In this edition of Malwords Weekly we
Track the continuing alarming drop in the GMI, driven this week by decline in UKRAINE numbers
Give you a statistical visual of the Wall of Silencing descending on EAST PALESTINE.
Prove linguistically that Vladimir PUTIN is not SATAN. These guys are in totally different leagues.
The Week In Malwords
The Global Malwords Index (GMI) continues to crater. March came in like a lamb, led by UKRAINE, which is off 75% from its invasion anniversary high of 1048 WPM on Feb 24, finishing at 263.40 WPM. Truly, a day that will live in infamy.
Primary terms COVID, CHINA, PANDEMIC, and INFLATION were unchanged, but could not offset the massive volume retreat in Kiev that is dragging the GMI down another 51% on the month. Even last week’s bright spot GENDER-AFFIRMING is following the crowd, down 26% on volume.
Our only explanation for dramatic drops like these are malwords simultaneously hitting Post-Curve phase, as if everything has been said, and we are just waiting for the first blow to land… or the first bomb to hit.
This is unprecedented territory since we started tracking Information War stats three years ago. We would love nothing better than to be completely mistaken, and publicly retract our interpretation.
Wall of Silence
Sixty years ago, American marine biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, documenting the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.
The book met with ferocious resistance from both chemical industry and its political allies, who weaponized the resources of government to discredit the evidence— much of it from US government sources—which Carson had produced, causing not just her to wonder what sort of financial inducements could be driving the smear campaign to silence her.
We are seeing a similar malwords wall of silence descend upon East Palestine, Ohio— a town with a toxic mushroom cloud hanging over it— and wondering what sort of financial and political incentives could be driving an average 95 WPM of white space between chestnuts like PANDEMIC and COVID— and news on what is shaping up to be the largest man-made ecological disaster since Three Mile Island.
None of the keywords associated with the East PALESTINE disaster is getting much traction above 50 WPM— the level at which news consumers are hearing the term at least once daily. Meanwhile the pretend COVID Crisis, and proxy hijinks in UKRAINE reliably check in four to eight times daily.
The difference between what the Regime wants you to hear (propaganda) and what they are forced to talk about (hard news)?
Almost 100 WPM, or two days of coverage.
Putting our tinfoil hats on here, the silencing of EAST PALESTINE (down to 9.22 WPM today!) may not put out chemical fires or clean up the contamination. But it sucks the oxygen out of a public relations disaster. Residents are frustrated, but nobody hears them. If nobody’s hearing about it, no sense in doing a photo op. No photo ops, no need to bring FEMA packages— keep sending the billions to Ukraine. At some point, official and media indifference becomes too tiring to fight while you are being slowly poisoned to death. And so you pull up stakes and leave.
The objectives we are seeing from a malwords perspective is
forced depopulation of a reliably MAGA region before the 2024 election,
continued destruction of the economic infrastructure, and
atrocity conditioning—by getting the public used to the sight of mushroom clouds over American soil, specifically flyover country.
We’ll be watching for what washes up downstream, and for what doesn’t sprout this spring. Meanwhile, check out Margaret Menge’s excellent analysis and let us know your thoughts in the comments below:
Finally, Some Fun Facts
But sometimes your best efforts to smother the fires starts them else-you’ll-never-guess-where. And you can’t blame it on the devil because he is nowhere to be found:
VINYL, it turns out, has many uses. Until February 15, VINYL’s the most commonly collocated term +/-4 linguistic units (words, numbers, acronyms, etc.) was RECORDS. This year the #1 VINYL colo is CHLORIDE— which forms the contaminant hanging over Eastern Ohio and Western PA. And CHLORIDE is now at #9 in VINYL’s all-time colo rankings since 2010. All of this in the space of just two weeks.
And PUTIN is more popular than SATAN. With prophets seeing the Return of The Gods behind the demonic forces simultaneously unleashed everywhere, we decided to see what hand The Devil could be playing in all of this. SATAN’s greatest deception, it turns out, is convincing us that he doesn’t exist.
The malwords say he’s done a good job of that, averaging a pale 1.18 WPM over the past thirty days, versus Vladimir PUTIN who weighs in at a beefy 83.5 WPM. SATAN finished 2022 at 1.39 WPM, off his 2014 peak of 3.12, and his all-time average of 1.83. So far this year, you’re hearing about PUTIN at least once daily at 66.48 WPM, down from last year’s 125.98 WPM, but well up from his ten-year, which has him besting SATAN at 37.51 WPM.
We’re comparing apples to tow trucks. Like I said, two completely different leagues.
About Malwords
Malwords are keywords weaponized for information warfare. They function within public discourse as intellectual malware, verbal viruses designed to spread quickly for the purposes of a) silencing dissent through control of language, narrative, and speech, b) increasing public tolerance for government-sanctioned atrocity and c) emboldening officials to commit acts of atrocity.
Malword strength is measured by their frequency of appearance in the published body of language (corpus), and expressed in words per million (WPM) linguistic units (words, numbers, symbols, acronyms, etc).
Malword WPM’s typically follow a three-phase lifecycle: Pre-Curve test-markets the new term and puts up the store front; Curve, is launch phase, characterized by a rapid, exponential liftoff and sudden plunge; Post-Curve is a long, asymptotic tail and is the period in which primary-objective atrocities are implemented.
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Harvey Oxenhorn, is a cybersecurity consultant, founder of Malwords Weekly, and author of the upcoming book, The Atrocity Algorithm, How The Media Became The Enemy of The People. He writes The Five Stages of Unf*ck, Red Pill Journey to January 2.0. , also on Substack. Follow him on Gettr, Gab, and MeWe @HarveyOxenhorn
Found your stack via Vigilant Fox via Childers; love this.
here is a way to get more occurrences of SATAN--it's not like they're not trying!
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/01/1069283/researchers-launched-a-solar-geoengineering-test-flight-in-the-uk-last-fall/
“Stratospheric Aerosol Transport and Nucleation”
“covid” is a malword.
Don’t use it unless to mock it.