in the interests of Humanity) and the images to my huge Paintings for Peace, Mother and Child on MWC News (for a collection of links to my huge paintings on MWC News see; for links to my articles on MWC News see: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ).

8. I am very happy for MWC News to reproduce and sell big Posters of my huge Paintings for Peace (how many college students would like something bright, beautiful and pro-Peace for their room? Back in the late 1960s in Ithaca, NY, we had a black, brown and white poster of Picasso’s “Guernica” in our flat – my Guernica-based Paintings for Peace are at least multi-coloured).

9. A publisher might be interested in offering an advance for publishing the most hard-hitting MWC News articles as a book to crash through the Mainstream Wall of Silence (but don’t hold your breath - publishers in general it appears, whether “Left” or “Right” and not just in countries such as China or Iran, operate within defined “acceptable revelation” tolerances.

10. In a World facing a Climate Emergency there must be “zero tolerance for lying” in society in general – just as there is “zero tolerance for lying” in Science and in Courts of Law. Individuals closely associated with MWC News could offer to INFORM others (especially in their own professional, cultural, ethnic and national areas) about MWC News and its importance for free speech and the current imperative for urgently changing the global Culture of Ignoring to one of “zero tolerance for lying”.

Best regards,
Gideon Polya
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.