//The Wire//2300Z September 15, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: IED ATTACK FAILS IN SALT LAKE CITY, ASSAILANTS ARRESTED. ADDITIONAL SUSPECTS IDENTIFIED IN KIRK ASSASSINATION CASE. WAR DEPARTMENT STRIKES NARCO BOAT OFF VENEZUELA COAST.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- United Kingdom: Over the weekend the "Unite the Kingdom" protests took place in London and throughout the nation, mostly without much issue. Some scuffles with police were noted, but British authorities provided a map of all of the unrest, which was almost entirely contained within the counter-protester areas. Caribbean: This afternoon the U.S. carried out another kinetic strike of a suspected narco-vessel off the coast of Venezuela. One vessel was struck by the U.S. Navy, resulting in 3x enemy casualties. -HomeFront- Utah: The investigation into the Kirk assassination continues, as the dragnet of potential accomplices widens. The FBI has stated that 7x people associated with the alleged killer have been identified throughout Utah, mostly online associates who had prior knowledge of the attack during the planning phase. These individuals are currently being investigated, and at least one individual was directly told by Robinson that he intended to kill Charlie Kirk. Authorities state that Tyler Robinson is not cooperating with the investigation, has reversed his previous confession, and begun to state his innocence for the attack. More kinetically, yesterday afternoon two assailants attempted to target a news vehicle with an incendiary device in Salt Lake City. Adeeb Nasir and Adil Nassir were arrested after using a homemade explosive device on a parked news vehicle in an undisclosed location somewhere in the city. The device failed to detonate properly, and instead started a fire under the vehicle. Following their arrests, a further search of their home in Magna revealed an IED factory, where other explosive devices were discovered. North Carolina: Decarlos Brown Jr. (the murderer of Iryna Zarutska) has been transferred to a mental institution by Judge Roy Wiggins, so as to determine the defendant's capacity to proceed with a trial. Tennessee: President Trump has formalized the order to activate National Guard soldiers throughout Memphis to combat crime, continuing the similar efforts that have been observed throughout Washington D.C. This line of effort has been named the Memphis Safe Task Force. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: There is a difference between someone making crass comments, and attack planning. Turns out, in the Kirk assassination, there is nearly-complete overlap between these two distinctions: The same types of people who celebrated Kirk's death, also ended up taking the next step to endorse legitimate terror attacks. It is this careful distinction that we must consider over the next few weeks as the situation remains hot. Around the United States, many leftist groups are organizing, using the Kirk assassination as a method of unity and shared values. For most armed far-left militia groups, this organization is still mostly in the Public Relations phase, using the assassination to move the goalposts toward normalizing violence against the political right (more than it already is). In Arizona, the memorial to Kirk was vandalized during a vigil. The assailant was wearing the same shirt as Kirk's alleged killer, as has been common over the past few days. If the thousands of people rejoicing in the violence online weren't an indication of what many on the political left are thinking, the merchandise and T-shirts that have been created to celebrate the murder should provide some insight. Similar vandalism efforts have been reported randomly around the nation, mostly confined to areas where far-left militant groups maintain a foothold. Throughout the country the celebrations over the murder have continued to expand, along with efforts to fire these individuals for their rhetoric, so as to halt the attack planning cycle before the violence escalates. SECWAR Pete Hegseth has stated that investigations are ongoing to identify and prosecute service members who call for violence or express themselves in violation of the UCMJ regarding this case. The War Department has already fired several commanders, and the Secret Service has also placed at least one agent on leave due to his threats. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

hello again everyone welcome back to the s2 underground so just wanted to offer another quick update uh to follow on to that first update i gave yesterday on the situation in kabul uh if you have not checked out that first update i'll go into a lot more detail about the the background of the situation uh or at least a recent background of the situation and that would be a good primer for this briefing as well so just to dive right in to the situation on the ground the u.s embassy has advised people to not come to the airport particularly american citizens there they are advising for american citizens to avoid the main avenues of approach into the airport itself avoid coming to the airport and shelter in place now obviously if chances are if you're on the ground you're not actually going to be watching this video so um you know that that's something to consider i guess but if the embassy is urging people to shelter in place and to not come to the airport well that obviously means that there are some plans in place to go get people finally maybe who knows i guess we'll see we do know of a lot of secret squirrel stuff going on it's in the works but right now there is a lot of consternation among conventional u.s military forces at the airport at this time which i'll talk about here at the end also we've received further information that thousands of americans are indeed trapped throughout the city it looks like most americans that were there were they did not get the word that this was going down and the speed in which the u.s military pulled out and the taliban took over caught most people by surprise so a lot of humanitarian aid workers and things like that are are out in the city new blue passport holding u.s american citizens are out in the city and they're unable to get to the airport due to the extensive taliban checkpoints pretty much everywhere also the secretary of defense has confirmed that americans have in fact been beaten and physically abused by the taliban as they try to go through the checkpoints to the airport which is probably driving a lot of that decision to urge americans to shelter in place the military and the political regime in the united states right now knows this is a fiasco everyone in the world knows it and they know that this is not going to be a quick uh solution so just my guess my my hip pocket assessment is that they're probably going to urge americans to stay out of harm's way as much as possible because that just makes them look you know more bad because you know americans getting tortured on on tv cameras are never good for press so that's a huge consideration for moving forward for at least the government also a tent city has been constructed uh on the north side of the airport which we'll talk about here in just a minute uh providing temporary uh billeting accommodations some somewhere out of the sun in the shade for the thousands of refugees that are now on the airport grounds and uh even more that are coming through the um ecp's entry control points as as the days go on so there's a lot of people there so they're setting up temporary tents we're not going to show exactly where those tents are located due to optic reasons and just in case the taliban gets froggy and impatient wants to uh assert their dominance a little bit more through attacks but there are lots and lots of people on the airport grounds at this time also our coalition partners have have begun to speak out against the shameful actions by the united states uh political leadership and the united states senior military leadership uh just just to be aware uh the guys on the ground the actual dudes on the on the you know five-yard line so to speak those guys are doing some outstanding work and we we cannot uh praise them enough for the conduct with which they have shown over the past few days uh but their senior leadership is is certainly uh acting with extreme cowardice and uh with extreme dishonor which is why the united kingdom parliament has actually uh held they voted to hold uh joe biden in contempt for his dishonorable conduct during this afghanistan crisis so yeah it's it's uh it's a lot it's a lot worse than what we're seeing on the international relations front and that will probably continue to get worse up until the united but right now st are not good uh in fact we're hearing a lot of rument uh from the actual troops that are there uh witnesses people on the ground that are actually sending us uh in some reports and we're seeing it all over social media as well the disagreements and the arguments and the general hostility between the u.s leadership on the ground particularly the 82nd airborne leadership and the british special air service forces there that are on the ground those guys and really all the british forces that are there are are conducting raids and rescue missions outside the outside the perimeter of the airport and they are reportedly very angry with military us military leadership which is refusing to assume really any risk we have confirmed videos and photographs pretty much everywhere on social media of british british forces talking directly with taliban members to help facilitate the movement of refugees into the airport perimeter they the british checkpoints are within just a few feet of taliban checkpoints so they're making things happen and uh the united they're they're a little upset the united states is not holding up there into the bargain um a few other nations have also expressed uh contempt for the u.s actions at this time but really a lot of the a lot of the heat is coming from the brits as one might expect because they're uh they're doing a lot of work in the united states is again not not holding up to our end of the bargain so that's the really overview of the political geopolitical situation on the ground let's let's actually jump into uh the map and we'll see what is actually going on on the ground in more specific detail all right so here we are on the map uh this is a map that we created here in-house our staff members threw this through this together with a lot of helpful points that anybody can use if they're wanting to follow this situation even if guys on the ground need some kmz's for their handheld gps's you guys can use this because this uh this kmz will be available for download uh from our uh from our platforms if you guys want it but as you can see right here the red side the south side the civilian side of hkia is more or less a contested zone at this time we have it labeled red here just to show that this is very much a hot zone there are us forces in there there are taliban forces in there there are lots and lots of refugees and americans trying to get over to the north side of the base nor the north side of the bases the more secure side i don't want to show exactly where u.s positions are just because it's we haven't seen very many things on social media if it's on social media we'll throw it on there but we haven't seen uh that stuff pop out so we don't want to give anything away uh for opsec reasons again the the actual runway itself is highly contested at this time as well this sort of taxiway slash parking apron is uh currently being used as a turnaround area a lot of aircraft from the civilian side have been moved over to the north side for loading of passengers which is good to get them out of there so they don't have to rely on military aircraft as much alright so zooming in just a little bit more here are uh where most of the people are you'll see a lot of photographs from a few days ago from the the pax terminals the uh the main packs terminal being located here of course there is a taliban checkpoint here uh really there are taliban checkpoints probably every 10 feet everywhere throughout kabul so you know take it for what it's worth i guess this road right here is uh terminal road let's see if i can get the actual uh label to show up that's not showing up but this here is terminal road this is currently being held by the taliban um there are being efforts being undertaken to secure the rest of the airfield perimeter and that's about the as much as i can say on that but moving further south here to the actual main gate where most of the the videos and social media posts are coming from uh this is where the majority of your crowds are located at least before the taliban pushed into the area so there's taliban consistently along this main drag here along the road to the west like i mentioned there's still thousands of people up along this road mostly this this road is clogged with vehicles so vehicle traffic is really hard to get up and down this road now uh because basically anybody who had a vehicle drove to the american drove drove to the airport uh to try to get on the aircraft uh and and they just left their vehicles in the road so this is really a very difficult to traverse terrain if you want to phrase it like that looks like most of the people coming into the airport are coming in through the main gate here to the south or through the north gate up here a lot of uh kinetic activity going on up here at this gate we saw we've seen a lot of shootings and things like that within just feet of of us and coalition forces so that is a big concern as well for for people trying to get into the airport uh there's the old north gate it's got some activity as well and then there are a few other gates as well uh the abbey gate has also got some kinetic activity pretty much every gate that there's an opening in the wire or even if it's an old gate it's got people standing outside of it by the thousands so moving moving further south along airport road we're starting to get to get into the uh into the old town here into the old green zone as you can see here i've got the green zone turned on i'm going to go ahead and click that off just so it's easier to see let me go ahead and do that for you yep there we go uh so yeah moving down we've got tab and checkpoints all up and down this road here is the us embassy the their compound here's the old usaid compound and then the old isaf hq everybody who's been there knows soccer field is great great hlz for getting in and out of the isaf hq there and then we have all the uh collection of embassies here uh most of these circles here uh that have been traditional spots for taliban attacks in the past uh are now being held by taliban as decently strong points they've got a lot of armored vehicles and things at these particular intersections so i thought we would mention that let's see here moving further south we've got the presidential palace complex the citadel is currently in taliban hands as well also the nds hq is being held by the taliban pretty much every government building is being held by the taliban but there's the ministry of interior just wanted to show everyone where the uh where everything is at pretty much uh as we can zoom out we can actually see let me let me turn off all of this stuff except for the checkpoints let me turn that on there we go these are all of the checkpoints within kabul that we know of now this this kmz was found and uh corrected slightly by our staff here uh so things are are a little bit inaccurate but as you can see there are quite a few that we have been able to find on or others have been able to find on social media and we've added quite a few as well to this list so yeah not super great situation on the ground in kabul right now hopefully it will stay stable enough to get get people out and hopefully the united states will will start doing the right thing uh moving forward into the next few days and or weeks all right so just wanted to show this slide again for anyone who hasn't see who didn't see it the first time on our first brief these are just some resources that you can do i know that not a whole lot of people are super happy about the situation right now and a lot of people just really don't care about the situation on the ground right now but working through all of that aside we understand that everyone out there particularly people who who watch our and consume our content are going to have a lot of different feelings about the situation on the ground in afghanistan but whatever your feelings are about that that's you know that's okay but we're just trying to update as much as we can and push push as hard as we can to get american citizens out you know we can debate everybody else i guess at the end of the day but at least i think we can all kind of get together to to help get the american citizens out as best we can granted again there's not much we can do it's an unfortunate situation to be sure we're finding out that the us government is unfortunately incapable of doing the right thing a lot of times so when something like that happens those people that have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action so that's what we're doing like i mentioned the kmz for what i just showed you will be available for download in the description box below from our uh odyssey page and as we keep moving forward through this thing let's uh let's make sure to focus on the good things where we can recognize the the good stuff that happens when it happens good things are so rare nowadays uh in this in this really troubled time we live that it's it's definitely worth highlighting every little good thing you can actually possibly find so let's remember to do that keep our heads on right and let's keep moving forward the best we can so with that always remember to fight in the shade

hello again everyone welcome back to the underground so it looks like we're done um the last u.s forces have pulled out of afghanistan and officially the afghan war is over now of course that does not mean that the work is done there are still a lot of people on the ground that need to get out and we will continue to do the best very very minimal work that we can do to help get those people out so let's go over a few updates on the situation in afghanistan as we wrap up this situation like i mentioned the u.s centcom commander has confirmed that hundreds of americans have been left behind now the hundreds the low hundreds number that they're giving us is almost certainly higher than that because if they're admitting to hundreds of people left behind hundreds of american citizens left behind then the number is almost certainly higher than that also efforts are underway to renovate muhammad karzai international airport with both turkey and qatar qatar partnering with the taliban to reopen the airport for international flights as far as timing on this they're still in negotiations for what exactly that's going to look like but this is very much a a very destroyed third world country airport now it really always has been but the resources that are going to be needed for civilian flights are are quite significant so it's going to be interesting to see how and what kind of civilian airline efforts are undertaken and how long that's going to take most people are thinking weeks at the very earliest some people are saying months we can't really speak intelligently on how long it's going to take because there's just so much destruction and it's oh you know afghanistan so it's really hard to gauge as to when civilian flights are going to open back up if they are going to open back up also the taliban is continuing their door-to-door executions of really anyone they can get their hands on that opposes them or is a threat to their regime this includes lots of women being kidnapped as wives for the taliban soldiers in addition to being sold into slavery now as far as sources for this information they're few and far between because the taliban is very uh very much a censorship uh driven organization so when you go on social media and you find and you just try to search for information in at least in english you're not going to find very much also in the native languages you're also not going to find very much either because simply people are having their cell phones taken away and the internet is being cut in places like that so that's why you're not going to see very much but it it's a very strong you know it's kind of like a a no kidding assessment that they're going door-to-door and we have seen videos of this over the past few weeks so it makes sense that they would continue that in shockingly significant numbers also the conflict in pan pancheer is continuing the northern alliance is continuing to make well i hesitate to use the word headway because they're not really gaining any terrain they're just preventing the taliban from advancing as fast as they possibly could however we are seeing taliban using blackhawk helicopters to conduct aviation operations in the panshire valley so you know it's probably going to be uh these helicopters are probably not going to operate for very for very long just because maintenance is going to be very very impossible uh it takes a lot of resources to keep the helicopter going in in peace time like just ask like any civilian helicopter pilot and you'll know or any really aviation pilot and they can tell you that helicopters and really any aviation asset requires a lot of resources just to keep functioning uh so even though we are seeing video after video after video of taliban flying blackhawks and things like that unless they get the parts which is a which could happen they're going to be running out of resources out of parts out of maintenance capabilities and things like that and then also there's a technology gap there's only so many people in afghanistan that know how to fly and uh a pastime of the a a who are the people flying these blackhawk helicopters we trained uh the people who are flying these blackhawks for the for the taliban those people have a very um they have a very long history of flying into mountains so a a fatalities from helicopter crashes was extremely high all throughout the afghan war and it really it only improved by marginal marginal means anybody who's ever had the misfortune of flying with an afghan pilot knows exactly what i'm talking about so there's definitely an expertise gap there and also we are receiving reports uh that the u.s government particularly the u.s state department is doing everything they can to stop private rescue efforts this includes things such as petitioning other bordering nations to make it difficult for private planes and aircraft to stage and refuel and resources and things like that so this makes sense we have seen is as shocking and as horrible and as biased as it may seem to say to say the cold hard truth of the matter is that the united states through every indication that we have been getting throughout this entire crisis the united states on the strategic level is doing everything they can to make sure that as few people get out of afghanistan as possible from the civilian side of things the military has military commanders on the ground have been documented uh time and time again preventing women and children from getting on flights uh we partnered directly with the taliban who and and gave them a list of people to not let through checkpoints right so it's like it's anyone who has been following this from just a casual nature knows that there's something abhorrently wrong and we hear based on what we've seen just overall the overall mood definitely seems to be that this is less about incompetence and more about an intentional act so even though again it seems biased to say this it really is a kind of simple assessment to make the to make the argument that hey look they're not really super concerned with getting survivors out because every american that gets out of afghanistan and back to the united states will have a story to tell and that story is not going to look positive for the biden regime so while they may not actively be taking measures to kill americans directly they are definitely doing everything they can to prevent people from leaving afghanistan like i know that might upset a lot of people to hear but it definitely seems from our side of the fence from what we have seen that at this point that definitely seems like that's taking place now of course military operations are military operations and there's a lot of clandestine stuff going on behind the scenes i'm sure uh but by and large from the diplomatic side of things this like we we have to stop like looking at this or at least we here have stopped looking at this as incompetence and more of an intentional act that's all i'm saying on that and this kind of goes into social media so we have seen over the past 24 hours significant censorship of uh the survivors of these horrendous attacks like one of the more famous ones that has come out has been the mother of one of the fallen marines uh was censored very strongly from facebook and instagram based on her posting stuff that is critical of the president um so you know that you have to remember the the white house publicly admitted through their press secretary just a few weeks ago that they are direct they are directing and flagging posts for facebook to remove did we just forget that somehow so of course the regime is directing or at least heavily involved in or the social media and the government which by now should be viewed as being the same entity are taking measures to make sure that their story does not get told so as bad as this sounds i i it really does seem to be the truth or at least again from what we see this is definitely happening and you know that goes into more stuff when it comes to the military so stories are coming out right now of the soldiers on the ground they actually had their last the last few soldiers that were on the ground actually had their flights delayed so that they could clean up uh feces and blood and trash and things uh and just horrendous debris for the taliban they have to they had to beautify h kaya before they left and pick up the trash um that while these attacks are going on while they're getting shot at with rockets and shot out with small arms they're being forced to clean things up by their leadership i cannot think of anything more abhorrent than that you just had your buddies killed a couple of days ago and now you're picking up trash for the taliban like that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever now there is a counter argument to that and i will explain the counter arguments as to why this was done and i will in hopefully in explaining this counter argument i will prove that a point i guess the counter argument is that the reason that this cleaning up was directed was to not to give the taliban any uh propaganda value for u.s troops leaving behind litter like mre rappers and things like that so not giving the taliban any way to say ah the americans are horrible people look what they left behind for us and stuff like that now that's the counter argument and hopefully just by me explaining that short counter argument you realize how dumb it is the taliban is our adversary okay they're an adversary we're leaving we're not coming back right at least for any significant time well with the current regime that we have we're not coming back even if there are americans on the ground um i would be very hard-pressed to find it forever going back to that country with the current situation that we're in so the some sergeant major or some general uh coming up with this idea of you know police call you know that shows that our military leadership is completely out of touch with this little thing we call warfare like i cannot think of of any competent military leader of any rank or pay grade they would look at the situation and say you know what we need to make sure they don't have propaganda value maybe the biggest propaganda value was the american citizens we left behind that's probably the biggest propaganda value we don't need to clean up our mre wrappers in the complete and utter wasteland that is afghanistan it is the third world country the place was filthy when we got there and on top of all of that you've you're you're forcing your soldiers to be even me even more demoralized than they already are so this again looks to be like a criminally negligent lapse in leadership and judgment which has become the term that i guess could describe the entirety of senior military leadership at this point as as to why anyone enlists in the military right now i have no clue after this after this the military recruiting is going to have a severe severely hard time getting anyone to enlist and i can't say that's a bad thing at this stage in the game because man i tell you it has just been one thing after another and really that's all all that's that's really just the mood for afghanistan for right now um like i mentioned private recovery efforts are underway but they're fighting tooth and nail there's really no organization level we don't have it's not like any private contractors have reaper drones out there they're operating with no air support and a hostile nation where their government doesn't want to even bring them home so a private contracting group gets stuck in afghanistan guess what they're they're stuck there right so our government has already made it perfectly clear that we're willing to leave american citizens on the ground in afghanistan so that means that any recovery efforts are going to have to realize the same exact thing so i know that this update is is kind of not really helpful for those dudes on the ground or or trying to get on the ground but that's because we don't really have any intelligence picture at all we're doing what we can but it's few and far between their social media is not helpful anymore we don't have as much anyone who has been in the area that has been providing us information you know without even knowing it through their social media they've already gone we've got tens of thousands of afghans literally walking on foot to the iran border we've got countless other people going off foot to the border we've got other people just trying to hunker down and hide so there's really not a whole lot when it comes to the intel picture that we can provide right now it just it and this is the part where it's horrible to be an analyst because you're just in the dark people expect you to have the answers and there are none like we can't find anything that would be very helpful because we're just so in the dark and just because you are in the dark it also means that people still are going to be counting on you it doesn't that the the fact that you're in the dark doesn't matter so that's why this is kind of a frustrating thing and that's why it's become less about the tactical level intelligence of the ground on the ground and more about strategic issues and that's why we've gotten all we've we've kind of taken a step back from what we have have been doing and even though we are still looking at kmz's and we're still putting out kmz's and we're still building things man i mean i i myself and the rest of the team here spent what 16 hours yesterday looking for anything that we could drop on a map couldn't find a single thing not a single uh point was created yesterday because we can't find anything and that's infuriating and just being helpless as an analyst is really hard to do it's really it's really difficult especially when we know that there are military assets out there that can share this information and can help things but they can't because their government is forcing them not to so that's why we haven't really focused so much on doing these intel braces we're not even going to go to the map today because like i said i don't have anything to show you on the map we do know that cash is running out in the country there's people are stacked up outside every every single bank in kabul and there's nothing there's no cash left so there's a problem there uh people are trying to get money for bribes to get through the taliban checkpoint for bribes for the iranian border uh crossing guards for bribes for the pakistani guys and there's just no cash uh even then how much money how much do you think the value of the afghan currency is it's probably not very much right now and again i'm sorry for going off on kind of a rant about this one today but that's really all there is left to do at least when it comes to these kinds of videos a lot of people again have a lot of opinions about this and we want to do a very long series on not just the afghan war but the extraction process this disastrous uh situation and we want to at least learn from it okay because we cannot change the past but we can definitely learn from it so we're compiling thoughts but right now a lot of us just don't know what to say so we don't really have any intel to share we don't know what to say because it's just there's just so much to say you don't even know where to begin um but i do want to address one idea and that idea is the question that we have gotten over and over and over again over the past well ever since we've existed as a coherent group with a name i guess and that question is what can we do to fix this um this has been something that we have been asked and other people have been asking and we ourselves have been asking ever since well really the problems became the problems in our society became severe enough for us to get together as a group of friends and want to do what we can to change it now obviously as time has gone on our our gut feeling of this situation is going to get much worse has proven to be correct unfortunately and as a result more and more people have been asking okay i've hit my limit enough is enough what can i do to fix this problem okay the the the long list of problems that are that our government our our society our culture our economy all of this stuff what can i do to help fix it okay and if i were forced like i'm some kind of authority on this i'm not i if if i were forced and if we here collectively our our answer has been to have many children raise them the right way and ask me that question again in 15 years that's the answer you want to fix our economy okay there's your answer have many kids raise them right ask me again in 15 years okay you want to fix our political regime okay same answer you want to fix service members dying from a totally preventable set of events there's your answer now let's walk that back because nobody wants to hear that answer and it's an unsatisfying answer i will admit it doesn't seem you you the answer is like you've got to be kidding me right like that's a response you know you ask what can i do to fix this and we say okay well have kids and raise them right and then we'll approach this when they're old enough and people are the answer to the the response is usually like okay well what you are you see like that's that's what that's all you got after all the stuff you put out that's really all you've got and the answer is yes um really all the stuff that we've put out previously if you want if people want our opinion and we know that people watch these videos we know that we have a a pretty significant audience like it's not just one guy out there watching our videos thousands of times we know that people watch our stuff and we know that people we just get an inbox full of stuff every day so people are looking for answers and even though we don't claim to be any have any kind of really good answer this is the one we've got and let me explain it let me explain why because this is not this should not be the last option but it is and let me explain why so let's start with holding the military accountable because that's where everybody's at right now like why did the military leave people behind why did the military fail this mission why did the military force those soldiers to clean up a base in front of the taliban and humiliating them as we're getting ready to leave the country why why is the military gone woke you know what how can we hold these guys accountable okay well the direct answer to that is is next is is really the bigger issue holding our politicians accountable now this is a question we get asked all the time this is the big one right how do we hold our politicians accountable okay well that's not really possible right now for a variety of reasons and really the only way to hold our politicians accountable is a couple of things uh either vote them out okay remove them from office via you know democratic or constitutional republic means right or civil disobedience be enough of a bee in their bonnet to where they change their behavior now the first option isn't really an option anymore right like we know our voting system is corrupted to the point to where i don't know if anybody really trusts it anymore um and since nobody really trusts it does it have any authority that's that's the real question that we're asking right civil disobedience is kind of the same it's kind of the same thread like it either works or it doesn't it's either a waste of time to do a protest or or it's disproportionately the stuff you'd have to do is disproportion you'd have to burn down a city like you know blm and antifa for anybody to listen to you and even then they just pander to you like you still just burn down your own city and you're the one who has to clean it up because they're just gonna do the minimum to get you off their back so right now neither of these options works but let's just examine the vote them out option okay well okay so our election laws are either a moot point or our law or our rule of law is crumbling right okay well how do you change that well you change congress okay well well you see how we're getting back to the same thing like well can should we use force to change congress well no obviously that's not going to work look at january 6. that was a peaceful demonstration you know look how that look at look at how that turned out any kind of force will be immediately shut down and then now you've got all your most dedicated people either in jail or dead so now we're back to voting vote the congress people out you know the laws are bad congress people write the laws so vote them out okay we're back to the same problem okay so voting doesn't really work that that's not something that is is practical in in a large sense right so so from that we've got we're back to two options we could go back to civil disobedience or we can go to the courts to change how laws are written and how things can work in that sphere right we can say if a district is being gerrymandered we can sue and maybe do something about it okay well again the the court system is not really in anyone's favor who who values this thing called liberty anymore but let's let's just examine the civil bd civil disobedience thing for just a second again is it effective right now i would hesitate to say probably no um and the only way to to make civil disobedience more effective is to change the education system okay well to change the education system you need a lot of other things but it's it's something that is is not an easy task to do right likewise with the courts okay you want to change the courts you want to get all these liberal judges or if nothing else get the political judges out and replace them with judges who are as impartial as can be and not quite literally activists in a robe you're going to have to change the institutions that even allow someone like that to be in the position to get a judge seat right so now we're back to really the same kind of option right it how would you do that well voting well that's that's not really an option either you know so do you see how we're starting to break this thing apart now fortunately institutions in education to change your education system and to change the institutions that enable certain groups but disable other groups well then you're coming back to the concept of strength in numbers ah okay so now we start realizing how how screwed we really are as an american people like so let's just recap right quick you know we can't hold our politicians accountable because our voting system is crap right and we can't fix our voting system because our congress people are crap and our congress people are crap because the voting system is crap and then we keep going on okay so well you know protesting doesn't work because they're inaffected by they just put up fences around themselves and laugh and cackle you know in their own little private basements right but if we keep going back and we keep going back we can realize that hey we can change that by having strength in numbers and the answer to have strengthening numbers is to have lots of kids and raise them to have a certain set of values that's that's it right that's that's your answer that's how we get this answer right there's really not a whole lot we can do right now to change our institutions to change our voting to change our education system to to change even if you wanted to erase the us government and replace it with something else it's not really a feasible effort to do so to how you got to walk it all the way back to creating the smallest unit of you know freedom which is the individual you have to create an individual you have to have kids and you have to have a lot of them so that when time comes you have a society that is willing to change things and and here's the thing though it doesn't just stop with having kids right because having you know having kids and having a lot of them and raising them to have a certain set of values that's not just the end game right we might not even get that far we have to actually stay alive long enough to do this right the times we live in are very rough right they're they're not exactly they're not exactly the hardest humans i've ever put up with but they're not they're not easy times to live in and in order to stay alive long enough to do this to avoid imprisonment to avoid forced medical procedures right to have the best chance at making those tiny humans and you know growing them up right we have to stay alive long enough to do this and in doing so to do to stay alive we have to accept that our rights have consequences and that significant lifestyle changes are needed and that means when you realize that that that even though we do have rights okay we don't really at the end of the day because all of these little other ways of changing things are are not as effective as they could be and since we're realizing that we're at this final step of okay significant lifestyle changes are needed in order to stay alive to have kids to have strength in numbers to change the education system to change the institutions to make civil disobedience work again to make our courts work again to make voting work again to make congress work again to make to to hold our politicians accountable to hold the military accountable that's how we drive our way back down through this and this takes a lot of time and this also means that our the all of those things i just mentioned are not exactly feasible options at this particular time the top three here this is what we've got this is what we should invest in heavily now we can do the other stuff too go to your local school board demand to know what your kid is is learning in school and if they're learning some stuff take them out of school simple as that it may not be easy as that but it is as simple as that right just because something is is simple doesn't mean it's easy right so there you go oh you don't like an institution don't engage in it and actively take measures to defy said institution right you can do these things but by and large it's only because the top three things here are your priority at least they're our priority and this is exactly what we're doing right now as we have spent hundreds of hours writing and filming and recording content for you guys from the original og podcast to these new youtube videos on education and things like that those top three values right there are what we're trying to trying to help with right so that's exactly what we're doing to to make to take this way forward but again these are not the only options there are other options so let's just talk about this idea of civil disobedience let's just take one of those things from the last slide and prove that we can actually still use it right if we use it right so there's this prevailing logic that uh a single protest does nothing and that's just kind of like what people see right you've got all kinds of of rallies going around and if they're if the rallies are of a certain ideology they're not going to work right you could have 12 blm activists protesting outside of a capital building and they get a law passed within 30 seconds but you've got tens of thousands of people who want freedom in the streets and it they're not only not only as a blind eye turn towards them but they're actively harmed in the process right so a single protest does nothing however if you combine it with other stuff if you protest with boycotting you do some economic warfare boycotts freaking work i know it doesn't seem like they do but they really do especially if you combine them with changing education systems right you don't have to you don't have to put up with propaganda you know you can educate and you can create content and you can push true education instead of indoctrination man that really does help too likewise strikes nobody can make you be a good worker right strikes do work and guess what most of the most of the systems and institutions that make this world go round are run by people who are freedom minded right i highly doubt i really highly doubt that a one of the largest you know uh concrete pouring companies in the united states which pours the foundations for skyscrapers i highly doubt that the dudes working on that crew the hundreds of guys they've got working around these experts right are i highly doubt that they are supportive of woke ideology i really don't think they are so there you go i highly doubt that the best paid welders in this country voted for joe biden right it's it's pretty clear that the systems and institutions that make our world go around not the leaders of these kind of these companies and things like that because that's that's another argument but the actual dude on the ground the dude with a stick welder in his hand the dude with a shovel in his hand who do they support okay what values do they have okay and more importantly what power do they have when they don't do their job kind of a lot right likewise if you're if it's not necessarily a manual labor type thing no one can make you think no one can make you think up better ways of tyrannizing them no one can make you innovate on behalf of a company so if you are working in a company where ideas and thoughts are the main commodity right the main way your company is making progress well guess what who says you have to have a great idea maybe you can just have a mediocre idea an idea that's mediocre enough for you to keep your job but not enough for them to continue continue their their tyrannical reign likewise we can even engage in social and cultural pressure you know we can change the cultural norms we can make it so that it's it's not a cool thing to do certain stuff right social and cultural pressure is definitely a huge factor maybe not on its own but when you add all these things up together and you add in an element of timed and coordinated uh organization for maximum effect man you're starting to get into some stuff that's really really effective now granted an organized citizenry is lethal to tyrants look at just look at it this way right look at all of the groups out there that have a name associated with their group and they are conservative groups okay look at how many of the leaders of those groups turned out to actually be either fbi agents or fbi informants okay so it's pretty clear that organization is very much a hazard it is a risk to the regime so they go through a lot of efforts the fbi's main goals right now is to prevent citizens from organizing against the government that's their main goal and it's been that way for years but it's really come out lately however you can prevent this or at least make it a little bit less effective here's the thing american citizens are much more hardened normally than these than the tyrants are and if you live a hardened lifestyle if you live a hard lifestyle it's going you're going to be less affected right nancy pelosi can't live without her 65 pint ice cream right she just can't like they can't live without going to the beauty salon they cannot live without going to their clubs or their vacation spots or martha's vineyard okay but can you but you can live without power and water and sewage and other public utilities right if you harden yourself so the people that are harder the people that are harder physically mentally emotionally those people are the ones who have the advantage right especially in the long run and if you harden yourself you're not as vulnerable as they think you are right they have the ability to cut your utility off okay they have the ability to cut your power off they can do like like california did and they directly called the utilities and told the utilities to shut off power and water to individual houses which disobeyed their coveted guidelines okay well here's the thing the reverse is not true you can't call up and say hey shut the power off to the governor's mansion because they passed a tyrannical law okay but here's the thing though if you are prepared to live without water to live without power to live without sewage to live without utilities of any kind they don't have any power over you so what can they do okay well they can take your property from you they can evict you right for not following covet guidelines well okay if you're prepared for that and if you can live in another area if you can have other property elsewhere again they have less power over you and that's really what this is all about is just being able to decrease a person's power over you which in essence increases your own power we also have to be aware of the idea of time all of this takes a lot of time okay this is going to this is not something that is going to happen quickly okay raising a kid is it takes a very long time and it takes a very long time before they ever before they are a contributing member to society or potential contributing member to society but we also have to remember the time is not an excuse for inaction right we have to be aware of those people in groups and organizations that claim uh that just make the claim of just wait the plan is in place just wait and see there's a secret organization out there and people are going to rise up and take care of it just wait right one of the most effective ways to prevent a group of people from rising up is to approach them as a friend and convince them that there is some kind of secret society that is working to further their own goals so just sit back and trust a plan right does that sound familiar to anybody again none of us here have one solid answer to help ease the pain of the world today nor do we have a solid answer as to how to move forward um we really i mean we don't know we're just some people on the internet at best we can point out what obviously will not work based on history or our own personal experiences and and we can offer a handful of things that seem like good ideas and for now that's a good start even though it's an unsatisfying one and perhaps that's a reflection of the times in which we live unsatisfying that's really why we have gone through so much effort to lay at least some groundwork from moving forward in our previous content all of our other stuff that's really one of our main goals to lay the groundwork everyone wants the quick and easy answer especially when they're angry and and people don't like it when ourselves and others point out that it's too late for any simple and easy fix our options have been reduced we've either done this ourselves or let others do it to us to the point to where the only things that can really get us going in the right direction even are the non-sexy and boring options the american spirit is ripe with the attitude of revolution and the removal of tyrants like that much is clear american the american spirit is a revolutionary one but directly this this is not going to work right we've proven that this is not going to work not only are direct actions not something that's going to work on a strategic level but even if it succeeds like what are you what are you going to do with it if you win if you ever throw the government what are you going to do you're just going to replace one tyrannical system with another right now our government is a reflection of society not the other way around we have a problem with cause and effect in today's world but if we raise a new generation of children that will grow up to be good human beings and that are educated moral and active leaders in their communities well that government will reflect that society because that society will not tolerate anything else and they will also be equipped skilled and knowledgeable enough to make sure that that's the case but while we're doing that while we're changing the next generation we've got to make it we we can't help anybody if we ourselves are either in jail for the rest of our lives or if we're dead we just can't help anybody if that's the case and as angry as we are here i don't i think i speak for all of us here when i say that the actions of the past couple weeks especially but really the past i would say several several months have made us more angry than anyone could possibly imagine but again anger doesn't really solve any problems it's a good motivator to getting to a point to where you can solve problems but it doesn't solve problems in and of itself we want to provide options in a world where the options are reduced and where people want to make you think that certain options don't exist right they will it's either get this experimental medical procedure or you can't work okay get this experimental medical procedure or we're gonna take your kids from you okay life in and of itself is never that black and white there's always another option there's usually very a lot of other options so we're trying to highlight those and offer more and more options as we move forward and we encourage others to do to do the same providing options maintaining capabilities when others can't and being an asset to your local community and to your family and to your team rather than a liability is what's going to help us get out of the situation that's how we're going to survive the next 10 to 20 years and regardless of what happens these such these things are not a bad thing to do sure other options might open up we might get a chance at changing our political systems without some kind of you know catastrophically bad event right we might get a chance at that and we can take that we can re-examine that when the time comes and of course local level on local levels things are different on state levels things are different and even within the federal government there are little ways that we can get ahead and beat them at their own game and all that kind of stuff but by and large what we're going to have to do is start from the ground up we're going to have to build a society that can then build a government they can then build a a culture they can then build an economy that's going to work and to do that we've got to make it so let's make it so let's not sweat the small stuff but let's also start small the only way to change the world is to start one step at a time and if that one step at a time involves changing one mind at a time that's perfectly fine because every mind that we can change now every person that we can encourage to be a good human being right now will help us in the future so let's keep moving forward and let's continue to do good things in the best way that we know how even if that means that at least for right now we might have to fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the ukrainian war intel update for march 2nd 2022. let's get right to it much like last time i don't really have a whole lot for the geopolitical sphere even though a lot has happened uh there's really not a whole lot worth talking about or commenting on i did want to briefly mention something that i thought was interesting and that is in russia there are extremely unconfirmed reports that valeri grassimov was fired by putin yesterday but i think these rumors are untrue firing the chief of staff for the russian armed forces during an invasion is something that is not very likely to happen even if the invasion is going badly so far it sounds like these reports are the result of western leadership trying to cast doubt on russia's leadership and this is a trend that has continued over the past few days because we've heard constantly that russia is losing and that putin has gone insane or that there has been rioting and mutiny among russian forces in belgorod or that a military coup is brewing in russia from russia's invasion failures none of this is verifiable to any degree and all of this is probably false the only way that i can think that putin would outright fire his version of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is if something so egregious occurred that it was worth losing face in the act of firing him and i highly doubt that that has occurred also in ukraine the evacuation issues have become more prevalent as more and more people try to egress to neighboring countries in the west but we'll talk more about that in a bit and in belarus things are heating up as well uh with belarus approving a referendum to give up their non-nuclear status so basically what this means is that belarus could be they they could be host to nuclear weapons in the future meaning that russia could deploy nuclear weapons to their terrain or belarus potentially could even get nuclear weapons of her own this is something that's pretty big when it comes to european politics but again this is just a direct result of russia and belarus trying to expand into the rest of europe any time that word nuclear gets turned around people tend to panic a little bit with this i wouldn't necessarily view it as anything more significant i mean if you just look at geography and how nuclear weapons work it doesn't really matter if there's a nuclear weapon in belarus or not because a nuclear weapon in belarus versus being launched from smolensk or briansk or something like that that doesn't really matter too much when it comes to that sort of thing but this is definitely a political play which we will talk about in just a bit before we go on i briefly wanted to mention a major warfare tactic that is being used in the information war right now by all sides and all players and that concept is called gaslighting those of you who have been downloading our slides should recognize this from several days ago but i've only found it prudent to verbally talk about right now for instance i pulled all of these graphics from various domestic abuse websites because that's how most people are aware of this psychological warfare tactic if you take a moment to read these graphics you might notice a lot of familiarity between these gaslighting tactics and pretty much everything that's been said by various political and social groups around the world over the past few years without getting too much into the weeds we are seeing gaslighting and other similar psychological tactics being the primary weapons of very powerful people around the world and this is becoming a significant problem for the ukrainian war causing someone to doubt their own sanity and reality is certainly where we are at with regards to most of the events that are being talked about in the world today of course a false tweet is not comparable at all to a grodd strike but those of us who are located outside of the combat zone and are trying to help people in the combat zone the information war becomes the primary fight for us and this is where we come to a standstill ourselves because right now the misinformation that is out there is so thick that it's not possible to know what's going on with any reliability for the most part the theme for this brief is that there's a lot happening but almost none of it is verifiable due to the blatant lies that are being told by all sides i go out of the way to make this distinction now because understanding this concept is an important lens with which to view what i'm about to say when we get to each front line moving to the overall operating picture much like last time the situation on the ground with regards to front line locations has become more ambiguous plus we also have to remember that russia is conducting this invasion mostly along surface roads it's not like uh when we think of a normal front lines of troops advancing across the countryside there isn't a whole lot of cross-country travel being used by the russians except for tactically uh in various uh situations where they need to maneuver off of a a hardpacked road right so for the most part it's not really it's not really doing justice to the invasion to kind of put lines on the map but it's kind of the best way to visualize it so we're still going to keep doing that but in any case forces to the north northeast and east have observably slowed down the pace of their advance this is mostly in the north as russian forces build up for the fight for kiev the southern front continues to be the front where most advances have occurred although much like the rest of the fronts the pace has slowed down over the past three days there have been reports slash rumors of the russian ministry of defense calling up reinforcements by way of more conscripts and there is some evidence to support this but it is difficult to determine what fronts are the priority for any reinforcements that arrive in theater or move forward into ukraine from forward operating bases along the russian and belarusian border in other words we don't know if russia is calling up troops from all over the country like they did for this initial initial invasion or if they're just moving guys they had pre-staged along the border this whole time so it's really unclear really hard to say which units are moving where so at this point our graphics showing each unit is very inaccurate speaking of belarus lukashenko has been more vocal than usual lately and very strongly indicating that belarus will be joining this conflict soon and it looks like belarusian forces have already joined the fight in certain areas and probably were part of the initial invasion as well belarus doesn't have a super large military but lukashenko clearly wants a piece of this action and since the only reason that he hasn't been mussolini in the streets is because putin is propping him up lukashenko's entire existence is dedicated to currying favor with putin so we will see belarus join this fight the question that remains unanswered is how much they will bring to the table as far as iff markers nothing really major new there have been a few new symbols or letters but it's really hard to tell if they're actually a new letter or if it's an older letter that's either due to combat damage kind of disfigured or if somebody painted it wrong or something that's really hard to tell but this is really what we were still sticking with as far as iff markers on the northeastern front we continue to see russian forces make very small limited advances and there appears to be a split in various uh forces and what i mean by that is forces that are west of kharkiv appear to be dedicated for the fight for kiev they were supposed to go further into the countryside but it looks like russia has determined that kiev is going to be a big fight which it is and they are pushing forces that probably were dedicated for other locations to kiev now forces that are taking kharkiv those forces are going to take that city as well again kharkiv is ukraine's second largest city so it's not a small town by any means so there's going to be a lot of forces dedicated for that also we're seeing that tactic of russia basically encircling or and or bypassing cities occurring as well the town of sumi has been taken and retaken it's changed changed hands a few times but again then we fall into the definition of or fall into the tactic of trying to define what taking a village actually means does it mean driving through it do you mean does that mean you took the village you know it's really hard to say so really what we're seeing is russia trying to tie down forces in some of these smaller cities like konatov and sumi and then larger forces bypassing these cities to head for their primary primary objectives which in this case are kiev and kharkiv we're even seeing forces starting to bypass kharkiv and head further to the south and east as they try to conduct a pincer operation from kharkiv all the way down to just off the slide to the eastern front and lugansk regions so we'll move down there now on the eastern front it's become clear to us that two major lines of effort have emerged one which is a sort of pincer movement or really just an advance on two different fronts two opposing fronts for the city of maripo forces in the occupied territories are trying to push to the west to cut off marple to the north and try to link up with the forces that have advanced from the south from crimea around the city uh to to pincer around it and cut off the city further moropole for all intents and purposes is more or less cut off right now from the outside world although there are pockets right it's not like there's an imaginary line stretched around the city right so breakout operations are certainly still possible for any ukrainian forces that wish to egress further back into ukraine's territory but it's unclear as to what ukraine's motives are for mario paul it looks like they're going to be trying to take that city or hold that city rather for the foreseeable future moving down south there appear to be three main lines of effort with one like i mentioned being dedicated to supporting marupul from the west another one appears to be piercing to the north most likely along the nipah river north to japanese and an additional unit that's pushing to the west uh to take the city of kerrson uh as of a few hours ago we've got the notification that kirsan has been taken or at least their mayor says so uh so ukrainians are admitting that uh russian units have taken kerosene and are actually trying to set up administrative areas uh already in the city further attempts to push west across the deneber are really hard to say right now most likely odessa will be assaulted with an amphibious assault very very soon if it hasn't occurred already by the time this video gets out because odessa is a major is a major port town and that's going to be a very critical avenue for things like trade and it's just a very populated city right so it's going to be a major target for the russian advance moving to the western front the front which is really the forgotten front because not really much has occurred here still continues to give us some information and that is this time to do with alexander lukashenko so yesterday belarusian dictator alexander lokashenko held a televised meeting with his security council to discuss the situation in ukraine what caught many people's eye was the map that he was standing in front of which showed a few interesting things so let's enhance if we enhance the image a bit we can clearly see that someone is planning an attack on moldova maybe again this could all be a deliberate mistake that is made to make us think that russia and belarus are going to invade moldova specifically transnistria next this map also shows ukraine being broken up into four administrative areas again hinting at the goal of a total eradication of the ukrainian state if this is genuinely russia's plan then the situation is far worse than we thought and russia's goals are far more ambitious than we thought but i myself am withholding judgment on this for now attacking transnistria would be a really really big deal even if it is a breakaway republic russian puppet state that would prove without a doubt that russia's intentions do not lie only within ukraine the other interesting part of this map is that it is slightly out of date and based on the lines of advance we can clearly see that things are not going as planned for the russians so many forces have had to change their plans and as we can now see the mad dash for kiev has begun so rather than following this map's scheme of advance every unit along the northern and northeastern front is headed for kiev but again this might be all a trick who knows russia has been known to genuinely accidentally leak very sensitive top secret information to the press such as the stuff that came out a few years ago about the canyon nuclear torpedo project and other gucci directorate stuff ordinarily it's a pretty bold move to show a map of your invasion on live tv but lukashenko is a pretty bold guy so it would make sense for him to show this map and boast about his military goals and if this is a deception operation i can't imagine what goal that deception operation would have it seems like there wouldn't be much to gain by leaking this intentionally as always we will have to wait and see if these lines of effort materialize and more importantly keep a closer eye on the situation in moldova on the northeastern front russian troops have begun stacking up for the assault on kiev which should be getting underway in earnest right about now but the russian advance has slowed to a crawl so much so that i would go as far as to say the advance to kiev has stalled at least temporarily as russia continues to stage troops russia has dedicated a lot of forces for the battle of kiev and those forces have been observed in what is now called the 40-mile convoy a vehicle stretching along the main highway south into kiev but we will talk about this in a moment let's zoom in a little closer in kiev various local tv towers have been struck resulting in television broadcast outages throughout the area this is something that again we should have expected honestly on the first day of this conflict it should also be noted that russia has announced that civilians who want to leave kiev kharkiv and other cities will not be harmed for trying to leave and at this stage we here have no reason to doubt that this policy will be honored uh russia may have indiscriminately targeted civilians passively with artillery and airstrikes but for the most part russian ground forces have not been targeting civilians and mass however seeing as the ukrainian resistance will be heavily concentrated in cities russia will also begin to conduct strikes in these locations as well artillery strikes have already been conducted in some parts of kiev and we expect that to continue and increase in severity over the coming days as russian troops begin to enter the city it's unlikely that russian forces will attempt to level the city it's more alike they'll probably be going for just pockets of resistance or military things military targets within the city but again russia's complete and utter lack of concern for collateral damage means that there's going to be a lot of damage throughout kiev over the coming days and that kind of leads us to something that we have been observing and thinking about this invasion since it began and that is the question of why is russia performing so poorly in this fight and for the entire western world who is fervently taking notes on this war this question keeps coming up as well why has russia not had a single notable action during this entire conflict yeah sure russia is still invading and they're not losing and they're still moving forward and making progress but it's almost like every goal they have achieved has been almost on accident there has been fierce fighting in places like kharkiv journey of chernobyl luhansk maripol and places like that and russia has won battles in these areas but it does not appear that russia has achieved a clear decisive total victory anywhere every battle they have fought has cost them dearly even in the skies russia doesn't maintain dominance every first lieutenant at every army unit that has ever existed wrote a term paper at some point detailing the importance of aerial superiority during an invasion and even people who have no understanding of warfare doctrine can see that russia should have achieved total and complete aerial superiority over the entire country of ukraine within the first few minutes of the invasion but they weren't able to do that and even three days after the invasion began they had two il-76s get shot down and then there's the 40-mile convoy headed to kiev let me tell you every single military service member who has ever driven a vehicle can look at that satellite imagery and cringe that is without a doubt the fattest target for an ambush that i have ever seen in my entire life remember these guys are not stacked up like this inside their own country no they are miles behind enemy lines in a country which has an active insurgency against them and this comes after some of their comrades down south got decimated by a ukrainian drone strike in this exact situation so all of these thoughts are not to push the western propaganda that russia is losing or demoralized we have no way to know that this is just a genuine observation that at this point is worth talking about anybody who has studied warfare for five minutes can plainly see that russia is making a lot of mistakes mistakes that are so serious that it makes you wonder if there's something here we don't know and that is certainly the case we're just spectating this like everyone else however one mistake that we see being made on the part of western military strategists is that they are grading russia's actions using a western textbook russia's style of warfare is different from ours and there are a lot of things that people tend to forget like vehicle spacing we here in the us are hypersensitive to that due to several decades of fighting insurgencies russia's last insurgency-ish fight was in georgia in 2008 and that wasn't a great learning exercise for russia with regards to counter-insurgency because they overwhelmingly won that conflict in just a few days but even going back to the chechen war russia has not had the same experience that the united states has and russia's military is certainly not an expeditionary one russia's reliance on rail to move the majority of her logistics and the doctrine of not really stressing truck-based transport at lower and lower echelon levels might be the main reason that russia is having logistical problems right now and the logistical stresses of pre-invasion training exercises is something to think about too remember these troops were on the border of ukraine for a couple weeks and just keeping a hundred and seventy-five thousand troops fed and warm in the field had to have been a logistical nightmare and that was before the invasion even began and we know that these logistical woes did exist because we saw a lot of soldiers being sent forward uh to staging areas along the border without winter gear or with sparse food supplies for the aviation threat another way to look at why we haven't really seen the skies full of russian aircraft is that they know the man pad threat is real what's the point of sending in your brand new shiny fighter jets or massive waves of ground attack aircraft against an enemy that's extremely dispersed dug in and with a single dude with a shoulder launched missile on every apartment rooftop even though russia has the capability to send in hundreds of aircraft every hour if they aren't willing to get a lot of them shot down in the process do they really have that capability same with the armored divisions we've seen rolling around we think of russia's actions in terms of total numbers and not the numbers that are actually being observed in practice sure we might see a column of vehicles in armor that is over 40 miles long with hundreds and hundreds of armored vehicles stretching out to take kiev but here's the thing at the very front of that column you're not fighting all 40 miles of it you're fighting just the first few vehicles again the warfare doctrine that armies around the world learn the hard way over time is that this sure-fire way to whittle down an overwhelming force is to take them on one at a time this concept goes all the way back to the gates of thermopylae and the story of the 300 spartans canalizing terrain even self-imposed canalizing terrain in the form of sticking to roads for ease of navigation is something that the russians don't appear to be too concerned with and with a civilian populace in full-on guerrilla warfare mode this is a decision that russia will regret later a lot of people are split along the following lines those that think that russia is intentionally holding back for some reason and actually does have the capability to fight better and those that think that the russian military is old and busted and doesn't actually have the capabilities that they claim they do going back to a cold war mentality that russia's power comes from the perception of her power in either case if russia is voluntarily or involuntarily not as effective as they should be the effect is the same they're not as effective as they should be whether they can't or they can but won't isn't super relevant to the 19 year old bmp driver outside of kiev or to the civilian defending their home i don't think that any one of these thoughts is the complete explanation for why russia doesn't seem to be doing as well as we might have guessed they would or why russia seems to be making a lot of poor decisions but maybe these random thoughts provide a different perspective or a different way of thinking about the russian military in general in any case russia is writing a lot of doctrine right now and they are writing it the hard way the same way the u.s wrote ours by gaining experience and maybe the biggest lesson that russia has learned from this conflict is that kiev is not tbilisi and ukraine is not georgia russia may start learning these lessons and if they are fully committed to taking kiev they might just win this war though win would be definitely too strong of a word whatever happens this will not be a total victory for russia russia's actions on the international stage have embarrassed herself even taking aside the obvious western propaganda and meaningless sanctions russia is supposed to be a superpower that should have taken ukraine on the first day much like the u.s and her overseas ambitions in the past expeditionary military operations to a country where the local populace doesn't want you there is a lot harder than it looks on the civilian front not too much to report other than the increasing tensions along evacuation routes to the west traffic is still atrociously bad along with the rail transport to the west trains are still running as far as we know and lots of people are cramming as many people as they can onto trains to get them to the west out of these areas but it's really hard to say when or where services might stop likewise with traffic there's really no good way to to show people how to get around it because every road is jammed heading to the west we aren't seeing too many problems or too many issues popping up although tensions are really high along the obviously the border zones there have been a few fights breaking out here and there along the border at various immigration controls and things like that um so it's really hard to to say exactly what's going on i wouldn't say that it's complete and total pandemonium no it's it's not like an all-out panic you know like a mad bat a mad dash to the border but there is there is tension there and uh the tensions are increasing and um it's just not really a super pleasant time right now so uh if we get any more information regarding the civilian front and how that's going to affect the civilian populace in the occupied territories we'll let you know before we close the day i wanted to mention just a few thoughts because there's a lot of there's a lot of ideological thoughts out there these days and it's really clear that a lot of the sources that are talking about ukraine are talking about in a certain way and like i mentioned in the beginning the situation for us has become a lot more complex and a lot more irritating when it comes to the information that is available to us about this war the information that we can use to make decisions about our own lives uh what i find myself doing really at this stage is just making observations and then taking steps to reduce my own personal vulnerabilities and increase my own capabilities those of you who have been listening to our stuff for a while you know that we're all about that we're all about reducing personal vulnerabilities and increasing capabilities no matter what the situation is right so rather than get bogged down in the ideological fighting over what belief is better or what piece of information is better or worse i find that it's a lot less stressful and a lot more productive to think about certain events and then the potential impacts like right now the reason that we're even talking about ukraine is that we generally don't think it's a super great idea for one nation to invade another especially in europe especially for the reasons that russia is claiming to have invaded for but i also don't want to engage in situations that might increase the risk of going to war with another superpower that internal conflict that debate over what opinion to have is not very useful to kind of flesh out in my mind plus i mean the world is such a different place today i mean remember how for two years now we've had that magical c word on our minds for the past two years barely an hour has gone by without us thinking about the virus for a lot of people that became their identity nothing more important than that however they felt about it and now the same thing is happening right now with ukraine a lot of people do not go five minutes without talking about or consuming the ukrainian war for political or social reasons so we want to avoid that and taking a step back reassessing what's actually going on and prioritizing what lessons to learn is sometimes necessary this isn't going to be the last event like this and we're looking into the future be it another invasion or some other worldwide polarizing event we've got to get in the right mindset for the next decade so that's all we've got for now i just wanted to briefly touch on how keeping the right mindset is important moving forward and as we move forward into this conflict we have to remember that information is going to be few and far between when the fighting for kiev begins in earnest there will be very little that we or anyone else can do for us our own goals are largely complete we chronicled the lead up to the invasion and the initial invasion itself our goals were to help provide enough information for people to make the decision to stay or leave ukraine and what avenues of approach to take to do so so in that regard our work is mostly done there seem to be very few people left in ukraine that have not either made the decision to stay or go what we will try to do moving forward is to provide our thoughts and lessons learned so as our information about the situation on the ground becomes more and more ambiguous we can still at least learn some lessons that will be helpful in making decisions in the future so we're not going anywhere but we also don't want to waste anyone's time if we don't have anything meaningful to add so thanks again everyone thank you for your support and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade

if you have spent any time conducting operations in the real world or even just like binge watching Black Hawk Down you might have learned about a critical part of any military operation and that is the Tactical operations center or talk so what is a talk in short a tactical operations center is a focal point a physical location where all Communications intelligence weather and command functions are conducted for any operation talks can vary widely in construction and Mission type based on the level at which the talk is situated talks can also go by other names depending on the agency or military group that they are for for instance in the US Navy most talks are actually called mocks or Maritime operation centers in a joint environment with different service branches operating in the same battle space the term often used is the jock or joint operations center these are all pretty much the same thing but technically these are all ever so slightly different entities for instance Navy mocks are often more strategic in nature with much larger areas of responsibility this is just due to the nature of a land-based command structure being responsible for large chunks of the world's oceans on the other hand some talks can be a small tent in a patrol base with only a couple of people Staffing them being responsible for a much smaller area of operations the concept of the talk is also present in civilian agencies as well fire departments Wildland fire Crews police departments even larger medical facilities all usually have some form of tactical operations center which functions just like their military counterparts albeit with obviously different missions there is even an entire incident command system a collection of civilian-based Doctrine to organize and command civilian incidents we'll talk more about that in the future but for today we're mostly going to speak of talks that cater more to military operations and speaking of operations what is a taka used for and why is it needed in most military structures the talk is the nervous center for operations in short it's the place to be if things are going down and operations are going on outside the wire if a person has any impact on the mission at hand but isn't actually going out on the mission chances are they're going to be in The Talk The Talk is the focal point for everything that might be needed during that operation due to Hollywood we thankfully have a pretty good idea of what a talk is used for even if we might not know it however if we crack opens of warfare Publications we can clearly list the six basic functions of a talk which are to receive information distribute information analyze information make recommendations to the commander integrate resources and synchronize resources to meet all of these objectives ideally a talk should contain representatives from all of the staff functions of a military unit so running down the list we should see commanded Administration intelligence operations Supply medical and Communications and sometimes other departments depending on what kind of unit you're supporting however a lot of times we will see medical and Supply not have physical represent presentation in the talk due to the nature of their jobs medical personnel will mostly be stationed at their medical facility and Supply Personnel will be at their staging areas and storage facilities both of which will have a direct line of contact via radio or field telephone to the talk this also applies to the six shop guys or the communications or signals Personnel who you can usually do their job of maintaining it networks from their own offices separate from the talk as well at minimum in any talk at any level in any military you will have operations staff Manning the radios and tracking the good guys intelligence Personnel doing their thing tracking the bad guys and some kind of command element orchestrating and directing everyone remember there are large volumes of military doctrine that dictate exactly what the functions and responsibilities of the talk are spelled out in excruciating detail so if you want to learn more check out the military Doctrine on the subject a lot of senior Ops guys absolutely salivate at the chance to talk talk about battle Rhythm turnover briefings battle staff functions battle update briefs Commander update briefs and endless other topics that most people have no interest in especially a civilian audience so here today we're not going to Deep dive into the world of operations we're only going to cover the highlights as well as the things that matter in the real world for most civilian operations centers so let's explore some of the roles a talk has during operations first up is Communications talks are the place where Communications are centralized so that the commander operations staff intelligence personnel and any other support staff can be kept up to speed regarding what's going on with an operation Communications are piped in from any relevant entity and available for use as needed in the days of old this might have looked like this a switchboard for various field telephones all routed through the unit's area of operations to each unit that needs to maintain a direct line back to the Commander in today's world however most military units simply place a radio watch in the talk with very various rtos or radio telephone operators Manning the radios Around the Clock 24 7. even when no operation is being conducted remember the talk is functional even if everyone is back at the base for coordination reasons we'll talk about next radio watch in the talk is usually looked down upon as a necessary evil a task that no one really wants because it's usually boring but is desperately needed in the event of an emergency or during an operation you never want to have a situation in which someone is screaming on the radio for a Medevac and there's no one there to hear them other than radios talks are usually going to have the fees for any sensors that are available to a unit as well as some form of shared network in military circles this is going to be the place where your nippernet supernet jwix nsanet or whatever Networks you're using all come together to be used however they are needed for a talk set up and being run by a prepared citizenry this is probably going to mean an internet connection you know how we have been talking about second collection and listening posts and observation posts some radio stuff the talk is where all of that information is going in other words your talk is your information Hub a place for multiple sources of information to come in all via different Communications methods another main mission of the talk is coordination talks serve as the coordinating entity for anything a team might need while out on a mission somebody gets shot and needs a Medevac that nine line request gets radioed directly back to the talk who then sends it to the kazavac or Medevac entity on call for that area of operations you could have observation posts with adsb receivers tracking aircraft all throughout the area and these observation posts could be spread out far enough to where they're covering a much wider area than just the talk could alone this information could be shared from talk to talk all across the nation or even the world or the talk alone could have the adsb plane tracking setup sending messages to operators in the field letting them know a suspect aircraft is approaching this coordination is also very helpful if you have different people operating in your area and you need to coordinate travel or Logistics or lodging any of these things can be handled from a talk and a pinch if a dedicated Administrative Office doesn't exist this is why a radio watch is so important and why talks function 24 7 even when no operations are actually ongoing you never know when something outside of your area of responsibility will suddenly be inside your area of responsibility this will directly impact battle tracking one of the main missions of talk staff is to battle track what is going on throughout the area this can be as simple or as complex as needed in smaller talks battle tracking could be as simple as a map on the wall a common operating picture showing the area of operations with pins for the good guys and pins for the bad guys and as the good guys move around on their mission talk staff update their locations on the map this is quite literally how generals have commanded their staff as far back as recorded history itself in more sophisticated role however we can see that this can be pretty easily automated the tax Suite of software and applications basically does this for you with every team member running ATAC and windtak being run in the talk from a computer with a projector we've got the ability to view the Battle space view where our team is located and if they find the bad guys and mark them we know where they are at too everyone in the talk being able to visualize this all at once on a common operational picture is very handy and is a standard of any Operation Center Battle tracking should also incorporate understanding what your Tactical neighbors are up to being able to understand what operations are being conducted in areas adjacent to you is also necessary remember the guys out on patrol or kicking indoors for you aren't going to give a flying flip with the team in the next grid Square are doing they are focused on their mission their City their street their house and their doorway but remember Warfare does not follow lines on a map it is the operation staff in the talk that must care about out what goes on around the team and what is going on around their aor this is something that the US military in particular is horrible about doing the most common fracture side incidents have occurred because the unit was unaware of a different friendly unit operating in their area this stuff happens but it shouldn't happen if the guys in the talk are doing their job and maintaining relationships with everyone who might potentially operate in their area again this is a huge failing of the military in general inter-service rivalries or the inability or lack of desire to even walk across the compound and shake hands with a different unit has led to a lot of good Americans getting killed by their own people so this is one of those things that we can try to correct from the perspective of civilian life like running talks in our own neighborhoods Switching gears quite significantly we come to another major use for talks and that is weather usually talks are where the weather nerds work for a very good reason as I myself have tried to drive home again and again weather is by far are the most deciding factor for military operations around the world weather is the most decided resource for a goat or no-go criteria for most military operations weather can ground a fleet of aircraft or it can stop an amphibious Landing the size of Operation Overlord weather can render billions of dollars of worth of sensors useless and whether it can prevent medevacs from being possible this is why weather usually gets a seat right up front in the talk because when it comes time to conduct an operational briefing the weather guy always goes first this is because if the weather is bad and the mission is a no-go nobody wastes their time going to a brief that's not needed next up is intelligence intelligence Personnel may spend a lot of their time scrolled away in Skiffs but when it comes to actually conducting operations in the real world you will find an Intel guy in every talk at all levels in a phrase echoed by Intel dudes as a way of remaining relevant intelligence drives operations or at least that's what's supposed to happen towards the end of the G watt era and certainly a major factor in today's military forces is often the other way around some general or Commander wants to make their mark on the battle space with their ego and the Intel guys have to scramble to retroactively find reasons to raid a particular Target or conduct a particular strike we have all seen what happens when revenge or an operation needs to drive the intelligence it's not pretty but in a more civilian role intelligence can do what it needs to do and have a lot more Breathing Room in a civilian talk intelligence reveals that bad guys are staging at location X well that's where the operation is going to go we get some Signet that indicates an adversaries setting up checkpoints in our area the operations staff can use their personnel equipment and platforms to get the Intel guys the information they need we don't need to pick a spot and figure out a reason to go there we can actually decide what we want to do based on the intelligence that we have in a civilian talk the adversarial relationship between operations and Intel doesn't need to exist especially if the talk is not under direction from higher for intelligence person now that talk is where most work gets done remember if the goal is for intelligence to drive operations intelligence staff need to have a pretty large role in every talk as an operation goes on Intel staff are right there to help guide the operation in many cases this is not necessary once Intel prepares the Target and operations staff figure out how to make it happen it's out of Intel's hands and the S2 shop can sit back and watch however in highly Dynamic operations where the mission is expected to change as it happens intelligence needs to have a more active role but again in real life this rarely works out this way in most military organizations so we've examined the roles and responsibilities of the talk now let's take a look at some of the equipment and features that make all of this possible first up you need a map a rather large one too or a computer with a projector that can be used to display your common operating picture this is basically just a map of your area with various information that you might need to know if you've got Personnel outside the wire that that information is going to go there if you detect surveillance sensors in your area or if you know enemy forces are massing in some location that location will go on the map as well it's just a shared map that everyone can dump their data on as needed a separate large map of the entire theater is also helpful for people operating in your area that might not be familiar with the geography so if you've got some dudes coming down to your area to work with you for a bit you can take them into the talk and show them the area of operations key landmarks stuff like that maybe even various Glenda telfa if that's something you implement in your operations up next radios and Communications of course one of the most important aspects of any talk is Communications talks are great Communications nodes due to the variety of communications methods housed within for instance the radio operator could get in a message from an adjacent District via HF radio and the operator can pass that communication to the rest of the talk as well as anyone who might need it out in the field via a different radio this is probably best illustrated by our video on warlord radio so go check that out if you're interested in learning about the communications needs of a headquarters set up in the backcountry anyway the communications Factor alone will turn any talk into a beehive of activity with everyone scurrying around contributing their part to the mission though this is something to be mindful of most people refer to talks as artillery magnets for good reason the nature of the talk with all of its communication signals whizzing through the air mean that talks are juicy targets for an adversary and are also very easy to find most of the time from the perspective of the US military who has gotten used to counter Insurgency in the Middle East keeping your talk from being leveled instantly in a war zone is a skill that certainly needs to be worked on a bit more this is why the bane of everyone's existence at NTC is when unit leadership says all right we're jumping to a new location but again from a prepared citizen perspective there are some things we can do to be a bit more secure than even the average military unit up next is support staff depending on the unit and the mission set this can vary widely if the unit is an air Cav unit the support staff might include senior maintenance staff or representatives from a recovery team in case an aircraft fails or crashes on an objective for infantry units you might have a couple of targeting guys working with the Intel guys to produce targets or you might have Logistics Personnel taking a larger role for units stationed in more remote areas where Logistics is the most hindering factor for operations in any case you're going to find support staff taking a seat in pretty much every talk depending on what the mission is up next is leadership leadership is an important part of a functioning efficient talk in the professional talk there is always one operations officer that is in charge of talk operations serving as the talks representative to outside units higher leadership and anything else that might be needed in military organizations this person is usually referred to as the battle Captain not necessarily due to pay grade but due to organizational Authority the battle Captain usually has a battle NCO who usually handles some of the more routine operations and helps things move smoothly the battle NCO is also responsibility for maintaining order in the talk which is important a lot of times if a high profile operation is going down a lot of Spectators will show up to watch and crowd the talk or make it hard to hear the radio stuff like that so it's the battle nco's responsibility to keep things running smoothly so the talk Personnel can do their job efficiently this really isn't an issue for smaller organizations but maintaining an efficient professional talk is something that everyone can benefit from no matter how small your organization is remember the tiniest bit of professionalism goes a very long way so if you have outside groups or people visiting your talk for joint operations you want everyone who visits to walk away thinking man they've got a slick operation here I wouldn't mind working with them again another major need is power a lot of electrical power generation capability is needed to power the wealth of electronics that are necessary for operations to be efficient technically you could build a talk the old school way with large printed paper maps and sheets of acetate to create overlays in our modern world we also have products like the Battle Board and even our homemade map cases that can make it easier to display a picture of the operational area without using computers or a projector however at minimum you are going to need power for the radios and for lighting and since the talk is a nerve center for any operation chances are you will rapidly find out that you never have enough power for your needs most of the time in military organizations these power needs are met with generators and that's that that can work for more civilian approach but for most people their power needs in the back country or even in just an urban area they're going to be met with solar panels and batteries and trust me as soon as those panels come out and the batteries are charging everyone and their cousin will show up saying hey man have you got somewhere to charge my phone or radio or batteries for night vision devices or GPS devices or headlamps the list is endless since talks are usually the central point in any encampment it's quite common for groups of people to contribute their solar panels to pitch to talk so if you've got 10 guys rucking into the Backwoods each of them carrying a solar panel and one guy carrying the battery everyone can daisy chain their panels together to power the talk though if this route is taken it's only fair to provide a charging station for everyone's devices so dedicating a small corner to a USB hub and a battery charger or two would be a very welcome addition to any talk up next are quality of life items seeing as the talk will be where various Personnel spend most of their time various quality of life items are handy to make the workspace more comfortable all of the pogi stuff like coffee pots snacks powdered drink mixes and other quick to eat food items frequently find their way into the talk one way or another in larger talks microwaves and refrigerators are also frequently found along with various canteen items like energy drinks snacks and other stuff being sold on an honor System now I must step back for a moment and comment on talk culture this is the exact kind of thing that brings about a lot of animosity for talk Personnel for understandable reasons in military organizations the Pogue stuff can get out of hand really quickly and the talk can become a cush office rather than a hardcore death dispensing watch floor imagine if you're a grunt who has spent the better part of a week sleeping in a hole eating MREs for months prior and you stop by the talk for a minute to find people sipping caramel macchiatos and microwaving food from cute care packages and wrapping themselves in sweaters because that air conditioning is just a little chilly understandably this is going to result in a lot of animosity being generated the number one cause of conflict between Grunts and talk Personnel is a lifestyle either real or perceived on the other hand people who do not work in talks often do not understand the talk Personnel often work really really long hours with 12 to 16 hour shifts being the standard guys out on the field see the talk as a nice comfortable office and that's quite true what they don't see is the strung out Personnel who've been working 16-hour days for weeks just to plan and execute that three hour mission they just went on living this lifestyle for years will break a person so as with anything there's give and take on both sides of the wire having a coffee pot in the corner or a box with some MRE snacks in it is perfectly fine but it is also the responsibility of talk Personnel to make sure that their work center remains a work center not their living room like at home so if you don't want to be made fun of keep the Pogue stuff to a minimum likewise it's the responsibility of the hitters that don't work in the talk to realize that just because a person works in the talk doesn't mean they don't work no dude with a rifle and cool pants will ever do their job without the dudes in the talk so an environment of mutual respect is required and having a lot of poke stuff cluttering up your work center erodes this respect so we can see how cultural social and personal issues can have a real impact on operations it might seem a bit trivial to talk about this stuff but it's real and these morale and social issues have impacted real world operations more than you could possibly know so it's worth getting this stuff out in the open now so that everyone is aware of how a simple microwave can cause a fist fight now all of that being said I myself usually maintain a secret stash of snacks candy coffee cups Cutlery baby wipes and so on all of this being purely for bribery purposes I guess this points more to my own career and experiences as an Intel guy than anything else but I myself have many times had to debrief Personnel in the talk rather than a dedicated briefing area most of the time people avoid the talk like the plague either for pogy reasons or because leadership is usually there so a lot of times your debrief is here's what we've got here are a couple of notes I'm out and then somebody like me has got to take the time to track down people all over the compound because I have questions about something so a piping hot pot of fresh ground coffee passed around by the team is a great way to entice Personnel to settle down and give me the information that I need from their mission also important to consider and similarly along these lines is the stuff that no one remembers or even wants to remember and that is housekeeping items at the risk of echoing every sergeant major ever a clean Talk is a happy talk sort of no amount of bleach and scrubbing will make anyone proficient at their job but cleanliness is still very very important if you have a coffee pot in your talk as is pretty much mandatory you will have spills you will have people just being generally messy if you don't have air conditioning with all of those server stacks and laptops running it's gonna get hot and the smell of feet and despair will fill the air if you let it if you are running a talk out of a tent in the middle of nowhere people are going to track in mud and dirt like crazy and since talks are high traffic areas a lot of dirty crusty dudes moving through it will make a great breeding ground for Filth and sickness you are going to catch the crud if you don't keep yourself clean again from a civilian perspective we living a civilian life don't have the luxuries of a military unit training for a week or two in the field a military unit who has 100 focused on their mission can be filthy for a week a month or even a year in the field if need be but we citizens who will probably be running a talk part-time over a period of potentially many consecutive years while having a full-time job and a family life being filthy and catching a field flu every couple of weeks is not responsible so at minimum you will need some basic cleaning supplies enough to keep your work center tidy some antibacterial spray and some wipes go a long way and are great for sanitizing desks computers radios light switches you name it an air freshener also goes a long way to keep the stank at Bay and are always a welcome addition to any talk recognizing the role a talk has as you aren't really going to be able to keep the floor clean if you are operating in a remote location so having things set up off the floor is going to be necessary not only for ease of use but to also make sure that your radios and computers don't get covered in mud in any case we really do have to accept that a talk especially in a remote location is not going to be spotless however we should really be looking to keep things as neat and relatively free of crud as much as possible something also helpful to have is a private area in a military sense privacy takes a back seat to literally everything but if you find yourself in a leadership position a private area to discuss things will be a godsend a dedicated briefing area adjacent to but not inside the talk would be very helpful for getting salute reports or debriefing team members or just generally dumping information after getting back to base having this area located away from the talk keeps the distractions at Bay for the guys and gals that are working in the talk a separate debriefing area might also be hand Andy for more delicate needs such as the need to debrief a team without worrying about the consequences of what anyone might say this is especially necessary for intelligence Personnel who need the truth and not the story dictated by the boss these examples which are totally not specific to my own experiences really illustrate the situations in which a more private area near the talk but also out of earshot might be handy to have if your team is big enough a private area off to the side of the main operations center might be handy for compartmentalizing information too information that is relevant to a unit but also might be something that not everyone needs to know has to be stored somewhere it is highly unlikely that a civilian team will need a skiff or a special access program area but who knows compartmentalization of information is arguably even more important for the prepared citizen so I just wanted to throw that out there and mention that a small tent or even just a curtain you can pull around a computer in the corner of a talk could be helpful for keeping eyes only information where it needs to be other stuff you might need are random support stuff mostly what I mean is stuff you need right freaking now and you cannot wait to retrieve from Supply or from a cache or whatever things like water batteries a set or two of binoculars office supplies like pens paper markers Maps other little Expendable stuff that you often need very quickly minor repair items like duct tape or zip ties or paracord will be very handy to have as well at some point somebody's going to come into the talk asking hey man you got something to fix this with right quick be very careful though you do not want to turn your talk into a storage area granted for a more civilian setup that's exactly what ends up happening and that's perfectly okay but you want to do what you can to provide a dedicated quick access Supply area that's not right up front in everybody's way and not distracting when people access it and finally a clearing barrel and or a weapons rack for larger talks and a more tactical environment having a dedicated weapon storage Rag and or a clearing Barrel will make everything easier and probably safer as well you don't want a rifle to slip off of a desk and negligently discharge or more likely you don't want some sharp part of a rifle to scratch your computer screen when somebody squeezes past you since talks are not supposed to be on the front lines all of the talk staff having their rifles in Iraq is usually perfectly fine makes it very convenient to walk around what is essentially a tactical office without getting caught up on stuff now that we know what a talk is what work gets carried out there what personnel usually work in one and the equipment that is needed to make all of this happen let's go over some things to think about from a civilian perspective as with most military Doctrine the idea of the talk isn't perfectly compatible with a prepared citizenry as usual when we try to cut and paste military Doctrine into a more citizen-based organization we find that things don't always fit perfectly and when that is the case we have a lot of of groundbreaking to do the military concept of the talk goes back to the origin of warfare itself but in today's unique situation both here in the U.S and around the world we are really on our own we simply have to develop a lot of this Doctrine ourselves so when it comes to the things you need for a civilian talk we here are learning along with all of you as well but all of that being said here are some things to think about if you want to set up one for yourself the first consideration is whether or not you even need a talk in the first place operations centers are usually pretty big by comparison just by the number of personnel alone even at the smallest level we're talking anywhere from 5 to 15 or so people working in the talk at any given time and these people are usually in the talk to track operations that again involve a dozen or so other people at a very minimum but talks can potentially involve hundreds of people managing very large operations in other words this talk staff alone is probably going to involve more people than most prepared citizens herbs even have so in that case is the idea a swing and a miss for the civilian sector is it even worth it to introduce the idea as something that might be useful for a prepared citizen I think the answer is yes the talk while mostly a military thing that involves a lot of people can easily be flexed to be a helpful addition to any operation whether or not you realize it for most neighborhood groups or even just a couple of friends neighbors or family members getting together they aren't going to need a full-blown talk at most you might need one location to operate out of and you might not even call it a talk you might set up a base camp with a tent specifically dedicated to holding your larger radios your HF radios your heavier laptop if you need one and stuff like that that could be your talk you could merge the functions of a talk into an observation post or a listening post any fixed position that serves as your kind of base camp but rest assured we will be talking about smaller operation centers and and even one-man operation centers in a separate dedicated video so if you have established that you need some of the functions of a tactical Operation Center there are some things to think about first up is dispersion remember the nature of running all of your Communications from a fixed site makes for a fat Target for any adversary the military solution to this is many fold but the major way of ensuring a survivable talk is constant movement constantly moving the talk to new locations ensures that by the time an adversary figures out where you have moved to you've already moved somewhere else granted with all of the things we have learned in just the past couple of years regarding how Modern Warfare has changed we really do have to wonder if the concept of centralized operations centers is survivable at all in today's world either way that's for people with a lot more military industrial funding to figure out all I know is that for our civilian talks decentralization along with const movement might be a bit more effective if you can swing it for instance pushing out some of the capabilities of a talk to outposts or multiple sites might be helpful or rather not really helpful per se after all the point of talks is to have everything in one centralized place but rather giving up some of the centralization might be preferred for survivability reasons up next is security security is a huge concern especially for any situation in which a more prepared citizen audience might need to centralize their Communications in a talk security is often directly at odds with dispersion the more dispersed your base camp or patrol base is the harder it is to secure and the more people it requires to provide security for that site however security is relative if your threats are mostly ground-based then absolutely you can use the standard patrol base setup that we all know too well that is statistically the best way to provide 360 degree Security in the most types of terrain with the few people but what if our threats are mostly from aircraft or from persistent surveillance devices well in that case everyone dispersing their positions more than as comfortable might be a better option this is especially true in locations where either you completely control the ground or it's so remote that adversaries are many many miles away but you do not control the airspace over you this Rings true from Vietnam and Afghanistan to Appalachia and Alaska security is such a large topic that a lot of other more experienced people have already covered in great depth we can talk more about this in the future but for right now security is very strongly linked with concealment concealment is a massive concern even more so for a prepared citizen since we do not have a battalion's worth of troops or air cover or artillery to back us up in most cases we're going to have to rely on concealment and camouflage a lot more seriously than anyone else camouflage and concealment is some something that is gaining a lot more traction in the Tactical civilian Community which is absolutely awesome we need to encourage this as much as humanly possible because the average American citizen even right now is living in the most high-tech sensor dense surveillance state that Humanity has ever conceived this is nothing to shake a stick at this is quite serious 99 of this surveillance we will not be aware of until it's too late for me personally my role is in the information space I do not shoot people or kick indoors for a living and even if it was my job in a fifth generation War I think a lot of people will spend a lot less time shooting than they think either way I myself dedicate a significant portion of my equipment to concealment gear both for flexing to be concealed in various environments and also for scaling camouflage as needed as we move the camouflage you use when moving through a swamp is going to be different than an open Forest camouflage for a static position is going to be very different than what a person would use on the Move we have talked a lot about camouflage and concealment already and will continue to do so in the future the bottom line is that camouflage is a lot more important than people think even for professional forces so what might all of this look like in the real world well before we take a look at a couple of Civilian setups let's recap what a typical military talk might look like so here's what the structure might look like it's just this large room a conference room if you will that can house the various desks and chairs to everybody to work in an office setting right up front we've got a projector screen and some large maps on the back wall that everyone is facing so that everyone is on the same page when it comes to the common operational picture right up front next to the screens are areas for briefing Personnel to stand so that when you're conducting turnover briefs or Commander's update briefs or whatever kind of briefing needs to go on in the talk you can conduct that from the front up there so everyone can see you and it's a little bit easier to point at things on the map as we look down from the top we can see chairs for a seating area for any Personnel that might not work in the talk but still need to get briefing and still need to get some information right so if you're having a brief once a day or once every shift change these people can come into the talk have a you know 10 15 minute brief then get out having a nice little seating area down in front or in front of the desks where nobody's really kind of you know working or walking is a good area also the area keeping the area up front the little briefing area where you can stand and stuff like that that's a nice little area to walk back and forth across the front of the talk so that you're not walking in between everybody's desks and kind of being you know in the way of things like that as far as the physical layout of the desks of talk Personnel right up front you're going to have your rtos usually your comms guys running your radios now these guys can be situated wherever the radios are at but usually they're going to be up front this is so that the battle Captain the central person who's kind of running this you know organization who sits in the middle of the talk or even kind of the middle back portion of the talk they can see their radio personnel and they can talk to the radio guy as needed same thing with the weather guy the weather guy is going to be up front so that they can well more easily get to the briefing string to talk about weather maps and charts and data and things and also because they're the one who is going to be hounded the most by Personnel outside of the talk that's why the weather guy's right up front because they're going to be hit up by the commander any kind of operational staff anybody outside the talk they're going to be coming in that talk at the top right door if we're keeping this kind of layout they're going to be coming in that door and worrying the weather guy of asking them you know when's the next update brief why is the weather looking for the operation tonight stuff like that you don't want your weather guy to be situated in an area that's hard to get to you want them in kind of a high traffic area because the traffic's going to come to them one way or another just like the weather Personnel your intelligence Personnel or your targeting guys are going to be very busy as well so they're going to be located in a decently Central spot of next to the battle Captain for sure and usually located right next to the weather guy this is mostly because again like I mentioned in most update briefs weather always goes first Then followed up by Intel that way you can say all right cool if the weather's bad the weather guy can get up in front of everyone get up and brief and say all right the weather's bad nobody's going anywhere tonight all right cool then everybody uh everybody's time isn't wasted likewise if the weather guy gets up there and says hey the weather's cool we're good to go for it tonight then the then the Intel guy gets up there and says oh well the target's not there tonight or this operation is going to be kind of a waste of time because there's you know nobody there or the target shifted or we've missed our window or whatever once the Intel gets up there and confirms whether or not the mission is kind of a go or a no-go we can move from there A lot of times military units on the on the military side of the house are not going to have dedicated weather guys they're going to have your Intel component handling the weather and this is usually a very bad thing because Intel guys are not weathermen and it takes a lot of skill believe it or not to actually be really uh good weather Personnel weather is one of those really highly underrated jobs throughout the entire military and it is absolutely crucial and is very hard to get right you might not ever know it if you've got a good weather guy because the things just happen and you don't ever you don't ever notice and you kind of take it for granted but you will absolutely notice if you have a bad weather guy so just something to keep in mind so those are kind of like the central talk Personnel your radio guys up front your weather guys up front your Intel kind of off to the side there and your battle Captain kind of tracking it all now all the other support staff to kind of make it happen can vary based on the mission so for instance off to the left on this on this particular layout off to the left of the battle Captain is the battle NCO and various operational staff that might be needed for whatever Mission it is usually a person from the Ops department is going to be you know your battle NCO kind of an NCO bill it's usually what it is uh and you can also have a spot for operations staff that might be needed for whatever operation it is so if there's a key planner or somebody like that who's planning an operation and uh that that you know there is their baby right they're the ones who have planned it for the most part and it comes time to conduct that operation they might have them so ourselves a temporary desk out on the top floor to actually watch and you know make sure their operation goes as they had planned it kind of in the back side of things kind of behind the battle captain and more of a supporting role you might also have legal representation to make sure that if you're conducting any strikes that the strikes are legal uh and that everything's you know copacetic on that on that angle you might also have medical personnel kind of you know sitting alongside legal uh not necessarily because they're related but because you know medical personnel you know might need to be in the talk as well depending on how big this whole thing is right this is a very large talk so chances are there's going to be a medical representative on The Talk floor who can either serve as messenger or ensure that medical interests are being met if something's going on in the talk you know the weather guy says something or Intel says something or you know Intel guys are predicting hey there's like an ambush getting ready to go down in 15 minutes that's something that medical needs to know and if the medical guys are you know squirreled away at their clinic or at their casualty collection point they're not going to know that because they're not in the talk right so keeping a medical staff person in the talk is a way of keeping their foot in the door and kind of their you know ear to the ground with regards to what's going on with operations you don't see this all the time but it's usually a pretty common thing that's done in most military talks and then of course some of the more transient Personnel that you might see are various support staff various Liaisons of different service branches if you've got some kind of joint operation going on and this technically becomes a jock you know you're going to have to have desks or places for them again keep in mind this is for military organizations you're going to have a lot of different kinds of units being you know working together in a lot of the a lot of cases also additional Personnel that might not have a specific like place to sit on the top floor or they might not have a desk in the talk but are nonetheless going to be in and out of the doors all the time or or heavily spending a lot of their time in the talk our various Personnel off to the side there so your fires Personnel your targeting guys your your um whatever kinds of weapon are being used those kinds of personnel are going to need to have a foot in the talk a lot of times because it's going to be you know your military unit right that's kind of your job other Personnel are operations and plans uh usually they're separate departments but in a lot of times you'll see you know Ops and plans kind of get combined to share a workspace in any case you're going to have a lot of operational Personnel a lot of op staff usually having their own staff room outside the talk but usually really quite close to the dock up next is the command Suite now the command Suite is usually just the office building for the senior staff senior operations staff your unit Commander your executive officers your senior enlisted uh Personnel even senior civilian Personnel if that's the kind of you know agency you're working with the high ranking Personnel are going to have offices separate from the talk for whatever reason either command privilege or just due to the nature of their job they're not going to have a specific office in the talk however the commander of the unit is going going to be in the talk constantly along with senior operations staff you know it's it's the central area for a unit usually the command Suite usually incorporates the Commander's living quarters along with the senior staff living quarters and their you know aides as needed and while we're talking about building you're going to also have to have billing for the talk staff remember you cannot stand watch 24 hours a day no matter how much you know we may want to or how others may want us to so you're going to have to have shift work being done right usually two shifts or three shifts depending on what kind of situation it's in if this is more of a high speed unit kind of thing you're probably going to see more 12-hour shifts being done is the norm you know one guy working for 12 hours then they switch that's kind of the way things work for for the most part but in any case the people who work in the talk are going to need to live and spend their time pretty close to the talk usually if you're in a military unit and you're conducting a lot of your operations at night time or some of the more kinetic operations are being done at night your more experienced staff are going to be working at night and you're more administrative you're more um maybe maybe more inexperienced Personnel are going to be working during the daytime when you know the risks are kind of minimal either way you're going to have on any shift be it the radio operators or the Intel guys the weather guys you're going to have a most experienced person on any of these teams and you're going to have to know where that person sleeps in the event that you have to wake them up so something happens you get attacked there's some kind of Base security thing or some kind of raid going down and you don't know what's going on those staff are going to wake up and go to the talk uh to to make sure that that's you know kind of like their Battle Stations right for lack of a better term so having everyone's tent kind of set up next to the talk you know of course dispersed for security reasons but uh still quite close to the talk would probably be a good idea also located near the top would be maintenance Personnel you're going to have a lot of Maintenance Bays they're they're going to be where the maintainers are going to be where the vehicles are at be it helicopters be it fixed-wing aircraft or just ground Vehicles you're going to have your maintainers and your maintenance Personnel where those vehicles are located but they still need to know what's going on in the talk so you might have maintenance Personnel either have a direct line or even sometimes in some cases they might actually have a seat on the top floor just in case something's going on this happens kind of a lot because with military vehicles especially they break down kind of a lot and they break down usually in the worst possible at the worst possible times so if there's a high profile Mission going on and you want to make sure that your vehicles have you have a plan you've got a jump plan to move to a different aircraft if this aircraft is broken you've got a another plan uh just in case this this vehicle hits an IED who's going to replace them this kind of thing this gets really really in-depth depending on what military unit you're you're talking about right but we can again break this down a little bit more simply in a separate video similarly to maintenance is medical like I mentioned medical is going to have their own specific facility they're going to have their own either casualty collection point or a roll three or a roll one or whatever level of of Medical Care Facility is at this location they're going to have their own little spot right so they're not going to be clitoring up the talk with their stuff they're not going to be bothered they're going to have you know their casualties being collected and you know treated in a field hospital or some kind of medical f

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground so today we have a sort of special seasonal episode for you uh in which we're going to talk about some considerations uh for conducting religious activities or practicing your religion under a tyrannical or oppressive system so uh right up front i just want to say that this is the i think eighth time we're recording this so forgive us if things don't quite match up because this is a very very hot topic a very very hot topic for a lot of people especially as we move forward into the height of the holiday season for 2020 and we have to realize that the the reason that we're talking about this is is really two-fold and the first reason that we're talking about this is that a lot of the coveted lockdown procedures or whatever we're calling those uh lockdowns now would be you know tyrannical oppressive maneuvers or legitimate you know medical things whatever you want to call it you have to realize that most of these coveted lockdown procedures are in direct conflict with the nature of religion so the nature of the coveted lockdowns and the nature of religion itself they're at odds with each other so even if you didn't have a tyrannical system you know that's a particularly tyrannical system that's trying to lock things down you know medicine isn't always at odds with religion right um but we have to realize that now a lot of tyrants are taking advantage of that so the nature of these code lockdowns you know in a sort of anti-societal lockdown procedure and you know over on this corner you've got you know your church or your religious activity which is a very community based a very person based very person to person very personal thing for a lot of people when you sort of put those two in the same arena they there tends to be a lot of conflict there and then also like i mentioned we have a so purely nefarious like there's no ifans or busts there's a pure nefarious activity going on when it comes to religion in a lot of areas particularly places like either texas or new york where politicians are ordering police officers to arrest people for conducting religious activities because those religious activities either defy some kind of coveted thing or just because they don't like them so you know even though the stuff we're going to be talking about today is mostly worst case scenario we also wanted to make this video survivable for the future so even though as we move forward into the 2020 holiday season you know the height of that we also wanted to point out that this video is meant to last for multiple years so even though we don't live entirely in a sort of chinese communist lockdown on religion situation here in america in 2020 2021 might be different thus the video right so we also wanted to point out that like i mentioned when people think of religious persecution they tend to think of things like you know the pilgrims coming over from europe even though that's not necessarily a perfect story that's what people tend to think of they don't necessarily think of anything modern and that's what we're coming at it from today we're coming at it from the modern perspective you know chinese religious persecution persecution of our religious activities in europe uh things like that um and as a result we wanted to once again point out that it's not our job to tell anyone what to do when it comes to their religion that's just not only is it none of our business but no one should be doing that um and you know like i mentioned we have filmed this a lot of times and the reason for that is it's very difficult to word things in such a way that isn't offensive or you know crass or some something wrong with it just doesn't quite sound right i can't tell you how many i've spent about six hours filming this so far and it's you know every time i'll just say something that doesn't sound right or it's just like man i you know that that did not come out right so forgive us if that's what happens we also wanted to point out that the writers that gave me uh the talking points for this episode today are not religious people and we did that on purpose we wanted people to write this from a non-religious perspective because of their ability to look from the outside in right so whether or not we have staff here that's extremely religious some people you know that are atheists or agnostic or whatever you want to call it and so we we had a think tank together and we wanted to write this from the perspective of someone who is not involved in really any organized religion right now but has knowledge of it right so if we don't get things necessarily quite right please forgive us we're not intending to be offensive or or anything bad we're just trying to come at this from an analytical standpoint so that should you know help out i'm sure that the comment section will blow up but we wanted to make it very very clear as with a lot of our stuff that tends to be inflammatory we have to spend a few minutes at the beginning talking about why we're coming at this and you know just to kind of make sure that everybody knows we're coming at this from a purely good and honest you know perspective so with that out of the way let's jump right into the first category and that is undercover agents so one of the things that has happened um for many many years now is people particularly law enforcement but other groups as well just the cases we have for law enforcement um groups or people uh infiltrating a religious activity in order to surveil it or conduct some kind of intelligence gathering and the example we have here on the slide is a screenshot from a video that was taken i can't remember some time ago it's not labeled here for me of three new york police officers i don't know if they were sheriffs or if they were nypd but these three guys decided that it would be a good idea to conduct a surveillance operation following i think it was the summer of 2020 actually because they were conducting surveillance of protest activity in a predominantly jewish community as a result of the george floyd protests earlier this year and they decided to go about doing that by dressing up in traditional jewish clothing they were wearing you know i forget the names but they were wearing traditional hats they had traditional jewish hairstyles they were they looked um to an outsider who is not jewish they looked like you know jewish people of the jewish faith uh coming or going you know from the synagogue or something like that they blended in to the crowd however and this points to one of the first bullet points here is that generally speaking outside infiltrators are extremely easy to identify when it comes to like surveillance so when this video showed up on the internet people of the jew people in that jewish community and really every jewish community that we saw there were tens of thousands of comments just slamming these guys they were wearing you know the wrong sized hats they were the reason they got noticed in the first place is that they were using cell phones on the sabbath which is not permitted in the jewish faith so they made a huge mistake there and that got attention put on them and then people started looking at you know some of their other clothing and some of the ways they were acting and it was just like they were sticking out like sore thumbs to people of the jewish faith so um that's something that's kind of easy one of the undercover agents sort of thing is easy to get out of the way uh right to start with um now it must also be noted that the nature of religion in most religions on earth tends to be very altruistic in nature you know people it's most religion had teaches tenants of of being good you know helping your neighbor things like that so some people will want to be that good-natured person and let in uh someone to a religious activity that is obviously an infiltrator right so we have that going on but we also have to realize that you don't want to be paranoid to the point to where your you know congregation or parishioners or whoever um start being paranoid towards one another right that's not something that we want but we did want to point out that you know law enforcement has routinely uh posed as religious personnel um when it comes to surveillance so that is definitely a thing to watch out for um so yeah that that's the news article that shows that they were caught using the cell phone uh on the the shabbat or the sabbath and then another thing to think about is the concept of informant neighbors so a lot of people nowadays are being taught by their government or their politicians to call in or report religious activities or really any like gathering activities they disguise it as gatherings so for instance you know the governor of oregon the governor of new york a lot of these governors are setting up either hotlines so that people can snitch on each other or things like that and thankfully the internet has been quite hostile to this idea but even though people have quit you know were quick to jump to like oh you know some karen you know calls in a you know a party or something like that we have to realize that today it may be a joke today it may not be a thing that we take seriously but tomorrow it could be a security threat so your karen neighbor or for lack of a better a less offensive term to people who are actually named karen out there um someone who is who is calling in these you know reporting they're sitting at their window with their phone in their hand you know calling the police to report their neighbor for walking their dog or something people who do that um they could very well be a security threat tomorrow so um we also have to remember that like i said on the previous slide that you know most major religions teach this sort of love thy neighbor sentiment right but this feeling is most certainly often more often than not not mutual when it comes to these coveted things so just remember that even though you want to be a kind person to someone else they know they may not be a kind person to you and when it comes to that someone not being kind could result in your door getting kicked in so um we have to realize that this is you know something apart from religion that the social engineering that governments have done on people as part of this covet thing that social engineering has worked it has been very effective because we have changed our culture in less than a year's time and there haven't really been any congressional laws telling people to do it it's all been either executive orders or just federal recommendations right so so we have to remember that even though we may have the best intentions for people and that we may want people to be uh you know safe and secure and things like that others may not so uh just keep that in mind and then another thing that is very contentious now and this slide is one of the main reasons why we've recorded this so many times is because i haven't found a good way to say this i'm just going to come out and say it is that a lot of religious activities particularly churches that have a hierarchical structure such as catholicism right you know have different layers of authority within the church a lot of these religious structures have been very tyrannical towards their own people people of their own faith right so the leadership of many religious institutions are quite frankly willing collaborators of infringements on their own religion right i can't tell you how many articles i have read that state that all these covet procedures are not persecution they are not persecution they're not infringing on your religious freedoms whatsoever but that's not true like this is just blanket propaganda that's put out by the church to infringe on itself which none of us here quite understand right and we have to realize that since that's the case this division right you have people that want to get together in a you know a small group or a group of like maybe 100 or so you know like most churches in the united states or synagogues or mosques right they want to get together in a group of maybe 100 or so or less and some people will want to do have an underground secret church that the government doesn't know about and other people within that congregation won't right so this division division within a religious institution almost always results in some kind of conflict breaking out now the severity of that is you know different you know it varies right over time um but since like i said most religions have a very strong sense of community and these internal problems could be very very severe so i guess to sort of sum up this this sentiment i would say that we must recognize that even now even in late you know mid-december 2020 which is when we're filming this we have to recognize that some people will want to comply more or less than you and that is something that that we have we don't have a solution for we have not figured out how to approach that other than just saying that is the case right we don't have a solution but we know it's true that some people will want to comply more than you some people will want to comply less than you some people will want to comply with every single thing the government says some people will want to comply with none of the government what the government says and there's very very different reasons for doing so so we must recognize that there's different thresholds there's different lines in the sand some people don't even have a line right so when it comes to religion which is you know teaches morals and things like that we have the potential for conflict there and the next up is the concept of transportation so if you wanted to have a under an underground church a secret you know house church or something like that you have to realize that we we got to look back at when this when this coveted stuff first happened right when this um when these coveted lock downs first happened i have personally driven through many military checkpoints and many police checkpoints when it comes to uh the coveted stuff so i remember having to to talk to either police officers or soldiers um say and explain to them why i was driving on the road so um we we got to recognize that the first time around when these checkpoints when active duty soldiers were manning military police checkpoints on u.s soil and no one said anything about it or very few people did right they they were effective they happened no one shut them down they just sort of everybody just kind of agreed to it right since that happened the first time it's most likely going to happen again and we're going to have these perpetual perpetually increasing levels of lockdown so just keep that in mind is that you're going to have transportation issues as we come forward into the next few years honestly so that's something to think about and like i mentioned another real solution for this to to the religious tyranny of say your governor or your mayor or something says no churches can can have in-person you know meetings whatsoever well this is where we you know come back to like i mentioned at the beginning we come back to the uh the playbook of chinese christians um house churches the concept of the house church a secret church in someone's literally in someone's house or home they have become extremely popular and quite effective in concealing underground religious activity in fact the chinese government itself even if they do find a house church a lot of times they if it's just 10 to 15 people or so uh they tend to just leave it alone or or just kind of turn a blind eye because they know that there are millions of these secret house churches all over mainland china so even the chinese government understands that they can't get them all so by decentralizing by having a decentralized nature of things uh having a covert church just in someone's house right it's very effective so you know that's what we're preparing to set up here in the future if things get much worse now when it comes to that you also have to remember that all aspects of the house church must be considered you've got to talk about you've got to consider things like how are people getting in and out of you know the church are they coming into the front door through the back door is there a secret entrance is there some kind of something that neighbors would notice would external surveillance betray the existence of the church in the first place you know stuff like that has to be considered quite quite significantly and then another thing that must be considered for specifically house churches um is the the stuff within the church right so although most religions on earth don't really have a whole lot of gear right they don't have a whole lot of of what government forces would most likely label as contraband right things that betray what was what's going on in a particular area so for instance if you know if you walk into a a a house somebody's residential area and they've got stacks of chairs in the corner or stacks of prayer rugs in the corner they've got you know whole bookshelves full of neatly arranged bibles you know religious artwork and thing and like you know child's crafts and things on the walls well you know what it looks gonna look like a church right there are very few churches in the world regardless of religion right regardless of what religion it is there are very few religious structures that you can walk into anywhere in the world and not know that it's a religious structure so um you know casual observers would instantly notice hey there's some religious activity going on here right so you've got to consider that a lot of these things are going to have to be stored covertly there's no bigger giveaway that house church is going down than to see you know like i mentioned stacks of bibles and shares right so this is where we get into the sort of dual use dual use nature of things and if you if you don't know what the nature of a dual use is it's something that can function in one way but can also function in another way for instance if you had large groups of chairs in your you know living room or something well that's going to imply that there's a large gathering of people there and there's really no way to camouflage that to make it look like it was something natural whereas if you have a bunch of you know like children's art you know on the wall you could say that it's your own kid's art right so you know you could do things like instead of having a bunch of either song books or or bibles or religious texts or whatever karan's you know instead of having them stacked up neatly on a bookshelf spread them out spread them out throughout the house right spread them out throughout multiple bookshelves so that it makes it like you just happen to collect them instead of they're there for you know people to come and use right you know everything also things like you know religious you know sacraments and things like that you know don't really know the terms for a lot of you know religious implements and items but if you have them in a specific area you you might want to you know move them around a little bit to make it look like it's something that you would own as a homeowner and not something that's set up as for like a church purpose right and then also we have to remember that certain religions have very specific things that could give away the presence of either religious activity or large groups of people so right now as we're filming this in you know like i said mid-december 2020 there aren't any governmental agencies or politicians cracking down on religion specifically they're not saying you can't practice your religion what they're doing is saying it's a de facto ban right they're saying that you can't have groups of more than six people in your home well that would preclude a church service right so that is something that it's not necessarily a straight-up ban of religion that's not what's happening it's a de facto ban on a lot of religion and we have to realize that a lot of different religions have different things that could betray them so for instance this is one that that came out earlier this year and we when we thought of it when it happened in september i believe it was september we were thinking hmm that's a good way to surveil people um so for those of you that aren't of the jewish faith the the holiday of sukkot or sukkot however you pronounce it sorry i'm probably butchering that it's a jewish holiday um in which very specific things have to happen so people of the jewish faith have to build what's called a temporary structure called asuka and these are very small structures you can see what they look like here on the um on the slide and there's various different ways of doing it but one of the very key key parts of the religious ceremony or holiday right is it has to be outside so if you look at a sukkah if you see a suka in someone's yard you know that they're jewish right you know the people who are you know of the jewish faith live there meaning that that's a good way if you're going around you could just be driving around on the road and you could see um you know that they mark them down as being a religious um pious person right so that's something that would make it very easy for someone a casual observer to either persecute or surveil someone right likewise you know um the you know people of the islamic faith also have ramadan and ramadan is has a lot of these kind of considerations things like fasting during the holy month of ramadan during the day meaning that you know people of the islamic faith can't eat or you know or drink anything during daylight hours so from sunrise to sunset um they tend to be very weak people tend to be very tired you know it's a very it's meant to be a very you know not a whole lot of work being done and for those of you who are in the military and served overseas in a predominantly muslim nation you you know that terror or insurgent groups take advantage of ramadans particularly in afghanistan every single year it's like clockwork as soon as ramadan begins terror attacks spike because they know that the a a the afghan national army or the amp afghan national police or any sort of authority figure within afghanistan they're going to be practicing ramadan but the insurgents are the terrorists the members of the taliban since they are on jihad seeing as they're they're on jihad they don't need to fast they don't need to partake in the mandates of ramadan so you've got a an insurgent group which is well fed rested doesn't have to pray five times a day they you know they don't have to do all these religious things in ramadan and then you have another group over here like the afghan national army they're going to be you know very tired very weak afghanistan is a very hard country to live in just normally i can't imagine how difficult it must be to not eat or drink anything during daylight hours um so you can imagine the forced disparity there so that is something that could potentially be betraying as well and also when the sun sets there are usually pretty good feasts so if i was some sort of governmental agency that wanted to catalog and go down the streets and see who's partying after hours i would definitely make note of these ramadan parties which tend to happen after sunset when when you can finally break the fast and uh it tends to be a more community affair so that's something for the islamic faith that not a whole lot of people know about and then of course you know christianity is pretty it's kind of an easy one anything that if you have you know a nativity scene in your yard as opposed to like you know some other sort of holiday thing people people know that you're probably a little bit more religious than than the average bear right so really you know any religious holiday is subject to scrutiny and surveillance because regardless of what religion it is usually the religious holidays of any particular religion involve people coming together right like i said in the beginning religion tends to be bringing people together so um you know holiday decorations that are more religious based tend to pinpoint people from the outside outside surveillance if that's you know something that's going on and then another thing to consider is that if you have it like this particular house church in china from a few years ago there are audio visual requirements to running a church right you have to have projectors audio systems computers other technical stuff to make things you know go right you have to have you know storage for different kinds of media you know at least in christianity you know music tends to be a very very common unifying thing so if you've got a you know very if you're if you've got a group of 50 people or so in a cramped apartment that are singing singing songs well your neighbors on all sides of you will probably hear that and report it so um you know singing religious music other audible clues that there's a lot of people in one area those are dead giveaways of religious activity so it's kind of hard to get around but it's something that you have to think about if you're going to want to set up one of these house churches and then another thing is just concealment right so one thing that has been this is not necessarily unique to religious considerations this is just like what we've been doing for a long time which is using these old school wartime tactics to help internal security so like blackout curtains perfect example of this like um you know if you use blackout curtains no one knows if you are awake or if you're asleep no one knows from the outside they can't see the lights on inside your house so that's something that would be helpful as well so for instance if you live in an area where everybody goes to bed around the same time and it's you know either rural or it's like kind of a i think it's like a subdivision set up if you live in something like that where there aren't you know groups of 100 people you know coming to a single house at one in the morning you know these kind of blackout curtains might be able to help because it allows you to sort of blend in with the rest of the neighborhood when it comes to the lights being on or off another thing that might be helpful not necessarily just for religious activities but things like birthdays and other other events which in which people get together is the concept of a faraday box or a some sort of box for your cell phone right it doesn't necessarily have to be a faraday box it could be just a normal box that you keep by the front door but a good practice i don't know if it would be easy to consider to convince people to do even we hear the s2 underground have a hard time convincing people to do it but it's something that you could do so like those of us who work in the intelligence profession they know that you know no phones of any kind are allowed in a secured area and usually outside the door of that secured area there's like a little phone booth there's either little lockers or something like a little table or something for you to put your phone so that you you know put your phone you come out you come out of your office you know every couple hours check your phone and go back in that's how it works in the intel community and this would be a great thing to implement for the civilian sector um you could even make it a fun holiday tradition where you know you force people to leave their smartphones at the door so that you could you know reconnect with friends and family without technology without anybody scrolling or you know snapchatting or anything like that but regardless it's going to be a pretty hard sell to make um but the reason that we're talking about this is because mobile technology particularly smartphones or as we like to call them spy satellites in your pocket smartphones are definitely 100 thousand percent being used to track people as as part of this coronavirus stuff so this whole um contact tracing right we like to call it contact tracing in society because um surveillance and intelligence collection sounds bad but that's exactly what it is it's tracking your exact location um so that whoever either private company or governmental forces can find you right so even though a lot of these contact tracing either apps or procedures are voluntary at the moment a lot of times they're not and and by the time we figure out that they're not voluntary it will be too late so they're not going to tell us that it's involuntary until they start enforcing it so um you know this sort of thing is something that we have to think about the sort of technical intelligence this electronic intelligence that's going on you know even though it may be a hard sell to get you know aunt sally to to to drop her her cell phone off at the door you know it's something that that might be necessary as we move forward into the future and you know years from now another thing that not a whole lot of people know about is the concept of mazent or measurement and signatures intelligence so imagine is something that not a whole lot of people even within the intelligence community know either about or they don't really know how to explain it because it's not an image it's not necessary it's not really a you know something that's like you know electronics not signs it's just it's measurement and signatures intelligence and one of the things that we think of when it comes to this is alpr systems or automated license plate reader systems so for lack of a better term or lack of an easier way of explaining this there are a lot of police cars public cameras security cameras and public traffic lights a lot of times are set up with these alpr systems and what they do is they scan it's a camera type system and it scans your license plate and what it does is it will tag your license plate with a geo coordinate meaning that hey camera number so and so saw this license plate heading this direction at this time and then that is put into a database so that people can you know so that law enforcement can allegedly use it to uh track stolen cars it makes it easy so that oh you know the license plate number blank was stolen you know two hours ago put it out on the system oh that license plate just popped over over here this intersection so let's go there and check it out that's what it was invented for but now we're starting to see these license plate readers be used to track people in their homes or in their own neighborhoods right so all it takes is a police car driving by your house to pick up your luck because these are 360 degree cameras a lot of times drive a police car driving by your house with it with it turned on the officer inside probably has no idea that it's even happening or in a lot of cases it's just automated and no one you know knows right so that if their camera happens to see a license plate it will flash up an alert for the officer so they can say oh oh dang look this this car's stolen um so it's automatic um a lot of times but you don't want your license plate in a database right so a simple solution would be to just back into your driveways the license plate isn't facing the road that way it just completely defeats the system now i know a lot of states out there have license plates that go on the front of your vehicle as well um so i don't have a really good solution for that other than just trying to park in such a way that if a car were driving by with a camera on it couldn't see your license plate so that's something that we've got to consider as we move forward now you know of course i'm not saying that this is happening oh my gosh they're surveilling our neighborhoods right now no i'm not saying that we don't even have any evidence of that happening it's just limited anecdotal stuff that's not really solid intel but we are saying that it's definitely going to happen in the future so this technology exists now the potential exists now but as we move forward into a new age of i hate to use buzzwords but you know like coveted tyranny right this is something that is probably going to happen very soon and then something else which is very interesting this is another concept that is we have to start realizing what is legal and what isn't legal in terms of what is actually going to be done about it so for instance thermal imaging so a lot of you probably have heard of the 2006 case of uh really it actually goes back to i think 2001 of police officers using thermal imaging to they were just parked on the street and they were using the thermal imaging to view to look at this guy's house to determine that he would he had like a a marijuana grow going on because the marijuana grow lights apparently get very very hot so the police looked through their thermal imaging system saw that his house was hot used that to get a search warrant and they busted him for marijuana well he fired he filed a fourth amendment complaint and went all the way to the supreme court the supreme court says yep law enforcement do not have the ability to using thermal imaging to search a place from the street is a violation of the fourth amendment you have to get a warrant first and then you can use your thermal imaging so that was back in 2006. but here's the deal just because the supreme court rules on something does not mean that something very very similar is already being infringed upon by a lower court so even though the supreme court ruled that thermal imaging is a blatant violation of the fourth amendment we have things like stingray devices so yeah like i said the supreme court ruled that the authorities scanning their home with infrared camera without a warrant constituted an unreasonable search and seizure bar search by the barred by the fourth amendment so moving forward to 2014 in tacoma washington um one of the very interesting things that happened was that from 2009 to 2014 um the county of you know tacoma their superior court judges unknowingly signed more than 170 orders the tacoma police and other law enforcement agencies say authorize them to use a device that allows investigators to track a suspect cell phone but also sweep cell phone data from innocent people nearby so here's the deal you've got in 2001 or really 2006 when the supreme court ruled on a 2006 supreme court says you can't use thermal devices without a warrant because that is a violation of a fourth amendment fast forward to 2014 after that ruling you've got tacoma police department lying to judges and telling them that they're not that they're signing a warrant for this but really it's for blanket surveillance and things like that so yeah these judges signed more than 170 orders for the tacoma police department but here's the kicker they did not know that they were signing these orders and also all 22 of these superior court judges first learned of the police department's cell phone site simulator the stingray they only learned what they signed the warrant for because the news media caught on to it so that's a huge thing as well so we need to stop looking at things from like oh the supreme court said this but you know so you can't do that well guess what you know you change the situation slightly oh it's not a thermal imaging device it's an electronic surveillance device instead well now that particular case has to go all the way to the supreme court as well so and it's unlikely to do so so um that's what we wanted to mention is that there are other systems out there just because the law says xyz does not mean that our nation's law enforcement will follow xyz it means that you know some you know it provides opportunity for doing good but not necessarily providing the infrastructure for it so that's what we wanted to mention as well so sort of wrapping up this very meandering and kind of random episode in which we try to speak very delicately about these sort of issues we wanted to say that we need to start being proactive and not reactive we we need to start thinking ahead instead of trying to play catch-up and really that's going to have to happen from each individual person it's going to have to be each individual church i do know that you know here at the usg underground project we may or may not be setting up you know places for these these churches right that might us you know start popping up so we need to start thinking about this sort of thing i i you know i understand that the nature of religion itself is that a lot of people would really rather you know not be around if they can't practice their religion and you know that's a person's choice but what we're trying to do is walk that line between practicing your religion in the most practical way possible also being as safe as possible about it so that's what we wanted to talk about today you know i'm sorry this is kind of once again like a very random sort of episode but it's kind of a hard topic to talk about it really is it's very difficult to talk about a lot of this stuff so yeah that's all we've got for this episode uh remember to check out our other content we have all kinds of stuff on youtube we've got videos on how to hide people in your home if if it comes to that we've got podcasts talking about it as well we've got a quite successful mini series of many hours of content on how to avoid some of this electronic surveillance and how how you can basically be a human being in 2020 or 2021 and not be surveilled as much as say somebody else so make sure to check that out 10 if you like the this youtube channel and the youtube content we have check us out on our podcast which we'll link below chances are if you like our youtube content you'll also like our podcast even if you're 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hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for sunday the 10th of july 2022 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 9th of july so let's get right to it up first as usual our infrastructure incidents and concerns and we're going to kind of breeze through these a little quickly because there haven't been too many that are worth talking about in the infrastructure category this time around but up first in the northeast in connecticut there was a grocery store that caught fire and burned down in the early hours of the morning of july 4th really no information on this whatsoever just wanted to point out that it did happen uh it's kind of a smaller grocery store it's not a national chain and grocery store fires are unfortunately quite common so i don't know if this one is more to fairies or not just wanted to kind of put it out there moving down to the southeast uh i'm sure there was something that happened of note but i haven't quite found it yet so uh through my several hours worth of digging i haven't really found anything worth talking about for the southeast so we'll just go ahead and go to the east central midwestern region which of course again not very much going on this time around but there was a fire metal processing facility i think this one is very vague again more some of the more industrial fires in uh smaller townships don't really get a whole lot of press uh if they get any press at all so even the local news agency for this one out of white house ohio didn't know what in the sam hill was going on with this one so it looks like it was just a small fire at a metal processing facility uh the cause is unknown and of course the investigation is underway so it is this one looks like more more of your routine ones but but you can't really tell of course because there's just no information on it again keeping michigan in our minds we have the abbott laboratories flood recovery no news on that front so we're still waiting for an update from abbott laboratories moving to the west central midwestern region same story nothing really new to a report i'm sure something happened but i haven't found it for this time around so let's go down to the southwest in which case there was only one thing of note and it was of course again a liquid natural gas pipeline fire so this was out in fort men county texas there was a decently large as they always are pipeline burst in the middle of just a farmer's field so i don't know if somebody clipped it with you know some kind of agricultural implement as is extremely common because for those of you who don't know most pipelines are pretty they're not very deep underground they're only a few feet in most cases sometimes less than that so people hitting pipelines is not exactly an uncommon thing to have happen in in a lot of areas but again this one was in such a remote area and there wasn't any apparent construction going on in the mid immediate vicinity so there's no real telling uh what the cause of this was but again since it's a pipeline burst explosion type thing we're probably not going to hear about what the cause of this was and finally for the west again nothing significant to report so let's go ahead and move to the suspicious fires really only have two fires to add for uh this briefing and that is on july 1st in paterson new jersey the greater assembly house of prayer caught fire this one have no information on it whatsoever moving on to number 10 we have on the 8th of july in waverly tennessee a fire at the glenwood church of christ this one is we have a little bit more information on but still very sketchy not a whole lot of information gets put out there with regards to church fires specifically church fires but the local authorities have been kind of hesitant to say that this is under investigation for arson but the even just the local sheriff kind of commented that this is just one of seven or eight suspicious fires in the local area over the past few weeks so it looks like there might be something going on there in waverly tennessee but again we have seen this this kind of behavior pop up in various places around the country just these kind of arson style incidents right so again we're really probably not going to hear a whole lot about these suspicious fires that have been occurring around the country because we can call them suspicious but you know if a local jurisdiction calls them non-suspicious fires then you know where are we gonna what are we gonna do you know there's if that's kind of where the investigation stops you know the investigation stops right so uh we'll move on to the more unfortunate slides which are the kinetic incident trackers now i had to change this uh quite significantly because i did not have nearly enough room to make these all make these fit all on one slide so we're gonna have to break these down again by a region so we'll start again with the northeast region and talk about some of the more kinetic incidents that have occurred over the past 90 days or so really the two newest additions to this unfortunate uh tracker come to us from worcester massachusetts and they are two centers uh that were the target of jane's revenge in roughly the same kind of area and those were the problem pregnancy which is a clinic and again a clear way clinic as well so two pro-life clinics or resource centers or however you wanted to word it were attacked again by jane's revenge who claimed these attacks on their websites moving down southeast we have quite a diverse arrangement of terrorist attacks for this cycle uh beginning with the new additions for this time which are on the 3rd of july in hillsborough north carolina the holy family catholic church was vandalized no agency has claimed this particular attack but it was most likely antifa due to the graffiti they left behind this is just again one of many different church vandalisms that has occurred over the past 90 days the next day on july 4th also in north carolina in asheville north carolina there was an ied attack uh on a local statue or what the site of a former statue so again this is not particularly surprising asheville north carolina has a pretty solid antifa uh sort of left-wing militant presence and it would make a lot of sense because asheville actually took down a lot of their statues remember when last year or the year before last where all of the you know every government agency was looking to destroy any kind of history they possibly could of the civil war or things like that asheville north carolina had a lot of statues that they tore down and it looks like a couple of dudes affiliated with antifa or some other leftist group tried to build some homemade pipe bombs to blow up basically the the base of where a statue used to be so there wasn't a statue there anymore the the government had already destroyed it or removed it these guys were just trying to do to make again some kind of stupid attack on the site of where a statue used to be but again they were arrested of course and um i guess we'll see how that goes probably will be bailed out almost immediately uh but on on the same day in richmond virginia there was a mass shooting that was actually thwarted by a local citizen so this is a very interesting case that of course has been blacked out by the media because the two guys who are planning on conducting mass shootings against soft targets at july 4th celebrations uh these two guys were illegal immigrants so of course the mainstream media would not report on this kind of thing but i thought this was a very interesting case because the attack was thwarted very interestingly of course the richmond virginia police claimed 100 of the credit uh but it was actually stopped by a concerned citizen who reportedly overheard their plans to conduct a mass shooting so i'm very interested to see what the details are because overhearing a terrorist attack being planned is that almost never happens so was this were these guys literally like discussing their plans like in their house and their neighbor heard them or were they discussing it in a public location and someone overheard it i'm not entirely sure but either way this concerned citizen reported uh what they heard to the local authorities who then searched their place and got them to confess slash found all of their uh the weapons they were planning to use yeah very interesting case of domestic terrorism uh being thwarted on u.s soil again by concerned citizens so very interesting case indeed and finally in georgia one of the more interesting cases that i'm sure has swept all the way through the bottom depths of the internet by now uh this is the ied attack on the georgia guidestones so this is a very very very interesting case depending on how far you want to go down the rabbit hole of weird stuff on the internet and so for those who don't understand why this is such a polarizing slash interesting event it really surrounds the georgia guidestones themselves which are a very controversial monument that was put up a few years ago by unknown secretive groups slash agencies slash individuals right uh and this you can go read the wikipedia page before it gets deleted from the internet about what the georgia guidestones actually said um but it's depending on how strange you want to get into it what's undeniable i should say let me just start there what's undeniable is what the tablet says said it's a stone series of stone monuments kind of like an american version of stonehenge right our stone monument outdoors in the middle of nowhere that has some really weird inscriptions on it uh basically ten commandments so to speak for humanity i guess but the reason why this has been so controversial is what the commandments are so what's undeniable is that these tablets endorse things like mass genocide population control medical tyranny eugenics and things weird things like that right so of course it's going to get a lot of press when something like this gets blown up a lot of people have in the past attributed this as like a a monument to like either satanism or just like a sign of the antichrist or something like that like a world economic forum thing it's really hard to kind of put this into words what this thing actually was i think the most interesting part about all of it is not really the the rabbit hole stuff that you can go down on the internet but the the fact that this was attacked using uh ieds right in the past the the georgia guidestones of course based on the controversial things that these that's inscribed on these tablets these have been the subject of attack for a long time they've been vandalized graffiti has been they've been sprayed up with graffiti a lot this is this is nothing new what is new is someone using explosives to try to blow them up so yeah pretty interesting um i think though what's more interesting is the fact that there was pretty good security at the georgia guidestones like perimeter uh due to the past attacks that have kind of happened uh they put up a lot of security cameras and they've got a pretty good like you know security perimeter i won't say it's great but it looks to me like from what i've seen uh pretty decent and especially for in the middle of nowhere georgia and yet this kind of thing still happened i think though what is the most interesting part about the entire thing is that this ied attack occurred in the early hours of the morning on july 6th so way right in the middle of the night uh on july 6th well by the end of that day after the detonation had occurred they the guidestones were dismantled and destroyed people noticed construction equipment out there tearing down the rest of the monuments so from what i know about investigations of ied attacks on u.s soil i'm very highly suspicious that the site of an ied attack where you're trying to conduct chemical forensics and and conduct an investigation gets dismantled in just a few hours right after this idea attack happened like you would think there'd be crime scene tape around this sucker for at least a week or so while people are trying to figure out what happened and maybe go after the people because you know id attacks are not they're not common here in the united states especially against you know like a hardened structure like a stone tablet right so i don't know i think that the destruction of these guide stones immediately following the the explosive attack on them i think that's sketchy though i don't really know what else to think about it but again this is kind of a more weird one but since we don't really get to talk about ied attacks too often uh you know except in the context of like antifa or somebody i thought i'd mention it and especially considering i know that people are going to have a lot of questions about it so i guess we'll see what comes of it but my guess is due to the highly suspicious and secretive nature of the the guide stones themselves uh my guess is we're probably not gonna hear much about this uh anymore so i don't know we'll see though moving to the east central midwestern region we really just have three additions for this time three different terror attacks uh all three of course claimed by jane's revenge and all three are vandalism so the first one was in detroit michigan where a pro-life center a pregnancy center again was vandalized as expected and as you can see on the slide there numbers four and five occurred on the 22nd of june in jackson michigan both of them occurred they they shared an office so one of these uh places that was attacked was a pro-life center the jackson right to life center and the other one was interestingly enough a congressman's office so republican congressman tim wahlberg's office was vandalized along with the right to life center there it's a small building they kind of shared the same structure and people uh graffitied it up pretty good and damaged some of the facilities there so so again not really surprising this is kind of the mo by now for a lot of these leftist groups but again just wanted to mention it because we're seeing these attacks increase all over the nation moving to the west central midwestern region we have two new editions for this time both of them vandalism both of them claimed by jane's revenge again pretty standard by now uh one of them was a pro-life center in saint paul minnesota uh which was uh the birthright center uh company there just is kind of like a pro-life center uh they were attacked on the fifth of july and then going back to the second of june i forgot to mention this one on the last last time this is in des moines iowa an organization called dsm street medics which is a like a pro-life resource center they were also vandalized and again claimed by jane's revenge moving to the southwestern region we have a whole lot of nothing i haven't been able to find any in the states of arizona new mexico texas or oklahoma though i'm sure different attacks have occurred i just haven't found them yet so a lot of these are very much buried by the media and i'm sure that you can understand how hard it is to find these uh digging through the depths of the internet these days but again we'll keep an eye on the southwest but usually we're not really going to see too much just because of the climate and the nature of these attacks right so so for the western region we have two new additions for this slide this time both of them occurred on the 27th of june uh the first one was in portland oregon uh the mother and child education center it was like a pregnancy center was vandalized again by jane's revenge now i should note that this one is very interesting uh the local locals seem to think that this might have been an accident because the mother and child education center is they have not picked a side on the roe vs wade thing so they are not pro-choice and they are not pro-life at least according to them it's really hard to kind of say why they were targeted because they don't i'm not entirely sure if they offer abortions at this facility it seems like they're more along the lines of just just an education center and they kind of appeal to everyone at this particular place a lot of these pregnancy centers you're going to find are very much pro-life as you would expect but this one is more more center of the road which is a little confusing to me but it is portland right so it kind of makes sense in any case i looked at the photos of this facility's vandalism and it seems like it it could very well be a case of mistaken identity because this the name of this place is mother and child education center and if you look at the logo of the agency it looks very much like a pro-life facility so my guess is that the roaming bands of antifa members who have basically nested in portland over the past decade or so probably just saw the sign and said you know what we're gonna we're gonna attack that place so so yeah either way this one looked like it was more of a target of opportunity rather than a deliberately planned uh coordinated attack and on the same day on the 27th of june in longmont colorado a facility called life choices which is a more of a pro-life center education center type type thing uh it was set on fire and that is currently being listed as arson so so again not a lot of this is surprising unfortunately but still got to keep a keep an eye on this just so that everyone's aware of the the levels of terrorism that are going on around this country before we moved on i briefly wanted to mention that there has been some congressional interest in all of these attacks that seem to be popping up all over the country for instance senator chuck grassley of iowa sent a letter to the fbi last week urging the fbi to investigate the more than 40 pregnancy centers that have been attacked since the roe vs wade leake this is in addition to the letter tom cotton sent to the department of justice last month also urging the fbi to do their job the fbi has responded by saying that they are instigating excuse me investigating these attacks and have again encouraged citizens to report suspicious activity to their various hotlines but until something is done the average citizen is having to take a crash course in counter-terrorism in a nation which arrests people for trying to stop terrorist attacks on u.s soil so not exactly an easy task but this is certainly a great time for the average citizen to educate themselves and remain vigilant and when it comes to future terrorism we have really one just kind of warning to go out there and that is that several groups affiliated with antifa your more leftist militant groups uh have been offering bounties or encouraging the attack of supreme court justices in washington dc so far uh bounties have just been offered up for public sightings of brett kavanaugh specifically uh with bonuses for if he's still at a location when uh the the terror groups when the terrorists arrive so again they're looking to target supreme court justices deliberately and openly now uh which again is not surprising unfortunately but what is kind of interesting is places like the white house press secretary deliberately uh egging this kind of stuff on so the precursor to to this is uh brett kavanaugh being swarmed uh while he was out trying to have dinner at a dc restaurant so this kind of spurred these more leftist groups iww antifa uh any kind of communist party of you know whatever city these groups are really looking for for blood quite literally and are openly encouraging violence against public officials so my guess is that due to this latest event involving brett kavanaugh the conservative justices at least will be hidden away in secure locations for the foreseeable future uh and almost certainly they were probably looking at doing this before the roe versus way decision was released the leftist terror groups around this country are really predictable at this point but with leftist politicians again to include the white house press secretary openly encouraging these kinds of attacks we have to assume that these attacks will probably be used on conservative politicians or public figures as well so it will probably expand beyond just supreme court justices right when it comes to leftist groups in this country they're really only whipped up into action to do politicians bidding for them every few years or so i mean of course you're going to have your your classic um communist groups that are pretty much in well not pretty much they are in every single city in this country uh at this point but usually they're really kind of small groups uh your more deliberate terroristic kinds of attacks like your jane's revenge type stuff that only really occurs uh ever so often once they've kind of get their resources back or they get their funding uh the reason that i think we're seeing a lot of this now is because of course roe vs wade was a hugely uh motivating uh recruitment tool for them for one and it also allowed billionaire politicians to funnel this money into supporting their their demonstrations their protesting and especially their bail funds so as far as what all this means for the average citizen uh really the takeaway is to remember that while politicians have taxpayer-funded armed security for protection which have zero legal implications to think about you do not and you most certainly do not want to be collateral damage so if you're at a location that might be a target for leftist terror groups remember that defending yourself against these terrorists will in all likelihood result in you being the one prosecuted uh we've seen this in new york very recently uh and in texas but this sentiment has been echoed in pretty much every state around the nation in sporadic cases right uh i of course don't mean to be overly pessimistic on this but i just know that i myself do not have the budget to spend years of my life going through a kyle rittenhouse style show trial i would rather egress from an establishment that is undergoing a mob style attack rather than let the terrorists force me into action that's of course just my own opinion but i always think it's important to remind everyone of the way things are right now within our multi-tiered justice system high-ranking politicians might have security but if you are dining at the next table over what do you think is going to happen their security team is for them not for you and the legal implications of you being forced to defend yourself are not of their concern either no politician is going to bail you out of jail or pay your legal fees because their presence near you caused a mob to target you and you had to defend yourself so please keep this in mind as we move into a time in which politicians of one party are allowed to openly encourage the harm of their enemies and government agents arrest citizens for defending themselves or their families again not a pleasant thing to think about but i think it needs to be said constantly especially since genuine domestic terrorism is becoming a norm in the united states moving on to significant governmental actions we'll keep the peachy mood going and talk about ups so ups united parcel service has apparently gone absolutely insane and is now not only canceling their contracts with gun parts companies such as brownells but they are now openly stating that they will be opening and stealing your packages if their scanning sensors detect that you have ordered something they do not like and if this sounds vague it's because it is ups has not been clear about any of this the gun community has rightfully expressed outrage over this especially considering that ups is going above and beyond to create their own laws i guess that this is surprising to a lot of people that a company would confiscate packages that even the atf says are completely legal but for those of you that have been following us for a while you know that we here have been focused on companies that create their own laws for a long time now like i've said many times before this is a huge problem and i don't know what the solution is i think that the classic argument of they are a private company so they can do what they want uh is kind of ridiculous at this point there are only a tiny handful of postal carriers in this country and all of them are heavily federally subsidized with your tax dollars and in many cases directly controlled by federal government we all know how social media companies have put political regimes into power and how defense contractors have taken your tax dollars to develop technologies that they then refuse to sell to u.s taxpayers so ups doing this is a little surprising because of how quickly they made this decision especially at a time when so many companies are going broke because of their wokism ups is neck and neck with their competition and they decide you know what we're gonna do we're gonna go above and beyond full steam ahead on the woke train to follow laws that don't even exist when you control the mail you control information i say good luck with that ups and let's see how that works out for you but my guess is that people are going to be focusing on using other shipping options the one or two other options that they have for shipping gun parts around the country moving on to number two this is kind of the incident that has been highlighted by many a conservative news agency over the past couple of weeks and this is a story that the biden regime has sold about a million barrels of crude oil to a company that is owned by the communist party of china not only that but this oil came from our strategic oil reserves so we quite literally uh emptied out our reserves of at least a million barrels of oil to sell to china that alone is pretty damning but it gets better the company in question is sinopec this is indeed completely owned by the chinese state government but in 2015 a private equity firm called bhr partners purchased 1.7 billion dollars worth of shares in that company sinopec bhr associates was created by the bank of china and you guessed it hunter biden as if that is not delicious enough for you it gets even better hunter biden to avoid any hint of impropriety announced that he would be resigning from bhr partners during joe biden's presidential campaign but guess what as of the second quarter of 2020 after the election mind you hunter biden was still listed as a board member so pretty interesting i was not able to independently verify whether or not hunter biden is affiliated with this company still but i would stake my entire existence on the entire biden family being up to their neck in this rampant and blatant corruption i think it's pretty clear that that's exactly what's going on by now so i guess we'll see what happens with this case but my kindergarten level assessment is that nothing will happen at all as a result of this corruption but we may see a few republican congressmen get upset for a bit but that probably won't result in much being done uh in the long run and since hunter biden was recently caught smoking crack cocaine while in detox for smoking crack cocaine uh detox that his father paid for i think that this hunter biden saga is just going to keep giving us very interesting tidbits as we move on down the line clark that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year so let's wrap things up with a few international issues first up is the netherlands like i mentioned uh the dutch are still protesting in quite significant numbers uh the police have actually fired several live rounds at least once during the demonstrations at farmers so it's really unclear as to to what's going on with regards to these smaller spot protests that have kind of popped up around the nation this is very much a nationwide protest at this point and the demonstrations are becoming a bit more lively uh with more and more people joining the demonstrations as people start to realize just what the the world economic forum controlled dutch government is trying to do to its people uh similar protests have popped up in various spots around europe as well such as in france for the same reasons so i guess we'll have to see how kinetic things get as more and more european citizens start to realize what their governments have done to them or are trying to do to them as one might expect the farmers specifically in the netherlands have gotten a lot of support from people who realize that farming is kind of an essential activity and their government's efforts to restrict it are kind of not a good thing so we'll have to see how this develops my guess is that these protests will probably grow quite significantly based on the severity of these draconian climate change policies that are far too numerous to even mention but are kind of popping up everywhere around europe moving over to germany germany's largest housing group a company called vanovia has announced that they will be involuntarily turning down the thermostats in their rental units the retail units that they own for the foreseeable future during the hours of the night when things get the coldest so a company smokes person said that from the beginning of the next heating period the plan is to throttle the heating between 11 pm and 6 am so that heating only heats up to 17 degrees celsius which is about 63 degrees fahrenheit at night for those that are unfamiliar with this company vinovia is a very infamous company in germany it's probably one of the most hated corporate entities in the country uh because they are a they're very well known for unethical business practices so this is not a surprise at all however they own over half a million apartments so they're not a small company whatsoever so again i would expect this trend in germany to become very commonplace uh however we might actually see the german government start trying to ration natural gas uh probably very very soon uh they're kind of floating that idea right now there's a lot of rumen to a lot of rumors flying around regarding rationing natural gas because of germany's own decisions and their reliance on russian natural gas which is now not an option for them so that's going to be interesting to follow as with most things it does present a few other considerations though wood-fired stoves and other heating appliances have completely disappeared from store shelves as german citizens race to prevent their government from freezing them to death this winter this presents a lot of problems the energy crisis in europe specifically in germany uh has presented a lot of problems mostly due to how most people on earth are completely inept when it comes to basic survival skills the same people that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows also probably think that their home is heated by magical fairy dust so you're going to have a lot of people who are completely confused as to why their home is freezing cold and these people who have never even thought about basic things like energy and heating are suddenly having to figure out how to heat their home when their government or their company decides to restrict their heating modern caveman moments like this are likely to cause quite a few problems as inexperienced people race to keep their homes warm this of course is not to cast shot and florida on the germans this is certainly an american thing too the number of people that are somehow baffled every winter when their pipes freeze and burst is quite astounding when it comes to heating in the winter though there are a lot of other issues as well winter time is when people tend to buy some of the more unsafe heating appliances like cheap chinese space heaters which then burn their house down and guess what time of year is most difficult to fight fires in wintertime injuries for firefighters usually spike during the winter hydrants and hoses freeze ice and snow present challenges of their own and all of this happens at the exact time of year that residential home fires spike it is a tale as old as time and one of the main reasons for murphy's law not only will everything go wrong that can go wrong but it often does so at the most inopportune times or when it is most difficult to fix the issue such as residential home fires in the winter so for any german citizens out there please be careful with your heating methods this winter you've had this pair of extra gloves this whole time yeah we're in the rockies jumping over to the pacific in japan the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe has grabbed a lot of headlines this week i don't really have much to say about this one but we do not often see the assassination of high-ranking politicians so i did want to mention it abe was very much a controversial figure mostly due to his political ideology which some would describe as ultra-nationalistic we here in the u.s hear that and think well alright then but we have to remember that what is nationalist or ultra-nationalist in other countries is not exactly the same definition as here at home but yeah he was still a very controversial figure in japan the west supported him because of his hard-line stance on china which won him support for many japanese citizens as well not much is known about the attacker just yet i'm sure lots of media agencies are doing profiles on the guy by now but for sure various antifa elements are celebrating this assassination as expected so who knows what is interesting is that crime especially gun crime is pretty much completely unheard of in japan this is not something that is easily understandable by a western audience much like lots of japanese culture i guess it's kind of hard to explain but i will say that it's pretty clear that this assassination has rocked the nation for sure stuff like this especially with an improvised firearm are completely unheard of in japan i think what kind of sells this idea is this photo from the assassination which reminds us that the security detail for a former prime minister carries revolvers so yeah that kind of points out how different the culture is in japan with regards to firearms and law enforcement moving to sri lanka the situation in sri lanka has deteriorated to about as close to a full-blown collapse as i think we're going to see protesters stormed the presidential palace yesterday in order to demand the president's resignation and generally voice their displeasure at the government causing them to starve the prime minister has agreed to resign and allow the formation of a new government and the president actually just a few minutes ago as i'm recording this also announced that he will be stepping down as well although even with these resignations it is unclear if anything can be done at this point to stop the economic collapse and mass starvation moving to our friends across the pond in the united kingdom the news this week has been the resignation of boris johnson this follows a several months saga for boris starting with the party gate scandal and ending with his covering up of his appointment of a serial sexual predator as deputy chief whip so yeah not a super great past few months for old boris thus his resignation we shall see how the conservatives handle his resignation and who might replace him but no real news on that front moving to our friends to the north up in canada there have been quite a few issues regarding telecoms this week mostly stemming from the rogers communication incorporated outage rogers communications is a major telecoms sort of conglomerate that offers a lot of services they handle everything from normal citizens cell phones to 911 networks to to credit card transactions to wi-fi they handle a lot of different things and they have had a widespread outages since yesterday rogers has issued statements late yesterday evening that they should start having some services come back online as of the evening of the 8th although today is the 9th and it's there's still a lot of different outages particularly with things like 911 call centers and things like that so it's really hard to tell when they're going to be fully recovered from this but yeah again canadians figuring out exactly uh how vulnerable it is to put all of your eggs in one basket when it comes to telecommunications here in the united states we see this frequently like just last time i briefed uh we had an outage with our unemployment services and this one company which managed the website for unemployment or unemployment benefits you know websites to where you apply for that kind of thing that one company provided services to over 40 states and because they went down they took 40 states unemployment systems down with them so again we're finding out just how vulnerable it is and how little of these systems are not networked you would think that a lot of these systems are either air-gapped or on different networks or somehow not completely vulnerable to one thing bringing the entire nation down but i think we're finding out these days especially over the past couple of years with the rise of cyber attacks that this is most certainly not the case and systems which should be air-gapped like 9-1-1 call centers most certainly are not and finally in afghanistan it has been a while since i mentioned something with afghanistan and i wanted to end on something that doesn't really have much intel value but is utterly fascinating to me and that is the unearthing of mullah omar's vehicle from its hiding place in afghanistan for those that don't know who this is muhammad omar mostly just called mullah omar was the founder of the taliban in afghanistan and has been an almost mythological feature in afghan culture over the years back in the early years of the war he went into hiding and remained so until he died reportedly of tuberculosis in 2013 and now a few days ago we've learned from pictures posted on social media that his followers have unearthed his personal vehicle that he had placed into hiding during the initial invasion his followers posted photos of themselves digging up the vehicle that he used to escape from the 2001 u.s invasion apparently this was the vehicle that he used to drive from his home in kandahar to his hiding place in zabel where he remained for the majority of the war in hiding sometimes just a few hundred meters away from american fobs and outposts based on these photos it's clear that he and his team had buried his toyota corolla wagon underground in the event that he needed it again and now that the taliban have their victory they are now starting to literally unearth some of the items important to the history of afghanistan and their own history as the taliban as distasteful as it may seem to even have the slightest respect towards one of our nation's most vicious enemies especially with the fall of afghanistan and all of the pain that caused i myself can't help but be fascinated by the history of stuff like this and i hope that in the coming years we get to hear some of the stories from the other side of the wire so that we may better understand how we lost that war for now i think that a simple toyota being dug out of the ground illustrates that we cannot possibly begin to imagine how much we don't know about that war the exact same thing happened with vietnam too general nguyen zapp the head general in charge of the nva survived the war only to remain a mystery for the most part and mullah omar like general zapp remains an enigma to the west despite both of these men having a huge role in being the leaders of the only organizations to ever topple multiple superpowers i just think that if western military leadership isn't really interested in learning from their enemies i certainly am and i would be especially interested to learn the stories from the other side of the wire lest we repeat the same mistakes again mistakes that cost us dearly anyway i didn't mean to get all philosophical i just thought that was interesting and i really can't wait to get started on some more of the warfare studies sort of content that we've been researching for the past few months so thank you again for watching everyone and thank you again for all of your support i really do mean it especially for those of you who support us out there on patreon on youtube you guys are just really awesome and helping us out that way allows us to keep bringing this kind of thing to you i think we're going to be pretty busy trying to track a lot of these more kinetic incidents that have occurred here in the united states here at home and also overseas in the international arena definitely going to be a busy next few weeks and months unfortunately so we'll keep an eye on that and we will see you next time and as always fight in 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maps are some of the most important tools the analyst has in their toolbox yeah sure we've all heard about how important it is to have a map for Land Navigation or land nav but beyond that what's the big deal are there other reasons to have maps on hand let's find out besides the obvious navigational use the main use for maps in Warfare is to create what we call a common operational picture or cop these go by a few different names by service Branch but are all really the same kind of thing the cop is simply a large map that can clearly show what's going on throughout the battle space however depending on what the mission is a cop can be set up in many ways ATAC for instance is basically a cop a map with the ability to drop overlays and see where everyone is located on a common map we've all seen this in movies some very large map with little Flags or other icons designating military units and with an assortment of Staff constantly moving these pucks around with their most up-to-date positions this we call battle tracking and we'll dive into this a lot more later but for now battle tracking is keeping the map updated with the most recent positions of units enemy locations critical intelligence gathered during the mission and so on this is a very important aspect of warfare and one of the main functions of the Tactical operations center or talk in the old days these Maps were physical pieces of paper hung on a wall or spread out on a table with operations staff and Intel analysts using clear sheets of acetate plastic to draw critical information on maps this ancient method of battle tracking is still done today during training and actually during real world operations but mostly just to keep that skill alive in the event that fancy tools like ATAC and other battle tracking software is not an option in an increasingly hostile and electronic battle space a cop that is set up purely for intelligence purposes is usually called a sip or common intelligence picture sometimes you'll see this referred to as a sip cop right referencing the two main staff directorates that work in operation centers intelligence and operations but usually at say Battalion size units or lower everything is mostly clustered together on the same map Blue forces red forces ipb stuff like key terrain and such all of this is going to reside on the same map usually on the prepared citizen side of things the average person may not be capable of or even interested in setting up a full-blown talk and that's fine but you would be surprised the talk like capabilities you'll have by Simply Having a map for me I go overboard with maps because of my role as a prepared citizen so I have to be careful not to let my personal fascination with maps cloud my recommendations for everyone anyone with military experience will tell you that many commanders sometimes view maps as a status symbol in the U.S military at least the size of maps sand tables and terrain models is often dictated by one's rank or importance the generals get super big maps that fill an entire wall or a whole wall of plasma screen screens I've seen some general officers literally have a personal cartographer who prints out big maps for them of totally random places just so they can have a random map for a meeting now I certainly don't fancy myself as any sort of military commander I personally am just not cut out for leadership but I do not ascribe to the idea that the size of the map dictates its importance it's what's on the map that matters but anyway I find having many different types of maps quite handy so what maps are needed first up is a local land nav topographic map the old standby of the usual classic right you always need to have a topographic map of your area I think that by now this is a fairly standard expectation that goes without saying but I did want to mention it anyway I usually prefer a standard one to twenty four thousand scale USGS quad map of the area that I'm going to be moving through if I'm going a long way it's a bit more practical to use a larger scale so that you don't have to carry so many different maps with a one to twenty four thousand Scale map it's great for seeing maximum detail and operating in a very small area but I have many times walked right off the edge of the map which is sometimes not a fun experience whatever you choose having a topographic map for navigation is vital but we've heard all of this before right besides land nav what other kinds of maps are useful the other type of map that in some cases is even more important than a topographic map is a simple road map that's right the ordinary roadmap you get for free at Stateline rest stops at least here in the U.S as strange as it sounds ordinary road maps have throughout history become an indispensable tool of warfare from World Wars to the modern day simple tourist road maps have been used to plan very large-scale military operations one more interesting anecdote that illustrates this comes from the defense of Berlin during the final days of World War II as the Soviet Army Advanced across the Polish Countryside towards Berlin the Iraq sphere SS himself Heinrich Himmler decided that his Grand military expertise needed to be put to use in the Northeast as commander of the hastily formed Army group Vistula setting his command post aboard his personal luxury train he established one of the worst Army headquarters in history along a railroad sighting in Schneiderman Poland having been assigned to be himmler's chief operations officer Colonel Hans Georg Eismann arrived at the rather inept SS Commander's train with an air of nervousness upon his arrival his suspicions were instantly confirmed he immediately assessed the situation as rather desperate and the headquarters itself was only a shell of a military organization apart from himmler's complete ineptitude in all things military his command post was that in name only the lavish headquarters train was more vacation spot than headquarters as it only contained One telephone and only one map which eisenmann noted as being very out of date and not containing accurate information at all one can only imagine the moral laundry this presented here was a career military officer talking to one of the most infamous humans ever to have lived a man with extreme power who had done unspeakable things and he didn't even know what units he had under his command he had no idea of basic military unit sizes formations or anything even the lowest ranking Soldier would know a rather desperate situation indeed this was the headquarters of an entire Army group or at least it was supposed to be and the map situation was so desperate that Eisman had to use his driver's road map that he had used to navigate to this Command Post in the first place he literally had to go out to his car and get the map from the glove box though the history of this incident is not quite so clear it appears that for a Time the defense of Germany's Eastern flank was conducted by a colonel with a road map moving forward to present day another similar situation occurred within the U.S army during the U.S Invasion of Grenada a commonly told story is the case of military leadership ship planning operation urgent Theory using civilian road maps this was because Grenada was such a small nation of little military importance that when it became clear that the U.S would be using military force to invade the island nation military leaders were caught without adequate maps of the area understandably planning invasions involves an awful lot of people and there are almost never enough maps to go around for everyone this is the case even today I myself have helped plan military operations using old Soviet maps of an invasion long forgotten or even Garmin base camp or Google Earth even just a few years ago I myself was in a conflict Zone printing out homemade maps on an inkjet printer I ordered from Amazon it would be nice if we could all have nicely printed Maps but as always in war things rarely go to plan National Geographic Rand McNally and Michelin have been an unwitting member of many military intelligence briefings over the years as strange as it sounds ordinary tourist road maps have been and will continue to be vital for everything from road trips to planning invasions when it comes to specific road maps I personally like the more durable National Geographic adventure maps for the United States and Europe these are fairly cheap considering they're printed on a plasticized paper but if you want to reduce cost even further you can pick up your State's roadmap usually from visitor centers or rest areas for free these are usually much more up to date anyway as Most states come out with a new one every year but even if you do go the free map route I would strongly recommend picking up a regional map as well again these National Geographic adventure maps are divided up by region at least for the U.S with four of these you could cover the entire country at a scale that's small enough to read yet compact enough to carry I usually prefer standard maps that you can fold and put into a map case this also makes it easy to stuff a map into a bag and forget about it however the spiral bound road atlas is also a very important tool as well these are perhaps better are suited to remaining in a vehicle due to their size but since my own role is often in the information space I often find myself needing a fairly detailed map of rather random locations and a road atlas is great for that if you have the space to carry one I wouldn't want to backpack very far with a road atlas but if you are setting up a talk or something these are super useful to keep on hand I would definitely expect each vehicle you have to have a road atlas as well for locations outside of the US Rand McNally and Michelin are your best bet for Nations that might not have really nice Maps I navigated all over the Kuwaiti desert with a random McNally map because it was the only one that I could find in country that was in English in Europe things are a bit easier and there are a plethora of companies to choose from which offer many different styles of road map however if you are in Russia or China I'm afraid you are out of luck for the most part during the Cold War the Soviet Union knew the utility of road maps so they intentionally made them incorrectly distances between cities were just slightly inaccurate and some roads did not even exist or were slightly in the wrong place and of course many entire cities were simply left off the map entirely since the concept of the closed city was heavily used in the Soviet Union most road maps were just wrong enough for Citizens not to notice but if an American military unit were to capture one and use it to navigate and more importantly calculate fuel consumption the map would be incorrect enough to throw off these calculations thankfully with the collapse of the Soviet Union Russian road maps are a lot more accurate nowadays however there are some ghosts of the past on some road maps that you'll find throughout Russia in Russia you can never really be sure of anything especially the truth in today's world China being the predominant communist Society on Earth has carried this idea into the 21st century China's national GPS system is intentionally inaccurate by sometimes hundreds of meters this takes from the American idea of Collective availability back in the early days of GPS satellites the American government did exactly the same thing citing national security reasons for the intentional degradation of GPS accuracy China has taken things one step further and with the cooperation of Google has also skewed the satellite imagery of the entirety of China as well in other words if you are in China using Google Maps from a smartphone you will appear to be in the right place but you don't know that both the Communist party and Google are working together to make sure that you never really know the true GPS coordinates of where you are standing at least until China outright banned Google Maps from within their country which seems to flip-flop back and forth quite a lot these days but this also applies to stepping up their Crackdown on accurate GPS receivers this is also why Coca-Cola got into some hot water with China back in 2013 since they put GPS units in their trucks for delivery drivers local Communists found the devices in Coca-Cola trucks which triggered a complaint and expanded into a full-blown investigation this is why no one in China truly knows where anything is with any accuracy unless you break Chinese law and take a handheld GPS to China specifically a GPS unit that uses one of the non-chinese satellite constellations you will always be dozens or sometimes hundreds of meters off the same thing applies to simple paper maps they can be quite inaccurate again with post-soviet Nations this is becoming less of a factor but you can again spot some holdovers from the past on Modern Maps however some Nations like India are locking down even more India does not scramble or Jam GPS data yet as far as I know but they do treat map making as a state secret with only pre-approved Indian companies being able to make any sort of map within the borders of the nation it is with this in mind that we must remember that Any Nation who possesses GPS navigation satellites can decide to one day turn that service off or degrade it significantly we have discussed how rare this scenario is in our video on satellite Communications but it is always technically a possibility it doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop using GPS altogether right it's still a very powerful tool but it also brings modern vulnerabilities with terrestrial GPS jamming becoming a basic fundamental of Modern Warfare returning to a more traditional paper-only navigational method might be worthwhile not just as a backup but as a primary means of navigation all of this is important to consider no matter what map you choose you think you're just going to go buy a roadmap off the shelf and that might work for you but it also might be highly inaccurate some Nations might not appreciate accurate Maps being made of their country and some private companies are eager to bend over backwards to sell their customers a Lie by making a map that is not accurate another map that's helpful to have is a pocket atlas of the world the explanation of why a pocket Atlas is important it goes back to the original question of why maps are so important for the analyst or for anyone operating in the 5th generation battle space one thing that will assassinate your credibility really quickly is if you don't know where something is but somebody else does if the person you are briefing knows more about the geography than you do you probably should not be briefing but rather having a two-way conversation to exchange the information you have geography is not something that is commonly studied and analysts deployed around the world doesn't usually do too much pre-deployment work or study they're supposed to but it doesn't happen that much in the professional world because most people have the mentality of learning when they get there every single time I've deployed this has been a major issue that I've seen people being in country and not even knowing what district they're standing in that's fair enough for the average Soldier who's fresh out of basic training and got a lot of other Soldier stuff to know I can forgive them for not knowing every District in a province by heart on their first day but for the analyst you better know that country more than your own hometown no there's not much value in knowing the provincial capital of a province way over on the other side of the country but if you don't know it you'll look like an idiot analysts are supposed to know this stuff or so people think that's the curse that analysts are faced with constantly a good chunk of the learning curve for analysts is simply knowing geography anyone who studies geography and history is automatically miles ahead of their peers when working in a job that requires really any kind of analysis but say you don't want to be an analyst sure you might want to keep tabs on things and have kind of a general Intel picture of your area but you don't want to make this your full-time job right is a pocket Atlas still useful I think so yes for one it's something to study even at a very broad level knowing where certain nations are on this Earth is pretty important if nothing more than because of how our modern news Cycle Works most Americans get their news from alternative media sources these days sources which even though they're vastly better than mainstream Legacy Media they might not know this significance of an event in other words you might see a headline that reads Chinese bomber sighted off the island of Luzon if you don't have an atlas you might gloss over that headline or just not really know what's going on because you know China is always in the news with Taiwan and all kinds of stuff right but if you had a map to show you the context of where this location is you might be able to conclude that oh this is in the Philippines this might be something pretty big right this is not just your standard Taiwan stuff because that alone makes it pretty handy you increase your knowledge of the world around you simply by every time you see a news article that references a location that you're not familiar with just pull out your Atlas and see where it's at you can't usually get historical or cultural context from a map but you can get geographical context which helps if you are really lost in the sauce and thrown into a situation where you've only got your fuzzy memories of Pub trivia and 8th grade social studies to help you having a map on hand makes your life a lot easier it sounds like a really specific situation to prepare for but I myself have seen this happens so many times I'm inclined to think it's more routine than we might think after all Fubar and snafu situations are the norm not the anomaly especially in a fifth generation war with all that's happening around the world constantly it seems like it's endless right the last thing we need is to not know where things are happening and a low-cost compact pocket Atlas can help with that another useful type of map to have are aeronautical charts these are usually also called VFR sectionals these are very useful for understanding when aircraft are outside of standard traffic routes these are also useful for getting local airport frequencies again another very specific type of thing to be concerned about or prepared for but I have noticed a lot of changes within the commercial Aviation Community since covet changes which do not reassure me as a passenger from Pilots dying suddenly and Airlines exploring the idea of flying with only one pilot due to Pilot shortages and maintenance issues in parts shortages my gut feeling is that the risks associated with commercial airline travel are much higher than in the past I'm sure the aviation Community would disagree and assure that everything is just as safe as it's always been that's fine I guess but I don't want to be the statistic that proves me right and one of my own personal habits goes back to an old Aviator saying any land you fly over you may have to walk over and in many places on Earth the walking isn't good likewise anytime I am trusting someone else to transport me from one place to the next I always carry a map or usually several maps of the route we should be taking just in case I will admit in the rare occasion I fly commercially I Don't Take Along aeronautical charts of the whole route that would mean bringing along a lot of maps but I do like to have something from a military perspective on the ground I think it should be mandatory for most military units to have civilian aeronautical charts of their area of operations let's face it an awful lot of civilian air Liners in the past have been shot down by mistake by military forces around the world if a military unit plans for civilian aircraft to be in their area they need to have the aeronautical chart that the civilian pilot is using relying on civilian planes to constantly monitor 121.5 megahertz the the international emergency frequency for aircraft relying on them to monitor this is a farce because they just don't do it a lot of the time even though they're required to right but what pilots absolutely do monitor is the frequency for the Tower or controller in their area which is listed on the map the map gives you the frequencies of every tower that is in American airspace at least bottom line is that if you absolutely need to talk to an aircraft or listen to one in a life or death emergency and you need to be 100 sure that they are hearing you you need to know the frequency they are most likely to monitor which is on the map I know that for me personally I monitor all Aviation radio air traffic around me pretty much at all times certainly if there seems to be increased levels of military traffic or something strange is going on or there's a national event underway this is a very deep rabbit hole that will make a lot more sense when we cover this topic specifically so don't get all bent out of shape about it just yet for now in the middle of the woods out of cell service range really the only way you'd know the local frequencies to monitor is if you have a scanner or a scan function on your receiver or if you have the map with the frequencies on it again a really specific scenario to prepare for and it's probably not helpful for most of you but it may be for some so I thought I'd mention it sort of along the same lines as Aviation Maps nautical charts may be helpful for some or a waste of time for others when I lived by the coast I always had nautical charts on hand of the immediate area nowadays I don't really use them so much rather than using these to get radio frequencies my biggest use of nautical charts was simply navigation nautical charts list all of the navigational markers along waterways which is helpful to know if you find yourself taking fairy rides a lot certainly if you have a boat yourself nautical charts can be pretty helpful to have just in case for me since nautical charts aren't really a priority at the moment I load them onto the GPS I use daily it's a lot easier to do these because usually these are kind of a one thing you buy them and download them or get them for free and you're done whereas loading aeronautical charts Aviation maps onto your handheld GPS is a little bit more difficult because those are usually subscription based so either way nautical charts are something you could easily just you know one time one and done because the geography of the earth doesn't change that much whereas aeronautical charts they expire after a certain period of time they're not good permanently they're only good for I think six months at a time but they don't usually change that much when it comes to nautical charts I've I usually load them again onto my personal GPS that way I've got them if I suddenly find myself in coastal waters for some reason but again it's not going to take up any space in my bag because it's on my GPS if I was using charts more heavily for actual navigation or if I was located near near the coast I would absolutely have a paper copy on hand to supplement the GPS right another rather specific kind of map you might find interesting are the nifc fire Maps these maps are produced by the National interagency Fire Center and are really meant for firefighting Pilots responding to wildfires throughout the western United States these are really useful for monitoring firefighting operations in your area they're also handy for identifying potential hazards to Aviation firefighting aircraft and firefighting Pilots have a very unique Mission they fly at low altitude usually in very remote areas sometimes in poor visibility all in support of forces on the ground so they need a map that primarily shows everything they could potentially fly into while working a fire as a result these Maps kind of bridge the gap between aerial operations and people on the ground it's not not quite an aeronautical chart but it's also not quite a topographic map either it has elements of both which I personally find quite useful the downside is that these maps are really only available for the western United States where wildfires are more of a we're large and you know Crown fires are more of a problem right so if you live outside those areas you're you're kind of out of luck at the minimum if you didn't want to print out the map for your specific area you can easily print out the overall map of Aviation frequencies used by Wildfire responding agencies handy to be able to monitor firefighting operations in your area again if there is any kind of government agency operating in my area I want the same map that they have as a brief side note regarding you know monitoring frequencies and things like that over the years Emergency Services have made it abundantly clear that they don't want any help from citizens so I personally would never transmit on these or any government frequencies even in a life or death emergency same idea behind why many people won't do CPR on a stranger anymore the the financial liability is too great for many people things are getting nasty out there it shouldn't be the way the world works but it's just one of the things that it's a sad illustration of of the way the world is now so all of that being said I the private citizen want to be on the same sheet of music as whomever is in my neighborhood for monitoring purposes sort of along the same line are U.S forest service road maps these are handy to have if you are operating in or near federal land in the United States I personally am not too big of a fan of these but they may have some use for you so I wanted to mention it one of the biggest downsides to these is that they are not free even the digital versions you have to pay for there are no free downloads at all as far as I can see which is odd considering the U.S forest Service is entirely funded by tax dollars but anyway these maps are unique in that they show a lot of trails and logging roads that are not on other Maps these are of course only available for national forests though and sometimes they're out of date by a couple of decades I've seen of some maps in the past tasks that have not been updated literally in 30 years so these Maps can be helpful for you but one important note is to check various sources for kmz files of your local area who knows somebody may have converted these trails to a kmz for your GPS which you might be able to download for free GPS file depot.com is a good resource for this as people can download a lot of trails in their local area for free not a perfect solution by any means but it's worth checking out before purchasing anything up next another very specific kind of map but underground maps maps that detail the Subterranean environment this is something more specific to those who live in cities with underground Transportation maps of subway tunnels are critical for the urban landscape most cities publish their Metro tunnels on City or County GIS websites so if you make your own maps you can easily incorporate that data knowing where underground tunnels are located is pretty handy for when a volcano erupts in the downtown area or if a slightly more likely to disaster occurs such as a gas main explosion or a sinkhole forms the other side of the coin is that Subterranean combat is a staple of urban Warfare which is something that has become a higher priority for the US military over the past few years large training schools have been stood up to accommodate the future of underground Warfare though it's probably pretty unlikely for citizens to take to the City sewers to fight crime in some parts of the world Metro stations and tunnels have been a vital Lifeline for citizens from the Battle of Britain to modern day Ukraine citizens instinctively seek protection Underground when the bombing starts so having a map of the tunnel you may be Sheltering in is a wise forethought if you think Urban combat is likely in your area I personally would also include sewers drainage basins or large underground electrical hubs as well really any location where a person can fit underground that might offer protection from above knowing where that manhole cover in the street goes is pretty important for survival in the a very rare occasion you have to do something like this for me I do not live anywhere near any kind of underground transportation system but since I again often feel a more analytical role I try to keep on hand maps of the most famous Metro systems just so that when an incident occurs I can know where that particular stop is maps of New York City Washington DC Tokyo Paris London all of these are fairly handy to have on hand especially as Terror attacks have been a norm for a long time for those of you looking to expand your repertoire and study the geography of an area a bit more thoroughly than just looking at a map I can recommend a couple of different books first of all is the CIA World Factbook yes it comes from a very Infamous agency but a lot of people love this publication so I thought I would mention it I personally don't really find it to be that useful honestly Wikipedia is a much better source for understanding a country so that should that should tell you enough right however the CIA World effect book and maps go hand in hand at least in military circles this publication is mostly displayed online for free but you can buy a physical copy which is published every year the print copy looks a lot like a phone book though and it doesn't have any Maps but many people begrudgingly myself included have spent days pouring over the Factbook sections on the nation I would soon be going to this is a bit of an old school way of doing things but with this book and a good map of the country you're going to this can set you up pretty nicely if you don't have access to the internet but again it's not my favorite resource the information is really lackluster and and very simplistic in most cases I would much rather go with the next resource which are the Lonely Planet travel guides again travel guides are more of an old school thing but they're chock full of very useful information about a particular country or area travel guides like the Lonely Planet guides usually contain a lot of maps which in conjunction with historical and cultural context that's really really valuable maps and geography in general are only one half of the puzzle you need to know what happened on that land and why culture developed the way that it did in a particular area though a lot of very powerful people are trying to rewrite history to fit a narrative in most cases today culture history and geography go hand in hand to paint a picture of an entire country right simple tourist travel guides are pretty much the best Publications we have to help bridge this Gap and supplement our knowledge of a region yes it is true that these guides along with every other travel guide no matter what brand you want to go with they're written for the tourist someone who's on vacation or traveling for leisure and not really planning for or defending against an invasion for instance so there's a lot of information that isn't necessarily directly useful from a prepared citizen perspective on the other hand the truth is that if the average tourist knows more about a country than a military organization does that organization is not likely to be very successful this is all the more important for City citizens living in countries where their own government is trying to kill them for people living in those situations simply being familiar with political or jurisdictional boundaries can be important for survival it is for these reasons that I personally like to plan for the worst case scenario and plan for the situation of having to leave whatever country I'm in on foot I want to have the maps travel guides and knowledge on hand so that if I had to I could walk to the nearest international border and know a little bit about the country I might be egressing too is this overly paranoid probably but sometimes paranoia is your subconscious mind's way of alerting you to Danger that your conscious mind hasn't noticed yet this little trick in particular I picked up from my time overseas call it an insurance policy for if I had to make my own way home on foot before we wrap things up I really briefly wanted to touch on what I know a lot of people are going to have questions about which is the debate of paper maps versus digital copies or mapping applications on your phone or GPS personally I think there is a lot of value in both but I all always want to have a lot of physical paper maps on hand if I can especially Maps which I believe would really be only used in a situation where technology is not going to be an option so paper maps will always have a place in my gear however I can't carry every map that I may need that's just not realistic with a handheld GPS I can carry maps of the entire planet for zero additional weight or packing space so it's all a balance paper Maps GPS units and even smartphone apps all have their place with each one complementing the other I like to have every single map possible on a handheld GPS but I also prefer to have at minimum a paper topographic map if on foot along with a basic roadmap and also a more Regional map as well paper maps are easy to spread out on the hood of a car and figure out where you're going you can't really do that with a phone or handheld GPS also in some parts of the world the only Maps you might have are paper ones I myself had to resort to using old Soviet maps for Mission plan and travel all over Southwest Asia simply because nobody had bothered to make a fresh map of the area since the Soviet Union collapsed sure the srtm elevation data is available globally which is why we have global maps but in some of the more remote areas on the planet the most accurate maps to navigate by are paper maps from decades ago sometimes you can digitize a paper map to create an overlay for your GPS I've covered this neat trick in our video on ATAC overlays so check that out if you want to learn how to do this creating overlays is really for smaller scale Maps like building floor plans city parks or other comparatively small areas once you start overlaying larger Maps the map datum and coordinate systems start becoming a problem because they have to match what your GPS is using this is not a problem that's easy for beginners to solve and can seriously confuse navigation efforts so I would recommend staying away from homemade overlays that are very large and cover a large area but for stuff like drone imagery or floor plans it's a pretty cool feature you can take advantage of on pretty much any handheld GPS one of the main advantages of studying maps and becoming more familiar with your area it's a pretty serious topic locals will always know their environment better than someone from a large and Powerful organization that might be hunting them some Stasi agents sitting in a field office isn't going to be studying Maps that's for sure and even if they are they certainly will not be able to know as much as they need to knowing the land is one of the very few advantages that prepared citizens have in our modern times knowing the geography of your area might not save you from the gulag but not knowing your area makes that trip a guarantee this is why stuff like ipb is so important but it's way more than just studying the local Terrain in your immediate area if you hope to have any maneuverability in our modern world or if you have to make a run for the Border or something else you need to do more than just memorize your local area but since no one can memorize thousands of miles of terrain Simply Having a general over overview of the region around you is helpful should the worst happen on the less foreboding side of things I've found that usually the time where I need to do land nav the most is when I was not planning on doing land nav sure there are a lot of times when I'm hiking through the woods or otherwise planning to use a map and Compass to get where I'm going but there have been times where I'm in a vehicle and suddenly find myself having to navigate on foot it's never Pleasant to have a mechanical breakdown and have to hump it out on foot but over the years I've found myself needing alternative foot-based transportation quite a lot a friend drops you off across town but they can't come pick you back up again for a few hours your company bus breaks down and you've got to walk to your shift on foot the airport shuttle hasn't arrived so you've got to walk from the parking area the Convoy That was supposed to come back to you didn't arrive or it's too full so you've got to go back to base on foot okay maybe that last one is a special situation but all of the rest of these are situations that are fairly common scenarios that without a clear understanding of where you're going could turn into to a much more serious problem we may not be navigating miles through rugged mountains every day but sometimes we have to walk around an unfamiliar City for a couple of miles a map that can be discreetly referenced would be nice to have on the other hand having clean professional Maps can make your job a bit easier if you work in certain career Fields I know not everybody wants to be an analyst but man is it really slick to be able to walk into your boss's office put a map board in front of them and give a two-minute briefing on a topic people are much more likely to listen to you if you are prepared and having appropriate and professional maps to illustrate what you're talking about is fairly convincing throughout my career I've got away with a lot more than I probably should have by doing just that of course that's my own personal experience and not everyone is going to benefit from something like that but I would find it quite refreshing to see more of this in the prepared Citizen Community in that case a professional common operating picture would be great for working with others if I roll up to someone's talk and and they have one in the first place that would be great uh bonus points if they actually have accurate and helpful maps to display important information but the best part it doesn't even have to be a talk I've walked into friends homes as they prepare to defend against a riot to find the dining room table has become an operations room to me this is so much more impressive and motivating than a full-blown military talk our nation was founded and defended by dudes with maps on their dinner table so the average guy who works a day job but at night turns his kitchen table into a talk that's A-Okay in my book average people using the tools they have to work through a problem maybe that's not so average after all that signals to me that this person is ready to go to work and is prepared for problems that don't require a rifle to solve as always our goal here is to look at things from the perspective of the prepared citizen living through our Strange and pretty tough times and a lot of the time the tactics used and developed by the military are sometimes not a good fit a lot of this military Doctrine might as well be a foreign language to a lot of people which is completely understandable that's why skills like this are important having maps on hand to get everyone on the same page track events in a local area and even have a general idea of what's going on outside your local area these are important things for every citizen to be familiar with these days even if the internet doesn't think it's cool yet so try it out and see what works you'll never get any better if you don't try and it always seems to be the everyday emergencies that become life-altering events when more serious things occur speaking of my own experiences I've never regretted carrying multiple maps with me but there have been several times when I wished I had one and having one less thing to worry about would really help if you have to fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for thursday the 16th of june 2022 and like always it is being recorded the day prior so let's get to it all right so first up is gas prices so as literally all of you know gas prices have never been higher so that's not really anything new what is new or really rather a unique way to think about it i think is some of the second order effects that are occurring due to these high gas prices and one second order effect that i've noticed across the country is several police departments throughout the country are reporting that they have blown through their fuel budget already this month and as a result they're not going to be responding to every call now this story has two sides like all stories right if you look at just the news and see what they're saying about it it's you know oh no the police can't respond to every call well there's two sides to every story right so here's what i think i think that yes it is true that a lot of police and other public service agencies have fuel budgets that are a specific dollar amount allotted to them that's just the way it is in some areas in the area where i grew up that's exactly where it what happened in rural areas a lot of times the law enforcement groups they get they don't actually have like a central fueling hub they have to go to commercial gas stations right in a lot of cities they have their own fueling points but for the most part for the most part a lot of times you have police officers just given a gas card that they use to fill up in some areas so it makes sense that they would have spent you know gas prices are more expensive you're not able to buy as much gas as you could and you've already blown through your you know limit for the month that that that does make sense however i also think that this is probably an excuse in some cases for law enforcement agencies to avoid doing their jobs or even more likely to increase their budget i know for a fact that this is the case in my own area i just happen to be really unlucky and live in a horrifically bad law enforcement district jurisdiction so with many overlapping jurisdictions and it's just horrifically bad so i know that my own local police officers unfortunately will will stop at nothing to avoid patrolling uh the streets for many reasons and um the decision has been made in many jurisdictions around the country already that police officers will not be responding to most 911 calls this is really in your sort of gotham city areas right like your seattles your portland's your new york cities chicago detroit places like that they've already said hey you know this has been a problem for decades now honestly there are places in in detroit where the police just haven't gone or patrolled in probably decades so you have to remember that right and we always have to be skeptical of things like this and remember that when it comes to the public services honesty is not a trait that is often exhibited especially when it comes to things like budget so that's something to keep in mind is that yes these fuel prices are having second and third order effects but we've gotta like be really careful in attributing these second and third order effects um to a lot of different things up next is food distribution uh again just like last time more food processing facilities mysteriously catching fire or are being closed down or otherwise being offline for very suspicious reasons i think that even the average person is likely to notice when they walk into a grocery store and see infant formula behind you know lock and key on the shelves something's not right here right so this really kind of leads into the next one as well they're kind of a combined uh idea here in that is smithfield the company closing a major pork production facility in california now i myself have been following the smithfield company for a few years because they got bought out by china a couple years ago and this was actually a pretty big scandal at the time with many entities reporting on the largest acquisition of a us company by a chinese company ever at 7.1 billion dollars so this is a highly suspicious case of a chinese chinese-owned company shutting down yet another major food production facility in the us it's a lot seems very fishy right but just like all of the other food distribution issues there's really not much that we average uh people can do about it uh even if we were able to kind of point fingers at deliberate attacks being made i think the general lesson here is is not just how vulnerable our food production infrastructure is like we've been talking about those vulnerabilities for years now but really the the key takeaway now is how desperately very powerful people are using food as a weapon against us not an easy uh pill to swallow there but it's just quite obvious at the point at this point that's what's happening and finally i wanted to talk about the def shortage and really just kind of broad strokes the general shortages that come from rail logistics and this is a topic that most americans are blissfully ignorant of yet completely vulnerable too and for those of you who don't really want to deep dive on this topic the bottom line is the def shortages will result in yet more logistical failings in pretty much every industry within a few months time but since a lot of people are liable to say well what else is new with regards to shortages which are now a household staple like everybody knows that shortages are here to stay for a long time we've been living in a nation where food shortages have been commonplace uh for years now um so with that being not really a new story let's talk a bit more and get a little bit deeper into the the why behind this so let me first briefly explain what def is because that's a really good place to start def stands for diesel emissions fluid you'll sometimes see people refer to as diesel exhaust fluids so it's you know it's really technically a diesel emissions fluid but it's a special kind of fluid that is required by a diesel engine to function ordinarily it's not needed but the government now requires it this is one of those little government overreach things that was done back in 2010 but nobody really cared about modern vehicles simply will not even start without def because the engines are specifically made to use def in the combustion cycle of the diesel engine in order to allegedly reduce the climate impacts of diesel combustion it would be kind of funny if it wasn't so tragic these days everyone is terrified about the government putting a magic chip in their car and uncle sam turning off their engine if they tweet the wrong thing but def is the original government transportation tyranny and it's been around for well over a decade now so other than being a classic case of government controlling food distribution at the infrastructural level why does this matter well guess what def is made out of urea most def is comprised of about 75 urea by volume if memory serves me correct and guess which country is the world's leader in urea production any wild guesses if you guessed andorra you're wrong but guessing that probably means you're an interesting person so there's that no the world leader in urea production is china the second highest producer of urea in the world is india and the third biggest producer is russia and china has put the squeeze on all fertilizer exports including urea due to prices skyrocketing domestically india used to be the world's largest urea producer but china eclipsed them uh just a couple of years ago there is some good news because russia hasn't stopped exports of urea in fact they've actually been flooding the market via india and brazil which i think is to help russian oligarchs offset the costs of the sanctions with regards to the invasion of ukraine but the bottom line is that urea prices right now are kind of a bit they're they're still very high but they're not as high as they were a couple of months ago when we were talking about the devastatingly high fertilizer prices it's come down just a little bit but i think that's kind of the calm before the storm so you might say well what's the problem then china might have slowed down exports but russia is still exporting and prices are still at you know an all-time high but we're dealing with it so there's no problem right well not so fast urea production is seasonal and that's why i haven't given you any numbers or percentages because the market has fluctuated so much that i've got a lot of conflicting data and this is because a lot of the information surrounding the exact details of global fertilizer statistics is not available to the public or it's behind a pretty substantial paywall so it's really difficult to talk about global fertilizer stuff and be accurate because there are conflicting companies with different numbers and all of which you have to pay hefty fees to see the data but all in all what does this mean i'm new expert on the global fertilizer market but i'll give it to you as straight as i can right now the global fertilizer markets are doing some pretty weird stuff and considering that a lot of third-party things like def are made from these fertilizers it's not just an agricultural problem seasonal production increases such as in india are keeping prices high instead of being tremendously high but china's export squeeze from last year and many other nations around the planet suffering from food shortages are going to result in the severe global fertilizer shortages that we and many others have been talking about for gosh probably well over a year maybe even two years now it's it's very much a case of the dog chasing the cat that ate the rat that the chain of causation is already pretty crazy global fertilizer shortages are resulting in def shortages this we know for sure that's a direct like line and def shortages mean problems for freight carriers now this brings up another major complication that has been highlighted by the recent surface transportation board hearings specifically the hearings regarding urgent issues in freight rail service from back on april 26th and 27th i believe of this year and this is going to be a bit dry and hard to follow as if this already hasn't been dry and hard to follow so please bear with me as i try to make sense of this for people who quite who don't quite understand the industry now if you wish to watch all 10 hours of these hearings you can and it would take at least an hour to summarize what was said and explain everything but the bottom line is that if you watch the entire session you will be legitimately terrified about what's to come a big problem specifically for the def shortages and by default food shortages is rail carriers piss poor rail traffic allocation and that's putting it kindly people in the logistics industry are freaking out rightfully so about a lot of problems specifically in the rail logistics industry and here's why union pacific accounts for the transportation of about 40 to 45 percent of all domestic def and union pacific in their infinite wisdom has gone to a new rail administration model called precision scheduled railroading just uttering that phrase is liable to cause veins to throb in the foreheads of many railroad workers around the country other carriers have done the same and also gone to a precision scheduled railroad model so all of your major you know tier one or what is it called class one railroad authorities have gone to this kind of system you see there are only so many rail lines in the country there's only so many miles of track and there are only so many train cars and there are only so many trains that can move along a rail line at one time so it's a delicate balance to ensure that everything is as efficient as possible and just like everything in the logistics field the slightest change can torpedo this balance canceling pipelines means that crude oil or natural gas or whatever now needs to move by rail taking up valuable rail cars that could be used to transport something else railroads firing workers for not being jabbed also has a huge impact we mentioned this a long time ago but now we're seeing that being a huge problem because rail companies are having staffing problems right now the railroad companies in their lust for money have cut costs to a dangerous level firing so many employees that service is now extremely poor and this was done pre pandemic so they can't even really fall back on the pandemic being a huge problem for them even though that did complicate things a lot all in all under a precision scheduled railroading or psr model you get fewer trains moving but the trains are longer sometimes several miles long and these trains are scheduled by national authorities or at least higher level authorities with local rail administers at lower levels having no choice about when trains move now for those of you who have read a few history books we know about how national administration of resources works in short it doesn't most people in the industry think that precision scheduled railroading is anything but precise and is nothing more than an invention by the elites to not just cut costs to dangerous levels and pocket the money but done intentionally to put the squeeze on certain commodities due to availability and driving the prices up to line the pockets of wall street in short class 1 rail carriers have created this new process called precision schedule railroading and this new process is so horrendously bad that many people in the industry think that it's intentional intentionally creating a bad scheduling system which delays the transportation of goods which creates shortages which drives at the prices of commodities and therefore increases the wealth of the elite billionaires who are running things in other words the whole thing is one big grift according to many in the industry i myself obviously do not know enough about this whole thing to say whether or not this is simply horrifically bad management or if this is something more nefarious or intentional i just don't know the way things are going right now i'm more inclined to think that this is more intentional than not for me someone who can only watch this stuff happen from the outside i am very concerned and if you glossed over the details of real logistics just listen to this a lot of highly complex stuff is going on with regards to our national logistics and none of it is good and what this will result in is quite troubling food shortages energy shortages raw materials shortages which will result in even more you guessed it shortages like i've mentioned before the united states has a lot of production capacity we can make a lot of stuff but the challenge is getting that stuff to the right place and the right amount of time and that's a huge problem because the slightest upset in our systems makes that impossible right so again for most of you who tire of seeing and hearing about the shortages this is much bigger than just running out of food at the grocery store we're talking about problems that were caused very quickly but will take years to solve if they can be solved at all i don't think as a nation we will be able to recover from these problems anytime soon for me all this does is strengthen my own resolve to create my own logistical networks and get off the grid as much as i possibly can the less you rely on national logistics the better off you'll be generally speaking but i know that for most of us going completely off-grid is not it's not really an option uh at least not yet i know that i don't have several million dollars to set up a fully off-grid compound in the mountains and i'm guessing that most of you listening to this out there don't either so just be advised that the logistical problems we're facing on the national level will not be going anywhere or they're not certainly not going to be going away anytime soon and the solutions to fix the damage that has already been done will take years to implement if those solutions can be implemented at all now this sounds really pessimistic and it probably is but there is some good news at least in my opinion which i'll get i'll get to at the end because all of this stuff is kind of tied together with everything else in this brief before i move on all of this being said i do kind of want to walk back the talk of food shortages and kind of balance things out and temper expectations and a world of fear propaganda never forget that there is a lot of money to be made from shortages increasing fear increases panic buying and panic buying in a time of scarcity not only generates a lot of revenue for some industries but it also gives government the green light to come in and fix in heavy air quotes the problems that they themselves directly created or contributed to and i don't know about you but the best help the government can give me is to leave me alone and this doesn't just apply to government either oh no private citizens and private companies can be just as devious fear is a big seller and even though i personally think we are on the brink of serious food shortages not due to lack of production but rather logistical problems and the high cost of food we still cannot let the fear get out of control a tiny bit of fear is good it keeps you alive it's helpful right but constantly consuming utter dread is not good it's not productive and even if the situation is that bad it's definitely better to focus on solutions rather than let fear consume all thought i just thought that would be a helpful reminder for everyone out there yeah things are bad and it's probably going to get worse but we're doing the best we can that's all we can do and i would expect nothing more than that moving on to significant governmental actions we've got a lot of unfortunate stuff this week this slide is really unfortunate it's just the nature of it i guess uh but the first one is the political targeting that is occurring um michigan gop candidate ryan kelly was arrested and his home was raided by the stasi excuse me the fbi back on june 9th allegedly for simply being in the general vicinity of the january 6th reichstag fire his arrest comes after many other gop candidates in michigan have been banned from running for office due to allegedly forged signatures on the petitions to add them to the ballot i don't know i'm not a an election official in the state of michigan and i did not personally examine a single ballot for this but it seems to me like in michigan the only signatures that are checked are the ones on republican ballots now many of you know that i myself am no fan of really any politician or political party at this point uh and i'm sorry but there's really no way for me to even use quasi-neutral language when talking about stuff like this and again i have no skin in the game i am no fan of the republican party and i don't know anything about this guy ryan kelly at all uh but man i really do think we're at the stage uh of you know government arresting political rivals uh at this point especially in michigan they are pulling out every stop to keep in power some of the most tyrannical people in the entire country that's pretty much obvious to me by now kind of like a political outsider who doesn't really follow politics or at least doesn't follow specific candidates at least i really do think that the fbi is solely a political secret police organization at this point and they are they're really incapable of investigating a real crime um by now they only serve the elites so anytime the fbi does anything at all i strongly question it no matter what it is so my guess is that we'll start seeing various american versions of alexia navalny quietly being arrested and their homes raided anybody in a position to upset the elections of either democrat or republican seats already has a target on their back so keep an eye out because i think we're only seeing the beginning of this you know open opposition silencing and it's going to be interesting to see how far it goes and how effective it's going to be they're going to have to be pretty effective because if they martyr some of these guys that are opposing the status quo either on the democrat side or the republican side they're going to uh they're going to increase their popularity i think you know so something to keep in mind moving on to number two the supreme court so again something that only probably half the country has has heard about because it's only been making conservative news sources but a few days ago on june 8 a man was arrested by the taxpayer-funded security team in the vicinity of brett kavanaugh's home the man was armed and confessed immediately that he was there to kill the justice not much more has been made public about this event conservative pundits as expected are talking about how nobody is talking about it and liberals well they probably hoped that he would have been successful either way i think that the interesting bit is not the actual crazy guy with a gun story but rather how everyone seems to have forgotten that we already have a supreme court replacement confirmed by the senate to me this assassination attempt if we can even call it that can we call a crazy guy with a gun a legitimate assassination attempt i don't know either way this highlights a little side note that's kind of interesting and that is that supreme court nominations are not tied to a particular seat so here's what we have the story leaks that breyer will be retiring leaving a vacancy on the court so the liberals and conservatives rush to find the most unintelligent militant leftist judge they can find and quickly so you know we're talking within a matter of just a few weeks they confirm her so all we're waiting on is for briar to retire and he hasn't yet the story of breyer retiring leaked on january 26th brown was confirmed on april 7th and it's now mid-june so my fevered brain thinks hmm interesting they confirm a seat on the supreme court and have a militant leftist ready to go and now whose lives are being threatened the conservative justices if you can call them conservative that's a debate for another day interesting how that works out though isn't it leftist politicians openly calling for violence against conservative justices when they just so happen to have an extreme leftist replacement ready to go are they expecting an untimely vacancy among the conservative justices i don't know how likely is this theory probably not vary this is literally a thought i had in the shower a few days ago all i'm saying is that at this point it would not surprise me if we wake up one morning to find that a conservative justice has been abstined by the powers that be and if this sounds crazy to even theorize about you know whatever but just remember that in today's world of fifth generation warfare nothing will make you sound crazier than simply knowing about five or six crimes that the cia or other federal agencies have committed and fully admitted to you know that's how crazy is that right so i don't know granted breyer's retirement was probably held up by the roe versus wade leake debacle which you know has completely destroyed the last shred of credibility that the supreme court had i just thought it's suspicious that everyone seems to have forgotten that we already have a tenth justice in effect and have had one for months and just in time for the personal safety of conservative justices to be in question and up next is a real doozy so for number three the department of defense in their infinite wisdom have issued a policy that soldiers who are hiv positive are not just going to be allowed to remain in the service but are also deployable that's pretty much it that's the story and it's utter madness of course the immediate thing that comes to mind are the thousands of troops that were kicked out for refusing the jab that shall not be named utter insanity but there are additional problems as well administratively deploying soldiers with serious diseases like hiv are a problem for other reasons than the obvious one which is the additional medical care and medications to manage the condition one of these problems is blood donations look i am certainly no high-speed warrior here but even i remember standing in line outside the aid station waiting to donate blood to the casualties who just rolled in the gate a significant portion of blood used in combat zones comes from people in combat zones and correct me if i'm wrong but it's not a super great idea for an hiv positive individual to donate blood probably not a good idea that's not to mention the problems for medics treating a wounded casualty with hiv again i'm not a medical professional but come on man i guess the dod thinks that combat medicine is done in nice sterile environments and not in the back of vehicles and helicopters all i have to say on that is good luck and i really mean it to the medic who takes a good bleeder to the eye from an hiv positive casualty so put another mark in the column of stupid stuff the dod is doing these days man sometimes i wonder i really do anyway moving on to the next one uh the new disarmament campaign um so just like clockwork we are seeing another major offensive in the war to keep us defenseless disarmament efforts are underway in many states yet again with new york even banning body armor i honestly don't really know of any other way to put this so i'm just going to say what everyone's thinking agents of the us government are planning on shooting you if you resist their tyranny and they don't want to get shot while doing it it really is that simple and states like new york simply want to make it easier for agents of the state to kill you if i had said that even just a couple of years ago they'd throw me in a padded room but now i think that we all just casually acknowledge this as fact when you've got a government giving weapons away to citizens of foreign nations but trying to disarm their own citizens here at home that makes the picture pretty clear to me so i really don't have a lot more to say on this at the moment because that's really heavy and we've already talked a lot about disarmament so striking that deceased equine doesn't really do much good but this is something that is important to remember when we talk about the next topic and that is the us army selecting a new service rifle ah yes the sig m5 spear now surely your youtube feeds have been full of people talking about the new rifle so i'm not going to talk too much about the specifics of it i of course am no expert in this field i don't shoot things for a living and more people have a lot more invested in the entire rifle selection program than i do i just think about stuff for a living and i did think about something and it's probably going to hurt a lot of feelings so here it goes uh it's probably my own bias but my own mind immediately made a few connections surrounding this new rifle and specifically the 6.8551 cartridge allegedly being chosen as a way to target individuals wearing body armor this doesn't automatically mean that whatever round the army chooses is going to be zipping through ceramic plates i don't know i'm not an expert in that regard but supposedly this new cartridge might be more effective against armored targets i would think that you would have to have a tungsten core for that to happen but i don't know of course there are many other reasons for this selection but the body armor thing caught my eye on the surface it makes total sense body armor is super common nowadays and the us military wants to get ahead of the curve and adopt a new weapon system that is more formidable in that regard makes total sense for your average rand corporation reader who believes that the government is telling the truth with regards to procurement programs but here's a slight problem that i have noticed exactly which adversary is this rifle meant to be used against if you stop reading the publications that the us government produces and do your own research and just watch some clips on youtube you might come to a different conclusion or at least be in a position to challenge the dod's narrative on why they chose this rifle we've seen russia's actions in ukraine and their lackluster performance and the troubles they have had equipping their troops with basic gear items these troubles seem to be very common i'm certainly no expert again and i don't think we will ever see unbiased combat data from ukraine but the use of body armor by russian troops does not seem to be super widespread or particularly effective maybe it is and we're just not seeing it i don't know there is a survivorship bias i guess when it comes to this kind of research but yes it is true that russia just a few years ago introduced the ratnik program which was good for russia and a desperately needed revamping of infantry gear but it's still not quite to the level that the united states issues gear generally speaking russia is many years behind the u.s in terms of individual soldier gear and they only started trying to issue body armor to soldiers just a few years ago whereas the us has been issuing ceramic level 4 body armor plates pretty regularly for decades now and china our other potential adversary uh if you think russia has some problems invading ukraine that does not hold a candle to china's woes in the defense sector if russia is 20 years behind the u.s in terms of individual soldier gear then china has to be at least 30 years behind yes china has a similar program to field body armor to the average infantry soldier but they only started this effort literally a couple of years ago and we're seeing china's ability to equip every soldier with body armor being even more of a challenge than russia is facing just my guess but i think russia probably sent every body armor plate in their country to the hundred thousand troops or so that ended up invading ukraine so just think about what china's issues might be it is true that the vast majority of body armor on the planet is chineseium so it's certainly a capability that china possesses the question is how much of a threat it faces enough of a threat to select a whole new rifle that i don't know do russia and china issue body armor to their troops yeah sure they do do they have problems doing so in many cases absolutely so my thoughts are this why is the us military going to a new cartridge and a new rifle if the main threats that we might be facing as a nation have trouble issuing armor to their troops or don't wear body armor at all or the body armor kind of sucks or the rounds that we already have are already effective against the dod is changing their entire philosophy on small arms and i'm highly suspicious of the motivations to do so plus to me from my tiny wheelhouse it seems like a heck of a trade-off to issue such a heavy rifle to an army that is completely forsaken the concept of physical standards sure i guess it's easier to un-fat a soldier than it is to make a 5-5-6 round punch through ceramic but i still think the weight thing is going to cause problems it is also pretty common knowledge that round count is what has mattered most when it comes to most combat engagement not really the caliber so much that's just basic infantry knowledge and one of the kind of ideas that goes back to way before even the m16 was developed if you look at a lot of the m16 development or procurement trials and ideas back in the day one of the main justifications for going with a smaller caliber you know a 20 essentially a 22 caliber rifle the 556 cartridge was due to the fact that the you know your communist black countries were running with 762 right heavier round fewer round count per soldier the you know with the 556 you're able to carry more so there you go right so the the ability for a soldier to carry uh smaller calibers but more rounds uh that's a lot that's a theory that goes back a very long time and with this new rifle the ability for the average soldier to carry less ammo is going to cause problems i think i i just i really am interested to see the doctrinal thought behind this um because it's a complete flip-flop now on how the us doctrine has been for gosh well over 50 years now yes we do have things like unguided ground vehicles which are going to be a thing in the future but we we don't really have you know things like exoskeletons being fielded in mass just yet and i think that it is a big gamble to think that these technologies are going to be around anytime soon for the average combat unit i think by the time that we start getting soldiers equipped the average soldier that is we're not talking about some developmental thing if by the time we get average soldiers equipped with an exoskeleton type system we're going to select a new rifle cartridge anyway so you know it's going to be probably several years down the line other than the weight including the weight of the round i really have no opinion on the the rifle itself i'm again not a weapons expert and there are certainly others out there better suited to offer up opinions on the rifle itself but in any case with all this in mind my mind immediately thinks two things oh okay this is a military industrial complex thing and two this is something that is certainly going to end up causing heartburn for us citizens at some point just a sort of foreboding gut feeling with no other proof to back it up that's all i'm saying i'm sure this decision to change is in no way related to the side fact that the largest demographic of body armor owners in the world second only to the us government are private u.s citizens i'm sure that that is also in no way linked to the push for politicians to ban battery armor which we have been covering on this channel for at least three years now since we got started i'm sure there's no hint of a link there at all so yeah as distasteful as it is for dudes who just want to talk about guns you've got to look at the whole picture a pretty smart dude once said that war is the continuation of politics by other means so for those of you who just want to talk warfare doctrine and philosophy but want to ignore the politics of the age and the motivations behind various military leaders i think that's leaving out a big part of the story united states senior military leadership has spent at least three years now making decisions that only hurt soldiers hurt americans reduce readiness and betray our strategic intentions to our enemies but this decision to procure a new rifle is completely innocent because it's a cool rifle and you know it is a cool rifle but remember even the m16 back in the day was up to its neck in politics at the time it was adopted so why should this rifle be any different and considering the politics of the department of defense these days and how eager they are to call us all extremists and target us as such decisions like this personally give me pause and lead me to think things that i then spend 20 minutes conveying to you guys so even though i can feel jeff bezos's amazon predator circling my position as i speak all i'm saying is that we need to at least broach the question of thinking hmm maybe there's something to this new rifle besides targeting russia and china maybe russia and china is not who they intend to target because i think that it's pretty obvious that the us government is preparing for something that they aren't telling us that's all i'm saying maybe i'm all wrong maybe the threat of body armor is significant with regards to russia and china and any other potential adversary and this is legitimately a good thing for the army to do i mean if that's the case then good on the army for actually making a good decision that's rare these days i just find it odd that the us military said that they are choosing this rifle for the body armor reason and everybody just went well okay then and didn't actually do the research to find out if russia and china actually field body armor in significant amounts or if this rifle can actually even ballistically punch through it nobody in the civilian world to my knowledge has actually said wait a second that's not quite right even considering future body armor concepts russia and china might be lucky to get some version of esappy plates in the next 10 years what is quite clear is that no nation on earth even comes close to the us in terms of body armor the only group of people that have body armor on par with or even better than the us military are u.s citizens and ignoring this fact would be irresponsible despite how biased or political this idea might sound and despite how people might not want to hear it now that i have dedicated so much time to this whole body armor idea i actually think that it is very possible that the body armor thing is not as much of a benefit as range is so i just wanted to balance it out a little bit one of the alternative explanations is that the body armor thing is all well and good and it's something the dod would like to see but the real reason for the dod to select this cartridge is range you can get a lot more range for the same effect on target compared to say five five six and in that case the ability to maybe punch through body armor is really just a side benefit this explanation is perfectly politically correct in polite defense conversation so that alternative is obviously more palatable for most people which is why i wanted to mention it and as a counter to that i would merely point out that that's not the argument that deity is going with in defense circles the ability to punch through armor is not advertised as being a side benefit it's usually what most people mention first when talking about this new rifle cartridge if you wanted range you might go with a different cartridge i don't know is this a myth or some flood science i don't know but it's kind of interesting that things have worked out the way that they have with regards to procurement and i'm sure the internet will tell us someday when talking about anything to do with guns these days i think of that old line that there were 260 navy seals that served in vietnam and i've met 500 of them so thankfully for us literally every single person on the internet is a firearms expert so that's convenient either way i just had the thought and i thought i would share it honestly it would probably do well to dive into this topic further at some point uh if i could dedicate a couple hundred hours to do the research um i would think it would be very interesting to to talk about the tactics of other countries and i've tried to do that a lot lately with a lot of our research a lot of our teamers working on awesome stuff in that regard but i don't know if there'd be interest in that sort of thing specifically so again a lot of people are not going to like this idea but again i get paid to think about stuff and that's what i thought all i know is that i myself am looking into armor solutions that provide better protection against specifically the 6.8 millimeter round because again with politicians already trying to target body armor now we're going to have some serious problems when level 4 ceramic plates turn out to be not good enough a few years down the line and i personally think that is the duty of every american to possess body armor that is capable of protecting against the weapons that the us government uses so i think we'll call it quits on that and move into international issues and i don't have a whole lot today uh but first up is china china again has been getting kind of squirrelly over taiwan lately which makes a lot of sense i guess although i do think that russia's performance in ukraine has given them pause about their own military aspirations you know honestly that sounds like a cheap and oversimplified thought though i'm sure military academies around the country are full of cadets writing term papers on that exact topic but maybe it is that simple i don't know in any case i do think the increase in china's rhetoric is interesting clearly they are going with the time-honored communist idea that their power comes from the perception of their power on the one hand i think that rhetoric is what they have so rhetoric is what they will use on the other hand it wouldn't surprise me to be waking up in the middle of the night because they launched their invasion of taiwan one thing that is hard to keep remembering is that just because we lowly peasants can look at things strategically and see things that are obvious that doesn't mean that the people running the show see these things too moving on to india and sri lanka as we talked about last time both nations are severely facing food insecurity actually sri lanka has recently a couple of days ago instituted a four-day work week to allow people an extra day on the weekend specifically to tend to their home gardens and work on other agricultural pursuits now diving a bit deeper into the reasons for the food shortages in sri lanka specifically a lot of people are pointing fingers directly at politicians because last year the president of sri lanka banned the use of chemical fertilizers this decision directly resulted in crop yields shrinking to basically nothing and is directly leading to mass starvation throughout the country the government reversed the decision uh but by now it's too little too late and in response to the government uh basically causing their own population to starve directly the government rewarded itself by expanding itself adding new cabinet positions in addition rampant inflation and shortages of diesel and gasoline have made everything worse so what little food does come out of the fields is very hard to transport around the country mass civil unrest has been the result as we've talked about last time which has been since then put violently put down by the government sri lankan citizens have gotten their licks in though with many clips circulating online of politicians being beaten and tortured in the streets by their starving constituents so yeah the situation is severe in sri lanka and is already at the point of no return with regards to how bad this is going to be in just a few months time the situation in india is also severe but not quite to the sheer emergency level that sri lanka is experiencing i mentioned the two nations at once because they're strongly linked when india experienced hardship they circled the wagons and banned or reduced the exports of things like fertilizers and wheat to other nations so as to keep their own citizenry fed and since sri lanka imports a lot of everything they need from india we can see how this is a problem so we're definitely going to be keeping an eye on southeast and southwest asia for quite a bit of time so that's pretty much all i have for today and i i wanted to end on kind of a positive note for once as many of you know i prefer to be realistic with these briefs and if the situation is not good i don't think it's appropriate to put a positive spin on something negative simply because we all want to be happy and never have anything bad happen to us i've tried a lot to tone down the language i use in these briefs but you guys see what makes it into these briefs so imagine what we end up cutting out but looking back over the past six months or so i really do think that we're in a sort of goldilocks zone with regards to how things seem to be collapsing i've mentioned this goldilocks zone before but but for the most part i don't really want to scare anyone which is why i haven't really talked much about this but i really do think it's obvious that the the american system what we've got going on in this country is either in some sort of collapse or some sort of transition to something else maybe a new style of governance maybe a new style of culture i don't know this doesn't mean that we're going to wake up one day and the apocalypse will have happened in a singular event but it's clear to me that we are in a period of transition and i think that this decade is going to decide our fate uh our institutions our culture and our system of government may not be completely disappearing but it's certainly changing into something else and one thing that's hard for us to remember because we don't often see it and we want to focus on the negativity right is that every day the situation in the u.s becomes more dire we also see the resistance to such tyranny growing by leaps and bounds which again is hard for us to see right some think that the us will balkanize others think a civil conflict will decide our fate or both others think that we're slowly sinking into quicksand with each passing day and there's not much that can be done about it and i will admit that i personally don't know what the future brings but generally i believe that our situation here is collapsing into something else uh i think that we're past the point of no return and um there will be no going back to the way things were until some pretty radical changes occur and as a side note i'm not really sure that we'd want to go back to the way things were because humans have a tendency to over romanticize nostalgia i guess but the good news in my opinion is that this collapse for lack of a better term is occurring at nearly the perfect rate not too hot not too cold but just right think about it things are happening at just the right speed to get people motivated to change their fate yet not so quickly as to remove resources completely from people this applies to everything to be honest but just look at gun control if the past two years of utter tyranny had been spread out over 50 years would anyone have noticed we know the answer to this the answer is no because we did have 50 years of gun control and very few people noticed these disarmament campaigns are happening at the perfect speed in new york body armor is now illegal well that gives all of the other states a fair warning to start buying body armor the government passes laws that make it illegal to disassemble your own gun for cleaning or something like that which is great because literally zero people will follow that decree and instead start generating a culture of mass open non-compliance even though gun control efforts have sped up at tyrannical rates over the past few years it's still happening slowly enough that the average person can still get what they need in the field of logistics i think that our national logistics networks are failing at the precise rate which is encouraging others to create more robust networks of their own either on the citizenry level or to encourage companies to start popping up and fixing some of these logistical problems that we're facing with our own children this is still the case if you are a parent and you see what is happening in our schools how much more evidence do you need to make changes with regards to your child's education we've all been given fair warning in that regard no matter how hard that challenge might be with the military same thing how often do you get a free out so you're telling me that you had the opportunity to take a free discharge and all you had to do was refuse an order that was illegal anyway man good luck in the next few years when the next major illegal order to come is not going to result in you getting a free discharge but rather some world war one style stuff by you getting a webley to the face you know so right now everything is in that goldilocks zone it's just bad enough to encourage people to change their lifestyle but not quickly enough to make those changes impossible we are incredibly lucky for the situation to be this way and it certainly won't be that way forever it's almost funny in a morbid sort of way i don't think that humanity has ever been given so many fair warning signs as it has right now it would be funny if it wasn't so tragic to see how many people still can't see what's happening and still choose to ignore all these warnings that even the average person can see right now but even in that case there is still good news when the world is going to hell it makes it a lot easier to find people that you can help and it's a lot easier to be a righteous person or at least try to be fortunately our paths ahead have been narrowed for us and in many cases the choices we have to make are quite simple and very easy to identify these days it's not even a matter of taking the high road or the low road or the hard path or the easy path no i don't think that's accurate anymore we can either take the road of degeneracy and shear evil for lack of a better term or we can take the path of doing good things of course choosing the good path may be more simple these days but it's really easy especially if you are surrounded by degeneracy and bad stuff all the time but that's why we are fortunate to be in the goldilocks zone right now because we can harden ourselves we can get tough mentally physically and even spiritually i think we're still in the beginning stages of the tough times ahead so right now we need to be preparing especially mentally and again as things get tougher out there in the world it will make it easier to find others with similar mentalities and start banding together for the tough times to come so drink some water go for a jog turn off the internet for a bit and start living a better life i know you can do it it's never too late to start and right now i am super excited that we all have the chance and the motivation to be better people myself included in a fifth generation war or even a war of good versus evil as this increasingly seems to be i myself am placing a higher priority on keeping my head in the right pla

//The Wire//2300Z May 25, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: WEEKEND RHETORIC OF POTENTIAL PEACE DEAL IN MIDDLE EAST GIVES WAY TO RENEWED EFFORTS TO REIGNITE THE WAR IN IRAN. MULTIPLE INDUSTRIAL INCIDENTS REPORTED IN LOS ANGELES. PEPPER SPRAY INCIDENTS CONTINUE IN JAPAN. SHOOTING REPORTED AT WHITE HOUSE.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Japan: This morning a chemical incident was reported at Ginza Six Mall in Tokyo. One individual reportedly sprayed an unidentified noxious substance at one of the entrances to the mall, which resulted in many people becoming ill. 12x individuals reported throat pain, and a total of 25x people sought medical treatment after the substance was released. Analyst Comment: When it comes to chemical incidents involving unknown materials in public places, the potential explanations vary widely. In this case, the origin appears to be pepper spray, with some locals claiming that an argument between two foreign men devolved into one of the two pepper spraying the other. Officially, no statements by authorities have confirmed what happened. As always, incidents like this occurring in Japan are extremely rare as pepper spray is heavily regulated and illegal to carry throughout the country. Consequently, incidents which wouldn't be worth mentioning in the western world result in overwhelming responses in Japan, and in this case this is the second such incident this month. Two weeks ago, someone deployed pepper spray on a train at Kawasaki Station, which occurred without much media attention. -HomeFront- California: Multiple major industrial incidents have taken place in Los Angeles over the past few days. Several days ago, a chemical incident was reported at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove. The incident involved a cooling system failing inside a large tank holding about 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate (UN: 1247), a Toxic Industrial Compound (TIC) used in the manufacture of epoxies and resins. This is a highly unstable compound if not handled appropriately, which can result in chemical reactions taking place inside the tank if certain conditions are met. Over the weekend, these conditions resulted in the evacuation of roughly 50,000 people, with local authorities being concerned that the tank might explode. As of this morning, a crack had formed in the tank, relieving the pressure and reducing the risk of an explosion. Separately, a large fire was reported in South Gate, as an automotive facility burned Sunday afternoon. A shelter-in-place order was issued for the local area due to the smoke and the close proximity of the fire to residential communities. Localized power outages were also reported in the neighborhood, but power was restored after the fire was knocked down throughout the evening. In East Los Angeles, a spill of crude oil was reported after a telecoms crew installing fiber optic lines accidentally hit a petroleum pipeline, causing a rupture. This pipeline break resulted in a few thousand gallons of crude entering the storm drains in the vicinity of the intersection of Caesar Chavez and Eastern Avenue. Washington D.C. - Over the weekend, a small arms engagement was reported at the White House, after a man approached the perimeter fence with a handgun. Authorities state that one individual approached a Secret Service checkpoint and drew a firearm from a bag, before engaging the agents at the checkpoint at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Secret Service personnel engaged the shooter, ending the incident. One bystander was wounded during the incident. Analyst Comment: The suspect has been identified as Nasire Best, who had a long history of presenting security threats to the White House. Best had previously attempted to breach the compound in the past, and had also made verbal threats toward Secret Service personnel. In June of last year, Best was arrested after blocking a traffic lane entering the White House compound, and subsequently committed to a mental institution. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Over the weekend, several developments have taken place with regards to diplomacy in the Middle East. On Saturday, President Trump announced that a peace deal with Iran was "largely negotiated", subject to the final details being worked out. Almost immediately following this announcement, Iranian state media refuted these claims as not being true, or being different from what has been discussed so far during the negotiations. On Sunday, President Trump reversed his stance on the immediacy of the deal being reached, stating that he has instructed his staff to take their time regarding the details of a deal. This morning, the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that no deal is on the table, and the deadlock continues. As it stands, it's possible that the weekend shenanigans are the result of a few different theories. For one, the rhetoric from the White House could be the standard effort to calm economic markets. Normally, these "good news" social media posts are issued on Monday mornings shortly before the opening bell on Wall Street, but lately have also been taking place late in the week. Conversely, the confusing messaging regarding a potential peace deal could me more organic...it's not the first time that peace talks have collapsed at the eleventh hour all on their own, or from actions by parties around the region objecting to the deal in some manner. It's also possible that this is a repeat of the now long-forgotten final days before this war began, most notably what transpired in the 72 hours leading up to the February 28th attacks. In retrospect, history indicates that even as the last-minute negotiations were taking place, the decision to use military force had been made many days before the war officially began. Likewise, a similar situation might be getting set up right now; it is possible that the US is transitioning into a renewed targeting effort. Until something happens either way, the three main possibilities remain, just as they have since the start of the ceasefire: Either a deal is reached and everything returns to normal as best it can, or the U.S. returns to bombing and the war resumes, or the stalemate continues as before with no real change to any of the points of deadlock. Time will tell what happens next, but for now nothing is signed and the "pause" to the war continues. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for friday the 20th of may 2022 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 19th of may so let's get to it got a lot of stuff to talk about today so i'm just going to start off with critical infrastructure concerns and really the the kind of oddball out is uh the twitter slash elon musk debacle situation that everyone's been following uh over the past few weeks um really i don't have a whole lot to say about this um it seems like the deal for elon musk to purchase twitter is still kind of on hold slash limbo due to third party audits revealing that a significant portion of twitter twitter accounts are actually fake which is something that was not disclosed by twitter as part of the agreement so i guess we'll have to see how this works out the only reason i'm mentioning it is because again everyone's been talking about it and i guess social media like twitter especially twitter um people rely on it whether or not you like it or not i'd personally despise twitter no matter who owns it i just don't like it as a platform but despite how i feel about it it doesn't really matter it's still a huge communications platform for a lot of people on the planet so um i guess we'll have to keep an eye on this and see how it goes my guess is that elon musk will probably eventually end up buying twitter and seeing how that goes as far as whether or not it will be a good platform or not after that i don't know i highly doubt it um despite what many people might seem to think on the internet i personally don't think that um really any billionaire is the savior of mankind right so um i have so i have serious reservations and and i'm highly doubtful in anyone actually being able to provide social media in such a way that it's productive because i don't think that most social media especially twitter is a place where any kind of rationalism can thrive so i will be very interested to see how it goes and i think really the biggest part is the second and third order effects of this uh if i almost think that it's probably not a good thing uh because if elon musk takes over twitter and it's he's publicly stated that he is no longer a democrat and he is going to vote republican in this next election um the fact that he said that makes me think that there's going to be a a whole lot of conservatives uh rushing back to twitter uh because they've been banned from twitter and it's kind of obvious that twitter is a leftist platform i think that a lot of people are going to rush right back to twitter and we're just going to continue this goat rodeo for the next few years and i don't think that's productive i think that there needs to be another answer that's why we've been working on our our own solutions to this problem i don't think that twitter is going to be a safe haven for anyone and i don't think that it's going to be very much different than in the past you might have a lot more conservatives on it but i think that at the end of the day it's still a money-making platform and i don't think that it's a place for any kind of free speech to to take place so being like i mentioned the second and third order effects are going to be interesting to see what happens from this but other than that i'm really not interested in really following the my new details of of who owns twitter at any particular moment what i'm vastly more interested in is number two there which are the food distribution center fires which finally someone has noticed that an awful lot of food distribution centers production facilities packaging factories and warehouses have burned down lately now the mind my mind immediately thinks huh interesting isn't it this plays directly into the themes of food shortages being instigated by the government now i will say that there is very little evidence either way it's just a gut feeling that there's something fishy going on when at a time when food security has never impacted more people in the united states rationing is already at an all-time high since the great depression suddenly food distribution centers start burning down weird isn't it i don't know about anyone else but i don't believe in coincidences the the correlation in this example is way too strong to ignore even if there's really no evidence to indicate causation there's no evidence to indicate what's exactly happening so we're going to keep an eye on it obviously and i agree that that all of these warehouses burning down is more suspect than a than a ballot drop box but i really don't have anything at all to point fingers at any entity for the reason behind these fires but i would say that it's awfully convenient for the us government who is constantly and consistently trying to target the u.s citizenry such as the infant formula shortage moving on to number three the infant formula shortage is the result of a few things for one a few months ago i'm pretty sure most people don't remember but a few months ago there was a nationwide contamination of infant formula causing huge disruptions in the market again as we've said many times in the field of logistics a single factory being offline for just a short time results in widespread shortages and significant logistical challenges immediately however the shortage has directly been made worse by the us government in the form of the fda not allowing major factories to come back online until they meet us government standards now i must say that i do not know if this is a situation of the us government holding these factories hostage by forcing them to meet unmutable standards which is slowing production or if it's something else i think i think that's the case but i'm not really sure it could also be a case of manufacturers dragging their feet for a variety of reasons but again i'm inclined to think that the us government has a huge hand in this because of what happened immediately after the story of infant formula shortages going viral almost immediately this was used by pro-abortion activists as a way to push their ideology i cannot tell you how many times i have seen pro-abortion activists directly saying oh you can't feed your infant well you should have aborted it i have seen that specific line a lot brought to you from the same regime that said if you had an electric car you wouldn't be affected by fuel prices and shortages the same exact mentality has been applied to having children and i can barely contain my own anger just to get through this but this is what i'm seeing so yeah there is a lot of evil in the world these days and things like this confirm it so for the specific shortages of infant formula the fact that this has now gone viral means that there will be shortages everywhere there will also be shortages of things that parents with infants also need as well the rationale being once parents realize that the logistical supply chains relating to their infant are vulnerable they will buy as much stuff as they possibly can not just formula we're talking other baby supplies as well at least that's probably what i would do if i had an infinite home i'd be stockpiling as much of everything as possible so i'm not going to patronize parents by saying only buy what you need and don't panic buy because i know that's a futile effort when it comes to newborns instincts take over and we just have to realize that panic buying is going to happen so hopefully production capacity will be able to meet demand and we'll uh we'll get through this but in the meantime things are are not going to be super great along those lines moving on to number four fuel shortages as literally everyone in the country knows the entire country is suffering from high gas prices and availability issues as well so it's kind of a twofer right what's a much bigger problem than high gasoline prices is diesel shortages right now there is a shortage of diesel fuel all along the east coast which is going to wreak havoc on industry and the logistical transport of everything so availability is an issue but so is cost commercial truckers are kind of freaking out over this and rightly so because in many cases across the country the costs are so high that they can't even break even uh if it takes four thousand dollars worth of fuel to transport cargo from a to b and you're going to get paid three thousand dollars to do that that's a net loss so right now we're seeing a lot of trucking outfits especially independent drivers taking losses due to these high diesel prices and and other shipping costs and things high gas prices for standard gasoline are also going to sharply increase pretty soon at least that's what the internet seems to think i've seen some estimates by professional logistical think tanks that are expecting gasoline to possibly hit 10 dollars per gallon by the end of this year and i don't say that lightly and i don't say that to freak everybody out but right now a lot of gas stations are retooling or reprogramming their their pumps to account for double-digit gas prices so next time you're fueling up check and see if the pump has been retrofitted and had the screen replaced to actually add an additional place for an extra digit that alone is a pretty big indicator because gas stations are not going to go through that expense which surely is pretty high unless they truly believe the gas prices will get that high i i personally can't even imagine gas hitting double digits just just me thinking about it in the past i would have thought that some kind of civil rebellion would break out long before gas prices get close to double digits especially since we know that the earth has enough petroleum to last humanity like another thousand years or so what i mean is is clearly these gas prices are a politician's invention and the result of political decisions it's not a supply thing domestic gas prices are clearly being influenced by the federal regime which is all too happy to find a way to target the average american and since we're sucking all of our strategic reserves dry the federal regime is creating the conditions for things to get really really bad later so even if things stay the way they are with regards to fuel shortages and prices we're screwed but does anyone want to take a guess as to when the next cyber attack on a pipeline or pol processing facility is going to be a cyber attack that the fbi will magically be able to solve a week after it shuts everything down exactly everyone should expect that by now cyber attacks that are attributable to no single actor and yet the federal government is able to magically solve the problem after the damage has been done i would consider that a new norm in this fifth generation war so with all this cheery stuff out of the way let's move into something more exciting significant governmental actions and up first is number one uh the issue of the army's new recruitment ad for the psyop community the perpetual pain in my rear i wasn't even going to talk about it but i figured i probably should because it has a slight variation of our logo in it and for those that haven't been following us for a while we have no affiliation with army socom or really any government agency or service branch at this point the ghost icon actually comes from a historical military unit that i personally thought was kind of cool because i like to study military history and i once did a term paper on them so i picked that because i we needed a logo for instagram a couple of years ago and a buddy of mine spent exactly four minutes drawing this so and after a while it just stuck um and recently other groups agencies and organizations have picked up the ghost logo and used it as well including army psyops which is which makes sense because they're the descendant of that original military unit they're trying to look to history to rebrand the psyop community into something vastly better than it is so they're bringing back an icon from their glory days which i understand to be honest and since we're not talking about it as far as the analysis of the video i think that it's hilarious and also tragic at the same time you would think that the people who would be able to read the room the most would be the psyop community but apparently not somebody down at bragg should have thought hmm you know right now with all this information warfare going on maybe we shouldn't put this out because the american public is going to take it the wrong way but no nobody thought that and guess what your cloak and dagger message that would have been really cool 10 years ago now brought you into the spotlight so way to go genius remember i'm an analyst by trade so i guess i'm biased by knowing the culture of military intelligence but i personally am not concerned or scared by any of the messaging in the video i don't think it's particularly nefarious i think it's what military leadership would look at and think man that's a cool recruiting video now right now a lot of dudes in the psyop community are high fiving over this ad which kind of hints to the effectiveness of the organization as a whole and for the people that are going to say oh they're just talking about controlling the narrative out in the open because they always tell you their plans for the prophecy to be fulfilled right let me stop you right there the military side community is not that there is a gigantic grand canyon of differences between military intelligence and domestic civilian intelligence the two communities are not compatible which is why it's hilarious to see someone talking about the intelligence community like it's one big thing the intelligence community is a dozen or so directors of various agencies making decisions without listening to anyone beneath them i was a military intelligence analyst for over a decade and i never once considered myself to be part of the intelligence community i could barely get my own commanders and bosses to listen to me much less a congressman or the director of an agency so to think that the intelligence community actually does any intelligence at all is laughable it's a political organization and it always has been and on the military side of things the psyop community is mostly known for six weeks of planning replanning and more planning just to drop a load of leaflets or make a single social media post that no one is going to read anyway so all in all the sciop community is about as efficient and professional as the military intelligence community which is to say that it's crippled by bureaucracy about 50 years behind the times when it comes to doctrine and tactics filled to the brim with people who are just looking to appease their boss to get a promotion and largely irrelevant when compared to one dude on instagram making memes i mean come on guys i really hate to burst their bubble but man this ad is disappointing if the psyop or soft community at large i guess cannot take the pulse of america and realize that this recruiting ad makes them out to be the enemy of americans that speaks volumes about their effectiveness they can high five and pat themselves in their backs for finally creating a non-woke recruiting ad that is cool and 10 years ago i would agree with them this would have had people lining up to join just like those navy recruiters that set up tables outside of movie theaters that were screening top gun back in the day remember that i get it i really do but not today this ad was a swing and a miss too little too late and only effective at making regular americans look at the socom community with suspicion so if you want an indicator of measures of effectiveness there you go i look at this ad as a resume for army psyops and i'm not impressed again i would have been impressed 10 or 15 years ago but right now if we crack open the psyop handbook and start evaluating this information campaign on target demographic and effects achieve this was a disaster if these guys can't even get their own advertisement right what am i supposed to think about the rest of the military psyop community the goal of this advertisement was to recruit people into the psyop community but what did it really do time will tell if it failed on the recruiting aspect but there's two things that it did succeed at number one freaking out civilians and making the psyop community look like the enemies of the people and two bringing a community that thrives in secrecy into the public sphere they shined a spotlight on themselves at a time when they are trying to fight an information war with russia and china and everyone else so all in all this is again disappointing i really shouldn't be disappointed after all the dod's motto these days is to lower your expectations right i know my navy guys out there know what i'm talking about so sorry for the rant but i felt like bursting bubbles today i've seen a lot of talk over the past couple of weeks because a lot of people have gotten too big for their britches over this ukraine situation a lot of military commanders think that based on russia's poor performance in ukraine they could beat them easily since that war is a war of information as well i've been seeing a lot of people thinking their hot stuff just because russia is doing poorly so i occasionally like to remind people that a dozen people making memes on instagram is more effective at shaping narratives than the bureaucratic upper echelons of the psyop community up next is the proposed rule changes for this year for the who's international health regulations and yes this is really obscure um this kind of ties into the who treaty that a lot of people are talking about which is it's slightly separate but it's kind of kind of the same thing it's really complicated um but i did see this being mentioned online and i wanted to kind of calm the situation down a bit um every few months we get inundated with emails about something to do with the who or the un or nato um i remember last year the story was the chinese had invaded canada remember that one the videos circuit there's like one grainy video circulating of chinese troops patrolling the canadian wilderness and setting up secret bases right um or better yet container ships full of chinese troops being landed in california man that that story was completely made up and it was a thorn in my side all last year um it was completely false with like the tiniest tiniest gram of truth um and it circulated like wildfire online and um big social media accounts occasionally picked it up and in turn my inbox filled up well this event the whole rule change has a lot more validity so i want people to be aware of it but i also want to prevent it from slipping down the same road as other stuff and getting kind of spun out of control so here's what the deal is the who the world health organization maintains this thing called the international health regulations kind of like a set of rules that member states have to abide by sort of like an international standard for health events you see where this might be going and every year there are additions or corrections made to the set of rules and this year the biden regime submitted some rule changes that have raised some eyebrows again to prevent this from slipping into the realm of propaganda a lot of websites have popped up calling this an attack on the united states sovereignty and that these rules allow the who to override the us constitution i would encourage you to read the document yourselves i will provide the link in the description and i will put it on the sources slide as usual i have read it and though i am certainly no lawyer i do not see anything that jumps out at me as being holy cow get your kit yes these proposed rule changes are not good and grant the who a lot more authority and i'm going to put a fat asterisk next to that word authority for later so remember that but when i read this i thought ah they're trying to poke china the proposed rule changes look like they're meant to target china which is interesting if you take the politics out of it which is hard to do i understand but if you look at it objectively you got to realize that china caused a lot of problems for the world they warped the entire health care industry especially in the international scene and allowed the perfect conditions for tyranny to run rampant but they also completely negated world health care issues and the entire planet's infrastructure for handling like legitimate contagions right so all in all please read the document yourselves but nowhere do i see anything that allows the who to do anything really and coming back to that asterisk on authority you really have to understand how non-binding international agreements really are and that's not even considering the fact that the united states is going to have to ratify this you know the congress is going to have to ratify it which they i mean honestly they probably will because all of congress is on the side of the bible regime right on stuff like this so but even taking that into account honestly all international diplomacy is just lip service the only international diplomacy that decides issues is war the who says we order you to do x and a nation says make me and the who backs down because they aren't going to be able to win that fight over something that small i'm doing a really poor job of explaining this but just know that i'm not so concerned about this particular document what's going to happen on the national or international stage is beyond all control from us mere citizens anyway and this applies to the the who treaty that people have been talking about that is sort of along the same line so you can kind of cut and paste you know the the kind of explanation over onto the wha treaty type stuff so again there are efforts i will agree there there do seem to be efforts um that world leaders are taking to create more of a world government right it's called globalization right that's just it's just the way it is like look at the um world economic forum i mean there you go there's your platform right if anybody is surprised by this at this point i don't know what to tell you but again if and when international agencies start challenging us authority more than they already do we citizens will of course do what needs to be done whether or not the biden regime literally walks into the national archives and shreds the constitution by hand or if they sign away our natural rights to an international conglomerate the effect for you and me is the same so even if the bible regime and congress and the supreme court sign away all of our rights and sign up americans for complete totalitarianism my life doesn't change that much because i'm already living as if totalitarianism is here because it is i've talked a lot about this before especially after the election but what's done is done and the fact that we are in the situation we're in that alone has obliterated all of our founding documents and our founding ideals at least on an institutional level socially yeah we can still talk about that but institutionally is there anything that matters anymore they're going to do what they're going to do whether or not they sign a piece of paper to it or not the bible regime did plenty of things without actually signing an executive order anyway for how many companies went above and beyond to follow laws that did not exist we covered that extensively too so they don't exactly need a treaty or a piece of paper to bring in totalitarianism but if they want to formalize it i guess that's probably what they're going to do so again i've beat this horse enough but hopefully that explains my line of thinking with things like this 20 years ago yeah they probably would have thrown a president under the jail for anything that the biden regime does on a regular tuesday they just break laws that often but that's not the world we live in anymore things have changed so that's really all i have on that at least until something else comes out about it then i'll probably be forced to talk about it even more moving on to number three the supreme court leak um this of course is something that everyone has probably probably already knows about um but i think that if you were to go look up what uh clarence thomas has been saying on this uh i think he he is probably the best source for what this means for the for the future of the court now i personally am no fan of clarence thomas for for many reasons but um i do think that he's correct and i think that he has given the most accurate uh portrayal of what this means for the court i think that of course out of all of our government right out of all of our government all three branches um their authority comes from the perception of their authority right and their force comes from the perception of their force when people realize that they can't back up what they're saying we have things like minneapolis riots right so if you have that on an institutionalized national scale if people start realizing hey if we don't do what the supreme court says um what are they going to do about it they have no enforcement ability and the biden regime figured this out a long time ago with regards to their uh medical mandates right they just openly stated that they're not going to follow stuff if you guys remember the press secretary um saying that so it's like well what are you gonna do you know when the supreme court says something and you say no we're not gonna do that um does that mean the supreme court is kind of irrelevant i think so and to some degree so again the supreme court thing i think is just an illustration of the larger problem which is i don't know maybe maybe maybe a collapsing society maybe a decaying civilization i don't know maybe a fifth generation war i don't know either way clearly the institutions particularly the justice institutions are um they're not doing so hot right now and arguably they haven't been doing so hot for a very very long time so i guess we'll have to see what comes out about this um and this is kind of related to the next one number four which is the uh inevitable second amendment infringements that are going to happen um due to recent events so moving on to that one uh just in time for the election cycle there have been multiple attacks conducted by people with firearms over the past few weeks i honestly have a lot to say about this latest one the one that looks like the most obvious false flag attack since the vegas shooting but i'm not really going to go down that road too much all i will say is that every single thing about this attack screams that it was a false flag attack that's just my gut feeling i've really nothing other than that the guy was a socialist communist and his manifesto has been blacklisted by all media because that's what he said in it which counters the narrative of white supremacy um much like how mainstream media forgot all about the dc sniper a couple weeks ago because he was a black supremacist this latest incident is of course being shaped by the ministry of truth as much as it can be which includes removing his manifesto from the internet because specific wording in the manifesto was suspiciously similar to other shooting incidents honestly this guy looks like a fed that infiltrated a white supremacist group to get clues but they never really accepted him into the group so he had to go to wikipedia for his narrative which is why nothing he said or did looks like something that a real supremacist would say or do and something else very suspicious is the fact that he said all of the magic buzzwords and used all of the magic gear that feds want to ban anyone with common sense can see that there's something going on here but since i have nothing concrete all i can do is grumble to myself and watch what's going to happen and here's what's going to happen the atf is going to use this incident to get a new director that will make david chipman look like barney the dinosaur the bothering regime is going to ban whatever they can get their hands on and even average us citizens are not going to follow those rules companies particularly small companies that sell firearms or firearms gear or parts are going to get the shaft and most importantly federal agencies are going to allow communist groups and terror groups like blm to run rampant with their violent rhetoric which is already completely unchecked by any counter-terror organization which actively encourage these people to target people based on their ideology again this is all my own opinion which i guess is my magic caveat that is my polite way of saying that i don't care if people disagree with me and i say all of this with a bit of vested interest which is why i wanted to remind everyone to stay vigilant and watch your back i know everyone says this all the time but we here recently got a not so pleasant reminder of how important it is to remain vigilant in public i do not like to talk about my own experiences with the tension in public these days because i only see a very small part of the world i don't travel all over the country and i don't have a really good sample size for making an assessment of society at large i guess and i live in an extremely politically insane location so my own personal experiences are certainly not representative of the nation as a whole but one of my staff members here almost got killed or seriously injured yesterday when two people in a vehicle crossed multiple lanes of traffic to try and run us over in a parking lot while we were out running some errands i cannot go into too many details for opsec reasons but based on the occupants of the vehicle who were both wearing face masks and the political statements on the vehicle it was pretty clear to me that it was a racially motivated attack which is probably more sad to me than any other kind of attack to be honest but we here are all okay i was a bit better off than our rider who was much closer to buying the farm than i was but they were able to evade in time but it was a close one thankfully at least one bystander checked to see if we were doing all right but everyone else that saw the incident did nothing as expected again i'm talking about this nonchalantly because honestly this kind of thing is super common in my local area at this point i don't live in a historically bad or high crime area i mean it's not that it's not the nicest place but even in my very small part of the world the city centers are absolutely insane and this has only happened over the past couple of years really and no we did not involve local law enforcement because our local police department does not respond to crimes like this anymore in fact we would be lucky if anyone even answered the phone when we called 9-1-1 so we didn't even bother they just tell you to come in and fill out the report at the station which i am not going to do because the police department is located in an extremely high crime area and people are routinely attacked or mugged going into that station because people know that anyone going into the police station is unarmed again if this sounds crazy it is but i'm not trying to harp on how much my own local area has gone to hell in just a couple of years i'm mentioning this as a plea for everyone to be careful watch your back and do what you have to do to be safe out there because even in a place like where i live where crime really wasn't a thing just a couple years ago there were basically no arrests in my area just a couple of years ago and i have zero indications that things like this will get any better anytime soon so again be careful out there i know not a super cheery way to end this segment but that's always the way it is isn't it oh well nature of the content i guess so let's move to international issues up first is russia uh i'm obviously not going to be talking too much about it due to youtube's policies which ban us from talking about anything bad ukraine might be doing um so we're just not going to talk about it but the thing i did want to talk about is this anti-russian sentiment and how things have gotten out of control on that front i'm just going to say up front you always need to leave someone and out like on the high school debate team you never want to back someone into a corner because when you do they just stop playing the game and nothing productive happens and the russian people have been hurt thousands of russian mothers will never see their sons again and all because of a war that they didn't ask for russia has lost more soldiers in a month than the u.s lost in afghanistan in 20 years think about that for a second think about how you felt every night when dan rather cut to a soldier's d.a photo as the nightly news ended using the same b-roll from the last time a soldier got killed i don't know about you but i damn near lost it every time and i still get angry thinking about how my youth was spent watching soldiers photos scroll by on the evening news now think about what russians are feeling right now with their extreme losses i don't know about anyone else and even though youtube has ordered us to not talk about ukraine's crimes i'm not going to kick someone when they're down even if they are an adversary russia has learned many lessons all of them the hard way and even though the anti-russian mass hysteria is in full swing my personal opinion is that if the west keeps kicking russia when they are down we are not going to like what that brings in the future for me russia is an adversary but not an enemy the relationship between russia and the united states is competitive and adversarial on many topics for better or worse but for me the russian people are certainly not an enemy my enemies are the people that started this mess on all sides and in my day-to-day life my enemies are certainly more domestic than foreign at this point right now with all of this anti-russian hysteria people are playing with fire they're playing with fire and they don't know it because the political elites are treating this ukraine situation just like every other issue they use to rile people up years ago it was occupy wall street then climate change then it was religion by way of refusing to make a wedding cake then robert de niro's anti-jab stuff then back to climate change then russia gate then veganism or election stuff and back to climate change then blm and antifa then the virus that cannot be named then back to climate change again then ukraine and now roe versus wade i wonder how much youtube is going to shadow ban this video just because of that paragraph i just read but anyway you see the point ukraine was just a play thing which has apparently now been cast aside but ukraine out of all of these issues was a very dangerous thing for mass hysteria to latch onto there are real concerns here this is not a game there are real defense issues to work through both tactically and socially within the us military there are lessons to be learned in the civilian sector too most of all among citizens again for tactical and social reasons all i'm saying is that there are a lot of things going on right now with regards to russia and ukraine and this mass hysteria that we're seeing is severely warping what should be happening like we mentioned before banning russia's access to banking is a crime but visa and mastercard did it anyway that's going to come back to bite us hard things that we do not think about are also affected think about the international search and rescue community the us and russia coordinate a lot of rescue efforts because we have joint agreements with regards to search and rescue satellites same thing with a space program or international shipping or trying to work with china because russia is the only quasi friend that china has got so our efforts to combat china are affected by russia too even though i personally think russia was definitely in the wrong to invade ukraine poking the bear and letting mass hysteria get way out of control so that that poke becomes a shove is not productive right now we need world leaders to put on some big boy pants and solve problems rather than creating them like they always have done we need people to mediate international relations and start working towards solutions for this because this has gotten way nastier than i think anybody ever expected but that's warfare for you but no what we have is incompetent world leaders playing with fire because they either one don't remember the cold war for what it really was or two have been in politics for so long that they are incapable of seeing any form of reality and that in my opinion is not good and speaking of this russia craziness let's move on to finland and sweden joining nato potentially so for those who haven't heard finland and sweden have both officially submitted their applications to join the north atlantic treaty organization and the proceedings are kind of going on right now right now it's everything's kind of stalled as far as i know um turkey is kind of holding up proceedings a little bit and kind of causing a ruckus but um a lot of people are going to ask what does this mean and is this good or bad uh i don't know if it's good or bad but i will say that it's not good for relations and it's not good for tensions it will escalate the situation even more than the u.s has over the past month in my opinion like i have any bearing on world events or what i say matters whatsoever i think that they should have waited finland would still have been perfectly justified along with sweden and norway and joining nato two or three years from now granted i understand that they are trying to strike while the iron is hot and never let a good crisis go to waste but this i think is too soon russia is still wounded from how the ukraine situation worked out and right now they are likely to lash out in ways that we are not going to like so i think that finland and sweden joining nato is going to cause more problems than its worth clearly russia is incapable of taking even ukraine arguably the easiest target on their border to suggest that russia even has the slightest hope at successfully invading finland or sweden or poland for that matter is laughable granted if i was finnish or swedish or norwegian i would feel differently historically being situated close to russia has been hazardous for one's health so scandinavian countries increasing their civil defense is always a good idea i think that civil defense is one of the best justifications for even having a government but also it's one of the most under-utilized sectors of government here in the us our civil defense procedures haven't been updated since the 1980s which is a shame but anyway nato membership yeah i think that that's going to cause more problems than it's going to solve norway sweden and finland certainly do not have large militaries but they are vastly more prepared than ukraine was in 2014 and they have history and geography on their side so all in all i think this native membership situation is a result of politicians getting something rather than a legitimate defense effort and it's going to cause russia to react and russia's reaction is going to escalate an already tense situation even more and it's going to justify everything russia has done as is russia has no leg to stand on but if scandinavia joins nato russia can say look they really are trying to surround us we need to strike first a very dangerous position to be in and that's exactly where we're heading moving down to india and sri lanka there is mass civil unrest underway right now the situation in sri lanka is not doing too well uh sri lanka is basically out of fuel which is a major barrier to food shipments around the nation india also has stopped exporting wheat because of their own food security issues which has caused even more food shortages than sri lanka because they're a major obviously a major trading partner in short the people of sri lanka are starving and pandemonium has been the result of that there's an old saying that we are only three meals away from total anarchy meaning that if a population's food supply gets disrupted for even just a single day for three meals in a row mass hysteria and civil unrest will result right now sri lanka is finding out exactly how true that idea is and it seems to be pretty accurate on social media i found some pretty gnarly stuff including local politicians being tortured and beaten by their starving constituents i obviously cannot show these videos here and i'm not sure if i'd want to anyway because if you just search out there yourself you'll find some pretty nauseating stuff in any case the situation for sri lanka does not look good and even though the situation is desperate it does not hold a candle to the international famine we will see if this trend spreads to the rest of southeast asia or even elsewhere so keep an eye on sri lanka and india too hopefully the logistical nightmares can reach at least some level of resolution soon and finally somalia the biden regime has deployed several hundred soldiers to somalia and yes i know what you're thinking nothing bad has ever happened in somalia right well right now the biden regime has stated that the number of troops will be capped at 450 but my assessment is that this is what we call a lie this is because the department of defense proudly concealed the true number of troops that were in afghanistan under trump and especially in the past couple of years everything the dod has done has indicated that the upper echelons of the dod is purely rotten to the core so my guess is that those 450 troops will probably be double triple or even quadruple that simply just for tourism patches and that's not including the various odas and teams that have been in somalia for years fighting al-shabaab aqap and the like groups which will only increase in size the reason for this deployment has yet to be released however i have my own guesses a couple of weeks ago there was a regime change and the new guy in charge was backed by the u.s shocking i know but now it looks like the us is protecting their investment and at the same time trying to counter china's influence in the horn of africa which has been expanding significantly under the guise of counter piracy so i don't know if somalia is going to be the new afghanistan i highly doubt it it's just it's a completely different fight it's a completely different set of mission set it's it's not really comparable but you never know right the dod is is all about furthering the military industrial complex because you know politicians in uniform have got to get their raytheon stocks up right so there's no telling what's going to happen um like i've been saying for a long time there are a lot of bad dudes in in africa with regards to um al qaeda and things like that the the sahel region out west and to the north north part of this northern part of africa and north saharan region man they're just eat up with aqap dudes and and al qaeda and al-shabaab and a lot of other groups that i forget same thing in sudan ethiopia eritrea places like that it's just become a hot spot for global insurgency and um you know i guess the opinion is you can have different opinions on whether or not we should be there or not uh and i think there's opinion that's a valid question to ask for sure uh but there's nothing i can do to change a dod's deployment right so i don't know what's going to happen is going to happen i guess and uh for those of you who have not been reading up on somalian history that right now would probably be a good time to do so um because it uh hasn't hasn't been a really good one so in any case that's really all i've got for today thank you again for watching everyone um we'll have another one of these briefs out pretty soon because i'm pretty sure that i've got twice as much content that i haven't even talked about yet and of course things are going to get even crazier domestically and internationally over the next few weeks or so so i guess we'll uh we'll circle back around and talk some more about some of these issues when they inevitably become more much more bigger problems than they are right now but for now that's really all i've got so thanks again for watching and we will 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 January 18 2023 happy New Year everyone looks like this New Year is already getting pretty spicy so let's go ahead and kick things off by talking about significant incidents and concerns in the Northeast region one of the biggest incidents that got a lot of mainstream news media coverage was the polar vortex or whatever kind of buzzword you want to call the winter weather storm that hit around the beginning of December uh last month particularly the actions uh that actually happened within the City of Buffalo New York now a lot of people got got a lot of news coverage on this so I'm not going to beat it to death but the situation in Buffalo New York and how that whole winter kind of situation worked its way out was very indicative and a very good demonstration of a lot of the issues that we've been talking about previously we had a lot of infrastructure problems we had a lot of traffic incidents we had a lot of you know censored medical issues I'll say it like that and we had a lot of um release date actions right so there were a lot of issues to kind of unpack with this incident and though none of these are particularly surprising it's very important that we all kind of keep these in the back of our mind here right for instance one of the biggest elements of this whole incident that kind of caught my eye was the implementation of military police to serve in a domestic policing role in Buffalo New York uh to keep drivers off of the roads and you know underneath the kind of Quasi curfew that was uh that was enforced really it was just a ban on driving personal vehicles on the road during the snowstorm now I know a lot of people whenever I talk about curfews people don't really like it because there are a lot of people out there that actually support curfews for whatever reason but I'm just saying it's probably a good idea to kind of keep an eye on incidents like this especially considering that now we have the word curfew as part of our daily vocabulary in a lot of a lot of cases around the country there are a lot of persistent curfews that have been in place for years and they're just keeping they just keep popping up in a lot of places around the country and I you know don't think that's a super great thing so that's why I want to keep talking about these kinds of incidents because I think we all kind of have a a shared understanding of the seriousness of curfews and any kind at any time you're using the National Guard or any uh green Suiter military force in in the United States against uh potentially against citizens that's not a good thing I don't care how friendly the relationship seems It's not a super great thing so the Buffalo incident was not great uh granted it was a very serious issue and really highlights a lot of um you know prepping concerns about how you really need to be prepared for extreme severe winter weather uh I think way more severe than is is kind of normal for the area but at the same time you also need to be concerned about the things that nobody likes to talk about like uh you know domestic policing actions that's kind of a Hot Topic that again really people don't want to think about uh but you're not really going to see a whole lot of prepping you know kind of culture publicly embracing the idea idea of all right well now this is part of our daily life here you know to talk about curfews and driving bans and okay now there's a you know a uniform Soldier telling me I can't drive on the road you know we're here now um and as scary as it is we kind of have to acknowledge the fact that this has become a norm in the country and that's why I wanted to mention it moving on to some more unfortunate news of a green Suiter nature I wanted to talk about an incident that occurred in New Jersey way back in actually in November of last year but I'm just finding out about it now uh the short and sweet version of this incident was a a parent in North Hanover posted a photograph and made a post on Facebook of illicit content explicit content uh that was displayed at the entrance of her child's school now I think that we all know what kind of content this is I'm not going to go into many more details than that because you can easily Google this and find out the real story here and I'm not going to show the photo because I consider that content to be explicit and I'm trying to be you know at least a little bit more family friendly with these kinds of videos so I do want to say though that nothing in this original Facebook post uh was threatening in any way it was just a photo of the explicit content that this parent's child saw at the entrance of the school no no hint of violence it was anywhere near the social media post well despite this an Army lieutenant colonel took issue with this mom's Facebook post and immediately reported it directly to the local police chief using the internal lines of communication that were pre-established per their own words this military base communicates directly with the police chief for security reasons it kind of makes a lot of sense if you think about it in in a in a perspective of like a peacetime military you want to make sure that you know your guys with guns on the military base also are kind of tied in with local law enforcement because there's a lot of incidents that occur you know there's weird jurisdictional things so there being a kind of shared understanding between a federal you know service like a military base and a local law enforcement agency it makes a lot of sense for lines of communication to be open however that's basically where the common sense stops because these lines of communication in this case were used to Target parents just as we saw the FBI do with regards to targeting parents all over this country for you know voicing their opinion at school board meetings so long story short parent posts a photograph and and a post showing the the explicit content at her child's School some Army Lieutenant Colonel sees the post and gets the police chief to investigate and harass the local parent now on a brief admin note I'm not going to drop this specific lieutenant colonel's name right now because of several reasons uh for one this guy is clearly trying to Target people so uh you know that's that's not good but also I want to make absolutely certain that this actually is the guy because so far the documents that I have seen and reviewed uh have had many names okay so it's not just this one guy there are a lot of people in this this chain here right so I just want to make sure before we drop any names or if we drop any names you can easily Google this this guy's name you can once you figure out you know hey just Google the story this is made national press uh back in November or actually I think in December is when I think Fox News picked it up either way I can tell you that the interesting part about this story is the next part so I started looking into this Lieutenant Colonel right and I just Googled his name and one of the absolute first results that popped up was this stock photo from a stock photo website uh detailing his recent change of command and wouldn't you know it look at what unit he was the commander of a military information support Battalion hmm would you look at that you might know this kind of unit colloquially as psyops so what this story looks like is a psyops commander directed a local police chief to Target a parent because her child saw something obscene at school man I I tell you I I don't think I can comment on what that means and how serious this is so so I'm just gonna move on and let this kind of stew for a bit and if you guys want some homework go read into this story a little bit but I can tell you that this doesn't seem to be an isolated incident okay uh this has happened before and this is not the last time this is going to happen I can guarantee that so moving to the Southeast region we get to more traditional stuff uh and that is the well let's start with the Gulf Coast for a minute um there have been an awful lot of Refinery and Pipeline and terminal issues down in the Gulf Coast uh for a variety of reasons it's really kind of hard to explain we could probably talk about this for for quite a bit more but let me just give you the kind of short and sweet version is that the the winter weather that we had last month the kind of you know whatever buzzword Arctic blast uh went through the country uh broke a lot of stuff but not just that because we can kind of compensate for maintenance issues a lot of times but things that we can't really fix that that quickly are staffing issues and someone who doesn't know how to do their job and just other maintenance deficits or or other kinds of problems it doesn't appear like all these refineries at least in the Gulf Coast in this specific instant I'm talking about all these issues that we saw with the winter weather or that you know kind of popped up around the the same time last month these don't appear to be particularly nefarious because it just looks like there's there's a lot of things going on here and it's just kind of snowballing into just bad stuff right parts not being there staff not being there cold weather breaking things people not knowing how to fix things people not knowing how to prevent things from happening you know we're getting to the point now where our infrastructure is crumbling and I think it's quite obvious and when you look at places like Pol refiner areas and pipelines places that have some of the most skilled work in the entire country you know what happens when you have a a non-skilled person or someone who's not experienced working at some of these places you get a lot of a lot of issues now that doesn't I want to separate these issues out from all the other ones we've seen I don't think that anyone in the country can look at refineries Catching Fire all over the country in the past year and say that that's normal it's it's not it's clearly not we know this instinctively it's just a gut feeling we don't even need to look at any data to to see how often refineries Catch Fire however when it comes to you know severe weather or or any kind of slightly out of the norm weather we have a lot of problems that pop up and are the result of many things it's really hard to pinpoint and point the finger at one thing all we know is that it just sucks and that's just the way that it is now I'm going to keep an eye on the refineries as usual and see which ones you know kind of miraculously have an accident next because that's a norm apparently every time we brief something something else has had some kind of incident at it but so again we'll keep keep an eye on this stuff and I just want to let everyone know that you know we're not out of the woods yet with our infrastructure we still have a long way to go and we're just beginning to see I think uh the the the the the snowball at the top of the hill right and we're about to see it uh accelerate rapidly uh just based on the amount of uh things we've seen happen right even just none taking nefarious things out of it even just some out of accidents we've seen happen genuine accidents and the amount of genuine maintenance problems that alone uh can be very crippling to any infrastructural system moving on to the topic that has United many Americans more than I have seen in recent years uh the potential gas stove ban so the Biden regime is planning to or floating the idea of potentially outright Banning natural gas stoves uh the reasoning behind this ban is very much unknown at the moment we're hearing about this from the consumer product safety commission and they have not provided really any of the research but we're getting anecdotal evidence as a brief side note many of you have noticed that apparently news headlines are law because that is the way that a lot of companies and entities and agencies have been treating things over the past year or so we all remember how for instance the IRS came out with that whole uh 600 limit thing you've got a report you know his income kind of thing well guess what all of the platforms out there PayPal venmo uh cash app all of these Services went ahead and implemented that policy even though no one had ever actually seen the policy so it's like what's going on here so I think that's what's happening with this gas stove ban thing it's not an official policy nothing has been signed nothing has even been written just yet it's just kind of an idea that has floated to the news media and since the news media now apparently make law or something to that effect what I think is going to happen is a lot of states and localities are going to ban gas stoves at the local level without the feds having to get involved in it it's brilliant honestly if you think about it from a nefarious like you know Devil's advocacy kind of situation if you were the Biden regime what would you do because remember we've been briefing this for a couple of years now The Binding regime has actually had a pretty hard time in some cases with virtue signaling a lot of times the news media doesn't know how to spin a story so and the Biden regime is not able to answer you know hey how should I spin this story and I'm CNN writing an editorial on something around the Atlantic writing an editorial on something and they they don't know how to spin the story because they don't know what the federal government wants they don't know what the Biden regime wants them to say so they just kind of wing it and really that's a problem because sometimes they get it wrong well this is quite clear the Biden regime has signaled to all of the virtue signaling entities your media your local governments your local city council your local your local County Commissioners all of these agencies in entities now are fully aware of what the feds want and they want a ban on gas stoves right so the feds don't have to lift a finger they don't have to write anything because again Biden can just sit at his desk and wave his magic wand and apparently a news head news news headline will become law so that's kind of the situation as as I see it and the really really the big concern moving forward we don't have any information other than that nothing has been signed nothing's been published we don't even have the research that led the consumer product safety commission to say that gas stoves are harmful for people we just have General anecdotal evidence I challenge you to find what the what the consumer product safety commission is actually talking about because so far all I've seen is circular reporting One news agency says oh well the cpsc says they're harmful well and they cite another news agency who then cites another news agency who then cites some guy on Twitter who then cites some random employee at cpsc and they can't actually find me a directive for something so again by the time this goes out I'm sure they will be something in writing because the modern regime doesn't like to wait on things like totalitarianism but it's interesting this is another illustration of how laws can get in effect made like it's a de facto law it's a de facto regulation people are following laws that don't exist yet and it's happening all over the country so I would very much recommend people to kind of look into this a little bit more now to walk a lot of this back and to bring this back to a more uh a more clear perspective I guess we have to be aware that this might quite literally be the most palpable case of gaslighting we've ever seen okay and I trust me the irony is not lost on me on this now what I mean by that is the Biden regime can float this idea okay they can float this idea they can leak it to the press the Press freaks out every American freaks out because guess what I've seen some data you know again studies and and statistics are made up nowadays so who knows if this number is accurate but apparently rarely as many as 30 percent of the entire country thirty percent potentially a third of the citizens of this country use gas stoves so you're now telling them that they're going to have to go buy a new uh stove or something we don't we don't know when the government's telling us right because there's no information but either way what I mean is if this is going to happen this is going to be very very very severe and the impacts of this will be very widely felt now where the gaslighting comes in is the vitamin regime can say oh no no no you misunderstood we never meant to ban gas stoves we meant to ban like this kind of gas stove or like this kind of connector that nobody uses or or some some specific technical jargon that nobody understands or that isn't actually used right so they can walk it back and they can say well no no you were spreading misinformation we weren't going to ban gas stoves despite the fact that's exactly what we said uh we were never going to ban gas stoves and you're just spreading misinformation and shame on you and you know know there you go so they can walk it back very easily and Gaslight the heck out of us if they want um which I think is probably what's going to happen because man I tell you if you if anybody bans gas stoves oh boy uh man I I don't know the impacts of that uh I can tell you it's not going to be good um oh boy and then the next question is all right well what about gas heat because good let me tell you something a lot more people rely on gas heat uh than you think and uh that's not going to be good um I did see one Theory and and I I agree that it's kind of an interesting idea is that I forgot where I saw it so sorry if if you know you had this idea first I've literally just forgot where I saw it uh somebody had the idea that this might be the result or or it might be intended to drive a wedge between urban and rural populations yet another divide right and it's not a bad idea because uh natural gas is not available in the middle of nowhere like I live in the middle of nowhere now and I there there's no gas line anywhere near me I don't think there's any natural gas in my entire County to be honest you know that's a interesting thing you know natural gas is really kind of a big thing in cities but not so much in the rural areas so rural people are not going to be affected by this really at all but people in cities will be it's an interesting Theory I just wanted to mention it because like I said I saw it somewhere or maybe it's just a fever dream I had I don't know but I thought I wanted to mention it so very very severe stuff very uh significant stuff if it actually comes to fruition the other thing I wanted to mention and I'll mention it here because the decision took place in Washington DC so I figured I might as well throw it in here and that is the pentagons floating idea or submitting The Proposal I suppose is the best best way of describing it for a zero trust infrastructure for well the internet at large I guess now the idea of a zero trust infrastructure in the field of cyber security fairly a fairly simple construct but it gets really complicated in actuality uh now I again have stated many times I am not a cyber security expert so I am most certainly not going to go into the details of how this all works but I can say that I know enough to to know that this kind of thing is very concerning now to explain zero trust concepts for the layperson which includes me it really is kind of a a complex idea think of it like this in the past or even today actually uh you have passwords for things right you have a username you have an email account and you log into a website with a password even physical security you have a physical badge that gets you access into facilities or a PIN number you can put in to open or unlock a door okay once an entity or a company or an agency has given you access to something you have access to it right you may not have Total Access real it's not how it usually works like after all I can't log in to you know say Gmail for instance and get access to Google servers no no I just have access to the client side kind of stuff right if I were to use Gmail and likewise if you have a badge or some kind of key code to get into a building chances are you're not going to have you know a master code right the whole concept of access to things whether it's cyber security or physical security relies on a person being the the the vector by which trust can be given it's not so much talking about trusting an individual person or not trusting a traditional person it's about removing this this this construct altogether because here's the thing we gave Edward Snowden trust right he was trusted by the NSA he got he got a really high security clearance and he got a lot of passwords and logins and a lot of stuff same thing with Bradley Manning right so maybe using the concept of you know access or no access is not really the construct to move forward maybe we need something else maybe we need something that is you know various applications various you know tools that that are on the software side of things that can make sure that everything is running smoothly because as we all know we're in an age of cyber attacks right someone gets access to a system they can shut it down whether it's a you know a tractor sitting in a field that's connected to some server you know or cell tower or something or if it's you know a colonial pipeline right either way using if you remove the the the understanding of providing access to someone based on a trust or no trust you know criteria if and if you go to a whole new system itself that's kind of the way forward with regards to cyber security that's a little bit hard to understand and I fully admit I don't completely understand it myself either because there's a lot of there's a lot of ways to kind of get to where you want to go with with zero trust infrastructure the bottom line for why you the average citizen should care about this is that this is a fantastic way to lock you out of the internet if they don't like you on it and here's what I mean by that one of the closest ways that you get to kind of a zero trust infrastructure is what we already kind of know throughout the cryptocurrency world and that is the dreaded kyc or know your customer in other words the bane of anyone who has ever tried to buy cryptocurrency newsflash it's not exactly 2010 right you can't just go online and buy cryptocurrency with the you know with a credit card or something uh anonymously it doesn't work like that even if you were using you know a credit card that wouldn't be anonymous but the point is is that if you want to buy cryptocurrency today in 2023 you're gonna have to put your social security number in somewhere uh now there are some things and ways around this but to be honest in terms of most cryptocurrency there really isn't especially the most common cryptocurrencies so this is kind of one of those the kind of the closest way I can think of explaining a zero trust infrastructure is I can guarantee you kyc requirements are going to be a huge part of a zero trust infrastructure um or at least while the system's kind of getting its way out you know getting working its way out through through the development and stuff like that so again bottom line this is your indication and warning this is the video that you can look back in a couple of years time and point back and say I Told You So when you are locked out of your email account or your bank or your company because of something you said or thought or something you didn't say this kind of infrastructure the zero trust infrastructure for me not being a cyber security guy not being a technical expert it on the one hand it seems kind of the way forward when it comes to cyber security but on the other hand it seems like a great way to prevent me from getting on the internet at some point right it's it's a great way to build a off an authorized list of users on the internet which is going to be kind of a basic requirement for this moving forward and go from there again I'm not doing a super good job of explaining this and you I'm sure far more technical experts will pop up in the in the comments to to kind of explain this a little bit better but the point is is here's the timeline 2020 7 this is from their own slide this is the dod's actual product that explains what the dod is working on and I don't know about you but look you know living in the world today and knowing how the world Works anytime the dod does something I'm very suspicious okay you know I I've hey I hate that I have to explain that at this point but anytime the dod develops something it's going to be used against Americans at some point so I'm really kind of concerned that the timeline for this is so short and the dod is going to figure out a way to do this and this would be a great way to implement you know social credit this would be a great way to implement you know some kind of you know social ban on any kind of any any of the systems that keep our society running so I wanted to kind of bring this out as kind of homework for you guys if you were more interested in this I'm not particularly surprised and honestly you don't really need to know much more information beyond what I've already told you to make a decision and the decision you know it should be look hey you need to start kind of moving away from these kinds of systems because let me tell you something the reason that we don't have such a great Communications infrastructure as is is because of how big these problems are the nature of the internet uh in and of itself you know servers connected to other servers that are controlled by other people the way that https traffic works it is an infrastructure that is very helpful if you don't want people on it and if you control the way internet traffic works at the very base level you control a lot of things and I'm very concerned about that so that's why I wanted to to mention it here so I'll just kind of leave it at that and move on to the next wildly different topic which is something that I realized recently has a name which I didn't think it did and that is transnational repression transnational repression is fascinating and terrifying and here's what it is transnational repression is something that we kind of we know happens we know this happens but we think that it's on a small scale so small in fact that I didn't even think that it had a name I thought it was just oh wow okay that was kind of a rare thing this is when a foreign government chooses to intimidate assault imprison arrest or whatever its citizens while they are in another country now that should ring a bell because CNN ran this article from a while back I think it was last month yeah in which CNN of all places admitted that China is operating over 100 police stations across the world with the help of some host Nations report claims that's the actual headline of this news article from CNN I'm shocked right again this is something that's not new at all we we have known that this occurs all over the world particularly with China China is a nation that is obsessed with its citizens and more accurately I suppose obsessed with controlling its citizens because that's how it maintains power it China is a communist Nation they quite literally are Xi Jinping or Xi Jinping however you pronounce his name he is not the president of China China does not have a president he is the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist party it's right there on this Wikipedia page so when communist Nations do things like this when they are very concerned with citizens of theirs outside of their Nations uh we have things like the East-West Berlin Dynamic back during the Cold War we have very interesting things occur well the same thing's happening today and we now know it's become public record that there are secret Chinese police stations all over the United States that secretly detain and sometimes torture their citizens for saying or doing something and thinking that being in the US they're outside the reach of China well they most certainly are not the scary part about all of this you might think okay well this is kind of this is still pretty rare right it's pretty fascinating and and slightly terrifying that China you know is concerned about their own citizens this much but you know any historian is going to tell you this is not surprising at all so if we recognize this is happening and you know even though your average citizen out there in the United States is going to say well you know how does this affect me I you know after all I'm not a Chinese National living in the United States you know for those people man it sucks and you know I would be very concerned about you know being either you know assassinated or captured or imprisoned you know in some safe house that the Chinese government has set up in New York I'd be very concerned about that if I was a Chinese citizen you know not so much if I'm an American here's where it gets a little concerning for the American citizens listening and that is that the feds are now on to this and it has become so much of a problem that the FBI has set up a a a website and a hotline and and all kinds of threat intimidation guides to help citizens Escape their own Nation now again this is the FBI and it is very clear that the FBI has their own goals and those goal goals I do not think align with anything good but I it is very interesting that now the FBI is is quietly trying to spread the word about this and trying to address this issue of foreign police officers exerting their influence and taking jurisdiction on the U.S soil I have to be very careful when describing this because I don't want the runaway trains of the past we all remember that four month period of time where I was getting about 200 emails a day regarding uh people claiming that China had invaded Canada or that uh there were remember all those um uh cargo ships off the coast of California yeah yeah those uh shipping containers were all full of Chinese agents and Chinese spies and the Chinese military were planning to invade Via San Francisco yeah I've lived that nightmare of trying to walk that back and kind of show people that yes okay concerns valid it's not true moving on when it comes to this this is very much true and it is so much true that the FBI is now issuing memos to lower uh law enforcement you know local law enforcement agencies trying to explain to them that this is a huge threat now and to what should a local police officer do if they encounter a Chinese police officer trying to arrest a Chinese citizen on U.S soil that is a huge concern because the FBI doesn't do anything unless it has already become too much of a problem too too big of a problem so I just wanted to kind of point that out that uh this is a much bigger problem than just to see in an article there are actual agencies tracking this and trying to figure out what to do about it because again this is a foreign Nation conducting policing actions on U.S soil and that's a huge problem again for the average citizen out there what can you do about it I don't know I mean I'm just going to be completely honest with you and say look I don't think that the you know you can contact the FBI you know they've got a hotline they've got a number but I don't think it's going to help because at that stage good grief you know it's kind of a serious problem so so again I wanted to bring this up and make everyone aware that this is an issue so that when it becomes more of an issue in the in the future we can under have a basis for understanding of how all this works now again let me walk it back a little bit and say look I don't think you're going to walk into a Chinese police officer in your everyday life this is going to be a very select problem for a select few but hey if you're at a university you know and you've got the majority of say a nuclear engineering class is you know Chinese Nationals I mean when I was in college I had to take a few uh courses and uh the courses which were about things like uh energy policy and nuclear engineering turned out to all be Iranian students in one class I was one of three U.S passport holding American citizens and the rest of them were um either Iranian or Chinese Nationals so that's another problem for another day I suppose but for these people um you know if they're not spies themselves which I think you know a good portion of them are uh it's it's a it's a concerning thing especially for Chinese Nationals trying to flee China or flee Hong Kong or or things like that or or you know big names that have already left the country uh China is again a nation that is obsessed uh with not being humiliated and uh if you tend to humiliate China and you are a Chinese National well that doesn't tend to end well for you so again just wanted to bring it up and make everyone aware of this because this is going to be a huge problem for the foreseeable future I think moving on to the East Central midwestern region let's bring it back to our old standby of chemical manufacturing plants catching on fire and in this case our our winner for this time around is LaSalle County Illinois specifically Keras chemical hopefully I pronounced all that right uh they had a very large fire slash an explosion at their chemical plant and this one is very suspicious because the ex it started first of all with an explosion that began from inside a shipping container and um yeah kind of kind of suspicious there of course was nobody around the I don't know if the facility was occupied at the time of the explosion or not uh but there was no one around the shipping container when it exploded and also there is uh apparently Hazmat concerns because immediately following the explosion and multiple alarm fire uh a green oxidizing substance was observed to be leaking from the facility uh which had to be neutralized uh via you know various you know chemicals uh by firefighters so again not a super not a super great thing again when we talk about factories or or chemical plants or stuff like that you know blowing up or Catching Fire we have to look at you know everything we have to look at all sources right and one of the major things that I personally look for is all right was a facility abandoned at the time because if it was abandoned at the time that's going to be a a huge indicator that it it might not be as nefarious as you think because what is the point of a Black Ops wet work team you know attacking a facility that has no one working at it what is the point of some kind of social movement or domestic group I should say attacking a facility that's not in use right however we do see places that are abandoned burned down all the time due to drug use due to vagrancy due to a variety of factors right even even accidents or lightning strikes are the result of a lot of this with this plant they had just Broken Ground on a 20 million dollar expansion of the plant in August of 2022. so they were doing pretty good it seems they were expanding the plant they were looking at growing I've got a dozen photos online about you know showing their their grand expansion right and now suddenly their plant gets crippled by some kind of incident that we're not really sure about that started inside a shipping container very interesting I don't know if this plant has a history of safety violations my quick you know Google Foo did not really reveal anything usually if you Google one of these company names like the one last time I forget the name they had like a laundry list of fires and and and maintenance problems and staff having problems and it was just like an accident a day for years until you know the thing finally just just had enough and blew up this one I didn't really find anything now I'm sure somebody out there knows uh the history of this plant especially locals might know uh what's going on there but uh just let everybody know I wasn't able to find any kind of significant history of negligency at this plant at least for my my brief search so again we'll chalk that one up to some kind of you know incident and we'll just keep it in our memory and move on and wait for the next one moving on to the West Central midwestern region you guys get a reprieve from the bit of bad news this time around I wasn't able to find anything uh that occurred that was worth mentioning uh this time around I'm sure next time I'll find something but but let's go ahead and move on down to the southern border region and uh for the rest of the states that are in this you know kind of area I didn't really have much I really just kind of wanted to focus on the Texas border again and like I mentioned last time uh sorry I haven't really had time to drill down and and provide a lot of the information that I wanted to for this so let me just say this and that is the Border crisis is continuing and growing worse however the response to it is getting a little bit better in some areas but it certainly looks like the events over the past month or so especially with Biden's high profile visit down there uh this is a this is a losing battle particularly with the cross-border violence that is likely to occur from the incidents going on in Mexico now I know a lot of you wanted me to have a dedicated slide on this I got it I'm working on it I'm still building the maps for this and trying to figure out what's going on because I am not a South America analyst I'm not a Central America analyst I've never been there and I'm having a lot I'm having to do a lot of learning because um just you know spoiler alert the cartel situation in South and Central America and in Mexico is kind of complicated and it goes back kind of a long way so really what you need to know for now is that El Chapo's son one of the biggest cartel leaders in the area really the signaloa cartel right everybody's everybody's seen sicario right so no further explanation needed right well no really El Chapo's son was arrested and and uh the signaloa boys have have gotten a little spicy and they've basically declared a general mobilization against the Mexican Government until they release him well the Mexican Government is not going to release him he's going to be extradited to the United States or at least that's what they claim so far either way I I will I I will delve into the the situation in Mexico a little bit more at some point when I get time to actually learn about the situation and then I can you know speak more intelligently on it all we know is that you can hop on social media right now and see an awful lot of warfare going on in pretty much all over Mexico right now because of this now when it comes to the United States uh coming into the coming into the situation uh this just makes a bad situation worse right it makes an already tense board situation where there are thousands of active duty soldiers thousands and and hundreds of law enforcement from every badge you can imagine every agency you can imagine is down there at the border and you can argue whether or not that's enough people or not everybody knows that in no operation are you going to have enough people to do what you want to do but there are an awful lot of people down there it's a very tense situation there is a very high chance for international incidents right we have already seen cartel members attacking U.S soldiers who are standing guard on the border at some of these more high profile locations and it's not good there have been dozens of incidents since the start of this whole border crisis which granted is decades in the making but the bottom line is that right now it's pucker Factor 9.5 down there and it's not likely to get any better anytime soon so please be advised that this is a situation that's going to develop further now again to to keep things in perspective I don't think we have to worry so much about you know the cartels invading the United States that's not what I'm saying is going to happen uh we certainly have to worry about the humanitarian crisis we have to worry about the the immigration crisis or we have to worry about a lot of things but I'm not so much looking for cartel members trying to invade the United States that's that's not what's going on here what I mean is you're probably going to have a lot of U.S soldiers targeted uh either for political reasons or just because they're guys with guns in close proximity to other guys with guns who are probably very upset about the situation in their country right now so even though there is really no motivation whatsoever for the violence that's going on in Mexico to spill over into the United States there might be a little bit of a reason for justification now a huge flash point to look out for is when you see start seeing news headlines saying that the extradition of ovidio Guzman the El Chapo's son right uh when his extradition has happened okay because right now uh a judge in Mexico has has halted his extradition while they figure out what's going on here so again when that extradition takes place because it will most likely take place the US has been trying to hunt this guy for a long time ever since you know we got El Chapo himself this guy's a very senior member of the Sinaloa cartel so we're not going to let this guy get away if we have to go down there and get him ourselves which is most likely what's going to happen either way uh the bottom line is that for guys down there on the border if you see this dude's extradition is taking place because you're most likely not going to know about when it takes place ahead of time uh it's going to be handled by very special people in very special ways right they're going to sneak this guy back across the border into the U.S somehow well when that happens it's going to make the news and you need to be very careful about the situation down there on the border because then all those dudes with with guns were very upset about their their senior boss getting arrested uh they're now going to have a justification to start pointing those barrels towards the border so I just wanted to bring that up and mention that this is kind of a big deal and even though I'm not an expert on it right now I can clearly see the writing on the wall and that's probably probably not very good so again something to keep an eye on for the future and moving out west getting back to the tradition of things we have many many attacks that have occurred on electrical substations so again I'm not going to mention all the ones that have occurred in the Pacific Northwest in Oregon and Washington there have been around half a dozen or so within the past couple of months and they have ranged from possible theft to vandalism to tampering to actually like shooting it you know uh Transformers and things like that it's really kind of hard to say because a lot of these things are not they're not making the press in the way that you'd want them to make the Press because the major media is running the headline there's no information there because well you know Federal authorities are not going to release the details of these attacks to the mainstream public which on the one hand makes a lot of sense because the feds are obviously not going to want to encourage or or provide targeting guidance for people trying to Target other places around the country you know so keeping those details secret is it makes a lot of sense however by keeping things secret the general public and you know ourselves included are not able to discern why these places were attacked or if there was something that we could do to prevent it because for instance we're sending hundreds of millions of dollars to another country that shall not be named uh but if we can't afford a 50 padlock for a facility then that's a problem you know if we're not going to it's cheaper to file an insurance claim to get a half million dollar Transformer out to a specific site than it is to you know buy that you know security guard to stand there and watch it all day either way the result for people like you and me is the same we don't have electricity for a few days and this is a concern especially for uh incidents like the one that occurred at the PG and E facility uh really just a small uh substation well it really wasn't a substation it's actually a solar farm it provided uh power to a lot of the casinos in Las Vegas now this incident was very interesting and this was a I'm going to call it I have it on the slide Harris probable I'm going to call it an almost certain Islamic terrorist attack really the attack Vector was this it was a guy drove his vehicle into the mega array the solar array that provides power again for MGM Resorts uh in Las Vegas he rammed his vehicle through the gate and then some press reports are reporting that he siphoned gasoline out of the tank and set the Ablaze including the Transformer or some kind of electrical apparatus that he drove his vehicle into now you might note the date on this this occurred on January 7th slash eighth right we became aware of it on the eighth and it probably occurred overnight on the January on January 7th now this coincides interestingly enough with Al qaeda's usual yearly press statement so for the past few years Al Qaeda has you know still been around there's still a thing uh and they have issued uh directives slash like a happy New Year death to America message right and the one for this year specifically recommended uh their people to carry out attacks on U.S soil I think this is just me spitballing with very little evidence to back it up so just be aware of that but I think that's what the reason for this attack was I think that your your Lone Wolf attacks probably funded by some domestic U.S agency uh carry out these kinds of attack that's why I think we saw another attack in New York City Times Square on New Year's Eve a police officer was attacked with a machete uh and I think that's also why we're seeing some of these attacks right that message came out and you know your Lone Wolf extremists here in the United States were motivated to do stuff like that again it just kind of shows you that the counterterrorism has never really been an easy job but at the same time I would be willing to bet that these kinds of things are would have been easily preventable had the right people been working in the in the counterterrorism industry and had the counterterrorism agencies in the United States actually being concerned with tracking uh foreign terrorists rather than uh trying to Target parents at school board meetings but again you know there's no real way for me to describe this these kinds of things in neutral language anymore you know I just have to call it like I see it and you know I would be willing to bet my my thought is that around New Year's time we saw Al Qaeda release their message and boom now we have uh a few a handful of attacks happening in the United States low level attacks it really didn't have too much of of an effect but still it's like man hey a rookie analyst could have could have called this you know I mean these federal agencies are spying on us no matter what and they're investigating people for for speaking out of school board meetings but yet they can't actually dedicate time to conducting counter-terrorism operations that are relatively easy to do these guys would have been very easy to find because it's always like you know they were known to the FBI beforehand but anyway that's a whole lot of speculation that I'm sure you guys don't really want to hear so I'll just end my kind of ranting and raving on that for now and let's move to something a little bit more interesting and that is uh we're gonna skip over the entirety of Europe for now sorry guys and we're gonna move to kind of the the I don't want to call it a bigger threat but an interesting threat and that is the Far East yes the invasion of Taiwan by China the ultimate will they won't they this is something that has been debated by military strategists that get paid a lot more than me for a very long time and no one seems to have a really good answer for any of this will China invade Taiwan nobody knows uh we know generally what it would look like uh very very generally and we know that China has been making very strong aspirations toward the small island nation over the past well year few years but really the past few months for instance last month they launched one of their largest uh military exercises the largest one they've ever done which was like 70-something aircraft including bombers Fighters you name it it looked like it the party was about to start but uh they would have to have thousands of aircraft in the air for that but again I am not a Far East analyst I've never spent any time at paycom and nobody else here has either so I'm having to kind of get spun up on that as well the reason you might care about an invasion of Taiwan by China is well for a few reasons but really the the main theory is the the island chain Theory which states that if China is going to invade Taiwan they're going to have to keep going and they know that if they take Taiwan it's going to take the vast majority of their military and they're going to have to kind of expand into South southeast Asia and especially the South China Sea if they have any hope of winning that conflict uh really you can kind of very generally see where China is going to have to do exactly what Japan did during World War II they're going to have to take these small island chains Island hop as far as they can before before well the world mobilizes against them will this cause World War III I don't know um back in the day man when I was kind of like a junior analyst I always though

//The Wire//2300Z May 25, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: WEEKEND RHETORIC OF POTENTIAL PEACE DEAL IN MIDDLE EAST GIVES WAY TO RENEWED EFFORTS TO REIGNITE THE WAR IN IRAN. MULTIPLE INDUSTRIAL INCIDENTS REPORTED IN LOS ANGELES. PEPPER SPRAY INCIDENTS CONTINUE IN JAPAN. SHOOTING REPORTED AT WHITE HOUSE.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Japan: This morning a chemical incident was reported at Ginza Six Mall in Tokyo. One individual reportedly sprayed an unidentified noxious substance at one of the entrances to the mall, which resulted in many people becoming ill. 12x individuals reported throat pain, and a total of 25x people sought medical treatment after the substance was released. Analyst Comment: When it comes to chemical incidents involving unknown materials in public places, the potential explanations vary widely. In this case, the origin appears to be pepper spray, with some locals claiming that an argument between two foreign men devolved into one of the two pepper spraying the other. Officially, no statements by authorities have confirmed what happened. As always, incidents like this occurring in Japan are extremely rare as pepper spray is heavily regulated and illegal to carry throughout the country. Consequently, incidents which wouldn't be worth mentioning in the western world result in overwhelming responses in Japan, and in this case this is the second such incident this month. Two weeks ago, someone deployed pepper spray on a train at Kawasaki Station, which occurred without much media attention. -HomeFront- California: Multiple major industrial incidents have taken place in Los Angeles over the past few days. Several days ago, a chemical incident was reported at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove. The incident involved a cooling system failing inside a large tank holding about 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate (UN: 1247), a Toxic Industrial Compound (TIC) used in the manufacture of epoxies and resins. This is a highly unstable compound if not handled appropriately, which can result in chemical reactions taking place inside the tank if certain conditions are met. Over the weekend, these conditions resulted in the evacuation of roughly 50,000 people, with local authorities being concerned that the tank might explode. As of this morning, a crack had formed in the tank, relieving the pressure and reducing the risk of an explosion. Separately, a large fire was reported in South Gate, as an automotive facility burned Sunday afternoon. A shelter-in-place order was issued for the local area due to the smoke and the close proximity of the fire to residential communities. Localized power outages were also reported in the neighborhood, but power was restored after the fire was knocked down throughout the evening. In East Los Angeles, a spill of crude oil was reported after a telecoms crew installing fiber optic lines accidentally hit a petroleum pipeline, causing a rupture. This pipeline break resulted in a few thousand gallons of crude entering the storm drains in the vicinity of the intersection of Caesar Chavez and Eastern Avenue. Washington D.C. - Over the weekend, a small arms engagement was reported at the White House, after a man approached the perimeter fence with a handgun. Authorities state that one individual approached a Secret Service checkpoint and drew a firearm from a bag, before engaging the agents at the checkpoint at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Secret Service personnel engaged the shooter, ending the incident. One bystander was wounded during the incident. Analyst Comment: The suspect has been identified as Nasire Best, who had a long history of presenting security threats to the White House. Best had previously attempted to breach the compound in the past, and had also made verbal threats toward Secret Service personnel. In June of last year, Best was arrested after blocking a traffic lane entering the White House compound, and subsequently committed to a mental institution. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Over the weekend, several developments have taken place with regards to diplomacy in the Middle East. On Saturday, President Trump announced that a peace deal with Iran was "largely negotiated", subject to the final details being worked out. Almost immediately following this announcement, Iranian state media refuted these claims as not being true, or being different from what has been discussed so far during the negotiations. On Sunday, President Trump reversed his stance on the immediacy of the deal being reached, stating that he has instructed his staff to take their time regarding the details of a deal. This morning, the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that no deal is on the table, and the deadlock continues. As it stands, it's possible that the weekend shenanigans are the result of a few different theories. For one, the rhetoric from the White House could be the standard effort to calm economic markets. Normally, these "good news" social media posts are issued on Monday mornings shortly before the opening bell on Wall Street, but lately have also been taking place late in the week. Conversely, the confusing messaging regarding a potential peace deal could me more organic...it's not the first time that peace talks have collapsed at the eleventh hour all on their own, or from actions by parties around the region objecting to the deal in some manner. It's also possible that this is a repeat of the now long-forgotten final days before this war began, most notably what transpired in the 72 hours leading up to the February 28th attacks. In retrospect, history indicates that even as the last-minute negotiations were taking place, the decision to use military force had been made many days before the war officially began. Likewise, a similar situation might be getting set up right now; it is possible that the US is transitioning into a renewed targeting effort. Until something happens either way, the three main possibilities remain, just as they have since the start of the ceasefire: Either a deal is reached and everything returns to normal as best it can, or the U.S. returns to bombing and the war resumes, or the stalemate continues as before with no real change to any of the points of deadlock. Time will tell what happens next, but for now nothing is signed and the "pause" to the war continues. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.

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

hello again everyone and welcome back to a very long overdue intel update from the s2 underground before we begin i just wanted to apologize for the slowdown in video production lately we've had a series of unfortunate events happen in rapid succession preventing me from getting intel updates out firstly and most importantly one of our team members here has been a bit under the weather lately and the entire staff here has been working basically around the clock 24 7 for the past week or so taking care of him and besides that we've also been working on other projects as well which we have really been pouring our hearts and souls into which will not see the light of day for quite some time because of research and development another reason we haven't dropped an until update in a while is because of me i'm really the only one who works on these until update briefs and by now i don't really know what to say but since so many of you depend on these briefs for more than just their intel value i wanted to make a brief telling you that i don't know what to say the world is a crazy place right now and it's only getting crazier by the second and i can't think of many ways of talking about the issues we face without sounding like a broken record we're in that weird situation yet again where there's a lot going on but only so many ways to talk about it and only so many new solutions that we can come up with so today we're going to take a higher more strategic approach and i can at least show you some of where my own concerns lie at least over the immediate future and what i and the rest of the team here are doing moving forward as many of you who have been following us for a while already know there is an unfortunate phenomenon that occurs with pretty much everything we do which has become a sort of inside joke among the team here and that is that the harder we work on something the more unpopular it usually is and at this point it's pretty much a guarantee that the more important we think something is the more underwhelmed the masses of people on youtube will be and that's fine that's probably a good thing to be honest we're obviously not here for the masses we have always intentionally targeted a very small minority with our content anyway so with that out of the way let's get going with the classic quantity over quality shorter length brief and i'll put my personal gripes aside for another day and let's begin with logistics like i mentioned i'm going to try to keep this at a more strategic level mostly because i have no idea where shortages are located at this point let's face it our ability to track shortages was never really that good or accurate anyway but right now if it takes me two hours to verify with an 80 percent confidence level that a single tweet is true that's not really a valuable use of my or anybody else's time instead i'm going to focus on three main areas of concern that could get pretty spicy over the summer and those three areas are food energy and economics let's talk food first ukraine being the bread basket of europe leads to a few more immediate problems like a shortage of grain now again we must take everything with a grain of well grain i guess because for everything that i'm about to say one could easily say it's not that simple this applies to everything we brief but especially the grain situation in europe so keep that in mind is that this may be a simple explanation but it's a lot more complex than that right now the ukrainian war is going to have somewhat of an unknown impact on the growing season some people in the agricultural community say it's not going to have any impact at all uh some people are saying that it's going to be a lot more significant than we think whatever the case is ukraine provides roughly 11 to 15 percent of the world's grain and both russia and ukraine together provide around 30 percent of the world's wheat specifically and of that ukraine provides about eight percent now take those numbers carefully again because i have never found a statistic as hard to verify as that one is like honestly that's one thing that you'd think would be easily verifiable but the freaking media is at it again and i can't even find out with any reliability how much grain ukraine exports annually mainstream media sources and even scholarly journal articles are openly lying about how much grain ukraine and russia export because the mainstream media wants to push a narrative they want to push war and the idea that the ukrainian war the war that the media supports is causing food shortages in europe goes against their narrative it sort of removes a lot of the justification the media have pushed forward justifying the war in ukraine but anyway you've got to operate with some data right and since i can literally make up whatever statistics i want let's not use any number at all and break this down barney's style ukraine exports wheat russia exports wheat both countries together export a lot of wheat and that wheat goes to the rest of europe russia has been exporting 0 of their wheat for months they stopped all exports of wheat months ago in preparation for this invasion 100 of ukraine's ports are currently blockaded by the russian navy 98 of ukraine's grain is exported via these ports so using this data we can safely say that the largest exporter of grain russia and the fifth largest exporter of grain ukraine in the world have effectively stopped exporting grain that has to have some kind of impact and i can't imagine it's a positive one at least for europe and on top of this the planting season for grain is in the springtime right after the spring thaw can anyone think of anything that might be going on in ukraine that might impact agricultural pursuits exactly obviously not all agricultural operations will be impacted by the war but i can't imagine a war being great for sowing seeds the good news is that the spring planting season is largely negligible in ukraine roughly 95 percent of ukraine's wheat is winter wheat and that was already in the ground when the invasion happened so i don't really know what the impacts of that could be other than maybe getting it out of the fields when it comes to harvest time right honestly a bigger agricultural concern for ukraine at the moment is their barley and corn crop that could be a big problem if they have trouble getting seeds in the ground this spring or even later this year but we see how things start to snowball you've got a shortage now due to little exports and you'll have a shortage later in the year because of lack of planting or whatever those impacts will be again there's no way we could possibly know right we can't predict how the war will affect the planting cycle but it has to affect it some this will be made worse by fertilizer shortages which we have been seeing for a long time for us here in the u.s any kind of shortage of grain in ukraine will be negligible really we don't really have to worry about shortages of grain so much after all the us is a massive producer of wheat and corn as well this invasion especially the political actions is going to impact the global wheat supply for years again what those impacts will be i don't know but over the past two years the supply chain for every single thing on earth has been thrown out of whack so it would be wise to prepare for global food instability another major concern is energy and those concerns differ based on what continent you're on for us here in the u.s that means what we call pol or petroleum oil and lubricants expect anything fossil fuel related to either present vulnerabilities or be impacted by political and economic events over the summer so what does that mean in plain english well expect gas prices to stay pretty high for the time being right now the feds are trying to keep prices low by tapping into what little remains of our strategic reserves but our national petroleum stockpile was already at its lowest recorded level months ago so that's not going to be a safety net for too long our strategic oil reserves are just that strategic oil reserves i don't think that the regime will tap the reserves completely but that is a finite resource all those old salt mines down on the down on the gulf coast where our strategic oil reserves are located they're not an infinite source right and with opec looking to start accepting yuan in addition to dollars to pay for oil exports this could be a pretty big problem further down the line we will talk more about the economics of that in just a minute for our viewers in europe the energy concerns are much more pressing than high gas prices most european nations are extremely dependent on russian natural gas and some countries are cashing the checks that they wrote years ago such as germany being strategically dependent on solar wind and geothermal energy sources for critical infrastructure when your adversaries are still on petroleum well we're finding out just how bad of an idea that was germany is the poster child for this german politicians have constantly without fail made the worst possible decisions when it comes to energy production especially in the industrial sector just look at germany's decisions regarding nuclear power they are phasing out all of their reactors even when they know that they have nothing to replace them with that is as reliable and so throughout europe national level energy problems are cast down onto the people to deal with all around the world but particularly in europe we are seeing governments create problems in the citizenry trying to solve those problems and none of those problems has been so universal as energy citizens around the planet are buying up as many generators and fuel cans as they can afford same with consumer grade solar panels and don't even get me started on what lithium prices look like right now due to people and companies buying it up for building batteries throughout europe i don't know if there has ever been a time that energy was as unstable as it is right now so what does all of this mean well there are two conclusions for one if you want to have electricity when blackouts occur you need to create your own off-grid electrical generation methods whatever that is it's not as simple as buying a two thousand dollar solar generator and some solar panels that you fling out in the driveway when those power goes out in your neighborhood what are you going to do when blackouts or power surges or rolling brownouts become standard operating procedure in your area going on to a solar system temporarily is fine to run like some minor appliances charger devices things like that during a temporary emergency but when the brownouts become routine a more long-term solar setup would be something worth looking into secondly the same attitude applies with fossil fuels especially here in the u.s politicians will continue to throttle petroleum fuel sources because that is the one thing that people cannot reproduce in their backyard and transportation equals freedom we've talked quite a bit about why our politicians are trying really hard to restrict our freedom of movement here in the u.s but at this point it's extremely clear that the current political regime in the u.s is intentionally using energy as a weapon to control the people and if you don't agree with that fine i don't care the long story short is that the average american needs to be able to have transportation when the government is fighting with everything they've got to stop you from traveling what i think about the current political regime doesn't matter what you think doesn't matter either what's going to happen is going to happen and i would fully expect gasoline to be used as a weapon for the foreseeable future bottom line is that we citizens and the consumer market need to be figuring out alternative transportation right now if it's building or buying your own tiny electric car so that you'll at least be able to charge it up with the panels in your backyard that might be one solution buying a motorcycle or dirt bike which uses much less gas might be an option and there are a lot of electric dirt bikes out there that are the new hotness these days even an e-bike might be an option for some you don't have to stop showering start wearing sandals and use a magic crystal for deodorant just because you invest in some kind of electric transportation i myself think that electric vehicles are a fashion statement or a status symbol for most people and will not be replacing serious vehicles anytime soon however based on the energy instability that we have already seen including domestic attacks on our critical infrastructure i really think it's a good idea to at least have some kind of vehicular backup that can take over some tasks when the petroleum gets hit with a cyber attack or regulations or both and finally a massive concern far more troubling than either food or energy but also something that is completely out of the hands of citizens is economics specifically inflation a lot of people far smarter than us have been talking a lot about inflation for the past year or two and recently those concerns have become more urgent in the field of economics never have there been so many questions asked that no one has a clue how to answer are we heading toward a hyperinflation event what do we do to prepare for it what would a hyperinflation event look like considering that most currencies on the planet are pinned to the us dollar what happens when the world's fiat currency fails and can that even happen at all i'm not even going to pretend to have the answer to any of these questions and even economists that have spent their lives studying this can't really give us that much more advice we can read history and that gives us a pretty big advantage in every other problem we face but it's not as helpful as you'd imagine when trying to figure out how to beat inflation from the weimar republic to venezuela the circumstances for those hyperinflation events are just different enough from our own situation to not be particularly helpful now we will at some point throw together an in-depth study on inflation its causes and what you can do about it but spoiler alert there's not much that you can do about it it would be easier to repeal every single firearm law or regulation than it would be to stop the federal reserve from printing money so to me there are really only a few options that seem viable and none of them are particularly great the options are basically to jump ship converting a fiat currency into precious metals or a different currency that would retain value after a hyperinflation event in one currency though again seeing as the us dollar is the world's fiat currency pretty much if the us dollar fails it will bring down most other currencies on the planet with it at least in theory really the only things that we can do right now is buy as many goods as we possibly can right now so that when the inflation hikes those prices a year from now you will have supplies right spending a dollar on a can of beans now and storing it for a couple of years when the price of a can of beans is five dollars is a good choice at this point i myself am not prepping and stockpiling supplies because of shortages necessarily it's really just to save money in the long run when inflation gets out of control and let me just give you a personal example i have noticed as have most people noticed that my usual like non-prepping grocery bill per week or every two weeks or so has roughly doubled and you might ask yourself well why has it doubled and not just gone up based on the price of inflation so you'd think that your grocery bill would go up directly in correlation with inflation well here's the thing it's not because different companies are increasing their prices based on a few different things they're usually front loading that cost like for instance the other day i think aldi announced that they were going to increase their prices by like on some items by like 50 percent and you're saying whoa what what the hey why 50 like inflation is not at 50 if inflation gets to 50 percent we're in a hyper inflation event and it probably won't matter too much anyway um but so why are they increasing their prices that much well it's because they're front loading that cost they would rather bite the bullet now and take off a lot of their customers right now and make that profit so that when inflation gets a lot higher than that or inflation has already gotten higher and they've been taking losses this entire time well increasing their prices will is a way to correct that a lot of companies what they are doing is either front loading that inflationary cost and assuming that inflation is going to get higher or they have put off price increases for so long that they're now either taking a loss or they're basically making no net gain for some products and of course this varies product product and of course we're only talking about actual price increases we're not talking about things like shrink flation or stuff like that the reason being is a lot of companies what they have decided to do like apparently aldi is say all right customers we're going to have an inflationary price increase and there you go it's going to be you know in a couple of days at midnight all of our goods at this at this in this category are going to go up by this this amount of percentage and in actuality really the thing to do is for companies to adjust their prices based on inflation uh as soon as the inflation report comes out say all right we're going to increase our our prices of our goods by that amount but here's the thing there's a huge disconnect because inflation is a daily changing thing and usually by the time we have found out that inflation has gone up by x percent it's already too late we've already lost that value of our us dollar right so a lot of companies end up trying to front load this they're going to increase their prices by 20 by 30 to make sure that they only have to do one price increase this quarter and they can take those profits that they make like inflation is only at eight percent will they increase their prices by 20 percent they're going to take that uh difference in percentage and use that to front load um the the cost for when inflation does start creeping up if that makes sense that's probably a confusing way to think about it but a lot of companies are front loading this inflation issue they are increasing their prices by more than what the inflation is so that they can recoup those costs or predict where inflation will go so when you have that happen in every grocery store in the country with every product in a grocery store yeah your grocery bill goes up by way more than just inflation and i don't think people realize that sure people know hey man i bought the same amount of food as last as i did last week my bill is now twenty dollars more or thirty dollars more fifty dollars more people notice that but they don't they don't necessarily notice that it's a lot more than the inflationary percentage because a lot of people just they just they have a general idea of what they're spending on food granted a lot of people nowadays don't necessarily get their most of their nutrition from a grocery store most people eat out a lot so that's even harder to calculate prices because you're paying for the preparation and not just the raw ingredients but in any case hopefully that kind of explains why inflation is much more of a problem than you might think and it's costing you more than inflation you're pro you're not paying just inflationary prices you're paying for the prices of you're paying the price on things for where companies think inflation is going to go and that's results in a lot higher increase across the board again i want to talk more about inflation and specifically how individuals can make it through it and really if individuals in today's world can even make it through a hyperinflation event i really want to get down and talk a lot more about these details but i need to do a lot more research i need to do a lot more reading and i need to learn a lot more before i can formulate a decent opinion on what to do so give me some time to think about it i'll let the team here chew on it a little bit with me and we'll figure out something we'll see what we can do i know that right now i know right now the solutions for an inflation to to make it through inflation are not particularly either feasible or really great solutions so plus we're in uncharted territory when it comes to what the us dollar means to the world these days so stay tuned for that and we'll come back to the inflation issue in a separate video i guess the biggest concern of all is a combination of what second and third order effects will happen due to the food situation becoming more serious the energy sector being weaponized even more and inflation becoming a very serious threat as we all know by now events tend to snowball at the worst possible times so chances are these three concerns will rear their ugly heads in unison and all cascade to cause complications all at once that i really don't know what to do about there is no real way to be reliably proactive in determining what problems will pop up so i guess all we can do is be reactionary and mitigate our damages for whenever something does happen so there you go the three biggest concerns that i am most concerned about well at least in conjunction with censorship domestic spying and the other long-standing issues but food energy and inflation are really the the big three things i'm watching carefully and would expect to become big problems over the next few months so with that mountain of text out of the way and with this strategic stage set let's move to critical infrastructure first up is an issue that probably most people have not heard about at all and i wanted to talk about it today because it's sort of in the local military news um and that is the red hill bulk storage fuel facility scandal this has been a massive problem for i think about a decade or so this is probably the worst groundwater contamination event that no one knows about so here's the short version of what's been going on during world war ii the government was concerned about above ground fuel storage being a massive strategic target again hawaii small island chain needs a lot of fuel because it's it was headquarters for the pacific fleet you needed a lot of fuel tanks and having a lot of fuel tanks above ground is not a super great thing if you're getting bombed in a war and with world war ii kicking off the united states was certainly looking at hawaii being a vulnerability so they began construction of a series of massive underground fuel storage tanks under a volcano which became known as the red hill site these concerns were confirmed when the japanese attacked pearl harbor during the construction of the red hill storage facility so the fuel storage facility was justified financially by the feds and the navy continued building out the complex eventually consisting of 20 underground tanks each capable of storing roughly 12.5 million gallons of fuel well it turns out these suckers were actually built directly over an aquifer and have been leaking fuel into the groundwater for decades and the navy in classic fashion has been covering it up within the navy it has been pretty common knowledge that the tap water throughout pearl smelled and tasted like fuel but the navy ignored the problem and concealed several fuel leaks that occurred as far back as the 1990s until the civilian populace started getting affected and then the story blew open as it stands right now the hawaii state epa and the federal epa have rejected several of the navy's plans to fix the problems because the plans are not good enough the navy has been fumbling this problem for many many years now even after they got caught lying the navy doubled down and said that as recently as last november that the water was quote safe to drink but third-party testing immediately confirmed unsafe amounts of fuel in the water currently the us navy is not in compliance with the environmental orders that have been mandated by the feds or the state of hawaii a few months ago the dod kind of gave up on salvaging the site and mandated the complete defueling and shutdown of the site but since the site is so large it takes a long time to shut it down the reason that we're talking about this now is that there was yet another fuel spill a couple of weeks ago this time it wasn't much at all it was only about 30 gallons of fuel and water mixture so pretty much negligible compared to the tens of thousands of gallons of fuel that has been spilled over the past few decades the interesting part about this latest leak is really the reaction to it just read any navy times or military times article and you will immediately realize how those publications are mostly just propaganda tools now in any case i just wanted to mention this event because it highlights not just the contamination accidents that can occur but the decades of cover-ups that often go along with such events moving on down to the saudis recently opec has floated the idea of allowing china to pay for oil in yuan this means a lot of things and i could probably talk about this for quite a bit of time but the bottom line is that when the saudis even remotely consider another currency than the us dollar this signals their lack of faith in the us dollar of course it's not like the saudis are expecting the us dollar to fail as the world's fiat currency but it does signal that they are concerned and the saudis are like the russians they never take a dump without a plan so when the saudis start making moves with regards to the logistics of how to potentially continue their market for fuel in the event the us dollar has some problems well that should be concerning up next is not something that affects the united states so much at the moment but it is an infrastructure concern so i thought i'd mention it and that is the russian jamming of gps signals really this is a problem for a lot of europe mostly the countries that border ukraine but it is kind of spilling over into other areas in particular the french have taken note of this their regulatory agency dgac recently announced that russian gps jamming that is occurring in the ukrainian war theater is spilling over into europe and affecting commercial aviation finland has been reporting detecting gps jamming and spoofing for weeks now but the problem of commercial aviation being affected seems to be spreading um due to how radio waves propagate it makes sense that aircraft would be affected the most after all they're way up in the sky and have line of sight for hundreds of miles making them very vulnerable to gps jamming or even spoofing i guess in other words the russians on the ground might think they are jamming the gps signals of ground targets within a small area maybe a few miles but aircraft hundreds of miles away can and apparently are being affected by this again we're going to be talking a lot more about gps jamming and spoofing in the future because this is the future of warfare sadly and the ukrainian war has illustrated the importance of figuring out alternative alternative ways of navigation without gps you can see this in the us government in the military's bids and attempts to find non-gps related navigational tools or things for navigation in gps denied environments there's a lot of cool technology stuff out there really fascinating things that you can do but for the most part for us on the consumer level the lesson is learn how to use a map in compass because you can't go wrong with that right so moving on to number four there uh the biden regime changing the or rather increasing the ethanol levels in fuel the classic watering down the whiskey approach so when it comes to the biden regime increasing the ethanol levels or approving the increase of ethanol levels in fuel in an attempt to bring down gas prices a lot of people have come to a lot of conclusions or basically just had some wait a minute moments and one of those classic wait a minute moments is when the vitamin regime in one breath says that we're going to have food shortages here in the u.s oh and but by the way that corn that we're going to uh be short on we're going to use most of it to make gas or make ethanol for gasoline so a lot of people have have brought that up and i briefly kind of wanted to address that by saying that it's more complicated than that uh for one most agriculture in the united states is contract based so at the most the only thing that i can see this ethanol increase affecting food prices would be if farmers were to write new contracts for the production of ethanol grade corn so that and it's an opportunity cost basically farmers switching to ethanol corn rather than sweet corn which is what you eat they're two different products right so you're not going to have a direct correlation there the most correlation you might have is like i mentioned farmers deciding to switch to ethanol fuel production is that going to happen i highly doubt it because i cannot i have to do the math and kind of figure this out but i highly doubt that farmers are going to immediately start switching their crops and writing new contracts for you know thousands of acres of corn corn fields simply because biden temporarily increases the ethanol in fuel farmers are a lot smarter than that they realize that this is just a stop gap and then their fields are tied up for a long time based based on based on a temporary issue and the market price of corn could switch so i don't know that there will be a whole lot of farmers saying oh look biden just made it made ethanol lucrative let's go switch to ethanol and let's not grow food i don't know if that's going to happen or not but you can certainly make the argument and somebody who makes that argument i i wouldn't say you're wrong i'm just saying that i don't know we have clearly seen the biden regime attempt to get farmers to not grow food right remember there was reports from months ago we were talking about how the biden regime quietly increased a program or reauthorize a program or increase the amount of money you get for letting your fields return to nature right this whole environmental bs stuff that's done in the guys of a lot of political uh maneuvers so again i don't know if this is going to be a huge impact but it's i it's probably going to affect it some i just don't know i would think that a lot of corn farmers out there are probably going to stick with growing human corn because again shortages are probably going to occur in other kinds of staple goods and corn is a good way to fill those gaps i don't know though so i i guess we'll have to see but when it comes to fuel it's a little a little bit more clear just slightly when it comes to fuel prices this will probably have a pretty negligible impact for one the production of ethanol requires a lot of energy anyway and since the fuel is basically watered down even more than it already is you have suffering fuel efficiency so you basically have fuel gasoline that is actually more expensive per mile because it's more inefficient so you might run into the problem of gasoline costing 20 percent less yeah sure thanks biden the cost of gasoline is down 20 percent but it's 25 more inefficient if that makes sense now again i don't know what the math looks like on this uh adding more ethanol to fuel is probably not a net loss i don't know if this is going to be a net loss but it's got to be close like it's going to be like well gee thanks like you know fuel is 20 less but now i can go 25 you know shorter distances like did that really help me at all no i'm actually losing out oh and now you know now my engine is is all kinds of jacked up because of the increased ethanol so i don't know but i would think that when you factor in the energy needs to make ethanol in the first place it comes out to be not really a good idea either way i think the only result that's going to come of this is more inefficient gasoline people having to refuel a lot more often and potentially serious engine problems mark my words i guarantee you that there will be a headline in a few months from some mainstream media outlet to the effect of ethanol enriched gasoline causing problems for certain kinds of internal combustion engines and that the regime is going to come back they're going to be happy to explain this away with their classic tagline what are they going to say say it with me just buy an electric car right it's almost like a concert at this moment because you know exactly what uh what notes coming next so meanwhile the regime quietly renews oil permits for federal lands just because they know how much they're messing up i just thought it was kind of interesting that were that the solution for for fuel uh problems is to increase ethanol in in fuel and not i don't know maybe increase domestic production or renew some oil leases would be nice oh well they're quietly doing that too because they realized how much they messed up so very interesting stuff i don't really know if there's much more to add on that so let's move to significant governmental actions i'm going to move through this one pretty quick because a lot of this is either conjecture unverified or i really honestly don't know what to think about it just yet but i thought it's interesting so i thought i'd mention a lot of this stuff first up is the secret service spy network that's what i'm calling it because that's sure as hell what it seems like to me not really much is known about this at the moment but it appears it seems like two guys were able to pose as dhs agents and they were able to befriend bribe and kind of weasel their way into the personal lives of a lot of secret service agents including uh secret service agents who are on um either the vice president's protection detail or jill biden's uh presidential secret service detail depending on what news source you read it's really hard to figure out what's going on here either way there's some shady stuff going on and me being me with the experience i have i looked at this um i saw that somebody sent me this story and i thought ah okay probably some spy network or something um really that's usually what it is people trying to infiltrate now it's pretty bold um to go around you know impersonating federal agents it's a lot easier to either bribe or blackmail existing agents so i'm not really sure what's going on here these days in the world this isn't like you know an episode of the americans right it's not necessarily all about nation state espionage corporate espionage is huge and geez you might have private companies out there in other countries trying to infiltrate government assets over here in the us and vice versa for monetary reasons right it might not necessarily be uh some kind of nation-state level spying who knows though i think it's kind of interesting so i thought i'd mention it um up next is the whitmer the whitmer kidnapping plot and entrapment case you can read more about this if you haven't already but basically what we have been talking about with the michigan governor kidnapping scandal um was basically confirmed by uh the verdicts in that this case was basically a case of the fbi getting a lot of goobers together and trying to get them to kidnap the uh the governor of michigan classic entrapment case at least is what the court is indicating by their um judgments on this um so yeah uh again the fbi is more concerned with trying to get some you know idiots together to kidnap a governor than trying to uh protect us against any kind of terrorism so pretty standard operating procedure at this point just wanted to throw anybody just throw it out there for anybody who wants to read more about it that we have you know the final verdicts now and basically the case is closed at this point up next is the poison pill the infamous laptop right hunter biden's laptop um basically being confirmed to be real so it's something that is a huge rabbit hole if you want to go down i think it's interesting but i have not had the time to go through the hundreds of documents that have come out regarding the laptop and documents supposedly found on it the latest news is that one of the it guys that actually worked on the laptop was able to recover 450 gigabytes of deleted data and he has reportedly fled to switzerland fearing that he's going to be assassinated one i do want to mention though that i don't know if this is how accurate this is but one of the original it guys made a statement on it stating that the laptop only had a hard drive that was capable of 256 gigabytes so um he didn't want to rule out that the information on that that 450 gigabytes was was not genuine um he just wanted to stress that that could have come from cloud data or something like that but the original hard drive was only 256 gigabytes so there are a lot of copies out there of the hard drive allegedly floating around on the internet again we'll probably come back to this if something interesting comes out about it um and as time goes on i'll kind of be interested in seeing what's on that um laptop as would pretty much everyone but again the evidence is is pretty damning so far um with regards to emails um that have come out regarding the laptop so keep an eye on that and we'll uh we'll come back to that when we've got more information on it but number four is probably the one we've gotten the most questions about over the past couple weeks and that is um the atf shenanigans yet again i hate to burst everybody's bubble on this one but i'm really not going to get into the weeds with this too much other people far more well-versed people in the 2a community and in the gun community i have talked a lot about what these this new series of tyranny from the atf means what biden's actions mean and all that and what's in the text i don't know what it means i'm i know i should care i know i really should care a lot about this but i'm really struggling uh to to be personally motivated to care really about what the atf has done lately it's like every month they come out and they do something that yet that most gun owners are not gonna follow anyway so i don't know um i think that it's a smart idea to to figure out uh what is going on and what kind of angles are going after but again like i told you months ago they're gonna come after 80 kits like that's just a fact like when we saw that we got this hint when they raided all those companies that were selling um the 80 frames with the jigs and uh like parts kits and the slide and everything like that slides and barrels and parts kits and things like that uh when they raided those companies we saw the writing on the wall like anybody who did not see the next step was just outright ban 80 kits like what did you think was next so i don't know it's um it's important to keep track of the tyranny and what routes are going to go down but they're trying to outlaw as much as they possibly can and i personally saw 80 kits as being a huge target by the atf and the federal government so it makes sense that they would go after those at this time or eventually how effective is this going to be i don't know probably not very effective though probably about as effective as every other thing the federal government has tried to do with regards to gun control which is pretty much nothing um you know it's just i think this is probably my my personal apathy on this is probably just a reflection of where i think the rule of law is in this country at this time which is i think pretty pretty low i think that more americans than ever before don't really give a crap about federal gun laws anymore since there are inevitably federal agents watching this video there's really not a whole lot more to add on it other than what i think is going to happen i think that most people are going to do what they've been doing over the past year look at the data they're just going to not give a crap about what the atf is doing now what does that mean for consumer sales yeah people are going to snatch up every polymer 80 kit that there is they're going to snatch up every 80 receiver every jig kit it's going to be gone because market demand is how that works but as far as what this means i don't know i really don't know i don't think that most people will care um but as but when it comes to what the atf is going to do i have no idea so let me stop rambling on about 80 percent kids and let's end with ukraine and unfortunately i'm not going to talk about ukraine today and there's a few reasons for that for one i want to talk about ukraine in a more educational sense i want there are so many things i want to do when it comes to ukraine and i've got volumes already of personal notes the whole team here has volumes of personal notes on everything from the tactical lessons learned from ukraine to different ways of um changing our current military doctrine to what civilians can do we've got all of that we're learning an incredible amount of information from ukraine um and we're learning just how horrifyingly bad warfare actually is um but here's the problem censorship and this is something that we have been putting off talking about for a while just because it's it's not really relevant for most people i guess but here's the deal we got this email in our inbox a while back so did most people on youtube who have made youtube videos about ukraine and youtube is basically is not basically they are directly censoring us um this is we're not talking shadow banning or anything that's impossible to prove in a court of law no youtube has given us a direct order to not say certain things and that's my line that's that's my hard no not going to do that so here's what we're going to do if we do another ukraine brief if we talk about ukraine anymore we are not going to do so on youtube any ukraine videos that we put out we will uh put on other platforms we'll put it on patreon uh we have a utreon account now which is an alternative to patreon because patreon is not so great with censorship and utreon is is kind of the new hotness with regards to that so we're going to put our ukraine videos on there in addition to odyssey as well now what does that mean it means that most of you probably won't see the videos it means that the the algorithms that youtube does to put our ukraine videos in front of new viewers will not happen now i personally i personally would like to take all of our content and put it on odyssey or butreon or something like that i would love to do that but that's just not possible it's not feasible just take any just just as a personal experiment take any of our videos any pick any of them you want take that video and look at the number of views it got on youtube and then go look over on odyssey and see how many views it got and you'll see that it's a night and day difference even though in the description of every single video we put out the odyssey link where you can watch the video you know ad free in any case we're not in the business of farming for views here but we also want to grow we want to expand our horizons and we want to expand other people's horizons and and by putting all of our content on a smaller platform people are not going to see it and that's a problem because we want we have so many different things that we want to do and so we kind of have to do what most people do on youtube and that's play by youtube's dumb rules um and but but here's the thing though there is a line with that and youtube wants to shadow ban us fine don't care nothing i can do about it if i had a team of attorneys there's no way that i could fight that in court because you can't because their processes are closed and proprietary but here's the thing again like i mentioned youtube sent us a direct order as to what we can and cannot say and that is a no-go in my book so again like i mentioned if we end up talking ukraine again in the intel update uh format um we're not gonna put it on youtube um i'm not playing anymore with regards to that what we might end up doing is splitting a brief whereas you have part one of a brief on youtube which is plays by youtube censorship rules right and so that people know that it exists and in the video i will point you to part two which is the stuff that youtube will not allow us to say um hopefully we can make this work um again we've been super busy the past couple of weeks and we just got this notification a few days ago so we it's been hard for the team here 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the s2 underground project shut it down and never produced another thing last year had it not been for your support because it wasn't a viable option for helping people but it is now and we are planning to expand quite significantly over the next few months we're going to be doing a lot of different kinds of things believe it or not we don't just make videos on youtube we do other things as well and we're going to start releasing some of the projects we've been working over the next few months hopefully if we can get some some of the kinks worked out in our system so again uh stay tuned i know i keep saying that but good things are coming we've got a lot of things that i think will be very helpful very handy to have and [Music] that's going to be a huge priority for us moving forward so we're going to continue the update briefs we're going to continue as much as we can we're going to fight censorship on youtube as best we can and if there's a way that we cannot avoid censorship on 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hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground man it has been a long time since I've put out a brief so hopefully we'll be able to get through some of the issues that have been kind of a top priority for us here over the past few weeks just a small administrative note I'm actually still working on the format for this brief it's going to change quite a bit I think as we move forward and try to figure out some of the more interesting things to talk about so for now really the only thing that I'm going to talk about in the domestic United States is petroleum oil and lubricant production we'll jump back to the more kinetic incidents and some of the more interesting critical infrastructure stuff but like I said I've got a lot of catching up to do and a lot of data to sift through so we'll have to revisit that at a later date but for now I have primarily been focusing on Pol or petroleum oil and lubricant refineries based on how often very large facilities have exploded or caught fire lately I thought it prudent to start cataloging the major incidents that we have seen this year so far this year the most serious incidents that we have seen have been the fire at the BP husky Toledo Refinery which ended up killing two people and the incidents surrounding the marathon refinery in garyville starting with the BP husky Toledo incident both BP and federal investigators have been pretty tight-lipped regarding the incident that claimed the lives of two Refinery workers this is completely expected following such a serious event that results in the death or Serious injury of workers the long-term effects of this plant being offline are unknown but as it stands one of the largest refineries in the Great Lakes region is offline and from what I can tell the entire Refinery is offline and unfortunately it's pretty likely to stay offline for a significant amount of time because BP just announced significant layoffs at this facility following the fire moving to the marathon refinery in garyville unknown parts of the facility are still offline following a fire and possible explosion which resulted in unknown damage back on October 7th that's pretty much all I've got a big fat nothing do don't know any more than something happened don't know what don't know how bad it is and don't know when the facility is going to be back online this incident is interesting because as some of you may remember this is the second incident involving the garyville refinery this year back in February this facility suffered an explosion in one of the towers that are used to process distillates for gasoline Diesel and jet fuel though like anything surrounding the Pol refineries the details on these incidents are sketchy at best so we never really get precise details following any incident either way it's not a good thing when things keep exploding at the third largest refinery in the United States moving back in time a bit we remember that this hasn't been a good year for Valero who has witnessed several large Fires at their refineries around the country this year back in April we saw a very large fire at their complex in Monroe Louisiana which injured eight workers and more recently a large fire broke out at their Corpus Christi facility on November 3rd wrapping up the recent events that surrounding our Pol refining capabilities many refineries are offline on the west coast for both planned and unplanned maintenance such as two Phillips 66 refineries in Washington state and in California so some of you might be asking so what well the bottom line is that even though we're dealing with a lot of unknowns it can't be good for this much refining capability to be offline at once again we are missing crucial data we know the total production capacity of every single Pol refinery in the U.S but when you start factoring in partial shutdowns or planned maintenance with unknown timetables we can't really get a good beat on what the bottom line is it's not like the colonial pipeline incident when basically the entire network was dead in the water for six days or so most of the specific data that we need to understand what impacts these shutdowns will have is either proprietary data that you have to pay thousands of dollars for or again concealed for national security reasons wouldn't be a super good idea to point out exactly what the vulnerabilities of our refineries are however we can generally say that again this many refineries being offline down for maintenance damaged in some way or still recovering from damage that occurred years ago is not good for our national energy security Now the next question becomes why why are so many refineries burning or exploding lately is this out of the norm or is this something that we're just noticing more well we can get into the specifics of the reported incidents at a later time because there are complex problems with the ways that these major events are reported but generally speaking I think that these major incidents are the result of a few factors which are overstretched Crews inexperienced workers increased demand resulting in maintenance issues poor maintenance in general and of course the more deliberate actions that while probably rare we will never know about but nonetheless must factor in as well after all we cannot completely dismiss the in insane rhetoric that we're seeing from world leaders specifically regarding energy whatever the reason for these fires or explosions we will never get enough info to make a call either way what all of this really means is that we are really counting on all of the workers at these types of facilities to be vigilant and be careful the average citizen can't do a John Brown thing about a Refinery fire all we can do is Observe and plan accordingly if a Refinery fire breaks out that is going to immediately impact prices or availability as was the case with the fire at the Whiting Indiana facility back in August so if you work at a pol Refinery or really any large industrial facility please be careful and remain Vigilant you are on the front lines and the first and sometimes only barrier preventing a lot of really bad things from happening anybody who's worked in Industry knows that oftentimes safety takes a back seat especially if your supervisor says do this or you're fire third but the game has changed now and a large industrial accident that could have been prevented is not just going to hurt a company's bottom line it's going to directly impact the lives of everyday citizens likewise pay attention to your company's security practices if you see someone you don't recognize in a place where they are not supposed to be say something take a few minutes to check out your work center and make sure that everything is where it's supposed to be and that the right stuff is tagged out and that there isn't anything extra hanging out in the workplace you all know what to do I certainly don't need to lecture anyone I just think that at this point the only thing that we can do is remain Vigilant report safety or maintenance violations when you can and keep an eye out for anything shady moving on to significant governmental actions uh the Biden regime announced this week that they will continue tapping into the Strategic petroleum reserves releasing another 15 million barrels shortly before the midterms the short-term impacts of this are of course gas prices being kept artificially low even though nationally gas prices are creeping up again in places like California as the midterms are now over we might see the Biden regime slow down on tapping into the spr as a motivation to keep gas prices low is not really necessary anymore at least until the next major election in 2024 or until some other distraction is needed on a national scale the grand strategic question is and has been how far will the Biden regime go will they continue to tap into the spr until there simply is nothing more to tap I don't think anybody knows that at this point clearly we have the benefit of data we know how much Pol we consume nationally and we know how much we are importing and producing here at home and we know how much the spr currently holds when the spr starts running dry the Biden regime will be faced with a rather Simple Choice considering the complexity of the Pol industry either increase Imports or increased domestic production clearly Biden's visit to sweet talk the Saudis back in June didn't work out as OPEC just a couple of months ago announced that they would be cutting production granted OPEC doesn't necessarily put all of the weight of their decisions on their relations with the United States but there is enough of a link there to be concerned either way the clock is ticking it is true that even though the very first executive order Biden signed was to negatively impact the Pol industry the Biden regime has also quietly renewed some oil leases out west in order to boost domestic oil production most people think it's too little too late and only lip service but at this point it's something I guess as always it's hard to say how much of an impact these things have and the average citizen is most likely focused on the political and social implications rather than the large strategic economic ones it's quite clear that there is a concerted effort being undertaken by powerful governments individuals companies and non-governmental organizations which are intended to control populations via High petroleum prices and availability too you can't effectively organize a Revolt if you have to choose between food and a tank of gas and both food and transportation are actively being used right now as Weapons by governments all around the United States and around the world speaking of power and control the Biden regime has also declared that they will be extending the c19 emergency until April of next year in a move that surprises literally no one not much to say about this one other than when April rolls around it'll be extended again and again and so on again not much to say on that just wanted to let everyone know who had not heard moving on to the more spicy event that has come to light we at last have the still breaking FTX crypto laundering Scandal here's a brief rundown of what's happened FTX was the fifth largest cryptocurrency Exchange in the world or at least it was up until a few days ago when their founder and CEO Sam bankman freed suddenly got on a plane and disappeared into the night urging that there had been a Cyber attack and for all users to delete all FTX software immediately well details are still kind of sketchy but it seems like bankmen and other senior FTX staff had installed backdoor code into FTX software that allowed them to literally drain every user's account or at least that's what many users have reported after they logged in to see that they had a balance of zero due to the nature of how cryptocurrency exchanges work it's not clear as to how much money has been stolen so far figures have been in the ballpark of a few hundred million dollars worth but some estimates have been as high as tens of billions of dollars here's where the story gets a bit sketchy and also why you will not hear much about this at all from corporate Media or at least they're not going to make the link and that is the relationship between the Democratic party FTX and Ukraine what is Undisputed fact is that FTX had partnered with the state of Ukraine with President zielinski personally being involved in ftx's plan to quote turn a bit coin into bullets many of you remember that Ukraine had set up a specific banking system in coordination with Ukrainian Banks so that money could be sent by anyone around the world to support Ukraine's efforts to Stave off Russia's Invasion at the time this was touted as a way of preventing the usual fraud among ngos that happens during every crisis fake Charities pop up and money gets stolen or otherwise doesn't make it to the intended recipients we all know how less than honest individuals sometimes make their way into the charity world so this system was touted as one of the first options that people had to donate money and be sure that it actually didn't make it to who needed it claims which were backed up by Ukrainian Banks well it turns out that this system or at least the cryptocurrency side of the system that was maintained by FTX was all a scam FTX was the major entity who accepted donations of cryptocurrency and exchanged that currency for the fiat currency that the Ukrainian government need needed to run the war remember all of this was blessed off by the Ukrainian government and the donation page itself was literally hosted by the Ukrainian government on a government website a website which mysteriously vanished a few days before the FTX Scandal broke so the picture becomes a bit more clear but wait there's more Sam bankman the founder of FTX was the second largest donator in the history of the democratic party coming in just behind George Soros in terms of campaign donations for the midterm election that we just had a few days ago this is especially troubling considering how much of our tax money has been sent to Ukraine we have all been following the reports of the donations of U.S tax dollars to Ukraine but we never really see the meat and potatoes of how and where that money gets transferred we just see reports of Congress agrees to send 37 billion more dollars to Ukraine we don't actually see the account numbers that this goes into or how these transactions are handled what we see is the US government pumping U.S tech tax dollars into the money pit of Ukraine we don't know where it goes and the half-hearted attempts to provide some accountability for that money have not been fruitful at all and now we find out that the guy who's neck deep in the entire world of Ukrainian Finance has absconded with the doe oh and by the way he's one of the largest Democratic governors in history and he only created FTX in 2019. so the internet is a blaze with people being flabbergasted and incredulous that the following scenario has actually gone down the general thesis that many people seem to see right in front of their eyes is that the US government gave Ukraine a lot of money which was how should I say put in the washing machine and transferred back to the Democratic party in the form of campaign donations if this is true or even a shred of it is true then this would obviously be a pretty bold move and one might call it the crime of the century though in my opinion the crime of the century has already occurred anyway this incident is almost 2 insane to believe even after all of the stuff we've been living through over the past couple of years I myself do not know the full story no one does just yet but I am inclined to believe that what happened is exactly what we think happened even though we do not precisely know how U.S tax money is at play here we don't know how that factors into the whole crypto thing and how finances were transferred or if U.S tax dollars were a part of this fraud at all I'm still inclined to be a bit pessimistic on that front however taking a step back for a moment to look at things strategically if this is true then I think we have much less time than we think we do a washing operation as bold as this one potentially compromising official US Government transactions of U.S taxpayer money man Bernie Madoff had nothing on this accepting of course the c19 and Jab issues this could very well turn out to be the crime of the century oh but the two incidents are not entirely unrelated because you want to guess who funded the research that so-called proved that Ivermectin did not work yeah that research was funded by a group called together which was bankrolled by you guessed it FTX so there's that anyway it's also tiring and can be quite depressing if you dwell on it so we'll just leave it there for now and we'll come back and talk about some more details that are sure to come out over the next few weeks that pretty much wraps up the domestic issues for now we'll focus more on some more specific issues at a later time but right now let's jump to Europe there have been many major incidents that have taken place since the last brief but I wanted to focus on just two events for right now first up was the attack on the nordstream LNG pipelines in the Baltic Sea here's what we know so far back on September 26th the terminal operators detected pressure drops on both the nordstream one and two pipelines various Naval forces were dispatched to the scene of the suspected leak where this large kilometer wide gas field was discovered over the next few days several more leaks were detected additionally various military sonar arrays throughout the region reported hearing underwater explosions at the same time the leaks were detected clearly this was a deliberate attack an act of sabotage the question remains to this day who did it taking a step back for a moment I must acknowledge how serious of an event this is and that I cannot really go into much detail about what I'm about to say some of you might know that I have a bit of professional history surrounding undersea cables and pipelines most of the information surrounding what goes on down on the sea floor is very very secret and exactly what's capable is not public knowledge so all of that is to say that when I first heard of this attack I became more concerned than I have been in a very long time I truly thought that nukes would be in the air by the end of the day and that's because this event is again supposed to be one of the opening moves of a war with Russia throughout intelligent circles The Cutting of undersea cables and pipelines has widely been considered to be one of the opening moves of World War III this is because both the US and Russia the two biggest power players in the undersea game are traditionally believed to reserve such actions only in case of War it's what's been done and prepared for since the Cold War and there's just a sort of cultural understanding out there it's very similar to the idea of ballistic missile submarines we here in the U.S have ballistic missile boats and so does Russia and we both have fast attack Subs shadowing each other's Boomers pretty much at all times the understanding is that if anyone gets the order to launch the ballistic sub gets their missiles off or at least tries to before the other guy's fast attack boat Torpedoes them that's just the understanding that's in place a grand game of nuclear chicken similar situation with undersea cables both the US and Russia play games and we map and tap each other's cables or at least try to Russia doesn't have too many undersea cables or pipelines but of the few pipelines that Russia does have arguably the two most important are the Nordstrom one and two pipeline systems so here we are again witnessing an event that is by all historical accounts supposed to be one of the opening moves of a very kinetic nuclear war both cable and pipeline cutting are on the list of things that have happened already this year so maybe I need to take my own advice and reassess things from a 5th generation Warfare perspective sure anything can happen but two months have elapsed since the attack on the Nordstrom pipeline systems and we haven't all been burned up to a crisp adjust yet but the question remains who did it to that my answer is this every 5i partner plus Norway Sweden probably Denmark and the Netherlands and of course Germany as well all of these entities know 100 percent who the real culprit is these nations have spent an obscene amount of money and dedicated a significant portion of Naval intelligence to tracking Russian vessels particularly the ones capable of laying charges to to cut pipelines so the US government knows for sure who did it and of course I know it when we look at the list of Nations that can do something like this we're looking at pretty much anybody this is mostly due to the depth at which the attacks occurred if we're talking a super deep depth only accessible by especially crafted submarines we would really only be looking at just the us or Russia having this capability however since the leaks occurred in comparatively shallow water the list of suspects is pretty large so let's take a look at motivation let's let's see who would be motivated to blow up the Nordstrom pipelines well we can rule out Germany since that pipeline was their most direct source of natural gas at least prior to the Diplomatic problems that arose from the Ukrainian War just to be clear as a side note the pipeline wasn't actually in use at the time of the detonations which has been kind of the result of the Diplomatic deadlock regarding energy and the Ukrainian War speaking of the Ukrainian War what about Russia Russia built and owns both pipeline systems so what would they have to gain by blowing up their own pipeline well for one Russia could blow up the pipelines knowing that Western Powers wouldn't be willing to show the highly classified proof that Russia did it which would allow Russia to avoid the international finger-pointing that comes whenever they throttle the Pipelines so Russia could get what she wants denying Europe a critical supply of natural gas while at the same time remaining blameless that works right well not so much the issue is much more complicated than that for one and secondly Russia has so far been content to throttle the flow of natural gas whenever needed why would they blow up something when they can simply throttle it plus ever since the Ukrainian War has kicked off again in Earnest Russia would have to expect that Europe would sanction the pipeline anyway so it wouldn't be a solid source of income granted the situation for liquid natural gas in Europe is pretty desperate right now so who knows what Germany in particular might have done so we're sort of stuck aren't we well not really who do I think blow up the Nordstrom pipelines I think the United States did it why do I think that well it's pretty simple let me answer this first question first if Germany if uh if Russia invades uh that means tanks or troops crossing the uh the the border of Ukraine again then uh there will be uh we there will be no longer nor stream too we we will bring an end to it what what how will you do that exactly since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control we will I promise you we'll be able to do it yes that was a clip from February of this year in which the president of the United States clearly and directly threatens the Nordstrom pipelines granted Biden does not directly say we will blow up the pipelines but come on man I think that's pretty clear so if we take this quote at its full value I think that's that's pretty I mean that's clear enough for me to draw an assessment however if we wanted to go a step further and just and recognize the fact that a lot of times Biden doesn't really know what he's talking about we can look at the international reactions to get a better understanding of who it might have been and that's really the other main reason that I think it was the United States the the reactions of nearby Nations while the blasts took place in international waters the blasts were within the economic exclusion zones of both Sweden and Denmark both of which have stated that they are not treating this attack as an attack on their nation which is fishy because they certainly could have made that claim and militarily have been preparing for just that scenario for decades it's a case of militaries preparing for X event training long and hard solidifying their response if x event occurs then X event does occur and suddenly everybody's all about solving the problem diplomatically it doesn't make a whole lot of sense granted I do have a sneaking suspicion that based on what I've seen over the past few months world leaders are genuinely concerned about starting a kinetic World War III uh I think that of course this is an issue to get more into at a later time so I don't want to digress too far but I do think that despite the fact that we're fighting you know in a military-industrial complex and a lot of money is being made on all sides by the threat of conflict throughout Europe I don't think that anybody really genuinely wants it to actually break off you know break out in Earnest which is some halfway good news I guess because it seems like everybody had the justification to do something militarily about this pipeline issue and no one has everybody is trying to kind of sweep it under the rug now this could be because the European nations are genuinely concerned about poking the Bear in any meaningful militarily you know way not just rhetoric they could be concerned about that for real or it was the United States and they knew about it ahead of time or they figured out so they're not trying to push the investigation too hard either way I am absolutely positive that the dudes over in the Russian Gucci directorate are punching the air right now because blowing up pipelines and cutting cables is pretty much the only reason they exist so all in all what does this mean well the entire Nordstrom project is probably dead in the water so to speak repair is going to be tricky the issues of corrosion and winter weather being the chief concerns plus nobody's really keen on rebuilding a pipeline that's just going to sit there idle anyway as long as the Ukrainian War rages on and Western hysteria continues with it the North Regine pipeline project is probably probably going to be over it will be interesting to see what the Western response will be in the long term though we've already seen levels of mild-mannered temperance that are only present when one is the culprit of what one is investigating so time will tell what washes up with this one in a similar vein the other major supposedly World War III starting event occurred just a couple of days ago and this was the missile strike that killed two farmers along the Polish border these two farmers were killed by at least one projectile at approximately the same time that Russia had launched a large-scale rocket artillery barrage in Ukraine initial reports were that the one or possibly two projectiles that killed the farmers were an errant missile fired by Russian forces however subsequent analysis of some of the debris revealed that the projectile may have been a missile from a Ukrainian s-300 air defense system right now a lot of finger pointing is going on with all sides engaging in prop propaganda as expected the response from Ukraine Poland and the rest of NATO has been very telling in the minutes after the incident The only voice we heard was zielinski's who was foaming at the mouth to get Poland to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter which is the one that refers to an attack on one member state is an attack on all in other words zlinsky wasted no time at all to draw NATO into their War just as he is done from the very start also interesting has been the response of the United States seeing as the United States has also been chomping at the bit to further their money laundering operation in Ukraine the United States has been very quiet the Pentagon immediately issued a press statement basically saying we can't corroborate that the missile was Russian in origin and Biden outright refused to answer the reporter's question on the topic as well pretty fishy for a regime which has been looking for every opportunity to expand the conflict perhaps most troubling has been Poland's response which was quite serious as you would expect following the death of Polish citizens for a while their Poland was was considering activating Article 4 of the NATO Charter which basically invokes military consultation of member states and Poland still might do that that would be probably the minimum that they would do if the missile had actually been Russian in origin uh we would be looking at the classic military response of some kind of surgical strike on probably the facility that launched the missile or the unit that launched it but now that we find out that the missile that killed two polish citizens is almost certainly Ukrainian in origin well now the rhetoric has completely changed and the incident is now quote an unfortunate accident I feel like NATO and Poland are going to brush this one under the rug and try to memory hold this one why well there are a few theories that I and most of the internet immediately had the fact that Ukraine immediately called for Article 5 to be invoked was suspicious especially considering the speed at which this announcement was was made right it's almost like it was pre-prepared I mean the crater was still smoking when zielinski got on t TV and made his claims that you know Nick Poland should invoke article 5. so this whole incident is so fishy that many people are thinking that this whole thing was intentional on the part of Ukraine and intentional false flag attack intended to force NATO into the conflict the whole thing gets a lot more fishy considering that Lloyd Austin the U.S Secretary of Defense during a press conference made the statement that Ukrainian air defense Interceptor missiles have had a 100 percent success rate meaning that every interceptor missile that has been launched has destroyed its Russian Target or functioned as intended so the story that this might have been a malfunctioning Ukrainian missile that missed the Russian missile it was aiming for and landed in Poland that story you know it would have been likely in any other situation but man as time goes on it's looking less and less likely but again this is all very heavy with speculation at this point I think that once again the larger lesson here is to be very careful where you get your information from I myself have taken step back or rather a giant leap back from All Things Ukraine because the truth is completely non-existent regarding most things that have happened during the war so far sure there are lots of smaller more tactical Lessons Learned you know that stuff is helpful but if I had to pick one lesson that I've learned so far it's that fifth generation Warfare is real and that this war is just as much of a psychological one as it is physical so when it comes to where things stand right now the situation throughout Europe is tense for sure and will be so for a long time the impacts of cross-border fires whether it's an intentional false flag attack a genuine mistake or something else combined with blown up pipelines will most certainly be felt intensely for the foreseeable future fortunately neither event has resulted in us being burned to a crisp at least not yet and all that somewhat cheery news I think we'll wrap things up for today am I concerned about the fate of Europe and by default the rest of the world yes absolutely I can only say I'm concerned so many times before it gets tiring but we'll carry on we're already far past my own personal benchmarks for when I would have imagined a global war to break out which I think means that World War III has already started as I've been saying for about a year now can we walk things back and head in the right direction sure will we I don't know either way the result is the same for average People Like Us make good decisions learn new things meet new people and drink some water taking things one day at a time certainly seems to be a good place to start so let's keep doing that anyway that's all I've got for now I hope to finish up some of the more doctrinal stuff we've been working on pretty soon here so stay tuned for that and of course we'll be working on some communication stuff in the near future as well so thank you again for all of your support and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for wednesday the 18th of november and as always it is being recorded the day prior on the 17th of november so let's get right to it because we've got a lot of stuff to talk about today but first kind of a quick heads up we've noticed that based on a lot of the dms and emails that we've gotten that a shocking number of people don't actually check out the description box on these videos and we tend to put a lot of information down there we have chapters if you don't want to hear me ramble on about a specific topic you can just click to the section you want to hear we've also started to include lots of other information and any corrections that we have once this video goes out because obviously we can't edit this video once it goes out so it's going to stay on the internet forever and the only way that we can kind of make slight changes is in the description box right we're certainly not perfect so if there are 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because we've got a lot coming out uh that's going to be on the other channel i haven't we haven't decided if we wanted to do dual posting over here on this channel and the other channel just yet we may at first i don't really know just yet because the war kitchen as anybody knows a new youtube channel has a hard time getting started and even if you were as of right now i literally just tried to search for the war kitchen in youtube and it's not even coming up even though it already has several thousand subscribers so youtube doesn't like new channels so we might have to see how that goes but i just wanted to let everybody know that we've started this new channel because the war kitchen stuff is just different enough from the actual like intel stuff we do that it kind of warrants its own thing so that's what we did so let's get right into this with the weather winter is definitely upon us for at least for isr weather concerns uh for most of the country with really uh heavy with cloud cover and things like that so lots of different uh aviation concerns for any kind of aerial operations and also right now we're we are in a green illumination cycle so it's going to be a really full moon 97 percent illumination gonna be a really bright moon and also moon's going to start rising a little bit earlier in the night so at least for today for the next 12 hours the moon's gonna be rising in the afternoon at 4 35 pm and continue to grow and get above the horizon and get really bright as the night goes on and for winds for the next 18 hours as you can see pretty powerful winds up in the northern regions as that winter weather starts to creep in and like i mentioned mostly the eastern u.s is going to have most of the warnings and things like that moving forward for the next couple of days moving into no tams really there are only two of note of course they're both presidential this time around uh the first one being the standard vacation no tam at over biden's house in wilmington delaware and also uh biden is planning to go uh to detroit michigan actually as of the recording of this i should already be there so uh by the time this video goes out the snow temp will of course expire on the 18th uh but yeah i just wanted to point that out for anyone interested as far as civil unrest goes really the flavor of the week is of course the issue that everyone's talking about the kyle rittenhouse trial so i'm not going to delve too much into the trial itself but as of the recording of this there has not been a verdict so really everybody's just kind of on pins and needles waiting to see what happens a few people are saying that it's there's going to be violence no matter what because there have already been decently violent uh demonstrations so far and the trial wasn't even over yet and also a lot of very famous people with a lot of influence on social media have been encouraging violence in the local area as well as other major u.s cities it's not just kenosha that's that's a huge problem or where the threat exists so so far uh really we haven't done the analytical leg work to kind of figure out what the threat assessment for this is because it's just really unknown we've got winter weather creeping in and usually colder weather prohibits people from demonstrating slash rioting slash looting but that will almost certainly occur on some level no matter what happens the national guard has already been activated as i'll as i'll mention here in a bit uh for this but again they're not really being staged in any productive manner at least from what we can see for right now and it's really just kind of wait and see mode and see how see how the rioting goes and then i guess everybody will kind of assess things once that happens so we'll talk more about that in a minute let's move right into logistics all right so moving on to logistics a pretty big change to this slide i've just finally decided that it's a lot simpler and easier to put an actual legend on this slide because far too many people could not read and uh it was just getting in the way of things so i finally made the the column on the left hand side of the slide an actual legend for what's on the screen it makes it a little easier for people to screenshot if they wanted to share it and things like that and we'll talk about the national level concerns here in a minute but as far as events from last time school bus driver shortage continues however massachusetts their mission for their national guard driving kids to school that mission is complete and we'll talk more about that in just a bit again when we get to the national guard slides as far as the water shortage out west that continues to be a problem as a matter of fact here is the recent drought monitor chart at least as of november 9th it was again released just a few days ago on november 11th and as you can see the western united states is still very much in a state of drought a severe drought so we're going to have to see how that plays with the winter weather coming into the area over the winter season also the microchip shortage has gotten quite a bit worse manufacturers are it's gotten worse but it's also gotten a little bit better and by better i mean you're not getting your money's worth so for for instance tesla has stopped incorporating a few uh charging options with some of their devices like they've left out the usb chargers and things like that general motors is removing the heated seats and the heated steering wheels from their crossover vehicles and pretty much all of their pickup trucks so a lot of these vehicles manufacturers are simply leaving parts out that they can so they can get these vehicles out the door and they will either plan to have you come back into a dealership to install for free when they get the parts back in or it might not ever happen who really knows you know this chip shortage we're still projecting it to last for at least two years of course varying in severity but we really don't know likewise the tire shortage in montana continues uh in localized areas there's really not much more to add on that we're just seeing a few more news stations essentially do circular reporting and talk about that one article we found from last time so just because you're seeing more reports doesn't necessarily mean that more shortages are occurring it just means that more news stations are buying that article and affiliates are starting to talk about it because they purchase the rights to that story so that's why these shortages things it's really hard to track and then new for this cycle are snow plow and salt truck drivers being in quite severe shortage at least there you can see in the northern states and in the parts of the midwest that is a severe shortage in a lot of areas they're doing things like recruiting for the first time they've never had to recruit for a snowplow driver but some states are now other states are increasing or trying to offer bonuses or increasing their hourly rate rates and wages and things like that again it it's hard to say if it's going to work or do anything or or have any kind of impact at all but if you're in the northern area and you get a lot of snow and you regularly have to get your roads plowed this is something you should be concerned about even places down here uh in the mid-atlantic region or even further south with those places in the south they get like a quarter of an inch of snow a year you know you guys know if you grew up in those areas where you get one snow day a year and it's only like a dusting the entire state will shut down like that's what i remember growing up and you still have people plowing the roads for like a dusting and that's a huge concern as well so you have the volume issues from the northern states where there's literally so much snow on the road that you cannot drive and there's a shortage of snowplow drivers to physically clear the roads and then there's also the cultural cultural thing of some of the more warmer states not getting as much snow but snow snowplow drivers and salt trucks are so much more important in a lot of these areas because people are just not used to the snow so the impact can be quite high in a lot of these states when it comes to uh the winter weather creeping in also before i move to the next slide the liquor shortage has kind of expanded we're seeing connecticut uh being uh impacted by the liquor shortage as well texas we're still seeing articles pop up here and there and people you know posting pictures of liquor store shelves being empty this is kind of a thing that's hit or miss because we're getting into the holiday season uh the whole pandemic thing made everybody start drinking a little bit more so demand has gone up sharply and production hasn't uh been able to keep up with that so the liquor shortages are kind of a hard thing to track as well so let's move into the next slide and we'll talk about the national level shortages that are kind of prevalent throughout the entire country now i know this slide's pretty ugly and looks kind of empty right now but trust me this is going to fill out sadly it's going to fill out quite significantly over the next few weeks and months but for now this is what we've got when it comes to the things that we know are in national level shortages where basically you can go to anywhere in the united states and find a shortage of this kind of stuff so really the biggest one or one of the bigger ones is christmas trees obviously christmas trees are highly seasonal and christmas trees take forever sometimes decades to grow so it makes sense that there would be a shortage of that around this time of year there are shortages of christmas trees in some areas in the united states every year because of a drought you know 10 years ago that's just how this works with the christmas tree market so higher demand this year you know problems with production and of course shipping and things like that are going to mean that some parts of the country are going to have a hard time finding christmas trees but really the biggest one that i wanted to touch on is fertilizer so for the fertilizer shortage specifically diamonium phosphate really in the united states we're just seeing rument at this point writing a rumor intelligence right of certain fertilizers being in short supply this kind of makes sense because around the world this is a huge deal china is cutting down on exports a lot due to a coal shortage in china which has caused an electrical power shortage in china which is directly impacting the ability to process fertilizer in china which reduces supply and with india's increasing demand for fertilizer we're essentially having a case of world events killing the cat that ate the rat that lived in the house that america built right so we have all this stuff lining up and it's going to domino effect into the united states not having so much fertilizer at least that's what makes sense it makes sense that these fertilizer shortages will reach the united states at some point but again nothing is set in stone and honestly like most of the shortages that i'm mentioning it's probably not even worth talking about because it's pretty much impossible to determine when and where shortages will strike especially considering the fact that we also make fertilizer here in the us but just like always our intensely complex globalistic logistical networks make it impossible to track these things with any level of real satisfaction but i did just want to mention it anyway and again on the slide as well we are experiencing a nationwide shortage of medical personnel police officers firefighters and more of your trauma emergency personnel like emts paramedics ems transport drivers and things like that so i'll talk more about that in just a bit but i did want to touch on it here as well and sticking with the theme of logistics let's talk a little bit about a trend that is occurring in grocery stores all over the world and that trend is stores attempting to conceal their supply chain issues with photographs or selectively staged products so this has always been a practice in most grocery stores from an advertising standpoint and just one of the things that you do as a like a grocery store manager or owner a lot of grocery stores at pretty much every grocery store i can think of they do things like back filling the shelves when they run out of items so that instead of having an empty shelf for a customer to look at customers receive full shelves but not the normal products that they normally might see most stores did this with the toilet paper shortages from last year like think about it toilet paper is a very big bulky product and it usually has an entire aisle dedicated to it so rather than have an entire aisle empty they put things like bundles of firewood or other large products on the shelves that normally held toilet paper so that customers wouldn't see empty shelves so why would a company do this why would a company want to make sure customers don't see empty shelves well it's pretty simple market research consistently proves that people tend to shop more when the shelves are full and products are correctly fronted and faced meaning that products they're not at the back of the shelves right they're moved right up forward right right up front near the edge with all the labels aligned forward towards the customer so i say all of that to hopefully shed some light on these practices yes deception is a factor all advertising is deception but there is a huge leap between a company wanting to fill a void on a shelf to make it look better for a customer and a company actively concealing a supply chain shortage because of a political reason the latter scenario is something that is straight out of the soviet union and despite what the experts on twitter will tell you this is not usually the motivation for doing this which is why i am showing you these two images both images were taken in a tesco in the united kingdom as that grocery store chain has been observed to do this kind of a lot lately so they have the best examples and in the image on the left empty produce containers are being filled with cardboard cutouts of artistic photos of oranges and on the right empty laundry detergent shelves are holding pictures of the product rather than the actual product itself these two images are very different in motivation in the image on the left it's obviously supposed to be artistic it's supposed to be a nice thing to look at rather than an empty plastic container the oranges are the size of soccer balls and obviously even like cut open in the picture how often do you see soccer ball sized oranges on the shelf that are actually cut up like when it comes to this photo the deception factor is quite low right there's not a whole lot of intentional deception here it's just something nice to look at rather than an empty container yes the store could have just left the boxes empty and not put a cardboard cut out but all in all in the image on the left this is really just for aesthetically pleasing reasons but let's take a closer look at the other photo this photo is a much different story in fact when i first saw this image myself i had to do a double take because the optical illusion was so good these photos are actually of the proper containers on the shelf scaled appropriately and with the right lighting conditions to make it look like the shelves are full in other words you might literally walk past this shelf and not even notice anything is wrong of course looking at a two-dimensional image is obviously different from looking at this shelf with your two eyes in person but these images are quite clearly meant to maintain the illusion that there is something on the shelf plus combined with the normal pricing signage and the disclaimer that these products can be purchased they're just behind the counter so they can be rationed this image has a lot more perceived deception than the other image and i say perceived deception because there's really no way to tell this could be just some super stellar rock star work by an employee who took the time to photograph these products in the right lighting and then print out a two scale oversized image on photo paper and put it in a frameless low profile plastic holder that's almost invisible that's possible but as an analyst i know good camouflage when i see it and my assessment is that this specific practice in this specific image is intended to conceal a shortage as for the reasons for that concealment who knows it could be financially based or it could be political taking the north korea approach to trying to pretend like everything is perfectly fine when the store is empty it could be any of these reasons i don't know i just wanted to point this out because to me it's utterly fascinating and i would urge everyone to pay attention to these kinds of camouflage efforts this stuff is pretty crazy and often done in advance of and in preparation for an impending shortage so you might notice that if a grocery store is trying to hide something and you detect these camouflage efforts early enough you might be one of the last few lucky ones to get that product from behind the counter while they still have it and before most people even discover the camouflage and notice that there is a shortage of something and moving on to kind of going back to uh what we had last time when it comes to the mandate update so we're not legal experts i'm certainly not a lawyer so i don't understand a lot of this stuff but i can read pretty well i think and it seems like there's a lot of stuff going on here so let's let's tackle it so this first mandate right the one in green up at up on the top with that every private company with 100 more employees must get uh the employees jabbed right that actually came out so osha officially ordered that mandate and pretty much instantly a court put it on hold likewise the federal contractor mandate that was expanded a little bit or at least i guess the wording was changed slightly and despite the fact that several federal judges have over the past few months since the beginning of october the beginning of november uh they have declined and refused to put that order on hold another federal judge appears to have put this one on hold as well so really the the question is what is going on uh when it comes to these mandates now when it comes to you guys in the military you guys are still screwed um yes we know about the things like the kubernetes shots not actually available for anybody so technically all of these mandates all of these orders are illegal orders and you can get into the weeds on that as well but as far as for our guys in the military who are being faced with this kind of stuff really there's not a whole lot of new information that we have and others are doing a far better job at covering it uh than than we can do uh the point is is that a lot of these mandates are coming on hold but companies are still kind of going forward like you know the regime said hey doesn't matter what the court says go forward and go ahead and still order these mandates well what this isn't the soviet union you know at least not yet so it's really hard to say if companies and even if the federal regime is going to go by a court and clearly the federal regime has made it quite clear that they are not going to abide by a court's regulation so i guess we'll have to see on that but i just wanted to let everybody know that what we briefed last time is kind of on hold for now it went into place and then now it's on hold so we'll see how it turns out hopefully we'll be able to roll back some of this authoritarianism but you never really know so that's enough on that let's roll into critical infrastructure concerns so a lot of interesting stuff this time uh really the first one to kind of get it out of the way because it's the one that we know least about and that is a us defense contractor was hit with a cyber attack a few days ago this cyber uh this cyber attack was uh implemented on the systems of a contracting group called electronic warfare associates uh and basically was a data breach at least what the what the company's publicly said it seems like it's financial in nature i like they just wanted to steal some credit card numbers and birth certificates from the employees but you never really know because literally the name of the company is electronic warfare associates i wonder what kind of stuff they do those of you that have a couple of brain cells to rub together can imagine that they do things like a build radar they build uh communication setups and satellite communication suites and simulators and other kinds of training equipment and things like that and a lot of electronic warfare packages and softwares and things like that for the us military so you know this is the second time they've been hit with a ransomware attack they were hit uh last year as where as well and that was a ransomware attack this was when the ransomware attacks were kind of gaining traction amongst the defense community so something to keep an eye on really not a whole lot any of us can do from a you know average citizen you know standpoint but i did think it was kind of interesting and really the most interesting one on the slide interesting interesting that the most interesting one on the slide is point two when i literally have smallpox on the slide last uh point two there is the first i say first uh domestic uas attack on electrical substation so the u.s intel community released uh some details to a few different journalistic websites and this photograph actually of an a uas system a dji drone that was used to attack an electrical substation so this is allegedly the first time this has been done i know personally this is definitely not the first time this has been done this has been done many times before but this is the first time that the us intel communities actually come out and said yeah this was a this is a legitimate attack now the attack was a failure because the drone actually didn't make it to the electrical substation however whoever did this attack is one smart cookie because this is exactly the kind of technology that the us military still uses and used very famously during the iraq invasion to take out saddam's electrical substations basically there's this electrical substations obviously have a lot of exposed wires so the the us military doctrine or at least the doctrine that was used at the time was to use stealth fighters to get in there launched some i think there were tomahawk missiles that actually trailed behind the missile a very thin carbon uh filament and that wire would then fall through the air and land on top of electrical substation cause a shortage and that's your uh that's your attack on the substation you end up taking an entire neighborhood uh their entire neighborhood's electricity offline without ever killing anyone at all and that's kind of the the goal of that kind of military munition now this uas system used almost the exact same thing it was a simple as you can see in the image the very blurry image that the us government provided it was a drone system with a trailing copper wire or some kind of some kind of wire that was intended to cause a short at the electrical substation again very smart very smart level attack so whoever did this has some knowledge of how this stuff works or at least has google or maybe a history book in any case i thought it was very interesting that this kind of thing is now occurring we've seen similar things with a bunch of antifa guys putting coat racks and things like that or coat hangers on um railroad crossings and things like that there have been a lot of attacks on critical infrastructure that nobody really reports on because guess who does it it's antifa right so the you know mainstream media doesn't want to talk about antifa because well many reasons i guess but this is an interesting thing nobody really knows who who did it um or at least they're not publicly saying who did it or and no group has claimed responsibility so it could just be a lone lone guy but as you can see a loan guy with a couple hundred dollar drone and you know 20 feet of wire can certainly uh cause a lot of problems for you for the united states and moving on to number three there our strategic oil reserves are actually down now this is something that a lot of websites are actually just picking up on this has been a thing that's been going on for months now so i'm not quite sure why anybody suddenly starts reading the eia's website but really our our the report was released this morning uh or i think maybe yesterday morning that our strategic petroleum reserves are currently at they're sitting at around 433 million barrels which is seven percent below the five-year average so our strategic oil reserves are down our gasoline reserves are down our um gasoline blending components levels that's doing okay which makes sense because it's only on demand of gasoline and things like that so our our petroleum products are not doing super hot right now as far as why or what this means well you can you can talk hours about this with people who are vastly more intelligent than us on this topic but basically one of the problems one of the reasons for these problems in the oil community is demand demand went down and then it came back up sharply and production has had a lot of problems you also have medical mandates uh people walking out and things like that so now you've got a supply issue so you've got some issues on the supply side of things you've got issues on the demand side of things and the nature of how our logistics work in this country mean that if there's a problem at any level that problem is going to spread quite quickly so something to keep an eye on definitely need to figure out or start thinking about alternative energy methods which is kind of something we've talked about before but i don't know about you but i can't make gasoline in my garage right i can't go into my backyard and pump petroleum out of the ground and then put it in my car it doesn't work like that so the federal government controls a strategic oil reserves the federal government has the ability to turn a pipeline on or off as we learned quite quickly a few months ago so the the the bottom line i guess is to start thinking about your energy needs because this stuff is important and uh it can it can come up on you sneak up on you really quickly and speaking of sneaking around uh number four there is a apparently now we have to deal with smallpox this is a story that just came out a few days ago but a worker in a america research facility uh discovered they were cleaning out the freezer and came upon i think 15 vials of that were they were labeled smallpox um and for those of you who might not understand this is uh probably one of the biggest deals that's going to hit the world this year because smallpox is kind of a big deal smallpox has been eradicated since uh 1980 officially there have been zero cases of smallpox on the planet since 1980 there have been mishaps and there have been accidents where people get smallpox researchers working with it but but here's the kicker there are only two places in the entire world that are allowed to have smallpox one of those is the cdc center in atlanta and the other one is the state research center of virology and biotechnology in russia's siberia also known as the vector institute so you've got the cdc and some random secret squirrel probably run by the fsb facility in siberia and it's a little bit out of place for smallpox which is again been eradicated globally since 1980 and only two places on the planet can even possess it it's a little weird for smallpox to pop up in a freezer outside of philly and that's so yeah kind of a problem uh i don't know what this means i'm sure that our i'm sure our conspiracy theory brethren are freaking out over this right now but as of right now there's no data there's no data to analyze so we just know the vials were found the fbi is investigating if you know and of course the fbi investigating anything these days is probably a strong indicator of some kind of nefarious activity based on what the fbi is currently interested in which we'll talk about again in just a minute but who really knows there's no there's really no telling as to what this means or or anything like that this could just be a colossal colossal mistake there's no it could be intentional who knows there's no data to say either way um i just wanted to point out that it did in fact happen mostly for posterity's sake i guess so let's go ahead and move into significant governmental actions android to start with is an event that really isn't something that occurred even in the united states but i thought i'd mention it because it kind of matters a lot so this is this occurred in australia and the australian government discovered that the store chain as 711 actively collected hyper accurate imagery for facial recognition purposes called you know face prints so i know kind of ironic that the australian government out of all the governments on the earth is the one that's concerned about overreach and spying and things like that but i did want to mention it because it's kind of interesting because there are kind of a lot of 7-elevens here in the united states and you never really know what the system is going to be doing right the way that this collection worked in australia was there was a sort of like an ipad kiosk station set up for customers to take surveys and things like that and they were capturing people's facial images uh several times during that so i don't know if it's just some kind of uh in the united states i don't know if if this is a factor or not i did just want to point it out though because it's yet another company that is going above and beyond to spy on people in the corporate uh world so i thought it was kind of interesting to note moving on to number two there the biden regime's nomination for the comptroller of currency uh solely omrova has been revealed to be a very radical choice as one might expect from the biden regime at this point she has made statements in the past which of course you'd expect conservative mainstream media to pick up some of these quotes are that she wants quote the complete migration of demand deposit accounts to the federal reserve um meaning that she wants you to not have a savings account she wants me to not having savings account or a checking account and quite literally the federal reserve will decide how much money you get that's what she wants she's also made statements that she wants to quote bankrupt the energy sector for climate change purposes and things like that she's also she's of course as you might expect an unabashed communist in her doctoral thesis in college was titled karl marx's economic analysis and the theory of revolution in das capital marx's book or ghost written book however you want to define that um so yeah she's a very extreme choice this is going to be not super great as one might expect look economics is one of those things where if most people figured it out the whole system would collapse if even just a percentage of people figured it out the entire system would collapse if anybody actually knew what the federal what the federal reserve did this country would be very different but i'm not hanging my hat on any hopes that people might do this do this research and figure out what this stuff is the point is is that now would be a very good time to reassess your eggs and make sure they aren't all in the same basket i find it very hard to believe that the us government is going to start sucking money out of personal savings accounts tomorrow but clearly they have the capability and as this regime has shown us and i suppose other regimes as well other regimes around the world and even other prior presidential administrations if it can happen it will happen so that's the thing that i guess we should be prepared for as far as specific things to do i'm not an economics expert so i don't feel comfortable uh really telling people what to do all i can say is be smart diversify do all the good things that you know are economically sound and we can research this a little bit more and figure out what to do later but by and large the system is is not as secure as we were led to believe like i grew up in a world where it was perhaps a false hope i guess but you put money in a bank account and you were going to be sure that it was going to be there when you retired that's not the case anymore i don't think that's been the case for a very long time probably since before even i was born but the point is is that we're here now and if you don't understand even the basic economic structures of how this country works and how it's supposed to work and how it actually works you should probably start researching that that would be a good idea to to do moving forward so i'll just leave it there at that and we can talk about that more later but moving on to number three uh this was kind of an inflammatory one that came out on social media this was a video that occurred that that kind of came out in which in in texas a a certain antibody treatment for a certain um viral infection right was denied based on purely racial criteria right the the antibodies are not available or at least the video in the video the hospital worker says that the options for this antibody treatment are not available to white or asian patients as ordered as written into the criteria by texas's department of health and human services so as of gosh i think actually as of this morning you know greg abbott's office has not yet responded to this event but it seems like texas's department of health and human services has started denying treatment based on racial means this comes if if this is true again we don't really know anything this is one social media post one guy's video we don't really know what the deal is however many journalists of of course again untrustworthy mainstream media or journalists have physically called the department of health and human services and they have confirmed it at least to the journalists so i don't know how much more confirmation you need for that but it seems like this is definitely the practice at least in texas um and i guess we'll have to see how that how that works out it's not really any particular surprise uh from us because we've been tracking medical groups denying treatment based on race for wow gosh two years now i guess but i just wanted to point it out that if you're in texas i would look into this a little bit more or if you're in really any state look into this more and see what your local hospitals are doing moving on to number four there um man new york city is just i don't know what to even say about it it's gotten to the point to where it's it's beyond any kind of fantasy novel we can try to try to compare it to and really the flavor this week is bill de blasio wants five year olds to show uh show papers right when they're entering businesses so this has already been a thing in san francisco and some other parts of california as well and now you new york is kind of getting on this train and and look um really the only thing i have to say on that is we here all the staff here recommend leaving new york city and other cities like it as soon as you can yes it's not as easy to move these days and job uncertainty is at an all-time high and even amongst ourselves here uh most of our staff here cannot afford to move to a more remote area uh just yet because it's just too expensive and um yeah but if you live in some of these more dystopian cities like new york anywhere in california right like i myself have never been one to recommend moving away from a problem right because that problem is just going to follow you look at texas right texas a lot of as a whole right dallas and austin extremely politically nut cities now and that's because people were leaving california for texas so we know and i know in myself that this cancer just kind of follows you however um you also have to do what's right for you and your family and i can't even imagine how it must feel to have your your five-year-old child show papers to a police officer um i i just can't i can't fathom that and um yeah so our recommendation here is to try to find a place where you can rest and recoup regroup you know someplace cheaper new york expensive place to live and see what you can do to help get this country out of the gutter we're in so i'll just leave it at that and we can move on to number five which is equally cheery in that uh the main p company there um i'm self-censoring this one because i have no freaking clue as to what algorithms youtube is using to listen to what i'm saying right now but in any case the big company the big p company we all know about that makes uh alleged medicine um has been confirmed to falsify data to indicate that not as many people suffered from adverse reactions during the trials shocker i know it's almost like we said we and hundreds of other thousands of people have been saying this for literally years now um and it just turns out that the truth is that more people died after getting the jab than died unjabbed at least during the clinical trials of pfizer but don't take my word for it please don't go and check out the sources we have you can check the links research the the peer-reviewed articles there or the articles that are currently being peer-reviewed and you can research the data yourself it's pretty easy to do at this point um so yeah i just wanted to point out that that did occur and then before we move on to anything else i did briefly want to touch on this so this is a letter or at least the first two pages of a letter that was sent by jim jordan to the attorney general of the united states merrick garland and i'll just read the first paragraph to kind of give you the abstract of what this is about so dear attorney general garland last month during your testimony before the judiciary committee you testified that the department of justice and federal bureau of investigation were not using federal counterterrorism tools to target concerned parents at local school board meetings we are now in receipt of a protected disclosure from a department whistleblower showing that the fbi's counterterrorism division is compiling and categorizing threat assessments related to parents including a document directing fbi personnel to use a specific quote threat tag to track potential investigation this new information caused into question the accuracy and completeness of your sworn testimony so you can read the full letter yourself there's page one and two here is the third page and here is the actual evidence so these are the screenshots of the email that pretty much indicates that uh senior fbi leadership uh is in fact collecting intelligence on u.s persons uh with regards to parents and school board meetings this email from senior fbi leadership references quite clearly that merrick garland quite literally and openly lied under oath and that the fbi is using their intelligence collection tools to spy on and specifically target investigations towards parents who get slightly upset at school board meetings so yeah i don't think this is a surprise to anyone because but i think that it's pretty clear right now what the fbi's intentions are um and again just for those of you who don't know merrick garland the the attorney general um for those of you who don't remember is the father-in-law of alexander tanner alexander tanner is the co-founder of a company that has very large contracts we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contracts to provide critical race theory propaganda curriculum to school systems so there's quite literally the most clear of conflicts of interest in this case and you know again i don't want to be just some other guy that's shouting about this on the internet but man like you've got to talk about this kind of stuff and kind of get a feel for how dystopian we are and uh that's pretty dystopian so got the fbi openly targeting parents at school board meetings instead of the islamic insurgents that are running around this country because i don't know if anybody remembered or not but the virginia state police and about 30 different law enforcement groups were saying that there were isis militants running around virginia planning an attack um a couple weeks ago and uh didn't hear anything back from that so um they didn't announce that they caught the guys uh they did not they did not announce that anything had happened so i guess we have to assume that those isis militants are still in this country and still at large but again the fbi is more concerned about parents not wanting their children to learn critical race theory in school so again quite dystopian but let's go ahead and punch forward into the national guard deployments for this cycle so here is your reference slide and let's move right into the northeast so the biggest one for this cycle is the mission accomplished so for massachusetts massachusetts their mission to drive children to school is officially over they had by their own admission over 500 soldiers doing this i don't think that anybody liked that and if anybody sort of liked the idea of what that precedent was what that precedent became i'm pretty sure they haven't read too many books in their life but in any case you should not be seeing any soldiers driving children to school in the state of massachusetts anymore at least for now until when they put this mission back on again because that's how uh that's how things work right so there's there you go on that also we don't have much more information about new york they're keeping that very tight lipped as to how much how many soldiers are actually deployed to new york area hospitals we know the deployment occurred we know the deployment is currently occurring we just don't have numbers and we don't have units so something to something to to keep in mind moving forward and also no real update on connecticut uh doing the same so i guess we'll have to wait and see on that likewise moving forward into the southeast absolutely no change here we're seeing numbers fluctuate wildly so as time goes on and as we don't make any changes to these slides become more inaccurate but we don't have any information to put on them so um yeah there you go earliest we don't have any information that can be talked about and can be verified in an open source manner i should say that that way but moving forward into the big one uh for the cyclist midwest obviously the wisconsin national guard has been activated in kenosha um for domestic policing actions and things like that so those guys are going to be on the ground for a while um following this verdict whenever it comes out and see how that works out but no no other change so far also the southwestern region a lot of troops still on the ground the border mission is expanding every day and it's getting a little bit more hairy down there at the border but i haven't really had time to sit down and do the bean counting and figure out how many units are there and how many more people are there so sorry this slide hasn't been updated in a couple weeks but that's pretty much what i've got on this one and then very similar situation out west i do know the oregon mission is winding down mostly because that letter that i mentioned last time was sent i ruffled some feathers so as it will as it rightly should so the oregon national guard air national guard is reducing that mission quite significantly so that's really all i have on that and moving forward into the school mass mandates i do have one change and that is tennessee unfortunately a judge has blocked the mask mandate ban so this is kind of confusing here a judge didn't outright block it but the judge said that both parties in the lawsuit have to maintain the status quo until it can go to court which is in practicality this is like we're having people are having to interpret well what does a judge actually mean so this effectively means that the mandate ban has been blocked and he but again this gets more complicated because not really many people know how to interpret this court order and a lot of school districts are saying yes that yay the jud the judge blocked the mask mandate ban now we're going to require masks for school so now it looks like a significant number of uh school districts in tennessee are now requiring masks for school now again it there's a difference between endorsing a mask mandate and um not allowing a mandate ban there's a difference there right that's why they're different colors on this slide here but in practicality it looks like a lot of a lot of school districts are going are using this court order as kind of a de facto victory and in using that as a way to institute mask mandates remember like i mentioned last time a lot of companies a lot of entities around the world they're just waiting to use that excuse well we were just following orders right the classic excuse from a certain political party in a regime during the 1930s and 40s right we were just following orders we didn't really do any of this stuff ourselves well look at look around the country there are so many hundreds if not thousands of places that are chomping at the bit to use that excuse we were just following orders and school districts are one of those so they saw this did they saw this order and they're saying okay they're using that as to to stomp on the gas when it comes to mass mandates so huge problem for tennessee i'm sure that it will probably get ironed out here soon because all these lawsuits are actually finally making it to court now but we'll see as far as the jab of mandates themselves really no major change here california is still doing stupid california things and i'm sure other states will probably follow suit soon but you never really know really what i want to do is push forward into this slide the overall resistance tracker because there's one major change over where the wind comes sweeping down the plane that's right in oklahoma the national guard adjutant general there has ordered that national guard members in oklahoma will not be mandated to get the jab as long as they stay on title 32 orders if they federalize they go on title 10 as in if the president federalizes them they will be required because the federal government has a different thing but the adjutant general has said that he is taking his orders from the governor as long as they are on title 32 orders so gold star to oklahoma this is great this is the first state that we're aware of where a a state national guard is actually going against the federal government and this is a huge deal i don't think people realize how big of a deal this is for a national guard unit a national guard for a state to go against a federal mandate that's just completely unheard of and it's it's good to see and oklahoma's national guard is not super big so it kind of makes sense but i think that's a very good metric to track so actually moving forward i wanted to end on some good news uh before we hit the international stuff for once right talking about some good news right so i built this slide to show which companies and entities are being forced to go against the mandates because they can't afford to lose their employees so this is obviously not a complete list but this is a fantastic way to measure the effect effectiveness of resistance efforts remember being able to assess resistance effectiveness is very important because it

hello again everyone welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for thursday the 20th of january 2022. sorry it's been a while since our last brief we have been super busy trying to work on a lot of communication stuff a lot of educational stuff that's going to be coming out sometime soon and of course uh the past at least two to three weeks have been filled with preparation for the ukrainian war which is looking more imminent with every passing moment as a result we're going to keep this brief light today and we're going to go ahead and skip past the stuff i normally talk about and just start with logistics so i really don't have that many specific logistics but if any of you have been to the grocery store over the past week or so you know that this is a common trend these days for whatever reason i don't know if this is a genuine shortage or if it's one of those manufactured shortages where a journalist writes a newspaper article or something on twitter and it starts trending and sooner or later everyone's out of everything but it's most certainly a very tangible thing that a lot of places are having shortages right now we're talking shortages of pretty much everything you could possibly imagine consumer goods meats fresh fresh food products uh all kinds of stuff and some of this in different areas can be attributed to staffing shortages other parts of it other areas of the country is really hard to tell what the logistical challenges are but just know that there are a lot of shortages i i simply cannot name them all you'll see a lot of things on on twitter like the the hashtag bear shelves biden is trending on twitter but unfortunately again these kinds of pictures don't really give us that much information they tell us a snapshot in time that that one specific area if someone even tells where the picture is it only gives us a snapshot and we don't really get a good idea of what's going on so somebody could take a picture like this and circulate it around social media and then you have to deal with man pictures of of things like the earlier shortages people saying oh look at you know look at my local grocery store and it turns out it's a picture from like three years ago it's really hard to tell this stuff um so yeah i hate to just kind of leave everybody hanging on the logistics front that oh yeah there's shortages of of what well everything um yeah so something to keep in mind as we start getting a lot of the winter weather for a lot of parts of the country you know that that normally brings about shortages and speci especially in areas like like where we're at where we don't normally get a lot of winter weather but we get just a little bit you know and everybody gets kind of crazy so something to keep in mind is logistic logistics is going to be a a problem for the foreseeable future at least at least for the next couple of weeks and we can talk about that a little bit when we go to critical infrastructure so one of the bigger items of critical infrastructure news coming out this week is the 5g rollout scandal scenario i don't really know what to call it basically what's happening is a lot of cell carriers are rolling out 5g in a lot of areas and foreign airlines are are actually boycotting flights to the united states so as a as of the past 24 hours we've seen many many many foreign airlines cancel flights to the united states in response to the rollout of 5g in larger parts of the united states so the reason for this is that at least in europe they have found that the radar altimeters or the radio altimeters or or different kinds of systems on board aircraft both fixed wing and rotary wing are being affected by 5g they think nobody really has put out any concrete data on it that i've seen so far it should be fairly simple you know what what bandwidth of the electromagnetic spectrum does 5g operate on and you know what bandwidth do you know aircraft systems operate on well you know aircraft are different so in any case what is the result of this is airlines are canceling flights so no american airline company has done anything as far as i've seen they're pushing back on it but they haven't actually canceled flights so yeah this has just kind of spun way out of control over the past 24 hours or so and it's become a really big deal really quickly even though 5g has been out in a lot of areas in the united states for a very long time now i mean where we're at we've had 5g for a very long time there's like a you know a 5g tower like like less than half a mile from where i live and you know it's it's been there for at least a year and a half now i think so you know i don't really know what the effects of this are going to be on aviation long term but i can tell you it is causing a lot of consternation within the aviation community specifically when it comes to foreign outside the united states aviation assets trying to have flights to the united states also number two they're keeping in the theme of logistics uh or at least disruptions there has been a rash of or rather i should say a lot of viral videos come out lately regarding los angeles rail theft so i'm sure a lot of you have seen the videos um if i can find a clip that i could think i can get away with putting on youtube i'll put it up but honestly it's everywhere it's on every social media app and platform nowadays you've probably seen the the pictures of these uh train uh derailments there was actually a train that was derailed that a lot of people are thinking is due to people trying to derail the train to stop it to get the consumer goods out of the shipping containers so yeah this is something that's like normally i wouldn't touch because it doesn't have a whole lot of intel value and it's just you know it tends to be one of those really inflammatory social issues it doesn't really have a whole lot of bearing on things um but it it just goes to show you the power of looting like you know it it's one thing to talk about you know so you know a lot of people hundreds of people going in and looting like a consumer goods store you know like a luxury goods store like a luxury clothing store or something like that and just running out with stuff well you know that just kind of speaks to the crime in the country or the crime in a specific area but now we're starting like when we're starting to see trains derailed so that people can steal amazon packages that's a big deal and i would i would be very surprised if the larger shipping companies specifically the rail companies themselves from an insurance standpoint their insurance companies might force them to start using different tracks in different shipping hubs so we'll see how this goes um this has been a problem in california specifically los angeles for a very long time i haven't really seen this be an issue anywhere else in the united states there have been a lot of train derailments and terrorist activity up in the pacific northwest i do know that that has gotten almost no press over the past couple of years but there have been quite a few incidences if you can search that on your own but yeah if we're starting to see trains derailed just so people can steal stuff yeah that's going to be a huge liability because trains are very expensive and they you know just because they're carrying amazon packages and on one car they might be carrying medication on the next car or petroleum on the next car or some kind of you know chemical substance you know somewhere on that train so again huge deal something to keep an eye on and yeah i guess we'll just have to watch and see what happens thirdly again something to keep in mind is cellular communication not being reliable now this is a again a very huge deal i feel like this is the brief of very huge deals uh because usually when we when we talk about things like censorship we're talking about things like social media and there's a reason for this because social media has found exceptions to telecommunications laws or different parts of us code that they can use as justification for censoring things for instance a lot of social media apps claim that they act as a publisher and a publisher can choose what content they host and what content they don't however a lot of people are of the opinion that a lot of social media are acting as public infrastructure and that you know kind of changes his rule well well here's the thing stop talking let's stop talking about social media for a second cellular communications telecommunications providers they are public utilities and public utilities that is a big no-no to sensor we're talking going all the way back to like the watergate stuff and wiretaps that's how far back this legislation goes when it comes to specifically telecommunications providers either censoring or tapping or surveilling different kinds of communications so while the you know the social media stuff social media censorship that's relatively new as of the past 10 years or so this uh cellular cellular communication and telecom agencies in general are very much uh have very strict rules when it comes to this so when you've got uh like t-mobile is one of the bigger ones that says hey we have the right to censor your text messages well no you don't there's a whole stack of us you know code that says you can't do that but they're continuing to do that so again this is a a much larger thing that is worth paying attention to because i i really don't think a whole lot of people think about their text messages being you know censored like we we all kind of this is 2022 right we all kind of know that there's federal surveillance on pretty much every communications platform there is but when it comes to a cellular company choosing to not let a link go through that's a big deal and then like i also mentioned number four there wrapping up our critical infrastructure stuff again we're going to talk ukraine in a specific series we're going to launch another series on that depending on how things go but the short version of why the ukrainian conflict matters for united states infrastructure is that in the united states critical infrastructure particularly when it comes to cyber uh stuff that's a vulnerability there are lots of vulnerabilities in the cyber realm and russia may seek to capitalize on those vulnerabilities as a way of weakening the united states even further and kind of using that as a way to you know pump the brakes on us interactions basically russia is very much fond lately at least their senior military leadership is fond of giving warnings and things like that so we might see you know a pipeline go offline we might see an electrical grid go down and uh and that might be russia's way of saying hey stay out or else we're gonna do worse so we'll come back to that i guess when we talk about ukraine a little bit later but um yeah lots of vulnerabilities for our critical infrastructure these days and there's not really a whole lot we can do about it i guess except be prepared on an individual level moving on to significant governmental actions one of the most uh significant events that has occurred has been the supreme court overruling biden's medical mandates when it comes to uh private companies 100 persons or more i haven't read through the actual verdict yet i haven't read the opinion that the supreme court has put forward on it yet but it looks like the mandate for medical workers can stay and the mandate for everybody else has to kind of go away we're seeing a lot of things that are going to affect different communities very differently with this and here's what i mean um what the supreme court has said and i have to look at the wording again to confirm but from what i can tell it seems like of course this is all opinion anyway uh it seems like the supreme court says hey if you work in health care you have to get the jab because of medicare or medicaid funding if you work at an institution that gets that you have to get a job because of that i'm not quite sure how solid that logic is but it's i mean i think that's what they're trying to say again there's an entire field of law dedicated to just just kind of interpreting what the supreme court says because they never really do anything specific they always do broad brush broad brush stuff and lower courts have to interpret supreme court rulings so i have no doubt that this will occur specifically because a lot of health care workers are very upset about this as one might imagine because essentially the supreme court is saying in a de facto way is that depending on your job you have no rights to what to what you want to put in your own body if you work in a certain job you don't have that right to choose and that's kind of a dangerous precedent now again how other courts interpret this i don't know i don't have the bandwidth to kind of figure this stuff out i'm definitely no no expert on the law or or even a novice in the law i'm a complete neophyte when it comes to this kind of stuff but i can tell you that this is going to cause a lot of problems within the healthcare community because hospitals are going to crack down on this and healthcare workers are going to have very little leg to stand on so when it comes to an intel perspective this means that we're going to start seeing certain hospitals in certain areas usually probably major cities are going to have a lot of healthcare workers just leave and say it's not worth fighting this fight anymore so you're going to have a lot of service interruptions as a result of this now on the other side of that when it comes to the private private company stuff we're starting to see a lot of companies uh specifically companies that are sort of in the the the federal sphere like defense contractors and things like that saying okay the supreme court says that the federal government doesn't have to mandate it but they didn't say anything about us mandating it so we're going to mandate it still as a company and you know there you go it's like well what do you you know what do you do what do you do about that and then again also we have press releases from from the white house saying yeah i don't worry about the supreme court's ruling we're just go ahead with the mandates like i don't know i really don't know what to think about the rule of law these days i don't know if if any of it any shred of it exists left anymore so either way something also along the the avenues of the white house is the concrete wall that the white house has put up so again not really a whole lot of intel value here other than this just kind of happened so it's just like like a news note but i do think that when it comes to what the interpretations of why they would have put the wall up uh yeah why would the white house put a concrete wall up well it's because they're scared so they think there's a vulnerability there and they want to patch that vulnerability why did the vulnerability did the vulnerability was it always there or was it is it a new vulnerability i don't know there's a lot of protests coming up uh in at the end of the month here so maybe that has something to do with it i don't know i'm more inclined to think that it's just the increasing of the military-industrial complex uh and the fortification of our public infrastructure when it comes to you know the political elites that's what i really think it is moving on kind of moving back to the jab stuff uh we're starting to see an interesting trend come out of california and as we all know if it happens in california and it's kind of totalitarian sounding it's going to make its way to other places too is it's very interesting a lot of places in california are saying that essentially if you are jabbed and you still get the medical condition right if you're you're fully jabbed you've got however many um doses we're on now if you get that and you're all current on that and you still get get sick you can come back to work but if you are unjabbed um and you know you're healthy you don't have any kind of sickness um clean out your desk essentially so it's one of those things that kind of proves that this has nothing to do with any kind of you know medical science or anything like that it's really just affecting the the economics as a way to conduct economic warfare and starve out political enemies and stuff like that so again something to keep your eye on because every time i look at something and i say man that's that's kind of totalitarian i bet you it'll it'll make its way around the united states pretty soon so we'll we'll be on the lookout for that and then moving down to number four there uh congress uh actually had a report released uh this was um uh this is actually also been making its rounds on the kind of alternate news sites is that a lot of congress people actually beat the market when it comes to trading so essentially what people are saying is that there's a there's an average for what the market does and generally speaking of course again not a financial expert whatsoever here generally speaking if you do better than what the uh markets average is um that looks a little bad looks highly suspect it almost looks like you knew or had some kind of insider trading stuff going on there and a lot of congress people were up were were apparently you know doing that kind of stuff so a lot of congress people both republicans and democrats alike it's very very much equally split somehow miraculously made a lot of money when the market was doing very poorly so again this is kind of just like more homework for later but if you want to check that out i think it's kind of interesting but again not really a whole lot of intel value there except for you know i guess you know check out your politician to see where they rank on the list and then moving down to number five again this is one a a can of worms that i can't really get into much because it would just take too much time and that is has been the testimony regarding the fbi and the j6 congressional hearings uh really i think the most interesting part that has come out of that so far i personally haven't been following that very much because i think it's all just political theater but interestingly enough the fbi has pleaded the fifth uh the fifth amendment they've invoked their fifth amendment rights as an organization regarding their involvement in uh the jace january 6th whatever you want to call it i think that's interesting because uh there it's just it seems like how um it seems like the fbi probably had a larger role than what they're uh what they're letting on and i would be very interested to see what comes out of this months down the line but again right now it's all speculation none of this is really any has any concrete stuff so uh it's really hard to to say what the fbi did or what they had going on but i think that we can all kind of i think it's a softball assessment to say yeah the fbi was probably planning a lot of this so very interesting stuff indeed and continuing on there to number seven uh the biden regime recently as in the past couple weeks has given the taliban government uh of afghanistan 308 million dollars this is actually brings their total up to 782 million dollars since the fall of afghanistan so again it's very interesting to see where the where the biden regime chooses to spend their money they're obviously saying that it's for humanitarian reasons to prevent mass starvation but again as we all know time and time again it you know watch the movie blackhawk down and you know how giving money to a warlord works out uh we've seen a very large contingent of training operations being conducted by the taliban in afghanistan lots of different military academies that they have set up since the fall of afghanistan lots of special forces units being stood up the taliban is most certainly not just a group of dirt farmers anymore and they're taking advantage of all of the resources that we left behind and continue to give them in the form of hundreds of millions of dollars moving on to number eight there massachusetts has uh launched a digital passport for the you-know-what um and i think this is interesting this one caught my eye because it it states that from what i can tell it looks like most of the digital passport efforts are essentially just a digitization of a scan of an actual card right an actual like paper card and that's really all it is for the most part you see a lot of apps in the app store for things like that and it's really just a a a website that brings up the pdf that you've scanned in before however the massachusetts one i need to do some more digging on this because i'm not entirely certain it sounds to me like there's a lot of medical provider support for this as in there might be again don't quote me on this because i'm not quite sure because all of the mainstream news articles i've read on this which by the way is the only sources you can find on this a lot of these mainstream articles are very vague as to where they're getting the information but the reason that it kind of brings us up is a lot of people have found that their records aren't showing up and it's just kind of a sucky app and it doesn't work that well which is no surprise considering it's a government-built app right but the interesting part is that a lot of people are citing that hey you know they should have been able to pull this from my doctor like why is this not working and that kind of makes somebody like me think hmm does this mean that medical providers are cooperating with this and providing hipaa protected documents to an app that you know people might not know about i don't know we'll have to look into it more but i just wanted to kind of give you the heads up and again number nine there really no intel value for this i just thought it was interesting that nancy pelosi's son has been tied to a quite large criminal syndicate you can look into this stuff just you know search for nancy pelosi's son you can actually google it and actually it comes up in google shockingly enough uh but the interesting part about it is that uh it seems like there might be some stuff with nancy in there too i don't know i don't really care when it comes to politicians honestly i just thought it was interesting so if you guys find interesting there you go all right so moving quickly through our national guard slides here in the northeast region we have quite a few updates actually this is the most significant updates for the country i have been for massachusetts and maryland so again if you recall a few months ago or yeah several weeks ago now massachusetts actually declared you know mission accomplished right and they sent everybody home well now they're activating 500 personnel yet again to help with area hospitals for this whatever wave we're on now um of this of this stuff right so again we're not seeing hospitals being overwhelmed we're not finding any evidence of that whatsoever really anywhere in the country to be honest but there we go again 500 personnel in massachusetts have been activated at least according to the governor's office again you know one of the main reasons that we're providing this information is to kind of highlight the normalization of deploying significant numbers of troops on u.s soil for seemingly no reason whatsoever so again if you're in massachusetts just know that a lot of your hospitals are going to have a lot of service members you know working there doing various tasks and stuff like that maryland is a slightly different story i need to do a lot more research on this again not enough hours in the day right but the maryland deployment seems to be a lot more significant i don't have numbers at this time but it seems like it's quite a large deployment we're also seeing a slight change in the wording of the mission and i don't know if this is because of maryland's governor just not um speaking so eloquently when it comes to the mission during press releases or if this is something more nefarious i don't know what the deal is but it seems like the soldiers that are deployed in the state of maryland will have a more active role than just helping out at a hospital it seems like um you know we're getting reports of you know door-to-door efforts potentially we're seeing reports of you know jab stations being set up and all kinds of medical temporary medical facilities going up again i don't really know what the deal is i guess we'll have to wait and see what actually shakes out but it seems like the the maryland deployment is a lot more a lot more hands-on uh the governor himself has stated that a lot of national guard are going to be called upon to physically go out to places like nursing homes and uh offer medication and things like that so we'll keep an eye on it we'll let you know when we have more information i wish i had more right now but that's all we've got down southeast really no change whatsoever several states have activated their national guards for various things but really the numbers are pretty much the same same with the midwest no change there and for the southwest there have been a few incidences with the soldiers in texas so again we're starting to see if you guys recall the incidents with oregon with a lot of national guard service members and senior military claiming that the the the political leadership of oregon was simply deploying the national guard just as a political means and we're starting to see inklings of that right now um actually that's putting it lightly we're seeing a lot we're seeing a lot of complaints from um very junior soldiers as well as commanders and we're seeing a lot of people complaining that this is just kind of a bs mission at this point that greg abbott is keeping people down at the border in very squalid and horrifying conditions just to serve as like a political you know finger right to the biden regime so i guess we'll have to see how this works out but we're getting report after report after report uh from soldiers down there stating that they're basically living in uh worse than incarceration conditions um and we've seen a lot of photos and it's yeah it looks it looks pretty bad so you know again greg have its own numbers state that we're talking roughly 10 000 army national guard slash state guard slash department of public safety guys in this theater of operations for operation lone star and it looks like this is doing a lot more harm than good especially when we start starting to see more incidences between the soldiers and the civilian populace or the cartel down there this just uh we're starting to see a lot more incidents regarding that then moving out west uh speaking of oregon uh like i mentioned oregon has a history of their political leadership abusing the army national guard and air national guard assets of the state for political reasons or at least so the service members have been complaining well apparently they haven't learned their lesson because there is a new push in oregon to deploy soldiers yet again uh to state area hospitals so this actually occurred over the you know past couple of weeks between the last brief and now we have in oregon over 1200 soldiers and airmen deployed around the state to various hospitals and stuff like that and um yeah i guess we'll have to see if if they're treated any better this time but yeah it certainly seems like it's more political than not so again that's our national guard outlook or rather wrap up for this brief moving on to the k-12 public school slides uh there is one update that that i haven't changed on the slide yet but i wanted to speak to and that is virginia so for those of you who don't know virginia got a new governor and on the very first day has signed a lot of executive orders banning mask mandates uh launching inve the new attorney general uh there in virginia is launching a lot of investigations regarding the mistreatment of of thing of children and things like that so i haven't actually looked at what has been done so i didn't want to change the slide just yet so i don't know if how this is going to work out because as we know right this slide is misleading in in and of itself because a lot of states don't have legislation that either bans or mandates masks being worn in public schools but schools do like for instance texas is kind of one of those states where for a time period there remember a couple months ago texas had a a ban on mass mandates and yet like 90 percent of all the school districts in texas were mandating masks so it's like what what what's going on here um you know south carolina's still kind of in that situation and virginia might be in that situation now so we've got to drill down and do more uh work to figure out what's going on in virginia there likewise with the the actual jab mandates no real change there we're starting to see a lot more resistance in california as one might expect so that state might actually be turning a different color here very soon but i guess we'll have to see and then finally for the kind of overall resistance tracker sort of thing that we've got going on here is uh the only thing i changed is virginia i changed that to green just because of again all of the efforts that have been undertaken by the recent state political leadership of virginia to reverse a lot of the stuff that the previous administration did so this might be all a farce i don't know we'll have to see how this stuff works out in the end but right now um you know the commander in chief of the virginia national guard is is doing some pretty decent stuff to reverse a lot of this stuff now again we'll have to see how this works out but as far as on paper goes it seems like virginia's moving in the right direction then moving on to mandate failures i haven't actually changed this slide but there is one update that i forgot to add to it and that is general electric so this is a big one general electric has um in the wake of the supreme court's decision to go against biden's mandates general electric has come to come out and said yeah we're not gonna mandate this stuff anymore and this is interesting you can kind of see which companies you know basically had the metaphorical gun to their head when it came to the mandates because general electric clearly had a workforce that was very resistant to it you know general electric is one of the largest employers in the country and so as one might expect you know in the field of general electric they're not going to be super happy about you know medical mandates and stuff but general electric being a federal contractor and having again a very good chunk of their uh profits coming from the federal government they're you know in a you know between a rock and a hard place and of course you know they chose the side of the government which is telling enough but i also think it's interesting that as soon as the supreme court came out and said anything against the biden regime general electric ran away from the federal government as fast as possible at least when it comes to these mandates you can see some other companies too and see what they want to do the companies that went out and instantly dropped their mandates due to the supreme court's decision those are interesting to look into a little bit more and i also think that the companies that uh haven't issued a statement or they haven't changed or they've doubled down on their mandate since the supreme court uh came out with their decision that's that's also telling as well and moving into international issues i really only have just a handful of stuff because like like i mentioned the past few weeks have just been filled with ukraine stuff um but uh one of the bigger ones is scotland so scotland has um been revoking medical treatment for expectant mothers if they are not jabbed and that has been something that has been rolling through the news outlets in the uk for a while now i'm going to be very interested to see how that works out because it seems like it seems like the united kingdom is kind of backing down from their stuff uh you know old boris uh he's he's gotten himself into a lot of trouble lately uh with what with um being uh confirmed to be at parties and hosting parties right when uh he was you know giving testimony before parliament uh regarding how dangerous and bad and you know winter of severe death and illness or whatever whatever he's been saying to the british population uh so yeah he's uh really having a hard time uh maintaining a a sort of straight face when it comes to all this stuff because it's really kind of obvious that it's just about totalitarianism at this point so we'll see how long this lasts the uk has had some a lot of resistance lately so again we'll see how scotland is able to pull that one out and then moving on speaking of medical resistance italy has also been very very vocal at least the italian people have been very very vocal and uh physical regarding their resistance to medical mandates as have been a lot of places around europe so again we're seeing some places double down like france has doubled down with with their medical tyranny but other countries um have have been quietly like backing off because they they see the power of the people i guess but um and then jumping back to europe for a second like i mentioned totalitarianism huge huge thing in europe these days uh specifically in germany and austria which have become really the poster child for how to violently crack down and hurt as many civilians as you possibly can if you're a government force so the german police and the austrian police have been observed to commit many many crimes against their people uh at least from what we can see just to you know force their tyranny on on people and uh people are uh people are not happy about that now as someone who has um uh spent some time in germany i've studied germany quite a lot i speak german it's uh not surprising whatsoever to see the stuff that is happening uh in germany right now their history um even though from an american perspective we like to make jokes about it right uh it's really it's really a cultural thing at this point i think and it's going to be very interesting to see what kind of resistance efforts come out of germany and austria as well two countries which honestly are very very different when it comes to the cultures of them but their governments as of late have been very very similar uh in the totalitarianism regard but again interesting interesting stuff to look up and then finally north korea our our fun little buddy out of the northern peninsula there has been up to no good with launching lots and lots of projectiles into the sea of japan um as of late so again i think that north korea is kind of a an international case study in just weird stuff right i don't think that you can look at north korea and and think that that's any kind of doctrine it's very it's a very special case study so when north korea launches missiles and things like that everybody looks and goes oh my god you know north korea is you know you know whatever well you know north korea is kind of a case study honestly their their their population is starving to death their political leadership is like the most comical bond villains you could possibly imagine and their technological capabilities while impressive in the regard that they can take old soviet equipment and duplicate it is not really something i would consider a major threat now that being said someone clearly thinks otherwise in the faa because a couple weeks ago there was a a national or i should say it wasn't a national it was just for the west coast grounds stop from the faa which was confusing for a lot of people and again i should point out this is very speculative because right at the time of a north korean missile launch is when the national grounds stop was initiated and a lot of people have been kind of confused by this they were everyone was confused at the time listening to police scanners of local areas and airports trying to figure out what's going on why the faa issue a ground stop has there been some kind of attack or something like that nobody could figure it out well a few hours later we find out north korea had launched a missile right during that kind of time frame so i don't know if this was some kind of emergency u.s military response that we they kind of let the cat out of the bag on or because they thought that maybe based on the trajectory of the missile that it might come close to u.s i don't know north korea is going to be very hard pressed to get a missile that far and even then we're going to have so much warning it's it's crazy um so i don't really consider north korea a direct threat to the united states and most analysts would agree it's you know north korea is definitely a threat to places like japan but you know as far as a north korean nuke landing in my backyard i'm not exactly holding my breath on that one but it's interesting to see the u.s response nonetheless if that in fact was a response and finally before i ended i wanted to talk about russia and ukraine for a bit because uh that has really been on my brain for the past few months now and especially i haven't been able i haven't really been thinking about much else other than ukraine lately as of the past couple of weeks and that's because we've seen a lot of very scary stuff happen let me put it to you this way as an analyst you try to you go through and a lot of times try to think of well what would world war three look like or what would something what would a gl mass global conflict look like what would be the early indications and warnings of such such an event like what would be the worst case scenario of stuff like that and um every analyst does this regardless of whether or not they want to admit it or not everybody has an end of the world plan or thinks about it at least because that's just kind of the you know nature of the job i guess but for me and for the rest of the team here we've seen some really scary stuff and i'm going to start off with the biggest one which is the norwegian communications cable being cut let me just say this is a this is a big freaking deal so for those of you that don't understand most of the communications on planet earth if you're wanting to get we're talking the internet military communications every basically every byte of information that that is um transits around the world has to go through communications cables right maybe not so much in the united states like you can probably send an email from california from a computer in california to a computer in new york and it never transit on a submarine cable a submarine cable meaning it's a cable that's under water like an undersea cable but for the most part these communications cables are the lifeblood of the human race essentially if you want information it's going to come from an underwater cable usually only just a few cables honestly so for instance the united kingdom is kind of freaking out right now because they're an island nation and they've only got a few cables going from the united kingdom across the english channel into europe and just a few days ago or i think a couple weeks ago now norway revealed that one of their submarine cables one of their undersea cables between the mainland and the svalbard archipelago which housed a satellite communications station had been cut um and that it and that not only had it been cut but it was like obviously cut in such a way that it was obviously a a man-made thing the ends of the cable were were many many meters apart it was most certainly not a geologic event because again cables on the literally laying on the sea floor they're heavily armored they're usually got you know many many inches of steel armor wrapped around them because geologic events occur underwater earthquakes and underwater like landslides and things like that can cut cables pretty easily and that happens fairly often um it happened a few years ago as a pretty big incident with the united states if i recall i had one of our cables cut that way and it was it was totally a natural event but this one was is definitely a uh is definitely a man-made thing so so the norwegians say and the reason for bringing this up is that russia over the since the cold war since the end of the cold war has pumped trillions and trillions of dollars into their undersea they call it oceanographic research uh branch of their navy so um we all know how the us navy works right or roughly speaking we have us navy sailors on u.s navy ships and we sometimes have you know merchant marines on naval ships and we have naval support ships like like hospital ships and oilers and things like that well the russians have an entire directorate that's basically like a naval version of the cia and their sole goal is to do secret squirrel stuff on the sea floor now we can get into this a lot further recently uh this has been a very hard topic to talk about or actually sorry in the past this has been a very hard topic to talk about only recently has this been talked about openly before but again this is very much a topic for another time the larger point here is that i personally can't think of any time when the russians would have actually cut a cable they've tapped a few cables they've tried to tap a few cables to tap into them literally like sending little mini submarines down with little arms on them that grab these cables and drill into them to kind of collect intelligence from them they've done that before but i've and they've practiced cutting cables uh because the reason this is all important is that one of the main kind of triggers for world war three or a very global conflict with russia being a major belligerent of that conflict is for russia to cut undersea cables essentially that's how you're going to know that world war iii has started when the internet just dies you have no communications whatsoever because you know 30 or 40 different undersea cables are all cut all at once that's kind of you know worst case world war three scenario um and one of these cables has been cut um very deliberately and this is something that is i'm sure this woke up a lot of dudes in the middle of the night and put them on planes because this is again i cannot state how how big of a deal this is now as far as any other cables i'm sure that other countries navies are inspecting uh their cables at the moment but again this takes months to do and this honestly since it was so deliberate this might have been one of those warnings like you know again to the western world hey don't mess with us in ukraine or else we're going to cut you know all of your cables next time because if you remember russia doesn't need communications cables they're the largest country on earth they you know have land-based systems whereas europe is very much you know has a lot of maritime space that that it occupies and that kind of ties into what i was mentioning earlier about the united states uh the vulnerabilities to the united states is that like hey if russia cut this cable let's just say they're the ones who did it and if they did it to serve as a warning to europe to stay out of its way with ukraine then you know i i can't imagine them not doing some kind of cyber stuff here in the united states so again that's why all of this stuff is kind of important to keep an eye on not just because this you know might spin out of control but also because we have direct impacts to the united states as well also briefly want to mention kazakhstan kazakhstan that that by the time that we had gotten slides together to talk about it it was already over essentially there was a coup that occurred in kazakhstan to kind of overthrow their dictator government and that coup was put down conveniently because russia sent a lot of airborne troops in at the request of the kazakhstan government to kind of help put that down and this matters for the airborne operations in ukraine because now those soldiers are currently free to invade ukraine or provide support for that and then finally with ukraine again i'm going to have a separate brief on this but the one thing that i did want to touch on is the possibility of a false flag attack now this is an important thing to note that i've been looking at a lot of russian media and uh russian sources along with american sources and they both say the same thing both sides both the western world and russia have have accused each other of planning false flag attacks to justify uh some kind of incursion polite word for invasion over the next 24-48 hours now as far as the united states planning a false flag attack to justify the united states backing up ukraine i think that's kind of a laughable concept the united states has done everything they possibly can to openly state that we're not going to support ukraine that is very much something that we have done i think that it's laughable for us to assume that we're going to do anything more than sends us some special forces maybe some equipment maybe um that even then the united kingdom is having to pick up the slack and send a lot of atgms to ukraine right now so again the united states is very much not interested in defending or helping defend ukraine which for whatever reason you know you can argue you can make arguments of of like hey we have this historical agreement that uh we you know said hey we we bought all of ukraine's or or forced ukraine to de-arm at the um with the agreement in mind that we would come to ukraine's aid uh militarily should they should russia get squirrely and you know the time has come ukraine did their part they disarmed themselves which i'm sure they're regretting now and the united states has not held up our end of the bargain but again i guess we can debate that another day when it comes to the actual false flag attacks reasoning uh i think russia has far more motive obviously they have more motive to conduct a false flag attack uh to justify their incursion slash invasion into the rest of ukraine because as we remember uh the question is not is russia going to invade ukraine because russia has already invaded ukraine eight percent of the ukrainian land mass is now part of the russian federation russia invaded ukraine in 2014 and that's just been the way it is since then the question is how much are they going to invade this time they're they going to launch another push to take even more of ukraine a lot of people are saying that these false flag attacks on both sides of the aisle are going to be kind of the go no go criteria for uh this invasion meaning that if russia can't pull off this this false flag attack they're going to wait until next year because the spring thaw is going to make it very difficult to maneuver in the ukrainian countryside once once everything starts getting muddy again and that would give ukraine the advantage i think me personally i don't think i think that was a valid argument a while back i don't think so now because i think that russia has stacked up they've invested too much too many resources now for them to for them to back down so i guess we'll have to see how it shakes out though but another thing that i wanted to mention is the not petya cyber attack now this was a cyber attack that got zero uh coverage in the u.s press but got a lot in the european press because of the uh petya cyber attacks from before so this is again a russian-based cyber cyber group launched a series of devastating cyber attacks on critical infrastructure in ukraine over the past couple of days now these attacks are very interesting because unlike the petya cyber attacks these are not or they were not intended to be ransomware they were intended to look like ransomware so that a person would think oh okay they're just trying to steal money from us while at the same time the the cyber attack was actually destroying stuff so this is one of those hard wartime like cyber attacks like our full you know cyber warfare stuff of destroying systems with no intention of getting money out of it whatsoever so that's interesting and yet yet another indicator that russia they mean business this time so again like i mentioned we're going to have a whole separate thing on ukraine here in just a bit for those of you who want to follow that conflict like i mentioned to the to the folks on patreon earlier uh we're kind of treating this like in afghanistan 2.0 with regards to the fact that there are americans in ukraine that probably would want to get out of ukraine if it were to be invaded by an invading force which is notorious for taking no prisoners so again if you think afghanistan was bad man just just wait because the ukrainian conflict has been very bad so far and we're just getting started so again as to the grand question that everyone's asking will russia do it i don't know nobody knows anybody who tries to tell you they know is lying to you or they're just guessing right now it's a 50 50 shot but i would i would argue that um or i would rather say that we're spending a lot of time making maps downloading imagery putting either products uh stuff like that because it's uh it's looking like it's an impossible uh impossible action for russia to step down at this point from this so it looks like it's it's not an if but when um and we you know again we might be fools and we might uh all look at this differently but hey it's better to prepare and have wasted a little effort making a map than it would be to uh to watch this on cnn so we'll keep moving forward and we'll uh catch you on the next brief um thank you again to everyone who 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hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for wednesday the 10th of august 2022 and as usual it is being recorded the day prior on the 9th so let's get right to it so for today this is going to be more of a quick and dirty brief i didn't really have a whole lot of time for research this week due to working on a lot of other projects so unfortunately i'm going to have to skip pretty much all of the infrastructure incidents and concerns i know that's like the main meat and potatoes of these briefings here but i haven't really had a whole lot of time to run a lot of these things to ground so it's not that there hasn't been anything that's happened it's just that it's getting a lot more difficult to figure out what is a legitimate infrastructure concern and what isn't in like an actual attack on infrastructure uh this briefing was really is really right on the cusp of my own personal goal which is to not put a brief out just for the sake of putting a brief out but we have just enough stuff to talk about that's occurred in the past few days really that's worth putting a brief out so just wanted to kind of mention that for everyone and i guess we'll go ahead and quickly move to suspicious fires so really only one to add this time around and this is in birmingham alabama new mount moriah baptist church uh was basically burned to the ground actually two days ago so on the 7th into the 8th of august if i remember correctly again like pretty much all of these other church fires there's really no indication of whether or not this was arson or not this one i added to the slide because out of the five or six church fires that have occurred in the past 48 hours uh this is the only one that did not specifically mention a cause so i wanted to kind of put that out there moving on to kinetic incident tracker nothing for the northeast just yet there have been a lot of things that have occurred in new york i still haven't really figured out what my own personal benchmark is for these kinds of events because quite literally there is what you might consider a domestic terror attack occurring in pretty much every city in the united states every single day so i don't know what to include as just general violence now that the the bar has shifted so far uh that generalized street violence is now to the level of what we might have considered a domestic terror attack 10 years ago i really don't know where we're at with this so i'm just going to for the moment leave these leave high profile events on this on this series of slides so moving down to the southeast region really there was only one item of note and i think this is less of a domestic terror thing and more of a personal dispute and that is in arkansas we don't really hear a whole lot coming out of arkansas with regards to kinetic incidents like this but this took place in randolph county arkansas specifically at the home of the randolph county sheriff someone who apparently had a beef with the sheriff tried to attack his home with an improvised explosive slash incendiary device uh the device actually set fire to his home while the sheriff and his family were sleeping there in the middle of the night around 1 30 in the morning or so uh the sheriff did get a tip off before uh the the assailant actually got to his property because the person who committed the attack was a is a well-known uh felon in the area and he was wearing an ankle monitor so for those that don't know in many jurisdictions around the country uh these ankle monitoring services they're not just monitoring someone to make sure they don't leave a certain geographic area they're also monitoring where a person goes so in this case the law enforcement branch there the county sheriff either i don't know if it's internally or some kind of third party company or whatnot but anyway the the monitoring service that was monitoring this guy's anklet noticed that he was headed towards the sheriff's home so the sheriff got a phone call got an advanced warning uh things like that so just just so everyone's aware that's that's why this is kind of a unique incident because this guy obviously was caught quite quickly there's no real motive on this one obviously a firebombing is kind of a high profile thing but this looks like this was more of a personal dispute between this guy and the sheriff so i'm just i'm going to leave it on there obviously because it's a high profile event but we'll move on to the midwest specifically the east central midwestern region and really there were two incidents that have occurred both of these new incidents are kind of similar but the first one i wanted to talk about occurred in chicago illinois uh actually this was a suburb of chicago uh this occurred just a couple of days ago on the 7th of august at the uprising bakery however this was specifically targeting a drag queen brunch so this bakery uprising bakery is seems to be from like the stuff i've seen on social media an extreme leftist um bakery and uh it looks like they were hosting an event called drag queen brunch in which case there were performers that came in and do the stuff that we all kind of know they do now well people showed up and graffitied their bakery up pretty good calling them groomers and such so yeah pretty pretty standard they actually broke a few windows front door things like that um but as far as emotive and like a claimant it's probably a solid guess this was done by people that have kind of had enough of this kind of behavior we don't often see conservatives or traditionalists i guess you should say uh conducting these kinds of operations but my guess is this kind of thing will probably continue well into the future such as in the case of number seven so moving on to number seven there in kalamazoo michigan this was a planned parenthood that was attacked via arson so apparently a pro-life individual tried to set fire to a local planned parenthood in kalamazoo michigan on the 31st of july the facility wasn't damaged too much and this guy left a very long trail of evidence and so he was arrested pretty quickly but yeah i again would expect these kinds of reactionary attacks moving forward into the future moving on to the west central midwestern region only two items of note in lawrence kansas something we don't normally see too often in kansas this was again vandalism most likely by jane's revenge the victory bible church and the calvary temple assembly of god uh both in lawrence kansas both located kind of close to each other i guess both were vandalized in the classic james revenge faction so unfortunately as unfortunate as this event is it is not uncommon whatsoever at this point thus even talking about in the first place i guess uh so i guess we'll move on to the southwestern region again i haven't really found any number of kinetic events that have occurred within the last 90 days with regards to the southwest i think it's due to population density and maybe perhaps my own benchmark and search parameters i'm sure stuff has occurred i just haven't found it we'll keep an eye out and i'll make sure to dig a little bit deeper next time so moving on to the western region again only one significant item of note but just to mention uh the one item of note that i thought was very interesting number seven there in los angeles california an ied attack occurred at a convenience store by unknown assailants so this is a very strange one so that's why i wanted to mention it so some guy entered a small convenience store with a backpack set the backpack down on the ground and ran off the backpack then ignited slash partially exploded uh this caused a fire in the store obviously but it didn't seem to do much damage otherwise i didn't see too many windows knocked out or anything like that nothing is known about the device itself as usual literally all we have to go on are witness accounts and the completely ignorant local news media so i'm not sure if this counts as a true ied attack but yeah i did want to mention it so just based on how weird it is you don't normally see this kind of thing but i guess in los angeles anything goes these days and moving on to the meat of the matter for this time which is significant governmental actions first up is the ups fiasco so right now i don't really have a lot of new details that i can talk about uh just yet still kind of working through the the process to figure out what is actually uh going down with that but um maybe i'll have some more information next time of course as you might expect a lot of people are kind of you know anxious to figure out what's going on with this ups stuff is ups banning or trying to seize packages are they going after individual consumers uh the only thing that i can say at the moment right now just from you know my basic analysis is that it's more complicated than you think but this again does not set a great precedent moving forward with regards to shipping and online firearms dealers or firearms parts dealers things like that so when i have some more information i will bring it but for right now i just wanted to remind everyone that this is still going on and did not forget about it because as we all know once something gets out of the 24-hour news cycle we tend to forget about it and the ups potentially cracking down on firearms parts distributors is kind of a big freaking deal so i don't want to let this one slip into the abyss of you know last week right so we'll just keep that one on the slide for now up next is the fbi document leak which is interesting i'm sure everyone on the planet has heard about it by now to me i am i don't want to be condescending but to me this is not really exciting news because we've already kind of seen this much of what was leaked in the fbi's uh domestic terror brief right much of what was briefed in that document has already been circulating throughout law enforcement communities for gosh at least over a year now we remember the dod's extremism stand down most of what was in the fbi paper that was leaked was also in that saying that anyone who is a fan of american history anyone who has a betsy ross flag is an extremist uh that's none of that's new so i don't know why the sudden outrage over this uh other than you know just i guess people maybe not keeping up to date with what the federal government has been doing i don't know again i'm trying not to be super condescending but when i saw this it was like okay you know okay we now have it formalized that the fbi has been doing this i mean we formalized this last year i thought so anyway uh yeah the fbi document leak happened uh and all of that being said the the the most interesting thing to me which i've seen a few people online mention as well is that the the groups that were not listed on the fbi's extremism brief right so the groups that were not mentioned were any kind of imagery or symbology tied to antifa or blm which again is to be expected because the fbi is well they're they're what they are we all know what they are now uh but what was also interesting to me is that the patriot front was not listed so the patriot front is all about symbols they're all about nice uniforms and interesting little you know formations and things like that but the patriot front was not listed very interesting i don't quite know what that means just yet and i'm not trying to imply that the patriot front is entirely the fbi but i think that there's probably a good portion of the patriot front who is either willingly or unwillingly serving the fbi in some capacity either with informants or just being stupid either way i'm not entirely certain but all the memes going around about the the patriot front are at least kind of entertaining and i just don't have enough information to say what that group is either way maybe we'll do a deep dive on on that group in the future but for now i think that's really all that kind of i have on that up next is the irs so as many people are finding out now after the fact congress just passed a bill to to more than double the size of the irs this will mean that the irs when this becomes law which it most certainly will this will mean that the irs will have more employees than the fbi the pentagon and customs and border protection so that's very interesting to me right the irs is specifically going to be targeting middle class taxpayers which is not just something that conservative pundits have been kind of bringing out right this is actually what their history is less than nine percent of people making over five hundred thousand dollars are to be audited right because that's what they did last year so this bill also increases the irs's budget by over six times at least by my math uh from reading the bill this is a they're going to increase their budget by 600 percent from just last year which it was already increased uh for last year so yeah um the democrats and republicans in congress who supported this bill claim that the bill will not increase audits on people who earn less than 400 000 a year uh and i'm just going to say this is an outright lie this is the most false thing i have heard today because last year 51 of every single human being audited by the irs made less than 75 000 last year over half of who the irs targets is the middle class so what's the deal here 4.8 percent of all the audits irs did were on people making over 10 million dollars so less than five percent are going to be millionaires right and the interesting part is that in this bill 57 of this new budgetary increase has already directly been allocated to targeting americans so the irs has targeted the middle class uh lower classes always always always which is something that i cannot shout loud enough to anyone who will listen i guess but oh well i've contained my rage on the irs for as long as possible so let's move on to something else before i say something that will get me in trouble uh like talking about the raid that occurred in florida so i am sure that by now uh everyone has realized what has happened last night as i'm making this brief right now donald trump's compound down at mar-a-lago in palm beach florida was raided by the fbi last night it is unclear as to what the fbi was doing uh however there have been several rumors that have been floating around uh i will that the main rumor that's been floating around is that the fbi has been uh trying to investigate slash c's documents related to the donald trump's potential or alleged removal of documents from the white house uh following uh his uh you know tenure in office right so they're saying the fbi is trying to say that donald trump illegally took documents and is improperly storing classified material so i don't know if that's going to hold water because here's the interesting thing that a lot of people might not understand about classified information is that the president of the united states is an original classification authority this means that the president of the united states has the ability to say they have the ability to change the classification level of anything so they can declassify whatever they want so i'm not entirely sure how the fbi is going to try to justify this but really again this just occurred this just happened last night so i haven't really had time to think about it and as usual this points to this brief being more haphazard than normal but i think that one of the things we need to consider is the potential for the fbi to use this as an intelligence collection opportunity obviously obviously obviously people were going to flock to mar-a-lago once they realized the fbi had raided it donald trump has a lot of supporters right either passively or very very actively and you have to admit that his his people will most certainly turn up and they did they immediately flocked to mar-a-lago me just looking at the tweets of that and the the video of that uh last night my first thought was okay where's the fbi surveillance van collecting intelligence on their cell phones uh because you've got live streamers showing up to mar-a-lago like dude the fbi is there collecting intelligence on you so i think that they're going to get a lot more intelligence on this from the actual people who showed up rather than donald trump himself and the same thing applies online the we we know for a fact that one of the fbi's main tricks is to see who is outraged about something they did online so someone gets online they get really angry they say something they shouldn't online and that stays online forever yeah i think that's some i think that's probably the biggest lesson the average american can can take from this in this incident so far again this is not an unexpected event we were expecting donald trump to not just be raided but most likely arrested at some point they're going to have to whatever one's feelings are about donald trump i think are kind of irrelevant at this point with regards to this specific kind of raid and for whatever reason i feel the need to caveat once again that i'm personally no fan of donald trump either uh for for many different reasons um but the the fact of the matter is is that this is a president of the united states who has been raided his personal residence has been raided by the fbi now when i look at that i see a lot of different things for one i wonder okay was the secret service in on this as well because donald trump still writes secret service protection so that the secret service agents on his personal detail cooperate with the fbi i also question whether or not donald trump himself got the tip off somehow my guess is he probably did the the man was president of the united states he's got intelligence collection networks working for him no matter where he goes he's got friends in very high places right so i find it very hard to believe that he would not have been prepared for this raid and that shows the naivety of the fbi that conducted the raid it's not just a political move to target the president united states but but look like even andrew cuomo has figured out that this was going to hurt the liberals more than it's going to help them because now you just made the man a martyr even you know even if not literally you've made him a figurative martyr in the political game and even andrew cuomo has taken to twitter to mention that this is going to decrease the legitimacy of the other extreme leftist stuff they're doing which in fact it will my guess is that donald trump if he has any brain cells left would never never never keep anything incriminating at his house like that's the most like junior level stuff right so the fbi raiding his residence did they actually seriously think they were gonna find anything maybe they did i don't know either way a lot of ecos got involved of a very important decision-making process and that's dangerous because as we're getting ready to as i'll talk about when we get to international issues i think that incompetence and and egotistical thinking is is going to get a lot of people in trouble inside the federal regime at this point when it comes to thinking about how government works i'm trying not to take a side with regards to how i know internal federal agencies work i'm trying to see things as objectively as possible and i tell you that like look raiding the home of a former president is not good you're talking about things like invoking executive privilege privilege concerns you're talking about watergate level stuff like matt you're it's it's a huge deal and as if these concerns were not strong enough uh we're finding out this morning that the federal magistrate judge which authorized the fbi raid into donald trump's personal residence has a history this guy is the same guy who left the u.s attorney's office about 10 years ago or so to represent legally employees of jeffrey epstein so yeah this is quite literally something that even i don't think even hollywood could come up with uh the levels of corruption that we're seeing here which again is not surprising but i think that the larger lesson for all of us here is that we should most certainly expect more political persecution by federal agents i mean if they're going to raid donald trump's house and not be afraid of what's going to happen to them then what do you think they'll do to you and me so i think that's probably something that we should be mindful of but to bring my sort of disorganized rambling to a close uh i think that this event is really just for most people going to be a an indicator of just how serious the situation is like i mentioned if they're going to raid donald trump's house what are they going to do to you i think that for most people in the country this is really just going to be a solidification of how serious the situation is i think this event is going to wake up a lot of people to what's going on this is not just some conservative pundit right saying uh the fbi did this the fbi is doing that no this this is this is real here uh the the president of the united states the former president united states uh had his home raided by the current administration's fbi you know that that is really hard to deny and the fact that that even occurred i don't i don't care what the raid was about right the fact that that occurred is is pretty shocking um i can guarantee you that this is an event that is going to live in infamy for a very very long time and i think that this is not going to be the last one for whatever reason the current regime has decided to target donald trump in any way possible using any resources possible again regardless of whatever your feelings are about the man i think that it's very interesting to to see that the biden regime is so terrified of him that they're willing to risk all of the the the the fallout from raiding his opponents home uh they're willing to risk that fallout simply because of how scared they are of him i don't know if that is a i don't know if that fear is misplaced or not uh but in any case it's what's happening and i would expect it to continue quite seriously at first i thought when this stuff kicked off i thought you know what they're probably going to just go after his chief his chief people right his leadership his chiefs of staff things like that but no um we're here now they've raided donald trump's house so there's no coming back from that and i think that the only way forward for the biden regime is to continue on forward and double down because that's what they've been doing with quite literally every single event they have done every single thing they've done so far so so yeah i'll i'll shut up talking about that for now and we'll kind of see what the fallout from this is i'm not really going to pay attention to what's going on in congress with regards to congressional republicans because i think it's going to be interesting to see which republicans do not denounce this raid that's going to be interesting but i think that really any actions that congressional republicans are going to take is mostly going to be political theater and i don't think it's going to be any kind of effective you know whatsoever so anyway i guess we'll have to see what happens so let's go ahead and move on to international issues so again this brief is quite haphazard this time i haven't really had time to talk about sri lanka or india just yet but it looks like the famine that is underway in sri lanka uh has started to either affect india or it's more of a correlation not a causation type thing basically india is having some trouble with rice so the main manufacturer distributor for rice in india has expressed that they're it's kind of confusing i've seen headlines either way they've said that either they're having trouble or they're going to have trouble in the near future again i haven't dug into this too much and probably by the time that we figure things out it's going to be too late anyway but yeah food shortages are certainly uh on the menu or or would it be off the menu either way for the world for this winter so that's going to be something to follow i will let you know again rice is not a huge dietary thing for the united states we don't really consume that much rice as part of our diet and we have a lot of corn which is in the same kind of nutritional class i guess you'd call it it's a staple good right most people in the united states have corn as a significant part of their diet however a rice shortage is going to affect southeast asia like you would not believe because most people in southeast asia you know shocker eat a lot of rice so india most of india's exports go to the rest of southeast asia so that's going to be the market that's going to be hit the most with this i would guess but i would also expect you know rice shortages to kind of pop up in random places as is typical by now moving on to russia this is a very interesting one and something that i would keep an eye on in the future if you're interested in uh foreign defense stuff and that is that the fsb has been arresting scientists uh throughout many of their programs over the past few uh weeks actually so the latest guy to be arrested is alexander shiployok who was arrested by the fsb on charges of treason so they're not messing around uh he was the director of the institute of theoretical and applied mechanics of the siberian branch of the russian academy of sciences what a job title this entity the the institute has been leading russia's efforts to produce and improve their hypersonic missiles which they have announced are supposed to be implemented uh the newest hypersonic missiles they have uh they're supposed to be implemented on their naval vessels or deploy on the naval vessels sometime this fall yeah very interesting this is the third scientist that has been arrested in the past month from the same exact project area the institute's lead researcher and another researcher in the laser physics department have also been arrested again on charges of treason so when i look at this i think oh there's some international espionage going on either these guys were working for the cia and spying for the united states or maybe even china who knows my guess is that russia has have found out about it and they're cracking down on some kind of spy network they've got going on in their technology divisions so again this is not uncommon the united states has people leaking secrets to china basically daily at this point but yeah russia also has the same problems so i would be very interested to see what their hypersonic missile program looks like and whether or not these hypersonic missiles actually work and finally let's talk about taiwan for just a second as many of you have already seen many people are kind of freaking out over the recent escalations of tensions between taiwan china and the us nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan to check on her insider trading investments increased tension sharply for a couple of days but for the most part we haven't really seen anything beyond posturing and saber rattling many volumes can and have been filled by discussing the highly complicated and intricate balance of diplomacy in southeast asia so right now let me just take a couple of minutes and alleviate some concerns really really quickly as for me i'm not really worried about china right now i'm not really super concerned about world war iii breaking out with china over the next few weeks or months uh no matter how much some people on the planet seem to want that uh my my own personal opinion is that china they're going through a lot of domestic concerns right now that would make war not really an option at the moment ukraine has shown that a major superpower the former soviet union can't even reoccupy one of their former republics in the exact same terrain that their military their entire military was built for china you know looking at the mountainous hellscape of taiwan's terrain and the fact that they're an island uh would pretty much expend the entirety of their military invading taiwan or at least enough to where they're going to be in some serious trouble if they try to go for taiwan plus we we may be outraged at the hundreds of billions of dollars of you know our tax money that's been sent to ukraine but but we must remember that our recent funding of ukraine does not hold a candle to the mountains of funding that we have given to taiwan over the past few decades again i'm certainly no southeast asia expert i'm reading up on the region i'm trying to get smart on that but at the moment i will 100 say that every day that goes by i distrust military strategy analysts more and more uh the china boogie man is big business both for the defense industry and for the private sector as well very rarely will defense blogs talk about china's problems which is important to understanding the whole picture and china's problems are numerous like their starving military their almost complete lack of any adequate electrical grid they're failing financial structures they're laughably substandard naval vessels their failing banks the massive drought and food shortages throughout the nation and the hydroelectric dam that is upstream of 15 of the entire world's manufacturing capability the same dam that has been forming 10 meter long cracks in it since 2003. the us defense industry is certainly drooling over the opportunity to do everything they can to start localized conflicts uh the powers that be would be very happy to start some of those small wars that have been the standard for a while but they also don't understand that big wars as in thermonuclear wars won't do too much to pad their wallets and will actually make their bank accounts kind of irrelevant if they were to occur so the ultra short bottom line is expect lots of saber rattling by china and the united states china will seek to maintain their dominance over southeast asia and the united states will seek to keep poking the dragon as a way to increase the potential for another series of forever wars which will benefit the us defense industry however with inexperienced and incompetent people conducting diplomacy in southeast asia we average citizens have to be mindful of these sheer stupid mistakes that could be made with potentially irreversible results we can't expect and plan for corruption but we cannot plan for stupid mistakes are always what make me nervous and the current us regime is most certainly playing with fire with their flippant egotistical attitude towards issues bigger than themselves so i don't want to dismiss china as completely not a threat they most certainly are and china's national aspirations are quite clear they you know for lack of a better term have expressed they want world domination or at least domination in southeast asia and i think that that's a little uh a little concerning for everyone even if china is not able to to meet a lot of those goals so now on the other hand the united states gave putin permission to reinvade ukraine we all remember maybe some of us remember the small minor incursion uh scandal from the early opening days of the the reigniting of the ukrainian war and that's something that china has noticed too so my guess is that if china were to somehow get the gumption to invade taiwan the u.s response would probably be the same if not much less than the situation in ukraine the reason for us politicians funding ukraine with so much of our tax money and just printing printing billions hundreds of billions of dollars is mostly due to corruption and not defense but with taiwan the roles are reversed a bit sort of half of our politicians are quite literally in bed with chinese agents daily so i don't think the dynamic is going to be quite the same with the china taiwan conflict as we have seen in ukraine either way the u.s can do all the poking it wants but at the end of the day china is going to have to be the one to launch the invasion and i don't know if they are militarily capable of doing so at the moment but again stupid exists on both sides of the aisle and china's leadership might think they have a chance at taking taiwan right now maybe they think they're pushed up against the wall with their failing economy and they have to do something although i'm not really sure what they would get from taking taiwan other than national prestige and the potential for further invasions down the line but again i think this is a pretty remote possibility considering the domestic issues china is going through right now of course i could be wrong and probably am but out of all the issues we're dealing with in the united states right now china is pretty close to the bottom of my list of concerns so it's already kind of disappointing anyone out there expecting an in-depth analysis of the situation with china in years past i know myself would have been fascinated with stuff like this but these days i'm just having a really hard time caring about the intricate details of diplomacy in southeast asia but again we'll keep an eye out and if anything squirrely starts going on we'll we'll do what we can to keep everybody informed as to what's going on so that's pretty much all i have for today again thank you all for watching uh sorry this is more of a haphazard one than normal but that's the case when things seem to happen very very quickly it's almost like every single day we find out of some milestone groundbreaking event that's never occurred before in history so again it's not it's not easy to kind of keep up with these kinds of things but that's okay we'll do the best we can and thank you again to all of those who support us on patreon and nutrient you guys have really helped us out a lot and you're continuing to help us make these briefs a possibility well into the future so thank you so much for that and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is a briefing for monday the 4th of october 2021 and it is being recorded on the day prior on october 3rd so let's jump right into the weather weather over the next 12 hours is not going to be super great for any kind of aerial asset as we can see most of the eastern united states is going to have significant cloud coverage at very low altitudes as well as some of those medium and higher level altitudes as well and also the pacific northwest is also going to be hit with some of those winter weather type systems moving forward into the later parts of the year it's a good idea to understand not just the cloud levels and the cloud ceilings that occur at low altitudes those are good to understand and keep an eye out for or at least get into the habit of but it's also good to understand freezing levels and where the freezing levels are located and these different kinds of atmospheric conditions that might affect any aviation asset when it comes to things like icing we're also in a red illumination cycle with lunar illumination being roughly at 11 or so so the low lunar elimination means dark nights and moving into the later parts of the year we've got uh really long nights we've got a lot more hours of darkness combined with really uh significant layers of cloud coverage and icing man it just really adds up to sort of understand that this is most certainly charlie's weather when it comes to any kind of aerial asset and like i mentioned up in the northern parts of the country we're starting to already see some very poor visibility up at altitude when it comes to things like precipitation and other kinds of storm systems moving into the area as we move forward into the later parts of the year moving on to no tams really only to of note of course they're both presidential uh the first one is in lansing michigan i haven't done the research to figure out what this one is probably some kind of visit from either uh the president or the vice president and the second one is in wilmington delaware that is the standard uh vacation ops no tam that we've been tracking for months now for this weekend so usually probably by the time this brief goes goes out and goes hot it's going to be canceled so just everybody knows and for the civil unrest forecast really not a whole lot uh really no main changes to this slide the election audit is still still going on um we're gonna wait have to wait and see exactly how that all shakes out there's a lot of speculation a lot of talking about the election audit online and we're we're definitely still in wait and see mode when it comes to that particular event moving into logistics a quick rundown of the shortages from last time so school bus shortages have gotten worse i've only left the two icons on the map which i'll explain in just a minute but most states are dealing with a significant school bus driver shortage at this point which is why i have listed it on the left hand side of the slide so for those that don't understand the left hand side of the slide that sort of box there shows the shortages that are present for every state if i were to drop those icons on every state you wouldn't be able to see the map so i've put them over off to the side that is not a legend for the icons that are on the map i'm speaking to the icons on the map if i were to put a legend for every icon that i'm using i would have over i have over 4000 icons right now so it would take kind of a long time to and a lot of slide space to actually put all the icons up there but there's two icons that are on the states of massachusetts and ohio i left those there because they seem to be having the worst worst time of it when it comes to the school bus shortages particularly because massachusetts has activated their national guard and ohio looks like they are getting ready to activate their national guard but we'll come back to that in just a second and the reason that i wanted to talk about the school bus driver shortage particularly is because of a sort of new development in that field so we've done a lot of digging and gotten a lot of feedback from a lot of people via email and dms that indicate to us that a large portion of the people in some areas aren't exactly quitting being school bus drivers they're actually being fired from being school bus drivers due to medical mandates now this turns out to be almost impossible to verify at least in any in any way is to make a broad statement about it so if you do your own homework on this just know that there are almost certainly several reasons for the school bus driver shortage from our own analysis there seem to be a few main reasons that people are not choosing to be bus drivers firstly people cannot continue the job due to money now even within this category there are widely different reasons some bus drivers are currently being paid a lot of money some people might say they're being overpaid for the hours that they're working but they feel that they can make more money elsewhere so they're quitting or they like the idea of bending over the education system to use this as an opportunity a leverage to make even more money and on the other end of the spectrum some people are genuinely being paid practically nothing so they genuinely have to change careers just to put food on the table because being a bus driver requires a schedule that isn't really conducive to most other nine to five jobs on the medical slash political side of the house there are also people that are primarily concerned with the medical mandates and they're just fed up with the whole thing so they quit and others are outright being fired for not complying with the needle-based tyranny right so there are a lot of different factors playing into these school bus driver shortages that are affecting pretty much every state at this point also the water shortage out west has gotten uh status quo on that really it's still bad as we move forward into the winter and we start getting a lot of precipitation from the winter weather we'll see how this works out but just know that of course people living in these areas know the water shortage is pretty dire but for people who aren't living there the water shortage has been an issue for honestly months and months and months at this point so that continues to be a major concern for people living out west also the microchip shortage has gotten uh quite a bit worse we've added a couple of states there as you can see really these microchip shortages are there at a point where it's very very concerning and it's starting to affect a lot of consumer goods so mostly it seems like the automobile industry has hit some of the hardest but we're also starting to see these microchip shortages trickle down into individual consumer goods basically anything that takes a microchip is going to have some kind of shortage at this point as to how severe that shortage is who knows you might not even notice it or you might not be able to buy a pickup truck in you know this in the entire country in a few months we just don't know how bad this is going to be but we do know that it is absolutely worth keeping an eye on and it's going to be a very uh significant thing as we move forward into the future also much like the uh school bus driver shortage we're also seeing a shortage of public transit drivers for much the same reasons or the array of different reasons a lot of cities have reported severe severe shortages of public transit drivers so we're just calling that as being a nationwide problem at the moment and finally really the only other addition is a sort of brief follow-on to last brief which is when i mentioned costco's shortages of toilet paper and bottled water now i mentioned last time that the shortages at costco of toilet paper and bottled water made no sense whatsoever because there was really nothing to indicate that these shortages were happening right remember during the great toilet paper shortage fiasco during the height of this whole pandemic thing the reason for that was social media hysteria really the main reason driving the the driving that shortage was a news article getting spun people freaking out and then it just snowballed into it causing genuine shortages because everybody went out and panicked bought toilet paper because it because social media told them to now this time it turns out costco's prayers have been answered because a few days after costco announced the toilet paper shortages this study from japan came out it turns out a japanese study was done showing a brand new symptom of the virus which is probably the sketchiest thing ever um that you know this virus might cause some gastrointestinal problems so if you look at the timing of this uh it's very interesting i don't know if there's any link or or not but i just thought it was kind of funny that costco announces there's toilet paper shortages and then like two days later japan releases a study some this ridiculous like sounding study which makes really no sense even if you're not you know medic have a medical even if you don't have a medical background like us it doesn't make any sense whatsoever so of course even the new york post right there is sensationalizing this as much as they possibly can so the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter at this point if it is a manufactured shortage somebody just trying to make a quick dollar off of people's stupidity online or if it's a genuine shortage due to people actually being concerned and going out and rushing to buy things there's going to be shortages of things like toilet paper and other random things because as we all know when people rush to a store to go buy something in a panic they tend to buy other things as well and as we all know our grocery stores and our logistical networks can't handle that demand all at once so it's just like you know on game day in a big you know football town or a big college town they're going to be completely out of a lot of random things right usually the alcohol section will be completely cleared out along with the snacks section so expect a similar type of thing to happen because this is just getting spun way out of control on all of social media and all of these so-called journalistic agencies so i thought that was interesting to touch on and moving into critical infrastructure concerns uh really i wanted to leave the crystal valley ransomware attack on there from last time really there have been no major updates from the last brief about the crystal valley attack several mainstream media outlets have reportedly reached out to crystal valley uh several times in the past day or so and haven't really gotten any response so we don't know if this attack is resolved and we don't know if it is still still going on so i just wanted to leave it on there to show that it probably still is there's still some impacts that are occurring because of that attack also moving on to number two there bandwidth.com the company bandwidth which is you know confusing name as a company but bandwidth is actually the company name of a newer company but they are a very large provider of voip services so voice over ip services they have a lot of clients everyone from verizon to local 911 run their telecommunications networks uh through services that are provided by bandwidth so um even though this attack this attack was stopped quite quickly bandwidth.com announced that they uh they had mitigated the impacts of this uh quite quickly so they didn't really get very deep uh into the systems of how you know bandwidth works and things like that but since bandwidth has such a wide wide breadth of services that they provide there were very widespread impacts felt from this cyber attack so again it really just shows the vulnerability of our telecommunications networks to things like cyber attacks even if they're stopped very quickly the fact that we're so networked and one single company and one single set of servers can impact the entire country so this is a great example of that and then moving on to number three uh the shipping situation when it comes to the port congestion things like that has gotten quite worse there is currently still significant shipping congestion and it has spread to most of the ports in the united states as we briefed last time the port of los angeles was the most heavy hit and has had to divert cargo ships to offload as far north as vancouver actually we can see right here this these are the ships that are actually uh they haven't been diverted north to vancouver these are just some of the ones that are still there uh hanging out outside of los angeles waiting to offload as we can see there's quite a lot uh they're sitting there waiting so shipping on the east coast is also affected with thousands of ships being at anchor outside ports waiting to unload or being diverted elsewhere and again for anyone who doesn't understand why this is such a big problem the short version is that our national and even global logistics networks have always had serious problems our logistical systems barely work as is but because barely working is still technically working very few people care or pay attention to things like this so when you take a system that is just barely chucking along and just barely functioning and you increase demand sharply while the logistical networks can't handle it anymore which is a huge problem and since everything is so interconnected since our logistical transport capacity is so small compared to the amount of goods that need to be shipped you have a lot of random shortages happen there's only so much space so the there's an opportunity cost for each load of cargo right and the choice of shipping one item over another can make a huge difference simply one ship unloading its cargo before another ship or one train taking one less freight car than it could will result in localized shortages of random goods in random places around the country and for significant governmental actions not a lot of great news this time so up first there new york has begun the process of terminating doctors for not complying with the medical mandates and in turn has activated thousands of national guard soldiers to assist with the personnel shortages that are a direct result of this so new york is freely admitting that they they have created this crisis and they are perfectly fine with that arrangement because they're calling in the soldiers to fill the gap so we'll come back to that one in just a second when it comes to the national guard deployments but moving on to number two there as expected another round of purges from social media has begun with youtube itself announcing that they will be outright deleting videos and content that goes against the regime's narrative on the medical procedure that cannot be named so we're in a really tough spot because the regime is coming out and stating in places like the actual manufacturers of these medical um substances are coming out and stating a lot of stuff and they're being quite open about how ineffective this stuff is like for instance the cdc director rochelle wilinsky just the other day stated that the jab cannot prevent transmission you know you've got places like webster's and you know dictionary and the cdc changing the definition of that v word online so that it's no longer the same word as before so we're in this really weird spot where the regime is freely admitting that this this stuff is uh really just about control and totalitarian you know things like that but youtube still wants to take it wants to take up for them so we can't even show the regime talking about the regime's own ideology which is strange so um yeah again pardon this for having to talk and encode so much that is really the only thing that is keeping us from getting outright deleted from youtube at this point so um i guess we're just going for confusing the algorithms instead of uh trying to go against them i guess but in any case i should mention that we here back up all of our videos to odyssey which is in the description uh just like always so i thought i should mention that that you know youtube you if you have another youtube channel that you like um and they're uh they're definitely questioning the regime's narrative even though the regime itself is questioning the narrative in a lot of cases youtube is probably going to delete them so you can of course there are a lot of third-party websites which will allow you to take the link of a youtube video and download the video so i would recommend that for any videos that you find that are particularly interesting on youtube we do that with our own videos just to make sure that we've got everything backed up separately on all kinds of different drives and stuff so i just thought i should point that out as well moving on to number three uh millie the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff testified before congress he was called to testify based on well i guess the allegations of treason but as far as his actual testimony goes you can actually you know watch it download it whatever if you want um there's really not much intel value with this other than merely doubling down on everything uh confirming that he did in fact commit treason but the sticking point is that what everyone else calls trees and he calls doing his job so again it's not really there's not really much to learn here it's just interesting to note and it is very important i think in a larger aspect to keep in mind the mindset and the political ideology of senior military leadership as we move forward into an age of military deployments on u.s soil which i will talk about in just a bit moving on to number four even more concrete proof has come to light that confirms the biden regime is preventing americans from getting back home from afghanistan you can read the specific details yourself but the biden regime particularly the state department has a long track record at this point of preventing u.s citizens from getting home but also allowing non-siv and non-green card holding afghan refugees to wander unguarded around us military bases so this is a much larger story a lot of people have done a lot better job at covering this development uh than us because there's i think that there's a lot of journalistic value there but there's not really a whole lot to analyze for us other than yeah this is a concern and we need to watch out for this stuff but really when it comes to national level policy and what the federal government is doing you know best thing we can do is watch unfortunately with a lot of this refugee type stuff so again something that we've talked about a lot already um i just wanted to provide yet another example of the regime's behavior on this for posterity's sake i guess and number five finally the infrastructure bill is back in the press for some reason which is perplexing to us because we and hundreds of other entities covered this months ago when the infrastructure bill was introduced but for some reason this tax per mile program is drawing outrage once again even though it probably should have been drawing outrage months ago so here it is this is an actual screenshot of the issue in question the per mile tax on citizens pilot program again don't just take our word for it or our screenshots that could easily be doctored you can actually read the full document itself the link is is in the sources after this but this clearly outlines the creation of a per mile tax on all drivers eventually nationwide now currently as this bill is written this is a pilot program but anyone with any common sense can see the language of this pilot program is to establish infrastructure to actually work out the logistics of how to tax people clearly this feasibility study is really just instituting the creation of this logistical system which we think will almost immediately not be a pilot program but a full-on thing or they'll just keep calling it a pilot program decades into the future after every single vehicle in the united states has a tracker in it now interestingly this bill also highlights how they plan to do it right here as we can clearly see there will be trackers placed in your car excuse me the cars the pilot program participants now we can get into the weeds of how this will work when the bill passes and we kindly get the first ideas of what kinds of tracking devices they will use also as we pointed out months ago they honestly don't even need to have tracking devices in everyone's car all they need is a network of automated license plate readers which are networked with law enforcement i.t networks so that you won't be able to drive on the road without your plate being flagged as not being registered under this system and considering that the funding for this is 10 million dollars you know it's really hard to tell where that money is going to go it doesn't say in in the bill list i'm showing you probably 90 percent of the text to the bill as it's written so it's hard to say as to how this will actually work out it's basically just a blank check of 10 million dollars to set this system up and again a slight digression to kind of put things in perspective we here always try to balance what we call the the freak out point for for lack of a better term conveying exactly how concerned to be is always difficult it is really almost impossible to convey the sense of urgency to someone who is not an expert in a particular field sometimes it's just easier to tell people when it's worth freaking out over something our classic example of this is that if i were out and about walking around town and i just happened to see a bomb disposal technician and full kit and everything uh sprinting away from something i don't even care what's going on i'm going to break all land speed records to outpace them even though i have no idea what's going on i'm just going to assume that there's something that i don't understand that's going on and i'm going to defer to that trusted expert until i can figure out what's up and make my own decisions so when it comes to stuff like this the u.s government literally telling you that they are going to put tracking devices in your vehicle we would recommend having the same level of concern as if the government told you that they were putting a tracking device in your vehicle yes this is a volunteer pilot program but we can all assess how that's going to go there's nothing so permanent as a temporary government program also this program is voluntary yes the us government seems to think that people are going to line up to voluntarily pay taxes on each mile they drive i mean i guess this is good news for the folks that are fans of volunteerism this is an outstanding way to see how that's going to work out but my own personal assessment is that this voluntary pilot program will be about as voluntary as the medical mandates are the good news is is that the u.s government tracking every person's vehicle in the u.s is going to be a massive logistical nightmare it will be easy to defeat easy to just say no to and almost impossible to enforce plus most people go out of their way to hide their income and avoid paying taxes anyway and even then it is highly unlikely that the us government reaches a point in which they will be able to send a swat team to your specific house because you unplug your tracking chip sure they can get big names and resistance leadership but they can't get everyone and the us government already has a hard enough time getting everyone to pay their taxes as is yeah this is a gateway to some really horrifically bad stuff but it's also something that we can easily fight so hopefully that explains what we think the appropriate level of concern is over this particular governmental action it is worth being aware of and definitely worth taking concrete steps to disrupt deny and dismantle these systems once we get an understanding of exactly how this is going to work out but for now there really isn't much that's worth completely freaking out over and i go out of the way to over explain the appropriate freakout level the appropriate level of concern to have because of the next slide i am sure that this slide will get screenshot and posted all around the internet and it will probably set the comments section on fire but since we've mostly really stopped reading comments i just wanted to show you some of the most significant troop deployments around the country since there seemed to be quite a lot and as governors activate their national guard units the american public is having a lot of interaction with the national guard in a lot of areas so we thought it would be handy for people to know what's going on and where these units are located just in case someone sees a convoy or something or walks into a hospital and sees it staffed with soldiers we get a lot of messages from people who see military units moving around which are almost always units just going to training or something but again with so many guardians deployed around the country i thought it would be helpful to start covering this there are probably tens of thousands of national guard troops deployed around the country for anything from wildfire response to helping stock food banks and other genuinely good and decent missions so keep in mind that this is this slide only shows the deployments that we think might be helpful to know about because a lot of these states have really not been good about letting their populations know that their local hospitals are now staffed with soldiers and as far as symbology goes i'm sorry if this looks atrocious i just tried to go for a blend of something like you know mil standard 25 and something that blends a little bit better so moving on to the most significant one which is massachusetts so in massachusetts the 26 maneuver enhancement brigade of the massachusetts national guard they're the unit that is providing soldiers to drive kids to school for this school bus driver shortage as far as how many soldiers are actually being deployed for this uh numbers are not clear at the moment we know several hundred at least but we're thinking probably more than that so for right now i'm just keeping it at at the brigade level just until we have an understanding of how many are actually out there driving these school buses and vans and such and moving on to new york uh the largest deployment by far for the entire united states is most likely going to be the new york 42nd infantry division so again keeping the symbology there of a division we don't know how many people of from the 42nd will be deployed most likely it will be the 122 medical battalion along with others but again they're not deployed they're just you know the dashed outline there indicates projected unit positions so yeah they're going to be deploying a considerable amount of troops to staff hospitals now again they're most likely not going to have enough doctors so they're going to probably deploy a lot of infantry soldiers as well in order to fill other staff roles like cleaning and food services and things like that so when a lot of these states say they're deploying their national guard a lot of times they're not even deploying medical personnel or the medical personnel that they had have already been deployed so a lot of these national guard units are deploying infantry assets or some kind of you know engineering assets for various support roles and things like that moving on down to texas the 36th infantry division really just elements of that division mostly the 72nd brigade combat team and the 11th medical battalion they're down there supporting the enduring border mission which texas is calling operation lone star other states have sent small elements of national guard soldiers down to the border as well but it's really hard to track all of them because we're talking thousands of soldiers at this point is down there on the border so once we have a better understanding as to where and which units are down there we'll provide that update as well jumping back to ohio several school districts have actually requested the governor activate the national guard to help with the shortage of school bus drivers as well and the governor has signaled that that they will be doing this and press statements confirm that hundreds of soldiers are currently being trained to drive buses and other vehicles so again this deployment is projected so we don't have any specific units just yet uh moving down to the rest of the south alabama a really small element probably a dozen or so doctors nurses and medics are helping out local hospitals down there georgia same thing slightly more people about a company-sized element of soldiers have been called up to be spread across about a dozen hospitals throughout the state of georgia and also the similar situation in south carolina just a small handful of troops deployed really those are just medical only troops maybe about a platoon's worth spread around the entire state moving out west to wyoming their governor reported that they have roughly 200 people hospitalized with the virus at the moment so he has activated about a hundred soldiers to be spread across hospitals in 16 cities around the state montana similar story about a company's worth of soldiers are being deployed at about half a dozen hospitals around the state and moving back to kentucky a little bit more nefarious reporting coming from kentucky it looks like kentucky is having the same situation that new york might be having we've been receiving reports that kentucky hospitals have been firing and replacing hospital personnel with national guard soldiers for months now again that's really hard to verify because we can't tell we're not exactly getting termination papers in our inboxes for each person that's fired so we can't tell exactly down to the ground what's actually going on i'm just saying that this is what we've been seeing reported around social media kind of a lot so since there's enough of people talking about i just wanted to point out that you know right now there's about a battalion's worth of soldiers scattered around most major hospitals in the state and it looks like most of them are coming from the 149th meb and wrapping things up with oregon oregon has been really proactive i should say about deploying their national guard troops for pretty much any reason so they've activated the air national guard several thousand soldiers from different components of national guard units all around the state to support local hospitals so it's really kind of hard to figure out what kind of personnel are going to places but it seems like it's mostly just uh your infantry mos is from either the air national guard however they do things and how the army does things basically saying it's not medical personnel it's largely not medical personnel that are that are being deployed because the medical personnel for oregon's national guard units have already been deployed for months now so really there's they're just calling up thousands more troops uh to fill supporting roles hopefully that's helpful in understanding the largest deployments around the country i know i missed a lot of deployments here and there but this this takes a lot of time to research combing through official pao websites or social media or or each state's executive orders it just takes a while to compile all of this data and usually when a national guard mission goes down it'll happen and then people will forget about it so even though soldiers are deployed for months to some location after a couple of weeks the news stops caring about it so now we're having to go back and dig up news articles talking about a specific unit being deployed months ago even though they're still there so really hard to do and it's hard to categorize all this information and make sure that it actually is as accurate as possible so as time goes on we'll hopefully have even more data to go off of and moving forward into the k-12 public school mask mandates really the biggest update from last briefing is south carolina so south carolina has entered into a confusing legal mess so here's what we've got we have the south carolina supreme court ruling that masks cannot be mandated which gave huge legal support to the mask mandate ban but a federal judge came in and halted the mass mandate ban after that the governor said that the state would appeal it to the u.s supreme court so we have a combination of many things happening the south carolina supreme court says that masks cannot be mandated and a federal judge said that the mass mandate bans are halted which are two separate things in the south carolina supreme court based on the opinion that was written on their earlier decision makes it extremely unlikely that they will go against the federal court ruling but the governor and the legislature clearly is going against the federal judge by announcing lawsuits and things like that oh and on top of all of this all of the school districts all over the state are just making up their own rules at this point you could have a kid going to school in one district and be living a pretty normal life well as normal as to be expected from the public school system but a kid who lives across the street in a different district is engaged in a very tyrannical situation so of course people who live in south carolina have much more knowledge about this than we do but just for people living in other states uh south carolina's situation is a good way to illustrate just how complex the public school situation has become and also kentucky a slight error that i missed kentucky originally months ago had a mass mandate statewide right no no exceptions right but the state legislature overturned that executive order last month however after digging around we found that 96 percent of all the school districts in kentucky have a mass mandate so yeah the mandate got overturned but almost all school districts have kept the mandate so i thought that was worth keeping kentucky red on the map so just so you know and for the jab mandates california has announced that gavin newsom announced that california will be making the jab mandatory for all k-12 students no exceptions in all school districts moving forward i don't think it's actually occurred just yet but it's making the rounds and all the usual sites this morning so i thought i'd mention it and also just as a reminder that usually when something happens in california of a tyrannical nature it makes its way to other states as well so my guess is probably new york is going to do the same or something similar along with a smattering of other very uh historically tyrannical states particularly if they have the same political leadership that they had during the initial crisis so uh really this is the only update for this slide and overall really no change to what we're seeing with regards to individual states uh resistance to the medical mandates i guess we're still in just wait and see mode when it comes to what states are going to do when it comes to lawsuits and things like that so we'll see and we'll update this as time goes on and for international issues this time up first are iran and azerbaijan so tensions are quite high in the region at the moment azerbaijan has been quite cozy with israel lately actually over the past few years so the israelis have sold azerbaijan quite literally hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons and other defense technologies which has obviously made the iranians quite upset to have a sort of quasi-military defense ally to these to israel on their northern border so iran is currently holding the first ever military exercise on the border with azerbaijan which azerbaijan has reciprocated by holding exercises on their side of the border so classic tit for tat military deployment story i guess we'll see how this goes as we move forward into the next few weeks moving on to north korea just a quick update the missile that they launched back on the 30th of september was a new sam system turns out so so for those of you keeping score at home that makes it the fourth completely new missile system that north korea has launched in just the past couple of weeks so they are really pulling out all the stops to keep up with the shows of force that japan and south korea have been conducting so that arms race is probably going to continue to increase as time goes on but north korea has got to be running out of new systems to test considering that their economy is it's north korea's economy right so it's not like there uh have a whole lot of extra stuff just lying around right and moving down to australia a bit of good news coming out of new south wales uh their premiere gladys barrett jiglian has resigned due to a corruption scandal uh so this corruption scandal is separate from the medical tyranny stuff that's made her famous uh bear giclee has a very long history of being tied up in financial scandals and in this case it stems from her having a secret relationship with a member of parliament who was the center of a years-long massive bribery scandal so she has stepped down to distance herself from this and i guess we'll see how this works out with the whole corruption thing not really sure how this is going to go as we move forward and moving back to china so china has been at it again with their flying their aircraft into taiwan's airspace so for those of you who've been following us welcome to our world uh it does seem that like it happens quite a lot china has been flying aircraft into taiwan's ada's for what decades now i guess so it's nothing new it's just that we try to keep note of things when they happen to be pretty big flights and this time it was uh 25 aircraft so that's usually about the the number of aircraft they fly when china is really super mad at taiwan over something china's trying to both bully taiwan and and expand their territory and their control of the south china sea and stuff like that this is probably going to be a staple for the next foreseeable future as the tensions between taiwan and china uh continue to increase and finally the united kingdom they uh just a quick update from last time the the uk has actually activated their military get fueled where it's needed so like i mentioned last time it's not so much a shortage of fuel so much as it is a shortage of fuel truck drivers which again is for a lot of different reasons but it's to the point where the military is involved which is is never really a good thing uh when it comes to the logistics of things um so any time the military gets involved to help move supplies around in a country it means that the civilian networks have failed so that's and that's not good right so hopefully they'll be able to get the uh trucking shortage under control very soon and go back to a normal type system but uh yeah we're definitely gonna keep our eyes on this as time moves on so that's really all i've got for today i know a lot of data being thrown out today and a lot of really boring and monotonous stuff but hey this stuff can't always be entertaining unfortunately but uh thank you for those of you that stuck around so far and thank you again to all of our patreon supporters who have really helped us out quite a lot as we move forward so here are your slides for today i know i decreased the font size sorry if you have a hard time reading that but as always you can get these slides from our odyssey page the link of which is in the description so a lot of information is packed down in our description box which we would highly recommend everybody checking out so 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