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Cowardly, Hypocritical, Subservient Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Only 2 of over 40 Congressional Black Caucus members voted against legitimizing the 2009 Israeli massacre of 1400 mostly civilians in Gaza, with seven CBC members abstaining. Last week, with the Gaza death toll climbing toward 1,000 not a single CBC member could be bothered to lift a voice against Israel's genocidal assault of the moment or its ongoing apartheid state in general. Black America should hang our collective heads in shame.
Cowardly, Hypocritical, Subservient Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Back in the 1970s, when the Congressional Black Caucus began calling itself "the conscience of the Congress," that was almost literally true. CBC members could be relied upon not just to reliably vote for raising wages and expenditures on housing, health care and education, but to keep the issues of full employment and opposition to unjust war near the front of their public agendas.
By the late 1980s, a gaggle of former CBC staffers had moved through the revolving doors of elite affirmative action to become corporate lobbyists, with the same ethics and table manners as their white colleagues, but with black faces. Thanks in large part to their efforts, by 2000 a tsunami of corporate cash began filling up the coffers of incumbent CBC members, their black replacements, or in the cases of Alabama's Earl Hilliard and Georgia's Cynthia McKinney, their black opponents.
Only a single member of the CBC, Rep. Barabra Lee opposed President Bush's blank check for invading anywhere he pleased in Septermber of 2001, and by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, four CBC members, some of them swimming in donations from military contractors, raced down to the White House to have their pictures taken with Bush as the bombs were about to explode over Baghdad.
By the 109th Congress of 2005-2006 the CBC's political compass had been decisively reset. 2005 was the year of Katrina. For decades there had been predictions that whenever "the big one" hit New Orleans, a city where a majority of residents didn't even own cars, thousands or tens of thousands would perish. I lived in Chicago and read those predictions in the papers there several times during the 80s and 90s. Katrina ultimately proved to be the excuse for authorities to permanently expel more than a hundred thousand African Americans, mostly renters but also entire neighborhoods of black homeowners and black owned local businesses as well. As the highest ranking black politicians in the nation, the Congressional Black Caucus could have demanded and held federal hearings on every aspect of the Katrina disaster and its aftermath, ensuring a real public debate on how the region would be rebuilt and for whom.
But House Democrats were focused narrowly on winning the 2006 election, and in their political calculus, having Democrats identified as the party of black people was not a winning strategy. Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi forbade the Congressional Black Caucus from demanding or holding hearings. Only Georgia's Cynthia McKinney defied her, and was forced to partner with House Republicans for the hearings to take place at all. The only CBC member Pelosi allowed to take part in the Katrina hearings was the lazy and corrupt "Dollar Bill" Jefferson who nominally represented black New Orleans. The rest of the supposedly powerful and influential CBC, from its deans Conyers and Rangel on down stayed away.
If they were still the conscience of the Congress the CBC would have called together some of the nation's black civil engineers, architects, urban planners and others to articulate a vision of a rebuilt Gulf Coast for the people who lived there before. Instead the vision of the Heritage Foundation prevailed. A hundred thousand black New Orleans residents were deported to the four corners of the continental US, their public school system privatized, their rental apartments razed, their health care systems shut down, and the water, electric and gas grids not reactivated for the entire sections of town where they once lived. Thanks to the hands-off attitude of the CBC, President Bush was even able to exclude all journalists from the teams which recovered bodies or the places where remains were assembled, so there is no independent verification of the government's suspiciously small count of fatalities.
That was when Democrats were still the minority in Congress. We're always told how important it is for Democrats to gain or maintain control of the House. They got that in the 2006 elections, and Democrats have had the White House since the 2008 election as well, though they handed the House back at the end of 2010. Has all that extra power made them bolder in the pursuit of justice? Sadly, no.
Israel's vicious apartheid regime celebrated Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration with the massacre of 1400 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, and the destruction of a great part of the enclave's infrastructure, down to chicken farms and water systems. The new Congress called it righteous self-defense, with 390 yeas, 5 nays and 22 "present". The CBC was 2 of those nays, Gwen Moore (WI) and Maxine Waters (CA), and 7 of the "presents", Edwards (MD), Ellison (MN), Johnson (GA), Lee (TX), Payne (NJ), Kilpatrick (MI), and Watson (CA).
This month, as the civilian death toll in the latest Israeli criminal orgy of collective punishment mounted toward 1,000, the US House passed a nearly identical resolution, calling this massacre legitimate "self-defense" as well. This time the House vote, including that of the Congressional Black Caucus was unanimous. Not a single member of the CBC, despite their much heralded brand of standing for civil rights and against apartheid here and around the world, bothered to publicly question the racist ethnocracy that is the Israeli state. After signing the blank check with the rest of their colleagues, CBC members Conyers (MI), Lee (CA), Johnson (GA) and Ellison (MN) tried to cover their shame with a letter to Secretary of State Kerry urging a cease-fire, something which Kerry claims to have been doing anyway.
All CBC members absolutely know that Israel is an apartheid society, with one set of laws applying to Jews, a second to Israeli Arabs and a third to Palestinians. Congressional Black Caucus members know that Israel requires different colored license plates for non-Jews so their vehicles can be profiled at a distance, and Jewish-only roads between settlements carved from the villages of Palestinians and watched voer by military garrisons. They know that Israel refuses to recognize mixed marriages, or even marriages between Palestinians in Gaza and those on the West Bank. Black members of Congress know what an ethnocracy is, and even though they claim to have opposed it in South Africa and here at home, they choose to endorse it in Israel, out of greed and subservience.
As we wrote in BAR back in 2012...
"Whatever its root cause, the current support of the black political class for Israel's maintenance of a colonial settler state constitutes a massive, hypocritical hole in their collective souls. Most of the world backed our own struggle against Jim Crow, and we congratulated ourselves for contributing to the downfall of the old regime in South Africa. And now, when our turn comes round again, when the United States is the only government capable of restraining the vicious Israeli onslaught, just by the threat of its disapproval, its non-renewal of loan guarantees or weapons giveways or military contracts ---- we are silent.
"For African Americans, our hypocrisy goes deeper and further than our leaders. It filters all the way down to ordinary people whose attachment to their First Black President is so uncritical that they decouple their FBP from any responsibility for his policies. Many Obama supporters say they oppose Israeli aggression and wring their hands wishing the president they voted for and hustled others into voting for would do something different. In the eyes of the rest of the world, as Margaret Kimberley points out, they are as guilty of abetting Israeli atrocities as the rabid partisans of AIPAC..."
What would one of our glittering and supposedly powerful members of the Congressional Black Caucus tell a child in Gaza today? What would they tell a parent whose children have been maimed or murdered, with weaponry probably designed and/or manufactured in the US?
Our nation is the armorer, financier and protector of Israel's savage ethnocracy. We are all compromised, we are all implicated in its crimes. It's time to call our black political class, and each other to account. In the coming week, Black Agenda Report will reach out to our friends and colleagues and try to find some new ways to do exactly that.
Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report, and a state committee member of the GA Green Party. He lives and works near Marietta GA, and can be reached via this site's contact page or at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com.
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I am in Washington state. I am white and 61 years old. I don't capitalize israel because I am disgusted with their behavior. They expect us to give them all kinds of money but fail to treat others with respect and compassion. I have had discussions with people familiar with the Bible. Perhaps this is what God wants but it conflicts with something else I know He wants and that is to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". This is the "Golden Rule" which is common to all religions. Our congressional leaders are afraid to say anything negative about israel. But I am not. I assume that the AIPAC has my address and I am on their "hit list".
I admire your courage. I used to think that all Germans were to blame for Hitlers actions. Now I know that most of them just didn't know how to fight the "Third Reich" and just kept their heads low if they knew what was going on. Only 2% of our population is Jewish. But our country seems to have lost its sense of "what is wright and wrong" trying to support that 2%.
God knows how I feel. I try to do something to help others every day. israel does things to hurt others every day. Certainly our leaders have heard the same news that I have but they are blinded by the money and influence of AIPAC. Approximately $3 Billion is given to israel each year. I believe much of that comes back to the US as campaign contributions.
While some expect Blacks to be different than X...the reality is that we are all dealing with the "brainwashed consumer" mentality and most people are too busy taking care of themselves and their children.
If small numbers of us lead by example we are doing what we can and have to live with that reality until others catch on and follow.
I'm really glad that this site and Mr. Ford bring up issues like this as some will be embarassed into getting off their duff. Thanks.
even more creepy, disturbing...
than the spineless negroes in office and mainstream media are today's average, everyday negroes who're vastly different creatures from the everyday black persons of decades past. Nowadays, an el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, a Dr. King, a Fred Hampton, and a Kwame Toure wouldn't be able to gain traction with even a handful of everyday negroes. Today's negro masses mock, jeer, ignore anyone who isn't a flag-waving, bling-laden buffoon (entertainer, athlete, politician, cleric) spouting platitudes and trendy cliches. This is sad, if not tragic, because without a conscious, self-respecting black base/citizenry, there's no way the Cynthia Mckinneys and the Chokwe Lumumbas can be elected in sufficient numbers to supplant the scores of craven colored bullshitters currently growing fat & even more useless in office.
Maybe things are different outside MA, but here in the boston area, negroes are scared to talk---even amongst themselves!---about the real heavy shit happening here in the u.s. or abroad (e.g., stop & frisk, mass incarceration, hateful white jews supporting sick demented zionist supremacy & atrocities, the ugly legacy of NAFTA, etc). It's really truly scary, creepy, eerie, disturbing that today's avg everyday negro is only concerned about empty-headed celebrities and bullshit pro-american & neoliberal issues. Reminiscent of the old flick Invasion of the Body Snatchers, black persons have been replaced by patriotic, bicentennial niggers.
I agree with you and believe
I agree with you and believe me, it's just not in MA. It's like being in Nazi Germany every where. I guess I just don't give a damn. Fuck it. Nobody is getting out of here alive anyway, so why not go down swingin? I love my people and know that God did not put us on this earth to serve or slave for these reptilian sociopaths. I will never buy into that. I also believe history is cyclical. If we think about recent historical social movements and revolutions; initially there usually isn't many on board til consciousness reaches critical mass. Most people are followers. As humans, I think we are hard-wired to be risk averse. During the 50's & 60's, if you think about it; it was mostly a small, dedicated cadre of brave souls who put their lives on the line--mostly students and young people and that's where I think any mass movement is going to have to start, with the youth. The govt knows this. This is why the school to prison pipeline tries to get to our boys as soon as elementary school. I personally think we can work around that by home schooling or starting freedom schools like back in the day on our own and teach them what public schools never will. If my kids are going to be indoctrinated, let it be with an agenda I approve of. And tho you mentioned body snatchers in a tongue in cheek way -seriously, I think it's more like mind snatchers. Fluoride in the drinking water--the Nazis used it in the concentration camps to make prisoners docile. This is part of a long-term plan to make us more pliant slaves. But the caveat is that apparently, it is not full proof or there wouldn't be people like you and I and those who read BAR who see thru the fog. That's the good news so there is still hope. They can't get us all so we just need some straight up soldiers who are willing to put in work and I believe they exist. They may not be politicized at this point, but I know they are out there.
Yeah, I wonder if the Civil
Yeah, I wonder if the Civil Rights Act could get passed today. Along with "today's Negroes" who you rightly said MLK and company couldn't mobilized more than a handful, there is the Ministry of Misinformation media who wouldn't cover the injustices to the extent the press covered it in the 60s. Add to this the black misleadershippers, half or more of whom wouldn't put their jobs or bodies on the line to strongly advocate for justice especially if the Democrats or AIPAC told them not to.
As for Negroes being scared to talk about domestic and foreign issues, a few are scared but most of them 1)don't care; 2) don't have a clue about much of what you mention; or 3) are afflicted with ethnoitis, a disease that makes black folks unable to criticize/see forest for trees when a black face is in a high place.
If it's not in their backyard, most people don't care. Example: Gaza, Libya, Ukraine, etc. Others don't have a clue or believe the lies fed to them by whichever media alphabet soup is their info poison of choice. The ethnoitis afflicted aren't going to say one negative thing if it makes their lord and savoir Obomber look bad. The most you'll get from them is that the white man/Fox News/Republican/racists are to blame for everything and are keeping president Jesus, Jr. from doing anything good.
Along the same lines but different topic, if Vietnam war started started ten years ago, it would still be going strong now because the today's media would never provide opposing viewpoints and gruesome pictures/video of battlefield action that they eventually began to show in the late 60s and 70s. Protests would also be few and far between with the police state crackdown and a public brainwashed on patriotic lies, Big Pharma meds, and GMO poison.
Apathy, ignorance, and I-don't-care-itis are indeed right up there with cowardice as the signature traits of today's negro hoi poloi.
Re obummer's deceptively, seemingly devout worshippers/supporters, if Mr. O (and this is pure whimsy) grew a bit of backbone and criticized the vicious white jew zionists (who're today's nazis/17th-to-20th-century good red-blooded [cauc] americans) for being the consummate assholes in Palestine, I guarantee that most (if not all) his nigro devotees would hightail it from him like the proverbial rats from a sinking ship! This old testament-tinged white-jew bullshit still has negroes spooked and fucked in the head.
Kowtowing to shitwipe Nancy
Kowtowing to shitwipe Nancy Pelosi's order not to hold Katrina hearings. Yea and present votes for Israel's 2009 attack on Gaza. Unanimous support for the war waged on Gaza now.
Why is anyone still voting for these people? They'll rant, holler, and pontificate over some politically incorrect word or deed but won't do the same about this pathetic excuse for a president, the bankster bailout/mortgage fraudarama, no jobs, outsourcing, insourcing (HB visas and such to bring in workers when we have a glut of jobless), Detroit shutting off people's water, police state run amok, Monsanto poisoning food and water, gutting of public sector which provides good jobs for black folks, attack on civil liberties, and the list goes on.
The CBC and the rest of the so-called black "leadership" are a bunch of punk-assed Negroes who are as big an impediment to progress for the black masses as the right wing scarecrows they use to distract from their own feckless, corrupt selves.
P.S. You either vote yea or nay. This "present" and abstain shit is even more punk-assed than a siding against the people's interests. If you are gonna be shill/whore for the empire, have the guts to get off the fucking fence and vote one way or the other. Abstaining and present is for when you aren't informed enough on an issue to make a decision. These jokers have staff who can research, decades of experience, and some semblence of common sense. So saying they ain't informed enough won't fly.
I read an article some where
I read an article some where that the financial fall of the US was planned long ago. The decimation of the middle class included. It was said that those who operate in the shadows don't want to share any more of their already unimaginable wealth and so instead of raising the rest of the world's living standards and adding to the ranks of the middle class; they have decided to gut the middle class in industrialized countries and bring their former standard of living 'down' to the level of the emerging BRICS economies. Sounds plausible. This is happening all around us. US, EU, pretty much every where that benefited from the transatlantic slave trade. I don't know why we can't find these 'people' who are making all of these psycho decisions on other people's lives like they are omnipotent yet they hide like cowards and scrub Bilderberg meetings of any traces of DNA like they are on the run from the po po.


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There is simply no substitute for getting out of your own myopic box – that is, your organization, your travails, your granular wins, losses, and pressures – in engaging with intelligent and knowledgeable people. (And, I'm susceptible to "silo'ing" too).
We gain the benefit of hearing about all sorts of experiences, solutions, challenges… methods for persevering; what works and what doesn't. And, there's a fair measure of humor to be had… who can't use that when lifting, sweating, and sometimes dancing in The Business-Technology Weave? :^ )
Kudos to the chapter's President, Cara, and all involved. If you're in the Columbus, Ohio area, stop in at the next meeting. Drag along your boss, co-workers, a friend or two from another organization… If you're "IT," get a business counterpart to come… and vice-versa for "business" people.
If we're lucky, we'll see each other there – I'll look forward to it. I would like to hear about your solutions… your overall challenges.
The Association of Information Technology Professionals – regardless of location, check out your local chapter.
I think you'll be very happy you did.
NP: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions – Chess LP; 1968 Thorens TD-125 turntable; Shure V15VxRM cartridge, signal chain to die for, Peerless drivers in '65 Jensen cabs w/ original crossovers… those who know, know. :^ )
Time to Grow Up
We've discussed the online perils of social networking on this blog before. Incidents not only continue to increase in number, but seem to involve those of higher profile as time goes by.
You may have missed it, but a CBS chief foreign correspondent, Ms. Lara Logan, was attacked while covering the power struggle in Egypt recently. Quite a few pundits came under fire for inappropriate comments, but journalist Nir Rosen became a high-profile case when he was pressured to resign his fellowship at New York University's Center on Law and Security.
The story was well-reported by major news outlets. Post-resignation, Mr. Rosen himself weighed in. You can read Mr. Rosen's rambling account right here, courtesy of Salon.com:
How 480 characters unraveled my career
Perhaps this comment from Mr. Rosen is most telling:
"There's probably some larger lesson about social media to be drawn here, and how its immediacy can be great in its power to connect us, but also a liability because something blurted out and not meant to be serious acquires a greater power."
There is "probably" some larger lesson…?
I have some advice for Mr. Rosen and all who read this: People in 1747 understood that the written word carried a measure of potential penalty: No facial expressions are available to moderate what is being said when writing; there are no reciprocal facial cues from a recipient to allow adjustment, amendment, or apology for the communication's style (even in the speed of the online world's written missives); and there is no inflection in the "voice" of the writer.
Prudency used to dictate, particularly on touchy subjects, that one would write a letter, sleep on it, and review it next day prior to post.
Absent an exigency where speed is of the essence, my suggestion regarding e-mail and social media communication is to draft, review, modify as necessary, and review again… then send or post after a little thought: There is very real danger in a "stream of consciousness" post, and be particularly careful when engaging in live written chat.
Consider the peril that faces anyone: Employers are now stumbling on employees' social media sites, and discovered disparaging information about them, the workplace, the customers/clients, and how much that employee dislikes the job. Guess what's next? You're fired.
Particularly for readers of this blog with children: Sit them down and discuss all perils of the online experience. It's not just a matter of who is contacting them, or the warnings about keeping their passwords secure, and so forth. It's also about the content that they place on the web, and the record they are creating that, rightly or wrongly, may cause others to assume negative character traits. Any web trail is hard to scrub.
And for some further perspective, you might want to make those kids aware of things such as this:
How to Lose a Job via Facebook in 140 Characters or Less
Facebook Post Costs Waitress Her Job
As to Mr. Rosen: Sir, you definitely need to grow up. It's 2011.
On this day: In 1923, transcontinental airmail service begins.
Security and Mounting Threats – Redux
I discovered an interesting article online: New Hacking Tools Pose Bigger Threats to Wi-Fi Users. The accompanying video from Hak5 is also quite interesting (provided for the hard-core tech types).
If you read the article, and watch the first 5 or 10 minutes of the video, you quickly realize today's necessity for provocative security awareness.
Today, as I've stated oftentimes prior, everyone needs to be security conscious… all the time. It has to become second nature. Perhaps "first nature" is more appropriate, as here in the Weave we're often discussing the need to look at every action and activity through a Security Prism.
The article delivered a realization to me: I was a bit surprised at the vulnerabilities posed by Facebook, and the associated lapse in security involving allied third-party applications and procedures there, as well as other referenced sites and social media. Of course, I'm always careful regarding social media – those are not exactly the arbiter, nor the advance-guard, for security. I maintain a benign presence on social media.
It should be evident by now that increasingly powerful tools for hacking are soon going to be available to the masses – paired with user interfaces that are designed for the same understanding, and ease-of-use, that allows any noob to send and receive e-mail.
Up until now, widespread havoc has been held in abeyance by the fact that most of the folks who harbor the raw skills to go the hacking route, use those advanced skills to hold down fairly lucrative jobs, and they put those skills to positive purpose. However, once the business of hacking comes to any person, regardless of that person's direction, proclivities, moral compass… then look out: You'd better have very forward-looking security in place. Ah, now we're starting to understand what I've been calling…
…a provocative security awareness.
Here are a couple early posts of mine on Security – worth a revisit:
- Security and Insecurity: Finite vs. Infinite
- Security and Insecurity: Finite vs. Infinite – Pt. II
- Security and Insecurity: Finite vs. Infinite – Pt. III
Ah yes – I can see you're starting to get it. :^ )
UPDATE: From ZDNet – Pace of Technology "overwhelms" security professionals
NP: INXS – Shabooh, Shoobah – on vinyl, of course. Hadn't heard this in awhile; stumbled on a NM/NM copy at the local thrift.
Security in a Quickening World
I don't do this too often, but I'd like to recommend a specific whitepaper from ArcSight (Full disclosure: I have no reciprocity with them whatsoever).
It's available here, and requires registration. The paper is World-class protection for the mid-size organization.
The paper makes valid, timely, points that in a networked world, we suffer threat – if not outright breaches – from malware, viruses, etc. I can throw in malicious botnets, human error, mistakes in judgment, and so forth; all the while, organizations face increasing regulation and associated penalties. The vulnerabilities mount – and will continue to mount. Velocity of risk, anyone?
The article mentions, likely accurately, that most SMB (small-and-medium-business) do not have large dedicated security staffs – and what security staff does exist, is declining. And yet, the SMB enterprise has the same security burdens as their "larger brethren" – the securing of financial information, private customer data, intellectual property… et al., with the same legal and compliancy responsibilities.
I agree with all of that, but I offer something a bit unique (and have done so in the past, and will continue to do so). Make everyone in the organization a security officer. Technically, not an actual Security Officer, but rather people with an elevated awareness of security in general, and with specific knowledge of your organization's security expectations, practices, regulatory burdens, and so on…
Can you do that? Is it possible to train employees to elevated standards of security?: To the focus, activity, care and results of strict security practices and measures?
The answer is not only "Yes" – the answer is "You have no choice."
For small business – where money is tight, tight, and also oftentimes tight – find a smart, dedicated and ambitious employee to take on Security as an Additional Duty. Have that person develop a training plan, for awareness and prudent activity, as a start. Then, begin delivering Security Awareness Training – find your "affordable" schedule… monthy? Quarterly? Semi-annually? When and how often can you spare people for training attendance?
For medium business, you really need a dedicated security person, or personnel, with the attendant training and awareness. Larger enterprises already have an infrastructure of a department and associated activity – or you'd better, if you have any clue at all.
But for SMB and large enterprises, the most provocative idea is to make everyone a security officer: It becomes second nature for employees to screen every activity through a security prism: "I'm about to send information: To whom am I addressing it? Are all authorized to see it? Is my conduit for transmission secure enough?" Just as one qualifier of one activity…
Train every employee to have this regularized assessment going on for all activity, all handling of data, every customer touch, every vendor interaction, etc.
Today, the more complex and comprehensive the enablement, the larger any vulnerability's window and subsequent impact. With new velocity of risk, scales of harm, and delivery of harm, whether deliberate or through human error, problems manifest with much more wide-spread impact.
Vulnerabilities must be managed, in providing protection from harm: In the realm of risk, unmanaged possibilities become probabilities. Probabilities always manifest.
Today's total business reliance on comprehensive technical enablements requires provocative protection.
NP: Swinghouse – Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker – Jazz24.org
The Next Pearl Harbor?
A provocative article at World Net Daily states flatly that cyber war is imminent.
As any reader of this blog knows, I am very security conscious. I also believe that most organizations lag in their security awareness and associated practices. I see it all the time in my travels and consultancy. The good news is that often my very engagement with these organizations is for purpose of addressing their own, self-motivated, concerns: In other words, they suspect they're lagging, and they engage me to spec up their systems and practices.
Given my own provocative awareness, I feel that even "cyber war" doesn't quite go far enough in articulating the ultimate threat – particularly if we're going to invoke the attack on Pearl Harbor as a parallel. (Review my arguments for replacement of standard Disaster Recovery policies and plans [a reactive brand, for sure] with Disaster Awareness, Preparedness and Recovery – here, and here).
Being that the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ultimately touched upon the entire nation's engagement to world war (direct combat, combat support, home-front engagement/sacrifice, etc.), a true Cyber Pearl Harbor would comprise… EMP.
Electro-Magnetic Pulse, delivered via an aerial nuclear burst, would eliminate all electricity, wipe out all data and processing, disable motors, disable all electronic communication, cripple emergency response – and beyond – in a considerable geographic area – up to and including an entire country. Revisit my earlier post on EMP for some good perspective on my thoughts.
Then, not to be a downer, consider this:
Prevention is key. Prevention starts with awareness – one of those Where We Are factors in determining and getting to Where We're Going. Obviously, we want to go to some destination that we determine, not one that is determined for us… (The up and coming generation is going to have to mount DAPR principles and warnings on a national scale – to a degree not quite yet appreciated).
I think it's possible to do all of this without being too draconian, and without sacrificing liberty and Constitutional principles… but only if we move ahead of, and guard against, threats.
Chapter 21 of I.T. WARS well-documents the challenges and what is required… now. And…
We must determine the future… before the future determines us.
Stay safe out there… Note to my friends in the Columbus area: Hope you can make it to my upcoming presentation at AITP.
On this day: The first adhesive postage stamps in the U.S. are issued on February 15th, 1842 by a private delivery company, in New York, NY.
The Human-Technology Weave
Here on this blog we regularly consider a business-technology weave.
But we should recognize too that there's a human-technology weave (well, I guess that's obvious: Everything starts, proceeds and ends with humans, after all – at least from any particular human's perspective!).
The human-technology weave is, among many things, one with heart pumps, artificial knees, and even implants that dispense medicine at regular intervals… (did you think I was going somewhere else with that?). We could go on and on… we influence the brain and mind with meds – and that certainly involves technology.
Human-technology weave? Sure. It exists… and… its potential is limitless. But what of a more integrated personal-technology weave? What if my smart phone's content was implanted directly into my head for my mind's ready access, as a tiny piece of firmware… with some sort of physical tethers into my brain? How about "dialing" and accessing a friend just by thinking about it?
Consider this article: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html
And then, have a look at this interesting YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4Neivqp2K4
Speaking of mortality: I don't feel bad about missing out on immortality: There will still be accidents, natural disaster, terror – the destruction of things; therefore all will still have to die someday.
Then again… I guess it's likely that we'll all be backed up! Although, I guess further that a backup would represent an independent "consciousness"… unless maybe a DropBox type affair was invoked (if you're familiar), with live-time updates of a cohesive consciousness from disparate locations… would that be dispersed residencies for the common-consciousness…? Or would they be independent…? Overlapping…?
But as far as backups go – there might yet not be immortality: There could be simultaneous destruction of live sites and backup sites, and so on: Perhaps the whole universe would collapse in on itself, and destruct everything within… a backup of yourself would have to be in alternate, or parallel, or some further universe(s)… if there's a possibility of more than one universe, that is – and assuming we'd find it…
You know, this can get complicated! I think I have a headache – please don't back that up.
NP: Robin Trower, Caravan to Midnight, Chrysalis LP (for you record collectors: Gold-embossed box on cover stating, "Demonstration Only"). Trower's Hendrix-comparisons were unfortunate – and – I love Dewar's vocals…
BIT: The Business Implementation Team
I was having a discussion the other day about organizations and efforts in piloting their way effectively into the future.
Some organizations struggle their way forward and others do it with relative aplomb. The latter not only see to the horizon (with a fair measure of accuracy), they see just beyond the scroll of the horizon: They have people willing to survey the future in harboring a vision… and in making business use of that vision.
Regardless, it is challenging for all; challenge is good and this particular challenge (futures planning) should bring out, and be matched by, our best. No organization should blink in the harsh glare of an impending unfriendly future, due to lack of foresight, planning, and activity – but many do.
Consider high-profile examples: How did MySpace lose dominance in the social media environment to the "upstart" Facebook? How did AOL totally miss the boat regarding the modern social media revolution? (AOL's largest block of revenue still comes from dial-up subscribers. Oops. Not exactly a plan for longevity).
We've discussed BIT before: a team comprising individual business stakeholders who are qualified to discuss the stakes both by virtue of their standing in the organization, and by virtue of their interest and willingness to pedal fast enough to discuss IT on a business basis. Those business folks are matched by IT counterparts who bring common dialog to the table; they lose the junk terms, arcane language, acronyms the business audience doesn't know – and thus they engage effectively.
In leveraging BIT, however, it is possible to debut important concepts and agree to a "dictionary of terms" for purpose of efficient engagement and discussion. A great example is "RFE."
RFE is Responsible Forward Edge. Organizations sometimes ask me, "Should we be on a leading edge? Bleeding edge? A prudent lagging edge, to see what works for others?" They want to know when to invest; when to assess new systems; when and what to procure; when to implement enhancements, and so on – and how best to make qualified judgments, with resultant prudent activity, for best business.
I tell them to find their RFE, specifically tuned to:
1) Their budget.
2) Their market challenges:
a. Obligation in serving clients, customers…
b. Pressure from competitors.
c. Overall expectations, given the general level of society's advance…
3) The capacity of their employees to handle change.
4) The capacity of the senior executive class (and boards, oversight, etc.) to handle change…
a. They must have a measure of understanding technical change and reasons for it.
b. They must sponsor change.
c. They must then support it through the inevitable challenges.
5) Detail some of your own – specific to your organization.
Branding and making powerful shorthand of RFE creates very efficient discussion in the BIT group. And that is but one example. I've detailed BIT and what it can do for the organization in I.T. Wars – but you'll have your own ideas.
Remember: BIT is not a rolling close-steer of specific projects (although BIT should touch those). BIT is a high-level piloting of the organization's direction in view of evolving, best, technical supports; BIT anticipates and tracks the inevitable "what's coming next."
BIT opens the view to the possibilities, and hands off assessments to specific leaders who make the ongoing selection of products; those who engage the vendors and value-added-remarketers (VARs), in sustaining the organization through implementations and enablements – whether that's a new mission-critical core business system, or a flock of new printers.
Some orgs decry "yet another meeting!" Make BIT annual, or semi-annual, or quarterly… see what happens and where it goes – judge its tune, size, and effectiveness. Also, look for a regularized meeting you can eliminate to free some time. I've seen "glad-handing" stuff on the calendar that, while important, can definitely go in making space for something as important as BIT.
And, you can glad-hand at the end of each meeting as you pilot your way into a future that the organization determines:
Define your future – before the future defines you.
NP: Van Cliburn, Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3, Kiril Kondrashin conducting (Carnegie Hall, May 19, 1958). Original Red Seal RCA Victor LP, LM-2355.
Service Outage? Just another opportunity for up sell…
Last evening as I was writing some content, I noticed my internet connection had gone out – my broadband modem indicated that I was offline. Rebooting my modem put me back on… until about 15 minutes later, I was off again. It went like that for a couple hours – naturally, I was corresponding with a client in Bangladesh throughout some critical work.
This morning I was online briefly around 4 a.m. – and then, out completely. Rebooting and monkeying with connections didn't help.
A call to my friendly internet service provider (ISP) indicated that there were no service outages in my area, and confirmed that I had already tried everything; a service visit was in order – for next day. I politely mentioned that I have international clients and have critical work. When I asked if there would be an adjustment to my bill ("yes") given my inconvenience, the tech support representative told me that I might wish to consider a business-class line.
I haven't looked into that. At that moment, I wasn't interested in an up sell to business-class (undoubtedly more expensive) – but what was really interesting is what happened next – this morning.
I received a call from another tech rep who told me that a technician was in my area and could show at my home between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Bring him on.
Turned out there was no problem at the street, and nothing apparent in my home office. However, a splitter in the ceiling of my basement showed itself to be the culprit. The tech said, literally, "They've been fluctuating the signal some lately, and about 5 out of a thousand of these old splitters don't like it."
Me: "Oh." And also, "By the way, add to your notes that I want an adjustment on my bill." All well and good – we'll see how much it is.
Sooo… maybe I don't need business-class just yet. And maybe my provider can consider a better management for the weave of their technology to my business, thank you very much. My day is off to a rocky start – it's catch up time.
If only a few splitters fail to handle a new signal configuration, I guess it's not too practical to replace an entire population involving thousands and thousands of customers.
But I darn sure don't need an up sell when I'm offline due to their equipment mismatches and malfunctions.
Thoughts… opinions… stories? Let's hear 'em!
February 1st: On this day in 1914, the New York Giants and the Chicago White Socks played an exhibition baseball game in Egypt.
Diminishing Return
Not too long ago I purchased a Seagate 320 Gb drive. I procured it for comprehensive backups of my business laptop, the very device I'm typing on now.
I like it – it is very, very fast – and the associated software is quite navigable and straightforward. I don't Sync or do anything particularly special, opting for a simple capture of my entire main drive.
Last evening I had a question regarding the operation of the drive. The agent running on my laptop had a support link, so I jumped out to the web. I was rather surprised to see that I only had 30-days of free support upon registration. Fortunately, I had not registered the drive (I guess), being that I've had it for about 6 months. Online support required registration, so I began…
I had to fill two simple fields: serial number (S/N) and part number (PN). I looked on the back of the drive, and there – in a little white sticker – was the information… in about 2 pt. font. (ß in about 2 point font).
My eyes are quite good, but I had to get a lighted magnifier to read the information – and even then, I mistook a "6" for an "8" – it just wasn't clear. I had to try a couple times to get registered.
The little white sticker with the information I needed (crowded with other extraneous info) was about ½" x 1" in size. The drive itself is about ¼" x 2 ½ " x 5" – there's plenty of room for a larger, legible, readable sticker.
I collect vintage audio gear. Generally, Model Numbers, Serial Numbers, Part Numbers, etc. are anywhere from 1/8 " to ¼" high – quite legible and readable. Maybe we could think of that for future computers and components. I know I would appreciate it.
And as long as I'm talking about my fast, efficient, and much-liked Seagate backup drive… what's with that limited 30-day support?
NP: Jimi Hendrix, Red House, the 13+ minute live version from the San Diego Sports Arena, often referred to as the "San Diego '69" version. A tour-de-force, with incredible soloing, and a real nice downshift into a jazz motif before wrapping things… Reprise LP, "Hendrix In The West."
Detroit is Desperate for Money – yet delays tax revenue with incorrect bills
The Ombudsman for the city of Detroit reports that a mistake in the finance department has resulted in almost 60,000 property tax bills with the wrong interest rate.
Further compounding this error is a situation whereby some residents received no tax bill at all, and others got two.
City Ombudsman Dorian Brown's office has been swamped with calls:
"In an environment where we are told on a daily basis that the city is broke, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever that the city cannot get their game together so that they collect money and collect it on time. Service delivery is linked to the resources the city has to provide them; this is outrageous that the city has not prioritizing the collection of tax money which is needed to provide the services we all deserve," Brown stated.
It does seem rather incredible that the relatively simple matter of a tax rate cannot be applied to the servicing of tax bills. Further, computer-driven mailings have been going on for years – it shouldn't be too challenging – in 2011 – to ensure a list gets satisfied through processing, yielding a very simple requirement…
…that one taxpayer/property gets one coherent bill.
It should not be difficult to review a few regs, laws, and standards, and then populate some fields, execute a data merge, and produce some bills and letters for mailing.
In my travels, I'm discovering more and more organizations, private and government, that are not improving in matters of timeliness, accuracy, and service when it comes to the maximum actualization of technology and available benefits. This is very troublesome.
It's expensive correcting mistakes; mistakes hold proper systems, activities, and benefits at bay; and further, mistakes can cost an organization its reputation in very short order.
In the realm of an ever-tighter Business-Technology Weave, it is crucial to tune heads and pull everyone's best game. Get on the ball – now. If you're firing on all cylinders, good for you: Be certain to stay that way with the evolving plans, policy, training, and activities that will keep you there.
"It's the year 2011, we've got all kinds of technology, we've got an administration that tweets for God's sake, but we cannot manage to get tax bills out, and money is so desperately needed in this community; that's a problem," says Brown.
NP: Todd Rundgren, Runt, on original LP.


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Video: Topics: Culture & Society: Race & Ethnicity
When Worlds Collide | The Caste System Fails | PBS
In this preview clip, Martínez describes how the Spanish caste system of the "Old World" was doomed to failure in the "New World" of Latin America. WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, premiering on Monday,... 01:21
Michael Feinstein's American Songbook | This is the Army (offensive material) | PBS
Two clips from the movie version of Irving Berlin's all-soldier revue "This is the Army". 07:27
Need To Know | "Wait, what?" Racial discrimination at the USDA. | PBS (#113)
After the headlines of the Shirley Sherrod case in the media have waned, Alison Stewart explains the massive backlog of racial discrimination suits filed, and settled, against the U.S. Department of... 02:38
Need To Know | Charles Ogletree on race in America | PBS (#113)
Alison Stewart interviews Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree about race, gender and the Supreme Court. 09:15
POV | Presumed Guilty -- Trailer | PBS (#2307)
A documentary film by by Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete. Directed by Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith. Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know... 02:50
American Experience | We Shall Remain | Trailer | PBS
We Shall Remain establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. 00:30
POV | El General -- Trailer | PBS (#2306)
Past and present collide as award-winning filmmaker Natalia Almada (Al Otro Lado, POV 2006) brings to life audio recordings she inherited from her grandmother, daughter of Plutarco Elias Calles, a... 02:33
To The Contrary | July 16, 2010, Sen. Klobuchar | PBS
Full Program: US AIDS Strategy, Racism & the Tea Party, Sen. Klobuchar and the STANDUP Act. 24:31
A Dream Fulfilled: The Saga of George Washington Carver
Full Program: This children's opera traces the life and career of George Washington Carver from Winterset and Indianola, Iowa, to the halls of Congress to the prestigious Tuskegee Institute. 57:46
Iowa and the Civil War (#105)
Full Program: For years Iowans had provided an escape route for African Americans fleeing slavery. When war broke out, 10,000 Iowa sons volunteered to fight to preserve the Union. 28:38
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Twenty Things I Hate, and Twenty Things I Think Are Awesome.
(Kayley inspired me to write this.)
Hate. (This was surprisingly hard to complete – I'm pretty content, I guess. But I finally came up with twenty things.)
- Stupid voices in commercials. If you're a Denver local, think of the O'Meara Ford lady. Nails on a friggin' chalkboard, man.
- When my kids are completely wired at bedtime.
- The fact that every character in every kid-geared TV show is a smart-assed little brat.
- In Draw Something, when someone draws like a circle and a line and some random squiggle for "Titanic."
- Also, when people write out the word. Why are we even playing?
- Getting the boingy bite of chicken. Ptooey!
- When I don't get the joke. I AM CLEVER, GOD DAMMIT. I SHOULD ALWAYS GET THE JOKE.
- Volume disparity between songs on my iPod.
- When the dishwater gets cold and I have to reach in to pull the drain. Bleahhh.
- Cold feet.
- When I forget my next list item because my kids have to come in and tattle.
- Getting trapped behind a wall of lookie-loo walkers at IKEA.
- How long it takes to get any measurable amount of laundry done in this house.
- The fact that it's cheaper to buy a new printer or a new cordless phone than it is to buy ink or a new battery. Yay for technological waste!
- When things are wonky and I can't figure out why. Like how I just dicked around for half an hour trying to figure out why an image on Pinterest keeps pinning SIDEWAYS. WHAT IN THE HELL.
- Not having floss when I need it. I am a compulsive flosser, and will drive myself batshit crazy if I can't unwedge something from my toofs in a timely manner.
- Having a stack of books on my nightstand, but no real desire to read them. I want to want to read, I just don't want to read. Does that make any sense?
- Your shitty taste in music. Well, not YOU. But, you know what I mean.
- Not being able to find a bike helmet that doesn't make me look like a tool.
- Being clumsy, stumbling, tripping, running into things. Lame.
Love. (This was easier.)
- Feeling like my life is exactly as it should be.
- Being comfortable in my own skin, for the most part.
- Being married to Paul, who is hysterical and adorable.
- Having cool, funny kids.
- Star Wars.
- Netflix.
- Sushi. Oh my God, how I love sushi.
- Springtime, and all the fun it brings. (My birthday, pedicures after wearing boots for months, flowers in bloom)
- My iPhone. Hey, I can admit it.
- My faith.
- Kayley. As much of a pain in the ass as she, like all teenagers, can be, she brightens my world like no one else.
- Chiweenie!
- New bras. (Especially the ones I just got, with "Age Defying Lift!" Oh, jeez.)
- My fabulous friends.
- The new sheets I just bought.
- Taco Star.
- My adorable bike, and going riding with my family. Whee!
- Thrift stores.
- Being a wife and mommy. Awwww.
Now you!


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