More Piracy Near Somalia

[Surferbeetle]

Well, okay but TV 'news' served up by the Entertainment industry and fllavored strongly by US domestic politics and ideologies is probably a poor source for decision making information...

Fox=MSNBC=CNN=Propaganda mill. If you must use TV try some of the business news services and check them against WSJ, Bloomberg, FT, The Economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit, 10 K statements, annual reports etc.

Better to skim the Internet for multiple news reports, preferably competing or conflicting and from several nations -- and give the 'news' time to be corroborated and to gel (first reports are invariably incorrect, some dangerously so) -- then judge veracity, filter for bias and make your own decision.

Learned that one here Sensei...

Virtually no one in the US Army wanted to go to Iraq...

First time out I certainly did, second time not so much

Both experiences were very, very, educational however...priceless actually...not something that can be learned from a TV, a periodical, or a book.

Hey Motorfirebox, get up off the couch/seat and enter the arena....USMC, US Army, DoS, USAID, IC, NGO, or Corporate...there are a bunch of choices....