"Manhattan Madonna" by Gideon Polya
UN data show that 0.7 million people, including 0.4 million infants, die avoidably in the US Occupied Territories each year under Obama - his Nobel Peace Prize means "war is peace, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom".
I have illustrated this article about the UNFORGIVABLE US Alliance passive mass murder under Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama of about 4 million Iraqi and Afghan children with my huge painting "Manhattan Madonna" (1.3 x 2.9 meters; for detailed discussion see "Manhattan Madonna & 9/11": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10766/26/ ).
Consult UNICEF (see: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ) and you will discover that 338,000 under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants die each year, 90% avoidably and due to war criminal non-supply of life-sustaining food and medical requisites unequivocally demanded of Occupiers by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (see: http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/y4gcpcp.htm ).
Thus 0.9 x 338,000 = 304,000 under-5 year old Occupied Afghan infants die avoidably each year due to US war crimes under Obama - that's 304,000/365 = 833 per day or 833/day x 262 days = 218,000 avoidable Occupied Afghan under-5 infant deaths in the 262 days in which Obama has been in office.
By this utterly disgusting decision - awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to Obama who has killed over 200,000 innocent infants in Occupied Afghanistan alone (so far, in a mere 262 days) - the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is saying, like Big Brother in George Orwell's "1984", that "War is Peace".
Of course Obama is a relative newcomer to the war criminal US Alliance mass infanticide in Occupied Afghanistan (and in Occupied Iraq, Occupied Palestine, Occupied Haiti, Occupied Somalia, NW Pakistan) – the whale-killing, war crime accessory, Orwellian Norwegians overlooked the lengthier participation of Bush (US), Blair (UK), Brown (UK), Harper (Canada), Merkel (Germany) , Sarkozy (France), Howard (Australia), Rudd (Australia) and their underlings in the mass murder of Muslim Asian children.
Further, the passive mass murder of Occupied Afghan infants is merely PART of Obama's warmongering, war-making, war criminal curriculum vitae that in 10 months has won him the Nobel Peace Prize (aka the Nobel War Prize).
Consulting UNICEF (see: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ) we obtain the following estimates of "annual under-5 infant deaths" in the following countries subject to occupation by the US or US-backed surrogates: Occupied Afghanistan (338,000), Occupied Haiti (21,000), Occupied Iraq (41,000)), Occupied Palestinian Territory (4,000), and Occupied Somalia (54,000), for a total of 458,000 per annum and 1,255 per day (note that this analysis ignores Occupied Diego Garcia that has been completely ethnically cleansed, partially occupied countries such as Lebanon and Syria and countries subject to ongoing US-backed wars, notably the US robot-bombed NW Provinces of Pakistan).
About 90% of these under-5 infant deaths are avoidable and accordingly, "avoidable annual under-5 infant deaths" in these countries occupied by the US or by US-backed surrogates are (to the nearest thousand) : Occupied Afghanistan (304,000), Occupied Haiti (19,000), Occupied Iraq (37,000), Occupied Palestinian Territory (4,000), and Occupied Somalia (49,000), for a total of 413,000 "avoidable annual under-5 infant deaths" per year and 1,132 daily.
Accordingly, in the 262 days in office before award of the Nobel Peace Prize (aka the Nobel War Prize) warmonger, war-maker and war criminal Obama has been responsible for 262 days x 1,132 deaths/day = 296,584 or about 0.3 million avoidable under-5 infant deaths in his wars and occupations – and those are just the NON-violent infant deaths from war criminal deprivation imposed by the US Alliance Occupiers.
However for impoverished Third World countries – the sort of countries on whom the cowardly and racist US Establishment makes war - the "annual under-5 infant deaths" are about 0.7 of the non-violent "total annual avoidable deaths" (annual excess deaths, avoidable mortality, excess mortality, deaths that should not have happened) (see "Layperson's guide to counting Iraq deaths": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ ) which accordingly are as follows in these countries occupied by the US or by US-backed surrogates: Occupied Afghanistan (483,000), Occupied Haiti (30,0000), Occupied Iraq (59,000), Occupied Palestinian Territory (6,000), and Occupied Somalia (77,000), for a total of 655,000 non-violent avoidable deaths per year and 1,795 each day.
Accordingly, in the 262 days in office before award of the Nobel Peace Prize (aka the Nobel War Prize) Obama was responsible for 262 days x 1,795 deaths/day = 470,290 or about 0.5 million avoidable deaths in his wars and occupations – and those are just the NON-violent deaths from war criminal deprivation imposed by the US Alliance Occupiers.
Since about 50% of the population of these impoverished, war -torn, US- or US-surrogate-occupied countries are Children, we can estimate that there are about 900 non-violent avoidable Child deaths every day in the Overseas American Empire. This is consonant with the above estimate of about 1,100 under-5 infant deaths daily i.e. about 1,000 kids die avoidably every day in the Overseas American Empire due to Occupier war crimes (see "Hey, hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer 1,000": http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article18750 ).
The fundamental bottom line in any comparative analysis of violent wrongdoing is consequential death. The current "annual death rate" for Occupied Afghan under-5 year old infants under the US Alliance is 7% - as compared to that of 4% (for Poles under the Nazis in WW2), 5% (French Jews under the Nazis and the Nazi-collaborator Vichy régime in WW2), 13% (Australian POWs of the Japanese in WW2) and 19% (Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe) (see "Polish Holocaust (1939-1945) & Afghan Holocaust (2001- )": http://gpolya.newsvine.com/_news/2009/09/02/3218030-polish-holocaust-1939-1945-afghan-holocaust-2001- ).
Of course the bigger picture is even worse. About 0.4 million infants die avoidably each year in the US Occupied Territories under Obama, 9.5 million infants die avoidably world-wide annually from deprivation under Obama and 60 million infants will die annually on average this century through Obama- and First World-imposed climate genocide (for details and documentation see "School war crimes tribunals. Can children save the world's children?": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/33643/42/ ).
About 0.7 million people die avoidably from deprivation each year in the Obama-led US Alliance Occupied Territories; 16 million people die avoidably each year on Spaceship Earth with Obama in charge of the flight deck; and 100 million people are predicted to die avoidably on average each year this century due to First World-imposed climate genocide (with Obama US a major contributor with 5% of the World's population and consuming 25% of the resources).
However the holocaust-complicit and holocaust–ignoring Mainstream media and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee choose to ignore these horrendous realities.
How many countries do you have to occupy and devastate and how many people do you have to kill to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
In the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories post-invasion non-violent excess deaths total 0.3 million, 1.0 million and 3.2 million, respectively; post-invasion violent deaths total about 11,000, 1.3 million and up to 4 million, respectively; post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths total 0.3 million, 2.3 million and 3-4 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.2 million, 0.6 million and 2.3 million, respectively; and refugees total 7 million, 5-6 million and 3-4 million, respectively, plus a further 2.5 million Pashtun refugees generated in NW Pakistan under Obama. Excess deaths and under-5 infant deaths in Iraq under Sanctions totalled 1.7 million and 1.2 million, respectively (see "Pro-Zionist Western genocide denial": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29844/26/ ). .
This constitutes a Palestinian Holocaust, an Iraqi Holocaust and an Afghan Holocaust; a Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide and Afghan Genocide as defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention; and egregious, Obama-complicit war crimes due in part to Occupier war criminal non-supply of life-sustaining food and medical requisites demanded unequivocally by Articles 55 and 56 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War – thus the Gaza Concentration Camp has been under US-backed Israeli blockade for 2 years and according to WHO the "total annual per capita medical expenditure" permitted by the Occupiers in Occupied Iraq and Occupied Afghanistan is US$124 and US$29, respectively, as compared to US$6,714 for the US (see "Pro-Zionist Western genocide denial": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/29844/26/ ).
3,000 people died on 9-11 (an atrocity involving explosive demolition of the WTC buildings and hence US and very likely Israeli complicity, according to the latest scientific evidence, "Scientific Facts on 9/11 Point at US. Obama accessory after the fact of 9-11": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/33114/26/ ). Yet the US response to 9-11 has involved the avoidable deaths of 9-11 million people throughout the world (see " 9-11 Excuse for US Global Genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: Millions [9-11 million] Dead in Bush [now Obama] Wars [1990-2009]": http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25184/42/ ).
Reality has now grossly exceeded satire and in the world under Emperor Obama the injunctions of Big Brother in George Orwell's novel "1984" have become the horrible Newspeak reality of the New World Order: " War is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength and 2 plus 2 does not equal 4".
this is not correctly categorized. It should not be a News: Event. It should be News: Opinion.
I would suggest changing it.
It is opinion.
Yes, you are using data within your article, but you have decided to interpret the data on your own, and add your own take on the background and who should bear the responsibility for it.
That is opinion.
And apparently, you are advertising your painting.
Gideon,
Not many people would disagree with you that it is totally ridiculous that Obama was awarded a Nobel peace prize when he's done nothing as of yet to warrant it.
The information you present about all the deaths of children in "occupied territories" on the other hand leaves much to be discussed. Your obvious hatred of the US government seems to cloud your judgement in looking at the overall big picture of the world around you. For instance why do you fail to see that many of these as you put it "preventable deaths" would occur regardless of whether or not there was any occupation by any nation.
You seem to also conveniently overlook the vast amount of good the US does worldwide in humanitarian assistance. What about the hundreds of thousands of tons of food provided to these refugees? What about all the Army hospitals, doctors, engineers, teachers, construction brigades, etc. that operate in these areas? How many lives are saved by the aid given from these specialized military units? What about all the villages that are getting running water, sewage systems, hospitals, schools, roads, electricity, and so forth through the efforts of these troops?
In war there are always civilian casualties no sane person would deny that. But the US goes out of it's way to minimize civilian deaths as a result of our military operations. I think if you were to focus solely on just areas under dirsect US control instead of lumping them into every conflict spot on earth as one you'd see a different picture.
each year 338,000 infants die annually in Occupied Afghanistan (population 26 million) verus 2,000 in Occupier Australia (population 21 million) (for references see article).
I haven't really done any research into this matter but looking at the Unicef site it would seem that while still high the under 5 mortality rate has steadily declined since the US occupation. That was what I was trying to get at is how many of these deaths would be occurring even if the US was not in the country. Is there any relevant data you could point out on what the difference is in the overall numbers before and after occupation? It would appear from what I have seen so far that even though things are bad they would have been worse if the US was not involved and making a humanitarian effort to help the civilian population.
Investing In People: Health and Education
Under the Taliban, only 900,000 boys and no girls were enrolled in schools. Today, as a result of efforts by the Afghan government, the United States, and other donors, over 6 million children are in school, and one-third of enrolled students are girls. By the end of Taliban rule, 80 percent of schools were severely damaged or destroyed. To improve the situation, USAID constructed or refurbished over 680 schools and distributed more than 60 million textbooks. USAID created an accelerated learning program that enrolled over 170,000 students, more than half of whom were girls.The health status of Afghans is among the worst in the world; one out of every five Afghan children dies before the age of five. As a result of the work of USAID and other donors, over 80 percent of the population has access to some form of health care, up from 8 percent in 2002. In addition, the infant mortality rate has dropped by 22 percent. Afghanistan is one of just four countries in the world where polio remains endemic. However, as a result of U.S. assistance since 2002, over 90 percent of children under five years old have been vaccinated against the disease.
This is quoted from http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia/countries/afghanistan/
That is a listing of just some of the non military aid programs going on in Afghanistan. I don't believe that when looking at what's been accomplished it can be said that the US is not making a positive impact especially on the children.
Could we do more? Probably so, but in that respect you would be 100% correct to properly blame Obama for a lack of action. Aid and development programs can't function in areas where there is no security and violence is rampant. US generals have stated how many soldiers they need to secure the whole country and maintain peace for these efforts. The leadership of the US government has so far failed to provide the needed men and equipment for this task.
4. By way of comparison, in only partially occupied Syria, subject to US and Israel bombing, Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Golan Heights and needing to look after about 1 million Iraqi refugees from US destruction of Occupied Iraq:
This is where you tend to lose much of the sympathy and support people would otherwise have for what your advocating. When has the US bombed Syria? Lumping nations together in their individual actions over simplifies a larger problem and serves no purpose. The US is allied to Israel but has no direct or indirect control over what Israel does.
You've overlooked another very relevant point here as well. Syria even with the refugees has a much more advanced system of government and medical care than has ever existed in Afghanistan. No amount of relief supplies in the way of medicine or food will compensate for lack of basic items like clean water, shelter, and sanitation. The US government has been working steadily toward building this infrastructure in Afghanistan while simultaneously fighting the Taliban and Al Queda and delivering food, clothes, and medical supplies.
Trust me when I say I have no care at all for Obama, but I don't believe the UN is going to find much if any fault in the way the US has handled the humanitarian aspect of Afghanistan. The thing the current and former president is most guilty of is not providing enough manpower to secure the country and allow the aid to be more effectively distributed.
It isn't a matter of "could we do more" than the genocidal $29 per person per year of health expenditure permitted Occupied Afghans by their war criminal American captors - the Geneva Convention states that an Occupier MUST provide life-sustaining food and medicine to its conquered subjects "to the fullest extent of the means available to it" and anything LESS is a war crime.
I think this is where we have the only real separation of opinion here. The US is not in control of Afghanistan and the people of that country are not "conquered subjects" of the US. The US forces are operating jointly with the Afghan government and NATO aligned forces to fight the Taliban and Al Queda insurgents there. When you make the comparison to say German occupied areas in WWII the Germans were in complete and total control of those areas. The US is not in control of Afghanistan and is not the government making the all the decisions on what's being done where in the country.
I would also point out that the dollar figure is actually irrelevant in the context of things because of the exchange rates and what can be purchased in various areas with differing currencies. I just ran a quick check and see that $29 in US currency converts to $1434.63 in Afghan currency. $29 won't even buy a visit to see a doctor in the US but it will buy $1434.63 worth of food and services in Afghanistan.
The US Alliahce has occupied Occupied Afghanistan and is attempting to secure total control
That's the key part right there. We are not yet in total control of the security and therefore cannot effectively deal with proper assistance in aid giving. This is where I agree with you about Obama. The US could exert full control and ensure that adequate supplies were available to the civilian population if Obama would authorize the troops and supplies required to do the job.
If we had full control of the country our forces would be free to work on building infrastructure, distributing supplies, and assisting local governments with helping their own people and creating a lasting stabilization. Regrettably we don't and will not have full control until Obama authorizes the forces requested by US generals to get the job done.
I think that US forces are doing all that they can do in the given circumstances because the civilian government is not allocating enough resources. I do believe we agree on the aspect that US leaders in government are responsible for that situation.
I wouldn't include Palestine in anything regarding the US though as far as occupation or control. The Palestinian situation is internal to Israel and the US has no direct control or input into what occurs there. Also keep in mind that the vast majority of food, medical supplies, and other humanitarian aid going to that region comes from the US. The same thing could be said for much of the continent of Africa. The greatest majority of food and other aid going to Africa originates in the US.
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