I separate the event into two parts. The first was during the event, with eyewitness accounts. The second was when the disinformation campaign began in earnest.
The only information I can take at face value happened during the first part, because the disinformation campaign pulled out all the stops to obfuscate what had happened.
Here is a very useful list of the 25 most effective disinformation techniques:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-deceive-lie-and-spread-disinformation-a-guide/
(read down to the “about the author” section.)
EXCELLENT LINK AND ARTICLE. THANKS.
Certainly the disinfo idiots on FR—particularly on the UFO threads but also a lot on the END TIMES threads—tend to use the following ad nauseum:
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http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-deceive-lie-and-spread-disinformation-a-guide/
They will demand that those presenting arguments or concepts back everything up with the same level of expertise as a professor, researcher, or investigative writer. Anything less renders any discussion meaningless and unworthy in their opinion, and anyone who disagrees is obviously stupid - and they generally put it in exactly those terms.
Ignore Proof Presented, Demand Impossible Proofs
This is perhaps a variant of the ‘play dumb’ rule. Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed or withheld, such as a murder weapon.)
In order to completely avoid discussing issues, it may be required of you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or other authorities have any meaning or relevance.
[Another favorites are]:
Use a Straw Man
Find or create a seeming element of your opponent’s argument which you can easily knock down to make yourself look good and the opponent to look bad.
Either make up an issue you may safely imply exists based on your interpretation of the opponent/opponent arguments/situation, or select the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Amplify their significance and destroy them in a way which appears to debunk all the charges, real and fabricated alike, while actually avoiding discussion of the real issues.
Sidetrack Opponents With Name Calling and Ridicule
This is also known as the primary ‘attack the messenger’ ploy, though other methods qualify as variants of that approach.
Associate opponents with unpopular titles such as ‘kooks’, ‘right-wing’, ‘liberal’, ‘left-wing’, ‘terrorists’, ‘conspiracy buffs’, ‘radicals’, ‘militia’, ‘racists’, ‘religious fanatics’, ‘sexual deviates’, and so forth. This makes others shrink from support out of fear of gaining the same label, and you avoid dealing with issues.
Hit and Run
In any public forum, make a brief attack of your opponent or the opponent position and then scamper off before an answer can be fielded, or simply ignore any answer. This works extremely well in Internet and letters-to-the-editor environments where a steady stream of new identities can be called upon without having to explain criticism, reasoning - simply make an accusation or other attack, never discussing issues, and never answering any subsequent response, for that would dignify the opponent’s viewpoint.
Demand Complete Solutions
Avoid the issues by requiring opponents to solve the crime at hand completely, a ploy which works best with issues qualifying for “Associate Opponent Charges With Old News”.
Emotionalize, Antagonize, and Goad Opponents
If you can’t do anything else, chide and taunt your opponents and draw them into emotional responses which will tend to make them look foolish and overly motivated, and generally render their material somewhat less coherent.
Not only will you avoid discussing the issues in the first instance, but even if their emotional response addresses the issue, you can further avoid the issues by then focusing on how ‘sensitive they are to criticism.’
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IMPORTANT STUFF. THANKS BIG.
Here’s some more “Phoenix Lights” stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIdDpJYSOM&feature=related
Real Estate broker Mike Fortsen is the researcher who’s researched it for 10 years . . . and the one I talked to face to face.
Larry King on Phx lights and Stephenville TX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKClXBsNWA
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Says Phoenix Lights special technology. . . . teaser . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdS1nUNv3OQ
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WHY PHX LIGHTS ARE NOT JUST FLARES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMW2La93O-Y&feature=related
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AZ GOV SAYS WERE ALIENS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDR8UM7ZbC0
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