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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2019-59
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
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U.S. troops are withdrawing from north Syria. Turkish sponsored "rebel" units now encircle Ain Issa and Kobane. Turkey uses "former" ISIS fighters as auxiliaries. These promptly commit war crimes by killing prisoners and civilians.
Betraying the Kurds – Yasha Levine
The way the Kurds are treated by America is a perfect example of the weaponization of nationalist and sectarian movements: use them when it fits your goals, abandon them when it doesn’t.
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12 Hours. 4 Syrian Hospitals Bombed. One Culprit: Russia. – NYT
An analysis of previously unpublished Russian Air Force radio recordings, plane spotter logs and witness accounts allowed The Times to trace bombings of four hospitals in just 12 hours in May and tie Russian pilots to each one.
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The staff of Nabad al Hayat had evacuated three days earlier after receiving warnings and anticipating a bombing, ..
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The Boeing media folks give a new meaning to the word "hypothetical".
FAA order warns of 787 slat issues during winter– FlightGlobal
The US Federal Aviation Administration is requiring airlines take steps to a prevent a potentially dangerous slat issue that could affect Boeing 787s operating in winter weather.
"Boeing discovered that 787 slat operation could potentially be affected by ice during winter operation," Boeing says in a statement. "The issue is a hypothetical event that has never occurred in service. The probability of this issue occurring is very remote."
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The agency issued the order in response to reports that five 787 slat actuators failed when aircraft were taxiing, causing the slats to be in a position different from that commanded by the pilots.
"This condition, if not addressed, could result in insufficient lift, resulting in inability to maintain continued safe flight and landing," the FAA's AD says.
Other issues:
Paramilitary Panda: WWF Land Grabs Rooted in Covert Apartheid History – Michael Molitch-Hou, Reality Institute
The Global Climate Strikes: No, this was not co-optation. This was and is PR. A brief timeline – Cory Morningstar, Wrong Kind of Green
Whitney Webb
Glenn smears me (again) as a liar for suggesting that his boss– CIA-linked billionaire Pierre Omidyar–influences the Intercept's reporting and influenced the closure of the Snowden archive. Greenwald's OWN words contradict this claim completely, see below …
Russian and US visitors, targets for the Spanish firm that spied on Julian Assange – El Pais
The CIA had access to the server where the company stored the profiles of hundreds of people who visited the WikiLeaks founder during his stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London
We're in a permanent coup – Matt Taibbi
Adam Schiff has 2 aides who worked with whistleblower at White House – Washington Examiner
Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapse: What we know, don't know day after tragedy – Times Picayune
Drone video of the crushed building
The columns of the building look extremely flimsy to me. But the two German built cranes are still standing :-).
Use as open thread …
Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 13 2019 16:41 utc | 13 ‘If only more could understand your perspective.’
OK. I will try to keep it short.
1. Human systems, for example, human societies, companies, etc. can be thought of as ‘Complex Auto-creative Systems’, analogous to biological life.
2. ‘Complex Auto-creative Systems’ (CAS) are not stable systems. Rather they are ‘meta-stable’, i.e. Inherently unstable, but whose instability is constrained, i.e. ‘constrained-instability’.
3. The constraints in biological systems lies in their genetic code. In human systems the constraints are the system’s rules (i.e. laws, practices, procedures, etc.), and the knowledge that is embedded in these.
4. Biological systems, like human systems, live in a chaotic environment, that is constantly changing. Those systems that adapt, survive; those that don’t, die. The unstable nature of a CAS is what enables it to adapt.
5. Some of the characteristics ‘Complex Auto-creative Systems’ are:
1. Performance increases with increasing complexity. To see this you can look at nature, where the most complex creatures are the highest performing (i.e. Human beings themselves), or look at human systems, such as ‘quality systems’, the air transport system, or even societies, where modern complex societies are much higher performing, in terms of life expectancy and the ability to meet human needs, than are primitive societies.
2. Authority must be distributed for the system to be effective. People must be empowered, have the knowledge and tools, to act, within their roles and responsibilities, to modify the system in order to adjust to the ever-changing requirements, engendered by a chaotic and unpredictable environment.
3. The role of leadership is not to make daily operating decisions, but rather to ensure that those on the front-line have the knowledge, tools and authority to act and to provide the strategic direction and organizational cohesiveness (communications, values, etc.) to ensure that the decisions that are taken are coherent with the overall needs and objectives of the system.
4. To enable distributed authority, the benefits derived by the system must also be equitably distributed.
6. People who are authoritarian, who like to accumulate power rather than share power, are like a cancer to ‘Complex Auto-Creative Systems’. They are uncomfortable with distributed authority because it goes against their nature. They are uncomfortable with complexity, because complexity requires a diversity of knowledge and skills, and thus distributed authority, They are against an equitable distribution of benefits, because wealth is power, not to be shared.
When authoritarians achieve leadership positions in ‘Complex Auto-creative Systems’ their actions quickly destroy the system, like a cancer. They ‘simplify’ the system by removing the constraints that hold the system together (de-regulation) and, as a result, also destroy the system performance. They centralize decision making, with the result that big decisions are always late, and lack the knowledge and expertise required. Small decisions are made in a vacuum. Such systems tend to a state that resembles a combination of anarchy and paralysis at the same time, and are incapable of dealing with the ever-changing, chaotic environment in which they exist.
This what has happened to both Boeing and the political system as a whole in the U.S. Leadership has been captured by authoritarians, who have, through their greed and misguided leadership, destroyed their systems.
Authoritarians are capable of leading only primitive systems, incapable of adapting to a changing environment. Primitive systems are capable of only primitive performance. For Boeing, it likely means its ultimate demise. For the U.S. it means regression to a primitive society. A regression that is already well under way.
Posted by: dh-mtl | Oct 13 2019 20:59 utc | 53
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