Words matter! Our minds use them as tools to engineer our mental world believing/assuming we see the real world as it actually is. These thoughts then generate actions...actions we assume will work as intended – because we believe we understand the world as it really is. We don’t. We can’t. Because our minds have been soft-wired by our family, experiences, education, religious beliefs, the culture we live in, and any oaths we have made and intended to keep.
Unfortunately,
our mental world limits our actions. Especially
if our actions were intended to work in bringing forth the basic conditions in
which all life forms need to survive, thrive, and finally flourish.
We have forgotten
or never learned that our mind is also a tool.
It is not who we are! Fundamentally,
we are our body, spirit, and soul which are hardwired into our DNA.
And our disconnect between these and our mind is the root cause of nearly every problem we are trying to resolve today.
"The world we have created is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking"." Albert Einstein.
In October the
US administration decided to change the name of the Department of Defense (DOD)
to the Department of War (DOW). This accurately
describes how US military power has been used since the end of World War
II. In keeping true to this reality future
budget references to war should be referred to as War expenditures or War spending,
not Defense Spending or Defense Budget.
And the US
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be funded entirely separate from
DOW unless the US Government is going to conduct war on US soil.
As a current
Chief Security Officer (CSO) with cybersecurity, physical security, and
resilience responsibilities, I see the threats facing critical infrastructure
owners and operators every day. While we’ve made meaningful relationships under
“blue sky” conditions, I am often reminded of the important partnership between
the public and private sectors in protecting our critical infrastructure.
As we champion “collective defense”, we
rightly recognize that infrastructure owners are on the front lines of the
modern-day battlefield, and everyone’s help is required. My aim is to raise
awareness and increase collaboration between the private sector, Intelligence
and National Security partners, law enforcement, and academia.
Coming off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it
only makes sense that we now turn our focus to protecting critical
Infrastructure. Today, the threat landscape is blended, and we must embrace
“convergence” while holistically embracing the IT/OT/Physical security
disciplines. Cyber-attacks can have operational impacts, and physical attacks
can lead to losing critical cyber systems....
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The author and recipients
of this Newsletter need to understand and then act on the reality that “Everything
is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And
that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of
nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort...”, Jen Easterly (Director
of CISA, the US Cyber & Infrastructure Security Agency, our nation’s newest
federal agency established by President Trump in 2018)
FYI: CISA
was hacked in January 2025 shortly after Trump replaced Ms. Easterly.
Note that the word ‘everything’ is an autological word. It defines itself. Everything includes every cell and DNA strand within it, in every life form, and system in nature. Too many people have forgotten that Earth’s environment sustains the life-support infrastructure of everything alive today! Given that everything vulnerable - humanity must quickly and effectively unite to achieve the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
"There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure." - John Perkins
Humankinds only
sane path is understanding and then taking urgent action on the Truth.
The context for future thinking globally is knowing
that the three most complicated and complex systems in the known universe is
Nature, the Immune system of every living thing alive today, and the female
mind. While most minds are reactionary the
male mind is also relatively simple. The
primary purpose of virtually every male of every species is creating genetic
diversity within its species. This is
the best defense of multicellular organisms against our greatest threat - viruses,
bacteria, and fungi.
To the degree
human minds concepts don’t protect nature and immune systems is the degree our
species is at increasing risk. And now our
minds need to be concerned about Artificial Intelligence.
It appears humankind has only two ways of surviving AI’s super intelligence. If it acquires the wisdom we have failed to act on, and decides we are capable of the deeper systemic thinking and acting needed to sustain life, or humankind uses Neurolink to unite with it...to quickly solve all the problems our reactionary minds have failed to unite around. And time is running out.
Achieving the UN 17 Sustainable development Goals should be
the highest priority of every war, defense, and security budgeting by the US
government in the context of their oath to US Constitution and achieving the 7
intentions within its Preamble.
Or change its intro from “We the People” to “We the
reactionary largely delusional People.”
The Truth matters! As
well as every Pledge made to defend the Constitution, and to our Flag pledge of
“liberty and justice for all”.
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