//The Wire//1800Z July 4, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: MIGRANT CRIMINALS INCREASINGLY IMPLEMENTING ADVANCED TACTICS DURING CRIMES. TRUMP STATES NO PROGRESS MADE WITH PUTIN ON ENDING UKRAINE WAR. NORTHCOM DEPLOYS MARINES TO FLORIDA.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -HomeFront- Washington D.C. - Yesterday President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone, to discuss various issues pertaining to the Middle East and the war in Ukraine. After the phone call, President Trump stated that he was not happy with the discussion, as no progress was made on concluding the war in Ukraine. Florida: Yesterday afternoon, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) released a statement confirming that 200 U.S. Marines will be deployed to the state to provide logistical support to ICE. The press release also stated that more deployments are expected. California: A total of 7x Central and South American migrants were arrested yesterday in conjunction with a jewelry heist that occurred back in May. Local authorities state that the Bidrussian Jewelry store in Glendale was burglarized by the seven assailants, who exhibited more advanced tactics than normally presented during a standard smash-and-grab. The city's 911 service and internet connectivity was impacted due to the thieves cutting communications cables and using signal jammers during the robbery. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: The use of signal jammers is interesting in that it's a major indicator for the progression of the sophistication of crime in an area. All of the assailants were caught, so it didn't work out too well for them in the end, however this is the latest example of how criminals are learning tactics from around the world. Criminals in South Africa, for instance, are legendary for their widespread use of jammers during criminal activities, both to prevent victims from calling emergency services, but also to disable WiFi cameras and GPS tracking devices. Similarly, the cutting of communications cables has been noted as being effective due to the commonality of climate activists cutting cables in sabotage operations throughout Europe. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

//The Wire//2300Z April 24, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: BUILDUP OF AMERICAN FORCES IN MIDDLE EAST REACHES RECORD LEVELS. KUWAITI BORDER CHECKPOINTS HIT BY FPV DRONES. ARREST MADE REGARDING MOLOTOV ATTACK IN LOUISIANA.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- Middle East: Overnight Kuwaiti forces reported two FPV drone strikes on border crossing checkpoints with Iraq. No casualties were reported as a result of the attack. Analyst Comment: The statement provided by the Kuwaiti Army did not specifically disclose which border crossings were targeted, however there are only two crossing points in total: one main crossing on the northern border, and a smaller outpost on the western border. The interesting detail in the notice is the disclosure that these attacks were conducted by fiber-optically-guided FPV drones, and both of these sites were too far away from each other for these attacks to have been conducted by the same team. -HomeFront- Louisiana: This morning one individual was arrested following the firebombing of a Tesla Service Center two weeks ago. John Michael Hinkhouse was arrested for throwing a Molotov device at the entrance to the facility, which resulted in fire damaging the front of the building. Hinkhouse was located after security cameras tracked him back to his residence after the attack. Washington D.C. - Two incidents involving city busses have taken place over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, a bus caught fire in the 9th Street Tunnel, resulting in the tunnel being shut down for many hours. The cause of the fire remains unknown. This morning, two city busses collided with each other head-on in the Pentagon's south parking lot, resulting in a total of 23x people being injured. Analyst Comment: Currently there are no indications that either incident was nefarious in any way, however it's worth paying attention to during periods of heightened terrorism risk, just in case other incidents pop up later. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Concerning strategic movement in the Middle East, American cargo flights continue unabated, along with the forward deployment of even more fighter aircraft. Last night another squadron of F/A-18's arrived at Al Dhafra Airbase in the UAE, and the USS *GEORGE H.W. BUSH* (CVN 77) arrived in the Indian Ocean following her long journey around Africa. Another Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB), the USS *MIGUEL KIETH* (ESB 5) is also projected to be approaching the operational area, after having transited the Strait of Malacca and should be arriving on station soon (though it is not clear as to if she is expected to take part in this operation). This brings a total of 3x aircraft carriers, 2x Expeditionary Sea Bases, and 1x amphibious assault ship (a total of 6 "flat tops") for whatever operations are planned. Of note, CENTCOM has provided press materials that imply that the *BUSH* is not replacing the *LINCOLN* or the damaged *FORD* but will serve independently as a third strike group throughout the region. This buildup has become even more substantial than the 4+ months of lead-up to this war breaking out, with even more naval assets being transferred from the Pacific to supplement the forces already in theater. As a reminder, at least one Brigade Combat Team (BCT) from the 82nd Airborne is still in the region. Considering all of these developments, the grand question remains: Does the US plan to reignite the war? This remains an unknown, and it's impossible to know what secret decisions have been made at the upper echelons of government. What is certain, is that a large-scale rearmament and resupply operation has been ongoing since the ceasefire went into effect, and enough resources are on station to conduct large scale operations if that is the chosen course of action. Not only is the war not over, but there are now vastly more resources in theater right now, than at the start of the conflict. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for July 5th through the 11th, 2026. It's been a busy week as usual, so let's get right to it. Around the world this week, the two main wars that we've been watching for a couple of years now have flared back up with several very serious developments taking place in Europe and the Middle East this week. In Africa, the Russians are involved in intense fighting against the FLA militants in Mali, which have taken control of most of the north and eastern parts of the country. And even though wars in the Sahel region are quite common, this conflict has really served as a window for showing us how the third world has adapted to the modern battlefield when it comes to the use of drones and warfare. Here a bit closer to the home front, similar concerns are emerging as the summer fighting season this year south of the border has been hosted to a rise in drone attacks between rival cartel factions in Mexico. The more desolate and far-flung regions of the earth are starting to use drones in their mostly tribal conflicts. And as the Russians are finding out in Mali and the cartels are finding out in Mexico, drone warfare is most certainly a major concern that is very, very hard to counter. Within the homeland, important events this week have largely been within the political realm as several security improvement efforts are underway in Washington DC. This has not gotten a lot of press, but it's still interesting to note as this gives us an indication of where a lot of concerns are starting to mount. So, let's go ahead and start right there because the security improvements that have been observed this week are rather interesting in Washington. In short, the White House has demonstrated a growing concern regarding the safety of President Trump over the past few weeks. This came to light most publicly during President Trump's visit to Turkey for the NATO summit a few days ago when the Secret Service had to switch back to the old Air Force One due to an undisclosed security concern. This was kind of a big deal at the time because this was supposed to be the inaugural flight for the new Air Force One platform. Initially, President Trump claims that switching back to the old airframe was due to sending the new Air Force One ahead to show it off at various bases around Europe. But eventually, they let slip that this was actually due to security recommendations by the Secret Service. And despite the assurances from the Secret Service that this was just done for no reason and not tied to any specific threat, the Secret Service never does anything for no reason. And the logistical nightmare involved in switching planes during an international trip is such a hassle that it's more likely than not that the Secret Service got spooked about something and they needed to pull a fast one and play the shell game again. Who knows what it was? Maybe they found a pager on board or maybe it wasn't anything specific and they just got a bad feeling. I don't know about this one. It's kind of interesting, but that's not all we have to work with this week. In Washington DC, there have been major security renovations at the White House ongoing for the past couple of months at least. For one, we have the major ballroom construction project, which has gotten a lot of attention from everybody for a variety of reasons. But if we skip past the assorted screeching to realize that the new ballroom is mostly just a cover for the massive compound that's being built underground, this is very obviously a project to build a massive compound for C2 or command and control purposes. It's not exactly a big secret. You can look at this and see this is very clearly what's going on. And this is also something that's not unique to Trump. This has been in the works for a while. So, the ballroom itself is honestly not that interesting. What is more interesting is the new fencing that's been put up and the various perimeter expansions that have been requested to be made over the past couple of weeks. They've been testing out a bunch of different arrangements, but the general gist of the plans is to expand the White House perimeter a bit more so as to improve the security situation. They're still working on it. Nothing is finalized yet, but the general plan would involve closing a lot of public access spaces. So, that's going to be a delicate thing to balance in terms of allowing tourists to still get selfies while preventing small arms attacks. In addition to the fencing, the White House is also conducting security upgrades on the North Portico, which began yesterday. Once again, sources differ on why this construction project is going on. Some sources claim it's restoration work. Others claimed that this was a security breach or something to do with the Secret Service requesting a change to the building in some way. I don't know. There's very little information on this. Of course, the Secret Service is not going to comment on anything like this. And there are a lot of renovations being undertaken all over the White House now. So, it's hard to determine which ones are standard restoration work kind of projects and which construction projects are actually security upgrades. Once again, this is kind of early on in the process and there's not a whole lot to sink our teeth into. I've just been noting this over the past couple of weeks and I haven't really had a lot of time to talk about it. A lot of those can of course get dismissed very easily by saying of course the Secret Service is concerned with the threats to the president because he's lived through at least four different assassination attempts depending on how we're counting them. But at least three of those attacks were actually really close calls. The Butler shooting, the Trump International Golf Club shooting, and the Hinckley Hilton attack just a couple months ago were all too close for comfort. So, it would make sense for the Secret Service to try to be more on the ball than they have been in the past, especially in the context of recent comments by President Trump himself, indicating that he has taken personal contingency plans to conduct strategic strikes on Iran in the event of his assassination. He posted this uh message on Truth Social last night. And well, suffice it to say that the concerns are real uh that a very serious event might take place. Of course, we can't really quantify gut feelings on things most of the time, and that's okay, but it also makes it hard to add weight to decisions that are made. But I did want to mention it because again, it's something that I and many others have noticed over the past uh couple of months, but mostly the past couple of weeks, and the shorter daily reports are not exactly conducive to conveying wild hunches or theories, but I guess I also do that far too often anyway. So anyway, it is interesting though that all of these security upgrades and concerns are coming about at the alleged end of a war when the risk of an Iranian attack would be fairly low, but the risk of somebody else being upset is rather high. Just thinking in terms of the old Columbbo style means, mode of an opportunity right now, who in the whole world would have the means, mode of an opportunity to carry out an attack on the White House or some other important figure and the Iranians get blamed for it? Who could that possibly be? Well, chances are if you're watching this, you're probably uh not going to be fooled by it. But rest assured, most people probably would immediately suspect the Iranians, if anything, happened to President Trump. So either way, no matter what happens, it's interesting to make note of these things. Quiet security upgrades, quiet security practices being enacted. This is most certainly something to be aware of moving forward. And speaking of the war this week, let's transition to the Middle East where things are moving rather quickly once again as contradictory actions are taking place all around the region. Simply put, the United States is both escalating the war, but also deescalating quietly. So, let me explain a bit. As we all know, the war reignited somewhat earlier this week with dozens of strikes taking place throughout Iran. I'm still consolidating all of the geoloccation efforts from the past few days, but it looks like most of the targets were along the coastline in the vicinity of Bucher and Chabahar naval bases at the northwestern and southeastern ends of the coastline of Iran, respectively. Keshum Island was also hit several times over the past couple of days along with the scattering of fast boat bases on the eastern side on the eastern coast of the straight of Hormuz. Continuing the trend, a lot of the rhetoric has been contradictory and confusing. So, we just kind of have to let that sit for this week. But what is a lot more clear and a lot more easily verifiable are the strategic moves that have been made. Namely, that the United States is drawing down forces in the Middle East, at least when it comes to aircraft. The B-52s, which were stationed in England, or at least most of them that were stationed in England, have already come back home. And by my account, a couple of flights of F-15s have also departed. And the F-22s that the US had stationed at Ovda Air Base in Israel, they also departed yesterday. So, a lot of aviation is heading back home to the US or back to their normal bases in Europe. What is not changing is the US Navy's posture. The Bush and Lincoln carrier strike groups are still on station in the Middle East and the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group or ARG has moved back on station after having uh to divert back to port for some repairs a couple of weeks ago. But in terms of potential ground troops, these guys have already been on the station since the war started really now. All of that being said, what has surged into the region that is new is mostly a lot of bombs and missiles. When the ceasefire was announced, then that time frame between the ceasefire being announced and theou being signed, the United States surged a lot of cargo flights into the region. C7s, C5s, standard military cargo flights. Of course, we can't confirm or figure out what's on these military cargo flights. It's not like they're going to publish their cargo on the internet for us to see, but we can guess that this was probably a huge resupply effort to restock and rearm while they could be relatively sure that they would not get targeted on the tarmac. Though another clue that things are very interesting on the strategic front is that the US has begun to stage a lot of tankers at Aludit Air Base in Qatar. As you guys probably remember, if you've been following this war for 5 months of your life now, you will remember that this air base was evacuated early on because the Iranians started hitting it right during the early stages of the war. The United States figured out that it was probably not a super great idea to have a bunch of very expensive refueling tankers on the ground within very close range of the Iranian missile systems. So, the United States emptied this base out over a period of a couple of weeks. This also happened during Operation Midnight Hammer last year. This is how we were able to be decently sure that those strikes were going to go ahead because by the time the last plane left Aluded, well, guess what? The bombs were just a couple of days after that. So, this base is a good a good indicator. I'm sure the DoD knows what they're doing. They know that they can be seen and they're moving a lot of these tankers back into Alud air base. Lot of very very valuable targets on the ground within range of the Iranian missile systems. Now, I don't know if they're doing this because they're stupid and they're just gambling that the Iranians won't hit it. I mean, it's not like they haven't done that before already. That's why we lost an Awax uh during the height of the war. We parked it at an air base. We didn't think the Iranians would have the guts to hit. And surprise, surprise, they actually did. So, I don't know what's going on with this, but generally speaking, if you're seeing a lot of aircraft being staged at IUD, that just means that's where they're normally stationed. And it's a pretty good indicator that the Pentagon doesn't think they're going to get hit there. And if they think they're not going to get hit there, that probably means the Pentagon is not planning any major offensive. At least so the logic goes, if that makes any sense at all. So again, to recap, we have a very strong discrepancy between the rhetoric and the targeting and what's being moved around. The US is moving and has already moved a lot of aircraft out of the Middle East entirely. And the aircraft that remain in the region are now back at the bases where they were struck at during the height of the war. And yet the targeting flared up earlier this week. So, I don't know what's going on. Um, in terms of how this affects us here at home, the energy crisis really mostly just continues. It's like nothing has changed because the straight of Hormuz has only seen very tepid traffic since theou was signed. And now that the ceasefire is officially over, this is President Trump's own words. The ceasefire is over. We're basically back to where things were before the ceasefire was originally announced. So, back to technically a state of war. And as we end the 19th week of the war, we're on week 19 now. Peace does not appear to be a viable option for the time being. So, not a whole lot of closure. It's very much a state of limbo and I think we're going to probably be there for a while. Continuing the trend of wars flaring back up again. The war in Ukraine has begun to spill outside the main conflict zone. So, let's go over to Europe and discuss that conflict. There has not been much media focus on Europe this week. However, the war in Ukraine is beginning to be quite concerning at this point. On the Russian side, the Russians have been consolidating gains in the vicinity of Costantinovka with most reports agreeing at this point that Russia has taken the city for the most part. This was a major objective for Russia to capture and also for Ukraine to defend as it's a comparatively large city in the Donbass, which has been a milestone for a while. Similarly, uh gains are being made up in Sunumi on the northern border. The Russians also continue to slam as many drones and missiles into Odessa as they possibly can with large waves of drone attacks taking place pretty much every night for the past couple of weeks. The Ukrainians are doing the same thing from their side. So, you know, it's kind of a tit fortat sort of thing. And aside from the gains that are being made by the Russians on the Eastern front, the Ukrainian targeting of petroleum sites around Russia within Russia has been the most important factor for stability in Europe. This week, uh, the Ukrainians and the American advisers working with them have continued to strike Russian petroleum infrastructure at many different sites around Russia. Oil refineries and export terminals have been the main target, and many of these places are in extremely remote terrain, which is why it's so hard to geollocate. The Luga oil terminals near St. Petersburg have been hit a few times over the past couple of months, especially over the past couple of weeks. And a few days ago, hit a refinery in Omsk, which is a long way from the front lines. That's an old old school Soviet city and it's a very long way from the fightings. Other than those uh two main attacks, there have also been hundreds of attacks on refineries and fuel storage depots in Moscow. And this week, Ukraine has escalated drone attacks on Russian merchant ships transporting petroleum in the Sea of Az. Once again, the map is misleading. Sorry about that. I'm still trying to catch up. But there have actually been a few dozen attacks on merchant vessels in this general location in the Sea of Azov. The Ukrainians are claiming to have struck 73 vessels in the Sea of Azov over the past week. That's their number and I can't verify it independently but again that's their claim. Regardless of the exact numbers uh this is having an effect in Russia as their supply chain has been disrupted significantly. Fuel shortages have continued throughout the country but how serious this is. It's anybody's guess. It is true that Russians themselves admit there are gasoline and diesel shortages due to the attacks. But the severity of this is up for debate. The Ukrainians of course claim that Russia is on their last legs and it's like Mad Max over there trying to get gas. and the Russians of course claim that this is merely a minor setback that is being addressed. The truth as always is probably somewhere in between. Hitting one refinery is going to disrupt supply somewhere. Uh so you're going to see, you know, footage of long gas lines in various places, but because Russia is so big, it might take a couple of days for another refinery to start shipping oil to those uh more far-flung regions. So again, how bad is this? I don't really know. Either way, regardless of how bad it is, time will tell. I guess the next events to look out for are what Russia is going to do in response. So far, we haven't seen uh an arresting missile slam into the ground in downtown Kiev, but if uh Ukraine keeps this up, I think that's probably going to happen. So, you know, not trying to take sides here, but I think that's probably what's coming down the pipeline. Either way, we shall see how this war develops over the next few weeks. But things are not looking super great in terms of stability throughout Europe. So the Ukrainians and Russians are starting to target each other more significantly and the potential for slowly sleepwalking into a wider conflict remains pretty high. So not super great. It's not the end of the world as always, but something to be aware of even here in the homeland as the United States is substantially invested in the war in Ukraine and the war in Iran. So we've got two major wars that we are either fighting directly or spending a substantial amount of resources on uh kind of keeping going. So, even though it doesn't seem like either of these conflicts affects us, things uh things have a way of catching up to us pretty quickly as the shadow wars around the world keep marching on. And on that note, that's all I have for today. So, let's go ahead and roll things up with the ghost net reports for this week. Again, a fantastic ghost net. It was thunderstorming rather severely uh this week when I was trying to send and receive messages, but that's okay. Still was able to get a lot of uh messages exchanged back and forth, and that's pretty good. On a bit of an administrative note, some of you may have noticed this week I am now hosting my wire reports uh throughout the week on the Nomad Net. And I know I've not explained this just yet or provided a tutorial showing exactly what this is. Uh fear not, it's coming down the pipeline. I'm still getting things organized for the moment, but I'm going to be diving into this a lot more later this year. This project revolves around a communication system that works over the Reticulum network, which is a project that is right up my alley and something I think will be very useful to integrate into the Ghostnet at some point. I'm pretty sure most of you have probably heard of Reticulum before by now, maybe just parenthetically, but just in case you haven't, this is an open- source communications uh ecosystem which allows users to link up in whatever means that they have. If you want to give it a try right now and just kind of copy what I'm doing, you can use any client you want, but right now I'm using Mesh Chat X, which is a client. It's an app you can install on your phone or uh you can download it to your computer and it allows you to access the infrastructure which is Reticulum. It's still a little bit developmental, but I think it works pretty good. And in the spirit of the ghost net, this will be a very good tool for communicating using a variety of different means. You can use Laura devices like meshtastic devices that you buy and flash with mesh meshtastic firmware. You can use ham radios. Uh you can even use a server running on the internet, which is uh kind of what I'm using right now. And it's all going to sync everything up together and allow information to flow across this entire ecosystem. It's not exactly a perfect analogy, but think of this as an app that you have on your phone, which essentially lets us reinvent the internet. Maybe not totally, but the general utility of it. All of it peer-to-peer completely anonymously. And if the entire internet goes down, this will still work via radio. Specifically regarding my work, the wire reports. One thing you can do with Reticulum is host very primitive web pages, kind of like uh the good old days of dialup. But the difference is this can all work over radio. So the same hardware that runs your meshtastic devices. You can do a lot of other cool stuff with it too. You can send files, full-size images, and you can even send voice notes and voice messages through the system. I'm right now using a Halo node that I have set up with this phone out here in the middle of the woods. And it's a pretty cool way of ensuring uh different kinds of communication can be obtained even if you're completely off-rid. I think that's pretty cool. It's like Meshtastic on steroids, but it's a completely different ecosystem and a whole a whole lot heavier than just Meshtastic. So, right now I have my own Nomad Net page up and running connected to the internet. But the general idea is that if one day the internet goes out, the system itself will switch over to radio and we'll still have the same capabilities even during a total apocalyptic scenario. Again, I'm making a whole tutorial on this. So, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, fear not. This is really just for those of you who are interested in the more nerdy kind of radio stuff. All will be made clear in due time. Just like with the ATAC series I'm currently working on, we are rapidly developing a lot of capabilities that help in many different ways, not just in terms of censorship prevention, but also resiliency during natural or man-made disasters. I know it's not exactly an exciting prospect sometimes and the radio stuff is pretty hard to understand and kind of boring, but just think about how you would know what happened if you lost connection to the outside world. Information that goes nowhere is useless. And I myself have been constantly relearning that over the past couple of months. You may not have noticed this, but over the past uh couple of weeks or so, I've been able to research, write, produce, and publish several wire reports while my power was out due to severe storm damage. Hopefully the experience was as seamless as possible, but that's the end goal. Resiliency even during a disaster situation when everything is going wrong. You have a million other things to do and you still need to maintain a link with the outside world so that you can be aware of threats before they get within your area. In my case, I think Reticulum is a pretty good candidate for allowing me to always always always be able to work and provide a wire report or some other kind of report no matter what. I know the end user doesn't really care. uh they just want the information and that's perfectly fine. But I'm getting closer to being able to provide a decently professional product in extremely adverse conditions if need be. If the power goes out, I can still get information to write my report and I can then make sure that that report gets disseminated to other people who might also be in adverse conditions as easily and as seamlessly as possible. And once I get more experience with this sort of thing, once I iron out the details, I can teach you guys how I did it and what I'm doing so that you can replicate everything that I'm doing if you want on your end. Now, maybe we can see the utility of the ghost net. If you have an HF radio and you can send and receive messages on JS8 call, you're about 95% of the way there. There's not really much more to learn. Instead of sending short text messages over JSA call, imagine if you could send photos, short videos and files. You could even maybe potentially even have voice calls. All of this is technically possible to do right now over the ghost net. It's just that the FCC's rules kind of get in the way right now. So, we'll have to work around that somehow and overcome the uh cultural problems within amateur radio. But the general idea is that we are working toward having some serious capabilities very very soon. The ghost net itself is going to stay the same for a long time. I'm not going to make any changes anytime soon, so don't worry about any imminent changes. But this just goes to show what is actually possible. It used to be that if doomsday arrives, in the worst possible case fantasy scenario you can conjure up, doomsday arrives and you go out in your yard and fire up your radio, you'd be able to talk to a few hundred or a few thousand of us who would also do the same and fire up the ghost net and we can exchange information around the world in a textbased format. Well, now at least theoretically, we can send images, send files, even host our own off-grid web pages, which I think is pretty cool. So, with all of that in the pipeline for later on, uh that's all I have for today. Hey, thanks to all of you on Patreon for the support to keep going and sticking with me as I've been trying to figure all this stuff out. I could not have done this without you guys, so I really do appreciate it. And thanks to all of you for watching, and I hope to improve a lot of this resiliency over the next few weeks. So, thanks again, and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

all right good morning again everyone welcome back to the s2 underground uh this is the kabul update for monday august 23rd as of about 11 a.m eastern standard time so let's jump right into it uh quite a few updates over the past couple of days so let's start with the most pressing which is a lot of rumors or sort of confirmed not really confirmed reports of isis the islamic state threatening personnel refugees american soldiers coalition soldiers in and around the kabul airport so this is something that we kind of expected the islamic state still does maintain control of very very small parts of terrain they are sort of like an insurgency within the insurgency so when the afghanistan war was going on we had tamped down isis pretty good they were only in very small select areas in the in the very rugged and rough terrain in down in nangahar a few of them pushed forth and forward up into kunar uh and where they sort of just hit out and a few of them remained in and around the kabul area so there are some reports reports coming from both the taliban themselves and u.s intelligence that are indicating that isis is trying to target and sort of increase their own brand so remember they are sort of the with the insurgency within the insurgency uh the taliban are enemies of isis uh as of now but as anyone knows who's been in and around the afghanistan conflict for a while uh allegiances uh come and go like the wind so one day someone can say they're isis the next day they could say their taliban it just really just depends on on how how the wind's blowing that day i suppose so it depends on a lot of factors as if these threats are genuine it's best to say probably they are with a lot more and more people getting crammed into the area around the airport and even inside the airport itself that's just a ripe opportunity for some separatist group or some agency that we haven't even heard of a splinter group of a splinter group of a splinter group to come out and conduct an attack so they could get their street cred up so that's always a threat it's pretty minimal at this time but we we really don't know so i'm sure the official us intelligence reports have more on it but from our ocean side of the house and the open source open source world there's just really not much information out about it also overall the situation has been worsening over the past couple of days and particularly around the night time us and coalition troops have had to close all of the gates into the airport for a few different reasons for one capacity inside the airport is just too much and the security forces are not being able to control the crowds inside the airport as well as they should or as well as they could so they're having to actually shut the gates and leave people outside until they can clear some people out with you know getting them out on flights so it's a way of keeping the the area uh secure and not not crowded and things like that so just be be mindful of the fact you might see reports from a lot of journalists over the next couple of days of hey these gates are closed why are they closed well that that's why it's just capacity reasons and also sometimes if there's a shooting or or somebody gets unruly or something like that they will close the gates just to kind of help you know let things dissipate and let things work it work its way out i'll let people calm down a little bit and then they'll resume getting people inside the gates also on the political slash u.s front here at home the civil reserve air fleet has been activated by the the presidential regime uh government so uh this is basically the united states government drafting different airframes physical aircraft from civilian airliners uh commercial commercial airlines to shuttle people outside of non-combat zones so we'll talk we'll talk a little bit more about how the evacuation process is going once you get out of afghanistan but right now it's i think 18 i think 12 to 18 aircraft have been formally drafted into the u.s military control so that they can shuttle people uh around the world once they're out of the combat zone they're not sending in you know at american airlines you know you know 737 into kabul that's they're not doing that other countries are but uh the united states is not doing that and it's only a few airframes this is a program that's been around for a while for a very long time actually and it's something it's sort of like a lottery u.s american airlines american commercial airlines they basically draw straws for a specific period of time and that during that specific period of time they have to make sure that they have aircraft that are ready to go at a moment's notice within a 48-hour 24-hour window and that's been that's happened it happened on friday we got the warning that it happened on friday and it's now officially happened and that has the aircraft are being transferred right now also speaking bringing things back to the gates themselves there's been a lot of confusion at the actual gates with soldiers from different nations being manning these very cramped quarters there's been a lot of confusion as to what kind of paperwork gets is needed or required so there was a lot of reports last night or sorry two nights ago of canadian citizens with proper paperwork being uh turned away at the gates because the guards did not know that they the canadians had special paperwork so that's something to keep in mind is if you have people or if you yourself unlikely that you're watching this video but if you yourself or your interpreter or something like that is trying to get through the gates and they have non-standard paperwork or if they have paperwork from a different nation or something like that it's best to find a gate that you can get through uh well get through in the first place i suppose but just be mindful that you might get turned away uh in the confusion of this now a lot of this by the time this video gets out will probably be corrected but i just want to let everyone know this situation is about as confusing as it can possibly get so just bear with everyone they're going to get everybody out it's just going to take some time and speaking of paperwork the taliban has been reportedly halting locals uh stopping them at their own checkpoints before they can get to the the coalition checkpoints at the actual airport itself this is something that it's a lot of its rumor uh but we have seen this happen and the reasons of which are are mixed so the us and well the u.s isn't really saying much at all but like reporters or people familiar with the united states side of the situation are saying that the taliban is stopping locals from leaving so local afghans like interpreters or or people that are just trying to get a p2 visa they're not letting them leave if they have other coalition paperwork they're letting them through so that's one story another story is from the taliban itself they're saying that no they're not they're only stopping people who don't have any paperwork to leave the country so like people that are just trying to be spectators or trying to to take advantage of the situation they're stopping people that that that are like that now of course that's the taliban and they're known to lie about pretty much everything they do so there's that and then other reports are saying that there's really no problems whatsoever this is the us government story and we know that that's just an utter lie so there are problems getting through checkpoints getting through the actual airport itself getting through taliban checkpoints and getting through the coalition checkpoints to the airport itself so that's a pretty good explanation of what's going on on the ground let's go ahead and jump to the map and talk a little bit more specifically about the situation on the ground as of this morning okay so here we are on the map this is wintec i've loaded in our kmz and our imagery that we have dropped we've been updating this kmz and the imagery constantly over the past three days and this is the latest information that we have so as you can see uh we colored the south side of h kaya yellow just to indicate that this is in fact a fluid zone uh there's really not it's not really not clear as to what's going on or who's where but it seems to me like everyone is everywhere so let's zoom right here into the pax terminal itself the the americans specifically the americans have sort of retaken or pushed back uh or negotiated with the taliban to push so that they could maintain control of the actual pax terminal itself uh the taliban do maintain a checkpoint right here that's uh confirmed as of this morning uh and actually see if i can zoom in yeah taliban 313 units a taliban special forces unit is stationed right here at this grid as of well this morning uh afghan time uh the actual corridor in and out from the main gate to the main pax terminal is fluid it looks like once you're past this point there are coalition forces here at this gate there are also taliban here at this gate mostly taliban but once you if you can get through you can usually make it un unmolested to the actual pax terminal that's if you can make it past this last taliban checkpoint these are like uh forward observation posts really for the taliban to keep an eye on the americans that are that are stationed there and these guys here are really just it's just pure bedlam right here uh dozens of cars all kinds of heavy machine guns mounted machine guns crew served weapons everywhere uh we're even seeing light artillery light artillery like mortars and things like that but they're they're trying to keep those hidden it's really just a show of force anybody who can carry a tube can carry it right so uh pushing forward over here to the abbey gate uh situation there there are crowds all along the every square inch of uh perimeter border around the airport is clogged with thousands of people so there's that hotel baron is located right here not going to talk much about that at this time pushing forward over here to eastgate again large large crowds uh and then north gate as well right here still lots of crowds now let me go ahead and turn on a specific layer for you guys okay i turned on the layer in the kmz that shows the actions over the past 24 hours or so so there was a small arms firefight this morning between afghan former a a who are maintaining security alongside german soldiers and unknown assailants so like i mentioned earlier these these small attacks uh as as one might understand and like i mentioned in the i think the very first briefing uh the taliban is not a they're not as hierarchical as a coalition forces right so it's not like a taliban commander says you know do this this is these are your marching orders and everyone's just going to follow the orders now 99 will but the cellular nature and the the gorilla nature of taliban forces over the years has indicated that or it just means that you're going to have some rogue dudes and uh rogue dudes are dangerous so these could be taliban guys it could be isis they could just be some you know hooligans that are trying to take advantage of the situation that's a very uh a very prevalent threat right now people trying to steal stuff or extort civilians that men might not necessarily be taliban or isis or just bad dudes all right so that's the situation uh oh let me actually point out there was a vbiad threat vehicle born ied threat at the abbey gate it was cleared pretty much as soon as reporters found out about it i don't know if it was genuine or not it could be anything right the situation is just changing by the second so it's hard to say what's what's actually going on yeah that is the situation on the ground of really the most significant updates over the past couple of days uh really the rest of the city hkia proper like uh here to the west and down south uh things are pretty normal like it's shockingly normal you hop on snapchat maps or on twitter and you start hopping on the um the actual local language twitter accounts for a lot of these areas and it's it looks like it's not not there's nothing going on honestly now granted there's taliban everywhere throughout the whole city and they're they're taking over everything every government checkpoint every government building is now has a lot of taliban soldiers outside of it but honestly you you wouldn't notice if you look at a lot of the snapchat stories and things from these areas so really the most chaotic parts of the city are hkaia itself and in some parts of the former green zone but that's really just because there's a lot of taliban uh in the former green zone uh it's sort of like their um their prize right their spoils of war so going through those buildings and getting what they can and you know setting up outside the u.s embassy is kind of a pride thing for them so let's jump back to the powerpoint let's talk a little bit about the future and as well as some of the other things that have been going on around the country over the past couple of days all right so like i mentioned the northern alliance is back in town uh the son of the former leader of the northern alliance uh is is back and is uh conducting a lot of combat actions so as of august 19th this was this is a map of obviously afghanistan of all the districts that the taliban controlled and it was all of them all of the districts were controlled uh by the taliban on august 19th moving forward into the 21st we can actually see that the taliban actually lost quite a few districts to these guys northern alliance fighters are just popping up everywhere the guys up north have always been a little bit different so and they remember fighting the taliban last time so a lot of those districts were pretty quickly overwhelmed now it's hard to say if that overwhelming was done due to the skill of the northern alliance guys or just because they had strength in numbers at that particular time we have been seeing over the past couple of days uh significant numbers of taliban we're talking several thousand up to three thousand um have been pushing forward into these areas to retake them so as you can see a lot of these areas are contested yesterday the northern alliance actually lost a couple of districts but they took a couple we would classify them as being taken granted the situation is still fluid and as of this morning things are pretty much right back to where they were a couple of days ago with things still being contested most likely it looks as of right now that the northern alliance is is they're winning in their respective areas because they are striking with speed and with strength in numbers in those specific districts but once the taliban war machine gets uh spun up and they can move their fighters up there up there up north uh things are gonna things are gonna change so uh that's something to keep in mind and definitely something to keep an eye on over the next few days uh to see how that northern alliance resistance movement is uh kicking off so finally i wanted to touch on how the refugee situation is working once people get out of kabul once they get out of afghanistan what is actually happening so this is kind of busy and there's a lot of stuff going on so let's just take it a step at a time so first is once the flights leave kabul they you know they transit out via the normal air corridor and land in doha qatar cutter uh from there that's a staging area they either land there or if doha is full which has happened over a couple of days literally they just can't process any more people they transit to american bases in kuwait but most most people like the overwhelming majority people are going to doha and then from doha they're actually going to ramstein air base in germany for further on processing or once they get to ramstein they then can file their paperwork and get things organized to actually transit to follow-on nations to wherever they're going there are a couple other ways to get out of afghanistan though so another route that's very common is to go through tashkent through the through the capital of uzbekistan they're they've been very helpful in facilitating that movement directly out of kabul for a lot of civilian airliners uh and there's also another route which is uh sorry once they get to tashkent that's that's not a final destination for a lot of people that's they're going to go elsewhere so that's really just a staging area at this point even though uzbekistan is going to most likely take a lot of refugees also in uh new delhi uh in india has taken a lot of direct flights uh they've rescued i think a few hundred people at this at this point maybe a couple thousand honestly by now uh so that's really these are really really the main avenues of departure for leaving the country now as far as which nations are taking whom uh so far uh there are a list of temporary staging nations so the nations in which people are just going to temporarily stay are qatar kuwait germany turkey uzbekistan pakistan tajikistan kosovo albania northern macedonia italy and switzerland it's not clear as to if the people that are staying there right now in these countries are going to stay there or not some nations have stated yeah these are just this is just a temporary situation till we get things figured out other nations have indicated that they're going to take more uh that some of those some of the refugees can stay there and it of course depends on nationality as well now as far as commonwealth nations uh all members of the four eyes community have uh said that they're either going to assist or help or or take some it's really uh hard to say but obviously the the four eyes community is really uh leading the leading the effort when it comes to uh then probably the numbers that they're going to take also western europe these nations france germany belgium denmark and poland they have indicated that they are going to take some or they have already taken some also eastern europe czech republic and italy really most european nations have been very very hesitant to actually commit to saying yeah we're going to take all of your refugees or we're going to take some of your refugees or we're going to take only these citizens or we're not going to take you know normal afghans but we'll take interpreters it's just really confusing nobody wants to take these refugees to be honest because europe has a refugee crisis already so without delving too much into politics it's it's a complicated situation and there's a lot of political actors on all sides pulling everything different ways and it's hard to say who's going to go where central south america really only colombia has expressed interest in taking some refugees and likewise same thing in africa only uganda has said they're going to take refugees i think they actually have taken 300 so far and as far as your brics nations brazil has indicated that they will use the same uh track that they developed to take venezuelan refugees you can if you're afghan you can now use that same track to get into brazil uh russia interestingly has indicated that they are not going to take any refugees from afghanistan they're the only nation that i've seen so far that has said that they're not going to take anybody everybody else has just kind of either not said anything or they've said like we'll figure it out russia has said vladimir putin himself said flat out no we're not taking any now they did not say that they wouldn't help transfer people and lend resources and things like that but they he said that they can't they can't come here essentially and then also india has already taken quite a few refugees and is planning to take even more as we move forward so just another reminder we have all of these resources available on our odyssey page if the link will be in the description box below just in case you guys wanted these files we'll be updating them constantly as long as uh the situation is is going on we're going to be following this really until it closes out so all these briefings will be on there we've realized we've probably got a lot of new members and a lot of new followers to the channel uh over the past few days so if you don't like youtube and or it's not working for you go to odyssey all of our videos are backed up there and this is where we're dropping all of our stuff like the kabul imagery pack we've pre-downloaded a series of of images and geotiff files that are easy to put on gps's and end user devices and things like that if you wanted to either follow along or you are trying to use this for your own intel collection and things like that go for it there you go we're updating this kmz i think we're on version 17 now um and we're going to consistently keep updating that with information as the time as time goes on and once again just wanted to show this slide again for people who have not seen it this is some resources you can use if you're trying to get out of the country or if you are trying to help people get out of the country right now there are a lot of people trying to help with this situation which is outstanding uh but that does not mean that the situation is less confusing and immigration is confusing on a normal tuesday right and it's even more confusing in an emergency situation so uh really there there's not much that we american citizens can do to help people on the ground but we're doing what we can uh to help get some of these to get to get all of these americans home safe and sound and our allies as well so thanks everybody for watching stay tuned for the next update we'll we'll have it out soon and we'll continue to update all the all the products that we've been putting out on this and once again thank you everyone for all of your support and we will see you next time and always remember to fight in the shade

hello again everyone welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for tuesday september 28 2021 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 27th so let's get right to it with the weather weather over the next 12 hours is going to be quite significant on the west coast with lots of systems bringing in a lot of precipitation of all different kinds and all kinds of cloud ceilings that are going to be really low to the ground so for any kind of asset aviation unmanned or otherwise it's going to be not good flying off the west coast for the next 12 hours and remember as we move forward into the later parts of the year the days start getting shorter and we have more hours of night time to play with so for the at least the east coast for tonight the uh end of evening nautical twilight is going to be at 7 52 p.m we're also going to have pretty good lunar illumination for this cycle we're at a 65 illumination level and throughout the rest of the country really the only other place that's going to have some trouble with some low-level clouds is the northeast as they start to get some of that winter weather coming their way and as we can see here moving into this slide i change it just for this week just to show the uh precipitation off the west coast is going to be really bad for any kind of aerial operations as well as little spots up there in new england which are going to prohibit or be very unlikely for any kind of aerial surveillance operations again if it were to be a factor just to get everybody in the mindset of seeing wind directions and and how these prevailing winds actually work out moving into no tams really nothing significant to report for this brief uh it's not the weekend so we don't have the presidential one to talk about and there's really nothing else going on there are a few standard ones that have been up but you can go check them out if you're interested in learning more about no tams and for our civil unrest forecast for this briefing there's really not that many changes really the only one i wanted to highlight is number four there in phoenix arizona where the election audit is ongoing that election audit as everyone has probably heard by now is heating up quite significantly and i'm personally guessing that the results of the forensic audit will be released in their entirety after this brief goes out but probably before the next one so that's something to be aware of as uh we're gonna have to come back to once things become a bit more clear on that front and for logistics a quick rundown of the shortages from last time uh as always over here on the left side of the map you can see the list of shortages that are impacting the nation as a whole are really no major changes on that front and again from last brief we're still tracking school bus driver shortages in the states depicted on the map we're also tracking the microchip shortage as is starting to impact things about the same as it has been over the past few weeks and months which is to say quite significantly we're also seeing public transit driver shortages in the states that are depicted same thing from last time really the only thing new to add is costco shortages so costco the company has restricted toilet paper and bottled water again they're saying that they're facing shortages in those arenas so it's unclear as to where in which stores they're going to be having shortages that but my guess is since this has now hit the news probably all of them so costco claims that this their shortages are due to both inflation and supply chain issues um which is a you know good excuse but we here don't know if this is true or not uh this could be a case of a company claiming that there is a shortage to cause a run on their products and drive demand up in the short term so of course we've been tracking inflation seriously affecting things along with a widespread paper shortage but nothing has specifically indicated to us that there was a shortage looming for costco specifically so again like last time the shortage of bottled water and toilet paper we predicted that one quite easily along with a lot of other people because it was very easy to see because news media articles were spinning a story that the virus that cannot be named caused digestive issues so that was the reason which spun up all the news media over the toilet paper shortages and then once they started uh reporting that well then it just became a snowball a logistical nightmare so we're not seeing that this time other than you know a normal paper shortage that we've been dealing with for months now we're we're not seeing a specific coherent you know event that is resulting in costco being completely out of all their stuff sure shortages have been happening but it's not like there was one really inflammatory thing event that occurred to cause costco to have these widespread outages so until we get more information on that i guess it really doesn't matter in the long run because there are shortages now so who knows the chain of causation here isn't really determinable because we just don't have inside access to costco supply data so just know that if you shop at costco there will almost certainly be shortages on random things probably toilet paper and water and other things as well as people go there to stock up on stuff so there's going to be shortages now and other stores are almost certainly going to be affected as well as these shortages spread to other big box stores from the demand being so high and moving into critical infrastructure concerns really the biggest one to talk about is the crystal valley ransomware attack so the minnesota-based crystal valley agricultural co-op was hit with a ransomware attack a few days ago actually almost immediately after the new cooperative the new cooperative was hit down in iowa much the same way as far as impact uh this attack has shut down operations for the co-op and is affecting about 2 500 farmers in minnesota and in northern iowa in various ways that you know we can't really get a feel on for for instance uh this co-op maintains fueling stations for agricultural vehicles and things like that uh which are having issues taking payments from credit cards so so far that's really all the info we have regarding impacts this co-op has been really tight-lipped about exactly what systems are currently offline or were impacted but we expect to know more as this incident continues the ransomware attack actually occurred back on september 19th and the media local media at least became aware a couple of days after that so so far there isn't any indication as to if their systems are back online or if anything's been resolved or what we haven't seen a statement either way at this point so again just like last brief this cyber attack highlights an increased effort for ransomware attacks and other kinds of cyber attacks against our critical infrastructure and with the highly computerized nature of agricultural operations these days these attacks broadly speaking will be a significant threat in the near future a lot of people don't know how advanced agricultural operations have become which is both good and bad but these cyber attacks quite clearly highlight the vulnerabilities when a farmer can't even turn the ignition and start up his tractor without the tractor having a gps or cellular connection and when a field cannot be irrigated without the automated management system sending the data through some server halfway around the country and this presents a lot of vulnerabilities for our food supply especially in an age of cyber attacks moving into significant governmental actions first up is delta airlines so delta airlines has made themselves a no-fly list which is separate from the national no-fly list which honestly itself warrants further investigation if you want to go down the rabbit hole and get extremely angry in the process because it's really infuriating to realize the details of no-fly lists in general but delta has been keeping their own a separate no-fly list for political reasons they have been kicking people off flights for not complying with their mandates which again make absolutely no sense if you actually read them but since the federal government hasn't put people on their national security no-fly list for these mandate violations delta has again proven themselves willing to go above and beyond to follow laws that do not exist and even make up their own no-fly list that is just for them and delta wants other airlines to share their lists too if they have them to create a national no-fly list that is separate from the federal no flight list this is just among the airline companies themselves right so as infuriating as this is it is also quite an interesting look into the strange field of certain kinds of companies and airlines are a fantastic way to learn a lot of information for instance we have talked a lot in the past about private companies that are technically private companies but they go above and beyond to follow laws and rules that do not exist simply to gain favor with the federal government a good example of this in the past has been companies that sell night vision devices some companies make you sign a stack of waivers scan a copy of your driver's license and a bunch of other stuff none of which is federal law by the way all you've got to do to own night vision in america is just follow itar rules which basically means don't export it but other than that there really isn't that much regulation right so other companies don't make you sign anything at all and you just click the you know add to cart button on the website and check out like normal like you're just buying something like normal federal itar laws say nothing at all about scanning a driver's license it is on the consumer not the company to comply with itar laws but some companies go above and beyond to require things that are not actually required by federal government thus the airlines airline companies were the first ones to require medical passports even before the federal government got involved they did that on their own so again this is infuriating i get it but it's also a great opportunity to see exactly which airlines and companies will go down this unique path and eagerly be the tip of the spear when it comes to medical mandates and not just a hesitant complier who's complying because they have to or the government will shut their business down it really just highlights the spectrum of of willingness to comply with the federal mandates and it looks like especially delta airlines is right at the tip of that spear and speaking of medical mandates moving on to number two the biden regime has stated in various cryptic press statements that they are mandating the medical procedure for all federal contractors again we don't know exactly how this is going to go down because we haven't seen the exact wording of these mandates and we might not see it for a while the biden regime is clearly full steam ahead on using tactics like regulations instead of full-on executive orders executive orders are clear and concise and can easily be overturned by a court but getting some minor regulatory agency to verbally pressure the companies they regulate that's a lot harder to battle in court that's why biden is going through osha to mandate the jab for private businesses if that were an executive order a federal judge could easily stop it at least temporarily but if it were a rule change which by the way biden is extremely famous for during his tenure in the senate if you followed his career before he even became vice president he was very famous for this it's a lot harder to sue and it's a lot harder for a judge to stop because it's not as simple as placing a hold on something right so again this incident is interesting because we don't know how many federal contracting companies have already many months ago gone above and beyond to comply with a medical mandate that didn't exist yet but now does right so we might have some companies have very little change to their workforce because they already thinned the herd months ago or we might have some companies quietly not push the issue because they can't afford to lose their workforce especially with gigantic federal contracts on the line so again we have very little data on this so i guess we'll just have to see how it goes but it will certainly be interesting to follow and moving on to number three uh so far we have had several incidents involving afghan refugees at two u.s bases uh fort mccoy in wisconsin and fort bliss in texas there have been other incidents that are not yet public so we can't comment on those just yet but two afghan refugees that were brought here as part of the afghanistan evacuation have been indicted federally at fort mccoy one for attempting to force himself on a child and the other for attempting to suffocate his wife these are two separate incidents with people that they're not related or anything there's also been a third incident that is currently under investigation by the fbi in which a female u.s service member was assaulted by several afghan males this event occurred in the refugee tent city in fort bliss texas as far as commenting on this there really isn't that much intel value except to point out that this is a direct side effect of the hectic nature of the evacuations so for those of you that did not follow our briefings during the afghanistan evacuation one of the unfortunate things that happened was the evacuation of unvetted people and this is kind of a delicate thing to talk about but it turns out that a lot of people that we evacuated weren't super great people a lot of the people that we evacuated happened to be what would be even for afghan society considered to be freeloaders who just wanted to get a handout from the us government and weren't actually in threat of being killed by the taliban for those of you who have been to afghanistan and you know what we're talking about here we all know that there's a certain group of any real society i guess no matter where the military base is at in the world but it just happens to be in afghanistan as well people that hang around the base try to get as much free stuff as they can from the government while they can and those people were a lot of those people were the people that ended up on flights so plus there is the completely atrocious parts of afghan culture that we cannot talk about here because we try to be as family friendly as possible in these briefings but every soldier again who's been to afghanistan knows exactly what i'm talking about so when you combine all of this stuff together the culture the evacuation the the the need for the biden administration to pump up numbers even people who might not have deserved a trip out of that country to here uh all of these things adding up together mean that you're going to have incidents like this we saw this coming we saw this we saw this and talked about it during the evacuation and now we're now we're seeing the results of this moving on to number four uh new york is in a pickle uh the state government has created a worker shortage in the health care industry by mandating the jab so what nor what new york is dealing with right now is a medical crisis of their own creation which they freely admit to creating this is not some this is not just me being biased this is something they admit to they mandated the jab for health care workers a lot of health care workers left the job or they were or they quit um and now there's a shortage of health care workers allegedly so much of a shortage that the governor is planning to call up the national guard to staff hospitals now one might ask instead of calling up the national guard why not just get rid of the mandates and bring those people back that quit well that would certainly be the preferable option from a strategic standpoint but the past couple of years have certainly been a time for governors to use the national guard as they see fit so who knows i just wanted to point this out in case you end up needing medical care in new york you might find that your doctor is a soldier in the near future due to the shortage of health care workers and moving on to number five kind of moving back to afghanistan too the fbi is publicly they've publicly released that they are investigating certain veteran groups who were working to rescue people from afghanistan that the u.s government left behind the fbi has launched an official investigation and made visits to individual residences of people and groups who worked to get americans back home for us this is completely unsurprising as we have stated many times in our afghanistan series the us government is trying to cover up leaving americans behind and is targeting anyone who tried to help get americans out no witness is no crime right so the u.s government is working around the clock to make sure that as few people make it home as possible again something that we pointed out as as being a huge problem in our afghanistan series and number six i briefly wanted to touch on the border crisis just to remind people that it does in fact still exist it's still a huge problem we have observed a significant propaganda effort to slander the border patrol agents down there you know with the whole photo scandal that was completely fabricated uh border patrol agents never whipped anybody and the video and other photos of the event have shown that this is a complete and utter lie even the guy who took the photo that the white house has been pushing and their minions have been pushing on social media the dude who took the photo said he never saw anybody whipping anyone so that's really pretty much the update on that just to kind of dispel that that never happened right uh and a lot of there's a lot of propaganda um and the fact that the illegal immigration problem uh this immediate crisis as specifically is still a massive problem and the byte administration has been quietly letting in the very same people that they said they would send back to their host nations so pretty much the status quo on that front and moving into a new slide i wanted to briefly talk about some developing technologies i know this is going to be kind of hard to work into the normal rotation of things but i did want to talk about it because there's a lot of new gadgets and technologies that are coming out that i think are worth knowing about at least the first one is this new satcom detector so this is a new detector that is you can read all this technical data about it at least the technical data that is public about it in the sources but this is a new detection device that can detect and pinpoint sat phone calls from the iridium network the thurian network and the inmarsat network now of course sat phone interception tools have been used for years so this is nothing new it's just this particular one is new so that's kind of interesting um moving on to number two is the shadow dragon surveillance software uh so this again is something that is currently being used it's actually kind of old this has been around for kind of a while but i didn't want to mention it because it's gotten a lot of um a lot of press lately actually the article that is the source for this the primary like company that is like you know outraged about this software is the intercept and if you read the article it is it is full of very uh very biased language i'll say that i'll say it like that um but in any case basically the shadow dragon surveillance software is just a suite of software tools that's like palantir for those guys out there who have used who like who are analysts and have used this stuff it's like palantir it's actually more closely aligned to like analyst notebook from way back in the day but yeah it's just a social media aggregator it has a lot of different sources and tools very powerful tool and it turns out our police most police groups in the united states are using this or something like this so yeah something to be aware of it's very interesting how if how the whole thing works and uh the intercept article's got some interesting stuff about it but again just be advised it's not really easy to read um so yeah i thought that would be kind of interesting to talk about also the mark 22 sniper rifle continues this development the fort bragg pao just put out a a few pictures of it so it underwent some airborne testing a couple weeks ago in which they wanted to make sure that it actually maintained its accuracy after uh the the jostling of a of a jump you know static line deployment so um that's kind of interesting it's going to be probably fielded pretty soon if it isn't already in the hands of some special dudes doing special things as it already has been for at least a couple of years now i think and one of the more cool ones i think to talk about is the new mc130 juliet variant the commando 2 amphibious variant specifically of the c130 airframe so basically this is a c-130 hercules or really the the mc130 that they're going to put some gigantic floats on so that it can be amphibious now this is kind of interesting because this is afsock requesting this of course but the fact that we're trying to shift uh to the pacific you know the great pacific pivot right that a lot of military analysts are talking about this is one of those things right being able to land at some of these smaller atolls and we're trying to repeat a lot of the doctrine we're kind of going back to that world war ii uh conflict against japan right the war in the pacific there and looking at a lot of the lessons learned and geography hasn't changed at all since world war ii so uh technology has to uh has to change in order to provide the capabilities we need for that conflict so i thought that was kind of interesting also it's in really the the later stages of development they're they're actually going to have this is going from drawing board to full scale demonstration in 17 months so that's uh that's a fast track program that's that's why i wanted to talk about it this is this is moving quick uh for such a program so you know again the special forces community has been very uh very interested in using the c-130 airframe for very specific things in the past and they have fast-tracked other airframes as well but this is an interesting one to to keep in mind and to be on the lookout for if you happen to see one in testing and moving on to number five uh this one is really kind of uh the cat's out of the bag so i guess we can kind of talk about it now considering it's all over the internet at this point a huge a gigantic optic violation resulted in a worker or some personnel or somebody taking a video and posting on tick tock of one of our stealth aircraft that was undergoing testing at the helendale radar cross section facility so yeah nothing is known about it other than this video coming out but it is very interesting design and it it's raising a lot of eyebrows around the internet just because of how futuristic it looks but again this is probably not something that is anywhere close to being developed if they're still undergoing the radar cross-section analysis then it's probably early on in its phase of development but interesting thing to note uh moving forward i guess and finally is something that is sure to creep a lot of people out this is a flying microchip so northwestern university has created the smallest ever human-made flying object which is essentially a flying microchip so i'm not sure if you can actually see it or not but there is a whole pile of these things right here and this is of course inside reference to a carpenter ant they're smaller than some of these grains of sand so there's one there there's one there there there and there yeah very interesting uh now i know this is talking about anything that's small and flying and potentially a collection asset is surely to ignite the most interesting parts of the internet i guess i'll say it that way but this is purely conceptual sure they've made them and it does appear to work but again i'm not exactly looking around the room for these little particles of dust that are flying around with cameras on them just yet so yes there is a demonstration yes this is a proof of concept essentially but it's not like this is going to become a mainstream thing uh even within the next year or two this is a long-term thing as we try to make sensors that are smaller and smaller and smaller you know the government agencies making these are going to have a harder and harder time uh getting things as compact as possible so again something interesting i thought i'd touch on and uh yeah i guess we'll keep an eye on some of these developing technologies and see how they how they shake out over the next few you know weeks and years i guess moving on to the public school attendance mask mandate tracker map so really there have been a couple of updates not too many but really the two biggest ones are florida and texas so florida most large school districts now require masks directly going against the governor's orders which is a trend that we've been observing for a long time it seems that on the government level particularly when it comes to these mandates that politically liberal officials and agencies in conservative states are 100 percent willing to fight their conservative governors and openly not complying with their orders but the reverse is not true so conservative officials local governments and agencies and entities uh in liberal states are certainly not willing to fight their liberal political leadership in in the more liberal states uh certainly not as much as liberals are willing to fight conservatives on issues like this so um i wanted to point this out because it's something to keep in mind as these maps start getting blurry over the next few days and weeks right same situation in texas mass mandates are banned right but that ban was overturned by a court or by a judge who's put a temporary hold on it and also about 85 percent of all the school districts in texas require masks so there you go and that trend applies to pretty much all states right now this slide isn't great i don't like the way this slide is depicting things because it looks like the states that are gray it kind of looks like there's nothing going on there but just as a baseline almost all states actually i think every state at this point has a mass mandate in their most populated cities uh in their capital cities or really even just their largest school districts so i just wanted to point that out that even though there might not be a mandate on the state level every single state has at least one very large school district usually the biggest school district in the state in which masks are mandated so and as far as other changes from the last brief tennessee two judges teamed up together to block the mask mandate ban and the same thing happened in oklahoma a temporary injunction was issued there to stop their mandate ban on the other end of the spectrum south carolina is actually doing pretty good there there look like they're charging forward ahead um faster than anybody else uh their supreme court upheld the ban on mandates at the state level so that will deal a significant blow to the mandate makers in south carolina for a while although local districts can and still do mandate masks on their own it's just it's prohibited at the state level and it's backed up by the south carolina supreme court moving on to the jab mandate tracker really no updates at all to this slide california is still the only state where it's mandated for students k-12 to receive the medical procedure so i'm just going to push forward into the medical resistance tracker uh really there's only been a couple of updates really arkansas is the biggest one again arkansas is in that weird situation where the governor has verbally stated that he is in favor of medical mandates but he's just upset that it's the federal government doing it and not anybody on a lower level such as himself or company by company i guess so we expect similar sentiments to work their way out over the next few weeks as we see what other mandates are coming down the pipeline remember we still haven't really seen anything tangible to give us an indication of the exact wording of these mandates that will be coming from osha so right now a lot of the states that are claiming to resist don't really have anything to grab onto with a lawsuit just yet everybody's pretty much in wait and see mode for now with only a few states going out of the way to provide a blanket of laws that will prevent whatever the regime comes up with from being enforced and moving on to international issues i'm going to move through these quite quickly because there is a lot of stuff to talk about so first up is the medical stuff getting that kind of out of the way so australia new zealand and france uh they're we're seeing significant resistance to the medical mandates and really government overreach at this point and those demonstrations are certainly escalating uh as the days go by some nations such as sweden denmark and norway have actually backpedaled sweden and norway announced their recovery from the the pandemic and denmark has actually done the same but also reclassified the virus as something that is no greater threat than the flu so for some nations their governments are doubling down on the restrictions and in other nations they are treating it like it's like it's over so that's interesting as time goes on moving over to southeast asia the coup in myanmar is escalating quite significantly as a military junta there tries to drill down its control even further there's been quite a quite a bit of resistance in burma throughout the past few months but this military coup situation will probably have follow-on effects for a long time and moving forward into africa into the sahel region specifically mali the long-range reconnaissance group is at it again most people might know them as the lrdg of the long-range desert group the ses has been very active in north africa and the long-range reconnaissance group has specifically been conducting a lot of long-range missions that are very much an homage to their heritage throughout north africa really and this is due to the fight against isis being quite significant in throughout mali and niger as we move forward into the winter season although lately the past few years we've seen a pretty significant fighting season continue throughout the winter basically a year around fighting season uh for for most of the isis militants that try to maintain control of africa now i know a lot of people are saying why are you talking about africa constantly well because it's a huge theater and because a lot of people have a lot of interest in africa china has built a a lot a serious amount of bases there they've built a lot of roads in exchange for mineral rights it is a next it's not the next frontier but it is a major goal for a lot of powers around the world and you know we keep constantly having green berets get killed in africa in places where the american public isn't even aware that that's where we are so the united states has a presence there obviously the brits have a good presence there the french actually just had one of their soldiers killed in the same theater so africa is certainly relevant mostly for the mineral wealth most of the minerals that are required to make things like smartphones were things like colton and nickel and cobalt and bauxite and things like that those elements have to come from somewhere sure the devices are made in china but the the elements that are used to make the devices come from africa for the most part so that's why africa is such a huge deal and that's why china wants to invest heavily in africa as much as they can a lot of mineral wealth they can export back they can avoid the natural resource curse that pretty much every african nation has suffered from nations with large amounts of mineral wealth tend to tend to do pretty poorly economically even though it sounds counterproductive this is called the natural resource curse which you can read more about on your own but the case in point is that a lot of these nations are exporting their stuff so china is very much interested in africa and so is everyone else jumping back to europe the united kingdom uh our friends across the pond are not doing so well when it comes to shortages of things now everyone has that magic b word right brexit on their on their minds these days uh and it seems to be like a lot of the logistical problems are kind of caused by brexit but also not not really so you know driver shortages yeah you could point it back to brexit at some point uh everything it comes back to any kind of shaking up of the logistical supply network of a nation is going to be it's going to have results so that's why you have things like driver shortages they have you know gasoline shortages gasoline rationing is still happening uh from last brief that's still going on you've got a co2 shortage so um in the uk they use co2 mainly for the creation of things like of course beverage production but also for uh the humane killing of uh animals the slaughtering of animals for uh meat and that's that's already hitting the meat industry so it's not that there's a shortage of beef it's just there's a shortage of the chemicals needed to you know humanely dispatch those animals right so which drives production down and there you go so the united kingdom as a whole we know they're not doing super hot when it comes to logistics right now and jumping back to south korea uh they have of course as almost immediately after the last briefing work in which we talked about their new launches in the you know the sort of mini arms race that's going on between the north and the south right now they have released or released footage of their new anti-ship cruise missile so it's a hypersonic missile so huge technological development for them of course uh they got outside help so if you actually look at the missile itself it looks very similar to some russian uh russian missiles so interestingly south korea is continuing their uh continuing their missile tests we'll of course see something from the north if we haven't already that we just missed uh something from the north is going to happen uh probably another missile test or something you know it's how an arms race works so something to keep an eye on if you happen to see north korea has done something this is probably why and moving forward to russia so for those that don't track russian politics russia recently had an election and if you look at a lot of the things that are being said online a lot of people are saying that it could not have been more fraudulent if they tried so we're talking about all kinds of things like people recording the actual digital voting screen thing changing their vote uh the number of votes being changed so so um alexia navalny's old political outfit was like hugely in the lead uh at one point and then like 60 seconds before the voting polls closed uh putin's party jumped to the lead with like 90 percent of the vote so you know the classic stuff we keep hearing and uh stuff that eerily rings true here in the united states as well as we question our own uh electoral process so very interesting it's kind of hilarious to see the kind of the things that are coming out about the russian election but uh you guys can go check that out on your own i just think it's quite interesting to to to note that uh uh russia and the ruling elite are still uh still up to their old tricks just like just like expected and moving to austria or really i suppose technically the united states as well so u.s and austria the cia station chief in vienna has been ousted from her job among accusations that she did not report any sort of incidents involving havana syndrome so for those of you who have not been following our discussions on havana syndrome this is a it is an illness that was first thought to be a myth a few years ago it's been around for gosh i think the first time i heard about havana syndrome was about 10 years ago um but basically it's an it's a mysterious illness with no it's got symptoms like nausea headaches tinnitus things like that so people are exhibiting real symptoms but you there's no uh indication there's no tox no toxins in their system they pass a full medical evaluation and so havana syndrome is very much a uh mysterious thing even among the highest levels of our intelligence agencies they've gotten a lot more evidence about what they think it might be now but back in the day what's become public knowledge i suppose and safe to talk about is it is most people think it has something to do with some kind of electromagnetic weapon some kind of uh ray gun or some kind of directed energy weapon you know dew uh that is causing these kinds of things we don't some kind of microwave weapon is what was theorized at one point uh others think it's some kind of x-ray or something to do with the electromagnetic spectrum so um that's kind of the general thinking about havana syndrome right now and a lot of diplomats have reported it because it of course surfaced in havana cuba of diplomats you know not every diplomat who lives in a country you know is a representative of the united states they don't all live inside the embassy they live outside the embassy so workers would report getting sick and this started happening all over the planet and it turns out bringing it back to austria in vienna they had more cases than anywhere else combined so there you go and the cia station chief there was covering that up or down playing down playing it like so many uh diplomats have downplayed it over the years but it's clearly a real thing uh people are really getting sick as to who is doing this the classic finger pointing is of course russia our number one diplomatic adversary um it's it sounds like a russian thing to do that's kind of along the thing kind of along the lines of the cold war tricks they used to do but then again the united states is also perfectly capable of doing these attacks on ourselves as well so who who really knows right unless you're the director of the cia you're not going to know the full story of any of this stuff and even then you might not know so i thought it was kind of interesting it brings back this havana syndrome uh medical thing in back into the press for people to to kind of sink their teeth into and it's sort of from our side of things um it kind of triggers us even here as a civilian group right um it triggers us into thinking okay well well is this this is going to be a huge deal a few years down the line because we've already seen how in just a few short years it's gone from being a myth to a very serious thing and we're trying and it's one of those things that like once you get down into the weeds of well how would you how would you stop it how would you prevent something like this it gets very difficult to do so i just wanted to point that out for those that are interested in havana syndrome and moving on to china so china not doing super hot they're still working through the problems with the evergrand crisis their economy is is seriously in trouble i guess we'll see how this plays on the asian markets which are not doing super hot right now either way but it looks like uh china is going to have some serious economic problems for the foreseeable future finally ending on bahrain sorry it's too small to show on the map but i just wanted to briefly mention the new cooperation the new partnership between bahrain and the us navy in which they're going to start patrolling together a lot more so for those that don't know bahrain's a small little island kind of nation out there next to saudi arabia off the coast there and it's it's really just a big u.s navy base it is its own nation they have their own stuff but it's really one of those diplomatically weird places to describe uh but they do have a navy they do have a coastal uh you know coastal defense thing and they have quite a few ships um so we're going to be uh the united united states is going to be conducting a lot more exercises with them throughout the rest of the gulf region uh quite soon and that's pretty much all i've got for today uh thank you again to everyone for watching and a special thank you to all of our supporters on patreon i know we've gotten kind of a burst of people supporting us over there so just wanted to thank you all again for that it really does help with our rising costs here as we start 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hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for tuesday the 30th of november 2021 and as always it is being recorded on the day prior the 29th of november so let's get started moving quickly through the weather we can see that winter weather is definitely a factor for most of the united states as one might expect this time of year but this combined with a lot of the low-level clouds that we're going to be seeing in some parts of the country up near the northern border along with the very dark nights we're only at a 28 illumination level and the moon is going to be setting at 2 32 in the afternoon so it makes for some pretty dark nights moving forward and we can see here on our surface winds chart that we have lots of winter weather advisories in the northern areas so let's move on to no tams really nothing particularly special there is a presidential one for minneapolis but by the time this briefing goes out it will be expired it's just uh biden is taking a visit to minnesota to talk about infrastructure something like that it doesn't really matter for no tams i just wanted to point that out because that's really the only one that there is of note moving into our civil unrest forecast uh really at this point this slide is becoming a kind of a dated item because really we're seeing violence and just general crime and looting and things like that in most major u.s cities on things like weekends or whenever there's some kind of policing action even if it's not anything that's high profile we see random things happen like that and especially the states which have basically legalized shoplifting this is a huge thing so it's just become a daily a thing of a facet of daily life for a lot of people in most major cities but really we're not tracking any huge major events that are either planned or really stuff that we can't really predict with any reliability at least we can't so yeah there's really not much to say on the civil unrest forecast other than to say that most american cities are not doing super hot right now so let's move on to logistics so for logistics really not a whole lot of updates there are really no major changes from the last brief however there are some changes on the national level shortages so moving forward into this kind of new slide we've set up here there are two things to note one is ammonia so fertilizer shortages continue to be a huge problem globally this is not just the united states united states is actually doing not so bad when compared to the rest of the world when it comes to fertilizer shortages but the united states is most likely going to start feeling the shortages of ammonia uh pretty soon because in europe uh the price of ammonia is already up 300 since january so again inflation and just high prices skyrocketing globally on pretty much everything are are definitely playing a factor here but the production of ammonia the raw materials needed to produce it the agriculture that's also needed to produce it that's a huge huge thing that drives prices up and then also switching gears quite significantly there is also a maple syrup shortage so this is kind of a weird one the quebec maple syrup producers organization is releasing over 50 million pounds of maple syrup from their strategic reserves which is a headline that i wish i was making up but interestingly enough the canadian maple syrup market operates much like opec in that they have very specific production and distribution timelines to keep the international price of maple syrup stable like this is a very very much a precious commodity for most of the world so they uh they have very much an opec like uh organization and uh earlier this year the market experienced a pretty big hiccup in the weather um it's just a growing season the harvest season for really maple syrup was not super great this spring which reduced production and this has resulted in roughly half of canada's strategic maple syrup reserve being released to keep prices stable so we're really not sure how this is going to affect things but if you like genuine maple syrup you might notice that it's kind of hard to find in the grocery stores although they're you know releasing the strategic reserves so i guess we'll figure out how that plays into it i just thought that was kind of interesting uh when we get to uh some of the critical infrastructure concerns uh for this brief so let's go ahead and jump into the mandate updates uh this is just kind of a quick heads up as to the situation with the mandates right so as many of you already know the white house has announced a new wave of authoritarianism in the form of yet another mandate uh so we've already talked about these other two right here uh these two mandates previously but we now have a new one um this is uh this is the the mandate that just came out the gist of which is that every truck driver that crosses a u.s land border will have to be jabbed no exceptions now i still keep that in heavy air quotes because as is a classic biden tactic going back to his very first years in the senate nothing is in writing just yet um you know at least not yet right so we don't really know how this will work out because again this is not not in writing now even the casual observer can clearly see that biden's tyrannical overreaches have been halted by many courts at this point and this mandate would certainly fall under the category of a court saying not to do something and biden or the white house is going against the court like it's pretty clear at this point that the biden regime while actually very hesitant to actually give any opposition room to stand on it's also clear that the regime's propaganda and coercion tactics are waning and the biden regime has made it quite clear that they will not hesitate to use force when that propaganda becomes less effective so like i mentioned there's nothing in writing with this there's there's no executive action on this osha is basically in the doghouse right now with the federal courts because they're the ones who are taking the heat for biden's uh tyrannical mandates but when it comes to like what this actually means nobody really knows because this is a pretty classic tactic biden knows or the regime i guess collectively knows that whenever he does something tactile like an executive order this can easily be immediately stopped by a court but if he or the other people that are running or influencing things doesn't put anything in writing if he puts out a press release or or hops on twitter and just signals to the media what what the white house's interests are well that can become a self-fulfilling tyranny machine right there which is exactly what happened with the osha mandates right these ones that are on the slide already right biden didn't actually put anything in writing for months after mandating the jab for companies with over 100 employees and yet even though he didn't put anything in writing these companies and entities went out of their way to follow a law that didn't even exist yet so and arguably doesn't even exist to this day because it's not a law right so employees get fired because the company is following an executive order that didn't even exist yet one of biden's well-known tricks and a trick that this regime uses first this is like their primary weapon right is just throwing out a statement and seeing what people will do they just throw out these mandates and see what sticks if the end result is people following it biden gets a freebie he gets people to do what the regime says he gets people to do what he says and at the same time no court can come after him because he didn't put anything in writing so just like we talk about all the time a lot of people these days are absolutely salivating at the prospect of using the we were just following orders excuse that just seems to be the case at least from what what we think it's quite literally the milgram experiment all over again except there's a big difference that the participants fully know about all the details of the experiment and they are actively wanting to participate in it and to continue the analogy it's almost like a lot of people have the attitude of you know hey mr lab coat man come back in here and sort of intimidate me a little bit so that i can have an excuse to flip this last switch it's like people are begging just to flip that last switch which is kind of scary but i say all of this to hopefully explain how we here look at a lot of these mandates press releases executive orders but whatever and what all of this means for the nature of well authority in general i guess but really this is just an important thing to think about when it comes to trying to figure out a livelihood that is more resistant to the crazy stuff that we're dealing with these days so i just wanted to kind of talk about that for a minute because it requires a lot it's not just as simple as is this constitutional or not is this legal or not is this a law or not it's not that simple because we're starting to again like i've mentioned many times before we're examining the nature of what a law actually is we're examining the nature of what an executive order actually is or what a court order actually is and yeah sure it's dangerous but hey look we're having to deal with this on a daily basis so i thought i'd kind of take that digression to help kind of explain what we're the mindset that we're in when it comes to this stuff so with that out of the way let's talk about some critical infrastructure concerns and right up front right up top there is the trucking mandates right just like i mentioned how are how is the trucking industry how are most truckers going to respond to this mandate well i think it's quite clear the ceo of the american trucking association has stated that their internal polling has indicated that that uh over 37 percent of all truckers in the united states at least in their association uh are saying not only not quote not no but hell no to these mandates so yeah that kind of makes sense right like you know we here we're here not in the trucking industry but look like we've got family and friends and things like that that work in logistics and hey look it's it's quite clear that uh the power of trucking cannot be understated like the the people look down on that job a lot but hey look we're finding out just how much power your average trucker has and it's quite significant and it's going to be interesting to see how much that affects things because it's we're in this grand game of chicken when it comes to these mandates and quite clearly it's becoming a lot more clear that the federal government thinks that that like the truckers the doctors the military service members they think that the people that they command are going to blink first and that could not be further from the truth doctors and pilots and service members are willing to to all end their careers before they comply with these mandates and we're of course we're not talking about most we're not talking about most people but hey we're we're seeing levels of resistance that i will admit surprise me i thought i would never have thought that this many people uh would have resisted things even just now right and the resistance is growing every day so i think i thought that was an interesting thing to note when it comes to critical infrastructure basically hey be prepared for trucking shortages to get worse and then number two they're moving on to uh the energy sector so biden is or at least the regime has stated that they're going to release 50 million barrels uh from the strategic petroleum reserve to combat the high gas prices and the interesting thing is is that this makes absolutely no sense because at the same time uh the binding regime has is begging begging opec to increase production which makes no sense whatsoever because if the united states is going to flood the market with oil then why would opec increase production they're going to cut production so that so that the price of gasoline doesn't go down to two cents a you know gallon and so that they will have actually some profit because it's is people and people like to look at these big oil companies and say oh they're just you know evil corporations right and you can make that case in a lot of different areas but the interesting thing is is that when you have price uh price manipulation or or the market saturation when it comes to oil change so significantly like if we were to drop uh the price of oil in half because gas is what like double what it used to be it's like gosh what four or five gallons in some parts of the some parts of the country that we're in and nine dollars a gallon in california and places like that so if you were to drop that gasoline if you were to flood the market with petroleum and drop that gasoline down to 50 cents a gallon people would probably be generally happy but that would decimate the oil industry because what the oil industry is going to do is lay off everyone and they're going to not have the production capability so you have a short period of time where your gas prices are low but then the gas prices skyrocket because you've messed with the system too much too quickly and that's what opec is is looking at biden like like he's the slow kid in class opec is like cracking jokes about this at this point like hey dude what are you doing even russia is like yeah man we're gonna cut production like why are you really why are you releasing strategic petroleum reserves like you could have just asked us to increase production um it's almost like opaque is cracking jokes like hey you want more oil pump it yourself because you're the one who cut cut production in the united states like we were energy independent for so long like why are you looking to opec to to fix the problem so this is kind of one of those things that we could talk about forever when it comes to energy sector but really the interesting side note now specifically when it comes to the relationship between the biden regime and the energy sector is this uh i i know that the fashionable thing to do is just bash biden right that's just that's just a popular opinion these days and i get it i really do there's plenty of justification for that but at the same time in most cases we can't just say well biden's dumb or he's mentally incompetent we can't just say that and call it a day sure sure that you can argue that these things are true but you know after all biden does have a very long reputation in the senate for stuff like this he's not he's not known in the senate before he became vice president he was not known for being a smart man but generally speaking the biden regime has done some pretty smart stuff i mean smart if you're trying to be a dictator but there are definitely lots of indicators that show that at least some kind of thought process is going on but all this being said to me the biden regime's actions in the energy sector just don't make very much sense to me um i just can't figure out the angle you can take all the usual talking points and make an argument like yeah you sure you can do that like biden is trying to bankrupt the petroleum industry to appeal to the hippies and yuppies and the democratic party's base which makes honestly that even that argument makes no sense to me because the energy sector makes life possible and they have a lot of power like a huge amount of power whereas the base that biden would be appealing to can't really do anything for him and then things get even more complex like you start talking international diplomacy and things like that which you know again truthfully is not pride and strong suit it just it's just not uh things get really complicated i generally think that on issues like this it's pretty clear that this is not so much of a political thing like it's not left versus right when it comes to the higher echelons of national energy policy it's just not uh it's factions right it's this company against that company it's these cronies over here versus those cronies over there it's it's favors in retirement plans versus other people's favors and retirement plans like that's just the way politics works at the highest echelons in general and especially when it comes to national level energy stuff but i can't figure out for the life of me why biden if he wanted to be a dictator which he clearly does or at least the regime collectively does right what does he why does he consistently stab the energy sector at every chance he gets i mean if it's to appease his political base well he can appease most voters with the klondike bar all i'm saying is that it seems like the intense targeting and alienation of a valuable wartime industry like the energy sector is not a good idea if biden wants to have control so all of this seems like a misstep on the regime's part or whoever is exerting influence on the white house over these issues again most people will just chalk this up to him being a crazy old man or a puppet for somebody else and that and that's probably partially true right but i just have a gut feeling that like something is not quite right with this especially with how specifically and fervently the energy sector is being targeted there are probably lots of different answers to this weird analytical note so i thought i would share that thought lay everything out on the table in the event that someone else out there has been kind of casually thinking the same thing right i'm sure if i dedicated you know a few days to this i could probably figure out what the angle is but you know i just don't have the time to figure out what the white house is doing on you know when it comes to the energy sector and who knows who and all that kind of stuff so i just thought it was kind of interesting and hopefully somebody else out there is thinking kind of along the same lines because i think it's kind of odd there's something going on there that's a little weird and i haven't haven't been able to quite figure out why why the hatred so much but anyway let's move on to significant governmental actions so as everyone's probably heard by now there is a new variant of the uh the virus out there that cannot be named right uh i think the most interesting part which is um being uh sort of uh joked about all over the internet is that the who and their naming convention skipped over the letter of the alpha the greek alphabet that they used that as the naming convention to avoid offending the chinese communist party because one letter of the greek alphabet actually just so happens to be the first name of their dear leader so i thought that was kind of interesting um it's very very interesting honestly and it kind of points as to what the who's kind of mentality is there's really not much intel value there other than i think it was interesting uh but yeah it just kind of proves to chose to go that the who clearly is making political decisions and has been for probably ever honestly moving on to number two there the uh case for bynan's nominee for the office of comptroller not looking so good for for that nomination process uh solo omrova recently had a background check done on her and somebody figured out that she was actually arrested back in 1995 for shoplifting um again not a really huge uh intel value here i just thought that there i have not seen anything quite as ironic and honestly tragically poetic than biden's economics nominee being charged with theft i just thought that was kind of hilarious and and sad at the same time so i thought i would share that as well but moving on to kind of number three and four there which are kind of linked to sort of the same idea is that texas is not doing super great right now when it comes to their battle against crt so so one school board in texas decided to use their own law enforcement agents the basically school resource officers to go and arrest parents at their homes and charging them with disorderly conduct with the intent to disrupt a public meeting so yeah again this is not surprising for anyone in the who's got skin in the game or anyone who's just kind of casually observing this this is a a a pretty fierce fight uh like if we look at all of the sectors in which um this kind of crt woke stuff whatever you want to call it a communist takeover like look at where it's at like is it in look at what industries it's at it's it's really in education right we've known that that uh universities have been kind of havens for this kind of stuff uh for a long time um but like looking at crt being taught to like preschoolers that's kind of uh that's kind of not good at least in our opinion and a lot of people are kind of figuring that out and it's very very important um to kind of uh propaganda like just propping into 101 well what do we call it now information operations right we kind of church it up a little bit to make it not sound as bad but if you're trying to conduct intelligence operations or information operations against the population if you're trying to topple a government you really need to get the kids you need to get them young you need to get them questioning things very very early and questioning the things that you want them to question and thinking the things that you want them to think so again this is very interesting from a doctrinal standpoint we can get way down in the weeds with it i guess someday but i thought it's kind of interesting that ordinary parents are starting to look at what their kids are bringing home for homework and they're it's they're starting to figure this stuff out like hey yeah yeah we've been kind of talking about stuff for a while and uh it's good you're on board but hey this is this has been going on for a while um you know we're also seeing things like point number four there we're starting to see these um racial equity board members uh doxing parents who are suing to kind of stop this crt training you know the fact that a school has a racial equity board what like what there are so many things that like if you if you if you take a few classes or if you study like the history of the soviet union quite quite significantly particularly when it comes to other maybe not traditionally russian countries but other countries that kind of like vietnam is a great example china is another good example if you start studying this stuff and starting to realize how communism kind of spread its you know its tentacles everywhere and how it got kind of started in some of these areas it's very fascinating because you start seeing the sort of political commissars come out right they all have different names right but you start seeing these political organizations come up and and kind of eclipse the ordinary things like we've all heard of school boards right like school boards have been around forever right but you know these racial equity boards right these um what do they call it uh racial trauma advocates like what what is this you know so it has that sort of i'm not saying there's a direct link but it's pretty clear that there's a flavor of political commissar type behavior in a lot of our educational systems and texas is finding that out the hard way right now or at least texas parents are so you know if you're this is not something that's unique to texas of course this is happening in the school that's like two miles from my house so it's quite clear that this is a nationwide problem but i do think that in in digressing on this topic yet again i think that it's interesting to kind of understand a lot of the history that goes into this kind of stuff because again from a doctrinal's perspective from an information operations perspective it's utterly important to understand this stuff then moving on to number five they're just kind of a heads up uh just a reminder that the just lane maxwell trial is currently underway there's no media coverage of it and this is going to be most people kind of know how this is going to turn out but i just wanted to point out that that it's going on and the mainstream media is trying to bury this quite harshly just like they're trying to bury the story of the uh uh the terror attack that occurred at the uh christmas parade right so um that's it's it's like tis the season for censorship i guess and kind of hiding uh terrorist attacks and things like that so yeah i just wanted to point that out that that did happen the met trial is underway uh and i guess we'll have to see how it works out there's really nothing more to add on that and before we move on i wanted to talk about this again because i guess today is kind of a blend of an intel update and a sort of podcast about deeper issues than just a standard you know intel update but i thought this was interesting and this is something that has kind of uh depending on what parts the internet you go on to this is kind of blowing up other places are not talking about it at all but this specif specific wikipedia article is drawing a lot of attention and this is the article for the mass killings under communist regimes now the interesting part is that if you can quite clearly see that this article is being considered for deletion in accordance with wikipedia's deletion policy so a lot of um i would say more conservative uh sources are trying to are citing this somewhat correctly that wikipedia is trying to censor uh the the the deaths that have been caused by communism essentially that wikipedia is trying to rewrite history um by allowing this article to be uh kind of gone you know disappeared right and okay that's interesting enough as is and we can talk about that you know endlessly right but this is the interesting part to me so if you go and you look right here it says this article has multiple issues please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page so if you click that link and go to the talk page this is the page that comes up and this is the part that's fascinating wikipedia is tracking the number of media organizations that cover this article this is interesting like so what this is like i don't man this is crazy right this is the interesting part to me not the fact that wikipedia wants to delete articles wikipedia deletes articles all the time some rightfully so because they're dumb pages but like arguably like this is the interesting part to me um like we can make the the argument that okay the page might not have been the best source of research like it's wikipedia right so it's not exactly a a scholarly source right but the interesting thing is that wikipedia is not only tracking this right they're also they literally are tracking these reddit pages that are are bringing in high traffic uh a lot of traffic from these different websites that's fascinating to me not only is wikipedia aware that an article is being tracked by media organizations but also they're tracking the websites that are talking about a wikipedia article man if that is not just a poetic like note again tragically ironic note considering the the topic considering that this is about communism and stuff like that holy cow i thought that was insane um so again not really a whole lot of like intel value i guess other than just to sort of show man how far this stuff goes um and i thought that was quite interesting so i again thought i would i would talk about it some so let's move on to another interesting slide which is developing technologies so they're really only three items of note and all three are kind of military the first one there is france's new camouflage system so this is called the adaptive multi-spectral camouflage system aka the salamander camouflage don't know why they didn't call it chameleon camouflage missed opportunity there i guess but this is supposed to be debuted actually today or tomorrow maybe france has a national like once a year defense trade show and uh they're supposed to be able they're supposed to be debuting it so i really all we have is this old video of it um but you can see it's kind of interesting us has obviously been working on this kind of technology for a while as well i think bae systems has also got something lockheed has got something similar to this raytheon has got something i think most defense contractors have some kind of technology they're working on this kind of cloaking stuff the stuff the us is doing is is pretty cool um but yeah this is the the reason that i wanted to talk about it is that this is supposed to be fully motion capable uh by now so i don't know if that's true or not i know that based on the calendar timeline and the kind of excitement that there's been along in the french military communities as you know this might actually be capable for them now who knows uh but moving on to the interesting ones which are number two and three and they both have to do with russian tanks so these videos and pictures started showing up a few days ago maybe maybe a couple weeks ago of russian tanks in the ukraine area really the the don bass and donetsk uh fighting areas right um with the russian build up there they're starting we're starting to see these interesting modifications being done and this is something that's not particularly new but the implementation is new if it makes sense so these cages uh these cages on top of the turret there like these those aren't particularly new uh the or at least the idea isn't new these are used to protect against things like shaped projectiles rpgs really any kind of shaped projectile um that's what it's for but usually it's on the side of the front of the tank right to prevent a side on you know rpg from hitting the side like every you know veteran in the us military has seen these like this is just kind of a thing that's standardized um really this goes back to world war ii like the the you know the german panzers had them t-34s had them uh or some some kind of uh shaped projectile disruption tool right it says cages aren't new what's interesting is that they're on top of the turret and they're not they're nowhere else so a lot of analysts are thinking that really what these are being used for on the tops of tanks and on the turrets are to prevent and disrupt the effectiveness of munitions like mortars and grenades that are dropped by drones like these small like dji drones this is interesting this is a new implementation of such technology now a lot of people i should point out that a lot of people think that these uh cages on the tops of turrets kind of angled like that are to disrupt or at least maybe serve as kind of like a hail mary prevention against something like a javelin and that kind of makes sense but i i don't know uh it that could be just a placebo i can't imagine that stopping or even reducing the effectiveness of a freaking javelin but you never know who knows it might just be uh i mean the russians are really good deception too right they might put 200 with a scrap steel on top of a tank to make analysts like me think about it for a while it could be that i don't really know but it seems to be very interesting and we've seen a lot a lot of use of these small uas platforms that are dropping very small mortars but they're being devastatingly effective i can't really think of any other use for these kinds of cages that are on tops of turrets other than okay maybe some built up areas but i mean doughnuts can really i mean ukraine has you know a lot of christiana houses that are like what six stories tall or five stories in the ground floor that makes sense you know if you're in an urban built up area the top of the tank is very vulnerable because the armor is not as thick as on the front or the sides or even the rear right but at the same time like i don't know it just seems like it's meant to prevent against uh small uas attacks so i mean i guess we'll have to see we'll have to see if once these go into combat service maybe get some battle damage on them we can kind of understand what the deal is with these and then finally the the third point here which is probably why i'm going to make a fool out of myself but i was genuinely confused with this is and a few other people who are in the game a few other analysts here in the shop as well uh are confused by this and this is a something that appears to be a thermal emitter being observed on a lot of russian tanks so this image hopefully shows a little bit more clear what i'm talking about when it comes to this thermal emission device and this is kind of a weird thing so so bear with me and this image is also confusing but um because we have three t-72s right that are driving uh towards the camera but the turrets for the t-70s are turned to the rear uh so that's why it looks kind of odd uh you might have trouble recognizing these but you're definitely looking you can see the driver's periscope right there the normal distinctive uh lights and weld points and things like that that you can use to to figure out if this is a t-72 or a t-80 or t-90 it looks pretty much like a t-72 to me just with the turrets turned to the rear to show us this weird-looking snorkel device so there's kind of here's the gist of what this might be so a lot of people think that this is just a standard um snorkel for like an engine air intake right uh and it is uh obviously mounted to the turret so that you don't hit it when you traverse the turret around but it's turned sideways right so instead of uh being able to allow the tank to drive across a river or something like that or traverse a river right instead of being able to do that it's actually holding a thermal emission device and what the the theory at least on this is that it holds it serves as kind of like a little arm as a support to hold out a really hot uh source of heat right and the goal or at least the theory is that the russians might be doing this as as sort of like a field expedient way of putting a hot source of heat outside of the tank so that if you had some kind of heat seeking missile it would zoom right past the tank's turret zoom right past the hull of the tank and explode harmlessly behind the tank because it's trying to go for this hot source of heat rather than the exhaust that it that normally would uh would be the target of a heat-seeking missile now i'm not a tank guy so i might be all wrong about this i'm sure some cav dudes are laughing their butts off because it's probably quite simple it's probably a simple solution like just a tank snorkel or something they've got folded down for uh transport who knows right i'm not a tank guy but this is the these images particularly this image here is uh is getting a lot of traction in kind of the ocean world as to like what does this thing do because it doesn't appear to be a standard snorkel it appears to be something else so uh it's very interesting i don't know what this does i think that it's an interesting interesting concept i can't imagine it working very well but i do find it to be very very interesting that we're starting to see a lot of this stuff come out as russia continues their build up in the ukrainian region so very interesting stuff um hopefully we'll get some more pictures of this and be able to talk about it a lot more but i thought it was kind of interesting and i guess we'll have to see what see how it goes and see what this thing actually is because i'm you know it's pretty interesting so let's go ahead and move on to the national guard stuff right so in the northeast really not a whole lot going on uh really the new york national guard is still using um uh both medical personnel and non-medical personnel and to uh supplement all the people that have been fired from hospitals in the new york city area so we'll hopefully get some more information on that but that just appears to be continuing moving down southeast there's really only one update and that is to do with kentucky so this is probably outdated at this point even though kentucky's uh you know national guard agent general and paos have stated that you know they're still doing the medical mission um this doesn't appear to be accurate because several battalions of the 149th meb specifically uh are currently in the stages of mobilizing for a pretty big deployment to the horn of africa to support that mission so based on the pre-deployment workups we've been observing for the past couple of weeks and months i guess around the state of kentucky it's a pretty big deployment so the number of people that are stuck helping with the domestic medical mission has got to be pretty low if they're they might be leaving behind some some support personnel who knows i just wanted to point that out that there's probably not a big mission in kentucky anymore everywhere else the mission remains the same really no major changes either way so we're just going to kind of assume that the mission is continuing with all these other places similar situation in wisconsin uh we're assuming that uh the national guard since we haven't really seen much about the national guard being either they were stood up for the whole written house trial thing and were there we really don't know if they're still around we don't know how many uh units have been kind of stood up for that security role type stuff so we're just going to assume that they're kind of still hanging out in the area because you know the situation in wisconsin is still pretty dynamic so i don't know we'll probably keep an eye on that for a while um the concern with ohio national guard potentially using national guard members as school drivers that concern is kind of waning because we're really it's it was probably just a political threat in the beginning but you never really know so we were tracking that and then the minnesota deployment continues as well down south of the border a lot of deployments uh by the texas national guard the texas guard and a lot of other states national guards who have sent troops down to the southern border uh that situation is pretty much status quo it's a status quo in the in the in that it's getting worse every day uh with regards to the violence and the number of people and the situations that you that are happening right it's just kind of deteriorating it's not deteriorating at an abysmal rate but it is uh concerned right so i just wanted to point that out that we're probably likely to see a lot more uh forces uh move into the area as the winter sets in and then that was no real major change the oregon national guard mission is probably going to wind to a close here pretty soon just because politicians are getting involved but other than that not really a whole uh not a whole lot going on and moving on to the mask mandates so really no no major change to this um again the situation in tennessee is kind of fluid uh we're still trying to kind of figure out what's going on like did the judge block this or did a judge not block it like what's the deal we're still going to keep tennessee red because it appears that most of the school districts or at least the biggest ones are requiring masks for school especially with this new freaking hype over this new variant right so that's that's going to be a thing we're expecting to see a lot more states probably locked down because of this um just for general reasons like this is you know a softball assessment you can see this coming a mile away right so not exactly a surprise to anyone but moving forward to the actual jab mandates we're not really seeing anybody trying to push this super hard we're seeing a couple of states even states that we were expecting to have jab mandates they're kind of backing off now because they've seen the resistance in california and people are finding out that hey you can't propagandize and pump propaganda into a child's head if a parent decides to homeschool them right and they they kind of need to to work both sides of the aisle with that if they want to keep these kids in school right so it's a huge thing it's really an emotional topic for a lot of people but we're of course continuing to keep an eye on the school situation and figure out what's going on there and then overall the resistance tracker is really unchanged not a whole lot going on um i should say there's a lot going on there but you know we're at 9000 rpms but we're in neutral right so there we're just kind of waiting for the courts to see what's going to happen with a lot of these states lawsuits and stuff like that a few states are probably it's going to be interesting to see what states do about these new mandates with trucking particularly states like texas a lot of a lot of trade comes comes through the land borders uh into texas from mexico so you know gonna be interesting to see how that how that works out but for now really not a whole lot of updates and then we do have an update to the mandate failure slide so just just to clarify a little bit this new slide is meant to track the companies and entities that have been forced to rescind their medical mandates due to people resisting right this is not a tracker of all of the companies that are openly and proudly resisting right those are everywhere at this point we just fill the slide up we're tracking the companies where the company itself was forced to make a decision uh to not push these mandates based on their workers resisting so all these companies wanted to push mandates right and or they did push mandates and their their employees stopped that and new to the list is disney so disney had a a jab mandate and which has since been rescinded so that's interesting um considering disney's man that's a whole rabbit hole i guess you could go down but um disney itself is a very interesting organization and the fact that they rescinded their jab mandate for their employees or at least they've appeared to this might just be a ruse and they're covertly um bringing it back in style who knows but i didn't want to highlight that because that seems to be kind of interesting so hopefully we'll have some more additions for this next brief but let's move on to international issues so wrapping things up here with international issues uh we have a lot of things to talk about this is doing kind of an injustice to not dedicate as much time to this but if you look at the list of countries on the left-hand side of the screen there i'll just list them off really quickly ireland italy greece the czech republic france the solomon islands niger slovakia australia and austria those countries aren't experiencing significant levels of resistance like we're talking like some of these countries is just open rebellion when it comes to the medical mandates that are just kind of sweeping the world at this point this is very interesting i think the two that are the most interesting to me are niger and the solomon islands because niger has had the french army deployed to quell the rebellion there and the same thing with the solomon islands with the australian military being sent in on that mission so you quite literally have empires going back to their colonies and policing up that actions there are obviously more countries more by the minute by the time this gets posted i'm sure we'll have a dozen more to add to this list but just note that even though a lot of the mainstream media sources are kind of burying this uh and not talking about it there is we're talking like arab spring level rebellion when it comes to the medical mandates in europe um in southeast asia in the pacific islands uh africa all these places right and then of course the rebellion here in the united states uh against these kind of tyrannical things so very interesting to follow uh i it's going to be it's going to be interesting to see how this all works out particularly in europe where they have a heavy-handed approach now when it comes to europe i will mention the polish situation with belarus so like i mentioned last time poland and belarus have got there's kind of a diplomatic spat going on so essentially the rundown of what that situation is this belarus is obviously a russian sort of proxy right they were the one of the last countries to leave the soviet union uh the president lukashenko is obviously one of the most infamous dictators in the world um and belarus is basically on um shares the border with poland poland is you know the gateway to nato right so uh what belarus has been doing allegedly um it's quite clear that's kind of obvious what they're doing belarus is taking migrants and immigrants from the middle east and transiting them to busing them to the border with poland and dumping them off in a lot of cases giving them weapons and telling them to go assault the polish border guards and so there have been a lot of clashes poland has strung miles and miles and miles of sea wire and razor wire because of this stuff and a lot of other european nations are starting to do that too so what i'm concerned about this is kind of a thing that i thought of the other day what i'm kind of concerned about is a sort of new form of berlin uh wall going up uh when it comes to immigration stuff in europe this is a serious deal in the united states we have to deal with immigration from mexico and central america south america it's a it's a little bit of a different story in europe i would argue that the story is completely different because you have uh migrants coming from the middle east mostly uh into europe into the schengen zone and the dynamic's different okay it's just it's hard to explain to an american audience but what is interesting is that we clearly have a sort of uh cold war relationship kind of starting back over this immigration stuff you've got you know your your old post soviet bloc countries kind of aligning with russia and russia is happy to let these migrants go through because it kind of ticks off nato and that's just kind of like their thing to needle with nato rights it's just kind of the status quo for the past you know 70 years uh and you've got countries like poland who are like hey you know we're putting up a fence uh you guys want in and then you know it's interesting i wonder i wonder how much uh of this immigration preparation and mobilizing militaries for immigration and threatening to invoke articles four and five of the nato charter i wonder how much of that is genuinely about immigration and i wonder how much of that is really just a pretext for getting something on the books and moving forces into the area to counter russia it would be great that would be a great thing to do if i were nato is to kind of say that hey yeah we're stringing this 800 mile minefield slash concertina wire to prevent some guy from baghdad to walk into poland and sounds like overkill to me in a lot of these cases so it's going to be interesting to see is immigration going to be a way for nato to quietly rearm itself um against a potential russian action uh some people would say no it's probably a naive thought honestly but because nato really wouldn't need a pretext to do any of that we've nato and russia and nato and the post post-soviet countries have gotten pretty good at uh figuring out what everybody's up to but i don't know i just thought it was interesting so i thought i'd share and then uh speaking of the middle east uh moving on to iran there the nuclear talks are uh failing as one might expect iran is just in the mood of do whatever they want um a lot of people ourselves included have made the argument that the united states is very diplomatically weak in the international arena and countries like iran they just they know this and they're just doing whatever the hell they want so iran is is like that north korea is the same way china is a little more complex but really iran sees that uh um we're not gonna do anything about their nuclear development so you know they're just gonna do it um and also turkey moving on to turkey is kind of an interesting thing they are dealing with an economic crisis like no other so currently they are dealing with currency devaluation uh some might call it a a currency crash right so the turkish lira which is their their currency is experiencing a 20 uh inflation rate um yeah so this is an interesting case to study because it's yet another classic example of how economics is pretty simple when you get past all the smoke and mirrors especially when it comes to inflation and turkey is finding out firsthand pretty quickly what happens when you keep interest rates artificially low for too long so yeah that's going to be pretty fascinating to to follow because hyperinflation is already setting in in turkey and this is not good for a nato member especially with all the impending conflicts around the world and the tension in europe right now as is and then finally talking about russia and ukraine uh honestly we should probably dedicate an entire freaking several hour series to the to this uh we've talked about ukraine in the past and how complex of a situation that is uh but currently russia has been uh there's a lot of activity so right now um there is a significant level of naval activity uh for instance russia has deployed uh the majority of her black sea uh submarine fleet um which is most uh most likely actually it's almost certainly in response to the united states sending in the arleigh burke herself ddg 51 to poke around in the very shallow and hard to hide in waters of the black sea so the us has for the past few months now i think had a destroyer hanging out in the black sea for a while it's just been kind of a constant rotation due to the ukrainian situation and stuff like that and i think actually the arleigh burke has has replaced the porter uh the uss porter if i if i remember correctly um but yeah the the russians have get their their it's you know cold war stuff at it

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for October 12th through the 18th, 2025. This week has been kind of a mixed bag. There have been a lot of kinetic things going on around the world, but most of those kinetic things have also been taking place over the past few months. So, this week has been a little bit more nebulous in terms of world events, which has possibly tempted us to be a little bit more complacent. Rest assured, there's plenty of activity going on around the world. So, let's get right to it. First up here in the homeland this week has been a continuation of the civil unrest in places like Portland and Chicago and New York. ICE operations continue. Counter ICE operations continue. This morning, as I'm recording this, the No Kings protests are supposed to be underway nationwide. It's pretty much the same story as before, but again, it would not be a good idea to be complacent with these things. So, if you look at the map on their own website, they're clearly using or reusing the same map as before. So, all of these uh listings that I have clicked around and found are the same as the first round of No King's Protest. So, they're clearly doing the same thing over again. They're trying to make it look like there are demonstrations in places where there aren't. If we recall from the very first round of uh No King's Protests, most of these events never happened because why? It was a SCOP the first time. I know we suspected this the first time and we kind of said there's no way these events are going to happen or if they are, you can look and see that they're scheduled at different times. So they've got the same group of people, the same group of paid demonstrators being busted around from from event to event to event in an area. So instead of one big protest that takes place all day, you've got 15minute protests that occur in 30 different places. So it looks like there's 30 different protests on their own little map here. So again, this is very much manipulation of of information. And so because of that, we might be tempted to be a little bit more, you know, lax, especially considering that the last time I I kid you not, they emptied out a lot of retirement homes so as to pad their protest numbers. Now, again, we can be complacent with even this idea, too, because you might be tempted to think, "Oh, well, these, you know, these people are elderly. They're living in an old folks home, and they don't know what's going on, right? They just, you know, they just like the chance to get out, right?" Unfortunately, many of these people actually are quite cognizant of their belief systems and actions. And a lot of them, you know, even the elderly, very much endorsing of this behavior. So, you know, there's give and take. There's a little bit of, well, they're they're taking advantage. They're exploiting the elderly for to pad their protests. And then there's also the other side of things where the only people that agree with these people are, you know, the extreme elderly, right? So, it's kind of a mixed bag. It doesn't really look good for their cause. I mean, a lot of people are expecting mass pandemonium from these no kings things, but it it just turns out to be mostly the elderly uh on the street a lot of times. That doesn't mean that things can get pretty kinetic in some areas. Like I wrote yesterday, it's it's pretty likely that some small local groups, particularly in the usual places, Chicago, Portland, uh these people will take advantage of the chaos or rather the attention and uh try to cause some problems. So, for the most part, there's this very unique blend this week of legitimate terroristic kind of concerns, but also there are events that aren't really that big of a deal, but they're trying to make them a big deal. So trying to discern which one's which is uh pretty challenging sometimes, but generally speaking, you can look at the demonstration and see if this is going to be a low-level thing or is this going to be more of a highle thing. So it's going to vary widely uh across the country. So speaking of variation, moving down south in South and Central America, the war continues as before with Venezuela. A full-blown war has not yet been declared. However, the United States has sunk two vessels this week. one of which was the typical fastboat, but the other one was a narco submarines. Either way, the United States is certainly not backing down from Venezuela. There's been some rhetoric on whether or not this is a posturing thing and this is uh Trump's classic style of trying to, you know, bully a foreign nation uh into doing what the United States wants. That tends to be uh the way things work out sometimes. And honestly, that would probably not be a bad tactic to use against uh Maduro and Venezuela because that's just kind of the thing that Central American nations and South American nations tend to respond to the most. Some have made the argument that the decision's already been made to launch a ground invasion of Venezuela to replace Maduro. I don't know about that. There's really no way to know. All I know is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. And so far, everything that we have down in South and Central America can be moved right back to the United States fairly easily. But also, the United States could invade Venezuela pretty easily. So, clearly there's a there's a lot of bluffing going on, but I think it's probably more strong arm and less bluffing than anything else. But, I guess we'll have to see. I'm continuing to build products and work on the IPB or the intelligence preparation of the battle space for Venezuela, just in case things start getting pretty spicy because around the northern part of South America, things are not looking so great. uh such as in Ecuador. Ecuador is currently on fire mostly in many different ways. So Ecuador has been pretty hot for a while now, but nobody cares cuz it's a small nation. It doesn't really have that much impact on things except things like the drug trade. So either way, we'll get into that in a bit. Over in the Middle East, the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has reached ceasefireish territory. It is still holding for the most part, but we have to remember how things work in the Middle East. There's no such thing as a ceasefire or a peace agreement. there's just temporary halts in the fightings. And even still, when there are ceasefires, there really aren't ceasefires. So, there are skirmishes back and forth. Israel has done a couple of air strikes. They've uh shot a few people with sniper uh and sniper attacks. Same thing with Hamas and Gaza. So, you know, the the crossber fires between the two continues. It's just that the major bombings and the major assaults have stopped for now. probably the best we can hope for at the moment uh in terms of regional stability, but we'll see if it lasts, right? That's the classic phrase being uttered around the Middle East. We'll see. Over in the United Kingdom, the digital ID roll out has begun with uh a small sample group. So, they're starting to roll the ID out with veterans. We'll get into that more in just a bit, but suffice it to say, people are not very happy. Perhaps equally as irritated are the Afghans and Pakistanis who are currently at war with each other. They have taken on the classic south or western Asian mentality of conducting an attack, bombing their enemy, and then immediately withdrawing and declaring a ceasefire. And they both have done this. So the Taliban and Afghanistan will get their convoys. They'll get their whatever rockets or mortars or whatever we left them, roll up to a Pakistan checkpoint, shoot it up, immediately withdraw, and then 5 seconds later say ceasefire. Right? We'd like to agree to a ceasefire. And then Pakistan does the same thing. They bomb cobble and say ceasefire, right? So depending on which news source you read, which honestly I don't trust any news source with this particular war because they're they're both insane. Uh but the general story has been bomb ceasefire, bomb ceasefire, bomb ceasefire. So like there's there's no telling what's going on. Each one of them wants to engage in tit fortat warfare right before the ceasefire. It's you know it's kind of like they always want to get the last word in. So my guess is that this will probably continue for a while. India has also been poking the bear quite a bit and encouraging the Taliban to attack their mortal enemy Pakistan. So, same story as always pretty much. But either way, India and Pakistan engaging in a bit of a proxy war using the Taliban as the intermediary is a little concerning considering India and Pakistan both allegedly have nuclear weapons. Always something to keep an eye on. I know nobody cares about India or Pakistan. Uh but still something to be mindful of when they're engaging in a ground war with an insurgency. Down in Africa, the nation of Madagascar has entered into a state of well, a failed state. Their government has collapsed. A military ruling council. Honestly, really just the general of a small military unit that happened to be in the capital at the time has seized power more or less. And the president has fled on a French military jet. Uh although he still tries to maintain some kind of control over the country, but good luck with that. Either way, Madagascar is not doing so hot. It has been the latest in the African nations to fall. Uh but again, it's a fairly standard African coup, so we'll see how it works out. And finally, the trade war between the United States and China is utterly confusing, especially with regards to the flip-flop of the White House becoming rather concerning uh when it comes to the will they won't they status of tariffs. First, the tariffs are on at 100% hardline strong arm kind of position, and then 5 minutes later in an interview, uh everything's fine, everything's reversed, we're not doing anything. So, I don't know what's going on, but we'll get into it a little bit anyway because there's a couple of things in the world of finance that may be interesting for this week. When it comes to strategic movement this week, it's pretty much status quo. A pretty good chunk of the US Navy is still parked off the coast of Venezuela preparing for whatever they have in mind down there. And that's really uh the big bulk of concern for this week. Uh same as always, pretty much. And for kinetic events here in the homeland, again, uh Portland and Chicago unrest continue as before. It's just that it's settled into a kind of a slump of uh complacency, I think, and people are just kind of accepting the fact that these very dangerous times have have settled upon many major US cities when it comes to immigration. Speaking of insurgency, this week, a Hamas fighter, an alleged Hamas fighter. Really, he wasn't really a member of technically a member of Hamas. He was a member of a splinter group, so it's just easier to call him a Hamas fighter. But this dude was picked up in Louisiana by the DOJ uh for taking part in the October 7th attacks in 2023. So again, I thought that was kind of an interesting thing. Yes, the FBI does have a task force for investigating these sorts of things. So there may be more. Who knows? But I find it kind of interesting that a Hamas fighter turned up here in the US. I don't think very many people are surprised, but I think it's kind of interesting. And also, like I mentioned, the No Kings protests are taking place today around the country. We'll see how it turns out. My guess is there will probably be a shooting or two at random events around the country, possibly due to accidents or misidentifications like last time. Who knows? But we'll see. I don't have much to touch on in the US this week except for one kind of interesting item of note, which is the world of finance has been very interesting this week. I am personally not a finance guy. I'm only looking at this through the lens of international stability and trying to use the financial markets and what's going on there as a way of gauging how uh international sentiment is kind of flowing, right? You can kind of tell these things sometimes and it looks to be like a pretty big period of uncertainty, right? That's kind of the theme this week in finance is uncertainty and there have been a few things that have kind of exacerbated that. So, first of all, the the tariff threats last Friday uh caused the markets to crash quite a bit, especially uh the crypto market. So, Bitcoin took a dive after that as as you could probably imagine, which a lot of finance guys have have commented on. But I found it interesting that insider trading appears to be a fairly good constant. I know, shocking, right? Somebody in the president's circle having insider knowledge and making financial decisions on that. I'm shocked, shocked, I say. But anyway, this whale uh closed a $127 million short on Bitcoin just a few minutes before President Trump announced the tariffs on China. So yeah, not super great. Looks pretty suspicious. I find it very very interesting that that all of this kind of happens within the past week or so, especially in conjunction with what happened in the world of crypto a couple of days ago. The Department of Justice announced a few days ago that they conducted the largest Bitcoin seizure in history. At the time of the seizure, it was roughly 15 billion US dollars worth of Bitcoin, just for perspective. So, a pretty big seizure. The current Dr. Evil mastermind behind this is Chen Xi. And this was this was not a small thing. This was a uh pretty big seizure of crypto. And the reason that this was such a big seizure of crypto is because they were making a lot of crypto off of this. Uh it was a pretty big scam. They had created a large large Fortune 500 company style organization for scamming people over the internet. So for those of you who don't know what pig butchering scams are, it's this is basically like a combination of your Nigerian prince and a honeypot scam. So what they'll do is they'll find people, they'll target people in mass uh on places like Tinder or other dating apps. It's usually where they kind of hang out and they're playing the long game. uh they will befriend someone, start start an online relationship with someone and eventually get them to invest crypto. We see where this is going. Invest crypto in this fake company and they'll make it look real slick. They'll make it real good. They'll even provide some return on investment. You know, like, oh, you've made so much crypto today. Look at this. Put more in and put more in and put more in. And they're fattening the pig up, as we can see the name of this scam. And then eventually one day once they've decided they've fattened this pig up as much as they can, they disappear. They cut and run because it's crypto, not your keys, not your crypto, right? So they make off with a lot of money. Interestingly enough, the DOJ, to the best of my knowledge, I will I'm going to dig dig more into this, but to the best of my knowledge, they have not exactly stated how they seize this crypto. My suspicion, this is pure speculation, my suspicion is they found the seed phrases uh that this company was using to store all their crypto on these various wallets. So once you have the seed phrase, you've got the crypto and that's probably what they did. found that to be very interesting especially in the context of crypto being kind of in the news and also President Trump creating the national strategic Bitcoin reserves whereas previously the previous uh policy was to whenever the FBI or the DOJ were able to actually gain access to seized Bitcoin the policy was to just sell it for US dollars. Well, now the US government now holds this crypto. So they're not selling these 100,000 plus Bitcoin, right? which is interesting because it now means that the US government is now a major holder of crypto. Uh, and the crypto world right now is very volatile as it always is, but especially lately. So, what does all this mean? I have no clue, but I thought I'd mention it anyway because even though it looks like nothing's happening in the world or nothing happening in Washington, it's pretty busy and there's some pretty significant uh indicators of global instability all around the planet. Very interesting stuff though. Now, let's move down to Ecuador for a minute and and briefly touch on what's going on there. Sorry, I haven't made a map for Ecuador just yet. Ecuador is, like I mentioned earlier, on fire. Uh, in some cases, quite literally, there have been quite a few IED attacks to strike Ecuador. These IED attacks have mostly been carried out, I don't know if how how coordinated they are, but they've mostly been carried out by a lot of mining groups, or rather gangs affiliated with illegal mining of natural resources and minerals throughout Ecuador. the government's uh declared a lot of military immobilizations to crack down on this illegal mining which is of course used to fund narco trafficking and things like that. So it's a very complicated web of of dissatisfaction down in South America. I know same story as always but still the people of Ecuador have not been very happy with the uh president Nabboa. A lot of people, a lot of locals are saying that he has conducted a lot of false flag attacks against himself to make it look like people are attacking him so that he has justification to lock down the country and deploy the military. I don't know how true that is. I mean, it seems like it's a fairly chaotic situation down there. The times they are a changing. Destabilization is the name of the game in South America. I think it probably always has been, but still. And speaking of Venezuela, it has again been very kinetic this week. We now have a total of six sunk vessels. Five fast boats sunk and one submarine sunk. Venezuela seems to certainly be quite convinced the US Navy and the US Marine Corps is going to go in and wreck their country. So Venezuela has shut down most of the uh crossber checkpoints and crossings around their country. Granted, it's not like they had a particularly high amount of crossber traffic anyway, but they've they've started fortifying things and they've started uh putting a lot of blockades up to make it hard to transit around the country. Whether or not the United States is going to go into Venezuela remains to be seen. However, Venezuela seems fair fairly convinced the threat's real enough uh real enough for them to do drills, not like it's going to help them that much. Uh but still, they're preparing for the worst, which, you know, may be a goal. It may be all a scop to get them to exhaust their resources, but still the tensions remain high regardless. Similarly, switching gears all the way over to jolly old England, the situation in the UK has not gotten any better. As a matter of fact, it's gotten quite a bit worse with regards to the digital ID. One of the interesting things that a lot of uh citizens in the UK have noticed is every day that goes by, they add some mysterious thing that the digital ID will be required for. So, initially it wasn't for anything. It was the digital ID was for things like voting and to have a job and that was basically it. Well, over time the government says, "Oh, well, it's going to be required for this and this and this and this and this." And suddenly they've just added a new thing every day. So, uh, yesterday they added alcohol purchases. So, now if you want to get a pint, you know, at your local pub, you've now got to have a cell phone on you and scan your digital ID, you know. So, that's that's not gone over super well. There's been a pretty good mass uprising with regards to protests over the digital ID. Doesn't matter one one bit in the UK. I'm sorry to say protesting in the street does not do one lick of good because the government is just doing whatever they want to do. There is absolutely no concern for anyone, even their own constituents whatsoever. The only thing that protesting does in the UK right now, and I think this is why people continue to protest, uh, is that it shows the public just how many people are on their side. Because one of the big things is when you ban protests and people don't protest, even if they they don't agree with something, protests are demonstrations in the street of the sheer number of people that may be on your side. So if the protests were not happening, people might be sitting in their home alone, you know, just like during COVID and they and they may be thinking to themselves, man, I don't agree with X, you know, I don't agree with this issue, but because they don't see people in the street, they think that they may be alone in their idea. But the British people have made it quite clear that this is a something that the majority of the population does not want. Most people do not want this ID thing and doesn't matter. They're doing it anyway and they've actually started rolling it out already. So the British government yesterday said they're starting to roll out uh the digital ID with veterans. So 300,000 veterans uh will be issued with digital IDs. And I'm sure that will go over swimmingly, but we'll see. My guess is that it's going to be pretty disastrous because it's a government app and well it doesn't matter if you're the UK or the US. Government apps don't tend to work super well. So I guess we'll see how that works. But my guess is that it's going to go over not very well at all. But they are moving towards this at breakneck pace. If you recall they first mentioned this digital ID thing just a couple of weeks ago and now it's being implemented. Now granted, digital ID and well, a national ID of some sort has been in the works for decades now, but really it's kind of interesting how how much they've stomped on the gas with regards to implementing this around society. And once again, for the Americans who don't really care what's going on in the UK, here's the link to you. The news stands this week have been full of articles on a wide array of topics. everything from Denver signing contracts with Flock to use their AI uh flown drones around the city without a warrant or anything like that. Same thing with judges ruling that police departments can now use Flock cameras out of the warrant in Virginia. Then of course we have the recent news which broke last night that Flock is going to be partnering with Ring, Amazon's Ring services, so that all Ring cameras are now going to be Flock cameras. So even though we in the United States don't really have anything at all to do with a national ID system in the UK, you might actually be indirectly involved due to the intelligence sharing agreements between the United States and Britain. So something to be mindful of. Not a whole lot you can do about it anyway, but I try to keep an eye on these sorts of things just so that we don't become complacent. So we'll keep our eyes open. We'll keep an eye on all these uh things going on around the world and we'll try to do the best we can to not be complacent. And though I may be quite a bit biased on this, one of the ways that you can do that is, you know, working on basic skills like communications. How's that for a segue into the Ghostnet Reports for this week? I know radio is hard and it kind of sucks a lot of the time, but it's it's something that's going to be pretty helpful. I think it's already proven its utility and this week is no exception. A lot of reports, a lot of news, a lot of people sharing information completely off-grid. You do not need internet access for this and this is a good way for people to exchange information over long distances. I am quietly working on improving this uh quite a bit to integrate it so that it works with a few other things, not just JSA call, but some of you already know about the projects I'm working on uh that are uh in the world of communications and battle tracking and stuff like that. So hopefully I'll be able to tie a lot of this stuff together in due time. But for now, the Ghost Net is a great way to exchange information with each other, keep our skills sharp, not get complacent, and continue moving forward. That's all I have for today. Thank you guys all for watching. Thank you for all of your participation and support over the years. I really do appreciate it's what it's what keeps this project going. So, thank you all for that. Here are the sources for this week as usual. And you can always find my research on my Obsidian page if you want to double check any of the uh reports throughout the week. So, that's all I have for today. Thank you guys again and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

hello again everyone welcome back to the underground so this is the intelligence briefing for 12 september 2021 and this is being recorded the day prior on september 11th so before we jump into the weather i'll have a quick sort of digression to make right quick which will make a lot of sense later but we're in the process of writing an episode on this exact topic but i am personally not really convinced that it's going to be a worthwhile effort um and i but i do think this is something that is worth touching on right now so here's the short version of it as our reach here has expanded a lot of people do not know because they just they just simply don't know or they don't understand the nature of these kinds of briefings a lot of people have been kind of treating these briefings like we are journalists and that's actually not quite right actually within the intelligence community it's actually a pretty decently strong insult to call an analyst a journalist right it's something that like if you go to a schoolhouse and the you know your intelligence instructor is going to yell at you they're going to call you a journalist right uh for for messing something up because that's kind of it's not a good thing to be an ad to be a journalist if you're trying to be an analyst right and this is something that unless you were in that intelligence world you would not know so we're not offended by it at all i just wanted to point it out to give kind of like a little taste of what this world is like so when it comes to the differences between intelligence and journalism there are a couple of key distinctions for one intelligence is processed information right information is not intelligence right in intelligence is processed information so to have an intelligence product it's going to be comprised of information that is processed by an analyst using the intel cycle and a whole host of other analytical techniques right we have a whole lot of processes little tricks of the trade and things like that to make sure that the information is as least biased as possible to make sure that it's considering all the factors considering the source veracity to make sure your sources are reliable and stuff like that right it's a whole process right this takes years to learn even for professional analysts right the schools for military intelligence analysts are almost a year long right and they really should be longer because most intel analysts coming out of the schoolhouses these days know absolutely nothing about the trade so when it comes to journalism really journalism should be just the facts right journalism should be right this is the ideal world of journalism is that it should be just the raw details unprocessed unfiltered of what's going on right with no analysis on it whatsoever now of course that's not the way the world works you're not going to find any journalistic agency on the planet anymore that does not put their own analysis or opinion in there and try to disguise that opinion as being a fact right whereas on the other side of the aisle intelligence a good analyst like the rule of thumb for analysts right is that they're going to tell you what they know what they don't know and what they think right and that distinction is of course not always explicitly stated like an analyst is not going to if you ask an analyst for their opinion they're not going to tell you okay here's what i know here's what i know here's what i don't know and here's what i think about it it's going to be a mix of of vocabulary right to get that whole process out so that's something to consider and especially to consider that again if journalism includes opinion like if a journalistic agency is including opinion in their article it's not true journalism anymore right even the way that journalistic agencies right now are reporting the raw facts right you may read an article and think that it's reporting raw facts but they're cherry picking which facts to give you so even that is not true journalism right they need to be as impartial as possible but that's not going to happen so i just wanted to point out this distinction and break things down a little bit to hope to kind of clear things up a little bit when it comes to information that we provide in these briefings right so this is why we use things like probabilistic language and you know linguistic markers to differentiate between what is known as fact and what we think is going to happen in the future and stuff like that right this gets really complicated but really i just wanted to just to point out the distinction between the two and to kind of show that hey this is not just me reading news to you guys right this is something a little bit more uh a little bit more structured even though you might not see that structure right so let's go ahead and jump into the weather all right so weather over the next 12 hours is going to be quite good for really any isr asset again if you're new to the channel and you don't understand why i'm talking about cloud levels and the weather and things like that we have specific dedicated videos to that and it's probably pretty important to start realizing why this information is important right now so up along the canadian border there's going to be some some patchy bits of coverage uh low-level cloud ceilings right as as one might expect this time of year but for the most of the united states it's going to be absolutely perfect weather if there were to be an isr asset overhead so again not saying there are any isr assets overhead i'm just saying that this is something that it's good to be uh good to get in the habit of knowing right also for the next 18 hours here's your uh mid to high level cloud coverage again up by the canadian border going to have a cloud ceiling a cloud deck rather from really low altitude all the way up as you can see the cloud ceiling is going to top out pretty high so really bad weather for isr along the northern border but for the rest of the country for the next next 18 hours it's going to be a drone sensor operator's dream and moving on to no tams so if you don't know what no tams are we also have a video on the same exact topic so make sure to check that out but the big three that we're tracking today are of course all three presidential ones first one is biden is going to long beach on monday to check out newsome's like final rally second one is biden is going to boise idaho for some kind of presidential you know event and the third one is of course biden's standard vacation weekend no tam that's from friday all the way to sunday this one pops up pretty much every single weekend uh because biden flies home for the weekend almost every single weekend just so that if you weren't aware of that that one's a pretty standard one so at this point so i know that this map looks quite scary right to start with but i just wanted to highlight that unrest is going to be kind of likely in pretty much all states uh based on the elephant of the room reporting that we're going to get to in a minute but the big ones that are going on right now of course portland is still very kinetic when it comes to antifa slash blm slash whatever you want to call it now behavior and protesting slash demonstrating slash rioting in portland that's pretty common at this point also new york is still having a bit of resistance when it comes to the medical mandates and things like that and of course phoenix is still uh still going to be a potential location for uh some civil unrest as we move forward into the election audit results so before we get into domestic policy for a minute i just wanted to touch a little bit on afghanistan afghanistan is still on our radar we are still doing what we can but based on what's happened here in the united states over the past week we are significantly shifting focus to support the american people here at home right now this is not pleasant by any means there are still thousands of americans still stuck in afghanistan with no way out right now the bigger issue that has been sort of thrown in our laps is what the federal regime is doing so we're having to weigh where we're putting our resources and we're having to determine and balance and try to figure out what where we can best help people right so we're thinking what's a bigger risk right now having thousands of americans brutally murdered by the taliban or hundreds of millions of americans being forced out of a job and not able to buy food for their children we think at this point that we can do more good here on the home front so we're stepping up our efforts to data dump our collective knowledge in such a way as to help americans here at home have capabilities when things get bad again i would like to stress that we're still keeping an eye on afghanistan we're not going to let this one go but there's just nothing we can do right now there's very little intelligence picture of the ground private people are being arrested for trying to go to afghanistan to try to help things out um it's just it's become a not good situation and like i've been pointing out for the past few videos on afghanistan every day that goes by we're just facing diminishing returns and now our returns are practically nothing so if another nation besides the united states of america decides to step up their their diplomatic efforts to try to get people back and and to try to help people across land borders and things like that we will shift to helping that but right now the united states is simply the only per only entity they can help and they're not for the most part so a garbage situation all around but we're gonna have to make the decision to kind of shift our focus here to where we can do some good so let's go ahead and push forward into logistics so not a lot to add to the map to a specific geographic area but i didn't want to speak about the microchip shortage again just me personally i drove around my local area yesterday and every single car lot about a dozen different car lots from used cars to uh full dealerships of of every major auto brand in the united states every single one had less than a quarter of their lot full like so most of the ones that i could see had about five cars in their lot and that's something i have never seen i've never personally seen that never been driving around i wasn't even looking for it and i just happened to notice hey that that's a that's a parking lot like oh i don't notice it because it's usually full of cars for sale well there's not any cars there there are not as many cars for sale now actually gm just announced that they're closing five of their plants five or six depending on which press release you read and they're laying off they're gonna be laying off 15 of their workforce 15 more percent of their workforce and this is going to result in the majority of gm's north american production capabilities being completely offline due to this chip shortage they simply cannot make the vehicles their flagship vehicles anymore because the microchips are just not there so that is a huge thing to remember moving forward into this you know whatever we're going through is that this chip shortage is not getting better it's getting much much worse and also i wanted to point out the kind of strange shortage the fda has declared a global shortage on their website of estradiol uh i don't know what that why the reasoning for that is i know that this drug is used to treat um menopausal symptoms and things like that but i don't know why the shortage it might be related to some of the medical stuff going around in the world but uh for whatever reason i just wanted to point it out it's on the website you can see the source the link will be at the end of this as always but yeah kind of an odd one we'll try to figure out why this drug is in short supply but if anybody knows drop into the comments section because that's kind of an interesting thing to figure out why this particular drug is in shortage so moving forward into critical infrastructure concerns now this one uh this slide is going to be mostly empty because i have another slide i was going to be talking about this in a minute but really though the one that isn't related to the big topic for today is hurricane ida's aftermath is still impacting things uh petroleum oil lubricant your classic pol shipments uh have been affected and repair efforts are going are still underway there's still a lot of fallout from that so just just expect some fallout from that and then moving into significant governmental actions the first one i wanted to mention is the military medical procedure mandate so a lot of people a lot of soldiers particularly were trying to figure out okay how can i request religious exemptions well um it turns out that a lot of soldiers are finding out that their medical exemptions are not working they're not being approved um so a lot of commands have been observed you can follow on social media a lot of other you know military-centric accounts and uh they've got a lot of evidence regarding commands saying you know f your religion it doesn't matter um all stuff stuff like that so that is a huge thing that that's happening in the military a lot of people were kind of hoping that they would the dod would offer them an out but now it looks like that out is is is not a real can a real thing this this we kind of mentioned in the beginning that hey they're not going to approve these religious exemptions because they need total compliance in the military so we're seeing additional military officers resign their commissions over this very quite high ranking officers actually resign their commissions over this and it's going to be interesting to see what goes forward but yeah the military they're not going to get these religious exemptions it's probably it's going to be very few and far between the people that actually successfully get the religious exemption to avoid uh getting this experimental medical procedure also the who has issued a pdf a a document that outlines their guidelines for creating digital medical passports right so what we've been fearing or been uh concerned about for quite a few months this digital passport system this is going to come into fruition quite soon uh right now it doesn't look like they're they're the infrastructure is in place but just keep in mind that the who is definitely on board with all this totalitarian stuff i have the link for the pdf in the sources so you can download it and take a look at it it's kind of a long thing to go over but it's pretty it's pretty dystopian once you start reading it you're like oh my god uh and then thirdly finally this is an interesting one it looks like news agencies journalistic agencies are completely forging articles from the ground up now so you might have seen the reports going around that hospitals were being forced to turn away gunshot victims to treat people who have been who have overdosed on that particular drug that's on your screen right now that i can't read out due to youtube censorship and it turns out that article was completely false actually the hospital in question that the article talked about i had to issue a press statement which you can read for yourselves right there they've not treated any overdoses from this particular medicine and the entire article was false the guy they interviewed dr jason mckillia is they basically they're they're throwing him under the bus because he basically fabricated everything that he said uh in the news article so interesting that we're not even uh news articles and news agencies are not even pretending to hide their their bias anymore so yeah very interesting to say the least and moving forward into the impacts from uh everything that has been announced over the past 24-48 hours so everybody is aware that biden has mandated uh the jab for every company that has over 100 people working there in the united states um as of it's really vague because there has not been as of right now there has not been an executive order actually signed so we can't tell you exactly what the what the mandate the tyrannical mandate says however we do have press statements and releases which everyone has been circulating online this is like the story of the year right so you can read all that for yourself but what i wanted to do today is not just share outrage over this but kind of point out what this means what are the impacts going to be from this so buckle up this is going to be kind of a long one uh this is going to affect much more than what people think and and in me going down all of these industries that are going to be affected by this i hope to point out or at least show that we're we're going to have to either the the united states is either just going to de facto not comply with this or court systems around the country are going to overturn this pretty much immediately because there's no way our society can function like this with the amount of resistance we're seeing so the image here the map shows the number of states which are going to be affected which is all 50 states and the yellow striping there uh the the yellow cross hatching states are the ones that have declared that they are not complying with biden's mandates so let's get into the things to think about as we move forward and why this it might not seem like a big deal but by the end of the slide you should see how this is kind of a very big deal so the number one thing that's going to be affected is food processing industry right the people that actually package up canned goods and put them out those are companies that are very very large and their employees are the kinds of people that are not going to participate in this kind of tyranny so you're going to see probably a lot of layoffs or a lot of people just outright quit and also the firearms industry the firearms industry particularly smaller companies right that are not big like national names but they have they are very large manufacturers they're going to be affected as well because a lot of these places have more than 100 employees and i can tell you that the kinds of people again that work for those companies if their company says hey you've got to get this jab or you're going to get you know fired well guess what they're going to get fired so um that's going to impact things as well and already we're facing a everybody's knowing about the ammunition shortage and the firearm shortage of the past what like year and a half two years now so yeah we'll see how that goes and uh if companies are going to choose to not comply with this you know it's going to be interesting to see also the shipping industry so everyone's uh kind of focusing on the uh federal postal service right the usps right um that's kind of a gray area right now because there's a lot of false information going around about is the usps exempt are they not exempt nobody really knows because at first the white house said that they were exempt and then a press statement was issued saying oh no they're not exempt from this new one right they're exempt from the federal employees uh being mandated but they're not exempt from this hundred person per company like policy so it's really confusing right now however what is not confusing at all is the other shipping agencies in the united states like ups and fedex and dhl those companies obviously have to comply with this right or they're it's it applies to them so man you know it's going to be interesting to see hey are these employees going to walk away or what's going on with that also pol petroleum oil lubricants that entire industry like man find me a an oil roughneck that voted for joe biden right and find me an oil rough you know a rough neck that's going to that's going to accept this mandate and not just walk away right look i know that a lot of people are are financially desperate right now like man isn't everybody but man the whole energy sector when it comes to petroleum oil and lubricants in this country is is very much run uh or at least the bulk of the workers are very conservative and they're not going to take this tyranny um even it's it's the medical part is kind of irrelevant at that point also the trucking industry right 70 of all the food in the united states is transported on trucks right and france just highlighted the importance of a national trucking strike you know it's so there you go it could that's this could happen right this could be a very huge impact right it's not like you know trucking people who get into trucking are gender studies majors right they're they're you know working people right also public utilities same vein right it's going to be like i doubt that any lineman working in any public utility in the country is a fan of biden's policies so as a matter of fact we have direct evidence you know whenever he shows up to somewhere like that people don't like him so much so again going to be a huge factor moving forward also manufacturing pretty much anything that gets made is a very large company that's going to be subject to these things also agriculture look at the farming industries now you might say okay well a lot of farming in the united states is done by small farmers or farming entities that are like contracted out or if it's just you know machinery has made it so that you don't have to have a whole lot of employees for some kinds of crops well look at it this way you still need a lot of crop you still need a lot of people for things like you know produce you know potatoes things like that you still need a lot of manual labor and the people that would be participating in that are not exactly going to take this tyranny lying down right also retail stores like hey people already you know retail working retail is already a soul-sucking job as is and if you're going to force people to get this procedure you know people are just going to quit right i mean that's what we think you know also engineering same thing anything that gets made or has to get engineered we're already seeing uh a lot of engineering companies at least this is rumor at this stage right we're already seeing a lot of engineering companies like people who are engineers saying hey i'm not i'm not coming into work if you mandate this so same thing with the auto industry like the auto unions in this country man like sure the leaderships of these agencies might not be they might comply with this kind of stuff but the actual people that work there hmm i doubt that also construction man pretty much any manual labor job right anything that requires a human being to actually work hard for a living is going to be impacted by this same thing with the telecommunications industry right the people who not just repair you know cell towers and downed lines and things like that with people who sell you cell phones and run call centers and make sure data servers are up and running and things like that even the aerospace industry like boeing lockheed even nasa we're seeing a lot of rumors floating around on social media that are about as unconfirmed as you can get but a lot of people who are allegedly working for nasa are saying that a lot of nasa employees are planning a massive walk out in protest and not just like a walkout like they're quitting and that's going to heavily impact nasa's artemis mission that's coming up so i don't know if that's true or not i bet you know again it's about as unconfirmed as it can get but hey like it's kind of interesting that these kind of things are impacting it also the financial world like hey name a financial institution in the united states that has less than 100 people like not going to not going to happen right also pharmaceuticals like not just we we tend to look at things like the medical industry and we see things like you know nurses dancing on tick tock and then the other medical tyranny stuff but look at the look at the actual day-to-day side of the pharmaceutical market like people who make tylenol right you know people who make ibuprofen stuff like that man it's it's going to it's going to uh be heavily impacted right because we use so many pharmaceuticals on a day-to-day basis that man it's just going to if people decide to walk away from that job that job field man we're going to be screwed same thing with the entertainment industry now again you're going to have celebrities like celebrity like we have seen like man that's a rabbit hole i really don't want to go down but we've seen most celebrities are extremely politically liberal and are fans of what the biden regime is doing however i'm not talking about the celebrities i'm talking about the sound guy right the set designers right the the people that the the behind the scenes that make hollywood exist right are they going to put up with this tyranny for much longer i don't know um but they're definitely going to be affected by this same thing with industrial machining right things that like the behind the scenes of how parts get made for companies right not necessarily the company itself a company can be tyrannical right but but look at the uh look at the the parts that actually go into making things like that also the chemical industry like hey we already have a chlorine shortage in the united states of america and there's only like one plant in the united states that makes chlorine so at least now i actually think there are three or four but that one being offline down south from the hurricane earlier man you know we're starting to talk about hey how many chemicals do you use on a daily basis and who what is the political ideology of those people that make those chemicals something to think about for sure also things like waste management right like you know public utilities again going to be heavily impacted by this and these are different industries that are are are going to be good places for resistance for people same thing with the people who make medical devices like think about it this way the people that make the scalpels the things that people that make the bandages that make the gloves right the people that make the pacemakers right those companies right the doctors can be liberal tyrants and refuse to treat patients but what about the people that make all of the gear that they need to do so um interesting huh things like mining like industrial mineral like coal mining and other precious metals and and things that are needed for the tech world good luck finding a biden voter in any coal mine in america right also the rubber industry like man you think about if if everybody who made tires decided to either quit from their job or get fired because they're not taking this medical procedure like that's going to be a huge thing same thing with steel workers man we've already seen steel workers get in biden's face and scream at him for being a tyrant when he was campaigning like can you imagine the the sentiments now among the steelworkers unions in this country holy cow if they decided to not make any buildings man good luck with that same thing with rail like like i mentioned 70 percent of all food just transported on trucks but 17 of all the food in the country is transported by train so now you're talking the super majority right 77 of all the food in the united states is either transported by train or truck you know hey we're starting to see how much this can impact society right even things like packaging right we've already had packaging shortages here in the united states from china right so imagine the people that make the wrappers for things for for packaging food for packaging retail items and things like that it's going to be a very widespread the impact is going to be very widespread so i know that this is kind of a very long digression but i just wanted to point out all the industries that we might not think of being important until they're important so this is why uh i think this is why i myself am so concerned about this medical mandate thing because it this has why this has more this is touching more americans than people realize 100 million people man that's a little less than a third of the population in the united states is is going to be impacted by this this is a gigantic leap from all the other tyranny stuff that biden has done like this is a huge step that i don't think a lot of people quite realize how significant it is and since it is such a huge gigantic leap um i don't know how this is going to shake out i don't know if this is even going to be this might be one of those things where biden decrees it the regime decrees it and just nobody follows it like this might be one of those mass you know civil disobedience things simply because even if everyone wanted to comply with it even if every company was tyrannical in the united states which they're not they're not a lot of companies are tyrannical but a lot of them aren't most of the ones that make daily life happen are not really tyrannical uh if those co even if those companies those private industries wanted to be tyrannical the logistical nightmare of having to manage this man i don't know if this is going to be even possible even if everybody wanted to do it so while yes i understand the outrage i myself had to had to step back from the computer for a second when i saw that drop and uh just kind of think for a minute because man this is a big deal and again i just really don't know that this is well for one i have no faith that the courts will actually overturn any of this right my i'm not hanging my hat on any court system in the united states ever doing the right thing ever again or or even doing what the law says right at this point we're talking about violating nuremberg codes here you know which again doesn't really matter so um i'm not really hanging my hat again on a judicial court saying that this is going to be unconstitutional like they might the supreme court might come back and say hey this is this is like the most unconstitutional thing i've ever done but i i don't have any faith that they're going to do that uh what i think is a lot more interesting is trying to figure out like hey what what kinds of industries are going to have people either quit or walk out and most importantly now here's the other kicker what kind of industries what kind of markets what kind of economy is going to spring up because of this right we've already seen australia we've already seen australia adopt the mentality of there's going to be an economy for those who have gotten the the medical procedure and there's going to be an economy for those who haven't australia is going full-blown that model and the united states political regime clearly wants to follow australia's steps in that regard uh however i'm not so sure they want that like i i think they're i think that this might be a be careful what you wish for you know daddy government situation because man like look at the political ideologies of the people that make this country run and work right it's not like there's a whole lot of gender studies majors out there working at an oil pipeline right or working at a shipping terminal or things like that you know so i don't know that this is going to be something that's even feasible or possible so that's why i wanted to kind of talk about this today and get this brief out is very rough brief out because i think yeah look i understand the outrage but i'm also trying to walk it back in my own mind of saying like how in the heck are they going to do this so yeah i think that you know there's an old saying right that watch what happens when the people who don't want to be involved get involved and i think this this particular benchmark right this mandate uh is going to be the most chance we're ever going to have for seeing something like that happen right because now all of those people who have been like passively resisting or or just disagreeing but kind of complying passively right all those people are now being told you're going to get a medical procedure or you're not going to be able to feed your children and i think that we underestimate people's resistance level when things hit them that close to home right the federal government is making the assumption that since people have not risen up yet and since they hold a monopoly on federal agencies you know like there's federal agencies there's federal agents watching this video right now right so since they hold the monopoly on the intelligence community and the ability to arrest anyone for anything and you know there you go they think that people won't resist and i'm not so sure about that i will agree that people have not resisted as much as i would have liked but at the same time man there hasn't been anything that has happened so far that has touched so many people on such a personal level um even when it comes to things like you like you can give them an out right like like one of the reported parts that we don't know right because we haven't seen the actual document yet but one of the reported things is oh okay well if you don't want the the mandatory uh medical procedure you can just get tested every week and uh that yeah there you go you're gonna have to be tested every week well i don't think people are going to do that anymore i think people were doing that in the beginning but now i think that i really do think that there's going to be a significant backlash from this and i don't know how it's going to manifest itself i don't think i don't think any kind of conflict like like hard conflict is going to break out i might be wrong on that but i do think that there's going to be um you know civil disobedience is going to become cool again for a large portion of the country now that all of that being said i do want to throw out a few random predictions moving forward for people who are rejecting this medical tyranny right now i would like to preface that by the usual disclaimer of i don't have a good way to church this up and make it pretty on the slide because right now i'm really just briefing for speed and not for looks so forgive me if this is kind of a random way of laying things out also what i'm about to say is probably going to trigger some people and a lot more will disagree that's that's perfectly fine i myself hope that i'm wrong what i'm about to say is simply my opinion based on my own observations over the past year combined with a decent background knowledge right just this is just theory at this point again i hope that i'm completely wrong in all of this but since a lot of people have been asking what's next right like what are what are the next things they're going to go for uh here is a short and haphazard answer as to what i and the rest of the staff here who have been brainstorming this think the immediate future will bring the first one is interstate travel is going to be restricted i don't know how this is going to manifest itself but i've already seen inklings of this manifesting itself and it's already happened on a few last year right so i think that this is going to happen probably very very soon i don't know how this is all going to again manifest itself but my guess is that it's going to happen exactly the same as the first time that individual states put up checkpoints on their borders this will almost certainly be a federal decree slash mandate whatever you want to call it but it will probably be left up to the individual states to figure out how to enforce uh this way conservative states or states that are resisting will resist but liberal states will happily comply and this would set the precedent for berlin wall style boundaries between states right maybe not a physical wall like you know walling off the parts of the united states that are that are jabbed and the unjabbed right i i don't think that's going to happen uh in that way because we can't even build a border offense along our own national border but i do think the mentality of you know east berlin versus west berlin is going to be you know red states versus blue states that's going to be more solidified than it already is when this interstate travel stuff comes to bear and if i was a tyrant that's exactly what i would do you have to cut people's ability to travel between the states that's a key part of what tyrants and dictators do to maintain control in their country also i would be very surprised if the irs did not institute some kind of special tax my guess is it will probably be a flat rate tax for everyone who is part of the resistance right and it's probably going to happen pretty soon right you're going to have to pay a tax in order to be unjabbed right this is something that the federal government can easily do right when was the last time a court overturned a tax all right it's just it's just not something that's going to happen right people can complain but you know really taxes are something that the federal government can easily do without really any oversight whatsoever also along those lines uh pretty much all federal assistance medicare medicaid disability and maybe maybe even federal retirement plans will be cut for those people who resist again this is something that could be easily done by the federal government because they are the ones the executive branch is what controls this stuff anyway right so yeah that's that would i would not be surprised if that happened as well uh also air travel air travel is something that's easily easily regulated because you know the faa is federal right so uh you will not be able to get on a plane without that card right that already is happening in the with the majority of airlines right we've already have more tyrannical stuff happening with the airlines than with any other mode of transportation in the united states so it would make absolutely perfect sense that you're not going to be able to travel anywhere without being jabbed and in order to track all of this there's going to be a database right we predicted this months ago but the federal regime is not going to be relying on a paper card for much longer so again we've talked quite a bit about this but this is probably going to happen because right now there is almost zero way to detect forgeries right there is no database sure a couple of states i think like california and new york have actual databases but they're state-based databases i might be wrong on that i can't quite remember but federally there isn't a database to track who has been jabbed and who has not been jabbed of course they're trying to track that and the companies themselves are moving forward and trying to track that as well but really it's ineffective so they can't really determine who's been jabbed and who hasn't uh from a computer they have to look at your physical card um so this brings that that guidance that i mentioned earlier that waho policy on digital passports that kind of makes everything make a lot more sense now right and this digital federal database type stuff or even before the digital means gets rolled out this is going to manifest itself with uh food control um just like france and just like a lot of other european nations australia right you can't go to a grocery store unless you show your card right this is probably going to be in the form of a federal mandate which individual grocery stores will have to enforce on their own um like i mentioned france did this australia did this and it would be very easy for the biden regime to do now as to how many people and companies would resist this i don't know um probably a lot more than even in france uh though and of course that's not including a state you know the conservative resistance states now uh are going to come out with an opposing law that says oh by the way it's illegal to do this it's illegal to ask for somebody's you know like and then it becomes a states rights versus federal rights thing and we we know how that all shakes out right so i don't know how this is going to manifest itself but i would i would bet this is going to happen very very very soon and other things that people might not realize are things like vehicle registration so now we start realizing okay when the rubber meets the road how is this enforcement going to go out right now we understand why people like us have been concerned with things like automated license plate readers right it would be very easy to tie someone's medical status to their driver's license which is in turn tied to their vehicle registration so you drive by an automated license plate reader and your you know your license plate is flagged as being unclean right and there you go you get pulled over and you can't travel so again that might be a stretch right now right that's just that sounds like some some truly dystopian stuff but hey i'm just i'm just throwing out some theories right and due to the colonial pipeline false flag attack excuse me cyber attack the american people should have learned the value of stockpiling fuel right because the federal government absolutely learned how access to fuel can a society pretty much instantly again something we're already seeing is medical care right medical care will not be available to the unclean right this is already manifesting itself by doctors refusing to treat unjabbed patients but it could get much worse it could get as severe as you calling 9-1-1 for an emergency medical condition some kind of emergency right and they won't send an ambulance unless that person is jabbed it could manifest itself that way i don't know but i'm just giving you again stuff that could happen also coming back to travel with more and more nations opening up around the world the us might even go so far as to revoke the passports of the unclean right so that we can't leave the country again this one might seem to be a bit extreme but man look at what's already happened and revoking a passport is well within the capabilities of the executive branch it's just a tiny tiptoe for the regime and the regime has already made a gigantic leap into the illegal territory of telling people they can't work without the jab so i would personally expect passports to be revoked for people who are unstuck right also alternative currencies like you know bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will most likely be banned very very soon as much as they can ban it that's definitely going to happen i can say with using our probabilistic language i can say that that's almost certain cryptocurrencies that cannot be tracked by governments are not acceptable to this regime so they're just going to ban it again as much as they can the nature of crypto makes it hard to ban but they have already strangled and manipulated the market to make it really difficult to exchange crypto for fiat currencies without being tracked so that's going to continue as well like i remember when you can make a coin base account with no with nothing and now you need freaking like tax documents to create a coinbase account right like it's easier to file your taxes than it is to create a coinbase account now so stuff like that's going to continue so i would personally expect like any entity that can be put in jail right like somebody that you can actually grab right like the developers of apps or the people who own domain names for cryptocurrency exchange sites like that's they're going to to put pressure on those people so yeah we're also going to see a crackdown on the resistance right everyone who disagrees with the biden regime has already been branded a terrorist that has already happened right though it is still rument at this time we're also seeing reports that the dhs fbi and secret service specifically launched in operation to surveil people who opposed biden's remarks right meaning that they knew people would resist to biden announcing this this mandate so they collaborated ahead of time to catch anyone being stupid online and saying violent stuff so they could bag them that way that's that's actually really smart we're actually really not that smart but it does show that time and time again it has been confirmed that the federal government entraps people whether it is a group of a dozen fbi agents that convince a handful of goobers to take over michigan or if it's a 15 year old child with a mental disability federal agency's main job right now is to entrap people just like history's oldest and most infamous secret police agencies so please be smart about which outlet you choose to express yourself in because we do not live in the same world we used to anymore rights have no bearing on our current situation if you understand that there are now consequences for exercising our rights and you have taken steps to mitigate those negative consequences that's good but just remember don't get complacent because these mandates are coming for everyone based on how quickly we went from the military has to get it now federal workers have to get it and now anyone who works at a company with over 100 people has to get it not a lot of times laps we're talking like two weeks here has elapsed we went to a full-scale textbook authoritarian dictatorship really dang quickly and we do not expect this speed to slow down anytime soon so as depressing as that is to end on let's just keep in mind it to keep your chin up and be aware of this kind of stuff and start taking steps to mitigate your risks and prepare for basically having to live off grid even though you're on the grid because things like medical care public utilities uh property ownership food supplies that's not going to be available to you in this new market system they're creating so moving forward into international issues uh there was interestingly enough there was a coup in guinea which is right there on the map for those of you who don't know where that's at small african nation really not a whole lot goes on there however there is a lot of minerals specifically bauxite and aluminum so this is something that's interesting to keep an eye on because basically every nation in africa has their own little mineral wealth that is very important to the creation of other technological devices around the world which is why dictatorships spring up in africa so quickly but this military coup the the short version of it is is that the president was actually a dictator he had changed their constitution to allow himself to remain in office and uh the military special forces came in deposed him uh kidnapped him uh he's now under arrest and set up a military junta so even though it kind of seems like these guys did the right thing by overthrowing their government we'll see how it works out because these military juntas in africa really man they they really turn out to be some bad stuff at the end of the day i don't think i've ever seen a revolution in africa work um anyone that has succeeded has has changed so with the exception of maybe tunisia tunisia has kind of escaped that natural resource curse but moving on to france uh this is an interesting one uh there was an incident of nuclear terrorism in france uh there was and this is of course all according to the french press and the french police so take it with a grain of salt but on august 26 a guy was arrested with significant amounts of uranium powder that he bought online on ebay and which he was planning to make a nuclear device either some kind of radiological device or dirty bomb or or something like that it is unlikely that he would have been able to make a thermonuclear device but um with the amounts that i've seen have been disclosed that he had there's no way he had enough but it is interesting um now of course the media is was very quick the french media was very quick to point out that the police also found far-right extremism things like articles of clothing uh swastikas things like that all around his apartment as his house but um i don't know if that's true or not so but it is kind of interesting that hey you know these these long-standing things that analysts have been looking out for like nuclear terrorism this this old school stuff is definitely still still an option for a lot of bad dudes around the planet so very interesting to say the least also china has proceeded with their afghanistan development they have they're creating their their new um one road trade agreement and that is uh going to help out both china and afghanistan uh china is not doing uh there's a lot of interesting things with regard to china economically like just the other day they opened up their strategic oil reserves for the first time ever so that's not really something that a healthy economy does so as much as we like to shout the china boogeyman um sort of you know rhetoric it is interesting to note to keep china in perspective when it comes to a military conflict like we you know my personal opinion and really everybody else who works here uh our opinion is um that china is is going to be our next conflict uh that's just something that we've come to expect now how soon is that going to be i don't know and is it going to be a just conflict i don't know that either but i'm reading the writing on the wall and our entire military seems to be preparing for that and so the military-industrial complex will make it so if china doesn't make the first move at some point so something to keep in mind china is doing china things finally before we end for the day here is just another reminder to take a break every now and then even for me just reading my own slides today i can feel my blood pressure rising so just make sure to take care of yourself uh yeah things are going to get much much worse uh and we meant it when we said months ago that we are going to need smart skilled and dedicated people to help us get out of this mess when things really get bad and we will have

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