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Here are the show notes links from this month’s podcast:

https://blog.bartondunant.com/courses/emergency-management-threats-and-hazards-water/

CEMIR.ORG BLOG POSTS - SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE HERE:

Cyber Threat Intelligence: A Component of Emergency Management Intelligence

Journal of Information Warfare Article Link (paywalled)

CEMIR Substack links posted since the last episode:

At Medium, I had more articles or what they call stories – in general, most of my pieces are paywalled for subscribers to that platform. Here’s what I have written and published on Medium from late December of 2025 and January 2026:

* Orders to Kill: One of the major differences between Homeland Defense and Homeland Security

* Emergency Management Basics — Part 1 - Threats and Hazards

* America First Agenda: Let’s Help Palau - The lengths the Trump Administration will go to relocate so-called ‘third country nationals’ in Medium’s Policy Panorama publication.

* History is Rhyming - Has a monarchy returned to the U.S.?, Also in Policy Panorama.

* A real game of ‘Risk’ - And it’s the 1950’s version that Trump is ‘playing’

* Specific Needles in the Needlestack of Academic Publications - Challenges with literature reviews in international business management professional studies, published at Medium’s publication called The Academic.

* Whitewash - The White House attempts to rewrite history on the 5th anniversary of J6, published at Medium’s the LIPER publication.

* Sweden Prepares for War - Newly Renamed ‘Civil Defence and Resilience Agency’ Publishes Guide for Businesses, at Policy Panorama.

* The not-so empty threat of an EMP What Emergency Management needs to convey I also turned that content into a fictional story: https://medium.com/@bartondunant/saturdoom-1dcba73f30d4

Find Dr. Jeannette Sutton at:

www.thewarnroom.com

And her new podcast “The Alerting Authority” with Eddie Bertola is on Apple and YouTube, via links below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnT0jq00HDGyo5Wp-UlNi6g

Find Andrew Boyarsky on the web:

https://www.pinnacleperformancemanagement.com/media

Andrew Boyarsky’s Podcast:

https://pod.link/1253457879

From this episode - links:

DDAR program funding (https://ocpsc.ca.gov/disability-disaster-access-and-resources-ddar-program/)

Press release from the NGO who had their DDAR funding cut: https://cfilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-10-29-DDAR-SCE-Contract-Termination-Press-Release-Final.docx

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- No Enemies for Emergency Managers, co-authored by Daniel Scott, over at the Emergency Management Network’s Substack. https://emnetwork.substack.com/p/no-enemies-for-emergency-managers

- An introductory piece on the PSPS concern I mentioned in this episode, for Matt Green’s State of Disaster Substack called Impacts of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) on People with Disabilities https://open.substack.com/pub/stateofdisaster/p/impacts-of-public-safety-power-shutoffs?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

- Big Events in 2026: Security Classifications, for the Domestic Preparedness Journal. https://domesticpreparedness.com/articles/big-events-in-2026-security-classifications/

At Medium,

- Atmospheric Rivers - #EMINT from the book “Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water”

- FEMA in Chaos – Why does this matter to you?

- For FEMA, it’s the End of the World as They Know It (And Trump feels fine.)

January 2026 edition of The LIPER  - https://medium.com/the-liper/january-1-2026-updates-01cf6c5e77a0   

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Please check out Eric Holderman’s Disaster Zone Podcast, hosted by the readiness lab. You can find it on the major podcast outlets like Apple and Spotify. Mike told me to plug his episode recorded on October 15th, 2025 entitled “Emergency Management’s Role in Civil Defense with Michael Prasad”, which looks at one proposal to have the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) take over all aspects of what we might call “civil defense” to have those functions taken out of FEMA and aligned more directly within other elements of DHS.

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Find Dr. Jeannette Sutton at:

www.thewarnroom.com

And her new podcast "The Alerting Authority": 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-alerting-authority/id1853479217

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnT0jq00HDGyo5Wp-UlNi6g

Please note that Michael Prasad is an Amazon Affiliate and may earn commissions on items purchased through links. CEM® is a registered trademark of the IAEM-USA and used with authorization.

Here are the show notes links from this month’s podcast:

The CEMIR’s Substack Section - IDEA=Belonging - https://thecemir.substack.com/s/belonging

Matt Green’s State of Disaster Substack -

https://www.emergencymngr.com/water

Free reading (no paywall) of the Medium story mentioned in this podcast episode: https://medium.com/the-liper/eat-all-your-vegetables-ddecc3d2a394?sk=cbea961b517372dcb5b5d6e493c7762d And if you are also a CEM® and want to write for The LIPER on Medium, drop me an e-mail at [email protected].

Access the 2026 Barton Dunant Reading List (and all the other years as well) at https://blog.bartondunant.com/log-in/

Membership cost is only US$12 per year, and there is a very deep discount available for IAEM-USA Members (see their internal social media system for details).

2025 IAEM-USA Poster on Pediatric Disaster Feeding Concerns

Abstract

Video

Mike Prasad’s ‘2026 on the road tour schedule’ is at https://michaelprasad.com/events

* NJVOAD and NJGOV Conference is May 12, 2026 at The Palace at Somerset Park in Somerset, NJ.

You can also follow Mike and his various exploits on Social Media, too.

Please note that Michael Prasad is an Amazon Affiliate and may earn commissions on items purchased through links. CEM® is a registered trademark of the IAEM-USA and used with authorization by Mr. Prasad.

Here are the links from this month’s podcast. And a special thanks to Dr. Daniel Aldrich for joining me on this episode.

* How to Cut a Firebreak

* Medium op-eds and journalism, under Barton Dunant consulting firm’s name.

Barton Dunant’s pro bono work on pediatric (infant/toddler) feeding in disasters: link

* In the Domestic Preparedness journal, I had an article advocating for a split between Emergency Management and Homeland Security period, but especially if National Defense becomes an element of disaster readiness.

* I wrote a piece in Homeland Security Today on the same topic, but for a different audience. This time, for Homeland Security folks.

* Todd DeVoe and I wrote a multi-part series at the Emergency Management Network’s Substack called Chronic or Systemic Disasters and the Nexus to Emergency Management, and that series of posts should wrap up for paid subscribers in the middle of November, 2025. It includes our take on immigration and border control from an Emergency Management perspective, ethical questions for emergency managers, the role of professional accreditation for both the individual and the organization, and the role of professional associations. Full transparency, both Todd and I are volunteer elected board members of the International Association of Emergency Managers – USA.

Over at The Center for Emergency Management Intelligence Research - CEMIR‘s Substack, we added the following posts (some for paid subscribers only) in September:

* Deepfake Media Scams

* The Psychological Science behind Misinformation Spread

* Enhancing K-12 Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Practices

* The Social-Ecological Model (SEM) and Violence Protection

Dr. Daniel Aldrich has an extensive portfolio of peer-reviewed journal articles he has authored or co-authored, and he has published three books so far:

* Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters

* Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

* Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West

These books are all available on Amazon. Again, please note that Michael Prasad is an Amazon affiliate and may earn a commission for any book sales made through these links.

And we continue to send out alerts, training opportunities, Emergency Management Intelligence systems we find, and more in our monthly blog over at the CEMIR. You can subscribe for free anytime.