//The Wire//2300Z July 30, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: EARTHQUAKE STRIKES WESTERN PACIFIC, TRIGGERING TSUNAMI CONCERNS. AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL OUTAGE CAUSES LONDON AIRPORTS TO GROUND FLIGHTS. WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES NEW AI-DRIVEN HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE-----   -International Events- Pacific: A major earthquake was reported yesterday afternoon off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, reaching an estimated 8.8M and becoming tied for the 5th strongest earthquake recorded since records began in the 1960's. Due to this earthquake's severity, Tsunami Advisories were issued for most of the Pacific Rim, to include Hawaii, Alaska, and most of the American west coast. These concerns prompted mass evacuations for millions of people seeking refuge on higher ground. As of this morning, tsunami waves did hit Russia and Japan, though minimal damage was reported. No tsunami materialized in Hawaii or the west coast. United Kingdom: This morning the airspace over most of England was closed due to a technical issue at an air traffic control center in Stanwick. Aircraft at Stansted, Gatwick, and Heathrow were grounded for about 4 hours while the issue was being resolved. Analyst Comment: Details on the outage are hard to verify, however this outage occurred at the same facility that was involved in the infamous outage at Heathrow Airport in 2023. This has caused much fingerpointing and consternation among airlines due to the lost revenue as a result of the outage. United Kingdom: Data security concerns remain paramount as the effects of the Online Safety Act become more clear. Most websites are now locked down and everything from Wikipedia to medical publications have been affected by the act. Analyst Comment: Though it's tough to verify (and possibly fake), at least one user reported that they had to show identification papers for using a food delivery app. While this testimony can't be independently verified, what is true is that the crackdown on the concept of privacy continues to grow. Several politicians have mentioned the possibility of targeting VPN users who try to evade scanning their identity documents and their face to access most of the internet. Meanwhile, children are using certain video games to bypass the face-scanning requirements. Most of the people who wrote the Online Safety Act are of the Atari generation, and do not understand how good the graphics are in most modern video games. Hyper-realistic video games which use motion-capture technology to put the faces of real actors in the game have been extremely effective at tricking apps and websites. Most of the games that rely on this technology also have modes or settings menus for customizing characters...which allow users to strike funny poses with the character on screen...this providing the realistic head and mouth movement that is used by most AI-driven websites requiring a face scan. -HomeFront- Virginia: This afternoon an arson attack was reported in Danville, at the offices of Showcase Magazine. Local authorities have identified the attacker as Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, who was arrested a short time after the attack. Locals have stated he was targeting Lee Vogler, a local city councilman for the town of Danville. The attacker reportedly broke into the councilman's office, and doused him in gasoline before setting him on fire on the street outside. Vogler has so far survived the attack, and is currently hospitalized with severe burns. Analyst Comment: Locals state that the attack was not due to a political issue, but rather a personal dispute as the attacker and victim knew each other. Whether or not this is true is anyone's guess. Nevertheless, this kind of high-profile (and brutal) attack vector does not occur that often in a small town such as this, so the details that are hard to verify now may become more clear over time. Washington D.C. - This afternoon the Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates the same as before, with markets not reacting much to this news (as this was the expected outcome). Separately, the White House announced a new initiative to increase the use of AI in healthcare. This effort will unite Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Apple, and other companies to more heavily integrate into the healthcare industry. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Exactly what this AI initiative is designed to do is largely a mystery as no solid technical details have been provided as to exactly how the federal government is involved in Big Tech companies integrating into the HIPPA-protected world of patient data. Supporters of this plan have applauded the idea as advertised, however critics of this initiative point out that this is more or less a Social Credit system for healthcare as designed directly by the World Economic Forum in a policy letter just last year. In January of 2024, the WEF produced an article titled "How to harness the power of health data to improve patient outcomes". This article largely revolved around the monetization of data mining as "97% of health data goes unused". This article also highlighted the importance of total surveillance of the human body, using a person's smartphone to surveil their health habits, tracking a person's location at all times, and so on. The plan as announced by the White House today sounds nearly identical to the plan proposed by the WEF, based on the details as made public so far. This has drawn the exact same privacy concerns of the past few years as President Trump's policies become more clear six months into his Presidency. For additional context, Palantir also recently announced a partnership with TeleTracking, an AI-driven analytics company already integrated into many healthcare companies and medical facilities. Considering that a major part of the White House's plan is for all of these companies to share data with each other to build a digital profile of a person, concern is warranted. Reducing paper intake forms for convenience at the doctor's office is a lot different than a person's health insurance company handing over their entire medical record to Facebook for advertising purposes. For all of the touted benefits of this initiative, overcoming the data security and privacy concerns will be a hard sell when/if people start paying attention to what is going on. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

//The Wire//2100Z August 22, 2025// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: "FLAGGING" OPERATIONS CONTINUE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AS DISSENT GROWS REGARDING MIGRATION EFFORTS. JOHN BOLTON'S RESIDENCE RAIDED BY FBI.//  -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- United Kingdom: Opposition to migrant centers continues, mostly in the form of "flagging" operations around England. For the English, a common point of resistance has been the public display of the English flag, which in some context has been classified as a criminal act. As such, the emplacement of the St. George's Cross flag has become a focus point for British society over the past few days. -HomeFront- Colorado: The investigation into the stabbing of a park ranger at Staunton State Park has concluded with the arrest of the park ranger who initially made the allegations. Callum Heskett was arrested for making false claims regarding the attack, which turned out to be an elaborate hoax. Analyst Comment: It's not clear why he did it, but the Sheriff stated that Heskett intentionally stabbed himself and radioed in the "attack", which triggered a very widespread manhunt and lockdown of the surrounding area. Nebraska: Approximately two weeks since the raids first took place, two of the four hotels complicit in the Chaudhari child slavery scandal from have been shut down. The AmericInn and the Victorian Inn and Suites in Omaha were observed to be shuttered to the public yesterday afternoon, pending the human trafficking network investigations. Analyst Comment: The other two hotels, the Inn (formerly the Super 8) and the Roadway Inn are reported by local media to still be open for business, for the time being. Somewhat interestingly, the local media coverage of these closures has focused on the displacement of long-term residents of these hotels, many of which were formerly homeless. In an interview with local media, one hotel resident stated that these hotels were used as residences by people who couldn't rent due to poor credit, rental history, and so on. If these hotels were quietly serving as a sort of informal halfway house for long term residents, this human trafficking network could be much larger and more substantial than previously known. New York: This afternoon a tourbus suffered a rollover accident on Interstate 90 near Pembroke. The initial response was treated as a mass casualty event due to 52x patients being reported at the scene. Many fatalities and entrapments were also reported as a result of the crash. Maryland: This morning the home of John Bolton was raided by the FBI as part of an ongoing national security probe. The raid lasted several hours, and many boxes of documents were observed being removed from the residence. Analyst Comment: Beyond the headline, not much is known. Most journalistic speculation has theorized that the DoJ is trying to get him on mishandling of classified information, which is an easy charge to levy against most political elites who very rarely handle classified information properly. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: In the United Kingdom, a bit of context for the "flagging" operations is important. Unlike in the United States (where the national flag is a common sight) throughout Europe in general national flags are not a typical observation throughout society. The one exception being...foreign flags. In many parts of the United Kingdom, the sight of Indian and Pakistani flags is vastly more common than the Union Jack, with foreign flags even being flown from government buildings. Even more important is that the official flag of the United Kingdom (but especially the flag of England, the St. George's Cross) has been demonized to the point of quite literally being illegal to display in some cases. Many people have been arrested for displaying the Union Jack at Hindu or Islamic street parades or events, and it is very common for schools to ban schoolchildren from wearing clothing that displays the flag of the nation that they are currently located in. This is why these "flagging" events are being undertaken with an element of secrecy...for the British, the bar is so low that displaying their own national flag is an act of defiance and resistance that may result in arrest and imprisonment. Unknown Englishmen will sneak out in the night and emplace the English flag in a public area (such as attached to a street sign) as a way of countering the other foreign flags in an area. Equally risky has been the spray painting of "zebra crossings" (pedestrian crossings for Americans), which are traditionally painted on roadways and take the form of white rectangles. Unknown persons have taken to spray painting red lines on these crossings in roadways to resemble the St. George's Cross flag of England. Again, from an American perspective this seems underwhelming, but for the British this is a significant act of defiance that highlights just how oppressive and dystopian the British government has become over the past few years. Most European media groups have attempted to demonize these activities, but it's a pretty hard sell to suggest that a person displaying a flag of the nation that they are in and are a citizen of, is somehow "extremist" behavior. Especially when the display of other foreign flags is applauded at every level of governance. Nevertheless, when the situation gets tough, the tough have to get going somewhere. And in the case of the British, the various nations that comprise the United Kingdom have returned to form in many ways by embracing their ancestral national identity. Flying the flag of the nation a person is located within is simply the lowest hanging fruit for maintaining the very basics of civilization itself. Though right now the main point of focus for "flagging" operations has been England, other national flags have begun to be spotted throughout Scotland and Wales too. The situation may be tough, but the "flagging" operations have been positively received in most places, despite what the media narratives are trying to push. Hope is a powerful concept, and the impact a simple national flag has on a populace is usually underestimated by those out-of-touch with the pulse of a nation. Analyst: S2A1 Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for July 5th through the 11th, 2026. It's been a busy week as usual, so let's get right to it. Around the world this week, the two main wars that we've been watching for a couple of years now have flared back up with several very serious developments taking place in Europe and the Middle East this week. In Africa, the Russians are involved in intense fighting against the FLA militants in Mali, which have taken control of most of the north and eastern parts of the country. And even though wars in the Sahel region are quite common, this conflict has really served as a window for showing us how the third world has adapted to the modern battlefield when it comes to the use of drones and warfare. Here a bit closer to the home front, similar concerns are emerging as the summer fighting season this year south of the border has been hosted to a rise in drone attacks between rival cartel factions in Mexico. The more desolate and far-flung regions of the earth are starting to use drones in their mostly tribal conflicts. And as the Russians are finding out in Mali and the cartels are finding out in Mexico, drone warfare is most certainly a major concern that is very, very hard to counter. Within the homeland, important events this week have largely been within the political realm as several security improvement efforts are underway in Washington DC. This has not gotten a lot of press, but it's still interesting to note as this gives us an indication of where a lot of concerns are starting to mount. So, let's go ahead and start right there because the security improvements that have been observed this week are rather interesting in Washington. In short, the White House has demonstrated a growing concern regarding the safety of President Trump over the past few weeks. This came to light most publicly during President Trump's visit to Turkey for the NATO summit a few days ago when the Secret Service had to switch back to the old Air Force One due to an undisclosed security concern. This was kind of a big deal at the time because this was supposed to be the inaugural flight for the new Air Force One platform. Initially, President Trump claims that switching back to the old airframe was due to sending the new Air Force One ahead to show it off at various bases around Europe. But eventually, they let slip that this was actually due to security recommendations by the Secret Service. And despite the assurances from the Secret Service that this was just done for no reason and not tied to any specific threat, the Secret Service never does anything for no reason. And the logistical nightmare involved in switching planes during an international trip is such a hassle that it's more likely than not that the Secret Service got spooked about something and they needed to pull a fast one and play the shell game again. Who knows what it was? Maybe they found a pager on board or maybe it wasn't anything specific and they just got a bad feeling. I don't know about this one. It's kind of interesting, but that's not all we have to work with this week. In Washington DC, there have been major security renovations at the White House ongoing for the past couple of months at least. For one, we have the major ballroom construction project, which has gotten a lot of attention from everybody for a variety of reasons. But if we skip past the assorted screeching to realize that the new ballroom is mostly just a cover for the massive compound that's being built underground, this is very obviously a project to build a massive compound for C2 or command and control purposes. It's not exactly a big secret. You can look at this and see this is very clearly what's going on. And this is also something that's not unique to Trump. This has been in the works for a while. So, the ballroom itself is honestly not that interesting. What is more interesting is the new fencing that's been put up and the various perimeter expansions that have been requested to be made over the past couple of weeks. They've been testing out a bunch of different arrangements, but the general gist of the plans is to expand the White House perimeter a bit more so as to improve the security situation. They're still working on it. Nothing is finalized yet, but the general plan would involve closing a lot of public access spaces. So, that's going to be a delicate thing to balance in terms of allowing tourists to still get selfies while preventing small arms attacks. In addition to the fencing, the White House is also conducting security upgrades on the North Portico, which began yesterday. Once again, sources differ on why this construction project is going on. Some sources claim it's restoration work. Others claimed that this was a security breach or something to do with the Secret Service requesting a change to the building in some way. I don't know. There's very little information on this. Of course, the Secret Service is not going to comment on anything like this. And there are a lot of renovations being undertaken all over the White House now. So, it's hard to determine which ones are standard restoration work kind of projects and which construction projects are actually security upgrades. Once again, this is kind of early on in the process and there's not a whole lot to sink our teeth into. I've just been noting this over the past couple of weeks and I haven't really had a lot of time to talk about it. A lot of those can of course get dismissed very easily by saying of course the Secret Service is concerned with the threats to the president because he's lived through at least four different assassination attempts depending on how we're counting them. But at least three of those attacks were actually really close calls. The Butler shooting, the Trump International Golf Club shooting, and the Hinckley Hilton attack just a couple months ago were all too close for comfort. So, it would make sense for the Secret Service to try to be more on the ball than they have been in the past, especially in the context of recent comments by President Trump himself, indicating that he has taken personal contingency plans to conduct strategic strikes on Iran in the event of his assassination. He posted this uh message on Truth Social last night. And well, suffice it to say that the concerns are real uh that a very serious event might take place. Of course, we can't really quantify gut feelings on things most of the time, and that's okay, but it also makes it hard to add weight to decisions that are made. But I did want to mention it because again, it's something that I and many others have noticed over the past uh couple of months, but mostly the past couple of weeks, and the shorter daily reports are not exactly conducive to conveying wild hunches or theories, but I guess I also do that far too often anyway. So anyway, it is interesting though that all of these security upgrades and concerns are coming about at the alleged end of a war when the risk of an Iranian attack would be fairly low, but the risk of somebody else being upset is rather high. Just thinking in terms of the old Columbbo style means, mode of an opportunity right now, who in the whole world would have the means, mode of an opportunity to carry out an attack on the White House or some other important figure and the Iranians get blamed for it? Who could that possibly be? Well, chances are if you're watching this, you're probably uh not going to be fooled by it. But rest assured, most people probably would immediately suspect the Iranians, if anything, happened to President Trump. So either way, no matter what happens, it's interesting to make note of these things. Quiet security upgrades, quiet security practices being enacted. This is most certainly something to be aware of moving forward. And speaking of the war this week, let's transition to the Middle East where things are moving rather quickly once again as contradictory actions are taking place all around the region. Simply put, the United States is both escalating the war, but also deescalating quietly. So, let me explain a bit. As we all know, the war reignited somewhat earlier this week with dozens of strikes taking place throughout Iran. I'm still consolidating all of the geoloccation efforts from the past few days, but it looks like most of the targets were along the coastline in the vicinity of Bucher and Chabahar naval bases at the northwestern and southeastern ends of the coastline of Iran, respectively. Keshum Island was also hit several times over the past couple of days along with the scattering of fast boat bases on the eastern side on the eastern coast of the straight of Hormuz. Continuing the trend, a lot of the rhetoric has been contradictory and confusing. So, we just kind of have to let that sit for this week. But what is a lot more clear and a lot more easily verifiable are the strategic moves that have been made. Namely, that the United States is drawing down forces in the Middle East, at least when it comes to aircraft. The B-52s, which were stationed in England, or at least most of them that were stationed in England, have already come back home. And by my account, a couple of flights of F-15s have also departed. And the F-22s that the US had stationed at Ovda Air Base in Israel, they also departed yesterday. So, a lot of aviation is heading back home to the US or back to their normal bases in Europe. What is not changing is the US Navy's posture. The Bush and Lincoln carrier strike groups are still on station in the Middle East and the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group or ARG has moved back on station after having uh to divert back to port for some repairs a couple of weeks ago. But in terms of potential ground troops, these guys have already been on the station since the war started really now. All of that being said, what has surged into the region that is new is mostly a lot of bombs and missiles. When the ceasefire was announced, then that time frame between the ceasefire being announced and theou being signed, the United States surged a lot of cargo flights into the region. C7s, C5s, standard military cargo flights. Of course, we can't confirm or figure out what's on these military cargo flights. It's not like they're going to publish their cargo on the internet for us to see, but we can guess that this was probably a huge resupply effort to restock and rearm while they could be relatively sure that they would not get targeted on the tarmac. Though another clue that things are very interesting on the strategic front is that the US has begun to stage a lot of tankers at Aludit Air Base in Qatar. As you guys probably remember, if you've been following this war for 5 months of your life now, you will remember that this air base was evacuated early on because the Iranians started hitting it right during the early stages of the war. The United States figured out that it was probably not a super great idea to have a bunch of very expensive refueling tankers on the ground within very close range of the Iranian missile systems. So, the United States emptied this base out over a period of a couple of weeks. This also happened during Operation Midnight Hammer last year. This is how we were able to be decently sure that those strikes were going to go ahead because by the time the last plane left Aluded, well, guess what? The bombs were just a couple of days after that. So, this base is a good a good indicator. I'm sure the DoD knows what they're doing. They know that they can be seen and they're moving a lot of these tankers back into Alud air base. Lot of very very valuable targets on the ground within range of the Iranian missile systems. Now, I don't know if they're doing this because they're stupid and they're just gambling that the Iranians won't hit it. I mean, it's not like they haven't done that before already. That's why we lost an Awax uh during the height of the war. We parked it at an air base. We didn't think the Iranians would have the guts to hit. And surprise, surprise, they actually did. So, I don't know what's going on with this, but generally speaking, if you're seeing a lot of aircraft being staged at IUD, that just means that's where they're normally stationed. And it's a pretty good indicator that the Pentagon doesn't think they're going to get hit there. And if they think they're not going to get hit there, that probably means the Pentagon is not planning any major offensive. At least so the logic goes, if that makes any sense at all. So again, to recap, we have a very strong discrepancy between the rhetoric and the targeting and what's being moved around. The US is moving and has already moved a lot of aircraft out of the Middle East entirely. And the aircraft that remain in the region are now back at the bases where they were struck at during the height of the war. And yet the targeting flared up earlier this week. So, I don't know what's going on. Um, in terms of how this affects us here at home, the energy crisis really mostly just continues. It's like nothing has changed because the straight of Hormuz has only seen very tepid traffic since theou was signed. And now that the ceasefire is officially over, this is President Trump's own words. The ceasefire is over. We're basically back to where things were before the ceasefire was originally announced. So, back to technically a state of war. And as we end the 19th week of the war, we're on week 19 now. Peace does not appear to be a viable option for the time being. So, not a whole lot of closure. It's very much a state of limbo and I think we're going to probably be there for a while. Continuing the trend of wars flaring back up again. The war in Ukraine has begun to spill outside the main conflict zone. So, let's go over to Europe and discuss that conflict. There has not been much media focus on Europe this week. However, the war in Ukraine is beginning to be quite concerning at this point. On the Russian side, the Russians have been consolidating gains in the vicinity of Costantinovka with most reports agreeing at this point that Russia has taken the city for the most part. This was a major objective for Russia to capture and also for Ukraine to defend as it's a comparatively large city in the Donbass, which has been a milestone for a while. Similarly, uh gains are being made up in Sunumi on the northern border. The Russians also continue to slam as many drones and missiles into Odessa as they possibly can with large waves of drone attacks taking place pretty much every night for the past couple of weeks. The Ukrainians are doing the same thing from their side. So, you know, it's kind of a tit fortat sort of thing. And aside from the gains that are being made by the Russians on the Eastern front, the Ukrainian targeting of petroleum sites around Russia within Russia has been the most important factor for stability in Europe. This week, uh, the Ukrainians and the American advisers working with them have continued to strike Russian petroleum infrastructure at many different sites around Russia. Oil refineries and export terminals have been the main target, and many of these places are in extremely remote terrain, which is why it's so hard to geollocate. The Luga oil terminals near St. Petersburg have been hit a few times over the past couple of months, especially over the past couple of weeks. And a few days ago, hit a refinery in Omsk, which is a long way from the front lines. That's an old old school Soviet city and it's a very long way from the fightings. Other than those uh two main attacks, there have also been hundreds of attacks on refineries and fuel storage depots in Moscow. And this week, Ukraine has escalated drone attacks on Russian merchant ships transporting petroleum in the Sea of Az. Once again, the map is misleading. Sorry about that. I'm still trying to catch up. But there have actually been a few dozen attacks on merchant vessels in this general location in the Sea of Azov. The Ukrainians are claiming to have struck 73 vessels in the Sea of Azov over the past week. That's their number and I can't verify it independently but again that's their claim. Regardless of the exact numbers uh this is having an effect in Russia as their supply chain has been disrupted significantly. Fuel shortages have continued throughout the country but how serious this is. It's anybody's guess. It is true that Russians themselves admit there are gasoline and diesel shortages due to the attacks. But the severity of this is up for debate. The Ukrainians of course claim that Russia is on their last legs and it's like Mad Max over there trying to get gas. and the Russians of course claim that this is merely a minor setback that is being addressed. The truth as always is probably somewhere in between. Hitting one refinery is going to disrupt supply somewhere. Uh so you're going to see, you know, footage of long gas lines in various places, but because Russia is so big, it might take a couple of days for another refinery to start shipping oil to those uh more far-flung regions. So again, how bad is this? I don't really know. Either way, regardless of how bad it is, time will tell. I guess the next events to look out for are what Russia is going to do in response. So far, we haven't seen uh an arresting missile slam into the ground in downtown Kiev, but if uh Ukraine keeps this up, I think that's probably going to happen. So, you know, not trying to take sides here, but I think that's probably what's coming down the pipeline. Either way, we shall see how this war develops over the next few weeks. But things are not looking super great in terms of stability throughout Europe. So the Ukrainians and Russians are starting to target each other more significantly and the potential for slowly sleepwalking into a wider conflict remains pretty high. So not super great. It's not the end of the world as always, but something to be aware of even here in the homeland as the United States is substantially invested in the war in Ukraine and the war in Iran. So we've got two major wars that we are either fighting directly or spending a substantial amount of resources on uh kind of keeping going. So, even though it doesn't seem like either of these conflicts affects us, things uh things have a way of catching up to us pretty quickly as the shadow wars around the world keep marching on. And on that note, that's all I have for today. So, let's go ahead and roll things up with the ghost net reports for this week. Again, a fantastic ghost net. It was thunderstorming rather severely uh this week when I was trying to send and receive messages, but that's okay. Still was able to get a lot of uh messages exchanged back and forth, and that's pretty good. On a bit of an administrative note, some of you may have noticed this week I am now hosting my wire reports uh throughout the week on the Nomad Net. And I know I've not explained this just yet or provided a tutorial showing exactly what this is. Uh fear not, it's coming down the pipeline. I'm still getting things organized for the moment, but I'm going to be diving into this a lot more later this year. This project revolves around a communication system that works over the Reticulum network, which is a project that is right up my alley and something I think will be very useful to integrate into the Ghostnet at some point. I'm pretty sure most of you have probably heard of Reticulum before by now, maybe just parenthetically, but just in case you haven't, this is an open- source communications uh ecosystem which allows users to link up in whatever means that they have. If you want to give it a try right now and just kind of copy what I'm doing, you can use any client you want, but right now I'm using Mesh Chat X, which is a client. It's an app you can install on your phone or uh you can download it to your computer and it allows you to access the infrastructure which is Reticulum. It's still a little bit developmental, but I think it works pretty good. And in the spirit of the ghost net, this will be a very good tool for communicating using a variety of different means. You can use Laura devices like meshtastic devices that you buy and flash with mesh meshtastic firmware. You can use ham radios. Uh you can even use a server running on the internet, which is uh kind of what I'm using right now. And it's all going to sync everything up together and allow information to flow across this entire ecosystem. It's not exactly a perfect analogy, but think of this as an app that you have on your phone, which essentially lets us reinvent the internet. Maybe not totally, but the general utility of it. All of it peer-to-peer completely anonymously. And if the entire internet goes down, this will still work via radio. Specifically regarding my work, the wire reports. One thing you can do with Reticulum is host very primitive web pages, kind of like uh the good old days of dialup. But the difference is this can all work over radio. So the same hardware that runs your meshtastic devices. You can do a lot of other cool stuff with it too. You can send files, full-size images, and you can even send voice notes and voice messages through the system. I'm right now using a Halo node that I have set up with this phone out here in the middle of the woods. And it's a pretty cool way of ensuring uh different kinds of communication can be obtained even if you're completely off-rid. I think that's pretty cool. It's like Meshtastic on steroids, but it's a completely different ecosystem and a whole a whole lot heavier than just Meshtastic. So, right now I have my own Nomad Net page up and running connected to the internet. But the general idea is that if one day the internet goes out, the system itself will switch over to radio and we'll still have the same capabilities even during a total apocalyptic scenario. Again, I'm making a whole tutorial on this. So, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, fear not. This is really just for those of you who are interested in the more nerdy kind of radio stuff. All will be made clear in due time. Just like with the ATAC series I'm currently working on, we are rapidly developing a lot of capabilities that help in many different ways, not just in terms of censorship prevention, but also resiliency during natural or man-made disasters. I know it's not exactly an exciting prospect sometimes and the radio stuff is pretty hard to understand and kind of boring, but just think about how you would know what happened if you lost connection to the outside world. Information that goes nowhere is useless. And I myself have been constantly relearning that over the past couple of months. You may not have noticed this, but over the past uh couple of weeks or so, I've been able to research, write, produce, and publish several wire reports while my power was out due to severe storm damage. Hopefully the experience was as seamless as possible, but that's the end goal. Resiliency even during a disaster situation when everything is going wrong. You have a million other things to do and you still need to maintain a link with the outside world so that you can be aware of threats before they get within your area. In my case, I think Reticulum is a pretty good candidate for allowing me to always always always be able to work and provide a wire report or some other kind of report no matter what. I know the end user doesn't really care. uh they just want the information and that's perfectly fine. But I'm getting closer to being able to provide a decently professional product in extremely adverse conditions if need be. If the power goes out, I can still get information to write my report and I can then make sure that that report gets disseminated to other people who might also be in adverse conditions as easily and as seamlessly as possible. And once I get more experience with this sort of thing, once I iron out the details, I can teach you guys how I did it and what I'm doing so that you can replicate everything that I'm doing if you want on your end. Now, maybe we can see the utility of the ghost net. If you have an HF radio and you can send and receive messages on JS8 call, you're about 95% of the way there. There's not really much more to learn. Instead of sending short text messages over JSA call, imagine if you could send photos, short videos and files. You could even maybe potentially even have voice calls. All of this is technically possible to do right now over the ghost net. It's just that the FCC's rules kind of get in the way right now. So, we'll have to work around that somehow and overcome the uh cultural problems within amateur radio. But the general idea is that we are working toward having some serious capabilities very very soon. The ghost net itself is going to stay the same for a long time. I'm not going to make any changes anytime soon, so don't worry about any imminent changes. But this just goes to show what is actually possible. It used to be that if doomsday arrives, in the worst possible case fantasy scenario you can conjure up, doomsday arrives and you go out in your yard and fire up your radio, you'd be able to talk to a few hundred or a few thousand of us who would also do the same and fire up the ghost net and we can exchange information around the world in a textbased format. Well, now at least theoretically, we can send images, send files, even host our own off-grid web pages, which I think is pretty cool. So, with all of that in the pipeline for later on, uh that's all I have for today. Hey, thanks to all of you on Patreon for the support to keep going and sticking with me as I've been trying to figure all this stuff out. I could not have done this without you guys, so I really do appreciate it. And thanks to all of you for watching, and I hope to improve a lot of this resiliency over the next few weeks. So, thanks again, 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 Until Update for August 17th through the 23rd, 2025. Things are moving forward at quite a rapid pace, so we've got a lot to cover this week. And let's get right to it. The flavor this week has been immigration, both at home and overseas. Around the United States, there have been many developments in the field of legal and illegal immigration and the challenges that the United States is working through on that front. and our friends across the pond are also coming to grips with some of the issues that they face that are very similar to what we're working through here in the United States with regards to legal immigration. The issue of legal versus illegal immigration is a very hard topic to broach. A lot of people are very much in favor of legal immigration but are not in favor of illegal immigration. Some people support legal and illegal immigration and other people don't support legal or illegal immigration. So, it's a hard topic to broach. It's it's kind of a a very divisive issue obviously and the one thing that unites both sides of the argument unfortunately is narcotics and crime. So the United States is doing what they can to try to combat that sort of thing. And we'll dive more into this highly divisive issue in just a moment. Similar story in the United Kingdom. The UK is facing, I would say, more more of an advanced civilizational crisis with regards to population shift and population displacement. So, we'll have to get more into that in just a moment uh to kind of understand why some of these flagging operations are very very important in the United Kingdom. But suffice it to say, a lot of these immigration problems are coming to light. And the seriousness of immigration issues, as they are very very closely linked to counter narcotics operations, has been very sharply demonstrated this week. Once again, the classic line must be uttered. The past 48 hours has been host to significant naval activity. Over the past few days, the US Navy has deployed significant naval assets, all with the goal of taking up station off the coast of Venezuela to combat drug trafficking. Originally, the US Navy, the White House, and the Pentagon all announced this effort as being really just a task force of three destroyers, which is a fairly common thing. It's not really a new thing. The US Navy, and the US Coast Guard have been conducting patrols of the Caribbean Sea and, you know, down off the coast of Narco land for a long time. So, that's not really new. What is new is sending an ARG or an amphibious ready group. Whenever a few thousand Marines embark on a MW and head down south, well, we should probably pay attention to this quite a bit. Now, this deployment by the Euima ARG has been sort of up in the air. The Euima was originally scheduled to go to sixfleet AO, which is the Med and uh Europe, right? So, she was supposed to go on a regular deployment there, but now recent statements over the past couple of days have made it sound like she's going down south to Central or South America. So, this is exactly the kind of deception operation I would expect if we are trying to put boots on ground in Venezuela, for instance. Again, right now, that's speculation. There's been no talk of that whatsoever. But, you can't ignore a few thousand Marines on board a flattop going down to uh Central America. So, we've got enough resources down there to uh put up a pretty good fight if if a war were to kick off. It could just be intimidation. It could just be a standard routine deployment kind of thing. So, I don't want to raise any alarm bells unjustly. However, we've got to keep this in mind. Uh, she was supposed to go to Europe and now at the last minute, all we're changing deployments, right, to go down to South America. And if you're trying to keep the cartel guessing, right, then that's exactly what you would do. Also, what you would do is send a task force of three destroyers down there to, you know, allegedly in heavy air quotes combat uh ships at sea, right? conduct a visit board search and seaure or VBSS operations when really the Eegis ships are down there to provide missile defense. We saw the exact same thing happen in the Middle East. Remember a couple of months ago we saw that oh there just so happened to be one day like three or four aircraft carriers right within range of anything that might go wrong. So the same kind of flavor certainly appears to be undertaken right now in the Atlantic. What is going to happen? I don't know. It could just be a standard deployment or a show of force. The White House loves their shows of force, don't they? So, it could just be a posturing thing, but something to keep keep an eye on over the next few days. You'll probably see me writing quite a bit about this. And I'm going to be extra attentive to look for any signs of largecale conflict or some kind of action down there. So, as we can see from the overall strategic movement, things are getting pretty serious when it comes to counter cartel and counter narco operations and more importantly, how these are tied to immigration issues here in the United States. So here at home in the United States, we have had a lot of kinetic events occur this week, but the one that I wanted to mention is the announcement, the recent announcement by the White House that the National Guard is going to be deployed to 19 states now uh to assist with immigration issues, to assist with crime initiatives and so on. As of right now when I'm recording this, I don't have a whole lot of details on what's going on with this, but I do have the list of states which are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. So again, 19 states where National Guard soldiers are going to be activated federally, I'm guessing, for anti-rime initiatives and to assist with immigration efforts. Once again, very few details. I'm very curious as to see what title orders these guys are going to be on because as we can see these are mostly conservative states. So I don't know if the governors are going to be the in the chain of command here or if this is a federal deployment. I'll know I'm sure by the time this brief comes out but this is just something to keep in mind. The total number of soldiers deployed is going to be around 1,700. So we're not talking a whole lot. But if we remember from the COVID era when a lot of National Guard uh deployments were occurring, what we saw is just a dozen soldiers here, a dozen soldiers there, maybe a hundred tops in this one city, and then suddenly they got a lot bigger. So, same thing with the whole deployment to DC post J6, right? That was a a a thing where they tried to hide the numbers a lot. I'm not saying the two these, you know, really sort of nefarious kind of historical things are linked to what's going on now, but it's something to keep an eye on because 1700 can become 17,000 really quickly and nobody would know because they're going off of the old numbers. So, I don't know. It's something to keep an eye on. It's interesting how we've gone from Washington DC still being a crimeridden hell hole just with a lot of uniformed guys walking around and now we've expanded to the entire United States, right? Things are so much up in the air these days, but for right now, at this snapshot in time, President Trump has stated that Chicago is next. They're going to deploy National Guard to Chicago. And after Chicago, they're going to go to New York. That's the story as of right now. And then now we've learned that it's actually 19 states, none of which include New York or Illinois. So, I don't know if we're going to add New York and Illinois to this list to become 21 states. I I don't know. Either way, we're just going to have to see how this works out, but rest assured, I am going to be watching this quite carefully. Things are changing by the day, and we're just going to have to take things as they come. And speaking of the whole uh immigration issue, I wanted to issue a brief update to the Chadari family uh smuggling operation, human trafficking, child slavery operation in Omaha, Nebraska. So, as of uh yesterday, a couple of local news media groups have discovered that two of the four hotels have been closed down, or at least they had, you know, law enforcement closed for investigation signs on the front doors of these hotels. Zero communication, of course, from the owners of the hotels because the owners of the hotels are in prison right now. But the hotels that were closed were the New Victorian and the American. Uh, however, the other two, they're owned by the same people and the same family. They seem like they're still open. It's hard to say. They may have been closed overnight. If the first two are closed, I would assume the second two are going to be closed as well. But one interesting detail that came out from the local um news media talking about this is of course the news media, local local news stations especially are going to come at this from a specific angle. And the angle that the news media was coming at this story from is the customer service impact to this. So really the local news was focusing not on the fact that children were being held as slaves at these hotels. They kind of ignore that part. But what they are focusing on is the inconvenience of people showing up to check into their hotel room or being evicted from their hotel rooms wi with zero notice. Right? So they're talking about a lot of that, which of course should not be surprising to anyone. But one detail that they kind of passively let on is that a lot of these hotels were used as long-term residences by people who could not get lodging any other way. This by itself is ordinarily not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of people are living in hotels nowadays simply because the situation is pretty dang desperate in some places around the country. So that's not a any kind of nefariousness on its own. What is nefarious is the fact that you've got a lot of long-term customers and a lot of long-term residents at a hotel where there is child slavery taking place. That is very suspicious because this could be a much larger slavery child trafficking network than we knew that it was, right? Surely people who lived there long term would know whether or not there's kids being employed at this place to clean rooms and stuff like that. So much more investigation is needed. So at least the feds are doing something in this case thankfully for once. But again, it's a day late and a dollar short, right? This is almost 3 weeks after the initial arrests, right? The fact that there were not closed signs on the hotel the very day the raids occurred is disturbing. But three weeks later, uh hopefully not that many more children were trafficked in that, you know, 2 or 3 week time frame. And hopefully the other two uh sites that we've identified and the whole world has identified will be shut down fairly soon as well. But no guarantees on any of that. So I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. monitor these kind of things because unfortunately nowadays the average citizen has to advocate and urge the feds to actually arrest someone when a crime is committed. So that's just kind of the way that it is and a lot of times there's not a whole lot the average citizen can do. So getting down to the actual regions today, this is more of a nationwide concern, but I did want to remind everyone that the FDA recall on the radioactive shrimp has expanded because of course it has. This is of course a shell game of food distribution. So the company PT Bahari Makmmore Sajati is actually known in the US as BMS foods which is an Indonesian company and they sell raw shrimp or frozen shrimp to two other companies at least two other companies in this case Southwind Foods and Beaver Street Fisheries and those companies repackage that shrimp as their own brand. Well, this becomes a problem when four shipping containers full of shrimp uh were detected to be radioactive or contaminated with the radioactive isotope cesium 137. Cesium 137 is of course uh produced as a byproduct of nuclear fishision. And it is of course something that you would not typically want in your seafood. Now, just to hammer home the importance of this, I don't really care about the frozen shrimp. The frozen shrimp are irrelevant to be honest because the FDA has stated that the shrimp themselves were not necessarily contaminated. They're potentially contaminated. What was contaminated? The shipping containers that these shrimp were shipped in, which is the more concerning part because four shipping containers were discovered at the same time at four different ports, Miami, Los Angeles, Savannah, and Houston, and all four were radioactive. There could be more containers than that. They're really keeping tight lipped on this sort of thing because this is very obviously a very big counterterrorism concern. So bottom line, a food contamination issue could have just accidentally highlighted the concern that maybe some radiological supplies were smuggled into the United States or at least were attempted to be. There is some debate about this uh quite a bit as to whether or not you would find cesium 137 in say something like a dirty bomb or some kind of radioactive contamination. It's hard to say. There's a lot of back and forth on that, but just speaking very generally, when a shipping container shows up in one American port and it's radioactive, that's a little concerning because you're wondering what was in that shipping container before, what was it next to? But when four shipping containers, at least four, uh, shipping containers show up at four different ports all around the United States, that's a little bit more of a concern. Now, just to balance this out, I know that a lot of people are going to freak out uh once they discover once they actually read the story and find out that it's not the shrimp, it's the containers. Once the social media influencer circle reads the articles for once, people are going to get spun up over this. Uh, and it's interesting, but radioactive stuff tries to come into the United States a lot. So, I don't know. I'm I would be very very interested to hear a press statement by uh Customs and Border Patrol on this to see what they've got to say and what they're willing to say. And I think they should be asked the questions of what's the deal with this, you know, what's the history? What's this company's deal? And so on. I mean, if it's just a case of unsanitary conditions like the FDA is saying, okay, fine. But I want to hear that from the people who know what a dirty bomb looks like, not the FDA, right? They've clearly isolated the isotope, which is not that hard to do. A lot of the handheld scanners that are used by customs to scan stuff for, you know, contamination, they can do this on the fly, but sampling the actual radioactive particles, the dust or whatever is on these containers would would be helpful. And they can definitely isolate where that source came from. So, if it was part of say like the Fukushima leak from a few years ago, just some kind of contamination tied to that, that would be very nice to know. But just be wary about what you see on social media over the next few days because I guarantee you people are going to start freaking out about this. And uh really it's just one of those things where more temperance is needed. Sort of in the same vein of panic is the revelation in Washington DC the other day that there are 55 million visa holders in the United States and the White House is looking at investigating all of those visa holders for potential immigration fraud like visa overstays. That's a really common thing. And as one might imagine, uh, this has really resulted in the general public saying, "How many visa holders are there?" Yeah, it turns out 55 million is kind of a lot. Uh, so the White House has been really kind of trying to avoid this question, I think, because the White House is most certainly all about legal immigration, right? That's what the the Trump administration is very much uh hanging their hat on. A lot of conservative power players are also uh really trying to focus on halting the illegal immigration while bringing forth more legal immigration. And it turns out that 55 million legal visitors to the United States is still a pretty big number. So I just wanted to remind everyone that the US population is around 340 million, at least that's what they're publicly stating it to be based on the last census data. And if you add on 55 million people to that, that's a pretty big percentage as far as what illegal immigration is. I mean, if there's 55 million legal visitors here that could get visas, then you would have to assume that there are more illegal immigrants, right? That's a pretty big revelation. And since that just came out yesterday, I think a lot of people are trying to come to terms with it and figure out what this actually means because yeah, it's a big number. And uh it turns out that this is a probably a much larger problem than we had originally previously identified. And that brings us to Florida, more specifically Mr. Hargender Singh and his recent arrest for his involvement in causing the crash that killed three people on the Florida Turnpike a couple of weeks ago. I have been investigating Mr. Singh here just as a very interesting thought experiment. And it turns out, as you could probably assume very easily based on the story, that Mr. seeing is not at the center of this uh story. So, some of you have already seen it, but I'm not going to show my full homework on this just yet because a little bit of discretion is necessary when tracking some of these networks. But the short version of this is that Mr. Singh is not the center of this. Harender Singh worked for a company called White Hawk Carriers, which can be traced back to one Navnet Cower who is probably acting as a registered agent service. So once you investigate Navni Cower a little bit, you can find out that this individual, which I'm assuming is a female because most of the names I searched came up as female. So I'm just going to call her a she. But this individual, it turns out to be the owner and registered agent of a lot of very similar companies that are nearly identical to White Hawk carriers, all of which are registered at a different address, which is usually a residential address. So what's going on here? Uh, this is seems like an interesting data point, but what's going on here? Well, you might be tempted to think that Miss Navit Cow here is the center kingpin in all of this. That's probably not it. She is probably just the paperwork boss, right? She's probably just the person who is registering these companies for illegal immigrants because even in California, some of these people who may have criminal records don't want to be popping up in LLC databases. So, that's probably what's going on here. I have a lot more evidence to back that up, but it's it's a fairly common thing to see. I know that this link analysis chart here looks a little bit busy and you can kind of see where Harender Singh is in this whole thing and Miss Nav Cower here is the that green dot which is at the center of all these other LLC's and other locations and businesses and things like that. So, there are links between a lot of these and I am currently developing this out. This is just my homework as of a few days ago, but I just wanted to show you that this is much larger than just one guy in a truck, which makes sense at face value, right? But in this case, you might be expecting it to have like a CEO and then underneath the CEO, you've got different branch divi division heads and then maybe underneath that you've got uh different uh parts of the company all with co-workers and it's, you know, a nice neat hierarchy. Well, in the case of a lot of these truck driving networks, they're not you really have to track them using the mentality of counterinsurgency. Now, of course, not all of these people are terrorists, right? But when it comes to tracking them and trying to develop out these networks, you can very clearly see these are cellular networks. There's one group of people that is not connected to another group of people, but they're linked by a common point such as a registered agent. So even if these companies are not talking to one another, they're all still managed by a central point. And who's controlling that central point, right? I want to know who Navnet Cower is working for. She may not be working for anybody. She may just be opportunistic because a lot of these uh companies I'm finding are registered in the exact same building. Like if you were to look at the building on Google Maps, across the street is an immigration services office. So something that helps people get citizenship. So the bottom line is that this is a very interesting investigative line of effort because we want to know who's accountable, right? Obviously Harender Singh here, he's been arrested. He's going to jail for a long time because he killed three people. But the next question you must ask, especially if you live in a society and you want accountability, is who did he work for? Well, he worked for White Hawk Carriers. But did he? This could just be his own LLC that he's got registered through somebody else and he's just acting alone. My own investigation seems like that's not really the case. A lot of these are linked together. But in any case, this one guy's incident has identified and really brought to light just how pervasive this problem is. Now, I don't want to make it out to look like this is some kind of grand new revelation. No, there are a lot of people, especially people who are in the trucking industry, who have been shouting and screaming about this for many, many, many years. It's just nobody's listened to them because logistics is boring, right? And nobody cares about the issues of trucking, even though they absolutely should. So, please don't think I'm stumbling upon something grand and un unrevealed. No, this is this has already been wellnown for a very long time. It's just that now is a good time because we're looking at all of these other immigration issues. Now is a good time to reassess what's going on here because now people for once in their life are actually paying attention to what's going on around them. And unfortunately, I think there's also a lot of information manipulation. A lot of people will point and shout and say, "Oh, look at this guy. Look how evil he is. He's just a terrible, terrible person." Right? But then they don't go the next step further and say, "All right, well, we can hold this guy accountable." Sure, that's easy enough. But can we hold accountable the registered agent who is breaking even California law by registering a bunch of businesses in her name that she doesn't own? You see, it's just a paper mill, right? It's just an LLC paper mill is a shell game. That's what it is. And we we want to hold the guy accountable because we've got a mean looking photo of him. But nobody wants to go to the next step and say, "Well, let's dismantle this network here. Let's look into these addresses. This this guy's address is listed right on the California Secretary of State's website. It's not like it's that hard. And the feds have other databases. You can look and see how many people with visas, how many how many visa holders listed as their mailing address, the same address used for this guy. This is simple stuff. So, we've definitely got to to keep uh keep pressure on this sort of thing because unfortunately there is only so much the average citizen can do. I can sit here and talk all day long on YouTube and I can sit here and show you all of my research, but I have no power at the end of the day. I can't go out and issue an arrest warrant for all of these people I've identified. I would like to, but I can't. I don't work for government. And we are beholden to an attorney general somewhere or a federal agency somewhere to actually do their job. And so far, in most cases, the same people who have been employed in government forever are still employed under the Trump administration, which is why you see a lot of times not a whole lot being done. In this case, one guy was arrested. That is fantastic. This is good. We can give him his due process and we can he can explain himself in court, but I would also personally like Miss Need Cower to see the inside of a courtroom and explain why she's registering so many businesses to illegal immigrants in her state. So anyway, this shows how spicy things have have gotten around the United States, but things have gotten even spicier uh in the United Kingdom across the pond. So I of course mean the flagging operations that have taken place throughout uh England over the past few days. This has been rapidly become a very big social thing that has occurred throughout the country. And for an American audience, I thought I would explain just a little bit. Throughout most of Europe, it's fairly odd. It's fairly strange to see national flags flying really anywhere. Uh the concept of having your national flag displayed like at your front door or something like that, that's definitely an American thing. The concept of patriotism as Americans know it just does not apply anywhere else in the world or actually it does. It's just not Western Europe. So, Western uh Europe, Eastern Europe as well tend to not have like national flags out uh as much as you might expect. And in the UK, things have gotten quite severe over the past few years with regards to what is considered to be a hate crime. So much so that flying the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom, uh displaying that flag at say like a Hindu cultural event, that can actually get you arrested, right? much more so the flag of England which is the St. George's Cross which not only conveys the idea of the English people, right? But also there's a saint involved, right? So a Christian component to this is uh equally uh forbidden in many many circumstances in the UK unfortunately. And over the past few days, a huge and I mean huge effort has been undertaken to conduct flagging operations, which is probably the best way to describe it. And what this is is super simple. It's literally just putting the English flag up in England. That's it. That's what this is. Uh some people have taken to graffiti, so painting what they call zebra crossings, pedestrian crossings, right, with red paint to make the pedestrian crossings look like little St. George's flags. So, you can kind of understand how that's a little bit more secret, but generally speaking, one of the primary ways that the British people are showing acts of resistance is simply putting up their own na nation's flag within their own nation. Now, again, to an American audience, this seems incredibly sad. Uh, and it may be, but I would rather focus on the the good part of this, right? So, there's a lot of people who are trying to do the right thing and inspire and bring a lot of hope to the English people and potentially facing arrest or great violence to do so. A few flagging uh teams have been roughed up pretty bad when they get caught. And one guy was hit in the head uh injured pretty severely last night. And Steven is just north of London where again he's trying to conduct flagging in an area and someone threw a Molotov cocktail at him, but it hit him right in the head. So pretty pretty violent sort of thing. You know, the British people are having to risk imprisonment and serious bodily harm just to put up their own nation's flag. And it's a good thing that we're starting to see this level of resistance come out. I think resistance to what exactly? I don't know if you can even define it. Just just resistance to all the badness of the world. Uh, one of the ways to do that is to bring a sense of shared unity and shared national identity because the United Kingdom, much like the United States, is facing an identity crisis. Theirs is much worse than ours, of course. And one of the ways that you can start to identify what does it mean to be an Englishman? What does it mean to be a Scott? What does it mean to be Welsh? Right? Well, the land of Albon is uh figuring this out right now. And they're going to have to figure it out over the next few years, too. This is one of those things that is within the realm of uh the English to start to bring to the table. It's peaceful, doesn't hurt anybody, and it's less it's less vandalism than is uh has been conducted by official government agencies to plaster rainbow flags and all other kinds of paraphernellia all over government buildings. So basically, there's no way to complain about this that doesn't make you sound crazy because there's the flag of India and Pakistan being flown over government buildings. So, this is one of those things that's very innocent and harmless and even the most hardline uh immigration supporter can't really have an avenue of approach for attacking people who want to put up their own flag in their own nation. So, it's an easy thing to do and it is a point of shared unity which is a good thing to see. So, for once ending on a positive note, maybe not a positive context, but a positive note and I think that's a great thing to see. So, good luck to to our friends across the pond and we will see how this works out over the next few days and weeks. So, that's pretty much all I have for today. Let's wrap things up again with the intercepted ghost net reports. Again, another good week. A lot of people uh starting to use the ghost net for exchanging information and doing testing and use a more off-grid manner of communicating. Fantastic to see. These things are very important. Again, the context of uh satellite communication devices such as Starlink and a lot of the direct to cell satellite stuff that's being worked on by major cellular carriers. All of that stuff is good and and absolutely uh necessary to see. But we also want to have a backup, don't we? And radio is one of those ways, especially HF radio is one of those ways to communicate over very long distances with potentially hundreds or thousands of people with nobody in between and nobody really practically being able to jam it either. The ghost net, for example, uh has been jammed quite a lot, both intentionally and unintentionally, and the network hasn't really suffered that much for it. It's still quite effective. It still works. And it may not be perfect. It may be very antiquated, very hard to use, very expensive, and there's a lot of uh cultural problems too within radio, but this is still one line of effort that we can do, one thing in our lives that we can actually control somewhat. And it's a good way to make sure that we can talk to whoever we want to with nobody being able to stop us. So, thank you for all of you who make the ghost net a great thing to see. It would not be what it is without all of you contributing to it and using it and finding it to be a useful thing. Otherwise, it's just me, a crazy dude on the internet with a frequency, and that's not helpful for everybody. But all of you have taken this project and run with it. And now the whole thing is running semi-autonomously, right? I don't have to issue reminders or do anything myself. It just it just flows, right? And that's a good thing to see. It will get better over time. I'm working on the next version of the plan right now. And I I really hope that over the next year we can incorporate some of the more nonrai-based uh stuff into the plan to make it a little bit easier for people to communicate using different methods. I'll just leave it at that. So, thank you again for all of your support. Uh here are the sources as usual. And of course, you can uh get clickable links and uh more information from my Obsidian page. But that's pretty much all I have for today. Thanks again, and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for 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 the intel update for February 1st through the 7th, 2026. The main focus for this week has been a building and brooding of several more long-term issues around the world, so let's get right to it. Starting off overseas, the negotiations with the Iranians apparently went well, or rather not great, but also not terrible. The first day of negotiation was amiable, and more talks are planned. In terms of the likelihood of another round of American strikes, this is always on the table as the United States is really the one that has the final say on whether or not future targeting is carried out. In the short term, there are probably two flash points to be aware of that might indicate when strikes will take place. One, if the United States thinks that the Iranians are stalling or stringing along the negotiating team without actually ever making any progress towards some sort of compromise, the United States will simply strike the facilities that they've been working on more publicly. Likewise, the Iranians are also between a rock and a hard place because even if they agree to a deal, they're probably going to get struck anyway. So, that will be something to watch for, for sure. Also overseas, something concerning in a vastly different way lies with revelations that have emerged in the United Kingdom this week regarding a series of incidents that took place almost a year ago involving Prime Minister Starmer. Since the justice system in the United Kingdom is extremely protective of accused criminals in nearly all cases, we simply do not know what events transpire until many months later. And this case is no exception, so we'll talk about that in just a moment because this case is becoming just as interesting as the revelations that have come to light within the homeland this week. Around the United States this week, the unrest has continued as before. I know the classic line once again. Now that Minneapolis is ramping down and settling in for the long haul, the organization has been continuing around the nation among far-left activist groups. Make no mistake, even though the b-roll is days old and there aren't any flashy headlines to doom scroll when it comes to the unrest, the situation is not just as dangerous as before, but even more so, especially now that a new demographic is involved, children. Nationwide, school teachers are increasingly becoming involved in getting the children in their classes to take part in anti-ICE demonstrations. And quite a few events like this have come to a head over the past week. Please forgive me for this thrown-together graphic, but I'm currently plotting all of the schools which have gotten their students to protest for the political causes of the teachers. So far, I have geolocated protests taking place in the following cities: Seattle, Auburn, Los Angeles, Menifee, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Austin, Fremont, Louisville, and New York City. And that's just a start. I haven't had enough time to actually drop a point on most of these sites because it's quite literally hundreds of schools around the country. So, this map only shows the more kinetic underage student protests which have either caused damage or resulted in a student being severely injured. All of these locations have been hosted to increasingly more serious indoctrination now that Minneapolis is winding down, and the far-left activist groups know with reasonable certainty that the federal government is not going to target them in any way whatsoever. Just like we observed last week, the state and the local and the federal government all working together to kind of reduce tensions in Minneapolis doesn't really matter when it comes to the activist groups. For a lot of these groups, it is becoming increasingly clear that these organizations perceive that they have achieved victory. The far-left thinks that they have won in Minneapolis, and as such, the funding and resources have continued to flow to other cities nationwide. Whether or not they've actually won in Minneapolis and gotten the federal government to back down, that's up for you to decide. It's It's debatable either way, but what's very clear is that the left thinks they won, and that's an important distinction to make. And now, they are more openly getting children to serve as foot soldiers for their cause, which is a development that has gotten quite serious over the past week. The scale of these underage student protests is no more clearly illustrated than in Salt Lake City, where school teachers are actually directly organizing protests for very young children to take part in during the school day, all without the parents even knowing about it. Other schools around the country are trying to conceal the involvement of the teachers and staff, saying that the students themselves came up with the idea for a walkout protest. However, in many locations, this pretense has been thrown out the window and far-left activist teachers are openly stating that they are running these juvenile protests. However, as serious as this is, it gets worse. In Salt Lake City specifically, middle schoolers have been observed throwing rocks at passing vehicles, smashing windows, and otherwise causing property damage during these walkouts. Children have been led on marches throughout the city over the past few days, which are becoming increasingly more dangerous for all involved. In Nebraska week a juvenile student taking part in an anti-ICE protest outside Fremont High School was hit by a vehicle after running out into traffic to harass a vehicle that was displaying a Trump flag. A similar situation also took place at Heritage High School in Menifee, California, which involved a 15-year-old student ramming a motorcyclist with their vehicle during an anti-ICE protest. In most states, even very young elementary school children are being taught to protest in class by their activist teachers, and the children are actively protesting out next to major highways during recess. All of these incidents over the past few days indicate that the next wave of foot soldier has been selected. Far-left activist groups cannot get the numbers that they need, so they go after the population that cannot consent, which is children. It does not take a crystal ball to see that these incidents will continue to expand and get vastly more serious over the next few weeks. As the winter weather season starts to ease up, activism season will become much more substantial now that the far-left groups have no one to stop them. Remember, a lot of conservative parents got put on no-fly lists and were targeted ruthlessly by the FBI because they were upset at school board meetings. There has been no accountability for this and as such, parents are extremely limited in what options they have to redress their concerns about teachers forcing their children to take part in political protests or be recruited like a child soldier into a political movement. So, over the next few weeks, expect more children to be injured or killed while being encouraged by their teachers to protest out in the street. Not a great outlook, I know, but I'm going to do a little a little research on this throughout the week, so we'll see how things develop from here. But, let's move on to the next topic before I fed posts too hard on this one. Overseas, things are not going so well in jolly old England either, but in a vastly different way. This entire case is a rather unfortunate rabbit hole, and I'm going to drag all of you down here with me, so buckle up. Back in May of 2025, a few people threw Molotovs at Starmer's personal residences, uh targeting several locations and properties that linked to Starmer in some way. At the time of the first attack, it looked like a schitzo or just some kind of dis- gruntled citizen, right? After all, politicians get a lot of heat by being in the public eye, and the security details of world leaders are they're keeping pretty busy these days. There's always some kind of incident like this, so as kinetic as it is, it's not really that remarkable because this stuff this stuff happens all the time. However, in this case, it happened again, and again. On May 8th, 2025, somebody set Starmer's vehicle on fire in Kentish Town. It's not clear as to if the vehicle was actually his or one that he had previously owned. Since in the UK, the license plate database is public record, so you can look up a license plate and see who actually owns that particular uh plate and vehicle. So, it's not clear if somebody just looked up an old license plate and found out that that was Starmer's old car, or if there was something more to it. I'll let you decide what the most likely scenario is because of what happens next. Three days after this attack on Starmer's car, the front door of Starmer's old apartment in Islington was firebombed, and the very next morning, the next day, one of Starmer's old family homes was firebombed as well in a similar manner. Again, at the time this was taking place last year, this seemed like a rather simple crime spree, some political targeting effort by a disgruntled citizen, or something like that. And for many months, this was the predominant theory, until the actual arrest reports became public, and a bit of a pattern emerged. So far, a total of five individuals have been arrested in conjunction with last year's attacks, with the fifth suspect being arrested a couple of days ago. So, the most recent mug shot is not available at present and probably won't be available for a few months. The fourth male who was arrested was not identified because he was not charged with a crime. They're still investigating him though, so I've got him on the slide, but something tells me that I can guess with a pretty good accuracy what these two mug shots would look like. Pardon me if this is a bit of a stretch, but I think we're going to have to go on a little bit of gut instinct here because so far all of the arrests that have been made have resulted in a bit of a pattern, haven't they? If you are unfortunate enough to Google these individuals' names and some of the other photos that I will not be showing of these individuals, you can very clearly discern that all of the suspects so far are male prostitutes, all from Eastern Europe, mostly Ukraine. Now, this begs the rather unfortunate question of why five separate gay Eastern European male prostitutes would know the exact addresses of where Prime Minister Starmer lived. Unlike in America where these things are comparatively easy to find, it's extremely hard to find the exact mailing address or street address of where politicians live, especially the Prime Minister. Granted, I am aware of how the internet works these days. One crazy schizo on the internet with a bone to pick can certainly find pretty much anything they want. But I find it far more likely that the reason this band of merry men knew where Starmer lived is because they had been there before. And hell hath no fury like a gay Ukrainian prostitute scorned, I guess. So, this is where things stand. Not a lot of solid information, but this case also keeps developing every few months, at least. And wouldn't you know it, details about this case always seem to come out right when Starmer is having a rough time with public relations. So, I find this very, very interesting. The UK government is not doing super well right now. They've got a lot of immigration issues, a lot of social dissent. Everyone is very upset and they cannot voice it so much because of again, the crackdown on speech in the UK, which we've covered extensively over the past few years. So yeah, things are not going super well throughout the UK and I find it very interesting that this sort of thing comes to light, especially in the context of the other very compromising documents that have been sweeping the internet for the past few weeks. I am of course referring to the Epstein files, which have resulted in lots of heads of state, lots of very high ranking politicians issuing letters of apology and stepping down there from their positions. So I don't know if this Starmer freakishness is related to any of that stuff, but so far just seems like this is one rather unfortunate case to heap on the pile of terrible that is, you know, the daily lives and the social lives of the political elite. I'm sure all of this is linked together, even if it's just tangential. I mean, the the the biggest significant part of this is really just the fact that stuff like this when it hits the mainstream news and when like the BBC, the state-controlled media of the UK is even allowed to talk about stuff like this, it starts it starts the normies asking a lot of questions and interesting conversations will be had all around over this stuff and especially the Epstein stuff, which we'll talk about next. But we're having to explain this to people who are now just starting to become aware of some of of how the world works in these ways. And a lot of this is very clearly illustrated by the Epstein documents. So what can we say about the latest round of Epstein documents? Well, I'm sure a lot of people have a lot to say about it and a lot of information has been released by the DOJ, but most of it isn't really that useful. Right now, there's also a lot of very misleading information that is saturating the overall database as the Department of Justice released any and every outlandish report that was sent in to the FBI's tip lines regarding Epstein. Many of these reports include very wild claims which are then screenshot by influencers and posted online for engagement farming purposes. So this is a really tough battle we're going to have to wade through for a bit. Same thing with a lot of the other verbage which is being assumed to be code word for something far more sinister. Now there are of course code words in these networks. We got a lot of these code words from the Podesta network from a few years ago, which heavily used a lot of code words and phrases and trigger words and things like that in a lot of those communications, right? And in the Epstein emails, the emails directly to Jeffrey Epstein himself seem to include a lot of these words. For instance, the phrase pizza with grape soda appears a lot in the database, right? And this appears in a very odd context if you read the full email chain where it's mentioned, right? So, you can clearly see that they're talking about something, right? What these code words exactly mean is well, I mean, generally we know what these things mean, but specifically, like combinations like pizza and grape soda, we don't actually know with 100% certainty what Epstein was using that for. We just know parenthetically what the rest of these horrific communities tend to use these words for, right? So, yes, these networks do use code words. We've known this for many, many years. This is a common knowledge kind of thing, right? However, not everything in the Epstein emails is a code for something. As an example, this one email was circulating a few days ago on social media talking about Epstein referencing muffins or the the word muffin somehow being a code word for something. But, if you actually search for more context throughout the database, you can find out that turns out the freak actually likes real muffins for breakfast. And thus, this line of inquiry is probably not worth more investigative effort, especially now with other more damning stuff in the files. The more ridiculous and out of context reports are absolutely diverting attention away from more concerning and legitimate information in the database. I think they're doing this intentionally. They dump all the files, millions of pages of things that don't matter so as to obfuscate the stuff that does matter in the files, such as travel dates, names, and associations that can be cross-referenced with other prior court documents, all of which will take some time to investigate. Due to Epstein himself being barely literate in his own emails, which could be intentional, it's it's going to be challenging to use advanced tools to fully analyze this this data set. And millions of pages of documents are going to take years to investigate by hand. Otherwise, releasing millions of pages of documents all at once results in a few different scenarios taking place in the short term, right? Everyone now treats the Epstein files like a crystal ball. They see what they want to see, and everyone sees something different. Supporters of one particular politician will look at the documents and say that the files exonerate them, while opponents will say that the same documents implicate them. This has already happened with one of the bigger names in the Epstein files, President Trump, right? President Trump himself says that, "Hey, we released all these Epstein documents, and these documents prove that I'm innocent of of any of this stuff." Whereas other people say, "No, these documents directly implicate you in a lot of stuff, right?" I have not dug into that enough to where I would feel comfortable pointing fingers in very specific ways at the moment. I just generally think that every elected official is going to be implicated in some way with this. I don't care how innocent they seem. You got to understand, this was an intelligence operation. This was not just, you know, an entertainment weekend. This was a very substantial network, and I think everybody's got their hands in it, right? Irrelevant and misleading documents aside, once most of serious investigations get underway, they don't rely on simply hitting control F and searching for keywords in the database, the picture's going to become much more clear. As it currently stands, an awful lot of people are implicated or compromised in some way at this point, to the level that even the normies are out there starting to understand to just how compromised very high-ranking politicians are. In exactly what manner, by whom, and with what evidence, and what what blackmail is is being used specifically, we don't know yet. We may never know in many cases, but the investigations continue nonetheless. We have to remember the larger context here, right? This guy, Jeffrey Epstein, and his staff ran a vast degenerate empire that the world will never forget. And if we hope to shut down other similar networks to the Epstein organization, hanging on the every word of social media influencers for what is important or damning is probably not a wise move in the long run. The Epstein files are a lightning rod topic. So, you're not going to see say the RAND Corporation come out and write a report on Epstein. You're not going to see CISA come out. You're not going to see any of these big think tanks come out and conduct and fund more investigative efforts that the FBI is not doing because the Epstein network, well, for a lot of that, everyone got away except for Epstein, right? Well, even that's debatable these days because everybody's thinking he's still alive. But, you see the idea here. But, anyway, this is why you're seeing most of this being run by the internet annons because they're the only ones with any sort of ability to actually talk about this stuff because, well, guess what? A lot of people who are in the public eye, their friends are were friends with Epstein. That's what makes it very hard to investigate. It would be very, very nice to get some six-figure funding behind any kind of investigative effort on looking into what Jeffrey Epstein's network did after Epstein stepped aside from the operation either by incarceration or death or whatever. That would be very, very interesting to do, right? You've got protesters in Minneapolis that are being given five, six figures to go stand in the street with signs, but yet anybody who wants to look into the Epstein thing is it's all hushed tones and private DMs from people who say, you know, I'd love to help you, man, but I can't have my name associated with anything Epstein because uh this, that, or the other, right? That's why this Epstein thing is such a big elephant in the room because a lot of people are implicated in it and everybody who's implicated in it who's powerful got away with it. We've got a lot of work to do because as disturbing as some of these Epstein emails are, especially knowing what's behind the emails and what they're talking about and what they're setting up, just looking through the looking glass at this organization and the horrific stuff they did, just know that the really horrific stuff probably wasn't written down in his email account, at least not this email account. Text messages, private couriers, names, dates, odometer readings, thermal heat signatures of Epstein Island that can be detected with agricultural satellites. All of this other stuff that's not being released by the DOJ are critical parts of understanding how Epstein's network operated after this hit the media and the rats scurried to create their own networks. From my wheelhouse, I'm focused on my own investigations on the more national security angle, such as the politicians and military decision-makers that are being blackmailed by foreign governments or actually most of just one government. But anyway, we'll see what names, dates, and locations will come to light over the next few weeks. It's been a really heavy week all around. A lot of very heavy data stuff, not a whole lot of way of encapsulating this in a very succinct way today, I'm afraid. And as a result, that's pretty much all I have at the moment. I'm sorry, I wanted to talk about a lot more because it's been a really crazy week and it's just it's just been too overwhelming too much to handle, honestly. Just with the amount of stuff that's happened. Even working really long hours every single day barely scratches the surface with most of this stuff. And I've also been working a lot of overtime to get some of the more educational content produced for those of you who don't really like the more current event news report kind of things. So, things take a lot of time these days and time is in short supply. But that's okay. Better some limited progress than no progress at all, right? And speaking of running out of time, I was only able to catch the tail end of the Ghost Net this week as I was tied up with a bit of video editing, but I was still able to get a few of you out there exchanging information and keeping the net going. The more routine and mundane stuff like working on radios often elicits a lot of groaning from those who don't enjoy such topics. I know I'm that way myself. But at the end of the day, having a nationwide network of people all linked together over the airwaves at all times, even during a crisis, that's a very powerful and reassuring foundation to lean on. So, let's keep at it and continue to do good stuff with it. We may not be able to do very much about the horrific news of the day, but that also doesn't mean that we can do nothing. Sometimes, when there isn't any favorable course of action that is feasible, the best option is to buy time, learn new skills, build new things, and most importantly, keep as many options open as possible for as long as possible. Right now, we may not be able to do very much at all as a citizenry about what's in the Epstein files, for instance, but I can certainly learn how to work a radio. I can certainly plot critical information on a map and start mapping out some of this stuff. I can certainly go for a hike with a heavy backpack, and I can certainly hit the gym every day. That stuff may seem meaningless right now, but over time, these skills will be needed. We're in it for the long haul, and there's plenty of work that needs to be done. We cannot hope to tackle the big issues if we can't handle the little issues first. So, let's work on that stuff, and over time, let's raise the bar of expectations for the average American. We can't expect things to get better if we don't raise our expectations of what it means to be an American, and we can't raise our expectations of others unless we raise the expectations of ourselves first. So, let's get after it and do the best we can. And on the research and data side of things, all of the source material for everything I've mentioned today can be found on my Obsidian page, where a bunch of other links can be found as well. I know it's kind of difficult to find my work sometimes because I work on a lot of separate projects that are hard to put in one place, but I'm making some improvements on how to more easily get the resources that anyone might need. So, that's all I have for today. Thank you all for sticking around. I really do appreciate it, and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground. This is the intel update for October 12th through the 18th, 2025. This week has been kind of a mixed bag. There have been a lot of kinetic things going on around the world, but most of those kinetic things have also been taking place over the past few months. So, this week has been a little bit more nebulous in terms of world events, which has possibly tempted us to be a little bit more complacent. Rest assured, there's plenty of activity going on around the world. So, let's get right to it. First up here in the homeland this week has been a continuation of the civil unrest in places like Portland and Chicago and New York. ICE operations continue. Counter ICE operations continue. This morning, as I'm recording this, the No Kings protests are supposed to be underway nationwide. It's pretty much the same story as before, but again, it would not be a good idea to be complacent with these things. So, if you look at the map on their own website, they're clearly using or reusing the same map as before. So, all of these uh listings that I have clicked around and found are the same as the first round of No King's Protest. So, they're clearly doing the same thing over again. They're trying to make it look like there are demonstrations in places where there aren't. If we recall from the very first round of uh No King's Protests, most of these events never happened because why? It was a SCOP the first time. I know we suspected this the first time and we kind of said there's no way these events are going to happen or if they are, you can look and see that they're scheduled at different times. So they've got the same group of people, the same group of paid demonstrators being busted around from from event to event to event in an area. So instead of one big protest that takes place all day, you've got 15minute protests that occur in 30 different places. So it looks like there's 30 different protests on their own little map here. So again, this is very much manipulation of of information. And so because of that, we might be tempted to be a little bit more, you know, lax, especially considering that the last time I I kid you not, they emptied out a lot of retirement homes so as to pad their protest numbers. Now, again, we can be complacent with even this idea, too, because you might be tempted to think, "Oh, well, these, you know, these people are elderly. They're living in an old folks home, and they don't know what's going on, right? They just, you know, they just like the chance to get out, right?" Unfortunately, many of these people actually are quite cognizant of their belief systems and actions. And a lot of them, you know, even the elderly, very much endorsing of this behavior. So, you know, there's give and take. There's a little bit of, well, they're they're taking advantage. They're exploiting the elderly for to pad their protests. And then there's also the other side of things where the only people that agree with these people are, you know, the extreme elderly, right? So, it's kind of a mixed bag. It doesn't really look good for their cause. I mean, a lot of people are expecting mass pandemonium from these no kings things, but it it just turns out to be mostly the elderly uh on the street a lot of times. That doesn't mean that things can get pretty kinetic in some areas. Like I wrote yesterday, it's it's pretty likely that some small local groups, particularly in the usual places, Chicago, Portland, uh these people will take advantage of the chaos or rather the attention and uh try to cause some problems. So, for the most part, there's this very unique blend this week of legitimate terroristic kind of concerns, but also there are events that aren't really that big of a deal, but they're trying to make them a big deal. So trying to discern which one's which is uh pretty challenging sometimes, but generally speaking, you can look at the demonstration and see if this is going to be a low-level thing or is this going to be more of a highle thing. So it's going to vary widely uh across the country. So speaking of variation, moving down south in South and Central America, the war continues as before with Venezuela. A full-blown war has not yet been declared. However, the United States has sunk two vessels this week. one of which was the typical fastboat, but the other one was a narco submarines. Either way, the United States is certainly not backing down from Venezuela. There's been some rhetoric on whether or not this is a posturing thing and this is uh Trump's classic style of trying to, you know, bully a foreign nation uh into doing what the United States wants. That tends to be uh the way things work out sometimes. And honestly, that would probably not be a bad tactic to use against uh Maduro and Venezuela because that's just kind of the thing that Central American nations and South American nations tend to respond to the most. Some have made the argument that the decision's already been made to launch a ground invasion of Venezuela to replace Maduro. I don't know about that. There's really no way to know. All I know is that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. And so far, everything that we have down in South and Central America can be moved right back to the United States fairly easily. But also, the United States could invade Venezuela pretty easily. So, clearly there's a there's a lot of bluffing going on, but I think it's probably more strong arm and less bluffing than anything else. But, I guess we'll have to see. I'm continuing to build products and work on the IPB or the intelligence preparation of the battle space for Venezuela, just in case things start getting pretty spicy because around the northern part of South America, things are not looking so great. uh such as in Ecuador. Ecuador is currently on fire mostly in many different ways. So Ecuador has been pretty hot for a while now, but nobody cares cuz it's a small nation. It doesn't really have that much impact on things except things like the drug trade. So either way, we'll get into that in a bit. Over in the Middle East, the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has reached ceasefireish territory. It is still holding for the most part, but we have to remember how things work in the Middle East. There's no such thing as a ceasefire or a peace agreement. there's just temporary halts in the fightings. And even still, when there are ceasefires, there really aren't ceasefires. So, there are skirmishes back and forth. Israel has done a couple of air strikes. They've uh shot a few people with sniper uh and sniper attacks. Same thing with Hamas and Gaza. So, you know, the the crossber fires between the two continues. It's just that the major bombings and the major assaults have stopped for now. probably the best we can hope for at the moment uh in terms of regional stability, but we'll see if it lasts, right? That's the classic phrase being uttered around the Middle East. We'll see. Over in the United Kingdom, the digital ID roll out has begun with uh a small sample group. So, they're starting to roll the ID out with veterans. We'll get into that more in just a bit, but suffice it to say, people are not very happy. Perhaps equally as irritated are the Afghans and Pakistanis who are currently at war with each other. They have taken on the classic south or western Asian mentality of conducting an attack, bombing their enemy, and then immediately withdrawing and declaring a ceasefire. And they both have done this. So the Taliban and Afghanistan will get their convoys. They'll get their whatever rockets or mortars or whatever we left them, roll up to a Pakistan checkpoint, shoot it up, immediately withdraw, and then 5 seconds later say ceasefire. Right? We'd like to agree to a ceasefire. And then Pakistan does the same thing. They bomb cobble and say ceasefire, right? So depending on which news source you read, which honestly I don't trust any news source with this particular war because they're they're both insane. Uh but the general story has been bomb ceasefire, bomb ceasefire, bomb ceasefire. So like there's there's no telling what's going on. Each one of them wants to engage in tit fortat warfare right before the ceasefire. It's you know it's kind of like they always want to get the last word in. So my guess is that this will probably continue for a while. India has also been poking the bear quite a bit and encouraging the Taliban to attack their mortal enemy Pakistan. So, same story as always pretty much. But either way, India and Pakistan engaging in a bit of a proxy war using the Taliban as the intermediary is a little concerning considering India and Pakistan both allegedly have nuclear weapons. Always something to keep an eye on. I know nobody cares about India or Pakistan. Uh but still something to be mindful of when they're engaging in a ground war with an insurgency. Down in Africa, the nation of Madagascar has entered into a state of well, a failed state. Their government has collapsed. A military ruling council. Honestly, really just the general of a small military unit that happened to be in the capital at the time has seized power more or less. And the president has fled on a French military jet. Uh although he still tries to maintain some kind of control over the country, but good luck with that. Either way, Madagascar is not doing so hot. It has been the latest in the African nations to fall. Uh but again, it's a fairly standard African coup, so we'll see how it works out. And finally, the trade war between the United States and China is utterly confusing, especially with regards to the flip-flop of the White House becoming rather concerning uh when it comes to the will they won't they status of tariffs. First, the tariffs are on at 100% hardline strong arm kind of position, and then 5 minutes later in an interview, uh everything's fine, everything's reversed, we're not doing anything. So, I don't know what's going on, but we'll get into it a little bit anyway because there's a couple of things in the world of finance that may be interesting for this week. When it comes to strategic movement this week, it's pretty much status quo. A pretty good chunk of the US Navy is still parked off the coast of Venezuela preparing for whatever they have in mind down there. And that's really uh the big bulk of concern for this week. Uh same as always, pretty much. And for kinetic events here in the homeland, again, uh Portland and Chicago unrest continue as before. It's just that it's settled into a kind of a slump of uh complacency, I think, and people are just kind of accepting the fact that these very dangerous times have have settled upon many major US cities when it comes to immigration. Speaking of insurgency, this week, a Hamas fighter, an alleged Hamas fighter. Really, he wasn't really a member of technically a member of Hamas. He was a member of a splinter group, so it's just easier to call him a Hamas fighter. But this dude was picked up in Louisiana by the DOJ uh for taking part in the October 7th attacks in 2023. So again, I thought that was kind of an interesting thing. Yes, the FBI does have a task force for investigating these sorts of things. So there may be more. Who knows? But I find it kind of interesting that a Hamas fighter turned up here in the US. I don't think very many people are surprised, but I think it's kind of interesting. And also, like I mentioned, the No Kings protests are taking place today around the country. We'll see how it turns out. My guess is there will probably be a shooting or two at random events around the country, possibly due to accidents or misidentifications like last time. Who knows? But we'll see. I don't have much to touch on in the US this week except for one kind of interesting item of note, which is the world of finance has been very interesting this week. I am personally not a finance guy. I'm only looking at this through the lens of international stability and trying to use the financial markets and what's going on there as a way of gauging how uh international sentiment is kind of flowing, right? You can kind of tell these things sometimes and it looks to be like a pretty big period of uncertainty, right? That's kind of the theme this week in finance is uncertainty and there have been a few things that have kind of exacerbated that. So, first of all, the the tariff threats last Friday uh caused the markets to crash quite a bit, especially uh the crypto market. So, Bitcoin took a dive after that as as you could probably imagine, which a lot of finance guys have have commented on. But I found it interesting that insider trading appears to be a fairly good constant. I know, shocking, right? Somebody in the president's circle having insider knowledge and making financial decisions on that. I'm shocked, shocked, I say. But anyway, this whale uh closed a $127 million short on Bitcoin just a few minutes before President Trump announced the tariffs on China. So yeah, not super great. Looks pretty suspicious. I find it very very interesting that that all of this kind of happens within the past week or so, especially in conjunction with what happened in the world of crypto a couple of days ago. The Department of Justice announced a few days ago that they conducted the largest Bitcoin seizure in history. At the time of the seizure, it was roughly 15 billion US dollars worth of Bitcoin, just for perspective. So, a pretty big seizure. The current Dr. Evil mastermind behind this is Chen Xi. And this was this was not a small thing. This was a uh pretty big seizure of crypto. And the reason that this was such a big seizure of crypto is because they were making a lot of crypto off of this. Uh it was a pretty big scam. They had created a large large Fortune 500 company style organization for scamming people over the internet. So for those of you who don't know what pig butchering scams are, it's this is basically like a combination of your Nigerian prince and a honeypot scam. So what they'll do is they'll find people, they'll target people in mass uh on places like Tinder or other dating apps. It's usually where they kind of hang out and they're playing the long game. uh they will befriend someone, start start an online relationship with someone and eventually get them to invest crypto. We see where this is going. Invest crypto in this fake company and they'll make it look real slick. They'll make it real good. They'll even provide some return on investment. You know, like, oh, you've made so much crypto today. Look at this. Put more in and put more in and put more in. And they're fattening the pig up, as we can see the name of this scam. And then eventually one day once they've decided they've fattened this pig up as much as they can, they disappear. They cut and run because it's crypto, not your keys, not your crypto, right? So they make off with a lot of money. Interestingly enough, the DOJ, to the best of my knowledge, I will I'm going to dig dig more into this, but to the best of my knowledge, they have not exactly stated how they seize this crypto. My suspicion, this is pure speculation, my suspicion is they found the seed phrases uh that this company was using to store all their crypto on these various wallets. So once you have the seed phrase, you've got the crypto and that's probably what they did. found that to be very interesting especially in the context of crypto being kind of in the news and also President Trump creating the national strategic Bitcoin reserves whereas previously the previous uh policy was to whenever the FBI or the DOJ were able to actually gain access to seized Bitcoin the policy was to just sell it for US dollars. Well, now the US government now holds this crypto. So they're not selling these 100,000 plus Bitcoin, right? which is interesting because it now means that the US government is now a major holder of crypto. Uh, and the crypto world right now is very volatile as it always is, but especially lately. So, what does all this mean? I have no clue, but I thought I'd mention it anyway because even though it looks like nothing's happening in the world or nothing happening in Washington, it's pretty busy and there's some pretty significant uh indicators of global instability all around the planet. Very interesting stuff though. Now, let's move down to Ecuador for a minute and and briefly touch on what's going on there. Sorry, I haven't made a map for Ecuador just yet. Ecuador is, like I mentioned earlier, on fire. Uh, in some cases, quite literally, there have been quite a few IED attacks to strike Ecuador. These IED attacks have mostly been carried out, I don't know if how how coordinated they are, but they've mostly been carried out by a lot of mining groups, or rather gangs affiliated with illegal mining of natural resources and minerals throughout Ecuador. the government's uh declared a lot of military immobilizations to crack down on this illegal mining which is of course used to fund narco trafficking and things like that. So it's a very complicated web of of dissatisfaction down in South America. I know same story as always but still the people of Ecuador have not been very happy with the uh president Nabboa. A lot of people, a lot of locals are saying that he has conducted a lot of false flag attacks against himself to make it look like people are attacking him so that he has justification to lock down the country and deploy the military. I don't know how true that is. I mean, it seems like it's a fairly chaotic situation down there. The times they are a changing. Destabilization is the name of the game in South America. I think it probably always has been, but still. And speaking of Venezuela, it has again been very kinetic this week. We now have a total of six sunk vessels. Five fast boats sunk and one submarine sunk. Venezuela seems to certainly be quite convinced the US Navy and the US Marine Corps is going to go in and wreck their country. So Venezuela has shut down most of the uh crossber checkpoints and crossings around their country. Granted, it's not like they had a particularly high amount of crossber traffic anyway, but they've they've started fortifying things and they've started uh putting a lot of blockades up to make it hard to transit around the country. Whether or not the United States is going to go into Venezuela remains to be seen. However, Venezuela seems fair fairly convinced the threat's real enough uh real enough for them to do drills, not like it's going to help them that much. Uh but still, they're preparing for the worst, which, you know, may be a goal. It may be all a scop to get them to exhaust their resources, but still the tensions remain high regardless. Similarly, switching gears all the way over to jolly old England, the situation in the UK has not gotten any better. As a matter of fact, it's gotten quite a bit worse with regards to the digital ID. One of the interesting things that a lot of uh citizens in the UK have noticed is every day that goes by, they add some mysterious thing that the digital ID will be required for. So, initially it wasn't for anything. It was the digital ID was for things like voting and to have a job and that was basically it. Well, over time the government says, "Oh, well, it's going to be required for this and this and this and this and this." And suddenly they've just added a new thing every day. So, uh, yesterday they added alcohol purchases. So, now if you want to get a pint, you know, at your local pub, you've now got to have a cell phone on you and scan your digital ID, you know. So, that's that's not gone over super well. There's been a pretty good mass uprising with regards to protests over the digital ID. Doesn't matter one one bit in the UK. I'm sorry to say protesting in the street does not do one lick of good because the government is just doing whatever they want to do. There is absolutely no concern for anyone, even their own constituents whatsoever. The only thing that protesting does in the UK right now, and I think this is why people continue to protest, uh, is that it shows the public just how many people are on their side. Because one of the big things is when you ban protests and people don't protest, even if they they don't agree with something, protests are demonstrations in the street of the sheer number of people that may be on your side. So if the protests were not happening, people might be sitting in their home alone, you know, just like during COVID and they and they may be thinking to themselves, man, I don't agree with X, you know, I don't agree with this issue, but because they don't see people in the street, they think that they may be alone in their idea. But the British people have made it quite clear that this is a something that the majority of the population does not want. Most people do not want this ID thing and doesn't matter. They're doing it anyway and they've actually started rolling it out already. So the British government yesterday said they're starting to roll out uh the digital ID with veterans. So 300,000 veterans uh will be issued with digital IDs. And I'm sure that will go over swimmingly, but we'll see. My guess is that it's going to be pretty disastrous because it's a government app and well it doesn't matter if you're the UK or the US. Government apps don't tend to work super well. So I guess we'll see how that works. But my guess is that it's going to go over not very well at all. But they are moving towards this at breakneck pace. If you recall they first mentioned this digital ID thing just a couple of weeks ago and now it's being implemented. Now granted, digital ID and well, a national ID of some sort has been in the works for decades now, but really it's kind of interesting how how much they've stomped on the gas with regards to implementing this around society. And once again, for the Americans who don't really care what's going on in the UK, here's the link to you. The news stands this week have been full of articles on a wide array of topics. everything from Denver signing contracts with Flock to use their AI uh flown drones around the city without a warrant or anything like that. Same thing with judges ruling that police departments can now use Flock cameras out of the warrant in Virginia. Then of course we have the recent news which broke last night that Flock is going to be partnering with Ring, Amazon's Ring services, so that all Ring cameras are now going to be Flock cameras. So even though we in the United States don't really have anything at all to do with a national ID system in the UK, you might actually be indirectly involved due to the intelligence sharing agreements between the United States and Britain. So something to be mindful of. Not a whole lot you can do about it anyway, but I try to keep an eye on these sorts of things just so that we don't become complacent. So we'll keep our eyes open. We'll keep an eye on all these uh things going on around the world and we'll try to do the best we can to not be complacent. And though I may be quite a bit biased on this, one of the ways that you can do that is, you know, working on basic skills like communications. How's that for a segue into the Ghostnet Reports for this week? I know radio is hard and it kind of sucks a lot of the time, but it's it's something that's going to be pretty helpful. I think it's already proven its utility and this week is no exception. A lot of reports, a lot of news, a lot of people sharing information completely off-grid. You do not need internet access for this and this is a good way for people to exchange information over long distances. I am quietly working on improving this uh quite a bit to integrate it so that it works with a few other things, not just JSA call, but some of you already know about the projects I'm working on uh that are uh in the world of communications and battle tracking and stuff like that. So hopefully I'll be able to tie a lot of this stuff together in due time. But for now, the Ghost Net is a great way to exchange information with each other, keep our skills sharp, not get complacent, and continue moving forward. That's all I have for today. Thank you guys all for watching. Thank you for all of your participation and support over the years. I really do appreciate it's what it's what keeps this project going. So, thank you all for that. Here are the sources for this week as usual. And you can always find my research on my Obsidian page if you want to double check any of the uh reports throughout the week. So, that's all I have for today. Thank you guys again and I'll see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.

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