1. Environment, 2. Health, Cuts of Medical Capabilities, 3. Operations in Hot Zones, 3.1. Venezuela, 3.2. Congo, 4. Mephysis, Lyme Ticks, 4.1. 1994 Argentina Attack, 5. Viral Information. 5.1. Narrative Behavior, 5.2. Sword of Non Critical Thought, 5.3. Let Loose the Dog Whistles of War, Longue Duree, 5.4. Unidentified Flying Pizzas. Previous Week 190714-Polemic.
Other topics: Movie Sword of Trust, Racism and Xenophobia, Agent Orange, Analogue, One to One Correspondence, Iran, Hezbolla,
-1. Environment: Battle for the Arctic: U.S. Warns Russia 'Is Way Ahead of Us' in Race to Control New Frontier. #Document Report to Congress, Department of Defense Arctic Strategy, June 2019.
-2. Health: Questions Remain as DoD Gets Ready to Cut 18,000 Medical Personnel while there is the apparent paradox of DoD Council Will Examine How Wholesale Changes in Military Health Care Affect Troops’ Families. War's Physical Toll Can Last for Generations, as it Has for the Children of the Vietnam War, like forever chemicals, 190714-Polemic-1.1.
-3. Operations in Hot Zones:
-3.1. Venezuela, A Black Swan Hot Spot, is a military operation comparable to Just Cause in Panama. <ADDED 190721-181209-4>. 190721-Vaccine-2.
-3.2. DRCongo. High Level Event on Ebola Virus Disease in DRC, two Ebola responders were murdered in their home in Beni. Both of these events encapsulate the challenges faced on a daily basis in DRC. Just when there is control of the virus in one area, it appears in another, while violence and insecurity continue to undermine the response. Since January, WHO has recorded 198 attacks on health facilities and health workers, killing 7 people including the two responders murdered yesterday. Every attack sets us back. Every attack makes it more difficult to trace contacts, vaccinate and perform safe burials. Every attack gives Ebola an opportunity to spread. Ebola gets a free ride in each and every attack. <ADDED 190721-180513-1.1>. Isonga Health Center's Laboratory Worker Threatened with Death by Armed Men, a PHEIC has just been declared, but unknown if that will reduce the number of these attacks, or exacerbate them. Congo Soldiers, Police to Enforce Ebola Emergency Measures, which if done the way DRC usually does security will increase conflict and Ebola cases. Ebola Fight: Julien Paluku Proposes to Associate the Army, the former governor of the province using the armed forces of the DRC, in order to dismantle the stronghold of the militia considered as the cause of resistance and of the spread of said disease. War Weakened South Sudan Tries to Prepare for Ebola. Army Launches Campaign to Fight Ebola, the army, all units together, and their family members must apply to observe the rules of hygiene to fight against this disease.
-4. Mephysis: This could also be under viral disinformation but apparently is based on shoddy journalism and then given momentum by a politician hoping to ride a conspiracy theory. Likely this will disrupt studies of Lyme disease and Tick spread, which makes it bad for life. House Wants Pentagon IG to Examine Whether U.S. Weaponized Ticks, 190714-Polemic-PDWN-181118-VCP-China>6. House Orders Pentagon to Review If it Exposed Americans to Weaponised Ticks, On the Link Between Lyme Disease and Bioweapons, 'Bitten' Explores a Lyme Disease Conspiracy tries to unearth a secret history of government cover ups in the spread of Lyme disease, but research rests on shaky ground. Lyme Disease Is Biological Warfare with Alie Ward. Pentagon May Have Created Weaponized Ticks and Released Them into the Wild. Ticks Carry More Than Just Lyme Disease, lyme hogs the limelight, but tick species carry and transmit a collection of other pathogens, some of which cause serious, even fatal, conditions. These other conditions include rumor, conspiracy theory, fear mongering, misinformation, dread. Did Lawmakers Demand the Pentagon Disclose If It Developed Weaponized Ticks. 190721-Vaccine-9.
-4.1. US Backs Argentina’s Bid to Prosecute Iran’s Agents in ’94 Attack. Probably part of the wider US-Iran tensions, U.S. to Send 500 Troops to Saudi Arabia as Iran Tensions Heat up. 1994: Suicide Bomber Blows Up Jewish Center in Argentina, Killing 85. Argentina Freezes Hezbollah Assets, 25 Years after AMIA Attack. U.S. Offers $7 Million to Find Hizbullah Agent Wanted for Argentina Attack.
-5. Viral Misinformation
-5.1. ∩ Analogy*. Last week 190714-Polemic-5.1C touched on the vicious cycle of believing that people will behave in a certain way happen will influence people to behave as if it will happen, and when that happens others will behave in kind, in other words escalating violence. Did not have an example related to disinformation but this is an analogy to that type of expectation fulfillment. Racist Police Officer Stereotype May Become a Self Fulfilling Prophecy. Disinformation and other cyber based attacks are an example of prior beliefs being reinforced. If on side expects the other to use disinformation, the likelihood interpreting an action as the capability being used or in preparation for use, they preempt and retaliate. Then the other side expects this to happen again and respond in kind. How Expectation Influences Perception.
-*. Analogue is the use of a social phenomena that is not a direct one to one correspondence to a social circumstance, but one that is analogous to it for comparison and contrast. The understood caveat is that it may be of no value beyond an informed speculation, an anecdote. This is one reason by historical analogues (longue duree) are not always useful. The event may be exactly the same, for example a plague outbreak, but it not a one to one correspondence between the Black Death of the Middle ages and a Yersinia Pestis event in today’s milieu of rapid communications, medical labs, public health, germ theory, treatments, pest control, and rapid means of transportation. But at the same time there are also similarities of magical thinking, religious animosity, xenophobia, reluctance to acknowledge an event that will have economic consequences, public hysteria, ignorance. ∩ is used to alert reader that the stub in an analogue, especially when it is not always clear from the text it is not binary.
-5.2. Don’t know if the movie Sword of Trust is any good, but this humorous story telling is probably more effective on teaching people how to not be taken in by disinformation that more accurate and factual tomes. Everybody Can Be a Sucker: Marc Maron and Lynn Shelton on How Conspiracy Theories Flourish. >>Fact 190714-2C -11, 190630-6, 190623-5.
-5.3. Though the current construct of THEPA Imaginary Dominionism will not be directly applicable after the demise of THEPA, it is still applicable today. In this case it will appear to Trumpism that racism continues to be a winning formula and there will be escalation of the anti immigration and racism themes. New Polling Indicates Republicans Actually like Trump More Following Racist Tweet Controversy -2- -3- -4-. Trump Digs in on Racist Tweets: Many People Agree with Me -2- -3- -4- -5-. Trump Tells His Critics to 'Go Back Where They Came From. His Love It or Leave It* Attitude Is Totally Wrong and Arguably Racist -2- -3- -4-. Crowd Chants 'Send Her Back' as Trump Escalates Attacks on Ilhan Omar and 'The Squad', Trump Disavows 'Send Her Back' Chant from His Rally l190721-6, Multiple News Outlets Parrot Trump’s Dishonest Disavowal of “Send Her Back” Rally Chant, Trump Goads Crowd into Racist “Send Her Back” Chant Against Ilhan Omar*** 190721-6, Trump Says He Disagrees with ‘Send Her Back’ Chants, <ADDED 190721 <ADDED 190505-190421-2>1. Why Trump's Racist Dog Whistle Won't Work this Time, seems to be working to me. Note that the purpose is to 1) keep supporters -2-, not persuasion of opposition and gain new supporters, 2) to goad opposition into their own extreme anti white power structure remarks, 3) and distraction$ -2- -3- -4-. Chris Matthews: Trump Amplified His Racist Language from Dog Whistle to Bugle Call -2- -3- -4-. Of course it is impossible to tell for sure if it was a deception to say one thing when meaning something else, but in any case if it was a deception then it may have backfired***, White Supremacists Warn Idealistic Trump Some Compromise Will Be Necessary to Achieve Their Goals.
-*.America: Love it or Leave it (Again) -2-, 190721-6. **Trump Called a Liar for Disavowing 'Send Her Back' Chant: President's Throwing His Own Supporters Under the Bus, Trump Abruptly Reverses Course, Offers Full Throated Defense of Racist Chants -2-. ***Not going to take the time to verify but Trump Rally crowds seem to be getting whiter in makeup.
-A. The History of Trump's Racist Attack of Go Back Where You Came From -2-. Hail Trump!: White Nationalists Salute the President Elect 2016 video of an alt right conference in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes -2- -3- -4-. Russian disinformation may have nudged this, but their best course of action now is to just let it play out with no input from them. Too much chance of this being documented and then used to neutralize the campaign. Depending on the situation just before the election they can start again about rigged elections, illegal immigrants voting and plans to oust Trump if he wins and what the Liberals (Socialists) plan to do if they get power again: Mass arrests, purges, get rid of Pledge of Allegiance and In God we Trust, Free Abortions. However it is likely those conspiracy theories will already be in circulation from domestic sources.
-5.4. Meet the Guy Behind the 'Area 51' Page. He's Terrified of What He's Created. It's all fun and games until you accidentally incite a giant mob to raid a top secret military base. College Student Floats Idea of 'Area 51' Festival after Joke Invitation Catches Fire, is this an expression of anxiety stemming from 190721-6‡, not that dissimilar from the social contagion of Double Dread: UFOs and Nuclear War, Aliens Among us and Fears of the Other, How UFO Reports Change With the Technology of the Times. ¶ DHS Warns of Russian Efforts to Divide America over Pineapple Pizza – Sort Of. It's a cheesy, playful warning – but it's trying to deliver a serious message. Posted online by the department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the tongue in cheek warning aims to help Americans identify and protect against propaganda campaigns from Russia and other foreign adversaries. After all, the DHS warning says, Russian agents are capable of simultaneously insisting online that "Being anti pineapple is un American!", while also pushing out posts saying "Millennials are ruining pizza!". "Foreign influencers are constantly on the lookout for opportunities to inflame hot button issues in the United States. They don’t do this to win arguments; they want to see us divided".
-From PDWN 190721 -190714-4. Link of war and world hunger.
-190721-Vaccine-1. Conflict, poverty are major causes of missing vaccinations.
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