190609-Polemic – Interaction of People, Health, Environment, Information and War

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1. Environment, Climate for justification and opportunities of exploitation, 1.1. Weather Weapons, 1.2. Weather impact on operations, 2. Health, Random mortality, Westpoint vehicle accident, Cross generation trauma 3. Operations in Hot Zones, 3.1. Venezuela, 3.2. Congo, 3.3. Syrian Hospital, 3.4. Virginia Ebola, 3.5. Refugees from conflicts and their camps, 3.6. El Salvador medical care gang controlled communities, 4. Mephitic: Cyber attacks 5. Information Operations. Previous Week 190602-Polemic.

Other topics: Military Folklore (Ooray, HURA, Hoorah), Economics and Commerce, Weaponized Information, Oil and Tobacco Lobbying

-1. Environment: US Says National Security Demands Easier Mining Rules, not the first time that an argument to not do something is turn as one to do something. US Officials Warn of Climate Risk as Trump Dismisses It to national security from melting ice in the Arctic as Russia and other adversaries take advantage of the increasing possibilities for shipping and other commercial activity; Mike Pompeo Omits Climate Change and Says Melting Ice Creates 'New Opportunities' for Trade at Arctic Summit, Pompeo: Lots of Ways to Address Climate Change, Pompeo Downplays Climate Change, Suggests People Move to Different Places – 41 Million Americans Live in Flood Zones -Three Times the FEMA Estimate, would make that a bit of a challenge, 190609-1.1.  -2- -3- -4- -5- -6-. Russia Exploits Climate Change in the Arctic, Ignoring Threat to Infrastructure.

            -1.1. Be aware there are conspiracy theories about environmental warfare, Hurricane Harvey Weather Warfare Evidence, Secret Weapon. Conspiracy Theories Abound as US Military Closes HAARP (High frequency Active Auroral Research Program), Weather Control as a Cold War Weapon, that if believed divert effort and resources from critical national security needs.

            -1.2. Civil War Weather. The Weather Forecast That Saved D Day. Combating Cold Korea. Heat Wave Approaching Iraq Could Force Limits on American Military Operations which was probably to deceive the enemy. -2↓.

-2. Health: 3^rd South Carolina Airman Dies in as Many Weeks. Though clearly needs to be investigated to see if there is a link between the deaths and the location, this isn’t a clear indication that there is something wrong. This could be the normal mortality of random deaths that happen to be in close proximity in time and space, of randomness appearing significant (apophenia and pareidolia). The Randomness of Death. US Soldiers Have Worse Heart Health than Civilians. One Cadet Killed in Training Accident at West Point, 22 Others Injured, cause of the rollover is unknown at this time but could be related to combination of a heavy vehicle on a narrow dirt road on a slope after heavy rains -1.2↑. The Long Echo of WW2 Trauma, and these traumas can be exacerbated with how people are treated when they return, Citizenship Denials Are Higher for Military Applicants Compared to Civilians.

-3. Operations in Hot Zones:

            -3.1. Venezuelans Fleeing at Staggering Rate, U.N. Says. Exodus Tops 4 Million -2- -3-. FAO Warns About a Real Possibility of Famine in Venezuela. <ADDED 190609-181209-4>. They Were Born in Colombia. Their Parents Fled Venezuela. They Are Citizens of Nowhere. Spill over across borders creating a health and refugee problem that will last for decades. -3.5↓, 190609-3A.

            -3.2. An Urgent Mystery: Who's Attacking Ebola Responders in Congo – and Why. North Kivu/ Ebola: Command of Sokola/ Grand-Nord Operations in Butembo to Immerse Themselves in Securing Treatment Centers. Anger, Paralysis in Beni after a Dozen Killings in Beni by Presumed ADF Rebels. Bishop Isse Somo Pleads for the Involvement of All in the Fight Against Ebola. Insecurity: Beni Paralyzed Following Lucha's Call for a Dead City. Insecurity in Beni: Bikers Decree Three Days Without a Motorcycle Taxi to Put Pressure on Authorities. New Violence in Beni, DRC, as Ebola Lab Targeted, was robbery to hinder containment and control, to ransom or otherwise sell, or to take to a different lab. It is also possible this was just random violence against a symbol that might be the cause of Ebola, and the machine would be a captive. Ebola Epidemic in North Kivu and Ituri Is the Most Complex in World History, disagree, we call these Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, which was an euphemism for someone shooting at you while providing humanitarian aid. 1,000 Cases of Ebola Due to Armed Violence in North Kivu and Ituri. North Kivu-Ebola: Altercation Between the Population and the Response Team this Saturday in Cantine. <ADDED 190609-180513-1.1>.

            -3.3. Stop the Carnage: Doctors Call for an End to Syria Hospital Airstrikes. How to Do Brain Surgery in a War Zone. 190526-Polemic-3.4.

            -3.4. Renton, Virginia, 4.1↓. Navy Over the Beach Support for Disasters.

            -3.5. Most modern conflict result in large displacement of populations, often times congregating in refugee camps, which are in areas of military operations and can be as large as cities (albeit unofficial) without public health, garbage collection, potable water, adequate shelter, reliable electricity, pest control, sanitation, and likely are on marginal undesirable terrain that is likely contaminated. 2019 Will Be Another Year of Crises, in 2018 68.5 million people were displaced by war and violent conflict. In War Zones and Refugee Camps, Researchers Are Putting Resilience Interventions to the Test. -3.1↑, 190609-3A.

            -3.6. Behind the Wheel – Driving Ambulances in El Salvador’s Red Zones. In recent years, neighbourhoods and communities within the city have become bastions of gangs and violence, and difficult to access by medical services. They are defined as red zones.

-4. Mephysis: The agents that “sicken” the ecology of information, environment and health. States Must Explain When a Cyber Attack Might Draw a Violent Reprisal, -5.4↓. This is one of the difficulties of detering mephytic methods of attack. It is oft time uncertain who originated the attack, then to justify attacking back, and what a proportional appropriate response would be. Ransomware Attacks Becoming More Widespread, Destructive, Expensive.

            -4.1. There are several hoorah -2- -3- -4- military quotes from The Hot Zone TV series, especially episode 4 Expendable, <ADDED 190609-180729-11>. Hot Zone Reveals True Story of War on Ebola. <ADDED 190609-180805-3.3>.

            -Quotes: 1) You'd be putting our soldiers at risk. True, but the Army's better able to handle a Level 4 hot agent than most local hospitals which is where infected people will start showing up if we don't contain it. 2) I just finished hand picking the best crew to go in and I haven't even briefed them yet. Didn't you ask the 91-Tango's about their families, why are you any more expendable than them. No one's expendable. You telling me you didn't cut people because their loss would be felt more than others. 3) Why'd you run. Didn't run, I just had to get out of there, I needed to think for a second. And risk exposing God knows how many people. Look, I might be a cocky prick, but I'd never put anyone's life in danger. Whatever this is, I mean, it isn't airborne yet, or there'd be a whole Continent of corpses. 4) Get this over to USAMRIID for testing. Relax, soldier. Even if you were holding Ebola, it's not as easy to transmit as you've been led to believe. Trust me. I've seen it. 5) I can't stress this enough, you are going to into a hostile environment. We are facing an enemy that can devastate a city, and you're what's standing between it and the civilians outside those doors. Now, it's important that you understand this mission is on a voluntary basis. So, if you're having any doubts, this isn't the one for you. 6) I was looking out for everyone, not just our kids. Six million people in the metro area. What about the 91-Tangos, which one of us is better prepared to guide them, those kids who just signed up for this. I know what I'm doing. Enough to bet their lives on it, or yours. I know these pathogens, probably more than anybody else. This is the day I've been trained for. Listen to me, we both know that I am the one who is expendable (me not you). Period. 7) In some twisted way, do you want this to get out, to spread. It sure would validate all those years of raising a red flag and nobody listening, to get the CDC, the Pentagon, the nation to wake up. If it meant snapping this country to attention, showing the "monster" on some white neighbor instead of an African villager You'd justify the collateral damage. Did I want this, never, but now it's here. Would it be good for the Oval Office to be pissing its pants about now. You bet. 8) You have your mission, but I have mine. I'm here to help these people. 9) With all due respect, that's not the battle I've been charged with fighting. 10) All right, Tangos, listen up. You're going into combat against a virus for whom survival is all that matters. It has no conscious, no mercy. You guys think the same way and we all come home. Is that clear. (All) Hoorah.

-5. Information Operations : Dezinformatsiya – Viral Misinformation

-5.1. Flawless Manipulated Images, 5.2. North Korean UnPurge, 5.3. Medical Web Wars, 5.4. Adding Information Operations to War Games, 5.5. International Tiananmen Censorship, 5.6. Hijacking Symbols, 5.7. Stalin quote on the internet, 5.8. Capitalist disinformation, 5.9. Telegram for propaganda, morale and disinformation, 10. , 11. , 12. , 13. , 14. , 15.

Othe r Topics: Physical separating the web, advertising, Deepfake, Strategic cyper health attacks, Social media manipulation

-5.1. House Intelligence Panel to Examine 'Deepfake' Videos in June, 190602-Dezinformatsiya-5. Politicians are likely to be very familiar with the concept that perception and interpretation can be manipulated. Shallow fakes however are still effective <ADDED 190609-181209-4>A. No, this Video Does Not Show the Us Military Firing at Pirates.

-5.2. Top North Korean Official Reappears Days after Purge Report (Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated). Unknown if this was an intentional act to mislead media, or exploited an opportunity offered by the erroneous report. It was reported before that Amid Report of N. Korea Purge, There Are Reasons for Caution. No matter if this was planned beforehand or taken advantage of, or simply with no intent at all but a projection that their was intent, the effect remains the same. There will be mistrust of all media that reported it, possibly of Intelligence agencies that made note of it as unconfirmed, and in general confusion of what happens in the Hermit Kingdom. Teaching Essay Writing in Pyongyang. <ADDED 190609-181118-VCP-China>. Why South Korea Is Sending $8 Million in Food Aid to North Korea, 190519-Polemic-3.3.

-5.3. This Doctor Is Recruiting an Army of Medical Experts to Drown out Fake Health News on Instagram and Twitter. The antidote to fake health news is to drown out untrustworthy content with tweets, pics and posts from medical experts that the average American can relate to. The New Geopolitics of Converging Risks – The UN and Prevention in the Era of AI #Document. Across the world, at any given moment, there are pervasive cognitive & emotional conflicts being waged for the control of populations’ thoughts, emotions and attitudes. These battles of influence do not tend to occur in wartime, but rather in peacetime, infiltrating homes and smart cities. They sow disinformation, affective manipulation and forgeries as new means of undermining social cohesion and trust. They exacerbate societal tensions and amplify public polarization. They increasingly condition and limit notions of self determination, and could continue to do so with the future generations to come. 190609-Vaccine-2. YouTube Is Banning Extremist Videos. Will It Work, YouTube Bans Content Promoting Nazi Ideology, Holocaust Denial, and likely there will be law suits about first amendment and censorship.

-5.4. Wargames as Experiments: The Project on Nuclear Gaming’s SIGNAL Framework. Not interested in the article but the idea of War Games adding information warfare. This can include hacked weapons systems and targeting, misinformation getting into the decision making process, long term strategy to get certain personalities into specific positions of trust and responsibility, disruption and mimicked communications, civil disruptions to interfere with infrastructure, cyber threats, massive cyber crimes against banks and other economic institutions, creating panics with faked shortages of essential items or that a lethal disease has been released (biowarfare without needing an agent), and deep fakes to make it seem nukes have gone off in foreign countries, -4↑. Russia Is Sending Bombers near Alaska to Show it Can Attack the U.S. If Necessary. Not exactly, it demonstrates sufficient capacity to do show of force saber rattling without jeopardizing ability to attack (this is an old bomber with only 12 left, leaving the modern craft in reserve) while the show force is either back in maintenance (for about a week) or unavailable during the sortie, in other words a deception.

-5.5. US Companies Help Censor the Internet in China, Too^$. The 30^th anniversary of the end of the Tiananmen uprising highlights how Chinese, and Western, companies filter what Chinese internet users can see. How China Has Censored Words Relating to the Tiananmen Square Anniversary. They Faced down the Tanks in Tiananmen Square. Now They Want Their Children to Forget It. Jun 4, 1989, Chinese Crackdown on Protests Leads to Tiananmen Square Massacre. Hong Kong’s Annual Tiananmen Square Candlelight Vigil Is under Threat from China. 190602-Dezinformatsiya-6.2. 190602-Polemic-5.4. World Commemorates Tiananmen Square Protest 30^th Anniversary, humor provides interesting insights into disinformation and censorship, to include Poe’s law – believing a report is fact and not recognizing satire -5.7↓.

            -Quote: How can we say that China did not handle the Tiananmen incident well. That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy. – Minister of National Defense Gen. Wei Fenghe

-5.6. The hijacking of Holocaust icons for anti vaccination. 190609-Vaccine-4, 190609-3.2.

-5.7. Fact Check: Did Stalin Give this Prescription for Undermining America. America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. False. The meme may have gained new currency in the last couple years, with reports that Russian actors used social media [Cartoon] to sow division among Americans ahead of, and after. Likely this is moral panic disinformation of American origin, though there is always the possibility of a false flag hijacking where candidates who emphasize nationalism and religion (sometimes combined as the state) for goals desired by a foreign nation. Russia and Iran Plan to Fundamentally Isolate the Internet^$, Stifling Atmosphere for Independent Journalists, Russia is 149^th of 180 countries. The 2016 Presidential Election, Trump Says Russia Helped Him Win Election -5.5↑, Russia's 2016 Twitter Campaign Far Broader, Deeper, and Incredibly Successful: Symantec. <ADDED 190609-190519-6> is about a Russian version of the recent TV series on the Chernobyl nuclear accident to counter conclusions that would be drawn from that show.

-5.8. In someways capitalists marketing makes other disinformation purveyors seem like pikers. Fact Check: Did Rex Tillerson Say Trump Told Him to ‘Always Put Russia’s Interests’ First, is false and likewise probably domestic, but in opposition to a nativist moral panic candidate. The Disinformation Playbook. How Business Interests Deceive, Misinform, and Buy Influence at the Expense of Public Health and Safety. Feds Target Vaping Companies' Use of Social Media Influencers, Are E-Cigs a Crisis. It's Risky to Call Them Unsafe: Sure, it would be better if no one smoked any nicotine products, but CDC repetition of that message blurs important distinctions; Young Adults See less Harm in Tobacco Products, Prefer Online Health Information. 10 Evil Vintage Cigarette Ads Promising Better Health,  How Big Oil Taught Big Tobacco to Bend Science. Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public, 190609-1.

-5.9. IS’s English Speaking Fighters Use Telegram to Reinforce Faith (Rallying Support) in the Caliphate. There is the interesting possibility that not only is Telegram -2- used for propaganda and disinformation -2-. Weaponized Information. Tweets Reveal How ISIS Still Inspires Low Level Attacks, one aspect I have noticed about terrorism is that it has the characteristics of magical behavior, doing the same thing over and over in the belief that each time it is repeated it gains power, that the stronger the faith the strong the action will be. This makes terrorists acts difficult to prevent as success is not expected but that the eventually accumulation of small acts will be successful, perhaps not the lifetime of the individual, but the movement is immortal.

-5.10. With what I am finding incidentally as part of my own project I am beginning to see a patters that US disinformation is more self inflicted than from a foreign origin. Foreign disinformation may widen the cracks, but the damage done to a formerly sound foundation and structure is internal in origin. US: The Return of Ebolanoia. <ADDED 190609-180513-1.1>. <ADDED 190421>4A. There are a number of disinformation news sources, such as Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children that may be useful to study as a manipulator and how it is manipulated in turn by other disinformation operations by intentionally having proxies associated with one ideology post items that actually come from an opposing ideology with the intent of the poster being caught in a lie and further undermining a government already under siege, Video of ‘We Love Trump’ Chant Is from 2018.