//The Wire//2300Z April 13, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: MAJOR ESCALATIONS REPORTED IN MIDDLE EAST AFTER PEACE TALKS FAIL. AMERICAN NAVAL BLOCKADE ANNOUNCED IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ. TERRORIST ATTACK REPORTED IN ALGERIA DURING POPE'S VISIT.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- Middle East: Over the weekend, negotiations between the United States and Iran failed to produce any sort of agreement. Both parties have returned to their respective countries, and the potential for future negotiations remains unclear. Shortly after negotiations concluded, President Trump announced the implementation of a naval blockade of the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. The post specifically stated that the U.S. Navy will blockade "any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz". A few hours later, CENTCOM posted an article on the implementation of this policy, stating that "The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman". Lebanon: The war continues as Israeli forces continue their advance to the Litani River. Clearance operations have been on going in the south, with most villages within a few miles of the traditional border between Lebanon and Israel having been either bombed or bulldozed over the past few years with the goal of establishing a buffer zone. Hungary: Yesterday, the results of the general election resulted in sitting Prime Minister Viktor Orban being replaced by Peter Magyar after holding power for 16 years. Algeria: This morning two IED attacks took place in Blida, which took the form of two assailants wearing explosive belts attempting to target a crowd near the National Police Headquarters. Analyst Comment: These attacks coincided with Pope Leo XIV's visit to Algiers. Consequently, local media is speculating that these attackers were on their way to target the Pope, and got discovered, prompting their detonation. However, considering that the attackers were on foot at the time (and Blida is a long way from Algiers, where the Pope was located), a more likely theory is that this attack was targeting the police station. This theory is supported by the rather graphic video of at least one of the attacks. These types of attacks are extremely common throughout the third-world, as low-level insurgent groups sometimes prefer to conduct attacks during a high-profile visit, so as to amplify the message of their cause. In this case however, nobody survived to convey what group actually conducted the attack, so pending a group claiming credit, the overall motive for this terror attack remains unknown. Eastern Pacific: Overnight strikes on narco-vessels continued throughout the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility, with multiple airstrikes being reported in the general vicinity of the Caribbean. Analyst Comment: While attention has been diverted to the Middle East, Operation Southern Spear has been continuing, with strikes on fastboats being reported regularly this entire time. Most of the more recent strikes have been conducted not in the Caribbean specifically, but in undisclosed regions of the Pacific Ocean (probably off the coast of Ecuador, where joint American operations have been increasing over the past few weeks). -HomeFront- New York: A mass stabbing attack was reported at the Grand Central Terminal subway station on Saturday, after an assailant began attacking a crowd of people on the platform. Police officers on the platform shot and killed the assailant immediately after the attack began. Concerning casualties, 3x elderly victims were wounded during the attack and all are expected to survive. The assailant has been identified as Anthony Griffin, and a family friend stated that Griffin was known to have mental health issues and that he was known to carry a machete. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Blockading ships from only Iranian ports is quite different from the White House's statements of "any and all ships", and as a result, the implementation of the blockade in the Middle East is extremely significant. If the U.S. does intend to halt "all" traffic through the Strait, half of the planet will be in a bind. If the U.S. is only targeting Iranian ships (or ships exporting cargo from Iranian ports), this would make sense except for the U.S. lifting sanctions on the Iranian oil market a few weeks ago. As of today, no one has really addressed this prior lifting of sanctions, and it is not clear as to which policy supersedes the other. At this juncture, there is no word on how this is going to work out, because on the one hand the U.S. has told Iran that they can export oil to the global market, but at the same time they are being told that their ships will be interdicted, and sunk if necessary. Clarifications may come in due time (or they might not), but at the moment the announcement of a naval blockade of any kind probably won't do very much to alleviate concerns among maritime insurance companies. Companies were already concerned about the Iranian blockade, but now merchant shippers have to be concerned about the U.S. Navy interdicting them as well, especially since there are differences in the terms laid out by President Trump and CENTCOM regarding what ships are being allowed through. Bottom line, the war is not over, and the concerns that have been in place since the start of the war, still remain in place. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.

this is the wire for 1730 Zulu January 12th 2024 preceden is routine information cut off is 16:30 bottom line up front Texas seizes border crossing Yemen vows retaliation for strikes beginning with international events in the Middle East following major air strikes within Yemen houthi forces have vowed to retaliate a few hours after the American and British attacks yeni forces conducted an attack on a commercial shipping vessel the attack was unsuccessful as the missile fired at the vessel missed splashing down within 500 met of the ship around the region an observable increase in rocket attacks originating from Hezbollah and Lebanon was noted last night but no indicators of a major offensive effort are present yet in Europe Panic buying is underway in Sweden following statements by government officials regarding the possibility of War defense minister Bolan stated that quote there could be war in Sweden the supreme commander of the Swedish Armed Forces reinforced these statements urging the public that quote on an individual ual level you have to prepare yourself mentally analyst comment though these statements are not out of the ordinary considering events in Europe hearing such blunt admissions by high ranking officials has been shocking for many swedes there are no indicators that war will break out in Sweden imminently but as tensions remain high throughout the continent General preparedness is a prudent goal for citizens to consider on the home front in Texas significant developments are underway at the southern border the state of Texas has seized land surrounding the infamous Shelby Park in Eagle Pass Texas National Guard forces have deployed in positions so as to block Federal Customs and Border Patrol Agents from accessing the border the adjacent boat launch also used by border patrol is also now off limits to federal agents this move comes following months of federal agents cutting razor wire removing barricades and directly aiding and abetting illegal immigration as a reminder last week Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed that over 85% of all illegals encountered at the border are not currently being deported but instead being released into the United States in Washington DC Congress voices objection to not approving air strikes in a nation the United States is not at war with questions also remain following Pentagon statements that secretary defense Austin allegedly approved these strikes from his hospital bed analyst commas for this wire though tensions between agencies have been common at the southern US border for years recent developments have shifted attitudes into more of an adversarial nature as history has proven the impacts that State versus Federal conflict can have are often underestimated before flash points occur likewise the of armed Soldiers by both sides presents even more opportunities for substantial mistakes to be made following the strikes in Yemen the main question remains what happens next yeni forces will likely repair or replace damaged facilities and Equipment over the next few weeks calling into question the philosophical nature of an air War it is hard to argue that even substantial targeting within a nation will be totally successful as such Yemen will be quick to prove that the strikes did not remove all of their combat power and will likely increase targeting of US Navy vessels in the region commercial shipping companies will likely be hesitant to resume operations as one air strike is not likely to reduce yedi capabilities enough for ships to become confident in transiting the redc especially considering the houthis are now overly motivated to carry out strikes on commercial shipping to reaffirm their military dominance in the region this concludes the wire for 1730 Zulu January 12th 2024

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for May 31st through June 6th, 2026. The summertime is already cooking pretty quickly, so let's get right to it with the events that mattered this week. Around the world this week, the Anglosphere has been working through some domestic issues with both the Henry Noak and Austin Medaf murders being the catalyst for the English-speaking world being fed up with the stuff and because of how things are developing, civil tensions will remain on the menu for the next few weeks. Otherwise, the familiar aroma of tear gas and body odor has wafted down from New Jersey. As the usual, suspects have remained protesting at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark and generally trashing the place more than it already was. Overseas, the Israeli style ceasefire remains in place with kinetic engagements remaining daily occurrences throughout Iran and the Persian Gulf this week. In Lebanon, the war continues as before with the IDF continuing to push north into Lebanon and air strikes have remained common throughout the Lebanese countryside as well as a few targeted assassination strikes in Beirut. Otherwise, the Russians have been fighting a pretty hot war down in Mali and the General Sahel region of Africa with FPV drone attacks being used by various insurgent groups. This week, the Russian Africa Corps has also started to use FPV drones to take the fight to JNIM insurgents. Likewise, JNIM and the FLA insurgent groups are also learning quite well with JNIM militants starting to use drones for real-time forward observation to walk mortars onto Russian positions throughout the country. So, the wars in Africa remain pretty hot and a lot of al-Qaeda linked groups are learning how to streamline the use of drones for offensive attacks. All of the current conflicts taking place around the world continue to heat up, which is to be expected this time of year. But the global energy crisis and the oil shock that is originating from the war in the Middle East is raising the stakes for all of these different conflicts. Here at home around the United States, things are just as spicy as last week, both on the civil unrest front and the political front. I've not mentioned it throughout the week because I didn't have a good spot to put it in a report, but this week, legislation has been introduced within the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act to allegedly merge the Israeli military with the United States Armed Forces. Section 224 of this bill is the problem. And I've been trying to figure out how bad this really is because it sure sounds like Congress is trying to unify the Israeli military industry with our own. As in, when it comes to military technology and intelligence, they will be considered the same as America. Once again, I have not had enough time to look into this myself. And to be honest, this is completely unsurprising and probably not that much different than how things are right now. But I did want to mention it for those of you who want to do some more research on your own. It looks to be another step towards the United States losing a lot of autonomy at the behest of a much smaller foreign nation around the world. And that's pretty concerning, especially considering this involves military technology. So, we don't have to worry about the Israelis stealing our military secrets if we just unify them and make them part of the US armed forces apparently. So, that's the concern with this and I'm going to look into this a little bit more. But, they've been trying to do this for a few years. A few representatives have been trying to uh put this in various NDAAS over the years. Either way, something to keep an eye on. I did want to mention it because it's kind of important. Otherwise around the country, the other main concern this week has been the discovery of new world screwworm in the southwest, which has been spreading throughout South and Central America for many months now. This disease is known to absolutely devastate cattle herds as the flesh-eating parasite causes festering wounds that usually lead to the death of the cattle due to infection, blood loss, and all kinds of bad stuff. So at the wavetop level, this leads to pretty harsh economic losses, potentially in the billions of dollars if this hard to eradicate disease spreads throughout the American cattle herds. Right now, there's not much that can be done uh by the average person to mitigate this disease. But being aware of what's going on in the agricultural community is important, especially since beef prices keep going up. And if this disease spreads more widely, this is going to cause a lot of losses that drive beef prices up and availability down even further. So definitely something to be aware of as we await the latest data from the USDA regarding how bad this crisis is. Right now, a lot of smaller farmers are trying to get a federal disaster declaration regarding this disease. I don't know if they've actually made that happen just yet, but they're trying to pressure the White House to make that happen. Texas has already declared this to be an emergency and various forms or other to unlock funding and research bandwidth and all kinds of resources to try to combat this disease. But again, hard to say how this is going to work out. This is more of a strategic concern. Of course, we first mentioned this uh last year, actually. So, now that there have been two confirmed cases as of this morning, we're going to have to see how this works out over the next few weeks. Also, around the nation this week, civil unrest has been a concern for two locations. The Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark and also the ongoing Carmelo Anthony murder trial that began this week in Texas. In New Jersey, the civil unrest surrounding the Delaney detention facility has continued to escalate as activist groups have begun to organize riots more effectively and persistently. The New Jersey State Police have been deployed on and off at the site. However, over the past few days, it's really just been the ICE erro teams which have been defending the compound. Riers have begun attacking vehicles entering and exiting the facility and generally causing mayhem as usual. They're actively trying to get ICE agents to shoot them as most of them are screaming uh to be like Renee Good, the woman who was shot in Minneapolis for hitting an ICE agent with her car which contributed to the riots there. So, they are most certainly trying to take a lot of the tactics, techniques, and procedures that they learned in Minneapolis and apply them to Newark. Whether or not things are going to escalate that far is anybody's guess. Uh, right now, Delaney Hall is certainly progressing toward that level of riots. Though, for now, these riots are mostly confined to the area immediately adjacent to the detention facility. So, we're going to have to see how this works out over the next week. But, this is most certainly a war zone around this little area in the industrial part of the city. So yeah, not looking good on the civil unrest front when it comes to anti-ICE riots and demonstrations. Back in Texas this week, the Carmelo Anthony trial began earlier this week, much to the anger of local groups. Jury intimidation has been a mainstay with efforts being made to stalk and track down jurors during the initial selection process. This is to be expected to some degree by journalists who are rather unscrupulous sometimes with the ways that they try to figure out who's on the jury and is mostly confined to the fairly low-level attempts at the moment. But it's something to be aware of because a jury has not been sequestered during this case and the crowd outside the courtroom is already calling for the murder of white people. So that's not super great. Not to be unexpected, but still not super great considering the security threats that are present. And this could get out of hand pretty quickly. Right now, there are a few different factions on the ground getting rowdy outside the courthouse. So I'll just mention them now. The first main faction are various Pan-African elements, which is more of an ideology than a strictly organized group. Along with them, uh, various Black Hebrew, Israelite organizations have been observed on site. They're mostly confined to blowing horns in the parking lot of the courthouse, but they're definitely on site. A few of you remember these, uh, groups, which have become rather interesting over the past few years, but the black Hebrew Israelites are there. And these guys are much smaller in numbers, but they're also more organized. And this is also more of a national group as well. So again, it's it's more of a militant style organization. usually pretty harmless and just strange, but you never know because adding fuel to the fire, Jake Lang has arrived on scene. Yes, the infamous Jake Lang is in Texas uh causing a little bit of a ruckus. He showed up to do what he always tends to do, which is further stoke up the unrest and the overall situation remains tense because the clashes between his group and the black separatist group, well, that didn't go so well and they're pretty much the standard textbook definition of a powder keg waiting to be ignited. So, based on the trial beginning on Thursday, uh, and the evidence presented so far, it's hard to say when a verdict will be reached, but I'm guessing that it will probably be this coming week that we enter into the period of more potential for unrest. I think riots are going to happen no matter what, but if Anthony is found guilty, this is probably not going to go over so well. So, two big points of potential unrest on the horizon in New Jersey and in Texas. And depending on how this next week goes, these hotspots may stay localized or there may be more concerted efforts to expand to other areas. It's really too soon to tell at the moment, but we'll be on the lookout for any unrest popping up as usual. Moving to the Middle East this week. My oh my, it has been rather busy. Bottom line, everyone has been shooting at each other, but it's not as severe as before. Almost immediately after I released last night's report, more engagements took place, which at the moment appear to be the most significant strikes since a ceasefire, alleged ceasefire went into effect. Throughout the week, the United States has been conducting routine strikes on Keshum Island as well as on the mainland up and down the eastern side of the street of Hormuz. This targeting has mostly continued the trend from last week where the US strikes something and the Iranians retaliate and then the US pretends like we never started it in the first place. So, they retaliate to the retaliation. All the while, Sentcom is starting to lie a little bit more openly about Iranian munitions being intercepted because there have been several instances this week where Sentcom claims that the Iranian missiles were intercepted, but we have highresolution imagery of impact craters. So, just to recap, let's go through the list of targets that have been hit this week, which should help illustrate that the war is actually back on and everyone is just lying about it. On May 31st, an American MQ1 drone was shot down by the Iranians in what they claim is their airspace. Sentcom claims that it was flying over international waters, but the wreckage washed up on the beach in Iran. So, you can decide what the truth is. On the same night, a few hours later, or maybe even a few minutes later, I don't really know. Uh, Sentcom conducted strikes on Keshum Island and also near the town of Geruk on the eastern coast of the Straight of Hormuz. Later on that same night, still on the night of May 31st, the Iranians counterattacked by launching ballistic missiles and drones targeting Kuwait. From here, one whole day elapsed. And on the night of June 1st, the United States targeted a ship in the Gulf of Oman which was trying to run the American blockade. This ship was struck kinetically and disabled. Later on that night, moving from June 1st to June 2nd, another round of targeting took place. The Iranians launched missiles at Kuwait International Airport as well as Ali Al- Salm Air Base in Kuwait. In addition to strikes in Bahrain, which I have not geoloccated just yet. Similarly, the United States conducted strikes on Keshum Island and also possibly on the eastern coast of the street of Hammuz. Once again, I don't know which side fired first on this specific night, but by now the strikes were becoming more routine instead of being classified as an attack and then a subsequent counterattack or an attack and then a retaliation. Things were moving toward a more routine and steady targeting effort even by Tuesday of this week. However, this series of strikes in Kuwait was heavily lied about by the United States, and we've got the receipts. Sentincom directly stated on June 2nd that all the missiles failed to hit their targets and that three were intercepted successfully by the United States. Furthermore, in this post, Sentcom also stated that the US shot down several Iranian drones and also conducted more strikes on Ketchum Island. A few hours later, Sentcom got caught lying because at the same time, they also published one of their hilarious fact checks which confirms that Iran successfully hit Kuwait International Airport. As if that wasn't enough, we also have the actual video of the drone hitting the roof of the airport and the engine of the Iranian drone was recovered from the debris. So, Sentcom is stepping on their own selves uh by confirming that they lied about all of the missiles and drones being intercepted. Even more so, we also have fresh satellite imagery of Ali Oselum air base showing that one of the drone hangers was taken out by the Iranians either by a missile or a drone strike. So, Zentcom is once again caught in another blatant lie which the internet figured out in 5 seconds and they also contradicted themselves on their own social media page within a few hours. Once again, the Iranians knew exactly what they hit. They had pretty good battle damage assessment from their own satellite which they owned themselves. So, the only people that sitcom was trying to fool are the American taxpayer. continuing the trend we've been observing since this war began. But anyway, from this point on, strikes continued fairly regularly, and on June 3rd, the war on the high seas continued as the United States Navy was engaged by the Iranians in the Strait of Hormuz. As usual, engagements that take place over the water are nearly impossible to geollocate. Unless we see a sinking ship or an oil slick in a satellite image, but on the night of June 3rd, the US possibly tried to do something in the straight, we're not really sure what. Speculating a bit, my guess is that the Navy tried to escort some more civilian ships, but the Iranians fired upon them with drones and cruise missiles. Sentcom expressly stated in one of their infamous fact check posts that they were not driven back out of the straight by Iranian missile attacks. So, I'll let you make the decision on what the truth is for this engagement. Nevertheless, this brings us through the night and into the next morning, June 4th, when the Iranians struck the Omani oil terminals at Mina Alahal. According to the Omanis, this caused them to have a bit of downtime before coming back online later that day. I don't know about all that, but that's what the Omanis claim. And finally, we arrive at June 5th, yesterday, when the United States and Iran launched the largest attacks on each other so far during this ceasefire that isn't really a ceasefire. Munitions were absolutely zipping through the sky last night. And I'm not exactly sure of who hit what, but throughout the evening, the Iranians launched several ballistic missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain. and the United States struck two radio towers, one on Keshum Island and another at the IRGCN base in Giruk. This is the first footage that Sentcom has provided this week regarding the strikes they have conducted. So, we were able to geollocate these two strikes very easily. As for the others throughout the week, I don't know where they impacted exactly. We're just going to have to wait for another good satellite pass that doesn't have so much cloud cover to figure out maybe exactly what the US hit. It also could be that the US hit stuff that didn't really leave a crater. But nevertheless, we arrive at this morning and using the Kuwaiti army's figure, a total of seven Iranian ballistic missiles were launched overnight. Of course, they claimed to have intercepted all of them, but we know how that goes. Similarly, in Bahrain, missile impacts were reported and something is currently on fire inside the perimeter of what used to be the headquarters of Fifth Fleet, which was almost completely destroyed during the early stages of the war 3 months ago. Now, shifting to the more important part of this equation, at least for those of us in the United States who are just trying to get by these days, the status of merchant shipping through the straight. So far, the situation remains pretty tense, and it seems to be a mostly free-for-all situation most of the time. There are conflicting reports on how many civilian ships are trying to make their way through the straight along with the circumstances of their crossing, which seems to matter quite a bit. For example, there are non-American aligned ships which are transiting the straight via the Iranian route. This has been taking place since the ceasefire went into effect weeks ago. And these ships have no trouble. Uh they pay the Iranian toll fee and the cross without being targeted. If they stop in an Iranian port or if they are linked to Iran in some way, maybe even arbitrarily, the US is going to pick them up once they cross into the Gulf of Oman, though. So counting these is a little bit more challenging. But for the most part, the third party uh I guess you should call them neutral maybe vessels, they're trying to get out and they're having no problem as long as they pay the Iranians. Separately, there are American aligned ships which are attempting to transit through the minefield which are actively being targeted by the Iranians. Even today, there are reports that a total of four merchants attempted to make the crossing under the cover of darkness early this morning, but one of them was struck, prompting the other three to turn back. I haven't confirmed that or not. I just saw that this morning uh making the rounds. But this would jive with what we've seen so far throughout the week for throughout the past few weeks actually where there tries to be a small convoy. They try to get one or two vessels out. Some seem to make it through uh but others tend to get targeted. On the flip side, some American aligned merchants have been able to sneak out, presumably sneak out, which we can confirm rather easily, but this does take a lot of time. It's not like a super tanker can just disappear. It's going to be really easy to beam count and figure out where these ships are located eventually. They're not just going to disappear. So, if we have a ship that was supposed to be inside the Persian Gulf by our last tally, but suddenly it pops up off the coast of Malaysia a few days or even weeks later on, well, we know that they made it out somehow. Now, how did they make it out? Did they take the southern route through the Omani waters and sneak out? Or did they go through the Iranian route and pay the toll or did they take the Omani route but secretly pay the Iranian toll in Bitcoin? That I do not know. But I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a little bit of a complicated situation and it's not as simple as toll route, no toll route, or sneaking out or not sneaking out. I think that there may be a little bit of play in both sides to get some ships through, which is perfectly fair enough for a lot of companies and ship captains that are trying to make their way through. They don't want to get hit with an Iranian missile, but they also don't want Marines coming and stealing their boat. So trying to play both sides to some degree and cooperate to the point to where both sides feel that they wouldn't target a ship is this seems to be a conversation that's happening quite a bit throughout the maritime world at least in the region. Again, this is all just a personal guess, but it would make sense for some of the smaller vessels which are trying to keep a lower profile and just get out of the area unscathed. So all of this really results in the war dragging on as before. We're over three months into this and all sides remain very far from a peace deal, at least in terms of the general points of agreement. From all the talk and statements from diplomats on both sides over the past week, it's not like they're very close to a deal. There have been really no direct meetings for a few weeks now, and all diplomatic efforts are being carried out through a grand game of telephone through intermediaries. So, none of this bodess particularly well for the global oil crisis. In fact, things are probably going to get rather serious for us here on the home front rather soon as our fuel prices continue to remain high. Even though the United States is draining the strategic petroleum reserve just to keep prices low. As far as where we go from here, uh the options for the United States are fairly limited. The longer the war goes on, the more power and advantage the Iranians have. This is just a basic fact. I mean, there's really no getting around that, unfortunately. Much like getting involved in a land war in Asia, entering into a war of attrition with Persia is probably not the best idea. But this week, the United States has continued the Israeli tactic of mowing the lawn and conducted regular strikes every few days so as to slowly fight the war without breaking the threshold for a major offensive campaign. This is exactly what the Iranians themselves said that they did not want to slip into. Aragi has talked about this many times over the past few weeks. They don't want to slip into this situation where their nation is subjected to an operation midnight hammer every six months or so just so that the US can keep their thumb on them. From the Iranians perspective, that's perfectly fine. I don't think they're going to be able to avoid that. I think we're just going to continue doing that forever. But they also don't want a peace deal where the Iranians stop shooting, but the US bombs them every month or so, every time BB makes a phone call. Personally, again, I think this is a bit of a pipe dream on the part of the Iranians. And they've already found themselves in a state of getting mowed down, so to speak, for no reason on a Tuesday, which we've even seen during this ceasefire. So, but that's their business to sort out however they want. And how long they are willing to put up with this and whether or not they're willing to cross that threshold and start conducting more serious attacks, well, that's going to be up to them. So, the US is most certainly trying to target them to uh start the war back again. and we'll see if they take the bait and we'll see if they feel like they're forced to take the bait, which they might be. I don't know. We'll have to see. So, that's pretty much where we find ourselves for today. Summertime civil unrest on the menu for the homeland in both terms of immigration riots and also criminal trials that are driving social disscent around the nation. And since high gas prices also have a way of making everybody a little bit more insane, this makes everything worse. And high diesel costs also drive up prices for literally everything. And there's really no end in sight, at least not uh readily available at the moment. So, pretty much a standard summertime situation at this point. Not a whole lot we can do about the grand strategic things, but we can most certainly try to be as best prepared as we can and be aware of the long-term effects of all this stuff coming to a head in a few months. And with that, let's go ahead and wrap up today with the intercepted ghost net reports for this week. This week was fantastic once again. lots of people exchanging information on the off-grid radio network and getting some really good use out of it. I'm working on some things behind the scenes on the communications front which I hope will supplement our more decentralized communication capabilities and help us be a little bit more prepared in the long run. Lots of cool radio stuff has become a lot more feasible and easier to use. But more to come on that. And I hope that in the meantime, we can get some really good use out of the ghost net as a way of not just having an emergency communication plan already built just in case we need it, but also to use that plan in a more routine way to exchange information every week to keep our skills sharp. So, that's all I have for today. Kind of a short week, I think, but that's okay sometimes. Thank you to all of you on Patreon who keep this project going. Thank you to all of you for watching, and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

Hello again, everyone, and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for April 12th through the 18th, 2026. Good grief, it has been a crazy week, crazier than usual, and of course, the focus this week has been on the Middle East due to the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, which has resulted in a lull of the targeting efforts. However, just because the shooting has slowed down somewhat, it doesn't mean that this is over, and there have been some major escalations to be aware of this week, which we'll dive into in a minute. Otherwise, the main focus this week has been on the sharp increase in extremely brutal crime throughout the United States, and also protests within the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Protests remain fairly constant in Dublin due to the energy crisis brought on by a combination of local issues as well as the conflict in the Middle East. Over in the UK, the Epsom protests have become more widespread as more local Englishmen have continued to rise up in response to the extremely brutal crime becoming common throughout the nation. Both of these situations continue to develop by the hour, but these are the main hotspots and issues that we're watching this week. So, all in all, not a whole lot of new stuff, but the situation has really gotten quite tense in the Middle East, which has kicked off unrest around the world either directly or indirectly. In the case of Ireland, a lot of the local tensions are being driven by fuel prices, same thing in Australia. And now that the war has been going on for 7 weeks, the chickens are coming home to roost, so to speak, and all of those more long-term or indirect second and third-order effects are starting to be felt around the globe. And based on the strategic movement for this week, it doesn't look like this is going to be ending anytime soon. Taking a look at the strategic resources that are being staged around the world, we have a better picture of what platforms have been dedicated for this fight, and how the rearmament efforts are being undertaken during the brief ceasefire. Most notably, the more interesting observation is the deployment of the George H.W. Bush carrier strike group, which is slated to replace the Lincoln, which is operating in the Arabian Sea. A few days ago, the Bush was observed to taking the long route around Africa, which is a very odd choice when the Suez Canal is the typical route. Officially, there is no explanation as to why she is taking the long route around Africa, but this diversion is likely due to the security threats that are present while transiting a choke point where the ship is constrained somewhat. And the normal route takes the ship through the Suez Canal and also the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which is where the Houthis are located. So, when the Ford was moving off station due to the fire damage she sustained in the northern Red Sea, she had to take the risk and transit the Suez to get out of there, but the Bush does not appear to be willing to take the same risk for some reason, probably the Houthis. One caveat that popped up this morning is that the Ford herself might actually be transiting back south through the Suez again to rejoin the war. This is not confirmed at the moment, but a US Navy P-8 Poseidon was observed doing a little advanced recon in the northern Red Sea just a few hours ago, and this kind of track is usually indicative of the anti-submarine reconnaissance efforts that are conducted ahead of a carrier moving through a waterway like the Red Sea. But again, we'll have to see how this goes. Most people thought that the Ford was pretty toasted as far as the war goes, and she's already been on deployment for much longer than the average deployment is supposed to last. And remember, the Ford took part in the Venezuela campaign and immediately shifted to the war with Iran without taking a break. And after that laundry fire, it looked like she was being pulled offline. But maybe not, I don't know. If the war is going to be re-ignited soon, which looks pretty likely at this point, the Navy will need everything they've got in theater. Otherwise, some other notable platforms to be aware of are the expeditionary sea bases, which have been a hot topic to follow in the maritime community for a while now. These vessels are kind of new, they've been around for a few years, but they've really just started getting uh some pretty heavy use throughout the fleet because they're essentially mobile sea bases for special operations, and they serve as more or less a mobile helicopter base that can be used for staging a lot of special resources in a forward area. As I mentioned yesterday, the John L. Canley is moving from PACOM into CENTCOM, which might be an indication of something. It's too soon to tell, but this is the most clear example of resources being moved into CENTCOM from the PACOM area of responsibility, and that's usually not an indication of peace anytime soon. Again, there are a handful of these expeditionary sea bases or ESBs, and I'm pretty sure there's already one in CENTCOM, so I'll track down some of these other hulls and see where they're at. But, on the naval front, there are a lot of resources just pouring into CENTCOM right now. Another clear example of resources being staged comes to us from the always famous Diego Garcia, the small and mysterious island base in the Indian Ocean, which became the focus of international attention last year when this base was heavily relied upon as a staging base for Operation Midnight Hammer. As we all know, B-2s were forward deployed to this island for about a month or so, but eventually they decided to change the mission and to launch from home like normal as Operation Midnight Hammer was just a one-and-done fight instead of a more prolonged campaign. During this current war, this base has served as a logistics hub due to around 13 US bases throughout the Middle East either being completely evacuated or otherwise damaged by Iranian targeting. So, that's the strategic movement for the Middle East, but there are other movements being made to be aware of. Moving closer to the American homeland with strategic movement, there are two other regions to be aware of where military operations are being carried out. For one, Operation Southern Spear continues as before with daily strikes on narco vessels being carried out mostly in undisclosed regions of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Sorry, I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly where the uh Eastern Pacific Ocean strikes are being conducted. The Pentagon has been very, very tight-lipped about where these strikes are actually taking place because I suspect they're taking place off the coast of Ecuador along some known drug trafficking routes between Ecuador and Panama or Ecuador and Colombia. The United States is in partnership with Ecuador, and we actually conducted one of the very first drone strikes in Ecuador to target a narco base or some vague target the Pentagon never really explained, but even though we have a somewhat positive relationship with Ecuador, we do not have a positive relationship with Colombia. And though this is complete speculation on my part, it is possible that these strikes are being conducted pretty close to Colombia, or maybe the drug traffickers are transiting to Colombia and we're striking them in the Eastern Pacific Ocean before they get there into Colombia's territorial waters. I don't exactly know. No one really can know because SOUTHCOM is really just saying Eastern Pacific Ocean. Well, what does that mean? The Eastern Pacific's pretty big, but this has been the way things have been conducted for a long time now. We're bombing a lot of things down south, and we have no idea where it's taking place. This is going to be important to consider considering the other rather concerning strategic movement to be aware of, which is the potential conflict with Cuba. This week, surveillance flights began picking up with an MQ-4 being observed conducting a reconnaissance flight off the southern coast of Cuba, which has coincided with a sharp increase in Cuba rhetoric from the White House and other senior officials. Of course, this surveillance flight was conducted with the drone's transponder turned on, so clearly the Pentagon either did not care that the world was tracking it, or it deliberately wanted to send a message. In either case, the preparations to shift to Cuba are starting to look more possible, at least in terms of some sort of contingency planning taking place. There aren't any indications of resources being staged in the public eye just yet, but there probably wouldn't be since we could launch an invasion of Cuba from Florida. In any case, I'm going to start the IPB process for Cuba next, and slowly start to get ready for that just in case it starts looking more like a serious endeavor over the next few weeks. Right now, it's too soon to tell if any decision's been made. Maybe it already has been made, but in terms of what we're seeing in the real world as far as raw data goes, it's too soon to tell if we've decided to invade Cuba of all places. But, considering how things are going, I'm going to plan for it just in case. On the home front this week, the common theme has been crime. Exceptionally graphic crimes committed by the usual suspects remain a chief concern for many areas with multiple gang shootings and murders being reported around the nation this week. I try not to focus on regular street crime so much because there are literally hundreds of shootings and gang-related crimes that take place every day, and it's just it's just too much to track. But, I did want to highlight that the violence has sharply increased around the country. So, we're definitely in the keep your head on a swivel season. In Washington, D.C., a citywide curfew has been reinstated for all juveniles who must be off the streets by 11:00 p.m. throughout the entire city. Separately, there are additional curfew zones which have an earlier curfew time of 8:00 p.m. These areas are the Navy Yard, an area over by Kingman Park and the Kennedy Stadium, and also the area to the north of surrounding Tacoma Field. These curfews are being enforced by the National Guard, which has continued their persistent mission around Washington, D.C., and all of these areas are in the legendarily high-crime areas. So, we'll see how it works out. My guess is that we're uh we're definitely in high-crime season. And for those of you who want to track a lot of these crimes that I can geolocate and find out where they took place, some of the more high-profile ones are the ones that actually we have some information for. I try to put them on my maps online, but again, we're talking hundreds of shootings a day at least nationwide. So, it's a pretty tall order. It's a pretty big task, but we'll cut through it this summer as best we can. And segueing into the Middle East, things have been happening very quickly in the region over the past few days, with the situation changing by the minute in some cases. So, chances are things will have changed by the time this gets uploaded. However, at this snapshot in time, this is the situation as it stands. Overall, the war in the Middle East, or technically both wars, the Lebanon War and the Iran War, are in a state of pause. No American bombing has been observed in Iran over the past week, and the Iranians have not launched any drone attacks on American bases or third- party nations either, such as GCC states. The Israelis are kind of doing their own thing as usual, but I haven't seen any ballistic missiles impacting in Israel from the Iranians at least over the past few days. Hezbollah took a while to kind of calm down after the ceasefire was announced, so we'll see how that holds. But again, this is very much developing at the moment. So again, the war on the Lebanon side of things remains important because these conflicts are linked to each other, and this week the Israelis were carrying on with their ground invasion up until possibly yesterday. At the moment, it's hard to determine if this is true, but allegedly the Israelis have agreed to a cease-fire in Lebanon as in a stop to their ground advance and a stop to their bombing of Beirut in order to achieve some sort of diplomatic leverage in the Persian Gulf. It's hard to say how all of this is working out and it's hard to say if this is going to last longer than 5 minutes, but that's what's being conveyed by the diplomats on all sides at the moment. Otherwise, most of the focus this week has been on the Strait of Hormuz and its status of being open or closed. I know we may have Hormuz fatigue at this moment, but this is what's driving a lot of the consternation here in the United States. So, we've got to be aware of the insanity that's going on over there. There has been a lot of back and forth between the United States and Iran and the Strait itself has been the biggest point of contention. And the word contention has been a huge understatement. The situation's changed so radically over the past few days that it's very challenging to follow the timeline of events. So, please forgive me if I get some of these details wrong. It's It's been really tough to follow because what's happening in the real world does not matching what's being said by diplomats. Initially, I think yesterday or the day before yesterday, President Trump announced that the Strait was open and available for use by anyone, but the American blockade will remain in place. Shortly after that announcement, the Iranians stated that there were conditions for opening the Strait and as it turned out, shocker, those conditions were exactly the same as what was already in place. Yesterday evening, a few dozen vessels attempted to transit the Strait before being turned back by the Iranians. A few ships did make it through the Iranian side of the blockade and as of right now, all of those vessels that made it through were sanctioned vessels by the United States. So, once they made it through the Iranian blockade, they got turned around by the American blockade and had to go all the way back. As if this wasn't complicated enough, the Iranians decided to close the Strait again this morning and they did it in the most kinetic possible way. Two merchant vessels were targeted this morning in the Strait of Hormuz. One was engaged by small arms or crew-served weapons from two Iranian gunboats and another vessel reported being shot at with some sort of cruise missile or something that did not appear to have impacted the vessel, but it was targeted. Radio chatter from at least one of these vessels suggests that the vessel had been given approval by the Iranians, but it was engaged anyway. So, there's no telling what is going on because as I'm recording this, this incident was just confirmed by the UKMTO. So, I don't know what's going on. Based on a few tweets that I've seen come out in the past few minutes as I have this while I'm recording, it looks like the Iranians are indeed closing the strait again. This will very likely change even before I'm done uploading this video. So, things are so crazy that quite literally nothing might happen. We might just go back to the way things have been for the past month or so. Or if the United States so chooses, we might be back to dropping bombs in Iran by this afternoon. That's how wide the window is regarding our potential courses of action. We simply don't know how this is going to work out. This is why confusion abounds regarding the impacts of the war. The core of the global energy supply is located behind two naval blockades, both of which have been described in questionable terms to the point that vessels are not sure if they're allowed through or not. Right now, the world is watching individual hulls. That's what we're That's what we're down to now. We're tracking individual ships either transiting or attempting to transit the strait because each individual hull is being treated on a case-by-case basis. Insurance companies, they're not going to get down into the weeds this far because the situation is so variable. And if the Iranians are starting to shoot at vessels again and they're closing the strait once again, this is what we might call a minor setback. In terms of things getting back to normal, there's probably another angle to all of this, which is China. The uncertainty regarding at least the American blockade is definitely not helping matters, but if we're thinking about the China angle, which again is probably being way more gracious with this than we probably should be, but we're trying to be well-rounded and not as biased as normal, we have to think of the China angle to this and implementing a blockade to open the strait, you know, closing the straits to open the strait. That's That's That's insanity. That makes no sense. Unless one possible possible very loose theory is that maybe the true goal of the American blockade is just to prevent China from benefiting from Iranian oil while the US is embroiled in the war. Maybe the American leadership doesn't really care about the Middle East in terms of whether or not we get the oil. They just don't want China to have it. Kind of a scorched earth thing. This so the blockade might be more of a scorched earth tactic. I don't know. This is not the openly stated goal by American officials, but reading between the lines, this is the This is the only plausible explanation for a blockade to be implemented in the first place and implemented in the way that it is. So, that's the only theory I can think up in terms of why we would even start this blockade in the first place. But anyway, it's probably a moot point because as of this morning, the real world impacts remain exactly the same as before. As of this morning, the strait is still closed by both the Americans and the Iranians who have reclosed it after a few of their sanctioned vessels made it out. Global fertilizer availability, fuel prices, and the manufacture of plastics, and all of the previous concerns that have come about since the war began, these are still in place. So, there's been no change over the past 7 weeks. And if the Iranians are shooting at vessels again and closing the strait completely, the fat lady has most certainly not sung just yet and this conflict is not yet over. So, that's where things stand right now and that's that's all I've got for today. Sorry to cut things short, but I'm trying to get caught up with some of the more educational stuff I'm working on at the moment and I really need to make some progress on that. So, I will continue to monitor the situation as we say and hopefully we'll have a better picture for how the Hormuz crisis works out. The various clocks are ticking down with Europe and Australia running out of gas and the US is also suffering due to both the fertilizer and fuel crunch that is now beginning to take effect a full 7 weeks after the war began. So, that's all I've got for now. I'm going to cut it here and transition to writing the next report because things are happening rather quickly and we might see another flare-up of conflict over the next few days. So, stay frosty, everyone. Take care and remember that the events overseas are a big concern because they drive our society and they drive a lot of the unrest here in the US, but all of us here at home are more likely to be impacted by routine crime or just crazy times in our day-to-day lives. So, let's keep at it, do the best we can, and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for May 24th through the 30th of 2026. This week seems to have flown right by as many different events have come to a head over the past few days. Around the world, all of the current wars continue pretty much the same as before. In Europe, the war in Ukraine has intensified once again as the yearly summer fighting season has resulted in major offensive and counteroffensive actions being conducted by both sides. Most of the war remains fairly stagnant in terms of the front lines actually moving, but major offensives are being conducted far behind the lines in both Russia and in Ukraine via drones and missiles. And the Ukrainian attacks in particular are striking a lot of Russian oil infrastructure, which is affecting the global oil market. As a result, the war in Ukraine has served to put the squeeze on Europe even more than the war in the Middle East already has as Ukrainian forces continue to strike targets that indirectly make Europe's fuel supply even more expensive. Similarly, the Middle East remains in a state of stagnation or stalemate, however you want to put it, with a few engagements being reported this week, both in the Strait of Hormuz, within the Persian Gulf War, but also within Lebanon and Gaza as the Israelis continue offensive actions along multiple fronts. The Israelis are expanding their operations uh to conduct their land invasion into Lebanon, but they're also looking to annex more of Gaza than they already have with Israeli politicians stating that they plan to annex roughly 70% of Gaza. So whether that will actually happen is debatable, but nevertheless, the situation in the Middle East remains tense on many different fronts. Most importantly for us, the global oil inventories have begun to approach minimum operation levels in some parts of the globe this week, mostly in Asia as the shock to the global oil supply continues to be affected more seriously. Closer to home, kinetic strikes continue on fast boats in the Eastern Pacific as the United States begins to accelerate the counter narcotics mission down south. But there are very few details on this. So there's not much to note other than that the strikes happened generally in the Eastern Pacific. Within the homeland itself, civil conflict in the form of street takeovers and routine crime continues as before with no real change from last week. The situation is still insane. These street takeovers are still occurring in dozens of cities around the country pretty much every day. So it's hard to keep track of all of these. But the deteriorating situation in Newark, New Jersey has once again emboldened the anti-ISE demonstrations and served as a good barometer for other unrest which might develop if so desired. So very much a busy week all around. On the strategic movement front, the major military movements for this week have remained much the same as before. No big changes from last week with the little caveat that Cuba is still a central focus. This week, US Southern Command announced that a meeting had taken place at the perimeter fence of Guantanamo Bay between General Donovan and a collection of cheery fellows from various levels of Cuban senior military leadership. Not a whole lot of smiles down in Gitmo, which is probably appropriate, but this meeting does highlight tensions in the region because it's not something that is normally conducted. These meetings like this are pretty rare, and this one's not really clear as to what it was all about. Per their post on social media, the reason for the meeting was very vague and only mentioned stuff like operational security and general perimeter security. Who knows what the real reason for the meeting was all about. Maybe it was just a PR event, more about conveying the seriousness of the situation. It's really impossible to know for sure, but the end result is keeping Cuba at the forefront of the news cycle and reminding us that American aspirations in Cuba are still being formulated, whatever they are. As of right now, there's not really a clear explanation of why the United States is interested in Cuba. Of course, there is the general strategic implications of having a hostile nation, or rather a nation which is more amenable to your adversaries, Russia and China. That makes a lot of sense. The Chinese have a lot of radio listening post down in Cuba. So, it would make sense for the United States to be interested in that sort of behavior and getting them to uh push the Chinese out of Cuba would probably be in our strategic interest as a nation or really any nation would have these strategic interests. But the United States has not made that argument. So I don't want to speak for the White House and make arguments that they have not made. And so far they have not articulated exactly why the United States is interested in Cuba. What what's the point? What do we want from Cuba? That has not really been disclosed other than the general uh consensus of well, they're just bad guys. Okay. Well, that's not really an explanation for anything, so we're just going to have to wait and see. But at the moment, the aspirations for Cuba, either control of it or some kind of influence operation or puppet state, I don't really know. I don't know what the point of this is, but that has never stopped us in the past. So, we'll keep an eye on it. Make sure that uh we prepare for any kind of impact from another war breaking out in terms of the economic situation. I don't know. It's too early to say if this is going to make that cross from diplomacy to actual warfare. these days, those uh two sides of the coin tend to blend together quite well. So, we'll just have to wait and see. But anyway, Cuba is still on the menu, and we'll have to wait and see how it all works out. Within the homeland United States this week, the theme has of course been an increase in horrific crime, man-made horrors beyond comprehension, and far-left riots in New Jersey. So, pretty much situation normal at this point. In New Jersey, the riots at the Delaney Hall detention facility have continued and remained fairly kinetic each night. Over the past few days, a full-blown encampment has been set up on site to help the riers with logistics and to provide them with material aid. This was a substantial effort with an entire party tent for like weddings and such being set up on site along with other tents and really your standard Antifa style autonomous zone kind of arrangement. I don't know if that's what they were calling it on site, but that's kind of what they were building over the past week or so. However, last night substantial reinforcements arrived. The New Jersey State Police have been activated and are on site to assist with security of the main compound and also to keep riers from breaching the perimeter. The state police also ordered these encampments to be removed. Uh so the state police is in invested in trying to get that area cleaned up. And as of this morning, the riers essentially just left a bunch of trash behind. Now, the situation is most certainly not over yet. The riots are certainly not over and protesters remain on site pretty much persistently. With the fences being put up overnight, the chance of the compound being overrun is much reduced. But these logistical efforts propping up immediately are an indicator that money is behind these efforts. If we were to zoom out the map just a little bit, we can see that the New York, New Jersey area is absolutely packed with safe houses used by illegal immigrants. And all of these yellow diamond symbols depict an NGO or an agency that is dedicated to helping illegal immigrants evade capture and commit crimes. Now, you might be asking yourself, "Hey, that's a lot of different safe houses of people that are openly committing crimes." Well, yeah, welcome to my world. I've got thousands of these on the maps, and I'm not even uh speculating here. I'm just using what these people put on their own websites. So, if you were to tap one of these icons on my maps and just put the address, the street address that I have listed for that facility into Google, you'll find out exactly what's at that facility. I can't put the name of the facility down. Uh but they can't uh copyright strike me with a mailing address because you can't copyright mailing addresses. So that's how I have to get around that for now. But by and large, all of these yellow diamonds on the map marked safe, that is the uh mill 2525 symbology symbol for a safe house. That's what I've used to settle in on all of these places where illegal immigrants are being staged and taken care of and provided aid and stuff like that. But anyway, I wanted to focus on Delaney because this is kind of an interesting one. This has been the site where a lot of politicians and congressmen and general big figures come to make speeches and rile the crowd up because it's really close to New York. So, of course, everybody's going to go there in grandstand, which is why this uh protesting started off to begin with. I believe it originally started with an alleged hunger strike at the facility among the uh inmates, detainees, whatever you want to call them, uh waiting deportation, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense because these illegals are not held here that long. Uh but maybe they are now. I don't know. Either way, it transcended into just kind of a big mess over the past uh week or so. And due to the close proximity to other things, again, why intelligence preparation of the battle space is quite important. If we see that they are within driving distance of a few dozen different uh milliondoll law firms and groups that are willing to provide them with free legal support and any kind of uh support they want. Well, now you see why this is kind of a big deal. You add in the fact that the White House is really really not interested in cracking down anymore after the whole Minneapolis fiasco and you get kind of a recipe for destruction. So hopefully now that the state police are on scene and kind of involved in this, this will simmer down quite a bit at this one facility. But again, there are many other places within driving distance. There are at least a dozen different federal buildings that these uh people can go cause problems at throughout the greater New York, New Jersey area, and there's not a whole lot that anybody can do about it but play whack-a-ole and just I mean you can't secure them all and these people have the numbers to uh dial up tensions to 11 if they so choose. So suffice it to say that this area has a lot of big money and the federal administration is really really desperate to avoid another Minneapolis. Once again, people get all been out of shape about how the immigration issue is on display in the street. Uh, but it's, you know, it's mostly boomers, neocons, normies, and people who don't understand how important crowd control really is. They may not understand looking at a crowd, reading the crowd, understanding what these people are doing, how they're dressed, what kind of insignia they're wearing. They they don't view the world through the lens of counterterrorism. So, they look at this and they just say, "Well, why are the police being mean?" Well, okay. They're they're trying to prevent somebody from getting killed here. And unfortunately, crowd control is a rather blunt instrument sometimes. So, the average normie Fox News watcher out there might not like it when Abua gets a little tearyeyed from the tear gas. But if it saves her from getting shot in the face because she threw a brick at a cop, then you know that maybe maybe there's a a place for crowd control. So either way, it's a delicate balance. Minneapolis showed that the federal government is not interested in maintaining their side of that balance, and Newark has confirmed it as well by being slow to react, by not using tear gas, by not using less lethal crowd control measures. And this is why we now have a thing to talk about. Right. Again, I don't want to focus on this too much, but when it comes to these counter ice things, this is a major concern. It is a much bigger concern than what's going on in Iran. It's a much bigger concern than paying almost $5 for gas, if we're being perfectly honest here. And so far, the immigration issue, specifically being heavy-handed at some of these riots, this is one of the only subjects where the White House actually cares about public perception and opinion, and they care about the public perception and opinion of their own political enemies, which is just an odd thing. But this is also why this minor policing issue has spiralled into a full-blown situation here. So once again, I don't want to make a molehill into a mountain over this sort of thing. This is one facility. This is in New Jersey because of course it is. And it looks like it's starting to simmer down now. At least the fences will make it a little bit harder for them to damage stuff. So there's that. But I haven't talked about immigration stuff in a while. And it's worth keeping these things on the back burner because as important as it is to understand what's going on around the world, it's even more important to understand what's going on here at home. So far, I do not know of a single agency, group, charity, whatever that has actually been shut down for encouraging these riots and for funding them. So, all it takes is the will and you know, just not seeing it. So, enough of that. Let's move to the Middle East for this week. And like a broken record, the situation remains about as tense as before. And let's start by working chronologically uh by walking through what chaos has unfolded in the region this week. Please forgive me if the details and timelines are a little bit off this week. The strangle hold on information has become much more substantial since the ceasefire went into effect. And it's harder to verify the timeline of events, but the general situation is that the war became kinetic again a few days ago, at least in a limited scope. Shortly after the announcements of an all but finalized peace deal last Friday that we discussed in last last weekend's brief, the United States carried out bombings within Iran on Monday, Memorial Day. During this series of strikes, the United States claimed to have taken out a few fastboats along with a SAM site and Bondara Boss. Sentcom did not acknowledge this series of strikes on their social media page. They have stopped providing press releases on engagements and no video was provided. The only reason that we know that it was the United States who conducted these strikes is because Sentcom spokesman Captain Tim Hawkins has been verbally confirming these strikes with reporters in mainstream media interviews. So after the American strikes on May 2526, the Iranians waited a day then launched their sort of proportionate response counterattack, whatever you want to call it, they launched their own attack again. This attack took the form of one ballistic missile targeting Ali Salam air base in Kuwait along with a handful of drones targeting Kuwait as well. At the time, the battle damage caused by this strike was completely censored and impossible to find out. However, as of last night, we now know that as many as five service members and a few contractors were wounded during this attack. So, casualties are still rolling in even from just one missile strike. Remember how I said that Sentcom is no longer posting their engagements on social media, or at least they're not posting all of them. They're just posting some of them. Well, this was quite handy because Sentcom did post about this Iranian counterattack on their page while pretending that the United States did not launch the first strike. They call this an egregious ceasefire violation and an unjustified Iranian aggression. But in reality, it was the United States which broke the ceasefire first by conducting the Memorial Day strikes. Interestingly enough, in this same exact post, Sentcom directly stated that Kuwaiti forces had successfully intercepted this ballistic missile, which might be a technically factual statement if we stretch the meaning of the word intercepted. However, it's also misleading because the missile actually hit the base anyway, wounding five people and damaging two MQ9 drones. So, it sounds like it hit an aircraft hanger. To me, this sounds like a cover for a failed interception. But that's my own personal opinion. I think they're just lying. I think the the missile actually did hit the base. But anyway, I just found this whole exchange completely baffling because believe it or not, propaganda works. In this case, all that needs to be done is to not disclose the fact that the US conducted strikes in Iran. And when the Iranians counteratt attacked, it'll be like the first time, which is exactly what happened. The US attacks on Memorial Day 1st. The Iranians counterattack on May 28th. And on that same night, the United States counter counterattacked the Iranians claiming to strike a drone that was about to be launched along with a few other undisclosed targets in Bond Abbas. Probably. This brings us to yesterday when President Trump posted this message on his social media platform, which contains a lot of information. President Trump outlined the rough criteria for what the United States would accept as part of a peace deal. But on the more tactical level, he also stated that the US would lift the American side of the blockade. Throughout the day yesterday, nothing much happened on this. And right now, it's hard to determine if this is the truth because no ships are transiting the strait due to what happened next. Yesterday evening, as everyone was trying to figure out what is going on, the UK MTO came in from the top rope with a pile drive to the peace process. For those who are just joining us now, the UK MTO or the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center is the leading authority for most maritime security issues in the Middle East. They cover other areas too, but the Middle East is their main focus. And they are like a British fusion cell run by the Royal Navy that works directly with US Navscent to help civilian ships know what security threats are present around the world. So, think of them like a British government agency that's like mostly civilian run, but they're still like directly tied into the government. They're not like a third party private company. So last night they published two advisory notes, both of which are incredibly interesting. The first one was an announcement that is comparatively rare and is not exactly good news. This was a notice of military operations being conducted north of the Musandam peninsula of Oman, which is this area of Oman, the peninsula that juts out north into the straight of Hormuz. So the UK MTO is saying that the US is going to be conducting military operations north of that. Well, that's in the middle of the street of Hormuz. Specifically, this notice warns of additional Iranian mine laying activity, and that US forces are on high alert. The notice also mentions that Iran continues to attempt to impede mine clearance efforts, which is the first public acknowledgement that the Iranian mines are indeed a threat, and that the United States can't exactly get in there to clear them. The notice goes on to mention that, quote, "Any vessel that does not comply with the direction of US forces may be determined to be an imminent threat and subject to proportionate measures of self-defense in accordance with international law." This sentence alone gives us a lot of information. Uh, for one, this further solidifies developments that took place last week, namely that the US is now conducting air strikes on Iranian vessels based on self-defense criteria. For the three of you who remember my anatomy of an air strike video from a while back, you may know that this is an indication that the US has completely revamped the concepts of kinetic targeting and the lines between deliberate targeting and dynamic targeting are not so clear anymore. Anyway, the US has now decided to allow target engagement authorities or TIAS, TEAS, at lower and lower levels of command to conduct self-defense strikes, which would normally be considered offensive strikes under all prior targeting doctrine as outlined by Sentcom's targeting guidance, JP360, and and a bunch of other long-standing guidance. This document from the UK MTO puts this in writing and is intended to warn the maritime shipping community that the United States will be conducting kinetic strikes in the strait very soon. The second document provided by the UK MTO is a warning that the blockade of Iranian ports is still in effect which takes the wind out of the sales regarding the lifting of the American blockade. So according to US Navent as in United States Naval Forces Central Command, the blockade is still in effect and this notice was published many hours after President Trump's announcement on social media. So somebody is lying about the blockade being lifted. In fact, these two notices are major indications and warnings of the war kicking off again soon and a primary focus is being placed on the straightup Hormuz. This notice directly states that the US Navy cannot guarantee the safety of neutral or merchant shipping, which seems pretty clear to me. And I don't think that any merchant shipping, at least any Western shipping, is going to go through the straight anytime soon unless they pay the Iranian toll. And if they pay the Iranian toll, then the US might pick them up, too. Because funny enough, as I'm recording this right now, I just see a notice come in from Sentcom stating that they disabled a non-compliant vessel in the Gulf of Oman to prevent blockade violation. So, I don't even know what's going on anymore. President Trump says the blockade's lifted. Uh, this looked pretty clear to me. Maybe I'm just stupid or something. I just can't read very well. And now Scom is saying, "Well, we're shooting at vessels which violate the blockade." So, I don't get it. Um, or maybe I do get it. Maybe I do understand it quite well. Uh because this type of well, we're going to let you go, but then when you get there, we're going to bomb you kind of mentality is really prevalent. I'm sure many of you have picked up on where this idea is coming from because there's somebody else in the world who tends to do this sort of thing. We're definitely not going to shoot. You can definitely go through this area. Oh, we bombed you. Okay. Yeah, now we see where this is coming from, right? At least that's my own general theory and I'll leave it at that. But anyway, I'll let that go for now. Uh maybe one day people will start reading between the lines and understand what's really going on here. But if maritime shipping needed any more reason to stay out of the straight this morning something else happened. Observers in Oman spotted a floating object that they assessed to be a naval mine which they say is currently floating to the west of the inshore traffic zone which is the new name that has been given uh to the alternative traffic separation scheme going through Omani waters. So there's a mine floating out there uh somewhere. what they think is a mine. Who who knows what it could actually be, but that's what they said. So, as of this morning, that's pretty much how things stand. We are on day 91 of the war, 3 months in, and the potential for peace remains very much off the menu for the time being. I would venture a guess to say that the hesitance to enter the straight of Hormuz from a western aligned vessel is roughly the same as it was during the height of the shooting. Otherwise, vessels are taking the Iranian route. They're paying the toll and they're just going on their merry way. I don't know if these vessels are being intercepted by the US Navy eventually at some point or what's going on, but right now the most hardest hit, the most affected vessels in the Persian Gulf that are stranded for 3 months now, a full quarter of the year are Western aligned vessels, American vessels, and tanker ships that are not aligned with the Iranians. Of course, things could change rather quickly. Uh, like I've said for months now and many others have said for months, the cleanest ending for this war, well certainly the quickest, but also the cleanest ending for the war is literally for the US to just walk away, declare victory, and privately cut a deal with the Iranians to give them whatever they want to open the straight again. So, we always have to consider the fact that that might happen. It could happen. We could just see a Trump social post one day and the Iranians confirm it that says the war is over. The straight's open, and we're all going to go home, right? That could happen. Those types of posts have been made several times before and they weren't true in the past, but it could happen. I don't want to neglect the fact that one day this could just be over. Personally, I don't think that's what's going to happen at all. I think that this war is going to drag on for a while longer, especially when we have a couple more months of strategic petroleum reserve left in the tank and the markets, the oil markets continue to be completely divorced from reality. some more mainstream sources are starting to catch on to what has been obvious for about 3 months now, which is that oil prices are not reflective of the situation at hand and that the bigger concern is the petroleum supply itself. As bad as prices are right now at the gas pump, it turns out that taking 20 million barrels per day out of the worldwide supply chain will eventually result in actual shortages of petroleum products. Uh the week before last, the United States has drained the strategic petroleum reserve at a higher rate than at any point in history. At least that's the claim that's going around. I don't know if the numbers actually match up, but it certainly seems to based on the charts. Gas is almost $5 per gallon in many places around the country, and this is actually artificially low. Like I said last week, gas prices should be much higher than they actually are right now. And one of the reasons that this has not happened is the wholesale draining of our strategic petroleum reserve. in addition to other nations doing the same from their end and a global tightening of the belt when it comes to petroleum products. So all in all, supply chain issues are seriously on the menu the longer this goes on. As we've known from the very start, time is a finite resource, and as of last night, there are even talks of extending the ceasefire by another 60 days. If that is the intent, we might be in a bit of a pickle because if we continue to drain these strategic reserves at the current rate of rise, we might not have that much time left before supply shortages begin and gas pumps in the US start running dry. Of course, this is not a major concern right now, even though it should be. But the Feds keep kicking that can down the road, and there's not a whole lot of uh expediency toward figuring this solution out. We're 91 days into this and there's not really a whole lot of interest in uh finding a solution anytime soon. It's like, well, let's schedule the meeting for two weeks from now. Well, okay. Uh but that's two weeks of very little oil making its way out of the region. So, not a super great look when the summertime travel season is just beginning right about now. And most Americans are going to be uh shaking their head at the gas pump unless something is done to fix this situation. And as of last night, it looks like many, many indicators are stacking up that point to the United States seeking more of a military solution rather than being interested in some sort of negotiation. But once again, a lot of this is going to be speculation. It'll be over when it's over, but right now it's not over. We just have to take it one day at a time and see what we can do on our end to be more prepared no matter what happens. So that's all I've got for today and let's wrap up with the Ghost Net reports for this week. Great net again all around this week and I think a lot of people are participating because weather is great this time of year. So I picked up way more people than I normally do from my own radio station. This week I heard quite a lot of people testing relaying messages around the world, testing other modes and frequencies. Some people trying to hit Australia, which is always really cool. I haven't hit Australia yet. That's pretty that would be pretty cool to uh do. It's pretty hard to hit Australia here from the east coast, but but otherwise, I saw a lot of people checking in to see who's up on the network and exchanging information completely off the grid. Radio networks like this one and others are really helpful when the power goes out, when the grid is completely down, and uh you have to operate completely offline, and maybe even in an environment where there's a lot of jamming. Resilient and capable communications are really helpful to have, especially when things are not going super well. So, that's all I've got for today. Thanks to all of you who support the work here on Patreon and thanks to all of you for sticking around as the summertime rolls in and everything gets more complicated. I have made some progress on the more educational material side of the house this week and I hope to have more at tech tutorials and more more well-rounded informational content out soon to help us navigate these strange and interesting times. There's never enough time in the day and I know that we're all trying to do our best. So, we'll continue on and try to stay one step ahead of the chaos as best we can. The goal of the Ghost Net and most of this other stuff too is to be an asset to the community even when times get tough and everything is collapsing around us. Hopefully things don't ever get that serious, but having these capabilities will be very handy and allow us to have the confidence to face whatever hardship comes next. So, let's get after it and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

Hello again, everyone, and welcome back to the underground. This is the Intel update for April 5th through the 11th, 2026. Hope everyone has had a good Easter week or Holy Week, respectively. Christ is risen indeed, and I hope everyone got some downtime to take a little bit of rest this week because around the world, it has been a rather tense roller coaster of events over the past few days. Of course, in the Middle East, the ceasefire has gone into effect, but it has been hanging by a thread since its inception, which we'll get into later. Throughout Western Europe, protests continue to grow in size and scope in Ireland due to both the fuel crisis and also the growing concerns of government overreach. Protests have become more kinetic throughout the day, and as I'm recording this, things have gotten a little bit spicy, so we'll have to cover this uh once things calm down a little bit and see how it works out. And on the home front this week, general crime and terrorism concerns remain as crime season throughout the United States is well underway. So, starting off with the homeland this week, there have been a series of brutal murders and attacks carried out by the usual suspects. While we have been focused on the Middle East, there have been several items of note that took place last weekend and also throughout the week. In Maine this week, more details have come to light regarding four men who were apprehended by Border Patrol in the vicinity of the St. Zachary Port of Entry on Golden Road shortly after crossing into the United States from Canada. At the time this story was announced, it did not get much traction due to most headlines beginning with four British men detained or something like that. However, a few days ago, more details were released, and it turns out that the four British men were actually four British men after the Border Patrol released their names, which are as follows: Ali Muhammad Ali Abdullah, Hamid Muhammad Nagui, Ibrahim Ayub Khan, and Muhammad Sultan Salah. Additionally, all four men were found hiding in a concealed position by sugar maple workers who were operating in the general area near the actual port of entry. The suspects had bypassed the checkpoint on foot and attempted to hide after hearing people in their general vicinity, but ended up getting caught anyway. After search of the surrounding area, Border Patrol agents tracked their position back to the Canadian side of the border where they found a vehicle which had run out of gas, and after they searched the vehicle, they found a handgun under the driver seat. One of the main reasons as to why we know so much about how this incident unfolded is due to the suspects recording the entire illegal border crossing on a GoPro camera. The footage from this GoPro confirms that they were indeed attempting to cross into the United States illegally, and they confessed all of their series of crimes on the video. The suspects also Googled how to get to Boston using their phones that were found on them at the time of their arrest. Considering the sheer amount of incriminating evidence the suspects compiled on themselves, it's possible that these guys were not exactly terrorists, but more like freeloaders who have been known to cross into the US from Canada knowing that the southern US border is much harder to penetrate nowadays. It's not impossible, but it's far easier to get into Canada and from there into the United States just by walking through the woods, which appears to have been the case here. So, despite the immediate reports saying that these guys were just lost hikers who accidentally stumbled into the United States, well, Border Patrol's testimony is that they've got a video of the guys uh them talking themselves about how they knew they were trying to get into the United States illegally. So, we can't really be sure what uh details have not been conveyed to the public yet, and it's quite likely that we can't see the whole story. So, definitely something to keep in mind, especially if we're uh going to be on kind of heightened alert for terrorism attacks over the next few months. The northern border with Canada is most certainly porous, and if these idiots got found, I can only imagine that somebody with more experience and more deliberation who's not going to be walking and talking loudly through the woods recording their crimes for Instagram on a GoPro might have a little bit of better chance of success. Nationwide, around the country, murder season is well underway, unfortunately. In Fort Myers, Florida, one suspect was arrested after murdering a woman with a hammer outside a gas station a few days ago. This extremely graphic murder was captured on the security cameras at the gas station, and it's so graphic that I can only show one frame from it. The murder took place after the suspect was observed hitting the victim's car with a hammer, and when the victim exited the store to confront the suspect, she was murdered in an exceptionally brutal manner. The suspect has been identified as Robert Joachim, an illegal immigrant from Haiti who was released into the United States in 2022. Over in Ohio last week on Easter night, a potential terror attack was reported in Franklin after a very suspicious series of events. Initially, the situation began after one suspect drove his vehicle into the driveway of a private residence seemingly at random. The suspect exited his vehicle and began Islamic prayer in the driveway. After some time and after security cameras notified the homeowners that there was someone outside their house, the suspect approached the front door of the residence and attempted to make entry. After being denied entrance by the homeowner, the homeowner eventually exited the residence to confront the suspect. The suspect then threatened the homeowner with a knife and told him that he would kill him in the name of Allah. The homeowner retreated, and the suspect departed the location. A short time later, the suspect was apprehended after ramming or attempting to ram his vehicle into someone else in Clear Creek. The suspect was eventually identified as Anthony Long, and very few details have indicated what this entire situation was all about. This could have been a just random crime sort of thing, or it could have been something more organized. I don't know. There really hasn't been any comment from the local authorities on this one, so we're going to have to keep this one on the back burner and flag it roughly as being a just a random crime until we know more information. Moving to North Carolina this week, DeCarlos Brown Jr., the assailant who murdered Irina Zurutsky in Charlotte back in August of last year, has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial on state murder charges. This finding actually took place back in December, but just came to light this week after his public defender filed court documents requesting a continuance based on this designation. The federal charges still stand, and right now, there are conflicts between the state and the feds regarding how to proceed with this trial because the state is arguing that since he's in federal custody, he can't be evaluated by the state, and since he can't be evaluated by the state, the competency hearing can't go forward. As to what this means for this very high-profile murder case, it's not entirely clear at the moment. This is Charlotte, after all, and it's become quite a unique place to be since there is a lot of emotion and uh social attention on this case, and there's no telling what might happen. So, this is something to keep an eye on just in case this individual ends up getting the slap on the wrist that everyone is expecting. Moving to Texas last week on Easter Sunday, one assailant attempted to carry out a mass shooting at a church in Houston. Local authorities state that Emmanuel Mombevi initially gained entry to the church and began handing out flyers to congregants during the service. After being approached by security on site, he was removed from church grounds, but after some time, he returned to the church armed with a firearm and 100 rounds of ammunition, and after he attempted to draw the firearm in the church, he was tackled by the security team. During the fray, he also allegedly attempted to detonate an IED with his cell phone, but afterwards, it became clear that he did not have any explosives on him. So, quite a kinetic week for the United States this week. Don't want to dwell on it too much, but the risks are quite paramount. Whether or not you want to call these terrorism incidents or just the state of what general crime has transitioned into is uh going to be up to you, but the brutality of these kinds of things has uh definitely become quite paramount this week. Moving to the Middle East, so far, the ceasefire continues as well as to be expected for a ceasefire in the Middle East, which is a huge caveat. For those who are not aware of the cultural traditions of the region, ceasefires don't usually mean a whole lot, and they don't usually mean a total ceasefire, but rather a cessation of major attacks. Since the ceasefire went into effect, several drone strikes have been reported in both the UAE and in Kuwait, and the UAE did conduct some targeting efforts after the ceasefire went into effect as retribution for the Iranians hitting their oil refineries very hard. The UAE was not going to sit back and let the Iranians hit their oil facilities and then the ceasefire go into effect the next day. The UAE was definitely going to settle the score on that front, and that took place after the ceasefire went into effect. And of course, the Israelis have been carrying on targeting as usual, though they weren't really carrying out that much targeting within Iran over the past couple of weeks anyway because they are fighting a very hot war in Lebanon, so their forces are spread pretty thin. Concerning the terms of the ceasefire itself, or really, we should probably be causing calling it more of a pause than a ceasefire because nothing has been written down. Not much is known regarding the exact details of what this ceasefire or pause is all about, and there's certainly really no indication of how the general state of peace talks might go. Historically speaking, this is perfectly normal, and one of the reasons as to why ceasefires are usually transitioned into a lasting peace agreement to settle a conflict. Perhaps the most notable exception to this rule would be the Korean War, which is mostly just a ceasefire which was put into place without really hammering out a complete and final settlement to the conflict. So, considering the history of the past, I don't know, half a century or so of warfare, ceasefires normally transition into some kind of peace agreement or some kind of peace understanding over a period of time, but not always. The fighting can always resume as has happened several times in Ukraine, for instance. There have been several ceasefires in Ukraine which have taken effect, they have gone into effect, and they have ended, and the fighting has resumed. So, the same thing might happen in Iran. In terms of the tactical situation on the ground, there are a few items of note that I'm keeping an eye on this week. First and foremost, the minefield in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the bounding box for where the Iranians have stated that they have laid mines, but as the United States is finding out this week, the Iranians don't really have any demining capability. So, they can place mines, but they can't recover them. And the White House has stated that the Iranians don't exactly know where their mines are located within this zone. As strange as it sounds, this Wile E. Coyote mine-laying operation is actually part of standard Iranian doctrine because remember, when the Ayatollah was taken out and their comms were severed at the beginning of the war, their decentralized command structure entered into its fight to the last man mode. So, they were not expecting to ever win the war. They were expecting for everyone to fight to the death, essentially. When this level of defense doctrine is is in any nation, not just Iran, but any nation that is pushed into a corner like this. You don't really care so much about picking up mines later on. In the initial days of the war, the Iranians were fighting for their very lives and certainly were fighting a state of unrestricted warfare where nothing was off limits, at least on the first couple of days. This was by design and after a few days the higher-ups were able to get control again. I suspect, and this is total speculation, that in those early days of the war individual commanders at bases were acting independently and they probably deployed some of their mines out while they could assuming that they might be dead in a few days anyway. Thinking from the perspective of a local IRGC commander, that's what I would have done. You're sitting in a dusty bunker watching the Americans bomb everything in your country, comms are severed, reports are coming in of Tehran being hit, the Ayatollah's dead, and we're on our own here, right? So, get on the boats and get our munitions out there based on the plans that have been cooked up decades ago. It's a fire sale, everything must go right now. Or at least that's what these guys would have been thinking. The drone launchers send everything they have. Anybody who can do so gets in the fight and the small boats with one or two mines on board put to sea and get their mine in the water knowing that they probably won't see the sunrise the next day. That's the mindset these guys were operating from during the early days of the war. Fast forward to today when the Iranian regime has not collapsed and the world has not ended for them and their military posture can be more measured. Well, at this point the mines are already in the water and when Abdul was burning out the engine in his small boat to get his crew's mine in the water in the dead of night, he probably wasn't looking so closely at his GPS, which was probably being by his own people anyway. Now, other means of implacing mines probably came from submarines because a huge mission of their submarine fleet is to emplace mines underwater in the strait. Rumor has it, again, I don't have photos to show you, but rumor has it, at least a lot of the long-standing doctrine that has existed before this war was put into the mainstream civilian consciousness, it has been an assumption that a lot of the IRGC's mini submarines are actually launched from James Bond Dr. No style like caves that they've cut into the side of the waterway there on the coast of the Persian Gulf so that you can't really hit them. They're like submarine pens during World War II. Very hard to target, very hard to get at, and the submarines are so small they can just go out into the comparatively shallow Persian Gulf and do whatever they want to without really being detected very easily. Now again, maybe the US sunk every single one of these mini subs during the initial phases of the war. I don't know. Maybe we struck all these places. I don't know. That's the whole point of all of this is an unknown. And for sure this was certainly a multi-layered approach that we don't have a lot of fidelity on simply because we don't know what the Iranians did during the initial phases of the war. And honestly, at this point it's quite possible that the Iranians themselves don't know either because if a little miniature submarine goes out and lays two or three mines or if a fast boat goes out and, you know, lays one mine and they get sunk with an airstrike before they get back to base, it's pretty likely that nobody, not even the Iranians, are going to know where that mine is actually located because they didn't make it back to base to tell everybody, "Hey, we put the mine at this grid." You know? So, suffice it to say this is a major concern that can only be alleviated by the US Navy. Lloyd's of London, the main insurance corporation that underwrites high-risk insurance policies such as those for ships transiting the strait, is not going to approve a single policy unless the US Navy clears the minefield and very publicly transits through the minefield area with their AIS transponder turned on so that the whole world can see that the route is safe. This is the bare minimum expectation for returning to normal in the strait. And I say that because this morning when I'm recording this, there are reports of US Navy vessels, which have been in port in the Persian Gulf this entire time, that may be moving toward the Strait of Hormuz. If that is the case and if they can start ensuring the freedom of navigation through the alleged minefield, this would be a very positive development for getting things back to normal. However, it's also possible and quite likely that the Iranians will tell them to turn around or fire anti-ship missiles at them and then we're back at this again. But once again, this is a developing situation that is going on right now, so more details are to be expected later on. Another situation I am monitoring is the buildup on all sides during this lull in the war. The Iranians have claimed to have repaired several of the bridges that were struck just a few days ago, which is hard to believe, but construction projects in the third world go rather quickly when you don't have to worry about OSHA, and the Iranians are heavily motivated to put down their rivals and grab their e-tools while they still have time. Similarly, the United States has been pouring resources into the Middle East replenishing resources as best they can. As a result, we will have to wait and see how the ceasefire works out. If it turns into a full-fledged peace plan, that's good. There's no harm, no foul, and maybe we can put this all behind us. But if a deal cannot be reached and the fighting resumes, it's going to be intense if things pop off once again. As a result, for those who may be breathing a sigh of relief that the war is over and, you know, the Trump tacoed and it's all over, I wouldn't be so sure about that just yet. Let's not count our chickens before they hatch here and I very highly doubt that the forces that have driven this war so far are going to be looking to let go from this conflict so easily. This conflict has been half a century in the making at least and I don't think this is over just yet. Of course, the war in Lebanon is a complicating factor for all of this as well, but by and large, at this point the strategic goals for all parties, but particularly the United States, is simply to undo the effects of the war and return to the normal state that existed before hostilities commenced. That seems to be the strategic goal, to get back to the way things were before we started this war, which is not necessarily a good sign, but that's what we seem to be trying to do, to get back to the way things were in terms of the strait being considered to be international waters, back to the merchant shipping carrying on as usual, back to the US being able to have military bases in the Middle East, and back to the way things have been for decades. However, even though this is clearly a goal at this point, in many ways there will be no going back. Iran maintains a lot of power right now and over the next few weeks the United States is going to have to play catch-up with regards to achieving their military objectives, which the United States might be preparing for as resupply and rearmament efforts continue around the region. In short, we are most certainly not out of the woods just yet and not only is peace not a certainty, but it's looking pretty unlikely on the diplomatic front unless the United States and Israel are willing to accept a lot of concessions and by default allow the Iranians a strategic victory. This does not seem very possible at the moment unless the war actually went way worse for us than we thought it did and we're willing to now make a lot of concessions, but otherwise doesn't seem very possible in the in the short term at least. But again, staying on the hopeful side of things, anything can happen. There are a lot of moving parts and things are changing by the hour, so hopefully we can see how things work out on the diplomatic front over the next few days. And on that note, that's all I have for today. So, let's finish up with the intercepted Ghost Net reports for this week. For those who are not aware, I don't just make PowerPoint slides and maps, I also manage another line of effort called the Ghost Net, which is a project to bring a more informational side to the world of radio. If you do not physically own the wires, you do not own the communication. And if your communications, your messages, your DMs, your emails, your newsfeeds, all that stuff, if all that's going over somebody else's cable, then they have the ability to influence it somewhat. Though it may seem to be an odd combination to try to smash together the world of geopolitics and the world of amateur radio, this is a good way to ensure that resiliency is possible even during more contingent situations. In short, if Twitter goes down or there's some kind of cyber attack that takes out a major data centers, we'll still be able to have some sort of effectiveness in exchanging information during a crisis. As a side note, that's one of the ways that the world of intelligence is separated from the world of journalism. Journalism is supposed to convey just the raw facts of what happened in the past. They may not do that these days, but that's what they're supposed to do. Whereas intelligence is a career field that uses those raw facts to figure out what's going to happen next so that people can make decisions for the future. Journalism is facing rearwards to the past and intelligence is facing forward to the future, which is a major difference. Sometimes we get so caught up with what we think is just political commentary because we're so oversaturated with that sort of thing most of the time from the mainstream media, but in reality what we want to do is help provide information and that dreaded opinion to help make decisions. In the professional world, intelligence analysts are almost never asked by their bosses for source material or raw information. That just That just never happens. Decision makers want purely their opinion on what to do or what is going to happen next. But it's also a constantly evolving process that requires a solid bedrock of communications infrastructure to even work. Of course, in the civilian world expectations are radically different and no analysis will be accepted without first providing the raw source material. That's just kind of where we're at right now, I think. Opinions and organic thought is just not really allowed in nearly all cases unless a primary source is provided. And to do all of this, we need an ecosystem for exchanging that information that is very resilient and hard for malign actors to take offline. When it comes to having that forward-facing ecosystem, we need to have capabilities to help make decisions even when everything is failing around us. Nobody would expect a Fox News anchor to take off their suit and tie, fire up a ham radio, and transmit a report from the field. Nobody would expect an ambulance driver to be the same guy who builds that ambulance in the factory or fixes it when it breaks down. But for the prepared citizen, that might be an expectation for us because we're not moving information to improve ratings, but rather to save lives sometimes. In our world, he who has the information or analysis has the responsibility to ensure that it can make it into the hands of whomever needs it. In our case, we have to not just be responsible for gathering information and processing it into intelligence, but also providing that analysis in a way that allows others to make decisions. And on top of all of that, we have to make sure that this flow of analysis can take place when all communications networks are down. It's a tall order. It's a hard thing to do, but the Ghost Net is a decent starting point toward building out that ecosystem. And now that there is an Android version of JS8Call, the main software package that we use for this, it is now even easier to become involved and start sharing information. So, this week I did pick up many of your transmissions via this method, and I'm starting to get a little bit more familiar with the Android app of JS8Call. I was able to get it to work with one of my radios, but not the other, unfortunately. Uh and it's going to take a little bit of work around to get a receive-only arrangement working for those of you who don't have any kind of interest in ham radio. If you just want to receive the news via radio, you can still do it. It's just a little bit of work around for the moment. So, just to test this out on Thursday night, I set up one of my phones via audio coupling, as in I literally just laid my headphones on top of my phone's microphone, so that the signals could be transmitted from the speaker in the headphones to the microphone on the phone, and it was decoded that way. So, that did work. A very, very ad hoc way of doing it. Seemed to work decently well enough. That's not That's not normally how you'd want to do it, but it can work. Longer messages did not decode, but again, this is a work in progress, and I hope that we can get this working even better over the next few months. So, please stay tuned for that. I'm going to do a little bit more testing on this and try to get this working a little bit better, so that we can have even better tools to exchange information. So, that's all I have for today. Thank you all for sticking around, and we'll get back at it next week. Thank you again to all of you on Patreon who keep the project going. I really do appreciate it. I could not do any of this without you. So, thank you again, and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground what a week it has been hasn't it a lot of random stuff a lot of events to cover so let's go ahead and punch through this week's grinsome for May 5th through the 11th 2024 right up front we have the Northeast region one of the main events that occurred this week was in Pennsylvania this was the shooting or the rather attempted uh church shooting in North bradic uh just a suburb of Pittsburgh there this was a significant event because again this is something that the mainstream media doesn't really like to cover uh but this was U again a continuation of attacks on churches and religious institutions all around the United States uh this incident appears to maybe be a little bit more along the lines of a mental health kind of incident sort of thing because a gunman walked into the church and tried to shoot the pastor during a live stream of services on Sunday uh guy walks into the church points a gun at the pastor click uh gun does not work malfunction occurs and the congregation uh tackles the as salant statements made by the asent at the scene very sort of strongly indicate that this may have been more along the lines of a mental health care uh kind of incident however uh there was also a uh deceased body found at the as salance residence after he was arrested at the scene they did a search of his home and found uh another body of what appears to be maybe a relative so again this is really one of those things where there's not a whole lot of information about it but um again I I don't really want to say this is more along the lines of a a terrorist attack this this appears to be more along the lines of a um sort of random violence SL mental violence kind of kind of thing so again something something to to keep note of especially as we move forward into a very chaotic uh election season moving down to Washington DC it has been quite the week uh however starting with one of the more simple things there was another White House Gate Crash back on the 4th of may just after this uh last week's grin suum came out there was a White House gate Crasher not a whole lot of information on it but it did result in one fatality so I'm not really sure if the guy who uh rammed into the gate uh was deceased before or after he hit the gate or um you know what was going on with that so hopefully we'll get some more information as time goes on but again didn't really see too many details on that moving on to the more controversial uh idea Congressional actions this week uh oh boy it's been quite uh quite hectic in Congress and quite disturbing uh to be perfectly honest so again the things that you might want to pay attention to if you are a taxpaying American are uh the two bills that kind of came out uh this week or were rather introduced uh into Congress this week and those are uh house resolution 8321 and 8322 now again we don't have the text of these bills so I was hoping that by the time we got around to Saturday we would have some more information to kind of sink our teeth into but we don't so unfortunately my previous assessment still stands uh I wrote a special report this week because you know I know the the longer kind of reports are not really um super super great sometimes but I I did want to kind of put a special topical update out on these uh rather dystopian bills so you can read it yourself I'm not going to rehash all of what I wrote and kind of talked about already on the bills but again fairly dystopian uh so again we we don't have much to go off of other than the statements by the uh the congressman who introduced the bill and the two co-sponsors so we're going off of statements direct firsthand primary source statements made by the people who are writing the bill so you know you know don't shoot the messenger here I'm just telling you what they're what they've already said and it's pretty uh pretty serious uh 8321 just kind of the general gist of it is to to uh introduce a a law so that if anyone is convicted of a crime on a University campus um they are sent or or they are sentenced to six months community service in Gaza uh again the implication of this again I'm not like I'm I'm connecting one dot to another dot so you know the dots at this point are really touching each other on this particular Bill and other things as well and I feel like we need at this point to kind of use these you know analytical skills to maybe extrapolate some data from you know fairly complete sources right and the implication is that these uh people who are convicted of a crime on a University campus it doesn't say uh demonstrating like we're talking about the Hamas protesters this is just just kind of like any crime right uh the implication is that sending these people to Gaza right I think the I think the kind of implication or the the intent is for Republicans Congressional Republicans to say all right fine these pramas Pro Palestine whatever label you want to put on them these protesters in universities they want to fight for Palestine or Hamas well let's go send them there uh that's kind of the kind of gotcha you know journalist moment that they're kind of going for with these kinds of incidents however that's not what it says that's not what the bill says not what the title of the bill says and that's not the statements these guys have made so again something to keep in mind that this is a pretty serious implication and honestly if you look at the flip side of it I I'm not really sure how these congressmen are going to be able to get around providing material support to a terrorist organization Hamas is a terrorist organization right they were declared as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 so you've got three congressmen you know they're trying to be exceptionally pro-israel exceptionally anti- Palestine yet they're providing their their own bill is providing material support to Hamas so by providing them with fighters from the you know uh the United States if you want to frame it like that you absolutely can so again utterly ridiculous bill but it does kind of set the predent for the goalpost being being moved so far away from what is a cultural norm you know if we're now in Congress talking about deporting Americans for verbally supporting an idea no matter how controversial that idea is or whether it's right or wrong doesn't really matter if they're verbally supporting an idea not providing material support again not providing material support that's already illegal okay unlawful assembly already illegal trespassing already illegal property damage already illegal we're not talking about that we're talking about verbal support for a questionable organization idea whatever okay if we're now if the goal post are now that we're going to start deporting these people to the Middle East with the intent of getting them killed by American bombs you know pardon me for being a little bit concerned about that so again I said what I said in the Special Report I know a lot of people didn't agree with it or don't like it uh but hey you know I I feel like I'm not really going that far above what's already been kind of said by the congressman themselves so again very concerning um I don't really know what to do about it uh but I feel like not enough people are concerned about it because so many people again with this Gaza Palestine Israel kind of situation they're so desperate to jump into one support side or the other and they they just don't understand that or they don't really care uh that some very very serious goalposts are being shoved into the ground and um I don't know how we're going to uh recover from from stuff like this so again I don't think it's going to pass but who knows so uh huge huge huge concern so uh I guess we'll just have to wait I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the text of the bill is my guess is that they probably just introduced it for a political grandstanding event and then they'll walk it back in the text of the bill but I don't know I would really love to walk things back and not be as concerned but again that hasn't happened so uh we'll just have to kind of play it by ear and see how this works out so again sorry for ranting and raving too long on that um let me go ahead and move on to the next region which is the West Central midwestern region one incident this week which I did not highlight in The Wire report I I got left out in favor of uh time constraints but this is important and I didn't have enough time to verify it until until just now uh really it's kind of gone public that there has been a massive Cyber attack at the Ascension Hospital uh Health Care System right so we're talking around I've seen reports saying 120 to 140 hospitals were directly affected by a Cyber attack no details of what the Cyber attack was or I take it back there there are details but nothing that's really solid to kind of like sink your teeth into however over 40 assisted uh he assisted care facilities were also affected by this Cyber attack so again when it comes to cyber attacks and hospitals you have to realize the dynamic at play here uh when it comes to critical infrastructure in general you may see a system go down you may see like a um some kind of company or system or something like be offline for maintenance and then we find out if few days later that it was a Cyber attack because they didn't want to admit to it right up front they wanted to kind of solve the issue first um because it's one of those things where they're just trying to kind of keep things on the down low while they're working the working the issue which I kind of understand to some degree but again it took me about a day to kind of um drill down uh on this but I did get a lot of DMS about this so I did want to uh thank you all for that uh giving me the kind of the heads up on this very suspicious kind of incident moving over to Western Europe we have really two big kind of issues or sort of concentrations of demonstrations this week again protests and demonstrations and riots and civil unrest continues all over Europe in pretty much every nation in Europe uh except for like Russia or Ukraine for obvious reasons but this week we really have concentrations of um I guess you should say angry sentiment uh in Ireland and in the Netherlands so so the riots or unrest however you want to phrase it I'm really struggling to kind of figure out is this more of a riot or is this a demonstration or is this like a seriously kinetic thing uh it's hard to say so let's go ahead and start with Ireland so this week the really the unrest in Ireland has come from counter immigration protests so uh again last week one of the uh immigration welcoming centers um basically that has been enabling a lot of immigration uh throughout Ireland uh was burned down in Dublin and interestingly enough a lot of the uh locals were able to kind of talk to the construction Crews who were trying to fix or or brought in to repair the the destroyed facility and the locals were able to talk them out of it so again these little little tiny things don't really make the media are are something that's very very interesting to me uh because now you start seeing people um counteracting some of these very very dystopian you know ideas kind of thrust upon the Western World these days you see them starting to move around and and and realize that okay well protests are are helpful in some cases and not and some cases they're not but there's definitely multiple Avenues of approach now for uh countering a lot of these demonstrations talking to people you know getting people to realize your side of the issue instead of just going out there and shouting you know with a sign in your hand very interesting very interesting idea uh however this has has resulted in a lot of unrest in Dublin some of the largest protests we've actually seen in Dublin in a long time have been about this immigration issue so it'll be interesting to see how that kind of shakes out because as we all know Ireland uh even the ROI has has a very interesting history and um I think it's very very safe to say that the Irish people have had enough uh of all this stuff so it'll be interesting to see how that shakes out uh across the channel over in the Netherlands Amsterdam saw quite a bit of rioting and uh very very kinetic activity I should say even uh for European standards is more kinetic from American Standards it it maybe not be so much uh but in Amsterdam there were quite a few demonstrations of really starting since last weekend I think and then they've just kind of continued over the week they got kind of hot a couple of days ago uh but the issues that they're writing about are hard to determine most of the demonstrations in the Netherlands are from a like IC Ally leftist kind of you know perspective so when we see a lot of leftist demonstrations even in the United States we see them kind of ideologically capture a lot of ideas in one so you'll see demonstrators in the same group of protesters holding signs that are opposing each other so it it doesn't make a whole lot of sense sometimes and that's kind of what I've seen happen uh in Amsterdam so you've got you know climate protesters in the same group with Pro Palestinian protesters and then you've got you know pro-israeli protesters kind of in the mix somewhere so it's like you've got a lot of cognitive dissonance in the same group um you know it's one of those things that tends to happen sometimes it it does happen sometimes with conservative groups as well but lately it's really been a lot of these leftist groups because um when you look at the actual individual protester right A lot of times you'll see one protester being paid U because again the left is really the only political like Center which pays protesters a lot of times so you'll see the same protester be arrested at a BLM rally and on the other side of the country you'll see them arrested for a pro Palestine rally and then you know in the midwest you'll see them arrested for some kind of climate agenda thing and then you'll see them arrested for the so they they're they're going from protest to protest to protest and a lot of times you'll see just kind of conglomerations form so again some of these things tend to happen in the more politically liberal cities or like liberal um strongholds throughout Europe you don't tend to see it happen you know in small towns in the south of France so much but you know in you know pretty big Powerhouse cities like Amsterdam you do kind of see this happen so again something interesting to take note of is you know if you're out there you're just you're shopping around for political ideology to kind of support you you just kind of have to realize a lot of this stuff isn't necessarily that organic and you might be you know you know hitching Your Wagon to a a horse that uh isn't really going anywhere so again and something to keep in mind and Switching gears quite significantly let's talk a little bit about the sort of French Foreign Legion Fiasco with regards to France and Ukraine so I put out a wire report I think Monday or Tuesday or something like that talking about how a lot of media groups had put out uh a report or they kind they were kind of like leaking the story through defense attaches that the French Foreign Legion was going to be deploying a couple of battalions or maybe not even a couple of battalions just you know 1500 or so uh troops to Ukraine well uh that turns out to well France at least France at least says that's false that's not true they never plan to do that case closed right I think there's more to the story but I have absolutely no evidence uh other than my own knowledge of how things are working in Ukraine uh with regards to how many NATO troops are there and sending the French Foreign Legion to Ukraine I think they've already done it that's I have no evidence to suggest so but I think they've already done it I think the French Foreign Legion as far as uh leadership maybe artillery spotters maybe intelligence definitely intelligence for sure I think basically every single military in NATO and every single like uniquely French organization like the French Foreign Legion uh Nations that have these kind of uniquely National sort of entities they've been rotating them through Ukraine like like we used to do in Afghanistan you know like Afghanistan was basically the train training test bed for really NATO with regards to technology Personnel all kinds of stuff you know walking around BM just a few years ago you see like what uniform is that what flag is that like are they even in NATO like why is Nepal here in BM like you know are the nepes giras what are they doing here you know so it's like you see this kind of thing happen and I'm sure that in Ukraine the same thing's happening except nobody's wearing uniforms nobody's wearing flags on their sleeves it's all done very quietly so when these reports broke here's what I think happened my personal opinion no evidence to suggest it whatsoever I think a bunch of Russian sources probably the old Gru guys or somebody or FSB or whoever got wind to this pushed it through their cronies uh in the media and said oh hey uh the French are are deploying to to Ukraine you got to remember how Russian disinformation and and like genuine Russian scops work they're not very good at it okay they're they're they're really not I don't you know again probably opinion that nobody agrees with but you look at Russian propaganda and from a neutral nonmilitary industrial complex non uh Rand style of thinking and you look at the Russian propaganda and you're like was this like was this their effort this is all they got anyway what I think happened is the Russians got wind of probably an email or two because they probably tapped the communications of all these French officials they probably got wind of it somebody trying to think about it and then they push it through their cronies before waiting the Russians can't hold their wad when it comes to propaganda a lot of times so my guess is they probably pushed it out and now France says oh well show us your evidence well we don't have any it was an email that was classified and the Russians are will say well we we're not going to give our sources and methods up anyway for people like me it makes me look like an idiot uh because you know I run with the story you know that's my fault for not kind of like you know double checking that but it's like or double or triple checking that but it's like man you know this they're kind of Wy plus you also have you know sheer and utter criminal negligence and incompetence being you know the the French defense industry right now especially macron like I mean good grief one day he's saying fr the French arm is going to be deploying to Ukraine if need be the next day he's saying I never said that you know or you took me out of context it's like so what is it going to be like give it 3 days and I guarantee you we we'll be talking about the French Foreign Legion in Ukraine again um because mil militarily speaking that would probably be smart for mccrone to do from his perspective militarily speaking it's only reinforcing a defeat but it seems like every NATO member is tripping over their own defense budgets to uh see how much money they can lose and how many lives they can lose in Ukraine but anyway again I know this is probably a very very minority uh opinion but you know I think that uh we're going to be learning a lot of things just wait 10 15 years and what we learned from the Ukraine war will be um very very interesting uh to read in the history book so again France says French Foreign Legion not going to Ukraine but all things considered that's probably not true but I don't have any evidence to to prove that it's not so um any in any case uh that's all I got on that one so let's go ahead and move on to the southern Europe Mediterranean region and again uh what's going on in Israel is it exceptionally geopolitically hot right now it is impossible to talk about Israel Gaza without getting um not so much censored by like platforms like YouTube or or whatnot but it's like you get censored by other people uh who who have a very they're looking at this conflict through a SoDo straw and it's very very hard to get people to kind of think think outside the box with regards to this sort of thing um you know I wrote my thoughts on on what's going on with the latest peace deal in Israel but again I don't think a whole lot of people kind of agree with the idea despite you know I I kind of forget sometimes that what may be extremely obvious to me may not be so for other people so that's my fault you know sorry for not taking that into consideration a lot but the bottom line with what's going on in Israel at the moment with Rafa is peace talks have kind of collapsed uh this time it looks like it was probably due to Israel's actions it looks to me and this again Israel media is kind of talking about this so the people who are most likely to censor it are say it's it's obvious to them you know that it seems like Hamas was probably willing to you know uh make a fairly generous peace deal with Israel just to kind of stop this this Bloodshed right Hamas is claiming you know believe them if you want or or don't believe them if you want it's up to you I'm just a messenger Hamas is claiming that they basically agreed to everything Israel wanted and Israel walked away from the table uh and within a few hours they were already in Rafa so uh even Israeli media is saying hey wait a minute something's up with this so it looks to me like um old BB over there is probably trying to keep his government alive trying to keep his own uh political office intact by bringing forth a peace deal that uh he knew Hamas would reject all right you know it's classic classic diplomatic tactic not just it's it's not something uniquely Israeli either classic diplomatic tactic you bring a peace deal that you know your enemy is going to reject like you know unconditional surrender or something like that they're going to reject that and then when they do reject that you can have justification to invade well they didn't do that right they called this well they said yeah oh we'll we'll we will agree to your ridiculous proposal and uh BB said well we're walking away from the table and then invaded Rafa cuz he really wanted an a justification to invade Rafa and take control of the philadelph Deli Corridor which I personally think is not so much a slight against Gaza but a slight against Egypt right I think Israel is trying to flex their muscle over the regards to two countries at the moment Egypt and Lebanon um but so so this goes beyond Gaza uh but again very very politically charged issue very very hard to kind of convey a neutral perspective in this especially when the conflict in some ways is so extremely one-sided you know like from a targeting perspective like look you know pointing out that look just go by JP 360 and look at all of the stuff that is that is being violated there you know and it's like you know we can't we can't keep ignoring this stuff for for much for too much longer and even the White House even during interviews is is is no longer able to kind of deny this sort of thing so uh again I shouldn't have to say this but denouncing specific actions of one side in a conflict does not mean you're supporting the other side you know I shouldn't have to say that but I guess I do so anyway I just thought I would point that out and then wrapping things up I thought I would do something a little bit different uh and add in some of the news reports that all of you have been able to send in or send out rather through the ghost net so again for those of you who are probably not aware of what the ghost net is you can check out some of the other videos I've done on this basically this is an HF radio communications plan um mostly for uh you know amateur radio uh guys and and things like that but the way that we've set it up is so that you can send short and sweet information or news reports from your local area and a lot of other people can receive it so I thought this would be kind of a little fun little exercise to see which kinds of reports uh I myself picked up throughout the week and to make it extra challenging as we all know uh there's no real personto person here so it's you're sending information reports to the ghost net so uh I'm giving you criteria you know to send news reports to the ghost net like call sign on js8 call and stuff like that but you're not sending them directly to me right it's only happen stance that I can pick these up so you're not going to know you're basically sending out random reports and hoping that I receive it here personally uh I may receive it I may not it's a fun little exercise right and it kind of gets us in the mindset of thinking well you may have to exchange information with people who you don't know and in a contingent situation but you want to be as safe as you can about it right so nobody knows my call sign it's not out there in the public I'm just like all of you right engaging in the ghost net and sharing information and exchanging things and if I receive a report good if I don't you know um there's no real way to kind of make that happen so again for all the hams out there who are like trying to like what's your call sign so I can send you a report it do work like that doesn't work like that send it to the ghost net tag and maybe maybe I'll pick it up but anyway uh I did get one report this week which I thought was interesting and it kind of again along with a few direct messages cuz I did not see this in the media at all like nowhere in my in my little you know Rabbit Hole kind of information sources did I see the Ascension Health Cyber attack uh incident I got it from two or three of you uh dm'd it to me so I'm sorry if I didn't respond to all of you uh but thank you for that uh but I also saw it I'm not sure if there's some if the one of you who DMD it to me uh also transmitted it but I got your report I got your report brother so uh I did see that pop up on js8 call this week I was going to take a screenshot but then i' I forgot about it so uh yeah I just wanted to point out that hey this this is the kind of thing that this is what this is for so it's for localized reporting stuff that I don't talk about necessarily but it's a way to kind of show what people are putting in and it allows you to have a little bit of an incentive to to maybe realize that you never really know who's watching out there on the ghost net and uh if you're trying to uh really do some good good local news reporting or Intel reporting whatever you want to call it and you're pushing that out and you're trying to help people and you're trying to share good information this is a good way to do it because you never know who might be watching and you might uh get a little bit of recognition from a local issue uh in some of these uh news reports that I do here like the grensom so that's pretty much all I have again here are your sources for this week uh I'm sorry if it's a little bit random this week it's it's been kind of a hectic week I've had uh several power outages this week to kind of deal with and kind of test my own little um power outage plans and such so so hopefully everyone out there has a good weekend we'll get back to it with the standard wire reports so on Monday and we will see you then so thank you all for watching and we'll see you next time and as always fight in the shade

…Following Israeli strikes in Lebanon a few days ago, more significant airstrikes were reported in southern Lebanon overnight. Yesterday evening the Israeli Knesset voted to annex the West Bank, a move which has drawn slight criticism…

…Following the signing of the agreement between the U.S./Israel and the Lebanese government, the IDF's invasion has continued within southern Lebanon. Lebanese citizens have continued fleeing the city of Nabatiyeh, with airstrikes being…

…Syria or excuse me Iran blowing stuff up boom you blow stuff up in in in in Lebanon that would make sense so there's your sort of doctrinal evidence in the affirmative that this was…

…and alliances Etc as such Israel will not be able to cut and paste what they did in Gaza into the goldan Heights or Southern Lebanon this concludes the wire for 2130 Zulu July 29th 2024

…going to break out Israel is probably going to try uh to to Annex as much of Southern Lebanon as they possibly can hezb is probably going to start using much larger Munitions uh to strike…

…In Lebanon, Israeli targeting in Beirut has increased substantially over the past few weeks. Israeli forces have started issuing evacuation orders for some of the southern suburbs of Beirut, though not yet to the degree observed…

…This southern advance now threatens the logistical corridor used by the Russian Naval base in Tartus, Russia’s only direct access point for the Mediterranean Sea that does not involve going through the Turkish Straits. Lebanon…

…After the ceasefire document was signed in Versailles yesterday, Israeli forces conducted large-scale bombing campaigns in Lebanon. Dozens of airstrikes were reported along the southern and eastern fronts as the cities of Maifadoun, Nabatieh, and…

…Yesterday Prime Minister Netanyahu directly rejected President Trump's request to halt their invasion of Lebanon, with Netanyahu stating on his Hebrew-language account that "the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon…

…ISRAEL CONDUCTS AIRSTRIKES IN LEBANON. TELEGRAM FOUNDER ARRESTED IN FRANCE. HOUTHIS CONTINUE TO HONE TARGETING TACTICS.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: Yesterday at approximately 0500B Israeli forces conducted substantial airstrikes within southern Lebanon, reportedly targeting…

…WAR IN LEBANON EXPANDS AS DRONE ATTACKS INTENSIFY. CONFLICT MOUNTS IN CONGO AS EBOLA CRISIS WORSENS. PROBABLE CHINESE AGENTS DETAINED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO INFILTRATE SOUTHERN US BORDER.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: Israeli attacks in…

…Israel has ordered the United Nations peacekeepers to leave their positions along the blue line and in southern Lebanon Hezbollah attacks continue in semi- random fashion though Hezbollah has increased the targeting of areas deeper inside…

…Both Israeli and Hezbollah forces have continued trading missile strikes in Lebanon. Hezbollah has increasingly attempted to target Haifa, as Israeli forces continue their invasion of southern Lebanon. -HomeFront- South Carolina: This morning 43 Rhesus monkeys…