1. Environment, Drugs, Deforestation and Conflict, 1.1. Environmental Security, 2. Health, Nurse and Doctor Shortage, Lab Response Network, Southern Theater and Disease, VA Claims, Effect Trauma, 3. Operations in Hot Zones, DRCongo, Turkmenistan 4. Mephysis, NK Cyberattacks, 4.1. Nipah Virus, 4.2. Crop Burning, 4.3. In the Dark About Terror, 5. Contagious Information, 5.1. Immunization for Russian Disinformation, 5.2. Conspiracy Without Theory, 5.3. Faking Turkey. Previous Week 190811-Polemic.
Other topics: HIV, Epstein, Black Outs, Cyber Robbery, Conspiracy Theory, Northcom, Greenland
-1. Environment: Coca and Conflict: The Factors Fueling Colombian Deforestation, been linked to armed conflict and forests' proximity to coca crops, the plant from which cocaine is derived. Conflict between illegal groups and the governmental military forces, proximity to coca plantations, mining concessions, oil wells and roads were all associated with increased deforestation; Emerging Evidence That Armed Conflict and Coca Cultivation Influence Deforestation Patterns. Regrowing Germany’s Trees After WWII, the cities of Dresden and Hamburg saw their green spaces decimated, but each city grew back its trees in a very different way.
1.1. Climate Change: An Omitted Security Threat in Central Asia. Governments Failing to Understand Global Catastrophic Risks. Center for Health Security Cosponsors Meeting on Maximizing Opportunities for Economic Growth of the US Bioeconomy.
-2. Health: Massachusetts Senate Passes Bill to Honor WWII Nurse Cadets, The 8076th: A Hospital with Marching Orders. How Does USAMRIID Shut Down Impact Nation’s Bioterrorism Laboratory Response Network, CDC Inspection at Fort Detrick's USAMRIID Underscores Need for Regulations at Other Labs$, 190811-Polemic-2. Revolutionary Fever: Disease and War in the Lower South, 1776-1783. VA Wrongfully Denied $53 Million in Veterans' Medical Claims in One 6 Month Period. Troubles Trauma - The Hidden Legacy of Violence, Toxic Stress in Children Has Health Effects That Can Last into Adulthood – and Beyond; August 18, 1941 Hitler Suspends Euthanasia Program ordering that the systematic murder of the mentally ill and handicapped be brought to an end because of protests within Germany.
-3. Operations in Hot Zones:
-DRCongo. <ADDED 190818-180513-1.1>. Protest Against the Response Teams Reported in Goma. Ituri: Police Disperse Protest Against Ebola Response Team.
-Russia: -5.1↓. Rocket Mystery: What Weapon Was Russia Testing in Arctic, Explosion Fuels Speculation Russia Is Testing a Nuclear Powered Cruise Missile. In Russia, Days of Fake News and Real Radiation After Deadly Explosion$. Russia Says Small Nuclear Reactor Blew Up in Deadly Accident. Russia Nuclear Explosion: Village near Site of Deadly Missile Accident Told to Evacuate after Radiation Spike, Russian Village Evacuation as Rocket Blast Sparks Radiation Fears, Russian Military Orders Village Evacuation, Then Cancels It. The Blast That Killed 5 Russian Engineers May Have Been Caused by Another Failed Test of Putin's Doomsday Missile. Failed Russian Nuclear Test Hints at Putin's Dangerous Plans to Beat U.S. Defenses, the phrase 'flying nuclear reactor' tells you all you need to know. Chernobyl Comparisons Sparked by Secrecy Around Deadly Russian Nuclear Rocket Blast: We Got a Mini Fukushima Right Beside Us and They Pretended Nothing Scary Happened, <ADDED 190818-190630-2.2‡>. So far both Russia media and disinformation has been silent on this incident that seems to be evolving into an event. Trump: US Has Better Weapons than the 'Failed' Russian 'Skyfall' Missile is likely to provide the opening needed for Russian spin for its domestic audience. U.S. Has More Advanced Rocket Than Russia’s Nuclear Cruise Missile – Trump, published by Moscow Times, Russia Says Radiation Levels Rose by 4-16 Times in City after Accident: TASS. Doctors Who Treated the Victims of a Deadly Russian Missile Blast Weren’t Warned of Radiation, original title was Russian Doctors Who Treated Radiation Patients Asked to Sign NDAs. What a Deadly Nuclear Explosion In Russia Tells Us About the World's New Arms Race. Russia Flies Nuclear Capable Bombers to Region Facing Alaska, 190609-Polemic-5.4 notes that previous nuclear capable craft near Alaska were worthless only useful for implied threat, this is an actual escalation of the saber rattling threat. Norway Detects Radioactive Iodine Days after Explosion in Russia. What a Mysterious Explosion Tells Us about Russia's Doomsday Weapon.
-Turkmenistan: Public Health Crisis in Turkmenistan 2006. Indicating that a country can persist despite a cascading collapse of health infrastructure (Somalia would be another example), and that a gubergenic can still keep conditions hidden 190811-Polemic-3.1. Remaining hidden also means that there could be a biocalamity that has not spilled over its borders yet. Turkmenistan 2019 Crime & Safety Report and when PDWN accessed its last update was 6/3/2019 there were 174 all time - 6 last 7 days, indicating a recent uptick of interest, but not much. In fact it is less that PDWN gets and it intentionally avoids attracting attention. Grim Reality of Turkmen Health Care 2005, Turkmenistan: Ashgabat in HIV Denial 2011, Real State of Turkmen Medical Care a Far Cry from Official Images 2014, People Are Afraid to Say a Word: Inside Ashgabat, Central Asia's Closed City 2017, The Health of the Nation – the Wealth of the Homeland. Turkmenistan’s Potemkin Healthcare System. Time to Get Tough with Turkmenistan’s President. Compare to North Korea which is also a hermit nation, but attacks attention with having nukes and weapons systems it keeps testing. One can compare it with DRC which until the last two Ebola outbreaks did not attack much attention and it could allow the outbreak to burn itself out with Cordon Sanitaire. In fact it may be that is the DRC is getting international assistance to contain and control may be why Ebola is still spreading.
-4. Mephysis: U.N. Investigating Slew of North Korean Cyberattacks on Financial Bodies trying to raise funds for weapons program. U.S. Cyber Command Warns of North Korea Linked Lazarus Group Malware. A Cyberattack Could Wreak Destruction Comparable to a Nuclear Weapon.
-4.1. Biotechnology Firm Secures Nipah Vaccine Contract, the virus poses a real threat to global health security: multiple modes of transmission, significant morbidity and mortality, and significant societal and economic disruption.
-4.2. Iraq's Burning Problem: The Strange Fires Destroying Crops and Livelihoods, the fires caused by terrorism is around 30%. The fires have particularly affected Sunni and Yazidi communities that have struggled to recover from years of war and displacement. There’s economic warfare between countries so as to force Iraq to import. There are unverified reports of Iranian backed armed groups setting fields ablaze. Weaponizing Biotech: How China’s Military Is Preparing for a New Domain of Warfare, gene editing, human performance enhancement – a possible cultural difference is the Chinese may focus on biological enhancement, while the US may focus on mechanical augmentation –, and specific ethnic genetic attacks.
-4.3. When the Lights Went Out: On Blackouts and Terrorism. When the Northeast Blackout of 2003 killed electricity to more than 50 million people in the United States and Canada, the FBI, like many in New York who were still reeling from the September 11, 2001 attacks, shared these concerns. Just the previous year the agency concluded that terrorists were studying weaknesses in power grids. Meanwhile, groups across the country had been preparing for and speculating about doomsday scenarios – scenarios that the first moments of the 2003 blackout mimicked to a disquieting degree. I happened to be at NORTHCOM as one of the ringers they brought in to certify its Terrorism Operational Center when this happened. When I heard it on the news I immediately went to the center to report in as I would not have been on their alert list. To my surprise no one was there. I inquired the next morning about why not, expecting to hear that they were not certified yet. The answer instead is that it was not a NORTHCOM concern. The director insisted on this even when I pointed out same concerns as this article and more, such as US Air Defense radar was also blinded in the North East by this event. The Threat of an Electromagnetic Attack.
-5. Viral Misinformation: This is probably not intentional disinformation but someone who believes that what was not technologically possible 50 years ago is still not possible today. I Don’t Believe a Missile Is to Blame for Russia’s Deadly Nuclear Explosion. This is where the Wilderness of Mirrors [Photo] gets interesting. Is the explosion in fact something else and there is deception to hide what the actual cause it while distracting with the fear that nuclear propulsion has been invented.
-5.1. Information Operations by Russia and Options to Counter Them. In light of increasing confrontation with the West, Russia has expanded deploying operations in the information domain to influence, disrupt or manipulate adversarial public opinion and votes. These campaigns: 1) have an organized and massive character; 2) involve the internet, media, and social networks; 3) are usually non attributable and difficult to detect. In cooperation with the private sector and allied governments, USG should develop a coherent plan to deter and mitigate these hostile actions. Misses 4) educate the public in critical thinking and identification of suspect information. -Russia↑. Russian Link Revealed Behind Attempts to Escalate Racial Tension in the US. | The Epstein Conspiracies, The Conspiracy Theories about Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Don’t Make Much Sense, Senators Concerned Epstein Conspiracy Theories Play into Russia’s Hands, Jeffrey Epstein’s Death and Our Age of Conspiracy Theories. Damning Investigation Finds Jeffrey Epstein Left Unsupervised for Decades Prior to Suicide. Interestingly many time what are intended as a joke (Poe’s Law, Study: Too Many People Think Satirical News Is Real) become a conspiracy theory, Epstein Guards Placed on Disciplinary Leave for Allowing Selves to Be Distracted by Mischievous Monkey That Stole Key Ring. Epstein Associates Distance Selves by Insisting They Hadn’t Used His Child Sex Trafficking Ring in Years. | 190818-Vaccine-1, How Organic Consumers Association Colludes with Russian Trolls.
-5.2. Assault on Democracy: The New Conspiracism. Conspiracy theory has always been part of political life. Sometimes far fetched, sometimes accurate, and sometimes a confusing mix of the two, traditional conspiracy theory tries to peel away deceptive masks to show how the world really works. It demands a cause proportionate to the dire effect. In a recently published book, two scholars argue that in today’s conspiracies, conspiracy and theory have been decoupled. We therefore face a distinctively malignant new phenomenon of conspiracy without the theory. Like all conspiracism, it rests on the certainty that things are not as they seem, but conspiracy without the theory dispenses with the burden of explanation. We see no insistent demand for proof, no exhaustive amassing of evidence, no dots revealed to form a pattern, no close examination of the operators plotting in the shadows. Conspiracy without the theory exists less to explain than to affirm. The result is toxic for a stable society and democratic politics.
-5.3. Russian Digital Media and Information Ecosystem in Turkey. In recent years, Russian digital information operations, including disinformation, fake news, and election meddling have assumed prominence in international news and scholarly research outlets. A simple Google Trends query shows us that ‘fake news’ as a term enters into global mainstream lexicon starting with October 2016, peaking in the immediate aftermath of the US Presidential Election in November. Since then, disinformation has been largely synonymous with Russian digital information operations in the West, and a number of empirical research projects have begun focusing on the impact of information warfare on elections and political behavior. This report looks at Russian information operations in Turkey through 2015-19.
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-1.1. US Domestic Terrorism.
-2.3. Geopolitical interest in Greenland. Trump Reportedly Wants to 'Buy' Greenland. This Is What It's like at the US's Arctic Base There.
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