Urgent Health Warning
The CDC announced yesterday that another deadly outbreak of MAWS is expected within the next year. Fatalities could reach into the hundreds of thousands. MAWS is a distinct pathological entity with a definite cause, mode of transmission, and treatment. It's deeply disturbing however, one official commented; that until now there's been no public awareness of the dangers of MAWS, or any widespread effort to acquaint the public with its early warning signs. “This dreaded disease could be stopped in its tracks” he stated, “if only greater awareness of preventive measures were more widely known.”.
MAWS is a leading causes of death in young males worldwide between the ages of 19-29. In the U.S., victims are disproportionately young men of color, or if Caucasian; they're mostly from working class backgrounds. Experts remain puzzled why until now MAWS has not been brought under greater scrutiny. There are strict child car seat regulations, parents routinely warn their children against stranger danger, drunk driving and drugs; but for some reason parents and teachers do not warn adolescents against MAWS, and the life-threatening danger it poses to them. In a matter of months, MAWS can sweep across a nation and leave a trail of death, serious injury and severe psychological damage to thousands, even hundreds of thousands in its wake.
Worldwide outbreaks of MAWS have generally been researched individually and not viewed as part of a larger, more generalized pattern of worldwide pathology. “Each time there's a MAWS outbreak, it’s as if it's happening for the very first time” one researcher complained. At risk populations usually ignore the early warning signs until its too late to stop a full-blown outbreak. There's an odd complacency not seen in any other pathogen that causes so many deaths and serious injuries. Past victims are often too emotionally traumatized to talk about having succumbed to this disease. Only through greater awareness of the early warning signs can we stop the next MAWS outbreak..
... The clock is ticking.
CAUSES
MAWS is an airborne pathogen. Unlike other airborne diseases, however, it's not transmitted through ambient air – but through TV and radio airwaves. TV's and radios are the major sources of infection in most households. During the early stages of a MAWS outbreak, these seemingly harmless plastic boom boxes and boob tubes morph into a direct pipeline for transmitting this disease from its epi-center of contagion – right into their homes. In previous centuries newspapers and pulpits were the primary spreaders of MAWS. Today the corporate media is a necessary co-factor in outbreaks of Media Activated War Syndrome – or MAWS for short..
As these virulent electronic emanations begin to waft out of radios and TVs throughout a country, distinct neurotoxic effects can often be observed within a matter of weeks. People of usually sound mind begin to feel a free-floating sense of terror and vulnerability. They begin to see imaginary boogeymen. Sometimes an entire ethnic or religious group is imagined to possess previously undetected demon blood. A mild group psychosis grips whole populations, causing them to swallow the most blatant Big Lies. Victims become ready and willing to commit or sanction mass murder, plunder and mayhem on a grand scale, rationalizing away a degree of brutality they would consider horrific and appalling if their brains had not been addled by the MAWS pathogen.
MODE OF TRANSMISSION
MAWS outbreaks usually occur first within a small group of disease carriers before spreading out into the general population. The point of origin of recent MAWS outbreaks in this country have all been traced back epidemiologically to the same small group in Washington D.C. The most striking clinical feature of these carriers is a pronounced mental impairment which prevents them from perceiving the world as anything but a giant chessboard. Other clinical markers include insatiable greed, lack of empathy, and an unquenchable addiction to power.
SYMPTOMS
Like Typhoid Mary, the carriers of MAWS don't suffer the same devastating health effects of the disease with which they infect others. They don't shed a single drop of blood. They don't exhibit even mild bruising, though the contagion they spread often kills and maims hundreds of thousands. They do however ,exhibit their own peculiar set of symptoms. Researchers have identified the early warning signs that indicate a carrier has become dangerously contagious and is beginning to infect others. Awareness of these early warning signs, outlined below can prevent the next full-blown outbreak of MAWS from occurring.
- Pandering
Pandering is necessary in any kind of ‘hard sell’ situation. Examples of pandering include sleaze-head lawyers who pander to jury member’s emotions in order to win acquittals for their murderer/clients. Slick admen pander to a perceived need in their target market for status, sex appeal or popularity; in order to promote consumer buying of wasteful, unnecessary and environmentally harmful products. MAWS carriers use pandering in their deliberate spread of this disease because no sane person would ever willingly hand over their children’s lives, squander their national wealth, and terrorize, kill or otherwise shatter the lives of thousands of other people they have never met – and have nothing personal against - without it.
- Uncontrollable Use of Jingoisms
As he or she becomes more contagious, rational arguments and even complex sentences are increasingly replaced in the carrier’s speech with the use of jingoisms. These jingoisms repeated over and over again, have a pronounced soporific effect on hearers that blunts their critical thinking. “We have to fight them over there, or we'll fight them over here” is a recent example. A famous jingoism of a past MAWS outbreak was “Remember the Maine!”... Today's MAWS carriers also often compulsively spout “Remember 9/11!” to justify just about anything they want to do.
- Shameless Exploitation of Attack Victims – Real or Bogus
Within hours of the 9/11 attacks, Washington’s disease carriers were formulating a plan to somehow link the attacks to Saddam Hussein to justify a war already on their planning boards as a result of their ‘World as Giant Chessboard’ cognitive impairment.
During the MAWS outbreak in Vietnam, a hallucinated North Vietnamese attack on U.S. warships in the Gulf of Tonkin led to Congress to hurriedly pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which greatly expanded and intensified that MAWS outbreak. Only later did it finally come out that this ‘attack’ was a bald-faced lie.
In the first Gulf War, imaginary dead babies thrown from imaginary incubators in Kuwaiti hospitals by Iraqi soldiers was used as rationale for the first Persian Gulf MAWS outbreak. Only later was it revealed that the Dead Baby Story was another bald-faced lie. The young Kuwaiti girl ‘eyewitness’ who tearfully related the story before a Congressional Committee was in actuality the 15-year-old daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador.
- The Big Lie
Adolph Hitler named this MAWS spreading technique ‘The Big Lie’ and wrote about its effectiveness in his book Mein Kompf. As Hitler explained it, if a lie is told often enough, no matter how outrageous it might be, people will come to believe that it must be true at least to some extent
- Newspeak
Carriers often use Newspeak to contort their 'criminal in any other context' actions into plausible-sounding policies. One recent example of Newspeak is the term ‘enemy combatant'. ‘Enemy Combatant’ refers to anyone held prisoner at Guantanamo. Gitmo is not on U.S. soil...but not really part of Cuba either. Speculation that it falls within the Bermuda Triangle and may be extra-dimensional - thereby explaining its ‘not here’ and ‘not there’ status; still remains only speculation. An ‘enemy combatant’ is someone who can be held indefinitely with no specific charges... They're sometimes tortured... don't know why they're being held... and aren't allowed to contact family members. It's rumored that Franz Kafka remote-viewed Guantanamo and its ‘enemy combatants’ which became the inspiration for his most famous novel, The Trial.
TREATMENT
Drug-based therapies are useless in combating MAWS. Instead, experts suggest that populations arm themselves not with syringes full of antibiotics – but with machetes, hammers, or any other heavy, blunt objects. At the first sign that noxious MAWS agitprop is beginning to seep out of TV’s and radios, these disease spreading objects should immediately be piled up in an outside area with adequate ventilation – and smashed to smithereens. The highly dangerous nature of these home electronics can not be overstated.
All recent MAWS outbreaks were preceded by weeks, or even months of foreshadowing by TV news segments with slick opening graphics and catchy titles like ‘Countdown to War’, “Iraqi Showdown’ – or something equally sensational. Musical clips reminiscent of the Jaws soundtrack opened each segment. An interchangeable pool of cloned retired military hawks, and right-wing think tank ‘analysts’, were paraded out nightly to explain it all to the viewers. Despite pretenses of an impartial ‘equal time’ policy, not one anti-MAWS leader or MAWS dissenter/academic has ever been known to appear on any corporate media outlet as an informed analyst or opinion leader. In this way, whole populations get swept up in MAWS fever. Glued to their TV sets each evening, people sit spellbound by all the hyped anticipation, as MAWS is spun and re-packaged to them as something akin to a spectator sport, video game, or exciting new reality TV show.
The constant inundation of MAWS mongering, MAWS justification and MAWS anticipation from TV’s and radios, bends and shapes all public discourse and debate on the subject. All MAWS resisters are marginalized and banished to the netherworld of the Indy Media, the book-buying public and the internet. Day after day, relentless noxious emanations from TV’s and radios pervade the national consciousness until a collective belief/surrender to the inevitability of a MAWS outbreak gains unstoppable momentum.
Being able to identify the early warning signs can put an end to future MAWS outbreaks. Below, some useful preventive measures are outlined.
PREVENTION
- Isolate
Incitement to Riot is a criminal offense. So then why is it that the corporate media is not held accountable for their collusion in the deaths of the hundreds of thousands of people that often results from their MAWS mongering? Until we live in a world that takes such reckless endangerment seriously, we must take measures ourselves to isolate the contagion whenever and wherever it first appears.
- Boycott
An immediate boycott of all newspapers, TV and radio networks should be supported at the first trickle of disinformation, demon-making and fear/hate baiting that signal danger. How many more times can we be duped, scammed and bamboozled into supporting campaigns of organized mass murder and plunder that we only later find out were put over with calculated lies..? Even now there are people who still equate the term ‘gullible’ with ufo/crop circle/"Elvis is still alive!" believers... Yet they themselves fall for the same warmongering Big Lies every time.
- Demonstrate
Stage mock tribunals charging any MAWS mongering media outlet as a war criminal. Through loudspeakers, bullhorns or karaoke mikes, read aloud passages from John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton’s, Weapons of Mass Deception – a book that outlines their criminally culpable actions.
- De-Program
Send out teams of de-programmers to isolate the contagion. If a national leader is being demonized, search old news archives for photos and film clips that show him/her before he/she was singled out for demonization. Photos such as the one that showed a beaming Donald Rumsfield reaching out to shake hands with his good friend Saddam Hussein back in the late 80’s, greatly shortens the time necessary for de-programming.
- Mount Defenses
If a tree falls in a forest but no one is around to hear it – does it still make a sound? IfTVs and radios spew out MAWS propaganda 24/7 but no one tunes in and is taken in – can a MAWS outbreak still occur?
Not likely.
Preventive measures should start first with those individuals who have little or no natural immunity. These are the people for whom the corporate media news shows have become the arbiter of their reality. Group intervention is often necessary to show those so afflicted the damage caused by this artificial substance they're mentally digesting and swallowing whole on a nightly basis. Make them see how ‘Officials say” pronouncements in the corporate media are usually parroted verbatim in authoritative tones no matter how ludicrous or obviously untrue. Teach them that the purpose of the Sunday morning ‘news’ shows is to provide a venue for administration ‘spin meistering’ or damage control, and little else. Roll the tapes. Show them how Sunday morning TV pundits all seem to be on IV valium drips, making any sharp, critical questioning on their part somehow no longer acceptable.
Many corporate media news junkies will still feel they need their nightly fix of this electronic slop and swill to stay informed. The resources listed below have proven useful in helping these unfortunate victims see the real nature of their addiction more clearly.
The More You Watch, The Less You Know, by Danny Schechter
Into The Buzzsaw by Christine Borgesson. A former 60 Minutes producer tells how the careers of 19 corporate newspeople went 'into the buzzsaw' when they tried to tell the whole, unbiased story.
Rich Media, Poor Democracy by Robert W McChesney
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
www.fair.org
www.progressiveradionetwork.com
www.globalresearch.ca
www.truthdig.com
www.MediaChannel.org
Every home, school and Public Library should include copies of the following books. The life you save, may be your own child's.
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, and What Every Person Should Know About War, by former NY Times War correspondent Chris Hedges.
Addicted To War by Joel Andreas
A Force More Powerful by Peter Ackerman
Is There No Other Way by Michael N. Nagler
Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War by Rosalie Bertell
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows by David Potorti with Peaceful Tomorrows
War Is A Racket by Gen. Smedley D. Butler and Adam Parfrey. Originally published in 1935 and recently re-published, the most decorated officer in Marine Corps history shares his thoughts on war.
Hideous Dream by Ret. Lt. Col. Stan Goff
Silent Night: The Story of World War 1 Christmas Truce by Stanley Weintraub. For one too brief, magical moment, a war just stopped.
Blood Rites by Barbara Ehrenreich. A wonderful deep overview of the whole notion of nation-states.
Some people might think they can’t adjust to turning on their computers rather than their TV or radio for news. Others might feel they can’t adapt to news that isn’t ‘live’. But a live broadcast of stupefyingly shallow minutiae repeated ad nauseum on stations like CNN provides only a false sense of being clued in, ‘up to the minute’. In the measures outlined here, and in a hundred other creative ways, people everywhere can help stamp out MAWS. We can eradicate this blight on humanity in our lifetimes.
It’s up to you.
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