190303-Polemic The interaction of People, Health, Environment and War

1. Environment, 2. Health, 3. Operations in Hot Zones, 3.1. Congo, 3.2. Venezuela, 3.3. Yemen, 3.4. North Korea, 3.5. Afghanistan-Pakistan Border, 4. Bio/ Chem Weapons, 4.1. Gain of Function, 4.2. Fire Environmental Warfare, 5. New CBRN Journal

Other topics: Attacks on Medical, Humanitarian Crisis, Perfect Storm, Cholera, Ebola, Syria, Humor 190303-Polemic-3.4, PyroCbs, Polio

-1. Environment: Retired General, Climate Change is an Accelerate to Instability, 190224-Polemic-1. How Climate Change Is Affecting Alaska's Military Radar Stations, As Snow Falls and Melts, Climate Change on Radar, Military’s Remote Alaska Radars Face a New Threat: Climate Change. Climate Change Threatens National Security Says Pentagon 2014, 180617-4‡.

-2. Health: Actions Needed to Determine the Required Size and Readiness of Operational Medical and Dental Forces. A New Layer of Medical Preparedness to Combat Emerging Infectious Disease, part of MedInt is informing the command of potential disease health threats. WOTR War on a Thumb Drive: How Sigact Data Could Transform Care for Veterans.

-3. Operations in Hot Zones:

            -3.1. DRC: Attackers Torch Ebola Treatment Center in Congo, Patients Evacuated, suspect this is not just because of local beliefs but more similar to attacks on polio workers in Pakistan, a way for those against the current government to win concessions by holding a population hostage, -3.5↓.MSF Ebola Treatment Center in Butembo Attacked. North Kivu: Ebola Centre Inoperative after Violent Attack. Congo Ebola Center Set on Fire after Armed Attack. Congo: 4 Ebola Patients Missing after 2^nd Clinic Attack. Ebola Medical Center Attacked in Congo for 2^nd Time in Week. Butembo: Gunmen Attack Ebola Treatment Center and Kill Guard. Arsonists Attack Ebola Clinics in DRC as Climate of Distrust Grows. Congo Ebola Center Set on Fire after Armed Attack. Arsonists Attacked 2 Facilities Treating Ebola Patients in Congo. That’s a Major Setback. MSF Pulls Staff from DRC Ebola Hot Spot after Attacks, After Attacks, MSF Suspends Ebola Treatment in Epicenter of Congo Outbreak, Why Doctors Without Borders Is Suspending Work in the Ebola Epicenter in Congo, Ebola Response Teams Scrambling to Care for Patients after Attacks Set Back Efforts. Police Officer Killed in Attack on Ebola Treatment Center in Butembo, Butembo: Two Ebola Sites Burned in the Space of Four Days – Complicity or Negligence.  A wild speculation: If Ebola expands into non rebel areas the  effectiveness of response may improve dramatically. Currently there may be subtle incitements  to make attacks. This would justify allowing the disease to be a bioweapon by proxy against the rebels. <ADDED 190303-180513-1.1>9.

            -3.2. Venezuela: The Battle at the Venezuelan Border^$. Attacked and Powerless, Venezuela Soldiers Choose Desertion. Maduro Accuses US of Fabricating Crisis to Start War in South America. US Hits Venezuela Officials with Sanctions for Blocking Aid. Mike Pence Criticizes Venezuela’s Use of Torture, Starvation on non Homosexual Citizens, U.S. Aid to Venezuela Just Lit Stick of Dynamite Painted to Look like Carrot. <ADDED 190303-181209-4>4.

            -3.3. Yemen: We Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to the World's Health Crises. When the World Health Organization declared lengthy humanitarian crises to be a top health threat, perhaps they had Yemen in mind. It wasn't one individual bomb landing in Yemen that infected hundreds of thousands of people with cholera. Diseases don't often provide a single snapshot of impact like that. Instead, it was a long series of bombings that wrecked the water treatment plants, the power grids that provided the plants with electricity, and the healthcare facilities that should have been available to control the cholera epidemic. Today, more than two years after the outbreak started, its end is nowhere in sight. Unlike fast disasters, ones in the biosphere are a slow accumulation of many adverse small events that are not dangerous in and of themselves, but over time the confluence eventually culminates in a disease epidemic, pest swarm, habitat collapse and other threats to what sustains life. People have a tendency to make this perfect storm -2- -3- worse. AP Investigation: Food Aid Stolen as Yemen Starves, UN Threatens to Slash Yemen Food Aid over Theft by Rebels. In Yemen, World's Worst Cholera Outbreak Traced to Eastern Africa. 190224-VCP-Yemen.

            -3.4. North Korea: North Korea’s Silent Health Crisis, and a peace declaration won’t fix it, 190224-Polemic-3.4. Just as the India-Pakistan conflict is more of a risk due to nukes -2- -3- (which are bad for people, health and environment), North Korea’s Other Weapons of Mass Destruction can make famine (of the general population), disease outbreak, collapse of government there more cause of concern. What Happened in Hanoi. | As a sidebar, North Korea has been an Intelligence Enigma for decades, so How Civilian Firms Fact Check North Korea’s Denuclearization Efforts, and other information about that country. | Trump, Kim Meet In Hanoi Summit. Kim Jong-Un Panics after Returning to North Korea to Find Country’s Populace Has Escaped, 190224-Polemic-3.2A. | There are also ironic paradoxes of How Wildlife Is Thriving in the Korean Peninsula's Demilitarised Zone, How Peace Between the Koreas Could Threaten These Endangered Cranes.

            -A. Last weeks announcement of food shortages due to sanctions followed the familiar pattern of soft power humanitarian aid sympathies, and hard power nuclear weapons, was likely to set the stage to having a failed summit -2- between the US and North Korea.

            -3.5. Durand Line: Polio Spreads in Afghanistan and Pakistan Due to Unchecked Borders. Disease endemic and outbreak area do not respect international borders. This region is one of the few places in the world where wild polio persists, in part because of  Threats, Attacks Hurt Pakistan's Polio Vaccination Push. Officials Say Pakistan on Track to Eradicate Polio in 2019 despite Taliban attacks and superstition that has spurred many parents in the region bordering Afghanistan to refuse to vaccinate their children against the crippling disease. This has been a annual announcement, along with annual Afghan Clerics in Talks with Isis to Break Polio Vaccine Myths followed by Pakistani Jihadi Logic: Polio Vaccination Campaign is actually a Jewish Conspiracy to Sterililze Muslim Children, Pakistan Raises its Guard after 2 Polio Vaccinators Are Gunned Down. In Vaccines we Trust. The Effects of Anti Vaccine Propaganda on Immunization: Evidence from Pakistan. What will be interesting is if polio reappears in the Indian Kashmir, 190224-Polemic-3.3.

-4. From the Crimean War to the end of World War Two. Chemists' Dirty Secrets, Episode 1, Episode 2. The role chemists have played in the development of chemical weapons. Chemical Weapons Watchdog Says Chlorine Was Used in Douma Syria, 190224-Polemic-4, 190217-Polemic-3.4. UN Acclaims European Support for Implementation of Biological Weapons Conventions.

            -4.1. Gain of Function: Studies of Deadly Flu Virus, Once Banned, Are Set to Resume, one of the concerns is that this is dual use research to create a bio weapon <ADDED 190303 -181111-VCP-II-USA>. Germ Line Genome Editing and the Emerging Struggle for Supremacy in the Chemical, Biological and Radiological (CBR) Balance of Power. Waxing CBRNE, Waning Humanity.

            -4.2. Fire Environmental Warfare:  “It Eats Everything” – The New Breed of Wildfire That’s Impossible to Predict, these pyroCbs -2- -3- -4- -6- have been known in the US for a long time as megafires, ones that create their own weather (firestorms) and cover even larger geographic areas with smoke that is a health hazard; Researchers Uncover Just How Damaging Fires and Logging Are to Forest Soil. Fortunately during WWII the conditions of the US West Coast were not the same as today, Balloon Bombs – How Japan Killed Americans at Home in WWII. Currently a thermal nuclear weapon could cause conflagrations that would dwarf the largest forest fires yet experienced. Nukes in fact would be unnecessary. Mass attacks of fire (napalm) drones, missiles, and suicide arsonists, would be just as effective, and cheaper. <ADDED 190303-190217-7>5.

-5. New journal. Global Biosecurity is a quarterly peer reviewed, open access electronic journal for cross disciplinary research of ...., pandemics, biosecurity and bioterrorism ....  risk analysis,  intelligence, strategic foresight, ...., defense, ethics and first responder preparedness. 190303-8.