modern warfare is utterly terrifying for many reasons but one of the main fears of the modern battle space and in civilian life is the unmanned aerial system or uas drones have been a fear for many since the days of the global war on terrorism and the recent wars in nagorno-karabakh and in ukraine have proven just how deadly small consumer-grade uas platforms really are so today we're going to quickly go over some tips and tricks for evading uas platforms this video is really meant to be a quick guide so we're not going to go into the intricacies of each uas platform in existence rather we're going to cover the basics and some immediate actions for evading uas platforms remember based on how quickly uas platforms have become a huge problem in warfare the doctrine on this topic is still being written right now even currently u.s military doctrine on the topic is really lackluster and sort of a last-ditch effort to address the topic so just keep that in mind a drone doctrine is nowhere near as solidified as something like small unit tactics or other basic infantry skills which have more or less been set in stone for decades drones use in war is relatively new and though there are volumes written on active and passive uas defense based on a variety of factors the doctrine put forth by the powers that be is still very much up for debate especially the stuff in the public sphere and all of this is very much affected by recent developments in warfare so just keep that in mind as we go along so to begin what do we mean when we say uas platform or suas small uas platform well really what we're talking about is any small usually man-portable unmanned aircraft these days we're usually talking about quadcopters in most cases but this category can include things like the classic raven system or commercially made parrot fixed wing systems things like that uas platforms are usually only used locally controlled by a single user with a hand controller however many systems are capable of autonomous flight which would only require the user to set a series of waypoints for the uas to fly to for the sake of simplicity this can also include loitering munitions now loitering munitions vary in many ways from uas platforms and they are not particularly new but their extensive use in ukraine and in karabakh has raised many eyebrows as a result most counter-uas doctrine has been tailored to apply to loitering munitions as well because the defenses from such are mostly the same all around another thing to get out of the way is what do we mean when we say evading uas platforms what exactly are we evading in warfare small uas platforms such as quadcopter systems have really been used for two purposes observation and kinetic targeting within these two categories there are various subfields so let's talk kinetic targeting first suas platforms can be used for targeting in many ways but the main uses of which are the following sacrificial attacks in which the drone itself is usually loaded with explosives and deliberately flown by an operator into a target detonating the explosives and sacrificing the uas platform in the process this form of attack might seem costly as the expensive drone is lost however considering that this style of attack can achieve the same or sometimes even better success than a several hundred thousand dollar precision guided small diameter munition well the cost of losing the drone is insignificant historically we have seen this style of attack most commonly in the middle east mostly syria iraq and yemen in which insurgent groups would use this style of attack to target various targets the other style of attack is munitions delivery in short the uas platform physically carrying a small munition usually a single hand grenade or a smaller mortar around or even an improvised munition and then dropping these munitions over a target using both the gps position and the onboard camera as a crude aiming device and also to document battle damage this style of attack was again popularized by insurgent groups in the middle east but recently has been all but perfected by ukrainian forces fighting russia videos abound on the internet of soldiers using dropper devices on consumer drones to drop rgd5 hand grenades on russian troops with shocking accuracy so those are the two main ways these small uas platforms can conduct kinetic targeting both of which have their benefits and downsides flying munitions directly into a target sacrifices the drone but can be way more accurate even against heavily fortified targets and since factoring in a return trip is unnecessary users can effectively double the range of the drone on the other hand dropping munitions from above saves the drone but isn't conducive to a large payload and is arguably more inaccurate but other than kinetic targeting suas platforms have an arguably even more deadly mission observation again within this use case there are a lot of different practices up first is the least deadly standard observation and intelligence collection in the united states this is the most common domestic use of such uas platforms small quadcopters are used by everyone from law enforcement to nosy neighbors to get a bird's eye view of their local surroundings this can bring a lot of different problems camouflage is a big concern as is movement and vehicle positions an adversary can gain a lot of information about a military force from a drone that they bought on amazon but speaking from the military side of things drones that are purely for observation can be dealt with effective camouflage discipline and constantly changing positions all drastically reduce the effectiveness of drones that are solely meant to spy on you by the time the intelligence is collected and processed it's already stale because you have moved but there's the problem when that sucker whizzes by over your head you don't know if it's merely trying to spy on you or if it's being used to direct artillery yes besides just spying on you for intel purposes the other main use for small uas platforms these days has been for the directing of artillery now this is a huge topic artillery observation is no joke and there are volumes of doctrine about it but in actual warfare we have seen a wide array of uses ranging from formalized and proper observations to the ukrainian or russian equivalent of bubba sending up the drone to see if the enemy is in that trench over there and if they are hanging a couple of mortar rounds on that position in the ukrainian conflict russia in particular has been very fond of this tactic ever since the initial invasion in 2014 a commonality that has withstood the test of time is ukrainian soldiers and western observers noting a uas flying overhead which meant that they had just a few minutes before the artillery bombardment would be impacting their area for the longest time the mere sight of a uas was enough for soldiers to hunker down or evade at high speeds from the area which is a sentiment that has heavily influenced the doctrine on this topic to this day so all in all there are a few reasons as to why a uas platform might be observing you it could simply be observing you in the traditional orwellian sense or it could be trying to drop a grenade on you there's no real way to know for sure in warfare but the history of your local area will be a good indicator if you are in new york city for instance that's probably the police spying on you without a warrant if you are in the donbass well it would be safe to assume that a grenade or an artillery strike is about to hit your position so you can see that these different potential uses make it impossible to create blanket doctrine for all uas encounters in some situations it would be best to hide from the drone and wait it out but in other situations waiting it out might turn into a non-survivable artillery barrage so taking all of this into account what general tips can we come up with for defense against small unmanned aerial systems number one is pay attention arguably the hardest thing to do these days simply paying attention to one's surroundings is one of the primary ways the uas platforms will be detected by the average soldier or citizen fatigue working parties conducting personal hygiene and any other number of tasks that are conducted in combat zones can be a distraction do not become distracted i know it's easier said than done but remember how important this is uas defense should not be treated like we treated in direct fire or idf attacks during the g-watt years dudes would not even get out of the rack for a rocket attack most of the time and complacency was rampant these days were entering an age of more near-pier threats and just like we're finding out in ukraine seeing a drone overhead very likely will result in a full-on artillery barrage from multiple batteries and i don't know about you but i never want to find out what it's like to be on the receiving end of a battery of rocket artillery so take it seriously and pay attention number two is operate at night or periods of limited visibility despite all of the hype surrounding drones these days they are not the boogeyman they can be defeated and in 99 of cases the kryptonite for the average drone is weather like we've said before weather is the biggest limiting factor for most military operations but especially for anything that flies through the air low cloud ceilings heavy fog or really any kind of precipitation severely degrades most unmanned aerial systems now the caveat to this is that small quadcopters almost always fly beneath cloud ceilings so if you've got an overcast sky at say 2000 feet sure you'd be pretty well sure that most high-flying assets won't be up but most quadcopters are going to be flying at like one to two hundred feet so the whole cloud ceiling consideration is kind of irrelevant for these kinds of platforms however what is not irrelevant at least not yet anyway is darkness simply put most consumer grade uas platforms don't have infrared or thermal cameras on them just yet yes the technology exists and you can purchase drones right off the shelf with this technology right now and most police departments in the us have this exact technology but for the average person who orders a drone off the internet to include most of the ones we've seen being used in actual warfare they just have a normal day tv camera this is why operating or maneuvering at night still might be useful even in a near-pier situation where neither combatant truly owns the knight will operating at night be a foolproof way to prevent drone attacks no but it's better than doing nothing and darkness can severely degrade the capabilities of most civilian consumer-grade drones that are out there and since these are the kinds of drones that are still heavily used in war darkness is still helpful but then again darkness can also bring a false sense of security so you have to weigh that as well this will not always be the case and in just a few years it's very likely that thermal cameras will be standard on even the cheapest civilian grade quadcopter but for now we can hope that the amazon specials we're seeing all over the globe remain the de facto standard for a while number three is maintain proper dispersion there is a reason that this has been a basic soldier skill since the invention of artillery dispersion is the act of spreading out the location of forces so that they are both harder to detect and also more difficult to target with a single munition in other words spread out and don't clump together again easier said than done in combat situations it's not exactly fun hiding in a hole alone getting shot at but sometimes that's exactly what's needed to ensure the best chance of survival and this does not only apply to active combat zones but even civilian life as well humans are social creatures and it's only natural for people to want to hang out together during down times or during meals or stuff like that don't let this turn into a vulnerability even if all you're doing is hiding from police drones in the park number four is practice good opsec again the ukrainian conflict is proving just how important opsec is and how much of a liability smartphones are in the battlespace military commands around the world have seen how simple social media posts have resulted in the deaths of many and opsec has finally been realized for the significant threat that it is however all it takes is one person to mess it up a commander who makes all of his troops leave their phones at home and screams at them for hours about the importance of opsec going through mandatory powerpoint trainings but in the end ends up taking his own phone to the field well that's not going to end well opsec has also been a bear for the special forces community for years with egos being mostly to blame not pointing any fingers at any particular unit or situation but opsec is kind of an all or nothing thing in these situations when it comes to specifically uas concerns the proliferation of uas platforms at even the squad level means that units and echelons that previously would have zero intel collection capability now have tools at their disposal for instance imagine a squad that's holed up on some hilltop somewhere on an observation mission they've got a few guys some basic optics and some basic electronic surveillance or direction finding gear well in years past if they picked up any transmissions the best they could do is log it or maybe radio it in and maybe their division could get a theater level asset to collect on it in a couple of weeks but now we're in a situation where if the sigit dude picks up some hostile chatter from that hill over there they can now quickly put up a drone and go check it out themselves in a matter of minutes so with regards to opsec we don't just have to be concerned with satellites or regional elent collection threats but we've also got to worry about the rifleman squad having similar capabilities and number five use camouflage concealment and decoys effectively uas platforms are rightfully some scary things but again they are not without their faults and by and large the camouflage doctrine that's been in existence since world war ii is still very effective in most cases camouflage your position at every opportunity and always practice the best tennis of personal camouflage in keeping with the theme today this is yet again easier said than done camouflage is almost never a priority in garrison environments or even in some combat situations remember a massive danger for armed forces today is to be perpetually stuck in a training mentality a mentality that transfers over to actual combat situations yes training is good but when the chips are down it's time to drop the notional mentality this is not really much of a concern for a civilian populace as we don't have to worry about someone yelling at us for painting our rifle or using the right camouflage for the environment but for the average citizen the discipline of sticking with camouflage and constantly improving it is just as difficult as for the soldier so at last we come to the question what should i do if i see a uas thankfully all of this prior doctrine will help us make that decision because as you can see the answer to that question is highly dependent on your situation and location so for us one of the first immediate actions upon seeing a uas is to stop stop all movement and seek immediate cover if possible even if you have seen or heard a uas platform flying nearby the operator might not have seen you but if the operator has seen you and the drone has a grenade that the operator plans to drop on you chances are you're not going to have much time for anything other than dropping to the ground like you would for any other idf situation remember even with autonomous flight we're playing the operator as much as the sensor platform itself so even if your adversary can play back the footage later and clearly see you we have to remember that in most cases the operator is using a small phone screen and based on what we know about the human eye we know that humans are most attracted to movement so keeping still can be a huge benefit for avoiding being detected in the first place and in a lot of cases the drone is already gone before you can even figure out where it was number two is to hide if it is clear that the uas has seen you or if it is orbiting around you conceal yourself from its view chances are you are not going to know what kind of sensors it has on board so preparing for the worst case scenario a thermal camera is probably the best course of action really any physical barrier between your body heat and a thermal camera will provide effective camouflage just make sure to not touch the material and convect your heat through it we will touch on this more when we talk about thermal camouflage next up is weight most uas quadcopters have a relatively short flight time with even top shelf models really hovering at around that 30 minute flight time if the drone is carrying a payload the flight time will be significantly shorter so in many cases you can simply head indoors or hang out in a protected structure until the drone is gone this is most helpful in the domestic united states where we don't have to worry about kinetic targeting just yet but in areas in which kinetic targeting or artillery observation is a concern waiting might be counterproductive especially if you are in an area that is not survivable in the event of an artillery barrage in that situation it might be better to transition to the next tip which is to move if you are in a combat zone with a history of uas platforms being used to direct artillery strikes it might be better to maneuver to a more survivable location if you see a this will of course be highly situation dependent so listening to those who have more experience in that particular area would obviously be a better choice than this video generally speaking if you don't know the drone's intentions it would be better to maneuver to better cover if it's close by just in case and finally engage the platform if you can if all else fails you can attempt to engage the uas with whatever small arms you have on hand this is going to be largely an impossible task especially with the proliferation of fpv drones which have incredible rates of speed but for the drone that's carrying a mortar round and is more or less hovering over your position you will have to decide what's the better move taking cover or engaging the threat that if you somehow manage to hit will probably crash directly over your position and explode anyway but again this will be highly situation dependent so all in all we can see that evading uas platforms might be difficult but it is certainly not impossible we here fully expect smarter minds than ours to refine counter uas doctrine even more over the coming years especially taking into consideration the lessons learned in modern warfare and in modern civilian society but for now this quick collection of random tips will have to suffice in the absence of a more research-based deep dive on the topic when trying to talk about topics at the bleeding edge of warfare innovation we have to realize that sometimes screaming for a source will not exactly provide one but for those interested in learning more about counter uas doctrine please check out these publications so thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time and as always fight in the shade you

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for August 3rd through the 9th, 2025. It has been extremely busy around the world and at home this week, so let's go ahead and get right to it. Most of the events that have taken place around the United States this week have pertained to things like mass shootings, IEDs, utter pandemonium, you get the idea. Most of which are isolated incidents. However, these could also be an indication of growing sentiment here in the homeland, which we'll touch on in just a moment. Our friends to the north are not doing so well either as the wildfires in Canada continue to spread. But also social considerations start factoring in as Canada begins uh what many are calling climate lockdowns in certain areas such as Nova Scotia. Overseas things are indeed moving once again in Ukraine and in the Middle East. In Ukraine, peace talks are continuing and discussions between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine continue to be more frank in nature as all sides are seeking to try to just get down to brass tax and figure out what's what it's going to take to end this conflict. Ukraine is obviously not going to budge on any of their uh demands from their side. However, they're not really that much of a factor as much as it may be unfortunate for them to hear. What Ukraine thinks is not really a factor in this conflict. to the most of the negotiation is being undertaken between the United States and Russia as as one might expect. Russia wants eastern Ukraine. The United States says there may be some territorial exchange probably Donetsk and Luhansk if not more. Again, none of this is particularly new. This has always kind of been on the table ever since Russia was able to take Donetsk and Luhansk and hold both of those regions fairly effectively throughout the duration of the war. So again, not surprising in the slightest, but uh now that this is starting to get a little bit closer to the to the finish line here, things may uh start clicking into place. Who knows? We've gotten much closer before and uh things have veered away sharply right at the end. So this whole situation is is very dynamic and and absolutely nothing is certain. Similar situation in the Middle East. Uh something that is not unsurprising in the slightest is the announcement that Israel is going to annex Gaza and officially bring uh Gaza into uh Israel's formal territory. Once again, like a broken record, this is not new by any means. Israeli media has been saying this once every couple of weeks for the past year or so. And most Western media is now kind of forming the general consensus that Israel is probably moving into the stages to actually formally try to take Gaza more militarily. You know, again, easier said than done, right? Israel has quote unquote invaded Gaza at least a dozen times now. Somehow or another. We always hear about a new invasion in the next every couple of months, right? So, it's not as simple as that. It's not like this is going to be a particularly easy military victory, but it will definitely be a lot easier now to just roll in and and start bulldozing the rubble now that basically everything in Gaza has been bombed. What this means for the average American taxpayer is that once this conflict is settled one way or the other, if Israel is able to achieve their strategic goals, which again is not a foregone conclusion, but let's just say they do it. Let's just say they're able to take Gaza and into their uh terrain in the way that they want to do it. What will that mean? Well, that will mean that a front uh in a war is is no longer a factor. Right? So, if you're a nation state, this going going back to all forms of warfare doctrine. If you're a nation state and you're fighting on multiple fronts, when one front collapses or is no longer a factor or you reach a sort of peace agreement with a nation, either through diplomatic means or by killing all of them, when that front is no longer a fighting front, that means you can shift resources to other fronts. So, all of that is to say, when Gaza is fully militarily conquered, we'll probably see a very strong shift of resources to one of Israel's other fronts. We're talking West Bank, we're talking Syria, maybe Iran again, I don't know. Uh either way, the United States will be involved in some form or fashion. So this is something to keep an eye on uh unfortunately. So that's it for the global overview. Let's go ahead and shift to the United States and talk about the uh kinetic events that have taken place this week. This is again the general overview of what I have uh been aware of and kind of been investigating on my own. This is by no means all of the things that have occurred this week. Uh this is just the stuff that I've been able to put on the map and do a little bit of investigation on my own. Some of the more high-profile things. And once again, it has been a very very kinetic week, right? The proverbial frog in the pot appears to be simmering at this point. So again, this is fairly typical for the summertime in the United States when uh general crime increases, mass shootings tend to increase uh during the summer months as well. A lot of these general crimes tend to kind of pop up uh when when weather is pretty good. It's not really a causation thing. It's more of a correlation thing, but this is definitely a correlation that kind of pops up every year. But this time this week, we've had multiple mass shootings, multiple uh IEDs and arson attacks uh take place all around the United States. So again, we'll touch on some of these as I get to them through the regions, but just as a brief overview, we of course have the IED factory that was discovered in Long Beach. This was revealed to us through the DOJ where classic case, right? Uh the FBI befriends somebody online who wants to be a bomb maker. They provide all the resources to do so and eventually take him down, right? Fairly standard MMO from the FBI. Uh, and really the only source of this information is of course the DOJ. So not a whole lot of information on this. I'm calling this an IED factory incident because this was what the guy was doing and that's the doctrinal term to describe a structure in which explosives are being made. Right? So ammunition and weapons production facilities sometimes if they're more improvised we shorten that to IED factory uh in the nomenclature. So it sounds really scary, right? IED factory. It sounds bigger than it is in a lot of cases, but this is a nomenclature, even if it turns out to be some goober making some very poorly constructed IED uh in their back room, which has occurred a couple of times this week. Anyway, moving on to a more deliberate attack was the arson attack in St. Louis, specifically the township of Clayton. this incident. I'm waiting on more information for this because obviously this is very politically hot button topic and I don't know if there's going to be some manipulation going on with the information that we have, but allegedly an IDF soldier uh was targeted in an arson attack by someone setting fire to the vehicles on the street outside his house and leaving anti-Israel or anti-IDF uh graffiti. I've not seen an uncensored version of the graffiti, so I'm not entirely certain what what was said. I've not been able to confirm a whole lot of the details myself on this or or even really dig into this a whole lot. So hopefully next week we'll have something that I can work with, but right now it's just information operations all around unfortunately on that one. Moving over to Tennessee again, an IED factory in Old Fort was discovered. We'll talk about it here in a minute, but uh this was definitely a case of some goober uh trying to build what he thought were IEDs in his in his back room. And yeah, you'll see the photos here in a minute and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. But more kinetically this week, we of course have the mass shooting at Fort Stewart in Georgia and also the mass shooting in Atlanta, which took place last night. I haven't been able to uh dig into too many details on that one, but again, two instances which are very highly polarizing. The shooting at the army base uh appears to be more of a workplace dispute. I can't that's just speculation at the moment. I can't confirm any of this, but it it appears to be a workplace dispute. We'll know soon enough because uh of the five people who were shot at Fort Stewart, all five of them are expected to survive and only two of them had minor injuries. So uh we'll definitely know how that whole situation went down if the army is willing to uh release a lot of those details. The shooting in Atlanta is going to be much harder to get information on as the shooting took place at the CDC headquarters. So that's it for the general overview. Let's go ahead and shift to Canada for just a moment. So, as many of you know, Canada is dealing with a very severe wildfire uh crisis situation, mostly in central Canada, but also dotted throughout the country and really the continent as well. All of these red dots uh that you can see here on the slide depict current detections of wildfires or some kind of heat signature. So, this is something you can see on my online tracking maps. You can turn this layer on or off. Uh it's it's off by default, but if you go into the layers, you can turn on the fire data, and there's several different satellite layers you can choose from. They're not always perfect. Uh that's why multiple layers is is helpful. But you can clearly see there's a very large hot spots detected in central Canada. I wanted to mention this because Canada has decided to start locking down some areas due to climate reasons, right? So the general situation that's going around or the general sentiment being expressed by many Canadians is that the climate lockdowns have begun. And here's what I mean by that. So Canada, specifically Nova Scotia, has decided to ban people from the woods. So most national parks, open spaces, things like that are closed right now to the public. And also, they're trying to crack down on private property as well to try to tell people that they can't be on their own land. Uh because somehow just people being in the wilderness, just standing in the woods of it's it's going to cause a wildfire, right? There hasn't really been a push to identify arsonists or uh try to go after people who may be setting these fires or anything like that. Uh they're just trying to lock down and prevent people from going out in the woods again. So they've pulled out all of the policies from the CO era and they've they've returned to form quite truly in Nova Scotia at least. Now I wanted to mention this because this sounds bad, right? This sounds like well if people are in the woods and there's fires going on, you know, maybe it would be a good idea to keep people out of the woods. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep people out of harm's way or prevent, you know, the hot exhaust from a car setting off some brush or something like that. So, if you don't know where Nova Scotia is, you might be inclined to think, well, this I can see the logic here of of kind of closing these places off, right? Because in the United States, we do the same thing. If there's a big wildfire, right, we want people to stay out of the place where the wildfire is. That's a generally, you know, good idea to do. Well, here's the problem. Here's where Nova Scotia is located. This, ladies and gentlemen, is where Canada has decided to lock down people and prevent them from going into public parks. Nowhere near any of the wildfires that are currently burning. So, you see why this might be a slight problem or why many people might say that this is politically motivated and not actually a wildfire thing. So, yeah, I'll just leave with that and let you guys form your own conclusions because it certainly seems like uh this is really just kind of testing the waters for more national level policies. uh that may come later on. Now, moving down south to the United States in the southeast region. Like I mentioned, we have one IED factory discovered in a uh double wide down there in Old Fort, Tennessee. Now again, I know people are going to hear the term IED factory and think this is some kind of largecale terroristic kind of activity, but if you look at the IEDs that they discovered uh in this guy's trailer just in the middle of nowhere, Tennessee, you can rapidly come to the conclusion that this was most certainly a case of some goober who hates the government, who probably threatened his local politicians, threatened the local police department, and they rolled up there and found some very, very crudely, as in so crude they probably would not even work IEDs that this guy had created. For those people who are very familiar with this region of the United States, this arrest uh is not even remotely surprising in the slightest. So again, this is definitely more of some goober uh causing problems down there in the local area and less of a case of an al-Qaeda splinter cell, right? this is just some idiot in the woods with a lot of explosives, which is again very common for that area, but some you don't want to downplay or like uh you know factor out of the equation because these people can be pretty dangerous if they get enough smarts about them somehow. But generally speaking, we hear IEDs discovered 14 explosive devices discovered at a compound in the woods. You know, we can phrase this in such a way to make it sound a lot more organized than it really is, and it's just some idiot in the woods. So, all in all, it's important to get the background context of this sort of thing because that's a little bit more helpful for assessing risk. If I heard the news story like the news was trying to make it sound like there's some kind of al-Qaeda training camp down here in Tennessee and they found over a dozen explosive devices, well, that's a lot different than what actually happened, right? So context is important for mitigating a lot of risk, especially when it comes to, you know, a lot of the same old sources keep claiming that there's this mass like 9/11 right around the corner and they latch on to this stuff and away we go, right? So not to say that it's not important. You need to be aware of it. You need to be aware of people like this and how these sorts of cases are taking place all around the country and they get no coverage. But again, there is also very much the incentive to manipulate these kinds of stories to make it seem like they're uh you know, more organized than they are. So, just something to be aware of. Now, also in the Southeast region, I'll briefly cover what's going on in DC this week, and of course, it's fairly busy as usual. Something that I have not seen any coverage on uh with from any media source is the SNAP program overhaul. For many of you who have not heard of this, the federal government is overhauling the SNAP system right now and there are changes being made to which products are available for purchase with uh EBT cards. So, the bottom line is that there's been a lot of unrest at some grocery store chains and mostly convenience stores like 7-Eleven and things like that where people get up to the counter, they realize their EBT card won't pay for whatever product that they're trying to buy and they go ballistic, right? Something to be aware of. I don't know how widespread this problem is, but the federal government a few months ago and a few states as well with state level resources. Uh the various agencies that handle various welfare programs in many different areas are starting to overhaul and tweak these things and reduce the number of products. Many of you have probably seen the efforts by RFK Jr. to kind of like publicly remove things like sodas and uh sugary snacks and things like that from the SNAP program. Uh I don't know if they've reached a consensus on that part yet. However, a few months ago, the program was quietly altered and uh ever so often things kind of get delisted and a few days ago, a lot of people realized, wait a minute, half their cartload of groceries is no longer covered by the program. So, just something to keep in mind if you're trying to have a peaceful shopping experience. In some places, you might have a bit of a brawl on the checkout line, but I just wanted to mention it because uh I haven't seen anybody else uh talk about it yet. And this is probably going to get worse over time as the program to kind of shrink the SNAP program continues. So, another thing to be aware of is the federalization of Washington DC. There's been a lot of talk about this over the past couple of weeks or so. I don't really know how this is going to work out in practice, but uh anytime the National Guard kind of deploys to DC, I uh perk my ears up for obvious reasons. I don't know how serious they are about that, but you know how things are going in Washington. the the official government policy changes by the hour uh on in a lot of cases. So, I don't really know what to make of it. They may put fences back up. Uh I don't know how serious they are about federalizing DC, but there's definitely this initiative to try to decrease the crime in the National Region, especially the National uh the National Mall. I don't know how it's going to go, but you may see some changes in DC over the next few weeks as they try to figure something out. I don't know. Moving down to Georgia, there was, of course, a mass shooting at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta. This was originally reported as a shooting at Emory University. But after a while, it became clear that the person was on the campus shooting at the CDC headquarters. They basically just arrived at the scene, pulled out a weapon, and started shooting at the CDC building uh randomly seemingly. This is a developing story, so I don't have a whole lot of details on it yet. So far, one fatality was reported. one of the police officers who was the one of the first responders to the shooting was shot by the shooter and uh the situation kind of rapidly deteriorated from there. As far as the shooter themselves, I have no information on this. It's been almost a full day after the shooting so far and we don't have a name. We don't have uh any kind of details on the shooter except for one thing. I find it very very odd that we don't know the shooter's name. We don't know what their deal was. We don't know their history or anything about them. Yet, the mainstream media is still reporting at the moment that they shot up the CDC building because they were vaccine injured and they had grievances with the CDC uh with regards to vaccine production. So, I find that very convenient and I am just naturally skeptical about stuff like that, especially when it comes out and we don't even know the shooter's name, but yet we know why they did the crime. Isn't that very odd? Normally, it's the other way around. and we know the shooter's identity, but we don't know why. Like the the guy who shot President Trump and and Butler, right? We know who committed that crime, but we don't know why. So, I find that to be very interesting that that that's the story that's going around. Of course, this will definitely be something that we investigate. It could very well be true. There are a lot of people with a lot of grievances and a lot of people at the end of the rope on that front. Could be true, but again, I'm trying to kind of pump the brakes on any kind of information manipulation on that. So, I'm just going to have to say we'll see. And speaking of the truth not really being known, I did want to briefly mention the initial scandal that I spent so much time writing about just for the policy to be rescended immediately after I wrote my report. This of course is the uh discovery of an old policy by uh the Reuters journalistic agency in which they discovered that the Department of Homeland Security had quietly uh put in allegiance to Israel as a condition for getting federal FEMA aid. Not necessarily aid for victims of disasters, but for the terms and conditions for getting federal grants for equipment mostly. That's mostly what it applied to. Now, I know I've written a lot about this in the wire, so I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but the general gist of what occurred is that back on April 18th, the DHS updated their terms and conditions for what you've got to do essentially to get federal aid for your agency, department, whatever, uh, when it comes to disaster relief aid for things like FEMA. So, if your fire department wants to buy a new Stokes litter and they don't have the funding to do so, well, FEMA's got you covered. There are probably there are a lot of federal grants that will allow local departments to buy stuff, but you've got to follow the rules, right? You've got to make sure that your department is following all the guidelines by the feds. And back on April 18th, the federal government updated their terms and conditions for getting this type of uh grant money, which they do every year. They update these things several times a year actually because they frequently catch typos and things like that and problems arise. So, they they update these things quite often. And on April 18th, they quietly added in a paragraph that states that if you boycott an Israeli company, then you're not getting federal aid. And that of course became rapidly inflammatory because of how this is technically the textbook definition of treason, right? I mean, nobody wants to say it, but that's what it is. If you're acquiring allegiance to a nation state, if you're requiring Americans to purchase something from a foreign nation before you're going to help them, that's is that not treason? I mean, anyway, but following what happened, uh, nobody really noticed this because nobody really cares about terms and conditions by federal governments. So, nobody cared about this, uh, even though it appeared on April 18th until August 4th when Reuters noticed it. Uh, I don't know how or why they came to notice it. I mean, it was there. it was on the portal the whole time. I mean, nobody really noticed it, but this is how the federal government works a lot of times. They'll put a government document online for the public to see, but because it's nested so deeply in, you know, government infrastructure, nobody notices it for a while. So they finally noticed it on August 4th. Everybody freaks out and uh the government, which is the more interesting part, more interesting than the policy itself because the policy itself, let's let's face it, this this kind of mentality has kind of solidified in most law at this point. What's interesting to me though is that the DHS went in there and edited the file. They didn't change the version. So the the file name that was actually posted online was version three. You would think that they would create version four. That's not what they did. They edited version three to make it look like this paragraph was never in the text at all. They deleted the initial version of this, so you can't find it at all. Uh what it originally said, which to me sounds like a violation of the Federal Records Act, but what do I know? But anyway, uh the paragraph is no longer there, so everything's good and and copathetic, right? Well, no, not really. Just because a federal agency stops committing a crime does not mean that that crime did not occur. So, what has been the result from all of this? Well, really the White House in particular and the entire executive branch and well really all branches of government have just tried to pretend like this never happened, right? So they're just saying they're taking the position of well we changed it. So what? You know what's the problem? Well, because people want accountability. They want to know from April 18th when this policy was in place to August 4th when you secretly rescended it and tried to pretend like it never existed, how many departments were denied federal aid based on this policy? Right? We want to know that this is something that's very important. It's hurricane season. It's wildfire season. People like me need to know, did my local fire department bend the knee enough to a foreign nation state so that they could get some FEMA aid that might help me if I need to get rescued one day. We we kind of need to know these sorts of things and everyone's kind of ignored this. Somewhat interestingly, what I you know what I thought they were personally going to do? What I thought the White House was going to do is blame it on an intern and then just say it was some crazy uh person who unilaterally made a decision, then they fire uh somebody and then, you know, kind of cover it up from there. That's not what they did. DHS and FEMA and the White House have not taken the position that this was a rogue actor. So, this was not a malign actor. This was the policy. I thought they were going to do it. I thought they were going to say I was just some malign actor in government, but they didn't. uh they have basically just said, "We've changed the policy, so next question." Which to me means that the risk is still the same. So either way, trust is very hard to recover once it's lost. And like it or not, it doesn't matter if it's fair or not, the next time there is a disaster, Americans are going to wonder if a paragraph mandating support for a foreign nation is going to mysteriously reappear 5 minutes before a hurricane hits. If they secretly added it and they secretly removed it with a couple of clicks of a mouse button, then how do we know they're not going to do that right before a disaster, right? Anyway, that's something to consider. I know that it's a topic that's that not a lot of big voices are going to talk about because it's dangerous. It's dangerous to talk about this sort of thing nowadays. It's physically dangerous. It's financially dangerous. Part of me gets it because I understand people have to play the game in all aspects of society in some ways. But look, man, you know, at a certain point, you've really got to start looking at this stuff because it's starting to impact your safety and well-being, right? Regardless of who's heading up these agencies or who's in the White House, this is something that we've got to hold people accountable for. So, I'll just kind of leave that uh there. The policy has changed allegedly. All the DEI stuff is still there, though, which is interesting. But, that's a completely separate fight than the initial uh complaint with this document. So, I guess we're just going to have to see if or when this stuff uh gets changed. All I know is that I'm just trying to focus on basic risk assessment and a government document which uh is as concerning as this one certainly needs to be considered for people who are trying to prepare for disasters, right? Nobody's going to want to talk about it, but we've got to and uh we can see how things go from here. So, moving out west, I did want to mention this because I think this is going to be another case of information manipulation, and this is the developments in the case with regards to the M18 service pistol regarding the case of the airman who was shot at FE Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming a couple of weeks ago or last week. The Air Force has shifted that investigation to being an involuntary manslaughter uh investigation. So one airman has been arrested for uh making false statements uh obstruction of justice things like that. So of course this case has taken another turn. It is not as simple as we thought it was initially which is what the air force thought it was is the M18 went off shot the service member in the chest killed him and that was that was what was uh theorized and triggered the investigation. Right? We have to trigger investigation so that we can get to the truth. Right? And the development in this investigation is that the Air Force seems to think that at least one person who was there or involved in this case made false official statements. So that is a piece of information that you have to process and make your own risk assessments. Now the reason I wanted to mention this is one because this is an interesting development that people should be aware of but also because my irritation with the online influencer community grows daily. And what I mean by that is I think that it is important to get ahead of this when it comes to risk assessment. Remember like I just said, I'm trying to approach well life in general as an exercise in risk assessment, right? Trying to figure out how to carefully mitigate risk, take chances when possible, but also be as safe as possible while taking those risks in an increasingly dangerous world. So that's the frame of mind I'm coming at this from. I personally have nothing against Sauer. there is a P226 sitting on my desk right now as I'm recording this. I don't have a personal vendetta against them whatsoever. But what I do find concerning is what's getting ready to happen if it's not already happening on some parts of uh social media for instance. So two things are going to happen. One, a lot of people are going to make it seem like people were foolish for ever doubting SIG, right? And secondly, they're going to want apologies for switching over to other firearms, banning the P320, the M17, and M18 at uh gun ranges, things like that. So essentially, a lot of influencers in the gun space are going to be like, "Shame on you. You should never have doubted Sig. This was the case. This was like a murder investigation. Uh it wasn't a case of uh Sig finally killing somebody." So on and so forth. That's what the the gaslighting attempts are going to look like. And understanding this is going to be crucial for risk assessment because unfortunately a lot of people hinge their world view on uh what an influencer says and does. And I don't like it. The political left does it, the political right does it, but they pretend that they don't. And unfortunately, I I think, you know, the fat lady has not sung on this. Uh mostly because not one single person who was gloating about Sig, you know, potentially being redeemed by this uh and the developments in this case. Not a single one of those people knew at the time that this might have been murder or some other kind of foul play situation. We must remember what happened at the time. We have to remember what decisions were made, right? The army and the air force stopped using the pistol out of an abundance of caution. So my question is exactly what were we supposed to do, right? Was that not a good enough reason to mitigate risk? If the army comes out and says, "Hey, this pistol is dangerous enough for us to stop using it forcewide and we're going to investigate this." Is that not a good enough reason to say there might be a problem here and to just figure this stuff out? If the army said it was too risky to use, exactly what is the consumer market supposed to think, right? And unfortunately, I think a lot of people who are probably being paid by Sig, I think that a lot of people are going to make it seem like that decision to stop using this pistol would have been foolish. Like, you should never have doubted Sig. This is shame on you kind of thing. And I think that is gaslighting of the highest order, especially considering that this scandal has been years in the making. People have been shot by this pistol. Sig is definitely not out of the woods yet, and they're definitely not do apology either. The investigation is still ongoing. The pistol could have still gone off in a holster. The the service member could have just lied about who did it, right? There are so many speculative angles to this story. There's not a whole lot that we can learn. So, what can we learn from this? Well, like I said, the P320 situation itself, not so much. Nobody can definitively say what's wrong. And a much more technical analysis is definitely needed before we uh make a final judgment call on that. But what about the reaction to it? Right? In typical fashion, I'm sure it probably annoys many of you, but generally when a scandal occurs, I'm not so much interested by the scandal, but by the reaction to it and the manipulation and the gaslighting that occurs. And in that in this case, that is what I'm most interested in. So when it comes to risk assessment for me, I would very strongly recommend to number one, never let anyone make you feel foolish in hindsight for being a little bit more safe or riskaverse during a situation. And I see that happening all the time. And and that's just that's not the appropriate way to assess risk. But also, and this kind of affects that risk assessment, too, is that when big money is involved, trust is easier to lose and harder to earn. Could it possibly be that people in SIG's ecosphere or or the or any gun company's ecosphere, it's not just SIG, this applies to all very large corporations, people who are in the sphere of these companies, could it possibly be that company, in this case SIG, may seek to use these soft measures, these uh more indirect means of controlling information to protect their 500 plus million dollar contract. I don't know. It just seems like the gun industry culture a lot of times covers up a lot of the very corporate and dirty nature of this. And I think Sig's behavior uh during this entire uh situation has very much enlightened a lot of people uh that just because they're a gun company does not mean that they are pro- second amendment. Just because a gun company exists does not mean that they're acting in the best interest of the American people. Right? So, you know, gun companies are not immune from all of the criticism that a lot of other big Fortune 500 companies get. And we tend to forget that with SIG. People are uh very much brand loyal and there's a lot of insanity uh going around these days. And uh it's something to keep in mind if you're trying to just be safe. What I certainly would not want to have happen is this story break. And a lot of influencers get out there and say, "Look, Sig is vindicated." They're not vindicated, but they're going to say, "Oh, Sig is vindicated. This was a really a murder case." Or something like that. And Sig is, of course, going to lean into this and say, "See, look, you never should have doubted us. Come back. Start carrying your P320 again." And not a single fix has been implemented. The only thing that has changed is now the Air Force is investigating somebody for making false statements. That's it. For me, that's not nearly enough information for me to assume the risk of saying, "Well, the P320 is all fine now." you know, there's got to be more investigation on this. So, all you all we know is that a service member lied about the incident. That's all we know. We don't know uh what actually happened. And I think that a lot of people are going to lean into this. And I would really really hate for somebody to get injured or killed out there simply because the online influencer culture is probably going to spin up about this. So, please be careful of how you conduct your own risk assessment, your own risk analysis, and definitely uh keep that in mind when it comes to people who might be financially motivated to get you to think one way or the other. So, that's all I have for today. Let's go ahead and roll things up with the intercepted ghost net reports. Uh it was a very interesting week for the ghost net. A lot of information. I I've only got the three uh screenshots here, but there were dozens of messages I I uh wasn't able to sift through this week. It's it's it's becoming a very large network. It's working out very very well and I'm glad to see uh this providing a lot of useful services for people who are trying to get information in an off-grid way. You know, a lot of the times it's not necessarily about the the novelty of radio. It's about trying to, you know, war game these kinds of things and start getting familiar with a lot of systems and radio technology that can be used to exchange information in a more resilient and censorship resistant way. radio, especially HF radio, is not perfect. It is very hard to use in a lot of cases. It's definitely not for beginners, but out of all of my research that I have done uh over the past uh decade, I guess, this is really one of the only solutions that we have. And we're not really using these tools the way they were intended to be used, uh but we're using them in ways that they can be used. Right? I know I haven't gone into depth on the Ghost Net stuff in a while. I'm going to circle back around to comms in a bit. I'm still writing some stuff on that. But yeah, it's it's definitely something to be aware of. Download the Ghost Net plan if you don't know what it is. It's like 50 pages at this point, but it will explain everything about the plan and what the general gist of it is because it's kind of specific uh what the this niche use is for. It's just one tool in the toolbox to help us be as resilient as possible and exchange information uh in a more off-grid manner just in case various entities out there want to uh restrict speech. So, that's pretty much all I have for today. Here are the sources as usual. And of course, uh, for those of you who don't know, all of these sources can be found on my Obsidian page where uh, they're sorted by the day. So, if you see a wire report, that link at the bottom of every wire report will take you to my Obsidian page where most, if not all of my research is being hosted. So, if you want to do work on your own, feel free to do so. Uh, the sources are always there for you to examine and form your own opinion about things. So, thanks again everyone uh, for your support and I will see you next time. And as always, in shade.

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