Following up on the theme of the Movement claiming to create coherence, I 
looked at this deal the Movement claims for the Taste of Utopia course, the 
effects I mean. They claim all these effects in different parts of the world 
such as:
   
   - 50% decreased air traffic fatalities globally compared with the previous 
five year period (p =.0001)
   - 41.6% fewer road traffic fatalities seen in the USA than the mean for the 
prior 16 years. Fewer than expected traffic fatalities also occurred in South 
Africa (20%) and the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, and 
Western Australia, (11%) compared with the same time of year in previous 
years(p =.0001)
   - Decreased crime observed in Washington DC (4%), Karachi in Pakistan (16%) 
and in the State of Victoria, Australia (13%), (p =.000002). The comparison was 
with crime occurrences for the 24 weeks prior to the three week project and for 
3 weeks afterwards.
In looking at the event in that time period, I think its interesting they seem 
to ignore:
December, 1983
17th - Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die17th - The Provisional IRA bombs 
Harrods department store in London, killing six people and injuring 9026th - 
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
27th - Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo
31st - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
And that was just December of '83.


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