Oh, this is hilarious. When asked to back up one of his "absolute" statements, all we get are six paragraphs of some kind of bobbing and weaving and a bunch of meaningless drivel.
Did anyone expect anything different? No, we didn't. Thanks Sal. Keep us the good work! ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Interesting. Can you, Salyavin, provide the links to the press releases you say the TMO is now sending out claiming credit for the reduction in crime in New York? I know how you like to be scientific about everything, so I am sure you would not say this unless you had some evidence that it is indeed so. Indeed, you yourself say you can "absolutely guarantee” it. So I’m looking forward to seeing those links you will post for us! I can only post links to news sources that have taken up the press releases. Obviously. But nobody ever does - for some reason. But how can I be so sure? I used to work in PR myself and everyone with an agenda, whether it's world peace or selling shoes, sends out a press release (PR's) at every chance they get to (hopefully) keep their brand in the news . Newspapers employ people to collect and collate the days PR's which are then sent to the editor who decides which is newsworthy and instructs journo's to get more information if the PR doesn't contain all they need for a story. When I worked in the media dept of the TMO it was no surprise to find that we sent out PR's on an almost daily basis. In fact part of my job was creating databases of journo's to send things to. Very easily done, you just read magazines and if you find someone who writes about things like alternative medicine they go on a list for the next ayurveda release etc. In times of conflict we'd send out PR's on a daily basis to every news outlet about how we had a proper solution to the trouble and how every government should give us money to create groups of yogic flyers. Crime rate gone up? PR about yogic flying. Impending election in war zone? Yogic flying again. Only one PR was ever taken up by the UK press (one about teaching the unemployed to do yogic flying so they can make themselves useful by keeping crime rates down - treated with distinct amusement) But that didn't stop them for a second, and so it shouldn't. Keeping up a good media profile is essential these days, look at the coverage a mere mention of David Lynch gets, do you really think that newspapers go looking for stories about celebrities and what they do? Of course not, the TMO sends out a press release with all relevant info and they get in touch if they want to make a story out of it. That's the way it works. So why don't we get to hear about the Marshy Effect PR's? Because crackpot theories about reducing crime by jumping up and down in your pyjama's still isn't considered a worthy news story. But I bet my bottom dollar they are still sending them out. They'd be failing in their duty if they've stopped. Unless they don't believe it any more either? Nah, they'd be all over this with a PR about the pundit programme and collective consciousness, guaranteed. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : You can bet your bottom raam the Movement will take credit for this, as they do everything in the world they think will sell tickets to their bizarre "vedic" circus. I had a raam note once, it cost me ten bucks and the missus threw it away because she thought it was joke money. OK she was right, but it cost a lot and had a nice picture on it. I thought it made a nice memento. However, I think the movement should keep quiet about their role in this apparent calmness as it actually contradicts the claimed Marshy Effect. If it took 7000 to lower the crime rate 20% in Washington in 1993 (not that I believe it) then how many have been meditating in New York to get a 54% reduction? Erm, none it would seem. So the Marshy Effect either isn't reliable enough to be tested or is hopelessly inadequate compared to whatever is going on now. But I can absolutely guarantee they are sending out PR's claiming that the lower crime is all down to them. We would have been! From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 4:01 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Marshy Effect? After the Big Apple’s 12-day run without killings, experts struggle to find the reason for a trend repeated across the nation "Although there was an attempted murder in Queens on Friday that left a man on life-support, New York has enjoyed an almost unprecedented 12-day streak without a homicide. While crime statistics are difficult to interpret – violent crimes such as rape and assault have not reduced so markedly – the trend overall is repeated across the US. From its peak in 1991, violent crime is down 51%; property crime 4% lower; and murder down 54%. During that same time, incarceration nearly doubled. The US prison population now stands at 2.4 million – up 800% since 1980 – or roughly a quarter of the world’s total. The cost? About $80bn a year. The overall cost of the US criminal justice system is placed at $240bn, or about half of the federal deficit. But according to What Caused the Crime Decline?, a study published last week by the Brennan centre for justice at New York University school of law, there is no definitive link between falling crime and mass incarceration." I'd like to see the daily press releases the TMO are sending out about this, doesn't look like they are reaching a sympathetic audience though.... New York’s streets are suddenly safer. Why? http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/14/new-york-plunging-murder-rate-why http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/14/new-york-plunging-murder-rate-why New York’s streets are suddenly safer. Why? http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/14/new-york-plunging-murder-rate-why After the Big Apple’s 12-day run without killings, experts struggle to find the reason for a trend repeated across the nation View on www.theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/14/new-york-plunging-murder-rate-why Preview by Yahoo
