Part One -- How to Read Between the Lines:

The Indirect Evidence --  How to "Read Between the Lines."

Beliefs About Money  --  Peddling Funny-Money.

Expendable Humans  --  The Modern Version of Human Sacrifice.

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Discovering Hidden Intentions  --  How to See What's Not Obvious.

Informed Best Guesses  --  Putting the Pieces Together.

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The Indirect Evidence:   

What do you do when you must make a decision, but you don't have all the information necessary to make a clear confident-that-you-are-right decision?    What do you do in situation where a clear, scientifically-proven answers are simply not available?   

Let's begin with an example:   At this point in time, nobody can prove with scientifically-verifiable certainty, which of the three, mutually-exclusive, basic religious beliefs is the correct one -- Christian one-life-ism, Atheism, or Reincarnation. **

**  We bring this particular example to you not to support any religious conclusions, but rather  as an example of a problem-solving process.

Beliefs About Money:   

With regard to money, there are so many examples where beliefs and the evidence are in sharp disagreement that we have several websites dealing this issue.   Here are just  two of them:    
http://www.MoneyGodMoney.com#55    

http://www.Learn-From-History.com/
     public-service-banking-system.html#53     

What are the professional advisers telling the people?    As another example of indirect evidence, we ask and answer this question:   "Are the so-called advisors that we hear on TV telling us the truth?"   The super-wealthy hold sizable portions of their wealth in tangible assets such as real estate, gold, silver, and valuable collectables such as art, jewelry and rare coins.   These assets will hold and/or increase in value when the monetary system collapses.  

Where are their "mouthpieces" (the so-called financial advisers) telling the people to place their retirement savings?   They're telling the people to put their assets into investments whose value is tied to the value of the U.S. currency, such as bank accounts, stocks, bond, mutual fund, etc.  --  assets that are not really assets, they're promises to pay dollars at some time in the future  --  assets that will simply disappear in a major national or global disaster -- assets that will simply disappear in a financial crisis.  

The Enron financial scandal gave us a window into the dangers of holding your retirement money in the form of promises.   Investors in Enron stock lost almost all of their money.      

Here's an investment truth that you won't hear from the so-called experts:   Soon after "Resident" Bush and his cronies took over the executive branch of the U.S. government  it became obvious to the wise observer that another Reagan-style rape of the U.S. treasury was  in process.   Those with money and brains transferred much of their wealth into gold and silver.   If you had done likewise, here's where you'd be today.  In 2000, a one ounce gold coin cost about $300.   Today, November 2009, that same coin is selling for $1,100.   That's an $800 return on a  three hundred dollar investment.   That's more than $80 per year, making an annual return on a safe, tangible, secure investment of more than twenty-five percent per year.  

Update November 2011:   Gold is now selling at about $1,700 per ounce.  That's $1,400 dollars in profits in eleven years.   And still the advisors are talking about investing in assets measures in fiat (make believe) dollars.

False stories sacrifice human well-being on the alter of corporate profits:   If in 2000, you had used your retirement funds of $100,000 to purchase tangible, gold coins, your retirement assets would, today, be worth about  $270,000.   Those who put their retirement assets into any of the dollar-based investments, have either lost money or have received minimal returns  on their money.   You might want to ask this question, "What else are we being told by politicians and the so-called experts that is not in our best interest?"   

Expendable Humans:  

As still another example, look at the way "The Powers that Be"  treat the rest of humanity.   Fifty-thousand  American lives were sacrificed to fight a disaster-producing war in Viet Nam.   In Iraq the present American death toll (Nov 09)  is over 4,000 dead and over 31,000 wounded.   For the Iraqi citizens, the death and injury toll is measured in the millions.     

Here's the bottom line:

The examples above are just small, black specks on the tip of the huge iceberg of fear, greed, and deception.   If you are betting your life savings and/or you own life and/or the future well being of your children and grandchildren on what so-called leaders and wealthy public role models tell you, you have been suckered in by the corporate and political spin doctors peddling false beliefs.     msc002

Discovering Hidden Intentions:  

In answering  the "Why?" question, there are numerous, easy places to look when working to discover hidden intentions.   Obviously, not all the information relative to the items below will be available, but there certainly is enough information available to show some clear patterns of behavior.   Then based on the patters of behavior, we can decide what actions are in our own best interest. 

1)  Examine the person or the group's past and present behavior:   What have they done or not done? What are they presently doing  or not doing?    ("By their fruits, you shall know them.")    

2)  Examine their believability:   Have they been truthful in the past or have they lied by telling false stories or have they deceived others by omitting portions of the truth? 

2) Look at the company they keep.  They are very likely to speak and act in a manner similar to those they associate with.  ("Birds of a feather fly together.")    

3) Listen to the stories they tell:   Are their stories provable?   Are they backed up by any credible evidence?   Are they speaking about evidence-based realities, or are they peddling beliefs about reality as if those beliefs were provable reality?   Here's another aspect to consider:  Are they attempting to manipulate our behavior by telling false stories or by withholding the truth?

4)  Examine their basic philosophical/religious belief system:  For some clear descriptions and examples of this, we refer readers to the page titled:   The Grandfather Generation.   

5)   What is their personality type?  Are they Money& Profit Addicts?   Are they addicted to high-stakes gambling?   Are they compulsive risk-takers? 

Are they kind, gently, and compassionate or are they rough, arrogant, rude, callous and/or demanding?   Do they first see similarities and then look at the differences or is the reverse true?   Where and under what circumstances did they live the first seven hears of their lives?   What was their childhood religious training.   Are they enthusiastic about sports?   If so, which ones?  Do they have any pets?   If so, what type of pet and how is it treated?   

6)   How do they treat others?   For example, are they kind, courteous, and generous in their interactions with people such as those who provide them with basic services -- secretaries,  restaurant waiters, cab drivers, employees, personal and home assistants, et cetera.   

7)   Are they rich?   If so, how did they acquire their money?   Are they Money& Profit Addicts?   

8)    Why are they doing what they are doing?   What's in it for them?   What is their personal stake in the outcome?   

9)  Who would gain  and what would they gain if we follower their plan?    

10)  Who would lose  and what would we or they lose if we follower their plan?    

11)   Special or secret information:  Are they claiming access to information that you and I don't and/or can't know?   Are they declaring something to be true when the evidence either does not support their declarations or is direct conflict with their declarations?   Are they adamant supporters of one side or the other of any highly controversial issues?   Is the argument of the side they support based on credible evidence or are they simply expressing their personal beliefs about the issue. 

13)  Ethically, morally, or legally questionable behavior:   When examining  behavior that is ethically, morally, or legally questionable,  do they have the means, motive and opportunity to engage in the questionable behavior,  and more importantly, do they have the means, the power, and/or the political influence to get away with  questionable and/or illegal behavior.  ^**msc1   

14)   Their personal behavior:   What will be the long-term consequences resulting form their present behavior?   For example, are they wealthy because they are involved in businesses that exploit, employees, customers and/or the environment?   Anybody and everybody who acquired wealth because of their involvement in finance, insurance, oil, coal, legal drugs and the like, fit this description.

15)   Long-term consequences:   What will  be the long-term result on others mimicking their behavior and/or following their proposed plans? 

16)  Is the person speaking to the public a spokesperson for someone else?  Is what he/she/they are proposing a personal project or is the person a paid spokesperson for some other person, for a cooperation, or for someone who has a special interest in which way the decision goes.   In other words, "Who are they speaking for?"   Are they being paid to speak?  

17)   Look for Conflicts of Interest:   For example, does their job, their career, or their political position depend upon expressing a particular point of view?   What are their personal gains for what they are doing or not doing.   What are their personal gains for what they are saying or not saying? 

18)   Another pattern finder is to notice small, seemingly-insignificant bits of information that give hints at answering significant questions.   These pieces in and of themselves don't tell us anything clear and specific, but they do point to a possible conclusion.   Notice that as additional piece of information come to your attention, that they seem to point in the same direction.  Eventually, when enough hints come your way, it's time to create a hypotheses and begin consciously and intentionally looking for evidence to support and to rebuke your hypothesis.      

Informed Best Guesses:    

The above described tools can used to annualize any situation and to give a reasonable guideline regarding someone's behavior under any particular set of circumstances.   Using the eighteen items listed above, we can gather significant information about the behavior and intentions of person or people involved.   When this data is analyzed in conjunction with the circumstantial evidence one can often make some reasonably-accurate "best-guesses" regarding what's happening, about what is likely to happen in the near future, and in this case, why our so-called leaders are doing what they are doing.   This gives  the person analyzing the situation an opportunity to make better (more successful) decisions about his or her own response to the present conditions and circumstances.    

The Grandfather Generation.   
http://www.ThePeacefulRevolution.com/grandfather-generation.html#57