//The Wire//2300Z April 30, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: UKRAINE REJECTS CEASEFIRE OFFER. TEXAS HOUSE PASSES SPEECH CRIME BILL. WHITE POWDER FOUND IN ENVELOPE MAILED TO NY CRIMINAL COURT, EMERGENCY RESPONSE ONGOING.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- Ukraine: Zelenskyy has rejected the ceasefire proposal announced by Russia. Various Ukrainian media outlets have stated that the reason for the rejection is that Ukraine wants to pursue a 30-day ceasefire instead of the 72-hour cessation of hostilities announced by Russia. Southern Europe: Most of the electrical outages throughout the continent have subsided as investigations into the cause have continued. So far, no official cause for the outage has been released.  -HomeFront- Wisconsin: The state Supreme Court has suspended Judge Hannah Dugan from the bench for her role in aiding and abetting the escape of an illegal immigrant from her courtroom. Texas: House Bill 366 passed in the House last night. This bill is highly-controversial as it contains vague language that under many circumstances bans political memes and media that does not explicitly have a government-approved warning disclaimer. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote. Texas: The bond for Solomon Weldekeal-Araya has been reduced from $1.2 million to $7,000 by a Travis County judge. Weldekeal-Araya was arrested in March for causing a pileup on I-35 that killed 5x people and injured 11x. New York: This afternoon an envelope filled with an unidentified white powder was mailed to the New York Criminal Court. Upon the discovery of the mysterious substance, 7x people were hospitalized out of an abundance of caution. AC: As this is a developing story at the time of this report, there are very few details that are confirmed. However, considering the context of the increased risks of terrorism around the nation, an abundance of caution would be wise to adhere to. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Regarding the power outage in Spain, most European media groups are sticking with the story that some kind of electromagnetic phenomenon caused the outage. This is almost certainly a fabrication. No abnormal electromagnetic interference was reported throughout the whole continent on the day of the outage. Both NASA and ESA solar weather forecasts confirmed no abnormal sunspots or anything out of the ordinary. No watches or warnings of impending solar weather were issued that day either. None of the smaller electrical interconnects throughout the continent experienced any sort of variation whatsoever. If this was a global electromagnetic interference situation, the Earth must have recognized international land borders, since Spain and Portugal were pretty much the only nations affected. (Southern France's power came back on only after a few minutes in some cases.) Spain's own state-sponsored meteorology agency (AEMET) stated directly that "No unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomena were detected in Spain on April 28th, nor were there any sudden temperature fluctuations at our network of weather stations". In Texas, there is already a substantial amount of information manipulation regarding HB366. Supporters of the bill state that it is intended to stop political candidates from memeing each other. This is still very obviously unconstitutional, but this appears to be the goal. The bigger problem (where this bill applies to most people, not just political candidates) is that this bill also applies to anyone who uses a meme in a form of employment whereby at least $100 is earned. In short, it seems as though Texas has re-defined what is considered to be "political advertising" in such a way as to be an extremely broad definition. Opponents of the bill have stated that this is a textbook case of illegal censorship, and is one of the most blatant attacks on free speech in recent memory. As expected, the bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, with 45 Republicans and 61 Democrats voting in the affirmative for this bill. There was no debate on the House floor regarding this vote, nor were any questions asked regarding this bill; it passed without comment. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

//The Wire//2100Z July 30, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: UNITED STATES CONDUCTS RETALIATORY STRIKES WITHIN IRAN. CYCLOSPORA OUTBREAK CONTINUES IN UNITED STATES. MIGRATION WAVE HITS SPAIN AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING RESULTS IN BORDER CROSSING BREACH.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: American strikes on Iran continued overnight, with most of the targets being struck in the same coastal regions of Iran that have been targeted since the ceasefire was broken. Iran has claimed to have struck several aircraft on the ground at Muwaffaq al Salti in Jordan, along with other targets around the region which will take some time to verify. On the American side, one new series of targets struck by the United States was reported in the border town of Abadan, which is geographically located right on the Iraqi border, a short distance from Bubiyan Island where American HIMARs launchers have been observed conducting ATACMS strikes within Iran. Spain: An emergency situation has been declared after thousands of migrants swarmed the small enclave of Ceuta on the south side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Several thousand migrants breached the border perimeter that separates the Spanish peninsular city of Ceuta, from mainland Morocco. After it became clear to the crowds that there were very few border guards, the fencing was breached by land, and small boats launched by sea to land on the beaches, circumventing the fencing. Immediately after the migrant waves arrived this morning, the city has been in a state of sheer bedlam. Riots have been reported throughout the peninsula and property owners have reported being swarmed with break ins, as the border itself has completely collapsed. Analyst Comment: The reason for the fray is due to a recent court ruling which has intensified illegal immigration efforts. This week, Spain's Supreme Court re-affirmed that their borders are open, and that migrants who are apprehended trying to cross over to this peninsula cannot be deported. Last month, Spain's amnesty program officially closed, but because it's very hard to prove an entry date for someone who crossed the border illegally, the boats are being launched like never before, which resulted in today's intensification once the fence was breached. -HomeFront- USA: Around the nation the outbreak of cyclospora has continued to remain a concern as the exact point of origin for the parasite remains largely unknown. Over the past few weeks, the infection has continued to spread around the nation, and now a total of 45x states are reporting citizens falling ill. The largest outbreak cluster remains in Michigan and Ohio, and most of the other states affected are located in the midwest, the northeast, and southeastern regions of the nation. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: The war in the Middle East has reached a level of complexity that makes direct strikes and targeting efforts way more impactful than they otherwise would be. A few days ago, the Saudis struck targets in northern Iraq, targeting Iran-aligned militia groups. It was partially this action which resulted in Iran striking back at Saudi Arabia yesterday. The groups that were targeted by the Saudis, were allegedly smaller sub-groups within the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which had not formally joined with the Iraqi government. For context, the PMF are an infamous collection of militia units and tribes, which align with Iran along religious lines in addition to sharing the geography along the Iranian border. In recent years, the PMF has been rolled into the Iraqi government, to serve as the official militia/homeguard for the nation. This results in a complex web of loyalties and relationships, as making the PMF a part of the official uniformed Iraqi military service makes them harder to strike due to the diplomatic situation. This is probably why the Saudis attacked when they didn't necessarily need to. They found a way to strike PMF factions that would probably result in a fracturing within the region, but also not really result in a retaliatory attack from the Iraqi government. Or at least, that was the gamble on the part of the Saudis. The fact that the PMF sporadically launch drones at the Saudis helped justify this targeting effort last weekend. However in effect, what this has done, has brought Iran and Iraq closer together...at least in terms of hating the Saudis. The problem is that the Saudis (much like others in the region) have a habit of kicking a hornets nest, then handing that nest to the United States to deal with. When the Saudis hit the PMF in Iraq, the militia groups in Iraq will probably take this as an opportunity to increase attacks on the American base in Erbil (as they have for years), and the Iraqi government might not be so inclined to reign them in...because the Americans are not reigning in the Saudis. In short, things are sliding sideways, and because it's complicated and can't be compressed into a quick soundbite for decision makers to consume, the danger is very likely going unnoticed. Even though it is complicated, this is a comparatively easy example of how escalations can take place not just vertically, but also horizontally. Vertical escalations take the form of increasingly more severe tit-for-tat airstrikes, but horizontal escalations are far less intense, while spreading out around the world. This has resulted in the situation sleepwalking into serious territory, which has largely gone unnoticed because it hasn't been flashy enough for headlines. The Saudis are striking the Iraqis, the Houthis are hitting the Saudis, somebody is striking the Egyptians, the Israelis have slipped back into the shadows, the Iranians are hitting the Jordanians and Americans, and the United States is perplexingly bombing coastal targets and bridges within Iran...which are rather forebodingly only used during the wintertime wet season. These horizontal escalations have been a mainstay of this conflict since the beginning, but right now these more indirect escalations are taking center stage as the United States and Iran slug it out with missiles, drones, and bombs, and the United States is unable to make progress for the time being. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground NomadNet: 5fa68c88be727a0e1a250a75e5e79269 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 October 5th through the 11th of 2025. The insanity continues again this week, so let's get right to it. Starting off here in the home front, the general state of unrest in many locations continues as before with regards to counter ice operations, most of which is focused in Portland and Chicago as usual, but we'll get more into that in a bit. Also in the United States, mostly in the western regions of the country, the digital surveillance of Christian churches continues at the behest of one particular foreign nation. And also this week there have been several developments with regards to disarmament campaigns. Most notably yesterday California signed into law AB 1127, which is a de facto ban on all Glocks. So, in typical fashion, there will probably be more outrage after the bill has passed rather than the lead up to it being passed and signed into law, but this bill bans any semi-automatic pistol which can accept a Glock switch or something similar to that effect, right? It's not just Glocks, but it's any other pistol that can take some sort of similar device. We all know how this goes, so I'm not going to harp on it too much, but rest assured I would be willing to bet that many other states are going to probably follow in the footsteps of California by figuring out a way of of banning firearms, not because the firearms themselves are illegal, but because they could be made into something that may be illegal. Of course, the majority of Glock switches are not actually used by proper lawful owners, they're used by gang members, and nobody ever really seems to be interested in policing that kind of activity, but we all know why that is. So, but that's the situation in the homeland for this week. And around the world, things have been a happenin' this week. We of course have the peace agreement in the Middle East between Israel and Hamas, which has gone into effect and seems to be holding as much as to be expected. Either way, the general rough approximate guidelines of the peace deal that have been agreed to by both sides have been undertaken. There has been a very sharp decline in hostilities between the two main belligerents here in this conflict, so that is a positive development. But once again, we will see if this sort of thing holds for any length of time. As one can probably guess by the way that I'm describing this, I do not have any faith at all that this ceasefire will hold for any length of time. The old rule of thumb is that there's no such thing as a peace agreement in the Middle East. It's just how long is the ceasefire going to last before the war kicks up again. I don't know how long it's going to last this time, but my guess is that this will not end, especially because Gaza still remains, right? That's that was a major strategic goal for Israel is to completely take over the entirety of Gaza and basically just make it not exist anymore as a region and just kind of absorb it into Israeli control and push the Palestinians somewhere else, right? That was a major strategic goal for them as a nation, and internal Israeli politics indicate that a lot of politicians in Israel are not happy that Netanyahu agreed to this peace deal. So, he is facing a lot of internal criticism because he is letting Gaza remain, at least for now. We shall see, but enough on that for now. Moving over to the Far East, that particular conflict has reignited in the form of both China and the United States engaging in a little bit of economic warfare on their own. Things have been rather tepid over the past couple of weeks with regards to China and the United States negotiating their trade deals. Things were looking up there for quite a while, and then China decided to, as of November 1st, implement a whole lot of export controls on things that the United States needs quite dearly, such as rare earth minerals like lithium and a few other things as well. So, that of course angered Washington quite a bit as you could probably expect. So, the White House came out with a 100% tariff on China to take effect on the same day. And the the meeting between the United States and China, there was supposed to be an in-face meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping to take place soon, that meeting may or may not happen. That's really uncertain as to whether or not it's going to go forward. So, things are not really looking super great for the United States and China, but once again, this is economics in 2025, where the rules are made up and the points don't matter. So, in 2 weeks we may find out that things are doing swimmingly well and then all of this kind of goes away. Who knows? The books are being cooked to an absurd degree, so I don't know if anybody can ever really say what a country's national economic situation is at any given time, but suffice it to say that the economy kind of tanked a little bit upon the news that the White House was going to retaliate with the these tariffs once again. There were quite a few mysterious shorts on Bitcoin immediately before the White House announcement on the tariffs. So, there are already a lot of indicators of deception and insider trading and a general state of shenanigans being undertaken with this sort of thing. So, I don't know. We'll see how it works out, but that's the situation as it stands right now. Moving down south to talk about the strategic movement and the general state of the situation with regards to Venezuela, rest assured war with Venezuela is still on the menu, and the US Navy has quietly sent a couple of more destroyers down there to augment the naval forces that are still conducting lots of exercises, training, and a general preparation for war right off the coast of Venezuela. I don't think there was a strike on a narco boat this week, so we've gone a full 7 days without blowing up a cartel vessel, but the general situation still remains as before. The United States has not reduced any presence down off the coast of Venezuela. As a matter of fact, we've increased it quite a bit. So, depending on what the United States is trying to do, depending on the strategic goals, and what the US is looking to gain from any kind of action in Venezuela, we shall see. It may just be trying to strong-arm Maduro into something that the United States wants, which is obviously that's I mean that's obviously the low-hanging fruit of what's going on, but there are ways to strong-arm Maduro that don't involve actually conducting combat operations in his country. The question is whether or not the White House will decide if sending troops into Venezuela is going to be necessary for these strategic goals that we seek in Venezuela, whatever those are. Probably oil, but who knows? Either way, there's a lot of movement going on and certainly a lot to keep an eye on as we move forward. Moving back to the homeland, there have been a few kinetic events that have taken place this week. We'll talk about Portland and Chicago in in just a moment, or rather at the end, because there have been a quite a few questions as to what the overall strategic goal in these places are, and I think I can maybe clarify some things. But when it comes to actual kinetic events this week, there have been two major events. The first of which was the DC church bomber outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. That was a very interesting case because even though IED attacks and just generally crazy people with explosives tends to be kind of an American tradition at this point, this case was hosted to quite a bit of information manipulation, and I think that more eyes should be on this case considering the current threats against churches around the United States. I also wanted to mention the industrial explosion that took place in Tennessee yesterday. I didn't have time to slip it into the wire, but this was a very very kinetic explosion that took place in Tennessee at a major facility that produces explosives for the military. So, there have been many many casualties from this incident, and we'll get more into that in just a second. But the church bomber up first, one Lewis Jerry was arrested in Washington, D.C. after he caused a bit of a scene outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. last Sunday. It took a couple of days for the details of this case to come to light because it was initially downplayed quite heavily by the authorities and by local journalists who don't really don't really care to highlight any kind of threats against Christian churches. Initially, this was reported as just some crazy guy setting up a camping tent right on the front of the church steps here as you can see. This is why there wasn't that much focus on this kind of thing because it just looked like a crazy homeless guy who was trying to cause a scene. This happens in D.C. like every 15 minutes, okay? So, this is not really out of the realm of of normalcy for the area. Even with the, you know, deployment of troops to D.C., there's still a a lot of dystopian elements to the city, and this is one of those things that tends to kind of happen, right? So, the church noticed, or rather local authorities, I'm not sure if the church noticed first or if local authorities, who were kind of policing the area in advance, saw this guy first. Either way, he had set up his little encampment here on the front steps of the church around 6:00 in the morning before the Red Mass for the year. So again, a special mass dedicated to the Supreme Court justices at this particular church. The Red Mass is held more widely, of course, and is supposed to be a special day to pray for all of those who are involved in the criminal justice field and the the court system and things like that. But this particular church hosts the their Red Mass for the Supreme Court justices, and over the years a couple of justices have shown up to attend this mass, which takes place the the Sunday before the court calendar begins for the year. So, DC police, DC Metro Police, initially stated that all right, they made contact with the crazy guy trying to set up a homeless camp on the steps of the church. Obviously, can't do that sort of thing, so they were trying to, you know, get him up and relocate him to another area, and they found a Molotov on him. That's the initial story they told to the media. However, that's not what happened at all. This guy set up an encampment on the front steps of the church, and when he was first contacted by police who were trying to, you know, walk up to him and ask him what it what what he's doing, he said basically stay away from me, I've got explosives. I'll throw one at you if you come any closer kind of thing. So, this was already like a hostage situation, right right up front, right to start with. Turns out what he wanted police to do was read his nine-page manifesto of what seems to be mostly just insanity, which is what they did, and he they were able to get him to surrender and arrest him and move on from there. But the bomb squad showed up because of the IED threat, obviously, and they found 200 IEDs scattered throughout his possessions and inside his tent and backpacks and stuff like that. So, I have no idea what these IEDs looked like, but looking at this guy and the context of this and the alleged contents of his manifesto, I'm going to venture a wild guess that these 200 IEDs were probably Antifa specials, right? Little tiny um fireworks grade explosives which have shrapnel probably glued or taped to the outside of them. We see these a lot. So, they're still explosives. They're still lethal. They're still like a very dangerous terroristic threat, but it's not like this guy had 200 155 shells with pressure plates in his tent here, right? So, these 200 IEDs are probably very Antifa grade, meaning that they're very very small, but you know, they're still very dangerous. They're still like, you know, it's still a terrorist attack, right? And considering that the White House has really tried to sign a bunch of executive orders talking about domestic terrorism and things like that, here is your case. This is exactly the type of guy that you said from the White House that you were trying to target and there's been no comment on whether or not this guy's going to face federal terrorism charges. So, something to be aware of. We know this is not surprising in the slightest, but I did want to highlight it because there hasn't really been very much detail on the nuances of this case and I did want to highlight that. Now, moving down to Tennessee, the very unfortunate explosion at the Accurate Energetic Systems Explosives Factory in Bucks North. This was a major manufacturer for military grade explosives. You can see here from their website, these are all of the things that they manufactured at this facility, and you can see it's a lot of very very heavy heavy military explosives here. And as you can see by the helicopter footage of the blast, the place is gone. It's it was just a catastrophic detonation that occurred there. Whatever the cause was, we may never know as a matter of fact because there's just there's nothing but a crater left. As far as casualties go, officially 19 people are still missing, but looking at the before and after photos blast, I think we can be fairly confident these are all are all going to be fatalities, unfortunately. Once again, there is no indication of what took place here. There's no indication of well, you know, what what happened to cause this catastrophic explosion. This facility does have a history of safety violations, but that's not entirely abnormal for most industrial facilities these days. I mean, pretty much every explosives manufacturer has a history of safety violations at this point. So, I don't know if that's something that would factor into trying to establish causation. I don't know how normal that sort of thing would be at this type of facility. And I also don't know the nature of the safety violations because, again, they're making explosives for the military. It's not like they're really forthcoming with their information on on what exactly they do there and the exact nature of safety violations. This is definitely one of those national security things, so we're probably not going to get the truth as to what caused this catastrophic blast, but yeah, not not a great thing, for sure. And it does highlight every time one of these things happens, it does highlight the importance of being aware, paying attention, and each one of us doing what we can to make sure that we are as safe as possible, especially those who work in the industrial field. It's a very dangerous world out there just in general, and it would be a very good idea to try to make the world a little bit less dangerous, however you can do that. If that means being a little bit safer, being the OSHA stickler, you know, I know nobody likes to be that guy, right? Nobody likes to be that guy on the work site, but look, man, if your work site has the potential to turn into a crater, please consider being a stickler for safety and doing what you can to make sure that everybody goes home at the end of the day. Now, moving out west, something quite concerning that I wanted to mention again. I wrote a longer wire than normal on this topic, which of course is going to get a lot of pushback due to the nature of the nation involved with this, but I did want to mention once again that there is a targeted geofencing campaign underway at many mega churches in the western United States. So, for those of you who did not read the the wire report on this, there has been a major push by the government of Israel, the Israeli Foreign Ministry, to increase their image and increase their presence in American Christian churches. So, the Israeli government is trying to teach you about Christianity and how Christian churches need to support the government of Israel, specifically with regards to the October 7th attacks. Again, this is literally the most forbidden topic I have found so far to discuss, so, you know, there's really not much I can say, honestly, about it, but I do want to highlight the geofencing concerns because that's kind of a security thing. You guys can look into the media blitz on your own, but the the geofencing thing is something that's interesting because it's the first time that this sort of thing has happened specifically by a foreign nation-state in the context of targeting a place solely for the Christian faith. Just to get the disclaimer out, of course, targeted geofencing for advertising purposes happens literally all the time. As you're watching this on your phone, you are probably being surveilled by at least Google, who is associating your advertising ID with this particular content if you're watching it on, say, YouTube for example. And geofencing for advertising purposes has definitely been undertaken for a while now, right? How many times have you been in a city or been in a place without a VPN turned on and you suddenly start getting ads on Twitter, for instance, about a specific city policy or something like that? Or if you turn on a VPN and say you're, you know, you start getting ads in different languages from the nation where your VPN is located, right? Some of these are based on IP address, right? So, where your internet service provider is telling advertisers where you're located physically, but other times it is geographic, right? How many times have you gone into a store, for instance, and you go to your shopping at a particular store and then you go back out to the parking lot and you're sitting in your car getting ready to go home and you get in a pop-up ad from like Google Maps or something saying, "Hey, we see you visited the store. Would you like to leave a Google review for the store you just visited?" That is a geofenced advertising thing that links your geographic coordinate with your advertising ID. That's the kind of thing that is happening right now. The reason that I wanted to highlight it is because it's now happening to target specifically Christians who go to a Christian church. So, the way that this geofencing ad campaign is being undertaken, and once again, this is using their own documentation from their FARA registration paperwork. So, please, please, please, please, please look at this document. Do not believe me in my explanation of things. Go read the document yourself and you'll see how dystopian this kind of thing is. But the general gist of how this works is you've got your cell phone in your pocket, you show up to worship services on Sunday morning at a specific time before services begin, and you take your cell phone into the church. Well, now your cell phone, because it has location services turned on and because your smartphone has an associated advertising ID, now the Israeli government is able to discern that your advertising ID is now linked with this establishment. And because you're standing in a specific circle, a geographic circle, around that church, because you're standing there at a certain time, they can push ads to your phone specifically that have one purpose, at least according to their documents. The one purpose is to encourage you to think a certain way about the October 7th attacks. Now, how will this work out in in practice, right? It's not like you're going to get an emergency alert push notification from, you know, like the emergency alert system or something like that. What it what it means is you're going to see ads apps. So, if you were so inclined to pull up Twitter, for instance, at a certain time of day while standing in church, you will probably get an ad that is encouraging you to think a certain way about the nation-state of Israel or about the October 7th attacks. That's what this media campaign is for. Depending on the apps that you have on your phone, it could also be a cross-platform sort of thing. So, a lot of people have a weather app on their phone, right? And that weather app is generally going to request location services. And a lot of people also have push notifications turned on for their weather app a lot of times, and depending on the weather app that you use, you may get ads as push notifications. If you've got like a kind of a more sketchy weather app, right? A lot of the free ones are like that. So, this is just speculating, but this is how I can see this working out in practice is you may get a push notification from your weather app that says, "Hey, by the way, look at this documentation about the October 7th attacks while you're standing in church." That's what this whole campaign is about, and that's what their own documentation states. So, that's why I wanted to focus on this because, you know, this is a foreign nation-state targeting Christians for simply being inside a church. And what are they targeting them for? They're targeting them to get them to think a certain way about a nation-state and to get them to think a certain way about a historical event. That's how you know that the narrative is true, by the way, when you have to get advertisements rammed down your throat when you're trying to worship the Lord Jesus Christ. So, yeah, that's probably the most I can say about this sort of thing. I would encourage you to just check out the primary source documents right from the dot gov website yourself and form your own opinions about what's going on here because there's only so much I can say. Now, when it comes to what to do about this and what to do to mitigate the effects of this strategy, the first thing to do is to check out the list of churches that are being targeted by the Israeli government so far. I will put in this video, I will embed in it so that it makes it onto as many platforms as possible, a scroll, a video scroll, of the list itself. It's a few hundred churches, so I will make sure to to put this in in its entirety. I know it's kind of boring to scroll through, but I'll put it in here anyway just so that you guys can have it for the record. But in terms of what you can do to mitigate this sort of thing, it must be noted right up front that this is not new, okay? This is not a new thing. I'm only mentioning it because it is faith-based and it is a foreign government who does it, and because I have the documentation, right? The Israeli government did what they're supposed to do, and they filed a FARA registration, right? This company filed a Foreign Agent Registration Act packet to the US government. So, we have the documentation. If they were a little bit more surreptitious, or if they went through the effort of cloaking this more in a shell corporation sort of thing, then we wouldn't even know. We would not know about this. We would not have their PowerPoint slides. We would not have any of the data that this is occurring. Again, this is 100% a case of survivorship bias. We have the paperwork in front of us, so we have to make decisions off of the paperwork we have. We cannot make decisions based off of the paperwork that we don't have, but, you know, surveillance operations that are still ongoing. So, maybe, just maybe, this will be a way of encouraging Christians to think in terms of not just them to being targeted because they are Americans, but being targeted because they go to church, because they are at worship services by foreign nations. And, of course, the follow-on effects from all of that, you know. The government says this is 100% legal and is not doing anything to stop this, obviously, because of the nation involved, but also because, well, you know, they've pencil-whipped this sort of thing into being legal over the years. So, in terms of mitigation, there's not a whole lot you can do. You can go all Jason Bourne and put your phone in a Faraday bag when you go to church, or before you go to church, turn off location services, put your device in airplane mode. At the very minimum, that may help. It may not help, but it may help. A lot of times, Bluetooth is also being used to link advertising IDs together. So, even if you are you turn your data off, even if you turn off your location services, your advertising ID is being linked with other Bluetooth devices around you. So, your phone is listening for any Bluetooth devices that are around, and it can be used to associate you that way with your advertising ID. Yeah, this is pretty much squarely in the realm of digital panopticon kind of thing, and it's pretty dystopian, but welcome welcome to the reality of the way the world's been for about 20 years now. It's just getting a little bit more interesting because even foreign nation-states are doing this sort of thing. They're doing it openly with very nice PowerPoint slides on this sort of thing. So, you can do it if you want. You can put your phone in a Faraday bag before you go to church, so that maybe your phone isn't going to know that you're sitting in church. You can turn off location services. You can some depending on which apps you're using and which operating systems and stuff like that, you may be able to go in and reset your advertising ID. I think Google has that as an option, but yeah, there's not a whole lot you can do. This may have happened before in the past. We just didn't know that it was being very subtle, you know? But, there's a big difference between minor surveillance that is being conducted in secret, or the general gist, or the general understanding that all Americans live under that, yeah, the NSA is probably surveilling me, right? Every American kind of operates under that assumption nowadays, but it that's a that's a big difference from that general abstract, yeah, the feds are probably surveilling me for some reason. The Palantir databases, right, are sucking up every bit of data about me, right? There's a big difference between that general gist, that abstract view, and a foreign government openly advertising, proudly so, proudly advertising that they are targeting Christians in the biggest ever geofencing campaign where they are siphoning up your data solely for the purposes of propaganda. They're not trying to sell you a T-shirt. They're not trying to get you to buy a cheeseburger, right? They're trying to sell an idea about a historical event to you. So, maybe you see why I'm a little bit concerned about that sort of thing. Again, because it is a targeting of Christians, there will be very little media coverage of it, and people will generally not want to care about this sort of thing because, again, that's just kind of the way things are nowadays. But, I wanted to focus on it because this is very important to me. Even though the churches that they are targeting are are not my churches, right? They're mostly mega-churches out west, but still, something to keep an eye on, something to be aware of, and something to start prodding people to be a little bit more serious with regards to living daily life. And, unfortunately, that now includes church life. So, now moving over to the counter-ICE efforts in both Portland and Chicago. Let's let's let's dig into this a little bit because this has become quite a complicated thing that hopefully we can discuss and and get to some sort of understanding with regards to what's going on with regards to counter-ICE efforts around the country. I wanted to highlight Portland and Chicago because these cities are both the point of consolidation for counter-ICE efforts in in these areas, but they're also very different, right? So, there's a lot of overlap between the two, but there's also a lot of differences between the two. So, let's start with Portland first. Portland is, of course, Portland, right? Portland is internationally infamous for being a very big far-left, communist, socialist, antifa Mecca, right? And, that's why they're resisting counter-immigration efforts there. Most of the counter-ICE efforts in Portland have arisen from a few different demographics. The first group are the immigrants themselves, which are a smaller group compared to the rest of the country, right? There are far fewer Mexicans in Portland than in Los Angeles, for instance. There are still enough illegal immigrants in Portland to cause trouble, but for the most part, most of the unrest in Portland is coming from the usual suspects, antifa, right? Portland is second to Seattle, a major antifa hub for the region. So, that's where a lot of this unrest is coming from, antifa trying to cause problems because they are antifa. The reason that Portland is worthy of note is because there's just a lot of them there. So, see this image that was posted by the Department of Homeland Security and a bunch of other sources, this was going around on a lot of these anarchist platforms and social media, where, by the way, they just maintain free control, right? If you're a leftist or an antifa member in the United States, you can post terrorist threats, you know, openly in on the internet, and nothing will happen to you, right? Yeah, I know, surprising because Trump's in the White House, and we have a hugely conservative government now, right? Allegedly. Yeah, no, antifa still has been given a pass by the DOJ to do whatever they want. Now, you can argue there's intelligence collection being undertaken. I very strongly doubt that because most of the people who work at the FBI, and most of the people who work at the DOJ, are far-left militants themselves, right? These people physically participated in a lot of these marches for these, you know, causes to show solidarity. So, whether or not the White House specifically, and, you know, Trump's core staff are trying to weed this out, I don't know. All I know is what's happening, which is antifa has no natural predators, which is why they're able to get away with stuff like this. Today, probably by the time this brief comes out, antifa is openly advertising and encouraging people to shine lasers at helicopters, specifically US military Black Hawks and federal and border patrol Black Hawks that are flying over the city to conduct raids. Yeah, very bold move. But, for those of you who think that the military's going to crack down on this, I would probably say probably not. The the laser thing was used in Korea for their protests a few years ago to bring down drones and things like that, and it worked quite well because people are correct in that if you are a lone, single individual, and you shine a laser at a military helicopter with very fancy optics and a laser of its own, you're going to have a bad time. But, if you've got 400 people in the street, and they're all doing it, all at the same time, and no one is interested in arresting these people, guess what? They're going to get away with it. Now, for those concerned about how normal this will become by leftist groups and leftist organizations around the country, there are some tools at the federal and military level that can help mitigate the effects of lasers being used on aircraft, but maybe we'll talk about that at a later time. I'm kind of curious as to how this is going to work out, especially in Portland, because this is the first time that they have openly stated they're going to commit a felony, and I'm curious as to how that's going to work out for them. But, anyway, that's Portland. Chicago is a whole other animal. Now, there's a lot of overlap between the two, but why is Chicago upset with the counter-ICE operations? It's not really antifa in Chicago that's causing a problem, though they do have an antifa presence there. Of course, antifa is going to be in every major city, and even some minor cities around the country, but mostly Chicago is upset for one reason alone, gangs. Chicago is upset because a gangs in Chicago run rampant, and they control the streets, and they control a lot of these places where immigrants are congregating. So, drug dealers are going to get it really upset if you remove their clientele from their ecosystems, and you remove their drug trafficking networks from their systems. So, that's why Chicago is upset, and that's why people are trying to take the fight to ICE officials there. Of course, it's also a political thing. A lot of the attacks on the ICE facility in Broadview have taken place due to the elderly, far-left, but also elderly individuals who don't really have anything better to do but protest and cause problems. That's kind of a nationwide problem, but it's also low-level stuff. The more serious stuff, like vehicle ramming attacks, shootings, snipings, things like that, those tend to be because of straight-up cartels being involved, and they don't like ICE taking taking the fight to their criminal enterprises, or far-left activism, right? So, a lot of these vehicle ramming attacks and a lot of these straight-up attacks on ICE are just due to politics, right? That's really the only way that you can encourage crime to not be policed is due to some kind of political thing, or because you're a criminal yourself. And, that tends to be how things have worked out in Chicago so far. So, Portland and Chicago are two very different cities, and they're taking the fight to ICE. They're conducting these counter-ICE operations. They're learning. They're growing. They're organizing. They're They're getting better funding, but they're two very different cities with a little bit of overlap between the two of them. So, that's why I wanted to talk about this in a little bit more depth because there's a lot of discernment that's needed. Yes, it is a very, very, very hard mission that has no real winning solution that's easy to get to. On the one hand, you've got federal agencies like ICE, which are trying, I think I think they're genuinely trying to do what they can, at least some district supervisors are definitely trying to do the best they can to prevent terrorists from harming American citizens, whereas in some other areas, we're totally fine with a foreign government, you know, surveilling Christians going to church and trying to target them with propaganda because we've pencil whipped that into being legal and we're just perfectly okay with that, right? So, there are some things that are doing good and some things that are not going so well with regards to counterinsurgency in the homeland, but we're here now, right? And we have to do the best that we can. And if we have to talk these things out without exactly knowing the exact perfect answer for things, well, that's what we kind of have to do. So, we'll continue to do that and keep an eye on the situation as we go forward. Now, moving over to the United Kingdom, jolly old England is not doing so jolly these days. There has been a lot of pushback with regards to the straight-up authoritarianism that's kind of underway in the United Kingdom, which is kind of ironic because a lot of the talk of authoritarianism is coming from within Keir Starmer's own party, right? And one of the things that's kind of come to light this past week has been the "no Coke for you" law, which is a new law that was instituted to ban restaurants and establishments who have, you know, soft drinks on tap. They are no longer allowed by law to offer you a refill for certain beverages, right? For your health, right? That's the kind of way that they're framing it. What is it really? What's really going on here? It's the same exact thing that happened in the United States with the paper straws. It has no real impact on anybody because obviously people are just going to go buy another drink, right? So, there if they want a refill, they're just going to buy another one for however much it costs. It doesn't prevent you from buying another, it just prevents a free refill. So, what is this? Well, this is a great example in power dynamics for for governments. And what this is is something trivial that the government can dominate a citizenry with that that impacts the citizenry on a personal level, but it's trivial. It has to be trivial. That's the That's the important part because what they want to say with this is we can we can impact you on such a trivial meaningless way, but we're still going to dominate you, right? The fact that it's a trivial is and has no real bearing on anything is the important part. They want to make sure that you know who's in charge. That's why the paper straws thing, which are wrapped in plastic, right? It's so trivial. It's so meaningless. It's so useless, right? But, it impacts you on a personal level and it's a way for the government to impact your daily life. It's definitely a psyop. It's definitely a The more, I guess, doctrinal term is information operation. Yet, really it's just a a domination thing. So, that's what that's all about, but the the British people have gotten a little bit upset about it. We've seen these psyops in America many times over the years and yeah, that's kind of what what that's about. So, the other thing that I thought was rather interesting is the developments with the digital ID concerns, which have deteriorated since the digital ID scheme has come to light. So, as you might expect, resistance to the digital ID scheme has been rather high throughout the United Kingdom. Basically, nobody, left or right, wants the digital ID scheme to come into fruition because of, well, many reasons. It's not just privacy, it's more of a data security thing. If you put all of your eggs in one basket, when a ransomware thief steals that basket, you've got yourself a bit of a problem. But again, it's often the little and seemingly meaningless details that kind of catch my eye on stuff like this. And this was the case with this article from The Guardian. At face value, all right, fine. You read the headline, it says, "Explainer: Why does the UK need digital IDs and what data will they include? Starmer's proposal has been criticized by rivals and civil liberties groups and campaigners worry about people without smartphones." Okay, so fairly standard mainstream media article from The Guardian, right? But here's the thing that caught my eye. This is how they chose to write this article. So, if you scroll down a little bit on the page, the whole article is is formatted like this section here on the right. And the first section is, "Why do the people of the UK need a digital ID?" And the second question is, "Why is Tony Blair involved?" Now, isn't that an interesting way of writing an article? Isn't that very fascinating? Sometimes the things that they say and the things that they choose to say and the things they choose to not say. This article to me was utterly fascinating because it is a perfect example of how articles are written sometimes, betraying what the article's really about. It's almost like reading a Soviet newspaper from like, you know, the height of the Khrushchev era, where they can't really talk about something directly, but they can definitely talk about it indirectly. So, this article's headline is trying to explain why does the UK need digital IDs and what what's the digital ID thing about. And the first two things they choose to talk about are, "Why do we even need this and why is Tony Blair involved?" The fact that they wrote these in this order and wrote about them at all, you know, why is Tony Blair involved? That shows you who's controlling the marionette strings with this, right? And I find that to be utterly fascinating to the point of hilarity that this is how they wrote this article. It's not like they started with, you know, "Well, you know, there's immigration, right?" Or cuz that's what the British government's perspective is, "Oh, we're doing this because of immigration." No, that's not what The Guardian says. The Guardian is trying to ask a rhetorical question or try to ask a question that the citizens are asking, which is, "Why do we need this and why is Tony Blair involved?" That is hilarious. And it kind of shows you what everybody's thinking about this sort of thing. Even though The Guardian's articles are, you know, it's The Guardian, right? So, anyway, I thought that was interesting that this is going over so poorly that they had to literally ask these questions and try to answer them in the most politically correct way right up front. And that's what the article's about. And I think this is interesting. For those of you who have mentally checked out because this is about the UK and you don't really care, I will I will see your Guardian article and raise you a Fox News article. This was published a couple of days ago on October 9th and the title of this Fox News, again, Fox News article is, "UK faces backlash over mandatory digital ID. Could US be next?" Seems like a fairly standard headline for Fox News, something you should probably would just scroll past, you know, unless you're watching it on TV, I guess. But the subheading betrays what Fox News is trying to push. The subheading reads, "Digital ID expert says controversy stems from fear, poor conception and lack of education." That's why I chose the Fox News article on this because Fox News, which has historically been the conservative alt-right boogeyman news group newsflash, it's not. Even Fox News is trying to push people to accept a digital ID here in the United States. Now, I could pull any other article from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, all of these other, you know, the the the traditionally more leftist groups. Even the AP would probably have something positive to say about digital ID. But I chose this one specifically to show you that this is truly a bicameral effort. This is a bipartisan effort to try to shape perception here in the United States. So, when Fox News, of all places, is trying to get people to accept a digital ID and, "Oh, no, no, no, these fears are unjust. You just need to be educated. You need to be educated about what's going on with this digital ID thing." Yeah, that's something to be aware of. You can kind of see where where the the tides are are shifting on that sort of thing. But we all know how this goes, right? That's why I put these these images on the slide with this article because we know how this goes. We we've heard this before. The United States, guess what? We have had a national ID effort, the REAL ID effort, right? Remember that push from a few years back? In Congress, we had liberal politicians and conservative politicians unite together, uniparty style, to pass the REAL ID Act so that we had all 50 states, you know, all the states which wanted to participate in this program to have REAL IDs, right? To have identification documents, driver's licenses, which would be of one sort of same standard for things like TSA and interstate travel. There was this massive push from a bunch of conservative politicians, a bunch of liberal politicians. They both were talking about how great this was going to be for security and immigration and, you know, counterterrorism and things like that. And what happened? This week we found out that a lot of states were just issuing driver's licenses, CDLs, with no name given on them. These people can get on a plane with no name given driver's licenses because they're REAL ID compliant driver's licenses, right? So, yeah, we all know how this goes. We all know what's going on, but I thought it was very interesting in typical fashion cuz I tend to focus on things that probably don't really matter in the long run, but I found it was interesting, so I wanted to talk about it. But anyway, I find it very interesting that we're going to lock you down, we're going to make sure that you have this digital ID, but I wonder how many people in the UK and eventually in the US when this comes to the US, I wonder how many people are going to have a digital ID on their phone that says "no name given." Probably quite a few because they don't want these people's actual names, they don't want them in biometrics so that when they commit crimes, they have no record, right? Because I mean, you don't even know their name or anything about them, right? So, anyway, I thought that was kind of interesting how the digital panopticon is certainly here. However, that panopticon has blind spots in a few areas. So, some people get surveilled more than others, particularly if you go to church on Sunday. But if you're at an Antifa riot and you're shining lasers at helicopters, there's probably not going to be much that happens to you. So, anyway, selective digital panopticon sort of situation, which contributes to the very interesting times that we live in and the challenges we have to work through. So, so that's pretty much all I have for today and let's roll up with the intercepted Ghost Net reports where we can try to get a little get ahead of the information crackdown and try to increase our resiliency in a more off-grid, more radio-based way. This is the Ghost Net communications plan. It's a ham radio plan mostly, shortwave radio or HF high-frequency radio is a very interesting tool that we can use to communicate with people over long distances without having any sort of infrastructure in between. We created this Ghost Net plan so that we could all kind of get on the same page and have a more resilient way of exchanging information, not just for an emergency use or more of a hobby sort of thing, but more of a practical thing. I have been working on improving the Ghost Net over time to try to integrate some other systems and things like that. So, there is a MeshTastic channel for the Ghost Net. There There are also VHF and UHF options for those of you who just have the ubiquitous Baofeng, right? The infamous little radio that could, right? So, if all you have is a a cheap radio, don't feel left out. You can definitely engage with it. It's probably not going to be very effective for line of sight stuff. This is more of an HF thing so that we can connect people from all over the world together kind of at the same time. And that's kind of hard to do with line of sight, especially if you don't have repeater networks. This is heavily more of an autonomous kind of thing, decentralized sort of information exchange system. And as we can see, there's a lot of information being exchanged every week and even throughout the week. It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it is one way that we can stay connected, especially if if everything goes out, if the internet goes out, if power goes out, if everybody's disconnected from one another, this is how we can exchange information over long distances fairly effectively. So, thank you to all of you who make the Ghost Net great. Thank you to all of you who participate in that and thank you to all you guys out there who are just listen only. Even if you're just listening and you and you don't have a license and so you can't transmit, it's good that you're participating in it anyway and trying to do the best you can to stay informed. So, that's all I have for today. Here are the sources for this week's reports. You can also grab the links and primary source material if I can if I can snag it on each Obsidian page for each wire report throughout the day. So, so even though I'm taking the wire reports from Obsidian and pasting them into social media, right? You don't see the source material on social media, you can click that link and then go to my Obsidian page where I have all of the other links. I have to do it this way because a lot of social media pages simply just deprioritize if they see that I have a lot of links in a in a post, they will just block that post and only I can see it, right? This is the way the world works, unfortunately. That's why my wire reports don't get pushed by Twitter's algorithm too much because even one link is enough to deprioritize this. But my priority is the information, not necessarily reach a lot of times on Twitter at least. And I want to make sure you guys can get access to the the primary source material if you want to investigate further, which you definitely should if you want to look at the primary sources that I use to make each wire report. I do the best I can to try to put those there. So, there's always more research to be had. There's always more ways to verify that information is true in today's age of significant information manipulation efforts, it's always good to try to get to the bottom of the truth as best you can, right? So, thank you to all of you who have stuck around. Thank you to all of you on Patreon who support me there and keep this work going. I really do appreciate it. Couldn't do it without you guys. So, thank you for that and I 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 July 26th through August 1st, 2026. It has been quite a prophetic week around the world with many significant changes both at home and overseas. So, let's get right to it. Of course, the war in Iran continues to expand beyond the Middle East to now include North Africa. And most indications are lining up to point to the United States being poised to dive back into the bombing or possibly other lines of effort. It looks like we're going to be doing something or at least something is being planned. So, we'll have to find out what that is when we see explosions throughout the Middle East again. Here in the United States, it's been a fairly quiet week, but there have been a couple of events worthy of mention as the shadow war appears to be surfacing a little bit, showing us that even though many people are either oblivious or even just a little bit tired with the war, events that transpire thousands of miles away have a way of reaching out to us here at home. So, let's start with the United States and the large-scale cyber attack that struck Minnesota earlier this week, targeting water treatment and processing facilities statewide. This initially took place on Sunday and Monday, but the true scale of this cyber attack is only become more public within the past couple of days. The nature of this cyber attack was to change the passwords to a lot of the logic controllers which managed the balance of water and chemicals at roughly 30 different water treatment systems throughout the state of Minnesota. Apparently, the attackers were able to change the passwords and essentially lock the local staff out of their own system so they couldn't control the flow of water and chemicals through various processes. Now, some of you might say, "Hang on a minute. I thought that these SCADA systems for water treatment facilities were supposed to be air-gapped and not connected to any kind of internet access at all so as to prevent this exact attack vector." Using common sense, you would be correct, but governments and public utilities have long thrown off the use of common sense, and over the years most of the computer systems that control our nation's critical infrastructure have been exposed to the internet. And most of the time it's done very poorly, too. I and many others have been talking about this for many years, so it's been an issue for a long time and not exactly something new. Everything is online nowadays, usually using the default passwords or exposed ports, and oftentimes the security practices of lower level administration like a county water supply they're not exactly the best. After the attacks in Minnesota the cybersecurity and infrastructure agency or CISA issued a nationwide notice for all other wastewater operators to basically cut the internet access to their systems. The notice itself states that quote CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology or OT from the internet as soon as possible. I'm no IT professional here but that's a little nonchalant considering what it sounds like they're asking people to do which is to essentially disconnect the entire country's critical infrastructure from the internet. So to me I don't know it sounds like it's kind of a big deal. It sounds like that's the modern equivalent of Boris running into the server room and yanking servers out of the racks with his bare hands. Obviously we're not talking space lasers here but still it's kind of a big deal. And because I highly doubt that the one-man IT departments running the wastewater treatment facilities in small towns around the country are scanning CISA's portals for the latest breaking cybersecurity threats. My guess is that more municipalities will be affected. In fact more attacks might have taken place already that have not been publicized. There have been a lot of incidents involving water outages around the country this week which certainly happen all of the time purely organically due to infrastructure problems but it would also make sense for other critical infrastructure attacks to take place which are a little bit more isolated. It's pretty hard to conceal the fact that 30 different water districts in one state get taken offline but if it were just one facility it would be easier to pass off a malign action as a simple and benign outage. How many water main breaks have occurred around the country that don't really seem to have a clear point of origin? That's all I'm saying. As to what's going on in Minnesota it's really hard to say what is actually happening because cyber attacks aren't something that we can visually see or easily attribute to one malign actor but most theories regarding these attacks are suspect it was Iran. It could be anybody but probably the best evidence that it was the Iranians was President Trump himself brushing it off and blaming the state of Minnesota. Cloning on Minnesota's government while accurate and certainly appreciated in most cases, is also a bit of a poker tell in this case. If these cyber attacks were more of a false flag attack carried out by shadowy agencies within the US government, the White House would be chomping at the bit to blame the Iranians. So, the fact that they are downplaying this major incident here indicates that they are embarrassed about the incident and therefore the most likely culprit is Iran because we hit one of their desalination plants 2 weeks ago and we're talking about hitting more water sources and critical infrastructure soon as well. It's not like you have to have nation-state level access to hack a county's water supply. Nigerians with laptops do it all the time because critical infrastructure is something we just don't seem to care about too much. So, narrowing down the list of culprits is going to be pretty challenging to do. It could also be Russia or China, who knows, but my guess is that these events will probably continue regardless of who's actually behind it. Speaking of the Middle East for this week, we find some pretty significant developments which have been increasing in seriousness since last week's strikes took place. In short, calling this a Middle Eastern war is no longer accurate because this is no longer a war that is confined to the Middle East. Northern Africa is now on the menu with the drone attacks that took place in the port of Damietta in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Earlier this week, two vessels were struck in the port, one tanker and one American regasification and storage vessel, which is basically a floating natural gas processing plant. This attack was most certainly no joke because that regasification vessel is one major target. The drone did hit the vessel, but it seems like it just did superficial damage mostly to the superstructure above the waterline, but if that drone had actually pierced the containment vessel for the liquid natural gas, that would have been one serious explosion that probably would have damaged quite a bit of the port. It's hard to say, but this is not at all like hitting a tanker carrying crude oil, which is not that flammable at least when it comes to getting hit with drones and stuff like that. So, liquefied natural gas is a whole other animal though and this could have been very, very nasty, but it turns out that the drone just hit uh, random equipment on the deck of the ship. So, Egypt most certainly dodged a bullet and they're happy to downplay the incident as much as they can. The attack itself is also quite interesting because it was carried out with what looks like a Samad 3 long-range drone. It is very hard to confirm that based on the ever-famous eyewitness shaky cam in portrait orientation video, but this does give us a benchmark to work with. So far, we also just have the one video. I don't have the video of the drone actually hitting the other tanker vessel that was hit, but if we just use what we have so far, if these were Samad 3s, these drones only have an absolute max range of 1,500 to 1,800 km under the best possible conditions. So, that's the number we're working with for the absolute max theoretical range of this system. If we drop a range ring of 1,500 km, we can see the problem with this. Even flying in a straight line under the best possible atmospheric conditions with zero wind, it would be marginal at best. And the drone that we can see in the video also did not have the bubble fuel tank on the top, which gives it that 1,500 to 1,800 km range anyway. So, no matter what, it's kind of a moot point. It's not possible for them to have flown all the way from Iran. The question then becomes where did it take off from? Well, that only government-level intelligence agencies seem to know and they aren't talking, which is odd. Egypt is desperately trying to balance this because on the one hand, everyone knows this was a deliberate attack. That video circulated Egyptian media, it's quite public this was a drone attack. It wasn't an industrial accident like they tried to say it was. But on the other hand, they also don't want to have to adhere to the standard practice of carrying out strikes of their own to save face. Right now, the desire to stay out of the war seems to be winning. So, the real question is what shipping insurance companies do in response to this because now we have explosions taking place really close to the Suez Canal. I haven't seen much on that yet. I don't know what the insurance companies have decided to do, but you got to know they're thinking about it because now we've got explosions taking place really close to another major choke point and this is something they're going to be having a lot of closed-door meetings about trying to figure out how to mitigate. And all of this is very important because of what's happening in Spain. So, maybe we can start to see the common theme that is building between all of these issues, which seem unrelated at face value, but in reality are all becoming intertwined in one specific way. So, moving over to the Spanish problem in the western Mediterranean, another major crisis is brewing on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar. A few days ago, the migration crisis escalated sharply with the invasion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Small boat operations and more random border breaches have been reported in this area for many weeks, but Spain's Supreme Court ruled this week that anybody who can make it to this peninsula cannot be deported. This immediately resulted in the floodgates of Toledo being thrown open, and the Moroccan government began bussing literal truckloads of migrants to the border and dumping them at the fence. Nearly every single migrant that has been bussed in has been a military-aged male, and as of this morning, the local governor estimates that about 60,000 migrants crossed into Spain via the perimeter breaches and swimming around the fence. Mass looting, home invasions, and sheer bedlam have been reported in this small town, and last night a local boy was stabbed in the neck by a migrant during the fray in the street. Many of the migrants and unknown number of migrants have actually crossed back into Morocco and departed Ceuta once they realized there's no food and water in this small little enclave, and there are no ships that are going to let them uh get on board to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. So, a lot of them went back home after they realized it was kind of a fruitless effort. But, after the migrant wave hit this peninsula and the videos of the crowds went viral, another Spanish territory became overwhelmed as well. To the east, perimeter breaches have also been observed in the small town of Melilla, another port city that has been owned by Spain for centuries. On the ground, Melilla is much smaller and therefore much more defendable. Uh their border fence is also a lot better, too, but the hordes are coming over the top in places anyway, and the videos of this crisis are just incredible all around. I hate to be that guy in reference to a work of fiction to kind of make a point, but this crisis is literally the entire plot of The Camp of the Saints, one of the most controversial and banned books in history, which has got a lot of attention because, well, it's absolutely happening in real life now. As far as literary works go, it's a little rough around the edges because I think it was originally written in French, but if you actually read it, by the end of the first chapter, you will understand why this book is so heavily suppressed and banned by governments, school districts, and society at large. I'm probably going to get in trouble just for mentioning that this book exists, but despite the people who call you nasty names for even knowing about this book, it is rather shocking to see the opening scenes of a work of fiction written, I don't know how many decades ago, uh starting to play out in real life in many different ways. So, I thought that was very interesting, and I think that might be why these videos are going viral. We here in the US have seen similar crowds of people down at Eagle Pass years ago. So, we're most certainly familiar with this, but just a sheer bedlam of people just coming over that fence, man, it's it's so dystopian, and there's really no other way to describe it other than just being out of the pages of a fiction novel. Back in real life, though, the reason for why this is significant in our modern time is that Ceuta is a major strategic asset for Spain, which allows Spain to exert some level of control or claim to the Strait of Gibraltar. It does not take a genius to know that having a presence on both sides of a major waterway is better than just controlling one side, and since Spain is a signing member of the Schengen Agreement, once the wave makes its way into Spain, they have free access to the majority of Europe without getting a visa or residency status. This is why Italy immediately halted their Schengen Agreement with Spain, even though Italy and Spain do not border one another. France is in the middle there, uh so, they don't really have a land border, but they do have a lot of maritime traffic via ferries and small boats between Spain and France, and at these port facilities, they don't, you know, they're part of the Schengen zone, so they don't check papers, right? So, Spain being unable or unwilling to control their own border is starting to threaten the entire continent, and Italy being one of the largest economies in Europe who is desperately trying to avoid the these migration problems, it was easy for for Italy to just say, "Yeah, we're not doing this anymore." So, similarly, 21 other EU nations have also publicly admonished Spain's actions to have kind of an open border existence and Spain not really fighting back on the migrant trafficking routes, which have allowed free access to most of Europe. Once again, the whole idea of the Schengen Agreement or the Schengen Zone essentially removes a lot of national autonomy. So, we may start to see that getting readdressed in Europe in due time, but for right now, Italy has temporarily suspended free travel between Spain and Italy and due to the economic concerns that Spain is actually having to do something for once about the migration issue. After these videos went viral showing the invasion of Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish authorities have begrudgingly begun to fortify the perimeter fence. Although Spain's Prime Minister has openly stated that this is not an emergency and he is only doing the very bare minimum to get the rest of Europe off of his back. So, we shall see how Spain handles this moving forward. I don't think a whole lot's going to change, but we'll have to see how it goes. Now, zooming out to the globe once again, we can see how serious the situation is becoming. And by now, the common theme should be clear. Most of the global maritime choke points are now threatened in one way or another. Hormuz is the one that's gotten the most attention because it has been closed to most bigger western ships for 5 months now. And as has been demonstrated time and time again, it doesn't matter if the Iranians or the Americans say that the strait is open. If insurance companies won't insure, shipping will remain stagnant at levels that are only a fraction of what they were before the war. In the Persian Gulf at least, we may not ever get back to the way things were before the war. And as of last week, we added another choke point to the list of concerns, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait or the BAM linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and eventually the Arabian Sea. This choke point is now being threatened by the Houthis who have instituted a blockade of Saudi ships and have enforced that blockade with missiles. That makes maritime choke point number two. This week, we added a third concern as some phantom menace conducted strikes on Egyptian shipping in the Nile Delta demonstrating to the world that the Suez Canal is no longer safe and someone out there has the capability to conduct precision strikes on shipping in northern Egypt. If the Iranians can hit Damietta, they can most certainly hit the Suez Canal and the ships going through it. So, that is most certainly being taken under advisement for any of the largest shipping companies that transit that waterway. And lo and behold, just a couple of days ago, wouldn't you know it, another choke point at the western end of the Med is now being threatened by a migration crisis, which is certainly not directly linked to Iran and not something that is as kinetic as missile strikes, but still, maybe we'll get there next, I don't know. The Strait of Gibraltar is now being viewed through a lens of security and trade routes have already been disrupted because of the actions that are taking place there. Italy cutting off Spain from visa free travel is going to hurt quite a lot and due to the shocking videos coming out of the Spanish territory of Ceuta, this is going to probably result in this problem being viewed through more of a military lens than a civil lens moving forward. This is why I think we're in some very serious and very dangerous ground. The war itself in Iran is quite stagnant. There's only so many times you can look at satellite imagery and see things blow up and there's this tit-for-tat back and forth. People tune it out. They think that, "Okay, well, we're just in for another GWOT part two, right? However long this lasts is however long it lasts. Hopefully it won't last 20 years, but it's been 5 months and people are kind of just, you know, living their daily lives because of that despite what we're doing in the Middle East." So, I get it. It's easy to slip into complacency. I've done it myself doing you know, all the time, but we have to step back and look at what this war is actually spun into. Not just the war in Iran, but also the war in Ukraine, which is threatening other shipping areas, too. As boring as it is, wars fought over trade routes tend to be global in nature and this is already spinning out of control to the point that I don't think we can avoid this becoming rather serious. As of right now, four of the world's most important maritime choke points are directly threatened with combat action. Hormuz, the Bam, Suez, and the ever forgotten Turkish straits linking the Black Sea with the Med. Remember, Ukraine and Russia have been targeting each other continually on the high seas, so that's another choke point threatened by war. Granted, Turkey, despite their issues, is a little bit more stable and has so far been able to guarantee safety through the Turkish straits for the ships that choose to go through there, but still, it's a rather important waterway that historically is quite relevant. A lot of wars have been fought over the Turkish straits, and that's something that we should probably keep an eye on. More indirectly this week, the Strait of Gibraltar is threatened by instability and mass migration to the point that it's affecting the strategic balance of the region. It's harder, and it's debatable, you can disagree, but it's harder to say, "Well, the Strait of Gibraltar is now going to be part of the Iran war." I wouldn't go that far, but what is undeniable is that it's threatening stability, and anytime stability is threatened with a global maritime choke point kind of in the general vicinity, things get kind of dicey. To be honest, at this point, all we need is some kind of crisis in Panama or some kind of kerfuffle in the Strait of Malacca, and we could be in a bit of a pickle here. The Strait of Malacca has been coming up a lot in a PACOM context with, you know, Chinese expansion and the maritime trade moving through that region. I wouldn't call it threatened, I think the Strait of Malacca is fine at the moment. Same thing with Panama, there's really no concern down there now, but the fact that we're having to think about this in the first place, just think of how shocking that is. Just think of how absurd that is. This little minor desert war in the Middle East has now transcended to include most of the planet. Thankfully, most of the global impacts are not in missiles and bombs, they're just economic and energy related, but still, this is the the the stepping stones are in place already for this to escalate much further. I don't know if it will get any worse or how this is going to expand, but what's very clear is that this war is no longer localized to Iran. Since the rhetoric and strategic moves this week have continued to indicate that the war is going to continue on for some time and will probably return to more full-scale bombing, the situation is not looking super great. Peace is completely off the table for the time being, and if we are trying to guess when this war might end, I'm not seeing any indications that this conflict is going to be over anytime soon. I have seen many others in the industry speculate that this war might last until the end of the year, and I think that's not an unreasonable assessment. Unfortunately, as it stands right now, the walk-away theory is also looking less likely because the sunk cost fallacy is driving much of the decision-making regarding the war. So, we've got that to contend with. And just to be brutally honest for a minute, the Iranians have really been putting up a fight. We don't have to like it, but the Iranians have not just been able to survive the American bombing, but they have actually been able to maintain a lot of over-the-horizon targeting capability, either via the use of proxy groups, such as the attack on Egypt, or in the cyber realm, like their alleged involvement in the Minnesota cyber attacks. Classic warfare history, right? The defender has the advantage. And in this case, I really do not know what the grand strategy is here at the Pentagon regarding how this war is planned to be fought. Obviously, the availability of munitions is probably playing more of a role than we might think. The reason we're not hitting them as hard as we thought we would is maybe we don't have the bombs to do it. I don't know. But, the uncertainty and the lack of a clear military objective regarding the war is going to complicate things for a while, and we're just going to have to wait and see. I know that's classic at this point, right? We're just going to have to wait and see, but there has not been any major American targeting in Iran for several days now, and we're really due for another round of strikes after last weekend's sorties were called off. So, I guess we're still kind of trapped on this roller coaster ride, and we're just going to have to see what our politicians decide to do with it, and hope that the homeland isn't affected too much. But, no matter what happens at the national stage, here at the local stage, down at the lower level of the individual person, no matter what happens, we can be as prepared as possible here on the home front. And one of the ways that we can do that is to ensure that cyber attacks are not, we can still have some form of communication with each other and know what's going on over the horizon before threats arrive at our doorstep. So, let's smoothly segue into wrapping things up today with the Ghost Net Reports for this week. These are some of the more interesting screenshots from those of you who participate in the main weekly Ghost Net network on shortwave radio. Every week I try to grab a few screenshots to show everyone the utility of the network and what kinds of information are being exchanged over the airwaves in a purely off-grid manner. If the entire internet goes out and we had to resort to long-range radio to communicate, this is the kind of information that will be available, which is kind of neat to see. Otherwise, I have another comms video coming out on Monday, which might be useful for those of you who are looking to improve the resiliency and capabilities when it comes to radios. So, stay tuned for that. There are a lot of really interesting things being worked on in the world of radio, and since radio is one of the only alternatives when the lines get cut, radio is what we have to lean on pretty heavily in the event that modern telecoms infrastructure is not available for whatever reason. It's not the easiest thing in the world to learn, but we're getting there, and I think that the developments that are being made to smooth this out and make this a little bit more user-friendly for the average person, they're coming along pretty nicely. So, looking forward to continuing that later on this year. So, that's all I have for today. Thanks again to all of you who support the project on Patreon, and thanks to everyone else for watching. I really do appreciate it. So, thanks again, and I 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 friday the 24th of september 2021 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 23rd of september just a quick note before we get going uh we've noticed that for some reason youtube is now recommending these videos to people who have never even heard of us before even though we've been doing these intel briefings for quite a while now so for those of you who aren't aware of who we are and what we do and stuff like that you can check out the rest of our channel and kind of get a feel for what we do but when it comes to specifically these types of briefings a good distinction to make is the difference between intelligence and journalism so what we're doing here is not journalism even though a lot of times if we don't have an analysis we'll take the journalistic approach and just tell you what happened but if you're looking to see the difference between what we do here and what journalism is uh check out our brief from the 12th of september and that should give you a good uh just just the first few minutes of that video should give you a good understanding of how and why we're approaching things the way we are so welcome to everyone who is new and thank you for watching and let's get right to it with the weather for the next 12 hours most of the significant weather in the country is going to be in new england the northeastern states are going to get hammered with all different kinds of weather systems as they stack up and create all kinds of turbulence and things like that again we have specific reasons why we're talking about this kind of weather just to get people in the mindset of seeing it because because weather is a huge part of intelligence as a whole so like i mentioned most of the american northeast is going to have very low cloud ceilings cloud layers that are very thick and very low to the ground which means that it's going to be very bad for any kind of visual surveillance either with normal electro-optical sensors or flear-type sensors again if there was anything right again not saying that there is i'm just saying that that would be a good idea to get in the mindset of understanding and like i mentioned really throughout the rest of the country for the next 18 hours pushing out that far again some of the mid-atlantic coastal regions right there are going to have a lot of significant cloud layers all the way from very low levels all the way up to the very highest levels of the atmosphere so that's going to be a huge barrier for any kind of surveillance again if it were there we're also going to see some pretty significant cloud decks over the dakotas and other parts of the midwest mostly along the northern border there as well as off the california coast and parts of florida moving into no tams actually it's been kind of interesting for no tams there's one specific one that's very interesting i'll go ahead and skip over it for now and go right to number two uh the other the only other one that to be of note is one that hasn't gone hot yet uh it is for camp david so of course for those of you who don't know uh pretty much every single weekend that we've been following president biden takes a vacation trip to either his home or to camp david it looks like this weekend it's going to be to camp david um it hasn't been announced to be the white house yet but the no tam's there so it's most likely going to occur and for the one that's really interesting is the one for new york so for those of you who don't know the united nations general assembly is convening at the un headquarters in new york and they have a couple of no tams set up to prevent aircraft from from getting near those proceedings and a couple of days ago uh there was an incident in which a small uh light cessna aircraft got close to the general assembly no tam area now here's the interesting part the aircraft is actually a west point aircraft it's one of the cessnas they use for uh teaching classes in this case it was an engineering class that went on was just following the river down just to be a part of the curriculum there there's no sensors on board it has nothing to do with any kind of surveillance we've we've researched this aircraft this particular airframe quite heavily it's just a teaching aid but it's interesting because everyone a lot of media sites are saying that they breached the airspace well they actually didn't they didn't even come close so here is a map of the the area it shows the united nations headquarters right there of course the no tamp is not centered over the unhq just for opsec reasons the faa does not put the no tam directly over the building that they're trying to keep people away from but everybody knows where the un headquarters is it's a very prominent building on the skyline there so that's where it's located and those two rings depict the two different no tams and this depicts the flight of the aircrafts as you can see it flew south along the river and then turned around once it got to the george washington bridge he got turned around because he got intercepted by f-16s as part of you know our national defense strategy and things like that so a lot of people are saying that hey this aircraft you know temporarily breached the airspace well we can't find where it did uh unless we are unless we're missing something or some kind of no town popped up that we didn't see they didn't even come close sure it makes sense as to why the f-16s and the military would scramble to intercept a small plane like that especially if it wasn't a pre-pre-filed flight plan but also like these guys didn't really get close they didn't breach the airspace they got close so again it's kind of interesting that to see like how this stuff shakes out and everything but it also goes to show that you don't have to necessarily be within a no-tam to have an f-16 off your wing which is interesting to take note so that's why i wanted to talk about it today so let's move into the civil unrest forecast really no major changes the only one i did want to briefly mention is new york city uh they're we're starting to see a lot of cultural changes when it comes to the medical mandates in the city particularly the medical passports so we're starting to see blm as an organization get spun up to oppose medical passports due to their organ that organization's concerns and sort of social issues right so blm saying that it's a social issue now and we're starting to see that get off the ground i'm not entirely sure how that's going to go down there was a big incident at a restaurant in new york city you can look up for yourself but there was a big incident there where a restaurant hostess you know requested to see someone's passport and they took it racially and there was a big fight you could see the video i can't share the video here of course because we'll get censored but um i don't really really talk so much about that specific incident but i just wanted to highlight briefly that we might be starting to see new york city specifically since the mandates are so harsh there when it comes to dining dining facilities we might start seeing new york city be a point of solidification for a lot of these resistance efforts and we might start seeing these resistance efforts come from groups that don't normally we wouldn't think to see right if that makes sense but we can talk a little bit about that later but let's push into logistics and really just a quick rundown of the shortages from last time really there have been shortages of school bus drivers in a lot of states water shortage out west is continuing that's just an enduring thing that's going to be able to slide until until the winter gets in and we start seeing the water levels rise again also microchip shortage getting worse by the day more and more auto manufacturers are coming out and saying they're shutting down plants or they're reducing hours or they're discontinuing vehicles and really the only two new additions for this cycle this brief uh is uh in north carolina specifically winston-salem the town of winston-salem has declared they have a bus driver shortage for public transit and they have shut down 14 different bus routes as a result of this now i didn't want to highlight i didn't really drill down into each specific state in every little local newspaper this one just happened to get picked up by a larger source but i have seen just scrolling around the internet for a little bit a lot of different other cities and localities reporting the same thing so even though we only have the icon for north carolina that's the only place we can you know say hey there's tangible shortages causing routes to be canceled this is affecting other states as well i would probably venture to guess that the public transit bus driver shortage is very similar to the school bus driver shortage it's a similar idea behind it and also when it comes to the state of iowa i did want to point out uh grains so i'm going to talk about this more on the critical infrastructure slide but i did just want to point out that there has been a cyber attack that has that is going to potentially affect as much as 40 percent of the nation's grain supply so i'll touch on that here in just a second but i just wanted to highlight that's that's what we've got going on for the logistics map for this time so moving to the critical infrastructure concerns uh really the first one there is kind of the odd man out i didn't want to i don't know where else to put it so chantix the drug chantix has been recalled by pfizer because it turns out it may have chemicals in it that cause cancer so that has been recalled the recalls are widening with every day that goes by and yeah it's just one more thing to to be aware of because it's a pretty widely used smoking cessation drug and switching gears there to number two the port of los angeles is currently facing severe severe congestion as you can see by the image here there are a lot of ships waiting to offload cargo in the los angeles port region with some ships waiting an average of eight days or so to unload their cargo actually we can see if we pull up the recent report by the port of los angeles we can see that they are most certainly over capacity when it comes to the amounts of cargo that they're processing so for those that don't understand why this port is being congested it's really due to things like social distancing equipment cleaning daily screenings of staff this eats up a lot of time and the extremely strict social distancing rules that the port of los angeles has instituted for all their workers have resulted in a lot of inefficiencies right they're just not able to work as fast uh or or as uh widespread right so this is combined with an increase in demand for overseas goods results in a lot of delays a lot of people who don't quite understand how various logistical networks here function in the us might say something like well i don't see how demand could be up wouldn't it go back to the same level that it was before the lockdowns and the answer that is no firstly demand is always going steadily up all the time even if it's going up just a little bit it demand for things is for consumer goods is really never going down that much even if demand goes down due to an external factor like lockdowns right that demand is not going to go back to where it was before the lockdowns it's going to go to the level that it would have been at had the lockdowns not happened if that makes sense also during the lockdowns last year a lot of people and companies specifically put off things like unnecessary expenditures or repairs stuff that wasn't really an emergency because of well one social distancing rules closing stores but also the reduced income that almost every business suffered from they just didn't have the money to do repairs and and expand their businesses right well now that things are picking back up the demand for a steady stream of logistics is skyrocketing demand which our infrastructure cannot handle thus the delays moving to number three this is a developing situation that uh where we just became aware of uh this morning or actually last night the data management company really it's a an agricultural co-op an agricultural cooperative called new cooperative or any w cooperative was hit with a cyber attack that was conducted allegedly by the group dark matter which is significantly threatening the u.s food supply because the software systems that this group uses this co-op uses affects dozens of different farmers throughout the state of iowa but really it affects a lot of people beyond their borders as well because this software is used and responsible for managing the various agricultural systems of roughly 40 percent of farmers that produce our national grain supply so this is kind of a shocker this is one of those things where it's really hard to research we can't really confirm uh if this 40 of the national grain supply is is is in like direct harm really here are the things that dark matters is trying to uh trying to extort you can see the list right there just financial information all kinds of internal employee documents and things like that so it's not necessarily a it's a ransomware attack so they're holding their data hostage but they can't access it right so that's a problem because even though it's a ransomware attack you think okay well how can leaking some employee documents you know damage national security well if these farmers can't use if this co-op can't use its software and the farmers that use their software can't use it then that's a huge problem so these screenshots were leaked by a cyber security group that is working the issue and in which case this is a communication between the uh hackers and the actual company the cooperative as you can see it doesn't look to be super great so like i mentioned on our logistics slide this could have some very very very serious impacts as we move forward into the winter when it when it comes to our national food supply now i don't want to you know scream the sky is falling just quite yet uh we don't know how this is all going to work out they could pay the fine like the fbi has been encouraging companies to do and just you know they're they're uh i think the the ransom is up to 5. 5.9 million or something like that it's changed a couple of times that's why i can't remember the actual dollar amount they're asking but it's not an insignificant amount but yeah the longer that this goes on the larger impact this is going to have also this highlights every single one of these high these cyber attacks that happens highlights to us the feeling of really every time i get one of these in my inbox i think wait a minute this wasn't compartmentalized like wait a minute this this can happen in the first place so yeah even for people like us who have been following the national security and national defense infrastructure kind of field you know that boring stuff that nobody likes to track like you know nuclear security grain style security you know the security of water plant water purification plants and stuff like that even though we've been following this for a while now it never ceases to amaze us how backwards things are when it comes to vulnerabilities the fact that this kind of stuff can happen the fact that you can simply hack a company which manages software for all different kinds of agricultural ventures and it just so happens that they have merged so many times that they're now a significant portion of our national food supply yeah it seems like nobody was really thinking about this from the cyber security realm which is a lesson that not a lot of industries are learning right now even though they should be and sort of in a similar vein it has become public knowledge that the fbi secretly had the decryption key for the ransomware attack that was launched against the cassia group back in july this was the cyber attack that took as many as 1500 businesses that defined as critical infrastructure offline well it turns out that the fbi had the decryption key very early on during the several weeks long cyber attack and chose not to release it to the victims which many cyber security experts say was a very poor move understandably in the world of law enforcement to catch the bad guys deception is required and sometimes things need to be done that seem counterproductive like withholding a password right but in the end will result in capturing the culprits however cyber security experts say that this is not what happened at all eric krohn of the cyber security firm know before stated that quote the fbi had the means and ability to assist by simply sharing a digital key but chose not to a decision that had no bearing on the activity from the revel group and gained them nothing in return this was not a case of the fbi being unable to help due to a lack of staffing or any other reason but the simple sharing of a digital key to the victim organizations end quote now i do want to touch on what everyone is thinking this is one of those gut level assessments that has absolutely no solid evidence to support it but anyone who is aware of what the fbi does and what they've been up to the past few years and how political that particular agency has become at the senior levels it's a gut assessment to think all right the fbi had the key because they're probably in on it somehow again nobody is going to have enough proof to say that this was the case and this is one of those ideas that can be easily legitimately explained away because if the fbi was doing their job like if they were doing good and they were doing their job of course they would have the key like who else would you expect to have it the guy running the hot dog cart outside no the exact same people within the fbi that have the capabilities to launch this attack or collaborate with the attackers are also the exact same people that we should expect to have the decryption key by doing their job and tackling the bad guys so it's a really tough thing to go down the rabbit hole on because of the nature of this relationship so again i did just want to point out this line of thinking because we know a lot of people are thinking it and even we ourselves don't have enough information to make an assessment either way and honestly at the end of the day for the average american it doesn't really matter who committed these cyber attacks a russian hacking group or the fbi themselves it doesn't really matter because both groups have pretty much the same likelihood of being prosecuted which is zero so really we're not so much concerned with the finger pointing as we are concerned about the impact to the average american and all of these cyber attacks highlight just how vulnerable that average american really is moving forward into significant governmental actions uh first one being what's being called fedfest 21 on a lot of social media this was the justice for j6 rally which even people like donald trump said was a setup i find it hard to believe that federal agents are that bad at being undercover but a lot of the photos that have been circulating around you know of people that i don't know if they're federal agents or not but they seem to be very uh very sketchy like you can look at this person they they look everyone who was there at the protest looked like either a reporter or an undercover cop so um very interesting and it just turns out that there was one guy who was detained for having a weapon on him and it turned out he was an undercover undercover agent so there you go on that very interesting moving on to number two this is one of those headlines that's so scary sounding that you have to research it to find out if it's real or not but it's definitely real researchers are trying to figure out ways to use plants specifically plants like lettuce to grow mrna medical substances you know that magic you know v word we can't say on youtube that a person would just eat instead of taking a shot in the arm again this is one of those headlines that's so dystopian sounding that you just want to scream because we can clearly see the path this will take but to keep things in perspective remember it took forever to develop the shots that we already have and just look at their effectiveness right and also this is a long shot a lot of people look at a university and they see the funding they're getting for researching stuff and they they go into panic mode because they don't quite understand how long research takes now of course we can go down the rabbit hole of of realizing that not a whole lot of true research is done these days and a lot of stuff is rushed but this will still take years to do we're talking about something that has never been done before and it's a lot easier than just manufacturing some kind of substance we're talking about getting a plant to grow it that's a little a little bit different a little bit more difficult so yeah this is going to take years and a half a million dollars which is the size of the grant that the national science foundation gave for this research that's just a drop in the bucket when it comes to the funding that's going to be required for this kind of technology if it's even possible so to give as many perspectives as possible this could just be a case of a researcher who needs to publish research and chose this research area because it's politically motivated and it's a great way to get money to buy shiny new lab equipment and at the same time publish research that won't be held to the same standards as other research because science right concerning this topic cannot be questioned under the current political narrative that has taken root in the medical and science field so again we don't know what this is it could be extremely nefarious it could not be that nefarious or it might not be that much of a legitimate concern but i just wanted to point it out because this is the kind of stuff that we're keeping an eye on moving on to number three what's being known as the fbi safe deposit box theft the fbi is just now starting to dig itself out of a hole they dug with a raid they conducted back in march so the fbi raided a private safe deposit box company called u.s private vaults which is located in beverly hills only accusations of conspiracies to break federal laws during this raid they opened and seized the contents of over 396 safe deposit boxes but here's the deal the attorneys for the people whose property was taken states that the warrant for that search specifically prohibited the fbi from opening safe deposit boxes the warrant was just to search the business headquarters and had nothing to do with the safe deposit boxes so it seems like it was more or less illegitimate right to start with and once the fbi realized their either mistake or intentional theft once they realized that these people had not committed any crimes whatsoever they still petitioned the courts to be able to keep the money that they themselves admitted was illegally seized so several federal judges throughout california have gotten involved with this over the past few months and have ruled against the fbi at every step so the fbi has been trying to cover up this scandal by stating that they will immediately return the property that they stole but they have been slow about doing it several of the victims have reported that the fbi says they're going to return their property and the money but they haven't yet which is in clear violation of several court orders at this point moving on to number four with the duchonomy card i'm not sure how you pronounce it or not but this is uh again something that is rapidly concerning if you just read the headline and you don't do any research but this is a relatively new credit card company which was only started up a couple of years ago and it didn't get much traction then because it's definitely a radical idea so here's what it is the idea behind this credit card is that the company that issues it will track your purchases and compare everything you buy once they notice a charge on the card they will compare that to a database of carbon emissions for each of each item that you buy which is then converted to a sort of points system and when you hit your limit when you use up your carbon points you can't use that card anymore they will shut it off as of right now this card is completely voluntary and the kind of the main selling point for this card is that it is a good virtue signaling platform and a great way for people to quite literally put their money where their mouth is when it comes to climate change now also chances are if you're even watching this video in the first place you can probably guess what our assessment of this is going to be this card is also obviously a great way to influence culture and promote a kind of social credit system which even though it's kind of a voluntary thing right now it's pretty obvious that this would be an outstanding tool used to control people at you know years down the line or months down the line however long it takes right and if we look back in time since banks like bank of america and citigroup have already been observed to be collaborating with the federal government to try to report customers gun purchases to federal authorities which is a reference to a scandal from a few years ago this is not a huge leap to assess that this kind of thing will become a problem in the very near future started out as a voluntary virtue signaling thing and then and then start offering incentives to keep people engaging with these financial institutions until they get enough of a foothold in the political leadership's pockets to mandate these restrictions yeah that's quite the rabbit hole to go down but looking at things from a strategic view like looking at the way the world is going years down the road this kind of economic warfare will certainly gain a lot of traction over the next few years again we don't think that visa is going to cut off anyone's credit card tomorrow when they try to buy one too many lattes but this is absolutely something that is desperately important to keep an eye on but it's such a boring topic that most people simply won't and then number five facebook is back in the news again uh because they are launching a multi-platform effort to improve their poor public image specifically the image of mark zuckerberg this program is called project amplify this program was personally approved by zuckerberg back in january and involves using facebook's algorithms and their censorship tools to push more pro facebook posts to everyone's feed so essentially what this is is facebook pushing propaganda about itself in everyone's news feeds so that people get a better image of facebook to us this is really just even more proof that facebook is becoming increasingly more open about their politics and their censorship which is interesting if you look at it from an analytical standpoint facebook has had dozens of scandals over the past year alone that would have been enough to sink any other company but since they control a huge portion of the information flowing to everyday americans people don't see it they don't see the shelved reports or the white house overtly stating that they are ordering facebook to remove certain posts or the now blatant censorship efforts which sound crazy i will admit but it's freely available and openly admitted to by facebook so yeah social media proves once again how much control it has over the flow of information in the world moving on to the k through 12 mask mandate tracker uh so really the biggest changes uh this week are the kind of walking back of the mask mandate bans for a few states so for instance texas the texas supreme court they declined to enforce the mask mandate ban so if an entity in texas like a public school district wanted to mandate masks for public school attendance the supreme court would say yeah that's that's fine so texas has taken a step back so we've created an additional category for their mass mandates being overturned and also the states of arkansas iowa and florida in those states a federal judge has temporarily blocked the mask mandate ban so it's not that they're mandating masks is that that they are banning the ban if that makes sense this is really confusing stuff moving on to the actual jab mandates really there's only one school district in the united states that is still that is that is mandating the jab for their students and that is in the los angeles area so just went ahead and colored the whole state of california red because if they're going if california as a state is going to allow that to happen in one of their school districts we're guessing that it's going to happen very quickly and others as well then moving on to the actual resistance tracker itself so this was what i briefed last time and this is uh these are the updates for now so compared to last time we have we have a pretty good idea as to how each state's government and state level enforcement agencies will go when it comes to medical mandates again this map is not perfect by any means it's not as hard and fast as it might seem right it is solely meant to depict based on all of the information that we have seen where we think the medical resistance hot spots are when it comes to state level enforcement attempts for nebraska for instance i have no idea what's going on with state level leadership and here's what i mean this is an excerpt from a statement posted by governor pete ricketts in which he urges people to get the jab but in the exact same statement there are several paragraphs that undermine the shot and talk about how it was rushed into production and the mistrust on the federal level maybe i'm reading into this too much or not enough i i don't know but you can read the confusing and seemingly contradictory statement yourself the link is in the sources at the end of this but it seems that some states are pro-jab but anti-jab mandate and even within that category there are states that seem to be anti-mandate but only because the federal government beat them to the punch and the mandate isn't their mandate so i honestly don't know what to make of states like nebraska when it comes to the likelihood of resistance efforts being allowed to grow by state level leadership again we've got a pretty good idea as to what the citizens of nebraska think but when it comes to enforcement agencies specifically the way this working out is still it's still disconcerting similar situation in idaho i've changed it back from red to orange in the wake of more politicians at the state level organizing a bit better but the governor is extremely still pro-jab and he has been doing everything he can to promote it to include striking down a mass mandate ban that the lieutenant governor put forward so clearly idaho is again one of those weird situations where they recently announced that they might be suing biden but when it comes to state level government and specifically any potential enforcement agencies it's a very hesitant resistance that we have little faith in actually being substantial or reliable in the long term and moving on to international issues so first up is kosovo so border guards in kosovo have started removing serbian license plates from vehicles entering kosovo stating that they are not recognized as being official this is increased tensions in the region as the serbs have started protesting holding up traffic and the like right now serbia and kosovo are in talks to calm down the situation diplomatically and as far as why this is worthy of mention this is really just a minor diplomatic spat but due to the history between these nations and a significant us military presence in kosovo it's worth keeping an eye on up next is the united kingdom so bp has announced that they are having to ration gasoline and diesel for their gas stations in the uk due to the intense driver shortage that is resulting in not enough people to drive their fuel trucks so this is not exactly a shortage of fuel there's plenty of fuel it's just there's a shortage of drivers that is resulting in a shortage of fuel again this highlights the importance of boring stuff like logistics and how the slightest seemingly minor problem can snowball to result in widespread disruptions in vastly different areas up next is taiwan so this past week has seen an increase in chinese aircraft being flown into taiwan's air defense identification or interdiction zone for those that do not understand what this means china likes to assert their dominance over taiwan by flying their aircraft kind of near taiwan's airspace this gets really complicated when we start to define what airspace actually means like are we talking an economic exclusion zone are we talking about a national defense zone you know which airspace are we talking about and other diplomatic stuff like that but just know that china frequently does this actually many other nations do this as well like the us and russia frequently do this to each other but this week the massive interdiction by over two dozen aircraft is almost certainly in response to taiwan formally requesting a bid to join the cptpp trade agreement which china does not like moving on to australia so the resistance efforts to their lockdowns and passport controls and things like that are is definitely heating up in australia as the demonstrations continue uh throughout this week when it comes to the actual videos we're seeing we are seeing a trend anyone who has a pair of eyes can clearly see the trend that while yes it is easy to doctor videos or crop videos in such a way as to paint the australian police and military in a in a not good light what is plain to see despite uh the fact that this can happen is that we're definitely noticing that australian defense forces and police forces are becoming a lot more violent uh in their response as the unrest grows so we're starting to see things that are really really dystopian when it comes to an american perspective of things and uh clearly many australians agree that that it is in fact quite dystopian so the unrest is continuing it will likely continue as long as government forces continue to force the mandates and then finally moving on to lithuania this is an interesting one so the national cyber security center which is nestled underneath the lithuanian ministry of national defense has conducted an in-depth study of smartphones that are made by three of the most well-known chinese smartphone manufacturers these studies are indicating that the phones will censor themselves for instance there are several words and phrases that are blacklisted and are not allowed to be seen by the user so if you try to read an article or an email or download an app that has these words and phrases anywhere on it the phone will actually not allow this content to be seen or downloaded by the user and this image here on your screen is just a part of that full list of terms and phrases so so yeah we encourage you to take a look at that full report because it's very fascinating to read a lot of these chinese technological devices just having built-in censorship tools at their coded into them at the software level which is very interesting how they're doing this and considering that companies like huawei which is one of the ones that is uh actually named in their report is one of the biggest culprits of this censorship and considering that huawei was just recently given permission by the us government as we revealed last time that us by administration has given permission for them to import computer chips uh semiconductor uh chips in a time of global shortage now this gets a little bit more interesting now doesn't it so something to keep an eye on uh again i think that it's probably common sense for people out there if if you're looking for a burner phone and if you value anything uh anything like privacy you're probably going to avoid a chinese state-sponsored company but it's very interesting to actually see a european nation starting to talk about this stuff so fascinating stuff all around so that's pretty much all i've got for today i know kind of a short day today but we're probably going to see a lot more stuff pop up over the weekend and we'll uh we'll meet you back next week with another briefing again thank you to all of our new viewers and thank you again to all of our enduring viewers that continue to help support us as we try to get these briefs cranked out so again if you haven't checked out our other videos chances are there's going to be some cards up on the screen that you can take a look at and some of the 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Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for August 24th through the 30th of 2025. It's been a busy week as usual. So, let's get right to it. Starting off with a global overview. There haven't been really that many new events going on around the world this week. Just a lot of continuation and increasing of severity of things that have already been going on in the Middle East. Tensions are increasing once again as Israeli forces make their advance into Gaza City once more. There has been a lot of conflicting information on this. Some sources claim that Israel is continuing their push into Gaza City just like they did the last time. Whereas other sources are claiming that they've suffered fairly severe losses so far, so they've decided to withdraw, regroup, and try this again in a few days. It's really hard to say. None of the sources involved in any of this are reliable in any form or fashion. So getting to the truth is not really possible in in many cases, but just know that things are still pretty hot in the Middle East, especially with regards to what's going on in Gaza and also what's going on with the Iranians. Several European nations have decided to reimpose the formerly withdrawn sanctions on Iran. So that could be a point of things escalating over the next few days and weeks. So far, there really hasn't been that much of an indication, but European uh leadership seems to be quite uh concerned with that being a possibility. So, not entirely out of the ordinary, but just something to keep an eye on. Similarly, the US Navy continues their deployment down off the coast of Venezuela, which we'll talk about in just a moment. But just at a high level, there's been a lot of speculation that war with Venezuela is imminent. I don't know about that. There's just a whole lot of discussion that needs to be had regarding what's the point of all of this. Strategically speaking, I'm not entirely certain what is the plan here other than just posturing, which is where it's uh mostly stayed right now, but just at a high level, uh just know that there are a substantial number of military forces deployed down to South America, which again we'll talk about next. And finally, here in the United States, we of course had the Minneapolis church shooting, the the shooting at the Church of the Enunciation in Minneapolis, which we'll discuss in greater depth in just a moment. Moving on to strategic movement. Like I said, there have not been a whole lot of changes from last week. There are still a lot a lot of forces deployed down off the coast of Venezuela. I know that slides like this can be a little bit sensational sometimes. So, it is important to remember that moving navy ships around is a fairly cheap way or at least a comparatively cheap way of posturing and threatening other nations and trying to bully other nations to do what we want. Every nation since the dawn of time that has had a very powerful navy has done the same, right? The British are kind of infamous for doing this as well over the past few centuries. So just because there are a lot of navy ships in any one place doesn't necessarily mean that something's going something is going to happen. But it is something to be aware of especially in the context of this just kind of appearing out of nowhere. The US Navy has really engaged in counter narcotics operations along with the Coast Guard especially in the Caribbean over the past few decades. So this is not new by any stretch of the imagination. But once again, wavetop level. It's 2025 and we don't want to obsess too much over this sort of thing because this is how the White House wages diplomacy. Put some very, very expensive hardware someplace around the world. But again, a lot of times it's not a bluff, right? We everybody was utterly and completely convinced that the B2 deployment to Diego Garcia was a bluff, right? And it wasn't a bluff. It was a threat. It was literally what was going to happen. They were training at Diego Garcia so that they could launch from there if need be. if this became a wider campaign. In the end, we of course know that they did not end up striking Iran using Diego Garcia as a base. They just took off from Missouri like normal. But in hindsight, we have to remember, yeah, there were indications and warnings. And I think that if war breaks out in a couple of months with Venezuela, we're going to look back at, you know, today and say, well, yeah, there were signs. Of course, there were signs, right? So, this will be something to remember moving forward, but right now there's just not a whole lot to go on. Moving to the United States, the kinetic events for this week are largely centered around um I've I've chosen to focus mostly on the mass shooting in Minneapolis. It's been a pretty kinetic week. I've still tried to find out uh from last week where these 1700 National Guard soldiers have gone or where they're going to go around the country in all of these states that have said that they're going to be deployed to. I haven't found anything so far. I don't think any of these soldiers have actually moved. And of course, 1,700 soldiers spread around 19 states is not a lot. So, you're not exactly going to see them standing on street corners and, you know, like they are in DC around the country. There's just not that many of them yet. Ever since that was announced, of course, everyone just kind of forgot about it, but I just wanted to keep it fresh in everyone's mind cuz I haven't forgotten about it. And if this is the plan, then you know, something to be aware of, especially for places like Chicago and New York, which of course are being touted by the White House as being the next big pushes for National Guard deployments. So Chicago and New York City are definitely the two to watch next. But if we're going to be sending National Guard troops to Nebraska, then that's something to be aware of uh as well. And speaking of Nebraska, unintentional segue there. Uh the two other hotels that were implicated in the Chadari family human slavery, human trafficking operation. Uh those other two hotels have been closed down. At least what that's what local media are reporting. And local journalists who are now a full month behind the story have decided to actually start investigating this a little bit more. And they found out that it's not just hotels, but it's also nail salons. So around half a dozen nail salons throughout the city have been shut down due to this similar uh activity being undertaken there. I don't have much context and I don't have a list of addresses just yet, but I'm I'm going to be updating the map uh as usual from from this as best I can. Just something to keep in mind because again this is Omaha, Nebraska and it's it's not somewhere where you'd think this kind of thing happens, but this is what Heartland America looks like in many cases. A lot of the time you've got very large criminal enterprises being waged in the middle of places which are basically just a Norman Rockwell painting. Right? Just to keep it fresh in everyone's minds. Just wanted to remind everyone that this investigation is ongoing. So jumping to the regions this week there have been a lot of things coming out of Washington DC. So this week the executive orders which have garnered a lot of attention. Again the current White House is using a slightly different vernacular. They're calling these executive actions and they're not numbered. I don't I think they will be numbered later on, but for right now, these are just posted on the White House's web page as executive actions, but they're really executive orders. The executive order that has gotten a lot of press this week is the one which bans the burning of the American flag and sets a penalty of one year in prison for burning the American flag uh as part of a demonstration. Now, the interesting part about this one, of course, I think this one's going to go to court because the American legal system has really examined this question of whether it's legal, illegal, free speech, not free speech to burn the American flag. So, I'm not going to get into that part of it because this has already been argued to death and it's already being reargued again by this executive order. What's interesting to me is the way that the White House is coming at it and that kind of gives you this indication and warning of how the White House is thinking about similar types of issues. For instance, the White House knows that the Supreme Court has ruled many, many, many times that it's okay in its free speech to burn the American flag. So, what are they doing? They're coming at this, and this is why I've highlighted this paragraph. They're coming at it from a perspective of hate crimes and it is an incitement to commit conspiracy to commit a crime. So, this is very much in the gray area of pre-rime policing kind of thing. So, I thought this was kind of an interesting way of of coming at it. So, yeah, I know this has been a tiring debate on social media. I'll just kind of leave it there. But another thing that that the White House has done, another executive order, is the establishment of a National Guardbased QRF or quick reaction force. I don't know how this is going to work out administratively, but it seems like this is definitely an effort to have a permanent active duty force, even if it's on paper still national guard, to serve as a military police for the United States. So, I would encourage everyone to just read this for yourself and see if you can figure out what is going on here because it's it's a very concerning thing to see and uh there hasn't really been a whole lot of talk about it. No one seems to have figured out that the White House is trying to get around the federal regulations and the constitutional regulations regarding a standing army being used for police forces. So again, I thought I would call everyone's attention to it and maybe we can get to an answer at some point with regards to what this actually means. And of course, the White House would not be the White House without a scandal this week. And this week it has been the Chinese visa scandal. So, President Trump and uh Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik made very clear statements a few days ago regarding the import of 600,000 uh Chinese students. At the time this was announced, it was roughly a doubling of the Chinese uh visas that we give for students to come to the United States to study every year. As we can see by the chart from last year, India is of course the top visa holder for student visas, but China is a close second at around 277,000 visas per year, or at least that was last year. China's visa applications went down 4% last year. Uh but India's went up 23%. So of course, well, you know, we know what that's all about. But sticking with the China scandal, the White House made very clear statements. They were look seeking to double the number of students allowed into the United States. And then what happened? Everyone, including uh President Trump's most ardent supporters, said this is a horrifically bad idea. You have not even deported this many illegal immigrants yet. Uh this is kind of a big problem. So, what did the White House do? Well, I'll tell you. The White House did exactly what the previous administration did, which is float the idea. Everybody gets upset about it and then in a few days they pretend like that was never their plan. It was all just a misunderstanding. And then they backtrack on it quietly and say, "Shame on you forever thinking we might do that." It's literally the same exact playbook from the past four years. So, I know people might not want to hear that, but it's kind of entertaining to see sometimes, but the White House is backtrack on that for now, especially considering what we'll talk about in a moment, which is the uh Chinese spying thing down in Texas. Another Chinese spy has been outed. So, this all happening on the same exact day was kind of concerning and it was probably something that the White House could not easily defend. So, they shelved the plan for now and we'll see how it works out in the future. So, that's it for what's been going on in Washington this week. Let's move over to the Midwest and talk about the church shooting at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Most important stuff right up front. So, prayer requests for this week. Harper Lillian Moi and Fletcher Merkel have been identified as the two children who were killed during this horrific attack. And prayers have been requested for all of the other wounded. There are still five children who are in the ICU from this uh incident and one adult is also still hospitalized due to wounds sustained during the attack. So, I've also posted a message from the principal of the school and the priest at the church and also a reminder that one of the children was actually from the Greek Orthodox community. So, uh she was not Roman Catholic, but she was attending the Catholic school there. So, for those in the Greek Orthodox church, prayers have been requested for Sophia, uh who remains still in the ICU. There have been a few prayer vigils at the church over the past few days and I don't know if I'll I'll make it timing wise with this update today, but Saturday there is five o'clock mass uh this evening. So, just as a reminder uh for those so inclined. Now, as far as the details of the shooting itself, the killer has been identified as Robin Westman. That is the person's actual legal name. Unlike a lot of the other uh transgender murders that have taken place, this person actually went through the effort to change their name. So, they were formerly Robert Westman, but in terms of their actual legal name, it is Robin Westman from what I've been able to determine. There has, of course, been a lot of speculation regarding what's going on with this case, and I will try to leave a lot of that speculation at the door for now, with the exception of some of the things that might be more time-sensitive for preventing further shootings. So, the only things that are very, very clear is that there's a lot of suspicious behavior here uh with regards to the individual who conducted the shooting, but also the family as well. I don't know how much of that is understandable suspicion or just a reaction to the media blitz on this. I will let you decide on that for now. We will probably have more details again in a few days. But for right now, the family has not been cooperative with authorities at all. At least that's what local authorities have stated and federal investigators have stated. The mother of the shooter has lawyered up uh with the same lawyer who represented uh Colin Capernick. That's kind of an interesting detail. uh investigators will definitely take that into account when it comes to trying to figure out were there signs that this could have been prevented and from my own investigation. Absolutely. Another thing that I wanted to mention because it's again this is just spiraling out of control on social media. This one's way worse than many of the other mass shootings that we've seen in that regard. But a lot of people are trying to draw the link between this individual, this shooter, and the Order of Nine Angles and the 764 network. Uh, this is a rabbit hole that I would encourage everyone to not go down because it's just horrific. These are two online groups which are I don't know if you describe them as cults, but they're definitely like satanic organizations and they have a lot of links to other mass shooters. So, some of the common things that you tend to see with these people associated with these these two groups, which are separate groups, but they're kind of linked together, is the way that the shooter will mark their firearms, the way that the symbology that they will use in their manifestos and stuff like that. So, very, very horrific stuff uh that I I wish no one had to see, honestly. But, there's a lot of people that are claiming that maybe this guy was affiliated with 764 or the 09A guys. So, I don't know about that just yet. if we I'm sure if we dig far enough, we'll probably find a link. But at at what point does a link become not necessarily that valuable to to make, but at the risk of digressing too much, let's talk about some of the tactical lessons learned so far in terms of trying to prevent other and future attacks. Again, we can go down rabbit holes all day long, but my main focus, my main goal here is to bring awareness and also prevent future incidents. So, if we cherrypick the details of this story to focus on, let's uh let's focus on the things that can actually maybe save some lives here. One of the main key takeaways so far is that Westman decided to target this church, not necessarily because this was his former church and the his mother worked at the school next door. Not necessarily because of that personal connection, but because he knew based on his connection to the church that the church was vulnerable. This is the rantings and ravings of a madman. So, we can't exactly get too much uh benefit from this sort of thing, from the diaries of a of a psychopath, right? But that's the very wavetop level of of a consideration that this the shooter undertook when this person was conducting his attack planning. So, this guy actually sketched out a sector sketch of the inside of the church inside the nave and the narthx. So, you know, this this shows that this person was thinking tactically for a very long period of time. It's something to consider. It's something to be aware of. But again, you also have to remember that when we're undertaking these risk assessments to try to prevent this from happening somewhere else, there are survivors here. There are people who are going to be watching this and be aware of all of this discourse surrounding the things that maybe they could have done better. So, we need to tread carefully here, right? We need to be as respectful as possible. And I think that when these shootings happen, that doesn't tend to be a point of consideration, right? So if we're trying to wargame this and trying to prevent the further loss of life, we have to be aware that this shooter was planning this attack for a very long time and there were perceived vulnerabilities here on the part of the shooter. Though with that caveat that there also may have been nothing that could have been done to prevent this, which we'll touch on in just a moment. Perhaps more concerningly, right, this shooting is over. The shooter is is dead and this incident has reached a conclusion. However, online things are not doing so well. When this shooting occurred, there was an outcry of support for the shooter. Uh, this has become unfortunately quite common when there is a transgender shooter anywhere in the United States or around the world or for that for that matter. But when it happens here in the United States, when a transgender person conducts a horrific crime, there is an outpouring of support for the killer. I know that's shocking. I know that's going to make a lot of people very angry, but this is the reality of the situation. There's even one vendor on the internet which has decided to sell t-shirts with the killer's face on the t-shirt. You know, uh that's something to keep in mind, especially considering that if we go back and see the link analysis chart here, this person chose to idolize other shooters as well. So, if we're talking about risk assessment and trying to prevent future shootings, that's not a good thing. uh from a risk assessment perspective, from any perspective, it's not a good thing and I'm very concerned about that. So there are other future killers out there right now who are planning attacks and they are watching the internet. They are reading Reddit posts. They are reading Discord. That's what all these people are on, right? These people are are classic Reddit tier human beings and they are reading all of the positive support for these mass murderers. the chance of a copycat is extraordinarily high when you've got a pretty good part of the internet which is supporting this kind of behavior and uh trying to support the killer, right? So, from a riskmanagement perspective, we're talking it's extreme. Okay, so head on a swivel the next few weeks. I don't want to raise too many alarm bells, but this is the thing that you need to definitely be mindful of and aware of as we move forward. Now, on the flip side of that, we also have to be mindful that everything is a balance, right? We know that the risks of copycats is extremely high, especially now that people are supporting the killer online, right? Uh and especially since politicians are giving that nudge nudge wink wink uh sort of approval for the transgender community to kind of do whatever they want to do, right? Even if it hurts people. Yes, it is good to be aware of these things and to do what you can to prevent further loss of life, but at a certain point, a lot of this is going to be out of our hands. So that's the best that we can do and that's what we will continue to do. So, as more information comes out, we'll uh see if we can draw any lessons learned that might be helpful in the future. But for now, that's really all I've got on this uh horrific horrific crime. Moving down to the southwest region, I wanted to briefly mention the story of Yhai Lee, who was a researcher who was recently arrested at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center for spying, or really just the theft of proprietary research. The short version of the story is this guy was employed by this university's medical school and he stole a lot of data and was trying to head back to China where he was actually currently working. So, this is kind of an interesting case. It's it's not really that out of the norm. This happens all the time, but what I found to be kind of entertaining is that this individual was publishing research papers for his home university in China this entire time using his real name. So, I pulled up his uh Google Scholar page using his real name. He wasn't even trying to hide it. And you can see all the research papers that he's been publishing over the years, including one as recently as just a couple of months ago. So, I don't know how they didn't catch this. Maybe they just didn't care. But he was definitely double dipping. He was working for a Chinese medical university this entire time and stealing all of the intellectual property and uh medical research that was being conducted at the University of Texas. Now, interestingly enough, he was also getting Department of Defense grants and National Institute of Health grants uh to conduct his research. And nobody even thought to just Google this guy's name because this came up like the first thing. I don't know, maybe maybe we should add in a criteria. If you're getting federal money, just Google the person's name first. May maybe that would be a good idea. I don't know. But anyway, I found that to be kind of interesting because uh this is just the latest in a long series of uh Chinese researchers being very heavily embedded in the United States uh and stealing intellectual property for the homeland. though. Now, moving over to the United Kingdom, I briefly wanted to touch on what's been going on in Britain over the past couple of weeks, which has not gotten any better. Of note, two things this week. Of course, we have the highly inflammatory and very viral Hatchet Girl from Dundee. Uh, so I have not had enough time to do enough solid research on what's going on with this case. All I can say is that it's a lot more complicated than we might want to think. I'm digging into this myself because I'm very interested in the situation itself and I I think that really this has just become kind of a catalyst for more protests and demonstrations and things like that. Another catalyst has been the Eping Court which has decided to keep the Eping migrant center which is again another inflammatory or very controversial uh migrant center in Eping. They were going to close it down because obviously it was creating a lot of problems for locals and then the court reversed their decision. This red poster here is one of the notices for enduring protests. So there are now basically going to be protests pretty much every weekend as there have been over the past few weeks. Flagging continues. Flagging operations continue. Marches continue. Uh there's a lot of demonstrations outside migrant centers now. It's uh it's it's approaching a very widespread case of civil unrest nationwide. Again, I I need more time to to dig into what's going on with our friends across the pond, but suffice it to say, it's been a very busy week for the English, and I think that sentiment is spreading throughout uh the whole British Isles at this point. But where it's going to go, I don't know. But the people are making their displeasure known. So, we shall see how this works out. So, that's all I have for today. Uh, I was going to roll up with the intercepted ghost net reports as usual, but this week catastrophe struck. I had not only internet outage, but I also had thunderstorms roll through at the exact time of the ghost net and I was unable to safely use my radio equipment. So, I was in the dark during the exact moment of the ghost net because, of course, that's how it worked out. But, sometimes that happens. It's all right. It tends to tends to be one of those things. And I hope that good information was exchanged this week even though I was absent myself. So, thank you again for all of your support. Here are the sources as usual and all the research links if you want to dig deeper yourself. And that's all I have for today. So, thanks again and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

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

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 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 that's it for today thanks again for watching and we'll see you next time and as always fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for tuesday the 26th of july 2022 and as usual it is being recorded on the day prior so let's get right to it starting with infrastructure really just going to kind of breeze over the northeast for this time there have been a couple of things that i'm still kind of researching and working on but nothing of note for now moving down to the southeast really only one thing of note this time and that is the large fire that occurred at the producers peanut company in suffolk virginia this was a large refrigerated storage facility warehouse sort of thing and it caught fire so there's really no indication as to whether or not it was an accident or what usually with cold storage refrigeration types of things especially ones that have been around for a very long time accidents are very prone and uh fires are not really that uncommon uh but again i did want to mention it because that's kind of a large company and the warehouse fire was uh pretty significant so as you can probably guess with most of these the trend is we're really not going to find out a whole lot uh after the event has concluded moving to the east central midwestern region we'll start with wisconsin this uh was a very large fire at the american excelsior plant in rice lake wisconsin american excelsior makes a lot of wood fiber products they produce raw materials and things like that for really anything that requires a wood fiber it did not look like the plant was actually damaged itself it looked like the factory was okay it looked like it might have just been a fire at the loading dock but again causes unknown investigation is underway there's really no no more information than that moving down to illinois at the allnex usa plant in east st louis illinois just over the river in on the illinois side of uh st louis uh there was a very large explosion at a chemical factory uh this one actually injured a couple of people uh two people were were injured uh both of them with severe chemical burns uh one one person actually had chemical burns over 50 of their bodies so their current condition is unknown but it was quite a substantial uh event allnex usa is a major manufacturer of resins and resin additives for industrial manufacturing and things like that so again the cause of this is unknown it is it is unknown if it was in maybe an employee caused accident or something we really have no other information other than the uh large explosion and the large fire that followed moving to the west central midwestern region there was a very large fire at the saya freight warehouse in sioux city the warehouse itself appears to be a total loss uh city officials have actually read tagged you'll see that in a lot of news articles they've read tag the factory so or sorry the warehouse so they're they're completely offline it's really unclear as to what was going on there at that particular warehouse i'm not really sure what they do saya is of course a major freight company they do everything from producing parts to providing logistics and transport so it could have been just a regional logistical hub or it could be more of like an internal company manufacturing parts maintenance type type thing all i know is that there were an awful lot of freight vehicles surrounding the perimeter that had to be towed out of the way of the fire so again not much information known on this one but there is an investigation underway moving down southwest it has not been a super great week for energy in the southwestern region starting with texas again of course the freeport lng facility still offline really no status as to when it's going to come back online other than just a general time frame of sometime in september moving up to limestone county texas there was a fire inside a coal mine that affected a local power plant for a couple of days it doesn't appear that the two are related other than being obviously geographically located next to each other because obviously power plants are located next to the coal mines in a lot of cases uh but it doesn't appear that there was any kind of um interference with regards to the power plant itself there was a fire in one of the coal mines that was adjacent to this power plant and this power plant was very very large it provides a lot of power to you know central texas so for a couple of days there things were kind of dicey as the coal mine fire was quite quite literally adjacent to the power plant but after a while crews were able to knock it down it's not an easy job to put out a coal fire especially if it's underground so not very easy at all to do but they've they got it extinguished and it was uh it was really uh not a super big deal with regards to the power plant being affected but i did want to mention it because for a while their things were a little dicey uh that the power plant might have some kind of problems or burn down or something due to the uh due to the fire so moving up to crawl texas there was a lightning strike on a wind turbine farm this video has kind of gone viral as does every video that features a wind turbine being destroyed uh but again this was only uh one turbine out of a field of i think slightly over 100 maybe 200 wind turbines so it really didn't affect the electrical generation capacity for the area but again this is just one of those things that comes with wind turbines is lightning strikes so again nothing nefarious with this one but i do want to mention it because there is a potential for it to affect something with the energy sector and as we can see these issues tend to compound at the worst possible times such as in oklahoma where the ono lng facility in medford oklahoma was the result of a very large explosion and a fire at the processing facility for liquid natural gas again since it's at an lng facility there's nothing known about it usually for national security reasons so for the most part local authorities are not going to give us much other than what we can plainly see with our own two eyes so again it's going to be really hard to figure out what the eta for coming back online is with the actual damages all kinds of stuff like that but again with this one we continue the trend of liquid natural gas facilities experiencing mysterious accidents all over the country and moving out west to the event that literally all of us have seen by now and that is the explosion at the hoover dam so lucky for us we actually have hundreds of thousands of subject matter experts on the hoover dam and hydroelectric power in general on twitter and the rest of the internet so that's really good for us to to kind of have their opinion on things and to see what actually is going on as for me i'm not really sure if there's much that you can glean from either the official statements given or the viral video of the explosion itself the hoover dam has been host to practically zero accidents especially ones involving detonation of something so it's really hard to say what's going on here for those that have never seen a transformer explode especially when the size of the transformers that are at the hoover dam uh it's pretty impressive it's a pretty kinetic event so there's really no telling as to is that was this a transformer explosion was this some kind of deliberate attack who knows there's no real telling and we're never going to know because the hoover dam is one of our most protected critical infrastructure things with regards to national security so so without a doubt we are never going to get the full story of this explosion we're going to get a half-hearted attempt to explain things via a press release and that's pretty much it obviously the explosion occurred in an area which is off limits to everyone without a security clearance so if there was some kind of infiltration or tampering or some kind of nefarious activity associated with this explosion we will literally never hear about it we're closer to finding out who the second gunman on the grassy knoll was but despite having literally zero evidence whatsoever most people including myself am inclined to think that there's probably more to this story than we could possibly imagine so there's that of course i will come back and readdress this if there happens to be some kind of information that comes out either way regarding the explosion at the hoover dam but for the most part just like every other slightly suspicious event around the country these days really all we have to go on is our gut feeling and speaking of gut feeling let's move on to suspicious fires now most of you who have been following these briefings since i've started these will know that there is a direct correlation to a slide's inaccuracy and my desire to talk about it meaning that the more inaccurate a slide is the more i feel like i have to explain how inaccurate the slide is and this slide is no exception so even though i only have one church to add to this slide this time there are literally dozens and dozens and dozens of church fires that i have not been able to definitively put on the slide as being decently suspicious i did want to add one church to this slide this time because this one was a little bit suspicious at least to me armchair quarterbacking it from halfway across the country local authorities have been very hesitant to say that this is arson but they've kind of tipped it around this and all the press releases they've issued about uh this church here in san antonio texas back on the 24th of july so just yesterday actually so so yeah i'm going to try to find a way to kind of better categorize this and try to do try to do better with this because as you can probably guess it is getting really really really hard to find out about church fires now specifically fires targeting places of worship so for better or worse whenever a conservative news site or twitter feed or some really prominent conservative person mentions any one of these issues particularly with regards to churches catching fire mysteriously all around the country i suddenly have a hard time finding out about these events so yeah even pulling out all the stops and using ocean tools here and there ocean is not what it used to be just in the past two years the concept of ocean is has completely changed so yeah not exactly easy to find out about and i might try to find a way to better graphically visualize this slide anyway so let's move on to some kinetic events and boy do we have quite a few of them in the northeast region as you can see we have five new terror attacks to add to the northeast region this time starting with kind of the one that's gotten a lot of both a lot of press and not a lot of press uh and i'll try to kind of briefly talk about this one as best i can but there aren't that many details and i'm still kind of confused about the whole thing so so back on the 22nd of july in rochester new york the republican political candidate for uh to running for governor lee zeldin uh was attempted to be assassinated by a crazy guy from the crowd now i say assassination because that has very strong legal connotations and i wanted to make that absolutely clear is that that's what's going on and if this sounds political it's because it is because the situation got political immediately so here's basically what happened crazy guy tries to assassinate the republican candidate for governor on the stage he gets arrested the next day he is released they literally released him the next morning the new york state police did so uh he's released because in new york they have a cashless bail system now cashless bail to me it sounds a lot like tomato-less ketchup so uh it really just sounds like new york letting criminals out of jail with nothing whatsoever to kind of bind them to their uh incarceration right the interesting thing is that lee zeldin the guy that was attacked literally has made a huge part of his platform to be against cashless bail so the irony of this one is just absolutely thick this guy almost gets stabbed on stage and seriously injured by this crazy guy and he was literally campaigning about cashless bail the cashless bail system which then let his attacker out well the feds said no right and i'm actually kind of surprised that they did this but he is since then so from what i can tell uh the attacker himself has actually been re-arrested by the feds uh on federal charges so i'm very surprised about that actually because i did not think that they would do that but i'm guessing the reason that the feds decided to step in is because this one was too much even for them uh and it probably sets a very bad precedent to allow an attempted assassin to get away so yeah that'd be my guess is they're probably afraid of the same thing happening to democrat politicians but again like i mentioned last time with democrat politicians calling out and endorsing attacks on republican candidates and and republicans in general not just supreme court justices i mean what do you want me to say that's that's what's happening now right now the interesting thing that a lot of conservative news sites seem to be kind of glossing over or still trying to figure out what's going on so clearly this guy was a veteran uh who got upset with what this guy had to say and decided to take things into his own hand the most interesting part about this entire thing is that this guy didn't appear to be a an extreme leftist i mean he could be i will grant you that he could be uh but you don't really you tend to think antifa types are going to be doing this kind of activity right uh not somebody who is wearing a vfw hat and is obviously a military veteran attacking a conservative candidate that's just not something that happens right so i guess this kind of shows you that this kind of activity can occur and most certainly does occur on both sides of the aisle here but despite all this i'm still more tempted to say this is a just a strange event that i'm not really entirely sure what to think about it but it's still an assassination attempt that's for sure or at least a grievous bodily harm attempt in any case usually when someone gets up onto a stage to stab a politician we call those assassination attempts so that's what i'm going to do moving on to the classic sort of terrorist attacks that we've come to know and enjoy over the past few months and years uh in montpelier vermont the capitol building was vandalized by the group jane's revenge or at least people claiming to be part of this group again jane's revenge is a very loose uh leaderless sort of group which is much like antifa they mostly share the same exact membership and anybody who wants to claim to be a part of this group can claim it right but i haven't seen this attack show up on any of the jane's revenge like official more organized blogs so i don't know but they're using the same language that james revenge attacks usually use when they spray paint stuff up and break stuff but in any case i think it's uh very interesting because vermont has been the political leadership of vermont has been very supportive of abortions particularly the governor who said that he quote shared their frustrations uh and yet their state house still got vandalized pretty good so so yeah weird but hey we're living in weird times right and then moving on to seven eight and nine these are three separate attacks that actually were by the same people at least that's what suspected uh three churches in bethesda maryland were vandalized and a few of them were attempted to be set on fire uh by an unknown group my guess is probably jane's revenge or antifa uh your classic people who have been attacking churches and places of worship following the reverses wade judgment being overturned so it's the same style of attack so we're just gonna kind of lump these guys together until we know more moving on down to the southeast region really only one to add uh for this time and that was in baton rouge louisiana a pro-life clinic was vandalized uh by it looks like no one's officially claimed this one again but it looks like jane's revenge and antifa got together you know of course same thing as usual lots of anarchy symbols around the same language james revenge tends to use stuff like that so it makes a lot of sense it's probably them this is the first attack in louisiana that i'm aware of so yeah some of these states that haven't had jane's revenge attacks start popping up in their locations have um they've kind of been freaking out a little bit at least the local news media has because they don't really know what to do with these kinds of things popping up uh but as we can see a lot of uh pro-life clinics and charity groups are hiring a lot of security uh right now to to protect themselves uh obviously because you know federal state and local law enforcement have have not uh had a history of protecting them against attacks like this so again we'll be interested to see how what other states pop up next time but moving on to the east central midwest nothing new to add nothing no new information on this one same with the west central midwest no new attacks that i'm aware of again i'm still combing through all of these but again nothing for the southwestern region although there are a couple of questionable events that have occurred in the southwest but i'm still running this to ground as to whether or not they're worth talking about but moving to the western region there were two new attacks for this time and and this was uh the first one being in sacramento california this was way back on the 7th of july so i think i probably should have talked about this one last time but we're only just now finding out about it now because this attack came out as a result of congressional testimony about these attacks so this was back on the 7th of july we only recently learned about it a few days ago this was a sort of i don't know how to classify so i'm just going to call it melee attack it was some crazy dude with a machete that showed up outside of alternatives pregnancy center in sacramento california threatening the place so i don't really i don't know how you classify that uh nothing occurred the police were obviously calling the guy was arrested but other than that that was that was pretty much it and then on the 27th of june again something i probably should have mentioned last time was in eugene oregon the dove medical facility there experienced a mob style attack that of course started off as a not so peaceful protest and just devolved from there so let's move on to something more fun like a root canal or getting audited by the irs and let's talk about significant governmental actions and starting with the first one the ups fiasco that keeps developing so it's developing but it's not developing and here's what i mean by that for those that don't remember let me refresh your memory uh this kind of hit the second amendment community the the gun community quite uh hard a few weeks ago a couple weeks ago now uh in which a letter circulated or popped up online claiming that ups is an official communication from ups uh was not going to allow any kind of gun parts whatsoever to be shipped with their service they were taking action above and beyond the law when it comes to ghost guns and they were going to start seizing and destroying packages that may contain things they don't like such as guns right so this uh hit the internet it kind of went viral for a while and then we have heard nothing since then uh there have been quite a few things pop up that are kind of interesting though uh for one i find it very very hard to believe that ups after seeing you know five or six different journalistic agencies come out and talk about this policy ups hasn't said anything they haven't really said anything that indicates what in the sam hill is going on you would think they would issue a press statement either confirming or denying this but from what i can tell there have been some limited communications uh kind of confirming this and then other stuff saying no even companies uh that have claimed that they got similar letters haven't been really putting any information out there it's really kind of been all quiet on the western front really because there's not a whole lot to go off of if nobody says anything now there have been a couple of people say some things that i thought i would mention uh claiming that this entire thing's made up it's enti it's entirely fake and none of this is real so i wanted to briefly talk about that now because i don't know what to think and i think that this might be i think that there's some trickery afoot uh let me just put it that way so there there are some uh people on the internet uh that have been claiming and i say some people on the internet and i don't want to name drop them because i don't know who they are a few come a few different random companies but i'm seeing a lot of people cut and paste things from places all over the internet so this is very this is the most rumor intelligence you could possibly get so let me just stress that very strongly some people are claiming that ups sent this letter to a guy who was illegally manufacturing firearms and mailing them out from his place not an actual manufacturer of ghost guns like polymer 80 or something like that and he was doing stuff that was already illegal now i don't know about that i've not been able to verify any of that i just i just heard it um so i i'm very confused as to why ups has not issued a statement you know what that says to me when a company sees something like this hit the internet regarding their policies something as potentially business altering as the gun community not using your services anymore and ups hasn't said a thing you know what that says to me they're cooperating with the federal government that's what i think i think the ups is either under a gag order or they're reporting to something like somebody like the house armed services committee or something to do with the atf or the fbi and their silence is due to them responding to either warrants or responding to some kind of congressional inquiry that is uh that you know we peasants down here are not allowed to know about but again that's just my theory that's just a hunch on my part a very very loose hunch i guess what i honestly expected from ups is to pull something that we've seen other companies pull and i have talked about at great length in some of these briefings quite a long time ago you guys know which ones i'm talking about uh and these are companies that put out a policy that is extremely draconian or woke or whatever the internet freaks out about it and they lose a a lot of money people immediately cancel their contracts from this company and then the company comes back and says oh it was an employee a disgruntled employee that sent that email uh we never had that policy to begin with and shame on you for thinking that we would ever do something as crazy as that that's what i expected ups to do because that has worked for a lot of other companies that have floated woke policies only to backtrack when they realize that people are canceling their contracts with them that's what i expected ups to do but so far we haven't heard a thing so i'm going to keep my ear to the ground and see what we can find out about this but again i just really the lesson learned here at this stage is logistics are a huge problem and the united postal service the united parcel service fedex dhl all of these places are companies that cooperate with the us government so it would not surprise me whatsoever to find out that this was the case uh or that they are going above and beyond to do things that even the feds are not concerned with at this moment like uh targeting gun parts manufacturers so again sorry for the digression on this one but i felt like we need to kind of get this one a little bit more out in the open and see what is going on with this because i'm not sold i feel i've got that like inkling feeling like there's there's a lot here we don't know about and same applies with this next bullet point which is uh some sneaky behavior on the part of the fbi and possibly the atf uh don't really know and this is the story that's kind of been going around regarding the fbi trying to conduct quote unquote audits of ccw permit holders uh in various jurisdictions around the country and these sheriffs some of these sheriffs around the country are absolutely not on board with this whatsoever because that data is protected by state laws right so you're starting to see conflict emerge between some sheriff's offices and the federal government like the fbi and that's very interesting to me i think that they probably contacted every jurisdiction in the united states and uh the the jurisdictions that did not fight back against this or publicly talk about this are most certainly cooperating with the fbi so again what does this matter in the long run well you know take it for you know form your own opinion about that i guess why does the fbi need the information on ccw holders maybe so they can create a federal registry that they already have yeah there you go that's pretty much all i have to say and all i can say on that i guess and moving down the long list of unknowns which will most certainly become the title for this briefing because i just thought of that just now we're going to wrap things up with something that's kind of interesting and i have no idea what is going on and that is the faa weather cams being offline in the united states so here's what i'm talking about uh normally the faa maintains a website for weather data for pilots this makes a lot of sense it's a very nice website you can go and usually click you know any kind of any airport in the united states that has a you know me tar station weather station set up and you can get the local no tams and metars for that area and most airports at least most you know regional or or or you know definitely all international and most uh most large airports have uh webcams set up to help pilots visually understand weather conditions in addition to getting pie reps and official weather briefings uh this is very handy right for pilots to do they can just pull up a webcam and say oh okay sky looks pretty good i'll go fly today that kind of thing uh or or they're able to kind of get the ground weather from uh where they're going to land in you know a few hours very handy to have just kind of a visual peak at the weather well here's the thing a few weeks ago uh it actually might be a couple of months ago now but a while ago i'll say uh this website now looks like this most of the cameras in the united states are offline uh they just miraculously just stopped being broadcast uh and you can see it's not all it's not all of the cameras in the united states there are some out there in the west that are that are quite active and you can go and check them out right now and get a live webcam view of you know the sky at those particular airports but almost every other one in the entire country is offline uh and this caught a few people's eyes mostly pilots and people like that who are trying to figure out what's going on with this granted it's not really a legal weather brief the pirates are still coming in from you know pilots giving reports metars are still going out and no tams are still going out there there's no real impact to aviation over this other than pilots not being able to see uh the webcam at a particular location and even then in a lot of cases uh they have access at the airports themselves so again it's it's really just the online interface for us peasants who like to look at these kinds of things now the big question is why why are these cameras suddenly offline uh and i will address a few theories and hopefully we can kind of shed more light on this and maybe get an official statement as to why they're offline because of course the faa has not issued any statement whatsoever on this that i've seen as to why the cameras are offline and we're really stuck with trudging through the hellscape of twitter to find out maybe what's going on so let me go through a couple of theories for you and the first most obvious ones are maintenance this is a website and maybe a server's down and nobody's noticed yet i doubt that because it's been several weeks uh also i would think you know again i would think that they wouldn't put all of their cameras on one server and clearly it's not every camera that's down it's just 90 percent of them uh so i'm very hesitant to say that it's any kind of maintenance because it's been too long for it to be maintenance um so yeah i can't understand why you'd bring down the entire camera network and just leave a few in very specific geographic areas online unless there's something that i don't understand which is a highly likely possibility i can't imagine why every almost every camera would be offline uh some other theories that have popped up are that they went offline right around the same time the the uh air force was testing a hypersonic cruise missile and that would make a lot of sense uh because if i was kind of an ocean analyst working for a foreign nation that's exactly what i would want to do is i would want to bring up these cameras and maybe catch a glimpse of the hypersonic missile on the world's worst webcam from like 1998 and maybe get some ocean from that it's not a bad theory another theory along the similar lines is military movement on u.s soil the military moving aircraft around also not a bad theory um if again if i was a foreign actor i would i would definitely check these out uh if you if you don't think china and russia are checking these cameras out you are wrong they most definitely are because they could theoretically be used to spot military movement however most cameras don't really show that much i rarely use these cameras for anything other than weather because they're usually not pointed at the airport people are not entirely stupid and they're not exactly going to point these cameras at critical parts of an airport that might be useful to a foreign adversary they're usually pointing at the sky or some local landmark but for some of them you might be able to catch an approach path maybe a parking apron i don't know but for the ocean analyst or the malign actor overseas it's theoretically useful for that so that's maybe why they took them down they're trying to move a lot of uh things around the united states uh i again think this theory is prob probably didn't hold too much water because honestly you can usually track aircraft moving around the united states with flight trackers uh very easy just you know you can have a series of m-lat detectors and they those pick up military flights all over the country so not particularly useful really it would only be useful for some of the units that tend to stalk around in the night if you know what i mean and try to fly to some of the smaller airports around the north carolina virginia tennessee area for training and things like that that they obviously think that we don't see but we clearly see so yeah i don't know maybe it's that maybe it's not i don't know i can't imagine the entire network of the country being down for an error for a glitch i don't know maybe i'm just devoting several minutes of this you know big nothing burger but either way it's been interesting to me and every day that goes by and these cameras are still offline i am my interest you know just goes up right so you know whatever the reason i just thought i'd share this because it's again been going on for a few weeks now and nobody seems to have a satisfactory explanation for it clearly there is a reason for it uh and i think it would be great to kind of get to the bottom of it and finally let's wrap things up with some international news and the flavor of the week is very similar among all the nations we're going to mention here as you can plainly see so let's start with canada our maple leaf brothers to the north prime minister castro excuse me trudeau has decided to push forward with the world economic forum mandated fertilizer shortages uh demanding a 30 reduction in all carbon emissions uh based on thirty percent of 2020 numbers uh in addition uh the trudeau regime has imposed a flat 35 percent tax on all russian imports to include fertilizer which again drives the price up even further than it already is increasing scarcity and lining russia's pockets so this combined with the poor growing seasons canada has been experiencing for many types of crops and roughly 90 of all of canada's fertilizer coming from russia we can clearly see how this does not bode well for the canadian food supply as to how much these actions will affect things i don't know i don't know in a western civilization like you know canada and the united states which are pretty much the same with regards to food shortages and things like that uh at least the potential is the same it's really hard to say how these things are going to affect the the markets is it going to be prices go up or shortages or local shortages or logistical challenges nobody seems to really know even after the past couple of years we've seen all of the above sometimes all at the same time we're still really not able to predict things due to the challenging nature of logistics and as we can clearly see are the actions of foreign powers so it's quite clear that the food supplies of many nations are being deliberately targeted in most cases uh especially with regards to canada by a nation's own government so i'm sure that we will see uh lots of protests uh continue over this as canadian farmers have already been protesting much like the dutch have uh with regards to the food shortages moving on down to panama this is one that has been kind of an information hole as far as the internet is concerned and quite literally no western news media is talking about it but panama is going through almost exactly the same thing that sri lanka is going through and panama arguably so is a little bit more strategically important because of the panama canal so how that's going to affect things on the international front we don't know but clearly there are a lot of international players interested in panama mostly the u.s and other western powers as well but really the story on the ground is that it's very similar to sri lanka again large protests and demonstrations have swept through the nation this week as rising food costs gas prices and inflation take their toll widespread food shortages and extremely high unemployment have contributed to panamanian citizens really outrage much like as the case in many nations around the world really i'm not sure what the long-term impacts of this are but again panama is a little bit more strategically uh strategically important i should say than sri lanka as bad as that sounds uh it's the panama canal right so it's a very important bit of geography and i'm not entirely certain how the geopolitical situation within panama like you know in hyperinflation events gas shortages things like that i'm not entirely certain how the unrest in panama is going to affect the rest of the world but i can tell you that it's probably not going to be super great but again this is a developing situation and things aren't quite venezuela level yet in panama but we will continue to follow this because again no one seems to care about this and it's kind of a big deal so again moving to sri lanka the update on the situation in sri lanka is that the situation has deteriorated quite significantly following the departure of the president and most of the government uh this is mostly due to the sort of new leadership if you read western media you'll talk about how they'll talk about how sri lanka has a new president but they will fail to mention to you that it was a lateral move as things currently stand the president of sri lanka has resigned so this dude resigned and fled the country literally getting on a naval vessel and leaving the country uh the guy who was previously prime minister a guy named ranil wickremesinghe slid right into the office of the president as we might remember the world economic forum specifically was a huge backer of this guy uh he was their dude uh the wef even wrote this article championing this guy's swan song to make his country rich by 2035 the article which has since then been deleted by the world economic forum website just a couple of weeks ago erased completely out of existence now this guy who is literally a card carrying member of the world economic forum is now in charge of the country so sri lanka is quite literally out of the frying pan and into the fire you see sri lanka was one of the nations to wholeheartedly embrace the world economic forum's environmental social and governance metrics or esg metrics these are basically a social credit score for nations you do what the wef wants you get a higher score well according to the world economic forum sri lanka had one of the highest scores in the entire world at 98.1 out of 100. so on the wef test sri lanka got a 98.1 basically being one of the most perfect nations in the eyes of the wef so sri lanka gets an a plus according to the world economic forum and their economy is currently in free fall and their entire country is starving so i would fully expect the situation sri lanka to deteriorate further and we will most likely see more and more nations start going through the same troubles uh as all of these problems have a common origin two months ago it was sri lanka last month it was the netherlands this month is panama who knows where this is going to go all of these nations are experiencing very similar things uh kind of at the same time with really a common origin as we can clearly see so even though there are kind of a lot of unknowns this time around we can clearly use our gut feeling to kind of generally guide us in into an assessment of what the future is going to bring again don't want to be too pessimistic about the whole thing because you know needless pessimism is is rarely productive but again just want to keep expectations tempered and kind of you know keep things on the right track for moving forward so that's really all i have for this time around everyone thank you again for watching uh sorry i don't really have a whole lot of details on a lot of the stuff today but again just wanted to kind of touch on a lot of issues that people have either observed or things that i think are important to kind of keep an eye on so again we'll see how much information we can get next time on some of these events but my guess is probably not much 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Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for July 12th through the 18th, 2026. This has been a very busy week, so let's get right to it. Just as a notice right up front, I also posted a dedicated podcast regarding my concerns on the growing flock camera scandal. So if you're interested in that, definitely check that out. The flock debate has gotten a lot of attention over the past few weeks, but especially this week with a lot of people suddenly realizing what exactly this company does and what other similar surveillance projects are in the works. And I cover my concerns on this in a dedicated episode so as to not bury my ranting in today's update. So check it out if you're interested. But this week has been very busy. So let's get right to it. And first of all, I'm making an executive decision to start with some good news this week because you know what? It's important to focus on the good stuff, too, wherever we can. Starting with Canada, the wildfires have continued to rage throughout the nation. As we can see from the fire detection satellites that have highlighted the extent of the fires, all of these dots are one square km squares where a large fire has been detected. Some of these are stale, but this gives us a general idea of where the fires have been burning and where they're still burning. Thankfully, fatalities have been to a minimum so far because the fires have been burning in really remote terrain. But a few days ago, a now viral video circulated social media showing a Canadian National Railway train getting caught up in a pretty hot fire as the flame front overtook them near Armstrong, Ontario. The video, of course, only shows a snapshot in time, and I'm sure there will be an investigation as to why they were there in the first place and why they did not know that the fire was getting that close. But the moral of the story is that they made it out of there. And from what I've been hearing through the grapevine, these guys did excellent work. Apparently, this was somewhat of a rescue mission whereby they were trying to get their foreman as a flamefront advanced and due to a coupling issue or something like that, the engine stalled or failed. We're not really sure, but the end result is these guys having to abandon the train and run 3 miles on foot to safety. Bottom line is that everyone made it out of there. Okay. And that's outstanding work. That's exactly what we should all strive for, doing the best we can with a bad situation that we didn't start ourselves. But it's our problem now and we've got to go to work. And speaking of problem solving, over in the United Kingdom this week, the UK has had another bit of good news. Earlier this week, the Crown Prosecution Service has declined to press charges against a farmer who shot a burglar dead in his home back in 2024. Two years ago, four men broke into the farmer's house in Wy Ridge, and the farmer promptly shot at least one of them, which later died of his wounds. It may seem a bit strange for us Americans for this to be such a resounding victory, but in the UK, they don't really have the right to self-defense codified as a natural right and law. In the UK, in nearly all cases, if you are the victim of a crime and defend yourself in any way, you are probably going to get prosecuted in some manner. So, this case is a drop of good news in a whole sea of bad. And I wanted to highlight that. Within the homeland this week, we also have some good news on a similar front as well. The third circuit court has ruled in effect that assault weapons are indeed still quite constitutional and that the New Jersey assault weapons ban is unconstitutional. It has been 36 years since this gun ban went into effect and this week it was struck down. And if New Jersey wants to fight it, they're going to have to appeal it to the actual Supreme Court, which they probably do not want to do. So, we can certainly take the win this week and keep pushing those goalposts as hard as we can. Moving to the Middle East for this week, like a broken record, I'm afraid the situation continues to escalate and we are almost back to the full combat readiness that we saw when the war first began. If we recall, when theou was signed, a bunch of aircraft had departed the region, mostly fighter jets and refueling tankers, which was a pretty big indicator at the time that the war was winding down to a point of stability at least. Well, as of earlier this week, all those aircraft that were initially sent out of the region have turned around and headed right back, and the United States has started staging a lot of these refueling tankers throughout the region once again. The Israeli media is reporting that the US is going to bring back all those tankers that we sent out of Israel. So, they're coming back uh to Israel now, or they're supposed to be over the next couple of days. We had a few dozen tankers there, I think. And those tankers in Israel were mostly used, at least for from what I can tell, they were mostly used for topping off a lot of the bomber aircraft that came into the region. So, once again, it looks like we're starting to step things up again this week. Now, I know what a lot of you are thinking. I had this theory, too. I thought maybe theou was just a straightup trick from the very start and that they never intended to draw down forces, which that actually may still be true. Certainly at the national level looking back, I don't think the US ever really intended to go by this deal because was just really hard to imagine being accepted by the US because it was just such a bad deal. Of course, it was a bad deal that we were kind of forced into taking because we had to take a suboptimal deal, but now it would seem that that's off the table and we're going to go to war for a little while longer. But regardless of the politics of all of this, and in my opinion at least, the US or at least the Air Force did indeed draw down forces two weeks ago. And we have every indicator pointing to the military actually drawing down forces when theou was signed. They did indeed do that. What the politicians were doing and thinking and saying behind the lines that's behind, you know, that's that's in the political realm. But clearly something changed. And I don't know what happened. Maybe it was a phone call. Maybe it was an organic change of heart. But whatever it was, the White House sharply diverted from the tenuous stability of the working toward a peace deal during theou period and they decided to just go uh fully back to war. Maybe the White House saw how badly things were going and how much power Iran had by signing theou and when Iran struck a merchant vessel for trying to sneak through earlier this week, the US jumped at the opportunity to justify starting a war again. That's the closest theory I can think of as to what might have happened. But the fascinating part of this is how disjointed it's been. we have that massive series of draw down efforts which then just got reversed earlier this week and that's a big clue that a decision was made and then changed. So that's kind of interesting. I'm still working to figure out what is actually going on on the political realm. I know not like a whole lot of people know what's going on these days in the world of politics, but politics is driving this war and trying to figure out what's going on is probably a worthwhile effort to some degree. What's far more interesting is the tactical situation on the ground. So let's start with what the Iranians have hit this week. The American bases in Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, and Oman have all been hit pretty hard. Again, not as hard as the initial phases of the war, but still very substantially. Mufakal Salty Air Base was hit actually last night. I'm looking at the imagery this morning, and unfortunately this time, the Iranians hit the barracks. So, there is currently a very large fire burning among several buildings in the general area of the base housing. And early reports indicate that several US service members may have been wounded uh as a result of this attack. separately the Patriot battery in Airbial Iraq and the Himar's launch site in Kuwait were both hit as well with relatively unknown success on the part of the Himar strike at least. They may not have actually snagged the highar unit because they are way more mobile. They shoot and scoot, right? They move into a position, fire their missiles, then they leave. So, it's really hard to counter battery fire these at least when it comes to the Iranians. But missile defense sites are much more static and the missile defense site in Airbiel was kind of dug in. So, not super great. So far, Saudi Arabia seems to be the only Gulf state not targeted during this latest wave of attacks. However, again, as I'm recording this, I'm seeing reports of explosions being reported this morning in random places in Saudi Arabia. But again, I have not had enough time to verify this just yet. It's happening so fast and by the time I get this out, it's going to change. So, just kind of play it by ear on that. But the next logical step would be for the Iranians to start hitting both the American bases in Saudi Arabia along with the East West pipeline. That's what I'm expecting next. In addition to the more military targets, the Iranians are likely to continue hitting power plants and desalination plants throughout the region. Most of the Gulf states get their fresh water supply from extremely large desalination plants which are highlighted as green marks here on my maps. And in all cases, these desalination plants are colllocated with very large power plants that generate electricity for the region. And because they are located right on the coastline, these are really juicy targets for the Iranians. And with one or two very cheap drones, they can simultaneously take out the water source and the electrical power source for a lot of the region if they so choose. The Iranians have been really hesitant to climb what we call the escalation ladder. They're trying to not act with haste on pretty much anything. They're trying to be very measured, at least from their perspective. And again, that is the kind of the Persian way of war, not trying to act in haste and trying to make your enemy make a mistake before you have the chance to make a mistake. I don't know if that's working out for them. There's debate in the world of military doctrine as to, you know, what they're doing is effective or not. But the Iranians certainly have a lot of places they can hit and there are not that many targets in Iran that the US can do from a military perspective to actually mitigate a lot of that. In terms of what the United States has been doing, the American targeting has not been as heavy as during the early days of the war, but the target list has diversified quite a bit. None of the ballistic missile sites or hardened bunkers have been hit for a few weeks now. We've kind of given up on that, realizing that we just don't have the munitions to get through to these. But the US has shifted to targeting to critical infrastructure, namely bridges. Finally, the line is set up. Will the US go a bridge too far? I don't know because these bridges are mostly along the coastal region that is essentially on the back side of Ketchum Island. Maybe it's just a continuation of the Israeli strategy of mowing lawn. Or maybe it's something with a more deliberate end goal after scouring the Iranian coastline for almost uh 8 months now. I can say that the insinuation here that this is going to be preparation for some kind of either airborne or amphibious operation, that's probably not what's happening here. And if it is, God help us. Seriously, because that is a terrible spot to land. Anyway, I just wanted to point that out because that's probably what a lot of people are thinking. That's what I thought initially and then I saw where these bridges were being hit and I thought, "No, there's no way." I would bet that whatever we bomb tonight and tomorrow night will help us figure out what the game plan is here. Maybe it's shaping for something else. Maybe it's not what these bridges were being used for, but what they could have been used for. Maybe the US is trying to funnel traffic into a specific area for some reason. I don't know. Similar story on the high seas where the war has continued to stay pretty hot this week. Several merchant vessels have been struck and last night the Iranians claimed that two merchant ships actually hit mines in the minefield in the straight of Hormuz. I don't know about all that because I find it hard to believe that the Iranians would know the instant that a ship hit a mine, but it's certainly possible. Other than the possible mine strikes, the Iranians have been striking merchant vessels for taking the southern Omani route. Similarly, the US has been striking merchant ships as well for violating the US blockade, which has been back on since the US withdrew from theou. In general, this has not fared very well for the oil trade, and so far, not very many ships are transiting uh anymore, at least after the war was announced as being back on earlier this week. Oil futures did start to rise again, but as we've noted before, it's hard to put much stock in the paper price of petroleum these days, simply due to the market manipulation. Things are so crazy even economists who can usually make sense of the nonsensical can't seem to make sense of what's going on here. But what's quite clear is that market manipulation is just kind of a open mainstay these days. How this is going to affect the maritime trade, I don't know, but it doesn't look super great if we're hoping for this to end anytime soon. So that's kind of where things stand in the Middle East. Uh but before we wrap up today, I wanted to briefly touch on the war in Ukraine. The fight is much the same as last week, so I won't dig into it too much, but both Russia and Ukraine are continuing to strike each other from a very long range. Russia is making gains at this time on the Eastern front with Constantinfka falling to Russian control last week. Other than that, and some advances in Sunumi, the biggest developments on the battlefield have been the continued targeting of merchant ships in the Black Sea and also the regular strikes on petroleum infrastructure. Both sides are hitting each other's tankers and refineries or fuel depots in the case of Ukraine. And this appears to be a case of both sides giving each other a black eye. As with most of Ukraine's campaigns, they usually get the upper hand at first and usually make more progress than you think they would. They did this with Operation Spiderweb. They've done this with a few other uh campaigns like the Kursk offensive. They actually can do pretty well at first because mostly because they're being led by the Americans. But eventually after a while, Russia catches up and duplicates the trick and hits back way harder. Same story in the Black Sea. Russia is now routinely striking Ukrainian ships and the port of Adessa with long-range drones and unmanned surface vessels and all sides keep hitting hard this summer fighting season. So things continue to stay pretty crazy all around. Wrapping things up this week with the Ghostnet reports for today. Another great comm's this week. I saw a lot of different people checking in and working on a lot of other projects and setting up their little groups, testing things out, stuff like that. All awesome to see all around. And since we're talking about radio, I do want to remind everyone that I have a very unique podcast coming up with the tech prepper. We recorded a pretty good talk on all things radio a couple of weeks ago. And many thanks to Gaston for bearing with me and my spotty internet connection. But I think this was a very good talk. Looking forward to listening to it myself. And if you're interested, you can most certainly tune into it. So where can you listen to this podcast? Well, that's the interesting part. It's only broadcast over Shortwave Radio and it's not hosted anywhere else. So if you miss it, it's gone just like the old days. So, if you have a shortwave listening radio or if you have a software defined radio, you can get that set up pretty easily. If you know how to work the ghost net, you are already way more capable of picking up the transmission because it's just voice instead of data. The broadcast frequency and time slot are on screen for anyone interested, but I'll read it out just for those of you who are listening uh via audio only. There will be two transmissions. The first transmission will be on 7490 kHz. And that will be on July 26th at 2200 Eastern time. And the second transmission, it will be rebroadcasted. It will be re-ransmitted on niner 455 kHz. 4 days later on July 30th at 2300 Eastern time. So if you are interested in learning about shortwave radio and getting information in more of an old school and very very reliable way, you can listen to us have a bit of a chat at those frequencies and times. So that's all I have for today. As always, my research notes throughout the week can be found on my Obsidian page, and all of my mapping data can be found on either my ArcJIS maps that you view in your web browser or in KMZ format on my GitHub page for importing to the GPS app of your choice. I've also uh started publishing all of these wire reports to my Nomadnet page. For those of you who use Mesh Chat and Reticulum, as kind of like an off-grid or alternative grid information exchange platform, please bear with me as I try to format the page a little bit. I know it's kind of janky at the moment, but I'm working through it. But I'm still learning a lot about Reticulum and how uh the Nomadnet formatting works. Depending on your client application, the links may load a little weird, but I'm still working on it. So, please bear with me on that. But other than that, we're making pretty good strides here. I feel pretty uh confident in being able to have a lot of resilient communications so that we can all stay connected no matter what happens. So, thanks again for watching everyone. Thanks again for sticking with me over the years. And I 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 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

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the Intel update for June 22nd through the 28th of 2025. Have you ever had a week where there has been so much that has occurred, so many things to do, so many little tasks that have piled up that your productivity ends up plummeting? Well, that's what this week has been for me. Even just compared to last week, we're certainly in an hourly news cycle at this point. So much so that if something happens in the morning, by the time the afternoon comes, we're uh it's already stale, right? So that's just kind of the way it goes sometimes. And uh nevertheless, we'll try to do the best we can and uh see what the general overall strategic view is for this week. This week we have had a war. We have had lots of unsettling events in Europe and of course a lot of disappointment on the domestic front. Here on the home front there have been two major developments when it comes to domestic political stuff. Of course there have been many different types of protests occurring around the country but really nothing worth uh worth mentioning. It's protest season. You can guarantee that in every single major city there's going to be some kind of demonstration underway uh every weekend and sometimes every day. The situation in Los Angeles remains fairly tenuous as is pretty common, but for the most part it's basically just uh settled into being a more uh standard baseline of domestic instability. Of course, this es and flows over time, but the more concerning things this week have been in the political arena, most notably the sale of public land or the potential sale of public land out west. This was a minor footnote in the big beautiful bill until everyone realized exactly what this means. So in short, this section of the big beautiful bill that is ongoing is rather severe and you can look at it just based on a map alone. So if you are familiar with my ArcGIS maps, uh this should be fairly familiar to you. But if you live out west, I would very strongly encourage you to go check check this website out. This is an ARGS map that was created by a nonprofit that lists or uh tries to categorize all of the public land that could potentially be for sale out in the American West. Now, once you get into this map, you're going to realize how big of a problem this is and how big of a a situation uh this this could be. But right up front, we need to be very very clear that not all of this land will be sold. The line and the verbiage in the big beautiful bill states that this land could be for sale. So essentially it's it's stripping protections from public lands so that big companies like Black Rockck can then come in and essentially buy a lot of this land. Now again the politics of this potential land sale or recategorization of public lands is a big deal especially in the political realm. So a lot of people are going to try to make this about to be politics. Uh however we have to look at it from a more strategic viewpoint as well. So I hate giving statistics because these numbers always change and they're a little bit misleading. But right now, the verbiage as it stands will remove protections and uh potentially list for sale or allow it to be sold roughly 250 million acres of public lands, BLM lands and US Forest Service lands out in the American West. Now, if that sounds like a lot, it's because it is. Uh if we understand that the United States is roughly 3.8 million square miles, if we convert that to acres and then, you know, look at the percentages of this, so simple arithmetic, right? We can see that the big beautiful bill is talking about potentially selling over 10% of the American land mass. Right? So this is not a small thing. This is a very very big thing. We're not talking about just a park here, a park there, a couple of dozen acres that nobody uses. No, we're talking about potentially 10% of our nation, the whole country could potentially be for sale. Now again, those numbers are going to be changed around probably quite a lot. From what I can read, and it's not easy to read, but from what I can tell in the bill itself, 3 million of those acres will immediately be earmarked for sale. So 3 million of that will be immediately sold to the highest bidder. Right? It does not specify that it's going to go to any particular use that can be sold to anyone as far as I can read, right? And of course, right now, the only body with the ability to buy hundreds of square miles of land is Black Rockck. So or or China, right? So through Black Rockck. So again, I cannot state how important this is to be aware of and how serious of an issue this is. Just for scale, the whole country of Ukraine is roughly 148 million acres. So we're talking about selling off a part of the United States that's almost twice the size of Ukraine potentially, or at least removing the protections so that at one day it could be sold. Hopefully everyone can now see why this is a bit of a concern and something to definitely keep an eye on because it certainly doesn't look like the politicians involved in this are interested in listening to anyone at this point. So just something to be mindful of. You know, this is not a small uh little sale of a small forest service parcel. No, this is this is potentially a very very big deal, especially considering the the nature of foreign nations being able to purchase American land, especially in places where there are a lot of military bases near major population centers. Everyone has freaked out about Russia invading Ukraine, but but this bill, as it is currently written, could mean that theoretically Russia could purchase an area almost twice the size of Ukraine in the United States. Again, how this will work out, I don't know. My guess is that they're probably not going to immediately sell 250 million acres of America's, you know, territory. But a good chunk of that will probably happen very very soon, especially the the land that's already been immediately earmarked for um sale. Remember, when it comes to bills, this bill came about from the swipe of a pen, right? So, all it takes is a swipe of a pen to say, "Oh, well, let's change that 3 million to 20 million. Well, let's change it to 100 million." And then there we go. If we recall, when this bill was first announced, it wasn't 3 million. It was only 300,000 acres from what I can read. Again, this is not an easy thing to research, but we've already seen the number increase. So after the bill is passed, are we going to see an amendment that just, you know, scoots through in the middle of the night to essentially just sell off way more than they had planned? That's probably quite likely. So again, pretty big concern uh to be aware of. Something also to be aware of is this week the Hearing Protection Act and the Short Act have been stripped from that same bill. So So again, something to be mindful of. Uh the hearing protection act was only added to the the big beautiful bill as a result of a massive uh outcry of public support. Same thing with the short act. Uh there was a huge push huge activism push to get these added to the bill and then boom they're they're stripped from it uh in the middle of the night without any further comment really. So domestically things are not looking super great on the political front. There's a lot of disenfranchisement going on. There's a lot of uh feelings of betrayal. On the flip side of that, the quasi good news, I suppose, for now is that the Supreme Court has uh taken efforts to sort of crack down on a lot of the activist judge uh judge rulings when it comes to immigration issues. So, the Supreme Court has issued a few rulings over the past few days. I will have to dig more into these because as of the past few years, uh the Supreme Court has not entirely been very clear on a lot of things. So, it's really hard to see how these things are going to work out in in practice. But for now, it looks like the Supreme Court has ruled favorably when it comes to lower level activist judges uh stripping their own power away from them. So that's probably why a lot of this is occurring. But again, this will be debated until the end of time. I guess we're just going to have to see how it impacts the real world uh efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and things like that because the immigration issue is most certainly ongoing. So just to summarize, we can most certainly be thankful and uh be happy for the good things uh the good decisions that are being made, but we also have to hold everyone accountable regardless of political party for the not so great decisions that are being made, especially when it comes to things like domestic land sales and um you know, political promises being made that aren't uh even remotely considered uh to be valid after a short period of time and things like that. So that wraps things up for the United States this week. We'll talk about France and the U brief war in the Middle East here in just a moment, but for right now, let's talk about strategic movement. A few days ago, the Ford carrier strike group departed port and they are inbound for the Middle East. The Ford is probably going to conduct changeover with either the Vincent or the Nimmits, both of which remain more or less in the same area as before. The British carrier, the Prince of Wales carrier strike group, was observed in Singapore a couple of days ago. So they're continuing their their trip over to to Paycom after conducting their exercises with the Indian Navy a few days ago. Bottom line for the strategic movement is that not a whole lot has gone home yet and that may be a clue for what is to continue in the Middle East over the next few days and weeks. For the past few months, we have seen a huge increase in strategic movement to the Middle East. resources have just been pouring into the region, especially things like fighter jets, bombers, uh refueling uh assets, cargo, all kinds of stuff has been pouring into various bases in Saudi Arabia and Jordan and uh even some places in Iraq as far as I know. And even though the United States government has bookended the recent conflict in Iran as the 12-day war and thus implying that it only lasted 12 days, they haven't sent anyone home yet. So, that's going to be something to keep an eye on for the next uh few days because they spent weeks building up these resources and it may take a similar amount of time for everything to start heading back to their normal home bases. But, for right now, there are still two aircraft carriers in the uh in the region and there's a third one on the way. So, that's something to keep an eye on and it may suggest that uh this conflict is not entirely over just yet. Jumping over to the European theater for just a moment, I briefly wanted to mention the spiking attacks that have taken place in France over the past week. Now, we Americans may uh be rather shocked and horrified at the uh practice of stabbing people with syringes in the street. This has unfortunately become a very trendy thing to do in France for a couple of years, and this week was no exception. So this past week over 148 people were stabbed with syringes in coordinated attacks that took place not just in in Paris uh but in a lot of other cities around the country. A few days ago there was a nationwide music sort of festival that that took place in France that wasn't just in Paris. It was like different events in different cities uh occurring all at the same time. So people could go to their you know nearest metropolitan area and you know have some kind of entertainment. Unfortunately, in most cases, there were many people that were uh stabbed with needles. Once again, to an American audience, this may seem extremely horrifying, and it is. However, it is also not out of the norm for France and Western Europe at large. In fact, this has become such a problem that there are dedicated nos and nonprofits that have been stood up to help warn people about the potential for getting stabbed with a needle. This is how widespread this problem has become. And considering that the people who are arrested for stabbing people with needles are really never disclosed to the public, we never learn these people's names. I think we can all kind of make the assessment to determine the the risk of what's actually happening here. But in any case, this situation was unique in that there was actually advanced warning. So eventgoers and the event organizers actually warned people about being stabbed with needles because they detected or somehow or another figured out that a lot of social media posts were going around trying to teach people how to do this. and encouraging these types of attacks. It it's it's exceptionally horrific, but this is what happened. And people still went to the events anyway, and 148 people were wounded, including 11 police officers. The reasons for these syringe attacks is fairly obvious. These usually coincide with some sort of assault, however, not always. Uh there are or have been a few uh cases reported of where people just stab people with needles just for the purposes of either entertainment or to intentionally infect a person with a disease. So, uh, again, very horrific, but it's unfortunately becoming a a big problem. So, a lot of media groups have put out tips and tricks, you know, of how to avoid this sort of thing. Here is a snippet on the slide of a USA Today article that is titled, "What you can do to protect yourself and still have fun." As if this isn't the most unnerving way to talk about this topic ever. Uh, I would very strongly encourage everyone to undertake their own risk assessment. And if you ever think that there's going to be the slightest minuscule potential possibility that you might get stabbed with a needle by a psychopath at an event, you might want to reconsider going to that event in the first place. Either way, do what you want to do. But that's just my advice. Uh so somewhat morbidly ironically on a lighter note, let's discuss the war in the Middle East over the past week or so. Now, I will not spend much time on this because I'm sure most of you have been inundated with all kinds of expert analysis from all of the tens of thousands of Iranian experts on the internet. But the bottom line as far as I'm concerned in my wheelhouse is that the United States did conduct strikes in Iran as we all know. But beyond that, we don't really know what the effect is. Like I've been writing since the strikes occurred, there's really going to be no way for the civilian population or for any of us really to understand or know for sure how much the Iranian weapons program was set back, if indeed it was set back at all or if indeed it actually existed. There's a lot of debate going around. There's a lot of conjecture and a lot of people who seem very certain about a lot of things. From a more strategic standpoint, we can certainly reflect on who does know. So the the only parties that really know without a shadow of a doubt how bad the damage was and how much the Iranian nuclear weapons program was impacted are of course the Iranians and the Israelis or the United States. These are the three main parties that are going to know for sure how bad the damage was. And all three of these parties are going to seek to lie about the status of uh the sites that were struck. So we will probably never know uh how effective these strikes were. There's an awful lot of people going to be looking at the same exact satellite image for the next few weeks and months and talking about all kinds of technical data that they could not possibly know in the open space and it's going to be rather annoying. So that's why I've stepped back from it a little bit. Either way, once again, from a more strategic viewpoint, this may have been a pirick victory at best. And this comes from one minor statistic that has been running around the internet for the past few days. I think this came from a scentcom disclosure, but don't quote me on that. Uh either way, a lot of uh think tanks are saying that the United States during this 12-day conflict, 12-day war, it lasted longer than 12 days, but either way, 12-day war, the United States expended roughly 20% of our THAAD missile stockpile. So, looking to the Far East, uh that does not entirely bode well for Taiwan or any other nation state that we seek to defend uh from very large missiles. Now again, the the Taiwan conflict is much different because Taiwan's a lot closer to China than Israel is to Iran. However, it just kind of shows that the United States is uh certainly a very powerful military, but unfortunately, logistics wins wars and logistics has been a problem. And now that the nations of Ukraine and Israel have sapped the United States of our uh missile defenses and pretty much anything uh to be used in war, this is a concern now. So, from a wave top level here at home, the average American citizen who couldn't give one hoot about the Middle East, except for the fact they probably don't want to repeat 2003 again, really, there are two things of note that I can think of off the top of my head, which are one, it's probably wise to assume that this is not over yet. I'm already starting to see the the push for a Colon Powellesque testimony on weapons of mass destruction. So, we're pulling out the WMD's uh claims again. You know, this missing uranium, this missing highlyenriched uranium, you know, in this phantom base that no one knows about. We're starting to see echoes of 2003 again, as if we didn't see them during this entire conflict. But still, it would probably be a wise decision to assume that they're not going to let this go. The Israelis certainly are not interested in letting it go because a lot of their low-level ministers are saying that, well, if you know, Iran starts enriching stuff again, you know, we're going to blow them up. and then they wait two days and say, "Oh, the Iranians are enriching stuff again." So, it's the same old story as always, but still something to be mindful of. I don't think this is over just yet. It's nice to call it the 12-day war, but I don't think it's over. It may be. Hopefully, hopefully this is over. But if the history of the Middle East is any indication whatsoever, there is no question as to whether or not a ceasefire is going to be violated. It's going to be violated. The ceasefire will be broken. The question is how long it's going to take. It could be days. It could be years. I don't know. ages depends on a lot of factors but for the United States for oil prices things are still quite volatile it's very interesting that you can see a lot of uh concerns mount and then the P markets crude oil gets very very expensive very shortly and then the war is declared to be over by the white house more or less they're already talking about Nobel Peace Prize nominations and things like that for this 12-day war and then of course the P markets the crude markets calm down again basically to their precrisis levels but then you look at the shipping and you see that even after this war is over. There are still a few crude oil companies that are still making U-turns uh throughout the street of Hormuz. So, I don't know. It seems to me like there's a lot of people out there who have invested a lot of money in intelligence analysis of the risks to shipping and things like that. Very big corporations are involved and these very big corporations are still seeing an awful lot of risk. So that's the bottom line for today is that this may not entirely be over and oftent times at the very very end of a conflict or what seems to be the end of a conflict very serious outcomes can still be arrived at. We shall see how it develops in classic form. But that's pretty much all I have for this week. So let's wrap things up today with the intercepted ghost net reports. And this week it has been very interesting for the ghost net for me personally mostly because I have been uh in an off-grid manner for a couple of days this week. classic thunderstorms roll in and you know uh knock out power for several hours. But even so, the work must go on, right? And this week I was able to write, record, edit, produce, and upload uh two separate wire reports in an off-grid manner while the power is out. And I think that was uh a pretty good uh test of capabilities here. So hopefully it wasn't too out of the ordinary for this week. But of course during the Ghost Net, my power was out as well. So, even though my own personal, you know, HF shortwave radio setup is entirely off-grid, that's the way it normally functions, uh, just as a baseline, the issue is thunderstorms. Uh, so unfortunately, right during the Ghostnet window, uh, was when thunderstorms were, uh, kicking around and being very very kinetic. So, I I had to unplug my antenna a little bit a little bit early just to avoid any kind of uh, you know, fritzing out my radio. I didn't want to, you know, blow up a radio when lightning strikes were occurring, you know, just a few hundred yards away. That that's not very good for radios. So, but anyway, this has very much been a summer of uh preparedness and making sure that everything is in tip-top shape and is operational when it is needed the most. But the good thing is that this is exactly what the Ghost Net is designed to do. It's designed to operate even if all else fails. It's not the best thing ever, but it is something that I think works pretty well. So, thank you guys all for participating even if uh I had to tune out for about half an hour or so due to uh lightning in my area and of course uh not wanting to run my desktop computer to uh do the web SDR monitoring like I normally do. I really do appreciate you all guys for carrying on in my absence and uh that's a very good thing to see. So, that's pretty much all I have for today. Thank you guys for sticking around and uh hopefully we will have a lot more to say next week. So, once again, thank you for all of your support and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

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