Gideon Polya, “PC racist White Australia treating Aboriginals & Muslims like animals”, MWC News, submitted 28 February 2006.
PC racist White Australia treating Aboriginals & Muslims like animals
WHITE AUSTRALIA vigorously objects to being labelled as “racist” but is involved in the racist subjugation of other people and resolutely IGNORES the horrendous human cost of such involvements, notably the continuing dispossession and maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians and Australia’s complicity in horrendous post-invasion excess mortality and infant mortality in Coalition-occupied Iraq and Afghanistan in gross violation of the Geneva Conventions. The Australian involvement in passive genocide in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories has been identified as “politically correct racism” or “PC racism”.
In 1998 a key paper in the Medical Journal of Australia reported that whereas mortality from all causes in New Zealand Maoris and Native North Americans had fallen substantially since the 1970s, “comparable mortality rates for Australian Aboriginals and Torres Straits Islanders in 1990-1994 were at or above the rates observed 20 years ago in Maori or North Americans, being 1.9 times the rate in Maori, 2.4 times the rate in Native Americans, and 3.2 times the rate for all Australians” (Ring, I.T. & Firman, D. (1998), Reducing indigenous mortality in Australia: lessons from other countries. Medical Journal of Australia, vol.169, pp528-533; see: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/nov16/ring/ring.html).
Since then things have got even worse as reported in a 2004 review (Thomson, N., Burns, J., Burrow, S & Kirov, E. (2004), Overview of indigenous health 2004. Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin; 4(4): Reviews: http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/html/html_bulletin/bull_44/reviews/thomson/reviews_thomson_1.htm). Some salient statistics from this study are summarized below:
The average annual mortality rate for indigenous (Aboriginal) Australians (2001) = 22.3 deaths /1,000 = 2.2%
Highest annual mortality rate for indigenous (Aboriginal) Australians (Northern Territory, 2001) = 23.6 deaths/1,000 = 2.4%
Annual mortality rate for non-indigenous Australians (2001) = 5.3 deaths/1,000 = 0.5%
Annual EXCESS MORTALITY (avoidable mortality) rate for indigenous Australians = 22.3-5.3 = 17.0 deaths/1,000 = 1.7%
Australian indigenous (Aboriginal) population (2001) = 0.459 million
Australian non-indigenous (White) population (2001) = 19 million
Annual Australian non-indigenous (White) deaths (2001) = 100,700
Annual Australian indigenous deaths (2001) = 10,236
Annual EXCESS DEATHS (avoidable deaths) of indigenous Australians (2001) = 7,803
The “annual excess mortality” of indigenous Australians is numerically equivalent to over 2 World Trade Centre atrocities EVERY YEAR.
How does the “annual EXCESS mortality rate” of Australian Aborigines (1.7%) compare with that of other people subject to effective OCCUPATION by Australia or its Anglo-American allies in the post-1950 era? Here are some post-1950 statistics (derived from UN Population Division demographic data; see: http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/) on “annual avoidable mortality rate” expressed as “% per year”:
Koreans (Korean War, 1950-1953) – 1.0%
Papua New Guineans (Australian occupation period 1950-1975) – 1.9%
Vietnamese (Vietnam War, 1965-1975) – 1.4%
Laotians (Vietnam War, 1965-1975) – 2.2%
Cambodians (Vietnam War, 1965-1975) - 1.7%
Iraqis (Sanctions & Gulf War, 1990-2003) - 0.6%
Afghans (Afghanistan War, 2001-present) – 1.4%
Solomon Islands (Australian peacekeeping, 2003-present) – 0.06%
Iraqis (Iraq War, 2003-present) – 0.7%
These numbers need to be compared with 2003 “annual excess mortality rates” of 0% for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, US, East Asia (excluding North Korea and Mongolia), Singapore, Brunei, Thailand, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and many Western European, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean countries (the value for the UK is 0.04% but is an appalling 0.35% for formerly Soviet-occupied Hungary).
Significantly the 2003 “annual excess mortality rate” (as consistently and conservatively measured for every country in the world from UN data) was also 0% for the Arab countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Syria, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates with similarly very low values of 0.01% (Oman), 0.02% (Saudi Arabia) and 0.03% (for Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories).
The 2003 “annual excess mortality rate” was 0.13% (US-threatened Iran), 0.15% (Algeria), 0.22% (Egypt), 0.48% (US-occupied Iraq), 0.52% (Yemen), 0.77% (genocide-wracked Sudan) and 1.75% (US-conquered Afghanistan).
The “annual EXCESS mortality rate” of Australian Aboriginals is of the same order as that of Asian civilians suffering total war at the hands of the US and its allies such as Australia; it is higher than the huge value for US-occupied Iraq; and it is about the same as the horrendous value for US-occupied Afghanistan.
It is commonly asserted that “Hitler liked dogs” and Australians share this affection for PET animals. However Australian affection for commercially-exploited animals leaves a lot to be desired. According to Animal Liberation, “in the 5 years from 1982-1986, an average of 6.2% of adult sheep each year died in the paddock” and the annual death rate for lambs, normally about 15%, “can be over 50% in bad years” (see: http://www.animalliberation.org.au/sheep2.php).
However Meat & Livestock Australia (November 2005, Animal Health & Welfare, “The economic impact of OJD infection on sheep farms”) states the current authoritative industry position that “the accepted annual mortality rate [is] 2-3% (from all causes) for Australian sheep flocks” (see:
The “annual EXCESS mortality rates” (annual AVOIDABLE mortality rates) of 1.7% for (indigenous Australians), 1.75% (Australia- and US-occupied Afghanistan), 0.48% (Australia- and US-occupied Iraq) are similar to the “annual TOTAL mortality rate” of 2.5% for Australian sheep. Politically correct racist White Australia is treating its Aboriginal, Iraqi and Afghan subjects like sheep for slaughter. Islamophobic White Australia is treating Muslims like livestock in paddocks.
The puppet government of US-occupied Iraq has just agreed to RESUME buying Australian wheat despite the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) scam that diverted US$250 million from the US $35 billion UN Oil-for-Food Sanctions Program at an estimated upper cost of 20,000 Iraqi infant lives. Middle Eastern countries consume huge amounts of Australian sheep that are controversially exported LIVE with attendant suffering and mortality packed into huge livestock transporter ships. Australia is the third most popular destination for international students (after the US and its other key Coalition ally, the UK).
Should Arabs, Iraqis, Muslims, Asians – or indeed anyone – consume Australian wheat, Australian lamb or send their children to study in Australian universities when PC racist White Australia is treating its Aboriginal, Iraqi and Afghan subjects like animals?
As of 2009, the Aboriginal Genocide kills 9,000 Indigenous Australians each year. As of 2009, the Muslim Holocaust in the Occupied Somalian, Palestinian, Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan Territoires kills about 0.7 million Muslims each year (see:
“Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ and
“Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18750 .
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Palestinian Holocaust, Palestinian Genocide (0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 7 million refugees): http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ;
Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide (4.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 2.4 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 3-4 million refugees plus 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees): http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ .
Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide (2.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 0.9 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 5-6 million refugees; 1990-2009, 4.4 million violent and non-violent excess deaths, 2.1 million under-5 infant deaths): http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .
Global avoidable mortality: the above atrocities are dwarfed by the 1950-2005 excess deaths in the mostly post-colonial Muslim World that totalled 0.6 billion (see my book "Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950" , G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007, and "Global avoidable mortality":
http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/ ).
Climate Holocaust, Climate Genocide (man-made global warming increasingly impacts the current 22 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; estimates from top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock and Professor Kevin Anderson point to 10 billion avoidable deaths this century due to unaddressed global warming, this including 6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims in a near-terminal, 21st century Muslim Holocaust , 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis): http://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Tell everyone you can.