Intel Update - August 31 - The Importance of Awareness

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the Intel update for August 25th through the 31st 2024 starting off with the more sketchy event this week yesterday there were very very limited reports that suggest that a possible improvised explosive device was detonated in the Bronx again details are very very sketchy with this incident. However we do know that it happened even though mainstream media is ignoring it we do have sources on the ground that suggest this incident happened along with reporting from inside the 48th Precinct amongst officers who responded to the call yesterday afternoon a black male was observed to approach this apartment building on a scooter drop off a package at the front door egress from the area and a few moments later the uh package exploded so locals reported hearing a loud boom several windows were blown out in the adjacent area and that was pretty much it that's all the information that we have the black male was observed to be aggressing from the area uh on a red scooter. However ever there's really nothing more from that uh it's not really possible to tell if this was a sort of more of a terrorist attack or if this was just some kind of I mean innocent sort of behavior I'm not really sure how uh and an accidental explosion can happen when it when it involves a package being dropped off. But there's always a potential that this was some kind of accident or that the person who dropped the package off was an unknowing messenger of what they were dropping off really no details so we just can't we just don't know right. However assuming most dangerous course of action for a moment uh it could be a gang initiation it could be a low-level Street crime that is that is increased to include the uh use of improvised explosive devices I don't know it's really hard to say we know that throughout the country and as we'll talk about in a moment criminal Enterprises throughout this country are using increasingly more deadly uh means to to Target things we've got military bases being shot up by local gangs or you know foreign terrorist organizations Al like so it would not be out of the realm of what is now unfortunately the norm uh for these sorts of more advanced tactics to be used not just the temporary expectations a little bit I'm not saying that the use of IEDs is going to become normal here in the United States at least not yet. However you know we might start seeing a lot more of these isolated incidents that are going to become a little bit less less isolated so again I don't want to stoke fear by making people think that they're going to step on a landmine or something here in the United States or there's going to be an IED underneath a Snickers wrapper on the ground I don't want to say that at all uh. However situational awareness is important and it would definitely be a a good idea just to be a little bit more situationally aware it's not unreasonable to just be mindful of things if something looks wrong it probably is wrong see something say something all that good stuff right so again this is a a very good reminder of that. Even if this incident turns out to be a giant nothing I don't think it is a giant nothing but even if it does turn out to be nothing it's always good to be a little bit more situationally aware so moving over to Pennsylvania two incidents that are sort of linked uh I didn't want to mention uh continuing incidents involving uh Trump's events uh Trump rallies so there was a trump rally in Johnstown Pennsylvania uh in which case a woman was assaulted and violently attacked by a group of black males outside of the event or adjacent to the event um and this event was recorded and uh shared on social media so uh it appears as. Though the woman was targeted because she was wearing Trump attire you they got her a loan you see where this is going right so again situational awareness is is probably a pretty good theme for today pay attention put your phone down when you're in public uh and just look around you will you will be so much more situationally aware uh especially if somebody's trying to get the drop on you right so moving over to the actual event itself there was a disruption it's hard to tell I mean I'll show you the video here it's hard to tell if this was a protester who was trying to protest something and tried to get to Trump on the stage to protest or if this was a like a more exceptionally unsuccessful and ill-advised attack on Trump H that had basically zero chance of success uh it's hard to say usually protesters are wearing some sort of you know Pro protest t-shirt they' got a flag or something like that this guy was it could have just been some crazy guy that that hopped a few fences and tried to get to Trump. But of course he got nowhere near Trump while he was on stage and you know disruption but still uh it's it's good it's probably a little bit more challenging these days to kind of pick apart the the you know the average loon in the crowd from the actual more deliberate attack so again something to be mindful of if you're at one of these events you know the Secret Service is there to protect Trump the secret service is not there to protect you. But it is again a good reminder and uh these days we don't get that many reminders uh before things get really serious so uh moving over to the Western United States uh speaking of crime increasing in situational awareness being exceptionally important uh briefly touch on slash clarify some of the things that have been going on in Aurora Colorado so this is a very long-standing issue that has recently gotten the national Spotlight uh due to a few uh uh inflammatory or um viral videos that have kind of circulated on social media. But again I want to remind everyone the um crime in Aurora Colorado has is not new by any stretch of the imagination it's been around for months this this goes this conflict goes back to at least last year probably before that so this is this is quite the rabbit hole. But it is a very very good case study in my opinion to understanding how a very small issue a very very small criminal foothold can expand into something very very large very very quickly uh and it doesn't necessarily have to have that much funding to do so of course I'm referring to the trend AGA operations in Aurora Colorado which have gone from being a very small problem to a very large problem uh very quickly and this event is not without much gaslighting uh from the local authorities so uh again trying to keep an open mind as much as possible we have to realize that uh the Venezuelan crime syndicates that have sort of set up shop in uh the Aurora or even the Denver area proper uh this has become a very serious problem uh there are thousands of Venezuela Nationals a lot of them refugees a lot of them naturalized. But there's sort of like how a lot of people are surprised to find that there's a huge Somalian population in Minnesota of all places same sort of idea in in Colorado here finding out that there are potentially thousands and thousands of Venezuelans uh setting up shopping you know Aurora Colorado is very strange well that's what's happened it's quite the rabbit hole to figure out how they got there. But in any case there are a lot of Venezuelans in Aurora Colorado and with the refugees comes the cartel operations so Texas has actually reported something similar uh El Paso media local media in El Pas Paso has kind of raised the alarm Bell uh with regards to TDA guys coming over the Border over the past few weeks. But this is a months long years long incident anyway the local media in Aurora and and many locals are reporting that TDA has taken over at least three different apartment complexes that were kind of all kind of all part of the same uh sort of compound uh of of tenement buildings that were going to be shut down by the city. Anyway long story short TDA moves into the to these areas uh into the power vacuum where no one really cares about these areas and now they've suddenly set up a a fairly sophisticated operation at least the locals allege now the other side of the coin is the local police local Aurora Police is taking the Sergeant Schultz approach they see nothing they don't see any TDA reports are isolated and rare uh of TDA militants despite all these viral videos kind of coming out and locals freaking out about the situation I would be willing to bet that the local police department's outgunned and outmanned by these guys so uh it's probably a tall order to ask them to do their job uh in this situation you know that's just the reality of being an American at this point in time uh. But this has been going on for a very long time and it's as we all know local media has reported mysteriously a spike in thefts of firearms from gun stores over the past few months so you know the these guys are probably rolling pretty heavy uh so the local police taking the I see ning kind of uh attitude is not surprising in the slightest the feds are interested. Though uh I became aware of this a few months ago when I got hold of a DHS memo that uh was warning that TDA guys uh were targeting law enforcement a few guys in the public service sphere like uh fire ambulance medical things like that also got the memo so this is not something that the feds or even the locals are going to be able to say very successfully oh we don't see anything we don't know anything no that's BS here's your memo here's your uh you know warning talking about uh TDA being in the area and being given the the alleged green light to Target you know authorities so the the whole uh oh we don't see anybody kind of approach is is um that ain't going to fly so another thing to consider is the r police department has already kind of let the cat out of the bag with how many dudes we're potentially talking about here um now I don't know if all these people are TDA guys. But they're definitely Venezuelan Nationals because as we remember a couple of months ago Venezuela was going through some um uh electoral issues so to speak and the Venezuelan population in Aurora and in uh the sort of Denver area uh came out and protested so the here here's a tweet from the Aurora Police Department showing that 3 to 4,000 people gathered uh in you know a crowd to express their feelings towards the Venezuelan election so that kind of lets the cat out of the bag with how many people were potentially dealing with here again not all of them are TDA of course. But this is a pretty this is a pretty big deal so again I don't want to get wrapped around the axle and focus on this one gang this one city this one town uh really this is a fantastic case study for when this happens in boy or Billings or some other places around the country where traditionally they haven't really had to deal with organized gang crime or cartel violence uh you know these these uh these gangs and these criminal syndicates and the NOS that are funding them funneling them across the border uh maybe it probably wasn't such a good idea to take these guys and bust them all over the country do you see you know maybe that was probably not such a good idea got with some really good cheap political points sure. But but maybe just maybe it wasn't such a great idea uh I'm not saying that's what happened here but that's where my mind immediately goes you know politics is one thing. But this is now uh people's lives so again something to be mindful of especially especially if you live in an area which is uh being funneled in with migrants uh and uh NOS are taking a more increased uh increased interest and funneling these types of people and these types of organizations into the heartland of America they're not going to big cities in a lot of cases sure there a lot of the people are going there for for the benefits that a lot of large cities offer like we all know about New York and some of the other bigger cities like that. But again these places are going to Heartland America in many cases and you know power vacuums being what they are they they tend to to grow very very quickly there so again a very sharp reminder of how things can get out of hand very very quickly moving over to the United Kingdom again violence continues along with the arrest of people who uh disagree with the government in any form or fashion I don't want to go down the Revit hole too much. But uh just for an American audience or just at a very high wave toop level uh same story is continuing stabbing attacks are are occurring um more vulnerable demographics are being targeted as well again this is very little change has occurred uh the only change that has occurred is has been uh the authorities increasing their Crackdown on dissenting speech. But they're not increasing uh the targeting of of uh uh the these criminals um who are attacking people right so again very very disturbing stories I'm not going to get into it too much. But a lot of disturbing uh situations coming out of uh England these days and there appears to be very little uh being done to stop that sort of thing so again uh as we all know not surprising in the slightest British authorities they've had a few weeks now to look at the security cameras pull cell phone data All That Jazz and they're going after people who were at demonstrations at protests uh one thing to keep in mind is that sort of like here in the United States we've got the same thing going on our data is skewed so uh when the British uh uh government you know when you look at police logs and you look at the the the court logs when they arrest someone they're arresting them for disorder or unrest and that for them a lot of times is classified as you you could tweet something or you could throw a brick through a window and that's the same offense to them so again the British authorities are not uh segregating these crimes into speech crimes and in like straight up you know this dude threw a Molotov at a police car crime versus this guy posted something offensive on Twitter crime they're not differentiating that most of the time because they don't want people to know that they're not really arresting people for throwing things they're not really arresting people for that they're mostly going after speech crimes so you know uh they they don't want people to know that they're not really Prosecuting anyone who's like you know where the were the arrest would be a little bit more justifiable so whenever you see that going on that's that's kind of the the roote Assumption that's made so again not a super great time for the United Kingdom moving over to the Middle East things are not going that well either uh this is mostly due to the uh Israeli targeting in Lebanon over the past week or so uh again it's it's really just an exercise and semantics to to figure out who started it uh Israel targeted a bunch of missile sites or alleged missile sites or rocket sites in Lebanon launching their largest uh series of attacks in many many years in Lebanon in response Hezbollah says you know we'll we'd like to raise your your missile strike and they launched a few hundred missiles at Israel so it's one of those things where depending on what side of the issue you personally support you could look at it any number of ways. But more broadly uh in terms of probably what actually matters a little bit more is that uh peace talks are just probably not very likely for the foreseeable future there has been a lot of um diplomatic you know mutterings back and forth. But really nothing substantial the Iranians have done a lot of talking but not a whole lot of acting uh that we've kind of been expecting from them uh likewise Israel is is essentially just doing whatever Israel wants to do and most of the partners throughout the rest of the Middle East are just kind of remaining quiet uh the United States has deployed substantial uh substantial assets to the region uh you again depending on how you want to look at it it's your opinion is your opinion I guess you could say that the United States is staging to defend against an Iranian attack or you could say the United States is defending to start some sort of uh offensive operation I don't know either way it's just not really looking good throughout the the theater uh with regards to um the potential for peace that doesn't appear to be on the menu for the time being moving a little bit further south down into the Red Sea Horn of Africa region uh conflict continues uh just like it has been before uh the houthis are learning they're getting a lot better uh that has been the theme over the past year of this conflict more more or less what nine 10 months now uh the houthis are learning they're getting a lot better with their tactics uh they're combining tactics they're starting to isuse a sort of primitive combined arms Warfare so to speak using the largely Insurgent or improvised means that they have so it's interesting to see how they're developing and if there's one group of people in the whole Middle East that are learning from this conflict in the Middle East it's the houis uh controlling uh Yemen so definitely something to keep in mind because the houis impacting uh Merchant shipping is is definitely having more of an impact to say the daily operation of the planet than say the squabbling that's going on in the in the rest of the Middle East speaking of squabbling I did want to briefly mention it I don't know how big of a deal this is and I know most people probably don't care. But I'll mention it anyway there's a sort of diplomatic spat that has emerged between Egypt and Ethiopia uh this again goes back many many years Egypt has started to resume shipments of uh arms and military equipment to Somalia of course this event like everything else in the Middle East this event is not occurring in a vacuum uh Ethiopia and Somalia have been more or less at war or actually at War for many many years now they're they don't get along so well uh Ethiopia uh made a deal with the Breakaway autonomous region of Somali land which you can see here kind of on the map uh is delineated by this sort of dotted line it's one of those diplomatically ambiguous places where the Northwestern quadrant of somal has declared itself to be its own autonomous nation and Ethiopia has been dealing with Somali land well Somalia proper uh has been dealing with Egypt so it's it's kind of a proxy war. But but not really uh just yet in any case Egypt said we're going to start sending uh arms to Somalia uh again and Ethiopia has been quite upset about that so how is this going to shake out I don't know uh it could be another ctor for conflict to just continue throughout the African subcontinent uh it's really hard to say you know conflict in Sudan and South Sudan is still kind of going on it's it's it's not really a region that's thriving or has honestly ever thrived. But still uh something to keep in mind uh just in terms of how this can affect things because the United States has or well I should say we had a fairly good uh presence in jib boti there and again we're talking about the choke points of the planet here so if conflict becomes more common in Somalia or if conflict uh erupts into more than just a diplomatic spat this could cause even more complications throughout the region so we might not have to deal with just the houthis anymore I have seen a lot of reports from the UK MTO over the past few weeks that have indicated an increase in just routine piracy you know piracy in the Gulf of Aiden off the coast of Somalia has has been a staple for uh decades now ever since Somali became really a failed state so you know we may start seeing a little bit more of that it's not just the houthis that are operating in the area it's it's a lot of other um uh criminal Enterprises so a lot of tangled webs a lot of rabbit holes for sure uh. But that's pretty much all I wanted to talk about this week here are the intercepted ghostnet reports for this week I'm seeing a lot more people uh send these reports and just check in and you know maintain that the heartbeat Network throughout the week which is fantastic so a lot of news coming out of Missouri this week as you can see uh so I don't know if this was transmitted by the same person or not I wasn't able to actually catch who this was uh a couple of times. But again the this information is pretty good so I thought I would I thought I would share it a few spotty reports here and there I don't I don't know I got the feeling that I was getting a little bit of interference a couple of times when U I was looking at some of these other reports always challenging. But uh see seems like it's uh done pretty well so again lots of good information that's coming out really nice to see people actually using this more routine getting into the habit of using it it's not perfect uh honestly it you know pales in comparison to a lot of the other uh tools that we have in terms of communications. But it's a good uh it's good to learn this stuff and and to start implementing it now uh before it's needed uh so much so so here are the sources for today uh not too many. But again that's pretty much all I've got uh a lot of stuff that just reminds you just to be aware you know we're getting into some pretty serious times I know that it's you don't want to be at a constant state of of of just on edge all the time. But you know just being a little bit more mindful of of surroundings is always always a good thing to do so yeah that's pretty much all I have for today thank you all for watching thank you all for your support and we will. See you next time and as always fight in the shade.