90%

[barbara100 at jps.net]

So I wonder, Jbor, while I sit here listening to streaming Free Speech Radio
(  http://www.webactive.com/freespeech/  ), what do you know, what have you
heard, what forms your impression that the 7.5 million starving and freezing
Afghan refugees are 'out of the woods.'   All this talk about Objectivity
and Subjectivity--maybe it's not so much how we read, but what we read.  I
notice you scoffed at the article I posted.  So what do you read?  Why don't
you post some articles to us that you find important?  I take the time to
read David's NPs, I'd surely read yours.  Go ahead, Jbor, I'm not afraid to
eat crow.  Make me apologize.  If they're really 'out of the woods,' I wanna
know about it.
Barbara



----- Original Message -----
From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: 90%


>
> As we all realise, Barbara, opinion polls are notorious for twisting
> information. It depends on how the questions are framed, and often the
> person or organisation conducting the survey will manipulate the wording
to
> "prove" any conclusion they want. In the survey from the article you cited
> the two choices given were not mutually exclusive: those surveyed
"preferred
> extradition and trial of suspects to a US attack", but the question seems
to
> have ignored the problem of how that "extradition and trial" was to be
> achieved. I think you will still find that a vast majority of people in
all
> countries across the globe supported the military intervention - whether
90%
> is a moot point, and somewhat irrelevant now that the international
alliance
> has largely achieved its aim - certainly their governments and the UN did,
> perhaps over 90% thereof.
>
> But seeing as you've brought up the topic of spreading misinformation and
> false data, how about a retraction and apology for all your '7 and a half
> million Afghanis are as good as dead' rants?
>
> best
>
>
>
> on 22/11/01 9:00 AM, barbara100 at jps.net at barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
>
> > I was attributing the 90% to Jbor actually, David. But since you mention
it,
> > has the UN really blessed this mission?  I'd have to doubt that.  But I
don't
> > have any proof, so I'll leave it at that.
> >
> > As for US-only opinion polls, there's a good deal more to the article
that
> > discusses that issue too.  Click on the link to read it in its entirety
> >
> > My point?  Only to pass on information contrary to what's been thought
and
> > stated as fact around here.  That's all.
> >
> > Happy Thanksgiving!
> >
> > Barbara
> >
>