| We get more information about what happens in the | | | | everyone as a member of some minority group. This |
| rest of the world than at any other time in our | | | | formed their marketing philosophy. It set people |
| history. This information is collected and transformed | | | | against government and policy. |
| by the media into gross negative forms so it can be | | | | The Vietnamese War fed the media with information |
| sold to the public. Our thoughts become based on | | | | suited to the treatment of negative spin and |
| screwed-up versions of facts ideas and information. | | | | transformed into cash income. A negative climate of |
| There is a universal law going round the web which | | | | public opinion was created. The media used the war |
| states: | | | | to market its product and justify the media's |
| If you think what you want you get what you want. | | | | existence. These self-defeating negatives lost the |
| If you think what you don't want you get what you | | | | war for the US with the Vietcong. |
| don't want. | | | | We did not see the principle of media negative spin |
| Our world is the manifestation of our thoughts! As | | | | much in the wars in Yugoslavia. These wars were |
| our thoughts are mainly formed by misinformation | | | | successful for the US before the media had time to |
| about what we don't want we get what we don't | | | | affect its outcome. |
| want. | | | | The principle was not evident in Congo or in Dafur. |
| A news item is given equal pro and con weight | | | | The US Government was glad to leave this fight |
| despite their merit. Some 'but' poltroon view often | | | | between black races to the untouchable UN. The |
| follows a presidential comment. | | | | wars were not newsworthy without US involvement |
| Historically invasions speeches sermons tracts and | | | | in spite of the hundreds of thousands of deaths. |
| books governed thought. Ideas were slow in | | | | 911 for the media was manna from heaven. |
| spreading because travel was slow. Response to | | | | This situation was like that of ...Job 3 - v 25. 'For the |
| ideas too was slow. Now the speed of information | | | | thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and that |
| transfer is equal to the speed of light. Our thoughts | | | | which I was afraid of has come unto me.' |
| are created in an instant. | | | | At 911 negative spins were already built into its news |
| Ideas today take the form of information. The media | | | | by its very nature. There was drama disbelief secrets |
| gathers facts worldwide and prepares them to feed | | | | enemies deaths live-footage plots terrorists Islam |
| what has become a worldwide industry. It includes | | | | impudence outrage defense security secret services |
| newspapers and magazines press and photo agencies | | | | emergency services tears heroism sacrifice pathos |
| television radio films books advertising education rallies | | | | misery happiness survival loss of liberties all |
| marches public-speeches pressure-groups charities | | | | concentrated at the center of American financial |
| and the Internet. | | | | power. What a gift for the media! |
| Information is given a precise spin by the media | | | | To some extent we saw the principle operating in |
| calculated to evoke a negative response by its public. | | | | Afghanistan. |
| If public emotions can be aroused the media will have | | | | We see the principle on a grand scale in Iraq. |
| changed raw facts and information into marketable | | | | We see it in the media's take on global warming |
| negative newsworthy items. The universal law | | | | floods and forest fires. We see it in post Wilma and |
| transforms these public negative thoughts into the | | | | racism. We see it in Aids in stigma Sars and in Bird |
| world we see each day. | | | | Flue. We see it in Third World debt in Al-Quaida and |
| How has this principle manifested American foreign | | | | terrorism. We see it in the black uprisings in France. |
| policy? | | | | If you think what you want you get what you want. |
| The principle was not observable during World Wars | | | | If you think what you don't want you get what you |
| one and two. Neither was it seen in Korea. Nor was it | | | | don't want. |
| evident in the Cold War with Russia. These four wars | | | | We must guard our thoughts. These automatically |
| were victorious for the US and too for the West. A | | | | become reality in the physical world. |
| slightly bemused media was mute in its celebration of | | | | In this context war is the effect of collective |
| these victories. | | | | thought not its origin. If we think thoughts about |
| The media industry then began to expand then | | | | stopping war we will give encouragement to war. |
| explode. Its economics forced it to be preoccupied | | | | Thoughts about prosperity will bring prosperity. |
| with its own interest. The media began to see | | | | |