April 20 Intel Update: Food, Energy, and Inflation

hello again everyone and welcome back to a very long overdue intel update from the s2 underground before we begin i just wanted to apologize for the slowdown in video production lately we've had a series of unfortunate events happen in rapid succession preventing me from getting intel updates out firstly and most importantly one of our team members here has been a bit under the weather lately and the entire staff here has been working basically around the clock 24 7 for the past week or so taking care of him and besides that we've also been working on other projects as well which we have really been pouring our hearts and souls into which will not see the light of day for quite some time because of research and development another reason we haven't dropped an until update in a while is because of me i'm really the only one who works on these until update briefs and by now i don't really know what to say but since so many of you depend on these briefs for more than just their intel value i wanted to make a brief telling you that i don't know what to say the world is a crazy place right now and it's only getting crazier by the second and i can't think of many ways of talking about th t know what to say the world is a crazy place right now and it's only getting crazier by the second and i can't think of many ways of talking about the issues we face without sounding like a broken record we're in that weird situation yet again where there's a lot going on but only so many ways to talk about it and only so many new solutions that we can come up with so today we're going to take a higher more strategic approach and i can at least show you some of where my own concerns lie at least over the immediate future and what i and the rest of the team here are doing moving forward as many of you who have been following us for a while already know there is an unfortunate phenomenon that occurs with pretty much everything we do which has become a sort of inside joke among the team here and that is that the harder we work on something the more unpopular it usually is and at this point it's pretty much a guarantee that the more important we think something is the more underwhelmed the masses of people on youtube will be and that's fine that's probably a good thing to be honest we're obviously not here for the masses we have always intentionally targeted a very small minority with ine that's probably a good thing to be honest we're obviously not here for the masses we have always intentionally targeted a very small minority with our content anyway so with that out of the way let's get going with the classic quantity over quality shorter length brief and i'll put my personal gripes aside for another day and let's begin with logistics like i mentioned i'm going to try to keep this at a more strategic level mostly because i have no idea where shortages are located at this point let's face it our ability to track shortages was never really that good or accurate anyway but right now if it takes me two hours to verify with an 80 percent confidence level that a single tweet is true that's not really a valuable use of my or anybody else's time instead i'm going to focus on three main areas of concern that could get pretty spicy over the summer and those three areas are food energy and economics let's talk food first ukraine being the bread basket of europe leads to a few more immediate problems like a shortage of grain now again we must take everything with a grain of well grain i guess because for everything that i'm about to say one could easily say it's not that now again we must take everything with a grain of well grain i guess because for everything that i'm about to say one could easily say it's not that simple this applies to everything we brief but especially the grain situation in europe so keep that in mind is that this may be a simple explanation but it's a lot more complex than that right now the ukrainian war is going to have somewhat of an unknown impact on the growing season some people in the agricultural community say it's not going to have any impact at all uh some people are saying that it's going to be a lot more significant than we think whatever the case is ukraine provides roughly 11 to 15 percent of the world's grain and both russia and ukraine together provide around 30 percent of the world's wheat specifically and of that ukraine provides about eight percent now take those numbers carefully again because i have never found a statistic as hard to verify as that one is like honestly that's one thing that you'd think would be easily verifiable but the freaking media is at it again and i can't even find out with any reliability how much grain ukraine exports annually mainstream media sources and even scholarly journal t it again and i can't even find out with any reliability how much grain ukraine exports annually mainstream media sources and even scholarly journal articles are openly lying about how much grain ukraine and russia export because the mainstream media wants to push a narrative they want to push war and the idea that the ukrainian war the war that the media supports is causing food shortages in europe goes against their narrative it sort of removes a lot of the justification the media have pushed forward justifying the war in ukraine but anyway you've got to operate with some data right and since i can literally make up whatever statistics i want let's not use any number at all and break this down barney's style ukraine exports wheat russia exports wheat both countries together export a lot of wheat and that wheat goes to the rest of europe russia has been exporting 0 of their wheat for months they stopped all exports of wheat months ago in preparation for this invasion 100 of ukraine's ports are currently blockaded by the russian navy 98 of ukraine's grain is exported via these ports so using this data we can safely say that the largest exporter of grain russia and the fifth larges 98 of ukraine's grain is exported via these ports so using this data we can safely say that the largest exporter of grain russia and the fifth largest exporter of grain ukraine in the world have effectively stopped exporting grain that has to have some kind of impact and i can't imagine it's a positive one at least for europe and on top of this the planting season for grain is in the springtime right after the spring thaw can anyone think of anything that might be going on in ukraine that might impact agricultural pursuits exactly obviously not all agricultural operations will be impacted by the war but i can't imagine a war being great for sowing seeds the good news is that the spring planting season is largely negligible in ukraine roughly 95 percent of ukraine's wheat is winter wheat and that was already in the ground when the invasion happened so i don't really know what the impacts of that could be other than maybe getting it out of the fields when it comes to harvest time right honestly a bigger agricultural concern for ukraine at the moment is their barley and corn crop that could be a big problem if they have trouble getting seeds in the ground this spring or even later th at the moment is their barley and corn crop that could be a big problem if they have trouble getting seeds in the ground this spring or even later this year but we see how things start to snowball you've got a shortage now due to little exports and you'll have a shortage later in the year because of lack of planting or whatever those impacts will be again there's no way we could possibly know right we can't predict how the war will affect the planting cycle but it has to affect it some this will be made worse by fertilizer shortages which we have been seeing for a long time for us here in the u.s any kind of shortage of grain in ukraine will be negligible really we don't really have to worry about shortages of grain so much after all the us is a massive producer of wheat and corn as well this invasion especially the political actions is going to impact the global wheat supply for years again what those impacts will be i don't know but over the past two years the supply chain for every single thing on earth has been thrown out of whack so it would be wise to prepare for global food instability another major concern is energy and those concerns differ based on what continent you're k so it would be wise to prepare for global food instability another major concern is energy and those concerns differ based on what continent you're on for us here in the u.s that means what we call pol or petroleum oil and lubricants expect anything fossil fuel related to either present vulnerabilities or be impacted by political and economic events over the summer so what does that mean in plain english well expect gas prices to stay pretty high for the time being right now the feds are trying to keep prices low by tapping into what little remains of our strategic reserves but our national petroleum stockpile was already at its lowest recorded level months ago so that's not going to be a safety net for too long our strategic oil reserves are just that strategic oil reserves i don't think that the regime will tap the reserves completely but that is a finite resource all those old salt mines down on the down on the gulf coast where our strategic oil reserves are located they're not an infinite source right and with opec looking to start accepting yuan in addition to dollars to pay for oil exports this could be a pretty big problem further down the line we will talk more about the art accepting yuan in addition to dollars to pay for oil exports this could be a pretty big problem further down the line we will talk more about the economics of that in just a minute for our viewers in europe the energy concerns are much more pressing than high gas prices most european nations are extremely dependent on russian natural gas and some countries are cashing the checks that they wrote years ago such as germany being strategically dependent on solar wind and geothermal energy sources for critical infrastructure when your adversaries are still on petroleum well we're finding out just how bad of an idea that was germany is the poster child for this german politicians have constantly without fail made the worst possible decisions when it comes to energy production especially in the industrial sector just look at germany's decisions regarding nuclear power they are phasing out all of their reactors even when they know that they have nothing to replace them with that is as reliable and so throughout europe national level energy problems are cast down onto the people to deal with all around the world but particularly in europe we are seeing governments create problems in the y problems are cast down onto the people to deal with all around the world but particularly in europe we are seeing governments create problems in the citizenry trying to solve those problems and none of those problems has been so universal as energy citizens around the planet are buying up as many generators and fuel cans as they can afford same with consumer grade solar panels and don't even get me started on what lithium prices look like right now due to people and companies buying it up for building batteries throughout europe i don't know if there has ever been a time that energy was as unstable as it is right now so what does all of this mean well there are two conclusions for one if you want to have electricity when blackouts occur you need to create your own off-grid electrical generation methods whatever that is it's not as simple as buying a two thousand dollar solar generator and some solar panels that you fling out in the driveway when those power goes out in your neighborhood what are you going to do when blackouts or power surges or rolling brownouts become standard operating procedure in your area going on to a solar system temporarily is fine to run like some minor er surges or rolling brownouts become standard operating procedure in your area going on to a solar system temporarily is fine to run like some minor appliances charger devices things like that during a temporary emergency but when the brownouts become routine a more long-term solar setup would be something worth looking into secondly the same attitude applies with fossil fuels especially here in the u.s politicians will continue to throttle petroleum fuel sources because that is the one thing that people cannot reproduce in their backyard and transportation equals freedom we've talked quite a bit about why our politicians are trying really hard to restrict our freedom of movement here in the u.s but at this point it's extremely clear that the current political regime in the u.s is intentionally using energy as a weapon to control the people and if you don't agree with that fine i don't care the long story short is that the average american needs to be able to have transportation when the government is fighting with everything they've got to stop you from traveling what i think about the current political regime doesn't matter what you think doesn't matter either what's going to ha got to stop you from traveling what i think about the current political regime doesn't matter what you think doesn't matter either what's going to happen is going to happen and i would fully expect gasoline to be used as a weapon for the foreseeable future bottom line is that we citizens and the consumer market need to be figuring out alternative transportation right now if it's building or buying your own tiny electric car so that you'll at least be able to charge it up with the panels in your backyard that might be one solution buying a motorcycle or dirt bike which uses much less gas might be an option and there are a lot of electric dirt bikes out there that are the new hotness these days even an e-bike might be an option for some you don't have to stop showering start wearing sandals and use a magic crystal for deodorant just because you invest in some kind of electric transportation i myself think that electric vehicles are a fashion statement or a status symbol for most people and will not be replacing serious vehicles anytime soon however based on the energy instability that we have already seen including domestic attacks on our critical infrastructure i really think it's soon however based on the energy instability that we have already seen including domestic attacks on our critical infrastructure i really think it's a good idea to at least have some kind of vehicular backup that can take over some tasks when the petroleum gets hit with a cyber attack or regulations or both and finally a massive concern far more troubling than either food or energy but also something that is completely out of the hands of citizens is economics specifically inflation a lot of people far smarter than us have been talking a lot about inflation for the past year or two and recently those concerns have become more urgent in the field of economics never have there been so many questions asked that no one has a clue how to answer are we heading toward a hyperinflation event what do we do to prepare for it what would a hyperinflation event look like considering that most currencies on the planet are pinned to the us dollar what happens when the world's fiat currency fails and can that even happen at all i'm not even going to pretend to have the answer to any of these questions and even economists that have spent their lives studying this can't really give us that much mor pretend to have the answer to any of these questions and even economists that have spent their lives studying this can't really give us that much more advice we can read history and that gives us a pretty big advantage in every other problem we face but it's not as helpful as you'd imagine when trying to figure out how to beat inflation from the weimar republic to venezuela the circumstances for those hyperinflation events are just different enough from our own situation to not be particularly helpful now we will at some point throw together an in-depth study on inflation its causes and what you can do about it but spoiler alert there's not much that you can do about it it would be easier to repeal every single firearm law or regulation than it would be to stop the federal reserve from printing money so to me there are really only a few options that seem viable and none of them are particularly great the options are basically to jump ship converting a fiat currency into precious metals or a different currency that would retain value after a hyperinflation event in one currency though again seeing as the us dollar is the world's fiat currency pretty much if the us dollar fails it w after a hyperinflation event in one currency though again seeing as the us dollar is the world's fiat currency pretty much if the us dollar fails it will bring down most other currencies on the planet with it at least in theory really the only things that we can do right now is buy as many goods as we possibly can right now so that when the inflation hikes those prices a year from now you will have supplies right spending a dollar on a can of beans now and storing it for a couple of years when the price of a can of beans is five dollars is a good choice at this point i myself am not prepping and stockpiling supplies because of shortages necessarily it's really just to save money in the long run when inflation gets out of control and let me just give you a personal example i have noticed as have most people noticed that my usual like non-prepping grocery bill per week or every two weeks or so has roughly doubled and you might ask yourself well why has it doubled and not just gone up based on the price of inflation so you'd think that your grocery bill would go up directly in correlation with inflation well here's the thing it's not because different companies are increasing their pr our grocery bill would go up directly in correlation with inflation well here's the thing it's not because different companies are increasing their prices based on a few different things they're usually front loading that cost like for instance the other day i think aldi announced that they were going to increase their prices by like on some items by like 50 percent and you're saying whoa what what the hey why 50 like inflation is not at 50 if inflation gets to 50 percent we're in a hyper inflation event and it probably won't matter too much anyway um but so why are they increasing their prices that much well it's because they're front loading that cost they would rather bite the bullet now and take off a lot of their customers right now and make that profit so that when inflation gets a lot higher than that or inflation has already gotten higher and they've been taking losses this entire time well increasing their prices will is a way to correct that a lot of companies what they are doing is either front loading that inflationary cost and assuming that inflation is going to get higher or they have put off price increases for so long that they're now either taking a loss or they're t and assuming that inflation is going to get higher or they have put off price increases for so long that they're now either taking a loss or they're basically making no net gain for some products and of course this varies product product and of course we're only talking about actual price increases we're not talking about things like shrink flation or stuff like that the reason being is a lot of companies what they have decided to do like apparently aldi is say all right customers we're going to have an inflationary price increase and there you go it's going to be you know in a couple of days at midnight all of our goods at this at this in this category are going to go up by this this amount of percentage and in actuality really the thing to do is for companies to adjust their prices based on inflation uh as soon as the inflation report comes out say all right we're going to increase our our prices of our goods by that amount but here's the thing there's a huge disconnect because inflation is a daily changing thing and usually by the time we have found out that inflation has gone up by x percent it's already too late we've already lost that value of our us dollar right so a lot o e time we have found out that inflation has gone up by x percent it's already too late we've already lost that value of our us dollar right so a lot of companies end up trying to front load this they're going to increase their prices by 20 by 30 to make sure that they only have to do one price increase this quarter and they can take those profits that they make like inflation is only at eight percent will they increase their prices by 20 percent they're going to take that uh difference in percentage and use that to front load um the the cost for when inflation does start creeping up if that makes sense that's probably a confusing way to think about it but a lot of companies are front loading this inflation issue they are increasing their prices by more than what the inflation is so that they can recoup those costs or predict where inflation will go so when you have that happen in every grocery store in the country with every product in a grocery store yeah your grocery bill goes up by way more than just inflation and i don't think people realize that sure people know hey man i bought the same amount of food as last as i did last week my bill is now twenty dollars more or thirty dol ple realize that sure people know hey man i bought the same amount of food as last as i did last week my bill is now twenty dollars more or thirty dollars more fifty dollars more people notice that but they don't they don't necessarily notice that it's a lot more than the inflationary percentage because a lot of people just they just they have a general idea of what they're spending on food granted a lot of people nowadays don't necessarily get their most of their nutrition from a grocery store most people eat out a lot so that's even harder to calculate prices because you're paying for the preparation and not just the raw ingredients but in any case hopefully that kind of explains why inflation is much more of a problem than you might think and it's costing you more than inflation you're pro you're not paying just inflationary prices you're paying for the prices of you're paying the price on things for where companies think inflation is going to go and that's results in a lot higher increase across the board again i want to talk more about inflation and specifically how individuals can make it through it and really if individuals in today's world can even make it through a hyperin about inflation and specifically how individuals can make it through it and really if individuals in today's world can even make it through a hyperinflation event i really want to get down and talk a lot more about these details but i need to do a lot more research i need to do a lot more reading and i need to learn a lot more before i can formulate a decent opinion on what to do so give me some time to think about it i'll let the team here chew on it a little bit with me and we'll figure out something we'll see what we can do i know that right now i know right now the solutions for an inflation to to make it through inflation are not particularly either feasible or really great solutions so plus we're in uncharted territory when it comes to what the us dollar means to the world these days so stay tuned for that and we'll come back to the inflation issue in a separate video i guess the biggest concern of all is a combination of what second and third order effects will happen due to the food situation becoming more serious the energy sector being weaponized even more and inflation becoming a very serious threat as we all know by now events tend to snowball at the worst possible tim sector being weaponized even more and inflation becoming a very serious threat as we all know by now events tend to snowball at the worst possible times so chances are these three concerns will rear their ugly heads in unison and all cascade to cause complications all at once that i really don't know what to do about there is no real way to be reliably proactive in determining what problems will pop up so i guess all we can do is be reactionary and mitigate our damages for whenever something does happen so there you go the three biggest concerns that i am most concerned about well at least in conjunction with censorship domestic spying and the other long-standing issues but food energy and inflation are really the the big three things i'm watching carefully and would expect to become big problems over the next few months so with that mountain of text out of the way and with this strategic stage set let's move to critical infrastructure first up is an issue that probably most people have not heard about at all and i wanted to talk about it today because it's sort of in the local military news um and that is the red hill bulk storage fuel facility scandal this has been a massive prob t it today because it's sort of in the local military news um and that is the red hill bulk storage fuel facility scandal this has been a massive problem for i think about a decade or so this is probably the worst groundwater contamination event that no one knows about so here's the short version of what's been going on during world war ii the government was concerned about above ground fuel storage being a massive strategic target again hawaii small island chain needs a lot of fuel because it's it was headquarters for the pacific fleet you needed a lot of fuel tanks and having a lot of fuel tanks above ground is not a super great thing if you're getting bombed in a war and with world war ii kicking off the united states was certainly looking at hawaii being a vulnerability so they began construction of a series of massive underground fuel storage tanks under a volcano which became known as the red hill site these concerns were confirmed when the japanese attacked pearl harbor during the construction of the red hill storage facility so the fuel storage facility was justified financially by the feds and the navy continued building out the complex eventually consisting of 20 undergro o the fuel storage facility was justified financially by the feds and the navy continued building out the complex eventually consisting of 20 underground tanks each capable of storing roughly 12.5 million gallons of fuel well it turns out these suckers were actually built directly over an aquifer and have been leaking fuel into the groundwater for decades and the navy in classic fashion has been covering it up within the navy it has been pretty common knowledge that the tap water throughout pearl smelled and tasted like fuel but the navy ignored the problem and concealed several fuel leaks that occurred as far back as the 1990s until the civilian populace started getting affected and then the story blew open as it stands right now the hawaii state epa and the federal epa have rejected several of the navy's plans to fix the problems because the plans are not good enough the navy has been fumbling this problem for many many years now even after they got caught lying the navy doubled down and said that as recently as last november that the water was quote safe to drink but third-party testing immediately confirmed unsafe amounts of fuel in the water currently the us navy is not in com he water was quote safe to drink but third-party testing immediately confirmed unsafe amounts of fuel in the water currently the us navy is not in compliance with the environmental orders that have been mandated by the feds or the state of hawaii a few months ago the dod kind of gave up on salvaging the site and mandated the complete defueling and shutdown of the site but since the site is so large it takes a long time to shut it down the reason that we're talking about this now is that there was yet another fuel spill a couple of weeks ago this time it wasn't much at all it was only about 30 gallons of fuel and water mixture so pretty much negligible compared to the tens of thousands of gallons of fuel that has been spilled over the past few decades the interesting part about this latest leak is really the reaction to it just read any navy times or military times article and you will immediately realize how those publications are mostly just propaganda tools now in any case i just wanted to mention this event because it highlights not just the contamination accidents that can occur but the decades of cover-ups that often go along with such events moving on down to the saudis recen t just the contamination accidents that can occur but the decades of cover-ups that often go along with such events moving on down to the saudis recently opec has floated the idea of allowing china to pay for oil in yuan this means a lot of things and i could probably talk about this for quite a bit of time but the bottom line is that when the saudis even remotely consider another currency than the us dollar this signals their lack of faith in the us dollar of course it's not like the saudis are expecting the us dollar to fail as the world's fiat currency but it does signal that they are concerned and the saudis are like the russians they never take a dump without a plan so when the saudis start making moves with regards to the logistics of how to potentially continue their market for fuel in the event the us dollar has some problems well that should be concerning up next is not something that affects the united states so much at the moment but it is an infrastructure concern so i thought i'd mention it and that is the russian jamming of gps signals really this is a problem for a lot of europe mostly the countries that border ukraine but it is kind of spilling over into other areas of gps signals really this is a problem for a lot of europe mostly the countries that border ukraine but it is kind of spilling over into other areas in particular the french have taken note of this their regulatory agency dgac recently announced that russian gps jamming that is occurring in the ukrainian war theater is spilling over into europe and affecting commercial aviation finland has been reporting detecting gps jamming and spoofing for weeks now but the problem of commercial aviation being affected seems to be spreading um due to how radio waves propagate it makes sense that aircraft would be affected the most after all they're way up in the sky and have line of sight for hundreds of miles making them very vulnerable to gps jamming or even spoofing i guess in other words the russians on the ground might think they are jamming the gps signals of ground targets within a small area maybe a few miles but aircraft hundreds of miles away can and apparently are being affected by this again we're going to be talking a lot more about gps jamming and spoofing in the future because this is the future of warfare sadly and the ukrainian war has illustrated the importance of figuring ou gps jamming and spoofing in the future because this is the future of warfare sadly and the ukrainian war has illustrated the importance of figuring out alternative alternative ways of navigation without gps you can see this in the us government in the military's bids and attempts to find non-gps related navigational tools or things for navigation in gps denied environments there's a lot of cool technology stuff out there really fascinating things that you can do but for the most part for us on the consumer level the lesson is learn how to use a map in compass because you can't go wrong with that right so moving on to number four there uh the biden regime changing the or rather increasing the ethanol levels in fuel the classic watering down the whiskey approach so when it comes to the biden regime increasing the ethanol levels or approving the increase of ethanol levels in fuel in an attempt to bring down gas prices a lot of people have come to a lot of conclusions or basically just had some wait a minute moments and one of those classic wait a minute moments is when the vitamin regime in one breath says that we're going to have food shortages here in the u.s oh and but by the way t ic wait a minute moments is when the vitamin regime in one breath says that we're going to have food shortages here in the u.s oh and but by the way that corn that we're going to uh be short on we're going to use most of it to make gas or make ethanol for gasoline so a lot of people have have brought that up and i briefly kind of wanted to address that by saying that it's more complicated than that uh for one most agriculture in the united states is contract based so at the most the only thing that i can see this ethanol increase affecting food prices would be if farmers were to write new contracts for the production of ethanol grade corn so that and it's an opportunity cost basically farmers switching to ethanol corn rather than sweet corn which is what you eat they're two different products right so you're not going to have a direct correlation there the most correlation you might have is like i mentioned farmers deciding to switch to ethanol fuel production is that going to happen i highly doubt it because i cannot i have to do the math and kind of figure this out but i highly doubt that farmers are going to immediately start switching their crops and writing new contracts for y math and kind of figure this out but i highly doubt that farmers are going to immediately start switching their crops and writing new contracts for you know thousands of acres of corn corn fields simply because biden temporarily increases the ethanol in fuel farmers are a lot smarter than that they realize that this is just a stop gap and then their fields are tied up for a long time based based on based on a temporary issue and the market price of corn could switch so i don't know that there will be a whole lot of farmers saying oh look biden just made it made ethanol lucrative let's go switch to ethanol and let's not grow food i don't know if that's going to happen or not but you can certainly make the argument and somebody who makes that argument i i wouldn't say you're wrong i'm just saying that i don't know we have clearly seen the biden regime attempt to get farmers to not grow food right remember there was reports from months ago we were talking about how the biden regime quietly increased a program or reauthorize a program or increase the amount of money you get for letting your fields return to nature right this whole environmental bs stuff that's done in the guys of a lo increase the amount of money you get for letting your fields return to nature right this whole environmental bs stuff that's done in the guys of a lot of political uh maneuvers so again i don't know if this is going to be a huge impact but it's i it's probably going to affect it some i just don't know i would think that a lot of corn farmers out there are probably going to stick with growing human corn because again shortages are probably going to occur in other kinds of staple goods and corn is a good way to fill those gaps i don't know though so i i guess we'll have to see but when it comes to fuel it's a little a little bit more clear just slightly when it comes to fuel prices this will probably have a pretty negligible impact for one the production of ethanol requires a lot of energy anyway and since the fuel is basically watered down even more than it already is you have suffering fuel efficiency so you basically have fuel gasoline that is actually more expensive per mile because it's more inefficient so you might run into the problem of gasoline costing 20 percent less yeah sure thanks biden the cost of gasoline is down 20 percent but it's 25 more inefficient if that makes s roblem of gasoline costing 20 percent less yeah sure thanks biden the cost of gasoline is down 20 percent but it's 25 more inefficient if that makes sense now again i don't know what the math looks like on this uh adding more ethanol to fuel is probably not a net loss i don't know if this is going to be a net loss but it's got to be close like it's going to be like well gee thanks like you know fuel is 20 less but now i can go 25 you know shorter distances like did that really help me at all no i'm actually losing out oh and now you know now my engine is is all kinds of jacked up because of the increased ethanol so i don't know but i would think that when you factor in the energy needs to make ethanol in the first place it comes out to be not really a good idea either way i think the only result that's going to come of this is more inefficient gasoline people having to refuel a lot more often and potentially serious engine problems mark my words i guarantee you that there will be a headline in a few months from some mainstream media outlet to the effect of ethanol enriched gasoline causing problems for certain kinds of internal combustion engines and that the regime is going to com utlet to the effect of ethanol enriched gasoline causing problems for certain kinds of internal combustion engines and that the regime is going to come back they're going to be happy to explain this away with their classic tagline what are they going to say say it with me just buy an electric car right it's almost like a concert at this moment because you know exactly what uh what notes coming next so meanwhile the regime quietly renews oil permits for federal lands just because they know how much they're messing up i just thought it was kind of interesting that were that the solution for for fuel uh problems is to increase ethanol in in fuel and not i don't know maybe increase domestic production or renew some oil leases would be nice oh well they're quietly doing that too because they realized how much they messed up so very interesting stuff i don't really know if there's much more to add on that so let's move to significant governmental actions i'm going to move through this one pretty quick because a lot of this is either conjecture unverified or i really honestly don't know what to think about it just yet but i thought it's interesting so i thought i'd mention a lot of this s ure unverified or i really honestly don't know what to think about it just yet but i thought it's interesting so i thought i'd mention a lot of this stuff first up is the secret service spy network that's what i'm calling it because that's sure as hell what it seems like to me not really much is known about this at the moment but it appears it seems like two guys were able to pose as dhs agents and they were able to befriend bribe and kind of weasel their way into the personal lives of a lot of secret service agents including uh secret service agents who are on um either the vice president's protection detail or jill biden's uh presidential secret service detail depending on what news source you read it's really hard to figure out what's going on here either way there's some shady stuff going on and me being me with the experience i have i looked at this um i saw that somebody sent me this story and i thought ah okay probably some spy network or something um really that's usually what it is people trying to infiltrate now it's pretty bold um to go around you know impersonating federal agents it's a lot easier to either bribe or blackmail existing agents so i'm not really sure what' bold um to go around you know impersonating federal agents it's a lot easier to either bribe or blackmail existing agents so i'm not really sure what's going on here these days in the world this isn't like you know an episode of the americans right it's not necessarily all about nation state espionage corporate espionage is huge and geez you might have private companies out there in other countries trying to infiltrate government assets over here in the us and vice versa for monetary reasons right it might not necessarily be uh some kind of nation-state level spying who knows though i think it's kind of interesting so i thought i'd mention it um up next is the whitmer the whitmer kidnapping plot and entrapment case you can read more about this if you haven't already but basically what we have been talking about with the michigan governor kidnapping scandal um was basically confirmed by uh the verdicts in that this case was basically a case of the fbi getting a lot of goobers together and trying to get them to kidnap the uh the governor of michigan classic entrapment case at least is what the court is indicating by their um judgments on this um so yeah uh again the fbi is more conce r of michigan classic entrapment case at least is what the court is indicating by their um judgments on this um so yeah uh again the fbi is more concerned with trying to get some you know idiots together to kidnap a governor than trying to uh protect us against any kind of terrorism so pretty standard operating procedure at this point just wanted to throw anybody just throw it out there for anybody who wants to read more about it that we have you know the final verdicts now and basically the case is closed at this point up next is the poison pill the infamous laptop right hunter biden's laptop um basically being confirmed to be real so it's something that is a huge rabbit hole if you want to go down i think it's interesting but i have not had the time to go through the hundreds of documents that have come out regarding the laptop and documents supposedly found on it the latest news is that one of the it guys that actually worked on the laptop was able to recover 450 gigabytes of deleted data and he has reportedly fled to switzerland fearing that he's going to be assassinated one i do want to mention though that i don't know if this is how accurate this is but one of the original it earing that he's going to be assassinated one i do want to mention though that i don't know if this is how accurate this is but one of the original it guys made a statement on it stating that the laptop only had a hard drive that was capable of 256 gigabytes so um he didn't want to rule out that the information on that that 450 gigabytes was was not genuine um he just wanted to stress that that could have come from cloud data or something like that but the original hard drive was only 256 gigabytes so there are a lot of copies out there of the hard drive allegedly floating around on the internet again we'll probably come back to this if something interesting comes out about it um and as time goes on i'll kind of be interested in seeing what's on that um laptop as would pretty much everyone but again the evidence is is pretty damning so far um with regards to emails um that have come out regarding the laptop so keep an eye on that and we'll uh we'll come back to that when we've got more information on it but number four is probably the one we've gotten the most questions about over the past couple weeks and that is um the atf shenanigans yet again i hate to burst everybody's bubble one we've gotten the most questions about over the past couple weeks and that is um the atf shenanigans yet again i hate to burst everybody's bubble on this one but i'm really not going to get into the weeds with this too much other people far more well-versed people in the 2a community and in the gun community i have talked a lot about what these this new series of tyranny from the atf means what biden's actions mean and all that and what's in the text i don't know what it means i'm i know i should care i know i really should care a lot about this but i'm really struggling uh to to be personally motivated to care really about what the atf has done lately it's like every month they come out and they do something that yet that most gun owners are not gonna follow anyway so i don't know um i think that it's a smart idea to to figure out uh what is going on and what kind of angles are going after but again like i told you months ago they're gonna come after 80 kits like that's just a fact like when we saw that we got this hint when they raided all those companies that were selling um the 80 frames with the jigs and uh like parts kits and the slide and everything like that slides and raided all those companies that were selling um the 80 frames with the jigs and uh like parts kits and the slide and everything like that slides and barrels and parts kits and things like that uh when they raided those companies we saw the writing on the wall like anybody who did not see the next step was just outright ban 80 kits like what did you think was next so i don't know it's um it's important to keep track of the tyranny and what routes are going to go down but they're trying to outlaw as much as they possibly can and i personally saw 80 kits as being a huge target by the atf and the federal government so it makes sense that they would go after those at this time or eventually how effective is this going to be i don't know probably not very effective though probably about as effective as every other thing the federal government has tried to do with regards to gun control which is pretty much nothing um you know it's just i think this is probably my my personal apathy on this is probably just a reflection of where i think the rule of law is in this country at this time which is i think pretty pretty low i think that more americans than ever before don't really give a crap rule of law is in this country at this time which is i think pretty pretty low i think that more americans than ever before don't really give a crap about federal gun laws anymore since there are inevitably federal agents watching this video there's really not a whole lot more to add on it other than what i think is going to happen i think that most people are going to do what they've been doing over the past year look at the data they're just going to not give a crap about what the atf is doing now what does that mean for consumer sales yeah people are going to snatch up every polymer 80 kit that there is they're going to snatch up every 80 receiver every jig kit it's going to be gone because market demand is how that works but as far as what this means i don't know i really don't know i don't think that most people will care um but as but when it comes to what the atf is going to do i have no idea so let me stop rambling on about 80 percent kids and let's end with ukraine and unfortunately i'm not going to talk about ukraine today and there's a few reasons for that for one i want to talk about ukraine in a more educational sense i want there are so many things i want to do when and there's a few reasons for that for one i want to talk about ukraine in a more educational sense i want there are so many things i want to do when it comes to ukraine and i've got volumes already of personal notes the whole team here has volumes of personal notes on everything from the tactical lessons learned from ukraine to different ways of um changing our current military doctrine to what civilians can do we've got all of that we're learning an incredible amount of information from ukraine um and we're learning just how horrifyingly bad warfare actually is um but here's the problem censorship and this is something that we have been putting off talking about for a while just because it's it's not really relevant for most people i guess but here's the deal we got this email in our inbox a while back so did most people on youtube who have made youtube videos about ukraine and youtube is basically is not basically they are directly censoring us um this is we're not talking shadow banning or anything that's impossible to prove in a court of law no youtube has given us a direct order to not say certain things and that's my line that's that's my hard no not going to do that so here court of law no youtube has given us a direct order to not say certain things and that's my line that's that's my hard no not going to do that so here's what we're going to do if we do another ukraine brief if we talk about ukraine anymore we are not going to do so on youtube any ukraine videos that we put out we will uh put on other platforms we'll put it on patreon uh we have a utreon account now which is an alternative to patreon because patreon is not so great with censorship and utreon is is kind of the new hotness with regards to that so we're going to put our ukraine videos on there in addition to odyssey as well now what does that mean it means that most of you probably won't see the videos it means that the the algorithms that youtube does to put our ukraine videos in front of new viewers will not happen now i personally i personally would like to take all of our content and put it on odyssey or butreon or something like that i would love to do that but that's just not possible it's not feasible just take any just just as a personal experiment take any of our videos any pick any of them you want take that video and look at the number of views it got on youtube and then go ersonal experiment take any of our videos any pick any of them you want take that video and look at the number of views it got on youtube and then go look over on odyssey and see how many views it got and you'll see that it's a night and day difference even though in the description of every single video we put out the odyssey link where you can watch the video you know ad free in any case we're not in the business of farming for views here but we also want to grow we want to expand our horizons and we want to expand other people's horizons and and by putting all of our content on a smaller platform people are not going to see it and that's a problem because we want we have so many different things that we want to do and so we kind of have to do what most people do on youtube and that's play by youtube's dumb rules um and but but here's the thing though there is a line with that and youtube wants to shadow ban us fine don't care nothing i can do about it if i had a team of attorneys there's no way that i could fight that in court because you can't because their processes are closed and proprietary but here's the thing again like i mentioned youtube sent us a direct order as to what use you can't because their processes are closed and proprietary but here's the thing again like i mentioned youtube sent us a direct order as to what we can and cannot say and that is a no-go in my book so again like i mentioned if we end up talking ukraine again in the intel update uh format um we're not gonna put it on youtube um i'm not playing anymore with regards to that what we might end up doing is splitting a brief whereas you have part one of a brief on youtube which is plays by youtube censorship rules right and so that people know that it exists and in the video i will point you to part two which is the stuff that youtube will not allow us to say um hopefully we can make this work um again we've been super busy the past couple of weeks and we just got this notification a few days ago so we it's been hard for the team here to kind of figure out what we're going to do about it because again we are funded here by you we're funded either by your direct support on patreon or utreon and by uh ad revenue from youtube well we're not going to be putting a huge chunk of our um funding on youtube anymore so we're going to be taking a significant financial loss by moving our ukrain ot going to be putting a huge chunk of our um funding on youtube anymore so we're going to be taking a significant financial loss by moving our ukraine videos off platform um but that's what's got to happen with ukraine and um yeah so youtube wants to kind of censor us in any other way well you know we can grumble about it but no there's you're not going to give me a direct order as to what i'm going to say and not say especially considering the nature of war and [Music] it being pretty horrible all the way around i know a lot of you out there were probably very disappointed that we're sticking around on youtube at all after this but hey look that's just not the way the world works i would love nothing more again than to put our content on some kind of other free speech platform but let me tell you something i'll just find a way to censor that one too and at the same time what's more important getting our ideas out to a group of 12 people or you know 12 million right so i would rather play the game to some degree like we have in the past and be able to do some good in that regard and reach more people and do more good rather than just sitting on some random.com page and not um i do ast and be able to do some good in that regard and reach more people and do more good rather than just sitting on some random.com page and not um i don't want to become an ideological sounding chamber and i think youtube keeps us honest in that regard because our content goes to so many different kinds of people that ordinarily would not have sought it out so the algorithms in that regard are good they allow us to get fresh minds and fresh eyes on a lot of things that we wouldn't ordinarily get if you were to just post our videos you know on some page like odyssey right so again it's always been a fine line um ever since we got started on youtube it's been a fine line of us dancing between how much do we want to self censor and is this even right that we have to self-censor what's what's what's the better option here what's what's the more honorable thing to do well i can tell you with regards to this i'm telling you our hard line is this youtube is not going to tell us what we can and cannot do on a topic um so again like i mentioned when we come back around to ukraine it's not going to be on youtube um so just giving it everybody warning on that um but yeah i think of i think i'v when we come back around to ukraine it's not going to be on youtube um so just giving it everybody warning on that um but yeah i think of i think i've talked that one to death so let's go ahead and close thank you again everyone for all of your support over the past well since we've been in existence really there are a lot of good people out there that have helped us a lot along the way and in ways that again like i mentioned you can't possibly know so for that we will never forget the support that you guys have given us and we really really really appreciate it there is no way that we would have been able to continue this without your support i i personally would have rolled up the s2 underground project shut it down and never produced another thing last year had it not been for your support because it wasn't a viable option for helping people but it is now and we are planning to expand quite significantly over the next few months we're going to be doing a lot of different kinds of things believe it or not we don't just make videos on youtube we do other things as well and we're going to start releasing some of the projects we've been working over the next few months hopefully if on youtube we do other things as well and we're going to start releasing some of the projects we've been working over the next few months hopefully if we can get some some of the kinks worked out in our system so again uh stay tuned i know i keep saying that but good things are coming we've got a lot of things that i think will be very helpful very handy to have and [Music] that's going to be a huge priority for us moving forward so we're going to continue the update briefs we're going to continue as much as we can we're going to fight censorship on youtube as best we can and if there's a way that we cannot avoid censorship on youtube well we're going to take that content off platform and just kind of deal with the financial loss i guess in some way but in any case we're going to continue moving forward as best we can and we would encourage you to do so as well times are tough right now and they're only going to get tougher i know i say this a lot but it's the truth and we really need people out there that are willing to help each other maybe not help us i mean who are we we're just a small group of people right that are trying to do the best we can mostly failing i guess but in an er maybe not help us i mean who are we we're just a small group of people right that are trying to do the best we can mostly failing i guess but in any case if you can just help somebody else try to do that that that's a good way to move forward um better yourself help others where you can and we'll make it through this we'll we'll do all right i personally take great solace in knowing that we don't live through easy times we're living through some pretty challenging stuff and uh the challenges that we're being faced with today are kind of like a they're kind of like t-ball for the game ahead right so we're getting we're getting our practice sessions in with regards to a lot of different things so that when the future gets a little bit tougher we're able to make it through just fine so i think that's probably a good way of looking at things and that's what i would encourage you guys to do as well and here are the sources for today's brief thanks again everyone for watching and we will see you next time and as always fight in the shade