26 July Intel Update: Long List of Unknowns

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the intel update for tuesday the 26th of july 2022 and as usual it is being recorded on the day prior so let's get right to it starting with infrastructure really just going to kind of breeze over the northeast for this time there have been a couple of things that i'm still kind of researching and working on but nothing of note for now moving down to the southeast really only one thing of note this time and that is the large fire that occurred at the producers peanut company in suffolk virginia this was a large refrigerated storage facility warehouse sort of thing and it caught fire so there's really no indication as to whether or not it was an accident or what usually with cold storage refrigeration types of things especially ones that have been around for a very long time accidents are very prone and uh fires are not really that uncommon uh but again i did want to mention it because that's kind of a large company and the warehouse fire was uh pretty significant so as you can probably guess with most of these the trend is we're really not going to find out a whole lot uh after the event has concluded moving to the ea ou can probably guess with most of these the trend is we're really not going to find out a whole lot uh after the event has concluded moving to the east central midwestern region we'll start with wisconsin this uh was a very large fire at the american excelsior plant in rice lake wisconsin american excelsior makes a lot of wood fiber products they produce raw materials and things like that for really anything that requires a wood fiber it did not look like the plant was actually damaged itself it looked like the factory was okay it looked like it might have just been a fire at the loading dock but again causes unknown investigation is underway there's really no no more information than that moving down to illinois at the allnex usa plant in east st louis illinois just over the river in on the illinois side of uh st louis uh there was a very large explosion at a chemical factory uh this one actually injured a couple of people uh two people were were injured uh both of them with severe chemical burns uh one one person actually had chemical burns over 50 of their bodies so their current condition is unknown but it was quite a substantial uh event allnex usa is a major manufacturer of cal burns over 50 of their bodies so their current condition is unknown but it was quite a substantial uh event allnex usa is a major manufacturer of resins and resin additives for industrial manufacturing and things like that so again the cause of this is unknown it is it is unknown if it was in maybe an employee caused accident or something we really have no other information other than the uh large explosion and the large fire that followed moving to the west central midwestern region there was a very large fire at the saya freight warehouse in sioux city the warehouse itself appears to be a total loss uh city officials have actually read tagged you'll see that in a lot of news articles they've read tag the factory so or sorry the warehouse so they're they're completely offline it's really unclear as to what was going on there at that particular warehouse i'm not really sure what they do saya is of course a major freight company they do everything from producing parts to providing logistics and transport so it could have been just a regional logistical hub or it could be more of like an internal company manufacturing parts maintenance type type thing all i know is that there wer a regional logistical hub or it could be more of like an internal company manufacturing parts maintenance type type thing all i know is that there were an awful lot of freight vehicles surrounding the perimeter that had to be towed out of the way of the fire so again not much information known on this one but there is an investigation underway moving down southwest it has not been a super great week for energy in the southwestern region starting with texas again of course the freeport lng facility still offline really no status as to when it's going to come back online other than just a general time frame of sometime in september moving up to limestone county texas there was a fire inside a coal mine that affected a local power plant for a couple of days it doesn't appear that the two are related other than being obviously geographically located next to each other because obviously power plants are located next to the coal mines in a lot of cases uh but it doesn't appear that there was any kind of um interference with regards to the power plant itself there was a fire in one of the coal mines that was adjacent to this power plant and this power plant was very very large it provides ower plant itself there was a fire in one of the coal mines that was adjacent to this power plant and this power plant was very very large it provides a lot of power to you know central texas so for a couple of days there things were kind of dicey as the coal mine fire was quite quite literally adjacent to the power plant but after a while crews were able to knock it down it's not an easy job to put out a coal fire especially if it's underground so not very easy at all to do but they've they got it extinguished and it was uh it was really uh not a super big deal with regards to the power plant being affected but i did want to mention it because for a while their things were a little dicey uh that the power plant might have some kind of problems or burn down or something due to the uh due to the fire so moving up to crawl texas there was a lightning strike on a wind turbine farm this video has kind of gone viral as does every video that features a wind turbine being destroyed uh but again this was only uh one turbine out of a field of i think slightly over 100 maybe 200 wind turbines so it really didn't affect the electrical generation capacity for the area but again this is just on i think slightly over 100 maybe 200 wind turbines so it really didn't affect the electrical generation capacity for the area but again this is just one of those things that comes with wind turbines is lightning strikes so again nothing nefarious with this one but i do want to mention it because there is a potential for it to affect something with the energy sector and as we can see these issues tend to compound at the worst possible times such as in oklahoma where the ono lng facility in medford oklahoma was the result of a very large explosion and a fire at the processing facility for liquid natural gas again since it's at an lng facility there's nothing known about it usually for national security reasons so for the most part local authorities are not going to give us much other than what we can plainly see with our own two eyes so again it's going to be really hard to figure out what the eta for coming back online is with the actual damages all kinds of stuff like that but again with this one we continue the trend of liquid natural gas facilities experiencing mysterious accidents all over the country and moving out west to the event that literally all of us have seen by now and gas facilities experiencing mysterious accidents all over the country and moving out west to the event that literally all of us have seen by now and that is the explosion at the hoover dam so lucky for us we actually have hundreds of thousands of subject matter experts on the hoover dam and hydroelectric power in general on twitter and the rest of the internet so that's really good for us to to kind of have their opinion on things and to see what actually is going on as for me i'm not really sure if there's much that you can glean from either the official statements given or the viral video of the explosion itself the hoover dam has been host to practically zero accidents especially ones involving detonation of something so it's really hard to say what's going on here for those that have never seen a transformer explode especially when the size of the transformers that are at the hoover dam uh it's pretty impressive it's a pretty kinetic event so there's really no telling as to is that was this a transformer explosion was this some kind of deliberate attack who knows there's no real telling and we're never going to know because the hoover dam is one of our most protected critical ind of deliberate attack who knows there's no real telling and we're never going to know because the hoover dam is one of our most protected critical infrastructure things with regards to national security so so without a doubt we are never going to get the full story of this explosion we're going to get a half-hearted attempt to explain things via a press release and that's pretty much it obviously the explosion occurred in an area which is off limits to everyone without a security clearance so if there was some kind of infiltration or tampering or some kind of nefarious activity associated with this explosion we will literally never hear about it we're closer to finding out who the second gunman on the grassy knoll was but despite having literally zero evidence whatsoever most people including myself am inclined to think that there's probably more to this story than we could possibly imagine so there's that of course i will come back and readdress this if there happens to be some kind of information that comes out either way regarding the explosion at the hoover dam but for the most part just like every other slightly suspicious event around the country these days really all we h ng the explosion at the hoover dam but for the most part just like every other slightly suspicious event around the country these days really all we have to go on is our gut feeling and speaking of gut feeling let's move on to suspicious fires now most of you who have been following these briefings since i've started these will know that there is a direct correlation to a slide's inaccuracy and my desire to talk about it meaning that the more inaccurate a slide is the more i feel like i have to explain how inaccurate the slide is and this slide is no exception so even though i only have one church to add to this slide this time there are literally dozens and dozens and dozens of church fires that i have not been able to definitively put on the slide as being decently suspicious i did want to add one church to this slide this time because this one was a little bit suspicious at least to me armchair quarterbacking it from halfway across the country local authorities have been very hesitant to say that this is arson but they've kind of tipped it around this and all the press releases they've issued about uh this church here in san antonio texas back on the 24th of july so just yesterd ipped it around this and all the press releases they've issued about uh this church here in san antonio texas back on the 24th of july so just yesterday actually so so yeah i'm going to try to find a way to kind of better categorize this and try to do try to do better with this because as you can probably guess it is getting really really really hard to find out about church fires now specifically fires targeting places of worship so for better or worse whenever a conservative news site or twitter feed or some really prominent conservative person mentions any one of these issues particularly with regards to churches catching fire mysteriously all around the country i suddenly have a hard time finding out about these events so yeah even pulling out all the stops and using ocean tools here and there ocean is not what it used to be just in the past two years the concept of ocean is has completely changed so yeah not exactly easy to find out about and i might try to find a way to better graphically visualize this slide anyway so let's move on to some kinetic events and boy do we have quite a few of them in the northeast region as you can see we have five new terror attacks to add to th e on to some kinetic events and boy do we have quite a few of them in the northeast region as you can see we have five new terror attacks to add to the northeast region this time starting with kind of the one that's gotten a lot of both a lot of press and not a lot of press uh and i'll try to kind of briefly talk about this one as best i can but there aren't that many details and i'm still kind of confused about the whole thing so so back on the 22nd of july in rochester new york the republican political candidate for uh to running for governor lee zeldin uh was attempted to be assassinated by a crazy guy from the crowd now i say assassination because that has very strong legal connotations and i wanted to make that absolutely clear is that that's what's going on and if this sounds political it's because it is because the situation got political immediately so here's basically what happened crazy guy tries to assassinate the republican candidate for governor on the stage he gets arrested the next day he is released they literally released him the next morning the new york state police did so uh he's released because in new york they have a cashless bail system now cashless bail to ased him the next morning the new york state police did so uh he's released because in new york they have a cashless bail system now cashless bail to me it sounds a lot like tomato-less ketchup so uh it really just sounds like new york letting criminals out of jail with nothing whatsoever to kind of bind them to their uh incarceration right the interesting thing is that lee zeldin the guy that was attacked literally has made a huge part of his platform to be against cashless bail so the irony of this one is just absolutely thick this guy almost gets stabbed on stage and seriously injured by this crazy guy and he was literally campaigning about cashless bail the cashless bail system which then let his attacker out well the feds said no right and i'm actually kind of surprised that they did this but he is since then so from what i can tell uh the attacker himself has actually been re-arrested by the feds uh on federal charges so i'm very surprised about that actually because i did not think that they would do that but i'm guessing the reason that the feds decided to step in is because this one was too much even for them uh and it probably sets a very bad precedent to allow an attempt eason that the feds decided to step in is because this one was too much even for them uh and it probably sets a very bad precedent to allow an attempted assassin to get away so yeah that'd be my guess is they're probably afraid of the same thing happening to democrat politicians but again like i mentioned last time with democrat politicians calling out and endorsing attacks on republican candidates and and republicans in general not just supreme court justices i mean what do you want me to say that's that's what's happening now right now the interesting thing that a lot of conservative news sites seem to be kind of glossing over or still trying to figure out what's going on so clearly this guy was a veteran uh who got upset with what this guy had to say and decided to take things into his own hand the most interesting part about this entire thing is that this guy didn't appear to be a an extreme leftist i mean he could be i will grant you that he could be uh but you don't really you tend to think antifa types are going to be doing this kind of activity right uh not somebody who is wearing a vfw hat and is obviously a military veteran attacking a conservative candidate that's just n s kind of activity right uh not somebody who is wearing a vfw hat and is obviously a military veteran attacking a conservative candidate that's just not something that happens right so i guess this kind of shows you that this kind of activity can occur and most certainly does occur on both sides of the aisle here but despite all this i'm still more tempted to say this is a just a strange event that i'm not really entirely sure what to think about it but it's still an assassination attempt that's for sure or at least a grievous bodily harm attempt in any case usually when someone gets up onto a stage to stab a politician we call those assassination attempts so that's what i'm going to do moving on to the classic sort of terrorist attacks that we've come to know and enjoy over the past few months and years uh in montpelier vermont the capitol building was vandalized by the group jane's revenge or at least people claiming to be part of this group again jane's revenge is a very loose uh leaderless sort of group which is much like antifa they mostly share the same exact membership and anybody who wants to claim to be a part of this group can claim it right but i haven't seen this attack hey mostly share the same exact membership and anybody who wants to claim to be a part of this group can claim it right but i haven't seen this attack show up on any of the jane's revenge like official more organized blogs so i don't know but they're using the same language that james revenge attacks usually use when they spray paint stuff up and break stuff but in any case i think it's uh very interesting because vermont has been the political leadership of vermont has been very supportive of abortions particularly the governor who said that he quote shared their frustrations uh and yet their state house still got vandalized pretty good so so yeah weird but hey we're living in weird times right and then moving on to seven eight and nine these are three separate attacks that actually were by the same people at least that's what suspected uh three churches in bethesda maryland were vandalized and a few of them were attempted to be set on fire uh by an unknown group my guess is probably jane's revenge or antifa uh your classic people who have been attacking churches and places of worship following the reverses wade judgment being overturned so it's the same style of attack so we're j o have been attacking churches and places of worship following the reverses wade judgment being overturned so it's the same style of attack so we're just gonna kind of lump these guys together until we know more moving on down to the southeast region really only one to add uh for this time and that was in baton rouge louisiana a pro-life clinic was vandalized uh by it looks like no one's officially claimed this one again but it looks like jane's revenge and antifa got together you know of course same thing as usual lots of anarchy symbols around the same language james revenge tends to use stuff like that so it makes a lot of sense it's probably them this is the first attack in louisiana that i'm aware of so yeah some of these states that haven't had jane's revenge attacks start popping up in their locations have um they've kind of been freaking out a little bit at least the local news media has because they don't really know what to do with these kinds of things popping up uh but as we can see a lot of uh pro-life clinics and charity groups are hiring a lot of security uh right now to to protect themselves uh obviously because you know federal state and local law enforcement have groups are hiring a lot of security uh right now to to protect themselves uh obviously because you know federal state and local law enforcement have have not uh had a history of protecting them against attacks like this so again we'll be interested to see how what other states pop up next time but moving on to the east central midwest nothing new to add nothing no new information on this one same with the west central midwest no new attacks that i'm aware of again i'm still combing through all of these but again nothing for the southwestern region although there are a couple of questionable events that have occurred in the southwest but i'm still running this to ground as to whether or not they're worth talking about but moving to the western region there were two new attacks for this time and and this was uh the first one being in sacramento california this was way back on the 7th of july so i think i probably should have talked about this one last time but we're only just now finding out about it now because this attack came out as a result of congressional testimony about these attacks so this was back on the 7th of july we only recently learned about it a few days ago this was a result of congressional testimony about these attacks so this was back on the 7th of july we only recently learned about it a few days ago this was a sort of i don't know how to classify so i'm just going to call it melee attack it was some crazy dude with a machete that showed up outside of alternatives pregnancy center in sacramento california threatening the place so i don't really i don't know how you classify that uh nothing occurred the police were obviously calling the guy was arrested but other than that that was that was pretty much it and then on the 27th of june again something i probably should have mentioned last time was in eugene oregon the dove medical facility there experienced a mob style attack that of course started off as a not so peaceful protest and just devolved from there so let's move on to something more fun like a root canal or getting audited by the irs and let's talk about significant governmental actions and starting with the first one the ups fiasco that keeps developing so it's developing but it's not developing and here's what i mean by that for those that don't remember let me refresh your memory uh this kind of hit the second amendment communi ot developing and here's what i mean by that for those that don't remember let me refresh your memory uh this kind of hit the second amendment community the the gun community quite uh hard a few weeks ago a couple weeks ago now uh in which a letter circulated or popped up online claiming that ups is an official communication from ups uh was not going to allow any kind of gun parts whatsoever to be shipped with their service they were taking action above and beyond the law when it comes to ghost guns and they were going to start seizing and destroying packages that may contain things they don't like such as guns right so this uh hit the internet it kind of went viral for a while and then we have heard nothing since then uh there have been quite a few things pop up that are kind of interesting though uh for one i find it very very hard to believe that ups after seeing you know five or six different journalistic agencies come out and talk about this policy ups hasn't said anything they haven't really said anything that indicates what in the sam hill is going on you would think they would issue a press statement either confirming or denying this but from what i can tell there have been the sam hill is going on you would think they would issue a press statement either confirming or denying this but from what i can tell there have been some limited communications uh kind of confirming this and then other stuff saying no even companies uh that have claimed that they got similar letters haven't been really putting any information out there it's really kind of been all quiet on the western front really because there's not a whole lot to go off of if nobody says anything now there have been a couple of people say some things that i thought i would mention uh claiming that this entire thing's made up it's enti it's entirely fake and none of this is real so i wanted to briefly talk about that now because i don't know what to think and i think that this might be i think that there's some trickery afoot uh let me just put it that way so there there are some uh people on the internet uh that have been claiming and i say some people on the internet and i don't want to name drop them because i don't know who they are a few come a few different random companies but i'm seeing a lot of people cut and paste things from places all over the internet so this is very this is the mos a few different random companies but i'm seeing a lot of people cut and paste things from places all over the internet so this is very this is the most rumor intelligence you could possibly get so let me just stress that very strongly some people are claiming that ups sent this letter to a guy who was illegally manufacturing firearms and mailing them out from his place not an actual manufacturer of ghost guns like polymer 80 or something like that and he was doing stuff that was already illegal now i don't know about that i've not been able to verify any of that i just i just heard it um so i i'm very confused as to why ups has not issued a statement you know what that says to me when a company sees something like this hit the internet regarding their policies something as potentially business altering as the gun community not using your services anymore and ups hasn't said a thing you know what that says to me they're cooperating with the federal government that's what i think i think the ups is either under a gag order or they're reporting to something like somebody like the house armed services committee or something to do with the atf or the fbi and their silence is due to them porting to something like somebody like the house armed services committee or something to do with the atf or the fbi and their silence is due to them responding to either warrants or responding to some kind of congressional inquiry that is uh that you know we peasants down here are not allowed to know about but again that's just my theory that's just a hunch on my part a very very loose hunch i guess what i honestly expected from ups is to pull something that we've seen other companies pull and i have talked about at great length in some of these briefings quite a long time ago you guys know which ones i'm talking about uh and these are companies that put out a policy that is extremely draconian or woke or whatever the internet freaks out about it and they lose a a lot of money people immediately cancel their contracts from this company and then the company comes back and says oh it was an employee a disgruntled employee that sent that email uh we never had that policy to begin with and shame on you for thinking that we would ever do something as crazy as that that's what i expected ups to do because that has worked for a lot of other companies that have floated woke policies only something as crazy as that that's what i expected ups to do because that has worked for a lot of other companies that have floated woke policies only to backtrack when they realize that people are canceling their contracts with them that's what i expected ups to do but so far we haven't heard a thing so i'm going to keep my ear to the ground and see what we can find out about this but again i just really the lesson learned here at this stage is logistics are a huge problem and the united postal service the united parcel service fedex dhl all of these places are companies that cooperate with the us government so it would not surprise me whatsoever to find out that this was the case uh or that they are going above and beyond to do things that even the feds are not concerned with at this moment like uh targeting gun parts manufacturers so again sorry for the digression on this one but i felt like we need to kind of get this one a little bit more out in the open and see what is going on with this because i'm not sold i feel i've got that like inkling feeling like there's there's a lot here we don't know about and same applies with this next bullet point which is uh some sneaky behavio like inkling feeling like there's there's a lot here we don't know about and same applies with this next bullet point which is uh some sneaky behavior on the part of the fbi and possibly the atf uh don't really know and this is the story that's kind of been going around regarding the fbi trying to conduct quote unquote audits of ccw permit holders uh in various jurisdictions around the country and these sheriffs some of these sheriffs around the country are absolutely not on board with this whatsoever because that data is protected by state laws right so you're starting to see conflict emerge between some sheriff's offices and the federal government like the fbi and that's very interesting to me i think that they probably contacted every jurisdiction in the united states and uh the the jurisdictions that did not fight back against this or publicly talk about this are most certainly cooperating with the fbi so again what does this matter in the long run well you know take it for you know form your own opinion about that i guess why does the fbi need the information on ccw holders maybe so they can create a federal registry that they already have yeah there you go that's pretty much es the fbi need the information on ccw holders maybe so they can create a federal registry that they already have yeah there you go that's pretty much all i have to say and all i can say on that i guess and moving down the long list of unknowns which will most certainly become the title for this briefing because i just thought of that just now we're going to wrap things up with something that's kind of interesting and i have no idea what is going on and that is the faa weather cams being offline in the united states so here's what i'm talking about uh normally the faa maintains a website for weather data for pilots this makes a lot of sense it's a very nice website you can go and usually click you know any kind of any airport in the united states that has a you know me tar station weather station set up and you can get the local no tams and metars for that area and most airports at least most you know regional or or or you know definitely all international and most uh most large airports have uh webcams set up to help pilots visually understand weather conditions in addition to getting pie reps and official weather briefings uh this is very handy right for pilots to do they can jus understand weather conditions in addition to getting pie reps and official weather briefings uh this is very handy right for pilots to do they can just pull up a webcam and say oh okay sky looks pretty good i'll go fly today that kind of thing uh or or they're able to kind of get the ground weather from uh where they're going to land in you know a few hours very handy to have just kind of a visual peak at the weather well here's the thing a few weeks ago uh it actually might be a couple of months ago now but a while ago i'll say uh this website now looks like this most of the cameras in the united states are offline uh they just miraculously just stopped being broadcast uh and you can see it's not all it's not all of the cameras in the united states there are some out there in the west that are that are quite active and you can go and check them out right now and get a live webcam view of you know the sky at those particular airports but almost every other one in the entire country is offline uh and this caught a few people's eyes mostly pilots and people like that who are trying to figure out what's going on with this granted it's not really a legal weather brief the pirates are s tly pilots and people like that who are trying to figure out what's going on with this granted it's not really a legal weather brief the pirates are still coming in from you know pilots giving reports metars are still going out and no tams are still going out there there's no real impact to aviation over this other than pilots not being able to see uh the webcam at a particular location and even then in a lot of cases uh they have access at the airports themselves so again it's it's really just the online interface for us peasants who like to look at these kinds of things now the big question is why why are these cameras suddenly offline uh and i will address a few theories and hopefully we can kind of shed more light on this and maybe get an official statement as to why they're offline because of course the faa has not issued any statement whatsoever on this that i've seen as to why the cameras are offline and we're really stuck with trudging through the hellscape of twitter to find out maybe what's going on so let me go through a couple of theories for you and the first most obvious ones are maintenance this is a website and maybe a server's down and nobody's noticed yet i doubt uple of theories for you and the first most obvious ones are maintenance this is a website and maybe a server's down and nobody's noticed yet i doubt that because it's been several weeks uh also i would think you know again i would think that they wouldn't put all of their cameras on one server and clearly it's not every camera that's down it's just 90 percent of them uh so i'm very hesitant to say that it's any kind of maintenance because it's been too long for it to be maintenance um so yeah i can't understand why you'd bring down the entire camera network and just leave a few in very specific geographic areas online unless there's something that i don't understand which is a highly likely possibility i can't imagine why every almost every camera would be offline uh some other theories that have popped up are that they went offline right around the same time the the uh air force was testing a hypersonic cruise missile and that would make a lot of sense uh because if i was kind of an ocean analyst working for a foreign nation that's exactly what i would want to do is i would want to bring up these cameras and maybe catch a glimpse of the hypersonic missile on the world's worst web exactly what i would want to do is i would want to bring up these cameras and maybe catch a glimpse of the hypersonic missile on the world's worst webcam from like 1998 and maybe get some ocean from that it's not a bad theory another theory along the similar lines is military movement on u.s soil the military moving aircraft around also not a bad theory um if again if i was a foreign actor i would i would definitely check these out uh if you if you don't think china and russia are checking these cameras out you are wrong they most definitely are because they could theoretically be used to spot military movement however most cameras don't really show that much i rarely use these cameras for anything other than weather because they're usually not pointed at the airport people are not entirely stupid and they're not exactly going to point these cameras at critical parts of an airport that might be useful to a foreign adversary they're usually pointing at the sky or some local landmark but for some of them you might be able to catch an approach path maybe a parking apron i don't know but for the ocean analyst or the malign actor overseas it's theoretically useful for that so that's may proach path maybe a parking apron i don't know but for the ocean analyst or the malign actor overseas it's theoretically useful for that so that's maybe why they took them down they're trying to move a lot of uh things around the united states uh i again think this theory is prob probably didn't hold too much water because honestly you can usually track aircraft moving around the united states with flight trackers uh very easy just you know you can have a series of m-lat detectors and they those pick up military flights all over the country so not particularly useful really it would only be useful for some of the units that tend to stalk around in the night if you know what i mean and try to fly to some of the smaller airports around the north carolina virginia tennessee area for training and things like that that they obviously think that we don't see but we clearly see so yeah i don't know maybe it's that maybe it's not i don't know i can't imagine the entire network of the country being down for an error for a glitch i don't know maybe i'm just devoting several minutes of this you know big nothing burger but either way it's been interesting to me and every day that goes by and t aybe i'm just devoting several minutes of this you know big nothing burger but either way it's been interesting to me and every day that goes by and these cameras are still offline i am my interest you know just goes up right so you know whatever the reason i just thought i'd share this because it's again been going on for a few weeks now and nobody seems to have a satisfactory explanation for it clearly there is a reason for it uh and i think it would be great to kind of get to the bottom of it and finally let's wrap things up with some international news and the flavor of the week is very similar among all the nations we're going to mention here as you can plainly see so let's start with canada our maple leaf brothers to the north prime minister castro excuse me trudeau has decided to push forward with the world economic forum mandated fertilizer shortages uh demanding a 30 reduction in all carbon emissions uh based on thirty percent of 2020 numbers uh in addition uh the trudeau regime has imposed a flat 35 percent tax on all russian imports to include fertilizer which again drives the price up even further than it already is increasing scarcity and lining russia's pockets so thi n imports to include fertilizer which again drives the price up even further than it already is increasing scarcity and lining russia's pockets so this combined with the poor growing seasons canada has been experiencing for many types of crops and roughly 90 of all of canada's fertilizer coming from russia we can clearly see how this does not bode well for the canadian food supply as to how much these actions will affect things i don't know i don't know in a western civilization like you know canada and the united states which are pretty much the same with regards to food shortages and things like that uh at least the potential is the same it's really hard to say how these things are going to affect the the markets is it going to be prices go up or shortages or local shortages or logistical challenges nobody seems to really know even after the past couple of years we've seen all of the above sometimes all at the same time we're still really not able to predict things due to the challenging nature of logistics and as we can clearly see are the actions of foreign powers so it's quite clear that the food supplies of many nations are being deliberately targeted in most cases uh especia are the actions of foreign powers so it's quite clear that the food supplies of many nations are being deliberately targeted in most cases uh especially with regards to canada by a nation's own government so i'm sure that we will see uh lots of protests uh continue over this as canadian farmers have already been protesting much like the dutch have uh with regards to the food shortages moving on down to panama this is one that has been kind of an information hole as far as the internet is concerned and quite literally no western news media is talking about it but panama is going through almost exactly the same thing that sri lanka is going through and panama arguably so is a little bit more strategically important because of the panama canal so how that's going to affect things on the international front we don't know but clearly there are a lot of international players interested in panama mostly the u.s and other western powers as well but really the story on the ground is that it's very similar to sri lanka again large protests and demonstrations have swept through the nation this week as rising food costs gas prices and inflation take their toll widespread food shortages and ex demonstrations have swept through the nation this week as rising food costs gas prices and inflation take their toll widespread food shortages and extremely high unemployment have contributed to panamanian citizens really outrage much like as the case in many nations around the world really i'm not sure what the long-term impacts of this are but again panama is a little bit more strategically uh strategically important i should say than sri lanka as bad as that sounds uh it's the panama canal right so it's a very important bit of geography and i'm not entirely certain how the geopolitical situation within panama like you know in hyperinflation events gas shortages things like that i'm not entirely certain how the unrest in panama is going to affect the rest of the world but i can tell you that it's probably not going to be super great but again this is a developing situation and things aren't quite venezuela level yet in panama but we will continue to follow this because again no one seems to care about this and it's kind of a big deal so again moving to sri lanka the update on the situation in sri lanka is that the situation has deteriorated quite significantly following the depa al so again moving to sri lanka the update on the situation in sri lanka is that the situation has deteriorated quite significantly following the departure of the president and most of the government uh this is mostly due to the sort of new leadership if you read western media you'll talk about how they'll talk about how sri lanka has a new president but they will fail to mention to you that it was a lateral move as things currently stand the president of sri lanka has resigned so this dude resigned and fled the country literally getting on a naval vessel and leaving the country uh the guy who was previously prime minister a guy named ranil wickremesinghe slid right into the office of the president as we might remember the world economic forum specifically was a huge backer of this guy uh he was their dude uh the wef even wrote this article championing this guy's swan song to make his country rich by 2035 the article which has since then been deleted by the world economic forum website just a couple of weeks ago erased completely out of existence now this guy who is literally a card carrying member of the world economic forum is now in charge of the country so sri lanka is quite li of existence now this guy who is literally a card carrying member of the world economic forum is now in charge of the country so sri lanka is quite literally out of the frying pan and into the fire you see sri lanka was one of the nations to wholeheartedly embrace the world economic forum's environmental social and governance metrics or esg metrics these are basically a social credit score for nations you do what the wef wants you get a higher score well according to the world economic forum sri lanka had one of the highest scores in the entire world at 98.1 out of 100. so on the wef test sri lanka got a 98.1 basically being one of the most perfect nations in the eyes of the wef so sri lanka gets an a plus according to the world economic forum and their economy is currently in free fall and their entire country is starving so i would fully expect the situation sri lanka to deteriorate further and we will most likely see more and more nations start going through the same troubles uh as all of these problems have a common origin two months ago it was sri lanka last month it was the netherlands this month is panama who knows where this is going to go all of these nations are experienc ths ago it was sri lanka last month it was the netherlands this month is panama who knows where this is going to go all of these nations are experiencing very similar things uh kind of at the same time with really a common origin as we can clearly see so even though there are kind of a lot of unknowns this time around we can clearly use our gut feeling to kind of generally guide us in into an assessment of what the future is going to bring again don't want to be too pessimistic about the whole thing because you know needless pessimism is is rarely productive but again just want to keep expectations tempered and kind of you know keep things on the right track for moving forward so that's really all i have for this time around everyone thank you again for watching uh sorry i don't really have a whole lot of details on a lot of the stuff today but again just wanted to kind of touch on a lot of issues that people have either observed or things that i think are important to kind of keep an eye on so again we'll see how much information we can get next time on some of these events but my guess is probably not much either way i just want to say thank you again to all of our patreon suppor can get next time on some of these events but my guess is probably not much either way i just want to say thank you again to all of our patreon supporters and those of you who support us also over on utreon you guys really have kept us going for a very long time and i really do appreciate it because we've got a lot of stuff planned for the later parts of the summer a lot of projects we're working on into the winter time as well so thank you again for watching thank you again for all of your support i really do mean it and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade