this is the wire report for 2330 Zulu October 16th 2023 information cut off date is 23006 October 2023 bottom line up front Egypt stages humanitarian Aid on Gaza border situation in Israel remains tense beginning with international events in the Middle East so far humanitarian Aid has not been allowed to cross the Rafa Border Crossing into Gaza as peace talks have failed to implement a humanitarian SE fire the USS hersel Woody Williams esb4 begins steaming North from the western coast of Africa following routine exercises as of October 1st her new home Port is Naval support activity suda Bay in Greece analysts comment this is a newer class of vessel that functions as an expeditionary seab base quietly sending her back to her new home port in Greece would be a strategically useful move to bolster US Naval assets in the region on the European front in Belgium Islamic tourist fires into a crowd in Brussels killing two Swedish citizens and injuring many others after pledging allegiance to Isis in the live stream of the attack the suspect remains at large and is considered armed and dangerous on the home front in the United States a cold train derails in Pueblo Colorado as it traversed a bridge over Interstate 25 the driver of a cargo truck was killed in the bridge collaps the national Transportation safety board is currently investigating the incident another train derails in Mitchell South Dakota causing a minor spill of grain according to local media in Illinois a 71-year-old man stabs a Palestinian woman and her six-year-old son in Plainsfield the boy died of his wounds at a local hospital local police confirm this to be a terror attack and hate crime analyst comments for this wire Israel has cut internet access to Gaza so what may appear to be a lull in the fighting May Simply Be survivorship bias as few internet sources remain available for information to get out of the conflict Zone from Israeli media the bombing and shelling of Gaza West Bank and the Goen Heights continues as before limited strikes are also period I odically being conducted in the Border regions of Lebanon and Syria as well the airports in Damascus and Aleppo continue to be struck regularly by Israel according to local sources Hamas rocket attacks have waned in the past few days but still sporadically Target Israeli cities this concludes the wire for 2330 Zulu October 16th 2023

This is the wire for 2300 Zulu July 27th 2026. Precedence is routine. Information cut off is 2200. Bottom line up front. Weekend shooting reported at Seattle festival. Vehicle ramming attack reported in Berlin. Stabbing attack reported in Paris. Iranian targeting continues to strike locations throughout Middle East. US has not responded yet. Beginning with international events in the Middle East. After the intense Iranian targeting of American positions Friday evening, sporadic Iranian drone strikes have been reported throughout the region. Other than targeting American positions, Iranian drone attacks have also been observed striking Kurdish militia encampments in northeastern Iraq. On the American side, Sentcom has not disclosed any strikes within Iran for several days. In the Red Sea Horn of Africa region, nearly the entire Jazan refinery in Saudi Arabia remains on fire following the Houthi targeting on Saturday. As of last night, fire detection satellites indicated that most of the facility has been totally destroyed and satellite imagery from yesterday indicates a very large fire at this facility is still burning and the smoke plume stretches over 50 mi to the south. In Europe this morning, Iran issued a public condemnation of the Ukrainian targeting of a Russian vessel. Over the weekend, a Ukrainian drone struck a Russian vessel which resulted in the death of one crew member. This crew member happens to be an Iranian citizen which prompted Foreign Minister Arachi to issue a statement of outrage. analyst comment. It is very unlikely that the Ukrainians would have known that one random crew member on board a vessel was technically Iranian, but intentional or not, this incident is another step towards linking the war with Europe with the conflict in the Middle East. In Germany on Sunday, a vehicle ramming attack was reported at the Pride Festival in Berlin. One asalent rammed his vehicle into a crowd in the vicinity of the tear garden west of the Brandenburgg Gate, killing one person and wounding 29 others. After the ramming, the suspect exited the vehicle and reportedly stabbed several people with a machete before fleeing the scene. This prompted a nationwide manhunt for the asalent that was carried out Sunday afternoon. By Sunday evening, the suspect had been located in a residential area of Spando. Once located, the suspect allegedly tried to stab the arresting officers, which resulted in the suspect being shot and killed. The suspect was identified as Abdul Balout, who had reportedly just been released from a juvenile detention facility. In France this morning, a stabbing attack was reported in Paris near Porta Deichi. One asalant stabbed three women on the street before being restrained by bystanders and an off-duty police officer. While being held down by responding citizens, the attacker claimed that the attack was Islamic in nature, prompting the government to classify this incident as a terror attack. On the home front in Washington State yesterday, a shooting was reported at the Bite of Seattle Food Festival at the Seattle Center. Multiple black or Middle Eastern males began shooting at each other inside a crowd at the event, which resulted in three people killed and four others wounded. Analyst comment. This incident was initially reported as a mass shooting. However, the multiple shooters were not targeting the crowd as this was almost certainly a gang or cultural shooting. As a result of the cultural implications, Seattle police have not released the name of the suspect or suspects they have in custody, nor have they released the photo of the suspect, which remains at large. Analyst Thomas for this wire. Despite the substantial Iranian targeting over the past few days, the American response so far has been very minimal and no meaningful strikes have been conducted since Friday night within Iran. This is probably a reflection of the calm before the storm as the United States continues to stage assets for a large-scale attack sometime soon. Over the weekend, many phone calls were likely made which may have delayed whatever American targeting was planned to take place as several Iranian and Houthi targeting efforts appear to have been more substantial than expected. The Houthi strike on the Jazan refinery was very clearly an extremely devastating strike from the Houthis which probably caused the Saudis pause regarding how much hurt the Houthies can bring to the table. Similarly, the heavy targeting of air bill and the Patriot battery at this base has likely resulted in a degradation of air defenses in this sector. How bad the damage is is anyone's guess, but based on the scorch marks observed from space last week, it is hard to imagine this air defense site remaining operational. The Iranians have also claimed to have struck half a dozen other air defense sites throughout the region, but these can't be verified until better satellite imagery is available, which might take some time due to the deliberate censorship of imagery as mandated by the US government. Over the past few weeks, anecdotal evidence from locals on the ground throughout the region has increasingly indicated fewer and fewer successful interceptions of Iranian munitions. These reports are very hard to quantify as most of the time it's a shepherd looking up and visually seeing the interceptors missed the Iranian missile or no interceptors being launched in the first place. Obviously, these reports are about as unconfirmed as they can get, but the smoking craters that are visible on satellite imagery add a lot of credence to the general theory that for whatever reason, interceptions are not as effective as advertised. However, as it stands, the US will probably respond in some way, not just because of the scale of the Iranian missile strikes, but also the fact that this targeting and the collapse of the ceasefire has resulted in the straight of Hormuz remaining fully closed. What the response will be or when it will be carried out, only time will tell. This concludes the wire for 2300 Zillow July 27th, 2026.

//The Wire//2300Z May 12, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: POTENTIAL SCHOOL SHOOTING THWARTED IN MAINE BY VIGILANT STUDENT. INDIA/PAKISTAN CONFLICT REMAINS TENSE FOLLOWING MULTIPLE CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS. WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- India/Pakistan: Almost immediately following Saturday's ceasefire, the conflict remained kinetic following what may have been a brief mutiny incident in the Pakistani Armed Forces. Though nothing remains confirmed (and everything is speculative), a small handful of Pakistani artillery units appear to have not recognized Pakistan's ceasefire order, and kept firing through the ceasefire that had been brokered. This led to India accusing Pakistan of violating the ceasefire and retaliating in kind. Several more drone incursions were reported originating from Pakistan the following day, and throughout Saturday afternoon and Sunday limited fighting has continued along the Line-of-Control (LoC). By Monday morning, most of the fighting has simmered down. AC: It would be a stretch to say that the ceasefire is "holding" however the fighting has reduced in intensity as both nations have made increased efforts to regain control of their own forces along the LoC. This may flare back up by tomorrow, but for now both nations have gotten their licks in, and both are probably looking for a face-saving exit plan from this conflict. United Kingdom: This morning widespread issues were reported throughout the Underground subway system in London. Four subway routes were shut down due to a loss of power along the lines, which struck immediately before rush hour. North Africa: Heavy clashes were reported overnight in Libya as a prominent militia leader was killed. Abdel-ghani al-Kikli, the infamous warlord leading the Stabilization Support Authority (SSA), was assassinated in Tripoli last night, leading to his militia group causing unrest throughout the city. AC: While this may seem like a brutal (but standard) part of life in Libya, this may have an affect on the immigration situation over the next few months. Al-Kikli (also known locally as 'Ghaniwa') became famous (or rather, infamous) for his group's expansion in multiple sectors throughout the nation. Whether it's crude oil or arms trafficking, the SSA is involved in some manner throughout Libya. In the global West, the only reason his name is known is largely for one reason...his involvement in the exploitation, torture, and abuse of sub-Saharan migrants looking to use Libya as a jumping off point for migration to Europe. In short, though al-Kikli was a brutal warlord accused of a plethora of human rights abuses, he (and his group) were one of the only entities that was a hinderance to migration operations. Now that al-Kikli's brutal hand is no longer a factor for migrants, this could lead to increased unrest throughout the region, in addition to all of the other sectors that will be affected by this loss. Power vacuums in Libya have a way of affecting the global west in one way or another, so keeping an eye on this situation would be worthwhile.  -HomeFront- Washington D.C. - The White House has announced a series of policy changes related to the trade war between the United States and China. A series of trade deals has been reached, and the United States has reduced tariffs on China from 145% to 30%, while China has reduced their tariffs on the US from 125% to 10%. This deal will go into effect immediately, and last for 90 days while other economic talks continue. Maine: A potential mass shooter was arrested before an attack in Biddeford on Friday. Local school officials at Biddeford High School have stated that a man was arrested after being observed by a student to be loading a rifle in the parking lot. Local authorities have identified the potential attacker as 21-year-old Mohammed Hussein Kamaludeen, who was arrested for possession of a firearm near a school. AC: The carefully observant student who spotted this man very likely prevented a mass shooting. Due to the potential assailant's name, this story will very likely not receive much media attention, but this incident highlights both the growing risk of terrorism and also how important it is to be aware of malign actors. Maryland: On Saturday, a possible vehicle ramming attack was conducted in Laurel, at the Main Street Festival. Local authorities state that Kai Deberry-Bostick drove up to the street that was closed for the festival, got out of her vehicle, ripped down the police tape, and proceeded to drive through the festival. Deberry-Bostick struck one police officer with her vehicle during the incident, and pushed many people off of the road as she transited through the tented areas for the festival. AC: At the moment it appears as though this incident was not the result of a terror attack, but rather the result of a person who's narcissism is a risk to public safety. The body camera footage of the incident clearly shows that local police did take efforts to block the street, however the assailant was able to squeeze her vehicle around the police cruiser blocking the road. The assailant was immediately confronted by a police officer, but was allowed by the officer to tear down the police tape and drive directly into the crowd at the festival. Considering this was in Maryland, it's very likely that the officer did not want to shoot the assailant for social/cultural reasons, even though Deberry-Bostick presented a clear and present danger to the public, and openly conveyed that she intended to plow her vehicle into the crowd. These social concerns highlight the unique threat profiles that are very common in American society at present...it's a complex problem that has no easy solution. Tennessee: A truck driver has been arrested on multiple counts of reckless homicide following a fatal crash on I-75 on Sunday. Joseph Antoinier was arrested after failing to adjust to traffic conditions, which resulted in him driving his semi truck into slowed traffic, causing a pileup. This incident resulted in 2x fatalities, with 2x others remaining in intensive care due to their injuries. AC: This incident was exceptionally tragic due to the circumstances of the fatalities. 6x passenger vehicles were involved in this accident, two of which immediately caught fire with children inside. Many bystanders received burns during improvised rescue operations of those trapped inside the affected vehicles. New Jersey: Civil unrest broke out at the federal Delaney Detention Center over the weekend, as ICE personnel attempted to process illegal immigrants for deportation. Multiple riots and attempts to breach the perimeter have been reported at this facility over the past few days, which has included the assault of security personnel by violent rioters. Members of Congress have also been involved in the fray, with recently-released body cam footage confirming beyond all doubt that Rep. LaMonica McIver physically assaulted an ICE agent in order to illegally gain entry to this facility. During the riot, Rep. Rob Menendez and Mayor Ras Baraka also physically breached the perimeter of this facility. Ohio: This afternoon a small Black Panther armed show-of-force demonstration was held at the Hamilton County Courthouse in support of Rodney Hinton, the individual who deliberately murdered a random police officer after being shown the body cam footage that justified the police shooting of his son last week. Several armed individuals took part in this power-projection operation, with their leader openly professing his support for Hinton's actions. USA: The first South African refugees granted asylum in the United States have arrived, to much opposition from refugee groups. The national Episcopal Church, a major player in the refugee space, has halted their U.S. Refugee Admissions Program specifically due to South Africans being classified as refugees. In a letter posted to their website, the Church states that they have funded, supported, and organized efforts to promote the immigration of over 110,000 immigrants into the United States...but that the Church will not support the immigration of 49x Afrikaners into the United States. AC: While this is a rather interesting case (for many reasons) perhaps the most surprising aspect of it involves the utter contempt expressed for these refugees...by refugee groups. It would have been an easy win among immigration-centric organizations, but instead a national-level Protestant Church has instead chosen to openly admit that they are not supportive of this specific immigration situation explicitly due to the race of the refugees. Some may be surprised that this statement is made so openly, however that's what the Church said in their letter, so any questions and concerns should be directed toward the Church itself. Nevertheless, in a larger sense this will be the cause of much debate over the next few weeks as rather bold statements become impossible to ignore. A very large pro-immigration group admitting over a hundred thousand immigrants from all over the world...but throwing a fit over 49x South Africans fleeing their nation...this is very illuminating as to what the original goals of the program actually are. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Viewing the India/Pakistan conflict through a more west-centric lens is unlikely to be the best course of action as this perspective will result in lots of expectations that are not common in this part of the world. Generally speaking, for a "ceasefire" to actually be called such, the "fire" must "cease". However, in the Third World, an "immediate ceasefire" does not often translate to an immediate ceasefire. Most military units in this part of the world operate quite unilaterally; as risky as this is to international security, this is often the cultural norm. What's probably quite likely is that a blend of ego, caste, and communications breakdown was the reasoning behind the multiple ceasefire violations reported on both sides since it went into effect. More strategically, this recent spat highlights just how dicey international relations have become. Many may wonder as to why one day the United States' official stance on the conflict was that it was "none of our business" (according to VP Vance), but the very next day the United States announced the brokering of a ceasefire. While this could be for any number of reasons, it could also be due to India striking a nuclear weapon storage depot in Pakistan. Indian Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti (the mastermind of this military campaign) flat-out denied that India had conducted any strike on the Kirana Hills nuclear weapons storage facility...but while he was saying these words, he was smirking, leading many to believe the exact opposite of what he said and that India really did strike this strategic storage site in Pakistan. President Trump said as much during a press conference, in which he causally remarked that the United States stopped a nuclear war between these two nations. While this could simply be President Trump bragging (as he is prone to do quite often) he's probably telling the truth this time in the most literal sense. Either way, the craters at the site are real enough, and did not spring up out of thin air. Someone struck this storage depot, and India was almost certainly the one that did it. The potential for Pakistan to conduce a false-flag attack on themselves is certainly possible, however most military strategists consider Pakistan's military to be rather unbalanced in war against India (as in India's military is vastly more capable than Pakistan's). Thus, Pakistan would need all of the weaponry they could get their hands on, and any false-flag attack that Pakistan might decide on would probably take place at some other location, and not anything they actually would need to win a war. It's always a balance of what one personally believes is most likely (which is usually based on very incomplete information), but it would be a classically-Indian response to strike the entrance tunnel to a nuke storage site simply because Pakistan embarrassed them by shooting down one of their newest and most capable fighter aircraft (the combat loss of the Rafale at the beginning of this conflict). Upon learning of the strikes at increasingly-serious locations, and the potential for nuclear weapons to become involved, the United States probably intervened rather quickly to put this conflict to bed as best they could, before the world figured out the palpable irony of two third-world powers (one of which is a staunch US "ally") involving nuclear weapons in a very low-profile border squabble. For the western world, the military use of nuclear weapons is a last-resort that is so rarely considered one might argue that it won't ever happen...but between India and Pakistan, the use of nuclear weapons is often the first choice among both parties, with only a small conventional war taking place to justify their use to the world. The nature of these nations being on full display to the world is rather interesting in the context of the United States simultaneously also being involved in non-proliferation efforts elsewhere...while their own ally (on one side) and trade partner (on the other side) fight dirty on the subcontinent. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

//The Wire//2300Z May 18, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: CRIME AND SHOOTING SPREES RUN RAMPANT IN UNITED STATES. VEHICLE RAMMING ATTACK REPORTED IN ITALY. WAR IN MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES AS STRIKES REPORTED AT EMIRATI NUCLEAR FACILITY. U.S. STRIKES ISIS LEADERSHIP IN NIGERIA. FUEL CRISIS RESULTS IN SHARP INCREASE IN SHIPPING PRICES WORLDWIDE.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- Middle East: The situation remains as before, with most of the focus remaining on the restriction of travel through the Strait of Hormuz. As of this morning, all diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran have failed to open the Strait, and traffic remains stagnant through the waterway. A handful of tankers have transited out of the Strait via the Iranian route, but Project Freedom has not resulted in any western-aligned merchants transiting the Strait since the initial skirmishes on it's first day. Around the region, limited targeting efforts continue to take place. Yesterday, the UAE reported drone strikes at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in Al Dhafra. Three drones were detected and two were shot down, but one drone successfully stuck the compound. None of the reactors at the facility were breached, and no release of radiological material was reported. Nigeria: Hostilities have increased sharply over the past few days, with the United States conducting several airstrikes targeting ISIS facilities. President Trump himself announced the completion of a raid targeting Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, a senior commander within the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) insurgent group. Analyst Comment: Prior to a few days ago, the United States was only supporting Nigeria with intelligence and surveillance assets, and not openly engaging in the war themselves, at least as far as the public is concerned. The weekend raid on an ISIS stronghold is a major escalation of US involvement in the war, even though the mission may have initially been to capture al-Minuki. A good bit of reading between the lines is needed (along with a bit of speculation) to interpret what happened, as this announcement is different than other targeting efforts throughout the continent. The wording of all official reports implies that this was a ground operation to capture the leadership who had congregated together inside a compound. At some point, this ground operation transitioned to airstrikes taking out the target, with the High-Value Targets (HVTs) being killed during the strike. Speculating a bit, it's possible that when the ground force experienced significant resistance and everyone scattered from the meeting site on motorcycles, the US bombed the building and got al-Minuki by happenstance. This is a tale as old as time in the targeting world (especially in Africa), and aligns with the previous strikes within Sokoto, which targeted senior ISIS leadership in the same area back in December. Italy: Over the weekend a vehicle ramming attack was reported in Modena, as a terrorist rammed his vehicle into a crowd of people on Via Emilia Centro, a historic street in the center of town. A total of 10x people were wounded during the attack, with 4x victims remaining hospitalized in critical condition. The assailant has been identified as Salim El Koudri, and local authorities have not commented on motive. -HomeFront- Texas: Over the weekend a shooting spree was reported in Austin, as three suspects conducted approximately 12x small arms attacks around the city. The incident began Saturday with the theft of firearms from a local store, and also the theft of a vehicle from an apartment complex in north Austin. From there, the suspects conducted a joyride around the city, shooting at random citizens. One of the first targets was Fire Station 26 on Wentworth Drive, along with Fire Station 32 near Rollingwood. Throughout the city, over 20x different shooting calls were reported, with over 12x different shooting victims resulting from the shooting spree. At some point during the series of attacks from Saturday afternoon until Sunday morning, police made the connection that all of these attacks were related and involved the same suspects. A BOLO notice was put out by Austin PD, which was picked up by Manor Police Department, with one patrol officer visually observing the vehicle as the BOLO was put out on the radio. This immediately turned into a pursuit, with the suspects eventually crashing in a muddy field on state road 973, near a residential area in Manor. After the pursuit ended, the occupants of the vehicle scattered, and a large shelter-in-place order was issued while the manhunt was conducted to find the suspects. Two of the suspected shooters were captured immediately, a 17 year old and a 15 year old, both of which have long criminal records. A third suspect remained at large until nightfall, when he was discovered and arrested. California: This afternoon, an active shooter incident was reported at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Analyst Comment: No word yet on casualties or any other details yet as this is a developing situation. However, a media helicopter captured a video of a very clearly deceased individual located at the front entrance to the facility, so at least one person (possibly the shooter) was killed during the attack. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Around the world, fuel prices remain a growing concern. Over the past few days, sharp increases in the price of freight has been observed as the cost of diesel makes it more expensive to move cargo within the homeland. At the national level, the LMI Transportation index indicates that freight costs are the highest in recent memory, with the latest numbers for April being released and confirming what we already know...moving cargo is now extremely expensive. At the more operational level, this sharp increase in shipping costs can be seen with the price of moving a standard Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) shipping container. Before the war began, this container (on average) cost $980 to ship from China, to the Middle East (via the Red Sea route, not through the Strait of Hormuz). Right now, this same container costs about $4,131 to ship along the same route. During the COVID era, the maximum price observed was about $3,900 so as it stands, the oil shock has already impacted shipping costs more than COVID did. These costs are being observed right now within the United States both in terms of goods rising in price, but also availability. Throughout the Middle East, lots of talk continues and there isn't really any indicator for when this crisis might end. This afternoon, President Trump stated that the large-scale bombing of Iran was scheduled to continue tomorrow, but he has decided to hold off on the resumption of the war while a negotiated settlement is allegedly imminent. At the moment, it's not clear as to if this is just diplomatic posturing, or a genuine diplomatic effort. This exact situation was also alleged during the halt to Project Freedom, which stopped after one day due to a settlement that never came. In this case, this could be a negotiating tactic, but overall the war is certainly not over, and the effects of the war (i.e. the global petroleum crisis) remain largely unmitigated. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.

//The Wire//2300Z May 18, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: CRIME AND SHOOTING SPREES RUN RAMPANT IN UNITED STATES. VEHICLE RAMMING ATTACK REPORTED IN ITALY. WAR IN MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES AS STRIKES REPORTED AT EMIRATI NUCLEAR FACILITY. U.S. STRIKES ISIS LEADERSHIP IN NIGERIA. FUEL CRISIS RESULTS IN SHARP INCREASE IN SHIPPING PRICES WORLDWIDE.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- Middle East: The situation remains as before, with most of the focus remaining on the restriction of travel through the Strait of Hormuz. As of this morning, all diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran have failed to open the Strait, and traffic remains stagnant through the waterway. A handful of tankers have transited out of the Strait via the Iranian route, but Project Freedom has not resulted in any western-aligned merchants transiting the Strait since the initial skirmishes on it's first day. Around the region, limited targeting efforts continue to take place. Yesterday, the UAE reported drone strikes at the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in Al Dhafra. Three drones were detected and two were shot down, but one drone successfully stuck the compound. None of the reactors at the facility were breached, and no release of radiological material was reported. Nigeria: Hostilities have increased sharply over the past few days, with the United States conducting several airstrikes targeting ISIS facilities. President Trump himself announced the completion of a raid targeting Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, a senior commander within the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) insurgent group. Analyst Comment: Prior to a few days ago, the United States was only supporting Nigeria with intelligence and surveillance assets, and not openly engaging in the war themselves, at least as far as the public is concerned. The weekend raid on an ISIS stronghold is a major escalation of US involvement in the war, even though the mission may have initially been to capture al-Minuki. A good bit of reading between the lines is needed (along with a bit of speculation) to interpret what happened, as this announcement is different than other targeting efforts throughout the continent. The wording of all official reports implies that this was a ground operation to capture the leadership who had congregated together inside a compound. At some point, this ground operation transitioned to airstrikes taking out the target, with the High-Value Targets (HVTs) being killed during the strike. Speculating a bit, it's possible that when the ground force experienced significant resistance and everyone scattered from the meeting site on motorcycles, the US bombed the building and got al-Minuki by happenstance. This is a tale as old as time in the targeting world (especially in Africa), and aligns with the previous strikes within Sokoto, which targeted senior ISIS leadership in the same area back in December. Italy: Over the weekend a vehicle ramming attack was reported in Modena, as a terrorist rammed his vehicle into a crowd of people on Via Emilia Centro, a historic street in the center of town. A total of 10x people were wounded during the attack, with 4x victims remaining hospitalized in critical condition. The assailant has been identified as Salim El Koudri, and local authorities have not commented on motive. -HomeFront- Texas: Over the weekend a shooting spree was reported in Austin, as three suspects conducted approximately 12x small arms attacks around the city. The incident began Saturday with the theft of firearms from a local store, and also the theft of a vehicle from an apartment complex in north Austin. From there, the suspects conducted a joyride around the city, shooting at random citizens. One of the first targets was Fire Station 26 on Wentworth Drive, along with Fire Station 32 near Rollingwood. Throughout the city, over 20x different shooting calls were reported, with over 12x different shooting victims resulting from the shooting spree. At some point during the series of attacks from Saturday afternoon until Sunday morning, police made the connection that all of these attacks were related and involved the same suspects. A BOLO notice was put out by Austin PD, which was picked up by Manor Police Department, with one patrol officer visually observing the vehicle as the BOLO was put out on the radio. This immediately turned into a pursuit, with the suspects eventually crashing in a muddy field on state road 973, near a residential area in Manor. After the pursuit ended, the occupants of the vehicle scattered, and a large shelter-in-place order was issued while the manhunt was conducted to find the suspects. Two of the suspected shooters were captured immediately, a 17 year old and a 15 year old, both of which have long criminal records. A third suspect remained at large until nightfall, when he was discovered and arrested. California: This afternoon, an active shooter incident was reported at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Analyst Comment: No word yet on casualties or any other details yet as this is a developing situation. However, a media helicopter captured a video of a very clearly deceased individual located at the front entrance to the facility, so at least one person (possibly the shooter) was killed during the attack. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Around the world, fuel prices remain a growing concern. Over the past few days, sharp increases in the price of freight has been observed as the cost of diesel makes it more expensive to move cargo within the homeland. At the national level, the LMI Transportation index indicates that freight costs are the highest in recent memory, with the latest numbers for April being released and confirming what we already know...moving cargo is now extremely expensive. At the more operational level, this sharp increase in shipping costs can be seen with the price of moving a standard Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit (TEU) shipping container. Before the war began, this container (on average) cost $980 to ship from China, to the Middle East (via the Red Sea route, not through the Strait of Hormuz). Right now, this same container costs about $4,131 to ship along the same route. During the COVID era, the maximum price observed was about $3,900 so as it stands, the oil shock has already impacted shipping costs more than COVID did. These costs are being observed right now within the United States both in terms of goods rising in price, but also availability. Throughout the Middle East, lots of talk continues and there isn't really any indicator for when this crisis might end. This afternoon, President Trump stated that the large-scale bombing of Iran was scheduled to continue tomorrow, but he has decided to hold off on the resumption of the war while a negotiated settlement is allegedly imminent. At the moment, it's not clear as to if this is just diplomatic posturing, or a genuine diplomatic effort. This exact situation was also alleged during the halt to Project Freedom, which stopped after one day due to a settlement that never came. In this case, this could be a negotiating tactic, but overall the war is certainly not over, and the effects of the war (i.e. the global petroleum crisis) remain largely unmitigated. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.

//The Wire//2300Z August 4, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: MULTIPLE BOMB MAKERS ARRESTED AROUND THE USA. CHILEAN HEIST CREW MEMBER ARRESTED AFTER ATM ROBBERY INVOLVING EXPLOSIVES. MASS SHOOTING REPORTED IN MONTANA, SUSPECT AT LARGE. MIGRANT CRIME CONTINUES TO INFLAME TENSIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- United Kingdom: Immigration scandals have continued as another assault case has come to light over the past few days. A young child was assaulted by two Afghan "refugees" in Birmingham last week, who have been identified as Ahmad Mulakhil and Mohammad Kabir. Analyst Comment: This case has served as yet another catalyst for public anger to rise, as the British government continues to not just allow these horrific crimes to occur, but is actively working to protect the criminals and prosecute those expressing anger about these attacks. In this case, Warwickshire Police are under fire for deliberately requesting local officials to withhold the details of this crime from the public, to protect the criminals. -HomeFront- New York: Over the weekend a minor earthquake was observed throughout New York City and New Jersey, with an estimated magnitude of 3.0. No major damage was reported. Montana: A mass shooting was reported at the Owl Bar in Anaconda on Friday. Authorities have identified the shooter as Michael Paul Brown, who was seen fleeing the scene in a stolen pickup truck (which was found some time later Friday night). 4x people were killed during the engagement, and a local manhunt remains underway with authorities theorizing that he may still be in the local area. Tennessee: An IED Factory was discovered at the home of a local man in the unincorporated township of Old Fort on Friday. Kevin Wade O’Neal was arrested for making threats against public officials, and during the arrest officers allegedly smelled something burning in a back room. This resulted in the discovery of 14x explosive devices, at least one of which had been ignited (but failed to detonate). Analyst Comment: Much like other IED discoveries as of late, the photo evidence of the devices themselves confirm that these devices were exceptionally crude in their construction, indicating the user had little to no training in the construction of explosives. California: One of the members of an infamous Chilean heist crew was arrested in Newport Beach, after he attempted to use explosives to breach an ATM at a local Target store two weeks ago. Analyst Comment: The use of explosive breaching in robbery cases is rare, but becoming more common around the world following this being the robbery method of choice in South Africa. Regarding this specific case, the use of explosives in California is common enough that this did not get national news coverage until it was revealed that the man who was arrested, was a member of the Chilean heist crew which conducted several bank heists throughout the west coast last year. California: In a separate case, a bomb maker was arrested at his residence in Long Beach Friday afternoon, following an investigation by the FBI. Mark Lorenzo Villanueva was arrested after he sent money to what he thought was an affiliate group of ISIS. During the search of Villanueva's residence, an Improvised Explosive Device was found. Washington D.C. - Scandal has erupted following the discovery of a new addition to Department of Homeland Security doctrine. Back in April of this year, the Department of Homeland Security published their updated terms and conditions for receiving disaster aid for FY 2025. Though it was not observed by many at the time, this morning a few mainstream media outlets became aware of this doctrine change, which now includes specific language preventing disaster aid from flowing to states which have not signed a pledge to not-boycott Israel. This pledge of allegiance specifically applies to grants for search and rescue equipment, which will be withheld from states which do not agree to these terms. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: From time to time, the American people are granted the luxury of learning a lesson before a life or death emergency occurs, which provides a much needed reality check for things such as disaster preparedness. As with many government policies, it often takes a few months for the true scale of a scandal to become known, or for someone to find documents that are actually posted publicly. Now that the DHS policies regarding disaster aid have become more widely known, it is a good time to re-assess the impacts that this policy (and the other policies which no one has found yet) may have moving forward. In short, the Department of Homeland Security sets the Terms and Conditions for states that seek to receive disaster aid from FEMA...and the DHS just added support for Israel as a line item in those conditions. For context, (and for those saying that the states can just by their own gear) an understanding of how the logistics of most search and rescue operations function is necessary. In almost all states, local authorities would not be able to operate at all without federal funding or grants of some kind, specifically for equipment. If a fire department needs to buy a new radio, most of the time they are able to use a small amount of state funds to pay a portion of that cost, and various federal grants pick up the rest. Considering that the bulk of most disaster relief efforts in the United States are carried out on the ground by unpaid volunteers, this means that the vast majority of all public services in the United States are heavily subsidized by the Federal government. In a perfect world, all SAR, police, fire, and EMS services would be financed and equipped at the lowest levels, with various partnerships made along the way from the local levels, to the state, and to the federal agencies managing more resources. In reality, this isn't how it works out. If a rural volunteer fire department in the middle of nowhere needs a new fire engine that costs half-a-million dollars, there is almost never enough tax money at the local or state level to pay for it, or if the states were to fund it, it would require state-level taxes to be raised to extraordinarily high levels. And now that deliberate allegiance to a foreign power is entering into this culture as a requirement for logistical support during a disaster, this is concerning. What this means in practice, is hard to say. As concerning as this policy sounds, we must remember that (as of last year) 38x states already have anti-BDS laws in effect. Since it's already illegal to boycott Israel in 38 states it's hard to say how this will work out in practice, but it's possible friction will emerge between the states and the feds, not because the states are anti-Israel in any way, but because they aren't pro-Israel enough. For the very few states that may choose to take a stand on this and not sign these agreements, the risk is substantial. Many states who's political leadership is simply opposed to Trump will probably want to make a stand on this, which transfers that risk to individual taxpayers. Since this policy applies to Israeli companies, there's much more opportunity for risk as well. For instance, if a state agency solicits bids for a certain product that they need, and an Israeli company places a bid to fulfill that contract, not accepting that bid could in theory result in a loss of federal grants due to this situation falling within the "discrimination" definitions set in place by the US government. Financial impacts will also be felt directly by taxpayers (not just the state) by the implementation of this policy; just as California's mismanagement of wildfire risks resulted in insurance companies pulling out of Los Angeles before the major fire earlier this year, insurance companies are sure to take notice of this development. Those who live in states which will be pushing back on this, will probably see an increase in insurance rates. Training cycles for rescue teams is also very likely to be impacted as teams and departments, if forced to by the actions of their state, will be operating on a shoestring budget. Police departments may or may not be affected, it's too soon to tell. This directive comes from the Department of Homeland Security, and specifically applies to grants that are mostly used by local fire departments to purchase life-saving rescue equipment. All in all, this is the indication and warning for Americans to prepare for being their own responder to a crisis. The citizen-based response to Hurricane Helene most clearly illustrated the need for localized non-government-affiliated disaster recovery efforts...all while the federal government was trying their utmost to slow-roll their response. Now, the challenges have grown substantially and the need for a prepared citizenry which will not discriminate or withhold disaster relief due to political reasons, has become an even more desperate need. Thankfully, the success of the efforts during the Hurricane Helene response served as a proof-of-concept for many ideas, not just disaster recovery. More pressingly, Hurricane Season officially ends on November 30th, so this will be something to consider as the need for community disaster preparedness remains paramount. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

all right good morning again everyone welcome back to the s2 underground uh this is the kabul update for monday august 23rd as of about 11 a.m eastern standard time so let's jump right into it uh quite a few updates over the past couple of days so let's start with the most pressing which is a lot of rumors or sort of confirmed not really confirmed reports of isis the islamic state threatening personnel refugees american soldiers coalition soldiers in and around the kabul airport so this is something that we kind of expected the islamic state still does maintain control of very very small parts of terrain they are sort of like an insurgency within the insurgency so when the afghanistan war was going on we had tamped down isis pretty good they were only in very small select areas in the in the very rugged and rough terrain in down in nangahar a few of them pushed forth and forward up into kunar uh and where they sort of just hit out and a few of them remained in and around the kabul area so there are some reports reports coming from both the taliban themselves and u.s intelligence that are indicating that isis is trying to target and sort of increase their own brand so remember they are sort of the with the insurgency within the insurgency uh the taliban are enemies of isis uh as of now but as anyone knows who's been in and around the afghanistan conflict for a while uh allegiances uh come and go like the wind so one day someone can say they're isis the next day they could say their taliban it just really just depends on on how how the wind's blowing that day i suppose so it depends on a lot of factors as if these threats are genuine it's best to say probably they are with a lot more and more people getting crammed into the area around the airport and even inside the airport itself that's just a ripe opportunity for some separatist group or some agency that we haven't even heard of a splinter group of a splinter group of a splinter group to come out and conduct an attack so they could get their street cred up so that's always a threat it's pretty minimal at this time but we we really don't know so i'm sure the official us intelligence reports have more on it but from our ocean side of the house and the open source open source world there's just really not much information out about it also overall the situation has been worsening over the past couple of days and particularly around the night time us and coalition troops have had to close all of the gates into the airport for a few different reasons for one capacity inside the airport is just too much and the security forces are not being able to control the crowds inside the airport as well as they should or as well as they could so they're having to actually shut the gates and leave people outside until they can clear some people out with you know getting them out on flights so it's a way of keeping the the area uh secure and not not crowded and things like that so just be be mindful of the fact you might see reports from a lot of journalists over the next couple of days of hey these gates are closed why are they closed well that that's why it's just capacity reasons and also sometimes if there's a shooting or or somebody gets unruly or something like that they will close the gates just to kind of help you know let things dissipate and let things work it work its way out i'll let people calm down a little bit and then they'll resume getting people inside the gates also on the political slash u.s front here at home the civil reserve air fleet has been activated by the the presidential regime uh government so uh this is basically the united states government drafting different airframes physical aircraft from civilian airliners uh commercial commercial airlines to shuttle people outside of non-combat zones so we'll talk we'll talk a little bit more about how the evacuation process is going once you get out of afghanistan but right now it's i think 18 i think 12 to 18 aircraft have been formally drafted into the u.s military control so that they can shuttle people uh around the world once they're out of the combat zone they're not sending in you know at american airlines you know you know 737 into kabul that's they're not doing that other countries are but uh the united states is not doing that and it's only a few airframes this is a program that's been around for a while for a very long time actually and it's something it's sort of like a lottery u.s american airlines american commercial airlines they basically draw straws for a specific period of time and that during that specific period of time they have to make sure that they have aircraft that are ready to go at a moment's notice within a 48-hour 24-hour window and that's been that's happened it happened on friday we got the warning that it happened on friday and it's now officially happened and that has the aircraft are being transferred right now also speaking bringing things back to the gates themselves there's been a lot of confusion at the actual gates with soldiers from different nations being manning these very cramped quarters there's been a lot of confusion as to what kind of paperwork gets is needed or required so there was a lot of reports last night or sorry two nights ago of canadian citizens with proper paperwork being uh turned away at the gates because the guards did not know that they the canadians had special paperwork so that's something to keep in mind is if you have people or if you yourself unlikely that you're watching this video but if you yourself or your interpreter or something like that is trying to get through the gates and they have non-standard paperwork or if they have paperwork from a different nation or something like that it's best to find a gate that you can get through uh well get through in the first place i suppose but just be mindful that you might get turned away uh in the confusion of this now a lot of this by the time this video gets out will probably be corrected but i just want to let everyone know this situation is about as confusing as it can possibly get so just bear with everyone they're going to get everybody out it's just going to take some time and speaking of paperwork the taliban has been reportedly halting locals uh stopping them at their own checkpoints before they can get to the the coalition checkpoints at the actual airport itself this is something that it's a lot of its rumor uh but we have seen this happen and the reasons of which are are mixed so the us and well the u.s isn't really saying much at all but like reporters or people familiar with the united states side of the situation are saying that the taliban is stopping locals from leaving so local afghans like interpreters or or people that are just trying to get a p2 visa they're not letting them leave if they have other coalition paperwork they're letting them through so that's one story another story is from the taliban itself they're saying that no they're not they're only stopping people who don't have any paperwork to leave the country so like people that are just trying to be spectators or trying to to take advantage of the situation they're stopping people that that that are like that now of course that's the taliban and they're known to lie about pretty much everything they do so there's that and then other reports are saying that there's really no problems whatsoever this is the us government story and we know that that's just an utter lie so there are problems getting through checkpoints getting through the actual airport itself getting through taliban checkpoints and getting through the coalition checkpoints to the airport itself so that's a pretty good explanation of what's going on on the ground let's go ahead and jump to the map and talk a little bit more specifically about the situation on the ground as of this morning okay so here we are on the map this is wintec i've loaded in our kmz and our imagery that we have dropped we've been updating this kmz and the imagery constantly over the past three days and this is the latest information that we have so as you can see uh we colored the south side of h kaya yellow just to indicate that this is in fact a fluid zone uh there's really not it's not really not clear as to what's going on or who's where but it seems to me like everyone is everywhere so let's zoom right here into the pax terminal itself the the americans specifically the americans have sort of retaken or pushed back uh or negotiated with the taliban to push so that they could maintain control of the actual pax terminal itself uh the taliban do maintain a checkpoint right here that's uh confirmed as of this morning uh and actually see if i can zoom in yeah taliban 313 units a taliban special forces unit is stationed right here at this grid as of well this morning uh afghan time uh the actual corridor in and out from the main gate to the main pax terminal is fluid it looks like once you're past this point there are coalition forces here at this gate there are also taliban here at this gate mostly taliban but once you if you can get through you can usually make it un unmolested to the actual pax terminal that's if you can make it past this last taliban checkpoint these are like uh forward observation posts really for the taliban to keep an eye on the americans that are that are stationed there and these guys here are really just it's just pure bedlam right here uh dozens of cars all kinds of heavy machine guns mounted machine guns crew served weapons everywhere uh we're even seeing light artillery light artillery like mortars and things like that but they're they're trying to keep those hidden it's really just a show of force anybody who can carry a tube can carry it right so uh pushing forward over here to the abbey gate uh situation there there are crowds all along the every square inch of uh perimeter border around the airport is clogged with thousands of people so there's that hotel baron is located right here not going to talk much about that at this time pushing forward over here to eastgate again large large crowds uh and then north gate as well right here still lots of crowds now let me go ahead and turn on a specific layer for you guys okay i turned on the layer in the kmz that shows the actions over the past 24 hours or so so there was a small arms firefight this morning between afghan former a a who are maintaining security alongside german soldiers and unknown assailants so like i mentioned earlier these these small attacks uh as as one might understand and like i mentioned in the i think the very first briefing uh the taliban is not a they're not as hierarchical as a coalition forces right so it's not like a taliban commander says you know do this this is these are your marching orders and everyone's just going to follow the orders now 99 will but the cellular nature and the the gorilla nature of taliban forces over the years has indicated that or it just means that you're going to have some rogue dudes and uh rogue dudes are dangerous so these could be taliban guys it could be isis they could just be some you know hooligans that are trying to take advantage of the situation that's a very uh a very prevalent threat right now people trying to steal stuff or extort civilians that men might not necessarily be taliban or isis or just bad dudes all right so that's the situation uh oh let me actually point out there was a vbiad threat vehicle born ied threat at the abbey gate it was cleared pretty much as soon as reporters found out about it i don't know if it was genuine or not it could be anything right the situation is just changing by the second so it's hard to say what's what's actually going on yeah that is the situation on the ground of really the most significant updates over the past couple of days uh really the rest of the city hkia proper like uh here to the west and down south uh things are pretty normal like it's shockingly normal you hop on snapchat maps or on twitter and you start hopping on the um the actual local language twitter accounts for a lot of these areas and it's it looks like it's not not there's nothing going on honestly now granted there's taliban everywhere throughout the whole city and they're they're taking over everything every government checkpoint every government building is now has a lot of taliban soldiers outside of it but honestly you you wouldn't notice if you look at a lot of the snapchat stories and things from these areas so really the most chaotic parts of the city are hkaia itself and in some parts of the former green zone but that's really just because there's a lot of taliban uh in the former green zone uh it's sort of like their um their prize right their spoils of war so going through those buildings and getting what they can and you know setting up outside the u.s embassy is kind of a pride thing for them so let's jump back to the powerpoint let's talk a little bit about the future and as well as some of the other things that have been going on around the country over the past couple of days all right so like i mentioned the northern alliance is back in town uh the son of the former leader of the northern alliance uh is is back and is uh conducting a lot of combat actions so as of august 19th this was this is a map of obviously afghanistan of all the districts that the taliban controlled and it was all of them all of the districts were controlled uh by the taliban on august 19th moving forward into the 21st we can actually see that the taliban actually lost quite a few districts to these guys northern alliance fighters are just popping up everywhere the guys up north have always been a little bit different so and they remember fighting the taliban last time so a lot of those districts were pretty quickly overwhelmed now it's hard to say if that overwhelming was done due to the skill of the northern alliance guys or just because they had strength in numbers at that particular time we have been seeing over the past couple of days uh significant numbers of taliban we're talking several thousand up to three thousand um have been pushing forward into these areas to retake them so as you can see a lot of these areas are contested yesterday the northern alliance actually lost a couple of districts but they took a couple we would classify them as being taken granted the situation is still fluid and as of this morning things are pretty much right back to where they were a couple of days ago with things still being contested most likely it looks as of right now that the northern alliance is is they're winning in their respective areas because they are striking with speed and with strength in numbers in those specific districts but once the taliban war machine gets uh spun up and they can move their fighters up there up there up north uh things are gonna things are gonna change so uh that's something to keep in mind and definitely something to keep an eye on over the next few days uh to see how that northern alliance resistance movement is uh kicking off so finally i wanted to touch on how the refugee situation is working once people get out of kabul once they get out of afghanistan what is actually happening so this is kind of busy and there's a lot of stuff going on so let's just take it a step at a time so first is once the flights leave kabul they you know they transit out via the normal air corridor and land in doha qatar cutter uh from there that's a staging area they either land there or if doha is full which has happened over a couple of days literally they just can't process any more people they transit to american bases in kuwait but most most people like the overwhelming majority people are going to doha and then from doha they're actually going to ramstein air base in germany for further on processing or once they get to ramstein they then can file their paperwork and get things organized to actually transit to follow-on nations to wherever they're going there are a couple other ways to get out of afghanistan though so another route that's very common is to go through tashkent through the through the capital of uzbekistan they're they've been very helpful in facilitating that movement directly out of kabul for a lot of civilian airliners uh and there's also another route which is uh sorry once they get to tashkent that's that's not a final destination for a lot of people that's they're going to go elsewhere so that's really just a staging area at this point even though uzbekistan is going to most likely take a lot of refugees also in uh new delhi uh in india has taken a lot of direct flights uh they've rescued i think a few hundred people at this at this point maybe a couple thousand honestly by now uh so that's really these are really really the main avenues of departure for leaving the country now as far as which nations are taking whom uh so far uh there are a list of temporary staging nations so the nations in which people are just going to temporarily stay are qatar kuwait germany turkey uzbekistan pakistan tajikistan kosovo albania northern macedonia italy and switzerland it's not clear as to if the people that are staying there right now in these countries are going to stay there or not some nations have stated yeah these are just this is just a temporary situation till we get things figured out other nations have indicated that they're going to take more uh that some of those some of the refugees can stay there and it of course depends on nationality as well now as far as commonwealth nations uh all members of the four eyes community have uh said that they're either going to assist or help or or take some it's really uh hard to say but obviously the the four eyes community is really uh leading the leading the effort when it comes to uh then probably the numbers that they're going to take also western europe these nations france germany belgium denmark and poland they have indicated that they are going to take some or they have already taken some also eastern europe czech republic and italy really most european nations have been very very hesitant to actually commit to saying yeah we're going to take all of your refugees or we're going to take some of your refugees or we're going to take only these citizens or we're not going to take you know normal afghans but we'll take interpreters it's just really confusing nobody wants to take these refugees to be honest because europe has a refugee crisis already so without delving too much into politics it's it's a complicated situation and there's a lot of political actors on all sides pulling everything different ways and it's hard to say who's going to go where central south america really only colombia has expressed interest in taking some refugees and likewise same thing in africa only uganda has said they're going to take refugees i think they actually have taken 300 so far and as far as your brics nations brazil has indicated that they will use the same uh track that they developed to take venezuelan refugees you can if you're afghan you can now use that same track to get into brazil uh russia interestingly has indicated that they are not going to take any refugees from afghanistan they're the only nation that i've seen so far that has said that they're not going to take anybody everybody else has just kind of either not said anything or they've said like we'll figure it out russia has said vladimir putin himself said flat out no we're not taking any now they did not say that they wouldn't help transfer people and lend resources and things like that but they he said that they can't they can't come here essentially and then also india has already taken quite a few refugees and is planning to take even more as we move forward so just another reminder we have all of these resources available on our odyssey page if the link will be in the description box below just in case you guys wanted these files we'll be updating them constantly as long as uh the situation is is going on we're going to be following this really until it closes out so all these briefings will be on there we've realized we've probably got a lot of new members and a lot of new followers to the channel uh over the past few days so if you don't like youtube and or it's not working for you go to odyssey all of our videos are backed up there and this is where we're dropping all of our stuff like the kabul imagery pack we've pre-downloaded a series of of images and geotiff files that are easy to put on gps's and end user devices and things like that if you wanted to either follow along or you are trying to use this for your own intel collection and things like that go for it there you go we're updating this kmz i think we're on version 17 now um and we're going to consistently keep updating that with information as the time as time goes on and once again just wanted to show this slide again for people who have not seen it this is some resources you can use if you're trying to get out of the country or if you are trying to help people get out of the country right now there are a lot of people trying to help with this situation which is outstanding uh but that does not mean that the situation is less confusing and immigration is confusing on a normal tuesday right and it's even more confusing in an emergency situation so uh really there there's not much that we american citizens can do to help people on the ground but we're doing what we can uh to help get some of these to get to get all of these americans home safe and sound and our allies as well so thanks everybody for watching stay tuned for the next update we'll we'll have it out soon and we'll continue to update all the all the products that we've been putting out on this and once again thank you everyone for all of your support and we will see you next time and always remember to 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Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for July 6th through the 19th of 2025. It's been a busy couple of weeks, so let's get right to it. Starting off with the general overview around the United States, there have been several items of strategic note over the past few weeks. Today I'll be focusing mostly on the wartime preparations that the Pentagon continues to undertake as well as some of the biocurity concerns, which is the best way I can think to phrase it, regarding the potential threats to the American food supply. Over in the Middle East, things have been very kinetic as usual with two ships being sunk in the Red Sea region, civil war flaring up once again in Syria and the conflict in Gaza continuing to escalate. As far as strategic movement, I'm sorry I have not had time to update the slides for this week to track down all of the uh platforms that have been moving around. Just a cursory glance this morning, I haven't seen a whole lot of uh very concerning major deployments from the United States. However, there are several major uh military exercises being undertaken around the world that have that are either underway right now or have already occurred and have concluded. Many nations around the world are continuing to break their own records and undertake very large military exercises around the world. And in the American homeland, things are developing much the same. So, starting off with the Southeast region today, let's briefly touch on what's been going on in Washington over the past few weeks. As everyone knows, it has been very, very busy both in Congress and the White House. things have been changing by the minute. So, it's not really been very prudent to comment on things until things have kind of ironed out a little bit. But just very roughly touching on some of the things that may matter a little bit more than you might think. The 50% tariff on imported copper into the United States is scheduled to start in August, which is going to impact things in two main ways. For one, uh the most obvious impact is going to be copper prices uh skyrocketing, which is to be expected. Anytime you're going to tariff something that is a heavily imported good, you're going to have the price of that good go up quite a bit. However, when it comes to things like raw minerals such as copper, this is going to drive up a lot of copper theft. I'll touch on the reasoning behind this tariff uh in just a moment because I think this will make a little bit more sense when viewed in the context of a national security issue or at least I hope that's the decision-making process behind this and not just some other uh political pork trading kind of thing. But when it comes to the average American, look, it's summertime. The weather's pretty hot. We all know that it is both riot and theft season. The theft of catalytic converters, for example, always increases when there is a sharp uh sharp spike in the price of things like palladium, for instance. So, if you all remember uh from a couple of years ago, there was a a pretty good spike in in precious metals and catalytic converters were being stolen left and right. It was a pretty pretty big crime spree. Well, the same sort of thing may happen with copper. Copper is a lot easier to steal in many cases and copper theft is becoming a very big problem in places like South Africa. That's kind of their crime of choice uh in many cases. So going out on a little bit of a limb, this could become a pretty serious problem once these tariffs go into effect. And if they stay for any period of time, stealing a catalytic converter out of someone's car sitting in the driveway is a lot different than stealing several thousand pounds of copper from electrical switching stations or electrical substation, for instance. So the past few years have also very much highlighted how vulnerable a lot of our critical infrastructure is to malign action either targeting to you know by some extremist group or some kind of uh terroristic kind of threat. But when it comes to the average thief a lot of times the average thief is a lot smarter than a terrorist is. So bottom line just be aware of the impacts that copper theft can have uh on your local area mostly when it comes to things like power generation and stuff like that. So it's going to be a pretty rough time in some areas. I think some areas won't be affected so much, but a lot of areas pretty much everything that you know isn't bolted down is stolen on a regular Tuesday and increasing copper prices are going to make people come back with bolt cutters to get whatever is nailed down. So, just something to be mindful of as we move forward. Also, in Washington DC, the FDA has granted approval for the spike vaccine for six-month-old uh children to children 11 years old. So, there's that. And also in Washington, the Epstein scandal continues. I'm sure a lot of you have already been inundated with a lot of this, but the latest information that we have so far is that President Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to release the grand jury uh files regarding Epstein's earlier trials. I'm not sure if it's all of his uh trial data or if it's just the grand jury uh files. I'm not honestly there's really no telling as to exactly what's going to be released. If we recall, after President Trump was elected, uh this was a huge part of the uh initial few weeks of his presidency just a couple of months ago and the White House made a very big deal about President Trump signing orders to mandate the DOJ to release all these files, right? It was this big press conference. There were uh this is all that was talked about by the White House for several weeks, right? Um but we all know how things go. So, I guess we're just going to have to see if anything comes from this. My personal guess is that we're not getting the files. I don't think anyone is actually uh expecting a physical document to be released. Really, the general sentiment here is is more abstract than wanting a specific paper copy of something. Most people just want to know who was involved in Epstein's network. That's the general gist of what's requested here. There's been a lot of manipulation with regards to uh what people are what the American people actually want to see. But just to be absolutely clear, the sentiment right now is that the American people would really prefer to know who Epstein was trafficking uh people to and who was involved in this grand network. And pushing beyond that, they would really appreciate it if there was some kind of prosecutorial effort taken against the people who were uh clients of Epstein. Right? So I just wanted to mention that just for posterity just so that everyone is clear that as of you know the late July 2025 this is the expectation. Uh this is what uh is kind of on the table right now. And I I wanted to state that right up front because I think that over the next few weeks we're going to see a lot more manipulation than we've seen so far. even though we have talked about it for many many years and this has become kind of the rally cry for a lot of the uh corruption and very horrific things going on at the upper echelons of American society. Even though a lot of this has been talked about for a long time, I have I have a very sneaking suspicion. I've just got this gut feeling that this is about to become a very very dangerous topic. And I think that this scandal, if it hasn't done so already, is about to highlight why it would be very wise to tread carefully. A lot of people have gotten really, really comfortable with the Trump administration and the things that they are allowed to say and discuss. And I uh I think that caution is probably a wise move. I hate to be all mysterious like that, but I think that there's more to this issue than meets the eye, which is very obvious to be honest. But there are now many, many indicators that suggest that that this story isn't exactly over yet. And I don't think that this operation has reached a conclusion just yet. So despite what the White House wants us to do, we will continue to focus on not just Jeffrey Epstein, but also all of the other operations that are currently ongoing. This is not just about Jeffrey Epste. This is just the one sort of rally cry that people have uh to sink their teeth into really with regards to some of these types of operations. But yeah, we're just going to have to keep an eye on it, let it develop, take notes, and don't forget what happened. And speaking of national security concerns, the Department of Defense has also been moving and shaking a lot the past few weeks. A few days ago, SOCOM issued a duty to warn in the state of Florida regarding the uh potential targeting of former service members for their uh efforts in Iraq and Syria. I saw this notice floating around on social media a couple of days ago and uh just to kind of quell concerns just a little bit. These duty to warn notifications are a lot more common than you might think they are. Uh it's just that this one's a little interesting because it's kind of a blanket statement, meaning that they probably have a word of some kind of threat against uh retired service members in Florida or people who are kind of out of the game. They probably picked up some chatter on social media, but they don't have any specific threat uh in mind. So, and they and no specific person was named. So, they probably just sent out a general blanket notice just to make everyone aware that uh uh things are pretty hot. And of course, Florida being a very heavily militarized state. A lot of uh a lot of retirees down there. A lot of service members end up retiring down there. The Sentcom headquarters is located in Florida. You know, it's a pretty big uh military state, right? Uh people may not think of it that way, but but it is. So, yes, this is concerning. It's something to be aware of, but uh really there's not a whole lot more to it than that. My guess is if there are any specific threats, uh they're going to handle that probably in-house and uh inform people individually, which is where most duty to war notifications go. They're usually letters uh sent to individual people. Sometimes you, you know, may get a even a knock at the door, right, if if you're being targeted by a terrorist group, for instance. It's it's fairly common throughout the SoCom community, unfortunately. But yeah, just something to be aware of. Keeping with the theme of the Department of Defense, let's move out west and discuss the activities there before moving on to Texas. And in California, the Department of Defense has become the majority shareholder of a company called MP Materials, which is an industrial rare earth mineral uh company which mostly makes magnets for industry and uh commercial purposes. This kind of slid under the radar a couple of weeks ago when it first was announced, and I couldn't find a good way to talk about it until now. But this is a very interesting case uh because we have to note that this is not just a contract. Yes, the Department of Defense did sign a contract with this company and uh wants to increase their production of magnets in the United States for defense purposes over the next uh 10 years, I think. However, this is not just a contract. This is the Department of Defense purchasing shares in a public company so that they are the main shareholder. That's interesting. Essentially, they're buying the company, right? More or less, they're they're now the majority shareholder of this this public uh company, which is very very interesting. And that's kind of a a new development from the Department of Defense. They've done this before. Uh I'm fairly certain, but it does go to show what the DoD is focusing on now, which is uh disconcerting a little bit. By and large, the bottom line up front, so to speak, with regards to what the DoD is doing is the the Pentagon is now starting to very seriously invest in domestic production of things. This goes back to what I mentioned about the copper, right? Why would you want to put a tariff on imported copper? Copper is used to make munitions, bullets, right? And if you're going to go to war with a country, you don't want to have your bullets made with materials from that country, right? So, the Department of Defense has really kicked into high gear efforts to increase domestic production of things like steel, precious metals, rare earth minerals, right? We've heard President Trump talk about the rare earths all the time, right? Well, this is one of the reasons for that, or at least I think and hope that it is. Of course, there's always a potential for these uh financial decisions to be something like corruption or just helping out buddies or securing, you know, postgovernment jobs and things like that. But for me, my lens of the world is through national defense, right? So when I see things like this, my brain goes into national security mode and says, "Ah, okay, they're trying to secure a lot of mineral wealth for the United States. So that if we go to war with someone, when we go to war with someone, we'll be able to produce a lot of this stuff here at home and not have to rely on overseas production with a country that we probably will be at war with." So from my wheelhouse, this is kind of the way that I'm thinking about things. And generally speaking, in a more abstract sense, this is both for me, going back to what I said a few months ago, I think last year, this is both concerning and a good idea. Right? Anytime you see the defense industry making good decisions to engage in things like national defense and do things that would actually be good to help defend the American homeland, uh you both for me at least I have both kind of a a twinge of hey that's a good idea and also a slight bit of concern mostly because of two words thusidities trap. That is a little bit of homework for you if you have not heard of that term before. But the general idea for those of you who don't want to Google it is that when it comes to nation states and warfare, wishing will make it so. And also more specifically, as the spheres of influence for two nations grow larger and start to overlap, it is not a situation of if they will go to war, but when. This is for many reasons, but we see this going all the way back to Greek antiquity, to World War I, and now uh one might say our modern times with the United States and China. One nation starts arming for their national defense and their neighbor says, "Hey, those guys are arming, so maybe we should arm, too." And then a third nation says, "Hey, why are you guys starting to make a lot of tanks? Maybe I should make some tanks, too." And then the first nation says, "Hey, everybody else is copying us. Maybe we should do more." And then it's an arms race between a lot of nations. And there we go. Uh, that's kind of the short version of how World War I got started, to be honest. But when it comes to the United States and China, when you look at things that are being done in the United States and in China, it's not just the United States doing this. China is doing this as well. Obviously, we have better eyes on the United States. So, it's easier for us to make comments on what the United States is doing on our half of uh this sort of trap. But every time you see a story in the news or see something in the wire report of, hey, the the Pentagon has gotten this new contract for this new cool thing or this new radio or this new uh SOCOM is doing this new aircraft design or something like that, you you think and you see the Pentagon making good decisions, right? For once, if you see them making good investments for national national security, well, maybe if we're arming and militarizing so much, we're just going to make it so. To be perfectly honest, when we say forever wars, we just really mean moving from one Thusidity's trap to another. That's really all that means uh in a more abstract sense. And I think that's generally what people are kind of concerned with, or at least that's what I'm concerned with. So, there's both a good job pat on the back, but also a twinge of maybe this means we're going to war at some point. And that's more or less how I personally view the US defense industry at this point. So, uh enough on that. I know that it's a big topic, but uh we'll move on here to something uh also quite concerning, which is uh the biocurity concerns down in the American Southwest. Really Texas is kind of at the center of this, Oklahoma as well. But again, this is more of a national issue than just uh Texas and Oklahoma. So, there have been over the past few weeks, months, years, uh, growing concerns with regards to biocurity, which I guess is I don't know if that's the right term or not, but it's the best way I can think to describe the threat of things like blight, pestilence, parasites, any kind of bad things that may affect our national food supply. Thankfully, the USDA has reversed their horrifically bad decision to open up the ports of entry for Mexican cattle due to the new world screworm concerns. Uh, everyone said this was a very bad idea at the time, but you know, big cattle is a is a big is a big problem and that's another rabbit hole in and of itself. But anyway, uh the new world screworm concerns are continuing to mount. Of course, halting the spread of cattle into the United States and focusing more on domestic uh cattle production is probably one of the better ways to to monitor and make sure that this uh this parasite doesn't spread. But again, the agricultural community has been getting hit uh left and right over the past few years when it comes to pests and parasites. So, another one that's kind of popped up is the Asian longhorned tick. Now, I mentioned this in the wire yesterday. Uh, again, it's not really something that is uh a new thing. It's certainly not new, but I did want to mention it anyway because it's it's I hesitate to say it because I don't have the data just doesn't exist yet. But this uh this tick may be entering into the exponential growth phase where we're starting to see it rise quite exponentially. So, again, this tick was first discovered in 2017 and spreads a bunch of diseases, but mostly ones that kill a lot of cattle. A few universities have been monitoring it and uh trying to kind of get a hold on it and trying to see how bad it is uh over the past few uh years. But over the past couple of months and couple of weeks really a couple of universities have have really been raising the alarm bells because they're uh trying to conduct a lot of surveys and the very initial unscientific initial results are that it's pretty bad. So, as we can see, these ticks are spreading like wildfire uh everywhere from Texas to Ohio and Pennsylvania. This is most certainly not something that is in my wheelhouse at all, but I did want to mention it because of the national security concerns, which kind of is is what I do. So, like I said in the wire yesterday about this, it it is really really easy to when any kind of biological threat or potential biological threat comes up, it is incredibly easy to stoke fear and panic. But I did want to mention it because this is kind of an important thing to to keep an eye on. Of course, always being aware of the context that these kinds of threats pop up all the time, right? Whether it's some kind of blight that was smuggled into the United States by a Chinese student or some kind of tick that is swarming cattle herds around the country or some kind of curillion death ray. In the world of biological threat concerns, there is always some kind of doom and gloom impending worldending disaster. So, I don't want to make it out to seem like this is some kind of new, oh my gosh, freak out right now kind of thing. But, it is a concern to be aware of because there's just not a whole lot of focus. You would think that after the CO years that there would be this massive push in the CBR&E community to focus on the bee, right, the biological threats, and to kind of really examine what went wrong. What if CO was way worse than it was? Well, from from what I've seen, there really hasn't been that level of frank discussion. And there's been a lot of people talk about, okay, well, the, you know, the social freakouts that that happened, right? There's been a lot of that, but nobody's really sat down and said, you know, what if this was a legitimate bioteterrorism thing, at least not in the open world. There hasn't really been a whole lot of frank discussions on that. But, I don't know, maybe maybe people just want to kind of forget the co years and move on. But either way, this is kind of in the same vein of uh people not really wanting to pay attention to this sort of thing, even though it is kind of a pretty big concern. So, the alarm bells are being raised by various universities on the subject. So, I thought I would uh touch on it at least and hopefully mitigation efforts will be undertaken and we can kind of uh tamp this one down once again. But again, this is just another way of highlighting the larger issue, which is that when it comes to biological threats and things like that, uh I don't think we've really learned our lesson over the past few years. And um maybe maybe we should focus a little bit more on that than we have. So that's pretty much it for the United States. Let's briefly touch on the events of the Middle East. Uh and starting with the Red Sea Horn of Africa region. Two vessels were sunk uh last week, both of which were targeted in complex attacks by uh the Houthi militants in Yemen. I know everyone thought that we were kind of done with the Red Sea for a while, but nope. Uh the Houthies are still there and they're still sinking ships. Uh at least one of these vessels was bound for Israel, which is why it was struck. I don't know about the other one. I've seen a lot of conflicting reports on both of these vessels. So, uh please take all of this information with a grain of salt, but these two targeting efforts really highlight the fact that the issues in the Red Sea are certainly not over just yet. And if we take just a slightly closer look at at least one of these instances, uh such as the merchant vessel the Eternity Sea. Now again for the casualty count, the math is not mathing here. So u the numbers are very wrong. Uh but we have to go off of something. And there were several crew members that were killed by the initial blast uh from the cruise missile and the drones that struck the vessel. But what I found interesting is that a lot of the crew members uh who were rescued from this vessel were actually recovered from the water. And I mean from the water. They were not on a life raft. They were in the water for over 24 hours before they were rescued. So talk about a miracle rescue right there. Uh that's pretty impressive. Now I found that to be very interesting because in the past the Houthis would very obviously target a ship uh in a way that would cause minimal casualties among the crew. Now there were casualties especially when they were targeting things like engine rooms. Uh so engineers down below deck would often get killed uh by strikes uh on commercial vessels. But as as much as people may not want to think about it, the Houthies when this first when this thing first started, they did take some efforts to not uh anger the world too much, right? Uh by just going after the ship itself, but I think with the Eternity Sea, this may not entirely be accurate anymore. Uh things have gotten a little bit more serious. Again, we have to look at things through a lens of public relations. And the Houthis are absolutely, or at least they were in the beginning, absolutely going for a PR victory, right? So they would over dramatize uh how they were gracious towards the crew. They would let the crew get into life lifeboats before finishing off a vessel. Uh they would uh just try to disable the vessel with causing minimal harm to the crew, right? Because killing a lot of crew members, the Houthis don't really care either way, right? But if you kill the crew of a vessel, you're going to uh bring a lot of international condemnation than that you would not otherwise get if you were trying to play the play the role of a gracious insurgent group kind of thing. Well, that seems to kind of gone out the window uh because they did not let the crew get into lifeboats this time. Everybody just kind of jumped overboard and fled for their life as best they could. There were also some reports that the crew were taken captive of at least one of these vessels. Again, I don't I don't know if that's true or not. I haven't been able to verify that independently just yet, but yeah, it looks like uh the Houthis are starting to not be so PR minded anymore and they're just striking vessels uh especially ones bound for Israel that are a lot more brutal, I guess, than efforts they took in the past. So again, we may not want to think about details like this, but again, the world of international shipping, this is a big money industry, right? I know it may not seem like it, but you've got private intelligence firms, you know, producing quarter of a million dollar intelligence reports on this crisis, right? And there's a lot of money, very big money in shipping, and they are taking note, right? The fact that crew members were in the water in their life jackets for over 24 hours before being rescued. From a survivability uh perspective, that's going to be a very, very big risk now. Uh, and I think that that's probably going to uh cause a pretty big wave throughout the uh maritime survivability search and rescue community because that's very that's a very interesting statistic and data point. It probably won't matter to most people honestly, but these these little details that kind of that kind of stand out to me with regards to these sinkings. So, we shall see if uh any sort of shipping increases throughout the Red Sea. I highly doubt it. I think these two were probably trying to sneak through thinking that a change of American policy was worth the uh financial risk of kind of running the gauntlet here and it didn't really work out for them. So yeah, things are going to continue to stay expensive. Ships are going to continue to go around Africa as they have been. Uh which is kind of an interesting note. Not a whole lot of ships resumed their traffic through the Red Sea uh when President Trump became uh president. And I think that's a very interesting thing to note. So anyway, moving up north to the Middle East proper. The war in Gaza continues as before amid a high-profile targeting instance of a Christian church in Gaza City. This has gotten a lot of uh press because of uh how serious it is. If I am not mistaken, there is only one uh Roman Catholic church left in Gaza City and the Israelis just hit it with a tank shell the other day. So uh Israel has claimed credit for it, but they claim it was a mistake and we all know how that goes. But it's increased tensions throughout the region and it just kind of brings focus back to Gaza and the fact that the war still continues there and we may it may be out of the news. It may be financially damaging for most people to talk about even to this day, but it's still there. It's still a problem. It is still a conflict and the war there has no end in sight. Likewise in Syria, things are kicking off uh into high gear once again. I think it would very much be safe to say that a civil war is is underway in Syria. Again, over the past few weeks, the Drews militias south of Damascus has have really consolidated gains throughout mostly the district of Sueda, but also Dar. And there are some very grizzly content on social media regarding all of these forces that are involved in this sort of thing. So again, it's very, very brutal. It's not it's not really the same flavor of civil war as the civil war that the United States was involved in. You got to remember during the initial Syrian civil war, which was uh depending on how you define it, about 15 years long, that conflict wasn't necessarily what I would personally call a true civil war. It was more of a proxy war than anything else. I'm again it's semantics the way you define it but this time there appears to be and I may be completely wrong on this but there appears to be less international uh interest in being involved in Syria. It's really just a few people mostly Israel uh who is invading Syria to the south and trying to expand tour gains but also Turkey in the north trying to do the same. Of course the United States is involved too. Uh we've still got a military presence in Syria and of course we helped topple Assad u a while ago, right? But over the past couple of months, this is really what I would consider to be more of a a true civil war kind of thing. Of course, there are proxies, right? The a lot of Drews tribes are proxies of Israel, right? This is very very plain to see, right? When Israel is striking the Ministry of Defense in Damascus to help out the Drews militias uh down south in Sua, that's kind of clear at that point, but not all of them, right? So Syria is again a very complicated place. It is a very very uh hard conflict to describe. But this time around you're going to see continued brutality from either the Arab Bedawins who are going to be targeting the Drew militias, the Drew militias who are targeting the Arab Bedawins, the Syrian government, Galani's forces which whichever forces he's been able to, you know, gather around himself and his administration to kind of basically just hold Damascus. That's a a tenuous task as well. And basically the Syrian situation is more or less just a wash at this point. Both Israel and Turkey will without question uh take advantage of this fray to basically just let a lot of militia groups kill each other to the point to where they can just come in and mop up forces and take more terrain. Uh Israel in the south and Turkey in the north. It's a lot more complicated than that, but in terms of an American audience, this is pretty much the only thing that anyone would probably care to notice. As far as what this means to the rest of the world, I don't really know what the impact is going to be too much. It's just that anytime there's a a war or a pretty big power vacuum forming in Syria, it inevitably ends up impacting Europe and the United States in some way. Uh either directly or indirectly. So, it's something to keep an eye on. Uh Syria kicking up again, but once again, direct impacts are are going to be pretty hard to determine at the moment. So, bottom line, the Middle East is on fire again. No real uh end in sight for any of the wars that are currently going on there. So, that's pretty much all I have for today. Let's go ahead and roll things up with the intercepted ghost net reports. I'm sorry. I've uh been a little bit absent from the ghost net over the past couple of weeks. I've been having really severe weather here uh at my location over the past couple of weeks. So, I've had to rely more on web SDRs to kind of see what everybody's kind of talking about because I didn't want to uh string up my antenna during a very severe thunderstorm. But either way, the the network continues on, which is fantastic to see. There has been an update to JSA call. I have not tried it out yet, but a lot of good things coming for from JSA call, which is always good to see uh anytime there are good developments in the the world of HF radio. So, it's growing. It's continuing on. It's fulfilling its mission. I have been working on some other products to kind of flesh out the the the overall communications plan a little bit more and make things a little bit more clear to understand. But, it's going to take me a while before I have anything ready on that front. But, things are continuing on as before. And uh I really thank you all for making this network a great thing. So that's all I have for today everyone. Here are the sources as usual. For those who don't know, all of these uh sources can be found on my Obsidian page uh sorted by the day. Uh this goes for my wire reports as well. Most of the platforms that I publish the wire uh reports on heavily penalize uh links. So that's why I have just one URL at the end of the wire report so you can go and check out uh the sources for that day. It's kind of a logistics thing. I wish I could just, you know, post all the links in in the report itself, but you guys know how it goes. Most platforms nowadays don't like external links linking off of their website. So, it makes it hard for the reports to kind of get out there. But either way, that's how I kind of handle the research for the moment. But yeah, uh that's pretty much all I have for today. Thank you guys all for sticking with me. Uh thank you for all of your support over the past couple of weeks. Just trying to keep moving forward and uh taking things one day at a time. And I guess that's pretty much uh the best we can do these days. So, thank you guys again for all of your support and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for wednesday the 15th of september 2021 and it is being recorded on the 14th of september at 1700 eastern daylight time so let's jump right into it with the weather weather over the next 12 hours is not going to be super great for any kind of visual surveillance there's going to be a lot of high level turbulence as well as low cloud ceiling so the lower the cloud ceilings are the harder it is for visual assets to actually get below those clouds so for most of the american southeast there's going to be those really low cloud levels as well as patchy spots over the west coast and cloud cover over the next 18 hours is not going to be that much clearer it's going to remain a pretty good cloud cover for most of the gulf states as well as the northeast and off the west coast as usual this time of year and moving into no tams uh really there are only two of note the first one there is probably going to expire by the time this video gets out biden is spending the day in denver to talk about climate change and move and shake in that arena and there's also a spacex launch down at cape canaveral sometime on the 15th they're not quite sure due to weather so there are about a dozen different no tams that are lined up for different slots and different uh different time frames just in case so as we all know these space launches tend to have a window of time rather than a specific time so they've got pretty much the whole day blocked off moving into the civil unrest forecast really we're just kind of waiting to see what a lot of this resistance is going to look like from the medical mandates that the white house has sent down so just keeping the whole country yellow uh just uh just to make sure that we've got all the bases covered it's better to be over cautious than under at this stage but we'll talk more about that in a minute really the other one i wanted to call attention to is washington d.c for september 18th september 18th is the justice for j6 protest demonstration looks like this would be a great time for the federal government to how should i say commit some more crimes because they have decided that they need the capital fencing back so the the fencing is back up with the u.s capitals i'll mention here in a minute again um but yeah that would be a uh a great time for for one of those uh subversive acts so but yeah washington dc on september 18th is probably going to be the most heavily surveilled city in the entire world um just like pretty much always but especially more so on that day then moving into logistics so really the first one to mention is the microchip shortage so this is not just affecting vehicles but uh smartphones as well uh however when it comes to the auto manufacturing specifically there are lots of affected states the states that seem like they're getting hit the hardest with their factories getting shut down or kansas missouri kentucky illinois michigan tennessee and indiana those are the states which seem to be like they have the most plants either shut down or the most workers laid off from the chip shortage also there is a paper shortage or really a global paper shortage but particularly here in the united states due to shipping prices from asia so we're seeing reports from a lot of a lot of individual buyers and sellers in the in the paper industry saying that shipments from china have tripled uh just over the past few months alone so that combined with paper mills that have been cutting production for years due to paperless efforts you know that we still need paper right for a lot of things so when the supply drops but the demand stays the same we have a pretty severe shortage and that's exactly what's happening so a lot of book manufacturers and bookstores around the country are are putting out the warning to say hey if you're looking for a specific book for the holiday season to gift to someone make sure that you buy it now because they're looking at a six to eight week backlog on the manufacturing of books so paper uh books so something to keep in mind as we move forward into the winter and also we are seeing a lot of states declaring a school bus driver shortage now a lot of states are are are having varying levels of shortages but most of the states that are that are hit the hardest are new jersey minnesota pennsylvania texas virginia florida and massachusetts massachusetts actually has activated 90 national guard soldiers to drive school buses and this number will increase to 250 as needed but uh the specific areas in massachusetts that are going to have national guard soldiers driving school buses are chelsea lawrence lowell and lynn those four areas have been designated to to drive uh be driven by national guard soldiers now on social media a lot of parents are having some reservations about their children being driven to school by soldiers at this stage i personally would completely understand that even though there's really nothing nefarious about this that that we can find here this really this this frustration from the parents that we're seeing really highlights that even though the overwhelming majority of national guard deployments are humanitarian in nature people still haven't forgotten about the whole inauguration scandal that that event succeeded in changing the relationship between american citizens and the military to some degree in other words the soldiers deployed to the capitol for the inauguration a lot of citizens viewed them as an adversary more than a friend right so now the chickens are coming home to roost on that and it's going to be hard to get that trust back specifically within the national guard even for states that didn't deploy any troops to the to the capitol for that it's going to it's going to be a burden for for a lot of commands to get that you know community relationship back so this event just goes to show that the you know second order effects from the inauguration fiasco are still very much a factor for daily life here in the u.s and just so that everyone's aware the soldiers are not really going to be driving school buses these are the vehicles they're going to be driving so this i pulled from the from one of the county's websites so this is what the vehicles that the troops are going to be driving as far as i can tell they're not going to actually be driving the big classic yellow school buses they're going to be driving these kind of overflow vehicles so just just something to be aware of i just wanted to put that out there for everyone who might be curious moving into critical infrastructure concerns really uh the one event that i wanted to highlight today is kind of a mystery i don't have a whole lot of information on this i have not gone down this rabbit hole to investigate fully but i did want to talk about it because it's just the strangest thing i've seen all week and this is the story that has come out in a lot of mainstream media referring to the mysterious actions regarding the department of defense and internet ip addresses so on trump's last day in office 175 million ip addresses that were owned and sort of operated by the department of defense were transferred to a private company by the trump administration on his last day in office and almost immediately after that almost immediately after biden took back over they were taken back by the dod so these 175 million different ipv4 ip addresses that's about six percent of the entire internet right of all of the addresses on the internet that's about six percent of them so i personally don't really know what to make of this just yet uh well even first of all why the dod has that many iap addresses uh just gut instinct says that they're probably they probably own that many due to having a lot of space required for the ciphernet nippernet and jwix and things like that and you know nsa net stuff like that so there's a lot of internet traffic that exists there i don't know why they need that many ip addresses though but and why they would make this transfer mysteriously just kind of quietly and then transfer it right back there's also the consideration that maybe these ip addresses are used for things like pin testing or deliberate vulnerabilities to allow you know hackers from other countries to come in and then they can exploit weaknesses and things like that i don't really know i'm not a cyber nerd so i'd have to dig into this a lot more and get smart on it for you guys but i just wanted to point it out as something that anybody out there can can research further because it was kind of buried in the in the sources that i normally check so there you go on that so moving into significant governmental actions uh first one here is it looks like we might have been quite correct in our thinking that airline travel might be banned because currently fauci is going um he's making the rounds on all the media stations talking about how he wants to ban domestic air travel for the unclean the the unjabbed right so we'll i guess we'll see how it shakes out but uh yeah i would expect that to to come into a full-blown plan uh very soon here moving on to number two there was a declassified document dropped by the fbi this was it's only a 16-page document or 17 pages if you count the classification that talk about the saudi involvement in the 911 hijackings so this is something that's interesting i'm not sure i'm not quite sure why they released it because it it looks really bad for the federal regime and it just gets people all up in arms around the anniversary of september 11th but you can read the full document the source will be either below or on the slides that we upload to odyssey but yeah it more or less confirms that there was a lot of involvement between official saudi officials here in the united states and a few of the hijackers so yeah it just confirms kind of like what we already knew that saudi arabia was was highly involved in the process now i say that i put confirm there in air quotes because this is a government document and it's sort of like when all those ufo things started coming out a while back uh trust in government is at an all-time low right so even you've got the people that have been saying you know the government's covering up ufos for you know the past 50 years and then suddenly the government tries to hint that ufos are real and those same people are like i don't trust the government like why are they they're lying about ufos being real so it's kind of like one of those things so i don't really know what to believe anymore when it comes to government documents being released but this one has been released so i guess it's something to go off of and something for further investigation i guess also like i mentioned moving on to the capital the fencing is going back up i don't know if it's going to be going back up in its full entirety i have not been able to uh check out the entire perimeter of the fence but yeah i would guess it's probably going to come back in force we're almost certainly going to see national guard deployments as well and this is in preparation again for that uh um january 6 protest uh to to free the political prisoners so so we'll see how that goes my guess is it's probably going to result in a lot of clandestine operations on the part of the federal government so i guess we'll see though moving on to number four the irs is well they're they're trying to get a line added to the budget for this year that would allow them to track and document and surveil your purchases of anything over six hundred dollars now they're trying to to lower this limit because previously anything that any transaction over ten thousand dollars flagged like the terrorism systems and and allowed them to conduct surveillance and stuff on you well now they're trying to drop it down to 600 600 so that's uh a huge problem uh however i personally am not convinced that the irs tracking what you spend money on is probably one of the least amounts of your worries when it comes to federal surveillance because everyone else is tracking is is tracking you or trying to at least i mean geez the freaking mail service uh has a has a social media monitoring branch that that we discovered a few months ago so man you know it's just federal surveillance is pervasive as ever and finally and most interestingly i guess is a new book by bob woodward i know one of the world's worst sources for pretty much anything and a confirmed liar he's written a new book called peril and in that book it's it's making the rounds in the media at least conservative media in the book his interviews with different people seem to you know in heavy air quotes confirm that uh general milley uh did in fact conspire to withhold information from president trump and he directly ordered his his staff and his subordinates to not take any orders from trump yeah it also alleges that millie secretly called his chinese counterpart to conspire against trump and prevent any kind of military action against china in the event that china decided to to do something so i know talking about it as casually as this seems a little bit cavalier but i don't want to put too strong of an emphasis on it i mean we did a podcast what like the day after or two days after the uh january 6 incident which we're calling it like yeah this was a coup like there's i mean this is exactly what had happened the the vice president and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general milley confirmed that they withheld information from the commander-in-chief so what else is that if not a military coup so as far as i know on january 6 president trump was still president he wasn't the change of power did not occur the nuclear football was not moved until january 20th but apparently according to bob woodward's new book it was the authorization to you know launch strategic assets in defense of this country might not have resided with anyone but general milley uh post january 6. so again this is just some guy's book some guy that is a confirmed liar however the only reason i'm talking about this is because they are promoting it as it was a good thing sort of like that time magazine article that that uh you know time magazine spent this it spent the entire like six month period uh after the election uh talking about how ah there was no fraud there was no fraud there was no fraud and then they came up with an article that says yeah there was fraud not only was there fraud but it was a good thing and here's how we did it you know the whole oj simpson approach to things so it appears like general milly might be if this was an interview with him i i haven't personally read the book yet probably won't honestly because i hesitate to spend any money on bob woodward's work but yeah something to keep in mind something to to to kind of keep in the back of your mind as we move forward that yeah this might have been a lot more illegitimate than we already know it was so yeah a lot of significant governmental actions this week but moving forward into a kind of a new tracker slide i created this slide and a couple of others here to sort of map out where the resistance is occurring so this is a simple chart comprised from many sources that talk about mask mandates for children in k-12 public schools uh so this is going to be a kind of a very loose graphic it's not it's not hard and fast because if there is a a lot of this is district by district so if there is a mass mandate for any school district in the state we're coloring the whole state red because it's easier to do it that way and usually it's highly dependent again on each school district but the states that are red usually have their mandates in their largest school districts so like for instance california their most strict mandates are in the los angeles area and that's you know the bulk of the population right there so but yeah this data is taken by painstakingly researching each state which in today's world of fake news and you know mandates that come and go by the hour is is not exactly easy so please forgive us if by the time this video gets uploaded there's going to be a change and so a similar thing going on with this slide this is actually for the jab itself for the shot itself and this depicts a lot of different things so a lot of states mandate the shot for teachers and staff but not for kids so this is just for kids right which states are banning mandates for children so this is really hard to depict because again it varies by each school district and some school districts have it by age so like in california it's by age if your kid is over a certain age it's mandated uh in a specific school district like los angeles also some states have it for the teachers i don't depict the teachers on this slide because for instance new york specifically newark city has the strongest mandate for teachers and staff 100 percent no fans or buts mandated for teachers and staff but not for kids yet so hard to mandate i really i just wanted to show this in conjunction with age of consent laws because this is becoming rapidly a huge thing so a lot of states have very unique age of consent laws when it comes to medical practices for instance alabama oregon washington idaho south carolina pennsylvania within pennsylvania specifically just philadelphia rhode island and tennessee they have laws for minors under certain ages they have like usually like 14 to 16 a kid can make their decision to get a shot without their parents consent i should also i should mention that south carolina is has introduced a bill to change this law so they're going the other way they're changing it so that kids can't consent to jack but it's still working their way its way through their congress and then the two areas in the united states which are the worst for this is north carolina and washington dc in north carolina a child as young as 12 can consent to getting a shot and in washington dc it's 11. so these are the states to look out for if you are concerned about your child being experimented on without your consent we're constantly seeing a lot of school districts trying to pressure children and we just have this like sneaking suspicion in the back of our minds here that some parents are gonna are gonna have their kids come home from school you know with a sore arm one day and they had no they did not consent to anything so just wanted to kind of highlight that for any parents out there uh that that are concerned about this kind of stuff and then also this factors in to the really the medical resistance tracker that we've kind of got created sorry this is kind of an ugly slide but we're trying to map out areas of strongest resistance to like weakest resistance so the states that are are fighting back against biden's mandates or the white house's mandates uh this the strongest are by far florida florida has actually the governor of florida has actually uh implemented a an executive order that states that companies private companies will be fined by the state of florida for complying with biden uh and they also have an executive order through the you know state of florida to ban you know mandates and stuff like that same thing in texas texas is not as stringent on this uh the you know texas governor greg abbott is not as fiery on this as ron desantis is so he greg abbott's got a lot of opposition in his state because he's got a lot of liberal presence and he's he's listening to a lot of literal liberal people on this who want the white house's mandates to come to uh come to fruition in texas also arkansas has actually taken direct uh direct action to ban uh mandates for state employees and stuff like that a lot of states have done this but it's kind of wishy-washy it's really unclear as to if do they have a a mandate or not do they have a ban on mandates or not and it varies on the the language of each state is different so quite literally every state is different it's really hard to track montana also they they banned uh the mandates a long time ago when they were banning passports the medical passport type stuff so moving down the moving down the chart the states in yellow have expressed verbally either on twitter or social media or through press statements that they will not be complying and then they will be launching lawsuits against the federal regime for these mandates but i left they're a little bit less because they haven't taken any executive orders to do anything and they don't have or they don't have something on the books already moving further down the list we've got north dakota and idaho which is more like a more of a hesitant resistance so idaho vetoed the banning of mask mandates a while back so idaho's really in a soft soft resistance same thing with north dakota they did the same thing so or something similar so north dakota idaho is one of those they could go either way they might not fight it in court but they might not go by it's really hard to say what's going to happen in those states when it comes to their state leadership at least and then finally we have the states that will at that have expressed either verbally or taken measures to already comply uh with those federal mandates and all the other states we don't have any data for or they're just it's just in wait and see mode to see what people say because these mandates just came down and we really don't know what they look like yet it's really just like the hey the mandates are coming and then everybody uh freaked out rightfully so so yeah like i mentioned this is not a perfect chart it's most likely going to change probably even before this uh before this goes goes out i just wanted to offer it as kind of a starting point for moving forward when tracking this kind of stuff because we're trying to identify it looks like as much as we had hoped the geographic boundaries had would not be a point of solidification it looks like they might so the it looks like we might have uh laws in different states as we already kind of do that uh make these states so different like work those some states are closer to foreign countries than they are to each other so it's going to be very important to keep an eye on which states are the most resistant at least when it comes to their laws now when it comes to the people in those states that can that can vary a lot and we can definitely create a separate chart for that but for right now we just wanted to to point out the actual tactile laws slash executive orders on the books that are leading the resistance forward and then finally moving into international issues so the biggest one for today is the united kingdom is facing some serious brexit woes uh for instance they actually are going to be dumping raw or partially treated sewage into these rivers so this graphic depicts all of the the rivers that uh sewage is going to be dumped into because they have a shortage of uh treating chemicals so just like here in the us we have a chlorine shortage they've got a similar situation going on in the uk due to the brexit sort of trade policies that are causing shortages of pretty much everything in the country they've got food shortages in some areas but not in others they've got trucking shortages pretty much nationwide but at least in england really not a whole lot going on on social media when it comes to stuff like this is really just somebody complaining that they didn't have a specific product on this on a store shelf so it's really hard to gauge where the shortages are at uh but yeah they're they're going through some things over there uh also moving to africa south sudan has uh actually has a uh there's a cash shortage and what i mean a cash shortage i mean the united nations world food program uh they're short their budget is short 154 million dollars for south sudan which means that the world health the world sorry the world food program is not going to be sending south sudan any food for the rest of the year so that's not good we're talking hundreds of millions of people have been displaced or affected by the the war and the famine down there so uh why do we care about this well uh because africa is kind of ripe for extremism right now there's a lot of insurgent groups and terrorist groups that have taken root in africa from the sahel all the way down to the south of africa there's a lot of bad stuff going on in africa and it's something to keep an eye on because these groups tend to get traction there and move elsewhere moving on to iran so the iranians they're at it again they have uh increased tensions by uh not allowing the international atomic energy agency uh their their inspectors have been denied entry uh to a few different uh reactor sites for actually a few months now and basically iran is overtly breaking sanctions again they do this about like once a year or once every two years they've been doing this forever so this in conjunction with a lot of sort of mainstream media reporting that the headline that's been going around in all the press is that iran is producing enough uranium to be able to make an atomic weapon within 30 days yeah i don't know about that i think that it's a gross understatement honestly i think that iran has many analysts think that iran has had enough nuclear material to make a fissionable device for a while now and they have the scientists to do it you know courtesy of us universities so yeah it really depends on if iran is willing to tempt the wrath of the west or israel for that matter as to if they want to openly develop a working nuclear weapon my guess is that they're probably going to get bombed again israel has bombed uh iranian sites consistently for months now so my guess is since this this headlines going around in the news the the jets are already in the air but i guess we'll find out what blows up in the next few days mysteriously explodes right yeah with with us you know foreign policy being you know beyond hands off right now is actually being actively harmful it would be a great time for iran to make their move and moving to china china's got some interesting stuff that's happened over the past few well really months but i'll consolidate it just to the past couple of weeks so they have made significant moves to change their culture they have recently the chinese communist party has recently decreed uh a restriction on video games so anyone under the age of 18 can only play video games in china for three hours a week also back in may the ccp deleted over 2 million online posts for quote historical nihilism which was basically clearing the slate and cleaning up their online presence in their run up to the ccp centennial celebrations back in july they've also banned quote effeminate depictions of men in tv shows and other media and i think perhaps most interestingly uh chinese the chinese actress uh xiaowei was is basically been erased from existence uh this is one thing that the communist societies around the planet have done uh perfectly over the years this is a classic stalin tactic to erase uh people from existence uh but this actress she is one of the most popular actresses in all of chinese media she's like their main actress for films and media and stuff like that and over the years she's created a billion dollar media conglomerate which turned out to be her downfall actually because another actor a much less known actor one of the clients of the public relations agency that she owned posed for a picture at a japanese war memorial when they were on a trip to japan so big deal for china because in case you didn't know the centuries-old rivalry between japan and china is one of the most significant and like serious in the world today one would be hard-pressed to find two cultures that despise each other more than the chinese and the japanese uh it's just there's been a lot of conflict over the years going all the way back to way before world war one so yeah it's kind of a long-standing rivalry there so since this photo was not tolerated by the ccp uh wei has been deleted from existence all of her movies and tv shows are gone they just deleted them from you know china's internet they even deleted her name from the credits of her work so if you're going to look up the movie she was in like they deleted her name from all that so you can't even find out what she was in since then she has been spotted in france which has kind of fueled rumors that she has fled the country but she herself has denied this at least on social media but knowing the ccp's international reach she's definitely having to lay low for a while all of this is interesting because it further indicates that china is certainly consolidating their power of their culture one might argue that china is looking at the weakness of western culture and making moves to avoid what's happened here in the u.s but i don't know how strong of an argument that is chinese leadership clearly is preparing for war and maybe their own domestic cultural problems are enough for them to make drastic changes you know independent of what the us is doing so i don't know i thought it was kind of interesting that china is definitely uh making moves to seemingly avoid the problems of the west but i don't know again i don't know if those two are related also in the same hemisphere north korea launched recently launched a long-range cruise missile uh this is a new missile here it is uh this has a 1500 kilometer range which is about 930 miles it took an hour and a half to fly that distance so yeah there it is or at least these are the photos that were released by the north koreans so you never really know if it's the real one or not but it's interesting that it seems as though they are continuing with the development of their super large missile system as they have changed the configuration to hold five missiles instead of the four missiles it was originally photographed with so that's kind of interesting i've also seen photos of this particular missile launcher with only two uh missile pods on it which is kind of interesting missile tests for north korea are usually a way of maintaining legitimacy in the international arena and sort of letting the world know they're still here and relevant and pretty much everyone could have expected the north koreans to exploit any international instability or really any weakness in the west to further compound their own projections of power like take advantage of while the us is sleeping or dealing with our own stuff uh they launch a missile and and suddenly they're back on everyone's radar when the u.s is kind of kind of down in the international community so very interesting stuff for sure that's pretty much all i've got for today thanks again for watching here are our sources for the day you can also of course find these slides on our odyssey page you can download the pdf of this this brief if you'd like to research any of this stuff further which we'd recommend but yeah thanks again for watching and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is a briefing for Sunday 19 September 2021 and it is being recorded the day prior on 18 September so let's get right to it with the weather so whether over the next 12 hours is going to be pretty bad for the Pacific Northwest with lots of turbulence and low-level Cloud ceilings for much of the West Coast there's also going to be some spotty low-level cloud coverage throughout the American Southeast mostly over Mississippi Alabama area so that's going to be a factor for any kind of surveillance operations in the area at least for visual surveillance as we move forward into the winter season the days are getting shorter and the night time is getting longer so we're going to have a lot more hours of Darkness to play with so the end of evening nautical twilight which is also known as eent is going to be at 807 PM Eastern Standard Time for the for the eastern time zones this will of course be similar for pretty much all of the other time zones as well also we're right now in a green illumination cycle so the moon is going to be very bright in the areas that don't have cloud cover that is and even in the areas with cloud cover there's going to be significant lunar illumination so if you're out there using any night vision devices you're going to have a pretty good time seeing what you're seeing what you're looking at when it comes to lunar elimination and like I mentioned high level clouds for the Pacific Northwest are going to be pretty pretty thick over the next 18 hours also over the Mississippi Alabama area as Fallout from some of that weather rolling it over the gulfed coast comes to fruition but for the rest of the country it's going to be pretty clear for the next 18 hours moving into no Tams really there's only two of note one of which has expired or already and so I wanted to throw it up on the screen this is actually the no Tam for Del Rio Texas again this one has been taken down due to public backlash but this is a no Tam that was put up to prevent journalistic agencies from getting pictures of the immigration crisis that's going on right now at the International Bridge down there in Del Rio so the federal government did not did not like the fact that journalists were getting pictures of the immigration crisis down there so they put up a TFR temporary flight restriction to not allow drones to fly in the area now obviously this caused a huge backlash actually the Texas State Department of Public Safety actually took up Fox News journalists in their police helicopter which can get around the no Tam and uh that so they could get pictures of the actual crisis down there so clearly this was a huge problem for the the presidential Administration and so they put a no Tam up for special security reasons right so they got the FAA to put up a TFR to prevent drones from flying uh uh near the the bridge itself and also the second notam is for of course presidential operations this is the standard presidential vacation one uh Biden is spending the weekend at his beach house so this notam went into effect uh actually as if we're recording this yesterday so from the 17th of September to the 20th of September so he's having taken an extra long weekend at his beach house so that's the no Tam for that and then moving into civil unrest really there aren't any major changes I I changed the change the map back to the normal gray color so that it wasn't so horrendously bad on the eyes but really we're still kind of in weight and C mode when it comes to a lot of these uh civil unrest sort of potential actions around the country uh right now number five there in Washington DC as this is going on as as we're uh recording this here today on the Saturday really not that many people have shown up so it looks like pretty much everybody else was feeling the same way that we were feeling about it like it was a chance to entrap people I mean even Trump himself issued statements saying that he thought it was a setup so yeah it's kind of it's kind of obvious these kind of things now um so yeah I just wanted to point that one out but really for the rest of the country really not a whole lot of change when it comes to the civil unrest front all right so moving into Logistics a quick update on the microchip shortage the Biden regime has issued permits for the Chinese tech company Huawei to import microchips from the US which doesn't really look good I mean this is coming at a time when the US is short there's a global microchip shortage of pretty much any kind of semiconductor ship and yet we're exporting the manufacturing capabilities that we have to China so the manufacturing world is complex and things that seem like they are horrendously bad or inefficient might actually not be this is kind of a weird world to be in honestly with the way that you know globalism works now whereas you could have you know a product made in one country and then shipped to 18 other countries to finish the manufacturing process right so I don't know the intricacies of this particular International Trade sort of agreement but it really doesn't look good at a time when the world is desperate for microchips and China is where most of them are made so why are we issuing permits to for China to import them so in any case it's going to I don't know if this is going to directly affect the rest of the microchip world because every chip is different right every chip has a different use and when we talk about microchips we're not we're not talking about them it's we're talking about them in extremely broad terms so it's really hard to say which chips are used for what there's millions of different kinds of ships but the larger theme Here is that all of them are in pretty much very short supply also the paper shortage has again like I mentioned last time gotten slightly worse a lot of a few more publishing companies have come out and said that hey they're they're going to be entering into a time of shortage for book publication which is interesting and uh something to be mindful of as we move forward into the future and then just briefly before we roll into critical infrastructure where I'm going to talk about it a little bit more I did want to briefly talk about the propane shortage so it looks like there's going to be potentially some propane supply chain issues moving into the winter season when demand for heating propane goes up and our exports of propane have gone up quite significantly as well so we're exporting more to other places but our demand domestically has also gone up so that could lead to some supply chain issues moving forward into the winter season so jumping into critical infrastructure concerns uh really the a lot of random stuff today first uh really around the country there are a lot of grocery stores that are publicly announcing that they are reducing their store hours and there's the the long list so far that we have been able to find uh you can comment below if your local grocery store has issued a statement as well but these are really just the bigger chains throughout the country that have publicly announced hey we're cutting our hours because of Staffing shortages all of the stores here on the slide have announced that they are cutting their hours due to not having enough Personnel to actually man the store for a long you know many hours during the day during multiple shifts so this is going to be a huge problem as we move forward you know everyone's talking about oh there's a wage shortage ah there's a worker shortage whatever side of the aisle you're on with regards to what is causing this problem it still is a problem right there's not enough people working in the service Industries or in the kinds of Industries like grocery stores and stuff so it's going to be a huge problem when stores are having to shut their number of hours and then up next I'm going to come back to number two I'm going to skip it for now I'm going to go to number three and talk about the Border situation down there in Texas so right now it looks like there might be anywhere from 10 to 12 000 illegal immigrants that have sort of set up they're being held sort of in a camp underneath the International Bridge down there in Del Rio Texas so I'll go ahead and throw up a video for you guys to see the situation down there it looks like there's you know kind of a lot of people and this is kind of again highlighting the Border crisis that's going on people that live in the area or live in areas or states where a lot of these illegal immigrants are being transported to around the country obviously know that this is a problem but if you live in some place you know like Wisconsin or you know Maine you might not know what's going on down at the southern border and you might just think that it's just another political issue right we you know immigration is a political issue most of the time and a lot of people ignore it because they're not affected by it but I urge you to take a take a good look at what's going on down along the southern border when it comes to the numbers of people that are coming in and you can quite clearly see as this incident illustrates that it's it's moving out of the realm of politics and moving into the realm of a logistical problem right well a lot of people are saying are saying that that's been the case for years now but you know 12 000 people is is kind of a lot of people so where are they going to go and we've got you know that number of people transiting over the Border you know every hour or so for the rest of the border so you can look at whatever made up statistic you want for that but really the the concern is that hey okay the border is pretty much open in a lot of places it's completely open and a lot of people are coming into the United States and when you start adding this stuff up it's not really so much about politics anymore so much as about like Logistics like where are they going to go so huge problem take a look at it and uh be prepared to get into some highly polarized terrain because talking about immigration or even just trying to research it's very very difficult to do so moving back to Hurricane Ida the department of energy actually released the products that show how much uh hurricane Ida impacted our crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico during that time period And as you can see right there it was quite a serious dip in our petroleum production capabilities so huge problem especially considering that moving into the winter season we're going to see propane prices Skyrocket so right now propane prices on the on the market are the highest levels since 2014 according to the eia so that's up a hundred and twenty percent from the same period last year so huge problem we're also exporting a lot of this propane to other countries at a time where it's not so much about trade as it is so much about having the actual supplies on hand to heat houses in emergency situations through the winter so something to keep your eye on I know that everybody's eyes glaze over when they're looking at charts and line graphs and crude oil production statistics and stuff like that that's really boring and hard to research however something to keep in the back of your mind as we move forward that hey you if you use propane for heating or cooking you might want to go pick up an extra cylinder before we get into the extreme price increases this winter and then moving back to the map for number five there there was a an outage on the Verizon network across several States actually and across several different um plans so data was down cell towers were down land lines were down internet connectivity was down for those that have it through Verizon uh stuff like that so a lot of people were waking up because it happened early in the morning and realizing hey I have no connection to the outside world and this was a big issue for for Verizon for a little while uh even though most of the time when there's a cell phone outage or something like that people tend to forget about it pretty quickly once it's over and they don't really realize the lesson there that hey when you're so when your cell phone went down your internet also went down and your TV also went down and and your data plans also went down so all that stuff being on the same network really drives home the fact that it would probably be a solid idea to make sure you understand how your local telecommunications networks are set up as best you can because when these out to just happen they're going to happen with no warning whatsoever and you really don't want to be stuck trying to communicate when you have no ability to do so so something to keep in mind as we move forward into the winter season when there's going to be lots of ice on lines and things like that and a lot more outages due to the winter weather conditions moving forward into significant governmental action it's really the first one is the Facebook it was revealed through various sources that Facebook has a program called X check which has been allowing VIP users like celebrities basically people that are you know we know as blue check marks are people that have been verified and they're like part of the club right celebrities and things this program allows them to bypass Facebook's censorship policies and post content that ordinarily is caught by their censorship you know tools and things like that like when your post gets flagged and taken down and stuff like that basically this is a fast lane you write like a TSA pre-check through the security for Facebook's censorship tools so really this program's existence sort of confirms what we already know that Facebook is indeed uh censoring people uh some people more than others so and if you look at the people that are part of this program well then it becomes a lot more clear there are there are the people that are controlling Facebook right so also the Fallout from uh General Millie's uh traitorous Act is has gotten quite worse actually Trump's former acting Secretary of Defense stated that he specifically did not authorize Millie to make these uh phone calls and things like that so really what a lot of people who are in the know and sort of in the defense Community I really we're not seeing hardly anybody say this isn't treason like it's pretty clear or like a textbook case of treason Millie called China and stated that he would in fact warn China if strategic assets were used so the Fallout from this is going to be much more significant than just some guy who's may or may not get fired I I really don't think Millie will get fired but I will be surprised if he does at this point but this is going to have very wide-ranging concerns even if we might not see it right now you can bet your last dollar that all of the other nuclear Powers at least the ones in the Western World particularly you know NATO and a lot of other European powers and things like that they're gonna they're sitting down and thinking wait a second the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the United States of America was conspiring with China to stop the president from having strategic strike capabilities right like the Press is going around and and saying that Hall Millie did a good thing he prevented Trump from launching nuke set at something what they don't understand is how our nuclear Triad works and our strategic options news flash they're not all nuclear that's the whole thing is that Millie prevented strategic options being provided to the president and that means a lot of other these a lot of these other powers are thinking okay um that's not good because the chairman of the joint staff is conspiring with China one of their biggest adversaries in a time where strategic options might be necessary that's a huge concern this brings back sort of the question that the JFK asked going way back to the beginnings of our nuclear system and the question that he asked was how would someone know that I the president of the United States gave the order to launch how would a person sitting in a silo know that the order was genuine and coming from me and really a lot of other nations around the planet who have nuclear strike capability have also been asking that question and really there is no particular satisfying answer this brings up a lot of questions about the nature of the nuclear Triad the vulnerability of the systems to a rogue general or something like that right your old Crimson Tide movie comes back into the debate again because these are things that were supposed to have solutions for but this General Millie thing is proving that ah no we we don't right the fact that Millie can influence the Nuclear Strike capability or any other strategic acid doesn't have to be nuclear any kind of strategic strike the fact that he can influence that and prevent the man in the seat from influencing it calls into question the entire process so you can bet that some very high ranked staff officers are uh are sitting in their Skiffs and wondering okay what do we do because this proves that this is a problem this should not have been able to happen right one guy should not have been able to stop the president from getting anything right but he clearly did and he admitted to it in a public venue so that's a problem and it's going to be something that I don't know that we're going to have a solid answer for but just remember this is not just some like the concept of a rogue General is not something that we should take lightly this is not just everybody being upset at Millie for being an awoke General right this is this goes much much deeper than that this goes down to the very Bedrock of Our National Defense infrastructure right what's the point in all these trillions of dollars worth of nuclear warheads if some guy goes woke and can affect the process or the other way right so it's this is something that again we don't have a really great solution for any solution is going to suffer from really the two generals problem of of not being able to verify things and authenticate and man it's just a mess that you can go down a really deep rabbit hole on but I just wanted to point out that again this Millie Fallout stuff is it's not just one guy not doing his job this calls into question the entire strategic launch capability and continuing with the theme of Defense I just wanted to touch briefly on the purges going on within the military for uh the experimental jab right so there there's a lot of stuff going on with this and there are a lot of different chat rooms a lot of players a lot of groups tracking different things when it comes to the military medical mandates and there's a lot of different rabbit holes that go down for instance there's a huge issue between is the actual jab that the military has authorized or not and it turns out mostly no really the Jabs that the most military medical providers have is not the one that has been uh approved by the FDA they have the ones that are still under the emergency use authorization so there's a lot of different players back and forth trying to figure out the legal implications of following an order that's not really a legal order if they can't follow it so you've got commanders out there who are coercing troops into getting the jab but it turns out the hospital doesn't have any of the jab that's authorized so it's really just coercion by you know putting a boot on someone's neck essentially and this is going to be a problem for VA claims against any potential side effects because the VA is going to say oh you took the shot that wasn't uh mandated so you know sucks to be you I guess right much like everything else that the VA does it's basically sucks to be you but we've seen some products floating around out there you know among some of the the military uh service member groups uh that are talking about how roughly 30 percent of troops at you know six bases that we've been able to you know kind of get our hands on uh roughly 30 of those troops have been resisting and they're going to take the punishments like there's a you know a lot of different units are doing a lot of different things like for instance 82nd announced that they're handing out go Mars for for not getting um not getting the the medical procedure so for the civilians out there don't understand what that is basically that's the the stake in the heart of your of your military career um uh so there's that you know article 15's flying out like freaking candy uh all kinds of stuff being done to all different kinds of units it's just a mess on the military side of the house when it comes to the jab um what we're waiting for and the 64 000 question is after all of this goes down and after the smoke settles how many soldiers troops whatever how many of these people are going to take the separation and get out of the military use this as an opportunity to get out of the military that we have no clue it's probably going to be a small number right probably going to be a very small percentage almost certainly going to be a very small percentage we're not counting on this whatsoever but it's going to be interesting to see because that's a good metric like we've said in the past like we're you know this is what we're waiting on this is a good metric to see how many people are willing to lay it all on the line because getting out of the military ending your career um is not something to be taken lightly so anyone that's willing to do that is clearly in a a uh state of mind that they don't really have that many options left so yeah this is not a good situation for anyone in the military it is a shame that this old thing went down this way but I just wanted to highlight for anyone who's not sort of in the military circles anymore um that this is a fight that is is one of the most significant we've ever seen when it comes to Personnel in the military so we'll keep an eye on it and we'll uh update you as we go along moving on to the immigration crisis like I mentioned uh the International Bridge down there has gotten a lot of press you can just go take a look at it for yourself honestly there's really not much to the story even though you know news Medias are trying to make it out to be uh something you know like it's a new problem it's really not it just so happens to be that there's a lot of people under this one particular bridge that are being held uh so they can be processed in the United States really the the only really take away from this is hey yeah there's a lot of people coming into the United States illegally and we're just taking them so uh yeah again the immigration issue is something that's very highly polarized it is a huge logistical problem um and but because of that polarization because people don't understand how citizenship works in the United States or how immigration works in the rest of the world they don't understand um that this is a much larger issue when it comes to Logistics and like where these people are going to go then you know you think it is so something to keep an eye on hopefully if we can keep an eye on it if the FAA doesn't throw up a no Tam to prevent people from flying their drones down there again uh we'll we'll definitely be keeping an eye on that and then finally and perhaps most depressingly for the day Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has ordered the employees of the Federal Reserve to review ethics rules as it became public knowledge over the past week or so through financial disclosures that a lot of the regional presidents of federal reserve banks are cheater cheater pumpkin eaters so this is a very complex topic so I'm going to try to break it down Barney style as much as I can but just understand that there's a lot more to it than just this and it is it gets really really complicated as we've been saying for a while now and as most people have been saying uh really if most Americans understood how the FED what the FED did uh they would Revolt over this kind of stuff so um really the short version is that last year the FED purchased mortgage-backed bonds which most economists believe directly led to the housing bubble which we're experiencing right now which has made home prices Skyrocket but oh looky here Eric rosengren the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston just so happened to both own and Trade four different Securities which he himself directly influenced these Securities were not conducted via a blind trust but by him personally so for those that do not understand the world of Economics or what the Federal Reserve Bank even is the short version again is that a lot of people who directly decide and influence what your tax dollars are spent on when it comes to bailing out companies and the same people who control large portions of the economic Market decided to buy and sell stocks that they themselves had personal control over a classic textbook case of corruption but fear not because statements by all of the people in this Scandal are that they did not break any ethics rules uh which is interesting I guess they didn't break so many rules that most of them have decided to liquidate all of their Securities the moment this story broke in the mainstream media but again not to worry because the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell has issued a statement that the FED staffers will be reviewing their ethics policies a little refresher course if you will which is interesting because he himself the chairman of the Federal Reserve held millions of dollars in municipal bonds which they fed just so happened to spend over 5 billion dollars bailing out last year so since these documents will most likely get censored quite quickly from the internet I just wanted to point out that we have them all compiled in a nice zip file for everyone if you want to read the financial disclosures from all of the people implicated which will be available on our Odyssey page moving on to our mask mandate tracker really not a whole lot of changes again this is a product that is far from perfect but it's something quick and dirty and hopefully it helps kind of highlight what's going on again States themselves individual states is what we're tracking here the state legislatures we're not tracking individual school districts if we did that we wouldn't have time to do anything else like eat or sleep most States leave it up to each individual School District to decide what they're going to mandate or not mandate but we're tracking a lot of states that are specifically requiring it for a large portion of their population or they're banning the mandates for a large portion of their population at the state level some states are weird because you've got places like Utah there where Statewide the state laws of mass mandates are banned but a lot of school districts are going against that like in Salt Lake City they have some of the strongest mask mandates in the country so that's kind of a an interesting thing going on there similar situation in Maryland and other places around the country but yeah this is what we've got for now and then moving into the actual jab mandates really not a whole lot of changes to this slide really for now the only place in the country that we can find that is mandating the jab for students in K-12 schools is California and even in California it's only one school district Los Angeles school districts so uh if you know of any other place that is specifically requiring the jab let us know and we'll throw it on the slide for the next time but really going through each you know the thousands of school districts in the United States it's kind of hard to to figure out we're just tracking really the state level and the California one got so much press it's easy to track that one and then all of this rolls into our sort of medical resistance tracker so this is the slide from that we briefed last time and these are the updates to the slide so Arizona has been the first state to launch a lawsuit against Biden uh so that we're counting that as kind of a a specific active measure against the federal regime a few states have taken some states back like Arkansas has kind of taken a step back their Republican Governor Hutchinson uh is clearly a fan of Biden's policies but is getting upset that Biden's mandate is making it harder for him to coerce people to get the shot so the governor of Arkansas is upset that Biden is spoiling the plans by creating such a hard and fast resistance uh resistance which he doesn't like so it's weird Arkansas has laws preventing mandates yet their governor is just as bad as Biden when it comes to coercing people into getting the shot so Nebraska similar story their Republican Governor Pete Ricketts said in a press statement that the shot is a personal choice but he also proudly added that his administration has been working hard to encourage people to get it so Nebraska has a governor who publicly states that the jab should be a personal choice but on the other hand is promoting the shot itself so the resistance of Nebraska's political leadership to Biden's orders is unreliable at best unlike Florida which you know you everyone here who's been listening to us for a while knows our our analysis on uh on Ron DeSantis but at least Florida is actively taking a lot of measures to prevent this kind of stuff and speaking of Florida I don't want to lean on this too heavily because this is uh in the Intel world we call this rument and there's different kinds of intelligence human is human intelligence imminent is imagery intelligence and roommate is kind of a another one that's not official where it's rumor intelligence the rument for Florida which again is extremely unconfirmed is that the Florida National Guard units might not be required to get the jab if they stay under title 32 orders if they go on title 10 I.E they're activated for federal service they might but it looks like the military leadership of Florida is uh is is backing off on the the shot mandate for those kinds of troops which is going to be interesting if that is true and that actually does happen this is going to be a big deal for a lot of other National Guard units and command structures in a lot of heavy resistance States so we'll see how that pans out this again is rumor right now but it I just wanted to point it out because it's a rumor that's extremely interesting to be on the lookout for and finally really the only other change is that North Carolina and Vermont's political leadership appears to be in wait and see mode actually I think North Carolina's Governor said they are in wait and see mode so they're not implementing any specific changes just yet to comply or resist uh Biden's mandates but but almost certainly both of these states political leadership is is definitely a fan of Biden but they're definitely scared of things like lawsuits and really the stress and problems that they have so they're waiting to see which way the wind blows and then they'll go with the majority to see what they can get away with and moving into international issues there is a lot of stuff to talk about this week on this front so let's get right to it first off is an interesting tidbit coming out of Israel uh well technically Greece I suppose but an investigation has been launched into the plane crash that resulted in the death of Heim garon or however his name is pronounced this dude was a witness or was going to be a witness one one of the 300 plus Witnesses against Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption trial so it's very interesting that his plane crashed in Greece with him himself and his wife on board really everybody who has any you know brain cells drug together thinks that yeah this is probably some kind of hit you know to get this guy uh off the witness list but again who knows it's really hard to say until we can kind of put the things together as to what he was going to say uh before he was killed so again something to keep an eye on because a lot of shady stuff coming out about Benjamin netanyahu's corruption trial also Russia is launching zapod 2021 their military exercises largest they've done in a while this is actually quite a massive demonstration of lots of new tactics at least new for Russia maybe not new for the United States but new for Russia the most significant of which was a nighttime Airborne drop of 600 Personnel along with 40 infantry fighting Vehicles specifically the bmd 2kas and the bmd 4ms this is the largest Airborne training event they've ever done so the Russian Airborne forces have proven that they can drop at least a battalion strength element all at once under nighttime combat conditions this is also the first public exercise in which Russia unveiled the sarmat II combat dune buggy sort of light infantry vehicle and demonstrated the ability to successfully deploy them under combat conditions from the backs of things like those Mi 17s there or mi8s moving to North Korea almost immediately after our last brief in which I mentioned the long-range cruise missile test the dprk conducted a second launch this time it was a pair of kn23s which as you can see were launched from a train car this is the first time that North Korea has demonstrated the capability to launch from a train car which is very interesting and definitely increases tensions on the peninsula South Korea not to be outdone within just a few hours of North Korea's missile test they conducted a test of their own South Korea for the first time tested their new submarine-launched ballistic missiles or slpms which is a major milestone for the International Community it actually makes them the seventh Nation on Earth to actually have that technology they're the only one that has the sobm technology but no nuclear weapons to put on those missiles so uh very interesting as one might expect these missile tests being conducted by both the North and the South man tensions are really high in the region yet again also Japan is conducting their first National Defense exercise in 30 years mobilizing over a hundred thousand Personnel 20 000 Vehicles 120 aircraft as well as a whole host of other partner Nations coming on board to include the US uh this exercise should be running until the end of November and again this exercise is almost certainly going to be a major factor diplomatically uh for tensions in the region moving on to France uh lots of anti-lockdown protests and anti-medical passport protests are still going on and are increasing in severity and becoming more widespread so we're going to definitely keep an eye on what what France is doing over the next few you know days weeks months as we move into the winter season and see uh see how this all shakes out for France because as we as we know politicians here in the United States are really looking to see how other nations handle their civil unrest so they can get ideas for what to do here in the United States moving on to China China's economy is not doing super swell uh they are facing an economic crisis when it comes to real estate specifically ever Grand ever Grand is China's second largest property in Real Estate Management Company slash conglomerate massive entity right they have currently found themselves in a pickle because they cannot pay their 300 billion dollar debt um and this is kind of a complicated issue but think of this as China's version of these banks are too big to fail well this one's failing and they're failing big time so this is going to cause a lot of economic Strife for China as they try to bail them out or at least control their collapse so that we don't they don't affect uh the Asian trading markets too much moving on down to the Sahel region of Africa France recently announced that they killed Abu Walid in the Sahel region of Africa we don't really know which country yet the France didn't state it but it was most likely either Niger or across the border in Mali most likely Mali because this is where this guy was operating but these to hell is pretty autonomous when it comes to the Insurgency in Africa you know the barren desert offers lots of places to hide and lots of places to set up training bases so lots of good freedom of maneuver throughout this whole Sahel region Abu Walid is almost certainly the Islamic State Commander that directed the attack on Oda 3212 during operation Juniper Shield back in 2017 and this was the Ambush that left four Americans dead at least one of which may have been tortured before he was executed so Abu Walid has been a local warlord for a very long time and he's maintained an operational areas spreading from Northern Mali into Niger with most of of his senior staff functions like his his version of a battle staff right being located mostly just Slightly North of the town of GAO in Mali um now that Abu Walid is dead his Deputy Abdel Hakeem will most likely step in to fill that role however locals on the ground are reporting at least via rumors that he himself might have been killed in a French Special Forces raid in the town of tomalot near the Niger border so I guess we'll see how their leadership structure shakes out of the next few months but looks like a lot of other partner Nations besides the United States are conducting a lot of operations in Africa as they have been for years now and we'll see what the Islamic State does now that their uh their main guy in in the region is out of action moving back to Europe specifically the Netherlands uh the Dutch foreign secretary and defense minister have both resigned due to the Fallout of the Afghanistan debacle The Dutch actually evacuated over 1500 people themselves from H Kaya but they did end up leaving at least 22 interpreters behind to us this event mostly highlights that the Dutch are willing to remove their defense minister and foreign secretary over incompetence that got only 22 people left behind and yet here in the U.S we are confirmed to have left behind thousands of American citizens behind and thousands more interpreters yet the only person to have been fired over this has been the one military officer that has publicly demanded accountability so yet again international events highlight the problems that we Face here within our own government moving over to Saudi Arabia the United States is pulling out most of its Patriot missile defense systems from Saudi Arabia amid the Pacific pivot or the shifting of resources to bolster defenses in Asia against a potential conflict with China this is obviously upset the Saudis as they are currently getting shot at kind of a lot by houthi rebels and neighboring Yemen so by removing their missile defense systems we fully expect the yemeni conflict to heat up a little bit and we'll likely see some show of force indirect fire attacks on Saudi Arabia as a way of maintaining legitimacy for the rebels and moving back to the sort of five eye Nations the United States the United Kingdom and Australia have entered into a new defense pact which is colloquially being known as August as a way of again pivoting to the Pacific for a potential war with China this is soured relations with France uh they are super mad uh they actually recalled their ambassadors to the United States in protest over the defense pact which incidentally resulted in Australia canceling an order for France to build their new nuclear submarines and is instead going with the United States shipbuilders since nuclear submarines are pretty expensive this is seriously damaged relations between France and the United States who has always wanted to be a part of the five eyes Community really since it's kind of existed so they see this as even more of an exclusive club that they're not a part of and that's a problem for them on the defense front at least that's what they think and finally Afghanistan yes Afghanistan is still a problem uh there are hundreds if not thousands of Americans still left on the ground uh in fact it has recently become public knowledge that the Taliban were holding six aircraft full of people hostage and not letting them leave mazari Sharif otherwise known as Mez because the Taliban didn't want any interpreters to leave who were also allegedly on the planes however this this might not be the truth we really don't know the Taliban have made it quite obvious and Biden himself explicitly stated that diplomatic options were what they were pursuing this means negotiating with the Taliban instead of a military action so as this Afghanistan debacle continues please do not forget that this is still going on even though that there is almost nothing we can do to help the Americans get back home we can certainly remember and never forget what the US government did to its own citizens so on that cheery note that's all I've got for today thanks again for your support and here are the sources for today's briefing you can find the sources for this brief on our Odyssey page where the PDF of these slides is uploaded we can't drop the sources in the description because every time we do YouTube either deletes the video or uses their algorithms to make it less visible so our workaround is to upload them separately for those that wish to do some research on their own so 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 another intelligence briefing with the s2 underground uh now right to start with right to begin with many of you might have noticed that this briefing is not live this is not a live stream this is a pre-recorded video and this is for two reasons or a couple of reasons for one my personal schedule right now is not very conducive to doing this particular briefing live or at least in a time of day where most people would be able to watch it and two these live events are people seem to find that that it's difficult for them to find afterwards so if you missed a live briefing it's not very easy to find it on our channel um and it's difficult for us to manually upload to other sites like odyssey and things like that whereas a normal video seems to reach many many more people and that's really the goal i suppose and on top of all that we can easily see if youtube is going to censor us when we upload the video we get little flags on our end if things are not like fit for advertisers or things like that and so yeah if we did a live stream that youtube you know didn't like uh they would shut it off and would lose all of that footage and just kind of be wasted effort right so in the interest of continuing to speak freely with kind of one of our more one of i know one of my more spicy briefings uh we thought it would be a good idea to just try putting this out as a normal video and see what happens so this video may seem to be live as i have instructed our editor to edit this as little as possible which he was all happy to to oblige me on so fear not as usual this briefing will be complete with all of my own unique speech patterns and general lack of professionalism so with that out of the way let's get right to it with the weather so as one can see weather for the american southeast really the whole east coast and a significant portion of the midwest is going to have really low cloud ceilings over the next 12 hours which is really great for avoiding things like visual surveillance releases surveillance packages that are going to be available to lower levels of authority right like we mentioned in our recent uh synthetic aperture radar video that we put out um certain assets can punch right through weather so it doesn't really matter however most of the time we're talking full motion video just a normal video camera on a really expensive drone they're going to have trouble seeing through clouds so for those of you that have been asking us in dms and emails and things like that why are we talking about the weather well this is kind of a taste as as to how normal military briefings go go down normal military operations briefings almost always start with the weather and then they push over to s2 do the intelligence part and then push forth into operations and things like that so that's why we're talking about the weather just to get people kind of used to hey maybe looking up and saying you know realizing hey this is really good surveillance whether if i were to be surveilled or looking up and saying hey you know the cloud's overhead probably not going to be surveilled today so that's why we're covering it also just want to briefly mention on the bottom right hand corner of the screen you can see that the lunar illumination the cycle is 7.8 so we are in a what's called a red aluminum cycle meaning it's going to be a dark dark outside at night time more dark than normal because the the moon is is going to be very very dark so this means that if you were using night vision devices outside you're still going to have trouble using them in a lot of areas particularly if you have cloud cover so if you've got really strong cloud cover and really no moon no lunar illumination it's going to be hard even with some very nice night vision goggles to be seen so something to keep in mind for planning purposes and just to get people in the the mindset of seeing weather um also likewise moving forward over the next 18 hours these are where your clouds are going to be as you can see overcast skies in the pacific northwest right on the coastal region basically where everybody lives and um also in the american north east so the uh new england area is going to have a lot of cloud cover as well really really spotty stuff throughout the rest of the american southeast and the american southwest so yeah there you go low-level clouds are going to be in mid-level clouds and as you can see on this slide higher level clouds as well all right so enough about the weather let's push forward into no tams and this is a short one nothing uh nothing really major to report i did see that there was a there were a couple of vip ones a couple of presidential ones for you know the president or vice president moving to their homes for the weekend so um didn't really feel like you know putting those on the slide because honestly doesn't really matter because they do that every single weekend but other than that nothing really major you can go check it out yourself if you're in an area where no tams might be of interest but i didn't really see nothing really caught my eye as being important for at least the next couple of days now of course no tams change right so and we don't do these briefings every single day right so chances are if you're reading this you probably if you're watching this after it you know premiered or after it went live you're going to want to check just to make sure nothing popped up five minutes after this briefing was over so because no tams come and go very very quickly and again if you don't know what i'm talking about with no tams don't worry we have a specific video on no tams on our channel so check that out and that will explain everything about that moving forward into the civil unrest forecast made a little bit of a change to this slide as you can see california and new york are kind of scary red right now and i did want to put that highlight that on this particular slide because we are seeing since those two states have instituted a passport system for the um the the v word that we cannot mention on youtube without being censored um we're starting to see a lot of resistance to that maybe not enough to matter but certainly not enough to change the way their these totalitarian states work but enough to be like i need to be aware of what's going on so if you're in california or new york make sure that you're aware of any demonstrations going on or things like that because you might have trouble navigating now granted the types of people that are going to be the the demographics that are going to be protesting against the passport system are not the kind of people that will drag you out of your car and beat you to death in the street unlike literally all these other cities that are on the slide um so that's something to keep in mind but you know just also i just wanted to throw that out there that california and new york are they're um they're not a great place right now but you know as we all as we all know so there you go on that all the other states no major change pretty much status quo for how you know violence is skyrocketing in most american cities so there you go on that um so yeah that's pretty much all we have for civil unrest forecast if you're in a major american city you already know this already so there you go moving forward into logistics uh so right to start with i'd like to mention that the chip shortage these the global semiconductor computer chip shortage uh is still very severe it's gotten worse um but it's also gotten slightly better in that electronics manufacturers are starting to retool to work around it so they're able they're innovating around the problem which is good um but i'm i'm not entirely certain i'm certainly not an expert on this uh but a lot of people aren't it's quite clear that this retooling is not going to be everyone's savior for instance samsung just announced i think today or maybe yesterday that they are launching an investigation an internal investigation to try to figure out what's the deal because they're reporting quarterly losses due to sales dropping due to their prices going up so there you go on that also apple is reporting the same thing apple is is projecting that they're going to not have losses so much as not have as many gains as they were expecting in the next quarter due to this chip shortage driving prices up and things like that so and driving availability down also as we can see the lot of red dots on the slide today the water shortage out west as quite literally everyone has predicted months ago the shortage has gotten worse it's it's becoming a reality it's coming into fruition right now so if you are in if you're located in any of these affected states but especially california i personally would be pulling out all the stops to make sure that you have a way to stockpile a good amount of water a way to collect rainwater if the government officials don't arrest you for trying to collect rainwater like they will in california you know things like that because as we have found out from the recent sort of communist overlords that control pretty much everything in states like that when emergencies happen like legitimate genuine emergencies not ones that are planned right but like things like natural disasters when they happen they're so much worse than we ever could have expected because of the way the situation is right so it's also important to remember that california did shut off utilities to people who were accused of violating social distancing mandates last year they shut their water and the power off uh so you know again as with most things in today's presentation this is not a conspiracy theory this is not even a conspiracy this is undeniable history we've passed into history this stuff has already happened this stuff has actually happened um so we're not even talking about preparing for things that might happen uh no we're talking about uh preparing even more for things that have already happened right so um water is going to be on everyone's minds out in the in the west uh moving forward it really depends on how these other states control things like the the waterfall in the colorado river it's hard to say how this is going to turn out but i can guarantee you that the politicians in some of these more totalitarian places like california will seize every single opportunity to restrict water as much as they can so there you go if they need if the and this is the perfect excuse for them to do so so there you go also in a similar vein but not quite nearly as important as drinking water is the liquor shortage in vermont north carolina and ohio so for those of you that don't know all three of these states i believe i know north carolina and ohio are i don't know about vermont they are abc states so the government the state government there is a commission called the alcoholic beverage commission where government controls the distribution of alcoholic beverages which is almost certainly the root cause of this liquor shortage right because after after all we know how state control of the means of production work out so sharp increases in demand um which is what this is supposed to be allegedly from news sources which you know how trustworthy are they the word on the street allegedly is that demand for alcohol in these particular states rose just like every other state in america but because they have abc mandates you can't just go to any normal store and there's no liquor store in the corner it's it's going to be an abc store that's government-run owned and operated and then the government orders the amount of alcohol they don't understand how and they're not able to keep up with a capitalist system like buying and selling goods and services right so of course systems like this fail when demand increases sharply um but honestly even i know i've been to all three of these states and i can tell you that even just on a normal day they're probably going to have shortages just that's just how the system works right in those three states so there you go if you're in vermont north carolina or ohio you probably already know about this but this is something a little taste for those of you who don't you know like us don't live in those states it's interesting to to kind of observe how that works right also i briefly wanted to touch on plastics i don't really myself understand a whole lot about this but the the sort of tweet headline sound bite is that plastics manufacturers and the makers of composite materials and things like that in the gulf states are having a hard time uh producing those plastics and and composites uh the article that i'm sourcing for this is a very interesting article from a market research analyst in that field highly technical well it's not really that technical but it's technical enough to where um it's worth a read so check the sources slide out at the end of this briefing if you wanted to read more and uh yeah so you know bottom line is i don't know how this is going to affect the rest of the country i'm not i'm not really seeing you know none of us here who have uh helped me kind of look out for for shortages on this have really seen plastics being in short supply like we saw last year with plastics from china being in short supply like the packaging you know plastic and and sort of foam packaging uh shortage during covet last year um not really sure how that's going to shake out here in the united states it might not be severe it might be really severe but i just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention and to you know encourage everybody to go read that article because it's interesting um also something that is not nearly even worth mentioning but i thought i'd mention it anyway is that starbucks or starbucks places around the country are having trouble with their inventory so things like syrups and artificial sweeteners are in low supply at random places around the country i can't really get a beat on where it's at because it seems to be kind of random which makes sense for a franchise that sends their supplies you know through different networks and things i don't really know much more than that because i don't really support starbucks at all and let's be honest the demographic of people that would get on twitter to scream about how their soy latte doesn't have enough splenda in it uh is also the kind of people that you know would make a mountain out of a molehill so i don't know if this is genuine or if this is some some sort of indicator for how things are going to go for other restaurants or eateries or whatever in the future so just wanted to point that out there who knows not really that interesting but there you go all right pushing forward into critical infrastructure and concerns so this is a critical infrastructure slide all four of these things are really nationwide so i didn't really put them on the map and the first one is something i'm going to talk about in in great detail here in a minute but i did want to mention that with the institution with with several states instituting or planning the institute or trying to institute uh passport uh controls for medical passport controls right i would be willing to bet this is just kind of like one of those analytical hunches where i would be willing to bet that in the very near future we're going to start seeing medical care and food service is being denied to people who don't have such a medical passport right that's exactly what's happening in new york and california the places that are being targeted are food distribution centers places where you can go get food are the number one places why this passport system is being instituted you control the food you control people's access to the food you control the people right so it kind of makes sense so i'll talk about that a little bit later but sort of in a similar vein i didn't want to mention that as sort of a personal anecdote which has almost zero analytical value but i did want to share that inflation at least in our local area here where both i myself and a few of our staff members live here in the mid-atlantic region of the united states inflation is most definitely a factor just to give you a personal anecdote i knew this doesn't really mean jack at all especially from an analytical standpoint one person's story doesn't really matter uh is that i went shopping for groceries two weeks ago and i went shopping again today and i paid double almost exactly double the price for uh meats all meats and you know beef chicken and pork and uh almost double for certain certain kinds of vegetables so that's concerning um i was my literally i i paid more for groceries today than i have in my entire life and my needs have not expanded at all um you know sure every time i go shopping i try to to stock up you know like you know prepping in the long term right make sure you get just a can an extra can of everything right so we're not talking like i'm going out and buying you know tens of thousands of dollars worth of groceries i'm just like a normal you know family's worth of groceries right and it was double um so that's kind of shocking very shocking to me uh even though it's something that literally every single person with a fourth grader's [Music] knowledge of economics understands so just keep that in mind i know a lot of people right now are kind of freaking out on the interwebs talking about food shortages and things like that um but i just did want to share my own personal anecdote of inflation and how it is most certainly a a thing uh moving forward so yeah not super great i know this this might not be a thing you know again one person's story is probably not indicative of the rest of the country um but i you know if for anyone out there who's in a similar boat uh you know there you go you've got your confirmation that it is happening to at least one other person right so there you go uh moving for switching gears quite significantly is number three uh which is the joint cyber defense collaborative and this is um some quite terrifying stuff not necessarily because it's anything new but because of how it's branded essentially the pentagon the department of defense is partnering with private companies like netflix amazon google uh other companies like that to essentially spy on a lot of stuff uh essentially remember how when edward snowden leaked everything everybody was shocked you know shocked shocked i say to learn that um google and facebook were collaborating with the fbi and the nsa illegally right people were shocked to learn that out well guess what the joint cyber defense collaborative which uh the official press release i have linked in the sources source documents for this episode um they're touting it like it's a good thing like companies are not going to help the federal government prevent cyber attacks but if you read the fine print it's basically just they're freely admitting openly mockingly to your face that they're spying on you once again illegally so there you go and then also switching gears quite significantly as well there was a report i saw that came out a couple of days ago specifically referencing hospital systems the digital systems and the the cyber you know networks and things that are in most north american hospitals apparently this is the statistic grab line from the whole study is that apparently 80 of hospitals in north america are at quote an extreme risk of some kind of crippling cyber attack now again this is one of those very highly technical documents i would highly suggest you read the sore stock in this on this but you know this is one of those uh things where you're like okay well no duh that's exactly you know what we could we could have guessed that well you know there you go there's at least some experts in the cyber security field are screaming about this now as well so there you go on that so pushing forward into significant governmental actions i've got two slides for you today on this so here we go uh first and foremost again the source dock of which is in the sources there has been a this is a couple of weeks old but there has been a significant amount of um consternation surrounding the dhs training for mass vaccinations so here here's the skinny um for those of you that have had a history in like like i have i have a history of uh you know defense defense and and um natural disaster preparedness things like that you know working for like the county guys or something like that for you know disaster preparedness they have these online courses i mean you can go online and learn how to be a certified national weather service weather spotter you know it's free you take like a 30 minute course and there you go stuff like that one of these courses popped up on one of these websites where you can do this online training stuff or even physical training that you can register for in which the training subject was teaching local volunteers how and other federal or federal local state whatever agencies how to conduct quarantine operations in rural areas so obviously people got a lot you know very freaked out about it um honestly i'm in the in today's age i would be concerned about it as well however if this kind of thing happened 10 years ago nobody would really bat an eye because yeah of course you're expecting your county that's that's what happens you know think if if ebola like like legit like like a legitimate a highly contagious disease broke out in the united states you'd expect you know some kind of you know county or local assistance right you know maybe not everybody but at least that's what governmental agencies are supposed to be for i know this kind of an oxymoron at this point but uh point is is that this exact training course if it were to have appeared online 10 years ago nobody would have batted an eye but because of what it means today with everybody including ourselves being very concerned with soldiers kicking in our door in the middle of the night to shove a needle in our arm um it doesn't look very good for the department of homeland security and considering the department of homeland security is um uh a complete joke now uh as really they have been for you know since they were created uh it's very concerning so there you go on that i'm not sure if i'd be you know be a panic level over it but i just didn't want to point that out that that did happen uh also uh when it comes to election stuff um twitter uh you know good old jack is back at it again uh purging several accounts that were covering and exposing the um inconsistencies i'll say it that way so youtube doesn't ban me the inconsistencies in the election audits of arizona wisconsin nevada and georgia the all four of those states which by the way are having some very interesting things coming out about them that i don't really want to delve into because i don't really know how um i think it would take a lot of time to dig into that and then would probably just get banned anyway but there's a lot of people talking about it already so it's not like it's it's being you know ignored um conservative twitter and conservative sites are really are you know putting it right at the forefront so go there if you want to learn what's going on with the election stuff third i just wanted to have this kind of on record for when social media and really all media kind of forgets this happened but uh cuomo um has gotten is gotten uh gotten in quite a bit of trouble even as even his own attorney general released a report against him basically the report that was released that confirmed that the sexual harassment complaints against him were in fact true um and even the the federal regime is saying that he should resign so very interesting stuff i'm sure we'll probably see something in a few days but i would be highly surprised if he goes away that quickly cnn is interestingly refusing to cover the story which is actually not that interesting considering that his brother is a cnn reporter so there you go also number four the white house is now openly censoring social media so this happened a few weeks ago as well uh the white house through their press secretary and and basically through a lot of their spokespeople is now clearly openly and not even trying to hide the fact that they are ordering social media websites to censor their enemies this came out when it came to during a press conference in which the the white house press secretary confirmed that they were directing facebook to delete certain content from their platform so there you go um if you didn't take anything away from this briefing i feel like this briefing has like five or six like every bullet point in it is like hmm that's uh yeah that's not good um and yeah this is one of those where it's like we're talking i'm talking about it quite casually but it could not be more serious um so yeah there you go white house is now openly censoring social media and directly ordering them if that doesn't show you that's media all media in the united states is now working for the federal government i don't know what will so yeah uh and also number five this is an interesting one um and the universities are requiring uh the the medical procedure that shall not be named right uh now this is interesting this is how they're doing i've seen this in a few different universities a few different people who are who are sadly college students right now and kind of can't get out of it without having to pay back a lot of either student loans or something like that they have sent us a lot of information and oh man this is so sneaky so what they'll do is for those of you that don't understand how you know college works i hate to be condescending but there is a registration period and then a period goes by um it depends on what university is but you register for classes then classes begin then there's a drop date for classes so what people are seeing is that the universities are waiting for the the our registration to complete and then they're saying they're they're saying before you know the semester even starts hey we're not going to mandate masks we're not going to mandate any of this if we're not going to mandate medical procedures and things like that to get students to register and then once students are registered uh and or past the drop date for the class they're saying oh well you know now we're going to mandate mass for everyone oh now we're going to mandate you get an experimental medical procedure that kind of stuff so they're waiting until students are financially obligated to finish the term or else lose a significant amount of money and potentially void their their student aid federal aid and things like that so they can control them i think that's just you know just completely dastardly but it's genius it's like a genius and how evil it is but it seems like most universities are trying to do that is because we all know how universities work now so i thought i'd mention that for anybody who's who's out there who might be a student or is registering for classes if you if your university has come out and stated we're not going to mandate this we're going to not make it we're we're not going to mandate that just watch and see what happens after the drop date for your course or after courses have begun um and the the ad drop period um has passed right so that you can't drop the course without losing your money just wait and see what happens i i guarantee you you'll be in for some nasty surprises there uh so continuing on with uh this uh series of significant governmental actions um keeping in theme with the the experimental medical procedure that shall not be named uh number six here is that the is what um the military uh community has been talking about and rightfully freaking out about for a while now which is the secretary of defense seeking approval to mandate uh this experimental medical procedure before its fda approved so yeah soldiers everywhere who have a heart and realize what's going on are freaking out over this because they really have no option for those of you that don't understand how the military operates there you have no choice the choice is either get out of the military and accept an other than honorable discharge or maybe even a general discharge or some kind of discharge for refusing to get a medical procedure like i personally know a lot of people who got kicked out of the military for refusing to get the flu shot and um yeah that's a shame uh that the military's like that but that's just the way it is and unfortunately service members are put in a very bad choice between having to choose between two very bad choices so i did want to mention it because it is going on it is happening and for posterity's sake i just wanted to have it on the record that this is the day that we're talking about it essentially so there you go switching gears quite significantly but still keeping in the theme of a significant action is apple has decided that they are going to be scanning your personal photos yeah even more so than they already do now i did put this here because apple is according to the other bullet where which i just briefed that companies are now starting to partner with national defense entities you now see why this is why apple is now considered by us to be the government now apple is doing this under the guise of something quite noble they are pretending to develop this technology and institute it on iphones uh to scan your foot to scan a person's photos and determine and detect and report uh child abuse and and um illicit content like that however as literally every single human being on the planet can obviously see it's that's most likely going to be either a a lie or two a uh a diversion to be able to spy on your devices even more so than apple already does so there you go yet another reason to avoid smartphone usage as much as possible so you know something to to definitely keep in mind keep your eye on it because apple loves sneaking these things in all tech companies love sneaking these things in so there you go all right number eight is something keeping you know moving back to the military category uh the military has announced that they are stockpiling 500 million doses of this experimental drug um allegedly now this is from an army times article that again is in the is in the sources for this even the army times like based on their la based on their uh the way it's written maybe i'm biased and i'm reading between the lines when there's nothing there but it seems like whoever wrote the army times article is even thinking that the army's excuse that oh these are for internationally used like they're going to go to people in africa even the harmony times writer thinks that's bs so yeah it's most likely going to be used for something more nefarious than simply helping out another developing nation um and combined with you know the military lust or the senior military lust for going door-to-door yeah well we can we can put two and two together quite quickly it doesn't really take a genius to figure that out now as far as again on the freakout meter how much to freak out i wouldn't necessarily completely freak out just yet but i mean geez there have already been like eight things i've already talked about in this briefing that are worth freaking out over so i don't know take that for what you will i guess another one of those freak out things is number nine which is the michigan air national guard in upcoming exercises will be intentionally closing a highway and a public highway interstate and using it as an improvised landing strip now the military analysts out there will tell you that this is not necessarily a bad thing this is kind of a national defense thing it makes a lot of sense to be able to to train and things like that for foreign invasion and stuff like that here's the deal though uh out of all of the with every single state's national guard um reporting funding problems right to where they can't even get basic very basic infantry training level skills and things like that we cannot even develop basic soldiers skills why then is the michigan air national guard of all places the national guard for freaking michigan right why are they training to land on an improvised landing strip oh by the way which will be the very first time in us history this has ever happened yeah interesting um i don't know if this is more as nefarious as a lot of uh conservative sites are making this out to be um but i do think that it's uh it's there's something fishy going on either somebody's trying to dump some funding uh so that they can get uh at the end of the fiscal year which were coming up on the end of the fiscal year right so they're trying to dump some funding so that they can get more next year or they're just incompetent or some general wanted to get their pet project across and made a deal with the governor for more funding who knows or it could be what everybody seems to think it is on the internet which is something to ferish training for the american military to target uh americans which we think is a thing but i'm just not sure if this is going to be a a representative representative situation of that i don't know but i did want to mention it you can research it on your own so yeah there you go on that and then for number 10 i made a mistake i made yet another mistake on these slides there's a mistake in every slide i put the joint cyber defense collaborative on there twice so i already talked about that so we'll just go ahead and skip that last one because i already talked about it now moving forward into what we get asked a lot understandably a lot of people out there are asking at what level should we be freaking out or or something like that or um what what kind of concerns should i have and things like that like i cannot tell you how many like i'm sure the guy who man's our instagram account just gets bombarded every day i know when i check our email account we get bombarded every day and you know don't don't get this wrong we're not trying to say don't contact us we're just saying that a lot of people are very upset and i i completely understand it i really do i'm very upset um but here is where i wanted to spread a little bit of optimism okay and i wanted to do that via this sort of format and we can do this with every single with a lot of different issues but i just wanted to show you uh what how i'm trying to think about things when i see something really gargantuanly bad happen in the news or something like that and i think oh my god the the end is not right uh this is the thought process i go through so i go through a three-step thought process for a lot of this stuff that i see that's just horrifically bad first of all is what what happened okay and second is what would if i were looking through the lens of a totalitarian dictator if i wanted to be king emperor of the universe what would i have to do in order to make that original thing more effective right and lastly i think because of those mistakes how can i take advantage of a person who isn't as effective as they could be so here let me let me run through the first one and show you what i'm talking about so what the regime did was recommend masks slash the experimental drug that cannot be named right so they've recommended it okay they didn't they haven't mandated it yet right they haven't mandated it yet for for citizens okay so what a totalitarian dictator would need to do in order to get compliance is mandate that stuff immediately for every person and go door to door and make sure that it happens right and you know that might happen one day uh every day that goes by it seems like we're creeping towards that um but right now we have to admit that if resistance to this kind of stuff is possible in the first place if they're giving us a choice right recommending is not recommending is coercing but it's not mandating right they're giving us an option right and if that's possible then it will lead to resistance in other areas you know if they were to come out and say masks and the experimental drug are mandatory for every u.s citizen to get your resistance would fall sharply because people just don't see a way out well now they're offered a way out people are offered a way to not participate in that and since that happens uh that resistance can spread to other areas so there you go they're just not as effective as as they as they can be right same thing with coercing people into staying inside right stay indoors save lives right yeah all that bs right well here's the thing they're just coercing people right they're tricking people using propaganda and things like that a totalitarian dictator in order to be fully effective would have to order this at you know at gunpoint like in australia right people are literally having to show their papers to the police to leave their freaking houses right that's what would have to happen in the united states right and since that's not happening we can take advantage of that every minute of freedom that we have is a minute of freedom that we have to stockpile you know collect and collect intel you know prepare for the lockdowns for when they for when you know the gun point does come right if that does happen right so there you go we can take advantage of that even though it seems like that first event right you know the government's coercing people into staying inside their houses well we can turn that into a positive thing um without too much effort at all just by looking at the other side of the coin right they're not as effective as they could be likewise this is for the military guys out there purging the military of dissidents like we remember hey you know the us government is now looking at your facebook page soldier you know that's how it works right well here's the thing though they didn't purge everybody they did not purge every single person in the united states military that does not agree with the regime or senior military leadership in fact quite the opposite has occurred right whoever is left in the military right those only a handful of people have been kicked out of the military for being quote unquote extremists right i.e they liked the wrong thing on facebook and their command found out about it right the majority of the military that's left right is now covertly operating with the same beliefs that they had before so now they're getting used to operating in a covert environment they're getting used to hiding their beliefs from their command because there you go and if they're willing to hide their beliefs from their command they're willing to hide other beliefs from their command you see how that works and you know in classic fashion right classic us history right the us military has created more adversaries within its own ranks than it has stopped outside its ranks right so there you go by trying to purge but not being completely effective right which is not something the regime could have done in the first place right by purging as many by purging just a few people they have ticked off everybody else right or or mostly everybody else and now they're underground right so there you go on that likewise with the thing that everybody's concerned about is infringing on gun rights right the regime has of course infringed on pretty much every human right that there is but especially gun rights but but what a totalitarian dictator would have to do right in order to be fully effective is literally a surprise raid on every single human being who owns a gun in the united states at the same exact time right it's going to be coordinated at every level federal state local and even like sub-local groups would have to be coordinated to all strike at once to get every single gun right this is not australia where you can have a gun buyback program and every person in the entire country shows up and gives up their guns willingly this is america we don't do that here granted there are a lot of you know flood types out there that would gladly hand in their guns um because daddy government told them to uh the fact of the matter is is that the resistance to this kind of stuff has never been stronger than it is today right so the the interesting tidbit that a lot of people have mentioned this is not just you know me trying to be an internet you know um professor or anything the interesting part that a lot of people have noticed is that the regime has infringed so much that ordinary people ordinary people who um don't who don't um who think that you know some gun laws are good and things like that those people are now openly and regularly violating laws you know just a couple of years ago people would be terrified to even have a stock and an ar pistol in the same exact room because they were terrified that the atf would raid them and say ah you're you have the capability of doing so well you know now the vast majority of gun owners simply ignore most gun laws so there you go um i guess the moral of the story for talking about this particular issue is that every single day that goes by and this middle column here right this this list of stuff that a total dictator would have to do every day that goes by and this middle column doesn't happen is a day that we can use to our advantage right so that is a bit of good news i know that not a lot of time we don't talk about good news a lot but it's really important to keep things in perspective keep things grounded and stuff like that and up next is something that i wanted to talk about um because this is something that i just you know on a whim one day created because i i we we kept getting a lot of dms for this and you're going to get a different answer if you ask every single person here what books would you recommend so i created on goodreads a reading list if you're interested in learning more or you want to figure out where to begin or if you're interested in the field of intelligence or military history or things like that if you want a list of books to read to that we think that i think would help get us out of the situation that we're in this is where you need to go now i will be the first to admit that i do not like this platform since it's owned by amazon but it's the easiest thing to use it catalogs it's able to catalog our books here the literally stacks of thousands of books that we have here in our shop it's really easy to transfer them over to this platform and most importantly you don't need an account to view the books that i've dropped on here which is nice i would also mention that this list is far from com really far from complete i've only got a couple hundred on there so far i'm trying to progressively add books as i can get to them and they had you know ads specific shelves for specific topics um [Music] so yeah like i mentioned we're often asked what books would recommend for people that are new to the field of intel and stuff like that so we've got a specific list for that you know and if you got the basics down and you want something a little bit more advanced well you know we've got a a higher level more challenging advanced intel bookshelf as well so check it out if you're interested uh you know we are always reading new books here and so i'm you know i'm really the main person who is adding books to this list most of our staff here is constantly sending me books to add to the list that i either totally forgot about or even haven't read yet so i will completely and be grateful for any books that anyone can recommend i'm absolutely opening the floodgates and requesting that if you've got a book that's really good and you think is is very handy to to to know uh please send it to us or or drop it in the comments below we've got a channel on key base and i think element as well for reading list recommendations and things like that so that would be very very handy so we can add to the list so yeah and pushing forward into international issues the bottom line is there's a lot of stuff going on in the world and i did not have enough time or the bandwidth to find the hundreds of things that are going on in the world to add to this slide but i will briefly mention that the china the chinese nuclear power plant that's leaking is still leaking and shocker is leaking worse than what they told us um surprising for communists i know right um and a lot of experts are now warning that uh it might actually melt down i don't really know about that um i think that the chinese would absolutely sacrifice their people in order to make sure it didn't melt down because a meltdown is something that's hard to keep within the confines of state control especially with western media having an eye on it but who knows we might uh wake up one morning and see uh see a plume but i don't know we'll see i guess also france france is not letting us down with their um uh massive anti-anti-lock down protests which are currently underway in the country they know how to do it right the the friendship really people knock the french for well being french i suppose but uh they really know how to protest so i i think it's been kind of entertaining to at least watch some of the stuff they're doing and it's it's very helpful to know that at least some people in europe are willing to resist so that's very good to know because europe is um europe's dealing with a lot of stuff right now um so yeah also iran if you wanted to um look this up iran has allegedly hijacked another oil tanker there's really not much information on this right now but the united kingdom that's why i have the same bullet for each each one is that the united kingdom is heavily involved a counter piracy company in the united kingdom was heavily involved trying to say uh hey iran just stole another oil tanker we think now in a few days we'll probably know a little bit more but it would not surprise me at all considering israel has been very very much all about targeting iran shipping oil to syria so it would make sense that iran is having to confiscate or or hijack more um oil tankers so they can that's just what iranians do right the the irony regime i should say uh and then finally the united kingdom is in uh some hot water of their own because uh apparently there are mass food shortages and resource shortages in that country which is being blamed on brexit it's that sounds about right to be honest because of logistical complexities that come with brexit if you haven't been following brexit it's too much to get into right now but uh just suffice it to say that people in the united kingdom are are reporting shortages of pretty much everything um either as a legitimate shortage or there's a driver shortage because of brexit uh people are certain people aren't allowed to you know drive for things like that and um food is you know rotting in the fields and things like that in a few select areas so uh yeah not super great for the uk um it's not i would not classify it as quite an emergency level yet but it is interesting to see that food shortages are most certainly a theme on the international front at this time so before i uh i ended today i just wanted to do like a little mini a little mini podcast and take a minute to check in with everybody and see how everybody's doing and really just to say keep on keeping on and try not to let things get to you too much like i mentioned earlier pretty much everything in this briefing today is worth panicking over even though we're not panicking it's just people everywhere are getting burned out left and right and i find even myself well especially myself just without the energy to view things as they really are anymore in a lot of cases there are a lot of dudes on the internet screaming about this or that these days and unfortunately a lot of them are right yes we are living in unprecedented times times yes our government is legitimately trying to use communism to usher in totalitarianism or whatever it certainly seems like it right you know you know things are not going super great right now we're not confused as to what's going on right i think most people know what's going on to some degree right at this point anyone who doesn't even see the tiniest bit of what's going on i can't help them like none of our staff here can help them there's nothing we can write there's nothing we can produce that can help people like that um they are beyond saving at this point um at least at this time right it may change in the future but you know it's unfortunate um at least the effort required to help a person dig themselves out of the ideological hole they've dug would be disproportionate to the number of people that we could help right so yeah i mean if you go back and you listen to a lot of our previous content really mostly our original og podcast you'll notice how much we've all changed we here try to be as analytical as possible neutral will be the wrong word because neutrality is what journalism is supposed to be and we're not journalists right analysts are supposed to use their skills and experiences to advocate for a certain course of action that's what analysis is right and the very definition requires that analysts be continually at odds with each other um a team of analysts that all agree on everything you know all the time they're that's that's a worthless team right now that means that you might have people um you know this doesn't apply just to analysts like us but you you know normal people as well so you might have people who have different freakout points right like i was mentioning earlier if that that makes sense you know like for instance if i see a a bomb disposal technician running right you know i'm going to break h

hello again everyone welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for tuesday september 28 2021 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 27th so let's get right to it with the weather weather over the next 12 hours is going to be quite significant on the west coast with lots of systems bringing in a lot of precipitation of all different kinds and all kinds of cloud ceilings that are going to be really low to the ground so for any kind of asset aviation unmanned or otherwise it's going to be not good flying off the west coast for the next 12 hours and remember as we move forward into the later parts of the year the days start getting shorter and we have more hours of night time to play with so for the at least the east coast for tonight the uh end of evening nautical twilight is going to be at 7 52 p.m we're also going to have pretty good lunar illumination for this cycle we're at a 65 illumination level and throughout the rest of the country really the only other place that's going to have some trouble with some low-level clouds is the northeast as they start to get some of that winter weather coming their way and as we can see here moving into this slide i change it just for this week just to show the uh precipitation off the west coast is going to be really bad for any kind of aerial operations as well as little spots up there in new england which are going to prohibit or be very unlikely for any kind of aerial surveillance operations again if it were to be a factor just to get everybody in the mindset of seeing wind directions and and how these prevailing winds actually work out moving into no tams really nothing significant to report for this brief uh it's not the weekend so we don't have the presidential one to talk about and there's really nothing else going on there are a few standard ones that have been up but you can go check them out if you're interested in learning more about no tams and for our civil unrest forecast for this briefing there's really not that many changes really the only one i wanted to highlight is number four there in phoenix arizona where the election audit is ongoing that election audit as everyone has probably heard by now is heating up quite significantly and i'm personally guessing that the results of the forensic audit will be released in their entirety after this brief goes out but probably before the next one so that's something to be aware of as uh we're gonna have to come back to once things become a bit more clear on that front and for logistics a quick rundown of the shortages from last time uh as always over here on the left side of the map you can see the list of shortages that are impacting the nation as a whole are really no major changes on that front and again from last brief we're still tracking school bus driver shortages in the states depicted on the map we're also tracking the microchip shortage as is starting to impact things about the same as it has been over the past few weeks and months which is to say quite significantly we're also seeing public transit driver shortages in the states that are depicted same thing from last time really the only thing new to add is costco shortages so costco the company has restricted toilet paper and bottled water again they're saying that they're facing shortages in those arenas so it's unclear as to where in which stores they're going to be having shortages that but my guess is since this has now hit the news probably all of them so costco claims that this their shortages are due to both inflation and supply chain issues um which is a you know good excuse but we here don't know if this is true or not uh this could be a case of a company claiming that there is a shortage to cause a run on their products and drive demand up in the short term so of course we've been tracking inflation seriously affecting things along with a widespread paper shortage but nothing has specifically indicated to us that there was a shortage looming for costco specifically so again like last time the shortage of bottled water and toilet paper we predicted that one quite easily along with a lot of other people because it was very easy to see because news media articles were spinning a story that the virus that cannot be named caused digestive issues so that was the reason which spun up all the news media over the toilet paper shortages and then once they started uh reporting that well then it just became a snowball a logistical nightmare so we're not seeing that this time other than you know a normal paper shortage that we've been dealing with for months now we're we're not seeing a specific coherent you know event that is resulting in costco being completely out of all their stuff sure shortages have been happening but it's not like there was one really inflammatory thing event that occurred to cause costco to have these widespread outages so until we get more information on that i guess it really doesn't matter in the long run because there are shortages now so who knows the chain of causation here isn't really determinable because we just don't have inside access to costco supply data so just know that if you shop at costco there will almost certainly be shortages on random things probably toilet paper and water and other things as well as people go there to stock up on stuff so there's going to be shortages now and other stores are almost certainly going to be affected as well as these shortages spread to other big box stores from the demand being so high and moving into critical infrastructure concerns really the biggest one to talk about is the crystal valley ransomware attack so the minnesota-based crystal valley agricultural co-op was hit with a ransomware attack a few days ago actually almost immediately after the new cooperative the new cooperative was hit down in iowa much the same way as far as impact uh this attack has shut down operations for the co-op and is affecting about 2 500 farmers in minnesota and in northern iowa in various ways that you know we can't really get a feel on for for instance uh this co-op maintains fueling stations for agricultural vehicles and things like that uh which are having issues taking payments from credit cards so so far that's really all the info we have regarding impacts this co-op has been really tight-lipped about exactly what systems are currently offline or were impacted but we expect to know more as this incident continues the ransomware attack actually occurred back on september 19th and the media local media at least became aware a couple of days after that so so far there isn't any indication as to if their systems are back online or if anything's been resolved or what we haven't seen a statement either way at this point so again just like last brief this cyber attack highlights an increased effort for ransomware attacks and other kinds of cyber attacks against our critical infrastructure and with the highly computerized nature of agricultural operations these days these attacks broadly speaking will be a significant threat in the near future a lot of people don't know how advanced agricultural operations have become which is both good and bad but these cyber attacks quite clearly highlight the vulnerabilities when a farmer can't even turn the ignition and start up his tractor without the tractor having a gps or cellular connection and when a field cannot be irrigated without the automated management system sending the data through some server halfway around the country and this presents a lot of vulnerabilities for our food supply especially in an age of cyber attacks moving into significant governmental actions first up is delta airlines so delta airlines has made themselves a no-fly list which is separate from the national no-fly list which honestly itself warrants further investigation if you want to go down the rabbit hole and get extremely angry in the process because it's really infuriating to realize the details of no-fly lists in general but delta has been keeping their own a separate no-fly list for political reasons they have been kicking people off flights for not complying with their mandates which again make absolutely no sense if you actually read them but since the federal government hasn't put people on their national security no-fly list for these mandate violations delta has again proven themselves willing to go above and beyond to follow laws that do not exist and even make up their own no-fly list that is just for them and delta wants other airlines to share their lists too if they have them to create a national no-fly list that is separate from the federal no flight list this is just among the airline companies themselves right so as infuriating as this is it is also quite an interesting look into the strange field of certain kinds of companies and airlines are a fantastic way to learn a lot of information for instance we have talked a lot in the past about private companies that are technically private companies but they go above and beyond to follow laws and rules that do not exist simply to gain favor with the federal government a good example of this in the past has been companies that sell night vision devices some companies make you sign a stack of waivers scan a copy of your driver's license and a bunch of other stuff none of which is federal law by the way all you've got to do to own night vision in america is just follow itar rules which basically means don't export it but other than that there really isn't that much regulation right so other companies don't make you sign anything at all and you just click the you know add to cart button on the website and check out like normal like you're just buying something like normal federal itar laws say nothing at all about scanning a driver's license it is on the consumer not the company to comply with itar laws but some companies go above and beyond to require things that are not actually required by federal government thus the airlines airline companies were the first ones to require medical passports even before the federal government got involved they did that on their own so again this is infuriating i get it but it's also a great opportunity to see exactly which airlines and companies will go down this unique path and eagerly be the tip of the spear when it comes to medical mandates and not just a hesitant complier who's complying because they have to or the government will shut their business down it really just highlights the spectrum of of willingness to comply with the federal mandates and it looks like especially delta airlines is right at the tip of that spear and speaking of medical mandates moving on to number two the biden regime has stated in various cryptic press statements that they are mandating the medical procedure for all federal contractors again we don't know exactly how this is going to go down because we haven't seen the exact wording of these mandates and we might not see it for a while the biden regime is clearly full steam ahead on using tactics like regulations instead of full-on executive orders executive orders are clear and concise and can easily be overturned by a court but getting some minor regulatory agency to verbally pressure the companies they regulate that's a lot harder to battle in court that's why biden is going through osha to mandate the jab for private businesses if that were an executive order a federal judge could easily stop it at least temporarily but if it were a rule change which by the way biden is extremely famous for during his tenure in the senate if you followed his career before he even became vice president he was very famous for this it's a lot harder to sue and it's a lot harder for a judge to stop because it's not as simple as placing a hold on something right so again this incident is interesting because we don't know how many federal contracting companies have already many months ago gone above and beyond to comply with a medical mandate that didn't exist yet but now does right so we might have some companies have very little change to their workforce because they already thinned the herd months ago or we might have some companies quietly not push the issue because they can't afford to lose their workforce especially with gigantic federal contracts on the line so again we have very little data on this so i guess we'll just have to see how it goes but it will certainly be interesting to follow and moving on to number three uh so far we have had several incidents involving afghan refugees at two u.s bases uh fort mccoy in wisconsin and fort bliss in texas there have been other incidents that are not yet public so we can't comment on those just yet but two afghan refugees that were brought here as part of the afghanistan evacuation have been indicted federally at fort mccoy one for attempting to force himself on a child and the other for attempting to suffocate his wife these are two separate incidents with people that they're not related or anything there's also been a third incident that is currently under investigation by the fbi in which a female u.s service member was assaulted by several afghan males this event occurred in the refugee tent city in fort bliss texas as far as commenting on this there really isn't that much intel value except to point out that this is a direct side effect of the hectic nature of the evacuations so for those of you that did not follow our briefings during the afghanistan evacuation one of the unfortunate things that happened was the evacuation of unvetted people and this is kind of a delicate thing to talk about but it turns out that a lot of people that we evacuated weren't super great people a lot of the people that we evacuated happened to be what would be even for afghan society considered to be freeloaders who just wanted to get a handout from the us government and weren't actually in threat of being killed by the taliban for those of you who have been to afghanistan and you know what we're talking about here we all know that there's a certain group of any real society i guess no matter where the military base is at in the world but it just happens to be in afghanistan as well people that hang around the base try to get as much free stuff as they can from the government while they can and those people were a lot of those people were the people that ended up on flights so plus there is the completely atrocious parts of afghan culture that we cannot talk about here because we try to be as family friendly as possible in these briefings but every soldier again who's been to afghanistan knows exactly what i'm talking about so when you combine all of this stuff together the culture the evacuation the the the need for the biden administration to pump up numbers even people who might not have deserved a trip out of that country to here uh all of these things adding up together mean that you're going to have incidents like this we saw this coming we saw this we saw this and talked about it during the evacuation and now we're now we're seeing the results of this moving on to number four uh new york is in a pickle uh the state government has created a worker shortage in the health care industry by mandating the jab so what nor what new york is dealing with right now is a medical crisis of their own creation which they freely admit to creating this is not some this is not just me being biased this is something they admit to they mandated the jab for health care workers a lot of health care workers left the job or they were or they quit um and now there's a shortage of health care workers allegedly so much of a shortage that the governor is planning to call up the national guard to staff hospitals now one might ask instead of calling up the national guard why not just get rid of the mandates and bring those people back that quit well that would certainly be the preferable option from a strategic standpoint but the past couple of years have certainly been a time for governors to use the national guard as they see fit so who knows i just wanted to point this out in case you end up needing medical care in new york you might find that your doctor is a soldier in the near future due to the shortage of health care workers and moving on to number five kind of moving back to afghanistan too the fbi is publicly they've publicly released that they are investigating certain veteran groups who were working to rescue people from afghanistan that the u.s government left behind the fbi has launched an official investigation and made visits to individual residences of people and groups who worked to get americans back home for us this is completely unsurprising as we have stated many times in our afghanistan series the us government is trying to cover up leaving americans behind and is targeting anyone who tried to help get americans out no witness is no crime right so the u.s government is working around the clock to make sure that as few people make it home as possible again something that we pointed out as as being a huge problem in our afghanistan series and number six i briefly wanted to touch on the border crisis just to remind people that it does in fact still exist it's still a huge problem we have observed a significant propaganda effort to slander the border patrol agents down there you know with the whole photo scandal that was completely fabricated uh border patrol agents never whipped anybody and the video and other photos of the event have shown that this is a complete and utter lie even the guy who took the photo that the white house has been pushing and their minions have been pushing on social media the dude who took the photo said he never saw anybody whipping anyone so that's really pretty much the update on that just to kind of dispel that that never happened right uh and a lot of there's a lot of propaganda um and the fact that the illegal immigration problem uh this immediate crisis as specifically is still a massive problem and the byte administration has been quietly letting in the very same people that they said they would send back to their host nations so pretty much the status quo on that front and moving into a new slide i wanted to briefly talk about some developing technologies i know this is going to be kind of hard to work into the normal rotation of things but i did want to talk about it because there's a lot of new gadgets and technologies that are coming out that i think are worth knowing about at least the first one is this new satcom detector so this is a new detector that is you can read all this technical data about it at least the technical data that is public about it in the sources but this is a new detection device that can detect and pinpoint sat phone calls from the iridium network the thurian network and the inmarsat network now of course sat phone interception tools have been used for years so this is nothing new it's just this particular one is new so that's kind of interesting um moving on to number two is the shadow dragon surveillance software uh so this again is something that is currently being used it's actually kind of old this has been around for kind of a while but i didn't want to mention it because it's gotten a lot of um a lot of press lately actually the article that is the source for this the primary like company that is like you know outraged about this software is the intercept and if you read the article it is it is full of very uh very biased language i'll say that i'll say it like that um but in any case basically the shadow dragon surveillance software is just a suite of software tools that's like palantir for those guys out there who have used who like who are analysts and have used this stuff it's like palantir it's actually more closely aligned to like analyst notebook from way back in the day but yeah it's just a social media aggregator it has a lot of different sources and tools very powerful tool and it turns out our police most police groups in the united states are using this or something like this so yeah something to be aware of it's very interesting how if how the whole thing works and uh the intercept article's got some interesting stuff about it but again just be advised it's not really easy to read um so yeah i thought that would be kind of interesting to talk about also the mark 22 sniper rifle continues this development the fort bragg pao just put out a a few pictures of it so it underwent some airborne testing a couple weeks ago in which they wanted to make sure that it actually maintained its accuracy after uh the the jostling of a of a jump you know static line deployment so um that's kind of interesting it's going to be probably fielded pretty soon if it isn't already in the hands of some special dudes doing special things as it already has been for at least a couple of years now i think and one of the more cool ones i think to talk about is the new mc130 juliet variant the commando 2 amphibious variant specifically of the c130 airframe so basically this is a c-130 hercules or really the the mc130 that they're going to put some gigantic floats on so that it can be amphibious now this is kind of interesting because this is afsock requesting this of course but the fact that we're trying to shift uh to the pacific you know the great pacific pivot right that a lot of military analysts are talking about this is one of those things right being able to land at some of these smaller atolls and we're trying to repeat a lot of the doctrine we're kind of going back to that world war ii uh conflict against japan right the war in the pacific there and looking at a lot of the lessons learned and geography hasn't changed at all since world war ii so uh technology has to uh has to change in order to provide the capabilities we need for that conflict so i thought that was kind of interesting also it's in really the the later stages of development they're they're actually going to have this is going from drawing board to full scale demonstration in 17 months so that's uh that's a fast track program that's that's why i wanted to talk about it this is this is moving quick uh for such a program so you know again the special forces community has been very uh very interested in using the c-130 airframe for very specific things in the past and they have fast-tracked other airframes as well but this is an interesting one to to keep in mind and to be on the lookout for if you happen to see one in testing and moving on to number five uh this one is really kind of uh the cat's out of the bag so i guess we can kind of talk about it now considering it's all over the internet at this point a huge a gigantic optic violation resulted in a worker or some personnel or somebody taking a video and posting on tick tock of one of our stealth aircraft that was undergoing testing at the helendale radar cross section facility so yeah nothing is known about it other than this video coming out but it is very interesting design and it it's raising a lot of eyebrows around the internet just because of how futuristic it looks but again this is probably not something that is anywhere close to being developed if they're still undergoing the radar cross-section analysis then it's probably early on in its phase of development but interesting thing to note uh moving forward i guess and finally is something that is sure to creep a lot of people out this is a flying microchip so northwestern university has created the smallest ever human-made flying object which is essentially a flying microchip so i'm not sure if you can actually see it or not but there is a whole pile of these things right here and this is of course inside reference to a carpenter ant they're smaller than some of these grains of sand so there's one there there's one there there there and there yeah very interesting uh now i know this is talking about anything that's small and flying and potentially a collection asset is surely to ignite the most interesting parts of the internet i guess i'll say it that way but this is purely conceptual sure they've made them and it does appear to work but again i'm not exactly looking around the room for these little particles of dust that are flying around with cameras on them just yet so yes there is a demonstration yes this is a proof of concept essentially but it's not like this is going to become a mainstream thing uh even within the next year or two this is a long-term thing as we try to make sensors that are smaller and smaller and smaller you know the government agencies making these are going to have a harder and harder time uh getting things as compact as possible so again something interesting i thought i'd touch on and uh yeah i guess we'll keep an eye on some of these developing technologies and see how they how they shake out over the next few you know weeks and years i guess moving on to the public school attendance mask mandate tracker map so really there have been a couple of updates not too many but really the two biggest ones are florida and texas so florida most large school districts now require masks directly going against the governor's orders which is a trend that we've been observing for a long time it seems that on the government level particularly when it comes to these mandates that politically liberal officials and agencies in conservative states are 100 percent willing to fight their conservative governors and openly not complying with their orders but the reverse is not true so conservative officials local governments and agencies and entities uh in liberal states are certainly not willing to fight their liberal political leadership in in the more liberal states uh certainly not as much as liberals are willing to fight conservatives on issues like this so um i wanted to point this out because it's something to keep in mind as these maps start getting blurry over the next few days and weeks right same situation in texas mass mandates are banned right but that ban was overturned by a court or by a judge who's put a temporary hold on it and also about 85 percent of all the school districts in texas require masks so there you go and that trend applies to pretty much all states right now this slide isn't great i don't like the way this slide is depicting things because it looks like the states that are gray it kind of looks like there's nothing going on there but just as a baseline almost all states actually i think every state at this point has a mass mandate in their most populated cities uh in their capital cities or really even just their largest school districts so i just wanted to point that out that even though there might not be a mandate on the state level every single state has at least one very large school district usually the biggest school district in the state in which masks are mandated so and as far as other changes from the last brief tennessee two judges teamed up together to block the mask mandate ban and the same thing happened in oklahoma a temporary injunction was issued there to stop their mandate ban on the other end of the spectrum south carolina is actually doing pretty good there there look like they're charging forward ahead um faster than anybody else uh their supreme court upheld the ban on mandates at the state level so that will deal a significant blow to the mandate makers in south carolina for a while although local districts can and still do mandate masks on their own it's just it's prohibited at the state level and it's backed up by the south carolina supreme court moving on to the jab mandate tracker really no updates at all to this slide california is still the only state where it's mandated for students k-12 to receive the medical procedure so i'm just going to push forward into the medical resistance tracker uh really there's only been a couple of updates really arkansas is the biggest one again arkansas is in that weird situation where the governor has verbally stated that he is in favor of medical mandates but he's just upset that it's the federal government doing it and not anybody on a lower level such as himself or company by company i guess so we expect similar sentiments to work their way out over the next few weeks as we see what other mandates are coming down the pipeline remember we still haven't really seen anything tangible to give us an indication of the exact wording of these mandates that will be coming from osha so right now a lot of the states that are claiming to resist don't really have anything to grab onto with a lawsuit just yet everybody's pretty much in wait and see mode for now with only a few states going out of the way to provide a blanket of laws that will prevent whatever the regime comes up with from being enforced and moving on to international issues i'm going to move through these quite quickly because there is a lot of stuff to talk about so first up is the medical stuff getting that kind of out of the way so australia new zealand and france uh they're we're seeing significant resistance to the medical mandates and really government overreach at this point and those demonstrations are certainly escalating uh as the days go by some nations such as sweden denmark and norway have actually backpedaled sweden and norway announced their recovery from the the pandemic and denmark has actually done the same but also reclassified the virus as something that is no greater threat than the flu so for some nations their governments are doubling down on the restrictions and in other nations they are treating it like it's like it's over so that's interesting as time goes on moving over to southeast asia the coup in myanmar is escalating quite significantly as a military junta there tries to drill down its control even further there's been quite a quite a bit of resistance in burma throughout the past few months but this military coup situation will probably have follow-on effects for a long time and moving forward into africa into the sahel region specifically mali the long-range reconnaissance group is at it again most people might know them as the lrdg of the long-range desert group the ses has been very active in north africa and the long-range reconnaissance group has specifically been conducting a lot of long-range missions that are very much an homage to their heritage throughout north africa really and this is due to the fight against isis being quite significant in throughout mali and niger as we move forward into the winter season although lately the past few years we've seen a pretty significant fighting season continue throughout the winter basically a year around fighting season uh for for most of the isis militants that try to maintain control of africa now i know a lot of people are saying why are you talking about africa constantly well because it's a huge theater and because a lot of people have a lot of interest in africa china has built a a lot a serious amount of bases there they've built a lot of roads in exchange for mineral rights it is a next it's not the next frontier but it is a major goal for a lot of powers around the world and you know we keep constantly having green berets get killed in africa in places where the american public isn't even aware that that's where we are so the united states has a presence there obviously the brits have a good presence there the french actually just had one of their soldiers killed in the same theater so africa is certainly relevant mostly for the mineral wealth most of the minerals that are required to make things like smartphones were things like colton and nickel and cobalt and bauxite and things like that those elements have to come from somewhere sure the devices are made in china but the the elements that are used to make the devices come from africa for the most part so that's why africa is such a huge deal and that's why china wants to invest heavily in africa as much as they can a lot of mineral wealth they can export back they can avoid the natural resource curse that pretty much every african nation has suffered from nations with large amounts of mineral wealth tend to tend to do pretty poorly economically even though it sounds counterproductive this is called the natural resource curse which you can read more about on your own but the case in point is that a lot of these nations are exporting their stuff so china is very much interested in africa and so is everyone else jumping back to europe the united kingdom uh our friends across the pond are not doing so well when it comes to shortages of things now everyone has that magic b word right brexit on their on their minds these days uh and it seems to be like a lot of the logistical problems are kind of caused by brexit but also not not really so you know driver shortages yeah you could point it back to brexit at some point uh everything it comes back to any kind of shaking up of the logistical supply network of a nation is going to be it's going to have results so that's why you have things like driver shortages they have you know gasoline shortages gasoline rationing is still happening uh from last brief that's still going on you've got a co2 shortage so um in the uk they use co2 mainly for the creation of things like of course beverage production but also for uh the humane killing of uh animals the slaughtering of animals for uh meat and that's that's already hitting the meat industry so it's not that there's a shortage of beef it's just there's a shortage of the chemicals needed to you know humanely dispatch those animals right so which drives production down and there you go so the united kingdom as a whole we know they're not doing super hot when it comes to logistics right now and jumping back to south korea uh they have of course as almost immediately after the last briefing work in which we talked about their new launches in the you know the sort of mini arms race that's going on between the north and the south right now they have released or released footage of their new anti-ship cruise missile so it's a hypersonic missile so huge technological development for them of course uh they got outside help so if you actually look at the missile itself it looks very similar to some russian uh russian missiles so interestingly south korea is continuing their uh continuing their missile tests we'll of course see something from the north if we haven't already that we just missed uh something from the north is going to happen uh probably another missile test or something you know it's how an arms race works so something to keep an eye on if you happen to see north korea has done something this is probably why and moving forward to russia so for those that don't track russian politics russia recently had an election and if you look at a lot of the things that are being said online a lot of people are saying that it could not have been more fraudulent if they tried so we're talking about all kinds of things like people recording the actual digital voting screen thing changing their vote uh the number of votes being changed so so um alexia navalny's old political outfit was like hugely in the lead uh at one point and then like 60 seconds before the voting polls closed uh putin's party jumped to the lead with like 90 percent of the vote so you know the classic stuff we keep hearing and uh stuff that eerily rings true here in the united states as well as we question our own uh electoral process so very interesting it's kind of hilarious to see the kind of the things that are coming out about the russian election but uh you guys can go check that out on your own i just think it's quite interesting to to to note that uh uh russia and the ruling elite are still uh still up to their old tricks just like just like expected and moving to austria or really i suppose technically the united states as well so u.s and austria the cia station chief in vienna has been ousted from her job among accusations that she did not report any sort of incidents involving havana syndrome so for those of you who have not been following our discussions on havana syndrome this is a it is an illness that was first thought to be a myth a few years ago it's been around for gosh i think the first time i heard about havana syndrome was about 10 years ago um but basically it's an it's a mysterious illness with no it's got symptoms like nausea headaches tinnitus things like that so people are exhibiting real symptoms but you there's no uh indication there's no tox no toxins in their system they pass a full medical evaluation and so havana syndrome is very much a uh mysterious thing even among the highest levels of our intelligence agencies they've gotten a lot more evidence about what they think it might be now but back in the day what's become public knowledge i suppose and safe to talk about is it is most people think it has something to do with some kind of electromagnetic weapon some kind of uh ray gun or some kind of directed energy weapon you know dew uh that is causing these kinds of things we don't some kind of microwave weapon is what was theorized at one point uh others think it's some kind of x-ray or something to do with the electromagnetic spectrum so um that's kind of the general thinking about havana syndrome right now and a lot of diplomats have reported it because it of course surfaced in havana cuba of diplomats you know not every diplomat who lives in a country you know is a representative of the united states they don't all live inside the embassy they live outside the embassy so workers would report getting sick and this started happening all over the planet and it turns out bringing it back to austria in vienna they had more cases than anywhere else combined so there you go and the cia station chief there was covering that up or down playing down playing it like so many uh diplomats have downplayed it over the years but it's clearly a real thing uh people are really getting sick as to who is doing this the classic finger pointing is of course russia our number one diplomatic adversary um it's it sounds like a russian thing to do that's kind of along the thing kind of along the lines of the cold war tricks they used to do but then again the united states is also perfectly capable of doing these attacks on ourselves as well so who who really knows right unless you're the director of the cia you're not going to know the full story of any of this stuff and even then you might not know so i thought it was kind of interesting it brings back this havana syndrome uh medical thing in back into the press for people to to kind of sink their teeth into and it's sort of from our side of things um it kind of triggers us even here as a civilian group right um it triggers us into thinking okay well well is this this is going to be a huge deal a few years down the line because we've already seen how in just a few short years it's gone from being a myth to a very serious thing and we're trying and it's one of those things that like once you get down into the weeds of well how would you how would you stop it how would you prevent something like this it gets very difficult to do so i just wanted to point that out for those that are interested in havana syndrome and moving on to china so china not doing super hot they're still working through the problems with the evergrand crisis their economy is is seriously in trouble i guess we'll see how this plays on the asian markets which are not doing super hot right now either way but it looks like uh china is going to have some serious economic problems for the foreseeable future finally ending on bahrain sorry it's too small to show on the map but i just wanted to briefly mention the new cooperation the new partnership between bahrain and the us navy in which they're going to start patrolling together a lot more so for those that don't know bahrain's a small little island kind of nation out there next to saudi arabia off the coast there and it's it's really just a big u.s navy base it is its own nation they have their own stuff but it's really one of those diplomatically weird places to describe uh but they do have a navy they do have a coastal uh you know coastal defense thing and they have quite a few ships um so we're going to be uh the united united states is going to be conducting a lot more exercises with them throughout the rest of the gulf region uh quite soon and that's pretty much all i've got for today uh thank you again to everyone for watching and a special thank you to all of our supporters on patreon i know we've gotten kind of a burst of people supporting us over there so just wanted to thank you all again for that it really does help with our rising costs here as we start 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[Music] [Music] with everything going on in the world today a lot of people are asking a lot of questions most of which kind of come back to the same overarching question what is going on today we will attempt to provide one answer to that question i say one answer because there is no one answer to the world's problems but maybe one answer might help us identify some solutions to the problems at hand and that answer could lie within the idea of fifth generation warfare if only the idea itself wasn't so much of a paradox so what is fifth generation warfare well that's the trouble isn't it you can pause the video and go google the term fifth generation warfare and you might find some information or a wikipedia article that does a poor job at explaining what it is chances are you're not easily going to find a good definition for it so we will have to come at this topic indirectly by first talking about the first four generations of warfare and be advised a lot of this stuff is really hard to understand it even gets right down to the philosophy of the universe itself so thinking about this topic is not for the faint of heart for the first four generations of warfare we can think of these topics as different ages of warfare all separated by technology and innovation more or less the first generation of warfare is pretty simple it's what we think of when we think of ancient warfare first gen warfare is characterized by certain tactics like the phalanx or line and column attacks of large armies clashing together on open battlefields this is the first real categorization of warfare in which nation states or groups or societies acting as nation-states fought against each other over time as technology progressed and allowed humans to kill each other more efficiently the second generation of warfare was born technologies such as rifled weapons machine guns and significant developments in the field of artillery for this era of warfare think world war one this is really where the term modern warfare comes into play where technological developments forced radical changes in the field of warfare gone were the days where large long lines of troops advanced over open ground welcome to the trenches but as we know following the carnage of world war one we have the interwar years the years between the first and second world wars during this time humanity experienced yet more technological growth and again developed a third generation of warfare we went very quickly from the sopwith camel and the zeppelin to the messerschmitt and the b-17 flying fortress and the technological developments of the inner warriors were quite astounding and occurred very rapidly even within the field of aviation this the bristol f2 became this the spitfire in less than nine years but in this era of warfare we also have developments on the ground namely by a little thing called the vegans creek maneuver warfare also called blitzkrieg by those who find bevegan's creek unpronounceable using speed and maneuverability to rapidly reach objectives in conjunction with a highly mobile infantry and further developments in combined arms warfare the third generation of warfare gives us world war ii but in the final days of world war ii a new war was building the nuclear weapon and its use in combat was one of the most important events in human history and as a result the cold war developed conflict in an atomic age in which conflicts existed but took the form of proxy wars this is when technological developments change the nature of warfare yet again this is the era of stealth instead of using brute force using precision guided munitions instead of carpet bombing campaigns remember we're still in the third generation of warfare still in the world war two mentality for conflicts like korea the vietnam war the persian gulf war and even the later iraq war the third generation of warfare encompasses the winning hearts and minds concepts we know all too well new toys like stealth bombers and satellites changed a lot but the end goals and the strategy used to achieve those goals was very similar as to how the majority of world war ii was fought but one of these wars is not like the other again hinting at the academic squabbling that occurs when trying to define these things so to explain that let's jump to the fourth generation of warfare the fourth gen of warfare can be defined in a single word insurgency and this is where things start becoming political and the amateur historian starts running into some problems with the research for instance one of the first academics to talk about 4th generation warfare is william s lind lind who is the most prolific writer on 4th gen warfare even has his wikipedia page slathered with politics we see that on his own page he is defined as a conservative why does that matter if we're talking about warfare doctrine he is defined by his politics first in his work second and scrolling down the page under the criticism section we have the very first complaints from the southern poverty law center so yeah there you go can't really get any reliable information from wikipedia anymore an idea which is thick with irony considering the topic interestingly enough it looks like most of his criticism comes from him linking his thoughts on warfare doctrine to cultural marxism which explains everything can't talk about communism or marxism in today's world or point out its problems without being labeled as a far-right extremist which is exactly what seems to have happened here too but anyway if you dig deep enough you will find one of len's thoughts on 4th gen warfare in which he defines it as when the state loses its monopoly in war he goes on to say that all over the world state militaries find themselves fighting non-state opponents such as al qaeda hamas hezbollah and the revolutionary armed forces of colombia almost everywhere the state is losing fourth generation warfare is also marked by a return to a world of cultures not merely states in conflict we now find ourselves facing the christian west's oldest and most steadfast opponent islam of course linde wrote this in the context of speaking about the then current u.s wars in the middle east but the interesting thing to note is that these wars have been occurring for a long time like i mentioned when explaining third gen warfare there is a bit of academic squabbling that goes on for instance take the vietnam war here you have a conflict that exhibits two styles of warfare in the years since vietnam has become the infamous poster child for that deadly eye word insurgency a disturbing number of people do not know that the vietnam war was far more conventional than we think we think the word vietnam and images of the vietcong come to mind u.s soldiers patrolling through the jungles and getting ambushed around every corner but there was this thing called the north vietnamese army which was a legitimate conventional military force no one knows about this more than the military aviation communities entire generations of military aviators have been trained with doctrine developed from the forgotten air war of vietnam the entire concept of the wild weasels and the doctrine of the suppression of enemy air defenses is a massive part of modern warfare from iraq to bosnia to right now in ukraine but at the same time the conventional third generation war was raging in north vietnam in cambodia and laos some dudes in black pajamas were defining the fourth generation of warfare which at last brings us to the fifth generation of warfare and here's where we start running into problems again because academics cannot agree on whether or not fifth generation warfare even exists up until this moment warfare has been defined by what some have called the theory of sequential emergence which is just a fancy way of saying that the first generation of warfare led to the second and the lessons learned during the second gen led to the third and so on daniel abbott came up with this graphic which indicates that the generations of war build upon one another and exist at the same time each progressive generation of warfare does not totally replace the generation before it but rather builds on it which allows for lesser developed styles of warfare to exist and be conducted at the same time in other words if your primary military operation is counterinsurgency you can still have conventional third or even second generation conflicts occurring simultaneously but the fifth generation of warfare seems to break this mold it seems like most people who talk and argue about fifth generation warfare are at least united on one thing fifth gen warfare does not really adhere to this progressive generation model so let's address some of these theories and try to piece together what fifth generation warfare actually is like i mentioned most academics sort of agree on the first four gens of warfare however that's where the similarities end a few academics such as william lind have stated that the fifth gen of warfare is really just a collection of tactics that should be nestled under the fourth or even third generation of warfare so it really doesn't have a definition as a separate field of warfare which makes sense because he's the guy who literally wrote the book on 4th gen warfare remember history is written by humans humans which have opinions make mistakes and have other faults that's why history lies in the heart of the debate and why we need to crack open another book if we take a look at daniel abbott's book adequately titled the handbook of 5th generation warfare he states that 5th gen warfare is a war of information and perception which sounds about right but that's a really broad definition but we'll come back to that in a moment others such as the us air force see 5th generation warfare is simply an extension of the air war they see it as a sensor problem and that a military aircraft that is capable of waging 5th gen warfare will have certain sensors communication suites and other various electronics and capabilities to operate in highly contested battle spaces hmm not quite what we're going for is it this is great and all but not really what we're talking about with regards to fifth generation warfare itself this is defining the fifth generation of fighter aircraft which is not the same thing but this is important to note because the term fifth generation was first coined in this context which is why a lot of military strategists think of fifth generation warfare in terms of technology or sensors which is again not the right way to think about it in fact the people's liberation army of china figured this out a long time ago in 1999 a book or really rather a white paper which became highly controversial throughout the defense community in the early 2000s two colonels of the people's liberation army wrote a book called unrestricted warfare in which they examined this topic particularly in the context of a conflict with the west in their book they state that what we are referring to are not changes in the instruments of war the technology of war the modes of war or the forms of war what we are referring to is the function of warfare so again this hints at the fifth generation of warfare not simply being a new sequential progression of war this is also noted in a very short paper published by the think tank 360 isr which mentions that we are no longer fighting a defined adversary in a defined battle space for a defined period of time instead the 5th generation mission space is a continuous global battle of narratives that will play out over both virtual and physical space and encompass a range of violent and non-violent actions and effects that's a pretty solid definition of fifth generation warfare however we again are reading this from a perspective of nation-state warfare this paper goes on to say that nations will seek to defend their borders through the extension of military influence examples include the deployment of double-digit sams and iskander missiles in kaliningrad or the build-up of defenses on hitherto unhabited islands in the south china sea therefore the experiences and lessons of third and fourth generation warfare still have great utility militaries still need to maintain and develop the capability to defeat a more traditional adversary in a technologically complex environment all of this i would agree with in the context of a nation-state's concerns with the changing nature of warfare it makes a lot of sense for defense officials to think along these lines however i'm not a cadet writing term papers at west point and though the two topics are heavily linked by the very nature of fifth generation warfare itself we here are more concerned with the civilian implications of this changing style of warfare especially considering that it is in the civilian space that this war is being fought and here the elephant begins to appear in the room this paper literally just stated that in a fifth generation war we will not be able to define our adversaries and by default the other side of that coin is that we will not know who our allies are either and so we begin to plant the seed of what very few academics want to talk about us marine corps lieutenant colonel stanton kohr got a little closer to what we're trying to get at in the marine corps gazette from january 2009 he takes a more boots on ground approach to describing the symptoms of a fifth generation warfare he writes that the battlefield will be something strange cyberspace or the cleveland water supply or wall street's banking systems or youtube the mission will be instilling fear and it will succeed lieutenant colonel core's idea is a common one among fifth generation warfare theorists and one that you often see online by various websites claiming that fifth generation warfare is simply a war of propaganda or a war for your mind or something like that and i think that that simple definition is quite accurate but not totally remember the tactics used in warfare sometimes do not reflect and are oftentimes counterintuitive to the end goal for instance psychological warfare uses various means to get a person to think a certain way about something but is that the final goal no the final goal is to get a person to act a certain way actions are more devastating than thoughts in warfare but since thoughts lead to actions we see a lot of tactics being used to affect thoughts so all of this considered we can cobble together a rough list of some characteristics of fifth generation warfare as it applies to civilian and military communities alike first up is mass cyber attacks not attributable to an actor or a nation-state this one is kind of easy as many people have stated over the years the impact of cyber warfare on everything will be extremely significant very little has been done over the years to combat the rising threat of technologies on our critical infrastructure we have already found the vulnerability of somewhat invulnerable scada systems when it comes to pol or petroleum oil and lubricant production and the massive waves of cyber attacks at the commercial and at the consumer levels have proven the vulnerabilities in these areas as well very very little can be done about cyber attacks at the consumer level especially considering the interconnected nature of everything these days but we will address this when we talk solutions so this characteristic is pretty short just think matrix level cyber stuff that you have no idea where it's coming from a major part of fifth generation warfare but still pretty easy to think about something a little more complex is mass social engineering which if conducted by a nation state the social engineering might be conducted on their own citizenry again this is not a surprising tactic as societal norms and skills change social engineering becomes a much more significant threat than in years past some could make the argument that people today are simply more stupid than in years past so social engineering works quite well whereas people in the past would never fall for the social engineering tricks of today while i myself fight the urge to agree with the cognitive decline of modern societies and cultures i begrudgingly admit that it's not as simple as people being stupid in our modern world what's more accurate is that people in today's world are vulnerable to social engineering that is different from people in the past our modern world has made many comparisons to the past akin to comparing apples and oranges which is something that militaries nation states and especially non-state actors have taken note of and that's why social engineering is a critical tool for waging a fifth generation war another attribute of a fifth generation war is that conflict will exhibit a lack of us versus them nature rather the conflict itself is often observed to be spontaneous much like with cyber attacks kinetic actions when they do occur in a fifth generation war are often seemingly random since we cannot observe the lead-up to the conflict conflagrations might pop up over a social event and might even be egged on by silent actors who seek to capitalize on the destabilization never let a good crisis go to waste right but the conflicts that do occur will not look like your normal conflicts of the past you might have some actors strike back against an adversary by targeting a third-party group to the bystanders this will make no logical sense but to the belligerents this makes perfect sense in the context of a fifth generation war that does not play by the classic us versus them mentality that's a lot of funny words so what does this mean in plain english well due to how globalization has severely warped our logistical networks it means to get ready for some weird stuff russia invades ukraine well we're gonna fight back by pouring out government purchased alcohol that taxpayers already paid for medical tyranny no longer working congratulations physically exercising at home is now white supremacy oh our economy is failing oh i know what will fix it putting uniformed u.s soldiers in elementary schools of course a lot of these examples are more accurately explained by the state seeking to increase their influence and control over the american people rather than the strange nature of 5th generation warfare but you get the point at the end of the day this illustrates the complexity and the self-fulfilling nature of a fifth generation war school teachers start teaching extreme political ideology and utter perversion in schools which makes parents upset which makes the doj upset and they start labeling parents as terrorists which makes the parents even more livid and brings people who don't even have kids into the fray along with social movements which impacts the economic sector and brings in career politicians with their own egotistical and tyrannical goals so now you've got a multi-front war going on which just keeps churning on its own because everyone is fighting everyone else and all originating from a single point of origin points of origin which are sometimes linked to the next point which is that non-state actors are becoming primary belligerents another main characteristic of fifth generation war that separates it from even fourth generation war is the nature and power of non-state actors and no we're not talking about a terror group or cell that's covered in fourth generation warfare remember 4g warfare is insurgencies right fifth generation warfare takes it to another degree by including private companies just look around the world today and we can make some pretty interesting observations with regards to so-called private companies and their relationship with other non-state actors or even the state itself i know that we keep harping on the biden regime but this is actually a very fascinating example of the unique nature of the relationship between private companies and a nation state in a 5g war for instance a lot of people have noticed the extremely overwhelming support from private companies to protect the biden regime even when the vital regime didn't really explicitly ask for it a great example of this is the media and again it's utterly fascinating right now it's pretty obvious that the biden regime is directing all mainstream media sources at some point they've openly admitted to such in the past but it's not total control it's influence the regime wants remember there is not a white house representative sitting in msnbc's studio directing the show no we now live in a world of fact checkers who have been delegated the power to broadcast propaganda and push content that supports the regime sometimes they guess right and sometimes they accidentally go against the regime thus the thousands of news articles that have been changed this is a major part of fifth generation warfare not necessarily the propaganda itself but how private companies will seek to prop up nation states and political regimes with fervor that even the regime themselves thinks is surprising in a traditional political structure or even a traditional dictatorship you would think that propaganda is directed from the top down that the nation-state is totally controlling and directing their media organizations but there's the difference in a 5g war it might be the other way around governments themselves might be the ones with the training wheels and private companies the ones with their hands on the seat saying good job obviously this is not the case everywhere but the bottom line is that in a fifth generation war the nation state is no longer the big dog in town and due to all of the information warfare that is also present in a fifth generation war governments might not even know that they aren't top dog in certain circumstances that's why people are now talking a lot about the new world order and other similar stuff in the open now because it's quite plain to see that there are non-state organizations entities and lines of effort that appear to be transnational is the world economic forum more powerful than a nation-state i don't know i guess it would depend on the nation-state i think that that organization specifically is not some kind of james bond spectre group despite the fact that they desperately want to be i think they're just another player and interest group on the board of globalization they might want to be the puppet masters of the world but they're still fighting to achieve that goal just like everyone else the great reset being their front line in this global fifth generation war of course this is all debatable but what is certain is that these guys and other non-state actors like them wield a lot of influence and though their success is not explicitly guaranteed their mere existence is exactly the type of thing that you would expect to see in a fifth generation war another unfortunate characteristic of a fifth generation war is nation states or powerful actors possessing the wrong tools for the job in other words nation states will fight the fight that fits one's weapons the united states has built a military centered around fighting insurgencies and though the pivot back to a more traditional near-pier fight has become more pressing following the pacific pivot to counter china and even the current ukrainian war the fact of the matter is that the us is best equipped to fight insurgencies so it is an insurgency they will fight even if that is not the right tool for the job this is kind of linked to what i was talking about when it comes to the lack of an us versus them nature right you're going to have nation states or powerful actors or non-state actors fighting against each other it's not really like a proxy war situation it's more like an innocent bystander or a non-affiliated group or society gets impacted by this conflict seemingly out of nowhere but due to the 5th generation warfare model it kind of makes sense like china is getting handsy in the south pacific or the insurgencies are kicking up in north africa again or russia has invaded ukraine well the solution to that is launch a counter insurgency mission here in the u.s like that's seen that's kind of like the the way we're going to see this being manifested remember ever since the military occupation of washington dc in the days leading up to and the months after the 2020 inauguration the united states government has increasingly leaned on skills technology and doctrine that was learned and developed during the global war on terror it might not be as simple as like russia invading ukraine and the us can't do anything about that so we're going to target our own people because that's what we know how to do it's not really that simple but it sure seems like it tactics like crowd control checkpoints aerial surveillance and urban warfare have already been weaponized against the american people in short the us military is already a mile down the dangerous path of treating the national mall like baghdad and treating american citizens like iraqis of course this is not happening everywhere just yet but the fact that it happened in the first place breaks the illusion that it can't happen and the undisputed fact the undeniable reality that we have already seen certain states using armed soldiers to set up checkpoints on highways and checking the identity papers of citizens well i guess we are much closer to being treated like iraqi citizens than we thought and since these comments will invariably result in a lot of discussion let's briefly follow that rabbit hole a bit further if all you have is a hammer every problem is a nail and right now the us military law enforcement and federal agencies are the hammer and the nail is the citizenry just trying to live their lives with as much freedom as possible which is the antithesis of most political regimes regardless of the political party i know a lot of military folks out there might not want to hear this because people do not want to think that they might be the bad guy after all most military service members sign up to do good things and serve their country and for the men and women that are still dedicated to that despite fighting a losing battle those service members should be an inspiration to us all for those who are fighting back and actually living up to their oath we have nothing but the highest respect but from the civilian side of things we have to acknowledge that some of their compatriots and most of their commanders and leadership do not have the same dedication to the oath they swore right now there is a sort of reckoning within the us military there is an increasing number of people in the military especially senior leadership that care nothing about service and only care about the paycheck or their stock options there is also a disturbing number of military leaders that have more sadistic motives i can only speak about my own experiences and reference the experiences of the team here but in my own career working in an s2 or s3 shop i can confidently say that the majority of commanders i have worked with i would want nowhere near a domestic u.s mission of any kind in years past it would have been out of the question to suggest that most military service members would do the wrong thing and commit immoral and illegal actions against u.s citizens on u.s soil that used to be unthinkable but these days clinging to that mentality is not the best move i'm not trying to throw shade at the us military and i don't hold animosity towards service members especially considering the hardships that they have had to go through with regards to the medical mandates but for many those medical mandates are very illuminating most service members are jabbed and because of that what am i a us citizen supposed to think about service members prospects of refusing even more serious orders if they won't fight back against the one that just requires some paperwork i'm sorry but the soldier who takes up arms to prevent me from traveling between states or prevents me from getting within a mile of the house of the people that soldier is not my friend no matter how they might feel about the mission they might complain they might know that what they are doing is wrong in every conceivable way or they might only realize that what they are doing is wrong after the fact then i empathize with soldiers in that tough situation i really do but at the end of the day they made not just one choice but a series of choices and those choices result in shifting the nature of the relationship between the citizenry and the military we can no longer let our extremely high respect for service members cloud our judgment when it comes to holding people accountable for their actions and i understand why people don't like to talk about this stuff like it's perfectly fine it's perfectly socially acceptable i guess to lay criticism at senior dod officials we can rag on lloyd austin and joe biden all day long and you know of course some people will be upset at that but for the most part those are safe targets right those are safe things to talk about where people won't get upset but don't you dare talk about cousin timmy in the national guard he's a sweet boy he's a good person and he would never do anything wrong he was just following orders actions like this make us realize that there needs to be a healthy distance between the power of the institutions and the monopoly those institutions have on violence and the citizenry and despite that the dod clearly wants there to be an adversarial relationship there there doesn't necessarily need to be there just needs to be a healthy respect between the military and the citizenry and the fact that the institutions are changing the way that we have to think about things the us government has segregated itself from the citizenry in every conceivable way but especially judicially so we would do well to recognize that so sorry for the digression i know that we're supposed to be talking about fifth generation warfare but that's the interesting part we have been talking about it this entire time i know it may not seem like it but examining the relationship between the citizenry and the institutions that are causing problems is a critical part of fighting back in a fifth generation war it was the department of defense not me that started this the dod and the current political regime brought warfare into our living rooms and onto our streets and though the price for this has yet to be paid a side effect of these actions is that people like me now have to look at this which leads us to attributing these actions as a characteristic of a fifth generation war being waged on u.s citizens it's uncomfortable it really is but at this point my own state's national guard has restricted my freedoms more than any foreign nation ever has and ignoring this fact because it makes military leadership uncomfortable or trying to provide excuses for service members choices out of respect for their service is negligent on our part remember there are a lot of other non-5th gen wars going on right now and there are a lot of threats we have to face in the world today and we need a strong military but we are not going to win those conflicts if we are stuck fighting a 5th gen war here at home which is why these uncomfortable conversations must happen so we can see how this is an insanely difficult problem to define especially with other conflicts occurring that are muddying the waters a lot of people in the field of warfare academia have struggled to define this every few years someone comes up with a new way to try to categorize it remember the whole small wars theory from a few years back this was the theory that in a post-nuclear post-mutually assured destruction age we will not have large devastating global wars but rather smaller more frequent proxy wars in far-flung regions of the earth well the ukrainian war is kind of disproving that theory right now but if you boil it down it seems like the small wars theory is really just a re-categorization of the nature of insurgencies and how technology has aided them sprinkled with a few fifth generation warfare tactics that nation states have been using since the great bog down of g watt we've got a lot of arguments here on how to define and categorize the tactics and characteristics that we observe but there's a huge problem what if we do not observe the tactics if you go up to a vending machine and it takes your dollar without giving you your bag of chips you wouldn't think anything of it yeah you'd be annoyed but you wouldn't look at it like it's a hostile action against you you wouldn't treat that as a hostile action against yourself by a nation-state or other malign actor it's just something that happens now what if it was a voting machine ah now we might start attributing a bit of malign action to something like that due to the context that's a bit more clear to define and academics can argue over what box to put election tampering in but you see our perspective on things and our historical ability to recognize what is a hostile action is heavily affected by this new age of warfare something bad happens to us and we want to attribute it to an adversary but if we can't we just suck it up and go without our bag of chips or even worse we shove another dollar into the same machine again hoping the result will change something else to consider is that a lot of people or really just the four people who care about these kinds of topics tried to apply the debates we've seen in the world of artificial intelligence which i think is interesting for instance a lot of people have been thinking about artificial intelligence and have had a lot of thoughts on it for instance elon musk is well known for his really serious thoughts on ai that do not reflect a bright future for humans stephen hawking was also well known for his views of ai stating that whereas the short-term impacts of ai depends on who controls it the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all the same line of thinking the same philosophy and reasoning can and in our opinion should be applied to this new style of warfare that's what makes 5th generation warfare something unique and not just a technological progression following 4th gen warfare here's what i think a 5th gen war will be over or it will have transitioned to something else before most people even realize it has even begun i think that we're currently fighting a global 5th gen war right now and i'm not really so concerned with what box it goes into call it 6th or 7th gen warfare i don't care and the symptoms of this war will make no sense when compared to the previous lines of thinking like how many of you out there have gone through your day and just suddenly felt anxious for no apparent reason or you psych yourself out with just your own thoughts about something or experience symptoms of depression or apathy again for no reason whatsoever or even just the feeling that something isn't quite right but you can't figure out what it is i'm certainly no psychologist but i can tell you that all of the above is exactly what i would expect a 5th generation war to look like and we are not alone in these observations i think this is why so many ideas are coming out right now ideas that used to be labeled as ridiculous conspiracy theories now the general theory is becoming that the only difference between an outlandish conspiracy theory and undisputed fact is about six months can you have a war without conflict a war where there are no enemies and no allies but casualties everywhere a war in which actual combat isn't really the main attack but you standing at a vending or voting machine is you see how philosophical and weird this stuff gets it goes way over my head and it drives me crazy it really does i don't think you guys know how hard it was to write this script because man i tell you this stuff is really freaky to think about and put into words on paper and thinking along these lines illustrates where most academics who have discussed 5th gen warfare have gone astray every single person who has discussed fifth generation warfare has done so from the perspective of a military strategist or a military historian which is not inherently bad that actually makes the most sense you would expect the same guy who spent years writing about 3rd or 4th gen warfare to naturally talk about the 5th gen of warfare and how technology has affected the history of war however we think that a milestone has been reached we think that 5th generation warfare is just as much a concern to civilian academics as military strategists after all we are not fighting this fifth generation war in a lecture hall at west point or in a conference room full of majors and colonels we are living this war in our grocery stores in our schools and in our homes this is not some issue that can be philosophized over mahogany conference tables this is our life now so at last after taking all of these ideas and putting them together we can piece together our definition for what fifth generation warfare really is fifth generation warfare is defined as a global war of ideas and narratives this style of war is primarily fought in the information space however the actions undertaken in the information space are not intended to be the final goal but rather a way to affect the physical kinetic battle spaces cyber warfare is a critical part of fifth generation warfare but these tactics do not supersede the overall function of fifth generation warfare rather actions in the cyber battle space are a tool to both supplement traditional forms of military warfare while simultaneously serving as a tool that certain actors can utilize to further their war of ideas the ambiguous nature of this cyber realm most clearly illustrates the uncertainty present through this style of warfare and the struggle that is present through societies as citizens try to make sense of their world around them this ambiguity is key the perfect crime is the one that no one ever knows has been committed and as such a perfect fifth generation war is one that the target never even knew occurred so what do we think are we currently fighting a fifth generation war without knowing it and what's the end result if we soak up all of this information in these theories can we get to an answer to the primary question what is going on i think that united states political and social groups in their lust for power and control have stumbled into starting a fifth gen war in some cases this appears to have been unintentional due to gross incompetence and negligence but in other cases fifth generation warfare tactics have been used to intentionally target opponents we know that this fifth generation war is not perfect and ripe with incompetence because we are talking about it in the first place echoing rene descartes we think that fifth generation warfare exists therefore it is not a perfect exemplification of it however there is a great danger in simply dismissing world events or domestic us policies particularly economics policies due to incompetence u.s politicians and oligarchs far too often fall into the trap of the dunning-kruger effect so we the american people cannot afford to overestimate our abilities or underestimate our adversaries regardless of what style of warfare is occurring even the dreaded indefinable and mystical fifth generation war humans can only really use critical thinking skills to determine the best ways of fighting this war which is what we can try to do right now every problem has a solution and even if the solutions we've come up with don't exactly work at least they're not terrible ideas and it might be a good way to move in the right direction so let's go down the list here's how you win a fifth generation war number one is take care of your weapon remember this war is a battle of wills more than anything else and the attempts to psych you out and make you think and act a certain way are the main weapon against you in a fifth generation war your primary weapon is your mind in conventional warfare a good soldier takes care of his weapon cleaning and lubricating it to ensure that it is ready for the fight at any moment this same exact dedication is absolutely crucial in a fifth generation war when your weapon is not a rifle but the square foot of real estate between your ears and doing everything possible to preserve your primary weapon and ensuring that it is in tip-top shape at all times is crucial gas lighting is a primary weapon in this war and you will not be able to fight back against that if you are not in the right mindset take the ukraine situation for instance yes it is true that the ukrainian war is a major conflict that has already had lifelong devastating effects for the ukrainian people and the russian citizenry as well but here in my living room the war for me is people or bots on twitter warping reality so much that it's not even recognizable that's partly why we've had little success in providing updates on what's going on in ukraine the war on ukraine is certainly real with real artillery and real molotovs but for me at home the 5th generation war rages on and while the team here is trying to track down tweets our gas prices are climbing higher food is becoming scarce rationing is going on all around fertilizer shortages are making gardening more difficult and the issues that we need to care about first on the home front take a back seat to the 5th generation war and that needs to stop i'm not saying to completely ignore everything that goes on outside your living room the conflict in ukraine has proven what people have apparently forgotten over the years that a war halfway around the planet can and usually does affect your life here at home so pay attention but do not let it run your life do not let it become part of your identity and if things get crazy remember to keep your head on straight reassess what your priorities are and what's important to you finding ways of reducing stress physical exercise nutrition finding religion or some other form of assured moral value system are all extremely important aspects of keeping your mental state in fighting condition in this same category of keeping your mind in the right place it would be wise to re-examine other lifestyle habits this is something that i'm actually surprised that i haven't seen a lot of people talk about to me this is just a natural line of thinking but for many this is a subject that not a lot of people want to hear so i'm just going to come out and say it if someone is known to drink alcohol to excess or consume copious amounts of narcotics i'm not likely to want them on my team this has nothing to do with religious moral or legal reasons or even with the vulnerabilities that come with such lifestyle choices but rather the dedication to helping us fix problems yeah sure people can bring up their rights to consume whatever they want and that's fine obviously i'm not speaking to those fighting addictions there's always room at the table for those who are fighting to make themselves a better person i'm really referring to those who have social addictions or those who think that their behavior in this regard doesn't matter because it certainly does and here's why if someone is constantly trying to alter their reality escape the world for some time i am not likely to listen to them for solutions on how to fix the world we live in or to fight in this 5th generation war their solution is to leave the world my solution is to try to fix it people can do what they want and i don't necessarily fault people for consuming drugs or alcohol for any number of reasons but at the same time i also need people on my team that do not need these things to function i need lean mean and efficient warfighters if someone is known to get plastered or high every weekend i question their dedication to helping fix the world if they are constantly trying to escape it no matter how popular their podcast is a lot of people will not agree with this opinion and that's fine but what is undeniable is that if we want to fix the world or even just a small portion of it we have got our work cut out for us and we cannot spare any brain cells in this endeavor we need excellence or at least the dedication to the attempt to achieve excellence and if you are trying to be a leader in your community anything less will be a disappointment number two is take actions to make the tools of 5th generation warfare irrelevant to you if the government has the monopoly on violence take actions to not meet that violence head-on but make it irrelevant make the us government deploy 65 000 troops in and around the us capital and not a single protester or target to be seen let them put up their fence around the houses of the people let them besiege themselves and isolate themselves from the american people because last time i checked weed and corn has not grown anywhere inside the city limits of washington dc when thinking about fifth generation war globalization has made it really hard to think of in terms of a regional conflict most 5th gen warfares will be global in nature but if we take the slice of the pie that is the conflict here in the u.s we can clearly see the things that have already been weaponized against the american people the past two years have been a free preview of what is to come and now that the jig is up it would be wise to look back and remember what the architects of the 5th gen war that took place here at home did to the american people energy food employment interstate travel access to medical care the right to raise and care for your own child the intentional lack of policing in certain areas access to defensive tools and countless other tactics have been used against the american people over the past two years sure we can define this as tyranny or totalitarianism and that would be accurate but what would also be accurate is defining these events as tactics in a fifth generation war that is using tyranny and totalitarianism in order to win prepping in this scenario is good because it allows you to have capabilities when others don't if and when your local government tells you that they will shut off your power and water supply because you disagreed with them if you are prepared you will be able to say right back to them bring it on by preparing you are reducing the power that others have over you number three is raise your children to have good values and not the values that the state wants them to have we keep harping on this one because it's so important in the field of warfare we all know the importance of seizing the high ground but what about the human terrain clearly the world elites have identified your children as key terrain and they are doing everything they can to take them from you on an ideological and sometimes physical level this was a huge realization for me personally over the past year or so looking back over the years it's not really that hard to see how things work when it comes to most federal agencies especially when it comes to who they persecute but what has been quite surprising is the level at which parents have been persecuted at school board meetings that hammer coming down with such ferocity has been crazy i don't think i've seen the us government be so dedicated to anything else in recent years with the exception of the medical tyranny of course but man watching federal agencies go crazy over this and persecute parents this much is suspicious like why is the fbi using the patriot act against this particular target they could have gone after anybody else like the pro second amendment lobby or the pro-trump crowd or the anti-biden crowd why go after this target so hard the fbi pulling out all the stops and publicly using every asset at their disposal to target parents at school board meetings is very suspicious why do federal agencies care so much well because they realize that if we take back our children from the control and or influence of the state we will have the upper hand when those children grow up but again there was a pattern to this remember how many children informed on their parents to the fbi that they were at the rally on january 6 children even young children turning against their parents should have been a wake-up call as to the brainwashing for lack of a better term that is occurring in public schools and unfortunately there is no reason to believe that this brainwashing will not continue into the future now i know what a lot of you are thinking this is a garbage solution this is a big decision and it is really difficult to take your kids out of school not because it's particularly hard to teach children but because a lot of times both parents or caretakers have to work full-time jobs just to pay the rent and single parents are infinitely challenged in the same way as well so deciding to take your kids out of school is not a decision that is quick or easy this is a long-term strategic decision however if you want our recommendation here it is if you are on the fence or even remotely have the capability to take your kids out of public school i would seriously recommend it at this point of course decisions must be balanced and if a child is better off in the care of the state than with their parents nothing is more unfortunate but that's the way it is in a lot of cases however i would argue that at this point there are very very few children in the entire country that are benefiting from their public school education and most of those benefits are not related to education if nothing else recognizing this keeps us honest we can point the finger at everyone else but if we put our own kids in situations that we woul

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

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