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Posted December 10, 2016:

 

When the Politically Correct (PC) are caught lying, they say they were misquoted. When we catch the Politically Corrupt (PC-2) stuffing the ballot box, they call what we've found "anomalies."

Don't expect the main street media to report what you'll learn through the Higgens News Network at http://alexanderhiggins.com/. At best, you'll hear that Hillary picked up votes in Wisconsin, I predict less than 100. Thanks to the Electoral College, we can deal with her on January 20, 2016.

The recount is just about over, so from here on, go to http://alexanderhiggins.com/ for the latest results broken down by county and wards. If you want to dig deeper, go to www.exanderhiggins.com/dhs-caught-hacking-u-s-election-system/ to learn the U.S. DHS has been caught trying to hack Georgia’s election system after weeks of blaming Russia. Unfortunately, you'll have to go to http://alexanderhiggins.com/hillary-clinton-loses-50669-votes-day-7-wisconsin-recount/ to learn the story behind what you'll hear from the main street media.

 

Posted December 7, 2016:

 

In the Wisconsin Day 7 Recount Update 50,669 votes for Hillary Clinton were erased resulting in a 43,531 vote net increase for Donald Trump.

Trump officially won Wisconsin by over 22,000 votes in Wisconsin but thanks to Jill Stein a recount is currently underway.

After day 5 of the recount the official updated recount results for Day 5 on Wisconsin Board of Elections update page showed Hillary Clinton losing 32,423 votes while Donald Trump lost 3,593 resulting in a net increase of 28,830 votes for Donald Trump.

Today the recount results for day 7 were released and it now shows Hillary has lost 50,699 votes and Donald Trump has lost 7,138 votes resulting in a net increase of 43,531 votes for Donald Trump in results reported so far, which includes counties that are still reporting results and does not include absentee ballot for the county of Milwaukee.

 

Posted December 6, 2016:

 

The recount in Door County was completed Monday afternoon. Hillary Clinton lost 12 votes while Donald Trump lost 4 votes. I only know of 4 to 6 minor human errors, such as a failure to affix a signiture to an absentee ballot envelope. Unfortunately, I was wrong when I said they'd not find fraud and corruption in Wisconsin. It appears they've found significant anomalies in Milwaukee, WI., Philidelphia, Pa., and Broward County, Florida.   

The Higgins News Network aggregates and reports world news with a focus on government' fraud and corruption. 

For latest update, go to: Higgins News Network

Milwaukee Wisconsin Recount Hillary Clinton Vote Fraud Anomalies?

As Wisconsin recount results come in Milwaukee wards are showing anomalies that indicate potential absentee ballot fraud.

The Wisconsin Board of Elections of elections is withholding Milwaukee absentee ballots from the official recount which as of day 5 shows Hillary Clinton losing 34,243 votes.

In doing so they may be telegraphing to the public there has been vote fraud conducted on behalf of Hillary Clinton as the missing votes, whether or not they are all absentee ballots, vastly favor Hillary Clinton by a margin of 10 to 1.

According to the official original vote counts, Hillary Clinton won Milwaukee county by a little over a 2 to 1 margin winning 288,797 votes compared to Donald Trumps 125,846 votes which represents a 2 to 1 margin.

Digging into the recount results more glaring anomalies pop out, including one ward which Hillary won by a margin of 242 to 1 and six with margins higher than 100 to 1.

As the recount continues, some of these originally reported vote margins are being revised way downward more inline with the win margins of neighboring wards and with the county wide average.

For example, Hillary Clinton won Ward 34 by a margin of 100 to 1 in the original count but the recount now has it 2 to 1.

Oddly Hillary only won neighboring wards 33 and 35 by 2 to 1 margin which is inline with the county average.

Despite only a 2 to 1 win margin county wide some Milwaukee wards have anomalous win margins for Hillary Clinton in the original vote count. As the votes are recounted, some of these margins are coming more in line with the county average.

Ward 32 originally showed a 5 to 1 victory for Hillary but but after the recount the margin is now closer to 3 to 1, again much closer to the county average.

In neighboring Ward 31 the original count shows Hillary winning by 10 to 1, but there are still no count results for the precinct.

Such huge discrepancies in win margins from neighboring wards could be an indicator of vote fraud for Hillary Clinton and the anomalies in Milwaukee county are widespread.

Should the missing votes reappear in the form of absentee ballots and they continue to favor Hillary Clinton at a 10 to 1 margin, in a state where she lost and in a county were she only one by a 2 to 1 margin, it may indicate vote fraud.

This same strange phenomenon is occurring in the Pennsylvania recount where officials have discovered 22,000 ballots which were not reported in the original vote count and where 90% of them are in favor of Hillary Clinton.

There is not only the mathematical discrepancies but additional circumstantial evidence. Before the election the FBI raided a democratic office outside of Philadelphia with a warrant seeking materials used to produce fake ballots.

In Broward County Florida, the democrats were caught opening 10,000s of thousands republican ballots and changing the votes and illegally processing over 150,000 ballots.

 

Let’s get ready to recount!

 

Come on Hillary, we’re ready for you in Wisconsin! Everyone knows it’s just another one of your scams to pay for your failed campaign. Having the Green Party candidate front the recount is nothing more than a ruse.   

 

How dare you accuse my fellow Wisconsinites of election fraud? Sure, you might find a few empty paint cans and a zip-tie cutter in the pocket of the women we caught painting over our Trump signs in northern Door County. (Click here for case file pictures)

 

But, that’s all you’ll find. We’ve forgiven her and we’re moving on.

 

Bio: Rich Woldt CEO

 

You might find a human error, maybe a hanging chad, or an unintentional oversight. But, you’re not going to find a smoking gun, deceased voters, or unregistered aliens, unless you overnight in Chicago. What you will find, landing in Madison, is a unified line of freedom fighters, arm-in-arm, locked and loaded, and ready to wave your plane off into history.  

You see? Wisconsinites have proudly sat on both sides of the isle, argued on both ends of the political extreme, and when pushed far enough, strike back with “Lock her up – Lock her up” and “Hillary for Prison” chants. We Wisconsinites for the most part are God fearing Christians, angered by your support of partial birth abortion. We’re veterans, angered by your failure in Benghazi, you’re paying ransom for the release of hostages, selling arms and ammunition to our enemies, your questionable business ethics, and your pay-to-play funding of your political career. 

While we may seldom agree, we’ve learned long ago not to shoot to kill those with whom we disagree. Fore, in Wisconsin, we know sure as God grows little green apples in Door County, we’ll be on the same side of the political isle come the next election. 

We don’t have to agree. We seldom do, and that’s a good thing. But unlike those who still hold tight to your campaign rhetoric, I’m ready, no we all here in Wisconsin are ready to call a dog a dog, no matter what its gender, no matter what its breed, nor what political banner it carries into combat. On one thing we all agree; when an election is over, it’s over! 

As you fly over Detroit, Rockford, Ill., and Janesville and into Madison, note the empty GM, Chrysler, Ford and Oscar Myer plants you helped send overseas. When you fly over a VA hospital, or for that matter any hospital, think about your “unaffordable” healthcare, the largest tax increase in US history, passed without being read, and now only kept afloat by executive orders. 

We’re an honest lot here in Wisconsin. We don’t need a minimum wage to be willing to work, a free education to be willing to learn, or government welfare in order to eat. We only need duly elected officials who’ll secure our borders, fight for our freedom, rebuild our economy, restore our democracy, and realize, when they’ve lost the public’s trust, it’s time to retire. 

So, now that you’re picking on Wisconsin, be ready for a fight. We don’t take lightly to the likes of you and your kind. We’re fiercely independent in these parts. We’re going to stand behind our President elect Donald Trump. Get over it, get out of town, and get ready cause here come the judge.   

 

Once you've voted, It's too late!

 

Before you vote for Hillary Clinton, know the FBI has found Hillary’s deleted emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Weiner is the estranged husband of Hillary’s top aid Huma Abedin.

According to the NYPD and New York City Child Welfare Agency, they also found child pornography on Weiner’s laptop, going back to his sexing scandal that included his 4-year-old son, as well as, sexually explicit messages between Weiner and a 15-year-old high school student. Equally important, they have evidence Weiner was actively involved in backing up Hillary’s State Department, top secret government emails stored on her unsecured server.  

You want a real vote stopper? Google “Infowars Hillary Clinton.” If the FBI doesn’t, the NYPD is about to blow the whistle on new emails that reveal she was involved in money laundering, that she knew about Weiner’s sexting and didn’t do anything about it,  her pay to play at the White House included foreign governments, not to mention perjury. According to Infowars, they have at least 15 major crimes she’s committed while serving as our, trusted by only 11% of the population, Secretary of State. Google “Infowars Hillary Clinton, and you’ll find this is only the tip of the iceberg.   

If you vote for Hillary, you’ll be throwing our country into a constitutional crisis and tying up the left side of the isle defend her for years to come; when they should be securing our borders, rebuilding our military, creating jobs, paying off our debts, and once and for all, finding us quality and affordable healthcare. Like it or not, it’s time to trump the corruption in Washington, get back to business, and pull ourselves away from welfare and back to work.

In Wisconsin, I’m more then asking. I’m pleading with you to vote for Donald Trump and Ron Johnson. You have to admit, they’re both successful businessmen more than qualified to reduce our debts and turn our economy around. Let’s send combat marine Mike Gallagher to Washington with orders to root out fraud and corruption in the Pentagon, rebuild our armed forces, and return command and control to our Generals in the field. And, let’s send Mike Kitchens back to Madison so he can continue his work to clean up our groundwater and regain local control over what’s being taught in our local schools.

I’m convinced that on November 8th,

  • Christians will go to the polls to repeal Obamacare, and end the forced taxpayer funding of abortions.

  • Our union rank and file will vote to create meaningful, long range jobs to rebuild our infrastructure.

  • Our active military and veterans will vote Mike Gallagher into Congress, so he can share his combat experience behind the lines. And,

  • everyone who’s ever gone to school for a meaningful education, will return Joel Kitchens to Madison with orders to put a fork in common core and bring job focused curriculums back to Wisconsin.

For sure, there’ll be those who’ll lock arms in an effort to goose-step their candidates into office. And, there’ll be those whole vote the party line no matter what the cost is to our country. Fortunately, they’re in a fast shrinking minority. To those I say, come join our fight, your wrong votes don’t make you right.

God bless America! Now let’s get out there and make America great again

 

The risks we're facing if Hillary Clinton makes it into the White House are enormous.

No matter what your political affiliation, before voting, click here to test and refresh your memory of basic risk management methods. Remember step #1? Read "Armageddon" written by Dick Morris and "Crisis of Character" written by Gary J. Byrne. Few knew Hillary Clinton better than Morris. For almost two decades he served as a special advisor to both her and Bill Clinton. He writes: "If Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will mean the end of the America we know and love." Gary Byrne, was a high ranking Secret Service agent often stationed just outside the oval office. He witnessed Hillary’s “obscenity-laced tirades, her shifting of blame, and her berating of Vince Foster until Foster couldn’t stand it anymore.” Vincent Walker "Vince" Foster Jr. was a Deputy White House Counsel during the first half-year of President Bill Clinton's administration. He was found dead July 20, 1993. His death was ruled a suicide.

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Includes CEO' letters to the editor, Obamacare white papers, trail camera pictures from Door Co. Sheriff Dept. case #16-01-0019, R&D pdf files and videos.

Letters to the editor:  

Risk Management R&D

  • The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers (2013)

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It's time to go back to our future. It time for a Risk Management cure for Obamacare!

We'll prescribe a "Home-rule" cure for Obamacare, promote "unified" incident command and control (ICS), rebuild struggling veteran organizations, and mobilize the world credit union movement into a grassroots defense force, that's mission ready to rebuild struggling economies, secure unprotected borders, defend freedom, and rescue those deceived by false hope and promises of Socialism. 

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 My political bias: 

I've sat on both sides of the isle and argued from both ends of the political extreme. I’m a recovered liberal, graduated from the UW Madison campus in 1968, lived most of my collage life on the isthmus, campaigned and voted for JFK, LBJ, US Senator  Russ Feingold and Madison's far left liberal Mayor Paul Soglin more than once. I was an active member of the Office of Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU-39) throughout my 30 year career teaching Risk Management at every level of the world credit union movement. I'm a conservative, right leaning Catholic, carry concealed, a Vietnam vet, Past Commander and current Chaplain of VFW Post 8337. I'm an active member of American Legion Post 527 and lifetime member of AMVET Post 51. I'm a licensed Private Investigator, Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) member of ASIS.

I was raised on a small farm in Door County, the only northeastern Wisconsin county to vote Barack Obama into the White House, and Tammy Baldwin to the U.S. Senate. I launched www.DoorCountyVeterans.com in honor of the five Vietnam Vets from Door County killed in Vietnam, www.COPs007.com as a risk management outreach project, and www.RichWoldt.com to rent my farmette in Egg Harbor. The biggest risk we face today were created by our failure to manage the "Obama/Alinsky affinity" risks I warned about in 2008. If you doubt it, use Alinsky's 8 Rules for Radicals and benchmark where our country is today: 

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Abraham Lincoln said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

England’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned, “The problem with European Socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money.”

Thomas Jefferson said, “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” 

Thomas Jefferson said, “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

Barack Obama said:

“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

 “I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.”

.Ronald Reagan said,

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” 

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinctions.”

"The only difference between the far left and right is when we're buried in a tunnel of debt, the right digs toward daylight while  the left builds a longer tunnel"

I say:

"In God we trust!! If we have to go through hell to find a cure Obamacare, we'll do it"

 

 

Fact: Obamacare is the largest tax increase in US history!

Who would have thought in the United States of America, one stroke of a pen could bring our free market health insurance industry under the control of our Federal government? Christians would be forced to turn their backs on church teachings to fund abortions, and the IRS would be empowered to punish U.S. citizens unwilling to purchase health insurance? Who would have thought with a stroke of a pen we’d no longer be able to keep our trusted doctors or seek treatment at the nearest hospitals? Who would have thought that with a stroke of a pen, we’d all be forced to turn over our confidential financial records to not-vetted strangers? Who would have thought that with a stroke of a pen, 1/6th of our national economy would be turned over to Washington insiders? And, who would have thought with a stroke of a pen, we’d face the largest tax increase in US history? If you’ve not already been traumatized by Obamacare, wait! You’re time will come.

Obamacare architects confess!

The architects of Obamacare finally admit they've been intentionally deceiving who they refer to as "the stupid" supporters of Obamacare. 

Click here for their confession.

Take heart, we've known all along that socialized healthcare is cost prohibitive because it violates virtually every risk management principle and practice of the last 215 years. Click here and read excerpts from our "Home-rule Hure" for the Obamacare plague! Then read below and keep an ear to the ground for our "Risk Management Cure for Obamacare" to be on the news stands in early 2015.

 

Click here for Risk Management' Notes to share with U.S. and International Credit Union Risk Managers and Congress!

Why are they calling Obamacare "One Big Academic Mistake for America?"

The risks it has created are enormous. Who would have thought that in the United States of America, one stroke of a pen could bring our free market health insurance industry under the control of our Federal government? With one stroke, Christians would be forced to turn their backs on church teachings to fund abortions, and the IRS would be empowered to punish U.S. citizens unwilling to purchase health insurance? Who would have thought that with a stroke of a pen we’d no longer be able to keep our trusted doctors or seek treatment at the nearest hospitals? Who would have thought that with a stroke of a pen, we’d all be forced to turn over our confidential financial records to not-vetted strangers? And, who would have thought that with a stroke of a pen, 1/6th of the national economy would be turned over to Washington insiders?

Any U.S. citizen who’s not been traumatized by Obamacare is either living in a vacuum or totally blinded by political rhetoric. Obamacare has done more than traumatize our world.. It’s violated our right to free enterprise, our freedom of religion, and our right to rule over our homes and homeland as we see fit. No other law anytime in U.S. history has threatened our Republic more than Obamacare. No other law has created more fraud and dishonesty, internet scams and terrorist risks for our generation and generations not yet born. If you and your family have not yet been injured by Obamacare your time will come, probably before the end of 2014.

Note: I've written a number of Risk Management white papers based on a "hypothetical" alternative to Obamacare I call "Home-Rule Healthcare and Insurance (HRH-I)." Please remember, HRH-I is an alternative to Obamacare that lives exclusively in our RM R&D library. Please don't look for a Home-Rule Healthcare Insurance policy, at least not yet. God willing, Congress will repeal Obamacare and return both our healthcare and our health insurance industry to our "private sector" and get the government out of our homes and out of our back pockets.

 Click here for a "Risk Management analysis of Obamacare"

Click here for "Finding a Risk Management Cure for Obamacare"

Stay tuned for a "Risk Management Cure for Obamacare"

Rich Woldt CEO the RMLC

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Is the "Obamacare is one Big Ass Mistake America" bumper sticker fair?

Every U.S. President since the Great Depression has tried and failed to merge the U.S. free market health insurance industry into a government run healthcare system. The latest rework of Hillary's “Clinton-care” of the '90s, known as “Obamacare,” is another failure. Why do they fail? They pool risks without any meaningful underwriting, while ignoring virtually all Risk Management principles and practices! learn more

 

It's time we recognize the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they're insured yet we don't require everyone to prove they're a citizen.

While those who refuse, or can't prove they're citizens can receive free insurance paid for by those who're forced to buy insurance because they're citizens. As we say in Wisconsin, that dog won't hunt for long.           Rich Woldt  

 Excerpts from  "Guarding the Door"  

Obamacare ignores virtually all Risk Management principles, underwriting practices, and proven actuarial science. It's already failed to identify the risks created by their  www.healthcare.gov website, exposing those who logon to fraud, scams, phishing, farming, and identity theft. And what about the risks Obamacare creates for companies, corporations, unions, associations, financial institutions, and small businesses who now are required to release personal financial and healthcare data to a questionably secure government data base. What about the risks created for employers and financial institutions now required to administer ACH transactions between employers, the IRS, policyholders and insurance carriers joining the Federal or State exchanges. Rest assured the entitlement crowd will be first in line to sue employers if they fail to train and retrain back office personnel guarding access to ACH terminals and networks, not to mention confidential healthcare data and financial records ostensibly representing 1/6 of our U.S. economy. 

Risk Managers across the country should be arguing tooth and nail to repeal Obamacare before it bankrupts our country, implodes our healthcare system, and destroys our private sector' health insurance industry.  Without clear and actuarially sound underwriting standards, Obamacare will within a few short years lead to the demise of our now globally envied healthcare system and at times challenged but otherwise well run insurance industry.

And now we have the Federal and State "healthcare exchanges," theoretically designed to spread risks but in fact set up to be the "fall-guy" when Obamacare crashes and burns. Once again, Wisconsinites thank God for Governor Scott Walker's wisdom. He refused to be sucked into setting up a State exchange. According to the Congressional Office Budget Committee he will have at least saved us $118 billion in humiliation between now and 2018.  

Now that I have that off my chest, join me on a Risk Management path to affordable healthcare, where you'll be able to keep your doctor, your plan, and your freedom from government intervention.   Click here to review internationally recognized Risk Management Principles and Practices.

Guarding the Door County Peninsula: It's a Risk Management (RM) job I've loved for over 50 years. Have I failed at times? You bet! During the 2012 elections I tried my best to put Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in the White House, pointing out the risks Obama created during his first term and the RM challenges we'd face during his next. Unfortunately, we failed and Door became the only Northeast Wisconsin county to put him back in office. To add insult to injury, a far-left liberal Tammy Baldwin was elected to the senate where she's rubber stamping everything he does.  Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, we need to do whatever we can to if not repeal it at least curb the double digit premium increases bound to happen thanks to the ill-conceived Federal exchanges. Thank God and Scott Walker, Wisconsin was not drawn into setting up a State exchange. Do you doubt what I'm saying? Checkout our "Guarding the Door" files.  "Guarding the Door"
To date, the U.S. is another trillion in debt and still living on an unbalanced budget with Obamacare destined to destroy both our healthcare system and our economy. Even Obama's staunches supporters from the AFL-CIO and Teamster' unions now realize Obamacare is a "train wreck waiting to happen." Thank you Chicago Tribune for an excellent job documenting the facts along with the pain. Click here and read for yourself. 

So where do we go from here? I've published letters to the editor and I'm in the process of creating non-political RM presentations and workshops (titled "Guarding the Door") that will help turn our economy around and return  managing our economy and healthcare to the private sector.

Need help managing Obamacare risks? Click here!

Abortion is not healthcare. Required funding it via Obamacare must be stopped! click here!

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Stay tuned for my latest "Guarding the Door County Peninsula" RM publication!

Attention hunters and law abiding gun owners! The only thing gun controls do is drive up the cost of your ammunition!

There are wolves in society and there are sheep willing to be lead to the slaughter. We need sheepdogs throughout the private sector standing guard and ready to hold the fort until police arrive.

    

Sheepdogs know you can't skin a cat if you're out gunned. Take away their nails, cure their personality disorders, and waiting to be rescued might work, but don't bet your life on it. Disarm them and they'll only poison your food or blow up your dog dish. Click here and consider becoming a "Sheepdog" in your community. 

So how's the debate over gun registries and background checks going in your neck of the woods? In the real world, gun-runners have little trouble by-passing registries while back-room clip manufacturers retrofit guns with high velocity clips and silencers. If assault weapons should be monitored, it would be more cost effective to log them in at local veteran organizations and encourage the use of InfraGard suspicious activity reports to identify potential threats and psychotic shooters in the area. A Federal gun registry will only play into the hands of cyber crooks downloading GPS coordinates before their next home invasion. Mexico has already requested a list of gun owners living in boarder' states. Once given, stand back and watch drug syndicates launch a rash of burglaries and robberies across the US. 

Few gun owners go through life without going through multiply background checks triggered by loan applications, changes in employment, job promotions and certifications, military and civil service,  joining InfraGard, ASIS International, Homeland Security Partnerships, attaining a concealed carry permit, license to practice law, drive a school bus, or sell real estate. All require not only a background check but periodic updates to ensure nothing has changed. Let's take advantage of those already “checked-out” and log them into local veteran organizations and HLS partnerships. That'll provide school districts with pre-qualified armed volunteers and help ensure we're mission ready to respond during the next national crisis.  

While we're distracted debating if and when Hitler said “This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future,” China cyber crooks are infiltrating corporate America, Washington is giving tanks and fighter jets to Egypt knowing full well Mohamed Morsi calls our ally Israel' Jewish decedents blood suckers, apes, and pigs, and Iran and North Korea are gearing up to threaten the world with nuclear war.

It’s time to wake up! It's time we rebuild and mobilize our local veteran organizations. It's time to take advantage of associations such as the Firearm Owners, Ranges, Clubs, and Educators Association (FORCE), who's focus is on "Teaching Freedom" through safe gun handling practices and competitive skill development. I'm a proud lifetime member. Go to www.wi-force.org and join the FORCE. VP Biden told women, "Just shoot a double barrel shotgun in the air." It’s time to give a girl a gun and teach her how to shoot. Go to www.agirlandagunclub.com to be smarter than a Biden.

Click here for a letter-to-the-editor you can use with permission from author.     

It's been said:

Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids! 

Innocents Betrayed -

The History of Gun Control

If we don't remember our past, we're bound to repeat it!

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The question is, do we?

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For great entertainment click on Poster!

I've asked Todd Oliver to work with our "undercover" sheepdogs. Go to www.funnydog.com and check out his work the next time your in Branson Mo.

Give Washington a piece of your mind!

Take courage and shoot from the hip!


Enter your zip code or State in the boxes to the right and let them have it!

Click here for a letter to the editor you can send family and friends

If you're not convinced, read down to Darrell Scott's prayer for Congress.

Find Your Officials


Rest assured I'll continue to keep my political opinions out of my RM workshops, presentations, and handouts.

 

 

What's the answer to curbing violence in our society?

It comes from Darrel Scott the father of Rachael Scott one of the victims of the Columbine shooting. When he met with the House Judiciary Subcommittee he said:

"I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best (It's printed to the right).

Click here to read more of his address to the House Judiciary Subcommittee.

It's time we put God back into our classrooms and take hypocrisy out of Washington!

Rich Woldt CEO The Risk Management Learning Center 

Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.

 
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.

 
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.

 
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"

 
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.

 
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!
                                      

A personal message for our International Credit Union Risk Managers

Credit unions have learned much about managing gun violence since Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen founded the first credit union in Germany in 1869. We've learned armed security guards are first to go when budgets are cut. We witnessed what happened in Germany when Hitler disarmed the country in 1935 and we also learned how Sweden fought off occupation by arming every household in the country. Illinois, California, and Washington D.C. have some of the strictest gun laws in the U.S. yet their cities are call "Murder Capitals of the World." Chicago is the poster child for gun control, yet since 2001, 2,000 troops have died in Afghanistan while 5,000 people have been murdered in Chicago.

As we follow each other over the fiscal cliff law enforcement budgets will be cut. As budgets are cut officers will be laid off. As officers are laid off the response to 911 calls will be delayed. As response times increase more victims will be shot. Many gun shot victims die within 15 seconds so no life is going to be saved by simply limiting the shooters firepower. The way to save lives is to follow Sweden's lead. By providing firepower and training to those in a position to "hold the fort" until law enforcement arrives, they not only discouraged gun violence, when it occurs, lives are saved. Read down to learn more.

We all have a duty to protect ourselves, our families, our county, and our community. Click here for a message from Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. He's living in the real world!

Rich with cousin George - 1952

Page down for picture in 2013

Gun control legislation that bans assault weapons and the rounds a pathological nut can carry per clip have not worked in the past and won't work this time around. It took 10 years for Bill Clinton to realize gun control legislation had no significant impact on either the frequency nor the severity of losses during an active shooting incident. In fact, Illinois, California, and Washington D.C. have the strictest gun laws yet they're known as the "Murder Capitals of the World." It's time we go back to the wisdom of our founding fathers and put an end to those who advocate laying down our guns and retreating from harms way. It's time we put more sheep dogs on the streets (click here), upgrade our personal security click here and take fear out of the second amendment click here. Watch for my next Risk Management publication titled "Guarding the Door."

    

On the other hand, consider what Switzerland accomplished by requiring citizens to own guns and play an active role in their own defense (click here). Rather than discouraging gun ownership, we should recognize the reality that terrorists have us in their sights and waiting for the police should never be our only option. It's time we adopt a national performance and proficiency standard for gun owners and require local gun clubs and veteran organizations to provide meaningful firearm training appropriate to crime rates in the area, the weapons being used by bad-guys, and the terrorist' threats bring made.

We need to enforce laws already on the books and appoint judges to the bench who'll make sure those using any gun during the perpetration of a crime pay for their stupidity. We need to curb those who condemn our efforts to profile so we can more quickly identify, measure, and control potential threats in our community by intervening before character disorders escalate into a psychotic behavior. We need to honor those willing to defend their homes and condemn those who've turned their back during our current fight for religious freedom and a more robust national security.

  

Did Hitler really say that in 1935?

There is a debate over the origin of the Hitler' quote to the right. According to the "Propaganda Professor (PP)," Hitler never made that speech in 1935. Nor, according to the PP, "is there any record that he ever spoke these particular words." PP goes on to say, "This little “speech” was obviously written for him, many years after his death, by someone who wanted you to believe that gun registration is Hitler-evil."  The PP also claims that because gun registrations programs were already in place dating back to 1928, Hitler wouldn't have claimed credit for them in 1935.

What we know Hitler said seven years later, was: “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.”

According to the Propaganda Professor,

"Under Hitler's reign, Jews were prohibited from owning guns, just as they were prohibited from doing many things. And it has become an article of faith among the gun culture that had they been armed, the Holocaust would not have happened (that is, among those members of the gun culture who know that the Holocaust really did happen). "The concept of a handful of citizens armed with hunting rifles and Saturday night specials fending off an army is delusional hubris peculiar to gun addicts." "On American soil, its most glorious day in the sun has been perhaps Waco. And we all know how well that turned out."

According to me:

 We'd be wise to judge a tyrant by his actions rather than be led to the slaughter by his words! 

  • They say the shooter at Sandy Brook Elementary stopped and turned the gun on himself before running out of ammunition; not because he feared the sirens but because he feared the "heat" coming to the rescue. Disarming good-guys will only embolden the bad.
  • STOP! I'm not advocating armed security in every school! In the contrary, the potential legal liability for school districts is enormous if districts don't first conduct site specific risk analyses, write board approved security policies, regularly test security devices, and document all staff and student RM training that's appropriate to the risks identified in their school district. 

There is a place for trained professional armed security personnel on site in our schools, but for each armed security guard "hired" there must be a board approved policy that specifically states why armed security guards were hired and "equally important" under what circumstances they'll be removed. The armed guard policy must include documented training that will stand up under strict cross-examination. All potential liability arising out of armed guards on premise must be transferred through a professional legal liability contract. Anything less will subject school districts to endless law suits the first time a weapon is fired on premise.

REMEMBER! Adding security features is a "speculative" risk. We raise the bar on what's expected each time we add a security features. I guarantee you, it's far easier to add security than to remove it once security budgets are cut or new boards are elected.

  • Unless school districts can document their understanding of "Crime Prevention through Environmental Design," can mobilize a "zoned defense," and have established reachable "defendable zones" I'd be reluctant to recommend armed security as their next best security option.

It's time for school!

  • in-place of or in-conjunction with armed security guards, I recommend conceal carry programs taught by private security professionals, veteran' organizations, gun clubs, and law enforcement, as well as basic gun handling and safety training taught by parents at home as they see fit.
  • We should all be frustrated by politicians like Bloomberg who said: "When I was in college I wasn't responsible enough to handle a gun and don't remember any student who was!"
  • God help our country during the next four years.

School districts should take part in our DOJ Public to Private Homeland Security Partnerships (click here). Districts should contact their local Credit Union Risk Manager for a briefing on our International Risk Management performance standards. Once trained to these standards, I'd support adult conceal carry on school premises during school and after school events.

Such an approach to school security supports both our 1st and 2nd amendments to our U.S. Constitution while being cost effective and sustainable for generations to come. I'm writing an RM program to leverage our active, retired, and veterans attached to U.S. veteran organizations through my www.DoorCountyVeterans.com and www.COPs007.com websites.  

           

Wake up America!

Guns ownership is not our greatest risk. In 2008 the CIA reported sophisticated malicious worm attacks such as Flame and Stuxnet against IT systems controlling our infrastructure. Such attacks are capable of shutting down electric power distribution and data acquisition systems around the world. So while we waste time debating how to take assault rifles and ammunition clips out of the hands of a few psychotic terrorists, those focused on destroying our life, liberty, and pursuit of freedom are infiltrating our schools to capture the hearts and minds of our next generation.

 

While Obama is moving closer and closer to European Socialism and driving us over the proverbial economic cliff, terrorists are moving back into Iraq and Afghanistan from where they'll launch what many predict will be World War III.

So what's my view of the current gun control debate?

It's a diversion perpetrated by those who want us to ignore executive orders that are destroying our economy and plunging us deeper in debt to Communist China while they negotiate away our nuclear defense capabilities in Europe and hand over our national security to the United Nations.

My best advice now that Obama is in the White House for another four years, is to buy your assault rifle ASAP and stock up on ammunition before it's taxed out of existence.

George and I have ours!

 

PS: A word from the father of a Columbine shooting victim, 

click here! Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.

Darrel Scott said: "I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. Click here to read more of his address to the House Judiciary Committee.

By Darrell Scott

Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.

 
You've stripped away our heritage,
You've outlawed simple prayer.

 
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.

 
You seek for answers everywhere,
And ask the question "Why?"

 
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.

 
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!

 

Guns have never been nor will they ever be the primary threat to our security.

But when Democrats vote not once but three times to exclude God from their national platform, then use Obama-care to force Catholics to fund abortions or pay fines, they weakened the moral fiber of our nation and put the character of our culture up for grabs. In Door County, when they destroyed the political signs of their opposition and sent threatening letters to businesses who dared to support Romney/Ryan and Tommy Thompson, they not only put the good name of their party on the line, some put themselves on a one way road to criminal prosecution. Click here and watch for their day in court. Watch also for my RM publications titled "Guarding the Door," "Sweeping out the Door," and "Stopping Terrorists at the Door."

It's increasing obvious that our first step to secure our schools is not to disarm our citizens but rather bring God back into the classroom as our first line of defense. 

The real threat to our security comes from within. Translated chatter on terrorist blogs when asked "Should the U.S. expect another 9-11 type attack?" goes something like this, "Why should be take down a tiger when there are so many sheep willing to be slaughtered?" When terrorist blogs refer to Obama as "The Sheppard" and we remember Poland and Austria had to first bow to Hitler before relinquishing their guns, it time we realize restricting our fire power should never be a part of our national defense. 

Within seconds after Walker' recall petitions became part of the public record, cyber forensic experts identified chatter on the internet indicating elements of al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Aleph, and Chechen groups were busy downloading and identifying recruits for future domestic terrorist attacks. It has been reported that al Qaeda has already called for cyber-jihadists to attack critical infrastructures. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard set up its first official cyber-warfare division in 2010, with an estimated $76 million budget.

 

 

Now it's back to school for our cadre of International Credit Union Risk Managers! There are no silver bullets but there are Risk Management methods and response protocols we can adopt to if not avoid at least reduce both the frequency and severity of the next public shooting or terrorist attack. 

Contact your WOCCU and League Director of Education for a copy of my white paper on "Executive Protection for Credit Union Leaders, Celebrities, Political and Public Figures"       n and visit our RM library for RM white papers on the Tu

 

 

The move toward European Socialism is creating new economic risks in the U.S.A.

I told you so! Thanks to the reelection of Obama, healthcare cost and insurance premiums are going to double over the next year and triple over the next few. Catholic organizations to include homeless shelters, food pantries, and childcare and assisted living facilities are going to be fined for refusing to provide coverage for abortions and euthanasia.

I urge all Credit Unions, chapters, leagues, national and international associations to immediately accelerate programs that focus on our credit union history, purpose and philosophy. Focus on our Not for charity - But for service, and "People helping people" philosophy. Teach the evolution of our movement from your credit union through your chapter, league, and national association to the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU). The past four years has driven the U.S. to the edge of an economic cliff. We're now borrowing 40 cents of every dollar to fund entitlement programs which by the day discourage the free spirit on which our country was built.

Worse, the failure to protect and defend our embassies, our willingness to disarm our nation, and apologize for our past economic success has emboldened both international and domestic terrorists. We fought hard to avoid the cliff, regain our religious freedom, and curb the drive to disarm our country, but failed on November November 6, 2012. We have no choice now but to manage economic risks driving us over the proverbial cliff and arm ourselves to defend our homeland one town, one community at a time.

Being Catholic, I'm proud to join the growing list of companies fighting for our religious freedom (Domino' Pizza, Hobby Lobby, etc.). There is no way I'll provide Obamacare for employees of any of my companies nor will I pay fines for violating my Christian conscious. Click here and join "your" fight. Catholics, click here! 

        

Attention Credit Union Risk Managers!

Credit Union Liaison Officers included campaign headquarters during operational period #1 to collect supplies for Hurricane "Sandy" victims! Contact your chapter leaders for a post incident debriefing. Note the following example:

 

 

The Romney/Ryan campaign used the Incident Command System (ICS) during hurricane Sandy to mobilize volunteers across the country and and assemble supplies for victims in harms way. At the national level, Ann Romney took command using candidates in each state as her "liaison" officers. In Wisconsin, Congressman Reed Ribble mobilizes volunteers through campaign headquarters in his district. 

        

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Learn more at www.cops007.com!

Attention Credit Union Risk Managers -"Let's Roll!"

"Credit unions, chapters, leagues, national and international associations have formed "unified" commands appropriate for Hurricane Sandy's scope, scope creep, and potential impact on their communities. Early warnings allowed time to backup critical information, conduct pre-incident briefings, create controllable crime scenes, provide site specific housing-in-place instructions, and distribute responder' protocols and tracking strategies for children and vulnerable populations during mass evacuations. Credit unions in Sandy's path have performed well during operational periods one and two and are well positioned to rebuild communities during operational period three."    Rich Woldt

Click on the following for an RM refresher!

Forward a link to this page to your credit union members!

 

2012 Mission Statement

I launched the Risk Management Learning Center in fall of 2001 shortly after the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001. Watch for the roll out of my Risk Management Grad-school after April 15, 2012 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Titanic sinking and the 157th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

The world continues to change at a geometric rate... as do the RM methods, practices, and protocols needed to survive the latest natural disaster, pandemic, or terrorist attack. The RM Grad-school' mission will focus on documenting the RM principles on which our profession has been built and capturing the RM "best practices" that have been tested under fire during the past two centuries. 

If you've attended a Risk Management workshop, presentation, or program... sponsored by your credit union chapter, league, national, or international trade association, you're automatically enrolled in Grad-school. This includes all the International Credit Union Risk Management cadre I organized through the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) and the CUNA Mutual Group's International Department dating back to June 29, 1971.

Real life case studies drawn from... www.COPS007.com my community outreach center, www.DoorCountyVeterans.com my veteran support center, www.RichWoldt.com my personal website, and www.RMLearningCenter.com my Credit Union Risk Management Training Center, will be used to bridge the gap between RM theory and current RM practice and protocols now required to survive in our increasingly dangerous world. 

My goals include helping credit unions pass on their RM wisdom... to their members through their chapters, leagues, national and international credit union associations. For years I've said, "Credit unions are positioned better than any other organization, anywhere in the world, anytime in history to come to the aid and rescue of a community, country, or world standing in harms way. During 2012, I'm going to prove it. 

It's my personal hope to continue my passion for teaching Risk Management... during summer from my home in Door County, and during winter from on stage somewhere around the world. I've learned much promoting conservative values in Wisconsin's liberal political environment and more watching our country slide deeper and deeper in debt. I'm increasingly convinced, it's time we all take a stand against those who assault our "faith-based" values, moral code, business ethics, and constitutional freedoms. Following are some of the presentations I'll release during 2012:

RMLC' RM Curriculum - 2011

A PREVIEW OF PRESENTATIONS - 2012

A Briefing and Update on Executive Protection

A Briefing on the Role Credit Unions Play During Natural Disasters

The Incident Command System (ICS) - A Credit Union' Perspective

How to Mobilize the Credit Union Movement During a Mass-evacuation

How to Safely Attend Hostile Protests and Demonstrations

How to Manage Risks When You're the Terrorist's Target

How to Rebuild a Devastated Economy 

How to take Command when the Incident' Scope Overwhelms or its Duration Exhausts Public Sector Response Assets

How to be a Hero during Operational Periods #1 - #2 - and #3   

Page down to "Stepping into the public eye can be dangerous!"  

 

Everyone over 10 knows where they were... when Muslim extremists hijacked four planes, flying two into the World Trade Center towers, a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth into the ground before hitting their suspected U.S. Capitol or White house targets? No one will ever forget the 3,000 plus who lost their lives nor those scared by the memory for life.

I'm worried however that... after 10 years too many have been duped into a false sense of security,  too many are willing to ignore the ongoing threats from homegrown terrorists, too many are willing to retreat from the front lines in Afganistan and Iraq, and too many are willing to place our "Homeland Security" in the hands of others.

We've accomplished much in 10 years: We've equipped, trained, positioned and deployed public sector response assets and eliminated public sector silos to improve interoperability between law enforcement, emergency government, and homeland security agencies. Public-to-private partnerships have been formed to field test, equip, and train private sector VIPER squads and CIRTs. Wisconsin became the forty ninth state to pass concealed carry legislation, thereby empowering its citizens to more effectively protect and defend their homeland. The debate over how much and what type training and what skill sets should be required has just begun. The minimum standard for most law enforcement agencies is 52 hours of basic training plus scheduled and documented participation in continuous training and certification programs.

My vote was for a minimum one day, eight hour course with the first four hours focusing on gun handling safety and four on the liability risks created the moment the gun is drawn. At a minimum, all who carry should read my RM recommendations based on the shooting at the Safeway Store in Tucson. I'll be posting RMLC concealed carry training recommendations on my RMLC Grad School web site before the end of the year. All Credit Union Risk Managers should be teaching frontline personnel and those who transport currency or service ATMs about pushback room, bailout routes, and defendable zones. 

As long as unemployment Our downturned economy will offer fertile grown for growing homegrown terrorist.  It's comforting to know the world credit union movement is ready to roll no matter what the terrorists or Mother Nature sends our way!   

So from a Risk Management standpoint why do I worry? While our public sector response assets are the best in the world and more than adequate to respond to natural disasters and pandemics, I worry we've become increasingly more vulnerable to terrorist attacks targeting not only our buildings, bridges, subways and communication systems but equally important our economy, democracy, personal freedoms, and right to take charge of our own destiny. The government intervention into the private sector has done worse than drive private sector industries overseas, they've sold our corporate intellectual property, security secretes, and patens down the river.       

Attention: If your credit union, veteran organization, home, friends or family, etc. are in the path of Hurricane Irene it's time to batten-down the hatches and get out of harms way.  It's time for credit unions, chapters, leagues, CUNA and Affiliates, CUNA Mutual Group, and WOCCU to activate their contingency plans, set up command centers, identify staging areas, and write appropriate "Unified Commands" based on Irene's scope, path, and level of destruction.  

Click here for a sample pre-CIRT deployment briefing.

Click here for a sample first responder mass-evacuation protocols.

Click here to review your Incident Command (IC) protocols.

RM tips for "Private Sector" Incident Commanders (IC)

  1. The first words spoken by the first person at the scene should be "I Take Command" which creates a single command focused on stabilizing the incident for the moment.  Immediately call 911 to summon public sector first responders. Stay on the line to ensure the 911 operator has all necessary information needed to send appropriate public sector response assets to the scene. Once public sector response assets are at the scene, brief them as requested, provide them with your contact information and stand back.
  2. The first focus should be on safety at the scene for victims, first responders, and observers. Designate a "Safety Officer" to monitor the scene as well as the equipment and health of all responders. 
  3. Your second focus should be on communications. Designate an "Information Officer" to deal with the media and family of the victims. Establish a private setting for victim' families and friends. Designate one spokes person to coordinate all media and news releases.
  4. When the scope of the incident exceeds what can be handled by a single command, designate a "Liaison Officer" and establish a "Unified Command" appropriate to the incident type, scope and potential for scope creep.
  5. At a minimum, designate a "Command Staff" to include a Chief of Operations, Chief of Planning, Chief of Logistics, and Chief of Finance.
  6. Request your Logistics Officer to designate and your Operations Officer to set up an appropriate Incident Command Center, Staging Areas, and triage.
  7. Request you Planning Officer to write operational period response plans to include staffing a strike force and mission Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRTS). 

Lessons learned during RMLC field tests and deployments:

  1. One IC per credit union (President/CEO), veteran organization (Commander), organization.
  2. Use fast food debit cards to track vulnerable population during a mass evacuation and at shelters.
  3. Properly equip, train, track, and insure all first and follow-up responders.
  4. Go to: www.cops007.com and www.DoorCountyVeterans.com for additional information.

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Victims of the recent tornados, floods, and fires should download and distribute our RMLC support materials. Click here for a Basic RM Training Review for CUNA Management School Graduates and our cadre of International CU Risk Managers.  click here if you're not familiar with the RM support available through your credit union, CU chapter, league, CU national associations, WOCCU and CUNA Mutual Group. Click here for a sample pre-CIRT deployment briefing and click here for a first responder mass-evacuation protocols. 

RMLC faculty position papers: Click here for Michael Bender's paper on the Wisconsin concealed carry bill. I used his papers when I spoke in favor of this bill during the debates at the Wisconsin Capitol. Click here for David McGuinn's latest RM Safe Deposit Box publications.  Click here for Dave's release titled "Drill Baby Drill - Mystery Boxes Create Unhappy Renters."

 

Introduction - 2011

I launched the Risk Management Learning Center in July 2001, two months before the 9-11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center. My personal goal was to continue teaching Risk Management in the private sector. My professional goal; to research RM best practices in both the public and private sectors, to develop emergency response protocols for the private sector to deploy anytime the scope of a terrorist attack, natural or man-made disaster, or pandemic overwhelms or its duration exhausts public sector response assets.

Mission Statement 2011 - 2021: On July 4, 2011 I plan to introduce the Risk Management Learning Center Graduate School. Case studies, power point presentations, video tutorials, etc. will be used to teach the same "Incident Command System"  in the private sector that's required for all  law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency government personnel in the public sector. Our  grad-school' goals include: Identifying mission-ready private sector response assets commonly found in most communities within five miles of ground zero, mobilizing private sector response assets that can be at the scene within minutes to take command, forming private sector  "unified" commands that can expand and contract quickly to meet changing needs, and establishing cost effective and efficient pubic-to-private partnerships focused on rebuilding the economic infrastructure devastated by any large scale community crisis. 

 

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"Closing or minimizing your browser or typing in a new Web address when you're done using your online account may not be enough to prevent others from gaining access to your account information. Instead, click on the 'log out' button to terminate your online session. In addition, don't permit your browser to 'remember' your username and password information. If this browser feature is active, anyone using your computer will have access to your investment account information."

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Attention Credit Union Risk Managers!

98% of the Risk Management wisdom I advocated over the years comes from credit union volunteers and staff with whom I've been privileged to work with over the past 41 years. My best RM advice has always been and will always be is for your credit union to listen to and active roll in your credit union chapter, league, national and international trade associations.

If you ever end-up in court and your "good-faith" effort to act in the best interest of your members is questioned, belonging to and following the advice of your industries trade associations will be your best defense.

With that in mind, I strongly suggest you learn as much as you can about managing credit union risks in your CU Chapter, League, National Association, and World Credit Union Council (WOCCU)!

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While I worked for CUNA Inc. and WOCCU for most of my career, it was CUNA Mutual and CUMIS Insurance Society who picked up every dime of my salary and benefits and most of my bar bills.

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Stepping into the public eye can be dangerous!  Are you ready to manage the risks?

April 21, 2011

OK! So you've decided to become politically active. That's a good thing! I commend you for your spirit, your patriotism, and your determination to sway public opinion in your direction. From a Risk Management (RM) standpoint, standing up to be counted means you're no longer willing to sit idle and blindly follow the crowd over the cliff. Standing up means you're no longer willing to "avoid" being shot at, geared at, criticized, or humiliated for voicing an unpopular opinion. It means your ready to join the ranks of Alaska's Governor Sarah Palin, Wisconsin's Senator Robert Cowles, and their fellow legislators on both sides of the isle. It means public service is in your blood, in your genes, and in your future.

For example: Senator Robert Cowles' reputation for community service goes back generations. His grandfather, Doctor Robert Cowles had a reputation in the 1940's for delivering babies for free in Green Bay when parents couldn't afford to pay. His father, Robert Cowles Jr. built and staffed a boy's cherry-picking camp at Horseshoe Bay in Door County so less fortunate kids from Door, Brown, and Kewanee Counties would have summer employment. It was Senator Cowles' family who paid a well known child psychologist Dr. Tom Bleutte to oversee the camp. I share this because  like Sarah Palin and Robert Cowles you'll need both the desire and the courage to stand tall and tough in the public eye.

FYI: As I write, union leaders have flown in personnel from across the country to manage a recall of Senator Cowles. If you signed and now regret signing any recall petition, email your regrets to the legislator involved.  Click here  for a list of Wisconsin legislators.  He and his fellow legislators have received threats against their lives, families, their employers, and private businesses. learn more. Why? Because they all stood up and did what they felt at the moment was right for their constituents. If you think it gets easier at the top, click here for an example of Sarah Palin's poise under pressure.

Now that I've thrown cold water on your desire to run for public office, allow me to help you manage the risks you'll create when to step into the public eye. Be sure to share these recommendations with your family, business associates, and entourage. Don't assume anyone is safe from the wrath of the opposition.

While I can't guarantee your safety or success, I can help reduce your losses no mater what your political stance or future holds in store. While we may not agree politically, I assure you we're on the same side when it come to defending our mutual right to fight for our respective cause no matter how diverse our opinions might be.

If you came here to learn for whom to vote on April 5, you're at the wrong site. If your here to learn how to make it safely from your couch to the polls and back, I can help. (1) Make up your mind before you leave home based on your facts not on your fears. (2) Grab a handful of aspirins in case your heart gives out and head for the polls. (3) When you arrive at the polls give a high-sign to all in the parking lot and smile at everyone standing in line to vote. That'll convince them you're on their side. (4) As you pull the curtain, snort a little, gasp once or twice, and laugh. That'll confuse anyone within ear-shot. (5) Vote for the candidates you feel will act in your best interest. (6) Exit the booth with a smile, the building with a grin, and the parking lot with a blast of your horn. Go home and celebrate, you just experienced the freedom to choose your own destiny.

My goal is not to tell you for whom to vote. My mission is to give you the confidence to think for yourself and the courage to exercise your constitutional right to vote without intimidation. At the end of the day, remember, we're a "Home Rule" nation which means it is your right and duty to rule your home as you see fit. That means carrying concealed if you want, putting Christ into Christmas if you choose, and sending your kids to schools more focused on teaching your family values than how to place condoms on cucumbers.  It's your call, it's your duty, and it's your right! Our country is heading for an economic crisis. Thank God for those who are trying to slow it down.  Learn more....

April 6, 2011:   Click here for county by county results of the elections in Wisconsin! If election results are too close for comfort i.e. within the margin requiring a recount, be suspicious of the results no matter which candidate wins. Based on the extreme efforts to sway voters during the campaign, the death threats made to candidates, the out-of-state money and personnel hired to influence the election, and the passion of protesters, You'd be naive to think there won't be an effort to miss count votes and/or fail to report those favoring the opposition. I strongly recommend election officials be properly vetted and be required to follow the same internal and audit controls recommended for those in financial institutions who are entrusted with handling large amounts of currency or cash items. For example, internal controls should include dual verification of ballots and voting results, a process similar to cash letters used to document ballots in transit, basic background checks should be conducted on new volunteers manning polling locations, and an in-depth background check should be conducted on anyone suspected of manipulating ballots or failing to accurately report results. When a significant breach of trust is documented, a qualified financial audit of the suspect should be conducted to explain major life style changes and/or spending habits. The primary goal of these recommended internal and audit controls is to safeguard the reputation and integrity of those placed in the public eye. It wouldn't be the first time a vulnerable front-line employee was bribed to embezzle or miss appropriate items of value. From a Risk Management standpoint, we need to position those placed in the public eye so when they're accused of doing wrong their honesty and integrity is beyond suspicion. Read RMLC fraud auditing white papers for more tips to keep your reputation in tack. 

RM tips for voting safely in the midterm election April 5, 2011: Historically, midterm elections have been uneventful and down-right boring hangouts for poll watchers. This year, however, while most will be their uneventful selves, a few select sites will be the scene of angry protests, pickets, and taxpayers frustrated by the fact their State is broke and their life style might have to change. I'm not at all concerned about our economic survival. I'm deeply concerned about the escalating violence and threats made to our legislators as we approach April 5, 2011 not to mention the efforts to recall duly elected officials. I'd be remiss if I didn't help voters identify some of the risks they'll face at the polls and offer RM tips for voting safely on election day. It's basic Risk Management #101. Let's review the escalating violence. While I use Wisconsin as an example, you can rest assured other U.S. States, Great Britain, Ireland will not be far behind.    

In Wisconsin the scope of relatively small local protests quickly grew beyond state lines as news agencies, bloggers, and Facebook friends posted pictures and perspectives of not only the contents of proposed legislation but how it was presented and passed. It's a safe bet much has been learned from Wisconsin's mistakes. You can rest assured the "speculative" risks associated with passing new legislation will be better managed in the future.  

Union leaders have sent letters to businesses threatening "If you don't post signs in support of protestors you'll suffer the consequences." Threats from outside Wisconsin have been followed by personnel bused in to support recall efforts across the state. (learn more)

A Wisconsin women has been charged for sending death threats to state senators.

The first message sent March 9 to Sen. Robert Cowles of Green Bay said the sender and others had decided to kill the Republican senator by "arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head," the complaint said. The email also claimed the group had planted bombs around the senator's house and car and the Capitol building. The charges carry a combined maximum penalty of 7.5 years in prison.  (learn more)

School boards take action: (learn more)

Union leaders organized pickets and protests at select polling locations to discourage voters from re-electing Judge Prosser to a second term. His opponent vowed to oppose the budget bill, school choice, concealed carry and voter ID legislation. Her liberal stance angered conservatives especially those favoring school choice and right-to-bear-arms. After being accused of running false adds she refused to withdraw the adds which angered both sexual assault victims and those falsely accused (learn more) & (more).

Add the 22  caliber shells found on the Capitol Square, the damage done to State property, and the hostile recall campaigns manned by personnel from out the State; and it's clear that voters will need to take additional precautions when going to the polls on election day. No matter on which hook you hang your hat, be sure to vote on April 5 for the candidates of your choice.

I offer the following RM tips for voters going to the polls on April 5.

  • Cast an absentee ballot on Monday and avoid the polls on Tuesday.
  • Go to the polls with someone who can offer assistance if you find yourself in harms way.
  • Don't hang around the polls any longer then necessary.
  • Don't huddle in groups while at the polls. Remember the #1 terrorist target characteristic.
  • Make sure your cell phone is on, the battery is charged, and you have your ICE number up to date.
  • Wear loose fitting clothing and running shoes.
  • Maintain "pushback" space and "bailout" routes. 
  • Know for whom you're going to vote before entering the booth to shorten your time in harms way.
  • Carry medications you might need if the stress of the moment triggers a medical condition.
  • Let a trusted adult know when you're going to the polls and when you'll return. Have an action plan if you fail to report home.
  • If you feel threatened or observe either a suspicious object or person, notify polling officials immediately. Review your VIPER protocols.
  • Note: If you disagree with the protesters keep it to yourself while at the polls. Challenging them will only put a target on your back. If you signed a recall petition know that your support of the recall could become a public record. That may make you, your business, and your family the oppositions target. Poll watchers and election officials should conduct periodic systematic sweeps of the building interior and surrounding property following recommended VIPER protocols. (learn more)
  • Below: I've posted additional RM steps to include a white paper on steps you can take to safeguard yourself, your family, your business, and your right to vote for the candidates of your choice.
  • Click here for more detailed RM instructions. Contact your company Personnel, Security, and Risk Management departments for corporate specific RM recommendations. Credit unions should contact their credit union Security Officer/Risk Manager and their chapter and league directors of education for regional specific recommendations. .

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Protesting can be fun but dangerous. I'll be introducing Risk Management protocols all elected officials, protesters, and bystanders should follow to stay safe. Incident response protocols are based on my post event risk assessments after the active shooting incident in Tucson, Az. January 8, 2011, and the budget bill protests in Madison, Wisconsin.    

FYI: As an undergrad at the UW-Madison, I protested more than most, at times arm-in-arm with liberal Wisconsin Democrats such as Madison's Mayor Paul Soglin and U.S. Senator Russ Feingold. As a union member for 23 of my 30 year career and now member of the Wisconsin Retired Educators Association, I've sat on both sides of collective bargaining tables. Since the 60's I've moved toward the middle and over the fence so I'm now a registered Republican. That's what a BBA in Risk Management, Insurance, and Finance plus 40 years working in the real world does to your head.                                 

No matter your political posture, I encourage everyone to thank all the Wisconsin elected officials for their service. Click here

In my opinion, the death threats and recalls need to stop. We've had one too many death threats and suicides.

God bless those who are willing to step into the public eye and take the heat, risking it all that we might form a more perfect union. Before anyone signs a recall petition, they'd be well advised to ask themselves how dedicated and brave they'd be under fire. If you don't agree with those now in public office, make sure you vote in the next election.  Better yet; take out nomination papers and experience your own day in the political trenches. As Chief Roy Oshkosh often taught, "Never judge another man until you walk a mile in his moccasins!" Whether you agree or disagree with the 14 Democrats who chose to leave the State or the Republicans who stayed in town to vote; all where following their conscience and doing the will of their constituents.

Risk Management: The risks you take when joining a public protest are directly related to the scope of the protest, potential for scope creep, the concentration of protestors in an area with limited pushback space or evacuation routes, and the target characteristics that might attract domestic or international terrorists. The protests on the Madison isthmus and those springing up across the U.S. as well as those in Great Britain, Ireland, etc. are particularly serious because they're fueled by perceived economic disparages between geographical regions and/or social classes. Following are just a few of the risks created when you intentionally or unintentionally get involved in a protest. (RMLC R&D files)

  1. The risk you'll be injured or killed.

  2. The risk you'll damage your good reputation.

  3. The risk you'll be in harms way.

  4. The risk you'll be in a mass evacuation.

  5. The risk you'll be in a shelter or mass housing-in-place.

  6. The risk you'll be held hostage, arrested, or detained beyond your control.

  7. The risk you'll be the victim of a terrorist' attack.

  8. The risk you'll be the victim of an anthrax scare.

  9. The risk you'll be the victim of a bombing.

  10. The risk you'll be the victim of biological warfare.  

  11. The risk you'll be caught in the crossfire of an active shooting.

  12. The risk you'll be called on to render first aid or establish at triage.

  13. The risk you'll be asked to assist in a search for a missing child or adult.

  14. The risk you'll be lost or left behind.

  15. The risk you'll become the target of the opposition.

  16. The risk you'll become financially responsible for damages.

  17. The risk you'll be on the nightly news.

  18. The risk you'll be falsely accused of theft or embezzlement.

  19. The risk you'll encounter a heart attack, stroke, or diabetic seizure.

  20. The risk your vehicle or convoy will be the target of the opposition.  

Loss frequency i.e. the number of active shooters at a protest, and loss severity i.e. the size of bombs detonated are directly related to the scope, potential for scope creep, and protestor's focus. Protests fueled by economic disparages are particularly challenging because they grow geometrically as local protests gain regional, national and international support. It's a safe bet protests are going to become more frequent and more violent. as the U.S. gets deeper and deeper in debt to Communist China and Wisconsin who's already $3.7 Billion in debt continues to borrows to keep afloat, 

Pure economic risks:  At the top of the list has to be going broke and selling national security secretes to foreign powers. if we continue to borrow, increasing our State and National debt, at some point we'll become indebted to our landlords and mortgage holders. At some point we'll be evicted and find ourselves living under a more socialistic government or worse; under Communist China rule. Each time a U.S. company moves overseas we weaken our economic infrastructure and sell out our national security. Foreign powers no longer need to steal our corporate secretes! They're buying U.S. companies to gain control over our most valuable technologies and the science that comes with each sale.

To reduce getting deeper in debt, we might use the U.S. credit union movement as a business model. We need to put cost cutting back in the hands of local taxpayers while creating regional liquidity facilities to provide loan collateral to local businesses focused on creating jobs. For example, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan financials could focus on rebuilding auto plants in Janesville, Rockford, and Detroit, using vacated GM and Chrysler plants as capital assets/loan collateral and U.S. auto workers as a labor force. Once a regional economic strategy is in place, we could reach out to Japan's auto industry damaged by the earthquake and tsunami and together reengineer the global auto industry already in place. Using the global credit union movement as a model, we could than capitalize employee benefits such as life, health, and long term care insurance. One strategic action plan (SAP) would be to borrow not from outside the U.S. but from the residents within the regional liquidity facility thus further adding to the economic stability within the region. If this had been done in the 80's and 90' we'd still have a Chrysler plant in Rockford and GM- plants in Janesville and Detroit. And, the world headquarters for the credit union movement would still be 100% in Madison, Wisconsin.    (learn more about the credit union model).  

Speculative economic risks: We're all speculating on which policy, strategy, legislation, etc. will get us out of debt. We know taxing only takes investment capital out of circulation and increased spending on non-productive assets only drives us deeper in debt. We need to risk reducing tax revenue in the hope the savings will be invested in the local economy; and we need to redirect money spent on non-productive benefits back into the pockets of the employee, hoping it will be better invested in their family's future. We need to risk letting go of government guarantees and go back to charting our own destiny no matter how risky that might be. Harry Truman once said: "If you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still wouldn't point in the same direction. But even if they did, that wouldn't guarantee it was the right direction." We need to "speculate." more aggressively (They call it dreaming where I come from) and risk taking charge of our own economic destiny. (more to think about).

To reduce "speculative" risks, local governments need to reduce taxes to put money back in family savings accounts while reducing government regulations that limits the freedom of choice and discourages risk taking. Our founding fathers knew that sheltering individuals from the consequences of a bad economic decision both eroded their "self confidence" and their "self competence." While in the short run staying safe might seam to be in our best interest, in the long run it's not. We all need to step-out-from-under government', union', and parental' shelters and take the risks required of citizens in a free democracy. 

There is no better feeling than when you take risks and run the ball as best you can, for as long and far as you choose. There's no more depressing feeling than to rely on others to fight your fights, cover your butt, and score below average in the walk of life.     Rich Woldt - CEO The Risk Management Learning Center

Managing the "Pure" and "Speculative" Risks during a protest!

Go to our RMLC Graduate School website for advanced RM assistance!

Protestors and politicians should read the following RM recommendations!

Please share the following "Executive Protection" brochure and white paper with your Republican and Democrat legislators!

Follow operational period #1 homeland security protocols. 

A wise diplomat once said, "Never shoot to kill the guy on the other side of an issue because tomorrow he just might be on your side of the fence!" Remember, we are all in this together. As I sat on the steps to the Capital this afternoon, I had to smile at the passion of students protesting the budget bill. They reminded me of myself during the '67 protests against the Vietnam War. Fortunately, 45 years ago the war we protested was fought a world away and despite the Armstrong boys blowing up our Chemistry building, the risks we faced on the Isthmus were for the most part non-life threatening. That's not the case today.

Today, while still reeling from the shooting rampage in Tucson that seriously wounded U.S. Representative Garielle Gifford and took the life of her aide Gabe Zimmerman along with five others waiting to meet their Representative, we're confronted with no less than three life threatening risks: First, there is the risk someone will shoot or physically attack one or a group of our legislators, their staff, their entourage, or their family members. Second, there is the risk that protestors will need emergency medical attention or face the dangers of a mass evacuation from the Isthmus. And third I'm concerned that someone holding a grudge or a terrorist looking for an opportunity to attack will take advantage of the protest to set off an explosive device or introduce a biological or chemical agent into the crowd. Remember the first three characteristics of an ideal terrorist' target includes achieving a high body count, having predictable victim escape and first response routes, as well as the presence of mass media. (FYI: you can page down for my Risk Analysis and post incident assessment of the Tucson Safeway shooting). Protestors on the Isthmus need to constantly monitor their surroundings, have a "bailout" plan, tested communication links, reassemble and roll-call plan, and contingency plans if communication links fail or a member of your group gets lost or injured. Click here and read the "Dressing for Success" red highlighted text in my Executive Protection" white paper.   

I recommend the following not only here in Madison, Wisconsin but across the country and around the world. First, a review of all private sector "Executive Protection" protocols to include making sure VIPER (Visual Intelligence of Persons and the Environment Reconnaissance) Squads know what to look for and how to report suspicious activity to the public sector and a review of private sector CIRTs (Critical Incident Response Teams) to make sure all know how to report into a Unified Incident Command Center.

Please read and share the following white paper and handouts.

Click here for an "Executive Protection" white paper to share with your legislative staff, body guards, entourage, etc. Note the "red" highlighted text!

Click here for an "Executive Protection" brochure to share with family and neighbors. Ask them to report all suspicious persons, vehicles, activity and objects to the police.

 Page down for a post-incident Risk Management Analysis (RMA) I conducted at the 7110 N. Oracle Safeway store in Tucson; the site of the January 8 active shooting incident.

Click here if there is a need for a mass evacuation during the protests.  This could be triggered by an explosion, gun fire, anthrax scare, etc.

Page down for more Risk Management help or go to my community outreach site www.COPS007.com or veteran RM site www.DoorCountyVeterans.com. You can also rent my Door County Cottage at www.RichWoldt.com

 

FYI: Soon, www.ASIS067.com will become www.ASISWisconsin.org and my community outreach site www.COPS067.com will merge with our veteran R&D site www.DoorCountyVeterans.com. My personal www.RichWoldt.com site will focus on managing our Door County vacation rental.  learn more

Thank you all for your help and encouragement over the past 45 years.   

 Risk Management Learning Center

Ten (10) year mission statement (September 11, 2001):

"The RMLC will field test emergence response protocols the "private sector" can deploy through the world credit union movement whenever the scope of a crisis overwhelms or its duration exhausts the public sectors ability to response."

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January 8, 2011:

6 dead - 13 wounded

An RM response to the shooting at Safeway in Tucson!

We owe it to our elected officials to cover their backs now that they're in office. In my neck of the woods, that would be Scott Walker, Ron Johnson, Reed Ribble, J.B. Van Hollen, Gary Bies, Frank Lasee, and "Riff of the Shire" Terry Vogel.  

So what do Risk Managers do?  They...

  1. Keep their heads up, eyes open, and ears to the ground. Shelve our fear of being politically not-correct and get ready to act in the face of danger. Review you five step action plan when carrying concealed. I salute the young man in Tucson who helped save lives without drawing his weapon. If only he'd been on scene a minute earlier, the little girl would not have died.

  2. Practice their "rear-strangle-take-down-hold," vertical and horizontal butt strokes I taught at CUNA Management School.

  3. Rehearse their "Identify - Measure - Control, and Avoid -Reduce - Spread - Assume - Transfer" RM strategies and now what to do if they suspect a threat or are confronted by an active shooter? 

  4. Join and support law enforcement through InfraGard at  www.InfraGard.org. Call me if you need a reference.

  5. Click here and review the white paper I wrote to support RMLC workshops on "Executive Protection" and "Violence in the Workplace." Ironically, this paper was used to support the AZ League workshops I did in Tucson and Phoenix. WOCCU, CUNA Management School, U.S. League, CMG, ABCUL and JCUL Credit Union Risk Managers, pull out your RM manuals and study the sections on event and contingency planning as well as setting up defendable zones and conducting a mass-evacuation.

  6. Terrorists will strike when we're most vulnerable. Click here to review protocols if your first to the scene. Click here to review protocols prior to a mass evacuation, and click here to review important contingency planning protocols.

  7. You can also review our CIRT, VIPER, and Incident Command and Control R&D protocols tested through  www.COPs007.com, www.DoorCountyVeterans.com, and www.ASIS067.com.

Please share these with your elected officials. There offered at no cost to victims and law enforcement. If, however, you're credit union wants to reprint them, I request $20 with a note indicating your intentions sent to me at my office address (Rich Woldt, 1906 Barber Drive, Stoughton, WI. 53589.

Note: I'll be in Arizona from January 17 - 25th.  Call me on 608-712-7880. I'll be in Aspen until then.

Don't rely on email or Facebook or Linked in. I have over 5000 not read email, I think someone stole my linked In account, and I'm trying to find time to learn how to better use Facebook.  

Rich Woldt     

Coming in 2011...
  • Free RMLC Homeland Security "Best Practices" for the private sector!
  • Free on-line briefings based on RMLC field tests of mass evacuation and housing-in-place protocols.
  • Cost effective RMLC Risk Management training and support.
  • Concealed carry classes and more!  
Credit Union Risk Managers! Use operation "Rubber hits the Road" to table top test your contingency plans for a mass evacuation!   Thank You!  Rich Woldt

Most Wisconsin credit unions joined forces with veteran organizations around the world to welcome Wisconsin Vietnam Vets Home to "Landing Zone (LZ) Lambeau"  May 20 - 24, 2010

Attention Credit Union Risk Managers: From a Risk Management standpoint, we're using operation "Rubbery hits the Road" to field test chapter level mass evacuation protocols. Use the IC briefings to update your 72 hour stand-alone contingency planning protocols.

 

Our table top test includes benchmarking how many and who answer Roll-call between now and May 23, 2010. For example: we will look to see at least 80% of those pictured below answering roll-call.

If you recognize any of them alert them to this exercise. All responses will be filed in our "Deep Throat" files after the operation. I'm doing this only to field test our Risk Management log-in capabilities. At 65 I have little interest in leaving my guard post stationed off Door County shores.

Now go to: www.DoorCountyVeterans.com and join operation

"Rubber hits the Road"

Welcome Home Wisconsin Vietnam Vets

to

Landing Zone Lambeau "Field"

Home of the world champion Green Bay Packers

Door County veterans have joined the State wide effort to welcome Vietnam vets home to Lambeau Field while honoring our 5 vets Killed in Action (KIA). Learn more
  • Operation "Boots-on-the-Ground" enlists all Door County residents in a mission to locate and land all Door County Vietnam vets with family members of the 5 KIA inside Lambeau Field before 7:30 p.m. May 22; the official "Welcome Home Wisconsin Vietnam Veterans." Learn more
  • Operation "Rubber-hits-the-Road" enlists bikers on Friday, May 21, in the Memorial ride of 1244 (The number of Wisconsin Vietnam vets Killed in Action (KIA), Missing in Action (MIA) or were Prisoners of War (POWs). Our "one-way" ride (Symbolic of our 5 who did not make it home!) will start on Washington Island the home of KIA Richard Perez, and travel south past all four High Schools from where the other 4 Door County KIAs graduated.

Learn more

  • At this time, there are three destinations once the ride crosses the southern Door County line. Some, at least 5 will head for Timmerman Field in Appleton to meet up with the 1244 coming from La Crosse, others will deploy to LZ Lambeau where they'll form a "flag line" through which the 1244 will pass, and others will park in the Pioneer Credit Union parking lot at 825 Morris, Ave. Green Bay (two clicks from LZ Lambeau). The most important first step you can take is to log into our tracking system and answer "Roll-call." Once OB1 finalizes our route and pause points we'll let you know where and when to fall-in!

 

Vietnam Vets: Contact your credit union President/CEO, Chairman of the Board, or Risk Manager/Security Officer and join the welcome home from anywhere in the world. Click here for more information.

Veterans: FYI: Credit Unions are "Not-for-Profit'; financial cooperatives organized to serve a defined field of members (FOM) such as our comrades at Navy Federal. They hold monthly chapter meetings where they share Risk Management and Homeland Security "Best Practices."

  • I recommend you attend the next credit union chapter meeting in your area and learn more about how your credit union plans to respond during the next terrorist attack, natural disaster, or pandemic.

  • Contact your State League Director of Education and take part in the latest CIRT, VIPER, and Incident Command and Control training offered through your local emergency government.

  • Many credit unions across the U.S. have already been involved in similar Welcome Home projects. Some of their "Best Practices" include:

  1. Logging into locater systems and explaining to vets why they should use their night depositories to make donations to the Moving Wall and their ATMs to safely manage their liquidity while on the road.

  2. Credit unions are providing vets with customized financial counseling through their local veteran post and/or VA centers.

  3. My best advice is join your local credit union - "It's where you belong!"                                                     Rich Woldt - Charter member of Door County Community Credit Union now Pioneer.

Click here to learn more about LZ Lambeau

 
Do we need health care reform?  Absolutely!

Do we need government intervention into health care reform? Only to a very limited degree!

Do I support the current bill being negotiated behind closed door? Absolutely NOT! 

Risk Management Logic:

  • Actuaries can't support it!
  • There are no risk reduction incentives!
  • There are no meaningful fraud deterrents!
  • We can't afford it!
  • There are better, more efficient and effective health care reforms that have proven to work best in a free capitalistic society.

Learn more

CUNA Mutual Retirees Click here for help.

Attention: RMLC Faculty and our International Credit Union Risk Managers holding the ASIS International CPP, PCI, and PSP designation.  Don't miss your 12-31-09 recertification dedline. Click here to view my recertification update.

Update: Credit Unions can be...proud of their Risk Management Best Practices" born out of their response to bank failures, the increased domestic terrorist threats this summer, and their mobilization during this fall's H1N1 pandemic scare. Credit Union Chapter and League educators are welcome to use our Risk Management research and training tools for veterans posted at our www.DoorCountyVeterans.com and www.ASIS067.com websites.

In early 2010 I'll be launching a website... focused specifically on... mobilizing the Private Sector anytime the scope of a crisis overwhelms or its duration exhausts Public Sector response assets. 

The goal is to merge... the World Credit Union Movement with Veteran' Organizations, forming a "Unified" Private Sector Incident Command structure that will work for any organization, anywhere in the world, during any crisis, anytime in history.

2009 Pandemic Response Protocols:: Our International Credit Union Risk Managers should review their H1N1 phase I to III pandemic response protocols and their ABC - 1-2-3 contingency plan for pandemics as well as table top test mobilizing a credit union/chapter level unified incident command to support sponsor companies in their field of membership. Go to our R&D library to download RMLC white papers and handouts. learn more
RM Tips from Rich...
  • Use your car alarm actuator to alert neighbors of a home invasion, stalkers, or predators in the neighborhood.
  • Wash teller counters with diluted bleach daily to ensure better finger print forensic evidence.
  • Avoid turning in written statements to the police after a robbery. Discrepancies will be used against you in court.
  • Update you Contingency Plans, Incident Command System, CIRT and VIPER response procedures at least quarterly.
  • Review our mass housing-in-place and mass evacuation protocols every six months.   
Elvis, i.e. our RMLC faculty member is back from a crushing injury and the Swine Flu.. Learn more   He's ready to "Rock and Roll" at your next annual meetings.     click here to book "Elvis" and our RMLC "Mayberry Deputy" him.                          

Rich Woldt

  • Give my cousin-in-law an economic boost!

I send a special salute... to our cadre of Credit Union Risk Managers who are attending CUNA Management Schools this summer.

More than any time in our history... we need to update Credit Union Risk Management, Homeland Security, Incident Command, Contingency Planning, and Pandemic response policies, practices, and protocols. Terrorist threats are real and focused on our economic infrastructure. 

The continued failure of government stimulus packages and... the growing resentment of governments' who are blindly intervening in the private sector, will continue to play into terrorist hands and spark new interest in frauds and scams in the private sector. Click here for an example!

In my opinion, the reputation of the global credit union movement is on the line. Credit union officials and upper management need to aggressively step up to the plate at the chapter level and remind the world why and how credit unions have brought us through the great depression, many wars, and unwanted government intervention into the private sector let alone our private lives and individual freedoms.

The Risk Management Learning Center will celebrate... its 8th anniversary this summer. While we continue to launch new programs through veteran organizations and international business associations our hearts remain with the thousands of  International Credit Union Risk Managers who've we've had the privilege to serve since June 29, 2001 let alone during the 30 years I worked for CUNA Inc, WOCCU, and CUNA Mutual.      

Swine flu (H1N1) Advisory: April 28, 2009

This is a pandemic "advisory" not an alert! Advisories help mobilize the private sector during a time of crisis. Credit Union Risk Managers should review our pandemic RM white papers on handouts.

  • Our International Credit Union Risk Managers should... immediately review our pandemic risk management white papers, (click here),

  • use our R&D library (click here), and

  • contact their Cuna Mutual Group Risk Management Representative.

  • place their... Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRTs) on alert,
  • and contact their... league, trade association, and CUNA Mutual Group Risk Managers for a briefing on credit union pandemic response protocols. Our veteran' CIRTs should contact their veteran' post commander for marching orders.
  • For more information go to... www.fda.gov/oc/guidance/emergencyuse.html.

Most credit union have well written, table-top tested, and recently updated "pandemic" contingency plans and response protocols.

Most credit union employees need only wash their hands and chair-backs and mobilize a chapter wide  response.

Credit unions need only plan before gathering, verify push-backs defendable zones, closely monitor surveillance systems, update locate-lockdown-and link procedures, and deploy security personnel to more effectively protect properly and personnel during a pandemic.

At the chapter level, credit unions need to deploy community support teams to reinforce both public and private sector responders on the front lines.

Following is my advisory with links to our R&D files.

The Center for Desease Control (CDC) warns of a possible swine flu pandemic (H1N1 Virus).  click here to learn more about the H1N1 virus.   Rich Woldt

  • Health care professionals... and consumers may report serious adverse events (side effects) through the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either via Regular Mail: use FDA form 3500 available at: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm and mail to MedWatch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852-9787 or
    --Fax: (800) FDA-0178 or
    --Phone: (800) FDA-1088
    --Online: www.fda.gov/MedWatch/report.htm 
  • FYI: From our R&D files...Click on the following and pass it to first responders and care givers:
  1. Interim Guidance for Patients and Case Definitions for Infection with Swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1)Virus (S-OIV) ..

Rich Woldt 

Operation: Haiti Earthquake

February 12, 2010: It's been a month. We're through the first "Operational Period" we're in #2 and planning for Period #3. It's time to review:

  • Click here to review basic Incident Command and Control from our Community Outreach Project (COP) site.
  • Work with your Credit Union Risk Manager and League Director of Education on plans for Operational Periods two and three.
  • Go to.. www.DoorCountyVeterans.com and include veterans in your response and recovery plans.
  • Go to.. www.COPs007.com and include community leaders in your response and recovery plans.

The Risk Management Learning Center promotes the formation of "Private" sector Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRTs) and VIPER squads. In 2008 we built... a "Private Sector" Incident Command and Control Center to teach the private sector how to set up Emergency Operation Centers, manage Staging areas, and mobilize VIPER and CIRT squads during a community crisis. learn more...

We're working with youth groups...and colleges to build public-to-private Homeland Security Partnerships. I was a proud charter member of the UW Risk Management and Insurance Society in 1965 and I'm now  proud to be a charter member of the UW Risk Management and Insurance Alumni Association.

 

I encourage all...RMLC  International Credit Union Risk Managers to visit the UW RM Alumni web site at

 http://www.uwrmialumni.com:80/ 

On April 25, 2009 we official launched our alumni association during Risk Management Professor Dan Anderson's retirement party.  UW Risk Management Alumni came from all over the world for the celebration.  Dan joins are cadre of RM professionals and will continue to mentor our RMLC international risk management programs and projects.

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ASIS Chapter 067 officers meet regularly to schedule speakers, arrange critical infrastructty tours, and plan regional training workshops. Pictured left to right are Shawn Smith (Pres CEO Midwest Protection Inc., Jim Manhowski Owner JBM Protection & Patrol, Curt Haugen, CEO/Operations Director Scuro Group LLC, and Rich Woldt CEO The Risk Management Learning Center.

As of 4-21-11 the new domain for www.ASIS067.com will be www.asiswisconsin.com

Words credit union risk managers should know:

Google:

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Marine enters the Catholic Church confessional booth in Jacksonville .
He  tells the priest, "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. Last night, I beat the hell out of an Obama supporter."


The priest says, "My son, I am here to forgive your sins, not to discuss your community service."

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Phone:
608.712.7880

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Do NOT rely on contacting me via email.

A personal reflection

Executive Protection - Active Shooting post Risk Analysis

January 26, 2011:

Safeway, 7110 N. Oracle, Tucson, AZ

I conducted a post-incident Risk Management Analysis (RMA) at the 7110 N. Oracle Safeway store in Tucson; the site of the January 8 active shooting incident.

In my opinion, While this traggic incident is fresh in our minds, it's critically important for credit union executives, board members, loan officers, collection personnel, etc. to immediately review their credit union' executive protection protocols and policies. Include but don't limit yourself to:

  • Conducting risk assessments at all CU offices focusing especially where CU executives and officials work i.e. corporate headquarters, admin buildings, etc.
  • Reviewing and updating violence-in-the-workplace response protocols, workstation bailout routes, protocols for locating-lockdown and linking key employees and their family members to "private sector" command centers, 
  • Reviewing  retreat and extrication protocols for executives during violent acts on and off premises.
  • Reviewing, rehearsing, and documenting credit union staff and employee training. Make sure all CU employees know and understand how to reach, defend, and maintain calm at defendable zones.
  • Asking event and contingency planners to update all CU event security protocols to include conducting and documenting pre-event site assessments.
  • Alerting all Credit Union Risk Mangers and alternates to their duty to ensure all credit union executives and officials know what to do and how to act before, during, and after any traumatic event at your credit union.
  • Confirming your credit union's joint operational protocols at the chapter, league, national, and international levels.

NOTE: All credit unions should join the local security association recommended by their credit union league. A key element of being properly trained and ready for the next terrorist attack, natural disaster, or pandemic is to be on the same page with other credit unions in your CU Chapter, CU League, CUNA Inc. and ....  WOCCU   Go to....WOCCU for more information.

    

Happy New Year 2011

Thank You...

  • Elvis... for your impromptu performance at our Christmas party. Click here to meet Elvis

  • Mayberry Deputy... for maintaining law and order in the USA throughout 2010. Click here and meet the RMLC deputy in charge of keeping the peace.

"The comfort and encouragement they both brought to victims has helped us all deal with the trauma and stress we've faced since they've come on board. 

  • Shawn Smith and MPI for your leadership in private and homeland security training. You're impact on security throughout the world credit union movement has and continues to raise the bar for all Risk Management professionals. 

    * Shawn Smith, Owner/CEO/President M.P.I.
    Private Security, Law Enforcement Liaison and Guard Training
  • Dave McGuinn... for your Safe Deposit Box guides and staff training. You're wisdom and foresight has saved the day more than once. Click here order the most current. 

  • John Vrabec.... and members of the Financial & Security Products Association for all your doing to safeguard assets stored in credit unions and banks around the world. Your professionalism allows us all to sleep just a little better each night. Click here to meet FSPA members and sleep better day or night.

  • Anthony "Tony" Conti... for the search and rescue work you did on 9-11-01 and for the work you continue to do with victims. You're one hell of a hero and a man I'm proud to call my friend. I've got your back! Click here to meet Tony and his tactical source professionals.

    Visit Tony's web site! That's an order!  Rich 

     http://www.tactsourcesecurityconsultants.com/

  • I thank every one whose supported our ongoing Risk Management Efforts. You're ongoing RM R&D will keep our learning center on the cutting edge throughout 2011. Click here to meet just a few of our RMLC faculty and faculty advisors.

Click here to interview our "10-Yeared Faculty"

 

 New Year's Resolutions?  

  • I'll check my Linked In, Facebook, and email accounts weekly!
  • I'll get our MAC driven websites up and running!

FYI:

  • www.RichWoldt.com will focus on renting our Door County cottage and personal efforts such as voting for Miss America! Kimberly Sawyer's aunt is my father's second cousin. Confused?

 

Website updates:

About Us  Faculty RM R&D Dept. Community Outreach Veteran Outreach Mentors

Posted 11/1/10: "Anyone who thinks the current healthcare bill is soundly based on Risk Management or insurance underwriting principles needs to review their basic RM tutorials. Read basic RM #101 tutorials and vote the politicians who crammed this legislation down our throats OUT of OFFICE!"   Rich Woldt

"Credit Union Week & Day 2010"  

This year we gathered via an international "webcast" and in person in Madison for the 22nd annual "Filene House Employee Reunion." Both helped us recommit to our "People helping People" philosophy and "Not for Profit - Not for charity - BUT for SERVICE" financial cooperative traditions!

Both helped us reconnect, refresh our memories and recall why credit unions are positioned better than any other organization, anywhere in the world, anytime in history to manage the risks threatening who our founder Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen called "The Common Man."  learn more

As I Reflected back this year on what's now 45 years (1965 - 2010) working in the credit union movement, I can't help but marvel at the wisdom of our founding fathers. I'm particularly proud of how we've successfully merged and consolidated common bonds while preserving our focus on individual members and the unique economic needs of an expanding "field of membership." Credit union chapters, leagues, national and international associations can take particular pride in the cooperative projects they launched to preserve economic stability within a community or region struggling to survive, rebuild, and recover from a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or pandemic.

In 2011, we'll create videos that highlighting Credit Union Risk Management best practices. The research we did during the past 9 years through our  "RMLC Community" and "Veteran" outreach sites will be used to leverage credit union RM wisdom into all segments of the private sector.

RMLC Community Outreach R&D Site RMLC Veteran Outreach R&D Site

Home About Us  Faculty  Mentors - 007  Mentors RM R&D Dept. RM White Papers 2007 Curriculum RMLC  Lounge   RMLC Accomplishments Thank you WOCCU, International ASIS members, and US Military veterans for your involvement during 2010 RM field testing of our mass-evacuation, housing-in-place, CIRT, VIPER, and ICS emergency response protocols. I'll be publishing ICS "best practices" on our community and veteran outreach R&D sites before the end of the year. 

Community Outreach Veteran Outreach

FYI: I've merged www.ASIS067.com with www.ASISWisconsin.org so update your search engines. The www.ASIS067.com domain name will disappear in April 2011.

I pledge to get better at....monitoring emails as well as using my Rich@RMLearningCenter.com and Rich@RichWoldt.com facebook and LinkedIn accounts. Remember, I started teaching Risk Management in 1964 long before computers, the internet, or cell phones. 

Credit Union Risk Managers!

Thank You!

Thank you credit unions for taking part in our www.DoorCountyVeterans.com Risk Management Operations. You're role as "Finance Chief" helped ensure all internal, audit, and collection controls were in place and all physical, alarm and surveillance security recommended in our credit union world were properly tested prior to deployment.

As you know, we're using operation "Rubber hits the Road" to table top test our ability to:
  • Mobilize and mass evacuate a segment of the population anytime they stand in harms way.
  • Form private-to-public homeland security partnerships, and
  • Test emergency response protocols if the private sector has to "stand-alone" without public sector support for 72 hours.

I will post test results as well as our "best practices" in our RMLC library as well as brief credit union education directors who've logged into our operation. Now that I'm 65 I'm slowing down so go through your Director of Education or CUNA Mutual representative to access our test results and operational best practices.

Please share our mission protocols and best practices with your event and contingency planners and feel free to use our briefing logs to table-top-test your EOC and Staging Area management protocols.

I send a special thank you to our international credit union' observers at the Lambeau Credit Union in Tobago West Indies.      Rich
  • Go to www.LZLambeau.org for the most current schedule of events, to locate fellow vets, and for professional posters and promotion materials to use nationwide.

  • Call "OB1" before going to www.RollingThunderwi3.org to register for Rolling Thunder's 1244 Ride. Answering Roll-call and making that call will help make sure you don't get lost in the crowed.

  • Most important; Please click here and answer "Roll-call"!    

Meet our RMLC Faculty Faculty White Papers RMLC R&D Department

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Community Outreach Center 

Attention Haiti Earthquake Victims: Get to Know The World Council of Credit Unions!  WOCCU

Join: Credit Union World Online

Read: COO Brian Branch's Blog

Read: European Network of CUs

Read: WOCCU Expands Islamic Financial Services to Afghanistan

 

"The World Credit Union Movement is positioned better than any other movement, anywhere in the world, anytime in history' to take command during a crisis...  learn more

The Risk Management Learning Center is dedicated to promoting internationally recognized Risk Management performance standards throughout the world credit union movement. About US

Credit unions should expect an increase in robberies, burglaries, frauds, and embezzlements caused both by the pandemic and the panic caused by ill conceived pandemic alerts.

Credit unions are not only better prepared than during the last pandemic but in most countries they have a more advanced health care system that was available during the last pandemic.

Haiti Earthquake 1-12-10: Credit union' earthquake response and recovery recommendations... are similar to those we published for the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Psunami, and those taught during the 1980' New Madrid earthquake scares.  Contact your credit union league, CUNA Mutual Group Representative, WOCCU, or national trade association for RM support.

Helpful RM Steps to take include:

  1. Declare the incident type (Earthquake), scope (Haiti), and potential for scope creep (Carribean). Click here  Also..Go to our RM R&D Department and page down to "Earthquakes" I've posted map links to support a WOCCU response. RM R&D Dept.
  2. Establish a unified Incident Command System for your credit union, credit union chapter, and credit union league and sponsor group. Click here
  3. Activate your credit union' contingency plans for a  large scale community crisis requiring mass evacuations and housing in place. Also activate your CU Chapter, regional and leauge  mutual aide agreements. U.S. credit unions should assess their vulnerability to the New Madrid Fault System. Click here
  4. Alert your Disaster Recovery (DAT), Damage Assessment (DAT), and Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRT).
  5. Mobilize your Credit Union's Incident Command System to include distributing tutorials for conducting search and rescue operations, setting up Emergency Operation Centers ( EOCs), and managing Staging Areas.
  6. Click here to review our RMLC Incident Command System tutorials for the private sectors. Click here to review operational period protocols.
  7. Monitor local TV and Radio station websites, Google and Bing to learn how you can help victims, donate and seek aide and support. Click here for an example and to learn more. Click here to reach the National Earthquake Information Center
  8. Our cadre of International Credit Union Risk Managers and RMLC Faculty: should Click here for an RMLC IC update. We'll be linking our veteran' and community organizer' VIPER and CIRT tutorials to our www.DoorCountyVeterans.com and www.COPs007.com sites.
  9. Donate through your locally recognized cheritable organizations, your local chapter of the Red Cross, your church, etc. Use textig technologies to donate but make sure it's going to a legitamate organization.
  10. Post fraud alerts and links to fraud detection web sites such as:those posted by local and national TV networks. Use the following when in doubt:    http://www.charitynavigator.org and www.guidestar.org. Go through your credit union, credit union league, national trade association, and WOCCU when in doubt.
  11. Credit Union Risk Managers (CURMs) should monitor their league, WOCCU, CMG, and professional trade association/development web sites. 

    I recommend ASIS International http://www.asisonline.org/), The Association of Irish Risk Management http://www.airm.ie/, etc.  As a member of the FBI InfrGard and The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, I use www.infragard.net and www.acfe.com.   To monitor internet scams, frauds, and embezzlements I recommend www.fraudwatchinternational.org and sites such as http://www.acfe.com/home.asp, https://swern.usp3.org/ and https://mwern.usp3.org/

  12. I'll soon post a white paper on rebuilding Haiti's economy through the world credit union movement (WOCCU). For now, read yellow high lighted sections throughout this site and at www.RichWoldt.com  

  13. Go throgh your CUNA Mutual Representative or WOCCU to contact me.

Rich Woldt - CEO The Risk Management Learning Center

It would be nice if we had time to debate, but the war on terror is escalating while Washington takes us throug sequestration and China pushes us over the fiscal cliff. For you who want to continue the debate click here. For others, Click here, to review my opinion of gun registration and background checks. I'll post RM solutions that'll work on this site April 21, 2013.   Switzerland required households to own and learn to shoot guns. Consequently, they were better able to resist Hitler's invation and today they're one of the safest country in which to live, work, and raise a family. Click here to learn more. In the US, four out of five murders are committed in States with the strictest gun controls.

Registering guns and doing background checks will not curb the violence in our schools. Putting God back into our classrooms will. Click here to read Darrell Scott's testimony to Congress and page down and read his poem. Darrell is the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings. Click here for a letter/article on gun controls to publish.

In the US, not unlike Germany before WWII, we're well positioned to arm and train our citizens to defend themselves and protect our homeland.  The difference is we can learn from their mistakes. The question is, are we?

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Quotes from our alumni...

" Everyone is a Risk Manager"

"We never stop learning from each other!"

 

The Risk Management Learning Center (RMLC) was launched in 2001 to study Risk Management methods and performance standards in the world credit union movement.

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We build on traditions... handed down form Fredrick Wilhelm Rafiesen, founder of the credit union movement.          learn more

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  • Employ your family, friends, and neighbors, Shop locally,
  • Support business within your community and field of membership. For Example, when in Door County rent my cottage at www.RichWoldt.com, and shop at my sister store "Christine's" in Egg Harbor. Support members of the Egg Harbor Business Association at www.eggharbordoorcounty.org/ 
  • If you're looking for a home near Milwaukee go to:  www.Kevinwoldt.com and talk to my brother!

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