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MWC News 4th Anniversary 
Congratulations MWC News on 4 years of courageous, ethical and humanitarian reportage!
Decent anti-racist, humanitarian folk around the world understand the crucial need for media to REPORT THE TRUTH – especially when that truth relates to gross human rights abuses and avoidable mass morbidity and mortality. However this powerful plea of Humanity in general can be re-stated from a scientific perspective as follows.
Rational risk management (that has made aviation very safe and is crucially important in heavy industry, defence, nuclear power plants etc - all areas where errors can be catastrophic) has a general applicability and successively involves (a) getting accurate data, (b) scientific analysis (involving the critical testing potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) systemic change (to minimize risk of morbidity, mortality or other loss when - inevitably - there is human error, mechanical malfunction or other adverse circumstances) (see my detailed and extensive course lecture notes on the subject.
Unfortunately the Mainstream media and political Establishments of the Western Murdochracies (and others e.g. the Burma, Sudan, Congo etc etc régimes) routinely ignore and pervert this rational risk management protocol by replacing it with (a) lies, censorship, intimidation and obfuscation, (b) anti-science spin (involving selection of asserted facts to support a partisan position) and (c) blame and shame (thereby cutting off mandatory reportage) and with war, famine and pestilence the most appalling outcomes.
Thus major aid agency warnings indicate that scores of thousands will die because of tardy aid delivery by the military regime in Burma which is keen on spin and propaganda but is appalling the world by its lack of urgency in the Cyclone Nargis aftermath – deadly perversion of rational risk management.
However the SAME evil is seen in relation to US Alliance-occupied Occupied Afghanistan where "total annual per capita medical expenditure" is $19 (NINETEEN DOLLARS) as compared to about $7,000 in the main Occupier country, the United States (WHO data) and as a consequence 327,000 under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants die each year, mainly from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease (see UNICEF Occupied Afghanistan statistics ). This carnage in US-occupied Afghanistan translates to about 470,000 (about 0.5 MILLION) avoidable deaths annually, an horrendous US Alliance war crime that is UTTERLY IGNORED by Mainstream media.
In contrast, reports related to the shocking infant deaths and avoidable deaths in Occupied Afghanistan have been reported by MWC News for 4 years (FOUR YEARS) - for the earliest and latest reports by me on MWC News about this, see ": (July 17, 2005) and (May 9, 2008).
Such shocking information about Occupied Afghanistan was recently reported by several mass circulation Asian papers, namely the Milli Gazette (the biggest paper for 200 million Indian Muslims) and the very important newspaper the Shanghai Daily (serving a country of 1.3 billion; see Shanghai Daily on US Alliance war crimes in Asia ) but IGNORED by Western media,
The annual infant death rate in occupied Afghanistan (6.2 percent) is 51 times that in occupier Australia, 38 times that in occupier US and similar to the ''annual death rate" of 10.2 percent for Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War II - a war crime for which key Japanese leaders were tried and hanged."
Congratulations, again to editor Shahram Vahdany and MWC News – one can only wish that the rest of the World media would follow Shahram's outstanding, ethical, pro-Peace, humanitarian example. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Truth saves lives.
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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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I understand your risk management comments. It is so important to get accurate data, and then of course utilize it properly. I once had to investigate why the impossible happened at work.
Essentially it was caused by a person not accepting the data that was presented, and a made flawed decision , and passed it on, ( as fare as I am concerned he deliberately lied), that resulted in situation where some individuals panicked , thus the impossible happened.
I have come to the conclusion that common patterns can occur, in many different areas, technology,
commerce, the climate , and so on.
If nations, departments, and people are fed false information by the media and the administrations, they then can be confronted with a tipping point where control is lost and the impossible happens.
I think 9/11 falls into that category, climate change is another , and what of the travesty of Iraq ,
where are the garlands of flowers, and folks taking leisurely walks in the parks? Its out of control.
Afghanistan is a lost cause to the so called allies, (or what ever they call themselves), the truth is not being told I am sure , and many people in the west will not understand why their nations are caught up in a perpetual war.
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