UN: Over 60,000 Dead in Syria Conflict (tags)
UN: Over 60,000 Dead in Syria Conflict
Over 400,000 ethnically cleansed from southern Kyrgyzstan (tags)
Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border.
U.S. HIV infection totals increases by 50%, CDC indicate (tags)
Bloomberg News reports: The government's estimate of annual new HIV infections is likely to rise "as much as 50 percent," say patient advocates who are pressuring officials to speed the release of the new figures.
Why is the American press silent on the report of 655,000 Iraqi deaths? (tags)
The US media is virtually silent on a new scientific study that estimates the Iraqi death toll from the US war at 655,000. The study, conducted by Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was posted Wednesday on the web site of the British medical journal, the Lancet.
Darfur Death Toll Is Hundreds of Thousands Higher Than Reported, Study Says (tags)
Darfur Death Toll Is Hundreds of Thousands Higher Than Reported, Study Says
Getting our numbers right, counting crowds (tags)
The range of estimates for last weeks march is 15,000 (LAPD, LA Times) to 50,000 (ANSWER organizers) pretty wide range The following is a repost from http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/news/2003/0203/crowds.html that might help explain the range
15,000 at march according to LAPD (tags)
The LA Times article about the march cites a police estimate of 15,000 people, so indymedia should up its figure!
CIA Doubted Uranium Report (tags)
A key reason for the CIA's skepticism, according to a senior intelligence officer, was, "What do they need this [the ore] for? They've got tons of it already in Iraq."
US AIDS statistics are complete nonsense. Unless we have adopted 'Numaths' the figures simply don't add up. The 'AID$' epidemic is simply a political ploy to change sexual behaviour.
50,000 March in LA (estimate from a post on www.indymedia.org) (tags)
I myself can't estimate crowd size. I was in Westwood today and there were certainly many thousands of others as well. 10, 20, hell-maybe-even 50 thousand. Whatever the number, it was huge and it rocked!!!