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James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer
and amongst other things lived in a tent outdoors for 7 years.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i
with his best friend and spiritual adviser Ivanka-Obama Da Dog!
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Political correctness, participation trophies and the Hawaii missile scare
January 13, 2018 will live on in infamy as a day everyone in Hawaii remembers. Many with smart phones are suffering mild PTSD every time they look at their phones reminiscent of the ballistic missile scare generated by an anonymous person at the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HEMA) who allegedly pushed a wrong button. Nobody pushed a button,
everything is computerized and this anonymous person whom nobody will identify was on a computer with a pull down menu and dragged down the wrong unit. The Head administrator of HEMA, Vern Miyagi and his anonymous employee should be fired. Somebody needs to be held responsible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Emergency_Management_Agency
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| HEMA head administrator Vern Miyagi on left along with Hawaii Governor David Ige on right |
I've been fired from a job for being a $100 shy of bringing in 20,000 for the month in a sales job and ironically one of my clients signed a contract for $10,000, two days after I got fired. Another waitress friend of mine got fired
This is a result of a generation of kids that believe a trophy was deserving even after they fumbled
To the employee of HEMA who
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| James "Kimo" Rosen Throwback as Jim Rosen ;-) 1985, Homer, Alaska |
"The Hawaii fake missile warning and the rest of the story..."
http://dakinetalk.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-hawaii-fake-missile-warning-and.html
Follow up- 01-30-18
Worker Who Sent Alarm Thought Missile Attack Was Real by Civil Beat
http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/worker-who-sent-alarm-thought-missile-attack-was-real/
Breaking News! They listened to me, they fired the button pusher! Breaking news!
Man Who Sent Out False Missile Alert Was ‘Source Of Concern’ For A Decade
http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-fires-man-who-sent-out-false-missile-alert-top-administrator-resigns/
12 comments:
Hear hear!
Kimo,
As usual I take exception to your thinking on the issue. I don’t think the “panic" was an accident. I see it more as an experiment to see how people would react if there was a real credible danger of nuclear war here in Hawaii. Now they know. Shock and awe!
The lesson of the nuclear panic ought to be to get more self sufficient and get rid of your cell phone and out social media.
Linda and I, without cell phones, did not even hear about the panic until it was well over. The government did not think to warn people on landlines even though we get a county phone call on every stream flood warning. Even if we had heard about an imminent nuclear attack we would not have been out to Big Save to fill the car with bottled water and canned foods.
We are already fully stocked, and have a raised garden fruit trees plus a rain catchment system with 1,000 gallons of stored water.
Had we gotten the “message” we simply would have carried on as we do everyday. Not to say we are invulnerable, but my attitude is "Be prepared or be toast!"
PS: We keep a radiation detector and as well as suits and masks available, just in case, ever since Fukushima went south.
As for your concern about those dependent on a dead end jobs where you can be fired for late ketchup delivery… I think a reexamination of priorities is necessary. Are you in that position to make a car payment, or to pay rent? There are other ways to live. A profound self examination is needed by all of us to prepared for the shit storm now on the horizon.
I’m sure you must have learned much living in a tent for 7 years. I lived in a VW bus on Kauai for a year (1971-72) and learned a lot about living close to the edge.
Juan W
Hi Kimo, unfortunately we’re going to have to ask you stop posting your blog links in this group. This is a place for discussion around news. Once in a while you are free to post a link to your own work but it must be framed around creating discussion around news topics here in Hawaii. Posing a question or a poll to get others to engage. We will allow this last post but please refocus your efforts to helping create discussion instead of trying to promote your blog.
Maybe we can establish a guideline of a "once a month" personal blog promotion allotment?
I understand... Keep up the outstanding work you guys are doing. Aloha!
Thank you for understanding! Mahalo
Breaking News! They listened to me, they fired the button pusher! Breaking news! http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/01/hawaii-fires-man-who-sent-out-false-missile-alert-top-administrator-resigns
The government employee whose errant click of a mouse sent a message to thousands of Hawaii residents telling them that a ballistic missile was heading toward the islands has been fired, according to officials with the state Department of Defense.
A second casualty of the slip-up is Vern Miyagi, a retired major general with the U.S. Army, who was the administrator of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency at the time of the Jan. 13 false alert. Miyagi resigned Tuesday morning.
On Tuesday, state officials announced the staff shake-up at the same time they released the findings of their internal investigation.
The Federal Communications Commission also released new information Tuesday indicating that the state employee who mistakenly sent out the alert believed an actual attack was underway.
The state’s investigation found that the employee had confused emergency drills with real threats at least two times prior, once during a fire incident test and another time during a tsunami test, according to Brigadier General Bruce Oliviera, who led the internal investigation.
According to the report, the employee, who has a history of performance problems, and has been a “source of concern” for more than 10 years.
Several of his colleagues stated during the investigation that they were not comfortable with having him as a supervisor, part of a two-person team, or even as a member of the state warning apparatus in general.
Employee 1, as he is called in the report, “does not take initiative and has to be directed before he takes action,” the report states. “He is unable to comprehend the situation at hand and has confused real life events and drills on at least two separate occasions.”
He is described as the only employee to not hear the words “EXERCISE, EXERCISE, EXERCISE” when the drill was initiated. Instead, he said heard the words “This is not a drill,” which caused him to click the button he did to send out the alert.
The report also said the employee did not respond well in the minutes after mistakenly clicking the wrong button.
At 8:12 a.m., five minutes after the missile alert was sent, another official told the man to send out a cancellation of the alert, but instead he “just sat there and didn’t respond.”
It took someone taking control of Employee 1’s mouse to send out the cancellation message to stop the false alarm from being rebroadcast. “At no point did Employee 1 assist in the process,” the report states.
The Emergency Management Agency offered mental health counseling to the employees involved to “help recover from this traumatic event.”
Lack Of Safeguards
The revelation from the FCC is the first indication that the alert was purposely sent, adding another level of confusion to the Jan. 13 false alarm. State officials had previously only said it was sent in error.
Asked why the state didn’t announce these details earlier, Gov. David Ige said, “To present the information piecemeal would have been inappropriate.”
Ige said that he just became aware of those details on Monday afternoon.
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency worker believed the attack was real because of a mistake in how the drill was initiated during a shift change, the FCC said in a report.
There was no requirement to double-check with a colleague or get a supervisor’s approval before sending the blast to cellphones, TV and radio stations statewide, the agency said.
“There were no procedures in place to prevent a single person from mistakenly sending a missile alert” in Hawaii, said James Wiley, a cybersecurity and communications reliability staffer at the FCC.
Compounding the problem was that the agency lacked any preparation in how to correct the false alert that left residents and tourists believing that their lives were about to end.
The federal agency, which regulates the nation’s airwaves and sets standards for such emergency alerts, criticized the state’s delay in correcting it.
In addition, software at Hawaii’s emergency agency used the same prompts for both test and actual alerts, and it generally used prepared text that made it easy for a staffer to click through the alerting process without focusing enough on the text of the warning that would be sent.
The FCC said the state Emergency Management Agency has already taken steps to try to avoid a repeat of the false alert, requiring more supervision of drills and alert and test-alert transmissions. It has created a correction template for false alerts and has stopped ballistic missile defense drills until its own investigation is done.
Good one Rabbi,I love your CHUTZPAH TO BLOG to criticize the left & the right,I hope Kim Jong Un in north Korea can access your blog,so dis MESHUGENNAH FOOL can enjoy some FREEDOM info from the world outside his kimchee factories ,
Somehow, Kimo, i never expected him to be fired...probably someone's nephew...or the son of a friend. And, of course, this is Hawai'i government, where it is virtually impossible to fire a "civil servant"...
Bill G
Agreed,
But they finally fired this guy! ;-)
Surprised I am.
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