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Society + Culture,  Shocking, NON-REPORTED Commonwealth Games statistics
by Gideon Polya
 THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES have just concluded in Melbourne after 10 days of exciting competition. AUSTRALIA topped the Games medal list with 221 medals altogether (84 Gold, 69 Silver and 68 bronze) and of course there were many stunning performances.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA have saturated Australia and no doubt the Commonwealth as well with sporting statistics - but there are a lot of relevant, Commonwealth-related facts and statistics that lying, Mainstream Media will simply NOT report. The British Commonwealth is made up of Britain and its former colonies of over the last 2 centuries. A notable exception is Mozambique which was never actually ruled by Britain but certainly suffered under the Portuguese (Britain’s oldest ally) and also suffered egregiously from proto-Nazi White terrorists as a “front-line” state in the fight for Majority Rule in South Africa and Zimbabwe (see: here ). Fiji (great at rugby Sevens) and Nigeria (tops in athletics) were suspended because of military rule but have been re-admitted. Pakistan (first class in hockey) was suspended because of a military coup – but was re-admitted because, while it is still ruled by the same military dictatorship, it is now part of the Bush-Blair global fight for “freedom” and “Western values” that has so far caused the excess deaths of about 2.3 million fellow Asian Muslims (see MWC News: ). NOTABLE DIGNITARIES who adorned the Commonwealth included Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Cherie and Tony Blair (UK), Jeanette and John Howard (Australia) and Dr Condoleezza Rice (Dr Death) (USA). They all met with the brilliant young athletes and attracted considerable media attention. Indeed John Howard seemed to be present nearly every day, notwithstanding Category 5 Cyclone Larry that devastated Northern Queensland and demanded more “photo opportunities” up there - before he scampered back to Melbourne to bask further in the reflected glory of even more outstanding Australian sporting performances. Mainstream Media did NOT, of course, report the most important Commonwealth statistics, those that relate to infant mortality, HIV infection and “avoidable mortality”. (Avoidable mortality, or technically excess mortality, is the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country and the deaths EXPECTED for a peaceful, decently run country with the same demographics – and can be readily estimated, year by year since 1950 from the latest UN-provided statistics). The post-1950 avoidable mortality for countries of the British Commonwealth totals about 0.7 billion and nearly all of this occurred during the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the so-called New Elizabethan Age. Independence has clearly ameliorated the appalling British colonial avoidable mortality in Asia but the non-European countries (with some notable and excellent standouts like most island Caribbean countries, Brunei, Fiji, Mauritius, the Maldives, Mauritius, Singapore and Sri Lanka) are still doing badly after (in some cases) several centuries of almost genocidal British rule. Formerly British Africa and South Asia are disaster areas and the countries with the highest “proportion of the population HIV positive” are mostly former British colonies in Southern and Eastern Africa. Thus the leading countries in relation to the percentage the population that is HIV positive (2003) are nearly all former British colonies and (listed in descending order) are: 20.6% (Swaziland), 19.9% (Botswana), 17.9% (Lesotho), 14.1% (Zimbabwe), 11.9% (South Africa), 10.7% (Namibia), 8.6% (Zambia), 7.0% (Mozambique, formerly Portuguese), 7.5% (Malawi), 6.8% (Central African Republic, formerly French), 4.4% (Tanzania) and 3.8% (Kenya) see MWC News: ). The “annual death rate” in India declined from a genocidal 3.5% in 1947 under the racist British to about 0.9% now (still twice what it should be). The death rate up to about 1920 was an appalling 4.8 %. The avoidable mortality in India under the British was about 0.6 billion (1747-1831), 0.5 billion (under Queen Victoria, 1837-1901) and 0.4 billion (1901-1947). Things dramatically improved after Independence with India’s population soaring from about 0.35 billion (1947) to over 1.0 billion (2006). Nevertheless, the “Indian élite” learned well from the genocidal “British Establishment”, and while the catastrophic famines of British India ceased after Independence, the Indian Establishment was much less successful at dealing with endemic poverty than the Chinese. Thus the post-1950 avoidable mortality has totalled 352 million for India (present population 1097 million) as compared to 156 million for China (present population 1322 million) – these figures reflecting the realities of poor, “greatest democracy”, emergent India and rich, burgeoning, “great power” China (see: here ). DURING THE 10 DAYS OF COMPETITION some newsworthy things happened that were NOT reported by lying, Mainstream Media – they are reflected in the following AVOIDABLE DEATHS for that 10 DAY period: 210 Australian aborigines; 4,200 Iraqis; 11,450 Afghans; 2,940 under-5 year old Iraqi infants; 8,210 Afghan under-5 year old infants; 450,000 people globally (mostly in the Third World); and 260,000 under-5 year old infants globally (again, mostly in the Third World). How obscene it was to see major Coalition players (notably Blair, Dr Rice (DR DEATH) and Howard) with a major complicity in the Bush War carnage - and indeed in the continuing Third World Holocaust - shaking hands and socializing with our innocent, brilliant young athletes. Lying, racist Mainstream Media will simply NOT report the above statistics – so it is up to decent people around the world to TELL EVERYBODY. Further, ANYONE apprised of these statistics who buys goods or services from those complicit in these horrendous Coalition crimes against humanity – crimes largely against Mother and Child - ALSO becomes COMPLICIT. ================= Dr Gideon Polya, a contributing editor to MWC News Magazine, 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 --- Contact Dr.Polya By E-mail Read other columns by author in this site Recommend this article...
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