Please STAY ALERT and KEEP THINKING STRAIGHT

thanks.

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"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels

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If I make two claims:

1. England has a border with Scotland.
2. The Moon is made of cream cheese.

Which claim is going to stick in people's minds?

You never know, I might even have people reaching for the map just to check my first claim.

"That Socialism would be immediately practicable if an omnipotent and omniscient Deity were personally to descend to take in hand the government of human affairs is incontestable." - Ludwig Von Mises.

Read widely, very widely, year after year, and discernment will come to you (whoever you are, out there), as the spring follows winter.

Try: Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M Weaver

Many books have a place at the end where you can find a list of additional books on that topic. There are lots of exciting rabbit trails out there to follow for a ways.

Dip in to some of the classics. The translations can be bewildering and ponderous and discouraging at first, but there is hope-- the children's versions! Even Herodotus has a kid's edition. These will grab your interest, as well as orient you to what the book is about, helping to ease you into the actual translation.

No Fear Shakespeare. Barnes and Noble has this series that has the Elizabethan English on one page, and modern English on the opposite page. Not only can you actually read the plays, but can learn the older English simultaneously.

All this really and truly does have to do with learning to think carefully, and with finesse and precision. Public school students, which most of us were, were not taught how to think our way out of a wet paper bag, or how to properly express ourselves. If we want our cause to win, we must be able to outperform the opposition in these ways.

Parting shot: bone up on logical fallacies. Just google it, and possess something valuable for free!

Thanks MikeLawson.

or any other blog you run across like this. Your advice is very good.

This is also the heart of a lot of these odd theories being thrown all over the place. Articles and such are little more than raw intelligence data. It needs to be washed and researched before it can be analyzed (in and of itself a separate involved process). Therein lay the trouble. This is why there are multiple layers of clearances and sections in the S2 field of the military.

The bottom tier collects information, determines whether or not it is relevant, and sends it up the chain.

The next tier 'washes' it by double checking, and looking for key elements to the subject matter, then assigns it a Validity (credibility rating) letter. It goes upstairs again.

3rd tier begins to analyze the material's validity and does some snooping based on the validity rating. Most pieces of material get washed out at this point unless there are key factors present. When it has been filtered to key elements, it goes up another level.

4th tier begins fitting pieces together. If there are parts missing, requests are made for more information. When the parts are together, they begin to analyze how the material fits into the subject at hand. Then it goes to the top tier.

THIS is where the actual analysis and think-tank work begins. It is at this point where they begin to fit things together strategically and look long term at the theater level.

Most average people are simply not versed in intel analysis and have little understanding about how to do it. As a result, they only get a piece or two of the overall scope of things and the rest is speculation or opinion based on emotional response or other such factors. Forums at best are bottom 2 tiers, some better than others.

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some good, solid advice there.