The Wire GRINTSUM: Social Tensions, Expanding Warfare, and Political Targeting

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground to quote one of the better analytical movies of the modern era this business seems to be getting out of control does it not uh a lot of things going on uh very busy week so far as is usual but especially this week we've got a lot of very uh wide ranging and um precedent setting issues as we all probably know by now so let's go ahead and jump right into it and let's start first up with probably the more um hot button issue this week which is uh Donald Trump's conviction in New York uh with his um hush money trial uh now I'm not really going to get into too many details the internet's kind of going wild with this already so I'm just going to kind of you know cut right to the chase skip right over the precedent setting stuff skip right over the whole you know uh unfortunate situation in general and just kind of focus on the stuff that really matters for most Americans out there uh really I I should be incorporating a lot of these ideas into um that sort of I guess midlength election Readiness um video that I'm trying to work on uh with regards to things to kind of prepare for as we get closer to the election cycle uh but just the very basic stuff that I'm kind of really taking away from this this incident is um there probably going to be a lot more arrests and a lot more um persecutions or prosecutions however you wanted to phrase it uh of trump Associates and things like that they've you know they've got the head of the snake so to speak so anyone who basically has had any sort of professional relationship with Trump uh they should probably be looking over their shoulders because I mean you know it just the the precedent that this judgment Set uh probably does not bode very well for anyone who is in the Trump Circle uh to carry on to that to to be a little bit more um alarming I should I should guess uh I I I don't know how likely it is but it does make a lot of sense to uh for the you know the federal regime to Target Trump supporters uh especially those who financially donated to him now I don't want to scare anybody off or anything but this is the kind of thing that my mind goes through is all right well the IRS already set the president years ago for uh this whole $600 thing if you send $600 to anybody that you're on their list they just hired how many tens of thousands of s agents or that's in the work somehow and you know now we've got this whole like very much increase in the kyc OR know your customer kind of culture there's been a you know the targeting of crypto and things like that it just all of these indicators and warnings for me line up to say ah okay well they're going after people who probably donated money to Trump we saw this with the trucker Scandal right in Canada now Canada and the United States are very different in that regard uh not that much different but you can see how this might be a concern going forward so um you know I I'm really just kind of apprehensive about the whole thing I don't really have a whole lot of evidence to lean on there's not a whole lot of factual information out there it's all just on like gut and kind of instinct at this point but uh and and that really does matter when it comes to what I think is probably more of a pressing concern for most Americans and that is third party groups uh third party groups that have nothing to do with left or right they have nothing to do with red or blue anywhere in this country but they are taking advantage of the Discord of the the infighting in the United States so typically we think of this as an old Soviet trick uh to kind of get Americans to fight each other instead of uniting against you know the Soviet Union sort of thing um you know it's kind of expanded you know fifth generation Warfare has kind of really run its course through America and now we've got um a lot of you know anti-us versus them kind of relationships going on in society that don't necessarily have an end goal other than just to create a fight right so that's something to keep in mind um you know we know we we can put various factions in the United States in nice little boxes and put them in nice little camps and kind of understand how they operate with one another but the thing that's a little harder to kind of uh get together and sort of you know conceptualize I guess is other parties you know there may be some kind of Splinter Group in Romania or something that has a beef with some kind of you know uh cultural or social dynamic in a city in America and they do something significant right to Target that so you know the cartels in one city may have uh a beef with another uh cartel or a gang or something like that so you've got really crazy things happening all the we seem to know right now is that everybody's fighting each other but there isn't really any um uh indicators that it's uh all orchestrated against one like Soviet enemy like like we might have U Back in the back in the old days so again this is a very large topic and I've already kind of gone off on a tangent already but just something to keep in mind is that there's a lot of people out there that probably have problems with you and with your belief system and they're uh it's not going to be so much an US versus them so much is you versus everybody else um at least chances are that's probably going to be the way things are if you end up you know watching this video in the first place and this kind of leads into uh just sort of a generalized reminder um with regards to just generally online content just be mindful uh just just be very careful because as we all know things are getting pretty serious out there and uh you know thankfully I haven't seen too much of this but um you know nowadays we don't live in a uh free Society I don't think um and you know I think that's fairly obvious at this point so even though I myself tend to tend to forget that what may be obvious to me isn't obvious to others um I I think that it is fairly obvious to pretty much every human being with any brain cells left uh at this point that basically all content online is monitored logged and just sitting there waiting to to snatch you up with uh and it's not necessarily from the feds either it's from a lot of of other you know third party groups you know uh the fact that there are tens of thousands of NOS you know non-governmental organizations whose sole purpose is to Target people on social media man you know do the whole investigation find out who they are I mean you know you sing the wrong song in Germany and there will be you know 15 16 agencies that don't work for the government tripping over themselves to find out who you are who you work for who your family is if you donated blood last Tuesday and everything about your private social life so and is not uh it's not really directed by the governments you know in a lot of cases it's just straight up people who are um you know trying to Target you know their enemies sort of thing so again just be mindful of of that um thankfully again I haven't seen too many people uh engaging with things I I think that the general um the general attitude from this uh judgment amongst the people who you know are decently intelligent I think the whole response has been du noted uh and people are just kind of moving on uh either that that you know they're they're they're taking note of their situation they're analyzing the information that they are given and they are drawing conclusions from that so that I'm I'm I'm glad to see uh not a lot of people just shouting on the internet and you know not really um doing much more than that especially with regards to their thought processes so it's good to see that people are observing what's going on and you know taking steps to kind of prepare for you know what's already what's already a pretty kinetic election season so again sorry for ranting too much on this one I know uh I've got a lot of you know unorganized thoughts on this um but by and large I'm concerned primarily in the short term I'm concerned with groups that you know legitimate Terror threats that may seek to capitalize on this and because the feds are too busy trying to surveil your Facebook page they miss something right uh we've seen this quite a lot we've got random you're you're probably going to see some activities from from you know groups that you have never even heard of before and they're successful because all the feds are watching uh to they're engaging in political targeting they're not really interested in anything like counterterrorism on American soil so again you know not not a great thing for the taxpayer who's really kind of hoping that you know um their government might protect them from external threats um but uh that's generally what I'm concerned about because we seem to be seeing quite a lot of um potential loading up we see a lot of threat loading there's a lot of you know there's tens of thousands of people coming over the border every day and they're not just from Mexico they're from all over the world uh and they are affiliated a lot of these people with you know Terror groups so it's like look man you know time times a times a ticking so anyway um I'm concerned about that I'm concerned about people who uh May depending on how how the feds feel about it uh I can see the next steps going forward is now that they've got Trump right uh the next is to to basically make sure that he and his people are um not a not a threat in any way uh politically at least so how far are they willing to go on that I don't know I don't know but I'm telling you the infrastructure is already there infrastructure is already there they already shut down I already froze people's bank accounts in Canada you know for donating money to a GoFundMe you know the wasn't you know the the government didn't want so the potential I will the US government do that I don't know but the potential is there they actually have the capability so you know why would they not I think that you know for a lot of people who tend to be drunk on power um they don't really tend to stop even when they have you know uh you know Undisputed you know control over some things so you know chances are if it can be done it will be at some point so you know just kind of keeping that in in mind and you know preparing for for um tough times ahead is probably a probably a good idea so again not a super great way to start but uh yeah it's kind of important so everybody's thinking it already so I might as well talk about it uh anyway moving on to the southwestern region not a whole lot uh just that F-35 crash uh that occurred just outside Albuquerque uh don't know much about this one uh I think the pilot ejected uh fortunately it doesn't look like it was an an F35 an active service it looks like it was uh being transferred either for mainest reasons or it was about to be delivered to the US government uh to you know take possession of it um but anyway the I I think the technician made it out okay uh hopefully uh I haven't seen a whole lot of details on it maybe I just missed it it's been a long week but um yeah not not a super great look especially with you know the military trying to you know prepare for uh you know conflicts around the world so again like I mentioned third party groups h huge huge concern um so I've been looking for a way to to talk about this one for a while and um uh it's been really hard to put it in the wire because I feel like it's probably not like a great idea to put a uh a report from months ago uh in the wire like it's a current report uh but basically criminal activity in the United States has gotten really bad with regards to two things the violence uh that has started becoming very common even with the tiniest of things and two the organization and capabilities that that criminals are are engaging in so because of the political way uh that things have kind of worked out throughout our legal system um you the end result I mean you can debate on how we got here all day long but the end result is that criminals are getting really really bold so something that was observed in California and again thus the reason for me kind of talking about it more recently is uh thieves and sort of criminal International Syndicate gangs whatever you want to call them basically people trying to steal stuff uh coming over the Border again illegals coming over the Border running these crime Rings stealing stuff they're using ISR Assets Now intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance again this isn't really new this has been happening for a few months now but it's there's been kind of a rash of it going on in California uh these thieves are plugging in like USB uh cameras or like um Wi-Fi cameras they camouflaging them up and putting them in people's yards or out in front of their houses so that they can monitor when either that person uh leaves for work or the neighbor uh leaves for work so again this is just a fresh reminder especially if you live in a city or a suburb or something like that check out your property you know make sure that you don't have an ISR asset on your property that's spying on you um this goes in many many regards as we all know a few uh I don't know if it's a few years ago or what but there have been a lot of cases around um around the country where actually like game wardens are putting Wildlife cameras or they put Wildlife cameras on people's private property uh without a warrant and you know so there's there's that kind of thing there's always a potential for that if you've got a lot of land uh but with regards to thieves and things like that this seems to be pretty common throughout the United States like this picture down here at the bottom is actually from New York so again it's not something that's just happening in California you've got thieves that are increasing your capabilities and it's becoming very very hard for the average person uh to kind of you know keep up really uh so you know if only there were sort of agencies that kind of tackled this sort of thing you know any who um something to keep in mind something to be aware of criminals are getting better they're getting more violent you know um you might get carjacked you know and we're seeing this happen all over the world but I'm afraid the third world some aspects of it have come here to the United States um and we're seeing um criminals even after they've stolen something they're going to they're they're attacking they shooting or stabbing the people who they just stole from so there you know like there is no quarter uh being given by criminals anymore in a lot of places um again not super not super uh happy to talk about unfortunately but you really got to be aware now you know you gone are the days where you get mugged you hand over your wallet to a polite mugger and or or whatever you know from some kind kind of '90s sitcom like era you know thing you might get shot before you even have a chance to comply with a thief even if you wanted to and that's not include it's not even talking about people who uh uh decide to uh stop that bad behavior uh right then and there uh we all know the legal problems with that now right so something to keep in mind thieves have gotten really bold and it's um it's not getting better just something to keep in mind this tends to happen kind of a lot but again we are living in very unprecedented times so uh moving over uh outside the United States to Western Europe I know there were a few issues that I didn't cover um this time in the United States I'm going to talk about them a little bit more uh later on with regards to uh the again that that midlength um midterm sort of uh election Readiness video so so please don't think I'm skipping over events that have happened in the United States I'm I'm going to cover them in a future video I don't want to waste your time by talking about it twice uh so let's move to Western Europe and let's talk about uh the Germany uh terror attack the Manheim terror attack that occurred uh yesterday yeah so this one is not really a good look for Germany um so for those who are not aware of the general situation in Germany let me just give you a brief recap uh over the past few weeks I would say uh the younger generation as well as some of the older folks in Germany have um really adopted more of an anti-immigration stance uh it's become quite popular uh we've seen again sort of uh protest songs come out you know the one that Rings a little bit more recently is the song alander uh which means you know foreigners out um that song has gotten kind of popular in Germany it's been noted at a few um dance clubs things like that so the governments of you know the world maybe slow to react to these indications and warnings that their population is um uh not really uh approving of their immigration policies uh but events like this uh like the stabbing in Manheim really kind of highlight that um and really start to start to get u a little bit more political than just a simple um tragic but still simple uh terror attack so in Manheim uh Michael stren bger um a pretty well-known anti-islamic like commentator I don't know if you call him a political pund or not but basically he got stabbed or got someone attempted to stab him who is very obviously uh Islamic like I mean German news uh has censored his guy this guy's picture as we all know for some reason all media around the world or most media around the world seems to be censoring the photographs of terrorists in the commission of a terror attack and yet they are going after political dissident so again let me explain a little bit further so this attack occurred a few days or I think it's maybe a couple weeks now actually uh after a few students were recorded again a viral video in German media uh of a few students singing the song aler uh you know for and there out that kind of anti-immigration sort of Anthem again something that's German law at this point is is quite disturbing with regards to freedom of speech but again this song is is has has gotten kind of a lot of traction and again the media went and did the analysis and found out all the people in the video and they're like destroying these people's lives because they sang a song right uh cut two a couple of days later we've got a literally guy a guy stabbing people with a butcher knife you know in public trying to assassinate a an anti-immigration pundit and the media the media censors this guy's face so that's why I put his picture uh in the brief here because German media has put has pixelated his face or put black bars over his face because it's like what what are we doing you know this is crazy um so again indications and warnings of maybe um uh the sentiment out there in society but it gets worse uh it gets it gets a lot worse because of the events of the stabbing so um the how should I say this um first of all let me say I don't want to armchair quarterback you know what the reacting policeman uh did because in in a melee situation where you've got a dude stabbing people and just just a kind of a Pyon situation you don't really you don't really know what's going on so I don't want to judge this guy for you know what he did but what happened uh during this stabbing attack is the police the first policeman that showed up to prevent the stabbing grabs a citizen uh an unarmed citizen who was trying to stop the attacker from you know committing the terror attack so the so the cop grabs the wrong guy tackles him to the ground and of course because you know tunnel vision is kind of a thing the cops got this guy on the ground and the the attacker stabs the the cop so it's like oh man this is bad all the way around so again you know again I don't want to like arur quarterback this whole thing however there is a sentiment out there so I thought I'd let you guys know um the question has been asked did this cop go for the white guy because of his training had indicated that he should never go for the Islamic looking dude even if that dude's carrying a knife you know sort of thing so I don't know if this is was it was it his training that had trained him to be instinctively dismissive of the Islamic looking dude uh because of his training um and because you know Dei kind of thing I don't know man that's a tough question um I'm going to say I don't have an opinion on it either way uh I don't I don't I don't think it's I don't think it's right to um uh kind of look at this in this situation in that way because it's just I mean seen the video you guys can look it up before it gets taken down off the internet um you know it's it's one of those things where it's a melee man you know it's it's it's pretty hectic it's hard to say what you're going to do in that moment um you know I I just don't know but the fact that the question is being asked the fact that people are asking hey did this cop go for the white guy because he was trying to stop the terror attack you know was that the reason why this happened you know the fact that people are asking that shows a lot I think um is it true I I mean I don't know it's hard to say you know um but again people are asking the question and the fact that we're asking this question you know in America we have the Uvaldi experience right we don't we don't know if you know if we've got kids in a school you know we don't know if that cop is going to arrest you know the parents for trying to stop a school shooter you know uh the fact that you've already happened uh you know it just kind of it makes my blood boil and I should probably not talk talk about it too much because you know it's just never a good idea to to to kind of go down those rabbit holes when you're angry but still um this kind of incident probably is is going to be treated to some degree not as a severe obviously um but this is going to act as like a little mini Uvaldi for Germany I think and I think German politicians German pundits German media they have no clue they have no clue as to what people are thinking man if you thought if you thought a song was bad oh man you're just going to make these sentiments Skyrock you know the anti-immigration sentiment Skyrocket when you have things like this happen and you clamp down on the people and you protect the attacker oh boy oh boy you know they don't know what they're doing they don't know what they're doing they think they know what they're doing but they don't um anyway um you can tell that you can tell that it's been a kind of a long week and I haven't had time to really put these thoughts together in a coherent manner but anyway let's push forward to Eastern Europe again another potentially groundbreaking situation uh in Ukraine um now I don't like to talk about Ukraine too much because well it just the the whole the whole idea goes nowhere um but I I will mention it because it's it's again become semi-relevant to American ex existence I guess uh the White House in Germany and I'm seeing reports of a couple other nations wanting to uh do the same uh but the United States and Germany definitely have granted permission for Ukraine to use the Munitions that we give them to attack targets deep inside Russia so like the himar stuff they've got the atacam stuff they've got um you know B basically anything they've got um the United States has given them permission to use against Targets in Russia I know it may be a strange concept considering other events going on around the world if you know what I mean uh but the United States had placed and and is extremely common around the world for Nations to place restrictions on you know the Munitions we use so we're not going to give you know Ukraine you know a whole atacam suite and say go for it uh no we're not going to do that we're going to say you can't use this to attack Moscow or you can't use this to attack you know some major civilian Center in Russia we're not going to let you do that you can only use it um to attack to like either on your own soil or like just inside the Border region of Russia you know where they're staging troops and stuff you know and if we catch you if we catch you you you know violating the terms of this arms export treaty we're going to take your choice from you you know um I know that it it may again may be strange but this happens all the time so it makes you wonder why is this not happening in other situations around the world anyway uh the United States Has Lifted these restrictions at least temporarily uh and you know I know there's no there's nothing as as permanent as a temporary government policy but allegedly the state department has said that it's it's not like a total like you know unrestricted use of American weapons they're saying that they can only use them in certain areas I don't buy that I think Ukraine has been using weapons uh against American guidance for a long time but again it's hard to say because well I would be willing to bet that a substantial portion of the targeting um that is being done by Ukraine is actually being directed by or actually carried out by Americans so um really when it comes to how this matters is well this is just another point of escalation for the war for absolutely no gain Russia has everything to gain and nothing to lose Ukraine has everything to lose and nothing to gain um with with something like this uh allowing you know at some point pretty much every war I don't know about every war statistically but almost every war gets to a point in which the Warfare becomes unrestricted uh especially every conventional War that's not like an Insurgency um conflict but at some point that war is going to become unrestricted meaning that all you know No Holds Barred kind of thing and I'm afraid and uh the world is concerned that this may be happening in Ukraine we start to loosen the rules you know we start to um use increasingly desperate tactics and strike you know increasingly desper more desperate things so Ukraine knows they can't one so they may decide to start targeting civilians more deliberately inside Russia I don't know but the potential is there and it's not good uh Ukraine is not going to gain anything tactically operationally or strategically from this and yet the United States has really given up that political pork straight to Russia who can now say look they're targeting civilians even if they were Ukraine is not like you you just gave over all of this benefit to Russia and now Russia can say all right right now the gloves now the gloves are off you know truly off and uh now NATO is about to find out just how much Russia has been holding back in some regards so again this is a big war it's not a fun War it's not cool I don't care how many people put Flags in their bio it is not fun war is absolutely terrible in every every time uh and Ukraine war is certainly no exception so something to keep in mind this will escalate the War how much it I don't know probably not that much in the long run because well to escalate a war you have to have a mutual escalation on both sides you know Ukraine just deciding to you know start slinging missiles willy-nilly isn't really going to escalate things too much because Russia is going to have to play along with that which they probably won't um but in any case it's just never good when you know the United States is now directly allowing Ukraine to Target Russia you know of course the Russians have their own rhetoric they can pull old medev out of out of the out of the woodwork and say something like uh oh this this means that we're at war with NATO Russia says that every other week so it's not really a not really a big thing and they they probably are at war with nater really uh but by and large really it's just man how long is this war going to go on uh sort of thing and this just prolongs it it all it does is prolong this war and uh it gives Russia even more footing uh to do more more um I'm not going to say like totally indiscriminate targeting but more uh targeting of more civilian centers so again it's not good it's not going to help Ukraine any but the virtue signaling is there and the defense industrial complex oh man that's yeah that's that's what's keeping this thing going so um again I think probably an unintended effect of this like I mentioned earlier before I again went off on a random tangent uh I think one of the unintended side effects of this I think generally this this little this little sort of incident here uh highlights a question that can now be asked openly which is so you're telling me that the United States can and does regularly put restrictions on the use of the Munitions that are exported to a particular country so why oh why is no one asking why has the United States not placed restrictions on the use of Munitions in Gaza you know I know every time I talk about Israel and Gaza I uh I I lose an awful lot of support um however like at at what point am I going to be allowed to talk about this you know from a a more like a trying to be neutral perspective like you're you're telling me that you know the world stops when we say hey Ukraine you can now use this atacks to shoot 15 more miles into Russia okay the world stops like it stop the Press international incident you know the Kremlin has drops of press statement everything but yet no one is asking no one is asking why the United States is allowing certain jdpi or joint desired points of impact to be dropped in say jabalia refugee camp like why are we allowing J dams to be dropped in certain areas why are we not restricting that why are we not we already export basically the entirety of Israel's military gets exported from the United States to Israel so why are we not exporting low CDE Munitions small diameter bombs hellfires you know if you want to support Israel why are you not encouraging low CDE Munitions to be used why is it you're using a Canon to kill them mosquito anyway you can tell I've had a long week um so you know it's it's it's it doesn't really do any good to go down these rabbit holes at this point because you know um it just it just doesn't seem to be doing any good and for an American perspective for those of you tuning in to to talk about or or or uh think about how does this affect America well it doesn't really um you know the conflict in Ukraine going poorly well it just means you're you're T you're going to pay more in taxes so it does affect you it affects you more directly than you might think you know um you know just something is simple as hey you know if UK If Russia if Russia captures Odessa and Ukraine's grain exports are shut down to Europe I think you're going to see some stuff um you know it won't affect the United States directly but it'll affect the United States indirectly um whereas you know the conflict in the Middle East is more of a um International tension kind of thing but again uh we all have to kind of censor ourselves to some degree with regards to these International incidents mostly because it doesn't really matter you know I can rant and ra for five six hours on any one of these conflicts going around the world but it is it doesn't do any good because one it's not going to change any policymakers mind and you know so it's kind of a foregone conclusion at that point and it doesn't seem to be uh helping to change the average person's mind either um because again election year everybody's Circle that they're in is tightening everybody's little they're they're putting themselves on in their camps and that and they're putting themselves in their own little boxes and that box is is shrinking yeah uh ideology is a huge problem people are it seems to me like every election year people are less willing to to listen to any kind of um like alternative viewpoint on things and it seems to me like every election year you find less and less people that have just just a more general or casual approach to to things especially like International incidents but so yeah um Ukraine is probably going to be a very very interesting place to monitor this summer uh but also equally as important to monitor is uh the Far East specifically with regards to Taiwan again I think uh just just as a random statement if you want to know what I think I think that the Donald Trump conviction basically grants permission for China to take Taiwan I think that was probably one of the Milestones China was waiting on because it basically guarantees it guarantees that the United States electoral process is Tainted you know you know hence forth and forever more right uh no one's going to be looking at this system and saying the United States is all we're fine and dandy domestically there's basically cements domestic problems in the United States up until and including uh election day and I think China's going to take advantage of that so um uh for all the people who've been saying you know China's going to take Taiwan in June or well wait is it June already yeah this month um I don't know I I I'm not really seeing those indicators again I've got the stoplight charts here you know I'm I'm working on it more you know forgive me for being ignorant I'm uh I'm not an East Asia guy so I don't I don't really know I'm having to learn all this stuff so give me a minute to to catch up uh you know it takes a little it takes a little bit of experience to kind of understand all the coastal defenses of China and the the whole invasion of Taiwan sort of thing especially considering that pretty much all American Doctrine I think written about Taiwan is just steeped in hubris and I don't think it's exactly helpful and an accurate representation but um again the problem is going on in the United States I have a note here to remind me to talk about this as well because I don't have a dedicated Korea SL just yet sorry I'm working on that uh I think that uh North Korea's funny little PR stunts uh they they make some feces filled balloons and send them across the border they've put a bunch of trash and balloons and send them across South Korea they launched what I think well over a dozen ballistic missiles all at once to splash down in the uh see of Japan here you know North Korea getting a little Rowdy um I don't really like talking about Korea because to me it's not that I mean it's interesting from a perspective of the Korean kind North Korean kind of experience but in terms of international diplomacy like North Korea doesn't have that North Korea is a case study right there isn't much you can say like oh my God North Korea is going to start World War 3 no they're not I mean North Korea is North Korea however they are an indicator right so when North Korea starts getting rowdy China starts getting a little mouthy with regards to Taiwan you know things are going on in the United States right uh and you know cause an effect right so there could be uh something happening in the United States that China then takes advantage of one thing to keep in mind with regards to China China and Taiwan is Japan let's see what Japan's talking about because Japan uh gets a little bit nervous whenever China and Taiwan uh issues seem to be uh kicking up you know for obvious reasons right same thing with the Philippines and right now you know Philippines uh Filipino and Chinese relations uh probably haven't been worse for very long time um down there in the scarber SCH area so yeah it's not really super great but uh yeah let's go ahead and uh start wrapping things up today I don't want to waste any more of your time uh and let's talk about some of the stuff I saw on ghost net so uh again it's it was kind of a light week I saw a lot more people on ghost net this week a lot more people checking in a lot of brand new call signs never seen before which is fantastic uh but fewer news reports so sorry I don't really have that much news I did catch uh two uh uh uh news reports uh somebody talking about um uh Claremore Oklahoma still having power outage issues uh due to the storms that kind of rolled through uh the region um La I think last week so yeah extreme weather has been kind of a problem um throughout the past week I myself have had a few power outages even here um uh over the past couple of weeks so yeah extreme weather is is definitely something to to to keep keep in mind is that with all this crazy stuff going on in the world you're more likely to have a power outage due to a tornado or something so again something to keep in mind uh somebody also mentioned uh let's see here this was kind of a sandwich report kind of kind of a few things put together Mexico electing a president second of June yep something to keep in mind sure um especially considering the um uh the potential change in US Mexico relations uh with regards to immigration you know really the only kind of um us Mexico relations that matter are trade but that's only on Mexico's part because we export a lot of stuff to Mexico but the other thing is immigration immigration immigration immigration that's pretty much the only issue that comes up between the United States and Mexico for obvious reasons um but somebody also mentioned uh chy to stock piling gold and oil I haven't looked I haven't looked into that I need to look into that because that is again an sort of wartime indicator but um most governments uh most governments are stockpiling gold and oil around the world um so again indications and warnings to what end I don't know but probably nothing good uh and then finally um uh the uh joint sword 2024a exercises that China just conducted uh somebody mentioned that as well so that's that's awesome and then finally I picked up a message from Canada so someone who uh was uh tuning it from Canada they said in their message that this was a first time checking in so I thought I'd let them know hey I heard you um I was using a web SDR in Pennsylvania but I heard you locally uh down south here and uh also from Pennsylvania as well so thought it was kind of a cool thing uh tonight so again uh here are the sources for this time around not a whole lot but still you guys kind of get the picture anyway you know I really wish I had more time to sit down and uh condense things a little bit further so I'm sorry this is this is running a little bit um more disorganized than normal I'll get back to it next week with a little bit more coherent thoughts but again thank you for sticking around um it's going to be a very interesting I think election season as we already know um but it's just all this stuff really just points out just be mindful you know just keep an eye out for things especially if you work in like a you know the industrial sector you know you guys have your own internal security policies and you guys have your own like checklists and things you guys know the vulnerabilities at your facilities if you work in Big Industry you know huge manufacturing sector or some or some kind of something to do with critical infrastructure you guys know the vulnerabilities so please be mindful please be extra careful um because things are you know you know at times of height and tensions you just never know I I know it's boring I know that it's probably going to you know gripe a lot of people to have to go double check something you know let me go check make sure I put that away or make sure the gate's locked or something like that but you know please be vigilant um because the the the potential for very bad things to happen either by accident or by deliberate attack are very very high now so again every four years we got to be mindful that the things tend to you know kind of get a little crazy but especially this time around because there are so many different actors and threat vectors and groups and whatever buzz word you want to use there so many people out there from so many different angles that are looking to cause chaos and we've really got to make sure that our society keeps functioning even in a very Advanced threat environment like that so you know please be mindful for the average person out there you know you know keep keep your eyes peeled um and just uh be aware you know I know it's tiring I know that you can't stay it you know Threat Level Midnight forever right um I know that it's really hard to uh uh be at a you know heightened state of awareness for a very long period of time uh you know we're not going to be at mop level four forever right but again it's just something to keep in mind uh because the tensions are very high and the potential for stuff to to get kind of crazy is is always there so again please be vigilant please be on the lookout you know and uh we'll we'll see how uh crazy things really do get this coming week so again we'll be back at it with a standard shorter reports on Monday and I think that's pretty much it so um thank you all for watching again and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade