-Caveat Lector- "Here are the numbers for the total U.S. Citizen Casualties Caused by International Attacks, 1993-98. Note that the figures show no upward trend. 1993 7 1994 6 1995 10 1996 25 1997 6 1998 12" Fearmongering to suit globalist political agendas includes CONCERTED monopoply media attacking everyone in their homes with terror. "THE TERRORISTS" are the media, and the politicians. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: The Progressive Review [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 27, 1999 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UNDERNEWS Dec 27 UNDERNEWS December 27, 1999 Free-range journalism from Washington's most unofficial source, THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW ----------------------------------------------------- Editor: Sam Smith 1312 18th St NW (Fifth Floor) Washington DC 20036 202-835-0770 Fax: 835-0779 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PROGRESSIVE REVIEW INDEX: http://www.prorev.com/ UNDERNEWS: http://www.prorev.com/indexa.htm SUBSCRIBE: Reply with "subscribe" as subject UNSUBSCRIBE: Reply with 'unsubscribe' as subject ----------------------------------------------------- WORD "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. -- George Orwell, 1984 HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT TERRORISM Nothing so well illustrates the misinformation the Clinton administration and media have been spreading about terrorism than a series of charts buried in the annual report on the subject by the State Department. While past history is not necessarily predictive of what will happen tomorrow and adding, say, the TWA 800 crash would change the totals significantly, the existing data on actual terrorists incidents compiled by State provides a powerful indictment of White House and media fearmongering. Here is a summary of the report prepared by Arab-American activist and researcher Ali Abunimah: ********** 1) TERRORISM WORLDWIDE IS DECREASING SIGNIFICANTLY AND CONSISTENTLY There has been a significant and consistent downward trend in international terrorist incidents in the period 1979-1998. In 1998, number of international terrorist incidents, at 273, was the lowest ever in the period, and the annual number has shown a consistent downward trend since it reached a peak of 666 in 1987. 2) THE VAST MAJORITY OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST INCIDENTS ARE NOT RELATED TO THE MIDDLE EAST, MUSLIM "EXTREMISTS" OR ARABS Since 1995, Latin America has consistently had the highest annual number of international terrorist incidents of any region, followed by Western Europe. In 1998 there were 110 attacks in Latin America, 48 in Western Europe and 31 in the Middle East. There were 21 in Africa and zero in North America. In terms of casualties (deaths+injuries), the highest number have consistently been in Asia since 1993. In 1998 there were over 5,000 in Africa 635 in Asia, 405 in Western Europe, 68 in the Middle East and zero in North America. 3) EIGHTY PERCENT OF ATTACKS AGAINST UNITED STATES TARGETS ARE IN LATIN AMERICA Consistently, the vast majority of events defined by the State Department as "anti-US attacks" occur in Latin America. In 1998, there was a total of 111 anti-US attacks. Eighty seven were in Latin America, 13 in Western Europe, 5 in the Middle East and 3 each in Africa and Eurasia. By far the most common target of terrorists are businesses. Attacks on diplomats, military or government installations are relatively rare. The total number of US fatalities from these attacks in 1998 was 12, all related to the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. 4) VERY FEW AMERICANS ARE KILLED BY TERRORISTS Here are the numbers for the total U.S. Citizen Casualties Caused by International Attacks, 1993-98. Note that the figures show no upward trend. 1993 7 1994 6 1995 10 1996 25 1997 6 1998 12 CONCLUSION There is a complete disparity between the facts about international terrorism as presented by the government on the one hand, and the media, official and popular response to the issue on the other. There is no objective connection between the frequency of terrorist attacks originating from and occurring in the Middle East, and the amount of attention that such attacks receive. President Clinton and other government officials have repeatedly defined terrorism as one of the greatest threats facing the world. ********** STATE DEPARTMENT CHARTS ON TERRORISM http://www.prorev.com/terror.htm FULL ARTICLE BY ALI ABUNIMAH http://www.sightings.com/ STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1998Report/1998index.html) JUST POLITICS The Gore meltdown in New Hampshire continues. See our chart on the Undernews page or get a comprehensive review of the polls across the nation at Morning Line. UNDERNEWS http://www.prorev.com/indexa.htm MORNING LINE http://www.prorev.com/amline.htm ASSOCIATED PRESS: Americans don't have much faith in the two-party system to elect their president, according to a recent poll. Nearly half of all polled said they want a third-party candidate to run as an alternative to the Republican and Democratic candidates, and only 23 percent agreed "the two party system works fairly well." What was most surprising about the poll was that a possible race between the two candidates considered challengers to their parties' front-runners - former Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley and John McCain, Republican senator from Arizona - does not lessen the voters' desire for a third-party alternative. Faced with a possible contest between Bradley and McCain - often portrayed as outsiders or mavericks within their parties - 43 percent of all voters surveyed said they would also want to have a third-party candidate. Nearly the same percentage - 45 percent - said they wanted a third-party candidate if they were faced with a race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore. ONE OF THOSE who reportedly will help meet the demand is Ralph Nader, although the major media don't seem to want to bother their audience with the fact. This time out, Nader will raise money and campaign in all 50 states and generally run a less ambivalent effort than last time. A draft committee has been formed headed by Carol Miller, co-chair of the Green Party of New Mexico, along with Ronnie Dugger, founder of the Alliance for Democracy and Santa Monica Green councilmember Mike Feinstein. NATION ARTICLE http://www.thenation.com/1999/991220.shtml DRAFT NADER CAMPAIGN http://www.nader2k.org VOLUNTEER SIGNUP http://www.nader2k.org/supportwork NEWSMAX: A NewsMax.com/Zogby International poll reveals that if presidential elections were held today, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would garner nearly 25 percent of the vote in a hypothetical three-way race with Republican George W. Bush and Reform Party convert Pat Buchanan . . . Bush failed to gain a majority, taking 47 percent of the vote . . . Another 22 percent of those polled said they weren�t sure for whom they would vote. NEWSMAX http://www.newsmax.com A New York poll finds that white women -- who we have been repeatedly told are the core of the Hillary Clinton constituency -- favor Rudolph Giuliani 47% to 40%. EDITORIAL PRIG OF THE WEEK The Washington Post for the following: "Full-service brokers are not the [Yiddish vulgarism deleted] we've been made out to be" is NAIP President Thomas O'Keefe's plaintive explanation. NEWSPEAK OF THE WEEK Sprint's customer service people are called "advocates." CHRISTMAS HANGOVER Associated Press reports that a shopping mall Santa Claus refused to comfort a balling 19-month old, allegedly telling his mother, "I will not imprison your child" Said the mother, "When I went to pick up the baby, he said: 'Was it worth it? Was it worth it for you to torture your child for a picture? You must be an evil person." After the woman told the Santa he was not fit to be around children, the man "started to rip off his clothes. He took off his beard, his wig, his coat, his belt." Security guards took the dour Santa away. LOOSE CHANGE BUSINESSWEEK: But even as the U.S. economy exits the millennium with an unprecedented bang, there are signs of unease . . . According to a new Harris Poll commissioned by Business Week, most Americans feel as if the New Economy's good-'n'-plenty train is passing them by. What the poll and other surveys show is that, at least in part, the public shares much of the frustration voiced by those angry demonstrators at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Some 52% of respondents said they were sympathetic to the concerns of the protesters . . . The BW-Harris poll also found that most Americans believe that business now has too much power. . . . Indeed, the most striking development in the New Economy for many has been the end of the 40-hour week: Americans now log more hours on the job than workers in any other industrialized nation. But growth in real hourly compensation has dropped from a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter of 1998 to 2.3% this year. Annual raises will be 4.2% in 1999, down from 5.2% in 1990. BUSINESSWEEK http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_52/b3661120.htm LOOK WHO'S READY FOR Y2K BBC: Colombian Marxist rebels have announced they are Y2K ready, unlike the Colombian government which is scrambling to beat the end of year deadline. The 17,000-strong Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which control almost 40% of the country, have pronounced themselves ready for the turn of the millennium. According to Juan, the FARC systems manager, based in the massive guerrilla safe haven granted by the government for peace talks, the rebel's computers have been upgraded with Windows 2000 and will slip into the new millennium without a hitch. BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_576000/576212.stm ECO NOTES ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE: The U.S. Postal Service has placed the largest electric vehicle order in the nation�s history. The service has committed to buying 500 electric mail delivery vehicles from Ford Motor Company, and has the option to purchase a total of 6,000 of the clean running trucks. ENS http://ens.lycos.com/ens/dec99/1999L-12-23-07.html WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP REUTERS: Nearly 10 million American teenagers collectively earned $1.05 billion in weekly allowances in 1997, researchers said Wednesday. Based on a 1997 survey of nearly 9,000 children between ages 12 and 18, researchers at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research said the average of more than $100 in weekly allowances and other money provided a big push to the economy because most teenagers have few bills to pay. 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