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Helo Rhisiart,
Thank you very much for your kind and supportive comments here and on Media Lens. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to inform others about all abuses of humanity - we cannot walk by on the other side.
In particular we must speak out for the Indigenous Peoples of this World e.g. the Inuit (threatened by First World-derived global warming that will see all Arctic summer ice gone within 4years); the Occupied Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans (post-invasion excess deaths 0.3 million, 2.3 million and 3-7 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million; refugees 7 million, 6 million and 4 million - genocides as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention); the Indigenous Australians in Australia's Northern Territory - subject to race-based discriminatory laws and ongoing Aboriginal Genocide by Apartheid Australia (9,000 Australian Aboriginal excess deaths annually from an Aboriginal population of 0.5 million), and having an "annual death rate" of 2.4% as compared to 0.4% (what it should be), 3% (Bengalis starved to death by the British in the "forgotten" WW2 Bengali Holocaust in 1943-1945), 2.5% (for Australian sheep), 2.9% (inmates of the Nazi German Buchenwald death camp), 7.0% (under-5 year old Afghan infants in US alliance- and Australian-occupied Afghanistan), 10.1% (Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese in WW2), and 17% (Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, 1941-1945).
Of course all of this horror suffered by Indigenous Peoples pales into significance in comparison with worsening, First World-driven climate genocide (global warming currently contributes to 16 million excess deaths from deprivation annually and from top climate scientist estimates is set to kill 10 billion non-Europeans this century - including 6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims, 2 billion Indians and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis).
Please inform everyone you can.
Cymru am byth! (Wales for ever!). Y Ddraig Goch ddyry gychwyn! (The Red Dragon will show the way!).
Cofion gorau, Gideon Polya
Siwmae (Hiya) Gideon,
I wanted to send you a private email, but couldn't find an address. So --
Just wanted to say that I picked up your name and some of your commentaries from your reposting of them on the Medialens Message Board, and I've been impressed by your unusual level of uncompromising honesty at calling the very ugliest of the spades in our time by their proper names: spades, not earth-relocating non-powered equipment.
I agree particularly with your constant effort to publicise just what a genocidal species we can be, when we adopt the Western-imperialist mode of being.
As you can imagine, this reality, universally invisible amongst almost everyone in Western-type societies, isn't popular. But it needs to be shouted out, over and over again, with constant careful verification and evidence-presentation, until it becomes more familiar -- as it surely should.
Naturally, pioneers such as you will have to go through the usual knee-jerk responses of those who detest your truth-telling: 'First they ignore you; then they rubbish you; then they fight you; then you win.' But that's just their inadequacy at facing up to truths that they don't happen to like.
I hope you won't weaken or quit, Gid. This stuff needs saying resolutely, for as long as it takes to get it accepted as the truth that it is.
Cofion gorau (Best remembrances), Rhisiart Gwilym
"Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein gives some rational to the insane events of the past 50 years.
"Complacency is the mother of all evil".. Keep spreading the truth!
Dear Dr. Polya,
I read with interest your great article "Were US & Israel Behind the 9/11?"
Having studied 9/11 for years, I believe you are on target! I think you might also enjoy looking at the theory of Dr. Judy Wood. You see, the US has a great "controlled opposition" going on with the "allowable" alternative theory of the towers being felled by explosions that the US President George W. Bush told us were planted there by "Operatives."
Here is the US leader [sic] telling us what happened on 9/11:
"For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping. "
Since 60 percent of Americans (and 100 percent of non-Americans) know that this man lies each and every single time he opens his mouth? You and I can rest assured that no Muslim "operatives" planted any explosives high up in the towers!
Explosives in the backpacks of Muslim cave-dwellers inside the WTC in NYC? I don't THINK so, Mr. Bush!!!
Here's the theory, however, I actually buy - the one that points the finger on the US military as the real and primary perps:
I also wanted to mention to you that if you are doing a book on global mortality, you miiiiiiight just wish to include the death of the planet, courtesy of primarily US toxic, radioactive Uranium munitions and above-ground military training and uh, "testing" (and nuke tests, too).
I am a writer/activist around the subject of so-called "Depleted" Uranium and do believe that the US is de-populating the world quite nicely - and permanently, too!
I am considering a "holiday" in Australia. One that never ends, that is. I hear that the fascism hasn't taken as firm a grip there - yet...
Good luck to you on your book! And may you continue to expose the Evil Doers in my midst!
Best wishes,
Cathy Garger
savorsuccesslady3@yahoo.com
I'd like to get in touch with Dr Gideon Polya. If you can help with a working email address I'd be very grateful.
Gideon brings a scientific analysis of the consequences of politics which I wish received more consideration in the making of policy. It's very important information he puts forward - essential reading.
— Djehuty
Your persistent world view based on ethical calculus and excess mortality rates and your consistent push for rational humanism is simply impressive, Gideon.
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