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10 Million Reasons Why UK Must Vote Liberal Democrat
And Dump Labour

By Dr Gideon Polya

22 April, 2010
Countercurrents.org

British Labour and the Tories have been variously involved in supporting genocidal  US Alliance atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories that have been associated (so far) with about 9 million violent and non-violent avoidable deaths. A further about 1 million people have died world-wide over the last 8.5 years due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% currently. There are accordingly 10 million reasons why British voters must vote in the Liberal Democrats and Dump Labour.  

The upcoming British Election is a three horse race between the pro-war, pro-Zionist, war criminal Labour, the pro-war, pro-Zionist, war criminal Tories and the significantly anti-war Liberal Democrats.

Ordinary workers had every reason in the past to vote Labour and to reject the Tories, the traditional class enemy. However Labour has utterly betrayed decent, anti-racist British Labour voters and has turned Britain onto a nation of genocidal war criminals.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats have similar domestic social policies but differ over Labour's commitment to racist US Alliance wars, occupations  and ongoing Holocausts and Genocides in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories .  British voters should kick Labour out, Put Labour Last, Dump Labour and vote for the Liberal Democrats.

Note that Holocaust means the destruction of a large number of people. However Genocide is very precisely defined in International Law as “ acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group” as set out by Article 2 of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention : “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” (see: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html ).

The following analyses derive from data provided by the UN Population Division and reveal the horrendous extent of the genocidal atrocities in which Labour has made all Britons complicit, specifically the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide, Muslim Genocide, Biofuel Genocide, the Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust  and Climate Genocide (British involvement is summarized in parentheses).

The Palestinian Holocaust and Palestinian Genocide involves 0.3 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 0.2 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 7 million refugees (see “Palestinian Genocide”:   http://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ ) (Zionist- and US-beholden Labour is resolutely pro-Zionist).

The Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide involves 2.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 0.8 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, and 5-6 million refugees (2003-2010) and in the period  1990-2010,  4.4 million violent and non-violent excess deaths and  2.0 million under-5 infant deaths (see “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/  (Labour under Blair and Brown has been intimately involved in the Iraqi Holocaust and Iraqi Genocide).

The Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide involves 1.1 million post-invasion violent deaths, 3.4 million non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation, 4.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, 2.4 million post-invasion under-5 infant deaths, 3-4 million refugees plus 2.5 million NW Pakistan Pashtun refugees generated under Obama (see: http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ). (Labour has militarily supported the US Afghan War).

However the Afghan War has had a further deadly consequence, namely the opiate drug-related deaths of about 0.9 million people world–wide due to US Alliance restoration Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium died world-wide over the last 9 years due to US Alliance restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 6% of world market share in 2001 to 93% now (see “Obama as World's #1 terrorist, #1 war criminal, #1 child killer, #1 Drug Pusher & #1 Drug Lord”: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19648 ).

There were 3,161 drug-related deaths in the UK in 2005 (UK ONS statistics; European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, EMCDDA: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/stats07/drdtab05a ). Because of multiple drug use, opioids are present in most cases of 'acute drug-related deaths', due to illegal substances identified and reported in the EU (range 46-100%; 64% in the UK ; EMCDDA: http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/stats07/DRD ). We could then conservatively estimate 0.64 x 3,161 = 2,023 annual opiate-related deaths in the UK and accordingly 8.5 years x 2,023 deaths/year = 17,200 post-2001 UK opiate–related deaths.

It should be also noted that very substantial additional deaths from opiate drug use include those from AIDS/HIV and hepatitis via dirty syringes, from deprivation and from crime-related violence. Thus the prevalence of HIV among people who inject drugs ranges from about 11% (Western Europe) to 27% (Eastern Europe), although it ranges from only about 1-3% (Pacific Islands, Australasia and Middle East and North Africa) (see : http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/
WDR_2009/WDR2009_Opium_Heroin_Market.pdf
).

The Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust involves 1950-2005 excess deaths that totalled 1.3 billion for the World, 1.2 billion for the non-European World and 0.6 billion for the mostly post-colonial Muslim  World. In 2003 16 million people died avoidably each year due to deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; in 2010 about 22 million  people die avoidably each year (see my book "Body Count. Global voidable mortality since 1950" , G.M. Polya, Melbourne , 2007, and "Global avoidable mortality": http://globalavoidablemortality.blogspot.com/ ) (Labor has presided over a UK that is complicit with the US and EU in the First World-imposed Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust).  .

The worsening  Climate Holocaust and Climate Genocide is due to man-made global warming that increasingly impacts the current 22 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease; estimates from top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock and Professor Kevin Anderson point to 10 billion avoidable deaths this century due to unaddressed global warming, this including 6 billion infants, 3 billion Muslims in a near-terminal, 21st century Muslim Holocaust , 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans,  0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis (see: http://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ) (Labour is complicit with the EU and US in climate change inaction. The annual per capita greenhouse gas pollution in tonnes CO2-e per person per year is  0.9 (Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan), 2.2 (India), less than 3 (many African and Island countries), 3.2 (the Developing World), 5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (UK and Europe), 16 (the Developed World), 27 (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia's huge Exported CO 2 pollution is included: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita and http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/australia-s-ghg-pollution ; se also “Climate Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ) .

A worsening Biofuel Holocaust and Biofuel Genocide is affecting billions of people worldwide due to legislatively mandated conversion of food to fuel in the US, EU and Labour-ruled UK (see “Biofuel Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/biofuelgenocide/  ).

I have done my duty as a decent, anti-racist , humanitarian scientist by making a Formal Complaint about these atrocities to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (see “ 9 January 2010 Formal Complaint by Dr Gideon Polya to the International Criminal Court (ICC) re US Alliance Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi, Genocide,  Afghan Genocide, Muslim Genocide, Aboriginal Genocide, Biofuel Genocide and Climate Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/9-january-2010-formal-complaint ). Britons must do their duty by Dumping Labour and voting in the Liberal Democrats.

British Labour is complicit  in all of the above atrocities as is the Australian Labor Party (aka the Apartheid Labor Party) and has essentially made ALL Britons complicit in these appalling crimes. Decent, anti-racist  voters must “Dump Labour” in the  first-past-the-post  the UK elections and “Put Labor Last” in Apartheid Australia 's compulsory preferential voting system  (see “2010 Elections in pro-war UK and Apartheid Australia : Put Labour Last in UK , Put Labor Last in Australia ”: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article19648 ).

Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Decent, anti-racism, humanitarian British voters must (a) tell everyone they can about Labour's genocidal crimes and (b) help kick Labour out, Dump Labour and vote for the Liberal Democrats. There are 10 million reasons why decent British voters must vote in the Liberal Democrats and Dump Labour.

Dr Gideon Polya currently teaches science students at a major Australian university. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London , 2003). He has recently published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); see also his contribution “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007): http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ). He has just published a revised and updated 2008 version of his 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ) as biofuel-, globalization- and climate-driven global food price increases threaten a greater famine catastrophe than the man-made famine in British-ruled India that killed 6-7 million Indians in the “forgotten” World War 2 Bengal Famine (see recent BBC broadcast involving Dr Polya, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and others: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/ bengalfamine_programme.html ). When words fail one can say it in pictures - for images of Gideon Polya's huge paintings for the Planet, Peace, Mother and Child see: http://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/ .