Racist Zionism (RZ)- and Bush-ite-promoted anti-Arab anti-Semitism and Islamophobia is exacting a heavy price in terms of Western civil liberties and an even heavier toll in US-backed Wars.  UK-US-backed Israeli State Terrorism continues to wreak havoc in the Holy Land and its environs. Thus in 2006 Israel was still illegally occupying all of the Holy Land and part of Syria after nearly 40 years of such occupation and was involved in devastation of both Lebanon and Gaza. The post-invasion excess deaths in the Occupied Palestinian Territory total 0.3 million, there are 6 million Palestinian refugees, 85% of Christian Palestinians have fled and 80,000 Palestinians flee each year – an ongoing Palestinian Genocide from the perspective of the UN Genocide Convention. Peace is the only way but decent people are obliged to act ethically in their personal and business dealings with those complicit in such horrendous abuses of humanity – with obvious ethical responses including personal or collective, intra-national or international Sanctions and Boycotts applied to those responsible or complicit. Further, it can be estimated that it would cost about $1.4 trillion annually to bring all countries up to an annual per capita income of $1,000 (at which level excess mortality can be abolished if there is also peace and good governance).  Decent people can do their bit by opposing any personal or national involvements in the following 5 industries that each have an annual global market value of roughly $1 trillion: alcohol; tobacco; illicit drugs; arms; and unhealthy processed foods.

Exercise. Physical exercise is good for you. There is currently a Western obesity epidemic and the associated Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes conditions are major health problems. Thus 7% of Americans have diabetes (85% being Type 2 diabetes). For those with diabetes, exercise is extremely important in dealing with the disease (together with diet, monitoring and appropriate pharmaceutical products). However exercise of the Mind is also vital. It has been ignorance, superstition, xenophobia and mental sloth that has permitted the United States, a country with great humanitarian traditions and boasting more Nobel Laureates that any other, to fall into the clutches of the Racist Religious Right Republican (R4) Bush-ite primitives. At an even more refined level, some Mind exercises can be personally transformative. Thus 6 months ago I was introduced to “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron (a book designed to help artists and writers overcome an artistic “block”) and commenced doing the prescribed daily “Morning Pages” exercise (several pages of spontaneous writing daily). Doors opened in my mind and my painting changed dramatically. Indeed my anti-war humanitarian message of Peace and Respect for Mother and Child was transformed into “saying it in pictures”, with my huge pro-Peace paintings being  exhibited with explanatory text on MWC News: “Sydney Madonna”  , “Manhattan Madonna” , “Qana” and  “Truelove” .

Speak out. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent people are obliged to inform others about abuses of human rights. That obligation to speak out becomes acute when horrendous avoidable mortality is involved. Thus a quick check of UNICEF on the Web (see: HERE ) will quickly establish that 0.5 million under-5 year old infants die each year (90% avoidably) in the US Alliance-occupied Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories i.e. 1,300 per day and one per minute. Yet the Mainstream media and public figures of the complicit Western societies  steadfastly ignore this horrendous holocaust in continuing acts of Holocaust Commission and Holocaust Denial (see MWC News).

Write letters to elected representatives and the media, write carefully researched articles for Alternative media, write blogs, or just simply inform your friends and associates – we cannot walk by on the other side. Speak out – at least tell someone each day.

Try the SIX GRACES (or a version you can tailor for yourself) and do your bit to help save the Planet. Have a happy and productive New Year!

Dr Gideon Polya,  MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---

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