Sep 24 Intel Update: Lettuce, Grain, and the Zuck

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the briefing for friday the 24th of september 2021 and it is being recorded the day prior on the 23rd of september just a quick note before we get going uh we've noticed that for some reason youtube is now recommending these videos to people who have never even heard of us before even though we've been doing these intel briefings for quite a while now so for those of you who aren't aware of who we are and what we do and stuff like that you can check out the rest of our channel and kind of get a feel for what we do but when it comes to specifically these types of briefings a good distinction to make is the difference between intelligence and journalism so what we're doing here is not journalism even though a lot of times if we don't have an analysis we'll take the journalistic approach and just tell you what happened but if you're looking to see the difference between what we do here and what journalism is uh check out our brief from the 12th of september and that should give you a good uh just just the first few minutes of that video should give you a good understanding of how and why we're approaching things the way give you a good uh just just the first few minutes of that video should give you a good understanding of how and why we're approaching things the way we are so welcome to everyone who is new and thank you for watching and let's get right to it with the weather for the next 12 hours most of the significant weather in the country is going to be in new england the northeastern states are going to get hammered with all different kinds of weather systems as they stack up and create all kinds of turbulence and things like that again we have specific reasons why we're talking about this kind of weather just to get people in the mindset of seeing it because because weather is a huge part of intelligence as a whole so like i mentioned most of the american northeast is going to have very low cloud ceilings cloud layers that are very thick and very low to the ground which means that it's going to be very bad for any kind of visual surveillance either with normal electro-optical sensors or flear-type sensors again if there was anything right again not saying that there is i'm just saying that that would be a good idea to get in the mindset of understanding and like i mentioned really throughou n not saying that there is i'm just saying that that would be a good idea to get in the mindset of understanding and like i mentioned really throughout the rest of the country for the next 18 hours pushing out that far again some of the mid-atlantic coastal regions right there are going to have a lot of significant cloud layers all the way from very low levels all the way up to the very highest levels of the atmosphere so that's going to be a huge barrier for any kind of surveillance again if it were there we're also going to see some pretty significant cloud decks over the dakotas and other parts of the midwest mostly along the northern border there as well as off the california coast and parts of florida moving into no tams actually it's been kind of interesting for no tams there's one specific one that's very interesting i'll go ahead and skip over it for now and go right to number two uh the other the only other one that to be of note is one that hasn't gone hot yet uh it is for camp david so of course for those of you who don't know uh pretty much every single weekend that we've been following president biden takes a vacation trip to either his home or to camp david it looks l now uh pretty much every single weekend that we've been following president biden takes a vacation trip to either his home or to camp david it looks like this weekend it's going to be to camp david um it hasn't been announced to be the white house yet but the no tam's there so it's most likely going to occur and for the one that's really interesting is the one for new york so for those of you who don't know the united nations general assembly is convening at the un headquarters in new york and they have a couple of no tams set up to prevent aircraft from from getting near those proceedings and a couple of days ago uh there was an incident in which a small uh light cessna aircraft got close to the general assembly no tam area now here's the interesting part the aircraft is actually a west point aircraft it's one of the cessnas they use for uh teaching classes in this case it was an engineering class that went on was just following the river down just to be a part of the curriculum there there's no sensors on board it has nothing to do with any kind of surveillance we've we've researched this aircraft this particular airframe quite heavily it's just a teaching aid but it's interestin with any kind of surveillance we've we've researched this aircraft this particular airframe quite heavily it's just a teaching aid but it's interesting because everyone a lot of media sites are saying that they breached the airspace well they actually didn't they didn't even come close so here is a map of the the area it shows the united nations headquarters right there of course the no tamp is not centered over the unhq just for opsec reasons the faa does not put the no tam directly over the building that they're trying to keep people away from but everybody knows where the un headquarters is it's a very prominent building on the skyline there so that's where it's located and those two rings depict the two different no tams and this depicts the flight of the aircrafts as you can see it flew south along the river and then turned around once it got to the george washington bridge he got turned around because he got intercepted by f-16s as part of you know our national defense strategy and things like that so a lot of people are saying that hey this aircraft you know temporarily breached the airspace well we can't find where it did uh unless we are unless we're missing something or s that hey this aircraft you know temporarily breached the airspace well we can't find where it did uh unless we are unless we're missing something or some kind of no town popped up that we didn't see they didn't even come close sure it makes sense as to why the f-16s and the military would scramble to intercept a small plane like that especially if it wasn't a pre-pre-filed flight plan but also like these guys didn't really get close they didn't breach the airspace they got close so again it's kind of interesting that to see like how this stuff shakes out and everything but it also goes to show that you don't have to necessarily be within a no-tam to have an f-16 off your wing which is interesting to take note so that's why i wanted to talk about it today so let's move into the civil unrest forecast really no major changes the only one i did want to briefly mention is new york city uh they're we're starting to see a lot of cultural changes when it comes to the medical mandates in the city particularly the medical passports so we're starting to see blm as an organization get spun up to oppose medical passports due to their organ that organization's concerns and sort of social issues rting to see blm as an organization get spun up to oppose medical passports due to their organ that organization's concerns and sort of social issues right so blm saying that it's a social issue now and we're starting to see that get off the ground i'm not entirely sure how that's going to go down there was a big incident at a restaurant in new york city you can look up for yourself but there was a big incident there where a restaurant hostess you know requested to see someone's passport and they took it racially and there was a big fight you could see the video i can't share the video here of course because we'll get censored but um i don't really really talk so much about that specific incident but i just wanted to highlight briefly that we might be starting to see new york city specifically since the mandates are so harsh there when it comes to dining dining facilities we might start seeing new york city be a point of solidification for a lot of these resistance efforts and we might start seeing these resistance efforts come from groups that don't normally we wouldn't think to see right if that makes sense but we can talk a little bit about that later but let's push into logisti roups that don't normally we wouldn't think to see right if that makes sense but we can talk a little bit about that later but let's push into logistics and really just a quick rundown of the shortages from last time really there have been shortages of school bus drivers in a lot of states water shortage out west is continuing that's just an enduring thing that's going to be able to slide until until the winter gets in and we start seeing the water levels rise again also microchip shortage getting worse by the day more and more auto manufacturers are coming out and saying they're shutting down plants or they're reducing hours or they're discontinuing vehicles and really the only two new additions for this cycle this brief uh is uh in north carolina specifically winston-salem the town of winston-salem has declared they have a bus driver shortage for public transit and they have shut down 14 different bus routes as a result of this now i didn't want to highlight i didn't really drill down into each specific state in every little local newspaper this one just happened to get picked up by a larger source but i have seen just scrolling around the internet for a little bit a lot of diffe ewspaper this one just happened to get picked up by a larger source but i have seen just scrolling around the internet for a little bit a lot of different other cities and localities reporting the same thing so even though we only have the icon for north carolina that's the only place we can you know say hey there's tangible shortages causing routes to be canceled this is affecting other states as well i would probably venture to guess that the public transit bus driver shortage is very similar to the school bus driver shortage it's a similar idea behind it and also when it comes to the state of iowa i did want to point out uh grains so i'm going to talk about this more on the critical infrastructure slide but i did just want to point out that there has been a cyber attack that has that is going to potentially affect as much as 40 percent of the nation's grain supply so i'll touch on that here in just a second but i just wanted to highlight that's that's what we've got going on for the logistics map for this time so moving to the critical infrastructure concerns uh really the first one there is kind of the odd man out i didn't want to i don't know where else to put it so chantix th ical infrastructure concerns uh really the first one there is kind of the odd man out i didn't want to i don't know where else to put it so chantix the drug chantix has been recalled by pfizer because it turns out it may have chemicals in it that cause cancer so that has been recalled the recalls are widening with every day that goes by and yeah it's just one more thing to to be aware of because it's a pretty widely used smoking cessation drug and switching gears there to number two the port of los angeles is currently facing severe severe congestion as you can see by the image here there are a lot of ships waiting to offload cargo in the los angeles port region with some ships waiting an average of eight days or so to unload their cargo actually we can see if we pull up the recent report by the port of los angeles we can see that they are most certainly over capacity when it comes to the amounts of cargo that they're processing so for those that don't understand why this port is being congested it's really due to things like social distancing equipment cleaning daily screenings of staff this eats up a lot of time and the extremely strict social distancing rules that the port of lo istancing equipment cleaning daily screenings of staff this eats up a lot of time and the extremely strict social distancing rules that the port of los angeles has instituted for all their workers have resulted in a lot of inefficiencies right they're just not able to work as fast uh or or as uh widespread right so this is combined with an increase in demand for overseas goods results in a lot of delays a lot of people who don't quite understand how various logistical networks here function in the us might say something like well i don't see how demand could be up wouldn't it go back to the same level that it was before the lockdowns and the answer that is no firstly demand is always going steadily up all the time even if it's going up just a little bit it demand for things is for consumer goods is really never going down that much even if demand goes down due to an external factor like lockdowns right that demand is not going to go back to where it was before the lockdowns it's going to go to the level that it would have been at had the lockdowns not happened if that makes sense also during the lockdowns last year a lot of people and companies specifically put off things like unne the lockdowns not happened if that makes sense also during the lockdowns last year a lot of people and companies specifically put off things like unnecessary expenditures or repairs stuff that wasn't really an emergency because of well one social distancing rules closing stores but also the reduced income that almost every business suffered from they just didn't have the money to do repairs and and expand their businesses right well now that things are picking back up the demand for a steady stream of logistics is skyrocketing demand which our infrastructure cannot handle thus the delays moving to number three this is a developing situation that uh where we just became aware of uh this morning or actually last night the data management company really it's a an agricultural co-op an agricultural cooperative called new cooperative or any w cooperative was hit with a cyber attack that was conducted allegedly by the group dark matter which is significantly threatening the u.s food supply because the software systems that this group uses this co-op uses affects dozens of different farmers throughout the state of iowa but really it affects a lot of people beyond their borders as well bec his co-op uses affects dozens of different farmers throughout the state of iowa but really it affects a lot of people beyond their borders as well because this software is used and responsible for managing the various agricultural systems of roughly 40 percent of farmers that produce our national grain supply so this is kind of a shocker this is one of those things where it's really hard to research we can't really confirm uh if this 40 of the national grain supply is is is in like direct harm really here are the things that dark matters is trying to uh trying to extort you can see the list right there just financial information all kinds of internal employee documents and things like that so it's not necessarily a it's a ransomware attack so they're holding their data hostage but they can't access it right so that's a problem because even though it's a ransomware attack you think okay well how can leaking some employee documents you know damage national security well if these farmers can't use if this co-op can't use its software and the farmers that use their software can't use it then that's a huge problem so these screenshots were leaked by a cyber security group that is workin the farmers that use their software can't use it then that's a huge problem so these screenshots were leaked by a cyber security group that is working the issue and in which case this is a communication between the uh hackers and the actual company the cooperative as you can see it doesn't look to be super great so like i mentioned on our logistics slide this could have some very very very serious impacts as we move forward into the winter when it when it comes to our national food supply now i don't want to you know scream the sky is falling just quite yet uh we don't know how this is all going to work out they could pay the fine like the fbi has been encouraging companies to do and just you know they're they're uh i think the the ransom is up to 5. 5.9 million or something like that it's changed a couple of times that's why i can't remember the actual dollar amount they're asking but it's not an insignificant amount but yeah the longer that this goes on the larger impact this is going to have also this highlights every single one of these high these cyber attacks that happens highlights to us the feeling of really every time i get one of these in my inbox i think wait a minute t f these high these cyber attacks that happens highlights to us the feeling of really every time i get one of these in my inbox i think wait a minute this wasn't compartmentalized like wait a minute this this can happen in the first place so yeah even for people like us who have been following the national security and national defense infrastructure kind of field you know that boring stuff that nobody likes to track like you know nuclear security grain style security you know the security of water plant water purification plants and stuff like that even though we've been following this for a while now it never ceases to amaze us how backwards things are when it comes to vulnerabilities the fact that this kind of stuff can happen the fact that you can simply hack a company which manages software for all different kinds of agricultural ventures and it just so happens that they have merged so many times that they're now a significant portion of our national food supply yeah it seems like nobody was really thinking about this from the cyber security realm which is a lesson that not a lot of industries are learning right now even though they should be and sort of in a similar vein it ha er security realm which is a lesson that not a lot of industries are learning right now even though they should be and sort of in a similar vein it has become public knowledge that the fbi secretly had the decryption key for the ransomware attack that was launched against the cassia group back in july this was the cyber attack that took as many as 1500 businesses that defined as critical infrastructure offline well it turns out that the fbi had the decryption key very early on during the several weeks long cyber attack and chose not to release it to the victims which many cyber security experts say was a very poor move understandably in the world of law enforcement to catch the bad guys deception is required and sometimes things need to be done that seem counterproductive like withholding a password right but in the end will result in capturing the culprits however cyber security experts say that this is not what happened at all eric krohn of the cyber security firm know before stated that quote the fbi had the means and ability to assist by simply sharing a digital key but chose not to a decision that had no bearing on the activity from the revel group and gained them nothing in r sist by simply sharing a digital key but chose not to a decision that had no bearing on the activity from the revel group and gained them nothing in return this was not a case of the fbi being unable to help due to a lack of staffing or any other reason but the simple sharing of a digital key to the victim organizations end quote now i do want to touch on what everyone is thinking this is one of those gut level assessments that has absolutely no solid evidence to support it but anyone who is aware of what the fbi does and what they've been up to the past few years and how political that particular agency has become at the senior levels it's a gut assessment to think all right the fbi had the key because they're probably in on it somehow again nobody is going to have enough proof to say that this was the case and this is one of those ideas that can be easily legitimately explained away because if the fbi was doing their job like if they were doing good and they were doing their job of course they would have the key like who else would you expect to have it the guy running the hot dog cart outside no the exact same people within the fbi that have the capabilities to launch this attac you expect to have it the guy running the hot dog cart outside no the exact same people within the fbi that have the capabilities to launch this attack or collaborate with the attackers are also the exact same people that we should expect to have the decryption key by doing their job and tackling the bad guys so it's a really tough thing to go down the rabbit hole on because of the nature of this relationship so again i did just want to point out this line of thinking because we know a lot of people are thinking it and even we ourselves don't have enough information to make an assessment either way and honestly at the end of the day for the average american it doesn't really matter who committed these cyber attacks a russian hacking group or the fbi themselves it doesn't really matter because both groups have pretty much the same likelihood of being prosecuted which is zero so really we're not so much concerned with the finger pointing as we are concerned about the impact to the average american and all of these cyber attacks highlight just how vulnerable that average american really is moving forward into significant governmental actions uh first one being what's being called fedf t just how vulnerable that average american really is moving forward into significant governmental actions uh first one being what's being called fedfest 21 on a lot of social media this was the justice for j6 rally which even people like donald trump said was a setup i find it hard to believe that federal agents are that bad at being undercover but a lot of the photos that have been circulating around you know of people that i don't know if they're federal agents or not but they seem to be very uh very sketchy like you can look at this person they they look everyone who was there at the protest looked like either a reporter or an undercover cop so um very interesting and it just turns out that there was one guy who was detained for having a weapon on him and it turned out he was an undercover undercover agent so there you go on that very interesting moving on to number two this is one of those headlines that's so scary sounding that you have to research it to find out if it's real or not but it's definitely real researchers are trying to figure out ways to use plants specifically plants like lettuce to grow mrna medical substances you know that magic you know v word we can't say o g to figure out ways to use plants specifically plants like lettuce to grow mrna medical substances you know that magic you know v word we can't say on youtube that a person would just eat instead of taking a shot in the arm again this is one of those headlines that's so dystopian sounding that you just want to scream because we can clearly see the path this will take but to keep things in perspective remember it took forever to develop the shots that we already have and just look at their effectiveness right and also this is a long shot a lot of people look at a university and they see the funding they're getting for researching stuff and they they go into panic mode because they don't quite understand how long research takes now of course we can go down the rabbit hole of of realizing that not a whole lot of true research is done these days and a lot of stuff is rushed but this will still take years to do we're talking about something that has never been done before and it's a lot easier than just manufacturing some kind of substance we're talking about getting a plant to grow it that's a little a little bit different a little bit more difficult so yeah this is going to take year e we're talking about getting a plant to grow it that's a little a little bit different a little bit more difficult so yeah this is going to take years and a half a million dollars which is the size of the grant that the national science foundation gave for this research that's just a drop in the bucket when it comes to the funding that's going to be required for this kind of technology if it's even possible so to give as many perspectives as possible this could just be a case of a researcher who needs to publish research and chose this research area because it's politically motivated and it's a great way to get money to buy shiny new lab equipment and at the same time publish research that won't be held to the same standards as other research because science right concerning this topic cannot be questioned under the current political narrative that has taken root in the medical and science field so again we don't know what this is it could be extremely nefarious it could not be that nefarious or it might not be that much of a legitimate concern but i just wanted to point it out because this is the kind of stuff that we're keeping an eye on moving on to number three what's being kn ate concern but i just wanted to point it out because this is the kind of stuff that we're keeping an eye on moving on to number three what's being known as the fbi safe deposit box theft the fbi is just now starting to dig itself out of a hole they dug with a raid they conducted back in march so the fbi raided a private safe deposit box company called u.s private vaults which is located in beverly hills only accusations of conspiracies to break federal laws during this raid they opened and seized the contents of over 396 safe deposit boxes but here's the deal the attorneys for the people whose property was taken states that the warrant for that search specifically prohibited the fbi from opening safe deposit boxes the warrant was just to search the business headquarters and had nothing to do with the safe deposit boxes so it seems like it was more or less illegitimate right to start with and once the fbi realized their either mistake or intentional theft once they realized that these people had not committed any crimes whatsoever they still petitioned the courts to be able to keep the money that they themselves admitted was illegally seized so several federal judges throughout cal y still petitioned the courts to be able to keep the money that they themselves admitted was illegally seized so several federal judges throughout california have gotten involved with this over the past few months and have ruled against the fbi at every step so the fbi has been trying to cover up this scandal by stating that they will immediately return the property that they stole but they have been slow about doing it several of the victims have reported that the fbi says they're going to return their property and the money but they haven't yet which is in clear violation of several court orders at this point moving on to number four with the duchonomy card i'm not sure how you pronounce it or not but this is uh again something that is rapidly concerning if you just read the headline and you don't do any research but this is a relatively new credit card company which was only started up a couple of years ago and it didn't get much traction then because it's definitely a radical idea so here's what it is the idea behind this credit card is that the company that issues it will track your purchases and compare everything you buy once they notice a charge on the card they will compar ard is that the company that issues it will track your purchases and compare everything you buy once they notice a charge on the card they will compare that to a database of carbon emissions for each of each item that you buy which is then converted to a sort of points system and when you hit your limit when you use up your carbon points you can't use that card anymore they will shut it off as of right now this card is completely voluntary and the kind of the main selling point for this card is that it is a good virtue signaling platform and a great way for people to quite literally put their money where their mouth is when it comes to climate change now also chances are if you're even watching this video in the first place you can probably guess what our assessment of this is going to be this card is also obviously a great way to influence culture and promote a kind of social credit system which even though it's kind of a voluntary thing right now it's pretty obvious that this would be an outstanding tool used to control people at you know years down the line or months down the line however long it takes right and if we look back in time since banks like bank of america and citigr u know years down the line or months down the line however long it takes right and if we look back in time since banks like bank of america and citigroup have already been observed to be collaborating with the federal government to try to report customers gun purchases to federal authorities which is a reference to a scandal from a few years ago this is not a huge leap to assess that this kind of thing will become a problem in the very near future started out as a voluntary virtue signaling thing and then and then start offering incentives to keep people engaging with these financial institutions until they get enough of a foothold in the political leadership's pockets to mandate these restrictions yeah that's quite the rabbit hole to go down but looking at things from a strategic view like looking at the way the world is going years down the road this kind of economic warfare will certainly gain a lot of traction over the next few years again we don't think that visa is going to cut off anyone's credit card tomorrow when they try to buy one too many lattes but this is absolutely something that is desperately important to keep an eye on but it's such a boring topic that most people buy one too many lattes but this is absolutely something that is desperately important to keep an eye on but it's such a boring topic that most people simply won't and then number five facebook is back in the news again uh because they are launching a multi-platform effort to improve their poor public image specifically the image of mark zuckerberg this program is called project amplify this program was personally approved by zuckerberg back in january and involves using facebook's algorithms and their censorship tools to push more pro facebook posts to everyone's feed so essentially what this is is facebook pushing propaganda about itself in everyone's news feeds so that people get a better image of facebook to us this is really just even more proof that facebook is becoming increasingly more open about their politics and their censorship which is interesting if you look at it from an analytical standpoint facebook has had dozens of scandals over the past year alone that would have been enough to sink any other company but since they control a huge portion of the information flowing to everyday americans people don't see it they don't see the shelved reports or the white house ove control a huge portion of the information flowing to everyday americans people don't see it they don't see the shelved reports or the white house overtly stating that they are ordering facebook to remove certain posts or the now blatant censorship efforts which sound crazy i will admit but it's freely available and openly admitted to by facebook so yeah social media proves once again how much control it has over the flow of information in the world moving on to the k through 12 mask mandate tracker uh so really the biggest changes uh this week are the kind of walking back of the mask mandate bans for a few states so for instance texas the texas supreme court they declined to enforce the mask mandate ban so if an entity in texas like a public school district wanted to mandate masks for public school attendance the supreme court would say yeah that's that's fine so texas has taken a step back so we've created an additional category for their mass mandates being overturned and also the states of arkansas iowa and florida in those states a federal judge has temporarily blocked the mask mandate ban so it's not that they're mandating masks is that that they are banning the ban if that m a federal judge has temporarily blocked the mask mandate ban so it's not that they're mandating masks is that that they are banning the ban if that makes sense this is really confusing stuff moving on to the actual jab mandates really there's only one school district in the united states that is still that is that is mandating the jab for their students and that is in the los angeles area so just went ahead and colored the whole state of california red because if they're going if california as a state is going to allow that to happen in one of their school districts we're guessing that it's going to happen very quickly and others as well then moving on to the actual resistance tracker itself so this was what i briefed last time and this is uh these are the updates for now so compared to last time we have we have a pretty good idea as to how each state's government and state level enforcement agencies will go when it comes to medical mandates again this map is not perfect by any means it's not as hard and fast as it might seem right it is solely meant to depict based on all of the information that we have seen where we think the medical resistance hot spots are when it comes to sta t is solely meant to depict based on all of the information that we have seen where we think the medical resistance hot spots are when it comes to state level enforcement attempts for nebraska for instance i have no idea what's going on with state level leadership and here's what i mean this is an excerpt from a statement posted by governor pete ricketts in which he urges people to get the jab but in the exact same statement there are several paragraphs that undermine the shot and talk about how it was rushed into production and the mistrust on the federal level maybe i'm reading into this too much or not enough i i don't know but you can read the confusing and seemingly contradictory statement yourself the link is in the sources at the end of this but it seems that some states are pro-jab but anti-jab mandate and even within that category there are states that seem to be anti-mandate but only because the federal government beat them to the punch and the mandate isn't their mandate so i honestly don't know what to make of states like nebraska when it comes to the likelihood of resistance efforts being allowed to grow by state level leadership again we've got a pretty good idea as t nebraska when it comes to the likelihood of resistance efforts being allowed to grow by state level leadership again we've got a pretty good idea as to what the citizens of nebraska think but when it comes to enforcement agencies specifically the way this working out is still it's still disconcerting similar situation in idaho i've changed it back from red to orange in the wake of more politicians at the state level organizing a bit better but the governor is extremely still pro-jab and he has been doing everything he can to promote it to include striking down a mass mandate ban that the lieutenant governor put forward so clearly idaho is again one of those weird situations where they recently announced that they might be suing biden but when it comes to state level government and specifically any potential enforcement agencies it's a very hesitant resistance that we have little faith in actually being substantial or reliable in the long term and moving on to international issues so first up is kosovo so border guards in kosovo have started removing serbian license plates from vehicles entering kosovo stating that they are not recognized as being official this is increased tensions tarted removing serbian license plates from vehicles entering kosovo stating that they are not recognized as being official this is increased tensions in the region as the serbs have started protesting holding up traffic and the like right now serbia and kosovo are in talks to calm down the situation diplomatically and as far as why this is worthy of mention this is really just a minor diplomatic spat but due to the history between these nations and a significant us military presence in kosovo it's worth keeping an eye on up next is the united kingdom so bp has announced that they are having to ration gasoline and diesel for their gas stations in the uk due to the intense driver shortage that is resulting in not enough people to drive their fuel trucks so this is not exactly a shortage of fuel there's plenty of fuel it's just there's a shortage of drivers that is resulting in a shortage of fuel again this highlights the importance of boring stuff like logistics and how the slightest seemingly minor problem can snowball to result in widespread disruptions in vastly different areas up next is taiwan so this past week has seen an increase in chinese aircraft being flown into taiwan's despread disruptions in vastly different areas up next is taiwan so this past week has seen an increase in chinese aircraft being flown into taiwan's air defense identification or interdiction zone for those that do not understand what this means china likes to assert their dominance over taiwan by flying their aircraft kind of near taiwan's airspace this gets really complicated when we start to define what airspace actually means like are we talking an economic exclusion zone are we talking about a national defense zone you know which airspace are we talking about and other diplomatic stuff like that but just know that china frequently does this actually many other nations do this as well like the us and russia frequently do this to each other but this week the massive interdiction by over two dozen aircraft is almost certainly in response to taiwan formally requesting a bid to join the cptpp trade agreement which china does not like moving on to australia so the resistance efforts to their lockdowns and passport controls and things like that are is definitely heating up in australia as the demonstrations continue uh throughout this week when it comes to the actual videos we're se like that are is definitely heating up in australia as the demonstrations continue uh throughout this week when it comes to the actual videos we're seeing we are seeing a trend anyone who has a pair of eyes can clearly see the trend that while yes it is easy to doctor videos or crop videos in such a way as to paint the australian police and military in a in a not good light what is plain to see despite uh the fact that this can happen is that we're definitely noticing that australian defense forces and police forces are becoming a lot more violent uh in their response as the unrest grows so we're starting to see things that are really really dystopian when it comes to an american perspective of things and uh clearly many australians agree that that it is in fact quite dystopian so the unrest is continuing it will likely continue as long as government forces continue to force the mandates and then finally moving on to lithuania this is an interesting one so the national cyber security center which is nestled underneath the lithuanian ministry of national defense has conducted an in-depth study of smartphones that are made by three of the most well-known chinese smartphone manufactur inistry of national defense has conducted an in-depth study of smartphones that are made by three of the most well-known chinese smartphone manufacturers these studies are indicating that the phones will censor themselves for instance there are several words and phrases that are blacklisted and are not allowed to be seen by the user so if you try to read an article or an email or download an app that has these words and phrases anywhere on it the phone will actually not allow this content to be seen or downloaded by the user and this image here on your screen is just a part of that full list of terms and phrases so so yeah we encourage you to take a look at that full report because it's very fascinating to read a lot of these chinese technological devices just having built-in censorship tools at their coded into them at the software level which is very interesting how they're doing this and considering that companies like huawei which is one of the ones that is uh actually named in their report is one of the biggest culprits of this censorship and considering that huawei was just recently given permission by the us government as we revealed last time that us by administration has g ensorship and considering that huawei was just recently given permission by the us government as we revealed last time that us by administration has given permission for them to import computer chips uh semiconductor uh chips in a time of global shortage now this gets a little bit more interesting now doesn't it so something to keep an eye on uh again i think that it's probably common sense for people out there if if you're looking for a burner phone and if you value anything uh anything like privacy you're probably going to avoid a chinese state-sponsored company but it's very interesting to actually see a european nation starting to talk about this stuff so fascinating stuff all around so that's pretty much all i've got for today i know kind of a short day today but we're probably going to see a lot more stuff pop up over the weekend and we'll uh we'll meet you back next week with another briefing again thank you to all of our new viewers and thank you again to all of our enduring viewers that continue to help support us as we try to get these briefs cranked out so again if you haven't checked out our 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