Big Al & Rhodesia

[Correus]

My Dad served in the RLI....the best unit for counter insurgency warfare that along side the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian SAS.

I wonder if your dad knew my friend.....

Okay all you old Rhodie guys - any of you have any vintage Rhodesian military gear you'd want to part with?

As for us here in the US - some of us do have a plan.....

[Cubster]

Wotcher Mainly28s, yes one could write the Encylcopedia Britannica on what the media does not know about the truth.

I remember some conspiracy nutjob on a site years back trying to berate the rest of us for all believing the media. He seemed quite deflated when we all said we aren't stupid enough to believe the media, but neither do we believe tinhat wearing goofballs. You just can't care about everything all of the time.

I think there's an oddly fatalistic realism to life in the 21st century. We know the information available is spoonfed, processed, manipulated and carefully selected to present the story in the way the editors want it presented. Unless we go after something ourselves, there is no way the truth is going to just come to us if we rely on others. But the fact is, in the face all this factoid overload flooding around us, most of us just become numb and switch off to almost all of it.

I know just enough to realise I know very little and if I really care about something I try to dig a little deeper and flesh out the glossy vending machine style caricatures with a little more substance.

[Correus]

Wotcher Mainly28s, yes one could write the Encylcopedia Britannica on what the media does not know about the truth.

I remember some conspiracy nutjob on a site years back trying to berate the rest of us for all believing the media. He seemed quite deflated when we all said we aren't stupid enough to believe the media, but neither do we believe tinhat wearing goofballs. You just can't care about everything all of the time.

I think there's an oddly fatalistic realism to life in the 21st century. We know the information available is spoonfed, processed, manipulated and carefully selected to present the story in the way the editors want it presented. Unless we go after something ourselves, there is no way the truth is going to just come to us if we rely on others. But the fact is, in the face all this factoid overload flooding around us, most of us just become numb and switch off to almost all of it.

I know just enough to realise I know very little and if I really care about something I try to dig a little deeper and flesh out the glossy vending machine style caricatures with a little more substance.

Amen!

You would be surprised, or not, at how much of this stuff gets sent to me to be looked into!! It gets to the point I just don't care anymore. However, there are things I do look into. It also helps to connections on the State and Federal level as well as the military, FEMA, DHS, ets. When these guys start talking about certain things I pay a bit more attention.

What seems to weigh heaviest on me is that fact that no matter what is going to happen, most of us are such little fish there is not much we can do but hope and pray....

[Cubster]

What seems to weigh heaviest on me is that fact that no matter what is going to happen, most of us are such little fish there is not much we can do but hope and pray....

It's not so long back that 99% of humanity knew about what happened in their village and, barring the odd rumour from a passing trader or an announcement from the pulpit, the outside world was a mystery. There really is only so much you can think about and my family, my home, my work do take up a lot of brain space.