Not the Tories nor Labour are giving assurances about maintaining the 2% line, and they aren't even giving real assurances about sticking at least to a flat in-real-terms budget with a 1% increase on equipment spending, which is the absolute minimum level of spending the MOD was promised when Future Force 2020 was devised. With the extremely significant caveat, by the way, that the flat-in-real-terms budget has to be calculated, of course, starting from a base amount. And the base MOD budget has been falling significantly each year since 2010. Depending on which fiscal year serves as base for the calculation, the budget over five years changes by several billion pounds.Read it here.
Even worse, there seem to be almost certainty that there will be new, vast cuts to the budget. Something that, inexorably, would entirely wreck Future Force 2020, changing yet once more the plans, imposing new cuts even before the last ones are completed. And putting a very big nail in the coffin of Britain's role as a military power. If not the final nail, close to it.
The critic just has to inspire doubt in his target audience.Read it all here.
"Why are they backpeddling now?" or "Why didn't they hold a press release before we started raising a stink?" or "How do you think this would have turned out if we hadn't raised public awareness to this threat on our liberty and freedom?"
There are absolutely no facts there. Each statement is a logical fallacy in its own right, "begging the question" and designed only to inspire doubt. This isn't "reasoning", this is a "reasoning noise."
All communications are based on trust. Face to face, over the internet, telephone, or smoke signal, all communications are based on trust.
If you can "poison the well" and plant the seeds of doubt to destroy that trust, you can put a serious kink in operations.
I can't prove to anyone that Jade Helm 2015 isn't a "preparation for marshal law." I can't prove a negative. I can't prove that something really isn't something else.Never once have I said that Jade Helm 15 is preparation for marshal law. NOT ONCE! I have said that its stupid. I have said that there are more than enough training areas on military installations to make the need to go into US cities bullshit. But I've never said it was about marshal law (I think I DID say it was about SOCOM putting on their cool boy shades and getting some good PR).
If you read something and get angry, you need to ask yourself why you are angry. You need to find out if someone is manipulating you by your anger. If you read something and agree with it 100%, then either you are amazingly in sync or you are buying someone's bullshit. Either way you aren't engaging your intelligence to analyze the situation and seek truth.But you'll have to trust me on that. And that is the truth.Wow.
I've warned before that Mexican drug cartels and their tactics were spreading to this country. The cartel presence in major cities is by now well documented. Now it seems that their criminal tactics are being used as well - at least in Chicago, so far, and presumably soon in other cities too.
A group of robbers on the south side of Chicago appear to have taken a page out of the Gulf Cartel or Los Zetas manual for setting up roadblocks in order to carry out violent robberies. Just last week a group of three or four robbers have used a construction area in the city’s south side to set up roadblocks as a trap for motorists.
Once the motorists stop, they were assaulted and robbed, UPI newsreported.
I've warned about being prepared for multiple assailants. This just confirms it.
The practice bears a striking similarity to a practice already established by both the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas who set up roadblocks around Mexican border cities to keep their enemies out or to rob unsuspecting motorists.
There's more at the link.
