hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground uh so today we're going to take a look at a sort of uh yet another uh controversial topic of ours uh but it's a topic that we feel needs to be talked about now um so today we're going to be taking a look at the different sort of factions or social groups or perhaps faction is too strong of a word in some cases or some of these groups but basically we're going to be laying out a lot of the key players and and power groups within the united states right now now we're not going to cover all of the uh groups that we have found and all of the groups that we're monitoring and and interacting with and tracking and things like that but we are going to talk about some of the major players this is one of those uh videos and for our podcast listeners this is one of our episodes that um is more about speed rather than quality so we're not going to be able to talk about all the groups just the major players and sort of what we think about them now obviously that being said our usual disclaimer is that this is going to um be kind of an inflammatory topic all right so a lot of people are probably going to be either offended or um disagree with this in some way and that's perfectly fine you know we're not in the business of keeping you know feelings uh un unaltered because you know honestly yeah a lot of this stuff is is not pleasant to talk about uh and when it comes to disagreeing with us that's perfectly fine too we we actively encourage that um it's just that we're trying to give a good broad overview for the people who have uh for lack of a better term have sort of had their heads in the sand over the past year and haven't seen these groups come to power and so suddenly when they read an article of you know with these you know people in it or or these groups that are that are mentioned and they're like oh well what is this group or you know what are they that's what we're hoping to tackle today so we're going to be talking about uh groups that are powerful in the united states and we're going to do it as objectively as we can so moving on to our first one it's probably the most controversial one so the first group we're going to talk about is antifa or the anti-fascist coalition or anti-fascist action group or their their name changes based on you know who's uh who's talking about them but their main goal that they claim is anti-fascism however we and most other people that have seen antifa at work have seen that they are very pro-fascist in their actions they are also very very prone to using violence as we all know you know antifa this is one kind of a a radical group to be sure but their views are very um violence oriented even if they don't have a specific goal a lot of times especially in portland in the pacific northwest where they sort of got their start they'll just resort to violence or violence at sake you know they claim that their goal is anarchy and you know as a side note we know that what antifa is doing you know burning things down destroying a city your sort of mad max anarchy definition is not the true definition of anarchy we know this but for all intents and purposes when normal people hear the word anarchy they think of mad max so that's sort of what we're going to define it as for the duration of this video and how we kind of how we kind of treat that um but yeah antifa is definitely pro anarchy for for a lot of their actions they're also there a lot of um uh actors within their organization are uh very pro-genocide when it comes to statements they make so we'll see a lot of times on twitter when we're following these these riots going on i will see you know them pro genocide of a certain group like you know kill all capitalists or kill all you know uh people that are anti-us essentially right so they're very much a pro genocide agency even though they don't they haven't really had the resources capabilities or tactical skills to make this happen so the movements that they're affiliated with are you know of course the blm the black lives matter movement along with socialism and communism those two latter political ideologies and economic ideologies they are heavily rooted in antifa they are very much a communist agency if you're looking at them on the political compass which by the way we don't really think is accurate anymore uh for describing the events of 2020 but antifa definitely falls into the political left um the the militant left so that's sort of where they're aligned and the groups that they're the camp that they're in you know um and just sort of reading off the slide here for our for our podcast listeners you know antifa is definitely a long-standing agency but they're also loosely organized they're a collective of individuals that you know allegedly you know like i said try to combat fascism but they try to do it violently um you know most antifa members align with some sort of extreme liberalism on you know the political compass like we just said but a lot of times we'll see more casual followers be more center left leaning and those people are like professors college professors politicians you know will will be sympathetic towards antifa means but only because they're in this their their similar ideology not because of their actions right um so most of antifa's actions now have tended to target conservative political enemies or most importantly capitalist political enemies however as recent as 2018 some antifa elements have begun deeming political moderates as enemies and therefore prone to violent attack so yeah that's something we've seen recently antifa has has declared basically if you're not with us you're against us and but some of their ideology is very confusing such as you know antifa has been known to spray paint the words liberals get the bullet too during violent riots and violent actions which sort of shows how unique of an agency they are sort of an entity they're they're extreme extremely liberal comprised of members that are extremely liberal but they also say that liberals get the bullet too perhaps implying that liberals traditional liberals are not liberal enough right and you know so antifa is kind of a definitely a very uh very unique organization so moving on to the physical description uh this is just for people to help people kind of identify you know what these groups look like and fortunately for the most part most of these groups do have some sort of rudimentary uniform such as antifa here antifa members can readily be identified by black block clothing they usually wear all black you'll see a lot of times red bandanas covering their faces you know antifa signature signals and insignia flags the anarchy symbol you know guy fox masks as well as really numerous like counter culture symbols such as you know tight fitting you know skinny jeans are definitely a huge thing with antifa and it's not to to insult them it's just that they you'll see in the image here in a second it's definitely a factor when it comes to to a lot of um antifa things as well as non-traditional sort of body piercings and sort of alterations like you know ear gauges you know different kinds of piercings in different locations uh facial tattoos things like that as well as unique you know hairstyles like your your very vibrant uh colored uh hair for your females and and things like that um yeah so let's look at an image here of what what normal like antifa stuff looks like and as you can see it's you know very much black block clothing uh not a whole lot of tactical gear um usually it's all just all black clothing um but you can definitely tell that this is there's a theme here with it with the dress and then the attire that they use and um uh yeah definitely you can like for instance if you google like antifa mug shots you'll pull up and you'll look and you'll be able to instantly tell even though you have no context as to what a person was arrested for you can definitely you can look at an image and tell you that person's antifa which is weird because it would be a mug shot which doesn't have these uh you know facial coverings or things like that you can definitely tell a lineup of mugshots that's all antifa members as opposed to some other political group and so some of the more notable actions there there have been known to do mostly just riots you know the berkeley university riots they were also present in charlottesville during that uh that whole scandal of charlottesville riots in 2017. they were also responsible for doxxing efforts against ice agents in 2018. they also were responsible for attacks against jewish population in the jewish population in new york city as part of some of the riots there which was kind of weird it was kind of a unique thing they're not really an anti-semitic group however some elements of them are they also attacked people at the dallas children's hospital in 2020 this is some more you know recent stuff this year they've gotten more definitely more violent the washington dc riots as well as the chas or chop occupation of seattle which is earlier this year in 2020 and so basically our analysis is you know despite the fact that antifa claims to be anti-fascist they are in fact very very supportive of fascism communism socialism all of which are technically on on paper very different ideologies but they definitely support them they are even though these things are attributed to totalitarianism antifa is all for totalitarianism as long as the antifa ideology is the totalitarian entity right they are also known to organize information operations so information operations is our but we in the intel community it's sort of a soft a soft code word for psyops right we don't do psyops anymore we conduct information operations right and antifa does these as well they're usually quite effective because they'll put together posters of videos they'll doctor uh documents and scan them um basically all in an effort to organize them against a political enemy um yeah so you know despite what antifa leadership may say about their own entity their true end goals right are purely destructive right there's there's no cohesive pattern to the attacks with the exception of targeting anyone or group who doesn't support them but you know antifa's violence is not a means to an end antifa for antifa violence is the end right that is the end goal right so as a result of all of this you know we highly highly recommend that um uh for people to avoid antifa actions right we assess with high confidence that antifa or anyone who identifies with antifa ideology is a very high threat to individual safety right so anytime you see antifa head the other way there is no winning for them violence is their goal violence is their tool so just keep that in mind and sort of trying to keep this quick we'll move on to the next group which is black lives matter blm and this is one where we will get a lot of flack i'm sure and probably get a lot of attacks and and things like that um but their state of objectives vary widely right the blm movement is a very extremely it's an extremely varied organization right their stated objectives depending on which cell and group it is um they they broadly started with a group with a message of equality right equality for all right but lately we've seen a lot of black nationalism black supremacy and and um things like that come out of of their official rhetoric right not just some somebody on twitter trying to troll um it's been their official doctrine right so lately in 2020 they're also a heavy heavy supporter of the reparations movement right so you know continuing on their observed objectives they also align with a sort of anarchy ideology much like antifa but not quite so much it seems like uh from where we're sitting you know broadly speaking blm will use anarchy to get their end goal of black supremacy some groups of course but other groups will not so it's it's extremely varied you know some groups just like i have here on the slide some parts of blm are 100 proponents of genocide against you know whites and you know other uh non-uh african-american or non-african descendants so but other groups aren't so it's a huge huge varied uh thing um so some of the affiliated movements with blm are the nfac the not effing around coalition um despite the fact that the blm and nfac say that they're not they are staunch enemies that's what they say that's not true they are definitely affiliated with each other however the nfac is far more radical we'll talk about them in a second some of the more older members of the group will remember the black panthers and the blm is is definitely bringing back some of the black panther's uh tactics and ideology even though the black panthers technically weren't quite what people remember them to be and also blm is very very heavily intertwined with antifa mostly because they both you know blm and antifa use violence in their riots right riots are their thing right um so the characterization of the blm movement is extremely extremely varied right you know originally blm was a large uh largely decentralized civil rights you know oriented agency but you know other you know but recently you know other peaceful protests have been organized with the purpose of rioting and destroying public infrastructure so you know originally back you know a few years ago when uh really back in 2014 when the blm movement started getting notoriety most almost all other protests were peaceful they were legitimately peaceful protests however the the blm infrastructure and entity and sort of organization has changed right now they are organizing peaceful protests that they're calling peaceful but they're telling people to bring things like bats bring eye protection bring helmets br you know bring things that will help us destroy things but they're not outright saying it a lot of places and a lot of places they are outright saying it you know some of the more radical elements of blm are huge proponents of a sort of anti-white genocide and have frequently called for whites to be murdered in the street and we're seeing that actually happen uh portland washington dc you know you know kenosha we're seeing uh the the the flavor of sort of killing people based on their race uh to be a definitely a a part of blm protests and riots right uh most of the official blm senior leadership are supporters of reparations for slavery you know monetary payments right which they believe should take the form of you know uh money but not not only money but also a land right sort of like how native americans were granted you know reservations however if you go to even just the blm website which is the the you know run by their senior leadership they continue to make statements that say that they will not stop the violence until their demands are met that's something they put they plainly and clearly say they're going to do so the blm movement is 100 a non-peaceful organization anymore and you can even make the argument an analytical argument that they weren't peaceful in the beginning so the physical description it once again extremely varied it's you know obviously by the name of it it's going to largely be african-american however um yet previously and even currently a large amount of of whites are also part of blm so you can't really say that the blm movement is purely about race even though it technically is on paper if that sort of makes sense um you know some of the most notable actions are you know going back in time the summer of violence which is what we're kind of calling the the the rash the the um spreading of rioting around the united states following minneapolis in 2020 they're also known for destruction of minneapolis kenosha they're also known for the assault siege on the white house the siege of white house is pending that's not that's going down in about seven days we'll see if that happens for those of you listening to this episode in the future we'll we'll see if the siege actually goes down but they they've been known for the assault in the white house following the destruction of minneapolis and the riots that kind of picked up after that previously to that they had a few years where they didn't really do much and were just mostly a community-based you know civil rights entity but they were also heavily involved in the ferguson riots following the shooting of michael brown in 2014 and also the new york city riots following the shooting or the death of eric gardner in 2014 he wasn't he wasn't shot but i don't i don't think um but yeah so let's let's take a look at the physical description and you know we tried to pick the most non-biased images to display uh talking about a a blm protest but even if you google even if you google which we know google is controlled by the these entities or at least caters to them a lot even if you google blm protest and then clicking images it's hard to find a blm image of a peaceful protest the only one that we could find was one in the top right but even then we found four or five other images that showed that these exact people in this image were breaking things at their own molotovs and stuff like that so this is what your typical blm protest looks like i'm sure everybody's seen it in the highly inflammatory and dramatic movie action style uh news footage that has been around and been assaulting our news feeds over the past few months but yeah for those of you who don't know this is what a blm riot or protest looks like and then so for our analysis and yeah i know this one is once again very inflammatory but you know we have to call it like we see it and blm is not a peaceful organization you know despite an initial you know message of peacefully protesting and civil disobedience which is fine you know that that you know echoes the original civil rights movement in the 60s and 70s right but despite this the blm movement has become increasingly more radical over the years blm's common they have a common tactic right they like to use um force random citizens to be uncomfortable right in order to make them see their message so for instance screaming at restaurant patrons you know stomping traffic assaulting cars you know this has become exponentially more aggressive in 2020 and people are just being instead of being screamed at while trying to eat their dinner at a restaurant people are being swarmed in their vehicles right [Music] so you know in 2020 you'd be very hard-pressed to find a blm protest that did not dissolve into a riot at some point you know in early 2020 an observed tactic that we did see was for a genuine blm protest to break out for instance in minneapolis before it got bad on that first day this was a good case study there was a genuine peaceful blm protest in minneapolis in a sort of little march through the community as well they had speakers from churches they had speakers from politicians they had high level leadership from blm very prominent uh celebrities come in and speak and then you know after that sort of main rally or protest was kind of winding down and all the senior leadership was gone then the writing broke out so at that point things switched almost instantly and then um the rioting started right so we're seeing that be a tactic with blm protest that's why we say for no that's why we recommend for people to not go to any blm activities because you know now that at some point that's going to turn into a riot at some point that's going to turn into something bad that's just a fact of life now in 2020 you know and i know that people are going to probably get upset with us but about you know us calling it like we see it but hey we we have to uh we have to call it like we see it for you know safety's sake you know um also it's kind of a side note going back to the whole genocide thing you know many of the speakers at recent blm protests and riots have publicly and openly called for a genocide against whites you know and actively encourage the targeting and and killing of whites blm senior leadership historically has distanced themselves from this but they're not doing that anymore they have not downplayed or distanced themselves from these sentiments they've just kind of let it happen which to us signals a de facto approval of this behavior even if they don't believe that that's a rightful thing to do they're letting it happen anyway you know so consequently you know in conclusion we assess with high confidence that the blm movement has become a radical sort of fringe movement despite the previously wide-ranging spectrum of opinions and viewpoints and ideologies you know as such we recommend avoiding all blm activity and demonstrations as there is a high chance that a seemingly peaceful protest will instantly become a violent riot so hopefully that sort of is is helpful on on this slide and um yeah so we'll move on to the next one which is the nfac the uh not effing around coalition now these guys are far more radical than blm they actively say that they are not blm but their stated objectives this is what they claim to support um they claim to support black supremacy the mass murder of whites uh reparations and and black separatism they're different in the terms of black separatism is different from black nationalism but they are supporters of both mostly black separatism and of course their observed actions are quite the same they're what what they say and what they do is very very similar so some of the more affiliated some of the movements they're affiliated with are of course blm like we just mentioned they're also loosely take some of their membership from the black panthers but also the nation of islam but mostly they're aligned with nation of islam because of the older members of the group who are around to remember the nation of islam as well as the fact the nfac is very anti-semitic and their their leader grand master jay was heavily involved in the nation of islam movement growing up so for those that have not heard of the nfac which would be surprising but in any case the nfac is a militant black separatist group which is comprised of roughly three to 500 members whose stated goals have changed considerably over the years but they're still they've still always been a radical group it's not like they've become uh radicalized every time they've always started as being radical and they're sort of their leader there has a has an air or flavor of of occultism um he's he calls himself the real grandmaster jay and uh he's made increasingly just plain weird and uh also radical statements over the years um regarding his you know role within the organization uh so recently the nfac they've included uh amongst their goals uh the goal of giving the entire state of texas uh to black americans as reparations for save of slavery um they've also which is going back to the weird comments they've also made extremely anti-semitic stigmas over the years you know with senior leadership including grand master jay often praising adolf hitler and other nazi leadership which is just plain weird which kind of shows the the fringe movement that these guys really are um you know they also claim to be highly trained uh ex-military members they only they claim to only let veterans in who are you know seen multiple combat tours however this is extremely false all of their demonstrations and actions have indicated that their tactical and technical proficiencies with weapons and combat is extremely lacking and basically non-existent nfac riots or gatherings have had multiple negligent discharges and a lot of the when they did their march on stone mountain the nfac a lot of the guys have obvious weapons malfunctions like stove pipes and their weapons and you know magazines being inserted backwards uh weapon sights being installed backwards foregrips being installed in the wrong position or weapons without sights altogether so that's kind of a sort of characteristic of their organization so physically we'll bring up some images here in a second but the nfac standard uniform they actually do have a standard uniform which is basically just a loose collection of black block clothing once again same as antifa but they also wear the black berets of the black panthers if anybody remembers them and also you know in a departure from antifa these guys also wear they basically dress like your cheesy video game character from the 80s of any sort of first person shooter with as many chest rigs rifles drop leg rigs you know all kinds of tactical gear as well as a random assortment of ammunition like bandoliers you know for shotguns you'll see a guy carrying a shotgun with five or six bandoliers on you know all of which is randomly slung in a very poor military fashion they also like to attempt to march in a loose formation up and down roads and things like that so let's take a look at some of these guys from the nfac so in the upper right hand corner with the uh the ar-15 there is uh grand master j and uh as you can see they're using um bowel fangs for their comms so they're probably you know running uh unencrypted comps that you could easily easily intercept and and overpower if you needed to but you can see the weird collection of of um of things you see people with you know some people have custom ars and other weapons other people don't so um yeah that's just sort of their their uh organizations what they look like when they riot or march or whatever um and the nfac is a relatively new organization they have not been around for very long despite the fact that they're you know the real grand master jay likes to claim they've been around for a long time really they're they only gained notoriety from their march on stone mountain earlier this year in 2020 however they also made the trip to louisville kentucky and uh commenced to destroy a lot of stuff there so um you know moving on to our analysis you know many people have sort of lampooned their their actions many people made fun of them because of their obvious obvious uh downfall of not being tactically or technically proficient despite this they still remain a current threat you know you know they don't really meet the label uh they don't really meet the criteria of being a a traditional insurgent threat but their ideology and previous actions indicate they still fit the quote-unquote terrorist label which we of course don't like to to throw out but they're definitely that's their goal they're they say it so that's what they claim to be you know their statements have called for the genocide of whites you know that that sort of that's made their message extremely clear you know and despite the fact that they this has all been talk for the nfac a lot of people trying to say the nfac is nothing but just they're all talk they're just they're not really a threat you know it's only a matter of time before they you know they continue people uh and law enforcement agencies continue to allow this type of behavior and it's only a matter of time before they take their ideology in earnest you know and start acting on uh some of those sentiments that they've been uh portraying so consequently despite the fact that these guys don't seem to be the you know the sharpest tools in the in the drawer we assess with high confidence that the nfa presents a genuine threat uh to individual safety and we recommend avoiding all nfac functions and demonstrations you know just be aware of what's going on be aware of where they're at and take take steps to avoid uh them at all costs if nothing more than the the the the accidental negligent discharges that they have at their their famous fourth or rallies all right so switching gears for a second uh but still talking about an equally inflammatory uh group up next is the boogaloo boys so uh the these guys this uh movement is also known as the big igloo large ice house whatever we all know everybody knows what you're talking about when you talk about the boogaloo nowadays so this group is once again not really a solidified group they're not really a a succinct set of ideology however they do have a few different state of objectives so for one this group is largely anti-government they see larger government as a problem a lot of the people within the group would would support no government at all some of the members of most of the members are actually pro second amendment very very heavily invested in the second amendment and the protections it provides and also uh there's a large sort of flavor of anarcho-capitalism from the early onset in when this group was sort of came to fruition in 2019 lately a lot of the sort of boogaloo enthusiasts i guess we could call them are mostly you know largely anti-law enforcement and once again you know a lot of their state of stated objectives are pretty much the same as the objectives that we observe from them however with the flavor of so the boogaloo members or the sort of people that portray that ideology tend to be more far right than far left so however however far right that is is it depends as we can sort of see by the affiliated movement so the bugaloo movement is very heavily steeped in libertarianism however over time they have been sort of linked and associated with movements such as the proud boys and various other militia conservative groups so characterizing the boogaloo movement is is kind of a difficult task um so the the term originates from the depths of you know 4chan internet memes really just you know instagram memes uh in 2019 um but the boogaloo movement is very is a it's a movement that's representative of a very wide ranging set of ideals the term itself is a reference to the coming of a second american civil war or another war for independence is sort of a tongue-in-cheek reference to that however while some boogaloo enthusiasts are quite serious about preparing for a civil war and you know and actively trying to encourage that um other sort of boog boys you know don't view the movement as a true sort of insurgent group and identify with the boogaloo movement out of solidarity for liberty you know and not to engage in a true civil war they don't really you know there there are definitely moderates within this group you know and once again while it's not exactly a solidified group you know participants and you know ideology um it is largely shared by a certain uh set of society right you know anti-government sentiments run deep within this you know within this movement you know as well as anti-law enforcement uh sentiments you know some of the more radical members of this movement are you know aligned with more traditional militia type movements you know even with white supremacy groups which is interesting considering that the the boogaloo movement and prominent names within the boogaloo you know movement have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from white supremacy but despite that there are there is a flavor of white supremacy to some of the boogaloo movements along with some of the more you know anti-semitism you know racism things like that are definitely prevalent within the boogaloo movement now uh in some very limited aspects how wide ranging that is who knows you know uh also you know many boogaloo boys have been observed to be protesting alongside antifa and blm who technically are ideologically opposed to them it doesn't really make any sense you know blm and antifa are very heavily socialist and communist and the boogaloo boys are very libertarian very very conservative and things like that to you know broad speaking broadly however the you know hatred that the boogaloo boys have for government you know it's sort of in uh helps helps them be sort of affiliated with antifa in some some aspects you know if antifa and blm are going out there to protest the government yeah sure the big boys will show up and support them but the big boys don't quite realize that antifa blm are their enemies they're they're they're sworn mortal enemies essentially right so it's kind of a very complex and and hard organization to define because it's not as solidified as blm or nfac or anti for any of those other ones but physically the physical description is um hawaiian shirts and luau patterns are a common indicator the boogaloo movement you know nowadays you know same thing with more traditional 2a symbol symbol symbols such as you know don't tread on me flag you know if the you know boogaloo enthusiasts sort of show up at a rally or protest you're going to almost always see them wearing plate carriers helmets carrying rifles and wearing hawaiian shirts that's just they're just their mo that's what they're going to be wearing it's going to be pretty obvious what they're supporting you know some of the more notable actions that they have been engaged in um really most late uh you know uh the latest one they've got notoriety for was the the defense of salon a la mode that uh salon hair salon in texas that was being forced to be shut down and uh yeah they sort of laid a protective siege of that to prevent law enforcement from arresting the salon owner same thing with a lot of different bars in texas when texas political leadership decided to shut down the bars the boogaloo boys were there to try to prevent that they're also sort of linked to the sort of whiskey warrior 556 incident which if you haven't uh if you haven't heard of what that was that was an incident back in 2019 where a uh a guy was claiming that live streaming on i think i think it was i think it was facebook if i remember correctly he was live streaming that uh a red flag raid was being conducted on his house to come take his guns right and it went instantly viral because he had he was a very prominent 2a person and that turned out to not be the case but it did sort of uh result in the arrests of a lot of these boogaloo members because they came to his aid the sort of sentiment of a red flag raid going down to go confiscate someone's guns is there was a limited attempt for the boogaloo effort and boogaloo boys to set up a um a sort of uh notification network right so if somebody was in trouble they could send a qrf a quick reaction force out this was completely ineffective it did not work at all it's still people still try to do it but since the boogaloo boys have been labeled as essentially terrorists by the large um by the federal government it's uh that's sort of died down a lot they've been arrested and targeted even more so than blm which is interesting um but let's take a look at some of the pictures of these guys so these guys yeah were this is um pretty typical pretty typical for um the boogaloo boys to show up at a sort of rally or protest or something like that so if you see this this you can almost be certain that these guys are boogaloo boys just based on hawaiian print alone that's a very good reiki feature and you know sort of our thoughts on it we have you know we've had a whole um longer than an hour long podcast episode talking about this particular movement and our frustrations with it because you know obviously we um a lot of our members are have the very unique political ideals that are sort of um sort of aligned with a lot of the stuff that we talk about for instance you know the s2 underground project is very very liberty minded you know the boogly boy is also very liberty minded you know we're very you know 2a and and um constitutional rights oriented and so is so are the boogaloo boys so we have a lot of people in common and that's why a lot of people are probably going to be listening to this section a lot more than normal because you know we've we've talked about it in at length but you know just to get through our sort of analyst comments here you know while not as violent as their counter movements like blm and nfac and not quite fitting the description of a quote-unquote extremist group you know the boogaloo room is still a comparatively radical organization despite being a very loose ideology right you know while their message is positive you know we must recognize that other far far more militant and hostile groups are definitely using the boogaloo movement as a way to rebrand themselves and make their ideology more palatable such as for instance the the proud boys you know starting to to get involved with the boogaloo protests you know those two groups don't have anything in common but the proud boys are you know say you don't like the government right we don't like the government either so we're friends you know and that's not how it works right um you know we cannot ignore the fact that a significant portion of you know boogaloo enthusiasts have originated from white supremacists terrorists guerrilla or other insurgent groups within the u.s that's just a fact that has happened or it may not have started that way but it definitely is the case now as such you know we recommend avoiding all demonstrations and activities that are solely aligned with the bugaloo movement you know so if there's a sort of boogaloo rally or something like that which is going to be hard to see nowadays or if there's a boogaloo counter protest to a blm avoid that like the plague that's what we recommend now if you show up to something like you know a 2a rally or something like that you know we wouldn't even recommend doing that nowadays but if you wanted to that's that's fine that's not a a huge risk right to go to a a liberty rally or some kind of even like a trump rally or something that's not as it's not really a security risk i don't think but you know those guys these guys will show up to those conservative type political events and rallies as we get closer to election time and you know that's going to be a lower risk you know i would it's not like where if i show up to a political rally and i see the nfac there i'm going to leave immediately or you know but if i show up to a political rally and i see the boo some boogaloo guys there or guys that hawaiian shirts i'm not going to i'm really not going to leave immediately because they really haven't been they haven't been violent at all but you know events that are intended to solely promote the boogaloo are an extreme high risk for things like violent counter protests you know as well as threats from law enforcement and federal authorities you know let's not get to get misconstrued here the boogaloo boys are definitely targeted by law enforcement and federal authorities they are not friends at all and the feeling is mutual i think based on what we've been able to tell so these guys anybody who talks about this sort of thing i'm sure that just by talking about the the boogaloo we're on a watch list now or or some analyst in a government position is probably listening to this podcast and watching this youtube video because we're talking about it so we you know we might even get censored from youtube because we're talking about it so it's that inflammatory but if you want to learn more about this go go listen to our our uh our episode on that so we have we talk about that a little bit more in depth but moving on to what we've kind of mentioned already which is sort of we're going to lump these three agencies and entities together because they're kind of the same thing and kind of have sort of the same leadership and um numbers so the three percenters the proud boys and the oath keepers so for those of you that have been around for a while you may have heard these terms very loosely and you kind of know that they're sort of a militia movements and that's pretty much what they are their their goals are all pretty much the same you know freedom oriented anti-government but a lot of times they're pro-law enforcement which is odd um for some of these views that's what they say they are you know what we've observed them to be is very different right there a lot of these groups like the proud boys are very white supremacists um you know they're also very gov anti-government which they claim to be but they're you know also anti-lgbt they're they're basically far right extremist groups for the most part you know it did not used to be this way but they have over time become that way and some more than others for instance the three percenters are far less radical than the proud boys in some areas and in some areas they're not same thing with the oath keepers so the oath keepers are far more radical in some areas than the three percenters and then in other areas they're not um but affiliated movements you know obviously they're affiliated with each other but also loosely affiliated with the boogaloo movement which you mentioned before um but you know moving on to the characterization these groups and others like them that there's dozens of others that sort of have the same ideology um these have been some of the longest standing armed militia movements in the united states the three percenters the proud boys and the oath keepers you know over the years these organizations have had a very prominent uh very prominent members with varied ideology for instance you've had congressmen and and very high ranking politicians align and say they're members of or support the three percenters the proud boys and the oath keepers over the years however they have kind of distanced themselves from more radical elements like the proud boys you know over the years you know these um the the override the overarching ideology has loosely been based in defending the riots laid out in the constitution the bill of rights so they're very much a constitutional right-wing agencies you know some of these some of the more radical elements of these sort of align with the bugaloo movement in that they are enthusiastic regarding the potential for civil war so like for instance the proud boys a lot of times you'll see events where they're actively trying to goad or you know stoke that you know fan the flames of of civil unrest in the united states because they want to race war um so that's sort of what a lot of these agencies are you know many of these organizations are pro-military with several incidents being recorded of oath keepers and guarding soldiers from being attacked at recruitment centers so that was a big thing a while back there was a shooting at a a recruiter office a recruiting station and i think tennessee a few years back and uh in response to that because the military for those of you who don't know military members including recruiters cannot carry weapons uh personal weapons for defense uh on base or even in their offices if their recruiting station is off base they can't they can't do that that's a regulation and so these groups oath keepers of course saying that's a huge infringement on the second amendment we're not going to stand by we're going to go guard the recruitment centers well it turns out that that you know that would stand outside recruitment center is heavily armed um but uh yeah the the recruiters were issued statement you know issued guidance of hey don't interact with these guys because it's just kind of a complex situation right so a lot of times the recruiters didn't want them there but you know they're it's a free country allegedly so that was kind of the mentality back then you know you know that being said other members and other fringe movements within these movements have definitely engaged in guerrilla warfare and insurgency and terrorism within the united states carrying out attacks on governmental complexes and and things like your more traditional al-qaeda tactics of attacking government facilities right so there are definitely there's definitely a huge threat there and moving on to sort of their physical description um you can kind of see what their uh what they all look at you know the three percenter tabs and morale patches are extremely common basically if you if you see somebody at a rally with a plate carrier on with like 50 morale patches velcro to it that's pretty much going to be somebody like a three percent or proud boy or other keeper that's usually what their their mo is um uh they they also stick by traditional pro 2a stuff you know like the modified betsy ross flag like the icon we have in the upper right hand corner the the the stars from betsy ross flag but with the roman numerals uh for the three the number three in there um you know various versions the gadget and flag you know uh stuff like that and some some parts of these you know like for instance the the proud boys are specifically male only they do not allow women into the proud boys so that's kind of another recce feature there's other more notable actions like i mentioned uh earlier earlier this year the summer violence these agencies were there not in force and not really not really in significant numbers but for instance the kenosha shooting they were definitely there also the the violence at the charlottesville riots in 2017 was a direct result of these organizations also they had a huge a huge hand in the malachi refuge siege back in 2016. if you remember that with the bundys they were also heavily involved in the kim davis incident which is in 2015 which i think was a county clerk and i think kentucky who refused to sign a uh or refused to issue like a gay or an lgbt marriage license or something like that they're also a part of the ferguson riots in 2014 2015 and the original bundy ranch standoff it's it's cut off but it wasn't on the slide here but uh i'm sorry about that but the it was the bundy ranch standoff in 2014 they were also there and most of those guys were part of these organizations so let's take a look at what these guys look like and as you can see yeah very militant very you know military-ish you can kind of see that they they heavily armed with various accoutrements of tactical gear you know some people wearing um you know gas masks things like that uh military type uniforms but there isn't really a uniform standard we've seen multi-cam patterns be be very popular lately so chances are if you see somebody wearing a multi-cam uniform and they're obviously not a cop they're not obviously not a cop or members of the military then they're probably parts of these groups so moving on to a kind of our assessment these groups are you know extremely diverse in both ideology and membership you can have guys that are legitimate like like your you know county or city rotary group or you know like the your boy scout troop could have you know oath keepers in it but you know on the other hand you can also have literally domestic terrorists that claim to be proud boys keepers of three percenters right you know um and also due to recent events a shift towards extremism has definitely been observed especially as opposition groups like blm and the nfac have gained power right you know also the sort of perceived double standard of blm being allowed to attack cities has resulted in great discontent from these groups which in turn has resulted in greater participation and counter protests from these groups you know and this is something that we're going to you know watch out for in the future this is definitely a thing to watch out for as we get closer to election time these groups you know these groups specifically are going to show up in greater numbers when it comes to protests and riots so we're going to start see just like we started to see in kenosha there was in kenosha there's a large blm contingent and a pretty good contingent from these guys as well so just keep that in mind that these counter protests are going to happen a lot more often and these guys are going to bring the heat when it comes to conflict so if these guys and the blm guys are protesting in the same area um things could go bad very very quickly you know you know it's very rare for these groups on their own when they're holding their own rallies and there's nobody else around but them they're not gonna they don't riot right that's just not what they do um but the likelihood of conflict that one of these groups protests or rallies is high um if the likelihood of a counter press protest breaking out is high as well you know these days nowadays um if you put out like on the news there's going to be a 3 rally somewhere there's going to be a blm rally pop up right there same day and they're going to try to start start stuff between each other so you know as a result once again this is another group we say just avoid at all costs avoid these guys with the same fervor and uh expediency that you would avoid the nfac or the blm so moving on to a way more extremist group the kkk which is an agency that we have seen come back out of the woodwork when it comes especially as the blm has gained power so obviously this group is very transparent in their extreme ideology they state that they are for white supremacy and genocide of anyone who's not white and that's also what they stand for that's what we observe them to be um doing right their actions meet their meet their uh stated goals right they these guys are also heavily affiliated with the oath keepers supercenters proud boys boogala boys neo-nazis things like that now we don't want to lump in all of these groups together for instance we think that the proud boys are more far more radical than you know the three percenters but and the boogaloo boys probably don't even deserve to be talked about in terms of the kkk because there's really not a correlation there however they are linked right and i'll talk about that in just a second but character characterized the kkk the ku klux klan is is pretty much the oldest white supremacist group still operating within the united states they have a long long history of violent murders and lynchings just go on their wikipedia page it is there have been novels and novels written about the kkk you know most p

the concept of the observation post has been a critical part of warfare since the dawn of time but as the industrial revolution brought about the horrors of modern warfare the concept of the listening post became in many cases even more important than observation in importance that continues to this day today most militaries refer to these as the lpop or the listening post slash observation post an observation post is a fixed position from which a person can visually observe an area of terrain or a sector of fire a listening post is again a fixed position that a person can audibly listen for enemy movement footsteps armored vehicles aircraft anything with an audible signature in modern warfare an observation post and a listening post are usually at the same physical site lpop right and are usually occupied by the same personnel it's not usually one or the other like in years past during the first world war the idea of the listening post really came into widespread use along all fronts of the war in the trenches of europe it was generally unwise to stick one's head up above the parapet to observe the enemy in fact many soldiers tragically got their first and only look at the enemy this way before immediately being killed by a sniper but just because a person might get their head shot off looking out of a trench doesn't mean that there aren't requirements to observe the enemy after all with your adversary sometimes just a few dozen yards away it would be generally a good idea to keep a lookout in case you decided to come over and check out your trench thus the listening post was born during the war all sides of the conflict would dig saps or small trenches out into no man's land with the goal of getting a soldier physically close enough to the enemy to hear them by cataloging the routine sounds of the enemy trench one could easily detect when something was off such as an increase of footsteps on duct boards or more voices than usual things that are strong indicators of soldiers massing for an attack listening posts were not only regulated to no man's land and in many cases listening posts were located behind the lines as well in the days before radar soldiers would use strange contraptions like this to listen for the sound of enemy aircraft approaching seems pretty ridiculous to us today but many reports from soldiers at the time indicate that these large acoustic devices worked shockingly well and were widely used along all fronts during the war but that didn't last for long as the interwar years came about and world war ii got underway the widespread adoption of wireless technology meant that the listening posts of old morphed into something new rather than listening for engine sounds or massing troops or footsteps the new goal was to listen in to the radio signals blasting through the air thus the birth of signals intelligence or sigint the cold war years gave us listening posts all over europe little closets where spies and analysts tried to make sense of the beeps and squeaks being emitted by their equipment and in today's world not much has changed the idea of the listening post has never had more value than in today's world not just for military means but also for the hard times we might be living through the recent conflicts around the world have shown us that we have entered a new age of warfare a new age with some not so new tricks we have seen the widespread use of new technologies at the squad or even individual level such as unmanned aerial systems and high-tech surveillance tools but we have also seen the vulnerabilities that these tools bring to the table to put it simply most people to include most military units have the digital signature of a group of middle schoolers that just discovered tiktok a unit can have the best most high-tech camouflage and be invisible to both the human eye and any sensor you swing overhead but today even just one guy on snapchat or a commander who thinks he's above the rules can get his entire unit killed in minutes so today let's briefly talk about some of the tools that might be helpful if your goal is to maintain an electronic situational awareness of what's around you one of the simplest and easiest ways to get started with this is to simply monitor the aircraft around you with a flight tracking app flight tracking apps and websites such as flight radar 24 and adsb exchange have gotten a lot of attention lately because people have started to realize just how often government intelligence collection platforms are flying around collecting intelligence on american citizens yes it is true that federal agencies and military units are known for turning off their transponders to avoid accountability however you would be surprised as to how infrequently this is done especially in the u.s if you just think about it the skies over most of the us and europe are very crowded and every civilian airport in the world has actual radar so when government agencies go dark and turn off their transponders it causes a lot of problems for other aircraft so unless there is a training exercise that is pre-planned with designated areas for flying around without a transponder on you can actually develop a very solid intelligence picture of what is around you just by downloading an app to your phone many apps even allow you to set notifications based on specific tail numbers so if you know what surveillance aircraft are typically used in your area you can get a notification whenever it goes wheels up this is a potentially life-saving feature of course there are downsides to flight tracking services that could potentially get you killed for one there's always the potential for an aircraft to turn off their transponder and you can bet that if anything shady is going on that potential is greatly increased so you never want to assume that since you don't see anything on the map you're good to go you really need to use all of the tools at your disposal when assessing risk not just a smartphone app speaking of apps not all are created equal for instance flight radar 24 regularly complies with the us government to block out all government and military aircraft adsb exchange a competing website also does this but to a much lesser extent in fact on adsb exchange you can filter the map to only show military aircraft a very handy feature indeed but as we can see the critical vulnerability with these websites is the fact that they are websites and you need not just an internet connection but a massive spy device to view the data not ideal so you end up using a smartphone that is connected to a cell tower to let you know that an aircraft overhead is collecting intelligence from that same smartphone and cell tower kind of oxymoronic in that case but there is a way around this so what you can do is build an adsb receiver this device built from a raspberry pi is flashed with stratix software which allows our phone to connect to it as a wi-fi access point this eliminates any data connection from the system entirely since you're basically just using your phone to control the adsb device the antenna on top can pick up the transponder signals of overhead aircraft and display that data on the app all without an internet connection whatsoever the only digital signature you leave behind with this example is the wi-fi connection between your phone and the actual adsb receiver box which is a lot more manageable than your phone pinging a cell phone tower however there is yet again a major drawback for this system it only works with adsb which is the transponder mode that most civilian aircraft use most military and government aircraft use what's called mode s or an assortment of other alphabet soup modes which require not just one but a network of multilateration sensors to be able to detect if this sounds complicated it's because it is and we here honestly haven't figured out a way to make this work in the field just yet so the bottom line is that you can either use a smartphone app or you can go the extra mile and build a physical offline adsb receiver and it will work to detect aircraft in your area very handy for if you frequently have suspicious aircraft flying overhead the big bummer is that it won't track most military aircraft but for civilian aircraft or federal agencies this can be a very valuable tool to have up next another tool to have in your listening post toolbox is an sdr or software defined radio software-defined radios have become very popular these days for very good reason sdrs are a great way to examine pretty much the entire radio spectrum easily and cheaply you can pick up an sdr for about 30 bucks online and when you plug it into either your phone or a computer you can take advantage of a wealth of sdr software to examine all of the signals around you the first time a person plugs in an sdr is often a very enlightening experience most people are completely unaware of just how many radio signals they can pick up even just sitting on their couch at home sdrs are a great gateway to getting into radio and are also a critical part of the intelligence collection process if you know how to use one sdrs are great because they are a tool that can be used by inexperienced users and highly advanced users depending on what one's skill level is and what their goals are sdrs are also great for introducing a lot of radio theory if a person wants to start getting into amateur radio one of the best things they can do is pick up an sdr and play around with it as they are studying radio theory things become a lot more clear when you practice and you don't have to spend a lot of money on an expensive ham radio to start understanding radio concepts but on the listening side of things sdrs are a critical intelligence collection tool being able to observe large swaths of the electromagnetic spectrum at once is very handy most sdrs themselves are pretty standard it's really the software where things can get pretty wild there are literally hundreds of different software packages that work with most sdrs so the sky is the limit for what you want to do for most people sdrs are probably going to find most use recording local radio traffic this is why many people have said that your bowel thing will get you killed because analog unencrypted radio traffic can easily be monitored by someone with an sdr now of course i don't want to put the balfang down too much they certainly have their uses and rest assured the 300 top of the line analog handheld still has the same exact problem so cost or quality has nothing to do with it this is simply a massive vulnerability of analog unencrypted communications during the riots of the past couple of years i myself have used sdrs to listen in on rioters planning attacks and also have tracked them since most of them have no concept of opsec and they freely use their real names and locations of course a lot of people have gotten wise to this these days but for the most part the second that a riot kicks off for the shooting starts all opsec goes right out the window but one of the problems with sdrs is that they often times are overwhelming and are rarely plug and play i guarantee you that if you don't have a lot of experience with radios and you plug in an sdr you're probably going to say what is all of this the trade-off with sdrs is that really to get the most out of them you really have to train with them and work the kinks out with whatever software you are using most people for simple use are going to be using as program called sdr sharp that's the main baseline software that a lot of people use just to simply listen to what their sdr has to receive right out of the gate using sdrs at the tactical level is getting easier and there is a lot of development being done by a lot of companies on this so i would expect a lot of interesting things to be coming out in the near future that incorporate sdrs into more of a tactical setup but for right out of the box push one button and go operations one device that might help you out a lot is a radio scanner police scanners might be a bit outdated these days with strs being so popular and cheap but scanners might still have a place in your listening post for a few reasons having a device that is dedicated to sweeping through public service frequencies is very helpful to have if you are running other equipment for instance if you have a laptop set up in your listening post hooked up to either an hf radio or an sdr or some other kind of software it's going to be pretty tough to use an sdr for listening to specific frequencies all at the same time you might be able to get different virtual audio ports to work and use different kinds of cabling and things like that but for many people this is kind of a hassle and it's a bit buggy depending on the software you're using this is where having a dedicated scanner can be useful while you're working with other devices you can plug some earbuds into your scanner turn it on and let it do its thing while you are working on other stuff or while the ports on your laptop are occupied with other devices that's kind of what i do a lot of times it's really easy to stuff a battery-powered scanner in a pouch and run an earbud up to your ear while you were on the move to your hide site sure it's probably a much better idea to be able to hear your surroundings but it's also handy to hear the local message traffic before you move into an area as with everything there are trade-offs with doing this but anyway once you get to your hide site or listening post you can have a scanner on in the background as you pull out your gear route your cables and settle in as with every device there are a few downsides to using scanners for one there aren't that many to choose from that are battery powered and the ones that are are very very expensive for what you get a good handheld battery powered scanner that is capable of picking up and decoding p25 transmissions will run you several hundred dollars that's a bit steep considering you can arguably get even more capability with a thirty dollar sdr and some free software but you have to remember that scanners are standalone devices you don't need to bring a laptop or a smartphone to use them sdrs you do you will need a phone or a laptop to use an sdr so that cost has to be accounted for too as for me personally we've got a couple of scanners floating around the office here so i tend to use them pretty often because we have them but knowing what i know now and seeing the extreme price jump that most electronics have undergone these days i probably would not drop five to seven hundred bucks on a scanner if i had to do it all over again i myself would probably put that money towards something else and just deal with the frustrations that might come with using an sdr for scanning needs this brings up the side note that from the perspective of a prepared citizen fiscal responsibility is real which reminds us to focus on capabilities rather than the shiny toys themselves these days we've got to be aware that asking your team members to all go out and spend 700 on a police scanner is not a realistic request but if you can add a police scanner to your setup it will add capabilities and convenience to your listening post the convenience of having a standalone device is very handy to have but it's yet another thing to carry that needs batteries and is very expensive one thing i should mention is that you don't necessarily have to buy a scanner to understand what's going on in your local area you can to start with download a police scanner app and see what's out there there are many websites and apps that allow you to select your city and listen to the main police or fire department frequencies that's cool if you're just getting started or just casually interested in listening to police traffic or even better you're trying to listen to traffic from a different city than you're located in many people have figured out that you can listen into the local police frequencies of cities where kinetic events are happening but as one might guess the downsides of using a police scanner app far outweigh the benefits for long-term use for one police departments have gotten wise to this and have even conducted deception operations spreading false information over the unencrypted radio to trick their adversaries also police scanner websites are heavily censored and in the past have responded to requests to shut down their streaming services to particular feeds and finally the biggest vulnerability is of course that these apps require a data connection and the internet to function so overall the amount of useful information that you would get from a scanner app doesn't hold a candle to the data that that spy satellite in your pocket is beaming directly into a surveillance aircraft or a fake cell phone tower so you can try out scanner websites or use them for listening to areas that are far beyond the range of a normal scanner but these days listening to scanner traffic on the internet has suffered from diminishing returns so often times the juice isn't worth the squeeze along the same lines as scanners and sdrs but significantly more complicated are few devices of questionable nature that you might find to be quite handy in some situations specifically i'm talking about the hack rf1 mayhem version this is kind of a new class of device it's a bit hard to explain in short it's a handheld battery-powered sdr with a lot of hacking tools built into it unlike most other sdrs on the market this sdr can transmit and this is where the questionable nature of these kinds of devices comes into play this device right out of the box can jam message traffic can spoof gps signals can intercept and playback car key fobs and intercept pretty much every bit of traffic that is whizzing through the air many of these capabilities are very illegal to do in the us to the best of my knowledge but nonetheless these devices have become somewhat common and might be useful depending on what you are trying to do honestly as cool as the questionable features are this bad boy is not cranking out nearly enough power to make it worthwhile i think these devices for the moment belong on the workbench for testing it is helpful for diagnostics or for teaching and illustrating concepts but in real world use the feature that most people will find useful is simply just having a standalone sdr device with its own screen again i must point out that the hack rf1 and other cloned devices like this one are not for beginners and you can cause a lot of problems and break a lot of stuff if you don't know what you're doing with these and since the only way that you can currently get these in the us is to order them from china this extremely delicate device might not be the best fit for everyone for me this device falls into the category of bleeding edge developmental tech that might not be the best for real world operations just yet but in the right hands these devices might be really useful and i look forward to the next generations of such devices so to recap when we are making our modern day electronic listing posts we can be as simple or as complex as the mission requires a listening post can be as simple as a person sitting in their car watching a flight tracking app or we can erect a camouflaged hide site in a contested environment electronically sniffing out signals as they are emitted by a careless adversarial force so stepping back from the actual sensors themselves let's think about some other things that we might need to know or consider for building a listening post up first are your own communications of course if a situation exists and wish you would need a listening post chances are you will need to communicate with your own team as well this again could be as simple or as complex as you need and your own communications needs will dictate what you choose you could simply just have a handheld uhf radio that you use to let your neighbor know what you just heard on your scanner it doesn't have to be super complicated but it can be if needed in fact your own radios that you use for your own communication can be intelligence collection tools as well using your sdr you can start observing who's out there and what frequencies they are using then you can take your own handheld radio and connect it up to a yagi antenna to approximate which direction these transmissions are coming from two or three observation posts operating in conjunction with each other can provide some scary accurate direction finding capabilities direction finding is a huge topic and we've kind of talked about this before but for a more casual user a simple directional antenna which hopefully you are able to use for your own internal communications can also serve you very well when trying to direction find any adversarial signals you pick up with your sdr and let me tell you you're going to be really popular with intel dudes if you can send in a report with not only the frequency of what you heard but also a rough bearing from your position maybe not super useful if you're a one-man show but if you're working with a team of neighbors or friends and you're lucky enough to have someone coordinating information from listening posts this information will be very nice to have we also have to remember to keep things feasible and realistic another major consideration for even considering setting up a listening post is our end goal and whether or not our actions are even worth it in the long run for the most part most people are going to be interested in setting up and occupying a listening post in response to world events a riot kicks off and you might spend a night at your living room window observing your field of view and listening to radio chatter very few people are going to be implementing a listening post into their daily lives and that's perfectly fine but again like we say constantly the boring stuff is in most cases even more important than all the cool guy stuff you will have no trouble convincing anyone to go have a range day with you but it will be like pulling teeth to get someone to go sit in an observation post for a couple of hours a week listening to local radio traffic to get an understanding of the baseline activity that's understandably a big challenge for people to meet and even these days where there are actually kind of a lot of people that understand the importance of integrating operations like this into their daily lives listening to radio traffic after you've had a long day at work will get irritating after a few weeks remember we're planning for not just an uncomfortable week out on the field not just an uncomfortable couple of weeks practicing skills we're talking about potentially using these skills over decades this is made especially more irritating when considering where most listening posts will have to be located which is something i have left out until now unlike listening posts in the past which had to be physically located very close to an adversary's position our modern electronic listening posts can be a little bit more flexible with its location since we're listening for radio signals or other emissions we can be pretty much anywhere that our sensors can pick up these signals so in most cases you don't actually have to go out to a fox hole in the woods to set up a listening post of course this will depend on your electronic environment but most people can just set up listing posts in their own home for instance you can decide alright something's going down i hear a lot of helicopters in the area we need to get comms and some electronic surveillance up and running and in most cases this could be as simple as sitting on your couch and opening up a laptop with an sdr that's perfectly fine if you're able to do that but in many cases we also have to remember that integrating a listening post or just basic electronic surveillance tools into your normal everyday life is not going to be so easy or seamless a lot of people myself included have a lot of electromagnetic interference or emi in their home so you might have to relocate a bit usually outside or up in an attic or something like that and as we all know the further away we get from a point of convenience the more unlikely we are to do something what is going to happen is this you get home from work and see that there is a riot planned for that night or a new checkpoint that has gone up in your area and you decide that it would be a good idea to set up your electronic surveillance and see what's out there well you can't hear anything from inside your house so you've got to go to your backyard oh and now it's raining so you've got to set up a tent but by now home life catches up to you and two hours have a lap so it's getting late and you're super tired and you've got to get up early in the next morning you see where all this is going if it is not immediately convenient and effortless people will just not do it that's something that i myself have come to realize over the years especially with anything to do with communications and i get it i understand that radios are not exciting and frequently very very hard to understand and there are only so many hours in the day so it's hard to dedicate time to listening to the radio to see what's going on but a lot of times it's also super frustrating to watch someone stay up all night researching their latest clone ar build but suddenly get real sleepy when radios or electronic surveillance comes up anyway this digression is necessary because it's reality we're not going to be embracing the suck in a hole in the woods because some nco told us to civilian life is not the same as military life especially when it comes to things like electronic surveillance and building listening posts we have to consider a person's motivation even our own motivation and how stuff like this can be implemented into our daily lives remember throughout history ordinary citizens in times of struggle have had full-time jobs homesteaded as much as they could and also ran more clandestine lifestyles behind the scenes all three of these are full-time jobs in and of themselves but when hard times hit the prepared citizen becomes even more busy than ever we here get a lot of questions from people who are either by themselves or it's just them and their spouse and or kids and they are wondering how they can implement a lot of this stuff if their team is basically just themselves and maybe one or two other people well there's nothing wrong with this for for a long time i myself was running basically a one-man operations center in my local area so i know how difficult it is to run one-man or really small teams and even to this day with everyone's schedule being really full and everyone having their own lives right it's it's a lot harder to run team operations especially for a specific static event right and we have a lot of stuff coming out soon on that front but for now speaking of listening posts we have to realize that a one-man listening post is going to be challenging because a person can only do so much sure you can potentially automate a lot of this stuff and once you get more experience even build unmanned electronic surveillance devices but for the most part we're going to suffer from the opportunity cost of time management time that you spend sending your own radio traffic is time you are not spending listening to adversaries the time you spend messing around with an sdr is time that you're probably not paying attention to your scanner and time that you are sleeping or conducting camp tasks or even just having a home life is time that you are not really manning your post so with all of that being said here are some things you can do to more easily integrate electronic surveillance capabilities into your daily life first up is have a goal we in the intelligence world might call this a collection plan or a series of priority intelligence requirements in other words a series of questions that you need to answer this can be as formal or as casual as needed but it's very handy to making you feel like you aren't wasting your time you don't want to get all set up and surround yourself with expensive gear only to say alright now what do i do having clear goals for your listening post will not just help yourself stay motivated but will also be handy for anyone else who might be part of your group you never know if your listening post or your electronic surveillance skills proves their worth you might find that others want to join you and network with you this is very unlikely to happen if you aren't prepared so adding just a pinch of professionalism and organization can add legitimacy to what otherwise might feel a bit like larping in the woods without a clear goal nothing wrong with that but if you want to be efficient with your training setting goals is a great way to do that up next is shelter again while i myself am a fan of a just suck it up mentality when it comes to operations that's just not realistic in the long run so for a lot of this stuff comfort is a much higher priority than we might be used to in a military context this is mostly reflected in the choice of shelter or even having a shelter at all i know that if i'm going to be spending some time in an area or a static location i will just set up a tent for a listening post even if i'm not planning on sleeping somewhere a tent offers protection from the elements which is nice because i guarantee you that the moment you have all of your delicate electronics out and cables strung everywhere it's gonna start raining there is another benefit to using a tent versus just spreading out your gear in the open and that benefit is privacy let's be honest a lot of us are going to be setting up listening posts in our backyards either legitimately or for training a lot of people are going to be setting up posts in places where other people might be in close proximity to their location i don't know about anyone else but these days especially after the past two years most state county and city parks in my area are like times square there are people everywhere in the woods these days i spent a good portion of my childhood camping in state parks all up and down the east coast and in most cases my family and i were the only people in the entire park not so these days so if you have the idea of oh let's go camping at a state park or a national park this weekend to practice skills unless you are backpacking miles into the backcountry be prepared for someone to walk up to your campsite things can get a little bit weird if you've got thousands of dollars of surveillance equipment laid out for everyone to see so keeping your gear in a tent away from prying eyes would probably be a good idea yeah i know the solution to this would be to just not camp in state parks or national parks or places where campsites even exist i understand and agree and i personally prefer not to train on public land anyway or anywhere near other humans makes things simpler that way but again we have to be realistic and most people are just not going to ruck 50 miles into the woods just for an overnight training exercise most people are also not going to dig a fighting position to sleep in every night or spend hours concealing their position that would be great to do but sometimes we have training goals that make it not particularly feasible to go for an ultra stealth camp setup most people are going to go out into their yard where there might be prying eyes of neighbors that might not be so friendly or they are otherwise going to go to more generally publicly accessible locations and these days anything public easily accessible and free is going to bring a stampede of people that make it not a super great idea to advertise that you're intercepting radio transmissions again maybe not a super big consideration for some but i did want to mention it because not many people talk about this sort of thing these days even though it's become a pretty big training barrier for most having a dedicated and protected place to set up a listening post is not only great for mobility and privacy but it is really handy to have if you are by yourself and you have to have more force multiplying gear to make up for not having people to help you out and speaking of not having that many people to help you out automation will make your life easier if you can figure out how to implement it into your setup now i've got to be super vague on this topic for now because i myself am still working through some automation options for electronic listening posts just as soon as i or the team here finds something really cool we test it out and find a lot of bugs or it's just not a super good fit or something else so we've got some work to do on that front but i did want to mention that automation is very handy to have software packages that automatically record and store message traffic speech to text engines signal decoders network analysis tools tools that automatically identify signals direction finding tools all of this stuff would really take your listening post to the next level but again we've got some work to do to get all this to work and finally integration integrating listening post capabilities into something else is a great way to make sure you are training efficiently you don't have to be so formal about listening posts to maintain effectiveness you can take along a phone and an sdr when you go camping and spend an hour or so just playing around with it when you have some downtime maintaining a knowledge of how the features work on the app or the software that you use if you are already setting up an observation post bring along a police scanner and increase your capabilities beyond your line of sight using an adsb receiver will allow you to intercept aircraft transponder transmissions which will allow you to identify and differentiate the different aircraft that might be in your area any little bit of electronic surveillance that you can integrate into your operations is helpful if not for the information that you collect then for the training that you get 95 of the time you try to collect some information you're gonna come up short you're just not going to get anything that's reliable but just like they call it fishing not catching you have to go through the effort to get that last five percent of information that might be helpful the great part about all of this is that you can pick and choose what you want to do and flex what gear you have to meet your needs so to wrap things up let's remember that this example is just one way of doing things your listening post could be as small as the admin pouch on your plate carrier with an str antenna hanging out the side or it could be as old school as a closet in your house with covert antennas strung up in the attic to intercept communications or other signals in your local area you might choose to incorporate some surveillance capabilities into your radio setup the list of things you can do is endless one thing to remember though is that if your listening post also happens to transmit anything such as your own radio communications be mindful that radio shacks tend to be called artillery magnets for a reason a good textbook listening post will not emit any signals but instead house sensors to soak up the surrounding message traffic but as always your setup will be dependent on your goals and since we don't have to worry about mortars slamming into our living rooms just yet transmitting routine combs from your listening post for training and safety purposes might be perfectly fine in some situations always a good idea to keep your missions under control though if you can anyway let's remember the overall goal here baby steps into the world of sigint the second nerds of years past huddled away in their closets with their beeps and squeaks haven't done a super great job at making their field understandable by normal people and likewise many people haven't been interested in dipping their toes into the world of sigit either so it's a two-way street but in today's world integrating your own sigint or electronic surveillance capabilities even at the smallest individual level has become necessary we have got to get ahead of the game here and right now even a 30 dollar sdr is a force multiplier that can make millions of dollars of military tech irrelevant despite the hundreds of billions of dollars that nations around the world spend on defense we're finding out right now just how effective the average citizen in the right place at the right time can be so let's get out there and get after it pitch a tent in the backyard and go camping for a night with the kids the next time you're training at the range take along an sdr and see who's talking on the radio around you i guarantee you there will be a few people talking on unencrypted analog radios that you can listen in on which is great for practice remember crawl walk then run second is a huge topic so we really have to take baby steps when trying to learn how to use these tools otherwise we'll get frustrated and rage quit never to return learning how to use an sdr is one of the very first steps and as you grow and learn the grand question is going to come up what do i do with all of the information i collect and that my friends is a topic for another day for now let's encourage one another to realize the urgency and importance of organic second capabilities and more importantly how to integrate these capabilities into our daily lives in such a way that it's not going to be overwhelming or annoying in the long run that's the real challenge and one that is going to be tough to meet but as always the first step is to get out there and practice so let's go do exactly that even if we have to for the time being fight in the shade

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