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The US Government is taking us for suckers. Do the sums... I did.

james Moylan | 13.05.2006 10:43 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles

I have recently spent several hours collating and considering the statistical data relating to the so-called 'War on Terror'.



So as to be sure that I am not overstating anything I have relied only on verified data released by reputable sources and supplied all the data required for you to do the sums for yourself.

the following statistics demonstrate that:
A US citizen is almost twice as likely to die from a bee sting than a terrorist.

A US citizen has a 1 in 8 609 815 of dying in a terrorist attack.

A US citizen has a 1 in 340 841 of dying in the military due to Bush's war on terrorism

A US citizen (living in the US) is 25 times more likely to die fighting terrorism than from terrorism.

The figures....

Terrorist Incidents Worldwide -: 01/01/1968 - 05/12/2006
(from MIPT Global Terrorism Database)

area incidents injuries fatalities
Africa 1021 8824 3425
East & Central Asia 204 5356 227
Eastern Europe 1325 5033 1919
Latin America & the Caribbean 3533 3753 2221
Middle East / Persian Gulf 9941 35132 16382
North America 577 4216 3565
South Asia 4355 19861 6921
Southeast Asia & Oceania 761 3864 1280
Western Europe 5376 5618 1436
totals 27093 91657 37376


Terrorist Incidents - Americans - 01/01/1968 - 05/12/2006

Country Incidents Injuries Fatalities
Canada 29 51 338
United States 548 4165 3227
totals 577 4216 3565
(includes all casualties involving Americans across the entire world)


Casualties in the Iraq war

CBC News Online | Updated May 10, 2006
since the beginning of hostilities on March 20, 2003
Total U.S. military deaths: 2425


US Population

2005 2000 1990
296,410,404 281421906 248709873

North American Mainland deaths from terrorism

1995 - 196
1996 - 0
1997 - 2
1998 - 1
1999 - 3
2000 - 3
2001 - 2987
2002 - 3
2003 - 3
2004 - 0
2005 - 0
2006 - 0
average for ten years (excluding this year) = 319.8


Accidental Deaths per year on North American Mainland

(1981 to 1994)
100 on commercial flight
850 by electrical current
1000 on a bicycle
1452 by accidental gunfire
3000 by complications to medical procedures
3600 by inhaling or ingesting objects
5000 by fire
5000 by drowning
5300 by accidental poisoning
8000 as pedestrians
11,000 at work
12,000 by falls
22,500 at home
46,000 in auto accidents


ODDS of dying from:

Cardiovascular disease: 1 in 2
Smoking (by/before age 35): 1 in 600
Car trip, coast-to-coast: 1 in 14,000
Bicycle accident: 1 in 88,000
In the military due to Bush's war on terrorism: 1 in 340 841 (my figure)
Tornado: 1 in 450,000
Train, coast-to-coast: 1 in 1,000,000
Lightning: 1 in 1.9 million
Bee sting: 1 in 5.5 million
U.S. commercial jet airline: 1 in 7 million
Terrorism: 1 in 8 609 815 (my figure)

Sources: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Berkeley
This article along with links to all information sources quoted is available on: the only sane ape in the pack.


SO WHY ALL THE FUSS?
PERHAPS WE ARE BEING TAKEN FOR A RIDE?
PERHAPS BUSH HAS HIS OWN REASONS FOR ENGAGING IN THIS WAR?
WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS SORT OF RHETORIC BEFORE?
PERHAPS BUSH IS JUST A RUN OF THE MILL FASCIST?

james Moylan
- e-mail: jamesmoylan@aapt.net.au
- Homepage: http://www.whitepage.com.au/saneape/

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We enter the 'dark ages' when we ALLOW our masters to play us for suckers

13.05.2006 18:14

No politician EVER wants you to do the sums.

The consequence of the citizens of pre-war Germany giving Hitler power was THE DEATH OF ONE-IN-TEN OF THE GERMAN POPULATION.

The GREATEST cause of early Human death are monsters like Hitler, Stalin, Bush and Blair.

Hitler, Stalin, Bush and Blair all say "give me the most extreme powers because of risk factors that in reality rank far lower than EVERY common cause of death in this nation", and then use those extreme powers to become the number one reason that Humans die early.

Greatest cause of child abuse = WAR.
Greatest cause of rape = WAR.
Greatest cause of murder = WAR.
Greatest cause of torture = WAR.
Greatest cause of theft = WAR.
Greatest cause of property destruction = WAR.
Greatest cause of poverty = WAR.
Greatest cause of loss of Human Rights = WAR.

And by greatest, I don't mean just above the next most significant factor, but MASSIVELY above the next most significant factor.

Blair is now stating that a few criminal acts by previously punished criminals means that the Human Rights Laws ***MUST*** be trashed. He controls the scare stories in ***HIS*** Mass Media. He manipulates people to demand the lowering of all protective shields in our society, so that he can bring to pass the full consequences of war.

Historically, the West is a paradise of low crime, and high standards of living. At no point in Human History have so many people lived so well. But Blair knows that his SHEEP are too ignorant to fully understand how privileged they are, and can easily be persuaded to become a howling mob, demanding that every mechanism that generates this privilege be DISMANTLED.

Most people are VERY, VERY, VERY stupid as a direct consequence of being very badly educated. They have no sense of time, or place, and certainly have no understanding of where they have come from. They ARE the people that happily throw stones in their glasshouses, and actually giggle with glee at the consequences of their vandalism, claiming that power is only defined by the ability to destroy, even when that which you destroy is their own.

Why is vandalism associated with the young? Because of the phenomenom observed in many young people, of extreme disrespect towards the creations and achievements of the previous generation. However, the ability to be mindlessly destructive is found within most people, even past their early adult years. This mindless impulse is a backlash against everything that that person resents through lack of understanding, and is boosted by feelings of severe inadequacy.

People do NOT have to feel this way, but such emotions can be thought of as a very carefully cultivated 'crop', grown to allow a monster like Blair to produce a vintage of the purest HATE.

The parent article is important since it illustrates that the simplest understanding of maths and statistics destroys every argument put forward for supporting Blair and Bush. However, the logical truth about the consequences of WAR fails to prevent war when a MASS MURDERING PSYCHOPATH such as Blair, has managed to gain political and mass media power.

The MASS MEDIA POWER is by far the most important part of the equation. Hitler, Stalin, and the Japanese rulers all, like Blair, had complete control of the Mass Media in their nations, and as a direct consequence, were able to use ruthlessly directed propaganda campaigns to destroy ALL mainstream support for Human Rights Issues, and gain the support from their populations for actions that would DIRECTLY lead to extraordinary numbers of those same people dying, with even higher numbers suffering horrifying emotional and physical trauma.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE PROTECTED BY ***EVERY LAW*** EVER PASSED IN GERMANY, RUSSIA, AND JAPAN WAS FAR, FAR, FAR SMALLER THAN THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE IN THOSE NATIONS HURT BY THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE WARS WAGED BY THEIR LEADERS DURING WW2.

(An interesting comparison occurs with the Mass Media in pre-WW2 and pre-911 America. In both cases, no single force was powerful enough to control the Mass Media, so there was a need to create the events of Pearl Harbour and 911 to allow subsequent actions by the political leaders of the US to gain near universal media support, and hence the grudging support of the population. The US seems unique in using this tactic to such an extraordinary degree. Many others have 'faked' events to get support, but never in projects anywhere near this scale.)

Law exists to protect us? Only in nations that NEVER allow their leaders to become WARLORDS. With any nation that has leaders that wage AGGRESSIVE WARFARE (like Blair has done at least 3 times DIRECTLY with Sebia/Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and once indirectly with Chechnya), the law ONLY exists to ensure the WARLORD gets his way.

We have to cheer this abuse of law, and that is where Mass Media control becomes key. Recently you had the psycho that runs Blair's holocaust denial service, 'Iraq Body Count', screaming that anybody on the left that didn't read and believe the Guardian or Independent was a terrorist. I was almost suprised he didn't namecheck me, when he attacked anyone that dared to point out that "The Guardian" is Blair's main ANTI-MUSLIM, PRO-WAR newspaper, targeted at that key segment of the UK population. DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE SERVING TIME FOR HOLOCAUST DENIAL IN GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN PRISONS FOR USING THE SAME METHODOLOGY AS IRAQ-BODY-COUNT WHEN COUNTING THE VICTIMS OF THE NAZIS. In other words, by quoting the figures produced by Iraq-Body-Count, the BBC and other Blair media bodies, are emulating the tactics of WW2 'holocaust deniers'.

Here, NEW REICH goons regularly post comments attacking those that dismiss the lies of the BBC and other propaganda organs. However, where the BBC (etc.,) reports differ from those "terrible lies told by the brown people actually at the scene of the event", and later we get a definitive truth, the BBC report is ALWAYS SHOWN TO BE LIES and the report from those "brown people on the ground" is proven accurate. For example, when Iraqi forces destroyed a British helicopter being used to further the ULTIMATE CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, AGGRESSIVE WAR, British soldiers, placing more value on the remains of dead british people than living Iraqi people, massacred Iraqis at the scene of the event. Blair's goons immediately produced press reports that lied about every detail of this, including statements that NO BRITISH SOLDIER HAD SHOT INTO THE CROWDS OF IRAQIS. The BBC gave maximum coverage of these lies, despite the fact that true reports existed at the very moment that the massacre had taken place.

A few days later, using the standard knowledge that NOBODY NOTICES OR REMEMBERS THE CORRECTION, the BBC gave just enough publicty to the truth that if challenged over bias at some later date, they can have their apologists point to the correction as proof that the BBC ultimately told the truth. I HAD THE TRUE FACTS IMMEDIATELY, BUT THEN I AM ***NOT*** A RACIST SCUMBAG THAT DISMISSES THE JOURNALISM THAT COMES FROM THE VICTIMS. There are people that regularly post here that tell you to ONLY believe 'our boys' and ONLY support 'our boys'. Despite the fact that this is racism in its purest and most destructive form, such posts are never censored on that basis. Now I don't support censorship, but find it strange (not really, I fully understand what is going on) that when racism is frequently used as an excuse to censor posts, the most racist posters KNOW they will not suffer censorship.

A New Reich goon is easy to spot. They will quote OUTRAGE!, Amnesty, IBC, and HRW. Google these pro-Blair fronts to discover their carefully created media campaigns that actively support the very worst WAR ACTIONS of Bush and Blair. To fool the terminally naive, these organisation sometimes comment on issues of common knowledge that seem critical of Blair and his allies. However, they certainly DON'T reveal any new facts or research that could harm Blair or his plans, and frequently attack those that do. When the Mass Media quotes material from these four bodies, they refer ONLY to the carefully crafted propaganda that helps gain support for Blair's programs.

For instance, Outrage, Amnesty, and HRW are major sources of anti-Iran propaganda to be found continuously in so called liberal outlets (including this site). The 'holocaust denial' methods of IBC are used to deny that an attack on Iran will slaughter MILLIONS if this propaganda is acted on. A full spectrum propaganda campaign that Goebbels could only have dreamt of.

Are people fooled? Of course they are. Galloway still gets support, despite the overwhelming evidence that RESPECT was created to DENY the vast majority of the UK an anti-war vote (a national anti-war party that stood in ALL seats at the election would have destroyed Blair, and the idea that a movement that put a record number of people into a London protest lacked the funds or the volunteers to do this is a TOTAL JOKE). Instead, people choose to endlessly scratch their head over RESPECT's strange treatment of Brain Haw, the good fortune of fake evidence against Galloway being so badly fabricated, and the stupid way in which RESPECT worked to be seen as a mostly-muslim pressure group.

People believe what they want to believe, and the more scared and fearful they become, the more they grasp at straws. They have been told that with 'democratic' politics, there is always a 'big man' that represents their interests. They have been told that there is always a Mass Media outlet that represents their point of view. What if both these ideas ARE NOT TRUE?

What I like most about the Internet is that in any open debate, amongst the pure dribble will be one or two people who express their position clearly, powerfully, and with excellent confidence and logic. Compare this with the OFFICIAL LEFT and the OFFICIAL ANTI-BLAIR PEOPLE in the Mass Media. Here, our so-called representatives are either half-witted idiots, people who attack Blair by AGREEING with almost everything he does, or people chosen because they are unstable loonies. The Mass Media works by ruthlessly SELECTING those who are permitted to comment. In a moronic third-world dictatorship, this means that only pro-dictatorship voices are heard. In a sophisticated dictatorship likes ours (or indeed that of nazi Germany), the dictator's Mass Media DOES allow anti-voices, but these people are carefully chosen in the knowledge that they will do more DAMAGE to the anti-cause than help.

Mass Media propaganda works best when it works with carefully selected TRUTHS, than when it states outright LIES. For instance, if ONLY 'black crime' was reported, then no matter what proportion of the total crime this represented, or how that reflected on population issues, people in general would perceive ALL 'black' people as significantly more prone to criminal behaviour. Selecting facts in order to produce a false impression IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS TELLING LIES. Blair's Mass Media uses this tactic ALL THE TIME.

Where does TRUTH come from? Same place as LOVE and BEAUTY. Namely, a person that has self-respect, and thus can properly respect others. Every time a person reads or watches ANY of Blair's Mass Media with ANY degree of wishful thinking, they lose self-respect. Even as they swallow the propaganda crap from Channel 4 News, or The Guardian, the better part of them KNOWS that they are selling out their humanity for a moment of 'let's pretend' comfort. This is no different from those people that seek to hide from themselves in a bottle of spirits, or inject liquid 'dreams' into their veins.

"Religion is the opium of the masses", but what is the religion of today's West? The Mass Media is a direct equivalent of the sermons of old that people heard in their church of choice. The 'editorial' of the newspaper actually wanted to make that point crystal clear. But if the Mass Media provides the words, organised TEAM SPORTS provide that other key experience, being with a mindless mass of single purpose people. "Football and the Mass Media are the opium of the people"- the words change and yet in reality they don't. Hopeless people do the same hopeless things, which in turn guarantee a total lack of hope. Blair creates, encourages, and harvests that hopelessness.

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