The Climate Lobbyists

http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/climate_change/articles/entry/1180/
By Matthew Lewis | February 24, 2009
A sampling of power players:

Andrew Athy, Former Counsel, House Energy and Commerce
Partner, O’Neill, Athy & Casey
Athy served as counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. John Dingell. He has been in private practice since 1981. Climate clients: Energy Future Holdings, U.S. Steel.

Wayne L. Berman, Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Managing Director, Ogilvy Government Relations
In addition to serving in President George H.W. Bush’s administration, Berman worked in the Reagan/Bush transition team and later for the Bush/Cheney team, and was a presidential campaign adviser. Climate clients: American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, the Electric Power Supply Association, and steel manufacturer Nucor, among others.

Former Senator John B. Breaux, Louisiana Democrat
Founding Partner, Breaux Lott Leadership Group
The former House member and three-term Senator served as deputy Senate whip. He opened his lobbying firm with former Senator Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, in 2008. Breaux serves on the board of directors of transportation giant CSX. Climate clients: Chevron, Shell Oil, Quinn Gillespie and Associates on behalf of the power company Entergy.

Kirk Blalock, Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush
Partner, Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock
Blalock served as deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, where he acted as go-between with the business community. Climate clients: Business Roundtable, Ford Motor Co, American Forest & Paper Association, MillerCoors, South California Edison, and the Bipartisan Advocacy Center.

Charles H. Knauss, Former Staffer, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Partner, Bingham McCutchen
A former minority Republican counsel to the committee, Knauss helped develop the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, a topic on which he authored a book. Climate clients: Exxon Mobil, General Electric.

Former Representative Victor H. Fazio, California Democrat
Senior Adviser, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Fazio served in the House for two decades, and was Democratic Caucus chair from 1995 until his retirement in 1998. He currently serves on the board of directors at Fortune 500 aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman. Climate clients: hedge fund manager Julian Robertson, Pacific Gas and Electric, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Policy Center.

Drew Maloney, Former Legislative Director, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Delay
Ogilvy Government Relations
Maloney worked closely with Delay on a number of topics, including energy legislation. He represented 13 organizations in the climate lobby last year. Climate clients: Electric Power Supply Association, American Petroleum Institute, and Association of International Auto Manufacturers, among others.

Frances McPoland, Former Environmental Aide to President Clinton
Colling, Swift & Hynes
McPoland served Clinton as an executive within the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Prior to that, she worked on the Hill as an aide to Congressmen Esteban Torres (D-CA) and Dick Ottinger (D-NY). Climate clients: Eight different paper or packaging companies, including Rock-Tenn, Cascades Boxboard Group, and White Pigeon Paper.

Former Representative Richard Gephardt, Missouri Democrat
President and CEO of The Gephardt Group
The former Congressman and two-time Presidential candidate served as House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1994 and minority leader from 1995 to 2003. Gephardt serves on the boards of directors at several corporations including U.S. Steel. He founded the Gephardt Group in 2005. Climate clients: Peabody Energy, the leading coal company , and power company Ameren Services, both based in St. Louis.

Tony Podesta
Chairman, Podesta Group
The brother and former partner of John Podesta, who headed President Obama’s transition, he was dubbed by Newsweek as “The Lobbyist” in a profile of the Washington power elite. Podesta also teamed up in 2007 with former House Appropriations Chairman Livingston to launch the joint PLM Group, headed by former Rep. Toby Moffett (D-CT). Climate clients: Wal-Mart, BP America, Sunoco, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Jack Quinn, Former White House Counsel
Co-founder and chairman, Quinn Gillespie & Associates
Quinn served as President Clinton’s chief legal adviser after previous stints as chief of staff and counselor to Vice President Al Gore. Climate clients: American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Cemex, and Daimler Mercedes-Benz.

Jeffrey Holmstead, Former Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Partner and Head of Environmental Strategy, Bracewell & Giuliani
A former associate White House counsel under President George H.W. Bush, Holmstead worked on passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and was appointed to head the EPA’s air and radiation office in 2001. Climate clients: Power companies Southern Company, Duke Energy, Ameren, Energy Future Holdings, Progress Energy, Salt River Project, the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, and rail company CSX Transportation.

Thomas M. Ryan, Former Aide, House Energy and Commerce Committee
Partner, Ryan, MacKinnon, Vasapoli & Berzok
From 1977 to 1987, Ryan served as Democratic counsel to the committee, including as chief counsel beginning in 1985. Climate clients: Delta Airlines, Edison Electric Institute, Accenture, and Sunoco, among others.

Former Representative Robert L. Livingston, Louisiana Republican
Founding partner, The Livingston Group
Livingston served a dozen terms in the House beginning in 1977, and chaired the House Appropriations Committee from 1995 through 1998. He serves on multiple boards, including that of cement manufacturer Holcim, and founded The Livingston Group after leaving Congress in 1999. Livingston also teamed up in 2007 with Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta to launch the joint PLM Group, headed by former Rep. Toby Moffett (D-CT). Climate client: Ashland Inc., a diversified chemical company.

Former Representative Allan Swift, Washington Democrat
Partner, Colling, Swift & Hynes
Swift served eight terms in the House beginning in 1979. He sat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, chairing its subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials. Climate clients: Eight different paper or packaging companies, including Rock-Tenn, Cascades Boxboard Group, and White Pigeon Paper. Also, the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Former Representative Vin Weber, Minnesota Republican
Managing Partner, Clark & Weinstock
The former six-term Congressman opened Clark & Weinstock’s Washington office in 1994. He served as a regional chairman for the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign and is on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Climate clients: Power companies Xcel Energy and Great River Energy, relief organization Oxfam America.

Who's behind Pak-Iran Tension?

Those who have been shouting anti-Taliban slogans in Iran and burning Pakistan flag must know that it was half Iranian Shia, Benzair Bhutto who supported, nurtured and created Taliban with the support of her foreign masters. Benazir’s minister Nasser Ullah Babur use to call Taliban 'my boys’. She apologized for creating and supporting Taliban at London School of Economics in front of large a gathering in May 2007. Religion in politics does not matter in Pakistan. Iran should be careful with its Shia Left and Right!

ZA Bhutto was Shia introduced in politics by Skandar Mirz (who was from the line of traitor Mir Jafar) a staunch Shia currently buried in Mashhad – Iran. His Iranian wife Naheed Skindar Mirza was wife of Iranian Military Attaché in Islamabad whom SM started an affair before her divorce. She was instrumental in 2nd Marriage of Zulifqar Ali Bhutto with Nusrat Isphani mother of Benazir.

Benazir Bhutto was married by a Shia Imam to Asif Zardari but people of Pakistan elected Ms Bhutto and her father prime minister of Pakistan twice and her husband President. Third re-launching of Benazir Bhutto (and now Zardari) had a Shia dimension too? The Americanized Shia President Zardari is behaving and dressing like Iranian leaders? Benazir and Zardari’s links with Zionist lobby and complete reliance on foreign actors, Benazir Bhutto’s murder investigation by UN is a clear sign of mistrust on Pakistani institutions?

PPP was formed in the house of a Shia, Dr Mubshar Hassan, Bhutto’s finance minister according to reports. MQM also formed and overly represented in leadership by the mostly leftist Shias like John Elia, Raees Emrovhee, Shanshaha Hussain, Abbas Kumeli, Haider Abbas Rizivi and many others. Both the above parties are in complete patronage of India and US! Senator Mushahid Husain the brain of former ruling party PMLQ, Faisal Salah Hayat former interior minister, SM Zafar former law minister, lawyer Naeem Bukhari (reportedly used by Gen Mushraf to sack CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry), Dr Shireen Mazari, spokesperson of Imran Khan’s PTI, Prof Mehdi Hassan, Naseem Zahra, Hasan Askri Rizvi also come from Shia background.

Does Sunnis in Iran have same high positions, liberties, and freedoms as Shias in Pakistan ? For example many known and reported Shias of Pakistan are in high political and government positions doing their jobs without any problems. President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, Information Minster Sherry Rehman, Governor State Bank Saleem Raza, Secretary Defence Athar Ali, DG ISPR Maj Gen Athar Abbas brother of renowned journalists Azhar Abbas (Former GEO TV- DAWN TV), Mazhar Abbas (AFP), and Zafar Abbas (BBC). Former Pakistan ’s ambassador to US Abida Hussain her daughter newly elected Senator Kalsum Imam, Senator Faisal Raza Abidi, Faisal Sabzwari, Sind Chief Minister, deputy speaker Sind Assembly Shela Raza PPP and many others. So when, 'Khurshid Kasuri former Foreign Minister said to the Iranian Foreign Minister, "Pakistani Shias are not like Sunnis in Iran". He meant the above?

Since 2001, US policy is quite focused on Shias and Sunnis. On the one hand US siding with Shias in Iraq and Afghanistan against Sunnis but on the other hand supporting Sunnis in Middle East against Shia Hezbollah and Syria. Interestingly the wizard of the US policy on Shias and Sunnis is Vali Nasar son of Husain Nasr who was close to Shah of Iran. He is Professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School, an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He tells people what they want to hear not what they should know!

Vali Nasr wrote in Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006, 'When the Shiites Rise’, "By toppling Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration has liberated and empowered Iraq's Shiite majority and has helped launch a broad Shiite revival that will upset the sectarian balance in Iraq and the Middle East for years to come. This development is rattling some Sunni Arab governments, but for Washington , it could be a chance to build bridges with the region's Shiites, especially in Iran ".

The use of Shias as collaborators is nothing new in the history. Both Mir Sadaiq who betrayed Tipu Sultan and Mir Jafar, who betrayed Sirajudullah in the Battle of Plassy in Bengal , supported and collaborated with British invaders were Shias. Fall of Bengal was the key to the 200 years British rule in India ? Historically, "Vengeful Shiites volunteered help to the Mongols in Mosul and other places along their march. The caliph’s vizier, or chief minister, was himself a Shiite of uncertain loyalty. Islamic opinion afterward held that the vizier, al-Alkamzi, vilely betrayed the caliph and conspired with the Mongols; an exhortation in Muslim school books used to say, "Let him be cursed of God who curses not al-Alkamzi." As fighting began, Hulagu, acknowledging the importance of Shiite support, prudently posted guard detachments of a hundred Mongol horsemen at the most sacred Shiite shrines in Najef and Karbala wrote Ian Frazier April 25, 2005 in The New Yorker.

" Iran may be bombastic but Pakistan has the Bomb", wrote Douglas Bloomfield in The Jerusalem Post on 3rd September 2008, " Iran may boast of great strides in its pursuit of nuclear, missile and satellite technology, but analysts say its progress is no match for its overblown rhetoric. But Pakistan doesn't need to boast. It already has a stockpile estimated at 60 or more nuclear warheads and North Korean ballistic missiles and US-made F-16s to deliver them."
http://www.uruknet.de:80/?s1=1&p=52018&s2=22

The conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies

The earliest proposal came from Herman Cohen, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs under George Herbert Walker Bush. He proposed that Rwanda be rewarded for its well documented looting of Congo's wealth by being a part of a Central and/or East African free trade zone whereby Rwanda would keep its ill-gotten gains.

The report "found evidence that the Rwandan authorities have been complicit in the recruitment of soldiers, including children, have facilitated the supply of military equipment, and have sent officers and units from the Rwandan Defense Forces" to the DRC. The support is for the National Congress for the Defense of the People, or CNDP, formerly led by self-proclaimed Gen. Laurent Nkunda.

The report also shows that the CNDP is sheltering a war criminal wanted by the International Criminal Court, Gen. Jean Bosco Ntaganda. The CNDP has used Rwanda as a rear base for fundraising meetings and bank accounts, and Uganda is once more implicated as Nkunda has met regularly with embassies in both Kigali and Kampala.

Also, Uganda is accepting illegal CNDP immigration papers. Earlier U.N. reports said that Kagame and Museveni are the mafia dons of Congo's exploitation. This has not changed in any substantive way.

The report implicates Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, a close advisor to Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda. Rujugiro is the founder of the Rwandan Investment Group. This is not the first time he has been named by the United Nations as one of the individuals contributing to the conflict in the Congo.

In April 2001, he was identified as Tibere Rujigiro in the U.N. Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as one of the figures illegally exploiting Congo's wealth. His implication this time comes in financial contributions to CNDP and appropriation of land.

This brings to light the organizations he is a part of, which include but are not limited to the Rwanda Development Board, the Rwandan Investment Group, of which he is the founder, and Kagame's Presidential Advisory Council. They have members as notable as Rev. Rick Warren, business tycoon Joe Ritchie, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Scott Ford of Alltell, Dr. Clet Niyikiza of GlaxoSmithKline, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and many more.

These connections provide some insight into why Rwanda has been able to commit and support remarkable atrocities in the Congo without receiving even a reprimand in spite of the fact that two European courts have charged their top leadership with war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is only recently that two European nations, Sweden and the Netherlands, have decided to withhold aid from Rwanda as a result of its aggression against the Congolese people.
http://www.uruknet.de:80/?s1=1&p=52064&s2=23

The Death of The News

Journalism as we know it is in crisis. Daily newspapers are going out of business at an unprecedented rate, and the survivors are slashing their budgets. Thousands of reporters and editors have lost their jobs. No print publication is immune, including the mighty New York Times. As analyst Allan Mutter noted, 2008 was the worst year in history for newspaper publishers, with shares dropping a stunning 83 percent on average. Newspapers lost $64.5 billion in market value in 12 months.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22021.htm

Tony Benn Sadam Hussein

Chomsky: Obama OKed Israel's Gaza war

By Press TV

February 21, 2009 "Press TV" -- Renowned US intellectual Noam Chomsky says Barack Obama did not comment on Israel's war on Gaza, as it was part of the "premeditated" plan. We have been informed by an Israeli source that the recent invasion of the Gaza Strip was completely premeditated, Chomsky said in an interview with the French Al-Ahram daily.

The plan was to deliver the maximum blow to Gaza before the new US president took office, so that he could put these matters behind him added the famous intellectual, referring to Obama's pledge to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

According to Chomsky, while Israel was pounding the Gaza Strip -- during which over 1300 Palestinians were killed --, Obama excused his silence by saying that "There's only one president at a time."

This, however, did not prevent the then president-elect from commenting on other leading issues of US domestic and foreign policy, Chomsky argued.

The recognized political analyst also criticized Obama for repeating the notion that defending Israel is a US priority. He predicted that during the Obama presidency US will hold the same policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=86336§ionid=351020202

Cambodia's Missing Criminals

By John Pilger

February 21, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people walked to the windows and wept. The DJ had played a song by the much-loved Khmer singer, Sin Sisamouth, who had been forced to dig his own grave and to sing the Khmer Rouge anthem before he was beaten to death. I experienced many such reminders in the years following Pol Pot’s fall.

There was another kind of reminder. In the village of Neak Long, a Mekong River town, I walked with a distraught man through a necklace of bomb craters. His entire family of 13 had been blown to pieces by an American B-52. That had happened almost two years before Pol Pot came to power in 1975. It is estimated more than 600,000 Cambodians were slaughtered that way.

The problem with the United Nations-backed trial of the remaining Khmer Rouge leaders, which has just begun in Phom Penh, is that it is dealing only with the killers of Sin Sisamouth and not with the killers of the family in Neak Long, and not with their collaborators. There were three stages of Cambodia’s holocaust. Pol Pot’s genocide was but one of them, yet only it has a place in the official memory. It is highly unlikely Pot Pot would have come to power had President Richard Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, not attacked neutral Cambodia, In 1973, B-52s dropped more bombs on Cambodia’s populated heartland than were dropped on Japan during all of the Second World War: the equivalent of five Hiroshimas. Declassified files reveal that the CIA was in little doubt of the effect. “[The Khmer Rouge] are using damage caused by B52 strikes as the main theme of their propaganda,” reported the director of operations on May 2, 1973. “This approach has resulted in the successful recruitment of a number of young men [and] has been effective with refugees.” Prior to the bombing, the Khmer Rouge had been a Maoist cult without a popular base. The bombing delivered a catalyst. What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.

Kissinger will not be in the dock in Phom Penh. He is advising President Obama on geo-politics. Neither will Margaret Thatcher, nor a number of her comfortably retired senior ministers and officials who, in secretly supporting the Khmer Rouge after the Vietnamese had expelled them, contributed directly to the third stage of Cambodia’s holocaust. In 1979, the US and British governments imposed a devastating embargo on stricken Cambodia because its liberators, Vietnam, had come from the wrong side of the cold war. Few Foreign Office campaigns have been as cynical or as brutal. At the UN, the British demanded that the now defunct Pol Pot regime retain the “right” to represent its victims at the UN and voted with Pol Pot in the agencies of the UN, including the World Health Organisation, thereby preventing it from working inside Cambodia.

To disguise this outrage, Britain, the US and China, Pol Pot’s principal backer, invented a “non communist” coalition in exile that was, in fact, dominated by the Khmer Rouge. In Thailand, the CIA and Defence Intelligence Agency formed direct links with the Khmer Rouge. In 1983, the Thatcher government sent the SAS to train the “coalition” in landmine technology – in a country more seeded with mines than anywhere on earth except Afghanistan. “I confirm,” Thatcher wrote to opposition leader Neil Kinnock, “that there is no British government involvement of any kind in training, equipping or co-operating with Khmer Rouge forces or those allied to them.” The lie was breathtaking. On June 25, 1991, the Major government was forced to admit to parliament that the SAS had been secretly training the “coalition”. Unless international justice is a farce, those who sided with Pol Pot’s mass murderers ought to be summoned to the court in Phnom Penh: at the very least their names read into infamy’s register.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22057.htm

Blair The Fucker

In a letter to the committee, Clive Stafford Smith, the director of Reprieve, says: "The ISC would want to know whether the intelligence services brought the issue of Mr Mohamed's abuse to the attention of the prime minister (then Mr Blair) – and, if not, why not." He said if the evidence had been brought to Blair's attention, "the ISC would want to know what, if anything, was done about it. If nothing was done, that would raise serious questions about the respect that the UK government has for its obligations under the convention against torture."

Evidence heard by the court in-camera – once the public and the media had been excluded – resulted in Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, asking the attorney general, Lady Scotland, to investigate "possible criminal wrongdoing" by both American and British security and intelligence officers.

Witness B's testimony is expected to be considered by MPs and peers on parliament's joint committee on human rights, which has begun an inquiry into allegations of British collusion in the torture of detainees in Pakistan, and is asking Miliband and Smith to give evidence.




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List of Banks Receiving Funds From $700B TARP/ Thursday, February 05, 2009

This list includes all the banks receiving funds from the Treasury's $700B Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).


The following is a list of TARP recipients as of January 31, 2009:

Bank of America Corporation
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
Citigroup Inc.
The Goldman Sachs Group
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Morgan Stanley
State Street Corporation
Wells Fargo & Company
Bank of Commerce Holdings
1st FS Corporation
UCBH Holdings, Inc.
Northern Trust Corporation
SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Broadway Financial Corporation
Washington Federal Inc.
BB&T Corp.
Provident Bancshares Corp.
Umpqua Holdings Corp.
Comerica Inc.
Regions Financial Corp.
Capital One Financial Corporation
First Horizon National Corporation
Huntington Bancshares
KeyCorp
Valley National Bancorp
Zions Bancorporation
Marshall & Ilsley
U.S. Bancorp
TCF Financial Corporation
First Niagara Financial Group
HF Financial Corp.
Centerstate Banks of Florida Inc.
City National Corporation
First Community Bankshares Inc.
Western Alliance Bancorporation
Webster Financial Corporation
Pacific Capital Bancorp
Heritage Commerce Corp.
Ameris Bancorp
Porter Bancorp Inc.
Banner Corporation
Cascade Financial Corporation
Columbia Banking System, Inc.
Heritage Financial Corporation
First PacTrust Bancorp, Inc.
Severn Bancorp, Inc.
Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.
Associated Banc-Corp
Trustmark Corporation
First Community Corporation
Taylor Capital Group
Nara Bancorp, Inc.
Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc.
MB Financial Inc.
First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
United Community Banks, Inc.
Wesbanco Bank Inc.
Encore Bancshares Inc.
Manhattan Bancorp
Iberiabank Corporation
Eagle Bancorp, Inc.
Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc.
Coastal Banking Company, Inc.
East West Bancorp
South Financial Group, Inc.
Great Southern Bancorp
Cathay General Bancorp
Southern Community Financial Corp.
CVB Financial Corp
First Defiance Financial Corp.
First Financial Holdings Inc.
Superior Bancorp Inc.
Southwest Bancorp, Inc.
Popular, Inc.
Blue Valley Ban Corp
Central Federal Corporation
Bank of Marin Bancorp
Bank of North Carolina
Central Bancorp, Inc.
Southern Missouri Bancorp, Inc.
State Bancorp, Inc.
TIB Financial Corp
Unity Bancorp, Inc.
Old Line Bancshares, Inc.
FPB Bancorp, Inc.
Sterling Financial Corporation
Oak Valley Bancorp
Old National Bancorp
Capital Bank Corporation
Pacific International Bancorp
SVB Financial Group
LNB Bancorp Inc.
Wilmington Trust Corporation
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc
Signature Bank
HopFed Bancorp
Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc.
Indiana Community Bancorp
Bank of the Ozarks, Inc.
Center Financial Corporation
NewBridge Bancorp
Sterling Bancshares, Inc.
The Bancorp, Inc.
TowneBank
Wilshire Bancorp, Inc.
Valley Financial Corporation
Independent Bank Corporation
Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc.
First Litchfield Financial Corporation
National Penn Bancshares, Inc.
Northeast Bancorp
Citizens South Banking Corporation
Virginia Commerce Bancorp
Fidelity Bancorp, Inc.
LSB Corporation
Intermountain Community Bancorp
Community West Bancshares
Synovus Financial Corp.
Tennessee Commerce Bancorp, Inc.
Community Bankers Trust Corporation
BancTrust Financial Group, Inc.
Enterprise Financial Services Corp.
Mid Penn Bancorp, Inc.
Summit State Bank
VIST Financial Corp.
Wainwright Bank & Trust Company
Whitney Holding Corporation
The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company
CoBiz Financial Inc.
Santa Lucia Bancorp
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida
Horizon Bancorp
Fidelity Southern Corporation
Community Financial Corporation
Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc.
First California Financial Group, Inc
AmeriServ Financial, Inc
Security Federal Corporation
Wintrust Financial Corporation
Flushing Financial Corporation
Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc.
StellarOne Corporation
Union Bankshares Corporation
Tidelands Bancshares, Inc
Bancorp Rhode Island, Inc.
Hawthorn Bancshares, Inc.
The Elmira Savings Bank, FSB
Alliance Financial Corporation
Heartland Financial USA, Inc.
Citizens First Corporation
FFW Corporation
Plains Capital Corporation
Tri-County Financial Corporation
OneUnited Bank
Patriot Bancshares, Inc.
Pacific City Financial Corporation
Marquette National Corporation
Exchange Bank
Monadnock Bancorp, Inc.
Bridgeview Bancorp, Inc.
Fidelity Financial Corporation
Patapsco Bancorp, Inc.
NCAL Bancorp
FCB Bancorp, Inc.
First Financial Bancorp
Bridge Capital Holdings
International Bancshares Corporation
First Sound Bank
M&T Bank Corporation
Emclaire Financial Corp.
Park National Corporation
Green Bankshares, Inc.
Cecil Bancorp, Inc.
Financial Institutions, Inc.
Fulton Financial Corporation
United Bancorporation of Alabama, Inc.
MutualFirst Financial, Inc.
BCSB Bancorp, Inc.
HMN Financial, Inc.
First Community Bank Corporation of America
Sterling Bancorp
Intervest Bancshares Corporation
Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc.
Parkvale Financial Corporation
Timberland Bancorp, Inc.
1st Constitution Bancorp
Central Jersey Bancorp
Western Illinois Bancshares Inc.
Saigon National Bank
Capital Pacific Bancorp
Uwharrie Capital Corp
Mission Valley Bancorp
The Little Bank, Incorporated
Pacific Commerce Bank
Citizens Community Bank
Seacoast Commerce Bank
TCNB Financial Corp.
Leader Bancorp, Inc.
Nicolet Bankshares, Inc.
Magna Bank
Western Community Bancshares, Inc.
Community Investors Bancorp, Inc.
Capital Bancorp, Inc.
Cache Valley Banking Company
Citizens Bancorp
Tennessee Valley Financial Holdings, Inc.
Pacific Coast Bankers' Bancshares
SunTrust Banks, Inc.
The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
Fifth Third Bancorp
Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc.
CIT Group Inc.
West Bancorporation, Inc.
First Banks, Inc.
FirstMerit Corporation
Farmers Capital Bank Corporation
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation
Commerce National Bank
The First Bancorp, Inc.
Sun Bancorp, Inc.
Crescent Financial Corporation
American Express Company
Central Pacific Financial Corp.
Centrue Financial Corporation
Eastern Virginia Bankshares, Inc.
Colony Bankcorp, Inc.
Independent Bank Corp.
Cadence Financial Corporation
LCNB Corp.
Center Bancorp, Inc.
F.N.B. Corporation
C&F Financial Corporation
North Central Bancshares, Inc.
Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc.
First Bancorp
First Financial Service Corporation
Codorus Valley Bancorp, Inc.
MidSouth Bancorp, Inc.
First Security Group, Inc.
Shore Bancshares, Inc.
The Queensborough Company
American State Bancshares, Inc.
Security California Bancorp
Security Business Bancorp
Sound Banking Company
Mission Community Bancorp
Redwood Financial Inc.
Surrey Bancorp
Independence Bank
Valley Community Bank
Rising Sun Bancorp
Community Trust Financial Corporation
GrandSouth Bancorporation
Texas National Bancorporation
Congaree Bancshares, Inc.
New York Private Bank & Trust Corporation
Home Bancshares, Inc.
Washington Banking Company/ Whidbey Island Bank
New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares, Inc.
Bar Harbor Bankshares/Bar Harbor Bank & Trust
Somerset Hills Bancorp
SCBT Financial Corporation
S&T Bancorp
ECB Bancorp, Inc./East Carolina Bank
First BanCorp
Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc.
Yadkin Valley Financial Corporation
Carver Bancorp, Inc
Citizens & Northern Corporation
MainSource Financial Group, Inc.
MetroCorp Bancshares, Inc.
United Bancorp, Inc.
Old Second Bancorp, Inc.
Pulaski Financial Corp
OceanFirst Financial Corp.
Community 1st Bank
TCB Holding Company
Centra Financial Holdings, Inc./Centra Bank, Inc.
First Bankers Trustshares, Inc.
Pacific Coast National Bancorp
Community Bank of the Bay
Redwood Capital Bancorp
Syringa Bancorp
Idaho Bancorp
Puget Sound Bank
United Financial Banking Companies, Inc.
Dickinson Financial Corporation
The Baraboo Bancorporation
Bank of Commerce
State Bankshares, Inc.
BNCCORP, Inc.
First Manitowoc Bancorp, Inc.
Southern Bancorp, Inc.
Morrill Bancshares, Inc.
Treaty Oak Bancorp, Inc.
1st Source Corporation
Princeton National Bancorp, Inc.
AB&T Financial Corporation
First Citizens Banc Corp
WSFS Financial Corporation
Commonwealth Business Bank
Seaside National Bank & Trust
CalWest Bancorp
Fresno First Bank
First ULB Corp.
Alarion Financial Services, Inc.
Midland States Bancorp, Inc.
Moscow Bancshares, Inc.
Farmers Bank
California Oaks State Bank
Pierce County Bancorp
Calvert Financial Corporation
Liberty Bancshares, Inc.
Crosstown Holding Company
BankFirst Capital Corporation
Southern Illinois Bancorp, Inc.
FPB Financial Corp.
Stonebridge Financial Corp.
Peoples Bancorp Inc.
Anchor BanCorp
Parke Bancorp, Inc.
Central Virginia Bankshares, Inc.
Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.
Middleburg Financial Corporation
Peninsula Bank Holding Co.
PrivateBancorp, Inc.
Central Valley Community Bancorp
Plumas Bancorp
Stewardship Financial Corporation
Oak Ridge Financial Services, Inc.
First United Corporation
Community Partners Bancorp
Guaranty Federal Bancshares, Inc.
Annapolis Bancorp, Inc.
DNB Financial Corporation
Firstbank Corporation
Valley Commerce Bancorp
Greer Bancshares Incorporated
Ojai Community Bank
Adbanc, Inc
Beach Business Bank
Legacy Bancorp, Inc.
First Southern Bancorp, Inc.
Country Bank Shares, Inc.
Katahdin Bankshares Corp.
Rogers Bancshares, Inc.
UBT Bancshares, Inc.
Bankers' Bank of the West Bancorp, Inc.
W.T.B. Financial Corporation
AMB Financial Corp.
Goldwater Bank, N.A.
Equity Bancshares, Inc.
WashingtonFirst Bank
Central Bancshares, Inc.
Hilltop Community Bancorp, Inc.
Northway Financial, Inc.
Monument Bank
Metro City Bank
F & M Bancshares, Inc.
First Resource Bank

US Zionists

My list includes Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Seth Lipsky, Martin Peretz, Norman Podhoretz, John Podhoretz, Richard Perle, Richard Cohen, Mortimer Zuckerman, Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Goldberg, Lawrence Kaplan, Charles Krauthammer, David Horowitz, Jonah Goldberg, David Gelernter, Ruth Wisse, David Brooks and David Frum.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/alterman

Al Quaeda

http://www.dailymotion.com/corbettreport/video/x7zs6x_al-qaeda-doesnt-exist-documentary-2_news

Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary) - 2
Uploaded by corbettreport

Afghanistan was infiltrated after the Soviet invasion. CIA was supporting opposition of the Afghani Gov which was pro Soviet from 3 July 1979 when Carter signed the first directive for the opponents of the pro-soviet regime and not as officials say in 24th Dec 1979. This made the soviets to invade.

Churchill

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230109.htm


For your convenience, I have simply listed below an expanded list of immense crimes in which Churchill was complicit as a racist soldier, politician, mass murderer and holocaust-denying writer – indeed he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, especially his six-edition set The Second World War in which he ignored his deliberate, remorseless murder of 6-7 million Indians in 1943-1945 [ I have provided estimates of violent and non-violent avoidable deaths in square brackets].

1. British Indian Holocaust (1.8 billion excess deaths, 1757-1947; 10 million killed in post-1857 Indian Mutiny reprisals; 1 million starved, 1895-1897 Indian Famine; 6-9 million starved, 1899-1900 Indian Famine; 6-7 million starved under Churchill, Bengali Holocaust 1943-1945].

2. Sudan atrocities [horrendous British atrocities after the Battle of Obdurman 1898].

3. Boer (Afrikaaner) Genocide [28,000 Afrikaaner women and children died in British concentration camps, 1899-1902].

4. World War 1 promotion [World War I Allied military and civilian dead 5.7 million and 3.7 million, respectively; German-allied (Central Powers) military and civilian deaths 4.0 million and 5.2 million; troop movement-exacerbated Spanish Flu Epidemic killed 20-100 million people world wide. 1918-1922].

5. WW1 Dardanelles Campaign in Turkey [0.2 million Allied and Turkish soldiers killed, 1915; precipitated 1915-1923 Turkish Armenian Genocide, 1.5 million Armenians killed].

6. UK and US invasion of Russia 1917-1919 [millions died in the Russian Civil War and the subsequent Russian Famine; 7 million died in the circa 1930 Ukrainian Famine; and perhaps up to 20 million died overall in Stalinist atrocities].

7. British suppression of the Arab revolt in Iraq (invaded by Britain in 1914) [bombing of Kurds, poison gas use (1920s); violent UK involvement on and off , 1914-2009; 1990-2008 Iraqi excess deaths 4 million; under-5 infant deaths 1.8 million; refugees currently 6 million].

8. Support for British Occupation and opposition to Indian self-determination [1757-1947 excess deaths, 1.8 billion; 1895-1897 famine deaths1 million; 1899-1900 Indian Famine, deaths6-9 million deaths; 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust deaths 6-7 million].

9. World War 2 promotion [World War 2 military deaths 25 million and civilian deaths about 67 million].

10. Promotion of Japan entry into World War 2 in order to involve the US and hence ensure victory [35 million Chinese avoidable deaths, 1937-1945; 6-7 million Indians starved, Bengal 1943-1945; millions more died in the WW2 Eastern Theatre].

11. Churchill knew Singapore was indefensible [8,000-15,000 killed, 130,000 captured in the 1941 Malaya campaign; 14,000 Australian, 16,000 British and 32,000 Indian troops surrendered in Singapore].

12. Churchill deliberately did not warn Americans about Pearl Harbor attack [Eastern Theatre WW2 deaths 45 million].

13. WW2 Bengal Holocaust, Bengal Famine [deliberate starving to death of of 6-7 million Indians; confessed by Churchill in a letter to Roosevelt].

14. Churchill rejected top scientific advice and supported bombing of German cities instead of protecting Atlantic convoys [0.16 million allied airmen killed; 0.6 million German civilians killed; Battle of the Atlantic almost lost; 7 million dead from famine in the Indian Ocean region related to halving of Allied shipping in 1943].

15. Churchill acknowledged the crucial importance of maintaining Hindu-Muslim antipathy to preserve British rule [1 million dead and 18 million Muslim and Hindu refugees associated with India-Pakistan Partition in 1947].

16. 1944 UK War Cabinet decision Partition of Palestine [in 1878, Jews were 5% of the Palestine population; in 1948 Jews were 1/3 of the population; there are now over 7 million Palestinian refugees; post-1967 Occupied Palestinian excess deaths 0.3 million, post-1967 under-5 infant deaths 0.2 million; excess deaths in countries partially or completely occupied by Apartheid Israel now total about 24 million; 4 million Occupied Palestinians are still illegally and abusively imprisoned by racist Zionists in their own country].

17. UK rejection of 1944 Brand plan to save Hungarian Jews [0.2-0.4 million killed by Nazis and Arrow Cross fascists out of 0.7 million; Zionists also opposed the Brand plan]

18. British, American, Zionist, Australian and European adoption of Churchill's holocaust commission and holocaust denying legacy, with post-war atrocities involving invasion, occupation, devastation and genocide [in relation to Occupiers (in parenthesis) 1950-2005 excess deaths in post-1945 occupied countries total 2 million (white Australia), 36 million (Belgium), 142 million (France), 24 million (Apartheid Israel), 0.7 million (Apartheid South Africa), 23 million (Portugal), 37 million (Russia), 9 million (Spain), 727 million (the UK) and 82 million (the US); 25 million Indigenous excess deaths in post-1950 US Asian Wars; 9-11 million excess deaths associated with 1990-2008 Bush Wars; post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Iraq 2 million, refugees 6 million; post-invasion excess deaths in Occupied Afghanistan 4-6 million, refugees 4 million].

“Genocide denial, No-penalty criminalization required now”

“Media lying over Churchill’s crimes. British-Indian Holocaust”

Video: Israel's Gaza murder weapons shipped via UK

Riley Bechtel Saudi Royal Family

Bechtel is another engineering and construction giant acting in Iraq, and is sponsored mostly by the Bank of America and the Export-Import Bank. This company had and has strong ties with different US administrations – both republicans and democrats – and also with the Saudi Royal Family. Riley Bechtel, its main owner was appointed by G. W. Bush as his adviser.

Bechtel Riley Bechtel

Bechtel is another engineering and construction giant acting in Iraq, and is sponsored mostly by the Bank of America and the Export-Import Bank. This company had and has strong ties with different US administrations – both republicans and democrats – and also with the Saudi Royal Family. Riley Bechtel, its main owner was appointed by G. W. Bush as his adviser.

Bechtel Riley Bechtel

Bechtel is another engineering and construction giant acting in Iraq, and is sponsored mostly by the Bank of America and the Export-Import Bank. This company had and has strong ties with different US administrations – both republicans and democrats – and also with the Saudi Royal Family. Riley Bechtel, its main owner was appointed by G. W. Bush as his adviser.

Halliburton Saudi Royal Family SAMBA Shaukat Aziz

http://democracyandsocialism.com/Articles/FinanceMilitaryComplex.html

Closer to the war on Iraq, Halliburton (ranks 291) with an asset of $ 16.82 billion, is involved in oil and gas exploration-production and reconstruction of that country after occupation. Halliburton has strong ties to the Saudi Royal Family and is sponsored by JP Morgan Chase, HSBC Bank USA, Royal Bank of Scotland and Citigroup as its Administrative Agent. Citigroup managed Saudi-American Bank (SAMBA) until 2003, and covertly controls it after the invasion of Iraq. Current prime minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz – appointed by General Musharraf – was the managing director of SAMBA in the 90s. Both rulers of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan collect profits from the war in Iraq.

Lockheed Martin coup d’état in Chile

http://democracyandsocialism.com/Articles/FinanceMilitaryComplex.html

To take as an example, we read in the news that, Lockheed Martin – the main sponsor of 1973, coup d’état in Chile – was selected by the center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue providing support to the Agency Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response (ACOTPER). This is a single award, five years contract, with an estimated program value of $ 135 million.

Finance-Military Complex

http://democracyandsocialism.com/Articles/FinanceMilitaryComplex.html

According to the Forbes Magazine’s ranking of 2007, the first five largest corporations of all times are not industrial but financial institutions such as:

Citigroup (U. S. bank), with approximate assets of $ 1.9 trillion.

HSBC Holdings (U.K. bank), with approximate assets of $ 1.6 trillion.

Bank of America (U.S. bank), with approximate assets of $ 1.46 trillion.

GP Morgan Chase (U.S. bank), with approximate assets of $ 1.36 trillion.

American International Group, AIG (U.S. giant mortgage lender), with approximate assets of $ 980 billion.

And due to the same source, the big five arm making companies are:

Boeing, with approximate assets of $ 52 billion.

Northrop Grumman, with approximate assets of $ 32 billion.

Lockheed Martin, with approximate assets of $ 28.2 billion.

Raytheon, with approximate assets of $25.2 billion.

General Dynamics, with approximate assets of $ 22.3 billion.

As we see the first five largest financial corporations are in average 40 times bigger than the first big five arm making companies.

..................The largest of all arm making companies Boeing, not only makes airplanes, military aircrafts, defence missile systems, space and communication services, but thanks to its sponsoring banks is able to provide customer and commercial financing too. More than 30 banks in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific region gave their services to Boeing.

Northrop Grumman, which is a global defence and technology corporation, is financed by the Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank (ranks 27), Credit Suisse First Boston (ranks 31), Lehman Bros Holding (ranks 83) and others.

Lockheed Martin, thanks to its more influential governmental connections, is the world’s number one defence contractor, makes F-16 and other kinds of fighter jets, Patriot missiles, satellites and an array of governments systems. One of the guarantors and collateral agents of Lockheed Martin is, JP Morgan Chase which provides security or guarantee of its assets throughout the world.

Raytheon Company, another global arm manufacturer is mostly helped by the Citigroup, Bank of America, Credit Suisse First Boston, and JP Morgan Chase.

General Dynamics, which makes Stryker combat vehicles, Abrams tanks and recently MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) armoured vehicles, gets its services mostly from the Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase.

The average price of different fighter jets in the market is about $ 80 million. For instance the price of an F-35 (JSF) made by Lockheed Martin is about $ 50 million. The price of a Stryker combat vehicle is about $ 2 million. The price of an Abrams tank is about $ 4.3 million. The price of a MRAP is about $2 million and finally the price of a Patriot missile is about $ 2 million.

That is why for instance, Lockheed Martin, “Reports a greater than expected 34 percent rise in second-quarter profit, helped by higher revenue from its combat aircrafts and electronic systems units and lower pension plan.” (July, 24, 2007, International Business Times.) Full year revenue on average will be $ 41.1 billion, thanks to the wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and tension in the world. And as Washington Post wrote about another arm making company, the “General Dynamics finds profit on the battle fields.” (July 20, 2006)

Justifying War Crimes

Jon Snow, channel 4 interviews Mr Mark Regev, the Israeli government spokesperson. This about weapons used in civilian areas that contravene Customary International Humanitarian Law.

Broadcast January 22, 2009

Black Hole of British History

Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History - updated 2008 Second Edition







JANE AUSTEN AND THE BLACK HOLE OF BRITISH HISTORY
Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability.


Revised and updated 2008 Second Edition with Preface, Epilogue, 1998-2008 updating chapter postscripts and a comprehensive Index, including a Jane Austen works and connections Index.



by Gideon Maxwell Polya



CONTENTS


Preamble, including Preface to revised and expanded Second Edition [ i ]

1. Introduction - truth, reason, science and history [ 1 ]


2. The editing of Jane Austen’s maternal connections - the Leighs and Brydges [ 8 ]


3. The editing of the Austens and consequences of rustic amusement [ 18 ]


4. Jane Austen’s siblings and their descendants [ 27 ]


5. The editing of Jane Austen’s life [ 33 ]


6. The rare intrusion of humble social reality into Jane Austen’s novels [ 42 ]


7. The sensibility of Jane Austen’s literary contemporaries [ 56 ]


8. The judgement of Jane Austen’s peers and successors [ 66 ]


9. The East India Company, the Black Hole and the conquest of Bengal [ 75 ]


10. The Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770 [ 88 ]


11. Warren Hastings and the conquest of India [ 99 ]


12. The impeachment of Warren Hastings and the judgement of history [ 106 ]


13. Colonial famine, genocide and ethnocide [ 114 ]


14. The Bengal Famine of 1943-1944 [ 133 ]


15. Pride and Prejudice - Churchill, Science, the Bengal Famine and the Jewish Holocaust [ 148]


16. Global warming and the unthinkable world of 2050 [ 166 ]


17. Antipodean epilogue - the moral dimension of the Lucky Country and the world [ 174 ]


Notes [ 202 ]


Bibliography [ 233 ]


Index [ 263 ]


For further details of “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” contact Dr Gideon Polya, 29 Dwyer Street, Macleod, Victoria, 3085, Australia.


ESSENCE OF THE BOOK:

Repetition of immense crimes against humanity such as the World War 2 Holocaust is made less likely when the responsible society acknowledges the crime, apologizes, makes amends and accepts the injunction “Never again”.
This book is concerned in part with the 2 century holocaust in British India that commenced with the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770 (10 million victims), concluded with the World War 2 Bengal Famine (4 million victims) and took tens of millions of lives in between.
However these events have been almost completely written out of history and removed from general perception, there has been no apology nor amends made and indeed it is generally accepted that, in the absence of effective global action, these horrors will be repeated on an unimaginably larger scale in the coming century.
This carefully documented “J’accuse” addresses what the author terms the “Austenizing” of history or the deletion of awful realities from historical writing.
While it was legitimate for Jane Austen, the artist, to render her exquisite novels free of the contemporary awfulness in which her connections participated, the Austenizing of British history is a holocaust-denying outrage that threatens humanity.

CHAPTER BY CHAPTER SYNOPSIS:

Chapter 1: History ignored yields history repeated; the victor writes history; historians like scientists must respect the basic data; the “Austenizing” of British history or the deletion of awful or embarrassing realities from British historiography (most notably the effective deletion of 2 centuries of horrendous famines in British India culminating in the “forgotten holocaust” of World War 2 Bengal); the British Anglo-Celtic Christian, Austro-Hungarian Jewish and Bihari-Bengali Hindu-Muslim antecedents of the author’s children; the post-Holocaust injunction of “Never again” applied to the “forgotten holocausts” of British India and the looming spectre of mass starvation in the coming century.

Chapter 2: The Austenizing of the maternal connections of Jane Austen; James Brydges and wealth from colonialism and imperialist wars; Indian connections and the theft charge against Jane Austen’s aunt Jane Leigh-Perrot.

Chapter 3: The Austenizing of the paternal connections of Jane Austen; the productive adultery of Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of India, with Jane Austen’s aunt Philadelphia Hancock; transplanting Jane Austen country to Tasmania and consequent ecocide and genocide.

Chapter 4: The Austenizing of Jane Austen’s siblings and their descendants; recurrent consanguinity; the British imperial and Indian involvements of Jane Austen’s family.

Chapter 5: Jane Austen’s life; remarkable differential reportage of Jane Austen’s life and connections.

Chapter 6: The exclusion of any awfulness and the rare intrusion of humble social reality into Jane Austen’s novels; succinct synopses and social content analysis of Jane Austen’s major works; recurrent consanguinity; Sense and Sensibility an Indian-connected novel that barely disguises the affair of Warren Hastings with Jane Austen’s aunt in Bengal; a powerful message from Jane Austen’s exquisite writing - “No matter what our place in the world, we are all empowered by the dignified, intelligent and articulate use of words”.

Chapter 7: The sensitivity of Jane Austen’s literary contemporaries to domestic and colonial abuses of humanity; George Crabbe, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Samuel Johnson, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Byron and Lord Teignmouth; limited British literary responses to the invasion and oppression of India and the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770.

Chapter 8: Literary criticism of Jane Austen; Jane Austen and the feminist perspective; the Jane Austen industry; Jane Austen and British imperialists; Jane Austen’s artistically legitimate exclusion of awfulness from her exquisite novels has been quite illegitimately taken by 2 centuries of British historians as a paradigm for the Austenizing or comprehensive white-washing of British history.

Chapter 9: The East India Company; the Black Hole of Calcutta story as grossly exaggerated, historically dubious, Imperial mythology - a Big Lie of British History that demonized Indians and helped to justify 2 centuries of oppression and famine; Siraj-ud-daulah, Clive and the conquest of Bengal.

Chapter 10: The genesis, course and extended aftermath of the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770; 10 million victims; a rich country rendered desolate as observed by Jane Austen’s connections; rapacious taxation and mass human starvation; effective deletion of the Great Bengal Famine from British history.

Chapter 11: Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of India and actual father of Jane Austen’s cousin and sister-in-law Eliza De Feuillade (née Hancock); rapacious taxation of famine-devastated Bengal; the Rohilla War, the judicial murder of Nandkumar, conflict with Mysore, Hyderabad and the Marathas, the robbing of the Begums of Oudh and the devastation of Oudh by war, taxation and consequent famine; Hastings’ duel with his foe Philip Francis (that resurfaces in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility).

Chapter 12: The impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings by the British Parliament - Britain’s only equivalent of a major war crimes trial over the abuses of British imperialism; Sheridan’s great speeches; the acquittal of Hastings; the judgement of history and the Austenizing of British imperial crimes.

Chapter 13: 2 centuries of appalling, recurrent famine in British India from 1769 to 1945; comparison of recurrent famine under the British in dry Rajasthan and lush Bengal; British colonial slavery, oppression, famine, genocide and ethnocide in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Australia and indeed in Britain and Ireland; the crimes of other imperialist powers; Charles Trevelyan and famine in Ireland and India; the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigines.

Chapter 14: The genesis, war-time context and appalling actuality of the Bengal Famine of 1943-1944; loss of rice from Burma, catastrophic war-time decrease in Indian food imports, food exports, temporary seizure of rice stocks, seizure and destruction of boats, Indian provincial food supply autonomy, no famine declaration, hoarding, British unresponsiveness, drastic cuts to Indian Ocean shipping, catastrophic rice price rises leading to mass starvation; British Military Labour Corps and civilian sexual exploitation of famine victims including children; Wavell, Mountbatten and Casey and final responses to the famine; the 1943-1946 excess mortality of about 4 million Bengalis due to famine and attendant disease; the documenting of the famine and the effective deletion of the famine from history and from general public perception.

Chapter 15: Churchill, World War 2, the Bengal Famine and the Jewish Holocaust; Churchill’s life and his hatred for Indians; Churchill and British air defence, knowledge of the indefensibility of Singapore, Japanese entry into the War and fore-knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor; Churchill, Lindeman, the importance of proper scientific advice to government, the air war in Europe, the Battle of the Atlantic, the shipping crisis and famine in India; famine as a strategic weapon to control restless subjects; Muslim containment, the Middle East, oil, the refusal to allow Jewish escape from Europe, the Jewish Holocaust and the forgotten, substantially Muslim Holocaust of Bengal; Churchill’s contribution to Muslim-Hindu antipathy as his final legacy to India; the effective deletion of the Bengal Famine from history and general public perception.

Chapter 16: Global warming and sea level, human health and tropical versus temperate agricultural productivity consequences; population growth, global agricultural sustainability and the growing discrepancy between population and food supply; the crisis in biological sustainability.

Chapter 17: Unresponsiveness of the world to the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust and to the “forgotten holocaust” of the Bengal Famine; examination of liberal, democratic, highly-educated and prosperous Australia (the Lucky Country) by way of assessment of the likelihood of timely global response to the impending environmental, population and sustainable food production crisis of the coming century; pre-invasion aboriginal Australia, invasion and genocide, racism of White Australia, the apogee of social decency in Australia and the current resurgent racism towards aboriginals and Asians; genocide, ethnocide, ecocide and terracide in Australia and unresponsiveness to the global crisis; a recent experimental test of the moral responsiveness of prosperous, liberal, democratic Australia - the war-time Bengal Famine (accounting for about 90% of World War 2 British Empire military plus civilian casualties) continues to be effectively ignored and thus removed from public perception by the ostensibly liberal political, media, academic and intellectual Establishment of Australia (and of Britain); how we can prevent the looming disaster - peri-conception, male sex selection as an example of a humane, non-invasive, pro-choice mechanism to reduce population (empirical evidence being provided by Fiji, a very tolerant and peaceful multi-racial society that developed from an initially large male over female imbalance among the Indian “indentured slaves”); further civilized contributions include the childless, culturally-absorbed Jane Austen option, tolerance of homosexuality and profound sympathy for the richness of the world as exhibited by Third World small-holder and aboriginal societies.




THE BOTTOM LINE:

The world is facing a crisis in biological sustainability due to the connected problems of excessive and increasing population, profligate use of resources and remorseless environmental degradation. Near-comprehensive holocaust denial in our culture in relation to several centuries of recurrent, horrendous famines in British India has blunted our responsiveness to such man-made catastrophes and continues to contribute to the global failure to face up to avoidable mass starvation in the coming century. The world must resolutely apply the post-Holocaust injunction of “Never again” to these past events and take incisive steps to avoid repetition in the future.






Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History (2nd Edition) is a carefully researched updated 2008 Second Edition of the original 1998 First Edition that includes some minor corrections, a substantial Preface (that details "history ignored and history repeated" atrocities of the Bush Wars and worseniing Climate Change in the period 1998-2008) and a final Epilogue that summarizes the Climate Emergency facing an Anglo-American-dominated world that continues to "look the other way" in relation to anthropogenic climate change and the continuing carnage from continuing Anglo-American holocaust commission, holocuast denial, genoicde commission and genocide denial. The book has at its core the scientific risk assessment that “History ignored yields history repeated”. The book uses the life, works and connections of the wonderful Jane Austen as a vehicle for exploring the extraordinary crimes of British Imperialism and of academic British historiography that continue unabated into the 21st century.


2 centuries of British “opinion makers” have perverted the wonderful, if sociologically confined, writing of Jane Austen by using it as a paradigm for British Imperial nobility. There has been a whitewashing (or “Austenizing”) of horrendous British Imperial crimes that continues to this day.


Thus most people would be utterly unaware of the following atrocities involving Great Britain: the Great Bengal Famine (1769-1770, 10 million victims), the man-made World War 2 Bengal Famine (.1943-1945, 6-7 million victims) and the real 9-11 atrocity, the 9-11 million avoidable deaths associated (so far) with the Bush Wars (1990-2008) – all examples of horrendous realities that continue to be air-brushed from public perception by lying, politically correct racist (PC racist) Mainstream media, politicians and academics.


Yet Jane Austen, who confined her brilliant writing to the rarefied world of the English upper class, was insistently truthful. As revealed in “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, Jane Austen’s novel “Sense and Sensibility” actually tells (in part) the scandalous true story of the first and only major British figure to have been arraigned for war crimes - Warren Hastings, friend of the Austens, first Governor General of British India and the out-of-wedlock father of Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza Hancock (through his Bengal adultery with Reverend George Austen's sister Mrs Philadelphia Hancock) , the real-life model for Mary Crawford in “Mansfield Park”.




In his 2005 Literature Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Harold Pinter demanded the arraignment of Bush and Blair for war crimes in Iraq, echoing impassioned and successful calls by Sheridan and Burke 2 centuries ago for the trial of Jane Austen connection Warren Hastings for Crimes against Humanity.




Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History (2nd Edition) has a central message that “history ignored yields history repeated”, that ignoring, denying, and “looking the other way” simply short-circuits sensible risk management and acutely threaten Humanity. Indeed the 2008 Second Edition has been updated to show that my fears in 1998 about further horrendous avoidable death from War, Occupation, Global Warming and Lying have been horribly realized in the 9-11 million avoidable deaths from the Bush Wars, the 16 million annual avoidable deaths from deprivation and the dire prediction of Dr James Lovelock FRS that over 6 billion people will perish this century from unaddressed man-made Climate Change.


While it was legitimate for Jane Austen, the brilliant writer, to confine her Art and render her exquisite novels free of the contemporary awfulness in which her connections participated, the “Austenizing” of British history is a holocaust-denying outrage that threatens humanity.


Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History (2nd Edition) is exhaustively referenced and indexed. It is a fabulous reference work for Jane Austen fans, high school and university students, historians, journalists, academics and lay persons. In addition to the serious message outlined above, the book:

1. details the life, forebears, family, connections, literary contemporaries and critics of Jane Austen and summarizes and analyses all of Jane Austen’s completed and unfinished novels;

2. details and documents the history of British and European imperialism, colonialism and genocide in India and elsewhere (notably Australia);

3. exposes the extraordinary “Austenizing” of history that is continuing today;

4. details 1998 fears about Global Warming that are now being realized in 2008; and

5. provides a Comprehensive Index including a Jane Austen Works, Characters and Connections Index.




The 2008 edition concludes with reference to my recent book “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007).


“In “Body Count” as in Chapter 17 above, I offered a variety of simple, cheap solutions based on wonderful examples of some very poor countries such as Cuba which have achieved remarkable success in addressing the fundamental human right of “right to life” through high female literacy, good governance, focussed investment and good primary health care. The same intelligent and humane approaches can effectively deal with the problems of excessive population and demands that have pushed the biosphere to a point of Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency. 182 Indeed 10,000 times more solar energy hits the earth each day than man currently uses and we already have highly efficient renewable energy technologies for cheaply and safely harvesting this resource. 183


Fundamental to any rational risk management – as urgently needed today for Spaceship Earth - is accurate data and general reportage. Further, just as we take the advice of top medical specialists very seriously in relation to life-threatening conditions, so sensible risk management demands that we take very seriously the advice of top scientists at the cutting edge of research and the advice of top scientific bodies. Thus the Melbourne-based Yarra Valley Climate Action Group and the Australian climate action group umbrella organization, the Climate Emergency Network, have provided detailed and documented summations of such information from top scientists and top scientific organizations in relation to the Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency facing the World. 184 The continuing, entrenched lying in mainstream cultures acutely threatens humanity. History ignored yields history repeated. Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. Please inform everyone you can.”


For further details of “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” contact Dr Gideon Polya, 29 Dwyer Street, Macleod, Victoria, 3085, Australia


The following links of relevance to Science, Art, Truth, Beauty and Saving the World may also be useful:


Polya, G.M. (1998), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (First Edition, G.M. Polya, Melbourne: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ).

Polya, G.M. (2003), “Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds. A pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects” (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003: http://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-Targets-Plant-Bioactive-Compounds/dp/0415308291 ) [read the numerous, succinctly presented historical and literary “snippets” inserted throughout this huge scientific text].

Polya, G.M. (2007), “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

Polya, G.M. (2007), “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007; see: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ).

Polya, G.M. (2008), “Science & Art versus Nuclear, Greenhouse & Poverty Threats”: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NvVV9NY2cqLwKJxdb8JAymVZRA--?cq=1&p=1 .

Yarra Valley Climate Action Group: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/Home .

Climate Emergency Network: http://www.climateemergencynetwork.org/ .

Gideon Polya Blogspot blogs: http://www.blogger.com/profile/04156886772294243824

Gideon Polya writings on Media with Conscience News (MWC News): http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya .

Gideon Polya writings on Newsvine: http://gpolya.newsvine.com/ .

Gideon Polya writings on Sulekha: http://gideon.sulekha.com/blog/posts.htm .





My words and those of other anti-racist, humanitarian advocates have evidently failed – the Bush Wars have now brought Anglo invasion and killing to Pakistani Waziristan, the Northwest Frontier of the former British Raj in South Asia, for the first time since 1947; the Arctic sea ice in 2007-2008 is at its lowest extent on record (see the official US National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC: http://nsidc.org/ ); according to UNICEF (see: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html ) 327,000 Afghan under-5 year old infants die each year in US-, UK-, NATO- and Australia-occupied Afghanistan (population 26 million) as compared to 2,000 in Occupier Australia (population 21 million) and according to the World Health Organization (WHO: http://www.who.int/en/ ) the Occupiers only permit a “total annual per capita medical expenditure” of $26 in Occupied Afghanistan (as compared to about $3,000 in Australia and $6,400 in the US); and the Mainstream media continue to ignore the real extent of the 9-11 atrocity – the 9-11 million avoidable deaths (mostly of women and children) in the Bush Wars (1990-2008) (see “9-11 excuse for US global genocide. The real 9-11 atrocity: Millions Dead in Bush Wars”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25184/42/ ).


Because my words have evidently failed I am also trying to spread a message of Peace through Art, “saying it in pictures”.





For your pleasure here are links to some of my HUGE (circa 1.3 metres x 2.9 metres) Paintings for Peace and the Planet (I am very happy for these images to be reproduced in the interests of Humanity; please forward them to all your associates!) : Clean Energy World: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/23119/42/1/1/ , My Country: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/21449/42/ , Four Seasons: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/21138/42/ , Bundoora Eucalyptus: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22128/42/ , Deep Mind: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17895/42/ and Genes and Memes: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18122/42/ (both of these relating to Mind and Humanism), Apocalypse Now : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17652/42/ , Jerusalem Madonna (Muslim, Renaissance Italian, Byzantine Orthodox, aboriginal, abstract expressionist fusion): http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17194/42/ , Manhattan Madonna ( a memorial for 9/11) : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10766/26/ , Rosanna Madonna: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16627/42/ , Scheherazade (for Women's Rights) : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16294/42 / , Sydney Madonna (for Mother and Child and Indigenous Rights) : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10865/26/ , Truelove: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11031/254/ , Melbourne Madonna: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13950/26/ , Qana (inspired by Pablo Picasso's anti-war masterpiece "Guernica"): http://mwcnews.net/content/view/9547/26/ , Isfahan Matisse: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14417/26/ , Alhambra Pollock: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14082/42/ , Terra: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/ and Bundoora Arabesque: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15960/42/ .





For further details of “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” contact Dr Gideon Polya, 29 Dwyer Street, Macleod, Victoria, 3085, Australia (e-mail: gpolya@bigpond.com ).






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Friday, July 15, 2005
Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History
JANE AUSTEN AND THE BLACK HOLE OF BRITISH HISTORY
Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability
by Gideon Maxwell Polya

CONTENTS

1. Introduction - truth, reason, science and history [ 1 ]
2. The editing of Jane Austen’s connections - the Leighs and Brydges [ 8 ]
3. The editing of the Austens and consequences of rustic amusement [ 18 ]
4. Jane Austen’s siblings and their descendants [ 27 ]
5. The editing of Jane Austen’s life [ 33 ]
6. The rare intrusion of humble social reality into Jane Austen’s novels [ 42 ]
7. The sensibility of Jane Austen’s literary contemporaries [ 56 ]
8. The judgement of Jane Austen’s peers and successors [ 66 ]
9. The East India Company, the Black Hole and the conquest of Bengal [ 75 ]
10. The Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770 [ 88 ]
11. Warren Hastings and the conquest of India [ 99 ]
12. The impeachment of Warren Hastings and the judgement of history [ 106 ]
13. Colonial famine, genocide and ethnocide [ 114 ]
14. The Bengal Famine of 1943-1944 [ 133 ]
15. Pride and Prejudice - Churchill, Science, the Bengal Famine and the Jewish Holocaust [ 148]
16. Global warming and the unthinkable world of 2050 [ 166 ]
17. Antipodean epilogue - the moral dimension of the Lucky Country and the world [ 174 ]
Notes [ 199 ]
Bibliography [ 227 ]
Index [ 252 ]

Dr. Gideon Polya was an Associate Professor in Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3086, Australia. The author of over 100 scientific publications, Dr. Polya is presently a Melbourne-based researcher, writer and lecturer. The views expressed in the book are those of the author, Dr. G.M. Polya. This first edition of the book (ISBN 0-646-35580-5) was published in May 1998 by G.M. Polya, 29 Dwyer Street, Macleod, Melbourne, Victoria, 3085, Australia. It is out of print but copies are to be found in some major libraries. A second edition is envisaged.

ESSENCE OF THE BOOK:

Repetition of immense crimes against humanity such as the World War 2 Holocaust is made less likely when the responsible society acknowledges the crime, apologizes, makes amends and accepts the injunction “Never again”.
This book is concerned in part with the 2 century holocaust in British India that commenced with the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770 (10 million victims), concluded with the World War 2 Bengal Famine (4 million victims) and took tens of millions of lives in between.
However these events have been almost completely written out of history and removed from general perception, there has been no apology nor amends made and indeed it is generally accepted that, in the absence of effective global action, these horrors will be repeated on an unimaginably larger scale in the coming century.
This carefully documented “J’accuse” addresses what the author terms the “Austenizing” of history or the deletion of awful realities from historical writing.
While it was legitimate for Jane Austen, the artist, to render her exquisite novels free of the contemporary awfulness in which her connections participated, the Austenizing of British history is a holocaust-denying outrage that threatens humanity.

CHAPTER BY CHAPTER SYNOPSIS:

Chapter 1: History ignored yields history repeated; the victor writes history; historians like scientists must respect the basic data; the “Austenizing” of British history or the deletion of awful or embarrassing realities from British historiography (most notably the effective deletion of 2 centuries of horrendous famines in British India culminating in the “forgotten holocaust” of World War 2 Bengal); the British Anglo-Celtic Christian, Austro-Hungarian Jewish and Bihari-Bengali Hindu-Muslim antecedents of the author’s children; the post-Holocaust injunction of “Never again” applied to the “forgotten holocausts” of British India and the looming spectre of mass starvation in the coming century.

Chapter 2: The Austenizing of the maternal connections of Jane Austen; James Brydges and wealth from colonialism and imperialist wars; Indian connections and the theft charge against Jane Austen’s aunt Jane Leigh-Perrot.

Chapter 3: The Austenizing of the paternal connections of Jane Austen; the productive adultery of Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of India, with Jane Austen’s aunt Philadelphia Hancock; transplanting Jane Austen country to Tasmania and consequent ecocide and genocide.

Chapter 4: The Austenizing of Jane Austen’s siblings and their descendants; recurrent consanguinity; the British imperial and Indian involvements of Jane Austen’s family.

Chapter 5: Jane Austen’s life; remarkable differential reportage of Jane Austen’s life and connections.

Chapter 6: The exclusion of any awfulness and the rare intrusion of humble social reality into Jane Austen’s novels; succinct synopses and social content analysis of Jane Austen’s major works; recurrent consanguinity; Sense and Sensibility an Indian-connected novel that barely disguises the affair of Warren Hastings with Jane Austen’s aunt in Bengal; a powerful message from Jane Austen’s exquisite writing - “No matter what our place in the world, we are all empowered by the dignified, intelligent and articulate use of words”.

Chapter 7: The sensitivity of Jane Austen’s literary contemporaries to domestic and colonial abuses of humanity; George Crabbe, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Samuel Johnson, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Lord Byron and Lord Teignmouth; limited British literary responses to the invasion and oppression of India and the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770.

Chapter 8: Literary criticism of Jane Austen; Jane Austen and the feminist perspective; the Jane Austen industry; Jane Austen and British imperialists; Jane Austen’s artistically legitimate exclusion of awfulness from her exquisite novels has been quite illegitimately taken by 2 centuries of British historians as a paradigm for the Austenizing or comprehensive white-washing of British history.

Chapter 9: The East India Company; the Black Hole of Calcutta story as grossly exaggerated, historically dubious, Imperial mythology - a Big Lie of British History that demonized Indians and helped to justify 2 centuries of oppression and famine; Siraj-ud-daulah, Clive and the conquest of Bengal.

Chapter 10: The genesis, course and extended aftermath of the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770; 10 million victims; a rich country rendered desolate as observed by Jane Austen’s connections; rapacious taxation and mass human starvation; effective deletion of the Great Bengal Famine from British history.

Chapter 11: Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of India and actual father of Jane Austen’s cousin and sister-in-law Eliza De Feuillade (née Hancock); rapacious taxation of famine-devastated Bengal; the Rohilla War, the judicial murder of Nandkumar, conflict with Mysore, Hyderabad and the Marathas, the robbing of the Begums of Oudh and the devastation of Oudh by war, taxation and consequent famine; Hastings’ duel with his foe Philip Francis (that resurfaces in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility).

Chapter 12: The impeachment and trial of Warren Hastings by the British Parliament - Britain’s only equivalent of a major war crimes trial over the abuses of British imperialism; Sheridan’s great speeches; the acquittal of Hastings; the judgement of history and the Austenizing of British imperial crimes.

Chapter 13: 2 centuries of appalling, recurrent famine in British India from 1769 to 1945; comparison of recurrent famine under the British in dry Rajasthan and lush Bengal; British colonial slavery, oppression, famine, genocide and ethnocide in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Australia and indeed in Britain and Ireland; the crimes of other imperialist powers; Charles Trevelyan and famine in Ireland and India; the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigines.

Chapter 14: The genesis, war-time context and appalling actuality of the Bengal Famine of 1943-1944; loss of rice from Burma, catastrophic war-time decrease in Indian food imports, food exports, temporary seizure of rice stocks, seizure and destruction of boats, Indian provincial food supply autonomy, no famine declaration, hoarding, British unresponsiveness, drastic cuts to Indian Ocean shipping, catastrophic rice price rises leading to mass starvation; British Military Labour Corps and civilian sexual exploitation of famine victims including children; Wavell, Mountbatten and Casey and final responses to the famine; the 1943-1946 excess mortality of about 4 million Bengalis due to famine and attendant disease; the documenting of the famine and the effective deletion of the famine from history and from general public perception.

Chapter 15: Churchill, World War 2, the Bengal Famine and the Jewish Holocaust; Churchill’s life and his hatred for Indians; Churchill and British air defence, knowledge of the indefensibility of Singapore, Japanese entry into the War and fore-knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor; Churchill, Lindeman, the importance of proper scientific advice to government, the air war in Europe, the Battle of the Atlantic, the shipping crisis and famine in India; famine as a strategic weapon to control restless subjects; Muslim containment, the Middle East, oil, the refusal to allow Jewish escape from Europe, the Jewish Holocaust and the forgotten, substantially Muslim Holocaust of Bengal; Churchill’s contribution to Muslim-Hindu antipathy as his final legacy to India; the effective deletion of the Bengal Famine from history and general public perception.

Chapter 16: Global warming and sea level, human health and tropical versus temperate agricultural productivity consequences; population growth, global agricultural sustainability and the growing discrepancy between population and food supply; the crisis in biological sustainability.

Chapter 17: Unresponsiveness of the world to the World War 2 Jewish Holocaust and to the “forgotten holocaust” of the Bengal Famine; examination of liberal, democratic, highly-educated and prosperous Australia (the Lucky Country) by way of assessment of the likelihood of timely global response to the impending environmental, population and sustainable food production crisis of the coming century; pre-invasion aboriginal Australia, invasion and genocide, racism of White Australia, the apogee of social decency in Australia and the current resurgent racism towards aboriginals and Asians; genocide, ethnocide, ecocide and terracide in Australia and unresponsiveness to the global crisis; a recent experimental test of the moral responsiveness of prosperous, liberal, democratic Australia - the war-time Bengal Famine (accounting for about 90% of World War 2 British Empire military plus civilian casualties) continues to be effectively ignored and thus removed from public perception by the ostensibly liberal political, media, academic and intellectual Establishment of Australia (and of Britain); how we can prevent the looming disaster - peri-conception, male sex selection as an example of a humane, non-invasive, pro-choice mechanism to reduce population (empirical evidence being provided by Fiji, a very tolerant and peaceful multi-racial society that developed from an initially large male over female imbalance among the Indian “indentured slaves”); further civilized contributions include the childless, culturally-absorbed Jane Austen option, tolerance of homosexuality and profound sympathy for the richness of the world as exhibited by Third World small-holder and aboriginal societies.

THE BOTTOM LINE:

The world is facing a crisis in biological sustainability due to the connected problems of excessive and increasing population, profligate use of resources and remorseless environmental degradation. Near-comprehensive holocaust denial in our culture in relation to several centuries of recurrent, horrendous famines in British India has blunted our responsiveness to such man-made catastrophes and continues to contribute to the global failure to face up to avoidable mass starvation in the coming century. The world must resolutely apply the post-Holocaust injunction of “Never again” to these past events and take incisive steps to avoid repetition in the future.

Churchill

Media Lying over Churchill's Crimes

Churchill is our hero because of his leadership in World War 2, but his immense crimes, notably the WW2 Bengali Holocaust, the 1943-1945 Bengal Famine in which Churchill murdered 6-7 million Indians, have been deleted from history by extraordinary Anglo-American and Zionist Holocaust Denial.

In addition to his participation in British colonial war crimes in South Africa, the Sudan, Afghanistan and India as a soldier "just obeying orders", Churchill was deeply complicit as an Establishment politician, Minister and Leader in the political failures leading to World War 1; the disastrous WW2 Dardanelles campaign; the 1920s bombing of Iraqis and Kurds; political failure leading to World War 2; active promotion of Japanese entry into World War 2, pre-knowledge of the indefensibility of Singapore; pre-knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; opposition to Indian Independence from the crippling obscenity of the British Raj; the 1943-1945 Bengal Famine; the anti-Arab anti-Semitic war-time decision to partition Palestine in favour of racist Zionist colonizers; and promotion of Hindu-Muslim antipathy with resultant Partition carnage and the present Pakistan-India nuclear standoff.

Deutschland Uber Alles

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