Comments on: Arab Uproar

By: AaronG

AaronG — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:15:58 +0000

Mary, I can see exactly why a corporate newspaper would not print those words. I had a quick scan of Dr Polya’s comment, edited out the “non-polite-words-that-my-readers-and-advertisers-should-be-protected-from” and came up with this that is sanitary enough to print:

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By: mary

mary — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:42:29 +0000

ZBC are now saying that King Abdullah of Jordan has dismissed the government.

eg Twitter – irinaursu‎ RT @euronews: BREAKING NEWS: Jordan’s King Abdullah has dismissed his government and appointed a new prime minister, according to officials.
Twitter – 11
11 seconds ago

By: mary

mary — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:01:30 +0000

This excellent comment from Dr Gideon Polya was censored by The Age, an Australian paper. It was sent in response to an article about the Egyptian revolution by Mona Eltahawy who is a radical.

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The Age published an article by UK-based Egyptian writer and lecturer Mona Eltahawy on the current Egyptian Revolution and entitled “All Egyptians are being liberated from the burden of history” (The Age, Melbourne, 31 January 2011: {http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/all-egyptians-are-being-liberated-from-the-burden-of-history-20110130-1a9qi.html }

The Age is arguably Australia’s most liberal Mainstream medium, but it apparently declined to publish the carefully researched, informed and credentialled views of Dr Gideon Polya while publishing about 20 views of mostly anonymous bloggers about the article.

This is what The Age’s Censor(s) decided that its readers should not read or know:

“Excellent article. One hopes that the Egyptian people will throw out the US-backed, pro-Israel Mubarak dictatorship and achieve a genuine democracy, setting an example for the whole Arab world.

A key aspect of the dead hand of Anglo-American and Anglo-American-backed Israeli domination of the Arab world is the deadly deprivation of 300 million Arabs outside the Gulf States. This has a dreadful consequence measured as avoidable mortality (excess mortality, excess deaths, avoidable death, deaths that did not have to happen) that can be measured using UN data as the difference between the actual deaths in a country and the deaths expected fro a decently governed, peaceful country with same demographics.

Annual avoidable mortality in Egypt under Mubarak has been 0.22% (2003 data), this meaning today that each year 180,000 Egyptians die avoidably from deprivation out of a population of 82 million and that about 16 million have died avoidably from deprivation since 1950 (see “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950″).

The annual avoidable death rate of 0.22% for Egyptians under Mubarak can be compared with 0.0% (Arab Gulf States), 0.05% for Western Europe, 0.38% (South Asia), 0.97% (non-Arab Africa) and 1.8% (Indigenous Australians).

Of acute relevance to the Egyptian tragedy is the 50% increase in international cereal grain prices in the last year (Google “World Food Situation”).

Anglo-American-backed, genocidal colonization of Palestine, US-backed Israeli occupation of territory of all its neighbours, US backing of Arab dictators and the Anglo-American-imposed Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide (4.4 million dead, 1990-2011) has devastated the Arab world.

All decent folk hope that Egypt will arise again.”

By: bozh

bozh — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:06:05 +0000

the question of utmost importance arises, who will in any system of rule, rule the govts?
or to put it another way, who wld supervise an executive class of people? who manages a safeway manager? who manages w.h. management?
who’d manage it in another structure of governance?

present governances in so many lands have not built-in safeguard: that of supervising supervisers.

if u’r not able to devise a governance that is self-correcting or as explained above, not much good wld happen for the underclass.
one just shld not tinker with a pot that has to be held together by plastics!
most of the Left in u.s. appears happy just to tinker with broken and an niniquitos structure.
some people call this attitude “pseudo-left”, “chomskyism”, and use such meaningless labels
and, folks, we need to evaluate nearly all labels as hunting for souls! tnx