Today will be the BIG REVEAL of the new video for the very human and powerful story behind the Choose Your Own Life book project. Stories like this one really don't come up all that often and we need to take the opportunity to hear them when we get the chance. What is your favorite life story of overcoming adversity? http://ow.ly/7Z5nN

How do you let people know when they need a wake-up call in their decision-making process? How would YOU use an app that brought people to their senses in a fun, entertaining, and positive way? http://ow.ly/7Z4Sj

Have you seen the video for the New Smack App? Anyone YOU know who needs a virtual wake-up call? http://ow.ly/7TAPW

I've been out to several networking events lately, and am hearing a lot of great feedback about Dr Martha Reed's Smack App project on Indiegogo...

It's a really interesting project and a great way to introduce a fun, new product to the market place. Have you seen this project yet? http://ow.ly/7SXBM

We've heard your feedback and we're shooting a new project video for Dave Deib's Choose Your Own Life book project today. We really need your support to get this project funded and time is winding down.

It really is a worthwhile book, but clearly something in the project message isn't working. What advice do YOU have for making this project better? What would encourage YOU to either make a donation or share the project with others? http://ow.ly/7SYbN

FINALLY!!! The NEW Reyactive Chamber FaceBook Store is live and online - please drop by and see our FANTASTIC sales on brand new classes! http://ow.ly/7QF9o

Another much appreciated donation to announce from Scott Kisicki - our second Thinking Right Side Up donation! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH, Scott! And thank you all for sharing the project which is every bit as important to our success! http://ow.ly/7Qq7P

This project has a new reward for a $5 contribution that will help it get published and distributed to help people see REAL HOPE! http://ow.ly/7Qprd

We're in the last three weeks of this project and we REALLY need it to start taking off - PLEASE share and support this book! http://ow.ly/7Qp9a

Are you ready for a whole new webTV series? Crowd Starts tells you the stories of a lot of great people working on the bleeding edge of technology, business, new products, spirituality, health and more... http://ow.ly/7PzxJ

New project updates including interview on Author's Corner and a new $5 reward for the Choose Your Own Life project http://ow.ly/7PaMw

Another wonderful FIRST! Tina Sacchi grabbed our FIRST Thinking Right Side Up reward with her donation this weekend. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH, Tina! http://ow.ly/7P8vo

The Smack App project on Indiegogo also wants to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Sandra Saenz for signing up for the FIRST Just Smack Me reward! http://ow.ly/7P7XN

This weekend was great - we had a great start to The Smack App project with several donations which is AWESOME! A HUGE shout out to Sevan Poetry for his donation! http://ow.ly/7P7DB

Do you know someone who needs THIS kind of an intervention? http://ow.ly/7OoWD

Then check out The Smack App at http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Smack-App

The Choose Your Own Life project has an update... http://ow.ly/7OoOd

Have you 'Liked' the new Smack App Fan Page yet? http://ow.ly/7NA6H

Want to help support something NEW? Check out http://ow.ly/7Nzag

Wayne Dyer's special includes great examples of people who had every reason to hide behind the excuses in their lives but who made another choice and changed their lives. http://ow.ly/7NzAv

If you want to know more about how you can change YOUR life, help out THIS project... http://ow.ly/7NzER

Wayne Dyer's program "Excuses Be Gone" is a great piece that shows us real evidence of why the excuses of 'The Economy', 'our DNA', 'our current situation', etc. have no real power to stop us from living the lives we choose. http://ow.ly/7NzuL

Do you know someone who needs a virtual wake-up call? Check out The Smack App http://ow.ly/7MOn8

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in getting up every time we do - Confucius. Help others get back up by getting this book published... http://ow.ly/7MtEb

New payments system that only costs $0.25 per transaction period - no percentage! Major change for both customers and businesses coming: http://www.dwolla.com

Three great projects: http://www.indiegogo.com/The-Smack-App http://www.indiegogo.com/Skid-Road-BBQ http://www.indiegogo.com/Choose-Your-Own-Life-1

Every cause is actively in need of your support these days, but this one is worth special consideration. http://ow.ly/7LRLy

Skid Road BBQ deserves your support - can you help them help those who need it most? http://ow.ly/7LRox

Have you donated to the Choose Your Own Life Project yet? Help those who need hope by supporting this great book http://ow.ly/7LRgH

The First Donation For The Smack App has come in! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH Sherry Bertram! Every donation counts! http://ow.ly/7LQWy

Have you seen the latest interview for the Choose Your Own Life Crowdfunding project? We really need your help to get this truly interesting book and story published. Donate today and help those in need see there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Great News! We just helped Martha Reed launch her BRAND NEW Crowdfunding project - The Smack App! http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/52311?a=267744

Site vandalism leads to major security overhaul.

Discovered shortly after 9am this morning, Reyactive identified a problem with the Reyactive Chamber website. The problem included a change where the site was repointed to a historical copy of the site that was many months old. The newer version of the site had also been tampered with so that several of the content pages were invisible, so that when the site was reconnected to the correct content, the menu did not offer all of the correct options.

No data was ever at risk as no client or other sensitive data is ever housed in any Reyactive website, however the vandalism did cause an immediate security overhaul and upgrade as well as the repair of the site, which is ongoing at this minute. 

The individual responsible for the vandalism has been identified and their access has been terminated.

Reyactive's extensive network of social media accounts and websites are all undergoing a security audit and overhaul as a precaution, although there do not appear to be any other breaches at the moment.

 

Economists in Charge http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/11/15/economists-in-charge/

Tuesday is Day 2 of Budgeting Basics for Webucator.

As we ramp up our social media presence and break the century mark in numbers of social media sites we're directly connected to, we're finding out lots of great info business owners could really use. Would you be interested in taking a course that would introduce you to these sites and what they do?

Had a great meeting with Mukee Okan for her new crowdfunding project. More news on this really interesting book and multimedia project coming in the next few weeks.

Glenn Beck just donated $55,000 to support a homeless shelter mission. Can you help support this project to help homeless shelters and missions everywhere? http://www.indiegogo.com/Skid-Road-BBQ

Just posted an update to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih-2Paq0ZeE

Reyactive is now live on over 90 social media.

Teaching a course on the Basics of Budgeting today and tomorrow http://www.webucator.com

New interview with Dave Deib for the Experts Video series http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih-2Paq0ZeE

Do you know one of the 19% who needs help right now? Support this book http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/47526?a=267744

Looking to help out a good cause? Try a great one http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/44795?a=267744

Do you know a barbecue FANATIC? http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/44795?a=267744

Know anyone who is having troubles these days? Check out this project http://www.indiegogo.com/project/widget/47526?a=267744

Check out this film project on Indiegogo - it might raise a few questions for you about what YOU see as love: http://ping.fm/zeekf

The Choose Your Own Life project has its' first donation! Thank you so much! http://ping.fm/rfDb7

The buzz is building about Skid Road BBQ. Help them help the homeless by watching this video: http://ping.fm/Ir37b

Thanksgiving is about gratitude and supporting each other, like this project: http://ping.fm/7Wstt

Amazing story, great cause wonderful product! Please support this deserving project! http://ping.fm/Akydh

Death of Bin Laden, Birth of a New Dynamic

Official reports from the White House announced tonight with President Obama's speech that Osama Bin Laden has been killed by US Special Forces in a firefight in Pakistan. The major news outlets are covering a lot of the context from a strictly populist view, which helps the country and the world heal from the scarring damage caused by this monster and his henchmen and blind followers.

Here's the security side of the issue that they are NOT covering very well.

Bin Laden was able to carefully manage the tribal leadership of Al Qaeda factions in over a dozen countries to the point that they have been able to significantly destabilize most of those governments. Those governments, however, have never been particularly strongly aligned with any one philosophy, economic model, or loyalty structure as they have always had very tribal, very family/region-centric social and governmental structures.

Often the regions are controlled by the heroin and opium drug lord/tribal lords who harvest, transport and sell what the locals believe is the most significant natural resource and income stream they have at their disposal. In other regions, Bin Laden was able to fund piracy, organized crime, terrorism, racketeering, and money laundering activities that created and maintained power bases and structures among his key allies.

With Bin Laden's death, the US government position is correct - the message has been sent that the US will pursue its' foes until they are satisfied justice has been done. This undoes some of the extraordinary damage that has been done to US military and diplomatic reputations abroad since the Vietnam War by US pull-outs and other missteps.

The other side of the equation, however, is also equally true; that now, as in the aftermath of the death of Arafat and the deposition of Mubarak, and other Arab leaders, there is a new power vacuum that will definitely produce unanticipated consequences, and will muddy, if not destroy any chances of negotiated peace for a long time to come.

Don't get me wrong; I don't believe for a second that negotiations with Bin Laden would have produced peace of any kind for anyone. What it does though, is that it consolidates all the supporters of his viewpoint into one organization that can be more easily targeted and disassembled as a single group. Once the power vacuum created by his death divides the organization into many competing factions all searching for a leader, for a new power source, the resulting ensuing chaos has the capacity to erupt into hundreds of new, aggressive, power-seeking groups, each capable of doing a significant amount of damage to military and civilian targets, each needing infiltration and human intelligence monitoring in order to prevent attacks and catch the bad guys.

On the plus side, none of the groups has a leader currently as skilled, financially well-backed or politically talented as Bin Laden was, and as long as that remains true, their coordination will erode dramatically and internal political fights will help to unravel the organization as a whole.

One must remain particularly vigilant to the potential that a leader could emerge to take up the support of not only those disenfranchised by the death of Bin Laden, but also those who find themselves in the middle-eastern and African countries now in the hot-bed of upheaval and revolution: Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda, etc.

The emergence of a new leader for the region must be very carefully monitored, because the right leader could bring peace and prosperity to the region which it so desperately needs, whereas the wrong leader could prove to be a far greater tyrant than Idi Amin, Stalin or Hitler, and would be in a position to inflict the kind of body count to prove it. Unfortunately we have had a very poor history of predicting which path a potential leader will take in similar situations that have arisen in history; this time we must be ever vigilant and far more careful in our support or opposition as what may appear as cruelty to us may be necessary leadership in their position, and what may appear as great leadership to us may be the sounding of the death knell for millions later.

The power vacuum will also mean that over the next 2-3 years, the world will not be terribly safe as retaliatory and power-play based acts of terror and violence are acted out both here in the US and around the world.

It is a great thing that one of the worst mass-murderers in modern history has been removed from his position of power, and has been stripped of his ability to continue to inflict harm on generations of people from around the world. There will be a continuing price to pay for it, though, and it is a price we must be willing to continue to pay if we are to ever truly be safe.