[Music] [Applause] hello everyone welcome to the well and garden club a new series by the s2 underground that showcases gadgets technology and tutorials for building any equipment that you need when conducting operations so let's head out to the potting shed and check out the first bit of kit one of the most inconspicuous pieces of gear that you can carry with you is the classic stanley vacuum bottle also known colloquially as a thermos it may seem a bit outdated or unfashionable or the ultimate dad beverage container but this particular thermos holds more secrets than coffee this is a custom made portable diversion safe invented and developed in-house for a very specific purpose namely to allow an individual to carry certain equipment with them in most urban environments and not arouse suspicion this is not as easy as one might think for one any sort of bag backpack satchel purse fanny pack or other fabric container is a prime target for theft in most places around the world it is not a good idea to set down a bag in an easily accessible area for fear of theft no matter how grey man you try to be bags draw the eye for many reasons and one of those reasons is because they are a common place to store weapons and other equipment as such we went with a diversion safe design not one single person on earth with the exception of people who watch this video will look at a stanley thermos and instinctively think nefarious in most cases if someone were to see a stanley thermos they wouldn't even think steel either so this works out quite well from the very start but it gets better most diversion safes on the commercial market are meant to be static most diversion safes are meant to emulate things that you would find in the home such as pantry goods wall clocks hollow books shelving things like that all of these things are great but they would look completely out of place when removed from their surroundings if you saw a person walking down the street carrying a wall clock or air conditioning vent in their hand not only would that immediately draw your attention but it would also arouse suspicion but a person carrying a thermos is so completely normal that it doesn't even draw a second glance even if carrying a large stanley thermos isn't the fashionable thing to do nowadays media television and movies over the years have solidified the thermos as an item that is synonymous with work so people look right past it and the absolute last thing on their minds would be that a thermos is secretly holding equipment also diversion safes could be made out of other items and materials for instance hollowed-out books make great diversion safes and they aren't too conspicuous to be seen carrying around however there are three main problems with using books as portable diversion safes for one if anyone were to open the book the jig is up secondly considering the contents it would be really suspicious if a book were to weigh 5 pounds and finally it would be a little odd if you were to carry around a book every day and never seem to be making any progress thus we settled on the stanley thermos as a good portable diversion safe it's naturally heavy in fact a thermos full of liquid is actually slightly heavier than a hollow thermos filled with equipment it is also still able to be used to hold hot or cold liquids albeit in much smaller quantities just enough liquid can be stored in the top of the thermos so that if someone were to come across it and open the lid they would see that it's full of liquid or at least it would seem to be the particular press-fit closing mechanism that we settled on for the bottom is also quite strong so strong that even when full of equipment one cannot shake the lid open you would actually have to press quite strongly on the sides to wiggle it open this ensures that again someone cannot open the thermos accidentally even if someone is searching for a way to open it and as far as camouflage one would actually have to think pretty hard to find an urban environment or a situation in which it is suspicious to be seen carrying a stanley thermos now of course this diversion safe has its downsides for one it's most certainly not a quick deploy system most equipment that we have tested in the thermos has to be disassembled and stored in a rolled up fabric case so as to not rattle around so it's not going to be a very quick access item also there are circumstances where the thermos would seem odd like on a hot summer day at the beach even though vacuum bottles can store cold liquids as well in some areas it wouldn't look completely normal or natural to be carrying a thermos and of course this isn't the type of device to carry with you at all times it would look a bit odd to be seen carrying your thermos to the bathroom or an important business meeting but if you need a place to covertly store equipment and carry it with you through a not so permissive environment a custom-made stanley thermos diversion safe might be a great option for you so stick around for part 2 where we will show you exactly how to build one of your own [Music] [Applause] you

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for June 29th through July 5th, 2025. It has been a very dynamic week throughout the United States and around the world. So in the interest of time, let's go ahead and jump right to the map and talk about some of the severe flooding in Texas as this is a currently developing situation as I am recording this update. All right, so here we are on the map. I'm going to be using wind tac mostly today instead of my normal ArcGIS maps, uh, which I'll I'll talk about in a moment. As I've mentioned a few times before, I prefer to use WINTAC and ATAC to uh build a lot of these more realtime products so that I can then bring them into my more long-term mapping projects on ArcGIS. I know it's not the best way to display the information sometimes, but uh this will have to do for now. So, let's go ahead and zoom into the flood zone in Texas here, just northwest of San Antonio up in Carr County, Carville, and the city of Ingram. So, waiting for our map to finish loading here. As many of you have seen over the past couple of days, mostly last night, the the evening of July 4th, severe flooding struck this area. The National Weather Service predicted about 3 to 6 ines worth of rain throughout the region due to the collapse of a weather system that rolled in over the Gulf. Didn't form into a hurricane or anything like that, but uh the remnants of it ended up stalling over this area and just dumping way more rain than anyone expected. And this area is very legendary for flash floods. And that's exactly what happened. So, so far a total of 24 fatalities have been reported throughout the area, but this number is probably expected to rise as rescue and recovery efforts continue. Some of the more high-profile uh rescues and incidents occurred over here in the west. Uh so this is probably why a lot of you have heard about it uh due to it receiving national attention. There were three summer camps that were affected by this uh that were host to hundreds of children, you know, taking advantage of the Fourth of July summer camp sort of season, right? And unfortunately, all three of these camps were hit very heavily by flood waters as they are quite literally on the river, right? That's typically where a lot of summer camps end up being. Camp Mystic uh unfortunately was hit the hardest as we can see. Uh it was pretty bad and a lot of helicopter rescues had to be undertaken from this camp. I think there were a few hundred kids there uh when the flooding started and quite literally no one had any warning. There was um uh really no way to predict or determine exactly how bad the flooding was going to be once it uh just dumped all that rain all at one time. The camps to the north along the Guadalupe River itself, Camp Walddemar and Camp Lahonta, uh these camps were evacuated successfully. No reports of trouble there, although there were a lot of kids swimming uh to to make it out of there. So, uh, rescues were conducted here successfully and rescue operations continue along all of these tributaries and, uh, flood planes throughout the whole region. So, for those of you who are in the area, uh, one of the biggest challenges has been trying to find and, uh, re reunite families with one another. So, just for everyone's awareness, there are two uh, reunification points. One of them is the Ingram Elementary School and the other one is uh a historic theater downtown in Carville uh called the Arcadia Live Center. It's a small building there. Uh you'll you'll see it once you get in the in the area. So these are the two places to check if you are looking for uh family members and loved ones. Of course, this is a nightmare when it comes to reunifying families because uh you've got a lot of kids who are, you know, they're not at home, right? So, you're talking about trying to reunify potentially hundreds of people. So, it's kind of a tough situation logistically. A lot of people have been reunited, thankfully. Uh but just for those who may be in the area who are uh still looking for people, uh this these are the two places to check. On the recovery front, there are several shelters that have been opened up throughout the area. The first shelter is in Ingram at the Ingram Fire Department. That's probably a more of a small facility, but it's a good uh good place to rally, good rally point for now. Some of the more substantial resources over are actually over in Carville. Uh mostly churches. So, the First United Methodist Church just across the river there to the south, the Notre Dame Catholic Church and also the Calvary Temple Church are also open for uh those who need to seek shelter during this crisis. And also one of the uh main buildings at Shriner University is open as well as a uh as a shelter temporary shelter. So in terms of road closures, most of the river crossings here that are low river crossings uh over the Guadalupe River are closed. Um a lot of bridges are washed out, smaller bridges throughout the area. So it's just kind of a it's kind of a logistically challenging thing to find out exactly what's still standing. Riverside Drive down here uh to the souththeast of the city is uh is closed and there are random pl random road closures all over the place from where things have washed out. So again, flash flooding is one of those logistically challenging things to kind of get a hold on. So uh that's just something to be aware of as as time goes on. It's kind of a spread out area, hill country, right? So terrain makes these things uh a lot worse when it comes to flash flooding. So this is the situation as it stands. I will continue to build this map product out a little bit further. And for those of you who want this map product, this will be on my ARJS maps here very shortly. And also, I have a KMZ of this. So, if you are a responder on the ground and you want to get my data, uh there's a KMZ for you already built. You just drop it right into ATAC if you want it and we can go from there. So, I should mention that KMZ is also being updated fairly regularly. Uh this will probably change as I get a lot more points and as more reunification points come about and uh more aid and uh resources flow into the region. I'm going to start adding more points as I can find them. It it may not develop much more than this, but uh we'll see. So you can find the the most up-to-date KMZs for all of this stuff. All of my products are on GitHub in KMZ format. And if you want just a live updating map uh that you can, you know, view on your phone, uh you can check out my ArcGIS maps below. So, that's pretty much all I have for the Texas flooding situation. So, let's go ahead and switch gears quite significantly and let's talk about some of the mapping products I've been working on when it comes to the border crisis. So, as many of you know, I have been developing a lot of products that are attempting to track the cartel movements throughout the United States. This is a working project. It is not perfect by any means, but we've got to get started somehow. And this is the best way that I found to to get started with this project. As many of you know, I was hit this week with a DMCA takedown order from ArcGIS from the parent company Ezri due to this exact map layer. It turns out that one of the NOS's that is funneling illegal immigrants into this country has decided to engage in a little bit of lawfare or at least try to. didn't work out so well for him, but this is how things stand as they are. So, I thought it would be good to talk about this agency today and exactly what they are doing with your tax dollars. As many of you know, most of these immigrant safe houses, logistical hubs, uh any kind of agency, group, NGO, company, church, charity, whatever, most of the pucks on this map come from this one agency, the Immigrant Advocates Network. And I would very strongly recommend you guys go to their website www.immigrationadvocates.org to see exactly what they are doing to further illegal immigration into the United States. And you might say, "Well, S2, how do you know that they're funneling illegals into this country?" Well, I'm glad you asked because you can find out very easily. They're very public about it on their own website. So once we get to the immigration advocates network website, we can click find help here at the top of the page and we can select a state. So let's go ahead and pick uh let's say Colorado. Let's just pick a random one here. And since we clicked Colorado, here is a list of all of the groups that this one agency, this is again just one NGO. Uh these are all of the groups that this one agency has partnerships with to help illegals enter the United States. and stay in the United States and evade ICE and all of that kind of stuff. And you might say, well, again, how do we know that this is not just uh some kind of uh legal immigration sort of thing? You know, the kind of um all everything's above board. Well, I can tell you right here. Just look at the second one. Uh the Catholic Charities of Central Colorado Family Immigration Services. These are the things that they do. And as we can see, they help immigrants with removal hearings. So, what does that mean? This means that they are assisting illegal immigrants to stay in the United States and fight their own deportation hearing. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. This is the kind of thing that is going on on a gargantuan scale around the country. That's why I have so many pucks and points on my mapping projects and this is why they want to take my content down. This is a very large uh effort and unfortunately they're using this word charity here uh especially Catholic charities they're using this word here to unfortunately mask what they are doing because we hear the word charity and we instantly think oh okay well they're just trying to help people out right well you know this is not the sort of thing that they're doing sure they may immigrants may show up to to a uh one of these facilities and you know get a bag of food or some kind of you know emergency aid or something like that but they also get an attorney because as we can see they're getting free, that's right, free pro bono legal representation so that they can stay in the United States and fight their deportation orders. So that's exactly what's happening. You can see they even get help completing forms. They don't even need to speak English. They have everyone handle this for them. And as you can see, the these agencies are lining up around the block. That is why this is such a serious thing. I don't think a lot of people tend to understand how much money is in this. Uh these groups are tied again to very very large international organizations uh such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They also get a lot of uh billions billions of dollars of endowment funding from random billionaires you've probably never even heard of before. So this is how they're able to do it. I mean I know it may seem surprising, but I mean this is just kind of how uh a lot of these groups tend to work. Uh it may seem surprising, but that's just the way that it is. So, uh understandably, when it comes to my own mapping projects, it's not exactly a uh a safe thing to be doing. Uh to be honest, this is a very dangerous line of work. I understand that fully, which is why a lot of times I have to kind of tiptoe around things. So, uh in order to stay above board and to avoid the lawfare uh from cracking down too much, you know, it's just the the way that it is. Sometimes we have to kind of operate in a a more lowp profofile sort of arrangement. Like it or not, it's just the truth that if you're an illegal immigrant in this country, you can have hundreds, if not thousands of attorneys just chomping at the bit to help you stay in this country and continue committing crimes. But if I put your agency on a map, I don't exactly have a whole lot of attorneys lining up to help me for free. You know what I mean? So, you may get one or two, but the scale of this is just astoundingly high. So, I know that I don't say this very often, but I'll say it now just for the record. I am fully aware that a lot of not so nice people are watching what I do. They are consuming my products. They're consuming my work. I am not naive to this. So every single thing I do, every comment on social media, every slide, every dot on a map, everything is done through the lens of assuming that a bad guy is watching. That's just the way things are when a lot of your work is public these days. So please do not think that I am a complete idiot. I mean, I may be, but I am not naive to the fact that a lot of not so nice people are watching. This is why all of the data sets that I do, everything that I do is intended to maximize the benefit to the good guys and minimize the effort to the bad guys. So if a malign actor gets one of my work products, be it a slide, a brief, map layer, whatever, I want that bad guy to look at my work and say, "hm, this doesn't really help me continue to be a bad guy, right?" But I want a good guy to get the work and say, "All right, this is very, very helpful." Right? It is a very very careful balance. I will admit and it is not always possible. So a lot of the work that I do simply doesn't make it to the public's eyes because it's either in still in progress, it's still being worked on or some data that I find I just can't make public because it would cause more harm than good. So I know that's incredibly frustrating when I have things like that, but it doesn't happen too often. Most of the time these these groups, especially when it comes to things like NOS's, they're very they're very proud of their work, right? They're very open and uh honest about the crimes they're committing on their own website. They confess to it, right? There's very minimal risk there in these people kind of being found out, right? Really, the best disinfectant for these people and for these agencies and these NOS's is sunlight. And that's what I'm going to continue to do. Uh one point of note, however, for a lot of these immigration projects moving forward, I'm not going to be able to provide a lot of the sourcing. So, I may uh just be able to provide indicators, right? I'm I'm sorry about that. I always like to provide the source data for everything that I work on, but sometimes I may only be able to put a street address and it's on you to figure out exactly why I put that point on the map. I'll make it easy for you, but again, we're uh we're operating in a non-permissive environment. It's unfortunate, but that's just the way that it is. And of course, just because I put a point on the map does not necessarily mean that every single location that I find is truly and utterly guilty of uh some kind of crime. It's just an indicator, right? But again, this data set is new. I'm going to continue building it as long as as long as I'm able to and we'll see how it goes. I think right now the biggest thing, the biggest benefit for this is uh just simply awareness. people being made aware of how pervasive illegal immigration is and the sheer industrial effort that NOS's are going through, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to provide an entire ecosystem of legal support uh at every single step of the way to help illegals stay in this country. This is a very very big thing. And as you guys can probably tell by my other map layers, the border engagement trackers and the more kinetic things like IED blasts, that sort of stuff, we want to keep that south of the border, right? We want to make sure that does not make its way into the United States. And as we can see, we're starting to heat up in that regard. So this is one of the more serious things that I have tracked over over time, both in terms of risk to me, but also risks to this nation. So that's why I am focusing on this quite a lot because really there isn't anybody else. There's a lot of people complaining about immigration. There's a lot of yapping and a lot of yammering back and forth, but there's not a whole lot of people who are trying to do the best they can, you know, as safely as possible, but still assuming some risk because we live in a risky world. Uh, and trying to do the best that they can. So again, it's not perfect, but I will continue to try to make it a little bit better as time goes on. And just in case I forgot to mention it, all of the links to these products will be in the description box below. My border crisis map is still there for now. Download it while you can or at least view it. If you want a total rip of all of the data that's on the map, I provide KMZs again on my GitHub page just so that you can load it into whatever system you use, be it Google Earth or ATAC or whatever, uh, and you can see all of the the data uh, a little bit more clearly. So anyway, I know that's kind of a long digression to to kind of talk about this data project, but I think that it's necessary to understand the importance of this stuff. This is an issue that strikes at the very heart of what this nation's identity is going to be in the very near future. This is one of the defining issues of our era and uh I'm going to try to do what I can to make sure that the good guys come out on top. With all of that being said, that's pretty much all I have for today. Again, I will continue to update the products with regards to the disaster relief in Texas and seeing how that goes. Uh, and I will continue to work on the immigration issues. I'm reworking a lot of my data sets and I'm adding a lot of points that I uh previously had not published just yet. Much more to come over the next few weeks. A lot of this is very hard work or it's not very hard, it just takes a long time, right? So, it's very time inensive task. So, please forgive me if I'm not the fastest at updating a lot of my data sets, but we'll get there. And speaking of getting there, let's uh roll things up today with the intercepted ghost net reports. It was a very fantastic week for the radio. Once again, having a more holistic or all-encompassing view of a lot of the work that I do is probably for the best. I've said it uh many times before, but I'll say it again. If your job is in the information space and if your uh profession or skill set is to do with things like data analysis or something like that or in my case uh information and intelligence analysis, it is also your job to make sure that your information, your work, your effort, your labor can make it to people even in a contingent situation. And that's kind of what I've tried to do with the ghost net here in addition to it being just a more generalized HF radio net. So adding in a radio communications component to all of this stuff is uh is what I've been working on for quite a while now. And as we can see what we have now going on with the ghost net is a lot of people exchanging information uh doing everything from testing and training to sharing real world information from their local area. So, I've I see quite a few people throughout the week, uh, sending news reports from their local area and generally trying to do the best they can to bring a component of off-grid radio use to a lot of the work that we do here. So, that's fantastic to see. I'm glad that it's working out so well, and I can't wait to see how it develops in the future. So, that's pretty much all I have for today. Thank you guys for sticking around for a little bit more of a disorganized one today, but a lot of things in motion, a lot of uh a lot of irons in the fire and we're going to have to uh see how things work out over the next few weeks. A lot of lot of data to crunch through for sure. So, thank you guys all for watching. Thank you guys for all of your support. It really does mean a lot. I would not be able to do any of this work uh without your support. So, I really do appreciate that and I hope that at least some level of success can be had. Uh if not fighting these groups directly, that's going to be impossible, right? But maybe we can have a little bit more marginal success on the lower end and uh make sure that the right people know what's going on around the country. So, thank you guys all again for watching and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

hello again everyone and welcome back to a very long overdue intel update from the s2 underground before we begin i just wanted to apologize for the slowdown in video production lately we've had a series of unfortunate events happen in rapid succession preventing me from getting intel updates out firstly and most importantly one of our team members here has been a bit under the weather lately and the entire staff here has been working basically around the clock 24 7 for the past week or so taking care of him and besides that we've also been working on other projects as well which we have really been pouring our hearts and souls into which will not see the light of day for quite some time because of research and development another reason we haven't dropped an until update in a while is because of me i'm really the only one who works on these until update briefs and by now i don't really know what to say but since so many of you depend on these briefs for more than just their intel value i wanted to make a brief telling you that i don't know what to say the world is a crazy place right now and it's only getting crazier by the second and i can't think of many ways of talking about the issues we face without sounding like a broken record we're in that weird situation yet again where there's a lot going on but only so many ways to talk about it and only so many new solutions that we can come up with so today we're going to take a higher more strategic approach and i can at least show you some of where my own concerns lie at least over the immediate future and what i and the rest of the team here are doing moving forward as many of you who have been following us for a while already know there is an unfortunate phenomenon that occurs with pretty much everything we do which has become a sort of inside joke among the team here and that is that the harder we work on something the more unpopular it usually is and at this point it's pretty much a guarantee that the more important we think something is the more underwhelmed the masses of people on youtube will be and that's fine that's probably a good thing to be honest we're obviously not here for the masses we have always intentionally targeted a very small minority with our content anyway so with that out of the way let's get going with the classic quantity over quality shorter length brief and i'll put my personal gripes aside for another day and let's begin with logistics like i mentioned i'm going to try to keep this at a more strategic level mostly because i have no idea where shortages are located at this point let's face it our ability to track shortages was never really that good or accurate anyway but right now if it takes me two hours to verify with an 80 percent confidence level that a single tweet is true that's not really a valuable use of my or anybody else's time instead i'm going to focus on three main areas of concern that could get pretty spicy over the summer and those three areas are food energy and economics let's talk food first ukraine being the bread basket of europe leads to a few more immediate problems like a shortage of grain now again we must take everything with a grain of well grain i guess because for everything that i'm about to say one could easily say it's not that simple this applies to everything we brief but especially the grain situation in europe so keep that in mind is that this may be a simple explanation but it's a lot more complex than that right now the ukrainian war is going to have somewhat of an unknown impact on the growing season some people in the agricultural community say it's not going to have any impact at all uh some people are saying that it's going to be a lot more significant than we think whatever the case is ukraine provides roughly 11 to 15 percent of the world's grain and both russia and ukraine together provide around 30 percent of the world's wheat specifically and of that ukraine provides about eight percent now take those numbers carefully again because i have never found a statistic as hard to verify as that one is like honestly that's one thing that you'd think would be easily verifiable but the freaking media is at it again and i can't even find out with any reliability how much grain ukraine exports annually mainstream media sources and even scholarly journal articles are openly lying about how much grain ukraine and russia export because the mainstream media wants to push a narrative they want to push war and the idea that the ukrainian war the war that the media supports is causing food shortages in europe goes against their narrative it sort of removes a lot of the justification the media have pushed forward justifying the war in ukraine but anyway you've got to operate with some data right and since i can literally make up whatever statistics i want let's not use any number at all and break this down barney's style ukraine exports wheat russia exports wheat both countries together export a lot of wheat and that wheat goes to the rest of europe russia has been exporting 0 of their wheat for months they stopped all exports of wheat months ago in preparation for this invasion 100 of ukraine's ports are currently blockaded by the russian navy 98 of ukraine's grain is exported via these ports so using this data we can safely say that the largest exporter of grain russia and the fifth largest exporter of grain ukraine in the world have effectively stopped exporting grain that has to have some kind of impact and i can't imagine it's a positive one at least for europe and on top of this the planting season for grain is in the springtime right after the spring thaw can anyone think of anything that might be going on in ukraine that might impact agricultural pursuits exactly obviously not all agricultural operations will be impacted by the war but i can't imagine a war being great for sowing seeds the good news is that the spring planting season is largely negligible in ukraine roughly 95 percent of ukraine's wheat is winter wheat and that was already in the ground when the invasion happened so i don't really know what the impacts of that could be other than maybe getting it out of the fields when it comes to harvest time right honestly a bigger agricultural concern for ukraine at the moment is their barley and corn crop that could be a big problem if they have trouble getting seeds in the ground this spring or even later this year but we see how things start to snowball you've got a shortage now due to little exports and you'll have a shortage later in the year because of lack of planting or whatever those impacts will be again there's no way we could possibly know right we can't predict how the war will affect the planting cycle but it has to affect it some this will be made worse by fertilizer shortages which we have been seeing for a long time for us here in the u.s any kind of shortage of grain in ukraine will be negligible really we don't really have to worry about shortages of grain so much after all the us is a massive producer of wheat and corn as well this invasion especially the political actions is going to impact the global wheat supply for years again what those impacts will be i don't know but over the past two years the supply chain for every single thing on earth has been thrown out of whack so it would be wise to prepare for global food instability another major concern is energy and those concerns differ based on what continent you're on for us here in the u.s that means what we call pol or petroleum oil and lubricants expect anything fossil fuel related to either present vulnerabilities or be impacted by political and economic events over the summer so what does that mean in plain english well expect gas prices to stay pretty high for the time being right now the feds are trying to keep prices low by tapping into what little remains of our strategic reserves but our national petroleum stockpile was already at its lowest recorded level months ago so that's not going to be a safety net for too long our strategic oil reserves are just that strategic oil reserves i don't think that the regime will tap the reserves completely but that is a finite resource all those old salt mines down on the down on the gulf coast where our strategic oil reserves are located they're not an infinite source right and with opec looking to start accepting yuan in addition to dollars to pay for oil exports this could be a pretty big problem further down the line we will talk more about the economics of that in just a minute for our viewers in europe the energy concerns are much more pressing than high gas prices most european nations are extremely dependent on russian natural gas and some countries are cashing the checks that they wrote years ago such as germany being strategically dependent on solar wind and geothermal energy sources for critical infrastructure when your adversaries are still on petroleum well we're finding out just how bad of an idea that was germany is the poster child for this german politicians have constantly without fail made the worst possible decisions when it comes to energy production especially in the industrial sector just look at germany's decisions regarding nuclear power they are phasing out all of their reactors even when they know that they have nothing to replace them with that is as reliable and so throughout europe national level energy problems are cast down onto the people to deal with all around the world but particularly in europe we are seeing governments create problems in the citizenry trying to solve those problems and none of those problems has been so universal as energy citizens around the planet are buying up as many generators and fuel cans as they can afford same with consumer grade solar panels and don't even get me started on what lithium prices look like right now due to people and companies buying it up for building batteries throughout europe i don't know if there has ever been a time that energy was as unstable as it is right now so what does all of this mean well there are two conclusions for one if you want to have electricity when blackouts occur you need to create your own off-grid electrical generation methods whatever that is it's not as simple as buying a two thousand dollar solar generator and some solar panels that you fling out in the driveway when those power goes out in your neighborhood what are you going to do when blackouts or power surges or rolling brownouts become standard operating procedure in your area going on to a solar system temporarily is fine to run like some minor appliances charger devices things like that during a temporary emergency but when the brownouts become routine a more long-term solar setup would be something worth looking into secondly the same attitude applies with fossil fuels especially here in the u.s politicians will continue to throttle petroleum fuel sources because that is the one thing that people cannot reproduce in their backyard and transportation equals freedom we've talked quite a bit about why our politicians are trying really hard to restrict our freedom of movement here in the u.s but at this point it's extremely clear that the current political regime in the u.s is intentionally using energy as a weapon to control the people and if you don't agree with that fine i don't care the long story short is that the average american needs to be able to have transportation when the government is fighting with everything they've got to stop you from traveling what i think about the current political regime doesn't matter what you think doesn't matter either what's going to happen is going to happen and i would fully expect gasoline to be used as a weapon for the foreseeable future bottom line is that we citizens and the consumer market need to be figuring out alternative transportation right now if it's building or buying your own tiny electric car so that you'll at least be able to charge it up with the panels in your backyard that might be one solution buying a motorcycle or dirt bike which uses much less gas might be an option and there are a lot of electric dirt bikes out there that are the new hotness these days even an e-bike might be an option for some you don't have to stop showering start wearing sandals and use a magic crystal for deodorant just because you invest in some kind of electric transportation i myself think that electric vehicles are a fashion statement or a status symbol for most people and will not be replacing serious vehicles anytime soon however based on the energy instability that we have already seen including domestic attacks on our critical infrastructure i really think it's a good idea to at least have some kind of vehicular backup that can take over some tasks when the petroleum gets hit with a cyber attack or regulations or both and finally a massive concern far more troubling than either food or energy but also something that is completely out of the hands of citizens is economics specifically inflation a lot of people far smarter than us have been talking a lot about inflation for the past year or two and recently those concerns have become more urgent in the field of economics never have there been so many questions asked that no one has a clue how to answer are we heading toward a hyperinflation event what do we do to prepare for it what would a hyperinflation event look like considering that most currencies on the planet are pinned to the us dollar what happens when the world's fiat currency fails and can that even happen at all i'm not even going to pretend to have the answer to any of these questions and even economists that have spent their lives studying this can't really give us that much more advice we can read history and that gives us a pretty big advantage in every other problem we face but it's not as helpful as you'd imagine when trying to figure out how to beat inflation from the weimar republic to venezuela the circumstances for those hyperinflation events are just different enough from our own situation to not be particularly helpful now we will at some point throw together an in-depth study on inflation its causes and what you can do about it but spoiler alert there's not much that you can do about it it would be easier to repeal every single firearm law or regulation than it would be to stop the federal reserve from printing money so to me there are really only a few options that seem viable and none of them are particularly great the options are basically to jump ship converting a fiat currency into precious metals or a different currency that would retain value after a hyperinflation event in one currency though again seeing as the us dollar is the world's fiat currency pretty much if the us dollar fails it will bring down most other currencies on the planet with it at least in theory really the only things that we can do right now is buy as many goods as we possibly can right now so that when the inflation hikes those prices a year from now you will have supplies right spending a dollar on a can of beans now and storing it for a couple of years when the price of a can of beans is five dollars is a good choice at this point i myself am not prepping and stockpiling supplies because of shortages necessarily it's really just to save money in the long run when inflation gets out of control and let me just give you a personal example i have noticed as have most people noticed that my usual like non-prepping grocery bill per week or every two weeks or so has roughly doubled and you might ask yourself well why has it doubled and not just gone up based on the price of inflation so you'd think that your grocery bill would go up directly in correlation with inflation well here's the thing it's not because different companies are increasing their prices based on a few different things they're usually front loading that cost like for instance the other day i think aldi announced that they were going to increase their prices by like on some items by like 50 percent and you're saying whoa what what the hey why 50 like inflation is not at 50 if inflation gets to 50 percent we're in a hyper inflation event and it probably won't matter too much anyway um but so why are they increasing their prices that much well it's because they're front loading that cost they would rather bite the bullet now and take off a lot of their customers right now and make that profit so that when inflation gets a lot higher than that or inflation has already gotten higher and they've been taking losses this entire time well increasing their prices will is a way to correct that a lot of companies what they are doing is either front loading that inflationary cost and assuming that inflation is going to get higher or they have put off price increases for so long that they're now either taking a loss or they're basically making no net gain for some products and of course this varies product product and of course we're only talking about actual price increases we're not talking about things like shrink flation or stuff like that the reason being is a lot of companies what they have decided to do like apparently aldi is say all right customers we're going to have an inflationary price increase and there you go it's going to be you know in a couple of days at midnight all of our goods at this at this in this category are going to go up by this this amount of percentage and in actuality really the thing to do is for companies to adjust their prices based on inflation uh as soon as the inflation report comes out say all right we're going to increase our our prices of our goods by that amount but here's the thing there's a huge disconnect because inflation is a daily changing thing and usually by the time we have found out that inflation has gone up by x percent it's already too late we've already lost that value of our us dollar right so a lot of companies end up trying to front load this they're going to increase their prices by 20 by 30 to make sure that they only have to do one price increase this quarter and they can take those profits that they make like inflation is only at eight percent will they increase their prices by 20 percent they're going to take that uh difference in percentage and use that to front load um the the cost for when inflation does start creeping up if that makes sense that's probably a confusing way to think about it but a lot of companies are front loading this inflation issue they are increasing their prices by more than what the inflation is so that they can recoup those costs or predict where inflation will go so when you have that happen in every grocery store in the country with every product in a grocery store yeah your grocery bill goes up by way more than just inflation and i don't think people realize that sure people know hey man i bought the same amount of food as last as i did last week my bill is now twenty dollars more or thirty dollars more fifty dollars more people notice that but they don't they don't necessarily notice that it's a lot more than the inflationary percentage because a lot of people just they just they have a general idea of what they're spending on food granted a lot of people nowadays don't necessarily get their most of their nutrition from a grocery store most people eat out a lot so that's even harder to calculate prices because you're paying for the preparation and not just the raw ingredients but in any case hopefully that kind of explains why inflation is much more of a problem than you might think and it's costing you more than inflation you're pro you're not paying just inflationary prices you're paying for the prices of you're paying the price on things for where companies think inflation is going to go and that's results in a lot higher increase across the board again i want to talk more about inflation and specifically how individuals can make it through it and really if individuals in today's world can even make it through a hyperinflation event i really want to get down and talk a lot more about these details but i need to do a lot more research i need to do a lot more reading and i need to learn a lot more before i can formulate a decent opinion on what to do so give me some time to think about it i'll let the team here chew on it a little bit with me and we'll figure out something we'll see what we can do i know that right now i know right now the solutions for an inflation to to make it through inflation are not particularly either feasible or really great solutions so plus we're in uncharted territory when it comes to what the us dollar means to the world these days so stay tuned for that and we'll come back to the inflation issue in a separate video i guess the biggest concern of all is a combination of what second and third order effects will happen due to the food situation becoming more serious the energy sector being weaponized even more and inflation becoming a very serious threat as we all know by now events tend to snowball at the worst possible times so chances are these three concerns will rear their ugly heads in unison and all cascade to cause complications all at once that i really don't know what to do about there is no real way to be reliably proactive in determining what problems will pop up so i guess all we can do is be reactionary and mitigate our damages for whenever something does happen so there you go the three biggest concerns that i am most concerned about well at least in conjunction with censorship domestic spying and the other long-standing issues but food energy and inflation are really the the big three things i'm watching carefully and would expect to become big problems over the next few months so with that mountain of text out of the way and with this strategic stage set let's move to critical infrastructure first up is an issue that probably most people have not heard about at all and i wanted to talk about it today because it's sort of in the local military news um and that is the red hill bulk storage fuel facility scandal this has been a massive problem for i think about a decade or so this is probably the worst groundwater contamination event that no one knows about so here's the short version of what's been going on during world war ii the government was concerned about above ground fuel storage being a massive strategic target again hawaii small island chain needs a lot of fuel because it's it was headquarters for the pacific fleet you needed a lot of fuel tanks and having a lot of fuel tanks above ground is not a super great thing if you're getting bombed in a war and with world war ii kicking off the united states was certainly looking at hawaii being a vulnerability so they began construction of a series of massive underground fuel storage tanks under a volcano which became known as the red hill site these concerns were confirmed when the japanese attacked pearl harbor during the construction of the red hill storage facility so the fuel storage facility was justified financially by the feds and the navy continued building out the complex eventually consisting of 20 underground tanks each capable of storing roughly 12.5 million gallons of fuel well it turns out these suckers were actually built directly over an aquifer and have been leaking fuel into the groundwater for decades and the navy in classic fashion has been covering it up within the navy it has been pretty common knowledge that the tap water throughout pearl smelled and tasted like fuel but the navy ignored the problem and concealed several fuel leaks that occurred as far back as the 1990s until the civilian populace started getting affected and then the story blew open as it stands right now the hawaii state epa and the federal epa have rejected several of the navy's plans to fix the problems because the plans are not good enough the navy has been fumbling this problem for many many years now even after they got caught lying the navy doubled down and said that as recently as last november that the water was quote safe to drink but third-party testing immediately confirmed unsafe amounts of fuel in the water currently the us navy is not in compliance with the environmental orders that have been mandated by the feds or the state of hawaii a few months ago the dod kind of gave up on salvaging the site and mandated the complete defueling and shutdown of the site but since the site is so large it takes a long time to shut it down the reason that we're talking about this now is that there was yet another fuel spill a couple of weeks ago this time it wasn't much at all it was only about 30 gallons of fuel and water mixture so pretty much negligible compared to the tens of thousands of gallons of fuel that has been spilled over the past few decades the interesting part about this latest leak is really the reaction to it just read any navy times or military times article and you will immediately realize how those publications are mostly just propaganda tools now in any case i just wanted to mention this event because it highlights not just the contamination accidents that can occur but the decades of cover-ups that often go along with such events moving on down to the saudis recently opec has floated the idea of allowing china to pay for oil in yuan this means a lot of things and i could probably talk about this for quite a bit of time but the bottom line is that when the saudis even remotely consider another currency than the us dollar this signals their lack of faith in the us dollar of course it's not like the saudis are expecting the us dollar to fail as the world's fiat currency but it does signal that they are concerned and the saudis are like the russians they never take a dump without a plan so when the saudis start making moves with regards to the logistics of how to potentially continue their market for fuel in the event the us dollar has some problems well that should be concerning up next is not something that affects the united states so much at the moment but it is an infrastructure concern so i thought i'd mention it and that is the russian jamming of gps signals really this is a problem for a lot of europe mostly the countries that border ukraine but it is kind of spilling over into other areas in particular the french have taken note of this their regulatory agency dgac recently announced that russian gps jamming that is occurring in the ukrainian war theater is spilling over into europe and affecting commercial aviation finland has been reporting detecting gps jamming and spoofing for weeks now but the problem of commercial aviation being affected seems to be spreading um due to how radio waves propagate it makes sense that aircraft would be affected the most after all they're way up in the sky and have line of sight for hundreds of miles making them very vulnerable to gps jamming or even spoofing i guess in other words the russians on the ground might think they are jamming the gps signals of ground targets within a small area maybe a few miles but aircraft hundreds of miles away can and apparently are being affected by this again we're going to be talking a lot more about gps jamming and spoofing in the future because this is the future of warfare sadly and the ukrainian war has illustrated the importance of figuring out alternative alternative ways of navigation without gps you can see this in the us government in the military's bids and attempts to find non-gps related navigational tools or things for navigation in gps denied environments there's a lot of cool technology stuff out there really fascinating things that you can do but for the most part for us on the consumer level the lesson is learn how to use a map in compass because you can't go wrong with that right so moving on to number four there uh the biden regime changing the or rather increasing the ethanol levels in fuel the classic watering down the whiskey approach so when it comes to the biden regime increasing the ethanol levels or approving the increase of ethanol levels in fuel in an attempt to bring down gas prices a lot of people have come to a lot of conclusions or basically just had some wait a minute moments and one of those classic wait a minute moments is when the vitamin regime in one breath says that we're going to have food shortages here in the u.s oh and but by the way that corn that we're going to uh be short on we're going to use most of it to make gas or make ethanol for gasoline so a lot of people have have brought that up and i briefly kind of wanted to address that by saying that it's more complicated than that uh for one most agriculture in the united states is contract based so at the most the only thing that i can see this ethanol increase affecting food prices would be if farmers were to write new contracts for the production of ethanol grade corn so that and it's an opportunity cost basically farmers switching to ethanol corn rather than sweet corn which is what you eat they're two different products right so you're not going to have a direct correlation there the most correlation you might have is like i mentioned farmers deciding to switch to ethanol fuel production is that going to happen i highly doubt it because i cannot i have to do the math and kind of figure this out but i highly doubt that farmers are going to immediately start switching their crops and writing new contracts for you know thousands of acres of corn corn fields simply because biden temporarily increases the ethanol in fuel farmers are a lot smarter than that they realize that this is just a stop gap and then their fields are tied up for a long time based based on based on a temporary issue and the market price of corn could switch so i don't know that there will be a whole lot of farmers saying oh look biden just made it made ethanol lucrative let's go switch to ethanol and let's not grow food i don't know if that's going to happen or not but you can certainly make the argument and somebody who makes that argument i i wouldn't say you're wrong i'm just saying that i don't know we have clearly seen the biden regime attempt to get farmers to not grow food right remember there was reports from months ago we were talking about how the biden regime quietly increased a program or reauthorize a program or increase the amount of money you get for letting your fields return to nature right this whole environmental bs stuff that's done in the guys of a lot of political uh maneuvers so again i don't know if this is going to be a huge impact but it's i it's probably going to affect it some i just don't know i would think that a lot of corn farmers out there are probably going to stick with growing human corn because again shortages are probably going to occur in other kinds of staple goods and corn is a good way to fill those gaps i don't know though so i i guess we'll have to see but when it comes to fuel it's a little a little bit more clear just slightly when it comes to fuel prices this will probably have a pretty negligible impact for one the production of ethanol requires a lot of energy anyway and since the fuel is basically watered down even more than it already is you have suffering fuel efficiency so you basically have fuel gasoline that is actually more expensive per mile because it's more inefficient so you might run into the problem of gasoline costing 20 percent less yeah sure thanks biden the cost of gasoline is down 20 percent but it's 25 more inefficient if that makes sense now again i don't know what the math looks like on this uh adding more ethanol to fuel is probably not a net loss i don't know if this is going to be a net loss but it's got to be close like it's going to be like well gee thanks like you know fuel is 20 less but now i can go 25 you know shorter distances like did that really help me at all no i'm actually losing out oh and now you know now my engine is is all kinds of jacked up because of the increased ethanol so i don't know but i would think that when you factor in the energy needs to make ethanol in the first place it comes out to be not really a good idea either way i think the only result that's going to come of this is more inefficient gasoline people having to refuel a lot more often and potentially serious engine problems mark my words i guarantee you that there will be a headline in a few months from some mainstream media outlet to the effect of ethanol enriched gasoline causing problems for certain kinds of internal combustion engines and that the regime is going to come back they're going to be happy to explain this away with their classic tagline what are they going to say say it with me just buy an electric car right it's almost like a concert at this moment because you know exactly what uh what notes coming next so meanwhile the regime quietly renews oil permits for federal lands just because they know how much they're messing up i just thought it was kind of interesting that were that the solution for for fuel uh problems is to increase ethanol in in fuel and not i don't know maybe increase domestic production or renew some oil leases would be nice oh well they're quietly doing that too because they realized how much they messed up so very interesting stuff i don't really know if there's much more to add on that so let's move to significant governmental actions i'm going to move through this one pretty quick because a lot of this is either conjecture unverified or i really honestly don't know what to think about it just yet but i thought it's interesting so i thought i'd mention a lot of this stuff first up is the secret service spy network that's what i'm calling it because that's sure as hell what it seems like to me not really much is known about this at the moment but it appears it seems like two guys were able to pose as dhs agents and they were able to befriend bribe and kind of weasel their way into the personal lives of a lot of secret service agents including uh secret service agents who are on um either the vice president's protection detail or jill biden's uh presidential secret service detail depending on what news source you read it's really hard to figure out what's going on here either way there's some shady stuff going on and me being me with the experience i have i looked at this um i saw that somebody sent me this story and i thought ah okay probably some spy network or something um really that's usually what it is people trying to infiltrate now it's pretty bold um to go around you know impersonating federal agents it's a lot easier to either bribe or blackmail existing agents so i'm not really sure what's going on here these days in the world this isn't like you know an episode of the americans right it's not necessarily all about nation state espionage corporate espionage is huge and geez you might have private companies out there in other countries trying to infiltrate government assets over here in the us and vice versa for monetary reasons right it might not necessarily be uh some kind of nation-state level spying who knows though i think it's kind of interesting so i thought i'd mention it um up next is the whitmer the whitmer kidnapping plot and entrapment case you can read more about this if you haven't already but basically what we have been talking about with the michigan governor kidnapping scandal um was basically confirmed by uh the verdicts in that this case was basically a case of the fbi getting a lot of goobers together and trying to get them to kidnap the uh the governor of michigan classic entrapment case at least is what the court is indicating by their um judgments on this um so yeah uh again the fbi is more concerned with trying to get some you know idiots together to kidnap a governor than trying to uh protect us against any kind of terrorism so pretty standard operating procedure at this point just wanted to throw anybody just throw it out there for anybody who wants to read more about it that we have you know the final verdicts now and basically the case is closed at this point up next is the poison pill the infamous laptop right hunter biden's laptop um basically being confirmed to be real so it's something that is a huge rabbit hole if you want to go down i think it's interesting but i have not had the time to go through the hundreds of documents that have come out regarding the laptop and documents supposedly found on it the latest news is that one of the it guys that actually worked on the laptop was able to recover 450 gigabytes of deleted data and he has reportedly fled to switzerland fearing that he's going to be assassinated one i do want to mention though that i don't know if this is how accurate this is but one of the original it guys made a statement on it stating that the laptop only had a hard drive that was capable of 256 gigabytes so um he didn't want to rule out that the information on that that 450 gigabytes was was not genuine um he just wanted to stress that that could have come from cloud data or something like that but the original hard drive was only 256 gigabytes so there are a lot of copies out there of the hard drive allegedly floating around on the internet again we'll probably come back to this if something interesting comes out about it um and as time goes on i'll kind of be interested in seeing what's on that um laptop as would pretty much everyone but again the evidence is is pretty damning so far um with regards to emails um that have come out regarding the laptop so keep an eye on that and we'll uh we'll come back to that when we've got more information on it but number four is probably the one we've gotten the most questions about over the past couple weeks and that is um the atf shenanigans yet again i hate to burst everybody's bubble on this one but i'm really not going to get into the weeds with this too much other people far more well-versed people in the 2a community and in the gun community i have talked a lot about what these this new series of tyranny from the atf means what biden's actions mean and all that and what's in the text i don't know what it means i'm i know i should care i know i really should care a lot about this but i'm really struggling uh to to be personally motivated to care really about what the atf has done lately it's like every month they come out and they do something that yet that most gun owners are not gonna follow anyway so i don't know um i think that it's a smart idea to to figure out uh what is going on and what kind of angles are going after but again like i told you months ago they're gonna come after 80 kits like that's just a fact like when we saw that we got this hint when they raided all those companies that were selling um the 80 frames with the jigs and uh like parts kits and the slide and everything like that slides and barrels and parts kits and things like that uh when they raided those companies we saw the writing on the wall like anybody who did not see the next step was just outright ban 80 kits like what did you think was next so i don't know it's um it's important to keep track of the tyranny and what routes are going to go down but they're trying to outlaw as much as they possibly can and i personally saw 80 kits as being a huge target by the atf and the federal government so it makes sense that they would go after those at this time or eventually how effective is this going to be i don't know probably not very effective though probably about as effective as every other thing the federal government has tried to do with regards to gun control which is pretty much nothing um you know it's just i think this is probably my my personal apathy on this is probably just a reflection of where i think the rule of law is in this country at this time which is i think pretty pretty low i think that more americans than ever before don't really give a crap about federal gun laws anymore since there are inevitably federal agents watching this video there's really not a whole lot more to add on it other than what i think is going to happen i think that most people are going to do what they've been doing over the past year look at the data they're just going to not give a crap about what the atf is doing now what does that mean for consumer sales yeah people are going to snatch up every polymer 80 kit that there is they're going to snatch up every 80 receiver every jig kit it's going to be gone because market demand is how that works but as far as what this means i don't know i really don't know i don't think that most people will care um but as but when it comes to what the atf is going to do i have no idea so let me stop rambling on about 80 percent kids and let's end with ukraine and unfortunately i'm not going to talk about ukraine today and there's a few reasons for that for one i want to talk about ukraine in a more educational sense i want there are so many things i want to do when it comes to ukraine and i've got volumes already of personal notes the whole team here has volumes of personal notes on everything from the tactical lessons learned from ukraine to different ways of um changing our current military doctrine to what civilians can do we've got all of that we're learning an incredible amount of information from ukraine um and we're learning just how horrifyingly bad warfare actually is um but here's the problem censorship and this is something that we have been putting off talking about for a while just because it's it's not really relevant for most people i guess but here's the deal we got this email in our inbox a while back so did most people on youtube who have made youtube videos about ukraine and youtube is basically is not basically they are directly censoring us um this is we're not talking shadow banning or anything that's impossible to prove in a court of law no youtube has given us a direct order to not say certain things and that's my line that's that's my hard no not going to do that so here's what we're going to do if we do another ukraine brief if we talk about ukraine anymore we are not going to do so on youtube any ukraine videos that we put out we will uh put on other platforms we'll put it on patreon uh we have a utreon account now which is an alternative to patreon because patreon is not so great with censorship and utreon is is kind of the new hotness with regards to that so we're going to put our ukraine videos on there in addition to odyssey as well now what does that mean it means that most of you probably won't see the videos it means that the the algorithms that youtube does to put our ukraine videos in front of new viewers will not happen now i personally i personally would like to take all of our content and put it on odyssey or butreon or something like that i would love to do that but that's just not possible it's not feasible just take any just just as a personal experiment take any of our videos any pick any of them you want take that video and look at the number of views it got on youtube and then go look over on odyssey and see how many views it got and you'll see that it's a night and day difference even though in the description of every single video we put out the odyssey link where you can watch the video you know ad free in any case we're not in the business of farming for views here but we also want to grow we want to expand our horizons and we want to expand other people's horizons and and by putting all of our content on a smaller platform people are not going to see it and that's a problem because we want we have so many different things that we want to do and so we kind of have to do what most people do on youtube and that's play by youtube's dumb rules um and but but here's the thing though there is a line with that and youtube wants to shadow ban us fine don't care nothing i can do about it if i had a team of attorneys there's no way that i could fight that in court because you can't because their processes are closed and proprietary but here's the thing again like i mentioned youtube sent us a direct order as to what we can and cannot say and that is a no-go in my book so again like i mentioned if we end up talking ukraine again in the intel update uh format um we're not gonna put it on youtube um i'm not playing anymore with regards to that what we might end up doing is splitting a brief whereas you have part one of a brief on youtube which is plays by youtube censorship rules right and so that people know that it exists and in the video i will point you to part two which is the stuff that youtube will not allow us to say um hopefully we can make this work um again we've been super busy the past couple of weeks and we just got this notification a few days ago so we it's been hard for the team here to kind of figure out what we're going to do about it because again we are funded here by you we're funded either by your direct support on patreon or utreon and by uh ad revenue from youtube well we're not going to be putting a huge chunk of our um funding on youtube anymore so we're going to be taking a significant financial loss by moving our ukraine videos off platform um but that's what's got to happen with ukraine and um yeah so youtube wants to kind of censor us in any other way well you know we can grumble about it but no there's you're not going to give me a direct order as to what i'm going to say and not say especially considering the nature of war and [Music] it being pretty horrible all the way around i know a lot of you out there were probably very disappointed that we're sticking around on youtube at all after this but hey look that's just not the way the world works i would love nothing more again than to put our content on some kind of other free speech platform but let me tell you something i'll just find a way to censor that one too and at the same time what's more important getting our ideas out to a group of 12 people or you know 12 million right so i would rather play the game to some degree like we have in the past and be able to do some good in that regard and reach more people and do more good rather than just sitting on some random.com page and not um i don't want to become an ideological sounding chamber and i think youtube keeps us honest in that regard because our content goes to so many different kinds of people that ordinarily would not have sought it out so the algorithms in that regard are good they allow us to get fresh minds and fresh eyes on a lot of things that we wouldn't ordinarily get if you were to just post our videos you know on some page like odyssey right so again it's always been a fine line um ever since we got started on youtube it's been a fine line of us dancing between how much do we want to self censor and is this even right that we have to self-censor what's what's what's the better option here what's what's the more honorable thing to do well i can tell you with regards to this i'm telling you our hard line is this youtube is not going to tell us what we can and cannot do on a topic um so again like i mentioned when we come back around to ukraine it's not going to be on youtube um so just giving it everybody warning on that um but yeah i think of i think i've talked that one to death so let's go ahead and close thank you again everyone for all of your support over the past well since we've been in existence really there are a lot of good people out there that have helped us a lot along the way and in ways that again like i mentioned you can't possibly know so for that we will never forget the support that you guys have given us and we really really really appreciate it there is no way that we would have been able to continue this without your support i i personally would have rolled up the s2 underground project shut it down and never produced another thing last year had it not been for your support because it wasn't a viable option for helping people but it is now and we are planning to expand quite significantly over the next few months we're going to be doing a lot of different kinds of things believe it or not we don't just make videos on youtube we do other things as well and we're going to start releasing some of the projects we've been working over the next few months hopefully if we can get some some of the kinks worked out in our system so again uh stay tuned i know i keep saying that but good things are coming we've got a lot of things that i think will be very helpful very handy to have and [Music] that's going to be a huge priority for us moving forward so we're going to continue the update briefs we're going to continue as much as we can we're going to fight censorship on youtube as best we can and if there's a way that we cannot avoid censorship on 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[Music] hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground so today we've got a sort of random podcast on some just general thoughts observations and opinions surrounding this minneapolis situation and the shahvan trial and the outcome from it and all that stuff so we wanted to make a podcast about this today because well for one we've been getting a decent amount of dms and questions and comments about it but also because i think that the main sort of lessons that we learned and the key takeaways from us from the trial are not necessarily what most people seem to be concluding so we've got some sort of unique thoughts on the situation and we thought we would share them today um so jumping right into it as far as thoughts in the trial um i hate to disappoint um but we do get a lot of questions or have over the past 24 hours or so i've gotten a lot of questions asking us what we think of the situation and at least for me i don't really have that many thoughts worth sharing on the trial itself other than i think that based on the whirlwind of violence and outright false information from all sides that sort of spun out of control last summer i think that it was always going to be impossible for him to have a quote unquote fair trial if you want to call it that so there's that none of us here were on that jury and i really didn't follow the case myself personally so i don't have an opinion on whether or not shavon was guilty or not guilty but what is completely unacceptable and what we can plainly see from the outside is the external influence in this case and not just for javan but for other cases as well politicians up to and including the president of the united states tried to intimidate and influence this trial since the moment that chavin was first charged last year and then during the freaking jury deliberations the president of the united states couldn't hold his wad and had to make a statement that pretty much guarantees that not only will shaving easily get an appeal but he will almost certainly win it in a few years when the mob isn't watching anymore and then you have other politicians saying that even though he was found guilty on all accounts somehow that's not good enough and like he should be extra guilty or something but this we knew the mob which is increasingly including senior federal governmental officials and agencies a very important thing to make note of the mob would not have been satisfied unless they could have dragged him out of the court and killed him in the street anything less than that and the mob would be less dissatisfied as they currently are now but we'll come back to that in a minute what we expect to see moving forward is quite wide ranging but in classic totalitarian fashion i would expect federal agencies to target minneapolis police department and other law enforcement officials in the area the federal regime is really all about kicking someone when they are down whether it's impeaching a man who is no longer president or is increasing troop deployments after the manufactured threat is over anyway the executive branch and the majority of congress and the supreme court are all about total control now it's not enough that the mob got what they wanted they have to continue to beat the dead horse so we will fully expect the doj to investigate in heavy air quotes the minneapolis police department and probably withdraw their federal funding to be honest like we mentioned last year the mob is doing everything they possibly can to make sure that not a single reasonable and rational person remains on the police force not just in minneapolis but anywhere they have completely eliminated any chance they had at a peaceful solution and now that the federal government has picked aside or at least feels the need to be two-faced and pick a side while being protected by the police the concept of mob rule will continue to grow at least up until the point that that rage gets turned onto the federal regime or until the mob outlives its usefulness to the regime that's when things will make a sharp turn as far as the actual tracking situation and the sort of situation post verdict in minneapolis specifically i will be the first to admit that we missed the mark on that one we were fully expecting that the immense amount of funding and the extremely high political interventions would have resulted in rioting no matter what the verdict was especially considering that blm slash antifa spent a lot of money on signs that encouraged rioting despite the verdict but for the most part the mob spent the evening celebrating and partying in the streets last night but we've got to be aware that this doesn't mean that there won't be riots in minneapolis over the next few days or moving into the future every liberal politician up to and including the president has done everything they possibly can to convey that they are giving the green light for rioting to occur as long as it doesn't personally affect them the only way that i can see this approval getting any clearer is if they came out and openly encouraged people to riot as several congresswomen have already done so once this idea sinks in we'll see rioting and looting again i should also note that i think that last night we underestimated the impact of the weather even prior to the verdict being read there there weren't that many people in the street certainly not as many as we were expecting which is probably due to the chile temperature or other factors and atmospherics that we can't know because we weren't there and as far as lessons learned for me there are several key takeaways from this event and unfortunately none of them are particularly positive and in true as to underground fashion the lessons that we learn are not particularly about the event itself like i said personally i don't really care about the trial itself it has been sensationalized all year by every single group out there to make their political point by left and right alike so i'm not even going to go down the road on george floyd or derek chavin or the case itself it's pointless to muse on these sort of things now what is alarming to me is that the remarks made by politicians in a direct attempt to incite violence and threaten intimidate and bully the jury shows that our entire system of checks and balances is hanging on by a thread if it hasn't already been completely obliterated yet anyone who has been familiar with our justice systems in this country know that the entire system is broken from the ground up the court of public opinion is now the actual court and not in a jury of your pure sort of way but in a kangaroo court kind of way and the shaman trial aside this is a huge problem and has serious implications for the way that we move forward in trying to fix the problems in our world politicians bullying and outright influencing court decisions is never a good thing but more importantly it's a hallmark of a collapsing governmental system when maxine waters can get a police escort to the middle of a crowd and encourage rioting if they don't get their way and not have anything happen to her that's not good like it would have been a less bad of a situation if she had said what she said and congress came back and censored her or removed her from important committees which is a big one or powerful players in her home district made her sweat a little bit with you know political donations that would have made a difference that might have checked and balanced her extremist rhetoric but no not only was nothing done but the motion to censure her has failed like it was a futile effort anyway so you have a career politician that can endorse a riot and get rewarded for it because there is absolutely zero opposition in congress no matter what feeble attempt congressional republicans put up there really isn't any strong opposition in anything that matters in the executive branch well the executive branch of government is doing everything it can to encourage division so that hundreds of thousands of troops can be deployed to make the nation look like washington dc does right now but i guess at the end of the day the frustrating thing for us is the absolute barren land that is the field of critical thinking and this is probably where we're going to lose a lot of people if we haven't already like we all have said many times before we can only rephrase the same idea so many times before we have to start raising our voice in an attempt to help people understand our point of view it's okay if people disagree like i think that gets misconstrued a lot of times but it seems like a lot of the times people aren't quite picking up what we're putting down so if this comes off as a rant i'm sorry but it's something that we think is a serious topic that we have to fix like right now the biggest problems that we face right now aren't a totalitarian government or tyrannical congress or a kangaroo supreme court these problems are definitely a sign of a troubled state that's true but they are nothing compared to the fight amongst ourselves the citizens of this great nation every single day we have to talk someone down from a ledge which is perfectly fine if that's what we're meant to do that's what we're meant to do and people are really scared and angry right now and even people that were reasonable rational people last year right now are fuming at what's happening around the nation and we get it all of us really do we wouldn't even be here at the s2 underground if we didn't feel like it was our duty to step up and contribute to the betterment of our nation however we have really got to get smart this is really killing us here like whenever we scroll around the internet and find people screaming about this or about that or about tyranny or authoritarianism or whatever my first thought is if you really believed that our government is so evil or that the mob is so evil you would shut up and realize that screaming about it is only making yourself a target like all of the boogaloo boys that are somehow still out there going to protests and whatnot let me say this if you still wholeheartedly and openly support that movement that tells me that you do not fully understand the severity of the situation and that i cannot trust you with anything significant because you're not ready to play with the big boys it was fine when it was just a meme or a loose sort of political statement that's that's fine but right now if you go to a protest with the hawaiian shirt gang after everything that's happened i'm not going to go out of my way to risk my neck for someone who is assuming an unacceptable amount of risk not to mention being more of a liability than an asset if you cannot take care of yourself and realize that your emotional outburst now limits your options later when things get really bad this shows me that you care more about an emotional response than a strategic one hell even on our own platforms we occasionally see people foaming at the mouth filled with rage for the situation that we're faced with but here's the thing if a person cannot control their temper online where everything is logged and nothing is secure that signals to us that again this person is playing t-ball when we need to be playing in a world series level if we are to ever have a chance at fixing the problems we are faced with and for us this kind of stuff gets disheartening really quickly because we see the data like we hop on social media and make a post on like instagram or something that kind of sort of points the finger at liberals and we get hundreds of likes and dozens of comments but when we post something like a tutorial giving people the keys to the castle and tools for success it's crickets and yeah i get it it's a lot easier to tap like than it is to actually watch a video or listen to a podcast the point is it's not going to be the flashy stuff that gets us out of this mess it's going to be the boring stuff i know i keep harping on this one i realize i feel like i say it more often than not but everyone loves to strap on a play carrier or watch a dozen videos on youtube before they pick out the right one and try to color match pouches and create an aesthetic with a vintage camo or something which is perfectly fine like i do that stuff myself but it seems like a lot of people put far less effort into the actual plates inside the carrier it's almost comical and the same goes for information in our world as well a lot of people seem to be obsessed with guerrilla warfare like the instant civil unrest kicks off they're gonna go all red dawn or rambo in the woods we get so many questions about that everyone wants to read books about how to build ieds but no one seems particularly interested in reading about how ho chi minh came to power everyone seems to be all too interested in stuff like the world war ii resistance movement in yugoslavia which is widely considered to be one of the most effective resistance movements during the war with the partisans beating the nazis and running them out of their homeland and becoming a free society until a resistance leader called tito decided that this freedom stuff is for the birds and now that the nazis are out we need this thing called communism yes that's right people are all too happy to look at the somewhat romanticized parts of resistance but very quick to overlook one of the longest lasting dictatorships that somehow people still really don't know about because it isn't romantic we focus on things like the french resistance and daring raids or spies dropped by parachute into hostile territory or the special operations executive or the american office of strategic services air dropping supplies to rebels in the hills but we completely gloss over the fact that the soe was almost completely shut down because french rebel groups kept using the air dropped weapons to kill other rebels instead of the occupying nazis the tragic and morbidly comical reality of the time was that the overwhelming majority of secret squirrels and case officers during world war ii were simply trying to keep their guerrilla forces from killing each other the unfortunate truth is that in the majority of cases james bond did not have a license to kill so much as an accounting degree now granted the latter part of the 20th century was the birth of modern intelligence operations and as such we should absolutely study these things and the fact that a lot of this history is fascinating and exhilarating to read just makes it all the more enjoyable to learn but we cannot get our priorities crossed from real life operatives like t lawrence and nancy wake to christopher lee and fitzroy mclean the cool stuff more often than not took a back seat to just trying to make sure their forces didn't kill each other which is a sentiment that we are starting to see in the information world today americans love an underdog story because it's the story of us but we have to learn from the mistakes of the past and if we do not even know the past we have no hope for changing the future but to those that are left oh we see you despite all of this ranting and all of our sometimes contradictory but constantly changing thoughts on things the actions of the lurker do not go unnoticed by us we see the random blog poster or the retail cashier or the instagram memer or the neighbor or the youtube creator that isn't really saying much on the surface but is casually making moves of their own or the unknown peeps on the internet that are somehow still causing the billionaires in the world to lose a lot of money or the people that are engaging a little bit of economic warfare of their own by choosing what they buy so for those of you out there who hear us and are doing the same stuff that we're doing know that you're not alone and to those of you that have gotten into a place and taken enough precautions that you feel safe in engaging or teaching or even just talking about these issues we really appreciate it a lot especially if these interactions take place in the real world where it can have the most impact and with that let's continue to do good things currently there has never been a harder time to make friends in the world but right now friends have never been more crucial so with that we will see you guys next time always remember to stay safe make good decisions and fight in the shade [Music] [Music] hurry so you

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 and welcome back to a very long overdue intel update from the s2 underground today as usual we are recording this the day prior on christmas eve to go out on christmas day so i know how tough it is to have to work or be on duty for christmas so here's a shout out to everyone having to hold the line this holiday your work does not go unnoticed and we here especially are thankful for it so let's get this show on the road with the weather weather over the next 12 hours will be quite wintry for most of the nations so a lot of you right about now should be lucky enough to have a white christmas this year with limited visibility and low cloud ceilings offering that security blanket that we have all come to know and enjoy we're also in a green elimination cycle with lunar elimination at 74.9 percent and like i mentioned lots of wintry weather for a good portion of the nation most notably the great lakes region as well as the western united states pushing into no tamps for this cycle there were a couple that caught my eye really they're both kind of in the same area they're both in los angeles right at the airport there uh but i didn't know what these were so i thought it was kind of interesting to highlight them they're both listed as being for vip movement usually when we see vip movement we can see that they're for like the president or the vice president usually that's really the only reasons we see vip temporary flight restrictions but these did not have the normal uh they were not underneath the normal presidential code so i'm not really quite sure who the vip is moving around in los angeles and as you can see the vip window there for the tfr is quite large it's from the 22nd of december until the 3rd of january so somebody's doing something in los angeles and um they wanted a tfr for it because somebody important's moving around there so i don't know i'm sure i'll probably find out about it you know after i do this brief but i just didn't have the time to look it up so i thought that was interesting to mention for the civil unrest forecast really no major change we're seeing pretty much the same thing in all american cities at this point lots of looting smash and grabs things like that there are a few different antifa demonstrations planned for uh portland and i think seattle but that's literally nothing new there's one of these every day pretty much in those areas so we'll just move right on to logistics again we're really not seeing too many changes from the last cycle we're getting into the winter season so really things the logistical issues that we're still having are going to be persistent logistical issues like winter tires are going to be a huge thing for a lot of places because demand normally goes up for those in the winter time so we're going to have some issues with that but it's going to be localized you might be able to go to one tire place and find winter tires and then go right down the street and you know there's a shortage so it's really hard to figure out where these logistical shortages are occurring um so we'll move on to the national level shortages and there's really one i wanted to mention which is medical appliances things like casts and uh crutches and uh things that you mobility equipment things that you might need to move around and stuff like that you for a medical injury or something uh we've seen this in a couple of places around the country since gosh i think september or october but it seems like these shortages are increasing in severity which kind of makes sense usually hospitalizations climb up during the winter time a lot of the elderly population tends to get a hospitalization rates increase during the winter time it's just something that happens every year and we're starting to see that of course as our logistical situation is strained almost to a breaking point in a lot of areas you might find that some of these more seasonal demands on things like uh you know mobility scooters and crutches and things like that are uh are going to be a big problem for the winter time so we're just seeing that we're seeing that in a few different places around the country uh you can hop on twitter and just search for stuff and find a lot of these uh different cases but again you know it's really hard to tell where a shortage is going to be located at moving into critical infrastructure concerns really we've had quite a bit of things happen in the cyber realm over the past few weeks most notably recently what's become known as a log 4j cyber attack or vulnerability however you want to describe it this one's a little hard to explain for those non-tech persons and i'm certainly not a tech person as well but just know that this is a vulnerability that called a lot of people into work overnight to run some patches for a large percentage of it networks around the country basically every itune network was called into work to kind of see what the issue is with this yet another cyber attack or i don't know if it's a if it's officially been classified as a cyber attack but it's certainly a vulnerability that's become shut down a lot of systems uh it's possibly related to the next one which is the amazon web services outage i'm not really read up on whether or not the two are linked or not but amazon web services has gone down for a significant portion of the country at least twice since the last brief that we pushed out here so the last one hit actually hit our area as well where we're geographically located here in the mid-atlantic and uh yeah it just brings down a lot of web traffic so amazon web services runs a lot of the portion of the internet they run a lot of government systems as well so it kind of makes sense that they would be a target and then switching gears from the cyber realm into more of the jab realm the grocery store chain kroger has announced that they are removing a lot of health care benefits and actually starting to charge insurance fees for all of their unjabbed employees as a way to target yet again the unjabbed population so i mentioned that here on the critical infrastructure concerns because this is definitely an infrastructure concern because if you go to the kroger grocery store if that's where you normally shop you might find that uh you're going to have some staffing issues at your local grocery store that's if you even wanted to continue giving them money after this because they're one of the first i don't think of i don't think there's any other grocery store chain that has been as militant about this as kroger has with the exception of the grocery stores that have straight up just fired people for being unjabbed but yeah i just wanted to mention hey some grocery stores mostly kroger right now are starting to do this and as expected employees are walking out so it's this grand game of chicken that we keep talking about and the workers are certainly not putting up with this at least when it comes to kroger's mandates and finally number four there we are seeing you might see a lot in the news lately about airline problems yet again most notably a lot of christmas eve flight cancellations due to rising cases of blank right as we see that that dreaded oh word come back uh being used by the media this time so this is kind of the uh attitude that we're seeing the msm the mainstream media take with this uh this headline from al jazeera which reads thousands of flights cancelled due to blank driven staff shortage uh delta lufthansa united canceled flights on christmas eve and beyond as blank cases force personnel to take sick leave yeah that sounds to me like what someone in my business might call a lie this sounds an awful lot like another strike that's going on because as we all know by now anyone who has seen anything to do like the the mainstream media is really having a hard time covering this up uh because a lot of news stations are reporting that this new variant right is is like a cold right so yeah very very unlikely it's more likely that these companies are experiencing workers uh walking out like last time because as we remember this is exactly the same story they ran the first time that places like delta and lufthansa and united had these problems so sounds to me like it's another one of those but i guess we'll find out in the future all right so moving on to significant governmental actions up first is in a move that surprises literally no one least of all those of you who watch these briefings facebook has admitted that their facts checks are not based on facts at all but are rather quote protected opinion under the first amendment this was the result of a court case that's currently ongoing against facebook in which facebook had to explain why they censor information that is actually factually correct in every way so facebook's begrudging answer is that uh jk our fact checks aren't really based in facts at all but are free speech so there i for one personally look forward to the title wave of lawsuits against facebook from the tens of millions of people that have had their medical research deleted from that platform it's going to be a very interesting time as we move forward on that one moving on to number two congress is caught falsifying evidence once again uh this was kind of an interesting one congressman adam schiff yes that guy is in fact at it again uh he got caught trying to enter into evidence text messages from mark meadows that he altered to make it look like meadows is guilty of inciting or plotting or conspiring or whatever so this is the whole uh this is part of the whole january 6 commission investigation that from an analytical standpoint is really just targeting of political enemies so it's kind of interesting that they went through the effort of adam schiff went through the effort of adding in like punctuation where it didn't exist and shortening messages and things like that to delete context very interesting that they're having to go that far uh to target political entities um if you know if you even care about this kind of stuff anymore i know a lot of people don't really care what congress does these days and i kind of understand it but uh when it comes to what certain things congress does you might want to pay attention to this next one which is number three uh that the capitol police's authority has been increased so biden signed into law a bill that authorizes the u.s capitol police to call up the washington dc national guard directly without any other authorizing entity as one might expect a lot of americans see this as just the increasing militarization of our law enforcement and the increasing use of our national guard as a domestic police force to target innocent americans and i would agree but i'm also looking at things like from a staff officer position and i have a lot of questions the questions that go unanswered for the most part such as does this make the capitol police chief a military commander-in-chief since a commander-in-chief is the only way that a military force can be called into active service and the only way that a civilian can command a military forces if they are elected by the people to be a commander-in-chief how does this work out do we now have an unelected police chief acting as a commander-in-chief for a military force on u.s soil and if so is this person now subject to the uniform code of military justice if the intent of this law is to quickly mobilize the dc national guard for war without waiting for the traditional approval process somebody still has got to be in command from every at every step you cannot have a military force do anything without a commander so who is it honestly i don't really think that very many people care about this kind of like legal gray area stuff but i i mean most people seem to think that this is just yet another attempt to weaponize the police and the military against the american people which is what the biden regime has done ever since even before day one right but as far as people like in the sea like in the bureaucracy i don't think they've thought about the implications of this at all or they don't care since they have the monopoly on violence anyway i just think that from like a staff position like a logistical way of like how do we make this work who do orders who gives the orders who do they come from like what is the chain of command here what you know who's the authorizing personnel like how does this work um i just think this is very interesting and certainly a very dangerous precedent yeah this is going to be interesting to see how this works out and i am sure that this will totally not get abused in the future and number four is a another development in the fbi's whitmer entrapment case is what i'm gonna call it because the fbi is back at it again this one's just kind of depressing to talk about so here's kind of the rundown for those of you who don't know what this incident is back in october of last year the fbi alleged that they foiled an attempt to kidnap the governor of michigan gretchen whitmer by a group of people who wanted to basically overthrow the government of michigan and almost immediately like after that the story started falling apart uh of the group of people that were well currently are still arrested and accused of this a significant number of people turned out to actually be fbi agents and most of the rest of these people were fbi informants so a lot of people began looking into this a little bit more and began kind of seeing this as a case of the fbi trying to invent a domestic terrorism event by getting a staggering amount of undercover agents together to convince a couple of goobers on the internet to try to commit some kind of crime and that's kind of where it sat for the longest time and then every few months we hear some more about like how the case goes and as time goes on that's exactly what this is starting to look like like full blown this looks like a very poorly planned false flag attack that was planned from the very start by the fbi so far the lead fbi agents like the key players in this case have had a lot of problems for one richard trask a key member of the plot and also sort of the public face of this case was arrested in july for trying to beat his wife to death following a dispute after a swinger party trask was the lead agent that signed the affidavit for the initial arrests and was basically the number one witness until he was fired by the fbi following his own arrest but it gets better one of the other key witnesses for the prosecution agent jason chambers had a secret private security firm which has been linked to insider information meaning that he used his access at the fbi to run a private security firm which was strongly indicated because he tweeted about the arrests in this michigan case before they were even made and now just a few days ago it was revealed that enrique pola however you say his name one of the agents that provided hundreds of hours of surveillance during this plot which made up the bulk of evidence for this kidnapping attempt right well he was revealed to have a history of committing perjury or lying under oath oh and now evidence is coming to light that the undercover agents and informants were actually the ones who did the overwhelming majority of the planning and orchestration of this so-called kidnapping attempt now all of that being said just to even things out here don't get me wrong i think that it's pretty clear that the dudes facing trial like the guys who weren't fbi agents or informants are not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed if you know what i mean clearly there are some learning barriers amongst these guys but taking a step back and looking at this from an analytical perspective it's kind of embarrassing that the fbi's investigative skills are so poor like bro you you want to plan a false flag attack so that you can save the day from the problems you created fine right but you can't even get enough agents to stop beating their wives and lying under oath to do it i mean it's pretty bad when even buzzfeed is coming to these conclusions which is why a lot of these websites are talking about how sketchy this stuff is the fbi is the entity who started all of this from the ground up they picked the field they picked and set up the t-ball and they still can't even hit the ball it's honestly pretty sad that the only attack that the fbi can prevent is the attack that they planned themselves which i know is a loaded statement obviously the fbi does work in other areas like counter terrorism and stuff like that but man it sure feels like the fbi is batting zero these days i mean you've got so many failures stacking up for them in just a year's time and then you throw in intentional deception and lying and stuff like this into it and it just doesn't look good for him honestly i mean i guess it makes sense because it seems like the priorities of their leadership are politically based and not really focused on stopping the bad guys you know just they're just focused on stopping political opponents i guess which is i guess been a thing for years now but i guess it's kind of interesting all the same i mean i feel kind of bad for taking like cheap shots at the fbi all the time but man it's just they make it so easy to be disliked and as an investigative agency like i mean we've got everything from the nashville bombing last year you know it's been a full year since you know a vehicle-born ied detonated in nashville and we have nothing we have nothing on that um you know what about those isis guys that running around northern virginia how's that working out for you you know it's like there's so many failures for the fbi just stacking up um it's it's kind of embarrassing if i worked for the fbi i would be embarrassed but yeah it's going to take a long time if it's even possible at all for the fbi to kind of dig themselves out of the pr disaster that they're in because man i i would really like to see some data on what most americans think of the fbi specifically and they're they're not the only agency that's screwing stuff up but man their their public perception lately has got to be like single digits so anyway we'll move on to the national guard stuff so here is your slide showing the operational terms and graphics for those of you who don't have these memorized just yet and let's move right into the north east really the only update is new hampshire has sent a handful of soldiers to local area hospitals we'll know more about this once we figure out you know how that's going to go so we're going to move right on to the southeast where we don't really have too many updates there's really no updates to this slide again the 149th is deploying overseas so i doubt that that medical mission is still going but i haven't seen any data either way so i'll just leave it there and then moving to the midwest this is kind of an interesting dual update for ohio actually so for ohio 25 members of the ohio military reserve which is kind of like their state guard will be serving as prison guards at the cuyahoga county corrections center which i think is cincinnati for the next 30 days allegedly this presents some interesting questions because one of the mainstream news articles that mentions this deployment also mentions that visitation of inmates will be reduced as will attorney visits so is ohio going to have military service members operating under god knows what title code supervising inmates who are restricted from having their attorney visit yeah i don't know i'm sure it's probably not nearly as overblown as that but i don't know well like we've been saying around here for quite literally two years now having the military stand in for a civilian agency particularly in the field of law enforcement not only presents the problems of conditioning soldiers and civilians alike to view these deployments as normal but also we're having to think about these different kinds of things now so we here are of the opinion that military deployments of any kind on u.s soil should always be treated with the utmost of care and transparency to avoid creating animosity and division amongst the population between the military and the civilian populace you don't want that but just looking around this is a sentiment that completely went out the window with the deployment and staging of over 65 000 troops in washington dc back in january so just like always this deployment is not particularly nefarious on its own it's not worth freaking out about but the stage is being set as it has already been said in a lot of areas for bad things to happen down the line and we don't want that right also for ohio several ohio national guard units have been activated well not really the whole unit but just you know how deployments of national guards work is you've got volunteers and volunteers have been called up to run the whole hospital thing again right so just like most states who have activated their national guard they are activating um an unknown number of troops at this time to support area hospitals probably not too many but it looked like a pretty significant deployment so i threw it on there moving on down to texas texas has been busy they have been deploying staggering numbers of army national guard texas state guard guys dps guys so much so that the governor greg abbott has stated that they have roughly 10 000 state guard army national guard and dps guys down there on the border supporting that border mission operation lone star so that's nothing to shake a stick at that's a lot of people and that's a very significant deployment and i guess we'll see how it goes but again you start putting that many troops in in a location for a long period of time and you start getting things happening like everything from complacency issues to uh cartels starting to understand our ttp's a little bit better to even just you know troops doing you know kind of stupid stuff sometimes so everybody who's ever been in charge of a group of younger soldiers knows what i'm talking about there um people tend to treat it like a vacation sometimes and that's not that's not a good thing so with larger numbers of troops in one spot and you know supporting one mission and getting kind of comfortable and getting set in for what looks to be like a very long-term mission um it could possibly not be the best uh war fighting effort that uh that texas could do but i guess we'll see how it turns out we've already seen a few different you know incidents pop up between you know local soldiers and the local population and incidents between the cartels and soldiers so i'm sure that for the like mid to low level leadership this is a headache and a half i'm sure uh just because it's not particularly a pleasant mission and uh it's not something that anybody really wants to do i'm sure so we'll keep an eye on it though and we'll let you know of any major major concerns moving forward then finally really out west no no major change basically states are doing what they're going to do i would i would suspect that oregon is probably still dealing with the fallout from their abuse of national guard assets so you know with the quick congressional inquiries and things like that those guys getting treated poorly with regards to pay and such i'm not sure if oregon's going to have the gumption to actually deploy any troops for this new wave of uh you know propaganda i should say um it's kind of sweeping through the nation so you know with lockdowns coming back and looming out there for everyone i think that everyone knew that this holiday season was going to be kind of ripe for that kind of action so as as usual it's come back and i i don't know though if oregon's going to be able to actually deploy anybody because they kind of burnt out their force when they during the first surge so i guess we'll find out as time goes on though moving on to the k through 12 public school mask mandates um like i mentioned this new wave of you know propaganda i guess this new variant is causing a lot of school districts around the country to lock down again and bring back mass mandates we're not really seeing so much on a state by state at the state level now i think people are kind of tired of it and kind of burnt out and especially with pennsylvania pennsylvania if you guys remember from last brief was red well it turns out this pennsylvania supreme court overturned the mask mandate and unanimously stated that the governor does not have the power to mandate masks so i'm sure a lot of other states are looking at that and going hmm what is what is our supreme court going to do when the case gets to there i don't know i think a lot of the states that have implemented like a hard and no questions asked mask mandate um will probably not have too much trouble but i thought it was interesting that pennsylvania was was ardently against it so very interesting uh stuff indeed and also quite interesting are the jab mandates specifically for california or rather the resistance to them we're actually seeing quite a lot of resistance from local school districts in california against gavin newsom's orders uh mandating the jab for school children's a lot of school districts have come out and said they're not go there they're they're adamantly not uh not going to enforce this they're not quietly doing anything they're saying yeah no you do not have the authority um your mandates are not laws so there we're not enforcing your mandates that's very interesting to me for california because look let's face it california's got a really bad reputation for totalitarianism and just crazy stuff in general so i think it's very surprising to see this level of resistance in california specifically so we'll keep an eye on that and see how that turns out you never really know we might we might see some some good news uh for the people of california here pretty soon who knows and then overall for our resistance tracker really no major changes here it hasn't been enough time for things to go through the court systems to figure out how the state level leadership and how the military leadership is viewing these mandates we do have one update for texas and that is that the national guard in texas is following in the steps of oklahoma it with regards to not mandating the jab for their national guard soldiers so in classic greg abbott fashion he waits until after oklahoma got their nasty gram from big dod and once uh texas saw that lloyd austin and his cronies aren't really gonna do that much about states who defy the jab mandate or for at least for state orders um he implemented the same thing for texas so it is good that texas is coming on board that's good news right texas has a very large military force and they have their state guard as well right and there's a lot of defense industry and military bases in texas so so thinking strategically even though the you know the big dod infrastructure that is located in texas is not a really affected by texas's you know military decisions right this stuff that you know the governor saying hey the national guard here doesn't have to have the jab if they don't want it as long as they stay on state orders that's not going to affect you know an armored vehicle factory right but if i were a senior military leader sitting up at the pentagon i would be sweating if a good portion of my tanks my armored vehicles my aircraft my rail and my oil was actually physically manufactured or located in a geographic area that is opposing me so strategic train is important right and if the federal government is going to force states to set the precedent of opposing the federal government on a military level then the federal government now has to think about military strategy and terrain let me say that one more time if the federal government is going to drive a wedge between certain states and the federal government and encouraging a de facto political social and economic balkanization then federal agencies are going to have to at least start thinking about the potentials for a military balkanization as well i know that throwing that balkanization word around is going to trigger a few people so i'm not saying that texas and oklahoma are going to militarily secede from the union tomorrow i'm just saying that some states are now pushing back against the federal government along military lines which is a precedent that the dod set by pushing their tyranny among the troops right the dod started it and they might not like it when the states start playing for keeps like oklahoma and texas are now doing so now that texas has done this i would be very interested to see what other states if any states decide to do the same for their national guard troops that's going to be very important to keep an eye on also important to keep an eye on is ukraine uh so i did not have time to cover the international issues that i wanted to talk about this time there's a lot of stuff going on in the world and i just briefly wanted to talk about kind of the most pressing one which is ukraine right which is directly tied to all the stuff going on in europe as well like energy and stuff but this is on a lot of people's minds so i kind of wanted to address it now and we can go into a deep dive on it later i do think this needs yet another dedicated video on it because there's just too much to unpack here at the end of this brief but the short version of why ukraine is back in the news again is that russia seems like they're going to fully invade ukraine this time remember russia has already invaded ukraine they they took crimea and the donbass and luhansk and right now russia occupies roughly eight percent of the land mass of ukraine like just let that sink in for a minute a hey in the 21st century a russia has invaded eight percent of another european nation that's crazy just to think about that and even crazier is that nothing has been done about it by nato or the u.n except for half-hearted sanctions that do absolutely nothing every single ceasefire that has been agreed upon russia has violated first and has taken the opportunity to fight dirty at every chance they get we're talking thermobaric weapons the intentional targeting of civilians including women and children and the targeting of medical and other humanitarian personnel it is well known that the russian separatists and the russian forces do not usually take prisoners and frequently murder wounded ukrainian soldiers on a regular basis and right now the world is yet again seeing a staggering amount of russian troops amassing on ukraine's borders we're seeing estimates of anywhere from 120 000 troops to 175 000 troops so and as for the rest of the world uh belarus and russia have shut off the natural gas pipelines to europe from their respective nations which has caused the single highest spike in natural gas prices in history and is causing significant power outages making all of those threats of a dark winter come true for many europeans right you know and right now a flotilla of 30 liquid natural gas tanker ships are on their way from the united states to europe to assist with the shortage of gas throughout the continent so even though the western media tried to yank and pull the ukrainian war um you know whichever way they need to kind of support their own ideas make no mistake at the end of the day this is no romantic war this is about as close to a total war as you can get without using nuclear weapons but fear not vladimir putin just threatened to use those a couple of days ago and as for the ukrainians who are quite literally facing insurmountable odds fighting off a foreign invader to save their homeland with their allies turning their backs on them i highly doubt that ukrainian forces will be up for a clean fight or following the geneva conventions either so in other words this is already about as nasty as it can get and it's only going to get nastier if this escalates much further into a full-blown invasion in fact russian defense minister our boy sergey shougu has issued statements that russia knows that the united states has shipped chemical and biological weapons to ukraine for use against russian forces now an allegation by that from the russian defense minister should perk you up now whether or not that is true or not is up for debate uh it would be a classic tactic to say oh you're going to attack us with chemical weapons so we launched an invasion to prevent that it is right in line with shoigu's personality to draw parallels between the impending russian invasion and the us invading iraq to get weapons of mass destruction that did not exist right so as far as the chemical weapons claims by russia over the past couple of days i myself don't think the us has shipped chemical weapons to ukraine i think that's pretty ridiculous now for sure the united states would do some pretty horrific stuff like i have no qualms about thinking that the united states might do something like this someday but the us has at every step done everything they can to placate russia with ukraine so it doesn't really make sense for the united states to suddenly start supporting ukraine for some reason on a strategic level the united states has bended the knee to russia's every demand at every step since the ukraine war started in like 2014 right this has remained a constant under biden under trump going all the way back to obama right sure we have seen an escalation by the united states to supply ukraine with javelins but honestly i wouldn't even call that an escalation because it's not like we're giving them freaking main battle tanks which is what they're facing they're literally facing hundreds of main battle tanks and ukraine has really no significant atgms of their own which is why they lost crimea and why they lost pretty much the whole donbass region because they didn't have enough atgms and you know tanks rolled in and hey you can't really do much against reactive armor and stuff like that so you know i don't think that's an escalation but and again the united states suddenly deciding to just to supply ukraine with javelins is not exactly a like it's like ukraine's reactions gee thanks mister where were they you know eight years ago you know that's i think that's what ukraine's attitude towards that should be that's what my attitude would be like oh gee thanks you're giving me a javelin against 200 you know t72s or t90s or whatever i mean honestly i personally think that the biden regime is closer to asking ukraine to surrender than they are to helping them stop an invasion which is something that poland clearly thinks as well as evidenced by their recent defense postures ukraine's fate does not bode well for poland's own defense when russia inevitably does not stop at ukraine so for the grand questions that everyone has been asking there is a lot of uncertainty going around from the bottom all the way up to the top if russia decides to launch a full-scale invasion of ukraine when will it happen i personally am thinking probably mid to late january if they are going to do it it's still cold enough for winter operations and russia has been observed to be using new winter hardware and lots of new winter camouflage schemes and things like that so that kind of makes sense and as before the spring thaw which will be inconvenient for logistical movements they need that area in you know the eastern and southern parts of ukraine to run their tanks across very fast it would make a lot of sense it's just tank country down there and you know of course tanks are like all terrain vehicles but still like just having bought getting bogged down in mud is not great for a very fast invasion which is what russia will most likely go for and with russia pulling out the old standby of cutting off the natural gas to europe this supports that timeline they did exactly the same thing when they invaded crimea the first time and we're seeing troops and landing craft being staged for the battle plan that most people think the russians will use which is you know a southern push with a pincer movement perhaps to the north to kiev stuff like that so we can get into more of that later but so when it comes to the question of what the united states will do if russia launches a full-scale invasion i don't know but i think there is more than an even chance that the u.s will do nothing at all the us will certainly not send any significant numbers of troops that's pretty much out of the question except for minor training roles or for observation or maybe a couple of odas and some other dudes doing some sneaky stuff down there but we're not talking like you know a whole core or you know like three cores not going to ukraine for this like that's just out of the question now we've we might send small elements of troops to observe things or advise but they're definitely not going uh they're definitely not going east of the nipper that's for sure um that's pretty much a a given uh as far as conventional guys now unconventional guys they do whatever they want but for the conventional guys you're you're not gonna have any significant force to do anything overall my assessment is that the united states secretary of defense and other senior military leadership is more concerned with pushing sociological agendas and padding their wallets than warfare especially in ukraine and taking the senior military strategists and you know leadership out of the room for a second the executive branch as a whole is completely clueless on the art of war they're taking advice from very junior personnel or people who are only there because they somehow managed to not get fired enough times to actually occupy a senior position but all of that aside we also have to remember that like look is ukraine really worth fighting for as an american i mean honestly i don't know i mean it's really hard to say i think that history has kind of screwed ukraine over and i think that they made the classic mistake of trusting the united states to do the right thing and as we all know even as americans that's just not going to happen so i i think that the ukraine situation is unfortunate and i think we're about to see some really bad videos on the tv here in the next few weeks um i hope i'm wrong on that i hope that this is all just a big uh play by russia to both bully nato and to not accepting ukraine and at the same time test out a bunch of their new tools but man it sure looks like it's for real this time and uh i guess we'll have to see how it plays out um but i get it like most americans do not care about ukraine being invaded you know why why should america care at all if there's no direct threat to their homeland well the answer to that uh requires a bit of digression so please bear with me for a minute i think that with how our entire nation has recently changed very quickly the reality of the current times is that there has never been more justification for the average american to pay attention to what happens outside our borders because man if the past couple years have not shown you enough things end up on our doorstep really quickly there are so many things that have just ended up affecting our daily lives here that originated in other countries and i'm not just talking about medical stuff i'm talking about other stuff as well like the one that i just can't stop thinking about is afghanistan like remember how many americans were left there and what did the us government do in response they sent the trustee fbi in to investigate aid groups for helping the survivors and right now they're even floating the idea of unfreezing the taliban's money like what that's why the lessons from the disastrous afghanistan fiasco are so important not only will the u.s military leadership try to sneak out the back door knowingly leaving americans behind they will only engage in evacuation efforts after getting caught trying to sneak out oh and for good measure the commanding general will leave americans behind so that he can steal a toyota pickup truck as a war trophy after getting 13 service members killed and murdering an entire family with a drone strike that had zero until supporting it just to try to save face i cannot think of a more sickeningly ironic end to that war greedy leadership more obsessed with themselves and saving lives innocent civilians getting killed for no reason whatsoever and heroes getting the short end of the stick a garbage mission and still doing outstanding work only to get killed for it if you don't think that the same thing could happen in ukraine just look at our current political and military leadership how many of them got fired for leaving thousands of americans behind not a single one no one stepped down no one got fired the only person that got fired and went to jail was the one officer who publicly demanded accountability for the crime of leaving americans behind yesterday he was given a general discharge under honorable conditions which is the most severe discharge they could technically give him for his alleged crimes the ukraine and afghanistan could not be any more different on almost every level but the one constant between these two countries and these two situations remains the same the united states political and military leadership and that's why i keep beating this dead horse that alone should be enough evidence for americans to get out of ukraine right now but i know that everyone cannot do that very few people are in ukraine for vacation if someone's going to go to ukraine especially with a war going on there are reasons that are not trivial for staying there but if you are an american in ukraine right now who is even remotely considering the possibility of leaving you need to start thinking about an egress plan right now and don't just say oh i'll just hang out west of the nipper and head to poland if things get rough you might not be able to catch that train to poland because don't you think that the rail lines will be needed to move around the ukrainian military and the roads might be clogged with millions of other people that had the same plan you did and that is assuming that russia doesn't start air strikes on civilian populations which we already know they will do all i'm saying is that if you're stuck in ukraine you really need to have a good plan because you don't want to be relying on ocean pages or bloggers or random instagram accounts to get you home when and if things turn sour that's why if you don't care about ukraine that's fine but you should probably at least pay attention to the tactics that are used in this war because if you think that the first russian tanks across the border won't be combined with a massive wave of cyber attacks here in the u.s you are fooling yourself if it gets to the end of january and suddenly we start seeing massive cyber attacks on everything from infrastructure to consumer level entities my first thought among other things is going to be well the russia's about to invade that's right your netflix account going offline is directly linked to the position of a russian tank in ukraine i'm sorry for the long-winded digression on this topic but this is one of the main reasons that we really even exist as an entity and we're still doing stuff like this and our team's work to help evacuate people from afghanistan during that crisis was it was a disturbing endeavor and also the reason for being motivated to dedicate such a large amount of time to talking about something that most people just don't care about i know i personally don't want to see anything similar to that disaster happen again but with the state department raising the travel advisory to the highest level we're already seeing the stage being set again for another disaster of epic proportions it's not even an issue of learning lessons from afghanistan at this point it's simply staffing like if the same people in charge completely messed up afghanistan and they are still in charge of stuff like this why would you expect anything different afghanistan was enough of a headache for everyone that i know that without a doubt it's a skills thing if the military and political leadership had the right skills if they had the know-how to do it right the first time they would just to prevent the heartburn of criticism but since there won't be any change on that front for a long time i guess we'll have to keep doing what we're doing in years past we really didn't have to be concerned about problems like this something happens in another country around the world who cares right which is probably more of a curse than a blessing because now so few people are informed or able to insulate themselves from these kinds of issues but these days in our interconnected digital world the slightest international incident impacts the daily lives of americans pretty much immediately it makes everything so much more complex an american might not be able to escape ukraine because the state department messed up afghanistan you might not be able to use your debit card because russia launched a cyber attack on critical infrastructure here in the u.s as a distraction to keep the american people occupied you might have a natural gas shortage somewhere in alabama because that natural gas was sold to europe because russia shut off the pipeline because they need to financially and logistically destabilize europe to discourage a response to their invasion of ukraine like we've mentioned before globalism has worked for the people who wanted it and now we're finding out just how vulnerable we are to such policies and mentalities but all is not lost there is some good news and here it is you the american people just doing what you know is the right thing to do is good news and that's why i wanted to kind of end on a cheery note for once and talk about some of the ways that we are making moves in the right direction this has become my favorite slide because it is one of the very few ways that we can actually measure the effectiveness of resistance efforts by tracking the companies and entities that want to force tyranny upon the people but were forced to abandon their plans we can see just how effective it is when good people do the right thing sure a lot of very powerful people have gotten us to the point that we are very vulnerable as a population but this slide shows just how that game of chicken is going we've got the los angeles school district fighting back we've got major manufacturers and defense contractors that are huge such as boeing general electric and engel shipbuilding not to mention you've got airline companies now that are starting to backpedal on their on their uh mandates we're also seeing a lot of healthcare industries hca healthcare which is a massive national nationwide health care system along with the cleveland clinic everybody's heard of the cleveland clinic these places are having to rescind their job mandates because their health care workers are walking off the job because it's not right so all of this resistance is great to see it's good to see people standing up for what is right and that's a very good thing to know moving forward into the future so that's all i have for today everyone thanks for watching and thank you all for your support over the past year it has really really helped us out a lot and really helped us expand and grow and at least try to do good things we might not be able to help as much as we like but man we're certainly going to try and we're definitely going to try next year so we'll see you next year and always remember to fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to another intelligence briefing with the s2 underground uh now right to start with right to begin with many of you might have noticed that this briefing is not live this is not a live stream this is a pre-recorded video and this is for two reasons or a couple of reasons for one my personal schedule right now is not very conducive to doing this particular briefing live or at least in a time of day where most people would be able to watch it and two these live events are people seem to find that that it's difficult for them to find afterwards so if you missed a live briefing it's not very easy to find it on our channel um and it's difficult for us to manually upload to other sites like odyssey and things like that whereas a normal video seems to reach many many more people and that's really the goal i suppose and on top of all that we can easily see if youtube is going to censor us when we upload the video we get little flags on our end if things are not like fit for advertisers or things like that and so yeah if we did a live stream that youtube you know didn't like uh they would shut it off and would lose all of that footage and just kind of be wasted effort right so in the interest of continuing to speak freely with kind of one of our more one of i know one of my more spicy briefings uh we thought it would be a good idea to just try putting this out as a normal video and see what happens so this video may seem to be live as i have instructed our editor to edit this as little as possible which he was all happy to to oblige me on so fear not as usual this briefing will be complete with all of my own unique speech patterns and general lack of professionalism so with that out of the way let's get right to it with the weather so as one can see weather for the american southeast really the whole east coast and a significant portion of the midwest is going to have really low cloud ceilings over the next 12 hours which is really great for avoiding things like visual surveillance releases surveillance packages that are going to be available to lower levels of authority right like we mentioned in our recent uh synthetic aperture radar video that we put out um certain assets can punch right through weather so it doesn't really matter however most of the time we're talking full motion video just a normal video camera on a really expensive drone they're going to have trouble seeing through clouds so for those of you that have been asking us in dms and emails and things like that why are we talking about the weather well this is kind of a taste as as to how normal military briefings go go down normal military operations briefings almost always start with the weather and then they push over to s2 do the intelligence part and then push forth into operations and things like that so that's why we're talking about the weather just to get people kind of used to hey maybe looking up and saying you know realizing hey this is really good surveillance whether if i were to be surveilled or looking up and saying hey you know the cloud's overhead probably not going to be surveilled today so that's why we're covering it also just want to briefly mention on the bottom right hand corner of the screen you can see that the lunar illumination the cycle is 7.8 so we are in a what's called a red aluminum cycle meaning it's going to be a dark dark outside at night time more dark than normal because the the moon is is going to be very very dark so this means that if you were using night vision devices outside you're still going to have trouble using them in a lot of areas particularly if you have cloud cover so if you've got really strong cloud cover and really no moon no lunar illumination it's going to be hard even with some very nice night vision goggles to be seen so something to keep in mind for planning purposes and just to get people in the the mindset of seeing weather um also likewise moving forward over the next 18 hours these are where your clouds are going to be as you can see overcast skies in the pacific northwest right on the coastal region basically where everybody lives and um also in the american north east so the uh new england area is going to have a lot of cloud cover as well really really spotty stuff throughout the rest of the american southeast and the american southwest so yeah there you go low-level clouds are going to be in mid-level clouds and as you can see on this slide higher level clouds as well all right so enough about the weather let's push forward into no tams and this is a short one nothing uh nothing really major to report i did see that there was a there were a couple of vip ones a couple of presidential ones for you know the president or vice president moving to their homes for the weekend so um didn't really feel like you know putting those on the slide because honestly doesn't really matter because they do that every single weekend but other than that nothing really major you can go check it out yourself if you're in an area where no tams might be of interest but i didn't really see nothing really caught my eye as being important for at least the next couple of days now of course no tams change right so and we don't do these briefings every single day right so chances are if you're reading this you probably if you're watching this after it you know premiered or after it went live you're going to want to check just to make sure nothing popped up five minutes after this briefing was over so because no tams come and go very very quickly and again if you don't know what i'm talking about with no tams don't worry we have a specific video on no tams on our channel so check that out and that will explain everything about that moving forward into the civil unrest forecast made a little bit of a change to this slide as you can see california and new york are kind of scary red right now and i did want to put that highlight that on this particular slide because we are seeing since those two states have instituted a passport system for the um the the v word that we cannot mention on youtube without being censored um we're starting to see a lot of resistance to that maybe not enough to matter but certainly not enough to change the way their these totalitarian states work but enough to be like i need to be aware of what's going on so if you're in california or new york make sure that you're aware of any demonstrations going on or things like that because you might have trouble navigating now granted the types of people that are going to be the the demographics that are going to be protesting against the passport system are not the kind of people that will drag you out of your car and beat you to death in the street unlike literally all these other cities that are on the slide um so that's something to keep in mind but you know just also i just wanted to throw that out there that california and new york are they're um they're not a great place right now but you know as we all as we all know so there you go on that all the other states no major change pretty much status quo for how you know violence is skyrocketing in most american cities so there you go on that um so yeah that's pretty much all we have for civil unrest forecast if you're in a major american city you already know this already so there you go moving forward into logistics uh so right to start with i'd like to mention that the chip shortage these the global semiconductor computer chip shortage uh is still very severe it's gotten worse um but it's also gotten slightly better in that electronics manufacturers are starting to retool to work around it so they're able they're innovating around the problem which is good um but i'm i'm not entirely certain i'm certainly not an expert on this uh but a lot of people aren't it's quite clear that this retooling is not going to be everyone's savior for instance samsung just announced i think today or maybe yesterday that they are launching an investigation an internal investigation to try to figure out what's the deal because they're reporting quarterly losses due to sales dropping due to their prices going up so there you go on that also apple is reporting the same thing apple is is projecting that they're going to not have losses so much as not have as many gains as they were expecting in the next quarter due to this chip shortage driving prices up and things like that so and driving availability down also as we can see the lot of red dots on the slide today the water shortage out west as quite literally everyone has predicted months ago the shortage has gotten worse it's it's becoming a reality it's coming into fruition right now so if you are in if you're located in any of these affected states but especially california i personally would be pulling out all the stops to make sure that you have a way to stockpile a good amount of water a way to collect rainwater if the government officials don't arrest you for trying to collect rainwater like they will in california you know things like that because as we have found out from the recent sort of communist overlords that control pretty much everything in states like that when emergencies happen like legitimate genuine emergencies not ones that are planned right but like things like natural disasters when they happen they're so much worse than we ever could have expected because of the way the situation is right so it's also important to remember that california did shut off utilities to people who were accused of violating social distancing mandates last year they shut their water and the power off uh so you know again as with most things in today's presentation this is not a conspiracy theory this is not even a conspiracy this is undeniable history we've passed into history this stuff has already happened this stuff has actually happened um so we're not even talking about preparing for things that might happen uh no we're talking about uh preparing even more for things that have already happened right so um water is going to be on everyone's minds out in the in the west uh moving forward it really depends on how these other states control things like the the waterfall in the colorado river it's hard to say how this is going to turn out but i can guarantee you that the politicians in some of these more totalitarian places like california will seize every single opportunity to restrict water as much as they can so there you go if they need if the and this is the perfect excuse for them to do so so there you go also in a similar vein but not quite nearly as important as drinking water is the liquor shortage in vermont north carolina and ohio so for those of you that don't know all three of these states i believe i know north carolina and ohio are i don't know about vermont they are abc states so the government the state government there is a commission called the alcoholic beverage commission where government controls the distribution of alcoholic beverages which is almost certainly the root cause of this liquor shortage right because after after all we know how state control of the means of production work out so sharp increases in demand um which is what this is supposed to be allegedly from news sources which you know how trustworthy are they the word on the street allegedly is that demand for alcohol in these particular states rose just like every other state in america but because they have abc mandates you can't just go to any normal store and there's no liquor store in the corner it's it's going to be an abc store that's government-run owned and operated and then the government orders the amount of alcohol they don't understand how and they're not able to keep up with a capitalist system like buying and selling goods and services right so of course systems like this fail when demand increases sharply um but honestly even i know i've been to all three of these states and i can tell you that even just on a normal day they're probably going to have shortages just that's just how the system works right in those three states so there you go if you're in vermont north carolina or ohio you probably already know about this but this is something a little taste for those of you who don't you know like us don't live in those states it's interesting to to kind of observe how that works right also i briefly wanted to touch on plastics i don't really myself understand a whole lot about this but the the sort of tweet headline sound bite is that plastics manufacturers and the makers of composite materials and things like that in the gulf states are having a hard time uh producing those plastics and and composites uh the article that i'm sourcing for this is a very interesting article from a market research analyst in that field highly technical well it's not really that technical but it's technical enough to where um it's worth a read so check the sources slide out at the end of this briefing if you wanted to read more and uh yeah so you know bottom line is i don't know how this is going to affect the rest of the country i'm not i'm not really seeing you know none of us here who have uh helped me kind of look out for for shortages on this have really seen plastics being in short supply like we saw last year with plastics from china being in short supply like the packaging you know plastic and and sort of foam packaging uh shortage during covet last year um not really sure how that's going to shake out here in the united states it might not be severe it might be really severe but i just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention and to you know encourage everybody to go read that article because it's interesting um also something that is not nearly even worth mentioning but i thought i'd mention it anyway is that starbucks or starbucks places around the country are having trouble with their inventory so things like syrups and artificial sweeteners are in low supply at random places around the country i can't really get a beat on where it's at because it seems to be kind of random which makes sense for a franchise that sends their supplies you know through different networks and things i don't really know much more than that because i don't really support starbucks at all and let's be honest the demographic of people that would get on twitter to scream about how their soy latte doesn't have enough splenda in it uh is also the kind of people that you know would make a mountain out of a molehill so i don't know if this is genuine or if this is some some sort of indicator for how things are going to go for other restaurants or eateries or whatever in the future so just wanted to point that out there who knows not really that interesting but there you go all right pushing forward into critical infrastructure and concerns so this is a critical infrastructure slide all four of these things are really nationwide so i didn't really put them on the map and the first one is something i'm going to talk about in in great detail here in a minute but i did want to mention that with the institution with with several states instituting or planning the institute or trying to institute uh passport uh controls for medical passport controls right i would be willing to bet this is just kind of like one of those analytical hunches where i would be willing to bet that in the very near future we're going to start seeing medical care and food service is being denied to people who don't have such a medical passport right that's exactly what's happening in new york and california the places that are being targeted are food distribution centers places where you can go get food are the number one places why this passport system is being instituted you control the food you control people's access to the food you control the people right so it kind of makes sense so i'll talk about that a little bit later but sort of in a similar vein i didn't want to mention that as sort of a personal anecdote which has almost zero analytical value but i did want to share that inflation at least in our local area here where both i myself and a few of our staff members live here in the mid-atlantic region of the united states inflation is most definitely a factor just to give you a personal anecdote i knew this doesn't really mean jack at all especially from an analytical standpoint one person's story doesn't really matter uh is that i went shopping for groceries two weeks ago and i went shopping again today and i paid double almost exactly double the price for uh meats all meats and you know beef chicken and pork and uh almost double for certain certain kinds of vegetables so that's concerning um i was my literally i i paid more for groceries today than i have in my entire life and my needs have not expanded at all um you know sure every time i go shopping i try to to stock up you know like you know prepping in the long term right make sure you get just a can an extra can of everything right so we're not talking like i'm going out and buying you know tens of thousands of dollars worth of groceries i'm just like a normal you know family's worth of groceries right and it was double um so that's kind of shocking very shocking to me uh even though it's something that literally every single person with a fourth grader's [Music] knowledge of economics understands so just keep that in mind i know a lot of people right now are kind of freaking out on the interwebs talking about food shortages and things like that um but i just did want to share my own personal anecdote of inflation and how it is most certainly a a thing uh moving forward so yeah not super great i know this this might not be a thing you know again one person's story is probably not indicative of the rest of the country um but i you know if for anyone out there who's in a similar boat uh you know there you go you've got your confirmation that it is happening to at least one other person right so there you go uh moving for switching gears quite significantly is number three uh which is the joint cyber defense collaborative and this is um some quite terrifying stuff not necessarily because it's anything new but because of how it's branded essentially the pentagon the department of defense is partnering with private companies like netflix amazon google uh other companies like that to essentially spy on a lot of stuff uh essentially remember how when edward snowden leaked everything everybody was shocked you know shocked shocked i say to learn that um google and facebook were collaborating with the fbi and the nsa illegally right people were shocked to learn that out well guess what the joint cyber defense collaborative which uh the official press release i have linked in the sources source documents for this episode um they're touting it like it's a good thing like companies are not going to help the federal government prevent cyber attacks but if you read the fine print it's basically just they're freely admitting openly mockingly to your face that they're spying on you once again illegally so there you go and then also switching gears quite significantly as well there was a report i saw that came out a couple of days ago specifically referencing hospital systems the digital systems and the the cyber you know networks and things that are in most north american hospitals apparently this is the statistic grab line from the whole study is that apparently 80 of hospitals in north america are at quote an extreme risk of some kind of crippling cyber attack now again this is one of those very highly technical documents i would highly suggest you read the sore stock in this on this but you know this is one of those uh things where you're like okay well no duh that's exactly you know what we could we could have guessed that well you know there you go there's at least some experts in the cyber security field are screaming about this now as well so there you go on that so pushing forward into significant governmental actions i've got two slides for you today on this so here we go uh first and foremost again the source dock of which is in the sources there has been a this is a couple of weeks old but there has been a significant amount of um consternation surrounding the dhs training for mass vaccinations so here here's the skinny um for those of you that have had a history in like like i have i have a history of uh you know defense defense and and um natural disaster preparedness things like that you know working for like the county guys or something like that for you know disaster preparedness they have these online courses i mean you can go online and learn how to be a certified national weather service weather spotter you know it's free you take like a 30 minute course and there you go stuff like that one of these courses popped up on one of these websites where you can do this online training stuff or even physical training that you can register for in which the training subject was teaching local volunteers how and other federal or federal local state whatever agencies how to conduct quarantine operations in rural areas so obviously people got a lot you know very freaked out about it um honestly i'm in the in today's age i would be concerned about it as well however if this kind of thing happened 10 years ago nobody would really bat an eye because yeah of course you're expecting your county that's that's what happens you know think if if ebola like like legit like like a legitimate a highly contagious disease broke out in the united states you'd expect you know some kind of you know county or local assistance right you know maybe not everybody but at least that's what governmental agencies are supposed to be for i know this kind of an oxymoron at this point but uh point is is that this exact training course if it were to have appeared online 10 years ago nobody would have batted an eye but because of what it means today with everybody including ourselves being very concerned with soldiers kicking in our door in the middle of the night to shove a needle in our arm um it doesn't look very good for the department of homeland security and considering the department of homeland security is um uh a complete joke now uh as really they have been for you know since they were created uh it's very concerning so there you go on that i'm not sure if i'd be you know be a panic level over it but i just didn't want to point that out that that did happen uh also uh when it comes to election stuff um twitter uh you know good old jack is back at it again uh purging several accounts that were covering and exposing the um inconsistencies i'll say it that way so youtube doesn't ban me the inconsistencies in the election audits of arizona wisconsin nevada and georgia the all four of those states which by the way are having some very interesting things coming out about them that i don't really want to delve into because i don't really know how um i think it would take a lot of time to dig into that and then would probably just get banned anyway but there's a lot of people talking about it already so it's not like it's it's being you know ignored um conservative twitter and conservative sites are really are you know putting it right at the forefront so go there if you want to learn what's going on with the election stuff third i just wanted to have this kind of on record for when social media and really all media kind of forgets this happened but uh cuomo um has gotten is gotten uh gotten in quite a bit of trouble even as even his own attorney general released a report against him basically the report that was released that confirmed that the sexual harassment complaints against him were in fact true um and even the the federal regime is saying that he should resign so very interesting stuff i'm sure we'll probably see something in a few days but i would be highly surprised if he goes away that quickly cnn is interestingly refusing to cover the story which is actually not that interesting considering that his brother is a cnn reporter so there you go also number four the white house is now openly censoring social media so this happened a few weeks ago as well uh the white house through their press secretary and and basically through a lot of their spokespeople is now clearly openly and not even trying to hide the fact that they are ordering social media websites to censor their enemies this came out when it came to during a press conference in which the the white house press secretary confirmed that they were directing facebook to delete certain content from their platform so there you go um if you didn't take anything away from this briefing i feel like this briefing has like five or six like every bullet point in it is like hmm that's uh yeah that's not good um and yeah this is one of those where it's like we're talking i'm talking about it quite casually but it could not be more serious um so yeah there you go white house is now openly censoring social media and directly ordering them if that doesn't show you that's media all media in the united states is now working for the federal government i don't know what will so yeah uh and also number five this is an interesting one um and the universities are requiring uh the the medical procedure that shall not be named right uh now this is interesting this is how they're doing i've seen this in a few different universities a few different people who are who are sadly college students right now and kind of can't get out of it without having to pay back a lot of either student loans or something like that they have sent us a lot of information and oh man this is so sneaky so what they'll do is for those of you that don't understand how you know college works i hate to be condescending but there is a registration period and then a period goes by um it depends on what university is but you register for classes then classes begin then there's a drop date for classes so what people are seeing is that the universities are waiting for the the our registration to complete and then they're saying they're they're saying before you know the semester even starts hey we're not going to mandate masks we're not going to mandate any of this if we're not going to mandate medical procedures and things like that to get students to register and then once students are registered uh and or past the drop date for the class they're saying oh well you know now we're going to mandate mass for everyone oh now we're going to mandate you get an experimental medical procedure that kind of stuff so they're waiting until students are financially obligated to finish the term or else lose a significant amount of money and potentially void their their student aid federal aid and things like that so they can control them i think that's just you know just completely dastardly but it's genius it's like a genius and how evil it is but it seems like most universities are trying to do that is because we all know how universities work now so i thought i'd mention that for anybody who's who's out there who might be a student or is registering for classes if you if your university has come out and stated we're not going to mandate this we're going to not make it we're we're not going to mandate that just watch and see what happens after the drop date for your course or after courses have begun um and the the ad drop period um has passed right so that you can't drop the course without losing your money just wait and see what happens i i guarantee you you'll be in for some nasty surprises there uh so continuing on with uh this uh series of significant governmental actions um keeping in theme with the the experimental medical procedure that shall not be named uh number six here is that the is what um the military uh community has been talking about and rightfully freaking out about for a while now which is the secretary of defense seeking approval to mandate uh this experimental medical procedure before its fda approved so yeah soldiers everywhere who have a heart and realize what's going on are freaking out over this because they really have no option for those of you that don't understand how the military operates there you have no choice the choice is either get out of the military and accept an other than honorable discharge or maybe even a general discharge or some kind of discharge for refusing to get a medical procedure like i personally know a lot of people who got kicked out of the military for refusing to get the flu shot and um yeah that's a shame uh that the military's like that but that's just the way it is and unfortunately service members are put in a very bad choice between having to choose between two very bad choices so i did want to mention it because it is going on it is happening and for posterity's sake i just wanted to have it on the record that this is the day that we're talking about it essentially so there you go switching gears quite significantly but still keeping in the theme of a significant action is apple has decided that they are going to be scanning your personal photos yeah even more so than they already do now i did put this here because apple is according to the other bullet where which i just briefed that companies are now starting to partner with national defense entities you now see why this is why apple is now considered by us to be the government now apple is doing this under the guise of something quite noble they are pretending to develop this technology and institute it on iphones uh to scan your foot to scan a person's photos and determine and detect and report uh child abuse and and um illicit content like that however as literally every single human being on the planet can obviously see it's that's most likely going to be either a a lie or two a uh a diversion to be able to spy on your devices even more so than apple already does so there you go yet another reason to avoid smartphone usage as much as possible so you know something to to definitely keep in mind keep your eye on it because apple loves sneaking these things in all tech companies love sneaking these things in so there you go all right number eight is something keeping you know moving back to the military category uh the military has announced that they are stockpiling 500 million doses of this experimental drug um allegedly now this is from an army times article that again is in the is in the sources for this even the army times like based on their la based on their uh the way it's written maybe i'm biased and i'm reading between the lines when there's nothing there but it seems like whoever wrote the army times article is even thinking that the army's excuse that oh these are for internationally used like they're going to go to people in africa even the harmony times writer thinks that's bs so yeah it's most likely going to be used for something more nefarious than simply helping out another developing nation um and combined with you know the military lust or the senior military lust for going door-to-door yeah well we can we can put two and two together quite quickly it doesn't really take a genius to figure that out now as far as again on the freakout meter how much to freak out i wouldn't necessarily completely freak out just yet but i mean geez there have already been like eight things i've already talked about in this briefing that are worth freaking out over so i don't know take that for what you will i guess another one of those freak out things is number nine which is the michigan air national guard in upcoming exercises will be intentionally closing a highway and a public highway interstate and using it as an improvised landing strip now the military analysts out there will tell you that this is not necessarily a bad thing this is kind of a national defense thing it makes a lot of sense to be able to to train and things like that for foreign invasion and stuff like that here's the deal though uh out of all of the with every single state's national guard um reporting funding problems right to where they can't even get basic very basic infantry training level skills and things like that we cannot even develop basic soldiers skills why then is the michigan air national guard of all places the national guard for freaking michigan right why are they training to land on an improvised landing strip oh by the way which will be the very first time in us history this has ever happened yeah interesting um i don't know if this is more as nefarious as a lot of uh conservative sites are making this out to be um but i do think that it's uh it's there's something fishy going on either somebody's trying to dump some funding uh so that they can get uh at the end of the fiscal year which were coming up on the end of the fiscal year right so they're trying to dump some funding so that they can get more next year or they're just incompetent or some general wanted to get their pet project across and made a deal with the governor for more funding who knows or it could be what everybody seems to think it is on the internet which is something to ferish training for the american military to target uh americans which we think is a thing but i'm just not sure if this is going to be a a representative representative situation of that i don't know but i did want to mention it you can research it on your own so yeah there you go on that and then for number 10 i made a mistake i made yet another mistake on these slides there's a mistake in every slide i put the joint cyber defense collaborative on there twice so i already talked about that so we'll just go ahead and skip that last one because i already talked about it now moving forward into what we get asked a lot understandably a lot of people out there are asking at what level should we be freaking out or or something like that or um what what kind of concerns should i have and things like that like i cannot tell you how many like i'm sure the guy who man's our instagram account just gets bombarded every day i know when i check our email account we get bombarded every day and you know don't don't get this wrong we're not trying to say don't contact us we're just saying that a lot of people are very upset and i i completely understand it i really do i'm very upset um but here is where i wanted to spread a little bit of optimism okay and i wanted to do that via this sort of format and we can do this with every single with a lot of different issues but i just wanted to show you uh what how i'm trying to think about things when i see something really gargantuanly bad happen in the news or something like that and i think oh my god the the end is not right uh this is the thought process i go through so i go through a three-step thought process for a lot of this stuff that i see that's just horrifically bad first of all is what what happened okay and second is what would if i were looking through the lens of a totalitarian dictator if i wanted to be king emperor of the universe what would i have to do in order to make that original thing more effective right and lastly i think because of those mistakes how can i take advantage of a person who isn't as effective as they could be so here let me let me run through the first one and show you what i'm talking about so what the regime did was recommend masks slash the experimental drug that cannot be named right so they've recommended it okay they didn't they haven't mandated it yet right they haven't mandated it yet for for citizens okay so what a totalitarian dictator would need to do in order to get compliance is mandate that stuff immediately for every person and go door to door and make sure that it happens right and you know that might happen one day uh every day that goes by it seems like we're creeping towards that um but right now we have to admit that if resistance to this kind of stuff is possible in the first place if they're giving us a choice right recommending is not recommending is coercing but it's not mandating right they're giving us an option right and if that's possible then it will lead to resistance in other areas you know if they were to come out and say masks and the experimental drug are mandatory for every u.s citizen to get your resistance would fall sharply because people just don't see a way out well now they're offered a way out people are offered a way to not participate in that and since that happens uh that resistance can spread to other areas so there you go they're just not as effective as as they as they can be right same thing with coercing people into staying inside right stay indoors save lives right yeah all that bs right well here's the thing they're just coercing people right they're tricking people using propaganda and things like that a totalitarian dictator in order to be fully effective would have to order this at you know at gunpoint like in australia right people are literally having to show their papers to the police to leave their freaking houses right that's what would have to happen in the united states right and since that's not happening we can take advantage of that every minute of freedom that we have is a minute of freedom that we have to stockpile you know collect and collect intel you know prepare for the lockdowns for when they for when you know the gun point does come right if that does happen right so there you go we can take advantage of that even though it seems like that first event right you know the government's coercing people into staying inside their houses well we can turn that into a positive thing um without too much effort at all just by looking at the other side of the coin right they're not as effective as they could be likewise this is for the military guys out there purging the military of dissidents like we remember hey you know the us government is now looking at your facebook page soldier you know that's how it works right well here's the thing though they didn't purge everybody they did not purge every single person in the united states military that does not agree with the regime or senior military leadership in fact quite the opposite has occurred right whoever is left in the military right those only a handful of people have been kicked out of the military for being quote unquote extremists right i.e they liked the wrong thing on facebook and their command found out about it right the majority of the military that's left right is now covertly operating with the same beliefs that they had before so now they're getting used to operating in a covert environment they're getting used to hiding their beliefs from their command because there you go and if they're willing to hide their beliefs from their command they're willing to hide other beliefs from their command you see how that works and you know in classic fashion right classic us history right the us military has created more adversaries within its own ranks than it has stopped outside its ranks right so there you go by trying to purge but not being completely effective right which is not something the regime could have done in the first place right by purging as many by purging just a few people they have ticked off everybody else right or or mostly everybody else and now they're underground right so there you go on that likewise with the thing that everybody's concerned about is infringing on gun rights right the regime has of course infringed on pretty much every human right that there is but especially gun rights but but what a totalitarian dictator would have to do right in order to be fully effective is literally a surprise raid on every single human being who owns a gun in the united states at the same exact time right it's going to be coordinated at every level federal state local and even like sub-local groups would have to be coordinated to all strike at once to get every single gun right this is not australia where you can have a gun buyback program and every person in the entire country shows up and gives up their guns willingly this is america we don't do that here granted there are a lot of you know flood types out there that would gladly hand in their guns um because daddy government told them to uh the fact of the matter is is that the resistance to this kind of stuff has never been stronger than it is today right so the the interesting tidbit that a lot of people have mentioned this is not just you know me trying to be an internet you know um professor or anything the interesting part that a lot of people have noticed is that the regime has infringed so much that ordinary people ordinary people who um don't who don't um who think that you know some gun laws are good and things like that those people are now openly and regularly violating laws you know just a couple of years ago people would be terrified to even have a stock and an ar pistol in the same exact room because they were terrified that the atf would raid them and say ah you're you have the capability of doing so well you know now the vast majority of gun owners simply ignore most gun laws so there you go um i guess the moral of the story for talking about this particular issue is that every single day that goes by and this middle column here right this this list of stuff that a total dictator would have to do every day that goes by and this middle column doesn't happen is a day that we can use to our advantage right so that is a bit of good news i know that not a lot of time we don't talk about good news a lot but it's really important to keep things in perspective keep things grounded and stuff like that and up next is something that i wanted to talk about um because this is something that i just you know on a whim one day created because i i we we kept getting a lot of dms for this and you're going to get a different answer if you ask every single person here what books would you recommend so i created on goodreads a reading list if you're interested in learning more or you want to figure out where to begin or if you're interested in the field of intelligence or military history or things like that if you want a list of books to read to that we think that i think would help get us out of the situation that we're in this is where you need to go now i will be the first to admit that i do not like this platform since it's owned by amazon but it's the easiest thing to use it catalogs it's able to catalog our books here the literally stacks of thousands of books that we have here in our shop it's really easy to transfer them over to this platform and most importantly you don't need an account to view the books that i've dropped on here which is nice i would also mention that this list is far from com really far from complete i've only got a couple hundred on there so far i'm trying to progressively add books as i can get to them and they had you know ads specific shelves for specific topics um [Music] so yeah like i mentioned we're often asked what books would recommend for people that are new to the field of intel and stuff like that so we've got a specific list for that you know and if you got the basics down and you want something a little bit more advanced well you know we've got a a higher level more challenging advanced intel bookshelf as well so check it out if you're interested uh you know we are always reading new books here and so i'm you know i'm really the main person who is adding books to this list most of our staff here is constantly sending me books to add to the list that i either totally forgot about or even haven't read yet so i will completely and be grateful for any books that anyone can recommend i'm absolutely opening the floodgates and requesting that if you've got a book that's really good and you think is is very handy to to to know uh please send it to us or or drop it in the comments below we've got a channel on key base and i think element as well for reading list recommendations and things like that so that would be very very handy so we can add to the list so yeah and pushing forward into international issues the bottom line is there's a lot of stuff going on in the world and i did not have enough time or the bandwidth to find the hundreds of things that are going on in the world to add to this slide but i will briefly mention that the china the chinese nuclear power plant that's leaking is still leaking and shocker is leaking worse than what they told us um surprising for communists i know right um and a lot of experts are now warning that uh it might actually melt down i don't really know about that um i think that the chinese would absolutely sacrifice their people in order to make sure it didn't melt down because a meltdown is something that's hard to keep within the confines of state control especially with western media having an eye on it but who knows we might uh wake up one morning and see uh see a plume but i don't know we'll see i guess also france france is not letting us down with their um uh massive anti-anti-lock down protests which are currently underway in the country they know how to do it right the the friendship really people knock the french for well being french i suppose but uh they really know how to protest so i i think it's been kind of entertaining to at least watch some of the stuff they're doing and it's it's very helpful to know that at least some people in europe are willing to resist so that's very good to know because europe is um europe's dealing with a lot of stuff right now um so yeah also iran if you wanted to um look this up iran has allegedly hijacked another oil tanker there's really not much information on this right now but the united kingdom that's why i have the same bullet for each each one is that the united kingdom is heavily involved a counter piracy company in the united kingdom was heavily involved trying to say uh hey iran just stole another oil tanker we think now in a few days we'll probably know a little bit more but it would not surprise me at all considering israel has been very very much all about targeting iran shipping oil to syria so it would make sense that iran is having to confiscate or or hijack more um oil tankers so they can that's just what iranians do right the the irony regime i should say uh and then finally the united kingdom is in uh some hot water of their own because uh apparently there are mass food shortages and resource shortages in that country which is being blamed on brexit it's that sounds about right to be honest because of logistical complexities that come with brexit if you haven't been following brexit it's too much to get into right now but uh just suffice it to say that people in the united kingdom are are reporting shortages of pretty much everything um either as a legitimate shortage or there's a driver shortage because of brexit uh people are certain people aren't allowed to you know drive for things like that and um food is you know rotting in the fields and things like that in a few select areas so uh yeah not super great for the uk um it's not i would not classify it as quite an emergency level yet but it is interesting to see that food shortages are most certainly a theme on the international front at this time so before i uh i ended today i just wanted to do like a little mini a little mini podcast and take a minute to check in with everybody and see how everybody's doing and really just to say keep on keeping on and try not to let things get to you too much like i mentioned earlier pretty much everything in this briefing today is worth panicking over even though we're not panicking it's just people everywhere are getting burned out left and right and i find even myself well especially myself just without the energy to view things as they really are anymore in a lot of cases there are a lot of dudes on the internet screaming about this or that these days and unfortunately a lot of them are right yes we are living in unprecedented times times yes our government is legitimately trying to use communism to usher in totalitarianism or whatever it certainly seems like it right you know you know things are not going super great right now we're not confused as to what's going on right i think most people know what's going on to some degree right at this point anyone who doesn't even see the tiniest bit of what's going on i can't help them like none of our staff here can help them there's nothing we can write there's nothing we can produce that can help people like that um they are beyond saving at this point um at least at this time right it may change in the future but you know it's unfortunate um at least the effort required to help a person dig themselves out of the ideological hole they've dug would be disproportionate to the number of people that we could help right so yeah i mean if you go back and you listen to a lot of our previous content really mostly our original og podcast you'll notice how much we've all changed we here try to be as analytical as possible neutral will be the wrong word because neutrality is what journalism is supposed to be and we're not journalists right analysts are supposed to use their skills and experiences to advocate for a certain course of action that's what analysis is right and the very definition requires that analysts be continually at odds with each other um a team of analysts that all agree on everything you know all the time they're that's that's a worthless team right now that means that you might have people um you know this doesn't apply just to analysts like us but you you know normal people as well so you might have people who have different freakout points right like i was mentioning earlier if that that makes sense you know like for instance if i see a a bomb disposal technician running right you know i'm going to break h

A couple of weeks ago, the chief strategy officer at Flock, the infamous surveillance company, contacted me on X because I called him a tyrant in one of his posts. At the time, I didn't really think much of my own comment, though I certainly stand by it, and I did not notice his message at the time, but I saw it two days ago. And though I do not reply to messages like this, I thought I'd strike while the iron was hot because this certainly struck me the wrong way, and I wrote a public rebuttal, which you can read on my Twitter page if you want. Many of you know that I have tried to reduce unsolicited opinion on things like this for a while, but this guy pissed me off. So, now you get the old S2, and I'm not going to let this one slide. If you have not done so, I would encourage you to read my short response on X, which sums up my own concerns regarding this technology. But since many of you asked, uh if you will permit me for a moment, I will expand on the concerns a little bit more so that we can maybe have a different perspective on what is really going on here. And first of all, let's take a time out. As of two days ago, I have been doing this for six years. So, for anyone out there who's been following me for all this time, the OG crew, you guys ask yourself, why is S2 so upset about this? Why this issue, of all things, and why now? I do not want you to agree with me just based on trust me, bro. I've spent years trying to discourage that actively. All I request is for you to pause and consider why I might be so concerned about this. Is it just because I hate this one company, or is there something else going on here? What do I know? Could it possibly be because I'm not reacting to what we see right now, but thinking forward to what is coming next? Just food for thought. I could fill an entire mini-series documenting my concerns, but for everyone's sake, I will keep it brief. My chief concern is not a camera, or even a network of cameras. It is that we have quietly allowed a national intelligence collection network the likes the world has never seen before to pop up in the United States, and there is not only active deceit being used by this company, but they are steamrolling any opposition to their actions. You see, the Flock cameras are a good analog for a lot of larger problems. It's certainly not just about one company. When Edward Snowden leaked the Prism project years ago and was exonerated by the courts which said that the programs he leaked were in fact illegal, the result of that was that many people generally know that they are now being spied on just parenthetically or generally speaking. But beyond that, nobody really seemed to care in the long run. Or maybe they thought there was nothing they could do about it, so why worry about it? When you log on to social media, you cannot see a little FBI logo on the corner of your screen. When you scan a bunch of bananas at the grocery store, the CIA's logo does not appear on the screen to tell you that your purchase has been monitored. You know generally that you are being watched. Logically, you know this, but you don't really feel it. It's not a part of your existence. A Flock camera, however, is a physical object. It is a monument to the national intelligence collection apparatus and it's planted on your child's playground, outside your bedroom window, and up and down your street. Driving your newborn back from the hospital, looking forward to a new era of happiness with your family, Flock is there, watching. Your child's first words will probably be recorded by a Flock camera. Teaching your son how to ride a bike on a quiet summer night, Flock's gaze lingers on your child, scanning every facial feature. These are the concerns that nobody thinks about when gaslighting and complacency has become the normal American lifestyle. And for those who think that all of this animosity toward Flock is misplaced when really we should be concerned about not just Flock but other things, you're certainly right. Flock is not the only company doing this. Alexa is recording your living room right now and you've probably known about that for years. The difference with Flock is that you are not getting anything in return. Even the claims of public safety are dubious at best. You don't even get your bread and circus. This device is planted in your world just to monitor you. You might say, "But what about regular security cameras? Aren't there concerns there, too?" Yes, there sure are. But the concerns are much, much different. Say, for instance, you have a children's playground and there is a security camera pointed at the jungle gym. If it's a public park, we need to find out who owns that camera. Chances are it will probably be the parks department or maybe the city. And usually there is a process for accountability there. However hard it might be and however much government red tape might be involved, there still is a process. You can go to a city council meeting, you can raise awareness, and you can demand accountability. Whether you get it or not, well, that depends on on the situation and the circumstances, but generally speaking, you have something to work from. It's the same difference between a company who makes a product and they have their customer service in the US versus overseas. With a domestic phone number and a domestic American mailing address in your local area, you have a lot more options for accountability. Also, chances are the minimum wage employee sitting in the parks department office probably doesn't pump that data feed into a centralized federal database. I mean, this might be a false assumption now, but you get the idea. The DVR machine in the back room of a 7-Eleven is not exactly the same level of concern as having every single square inch in a city being logged in a data center where you literally have no idea where the data is going. It is absolutely true that surveillance is a spectrum and perspective matters. In many cases, we want cameras on our streets and in many cases, we want them to be owned by private business owners that can get footage out to the public before anyone with power has a chance to delete the tapes, if you know what I mean. But at a certain point, we go too far and in the opinion of nearly everyone, Flock has gone too far. They started right out of the gate on a footing of deceit and they have never once actually followed through on their claims of transparency. Saying [snorts] you are transparent is not the same as being transparent. Of course, I know that this debate is nuanced. The chief argument right now used by the pro-surveillance factions and useful idiots who support not just Flock, but the entire intelligence apparatus is that, well, you just don't like Flock or you never had a problem with them before or why are you now just getting upset? Well, the rebuttal to that is pretty simple. I don't like any company or entity that is engaging in similar practices. Flock only gets this attention because they have gone above and beyond in using subterfuge to achieve their goals and they shirk providing answers at every single possible opportunity. They call the American people terrorists for wanting to know where Flock cameras are located, but those same Flock cameras can know where you are at all times. That is the act of a hostile adversary and there is no other way to put it. As for the timing, Flock has been concerning for a long time. However, these concerns get dialed up to 11 because they are absolutely sprinting to get these sensors in place and embedded in infrastructure before anyone notices. If someone cannot understand how we might not be so concerned about one company with 100 cameras and one company with 83,000 cameras, well, I can't really help you. Scale is the problem there. Once the internet started looking into what Flock has done, we learn more and the sunlight shown on the issue illuminates the scale of the problem. In short, we should have been concerned about this years ago, but now that we know how bad the problem really is, opposing this now is a better late than never situation. So, we know that this is a pretty hot button topic, don't we? But, what do these cameras actually do? Well, first of all, we need to change our vocabulary. These are not just cameras. In fact, I would argue that the camera portion of these sensors is probably the least important part of it. Flock calling these automated license plate readers is a huge lie by omission. Yes, these cameras can indeed log license plates, but that's not their primary function. Their purpose is to provide an electronic fingerprint of vehicles and people. To accomplish this, they of course have high resolution cameras and AI-driven object detection. They scan the entire vehicle, not just getting the plate, but the color, any kind of defects in the vehicle, any kind of bumper stickers, the passengers in the vehicle to associate the face with the car that's driving it or the passengers. They're logging everything. I cannot directly confirm if Flock itself does this with every device, so I will speak parenthetically and hypothetically to avoid getting in trouble, but the technology does exist to conduct lidar scans of vehicles and also people, which provide a more accurate dimensional map of whatever goes in front of the sensor. In short, it is possible that a lot of these cameras are providing high-resolution 3D models of whatever goes in front of them. Certainly not all, maybe not the ones that we can see, maybe the ones we can't see. Just speculating there. Unfortunately, because Flock has not entirely been forthcoming regarding what their sensor platforms actually do, and the technical specs of each individual device, where they're located, and what the internal sensors are, we have to make a best guess sometimes. And my personal opinion is that I think that these devices are doing more than what they say they are. There has always been a battle between liberty and safety, and a lot of police officers like the cameras that they have access to because of the capability that they provide in quickly catching criminals in some cases. Turns out Flock also lies about that much of the time, too, and because Flock has such an aversion to telling the truth, we cannot take anything they say at face value. They don't even want us knowing where these Flock cameras are located, much less what the guts of the insides look like. To be sure, a lot of the concerns we have with Flock are grounded in confirmed fact, not fiction, hyperbole, or emotion. Flock's entire business model is the complete opposite of transparency, and because of this extreme secrecy, we have to make educated guesses as to what they might be doing with this sensor network, and we have to take those theories, and we have to investigate further. But that's not even the most important part. We have to be able to make decisions without knowing all of the information. My question for you is how much information do you need to make a decision about what this company is doing, the future of this technology, and how much of this technology you want outside your bedroom window. What happens when Flock suffers a data breach, and the biometrics of your face are leaked to China? What happens if you're an American soldier whose face is now cataloged by Flock, a private company, and when combined with a previous breach from the Office of Personnel Management, a foreign adversary can cross-reference that data to now know where you live, your wife and children's names, and everything about you. What about the US Air Force convoys moving nuclear weapons around the country? Flock is logging them and scanning those vehicles. And who's to say they can't sell that data to China? What about the presidential motorcade that drives by a Flock camera? Does Flock have the Bluetooth device ID of Barron Trump's cell phone? I don't know, but I'd say probably. What about the cameras that are logging cargo shipments onto military bases and noting the size and shape of those cargo shipments? Their cameras are high resolution enough to measure the suspension sag of vehicles and using AI to determine the weight of that cargo combined with the general shape of a concealed object, they can probably get a lot of valuable data. Where it goes, nobody knows. But hey, what about illegal immigrants or other criminals? Well, now that is a great question because Flock explicitly states that they do not work with ICE and they do not track illegal immigrants. This is a dead to rights confession that Flock picks and chooses which crimes they want to report to those who enforce the law. They are publicly cherry-picking which laws they decide are worth following. What if they decide to protect the identity of a bank robber, but if you wave an American flag or wear a certain color of hat, then you are public enemy number one. That is, of course, a hypothetical situation, but in that situation, how do we hold Flock accountable? That's the whole point. There is no way to hold them accountable because they are a private company. You would have to take them to court and sue them, but the only way you can sue them is to know that they've harmed you in some way. And since they are a private company, they are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. They don't have to tell you if they are spying on you, but their only customer is the government. So, you get the worst of both worlds. You get the federal intelligence apparatus, but also not even the tiniest shred of accountability or even a process to get that accountability. Here's the thing. We don't actually have to let Flock explain themselves. I personally think that they had a good idea at first and they could have been the next SpaceX of security and of catching criminals. They could have had a good thing, but no, they had to mess it up by instantly betraying trust. And because of that, I think we should make an example out of them by bankrupting their company and hopefully motivating the next company, I'm looking at you Axon, to maybe rethink their actions. We do not have to sit here and listen to this company at all. We can oppose them outright. We don't have to have good faith conversations with them if we're up for it. No, your only client is the government and I am a taxpayer that pays your salary. You work for me and you don't talk to me like you're an HR representative giving me a reprimand. You should be groveling down on your hands and knees begging the American people for your privilege to receive tax dollars. You do not get to treat the American people that way. That is the brutal honest truth here. Did we not learn from COVID and what people like this on all sides of the spectrum did during that time? You do not give these people one single inch. We must nip this in the bud right now. In that vein, what can we do beyond the obvious steps which are being undertaken around the country right now? I would remind us all that this is not just a meme. This is a whole-of-society approach. Not just pushing back against Flock, but against all of the other similar companies that are racing toward this dystopian future at breakneck pace. The very bare minimum that you can do right now is know where Flock cameras are located and do your part in logging them on the map. The DeFlock group has website and a database for this and they just launched an app too, if I'm not mistaken. I would remind you though, using your smartphone in close proximity to a Flock camera is a huge no-no, so just be aware of that. They're logging your Bluetooth device and they know that it is you, your Bluetooth ID, from your phone that is next to a Flock camera. So, just know about that moving forward. This DeFlock database is also public. They have it on their GitHub as well and I'm trying to figure out how I can pull it into my own maps as well just for informational purposes, if that's allowed by the licensing. I don't actually know, but they are adding hundreds of cameras a day, Flock is, and the people around this country are logging probably way more than that. I'm just trying to catch up to the ones that are already out all around the country, so this database is changing quite quickly. Um, but again, Flock can't recommend them enough. They are trying to do the best they can, and I think that's [clears throat] a good effort. The next step is to educate your family. Most people are oblivious to what's going on around them, so something as simple as pointing out a Flock camera every time you see one is probably going to be a good idea. You don't have to be super paranoid about it all the time, of course, right? There's nuance to this and there's balance to life just in general, but if you're driving down the road, you can say, "Hey, you know what that is? That's a Flock camera." And there you go, there's your conversation starter. So, starting the conversation is very, very important. And again, Flock is not the end goal here. Flock is just a catalyst to get the conversation moving. Once people realize the insidious behavior that Flock has been engaging in over the years, maybe they're going to be more inclined to ask questions about other surveillance stuff that's going on in society that we don't know about. Maybe this is a good way to start talking about other technologies as well, like the Alexa in your living room or your smart TV or maybe the cell phone that's in your pocket. You see, we can go a lot of different directions from this. It's just that Flock is such a perfect issue to start with because it is right there, is in your community, and this company has demonstrated that they are malign actors. This leads into the next topic, which is to start thinking about data security. Once again, I'm not saying that I would recommend always carrying your phone around in a signal blocking Faraday bag or to go out and, you know, outfit your whole wardrobe with like anti-AI ball caps and clothing and stuff like that. I mean, you can if you want, but for most of us this is just not feasible. We have to live life even under the umbrella of mass surveillance. We've been surveilled for 20, 30, 50, 100 years by the federal government anyway, and it's going to be a hard sell to get people to realize that this is a clear and present danger because a lot of people just have surveillance fatigue. So, start the conversation. Start thinking about data security. Now is the time to start these thought processes. If I needed to not be surveilled by Flock, how would I do that? That's all you got to start with. The next thing you can do is be aware of what's next. This line of thinking is likely to encourage you to start researching Flock and similar adjacent technologies. Now that Flock is a starting to expand to the use of drones. Instead of these rather nefarious looking black boxes on poles, within a couple of years a Flock drone is going to be hovering over your property and there's nothing you can do about it. Or at least nothing I can encourage in the public forum, so I'll leave it there. The next thing you can do is political activism. If you are so inclined, engaging in political activism in your own way is the bare minimum. I know everybody groans when we say go call your congressman because they think it does no good. Ladies and gentlemen, if a Taliban fighter can sit on a mountain top in the Hindu Kush high above the tree line with a rusty AK and three rounds of ammunition in the magazine. He hasn't eaten in three days and he's been up there for weeks now just waiting for the chance to pop off a single round at a helicopter flying miles away. If that guy can sit on that hilltop and be that dedicated to such a hopeless mission, then I think you can stop doom scrolling for 5 minutes to fill up the voicemail inbox of your congressman. Be polite and respectful because your phone calls are being logged and recorded, but make sure they know what you think about Flock cameras and other similar technology. Think about it this way, money talks and you have to leverage any advantage you have. And if the office staff of a politician is spending 80% of their day fielding and logging phone calls from constituents, that's time not spent talking to potential donors. You are not spamming your congressman to get them to listen to you. You are spamming them because of the opportunity cost in dealing with you cost them time. Make them earn their paycheck or at least take up the time of the unpaid interns answering the phones. The final thing to think about is the carrot and the stick. We must hold people accountable, but we also must reward the good behavior, too. For the towns and cities that decide that Flock and other adjacent technologies are a bridge too far, we have to give them the good credit. You may not want to, I don't know of a single board of commissioners or a single city council anywhere in the country that is not filled with some of the most evil people on the face of the earth. But, if they decide to vote to stop this Flock stuff and to start pushing back against this surveillance effort, then you have to reward them in some way, if nothing more than just verbal praise. And also, if you are a police officer and your department uses Flock, you can decide whether or not to open up the laptop in your patrol car. We are not asking you to make a big scene. All we're asking you to do is be the good cop that we know you can be. We are done with this era of low IQ arguments against the police. We're done with that stuff. And you're not going to be able to associate a distaste for Flock with the blue-haired freaks that have been throwing bricks at you for years. It's not the same argument and you know it. We are not the drug dealer who's trying to turn a speeding ticket into a felony. Most Americans are not like that and we're not like that either. We do not want to alienate people in society who have the potential and the access to do good, but we also don't want you to alienate us, either. You have to admit that it's a pretty screwed-up world. You know this better than anybody being on the inside. Good cops get fired for no reason because somebody screeched loud enough, but the bad cops, guess what? They seem to stay on the roll no matter what. Technologies like Flock encourage all cops to treat us like criminals and it encourages us to view our cops as wardens and that is good for absolutely nobody on either side. That alone should be justification for removing them nationwide. When you turn the whole country into the Stanford prison experiment, very bad things happen to both sides and I do not want that. We know that the average beat cop has zero power to change this at the department level, but what you can do is push back wherever possible. And if you do that, it is our duty to back you up for doing the right thing. That responsibility extends to all of us. Remember the thousands of military service members, it was about 8,000 if I remember, who protested against the jab a few years ago and in doing so, they got separated from service? How many of you applauded them for doing so and said that that was the right thing to do? Now, how many of you gave them a job after you encouraged them to quit because they were serving a tyrannical entity? It's the same thing now. If we want to good cops, we have to support the ones that do the right thing. And right now, it seems like many cops do the right thing eventually get fired. We have to remember that. No matter what we do, we have to get serious. We have to do everything within our rights as Americans to not just push back on these efforts, but also refuse to let people like this dictate what it means to be an American. For far too long, we have entertained the concept of reaching across the aisle to the point that we compromise our own beliefs by even having the argument in the first place. Mr. Rahul Sidhu here is insinuating that we have to engage with them. No, we don't. I am an American, and it is my right to dislike you or your company for any reason whatsoever. I don't have to view you as an equal to me. I don't have to give you the talking stick, and I don't have to grant you any leeway to twist my words against me. We are done with the era of debates, at least with people like this. While it is instrumental to talk out these things amongst our selves, we are not obligated to listen to the opinions of people who want to enslave us, or in some cases kill us for our views. Once you cross that line, as Flock has, we are done. And we're going to not just stop this discourse, but we're going to move it back in the other direction, towards something good. Even if we have to, for now and while we still can, fight in the shade.

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the ukrainian war intelligence update for friday the 18th of february 2022 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 17th we've got a lot of stuff to talk about today so let's jump right into the geopolitical update i'm not going to spend too much time talking about geopolitics because there's just way too much going on there's a lot of stuff going on out there and most of it's really not that helpful so i'm just going to touch on the stuff that is interesting first up are the nations that have either closed their embassies or moved their embassies to the western parts of ukraine the united states has closed their embassy in kiev and are moving a temporary uh a temporary embassy out west to levov it is unclear as to whether or not that's going to be an operational embassy i haven't really looked into it that much but when it comes to americans in ukraine the good news is that poland is now allowing americans to cross land borders into poland without any prior authorization or visas or stuff like that you can just get all your stuff there right at the border which is good for those of you who are looking to get out of ukraine speaking of evacuations we're also seeing an unprecedented number of private jets leaving ukraine if you're following a lot of the flight tracker and like open source uh ads adsb trackers you'll notice there are an awful lot of private planes leaving uh ukraine uh one-way trips and going to other countries like romania hungary places like that so i thought that's kind of interesting that a lot of the um senior like economic leaders in the country have left actually ukraine the the current political leadership had issues statements urging their uh people to come back people who are civil servants uh to come back to the country so um that's just kind of the way things work out and kind of hints as to what people in very powerful positions are thinking about the potential for invasion speaking of air travel a few airlines mostly klm is the biggest one have canceled their flights to ukraine so they're avoiding all ukrainian airspace and this kind of makes sense because ukraine has a very long history of of civilian airliners being shot down during this conflict most european or really every airline has been avoiding the eastern part of ukraine for a very long time now because of that but now it looks like a few airlines are extending that to the entire country so if you're trying to escape ukraine if you're trying to leave you know airline travel might not be just like what we've been saying is airline travel might not be that reliable something also of note uh in russia is or or really rather disputed territory is the american submarine incident between the united states and russia so a lot of people aren't aware of what went on with this and we still really don't know the full story really all we're getting is russia's side of the story but the short version of this is that the russian navy intercepted detected and intercepted an american virginia-class submarine operating in their territorial waters off the kuril islands this was a few days ago the russians claim that they you have used kinetic measures to sort of you know encourage the united states submarine to leave their waters and the u.s submarine left at high speed now if this sounds a little fishy that's probably because it is there's a lot of things wrong with the russian version of the story for one the virginia class submarines are very hard to detect and the vessels that were in the area the russia claims detected the submarine that's going to be a hard task for those ancient vessels so there's that i don't doubt for one minute that the united states does not have submarines shadowing the exercises off the curl islands the russian naval exercises but it just doesn't sound right the us navy has of course denied the entire thing and russia has refused to give any kind of proof as to knocking the american submarine out of their waters or something like that the reason i'm having a hard time defining it is because russia has used very shady language they've said they used special means to get the united states submarine to leave i don't know what that means it can be anything there's a lot of different things that go on in the sub-world diplomatically so it could be everything from some kind of special acoustic measure or even some kind of kinetic measure to uh to warn the us submarine off but again they're being very vague about it and it sounds a lot like russian propaganda at this point and really the kind of the kind of nail in the coffin for this is this image um which has been circulating around a lot of russian language chats and a lot of russian media claiming that this is an american countermeasure an acoustics countermeasure for an american submarine as in the russians scared the american submarine and they deployed acoustic countermeasures to escape and distract and cover their retreat and here's proof right well here's the problem this is actually not american this is a russian anti-submarine or submarine countermeasure system uh this is a very actually a this this image pulled up on the internet quite a long time ago and it's very interesting because it's kind of a classified system for the russians so this torpedo-like system is is really an electronic countermeasure right it's a an acoustic countermeasure system that can deploy other countermeasures at least we think in the sub-world these are not particularly new they've been around for a while but they're new to most people i think but the interesting part is is that this image of one kind of washing up on the shore there is russian it was due to their russians testing on their own systems and yet a lot of russian language platforms are claiming that this is american so kind of interesting and kind of the nail in the coffin that proves that probably didn't occur did a russian surface vessel or other submarine detect an american submarine yeah probably maybe who knows it's literally impossible to know submarine diplomacy is one of those things where you're never really going to know what actually happened until probably 40 years later but it was kind of interesting so i wanted to mention it also russia has got an exercise coming up which is kind of a regular exercise for them that most people call the grom exercise it's basically their exercise for world war three it's to test their nuclear triad and the communication systems between their submarines their bombers and their land-based systems so a lot of people are thinking that this russian nuclear style exercise is really a way to deter nato from doing very much when russia invades ukraine so ukraine gets a ukraine gets invaded by russia nato gets a little squirrely russia uses exercise as a way to kind of dominate or try to encourage nato to not do very much so i thought i'd point that out because it's it's kind of an important thing moving on to our naval update don't really have much for the ga uk gap or the north sea so i'm just going to skip right to the med where there's a lot of activity now this slide is outdated we've been updating the slides in between briefings as some of you probably know i've been uploading these slides as regularly as we can between the videos that come out and this has changed quite a bit so at the time we made this slide there were a grand total of 12 russian landing craft or landing ships in underway in the black sea a few of them have come back and a few of them have gone back out again so we're still counting to figure out who's where but roughly speaking there's still a lot of activity going on in the black sea as well as the med there's been a lot of activity it's really hard to kind of track where these vessels are at because usually by the time that we get either a satellite image of where they're at or an ais pain of where they're at they've already moved so that's just something to keep in mind but right now in the med and in the black sea there is a lot of steel in the water moving to the overall update for ukraine we've kind of had to simplify this graphic a little bit it's still not perfect of course it's very far from perfect but i just wanted to show you the major units that are that are here in theater because this is going to be a high level map we just have too many icons at this point so let's go ahead and jump to the actual fronts on the northeastern front this is where we're seeing most activity as of the past 48 hours that's why we've drawn a little flat there a little frontline enemy troops just so people understand what's more likely to occur right over the border just on the other side of the border of kharkiv in russia we're seeing a lot of units move to what we think are their final staging positions this is something that the us government has also backed up if you trust them which you shouldn't honestly but even ocean trackers on twitter can show you pictures of these units moving to their final staging locations we're seeing units move really really close to the border in this particular area so this is kind of the highest tension part of the entire ukrainian border at this time but we have other things to mention as well so let's jump a little bit closer into the car key front and see what's going on so like i mentioned we're seeing a lot of units being staged in belgrade and then moving out from belgrade to other further locations closer to the ukrainian border such as certino vessela lopez and the shebacchino depot these are basically just fields little either defunct old soviet bases that they're revitalizing or places like that we can get more into specifics to some of these as time goes on but i also wanted to point out that in belgrade we're starting to see a lot of the tos ones mlrs move into the area as well now these are some nasty weapons i wanted to point that out because it's an interesting concept that not a lot of people think about and these are like your standard mlrs but the warheads that they're being used that they that these systems use are they have the capability for using newer thermobaric types of weapons basically it's very comparable to our highmars system here we have in the us the the grid square eraser right but this does it with thermobaric weapons and that's just really really nasty the reason that i want to mention this specifically is because we saw during the battle for the donetsk airport a lot of ukrainians claiming that thermobaric weapons were used against them and that these specific weapons were used against them and there wasn't a whole lot of conclusiveness to that i would say it's pretty conclusive based on the the pictures of the bodies it's something that you really don't want to talk about at the dinner table to be honest but the international community was like i don't really know well now we're seeing these units being kind of openly transported not even you know being covered whereas the first time they were allegedly used it was very secret so now we know that not only do these units exist but they're also exist in this theater and they also exist with the kinds of weapons that we think they have so again confidence level in this is you know moderate i guess but we've seen these on trains being unloaded from bell garage so you know take it for what it's worth i guess so jumping into a couple of specific locations i wanted to talk about belgrade farp for a second this is an interesting one uh because this uh this is a jump farp a a forward arming and refueling point for helicopters this points to russia's recent i shouldn't say doctrinal change which is just kind of what they do now which is rely heavily on helicopters for movement and this is a perfect location for it it's only 36k from the ukrainian border it's a nice safe area this is an old cold war base that's just kind of in the middle of nowhere even though it's on the outskirts of belgrade there it's still really a remote location um but that's what they're they're using this location to stage a lot of their helicopters so similar situation over here in vessela lopen uh this is just a normal civilian town uh interestingly enough when the russians got here they weren't actually using the camp that's uh to the northwest of town they were actually uh staging their t-80s and different kinds of ifvs like bmps and such along the railway so civilians were able to get really close to these um parked vehicles and get a lot of good pictures of them so something very interesting but now we're mostly seeing them staged just to the northwest of town there just wanted to mention this because again we found out about this camp and really the ocean community found out about this camp right as russia was claiming that they were pulling back and we're seeing you know videos on twitter of tanks being offloaded um quite clearly uh and then sent to this camp here moving out east we've actually seen a little bit of an increase in conflict along the eastern front now when it comes to the actual conflict it's hard to say where the conflict has occurred there have been a lot of ceasefire violations over the past few days but the international monitoring group for the ceasefire has actually started to pull out of this area so they're getting ready to evacuate so it's really hard to say how effective the international monitors are um at checking out the conflict in eastern ukraine so they haven't said that they've fully left yet but it's kind of it's kind of obvious that everybody in eastern ukraine is thinking about leaving so i guess we'll have to see how effective they are at monitoring the conflict over the next few days also diplomatically we're seeing a lot of things uh being claimed by the russians that i'm not quite certain how to think about just yet for instance the russians are claiming that they have discovered a lot of mass graves in eastern ukraine and as such a lot of western analysts are thinking ah this is russia's excuse to invade um to stop the genocide right because putin himself has used the word genocide a lot to describe what's going on in eastern ukraine never mind that it actually has been the russians shelling civilians this entire time but anyway just wanted to point that out that we are aware of the rhetoric and the language that's being used um it's just really hard for us to kind of narrow that down at this time and say do we know definitively what this true story is along the southern front like i mentioned lots of vessels out in the water there have been a lot of aircraft being staged in the crimean peninsula as well mostly at defunct air force bases we've got over 70 helicopters at one old old school soviet base so yeah again southern front looks like it's preparing now again i should mention that the russians have put out statements saying look we're withdrawing from our positions we're leaving we're coming back they're sending troops back and they publish videos of trains loaded with equipment and soldiers being moved back east across the crimean bridge here's the problem with that though a lot of those units um they're actually closer to ukraine's border when they go home to their home units they just move right around to the eastern front uh they're closer to ukraine when they go home than they are in crimea which is interesting also we're seeing a lot of those units that russia has in their own videos popping up closer to the border again either to the north or to the east so again it's really hard to say what's going on but it sounds a lot it sounds to me like there is a lot of russian gaslighting going on when it comes to yeah we're pulling our forces back when we can clearly see ourselves that that's not the case and that's completely irrelevant of of any american rhetoric on this like i can download the satellite images and and i can go on twitter and count tanks just as well as anybody else can and i can myself can see that ah the russians aren't pulling out anybody just yet under the western front really not a whole lot going on other than the united states issuing do not travel orders for transnistria and moldova and beginning like sort of evacuation processes for those countries as well but i'm not really sure how how significant that is other than maybe a push for odessa if it comes to that like i mentioned the the reason that we're talking about this front is because it's it's it's important especially for odessa so we'll definitely keep an eye on it but there's really not a whole lot going on there at the moment moving to the northwestern front we have a lot of activity here as well and a very interesting story that has unfolded over the past few days so let's dive in a little closer first up i wanted to talk a little bit about bufgorka camp from last time just to show you some updates to it so here's the overall satellite image here's the image we showed last time and here is imagery as of the ninth showing that vehicles have moved this is something that we expected as soon as we dropped the video on it and as soon as other uh ocean entities became aware of this location it's not particularly new these guys have been there for a very long time but again just because we're talking about it in a video does not mean that we just discovered it these guys have been there for quite a while so i don't want to say that russia moved these assets due to we here you know exposing their position but that would also not surprise me so to those out there in the intel or operations world don't think that we're naive in this regard we are fully aware of who's reading these products i just wanted to point out that we here are thinking about these things and being as considerate as possible towards the planning efforts of those who are more better suited to doing good than we can if nothing else a little healthy competition coming from ourselves and agency in the open source world with almost no resources can encourage the us intelligence community to up their game after all no commander wants to see that some guy on youtube with an internet connection has better intelligence than their active duty s2 shop that's the way it should be i wouldn't want that either ocean is a tool in the toolbox not the entire toolbox so if our work can encourage our active duty counterparts to be better instead of stealing paragraphs or grants them that nobody will read or sitting on merc chat all day long with a bag of cheetos that's a good thing in our book and now moving to a big bit of news that has been taking the osant world and the journalistic world by storm for the past couple of days that is this pontoon bridge that has been set up in belarus now for those of you that keep up with ocean and know what has happened to this bridge hang on for just a minute and let's take a look at the overall area of this bridge because this really doesn't show us that much moving out we can see the ukrainian border up there the chernobyl exclusion zone there in orange and the pontoon bridge itself as you can see it is very close to the border it is six kilometers as the crow flies uh to the border there within the belarusian side of the uh chernobyl exclusion zone and as we can see it's very close to kiev as well so let's jump out of the satellite image and go to a street map image so we can talk a little bit more about this location one of the reasons that the world is all abuzz about this bridge is that it's kind of a big deal with regards to wet gap crossings in other words militaries have to cross bodies of water and pontoon bridges are the way to do that and if you put a pontoon bridge here it looks an awful lot like you're trying to move forces or enable the freedom of movement for forces really close to the border because the next bridge that can be used by armored vehicles to actually cross the pripyat river is all the way north in missouri so as the crow flies that's 66 kilometers so one might think that hey if troops are trying to move in this direction they're going to need to cross this bridge and then they can punch right through in across the border into the exclusion zone very good way for troops to move around otherwise they would have to go all the way over here to measure and then head south right so that's why people are thinking about this is like holy cow this is like the smoking gun when it comes to russia trying to invade ukraine this is like the most important news ever right well not really for one the biggest bit of evidence kind of against this pontoon bridge being any kind of use whatsoever is that russia is already on the other side of the river that's where these units are right now that's exactly what they did they went to major they crossed over and now they're right there and yelts right across the border so they're kind of already on the other side of the river another bit of information is that when you look at a map like this you tend to forget something and that is what the weather's like so let's zoom in a little bit and take a look at some recent sentinel imagery here's where the pontoon bridge is and here's the rest of the pripyat river it's kind of frozen now granted the ice in the pripyat river might not be thick enough to drive a tank over you need a many inches of ice for a tank to be able to drive across it right and the thinning patches of ice that we see up to the northern parts of the pripyat river that kind of you know indicates this it's probably not thick enough for for a tank to drive across but i also find it pretty hard to believe that the russians wouldn't be able to find a better spot to cross they clearly chose this spot because of the open water for a reason so taking all of this into account and just kind of absorbing all of the information that's out there about this pontoon bridge we come to a few different conclusions or really a few different explanations uh for why this bridge can be there the first of which is the one that everybody's saying which is that this bridge is a legitimate attempt for russia to be able to increase their freedom of maneuver right next to the border so that they can strike fast and strike hard right you know even though they can use the bridge up in measure it's probably a little bit easier to have a bridge a little bit closer down to the border if they're trying to invade somebody again i don't think this is likely i think this is extremely unlikely knowing what we know now but i'll get to that in a minute the other immediate thought that comes to mind is that this is something shiny for the americans to look at right it's a distraction in other words it's something for a ukraine to get all upset about because it's six kilometers from their border that should be a hint in and of itself because you don't want to build something that close to the border when even light even light artillery can take it out right so the fact that it's so close to the ukrainian border is presents a risk so something to think about right another big hint but again this could purely be a distraction with no intention of russia using it whatsoever but really what i think is most likely is that this bridge serves multiple roles for one russia benefits by keeping tensions high right now right they look like they're the ones who are in the right and the west is in the wrong they're able to keep their propaganda machine going in overdrive it keeps the morale for troops high and it again allows the americans to be embarrassed once again russia time after time even just over the past couple of weeks russia's actions have been very good at getting the west to react to them when in actuality russia is just sitting back and letting the west you know make fools of itself again russia has gotten really good at gaslighting the united states for one but also making western leadership look like fools through their own actions russia is really good at pinpointing something and then doing something to make the west react and then the west looks like an idiot so this is a good way to do that a pontoon bridge is pretty cheap to install it's it's very easy to do and it's very very public and it's also good legitimate practice because let's face it russia is going to have a lot of wet gap crossings in ukraine if they choose to invade so you've got the denipa river you've got a lot of other smaller bodies of water that still require you know engineers to get across so it this is a good way to practice for that and like i mentioned earlier right when we started talking about this bridge there's more to the story as of this morning the bridge is gone we can tell this via sentinel imagery that was downloaded uh as of last night and the bridge has now been relocated so that's that i guess this whole exercise in talking about the bridge really isn't about the bridge it's really to show that even though the intel handbook indicates x some common sense is also required just like the us government and governments around the world were dead set on telling the world that russia is going to invade on the 16th of february and since it's now the 17th or 18th when this video goes out and no invasion occurred the us intel community looks foolish and speaking of that date a lot of people have been asking well how did the us government know with such certainty that russia had planned the invasion for the 16th and why would they say this openly well the reason for saying it openly is is a quasi-legitimate i suppose if you say hey if you have unrefuted undoubtable proof that russia is going to invade on the 16th and you tell the world this well obviously russia is not going to invade on the 16th they're going to not invade on the 16th because you've discovered their plans and now they have to change their plans or they were never planning on invading on the 16th and now you just look like a fool in any case we will never know what intelligence the us government had to indicate with such certainty that russia was going to invade on the 16th it's a win-win for both because now the biden regime gets to claim that ah we stopped them invading on the 16th and russia gets to claim well the us looks like fools because they said we were going to invade on the 16th and we never invaded on the 16th so it's a win for both sides which is why you don't really hear too much about it based on my own speculation i think i know how they got that date if they didn't have any really concrete proof it's pretty easy to come up with the 16th as a date and this is just my own personal guess right so my guess is that they either had some kind of comment you know some kind of communications interception or some kind of document right some top secret document from the kremlin that indicated that date plus the 16th was during a green illumination cycle in other words the moon was very bright and therefore more conducive to nighttime airborne operations which is what russia would use right which as a side note is why we talk about this stuff because lunar illumination is important for things like this but it's not the only factor right and at the same time i can look at that assessment of the 16th and know that it was made by a junior analyst or somebody who doesn't know what they're doing in other words if i were back at the intel schoolhouse and i had a class of soon-to-be analysts in my classroom and i were to ask them to assess what date russia would choose to invade i would expect every one of them to say the 16th that's just what you come up with if you're a junior analyst that's the textbook answer and it's not it's not a wrong answer right if you're a junior analyst that's what i would expect and you use the intel cycle you process information and you come up with 16th as a date it's not textbook wrong it's just that if you know more about the situation you're not going to come up with that date unfortunately in today's intel community most analysts are incapable of giving anything other than the textbook answer either way this is all just a gut feeling on my part and i think i've beat this horse enough i just thought that this was a fascinating illustration of so many different ideas that it was worth sharing because this bridge has become more of a proverbial wooden horse than a wooden bridge it is a great example of analysis gone awry and how it's good to think for yourself and really it's an allegory of the deception that's taking place everywhere with regards to ukraine right now when this bridge first became public it swept through the ocean community like wildfire as it should this is important stuff right wet gap crossings and pontoon bridges in this context are something that should grab one's attention but it shouldn't consume one's entire attention span we shouldn't be scurrying from event to event just like the russians and the american defense industry want us to we need to see the whole picture but we also shouldn't ignore the indicators of an invasion keeping calm and keeping a cool head is very hard to do especially when you have so many intel gaps there's so much that you don't know but it's still important to do the world isn't going to end because you waited a day to form an opinion on something and it's always better for analysts to be unconventional in their thinking and speaking of invasion potential and looking at the whole picture right the team here found an interesting article that comes from a ukrainian think tank which outlines a few critical points that argue against the possibility of an invasion they think it's not likely with everyone arguing about the will they want they nature of the russians invading i wanted to offer at least one legitimate counterpoint to our opinion that the invasion is imminent right now opinions regarding russia invading are mostly coming from a perspective of american domestic politics a lot of people are rushing to fill the opposite space of whatever their political opponents are saying so the biden regime comes out and says russia is going to invade the people who are opposite to the biden administration come out and say russia is not going to invade they only want to have that opposition they don't want to actually look at the situation on the ground and the situation in the world they just want to be the opposite of whatever their enemies are and sometimes that doesn't make a whole lot of sense but if you shove america's domestic situation and the military-industrial complex aside we can clearly see russia's actions as inflammatory this paper which i would encourage you to read the link of which will be in the description of course and on the sources slide for this uh goes into detail on why they think russia won't be invading in any significant way so rather than highlight their points for them i'll let you read through them on your own but i would like to address some of the ideas that they had first up is the potential for a large-scale combat operation or lsco also known as world war iii at least in this context right so is russia prepared to launch a large-scale combat operation i don't think so but like we mentioned in an earlier brief russia has left her own territory laughably vulnerable to pretty much anyone who wants to strike her all of the units that have been deployed by russia have been either meant for a conflict in ukraine or as a deterrence for nato in other words if russia was preparing for a knock down drag out fight they're doing it all wrong because they haven't deployed nearly enough troops but is it enough to handle ukraine absolutely i think so i think russia's choice in style of warfare from everything from unit composition to their diplomacy is the perfect choice for going into combat for ukraine if i myself were planning an invasion of ukraine i would do exactly what russia has done so far now the other point that the paper makes is meant to address the follow-on question that people have right now people are asking okay russia is going to invade like that seems pretty clear at this point but how far will they go i like anyone else don't know the answer to that question but my guess is that russia probably will not go whole hog and launch a total invasion without any concerns for nato my guess is they won't do that but i also think that based on the units we've seen maneuvering they won't exactly go for a minor incursion either a byproduct of the world's eyes on ukraine right now is that russia will not be able to use their little green men or separatists at all this time right with everyone all hyped up and watching this is going to reduce a big advantage that the russians love to use secrecy that might be enough to deter them or it might not what do i think they're going to do i think they're going to invade how far will they go i don't know what limitations will they place on themselves to keep tensions with nato as low as possible while still meeting their objectives in ukraine i don't know that either how long does russia plan for it to take to reach their objectives i don't know but based on their logistics or lack thereof probably not very long i think what would be interesting is for russia to do a sort of double bluff and pretend to draw back forces or just leave them forward deployed for a few months until nobody cares anymore and then use the slow approach like they did in 2014 when they were more or less able to operate in the shadows and the world didn't care that would be pretty slick it would make the us leadership look foolish for all their recent sky is falling rhetoric and it would leave russia in a better spot for an invasion later in the year of course i'll be the first one to admit that as an analyst one has a very strong urge to put caveats on things every analyst has an escape sentence in every assessment just so that in the event that they're wrong they don't look like a complete idiot and i'm not perfect i do that too i try not to do that so much because i think it's cheap and dirty and i think that analysts being afraid of being wrong is why the intel community sucks so bad and why bad analysts or yes men keep getting promoted but i would also have to argue that man if this all turns out to be a massive military deception campaign on russia's part they certainly fooled me and here's what they did to fool me russia deployed more people and equipment to their borders than have ever been deployed since world war ii and they spent millions of dollars and countless resources doing it they deployed most of their naval forces for no reason and moved vessels around the planet all the way from the arctic and from the pacific just to fool us they established ford positions and hidden staging areas on their borders that we didn't know about letting us see where russia would deploy if an invasion were to occur for real in other words if russia did this this massive deployment just to test nato's responses and get nato to reveal their wartime tactics well nato certainly learned vastly more about russia than russia learned about nato these actions on russia's part are why i think russia is going to invade if we were to flip through the checklists of what russia would have to do to invade ukraine almost every box has been checked there are only a couple of criteria that haven't really been satisfactorily met and the weather isn't super great nor are their logistics thus the uncertainty but right now i would and am making decisions based off of russia invading ukraine and whatever effects that might have on us here at home in addition to being a vital look into what a modern large-scale war might look like we do not often get chances like this to learn without experiencing casualties of our own and since ukraine is about to pay the price the least we can do is remember and learn the lessons that have been learned the hard way by others at this stage russia has a lot to lose if they don't invade there are a few things that russia gets out of this deployment so far like embarrassing nato and the knowledge that nato will back down in the face of russian aggression that's quite clear i think this was i think that was clear before this whole ukrainian situation launched i think it was clear in 2014 when the ukrainian conflict sort of kicked off in earnest but if russia doesn't invade look what she will have gotten she will have strengthened nato presence in eastern europe along a whole host of other things right we're talking new alliances forming more equipment flowing into ukraine and nato being more likely to accept ukraine into their memberships so regardless of whatever u.s politicians or defense industry executives are saying about this this is really it russia has a lot to lose if they don't invade at this point they have a lot to lose and very very little to gain unless there is some other kind of secret objective that russia is trying to go for and i something that i don't understand right of course nobody's perfect and i might be a total idiot on this i might be missing something completely huge right but i just can't see at this point what russia would have to gain other than some very minor things if they don't invade and before we closed out for today i just wanted to remind everyone that there is a lot happening around the world in fact it's maddening to try to keep up with it all keeping an eye on what's going on in europe is important because it affects us here at home but so is keeping an eye on what's happening here in the us or with our brothers and sisters to the north so do not think that we are neglecting our own backyard at the expense of talking about ukraine because it's interesting we are certainly watching what's going on in canada as well because very few people are talking about what's going on in canada and the the implications that this has on our entire western civilization um and we're going to be talking a lot about that in the next brief as well the next non-ukraine brief so i just want to let everybody know we're watching this stuff and we're trying to figure out what this stuff means for all of us here at home as well so thanks again everyone thanks for your support and remember to not let this stuff stress you out too much it's pretty easy to be overwhelmed with a lot of the stuff that's going on these days so taking some time to unplug and unwind is just as important as being informed so thanks again and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. Today I thought I would take some time to explain some of the updates to the mapping projects that I'm working on because things have gotten quite expansive. It's become quite a large uh endeavor and there are a few different things that I think might be helpful to explain in this sort of format. I didn't want to bury this in the weekend update this week. So I wanted to have a a dedicated video that I can point people to in the future when they have a question about something like an online map or a data layer or something like that. So, just keep that in mind if you're watching this in the future. This is how things stand as of April 2025. If you're watching this several months or even years in the future, things may be a little bit out of date because this is uh changing rather quickly. This is kind of a developmental thing. So, when developmental things are talked about, things change quite a bit. At the moment, I've got four main lines of effort which are in various stages of completion. The first most obvious one that you guys probably have seen me talk about quite a bit are the online maps. So, I am working mostly within the ArcGIS ecosystem. Now, there's pros and cons to this, which we'll get into in a moment, but right now, this is mostly an onlinebased mapping system. I know not perfect, but it's what I'm going with for now. And this will become apparent as to why in a moment. So, the online maps, I have two of them at the moment. One of them is the main one, the SIP cop main, the common intelligence picture, common operating picture main. Uh, I've just renamed it to being the common intelligence picture. It's the main map that I throw most things on. If there's an event going on around the world, check this map and chances are I will probably be zoomed into it watching it or I will be plotting stuff. This is the working document. This is the main place to be for anything going on around the world. I have an entirely separate map altogether for tracking events or showing data layers pertaining to the border crisis. So the United States Mexico border crisis. I have been working on this for a while. And the reason that I have this on a completely separate map altogether is because the the types of data layers that I'm going to need to display on that map are going to be very different than what I'm going to display on the main uh map. So, since these are online maps and they're very very heavy on the RAM usage by a computer, it's really best to keep things as as simple as possible and to keep, you know, tens of thousands of points off of maps if if if you can help it. So, the border crisis map is going to have a lot of imagery overlays. is going to have a lot of random points, a lot of layers that I can bring in from other people and it's it's going to be worthy of its own separate map. So that's why I have things arranged that way. If something else goes on around the world, I already have templates already kind of in my, you know, hidden in in my folders so that I can activate a special map for a special region just in case things start popping off in a very significant way around the planet that would require me to have a separate map for that. The other main project I have is what I'm calling the dashboard. Now, ArcJS calls this experiences. It's their marketing term for essentially a dashboard. The reason that it's a little bit confusing is because ArcGIS actually has a separate feature called the dashboard feature, but it really sucks. It's not helpful. So, the experiences is kind of the way to refresh that. And essentially what it is is a way of for me to display a lot of different stuff in a dashboard format. So, I can display the main uh map. I can bring in the border crisis map. So I kind of leave that. I can display two maps at the same time. I can show multiple of the same map but zoomed into different areas of the planet. So uh for instance I just kind of tend to zoom into places which are a little bit you know more helpful. Something's going on someplace I can zoom in but it's all displaying the same map. I can also display things like maps and charts. I can bring in my Obsidian notes. Uh for those of you who are aware, I all of my wire reports, all of the clickable sources and links for how I put together these uh intelligence reports, all of that is contained within Obsidian, a a sort of third party uh notetaking app. But what I can do is bring that in to the dashboard so that I can display text on the screen and I can update it in real time. So this is something that is I don't know how common it is. cuz I when I was doing this professionally, it wasn't very common at all. But it probably should be more common for I guess uh more professional intelligence groups to have this kind of architecture for arranging how their talk is laid out, their tactical operations center. Right? So essentially what you want to have in your office uh if you're so inclined or you're interested in this kind of thing is you can dedicate an entire monitor to this. So, I created this map dashboard solely for that reason, so that you can throw this uh web page up on a monitor if you've got a spare monitor. You can even throw it up on a projector and just use that. But it's kind of a one-stop shop place where you can someone can walk in, look at this for 30 seconds, and understand what's going on around the world. So, that's kind of the way uh that that works uh with the dashboard. Now, the cons with the dashboard is that it pulls a lot a lot of memory from your web browser. So, chances are if you're running the dashboard, at least for me, I mean, my computer's not that bad. But generally speaking, if I've got the dashboard up, I can't really run anything else in that browser. So, I don't know, your experience may vary, but that's kind of the way uh I use it at the moment is just kind of having a one-stop shop, one screen look at look at the screen to see what's going on around the world. The next line of effort is what I'm calling the Nexus. Now, this is something new. I have not announced this, so this is the first time you're probably hearing about this. So this is essentially ArcGIS has in their ecosystem a very primitive and very simple website builder. So this is what this is. This is what I'm calling the S2 underground nexus. It's just a website template, but it's it's a little bit different than a normal website in that I can bring in a lot of other things inside the ArcGIS ecosystem such as maps. I can show my online map on the web page. I can bring in YouTube tutorials. I can bring in uh other things such as surveys. So on the Nexus, the Nexus will be the chief spot for filing reports. So yes, I finally have not just one but a series of tip lines that you can go in and file a report on. So if you are interested in submitting information, the Nexus here, this is going to be the chief spot for sending me information uh about something going on around the planet. And you can see on the Nexus what kinds of reports are there. So I've got multiple ones. I've got a general tip line. I've got things for spotting aircraft and drones and all kinds of stuff, right? So if you're more of a sigant guy, you're more of a radio nerd and you start picking up hostile radio transmissions, you can go in and there's a special report format for that uh to let me know about these sorts of things. But there's also things like logistical shortages. So, if you go to the grocery store and see that, oh, wow, we're going through another another bout of uh logistical challenges or supply shortages. Remember the COVID years where everything was out of stock or something like that and I was tracking all these logistical shortages around the country? Well, now there's a better way for doing that. You can even scan the barcode of uh items uh just using your phone and report it to me that ah this this item is out of stock. So, I don't know how much use these are going to get right now. I'll talk about that in a moment. But right now, this is kind of the the ecosystem that I'm setting up. Now, again, this may be a gigantic failure. I have no idea. I would be willing to bet that probably 90% of what people submit is not going to be helpful or or usable, but we're going to give it a try, right? So, I've got these tools available to me, so I might as well use them. So, we'll give it a shot. And finally, all of this data, literally every bit of it, is available as a layer. So all of the things that are going to populate on the on the the online maps like the common intelligence picture or some of the stuff on the dashboard too, the online map that you guys see is just the way of visualizing that information. But really if you look down deep, it's really just a spreadsheet. And that spreadsheet has to be created by somebody, right? And that somebody's me in this case. So I'm creating a lot of feature layers that can be used and brought into other projects. So if someone has more of a uh let's just say you're working for a disaster relief group, right? and uh or even even an official group, right? You're like the Red Cross or something and you use ArcGIS in your disaster management system. Well, what that agency can do is if they have ArcGIS access, which most most of them do, you can just add my layers in and it will automatically update on their own internal maps. So, there's no telling where this data goes. As far as I know, the ArcJS uh system doesn't really have a way of uh telling who's using my layers. So, I don't have any analytics at all on any of this stuff. Uh, the only thing that I can see is how many people click on the SIP cop map. That's really it. It's just a total it's just a view counter. Uh, but other than that, I can't really see where this data is going. So, something to be mindful of, which I'll talk about in a moment. But yeah, all of this data is available for anyone who needs to use it, the raw data that is. And since it's available as a feature layer on ArcGIS online, this means that a lot of third-party tools, uh, a lot of thirdparty software packages that can pull from ArcGIS now have access to that data. So, I'm going to have to be a little bit vague on this for now because I'm aware of a few software packages that are still in development that are going to be able to pull from ArcJS online. And yeah, that'll be very, very helpful in the future. But, but for now, it's still kind of developmental. The bottom line is that even though this is underwhelming, you know, you're creating layers, so what, right? Well, it's going to be helpful later on. You would be really, really surprised to find out how hard it is to have a mapping solution where I can put a dot on a map and put a label on that dot and then share it with the world. That is really incredibly hard to do. So, so hard that uh there really aren't that many commercial solutions for it. And the ones that do exist, they don't fulfill all the requirements that we may need for say the backup data or you know uploading images or providing the sourcing for a report or something like that. This whole ArcGIS ecosystem, despite how infuriating it is, despite all the downsides, the ArcJIS ecosystem is still the best way I found for visualizing stuff like this in a more complicated way uh than than you might think. So those are the four main lines of effort that I'm working on right now. Let's go through and very briefly show you an example of what all four of these uh things look like from the end user's perspective. All right, so starting off with the common intelligence picture. This is of course the main uh bread and butter of this whole project. This is the main map that I'm using for most things. Many of you have been playing with this on your own and know how things work, but there are also a lot of features that are not entirely obvious at at face value. So, one of the first things is when you load this map in, you will see it probably zoomed in to to my view. Whenever I am working on the map and I save the map uh after loading something in or changing something, it will save it at the view that I looked at. So, for instance, today I'm I'm working on the uh wildfires in New Jersey. As you can see here, it's zoomed into New Jersey and I also have turned on a couple of layers that that might not be helpful for you. You can change that on your end, however. So, uh, for instance, let's just say you're not interested in New Jersey. You're you're trying to track some other crisis or you're looking around the around the United States or even around the world and the map gets a little bit busy. As you can see here, I have wildfire uh detection services turned on. Uh, and let's just say you don't want that. Well, you can turn that off very easily. Just go over to the layers tab, go into base data here, fire data, and you can turn it all off. Uh this is something you can do on your end. It's easy. Uh you could even turn on various things. So say you don't want the modus data, the the automatic satellite fire detection stuff and you just want the pucks from the national u wildfire agencies that plug into this. Well, here are just the wildfires, right? And if you don't want any of that, you can turn it all off. So something helpful for those of you who just want to visualize certain kinds of data. Another thing that's not entirely obvious is that these icons here, at least uh the icons that I load on on my layers, uh these are clickable. So you can actually click these layers and you will find a lot of data. So let's just say for instance, we click this icon here. We can see that it is indeed a vandalism uh incident. This is one of the Tesla attacks I suppose. And it's got the street address, the attack motive. So again, it's showing you the data that I am loading in on my end. And you can actually have clickable links to the sources for this information. So again, this is uh some of the raw uh data that you will see uh from your end. Not a lot of places do that. Not a lot of places want to share their sources and and I understand why, but if we're going to have a more holistic data driven approach, you know, we've got to have things like clickable links so that people can actually see that we're not making things up, right? And you know, we've got uh stuff like this which is very very helpful I think. So another thing that might not be very obvious, especially on mobile devices. So if you're using a smartphone to view this map, you can, but it it's not obvious that you can do this. You can select different layers and then apply filters. So for instance, I've got everything turned off here uh except for the kinetic activity tracker, the total database. So I've got that loaded in as a layer. Now, you can see here that I've got it loaded in multiple times to show the past seven days of activity and the past uh 30 days of activity. I just have that so that you can easily click on and off uh certain things. So, if you just want to see what happened in the past week, you can do that with just a single click. But really, I shouldn't have to do this because you can apply filters. So, let me show you what that looks like. So, all you have to do is click the layer here so that it's bolded and it will bring up generally the properties tab. Well, now you've got a bunch of tools here on the side that you can use to manipulate this data. So, let's go to filters and let's add a new filter. And let's say I want to only see uh the incidents that are arson. Let's see. I just want to look at arson events over the p over the whole database, right? So, uh I can just add a filter where attack type is arson. And look at that. Just arson attacks. So that's how you apply filters and you can actually get pretty crazy with this. Once this data set gets really really big and we start working with, you know, potentially hundreds of thousands of points on the map. Uh these filters are going to be a little bit more helpful. So let's just add a new one here. Let's go back. Let's add Okay, attack type is vandalism. Well, let's change that to let's see here. Well, vandalism is the biggest one right now. So let's just use that because I think it'll be a little bit more illustrative. And let's add another uh condition as well. So now what we're going to do is filter this map by attack attack types that are vandalism. So vandalism attacks and let's change it by date and let's say in the last let's say 8 weeks. So there we go. Uh now we're only seeing the vandalism attacks that have taken place in the past 8 weeks. So that's a pretty helpful way of of visualizing data if you're trying to do a little bit of data analysis. Now again, you can save this, but that's where RJS gets you. So, uh, they're going to they're going to want their subscription based off of that. So, um, you know, it's not going to be very very easy to do. It's going to save in your browser, but if you wanted to export that data somewhere, well, that's going to be a little bit harder to to get this data off of this map. But while you're viewing it, while you're using it, it's it's free. it's you don't even need to log in or anything. So, just something to to kind of keep in mind. One of the other things that you can do if you are so inclined is add more data. So, say uh you find somebody else who's got a better data set or something different, something you else you wanted to add. So, say like population demographics. I don't have that on my maps, but let's just say you wanted to do that. So, you can come in here and add a layer. Give it a second to populate. Uh you've got a couple of choices here. Living Atlas and ArcJS online. Living Atlas is uh the older format if I'm not mistaken. ARGS online is kind of the newer thing, but let's just see uh what we have here. Let's see. Well, we've got a couple of EZRI layers here for US Census populated place areas. Seems like a relatively new thing. It's it's authoritative and it's by EZRI. So, it's by the parent company for all of this. Well, now that's going to freeze my map, I think. But, uh, let's just zoom in here to a populated area like say Baltimore. And yeah, so there we go. We've got a a completely different layer that's now added to our map. And again, we can sort that if we so choose. So again, it should be clickable and it'll tell you the population of certain areas. So that may be helpful for you. Uh, it may be very useful over time. I don't know. Uh, but you can definitely add in other data. Now, of course, when you refresh the page, all these changes go away. So, uh it just goes back to the standard default. And that's the way this works with ARGS. If you want to save it to your own system, you're going to have to shell out for a very expensive subscription. So, again, I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for people who are just they don't want to log in. You don't want to pay for the service, but you want to have something uh to manipulate some data with. Well, you've got it with these online maps. So, let's jump over to the SIP COP dashboard, the uh dashboard product I've got going. And as you can see, it's a pretty heavy lifting product here. It takes a while to load and it it may uh stress your your computer if you're trying to run this on a laptop or something. Uh you know, good luck. I don't know. Um but it it may or may not load. But anyway, this is the dashboard product. And as you can see here, the reason that it takes so long to load is because it's loading four separate maps or however many maps that I want to put on it, uh, and all of these background projects. So, so say you don't really care about a certain area that I care about and I'm trying to track and do things, well, you could just expand it and and not worry about it so much. So, uh, the the really the world's your oyster here. You can do all kinds of stuff. Say you don't really care about my charts and data. Well, you can just drag it down and make it disappear. Uh likewise uh you can also since this is embedded in in most of the dashboards that I'm going to be using uh you can also access all of my Obsidian notes. So I think that's pretty helpful. So say you want a wire report uh you want to read the wire report in the actual map itself. You can um the default is obviously uh going to be set to the uh situation report. So, if there's some kind of situp that needs to happen, if I need to have text on screen to show a readable summary of what's going on or what's happened so far, I can do that. I know that the dashboard here, this dashboard product fills a really, really niche role. Like, most people probably are not going to use this, but it's there. Uh, I can change the default zoom level so that if we've got multiple crises going on around the planet or around the country or in an area. I don't have to constantly move around and zoom and uh, you know, save the zoom level and I don't have to do any of that. I can just zoom to a specific area. This this main one here that I've got in the upper right hand corner here, this is just a zip cop main and these other two are the same map. So, it's literally the exact same map loaded three times. I've just got to zoom to different areas. So, uh, as the default, this will change. Every crisis is different, right? So, every crisis needs different data loaded. As many of you know, during, uh, some of the aircraft crashes, I was using these two panels down here uh, for live streams. So, I can actually live stream news media coverage. If there's like a YouTube live stream or something, I can put that here on the map. I don't have to just show map data. Similar story with other data. So, I can put in charts and all kinds of data analysis tools based off of the layers of what's populating on these maps. I know it's super nerdy and it's not going to be helpful for everyone, but some situations it might be pretty helpful. And while there's, you know, no crisis going on that I need to track, you know, right now, I mean, there's always a crisis, right? But if there's some kind of major geopolitical situation going on, I can configure this dashboard to be the most helpful for someone to look at it and see what's going on. So, and finally, we have the Nexus. Uh, this is again ArcJS's primitive website builder. It's not pretty. I will admit I'll make improvements on that over time, but right now, again, we're we're working with a working product here. So, I have needed a general tip line for a very long period of time, but I have been very hesitant to implement such for a variety of reasons. So, hopefully this goes well. Okay. So, if you have something to send to me, you can use this general tip line. I'll just walk through it right quick. You click the tab, it opens up in a new tab. You can do this, of course, all on your phone. It's a little bit buggy on phones right now, but I'm I'm working on it. So, just just give me a minute. Uh it's it's going to take a little bit to uh get things kind of ironed out. But here's what it looks like on the internet, right, on a web browser. And you can see it's a pretty simple thing. You can just put uh the date and time something happens. You'd be surprised uh the the number of people who do not uh know what to report. They will a lot of people and and they're good naturatured. They're they're very well-meaning. But a lot of times, I would say 95% of the time when somebody gives me a tip about something or they send something to me, I can't do anything with it because usually there's critical data missing. Date and time, that's the basics, right? When did this occur? Um, that's a very, very critical step. Another critical step is the location. And as you can see here, I have a map actually embedded in the survey here. So, you can do one of two things. uh you can either uh click the map and it will try to suck your GPS coordinate in. But for the data uh conscious, you don't have to worry about that. Uh for for the people who don't want me to know where you're at or where the location the incident is taking place, uh don't worry about it. You don't need to to do that. You can just click the map. So you just click it. Random spot in Missouri. There you go. Uh and that will give me the lat and long of where the incident takes place. The reason that I have this location data enabled is for people who are say on the street, they witness something they and they don't know where they are. Uh but they can tap the map to get their current location right. So it's not necessary. I don't want to know where uh people are sending reports from. I I just really just need to know the incident where the incident is taking place. Uh because you'd be surprised how long it takes me to figure out where something is taking place. So again, don't worry about it too much if you you share as much data as you want. The the data is just coming to me. So obviously, if you're just sending me a link of something you saw on Twitter, please do not use your own location. I don't want to know where your couch is sitting in your living room. I don't care. Uh and I should not have that information anyway. But again, the location of where the incident is taking place is critical. Uh because well, I just need to know where things happen. Otherwise, I can't put it on the map, right? Likewise, I need to know if this is legit. So, if somebody sees something or there's some kind of uh crisis or something and there's no evidence of it or there's no like amplifying information, I can't do much with it. So, I have a spot here to upload media. There is a file size limit, so please don't drop a 12-hour documentary to me. But, yeah, we'll see how we'll see how much abuse that gets. I may have to shut that down pretty quickly. Who knows? And then also contact information. Notice that it is not required. You can submit this totally anonymously. Uh yeah, I don't care. Anons run the internet, right? So if you want to put your email address, a burner email address is perfectly fine. I don't care. It would just be really nice if you're submitting something that you know is not going to get a lot of media coverage and you like have firsthand information of something. It would be really helpful to have your contact information so I can reach out if necessary to get some more amplifying information. Uh because again I fully expect all of these reports to be abused quite thoroughly by malign actors, by spammers, you name it, right? So I fully expect a lot of false information to to be put into these forms. So I'm going to have to filter this quite a bit on my end. But coming back to the other forms, you can go and check them out on your own. Really, you can kind of see where I'm going with this. I'm frontloading effort. I don't expect hardly anyone to go to the grocery store and tell me when they don't have a can of beans on the shelf. But if there are major logistical shortages, again, like during the COVID years, I have a survey. I have a report format already there. So again, if we just open up the logistical shortages one, it's different. It's these are not all the same uh form uh that I need different information. So again, the date of when something occurs, the store name, and the good experiencing shortage. You can even scan uh barcodes with this. I don't know how well that feature is going to work. I guess we'll see. But either way, all of these reports are different. Same thing if you're a SIG nerd. Um we're trying to get ahead of the game with regards to things like jamming and signals interference. As we all know from the Ukrainian war, signals are important and it's going to be a little bit more of a problem as time goes on. For instance, even with my own ghost net, my own highfrequency radio network, I've experienced deliberate jamming. We don't necessarily have to wait for the war in Ukraine to kind of come to our modern society for these things to start existing already. So again, this is just a standard sort of military like uh signals intelligence interference report, right? And of course, it's very very different. It's it's just something that might be helpful. Of course, this is not linked to the FCC in any way. I'm just some guy on the internet, so this is just helping me out to figure out uh where jamming incidents are occurring. I don't think this is going to get too much use, but who knows if you I would assume that most of these is going to come from Ghostnet users who uh want to tell me that they got jammed during the net. So that was that's probably my guess as to where most of this use is going to come from. But again, there are plenty of others. This one, for instance, the report a drone sighting. This is solely in response to the New Jersey drone crisis from a while back. As you remember, nobody really set up a succinct, you know, processed master database for all of the drone reports. It's just people who were plotting what they saw on Twitter. There was no one place for people to report a drone sighting to people like me who were going to plot it on a map. Right? So again, if we have another hysterical case of drone sightings going on around the country, well, look, I've already got the form for that. So again, that's kind of the way things stand for now. Uh also on this Nexus tab, you can see some of the other products. You can click uh clickable links for the different different maps. I've got YouTube tutorials. My ghost notes are here as well. So again, it's just kind of a central hub, a nexus, right, for a lot of the data that I'm using geospatial products for. So I know that that is a lot of information to take in at the moment. It's it's quite a lot to to kind of start implementing now. But if you'll just give me a few more moments, let's cover the issues and improvements. So as you might imagine, there are some significant downsides to this whole line of effort that I'm doing. And one of the major problems with this is decentralization, or rather the lack of it. This is purely a centralized effort. All of the report formats, if you were to submit something, it's just going to come to me. Literally nobody else. Just me. All of the mapping stuff, all of these data layers, all of these online maps, it's all being managed by just me, right? And being a single point of failure is not good uh to me. I I don't like that. Now, of course, this is my work, right? So, it's going to have to have a level of single point of failure for now, but once it starts getting into more widespread use, I hope that this data at least can be used by other people. Of course, security concerns are very real uh these days. So, you know, if something happens to me, uh this whole project is going to die on the vine because not really anybody else can contribute to it. Nobody else can manage these things. Now, the data will hopefully be there as long as my account's there. But again, it's a single point of failure, and I don't like that. So, I would much rather have the ability for someone to, you know, ever so often do a pull uh pull all of my data and store it locally if they want to use it so they can build on it later on. ArcJS makes this relatively easy if you're in their ecosystem, but it's very expensive. It's not free. It's not it's not easy uh either to get involved with ARJS's ecosystem. So, you know, it's a hard thing to do. So, something I'm going to be working on in due time. I don't know how effective it's going to be, but I'm going to try to make this a little bit more decentralized because I just don't like being a single point of failure. Sort of along the same lines are the end user considerations. Again, this data is not very easy to use sometimes if you want to just use the raw data. So, I know that it is not uh the easiest thing to work with in the world and that is a problem. Now, ArcGIS, Ezri, really the parent company has made progress by leaps and bounds over the past few years to make GIS something that normal human beings can understand to some degree. Of course, that's a very loaded statement because this is some of the most complex stuff you could possibly do. Uh, it's not easy to do. There are whole professions, whole careers built around people understanding GIS. It's one of those things that if you understand it, you can potentially make a lot of money at it. But not a lot of people want to go through the effort of spending years and years and years of their life learning how to use this one software program. So either way, for the end user, that just means that it's hard to use, and that that's not good. So I'm working on making it a little bit easier for people who want to use this data, and they don't have to go through the mumbo jumbo of working through some of these really complicated ways of visualizing this data like I have to do on my end. sort of in the same vein as symbology. I know that the symbols are very confusing sometimes on the map. You may be wondering why am I using the certain symbols that I'm using. Well, for those of you who look at this map and don't understand what these symbols are. These are military standard 2525 symbols. So, these are a military format. And the reason that I'm using that is because it's a common standard. the entirety of NATO, most of the world uh uses this symbology in a more of a in more of a wartime setting for wartime mapping, uh things like that. I have found that it is the best way of using symbology on a map. Even though it's not very intuitive, I think it's the best way of visualizing this type of data on a map. If I were to start mapping say logistical problems and things like that, I'll use different symbols. But for say the kinetic activity tracker uh that data layer that that feature class there are symbols for all of these things. So I think using a common format is probably the way to go. Not only because it's a common format and my own symbols probably won't mean very much. They mean something to me but they may not mean something to you. Not only because of that but also because it's probably a very good idea to start learning what these symbols are. For instance the two I have here on the screen the blue rectangle. You know, blue rectangles are a friendly unit. Red diamonds are a an enemy unit or an adversary unit. So, in this case, you're looking at a friendly helicopter landing zone or HLZ. And uh the enemy one is an enemy light infantry unit. So, again, all of these things mean something. It's going to take time to learn what they are. But I think that by putting them in my mapping products, it will be helpful for the general public or the the more prepared public, right? The more the more informed citizen, right, to start understanding what these symbols are as best we can, right? I think it'll be very helpful in the future. So that's what I'm I'm doing with that. But again, when it comes to the enduser considerations, bringing this data in is going to be very helpful. Using it offline is going to be helpful. I know these are off these are online maps right now, right? How how helpful is that in the field? Well, it's not. Now, this was very helpful during the Los Angeles wildfires uh few weeks ago, couple months ago now. And because cellular traffic did not go down, so you've got this crisis where people need to know where to go. They need to know where the fire is located and a live updating map if you have cell service is really, really great. Now, obviously, if you don't have cell service, it's useless. But we're working on it. I'm working on offline uh ways of of manipulating and storing this data. So, one of the main ways that we can do this is by integrating with other products. And one of the bigger ones that I'm sure many of you are asking about is ATAC. Can my data be integrated into ATAC? The answer is yes and no. In classic fashion, many of you may not be aware, but there is an ATAC plugin for ArcGIS, but it's not available to the public. It's only available to the government. So, if you are a government user of ATAC, yeah, it's easy. You just add the plugin and you can pull in my data layers and see everything that I have put on the map on a tech. Really handy. But for the rest of us plebs and taxpayers, it's not possible. Uh at least not with that plugin. What you have to do is a lot of workaround. You have to export this data uh from the you have to export each layer. It's not easy. I can tell you it's not. It's possible, but it's not easy. So I think that the workaround for now is for me to generate if something goes down for me to generate KMZs that you can download and integrate into ATAC. That's just a a file format that's that's more readily common. It's usable with Google Earth and ATAC. And I think that's probably how I'm going to do it. But give me some time. I I got to work on this a little bit more because right now there's no real one-click way of integrating this data into ATAC that's easy for people to do on their end. Um it's possible. There's workarounds. It's just not easy. So, give me some time on that. Another thing I'm working on is automation. I'm trying to streamline the process to make things a little bit easier for me to do on my end. Now, this is a touchy subject because, well, I want to automate things to make things as easier for me and for you as possible, but at the same time, I don't want to just be a simple aggregator of data. And what I mean by that is you may not you're you're not going to see it on your end, but on my end, say these drone reports, say you go in and you file a drone report and you give me the location, you give me all the data that I need, and you click submit. Okay, cool. Well, on my end, I have the ability to turn on a layer which allows that survey response, that report response to autopop populate on the map without me checking it at all. You know, I can do that. Uh, but you guys might understand how that's a little bit dangerous to be doing. So, I don't want to do that so much. So really when you click submit it just comes into my dashboard and I have to go through and manually look at each specific report, figure out what it means and then generate my own puck on the map if I think that it is worthy of putting on the map. You can see how this brings in a lot of subjectivity, right? So now we're starting to add a person in between the raw data and what's displayed to the public. Again, this is 2025. Working on the internet is just not possible without doing that to some degree if you want to have a quality product. So there's going to have to be some interpretation. One of the things that you know may be a problem is say you've got a let's just take the drone example for instance. Somebody a drone flies over Newark again and I've got 200 reports of the same exact drone. Well, does that mean that I have 200 drones? No. It means that I have one drone that was seen by 200 people that filed 200 reports. We don't need 200 pucks on the map. Again, a lot of these uh things are going to have to be interpreted by a person. They're going to have to be processed by a person, in this case me, and that's going to bring in subjectivity. A lot of you are going to submit things that I don't think is worth putting on the map or it doesn't really fit with what I'm trying to do with the map. And, you know, people might get upset about that. A lot of people are going to post spam or fake information and I'm going to have to go through and verify all of this stuff, right? Just because somebody reports something doesn't mean it's true. So, there's going to have to be a lot of background work on my end. These report formats are just to make it easier on me. Uh so I don't have to ask questions. I don't have to go back and forth and I don't have to spend hours digging uh because somebody just sent me a tweet or retweet or tagged me in something on Twitter with no context, right? But again, there's always this battle between automation of the raw data to help me out and also trying to reduce the subjectivity on my end, but also keep a lot of subjectivity in there so that you're getting a quality product. Because I tell you, if I just open this up to the internet, well, one, that's that's a very bad idea. But if I were to allow all of the reports to just autopop populate on the map like I can do, you know, you're not going to get uh the best information. So, there's going to be a lot of processing that goes on on my end that is is going to be again a single point of failure until I figure out a better solution. And all of that just kind of leads to what this whole thing is about. I know I've talked a long time today about this, but really I'm just trying to convey to you what I am trying to frontload and what I'm trying to work on for later. Most of this stuff is not going to be helpful now. I honestly don't know if it will ever be helpful. I'm hoping that it will be, but right now I'm just getting the effort, the work, the templates, all this stuff done on my end so that when a crisis happens around the world, we can easily display the data that is helpful for people in need. That's really what this whole thing is about, to streamline this process, make it easy, because I tell you, you know, trying to go through an ARJIS tutorial that's 4 hours long during the middle of a a minute-by-minute crisis, that's not the time for that sort of thing. If I have a bug or I have to have a problem within this on my end with regards to my learning of ArcGIS, the time to learn is now, right? Similar situation for you guys on your end. The time to learn how to use these mapping tools is now, not during a crisis. Because I can tell you if I were to, you know, just say, you know, Xe event occurs, go in there for all of you, hop into the Nexus and start pushing me information if you've got it. Nobody would know what that means without this video to explain, right? If I were to say, hey, look, dashboard is up. I've got the SIP cop updated as well. Nobody knows what that means unless I've explained it beforehand. So really, this is just kind of a front-loading of the effort so that if something important happens around the planet, we can more easily understand what's going on and it's kind of, you know, bringing bringing the team together, right? So hopefully this has been helpful for many of you. I know this is very longwinded way to talk about online maps. Can you think of anything more boring? I I know, right? It's it's not the most entertaining stuff, but this is the kind of thing that wins wars and saves lives. Uh I know that it it may not seem like it, but it does. Now, of course, we don't want to say this is the best thing since sliced bread, right? But this is some of the more boring things that we have to work through that are going to build the infrastructure for uh cooler stuff later on. Many of you can probably read between the lines on some of the stuff I've said today and some of the stuff I've covered and you can maybe uh see where I'm going about, you know, ways of of using this information in the future, other things we can bring in, other ways of automating things. So, I I'll leave that for a future update. But for now, this is the way things stand and it is, I think, a pretty good start. So, thank you all of you who have stuck with me through this and I'm really excited to see where this goes. I really do appreciate it. And again, a special thank you to all of you on Patreon who have supported me through this uh endeavor and getting this thing going. I I know that it's uh not the most entertaining thing sometimes, but I really do appreciate this because in due time, this is going to be uh one piece of the puzzle that is going to help out some of the other projects we're working on. Right? As you can see, maybe we can tie in a lot of the stuff we've already built. Maybe tie in the ghost net a little bit more. You see where we're kind of going with this? All of it will become a little bit more clear in due time as as we can get more organized and and get some of this uh uh workload out the door. So, I would not have been able to do this at all without your support on Patreon. So, thank you so much for that. So, that's all I have for today. I know I've talked way too long already, but thank you guys all again for watching, and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

the night was cool for summertime but claude terrell the owner of the world famous restaurant la tour de geant had more pressing matters he and the rest of the restaurant staff as well as their families had just completed their grueling and back-breaking task and not a moment too soon a few weeks later this lavish restaurant would be void of the usual patrons the fine tuxedos and beautiful evening gowns of french high society would give way into an ocean of icy grey uniforms and shiny leatherwoods the occupation had begun so when a few german cargo trucks pulled up outside the restaurant claude was not surprised in fact all was going to plan as a man swaggered up to him claude could tell that he was in charge of this troop one could always detect the sneering aristocratic air of a general's aid waving around a fistful of papers as was stereotypical of the occupiers the man did not hesitate to drop the chilling name of his master herrmann garing gehring had sent this weasel on the express mission to seize their stock of 1867 bordeaux some of the most prized vintages in the world but claude simply shook his head with sadness claiming that those bottles had already been drunk the sniveling little man of course did not believe him but searching the vast wine cellar made it clear all of the rare vintages were long gone not to be outdone and returned empty-handed gehring's aide successfully cleaned out most of the wine from the cellar stealing over 80 000 bottles over the next few weeks and months but that unassuming building on the banks of the river san the restaurant that had served kings and queens for centuries was very good at keeping secrets [Music] as the nazi war machine rolled through paris the spoils of war were a vital part of the wartime economy for the german high command the invasion of france served many strategic and political purposes but also cultural and social purposes as well paris the heart and soul of european culture world renowned for its art and culture was a grand prize for the nazi occupiers as a result paris became a great place for rest and recreation for the occupiers in fact every german soldier was promised a liberty pass to visit paris at least once and immediately after the occupation the streets of paris were filled with the clacking sounds of thousands of jack boots on the cobblestone streets france and especially paris was of course a great military target for germany but a huge motive for the nazification of france was psychological in nature after the occupation all of the clocks in france were set to german time all the road signs were changed to the german language and all traces of france's government were covered with bright red swastikas this psychological warfare was important to the german military for one it increased some morale since most germans had thought that france's punishments and isolationism towards germany after world war 1 was unjust and therefore german soldiers pillaging and plundering paris for spoils of war was not viewed as theft but taking back what was rightfully theirs so there was an element of dehumanization to the occupation as was common throughout germany in the lead-up to the holocaust for the french a traditionally very romantic and passionate culture the black eye of having their nation plundered was a huge hit to their morale of the greatest of these economic and psychological beatings was that of the plundering of french wine france has been the epicenter and world leader in wine production for centuries producing hundreds of millions of bottles even during the war the export of fine french wines was such an important part of german wartime economy that adolf hitler himself commissioned the institution of vine fears or officials that would oversee the export of wine from nazi-controlled french territories this was not only because french wine was so valuable on the export market and therefore could sustain germany's wartime economy a little bit but also because it was a steady supply of alcohol for the german army in addition to being a dagger in the side of france's ego so a triple win for germany over the centuries france's place at the top of the charts for wine production and quality have become heavily ingrained in french culture as it is today but during the war wine became an allegory the nazis taking france's treasured wines was akin to trampling on a nation's soul a patriotic symbol of that nation so it made sense for the nazis to rob france of her precious wines it wasn't only great for german morale but also a slap in the face to the spirit of the french people the french resistance movement during world war ii has become legendary a romanticized tale of the underdog defeating the most technologically advanced army in the world but stepping away from the traditional stories of resistance one little known and often forgotten story lies in the dark corners of a wine cellar wanting to protect some of their nation's most vital resources in industry french vintners quietly created some of the most elaborate resistance networks the world has ever seen all with the goal of ensuring that not a drop of france's finest ever made it into a nazi's glass among the most famous of examples is the story we mentioned in the beginning that of the smuggling operations conducted in secret at the paris restaurant latur darjant recognizing the risk to their vast wine collection when the nazis invaded claude terrell and countless others worked around the clock to construct a false wall in the wine cellar below the restaurant this hidden part of the cellar concealed the most valuable and rare bottles while the rest of the cellar was filled with bottles that were filled with the cheap stuff but they didn't stop there winemakers throughout france created intricate schemes to prevent the theft of their precious wines a favorite tactic was to swap the labels on wine bottles turning a bottom shelf rotgut wine into a rare vintage they would collect dust and cobwebs to cover the new and cheap wine bottles with making them seem old and vintage while concealing the truly rare and valuable wines in secret rooms and complexes the wine making industry was also heavily involved in what we think of as the traditional french resistance with winemakers smuggling people in wine barrels or blowing up trains laden with wine that was to be exported to germany the vast network of wineries in the resistance also meant that intelligence could pass quite literally through the grapevine intelligence operatives quickly learned that most major german offensives were preceded by orders for vast quantities of alcohol in the time-honored tradition of getting troops ready for battle this proved quite useful and intelligence gathered from orders of wine and champagne were passed on to british intelligence in one case french wineries were requested to specifically cork and package the wine to withstand extreme heat which not only confirmed rommel's imminent offensive into north africa but also gave a relatively precise timetable for when the campaign would begin some of the more clever and humorous resistance methods were for winemakers to directly target the gastrointestinal fortitude of the germans by stocking up on au de satine which translates to purgative water or laxatives and over at the bollinger headquarters the staff figured out that their local vine viewer was actually a portly fellow being quite overweight so when he came to visit they offered him a small very thin chair in which to sit that could obviously not take his weight therefore he was forced to stand for his entire visit and rumor has it that he never personally visited the vollinger facilities ever again so even with the most technologically advanced military and with total control over an occupied nation pride and embarrassment were still valuable weapons all of these great stories of resistance and national unity are great and all but we would be quite negligent if we did not point out the dirty laundry of french resistance at the time this will be greatly important in just a moment despite these interesting and motivating stories that tend to over romanticize the situation the french resistance as a whole was actually not that efficient of an organization in fact there wasn't really one single organization at all as one might think a lot of people think that the french resistance was a hierarchical and unified organization with a highly networked infrastructure in the command system this is simply not true the reality of the time was that throughout the war there wasn't really one main coordinated resistance effort but rather pockets of resistance throughout the nation and many of these pockets of resistance hated each other french culture has historically been very interesting not unlike the current issues in the us actually and during the war you have lots of different resistance groups that are composed of people that are just ever so slightly ideologically different from one another so what you get is hundreds of resistance groups that all have their own motivations and most of which don't end up working well with one another let us also not forget that the vast majority of french fighting aged males were not a huge factor for the resistance being interred in german labor camps as soon as germany invaded or otherwise forced to work in some capacity to supply the german war machine in other words there weren't a whole lot of strong young men that had a lot of free time to conduct clandestine operations in nazi occupied france and this was also very much well known by the allied high command upon the creation of the special operations executive or soe when they began supplying and coordinating resistance efforts they found that they did not have as many potential operatives as they first thought and what few resistance groups could form they were highly factionalized also despite what the history channel tells you most historians generally agree that around 2 percent of france's population at the time was actively involved in the resistance that's a pretty small number considering the great national pride that france currently puts on their resistance but once you get down into the weeds of the history and atmospherics of the time this low number of resistance fighters actually kind of makes sense a big factor was that resistance activity was very dangerous and often did not achieve their desired result plus families were often in a state of conflict as when a family member engaged in any actions against the germans that put the entire family and sometimes the whole town at risk this is a problem inherent to guerrilla movements fighting an occupying force the occupier not targeting the gorillas but the civilian population creating resentment between guerrilla fighters and the civilian population a population that they need the support of to have any chance at success so what all of this adds up to is a lot of uncoordinated groups many of which hate each other more than they hate the germans but all being supplied with small arms and explosives air-dropped by the allies conducting insanely risky operations most of the time for very little gain in the end and alienating a good portion of the population who want to avoid reprisals by the germans sounds very different from the romanticized history that we have been led to believe so what can we learn from these stories of resistance during wartime and apply them to our current situation one of the most important takeaways is the concept of the effectiveness of economic warfare napoleon was most certainly correct an army marches on its stomach adapted for today's world this idea becomes a tyrant operates with your money whether it's a few meme bros on reddit costing the untouchables of the world billions of dollars or if it's unsatisfied disney customers creating their own show to prevent cancel culture economic warfare is one of the most valuable tools we have in today's world yes it is true that currency has very little worth because it isn't a finite source and as such powerful people quite literally can print out more money but the metric that currency cannot accurately measure nowadays is value value itself is a currency and it is a hard to quantify one at that that's why wine had a great value during the war economically investing in a currency at the time was not really ideal as by the time france was fully occupied following the german southern expansion into vichy france the concept of money wasn't really a stable market but physical things had value such as wine so by softly sabotaging the wine industry the french people were able to quite significantly affect nazi operations but we must remember that statistic only two percent of french people at the time participated in resistance efforts so we must remember that the french wine industry did not take a scorched earth policy but rather chose to slowly bleed the german empire from within if the french had destroyed all of their wineries that would have caused a severe blow to the french economy which remember the french people were thinking about things after the war even before the occupation that's why most wineries decided to band together during the height of the occupation with the goal of conducting more of a soft passive resistance rather than a guns ablazing rebellion blowing up their own refineries and burning their vineyards was not exactly ideal but hiding their good wine and slowing down production would ensure that they had resources equipment and value after the war which by this point was turning in the allies favor with the landings in italy plus they knew that the germans were not playing around and would not hesitate to kill them all if they found out that the wine makers were intentionally sabotaging their products but in a sentiment that is echoed throughout time it is rarely a crime to be bad at your job which is an idea that french winemakers took to heart in modern times it appears that this idea is being carried forward during the coveted crisis last year during the height of this supposed crisis the federal government went into wartime mode forcing companies to produce things like masks sanitation products and ventilators well we also know now that there is a good amount of evidence that the federal government also outright stole medical supplies from private or state-run medical facilities so as to increase their own stockpile realizing that the federal government is probably the least efficient entity on the planet most hospitals entered into a free-for-all mode trying to get as many resources for themselves as they could this was done knowing that the federal government was incapable of adequately meeting needs in a timely manner some states turned to treachery because of this politicians in new york city actively lied about the true number of coveted cases so as to hoard resources and more importantly federal grant money to themselves resources that never got used other places took a more sneaky route providing the federal government with broken ventilators presumably keeping the working ventilators for themselves we know that this occurred because when california tried to cry wolf that their coveted cases were increasing the federal government swooped in and gave them ventilators that they presumably stole from somewhere else ventilators that were allegedly broken so if this is true which we haven't really been able to verify but assuming that it is true that would mean that some hospital or probably lots of hospitals knowingly and willingly gave the federal government defective devices keeping the functional ones for themselves they knew that if the federal government had the ventilators it would be very unlikely that they would actually be able to put them where they were needed in time when it comes to allocating resources in an emergency the government is always a day late and a dollar short or more accurately five days late in a pallet of water short but if hospitals kept the ventilators for themselves they would be able to use them in seconds rather than the days it would take the federal government to send them days that patients don't have some people did this for the money like in new york but in many unnamed hospitals across the country we cannot help but wonder how many hospital administrators intentionally did this so that they would not have the feeling of watching a patient die because they loaded a ventilator onto a truck only for it to sit in a warehouse somewhere we will likely never know how many silent heroes made this tough decision just like during the war in our modern times we also have to worry about factional disputes as we all know by now every day that goes by the powerful people that more or less run the world have spent a lot of time effort and money to keep these factions going against each other they don't really care who's on top as long as everyone is fighting each other instead of them so when it comes to economic sabotage in the modern era we cannot discount this factionalization for many groups in the united states if their adversarial group were to not exist their primary adversary would be the federal government so by having a group that is adversarial this enables the federal regime to not bear the full brunt of a united populace against them which is why governmental agencies are doing everything short of openly encouraging conflict between social groups much like many french resistance groups in 1940 the factionalization in america has reached an almost comical level i mean just look at the republican party there are people in the republican party that are just ever so slightly different from each other in fact these differences are so slight that if you were on the outside looking in you wouldn't think that there are any differences at all but these microscopic differences are such a big deal nowadays with every group that people are willing to kill each other over a difference that is so minute that one would be hard pressed to actually find that difference at all just as with resistance movements in france groups that are fighting each other aren't fighting the occupying force so encouraging at least non-aggression pacts between factions was just as important in 1940 as it is today overall mission success and effectiveness is also a huge factor to consider as just like during the war we in modern times have to be concerned with the effectiveness for much the same reasons this is where the concept of combined operations comes into play during the war french resistance fighters were all about that action at first willingly taking out bridges killing sentries stealing equipment and all the stuff that we see in movies but very soon this became a pipe dream see the germans soon instituted a policy that for every german killed by the resistance they would execute 100 captured french resistance fighters and for every german wounded they would execute 50. of course by the end of the war these executions turned into mass killings of civilians in many cases these extremely high stakes made it very unlikely that even hardened resistance members would do something like blow up a bridge which usually had a century or two at it it simply wasn't worth it for them this was especially unlikely considering that if the resistance were to take out a bridge a single bridge in the middle of nowhere it wouldn't really do much the bridge would be repaired and 100 citizens dead the next morning however if resistance groups could be coordinated to all take out a bridge or railway crossing all at once and immediately before something like the normandy invasion well this would make these efforts worth it so what does that mean for the modern times well this idea certainly takes a less aggressive stance since the us is not being invaded by an outside force but we can adapt to this idea for our modern nation people have noticed that protests don't really work and they usually don't on their own politicians simply don't care what you think it doesn't matter how loud you scream your opinion in the street nobody cares but if you were to combine a protest with a walkout and with a boycott and with a sit-in all on a very important and busy day that could actually make quite a difference in fact a group called the albert einstein institution has developed a master list of 198 non-violent resistance actions that can successfully be used against a tyrannical or dictatorial system their founder dr gene sharp was before his death in 2018 largely considered the father of modern non-violent resistance tactics and as such his organization remains dedicated to this idea but even if we have a list of 198 different tactics and techniques in order for them to be effective they cannot be used in a solitary manner but rather combined together an attitude of non-compliance combined with a boycott combined with the establishment of independent currencies and economies these would not only be vastly effective at giving back people their freedom but also take power away from dictatorial systems and since power is a zero-sum game any power that you create for yourself is taking power away from the untouchables of the world why do you think that the entire concept of self-defense is such a target for these people so going down this list of 198 non-violent actions you will notice that many of these tactics are quite familiar in fact the political left in the united states has been using these tactics against the political right for a long time now even if they themselves don't know it entities like blm and antifa have used many of these tactics like sit-ins and protests in conjunction with more violent means such as harassment property destruction and rioting in order to get their message across but these efforts have been quite ineffective in many areas due to their polarizing alienating and inflammatory rhetoric which is something that we should learn from and that forming a group such as blm or antifa pretty much guarantees that a group will not be around for very long blm is like a firecracker it burns bright for a short time and may break some stuff but after a while it dies out because it ends up alienating everyone who might have been an ally same thing with the bugaloo movement but that movement suffered from other downfalls as well so seeing as our own invasion if you want to call it that isn't a bunch of panzers rolling across the countryside but rather a lot of suits and ties signing a lot of documents we have to realize that resistance to our current tyranny can draw similarities to the resistance movements over time but at the end of the day this fight is our own think about it if the french people who were fighting an outside invading force that was already known for its gruesome brutality and for its mass killing of civilians basically the worst of the worst if the french people were never really able to unite one voice against them until the allied armies had already landed in france just how easy do you think it would be to get people to unite together in the united states right now getting people to form together and not fight each other is 99 of the battle tactical gear and small unit tactics are honestly a small almost afterthought when it comes to the priorities of a strategic campaign yes we absolutely can learn from the french resistance but the lessons we should learn are not necessarily how to live in the woods and blow up trains but rather how to get groups to work together against an oppressive force how to hide and conceal value so as to have an advantageous position when other people expect you to be at a disadvantage how to conduct various trade craft such as building secret facilities from which you can plan operations or hide friends and family in relative safety more than time pencils we need actual pencils more than limpet minds we need hearts and minds this is why we should learn from those french wine makers in 1940 for them outright resistance meant death and the same fate awaits american citizens today if they were to speak out or take action against powerful people though right now we are unlikely to be stood up against a wall for exercising our first amendment a single tweet can not only result in you losing your job but can also result in law enforcement targeting you the mob targeting your home your bank accounts getting shut off and your entire life being sent into a downward spiral and all because of a single tweet for the winemakers getting caught conducting even low-level acts of sabotage meant certain death for american citizens a much more lenient but still horrific fate awaits anyone who gets caught but passive resistance and covert low-level actions were how they fought their war and these sentiments will definitely help us now so even though it might not be as romantic or daring as hiding a bottle of 1867 bordeaux right under herman gehring's nose refusing to support an occupation of our own by not allowing troops to be quartered might just be a step in the right direction to encourage the right kind of behavior and patriotism though it may not be as exhilarating as the maquis hiding out in the french foothills deciding to not pay for propaganda and cancelling your entertainment subscriptions would certainly strike a serious economic blow to tyrannical companies and though it may not be as exciting as smuggling people out of an occupied zone in wine barrels creating your own economic ventures and engaging in a little economic warfare of your own might just make a difference and help us live up to the reputation that the rest of the world has come to know us for we've got a lot of people counting on us to get this right so let's not let them down so that's all we've got for now make sure to stay tuned for our next episode and please make sure to like this video and subscribe to our channel so that you never miss another episode and if you'd like to be more engaged with the s2 underground project please check out our other platforms and if you would like to support us monetarily please consider supporting us on patreon or by checking out our merch store and with that we will see you next time and just like those french men and women in a wine cellar in 1940 fight in the shade [Music] you

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground I know it has been a long time since we've been online so I wanted to make a quick podcast letting everyone know that we're all right and the reason for the absence so jumping right into things for those of you that are unaware we have moved I've tried to keep some of you in the loop during this process but I haven't been able to have as reliable communication as I wanted I had not planned on ghosting everyone so to speak but to put it simply we had to get the hell out of Dodge and we had to do it quickly some of you might remember me briefly mentioning in a previous video the idea of grabbing a backpack and heading for the hills in the dead of night it's funny because I said that to make a point about logistics and a lifestyle of Readiness I had no idea that I myself would basically be following my own advice because that's pretty much how things worked out I can't get into the details too much because I don't want anyone figuring out exactly where I lived for obvious reasons but me and my family pretty much immediately made the decision to move and move quickly reasons for the move are basically what many of you are also experiencing extreme violence in cities made worse by entities that encourage the violence high costs of goods High theft rates extraordinarily bad racial violence and in my personal case a decently nice neighborhood made into an absolute ghetto in every possible way by leftist politicians and entities granting free money to people and allowing Section 8 applicants to rent a quarter of a million dollar houses so after a few more rather specific events in my area and having long tired of seeing squad cars I and my immediate family have moved to an extremely remote area in eastern Appalachia the reason for being so quiet during this move is rather simple we had to move a really long distance by ourselves without getting any Moving services or even a U-Haul because well number one moving trucks weren't even available and due to everyone like ourselves fleeing the cities at this point and two the locals in my area have been known to rob people at gunpoint or launch a home invasion when they knew people were moving their valuables so this move is quite literally echoed the Allied withdrawal from Gallipoli over a century ago all the be it with much less Bloodshed so over the period of a couple of months we basically disappeared into the night with the neighborhood thugs learning of our absence only after we were long gone I know that may sound a bit extreme or a bit over dramatic especially since I can't really elaborate on the specifics of my old local gangs but what's done is done perhaps I will go into further detail regarding some of the issues that we faced in the hopes of helping others get through a similar situation but I'm not going to pretend to have the answers to our nation's socioeconomic problems my immediate solution was to leave and trade space for time time to think prepare and get myself and my family from the violence including state-sponsored violence as fast as possible as far as the new place there's good news and a bit of bad news the good news is that it's much safer Far From Any City and very good for expanding the underground here as much as we want we specifically chose this particular place because of the filming potential and after taking a look around property this place will be excellent for that the bad news is that these sellers pretty much destroyed the primary residence on the property before the sale both intentionally and through their own neglect over the years it's not a foreclosure but it almost looks like it based on the things we have to fix I'm not entirely sure why they did this though the deal did go sour pretty fast at least on our end everything about this sale went sideways from the bank requiring absurd things for a simple conventional mortgage to the realtor actually breaking the law quite seriously and forging documents so who knows what the sellers were up to or what they were going through all I know is that this simple Fixer-Upper has turned into a complete gutting and overhaul and since we're going to have to do all the work ourselves we're going to be quite busy for a long time but we will still be able to meet our quasi-regular content uploads we'll make that work for sure and of course show some of the projects that we'll be working on because we're going to be building a headquarters from the ground up speaking of uploads the other main downside to the location we've moved to is internet access it's simply non-existent so we're having to work around that which is challenging but we'll make it work we might not have 4K videos for a while but you all shouldn't notice any difference with most of our stuff the frustration is all on our end with uploads taking forever but again we'll make it work if I have to drive to town to get some Wi-Fi at the library we'll we'll do that we'll make it work all in all we are certainly changing one set of challenges for another but now we've got enough land to feed ourselves with and hopefully many others if the political economic and social situation nationally takes a serious turn for the worse things are getting spicy these days and I think that a lot of people are about to learn what true hardship really is so even though what we've got here is far from perfect I am very happy that we have what we have we have some serious potential to do a lot of good things and I can't ask for much else moving forward the next couple of weeks are going to be kind of Rocky as far as content goes I'm going to prioritize getting an Intel update brief out as soon as possible I'm sure everyone has noticed that the world has gone completely insane since the last Intel update so I really need to change the format again to better represent the issues that I think are important and the things you all might want to know about I haven't even started on that just yet so the next brief might be the old format until I can decide what to go with or whether or not I need to split things into smaller more topical briefs but again we'll figure something out for the more educational stuff we do the more doctrinal Style videos we're looking into greatly expanding things both on the main channels and in the war kitchen and some non-video based stuff as well some of you already know the behind the scenes stuff we've been quietly working on and and those projects will be put into overdrive to get something tangible out to the public soon on the communications front we're also looking at revamping that as well at some point we need a new com card for one and I really want to get a more reliable and secure Communications infrastructure that's easy for everyone to use you all know how long we've been working on that issue with no real solutions being super great or reliable in the long run but we're going to be looking at that more seriously nonetheless so yeah lots of big plans already in the works and lots of big challenges to overcome though things seem overwhelming in the short term over time we'll get into the swing of things and I hope we can begin to help all of you as much as you have helped us I thank God for putting people like you in our path to make all of this happen again I know a lot of people say this a lot though I myself am tragically lacking and reaffirming this but we here I especially would not be here if it were not for all of you watching our videos engaging with us in our chat servers helping out others within our ecosystem here and taking the ideas we've taught and improving on them to make everyone a bit more capable none of the good work that we have done or started would have been possible without all of you without the S2 underground project becoming as successful as it has been I know that I would still be locked away in some skiff doing the devil's work for a government that is looking to erase every honorable person from existence people always say to be thankful for your challenges because they prepare you for the next ones I've heard that and I've even said it many times myself over the years but I have truly embraced that idea fully now we've certainly got our work cut out for us I know that all of you out there watching this are also taking things day by day as well and for those of you who are having a rough time or are starting to have a rough time and it seems like life just keeps throwing punches at you I want you all to know that I hear you and know exactly what you're going through and we're going to get through this together things always seem to be way worse than they really are when you're in the thick of a problem but once you overcome it it doesn't seem like it was that big of a deal at all that applies to everything from small problems to the big problems we're facing as a nation we'll get through it whatever happens so let's get to it and see what we can really do I'll be back again with another update soon but until then fight in the shade

[Music] hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground so today we're going to be taking a look at how to download better more accurate and more recent imagery satellite imagery for wintec and attack applications you can also use this imagery in google earth if you're so inclined or any other mapping software but to do this today we're going to continue sticking with our example here of the smithsonian in washington dc as you can see here i've still got the imagery overlay turned on from our last video so if you don't know how to overlay internal like building maps overlay those onto an atac or wintac map just go ahead and check out that video and that will show you how to do that but the reason that we're downloading this imagery is to make this map a little bit better so the first thing we need to do to download better imagery is actually abandon attack because we're not going to download the imagery through wintec we're going to download it from the internet so let's jump over there alright so here we are on the usgs data distribution service website for the bulk download application tool i cannot think of a more dull and boring sounding name than this particular product but this is going to be very necessary moving forward if you're going to download more than just one image so if you haven't done so already you can create an account with the usgs it's free it just requires an email they ask for some more information but they don't really check on if you fill it out correctly or not so just go ahead and create an account that's going to be very necessary to use this bulk download application tool so if you go ahead and download this make sure that you choose the the correct uh version for your system otherwise it will make you want to pull your hair out because it won't work right so uh or it'll just partially work and you won't get the full benefit so if you have a 64-bit system make sure you get the 64-bit platform all right so once you've downloaded this you can run the installer it's just an exe file it's a fairly straightforward installation process i'm just going to skip right over because it's really not worth covering but to download the imager we're going to jump over to another website called the earth explorer so let's jump over to the usgs earth explorer and this is the main website as you can see here it's just a map of the united states and it's got a lot of stuff here don't worry we're going to go through all of this in in great detail so the first thing you need to do is really understand that imagery is not a simple thing imagery is is very wide ranging it can take many different forms and there are lots and lots and lots of different kinds of imagery and many different ways to download it this is just one way that we would recommend because it's just really easy to do comparatively so with all that in mind when you're downloading imagery you need to be very very very specific what kind of imagery do you want where you want the imagery how much of it do you want from a particular area and when do you want it and there's a million other parameters that you can fill out to get imagery so let's go through that process with one single type of imagery for the area so the first thing we need to do to do that is zoom in to our particular target area this is zooming on in let's see here we are and i have zoomed in as far as my mouse will let me here on over top of the smithsonian national air space museum so once you've got this nice and centered in your field of view here we're going to go over here now ignore this top part for a second we don't really need it for right now this is for more more advanced type stuff and we're going to go down here and tell the tell the system tell the database where we want this image to be taken so what you can do is you can choose all these different kinds of tools to to pre-define an area you can choose different polygons you can do all kinds of stuff but we're just going to click use the map and that's why we centered our map on this particular building because now it just took a it just took the corners of where the display was looking and that's good enough for us we don't that's that's a nice uh that'll give us a good sample here you can also type in each corner manually but who wants to do that the next thing you're going to want to do is tell the system when when do you want this imagery taken so i have chosen the dates january 1st 2010 to 2021. now normally this would would give you a lot a lot of images but for us for this very small area it's not going to give us a lot it's just going to give us a handful to work with more than what we need but it's better to have more when you're downloading this type of stuff and also what you're going to want is to click cloud cover right here you're going to want to change this cloud cover to be zero to like 10 percent that's that's sort of the industry standard if you have less than 10 percent less than 10 cloud cover for your image it's good enough good enough for government work at least right and if you happen to be searching for a much larger area right down here this will save your life by clicking result options changing results per page to 250. if you're downloading more than say 250 images this is what i would choose but we're just going to download a few for today so once you've got your criteria you've told this database where you want images taken from you've told the system when you want them taken from and you really told them sort of what right here with the cloud cover but we really need to specify what kind of imagery so the next step is you can click data sets here or you can click it up here at the top either one will take you to the same place and this is where you're going to choose what kind of imagery you want so we're not going to cover all of these it would take us at least an hour to cover all of these different types of of imagery and their uh and their subsets here so we're just going to pick one and the one we're going to pick is going to be aerial imagery high resolution ortho imagery that's the only one we're going to want to download and that is the only one that will come up in our search here so you can leave this expanded closed whatever it doesn't work it doesn't matter and then now you now that now the search is complete right you can put in additional criteria if you know what what image number you want you could put that in there but this is just for a simple simple explanation uh once you've got that selected whatever imagery you want click results and it's going to think for just a second and there we go now this one only gave us five images five images of this particular area now we'll show you what these tools mean along the bottom here very very quickly we're gonna blaze through that because it's not super important but up here at the top what you can do is this will probably probably be like this click show result controls this will help you out a lot and just click show all footprints from current page there you go that will tell you that will show you the footprints of all of these images that were taken since there are five i'm guessing that each of these squares was imaged twice and this was imaged once that's just my guess from doing this quite a bit but you can go ahead and leave that turned on or leave it turned off i'm going to turn it off for now to show you what each of these little markers along each individual image means and here in your search results these are actual this is every image that was taken by the satellite the raw image right so the first one shows you the footprint clicking that will tell you the footprint of the image it will tell you where it was taken on the earth and if you wanted to get rid of that for a second you could go to the next one which will show you the actual image so this is the actual image it will allow you to browse and then zoom in it's not going to be terribly high quality at this stage it trust me if i were to download this image it will be very it will be a lot more high quality later but just during here in the browse function it's not really that high quality and then these next these next two icons aren't super important this one will show you it will allow you to compare a couple of images that overlap this next one here will allow you to see the metadata from it which is important if you're trying to do some math using this imagery which we will show in a later video some of the math you might want to use when looking at this imagery and then these next three are are kind of useful so the first one here this one with the little green arrow pointing down that will allow you to download just this one image if you if this is the only image you want you can click here and download that this will allow you to not use that weird data download tool that you had to install your computer like i mentioned in the beginning if you just need one image that's all you need right there but usually you're going to be downloading a lot so that's where you're going to need to click this which will allow you to add it to your bulk download and as you can see that turned it green now the bulk down the bulk download tool which is linked to my account shows that it will help you download this all at once and this last one will help you delete this particular image from your search results so remember how i said that if you've got a couple hundred of these images uh changing the search results so 250 would help you well that's because up here at the top you can add all results from current page to bulk download and that's exactly what we want as you can see you turn them all green this is very handy because once you start getting into the hang of doing this imagery thing you're going to be downloading hundreds of these images so there we go that is how you're going to download the image and once you've got these all selected we're going to view item basket now like i said this is kind of an rkx system but it once you click that button it will bring you to this page and it'll see right here it says bulk download five scenes uh what you're going to need to do is see it'll even tell you that you need the bulk download application uh and then click start order now here's the frustrating part for a lot of people that get stuck on this step so i'm going to show you you can select bulk download i'm going to put right here smithsonian yep spelled that right for once so you can try to click this button right here all day long it's not going to click for you being a government website you have to expand this list and this will show you the name the numbers the serial numbers of all of the images you're trying to download once you can see them on your screen like this now this button turns into a dark blue and you can actually download it so now as you can see it says order smithsonian has been submitted and it will give you an email address for uh for for the account that you used to sign up with your your account here so now we're done now we're done with the the the internet part now we need to jump over to that bulk uh data tool so when you first start the bulk download application it's going to ask you for your username and login this is to sync this particular program with your online account all right so once you're in the very first thing you're going you're going to want to do before doing anything else is make sure that you have your installation directory set correctly this is super important because you don't want to end up filling up the wrong hard drive with terabytes and terabytes of imagery so you to to do that you go click settings and click destination directory settings if you click that it will allow you to choose the directory that you can download this imagery to so once you give it a few minutes once again it's a government server so it takes it a few minutes to to sort of recognize what's going on and that hey there's some imagery i need to download once you've given it a couple of minutes go up here to file and open order that is if it isn't already opened if you open this bulk download application tool usually this this form here will open up automatically but in just in case it doesn't that's how you get to it also i have found that the bulk download application needs to be started in administrator mode so if you are don't have a minister of access to your computer or it's acting really weird re close it out and restart it again in administrator mode and it will uh it'll it'll work just fine for you so as you can see right here that right there is my one image one uh sort of order that's what they call it a bulk download order that i made from the internet and now this compute this application is talking to the server and now it's trying to download these images so to to start that download make sure that this is the right one you want click select order and it will load all of the images up here in their serial numbers for uh for for download now here along the bottom of the screen i feel like i should mention the uh the size of this kind of thing so a lot of times you're not going to know how big this file is going to be until you click the download until you've made the order right so let's say that my my hard drive is filling up here and i need to figure out um if this order is going to be too large or not you can look down here at the bottom of the screen as you can see i have this hooked up to it to a external hard drive and the hard drive itself has 315.8 gigabytes of space and as you can see right here this this this box along the very very bottom of the screen is labeled as remaining size 286.84 megabytes now that does not mean that the the space on your drive it means how much of this imagery still has remaining to download right and it'll tell you the speed right here so you can see that that all of that adds up to 286.4 so these are all the images that are waiting to be downloaded and you can to start the download of course you can go over here and click begin download and it'll start it will do three at a time and um once one of them is done it it will uh it'll it'll go to the next one as you can see this is going to take quite a while especially for downloading hundreds of images but the reason that you want to do the bulk download applications two reasons one if you're downloading more than one image it's handy and two you can let it run all night long like while you're sleeping or not using your computer which is what we end up doing here a lot of times we'll just let the image download download you know terabytes and terabytes of imagery whatever you need and it'll be there when whenever you come back to it also this bulk download application tool will restart a download if some image gets corrupted because it's coming from a government server and because of a bunch of other technical stuff is kind of hard to understand sometimes these images get corrupted when they're being downloaded so this application will double check to make sure that they're accurate and they're okay and if they're not occasionally don't worry if you see one this is one there's there's like one or two errors don't worry about that when it gets to the end of the download it will retry those files and then retry them until it can download them successfully so that's a very handy tool it's just fire and forget come back to it when it's done so we're gonna gonna let this download and we will come back to it once it is done all right so here we are we are back the the bulk download application gave us this nice little notification let us know that downloads are complete we're going to click ok and now we can exit the application we don't need to keep any of this stuff around all right so our download is complete we're all shut down on the downloading that's all done now we're back in atac so what we need to do from here is go to our handy dandy import manager click import files and navigate to the place that you saved this particular imagery and this is what the files are going to look like they're going to be in a zip file no need to extract them or anything atec is really good about importing files so don't worry about it just select all of the ones that you need and it will bring them in then you click open and it will start loading them in now i've already loaded these in and it took forever because i downloaded the entirety of washington dc uh when i did this first time so that took quite a bit of time that's why there's a lot of these lines and things overlaying so once you import these it's going to take a little bit of time now once they're imported you've got to turn them on so from there you go to your maps and favorites right it's not the overlays you'd think it'd be an overlay but it isn't it's going to import this imagery as imagery because the imagery is what's called a geotiff file this is a file that is is that is a geo-referenced imagery file so a tag is going to recognize it and it's going to know exactly where to put it and that place is in favorites and maps all right so here in maps and favorites this is the menu you're going to see now these are all of the image sources that you're going to be able to pick from normally in attack or wintac and it will stream these online that's where that's why you can zoom to any part of the country and this will auto populate see how it's auto updating well it's because i'm online well with the image resource right here you're not going to be using this particular tab so you can either turn it off turn it off or leave it online i like to leave it off as you can see here i've already got a couple of couple of areas saved in my in my cache here but what we're really going to do is click the imagery tab now once you click the imagery tab you've got a few different options here i'm going to turn that off for now it's just a random kmz you're going to get the normal blurry background image that atack is known for right but once you start zooming in then you're going to have some options here so let me zoom right on into the smithsonian as you can see there's my image overlay that helps me know where it's at now i've got a couple of choices here i can choose geotiff 30 centimeter or gift of 20 centimeter remember how when i was downloading these images they look like they kind of overlapped well they did in this particular area so let me choose 30 centimeter here let's see what we got i zoom on in i might have to padlock it to get it to turn on and there we go that's exactly what i had to do turning the padlock on will force this image to display even if there are other options so so just like that so that's how you can get that to work and now let's go ahead and choose something better something with a smaller resolution right 20 centimeter imagery let's choose the padlock that instead look at that it's it's a lot better imagery this is very very good imagery for what it is and as you can see here from from the same uh from that tutorial earlier how i showed you how to overlay this map this map is now off well that's because now you're using more accurate imagery and as you can see this particular image is is very close to nader you can actually see that it is it is with way less than one degree off from nader because this uh this light pole here you can see the shadow but the actual pole is a dot so this image was taken almost straight down at the ground i can if i uploaded the metadata i could tell you exactly what it was but um yeah this is how you can update your maps as say you're trying to to throw an overlay on a map that isn't on the map because it's a new construction well this is how you do it and that's pretty neat because then you can start using these other things as well and if your area isn't like a sensitive area like washington dc is like over here across the river we actually have 10 centimeter 10 centimeter imagery over here across the river um here in these green squares let me turn these these images off and let's just use the 10 centimeter imagery let's see here padlock that one man that is that is some really nice imagery 10 centimeter is about as small as you can go in the civilian world and as you can see that's pretty good not quite will smith enemy of the state good but if i switch by using these lines on the road here as reference actually let me see if i can find a building a building for reference yeah here we go so check it out this is a building with a little parking area and i'm going to go to 20 centimeter imagery see a little little worse not not too bad though you can still make out cars and stuff and then 30 centimeter imagery you can see a lot more a lot more blurry 30 centimeter is usually what google earth is going to be giving you but you can go all the way down to 10 right here as you can see that's pretty pretty good so yeah that's how you upload better imagery for google earth it takes some time obviously it takes a lot of resources i'm going to be using up a lot of resources um i'm downloading this better imagery because you can see now i can go into this overlay and now match these corners up like i did when i first drop this overlay in and then this this image will be a lot a lot more accurate and then you can export that image and then that that's your map right there so hopefully this was helpful for everyone uh sorry if it took a little bit longer than normal it's just trying to explain all this stuff will help help help you understand how the whole process works so please leave us a like comment and subscribe below and make sure to check out our other content we've got a lot more of these atac videos coming out and we've got our of course our normal s2 underground content as well so thanks for watching and we will see you next time and always remember to fight in 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[Music] hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground as we move forward into the strange times in which we live a lot of people are caught in unfortunate situations people who cannot really escape the institution they are a part of are looking for ways to defeat the system within in a non-violent and legal manner let's face it when we ask the question is there a point in which people will resist what's happening we already know the answer in most cases which is a resounding no despite what people may say online or during a routine protest most people are not willing to do very much more than that or at the very least people don't know of any way that they can resist what's going on in a non-violent manner or in ways that aren't feasible or are ineffective mass surveillance government tyranny and overreach censorship and the complete abandonment of our constitutional rights has resulted in a lot of people either not wanting to take action or not being able to take action and the action that they do take is either completely ineffective the wrong action to take or it's deemed domestic terrorism so today we're going to talk about a few non-violent tactics that you can use to make a difference when you're in a sticky situation and you have no other way to resist number one is the talker talk unnecessarily in the workplace if you're in charge of people you can make a lot of speeches that are meaningless consume valuable resources and are generally a waste of time sometimes i'll start a sentence and i don't even know where it's going i just hope i find it along the way nobody likes a long-winded boss or co-worker so making subordinates sit through boring lectures not only consumes resources but reduces their effectiveness increasing fatigue and irritability this is especially effective if you are in charge of leading some sort of training make the training long and boring and insist that you get through the entire thing and not let people leave early this is infinitely more effective if the training is mandatory or regarding a social issue that would cast the person in a negative light if they were to leave in today's world of cancer culture a lot of people are afraid of being labeled a bigot or racist so leverage this into pressuring people to participate in a useless training session a training session in which the main goal is to waste time and prevent people from doing something else time thief time team fire him dwight you've really never stolen any company time never number two is the tree hugger scam always pump the brakes on projects when you can under the guise of wanting to study the matter further conducting environmental impact studies are great for this as they are a facet of most jobs environmental impact studies also take a very long time to do are very wide-ranging and very easy to influence also the slightest environmental impact can be blown way out of proportion forcing the project managers to expend copious amounts of resources to mitigate the impact to the environment seeing as there are pretty much zero projects that actually are neutral to the environment environmental impact studies are valuable tools that you can implement if you want to slow down a project to stand still for months and i'm the warax guardian of the forest i speak for the trees number three is the safety first scam always be a stickler for osha anonymously reporting all osha violations when you can don't report all violations at once only report one or two at a time this way there will be a pattern of workplace violations for your employer from your agency or entities point of view nothing brings heartburn more than an osha inspector so by repeatedly calling in osha violations you can force an entity to again expend valuable time and resources fixing things to avoid another osha incident this also brings great frustration for management reducing effectiveness even further there is a basket of oil-soaked rags above a wood-burning stove good thing i've got a fire extinguisher which i can assure you is totally up to your precious code um this says it should be recharged june of 1996. number four is captain obvious if your work relies upon you conducting analysis you can frequently restate the obvious stating the obvious bringing up irrelevant or past issues and making wild analytical leaps will confuse and confound others working on the project with you again this decreases efficiency and could even have a red herring effect where co-workers are forced to constantly re-examine the project because you keep stating the obvious are you crazy is that your problem number five is the cautious researcher similar to the tree hugger scam this method relies on caution as the primary factor for slowing down work by constantly urging the cautious route and by frequently urging others to slow down and take their time out of an abundance of caution you can significantly slow down a project to a near standstill you can urge co-workers to be reasonable and mature pressing them to avoid doing things too quickly which might result in them having to redo the project later this is brilliant because everyone knows that it's better to take your time and do the project right the first time so take this sentiment and pump it up to 11 urging so much caution and preparation that nothing ever gets done please go to 11. number six is the jurisdiction entanglement this method relies on the principle of constantly questioning whether or not your agency has the jurisdiction to do what you're doing constantly asking hey can we even do that i thought that was x department's field can significantly tie up resources especially in a large organization you can also frequently mention what a higher echelon would think people always get nervous when trying to justify their projects and actions to a higher command structure so by constantly assuring a person that the higher-ups will never go for this you can take advantage of an existing psychological construct and exploit it to the point that again nothing ever gets done sir i was just looking over there number seven is a rule follower always be a stickler for procedure as we all know most companies agencies political groups legislators and other entities have a nearly endless list of rules and regulations in fact most entities have so many rules that if a person were to try to follow all of them at once nothing would get done which works perfectly constantly going by the book to the point of insanity will not only slow down a project to a standstill but also severely impact the morale of your co-workers number eight is the french disconnection communications are always a huge reason for the failure of a project so by frequently missing communications misunderstanding communications and using communications equipment poorly are great ways to increase inefficiency and decrease progress we all know that co-worker who claims that they didn't get that email and uh i'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo okay yeah i know so take this concept and amplify it a classic tactic is to unplug your computer monitor cable this will force the it department to come down to your desk and check things out once they get there they'll see that it was a simple fix but by then they've already expended effort to come down to your desk hello have you tried turning it off and on again also monitors becoming unplugged is quite a common and innocent thing so it's something that won't result in you getting in trouble even if you do it once every couple weeks if you are expecting an important conference call you can unplug a phone or bungle the connection or make the innocent mistakes that people frequently make mistakes that make a seamlessly interconnected agency a bit less connected i don't know who you are i don't know what you want but i have a very particular lack of skills i will never be able to find you number nine is the lost in translation this is a very old trick in the book pretending to not understand the workplace language is highly effective at both consuming resources and also reducing others expectations of you someone who doesn't have a great grasp of the english language will not be expected to write a stellar report or conduct a perfect presentation or briefing at first people will try to help you communicate which will result in you wasting both your and their time and resources however over time people will just come to not expect high-level content from you due to the language barrier and in today's workplace it's something that is really hard to handle in a diplomatic way since employers and workers alike are afraid of being cancelled cultured sued or accused of discrimination all of a sudden you speak in english now huh a little a little my ass you lied to me i didn't say i didn't you zoom i didn't number 10 is the perfectionist always insist that every single detail of every single project be absolutely perfect as we all know humans aren't perfect so striving for total and complete perfection is impossible as a result a perfectionist in the workplace is mostly viewed as annoying by co-workers and as a model employee by management [Music] in other words not really a threat that is intentionally holding a production so it's easy to get away with if you are in a supervisory role reject completed projects a few times even if there's nothing really wrong magnify the tiniest of imperfections and make it a big deal halting a project entirely until it gets fixed focus on subjective things like the color of an item and how it isn't quite perfect forcing an entity to expend even more resources to fix their supposed mistake likewise if your project is highly technical you can approve of tasks and projects that appear to be good to go but really have a hidden flaw that will cause trouble down the line for instance you can focus on the grammar of a research paper forcing it to be revised to be absolutely perfect but the actual content of the research paper is incorrect what a waste of time number 11 the rainesha x this scam is a direct call back to an episode of a tv show called reno 911. in this episode deputy rainesha williams claims to convert and join the nation of islam i guess that's about it unless anybody else has anything they want to add this has played up for comedic effect on the show with deputy williams decrying the actions of the other deputies but throughout the episode we see her slip up such as pretending to pray in her cubicle but really taking a nap [Music] at the end of the episode we find out that this was all just a ruse so that she could request vacation time for ramadan which in actuality was a luxury cruise this is a perfect example of using both religion and race to exploit the system that you are stuck in by claiming religious needs and requirements or by claiming that racial tensions would result in you not being able to complete a task you can severely weaken an entity from within and as we all know in today's workplace environment religion and race are two topics that are huge no notes for conversation and debate if you claim that you need a certain day off for religious needs or have a various dietary restrictions due to your supposed religion you can consume a lot of time and resources as your agency is forced to accommodate you be advised though this tactic is quite a bit more overt and high profile once you go down this route you're going to have to keep it up forever number 12 is father time in today's modern workplace ageism is a huge factor in a lot of places so pretending to be older and more feeble than you actually are can slow down production a lot if you wear glasses claim that you can't do anything without them if your work center is filled with younger people there is nothing that frustrates them more than an older person who takes their time to get out their reading glasses for everything so take advantage of this horrible discrimination and ageism that is just a fact of life in many workplaces now and make it work for you wasting as much company time and resources as possible why are you so negative i can sense your hostilities and right now i am not feeling very safe number 13 the high roller always insist on spending as much money as possible on useless things funding money pit projects that go absolutely nowhere or consuming a lot of resources for virtually no benefit you can even look to funding adversarial actions that are the lesser of two evils a lot of times people are completely averse to funding any opposition in operation but this method takes advantage of that for instance advocating for spending a lot of money to repave an unused road or beautify an area or to paint a slogan on a roadway to pacify some social movement these things waste time personnel money and resources that could be used elsewhere for other operations what's this what is this where's all the money that's as good as money sir those are ious number 14 is the ritz scam this method relies on the supply chain in ordering supplies and materials as if you were building the ritz hotel if you are in charge of ordering something like cleaning supplies always order the most expensive stuff or materials that are hard to find if you can purchase a material that only has one use do so ordering supplies and materials that could be used for more than one purpose is not exactly what we're going for this is pretty easy to do as most governmental procurement supply chains are filled with expensive stuff that is actually inferior you can also order products that are far more inefficient for instance if someone requests you to order some more pencils order the classic wooden number two pencils rather than the mechanical pencils that they probably mean and since wooden pencils don't last nearly as long as mechanical pencils this would require you to order more pencils much more often you could also layer this with another method we've already discussed and misunderstand what the person's request was and order something like golf pencils which are most likely not going to work for the person who requested pencils when you eventually run out of supplies claim that the cheaper stuff is inferior and will lead to having to redo the project at a later time which again no one wants to do whenever you need a certain number of resources to complete a project double that number consume twice as much or even triple the number of resources that would normally be required to complete a task or you could do the opposite and take the stingy route waiting until the very last minute to order new supplies so that there will be a period of time that you can't do anything prolonging the task at hand until more materials can be ordered that's food you're gonna wake the whole time and you used up all of our food didn't you no didn't you at all look at this look at this what are we supposed to do now fish oh what do you got here anchovy paste i love this stuff creamed liver this is good it's good for your gut felt the fish i'm not eating to felt the fish for the rest of this trip number 15 is the bathroom junkie anyone who has tried to ditch work before knows that claiming to need a bathroom break is pretty effective when using the bathroom make sure to consume as many resources as possible flushing toilets many times leaving the water running when washing your hands and choosing to use handfuls of paper towels over an air dryer anything to waste as many resources as possible take your time in the bathroom never less than 5 minutes preferably about 10 minutes and do this many times throughout the day go to the bathroom whenever you don't really need to especially if you're at a critical point in a project or during a very busy part of the day be advised though this is a very common tactic so your co-workers and employer will notice what you're doing but if you are otherwise a seemingly stellar employee it won't be an issue plus it's a very awkward topic to confront someone about the time they spend in the bathroom so co-workers and employers are going to be too embarrassed to ask you about it especially if you don't overdo it so those are 15 ways that you can sabotage an entity from within using non-violent and perfectly legal means as one might expect for legal reasons we must state this is for information purposes only and we do not actually recommend doing any of the things we just mentioned but stay tuned for 15 more methods in the next video and if you have some ideas of your own drop them in the comments below as we all know it's not illegal to be really bad at your job and being inefficient in a situation where minutes count could end up saving lives so that's all we've got for this time and stay tuned for the next episode if you like our content please subscribe and follow us on other platforms which are listed in the description box 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