
[quote]bigflamer wrote:
I’ve decided party loyalty is more important than REALITY and America.[/quote]
Study: Terror Warnings Up Approval Ratings
Associated Press
October 27 2004
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – When the government issues a terror warning, the president’s approval rating increases an average of nearly three points, a Cornell University sociologist says.
“The social theories predict it, and anecdotally we know it to be true. Now we have statistical science to confirm it,” said Robb Willer, assistant director of Cornell’s Sociology and Small Groups Laboratory.
On average, a terror warning prompted a 2.75 point increase in President George Bush’s approval rating the following week, said Willer, who published his study in Current Research in Social Psychology, a peer-reviewed online journal…
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2004/271004terrorwarnings.htm
Terror Trend
1995: In most countries, the level of international terrorism in 1995 continued the downward trend of recent years, and there were fewer terrorist acts that caused deaths last year than in the previous year.
1996: During 1996 there were 296 acts of international terrorism, the lowest annual total in 25 years and 144 fewer than in 1995.
1997: During 1997 there were 304 acts of international terrorism, eight more than occurred during 1996, but one of the lowest annual totals recorded since 1971.
1998: There were 273 international terrorist attacks during 1998, a drop from the 304 attacks we recorded the previous year and the lowest annual total since 1971.
1999: The number of persons killed or wounded in international terrorist attacks during 1999 fell sharply because of the absence of any attack causing mass casualties.
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2000: There were 423 international terrorist attacks in 2000, an increase of 8% from the 392 attacks recorded during 1999.
2001: Greatest terror attack in HISTORY occurs on US soil.
U.S. raises figures for 2003 terrorist attacks
‘Significant attacks’ at 21-year high, revised data show
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/22/powell.terror/
U.S. eliminates annual terrorism report
WASHINGTON - The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government’s top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002243262_terror16.html
Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says