September 08 Intel Update: Hot Summer

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the Intel update for Friday the 8th of September and as always it is being recorded on the day prior starting off with some of the more broad strategic trends that we're noticing uh many of you have been paying attention to the very fiery uh Wildfire season this summer not just in the United States. But overseas as well it looks like it has most certainly been a summer of arson with regards to wildfires because many of the fires uh not just in the United States. But again overseas and in Europe have been confirmed to be arson so we'll talk a little bit more about that here in a second but that's kind of going to be the the theme for today is wildfires being used as a weapon by malign actors sort of in the same vein we've got we're starting to notice a lot more more serious events occurring more often so as we've been following for a very long period of time we know that infrastructure attacks or you know suspicious incidents right really any kind of thing or event that has taken critical information structure offline rail Pol production Transportation capability stuff like that we're noticing a lot more Airlines being offline due to systems glitches we've got Communications problems basically a lot of the stuff that we've been following for a very long period of time seems to be increasing in frequency and also increasing in severity which again we'll we'll touch on here in a little bit when we get to the refinery fires. But generally speaking it seems like I hate to be sort of mystical about it but it seems like there's a kind of a very unique atmosphere that's developing amongst the US population at least just as a gut feeling of my own it seems like a lot of people are just kind of in waiting mode now like we're just waiting for next November we're waiting to see what happens uh until then and we're kind of just hunkering down and making do with the time and resources that we have left before things get kind of crazy again I think there's going to be a lot of speculation as to what's going to happen over the next well year I guess and we've got a long way to go so so that anything can happen and I think that we're all kind of predicting things to get steadily worse in many regards up until that time so it's kind of like a very brooding atmosphere like you can go out and you know public and just cut the tension with a knife sometimes like people seem like like just walking around and looking at a lot of the people that I see in my you know day-to-day life they just seem like they're ready to snap any minute and uh there's just a lot of tension uh in a lot of places now of course I don't walk around every single city in the United States every single day. But it just seems like from my very small portion of the world that uh there's a lot of frustration out there and it seems like it's you know the kettle's about to start boiling here I guess we'll have to see how this develops over time so let's dive a little bit deeper and start talking about specific regions and first up we'll talk about the Maui crisis because so many people have been following this incident since it began uh and I don't really know where to begin I would imagine that everyone has heard about what has happened in Maui so far. But to briefly recap on the night of August the 8th multiple fires started on the island of Maui though the fires spread rapidly throughout much of the island most of the catastrophic damage occurred in the township of Lahaina for reasons that we'll get to in a moment the casualty count is not really known. However based on the casualties that have been discovered so far this is already looking to be one of the most deadly wildfires ever officially the death toll stands at 115. But the final count is expected to rise to well over a thousand FEMA themselves are estimating a potential of one to two thousand casualties unfortunately a large number of which are children unfortunately locals have been noting many many many discrepancies with the casualty count and are extremely upset regarding the emergency response to this disaster now I've I've really got to choose my words carefully when talking about this event because I want to be a clear as possible this is one of the more horrific events that we've seen in a while also despite all of the deaths and the missing persons that are still somehow unaccounted for me being someone who works mostly in the information space I I notice a lot as do many of you and I don't want to take away from the seriousness of this incident. But my mind immediately notices the cover-up and the poor emergency response this is the first disaster that I've heard of where there is a total media blackout literally blackout fencing has been put up around disaster zones which locals in Lahaina are calling the Biden curtain now let me explain for a moment that I understand protecting the victims okay emergency responders have for the longest time taken this into account right this is just a standard thing that emergency responders deal with on a daily basis right pushy media desperate to sensationalize a crisis this is part of the job every ambulance in America has fabric she seats or blankets to hold up to preserve you know the Dignity of victims right this is also why crime scene tape exists right so I get it to some extent. But there is absolutely no justification for a full blackout and it it colors everything that we we talk about because we just don't know we have to speculate to some degree because we're not getting the information one of the bigger things that that actually has happened is satellite imagery has been censored now here on your screen you see a screenshot from my attempts to get some of the more commercial satellite imagery and I don't know if this is just on my end I've tried it on multiple computers and I just I can't get this to work so maybe it's been corrected by now I don't know. But it looks to me like specific chunks of satellite imagery are literally being cut out of the larger image tile to censor what is going on in some of these areas that there's no excuse for that right uh emergency responders need to have access to satellite imagery and they may. But they need to have of it open to the public there's no way that you can see human remains on a satellite image you just can't it's not possible the resolution's not that good this again is something that makes me go hmm uh there's a lot of problems with this and it seems to me like this is doing a lot more harm than good the media cover-up is doing a lot more harm than good and this is a trend that we're noticing with Maui it's not so much about the devastation of the fire anymore it's it's the devastation that is being made worse by the fact that the government is is doing some serious harm here another thing that that is just kind of bugging a lot of people is that a lot of the barriers and the blackout fencing that is being put up are is being put up in areas where it's are they've already been searched and there are no casualties in those areas or the casualties have been removed so why do you want to prevent people from taking pictures of the remains of a house right the house burned down there are pictures there are tens of millions of pictures of wildfire damage all over the internet. But why this one why do you not want to take photos of this one so what's become patently obvious to me my opinion is that the feds want to cover This Disaster up and make it look like it never happened or conceal evidence from the public of something perhaps a bit more nefarious I I have more serious thoughts on this incident uh because I have a history in Emergency Management uh you know as a volunteer for for several years and um I have very very strong feelings about what I'm seeing uh being done from an emergency management perspective and many Emergency Management Personnel around the country have come out and said this is utterly shameful uh the response so far so I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole now because I don't think it'll do much good uh What I would like to focus on is how this event is a milestone in the community of emergency response and what everyday citizens can do when this type of event happens elsewhere to me this event highlights what we already know that there is no one coming to save you and you know we've known this for a long time. But this particular event adds an additional part there's no one coming to save you and those that do come for you will not be saving you I hate to start off on like a negative note. But look we've got mainstream media Outlets like local affiliate stations in Maui reporting running stories where they're talking about locals running illegal rescue operations let me say that again illegal rescue operations and they're dodging law enforcement Like Pirates. But instead of committing crimes they're literally delivering diapers and food to those in need because the law will not let them through the barricades to get Aid to people so if this is on mainstream media you know how bad it is you know Aid and disaster relief has basically been criminalized in Maui and I think we all need to be paying attention to that because it changes the dynamic does it not like holy cow this is a very big deal here and I I know that I'm I'm kind of like harping on this a lot. But I just wanted to kind of get across that the trust that emergency services has had is sadly eroding away and I don't think anybody in the emergency services in Maui is trustworthy or is trusted by the locals at this point because of how poorly this is and I know that there are people trying to do the right thing. But good grief you've got every disaster management person in a position of authority who's either criminally incompetent or intentionally negligent so it's hard to get a citizenry to kind of trust you when you're trying to harm them now as far as the cause of the fire this is where a lot of speculations come out because again we just there's literally no information uh they tried to blame the power company that uh the power company did not shut the power off and high winds cause you know sparking and arcing and stuff like that and that caused the fires well the power company has come back and said no we've got receipts we shut the shut the power off before any heavy winds went through the area so again it's like the authority is trying to to cover up something uh I think the evidence is stacking up that something is going on here uh mainstream media in the initial days of the incident were claiming arson so that's kind of what I've templated now of course we just have nothing it's it's just pure speculation at this point usually as time goes on you get more information and you're able to make a more informed decision about something or make it more informed assessment more educated guess right. But now you know based on the media blackout we just don't have that information so at the minimum I am personally plugging this incident into my risk management Matrix as being an intentional action uh the means of this incident are certainly Up For Debate and I think there are some pretty interesting theories floating around the internet as to what actually caught like the the thing that caused these fires. But I'm I really don't have any basis for getting into the detail of that all I can say is that I think the general attitude out there is that this was an intentional attack intended to Spur a land grab beyond that the specifics are still up for debate and will be debated due to this again the censorship concealing all the details of this incident I have never seen a supposed natural disaster be locked down like this even 911 was not censored this much uh which gives you kind of an idea of what's going on here the thing is is the government is not doing itself any favors and convincing people that this wasn't nefarious in fact they seem to be smirking the exact opposite. But again trying to Tamp down my own personal anger regarding this incident and trying to you know keep our heads on straight through the information Warfare I did want to mention that a good chunk of what people are attributing to essentially terrorism is really just criminal negligence like for instance the roadblocks there's a mainstream story that's in the mainstream media now that a lot of locals you know dozens of people are reporting that roadblocks were keeping them in the fire zone and even mainstream media Outlets are running like a headline that says basically only those who disobeyed the government roadblocks survived now I understand the sentiment. But knowing how these operations work I would be willing to bet that somebody was told to put up barriers to keep people from driving into the fire zones as is pretty standard. But oftentimes there is no way to determine which way the barrier is pointed if you know what I mean so a firefighter drags a barricade across the road like they you know Classic police police line barrier kind of thing and the citizens think it's to keep them in rather than people out of the fire zone that's why I have never seen a roadblock be unattended there's there's reasons for this there's supposed to be at the minimum like a brush truck or somebody stationed there at the barricade to help people know what to do do and to control traffic you never want to leave a barricade unattended this is not just for Citizens. But this also helps various fire Crews who might be doing some interagency stuff working with different Crews who might not be familiar with each other it helps all of these people communicate very clearly to one another the Wildland fire community in particular like these guys have learned this lesson they've learned the value of a single dude standing by the road who can say don't go that way the fire is shifted or something like that so clearly this did not happen all over the island and there were unattended roadblocks everywhere especially on the main road out of Lahaina so how much of this crisis can we attribute to criminal negligence deliberate terrorism or just a bunch of people being overwhelmed and not up to the job I don't know. But I'm planning for incidents like this to continue and for the disaster relief to be deliberately bad or worst case scenario for agencies to start targeting citizen responders I know people might not like to hear it they might just think this is just some kind of anti-government rant right you know particularly those working the Maui crisis. But man ask yourself why do so many perfectly reasonable citizens seem to think their government is trying to kill them these days rightly or wrongly whether you agree with that or not why do a lot of people seem to think this right why do a substantial number of people seem to think this could it possibly be a trend that they are noticing and if people have blown this out of proportion if I'm just all wrong if I'm just you know blowing us out of proportion and this is just completely not the way it is and this is just a normal wildfire and there's nothing nefarious whatsoever why not take the tiniest bit the tiniest bit of effort to convince me like there's no effort being made to say that this wasn't nefarious like I've got all this evidence like the the internet at large has got all of this evidence of censorship you've got the mainstream media talking about the censorship you've got International agent agencies talking about what's going on here why why is this such a lockdown situation and there's like and somehow the burden of proof is still on me like what's going on here you know it's just gaslighting to the highest degree yet again something nefarious happens they tell you something nefarious is happening and they try to cover it up in the most literal Iron Curtain kind of way and they point the finger at you for being a conspiracy theorist right this has been a theme for a long time right gaslighting is just kind of the way the world works now so I don't want to get bogged down too much into what is obviously an information operation like I'm not putting a whole lot of effort into convincing people like I could put together a three to four hour you know briefing on exactly all of the suspicious stuff surrounding this. But it would be worth nothing right because the people who I would be trying to convince that something suspicious is going on they wouldn't listen even if I had 15 hours of information on it so we've kind of passed the Rubicon on that kind of stuff I think this happens with a lot of incidents not just Maui. But we get to a point to where it's like okay there's obviously going something going on here and it doesn't do me any good to sit here and dwell on it and try to convince people over multiple hours that maybe you should start thinking or at least acting like this you know I plug this into your risk management Matrix as being something more nefarious right I'm just wasting my time and I think a lot of the internet is wasting its time as well what burns what really Burns me up. Though is when someone who would ordinarily be a perfectly reasonable rational decently good decision-making person uh would look at an incident like this and just not see any of this right like I'm not searching for this this is on the mainstream media. Which means it is an approved narrative that there's something going on here which that's enough of that's enough detail right there to tell you what's going on. And then like find anybody on social media who's living in Lahaina right now and you will find some of the most horrific content ever because no one is saying that the emergency response is appropriate like this is all bad and again we cross that Rubicon sometimes where an event happens that's so horrifically bad that we want to hope and pray that it's just an act of God right we want to hope and pray that this is something that is more natural you know I don't want to get too off topic. But uh thought did occur to me so I feel like this is worth sharing is that I think that for a large portion of the population they're just not they're just not savable from an information Warfare perspective I would say probably a good 80 percent of all of Americans at least the world I don't know. But at least Americans a good eighty percent of them will believe basically anything you tell them and can fall for even the most ridiculous of information operations so just just I'm just discounting 80 of people oh like right off the bat. But when we talk about that other 20 the other 20 of people who don't necessarily go down every Rabbit Hole they come across but they're more critically thinking they're actually capable of critical thinking which I think both the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram experiments kind of prove how rare critical thinking actually is is amongst the general population it actually ends up being about 80 20 only about 20 percent of people uh according to those experiments at least is suggested that only about 20 of people have critical thinking skills and it's something that you cannot teach really so of that 20 of like the population that might actually be able to have a rational conversation about something and take in information and rationally process that information into a more complex thought using empirical evidence as needed to reach a conclusion right of those people it seems like a substantial portion fall victim to I guess what would be called the bystander effect right it's very much like that case uh what was the book called I think the book was called 38 Witnesses the murder of Kitty Genovese uh there have been several books written on it. But I think the very first one was um was probably the best one and this was the horrific murder of a young lady uh in New York back in the 60s I believe and the reason that it was the book was called 38 Witnesses and why this is known as the Genovese syndrome is because there were 38 first-hand witnesses to her murder and the kind of General attitude at the time was wait a minute there were 38 people who saw or heard her being killed over a very long period of time that that fateful night and no one did anything well it's kind of sparked this general theory which is a subset of the bystander effect called the Genevieve syndrome in which some people see an event that is so horrifically bad that they their mind in order to protect them from psychological trauma erases something from their immediate Vision or from their immediate memory so this is why sometimes or at least this theory has been attempted to explain sometimes why you see a horrifically brutal attack or a murder or something like on a city street and people just walk by it it's not necessarily sometimes that they're just callous people and they just don't care it's that they're mind sees it processes it and before they can even have a conscious thought their subconscious has literally erased that from their Vision so they literally do not see it and they were they were. But they will recall it hours later so again I don't want to get too off topic but I think that with Maui we're seeing this a lot we're seeing people who are rational people who are perfectly normal uh they've got you know good jobs good family they're active in their community and this incident happens in Maui and we see the patently obvious signs that something is wrong here we may not be able to point exactly to what's wrong. But we see that there's something wrong here and people who are ordinarily rational just ignore it and I think that that's a good explanation it's a good explanation as I can think of uh for why we're starting to see a lot of people who would ordinarily be like-minded people right and they ignore things that are not necessarily something that you would think they would ignore right now again that's not to say that people don't notice things and people aren't upset set and people aren't like active and trying to do things and trying to resist and trying to better their world and and um kind of fight back against the powers that be so to speak all over the world I'm not saying that's not happening I'm just saying that in my own life and through my own very difficult attempts to kind of grow a community I see this a lot so again this is just a purely random speculatory thought on my part I just wanted to share it because I think that there's some value to be had there I think that we're going to start seeing some very very very bad things occurring and the world Elites or whoever's doing it is going to openly tell you on the front page of the New York Times we did it we're the ones who did this haha right and a lot of people are going to be outraged. And then do nothing right or they're just not going to react to it at all because they cannot psychologically deal with the fact that someone might be doing something this horrific I think that a lot lot of people are thinking these days and I think that a lot of people are wising up to what's uh going on and what they may have done to themselves over the past couple of years and I don't know that I think that we're seeing a lot of people seeing a lot of the medical research come out uh people who you know they fell for the brainwashing or they voluntarily jumped right in and they were not exactly a victim so much as a willing participant in their own destruction basically and I think we're seeing these people kind of walk things back. But they can't possibly psychologically deal with what they have done so they just ignore it or pretend like it doesn't happen or they double down uh and you know that's the case for a lot of people out there. But uh I just I just I'm trying myself to kind of rationalize why rational people are not rational these days you know why some people just don't necessarily uh seem to be making the best decisions. Even though they seem to be like the kind of person that would but. Anyway I think we've strayed far enough from this topic and I think that's you know I I see an incident that happens and I see an incident where there are hundreds of casualties potentially thousands of casualties and I'm already thinking at the very strategic level of all right I'm expecting five of these types of events in you know various locations you know next week that kind of thing I slip into that mode of of of of like extreme mass casualty kind of thing and I try to psychologically like deal with this myself and it's really hard to to do this when all of the evidence is stacking up that this was an intentional act it's like what do you do you know I touched on this during during the covet thing like what do you do when you figure out that we're looking at a potential genocide of billions of people you know you know you kill you know a few million in southern Cambodia and you're a monster. But what happens when you try to eradicate the majority of the human population man I don't know I don't know what you do do but I can tell you what a lot of people do is they see that that is such a horrific thing they just kind of ignore it so yeah not exactly a cheery uh way to start things off here. But let's go ahead and move to the National map here and this is a screenshot of an arcgis or I think it's actually on esri global I'll put the link as where I got this map below. But this is the map of all the current wildfires that are currently burning around the United States now again this is a big scary map and you'll see a lot of people like uh particularly on Snapchat saying oh my gosh this is horrible and it is because a lot of these are arson. However the map looks like this basically every Wildfire season so there are thousands of fires around the United States during Wildfire season and they vary in size right sometimes they're just very small brush fires and other times they're great big Crown fires uh so I just wanted to mention that there were a lot of fires up in the Pacific Northwest that were very substantial as well as down along the Gulf Coast which were not exactly they weren't exactly as natural as you might want to believe so again just want to kind of remind everyone that wildfires occur this time of year it's Wildfire season the summer time things are hot it's hot in the summertime who knew and wildfires occur for any number of reasons either lightning strikes or maintenance issues on power lines or something like that legitimate wildfire start accidentally. But also a lot of these are arson and it's really hard to pick and choose and say this one's arson or this one's not let's go ahead and move on to the Northeast starting off with Massachusetts around 250 National Guard members have been activated to uh it's kind of questionable is what they're doing we don't really know exactly. But it looks like they have been activated to assist with illegal immigrant Transportation it looks like a lot of logistics personnel and mostly trucks so as many of you know Southern States like Texas have been busing illegal immigrants from the border to places like New York City as well as Boston and places around Massachusetts and of course the these Northeastern states are freaking out because they've gotten a couple thousand immigrants you know never mind the crisis that the rest of us have been dealing with. But anyway these uh these states have declared emergencies and now suddenly immigration is a problem uh so they're trying to figure out what to do with these people so basically immediately uh after a lot of buses uh start dropping off illegal immigrants they either get scooped up by the National Guard and put on military trucks to be transported to homeless shelters throughout the state or they get put in more more permanent building right it's really kind of hard to say what Massachusetts is going to be doing I would expect New York has probably done the same already if they haven't done so already they're probably going to uh because there's just too many people like you know basically every luxury hotel in New York City is full of illegal immigrants and it's causing problems for uh Travelers you know the rich Elite from other countries or around the United States even who want to stay in some of these luxury high-rise hotels and uh the they can't because they're full of illegal immigrants so it's causing just a lot of problems for the Northeast and I will admit I'm surprised that this tactic used by places like Texas actually worked um I would not expect it to to work. But you know they put a couple thousand immigrants on buses and uh bus them to a an extremely um liberal area a liberal City with you know it's a you know New York City is a mega City you know Boston's a pretty big city as well you know you put a couple thousand people on buses and apparently that's all it takes to cause Mass pandemonium so either way I would expect this to continue uh. But I would also keep that caution bulb lit because again you know maybe I'm just a whole wrong I don't know but uh ever since really around 2020 I don't know what it was. But I get kind of this uneasy feeling every time the National Guard gets activated for something that's not like hurricane response or like flooding response you know so you know excuse me for thinking that I don't know what it is is. But uh I just get a little bit nervous these days uh anytime I see the National Guard get activated for something that involves putting people on trucks and moving them to another location so anywho let's move on down to the southeast in which we have uh kind of the same story as usual so starting off with Florida we've got just just wanted to kind of remind people around about the malaria outbreak that's down there it's not really serious I think there are only seven cases so you know how many tens of millions of people live in Florida it's not a whole lot right. But I did find something interesting I've been digging into it a little bit more and I found a mainstream media article or actually actually several major media articles which you know of course in the sources for this brief uh that reference an interesting thing and it turns out that the narrative that malaria is normal in Florida is not exactly true so it turns out that prior to 2003 uh we had basically malaria being in Florida fairly commonly not like extremely widespread like you know the Amazon or someplace like that. But it was decently common down there and they had a lot of eradication efforts they did a lot of campaigns um there was a lot of stuff done and for whatever reason science scientists are not really certain. But around 2003 malaria just kind of stopped it just kind of petered out you know these are this is not particularly uncommon things like this happen so so it is possible it's very feasible for malaria to basically be eradicated from an area naturally or uh through like some limited efforts so it remained that way uh for about 20 years uh so from 2003 up until last year there were virtually zero malaria cases most years there were zero confirmed malaria cases uh in the malaria cases that did pop up it was because somebody traveled to like Africa or someplace where malaria is you know kind of endemic and that all changed last year interestingly enough right around the same time Florida approved the release of genetically modified mosquitoes to combat malaria now here's the thing why would you be air dropping mosquitoes to combat malaria in an area in which malaria has been basically eradicated for 20 years oh and it just so happens that right around that time malaria comes back interesting how that works so I you know I hate to jump on like the conspiracy Rabbit Hole uh. Even though conspiracy theorists have been right about more things have been wrong you know it's just not a good analytical practice to kind of try to make these analytical leaps sometimes. But man I feel like this is a pretty strong correlation just for me looking at it casually either way you know I'm I'm putting on the head net when I'm going to Florida kind of thing you know I'm rolling my sleeves down and making sure that I'm uh taking precautions against this kind of stuff so I thought hmm very interesting how that kind of all works out. But yeah you guys can do the research on your own and figure out figure more about it you know I'm sure anybody can find enough research to support their own idea so I don't want to lean on it too much and I just wanted to kind of put the put the thought in everybody's head of hmm very interesting moving over to Louisiana we've got mostly fires and explosions uh the largest wildfire in Louisiana's history is uh still burning I think this morning they said it was around 50 percent contained it may be more contained by now. But it was the Tiger Island fire uh right off there on the western side of the State uh so yeah big Wildfire down there not particularly I I have it listed as kind of a more nefarious purpose because we don't know how it started as far as I know. But I guess we'll just kind of have to wait and see you don't normally tend to see wildfires get that big down there in that area without conditions being exactly right so I don't know I think um we just kind of have to leave that one as a more nefarious reason until we can prove otherwise so we'll wait for more information on that. But the other one was an interesting one the marathon refinery in garyville caught fire again I think this is the third time in the past two years that there's been a fire at this facility we literally just talked about this uh just a few months ago so this facility we've we've talked about several times before and it's on fire yet again it's almost like uh particularly the refineries down there in Texas and Louisiana it's almost like as soon as they get repaired and back to full capacity they catch fire again so again I don't want to be making too many analytical leaps just because it kind of irks me as a bad analytical practice. But man I tell you like at some point in time you just gotta look at your gut and say this is definitely something nefarious so. Anyway we're we're gonna have to skip over the Midwest and we'll jump down to this southwest and and talk about uh the Border crisis which is again uh continuing to get worse by the day as a matter of fact this video came out the other day uh which shows cartels have actually started dismantling the the Border fence themselves uh and making nice little Gates uh to get their vehicles through so um again I can't verify the veracity of this uh video. But I thought it was kind of interesting it started popping up on a lot of the the channels that track cartel movements and it's like yeah man it is it is a true free-for-all uh at this point and it's not getting any better the US government has again uh reporting by mainstream media has confirmed that the US government is selling off a lot of uh border fence pieces for scrap steel so it's like good grief uh yeah it's it's not good and um yeah it's like I mentioned uh I don't remember if it was last time or the time before that I've mentioned before like look man this immigration thing is not just something that I can explain okay you have to live it and you know like I mentioned I grew up in the rural South where uh you know illegals uh were the primary source of employment for uh picking tobacco and stuff like that and uh yeah it's we're finding out exactly what happens you know a lot of people who don't know and I can't exactly come out and say because it just sounds bad uh what's going on here. But it's like look man hey you you get these illegal immigrants man and you get uh you get the culture that comes with it I think even the Iranians are kind of poking fun at this you're right the Iranian government a few months ago uh made a comment basically that um like look you know you're taking all of the re you're calling them refugees. But we call them criminals in our country and you're taking all of our criminals all the people that we wanted to prosecute you're treating like they're the you know the tired and huddled masses and they're awful garbage people that we were trying to expel from our country. Anyway and you're taking them like they're just normal people here and you know I don't want to say all the illegal immigrants are like that but it's like man look at look at what's happening you know there's a reason why the drug drug trade is at an all-time high right now and you know all of these uh extremely liberal cities are are bringing in or rather they're being bust in you know people are being bussed into these cities and look at what's happening so you know hey I don't want to rant and Rave about it too much. But it's like good grief man I think a lot of people are figuring out what a lot of us are that you guys down in Texas have got it have had it bad for a while like I you know grew up in the Southeast and I just had to deal with seasonal migrant uh workers. But uh yeah a lot of people are finding out exactly what what's going on and it's not exactly just people coming over the Border uh because they want a you know a better life it's not like that a lot of times a lot of times it's just straight up uh criminal activity and uh they're fleeing their home Nations because they were being prosecuted in their home Nations for being criminals I think a lot of places are are finding that out right now and I guess we'll have to wait and see if anybody actually starts understanding what's going on because I think a lot of people are too afraid to talk about the the immigration crisis because they don't want to be labeled as being something uh less than desirable. But uh you know for those of us who don't really care anymore about labels yeah it's it's kind of patently obvious as to what's going on so let's move on to the Western United States and really again the only thing I wanted to point out is again Wildfire up there in Spokane that was kind of a big deal for a while I think it's contained now uh there have been a plethora of wildfires throughout the Pacific Northwest which is fairly standard again for this time of year. But these these tended to be um a lot more I guess the word kinetic would be appropriate they tend to be a lot more active I guess uh because they were really near decently populated areas so a lot most wildfires occur in areas which are very far from Humanity which is why you know you you get like a 10 000 acre wildfire and nobody really cares because it's in the middle of nowhere. But a lot of these wildfires are starting to occur near places where people go which should be a decently uh strong hint as to the cause of some of these fires so again most of these fires remain under investigation from a cause perspective uh. But I guess we'll have to wait and see what the results are even though I think that we uh it would not be a bad assessment to just go ahead and treat these as if they were arson. Even if they aren't you know you're better prepared if you uh plug that into your risk management process as being some of the you know worst case scenarios so. Before we wrap things up today I wanted to briefly talk about kind of an interesting thing and kind of a reminder as to why AI you might want to maintain some level of aircraft tracking capability again I know that the second stuff we do the kind of nerd radio stuff resonates with with some people. But with other people it doesn't tend to resonate So based on my own analytics I can tell that people who watch the briefings do not usually watch the educational stuff we do and the people that watch the educational stuff we do absolutely hate these briefings and that's fine people can do you know whatever they want. But I think that it's probably a good idea to start you know getting a little bit more technical knowledge of some of this nerd stuff even though it's really hard to understand uh and that is evidenced by uh recently what's been going on in these satellite Communications World which is officially not nefarious at all. But based on my look at it I think it's decently nefarious so for those who have not been tracking space news and satellite you know Communications news there have been many satellite outages over the past few months really the past year or so and the one that made me kind of like raise my eyebrows was the last one and this was a satcom outage for the inmarsh SAT 6 F2 satellite this satellite was brought down uh there was a problem with satcom for several hours uh it appeared to be just kind of a maintenance sort of issue uh satellites for communication don't necessarily have this happen too often the reason that this one caught my eye is because it comes on the Tails right just it's like six days after in marsat i4f1 went down which is a satellite that's been in in orbit for quite a while uh that particular satellite is used for trans-pacific communications so uh aircraft reported uh you know they got a no Tam saying hey your satcom is going to be down again for people that don't understand for some of these long-haul flights over a very large bodies of water like the Atlantic or the Pacific mostly the Pacific aircraft rely on satellite community Communications for tracking for Community for you know sending weather reports and text messages back and forth and you can actually receive uh and intercept a lot of these uh Communications if you have like an l-band antenna which I might do a tutorial on in the future. But anyway these aircraft use this system for transmitting messages you know around the world uh and it's also a very very strong safety measure uh just in case they start having trouble over the middle of the Pacific where they're out of range of like most radio uh Communications so when you've got two satellites having issues from the same company uh within a few days of each other that's kind of suspicious and this comes on the heels of viasat3 which ViaSat owns in marsat so this year alone we have had three at least by my account major or decently major satellite issues within marsat with ViaSat via sat 3 is kind of it's been kind of a bigger Scandal because viasat3 is a much larger satellite and is for uh supposedly to provide consumer grade internet access for the Americas so for North America and South America uh and it we're looking at potentially it being a total loss because they're having trouble allegedly having trouble extending their antenna so they're still trying to salvage that one and they're still trying to fix it and figure out what's going on and see if maybe they can they can do something about it. But man like this this starts adding up and they kind of cherry on the top that that makes me interested even more has been the US intelligence community's flights uh of Recon aircraft in the Pacific so around August August 30th of this year a lot of weird stuff happened that's not really standard so we had an awful lot of intelligence collection aircraft flying around the Pacific we had rc-135 Cobra ball aircraft up we had the wc-135 Romeos the uh no what are the uh the constant Phoenix the uh nuke the nuke sniffers the the aircraft that detect nuclear material we had several E3 sentries up and about on all on that same day or within a few days and a lot of people on I I guess the internet sphere like on Twitter and stuff like that were speculating that maybe this has to do something to do with a Russian missile test because we were expecting a Russian missile test around uh around August 30th and we were also expecting a North for another North Korean missile launch around that time as well because North Korea has been trying to put a military satellite into orbit for a while and they just had a holiday so they launched some ballistic missiles so it's been kind of a kind of an active time period in the Pacific over the past few days so of course due to all of this activity it's like really difficult to tell what was actually going on um you know I only wanted to mention all of this and I'm trying to not attribute a link simply because all of these events occurred around the same time you know that's kind of poor in this kind of poor field craft right. But I only wanted to mention these space incidents in the context of China because China has expressed great desire to knock out satellites since this is one of the ways that China can level the playing field if the conflict were to break out with the United States or even like with Japan you know regionally or something like that so what does all of this mean does this mean that there is a correlation I don't think so so I think that link is pretty weak I think that all of these aircraft were probably out there looking for something else something to do with the missile launch that's the most likely uh situation either a Russian or a Korean missile test that makes the most sense uh because a few of these platforms spent time around the usual Splashdown sites using the the usual testing sites and of course China has a very large Naval exercises actually going on I think it's still going on right now uh in kind of in the area so when you've got multiple things going on it's hard to attribute like a cause to any one particular thing. But man the Air Force and the Navy have been burning holes in the sky in the Pacific out by the Aleutian Islands out by Kamchatka out by South China Sea they've been flying out of Okinawa a lot uh flying out of Japan so you know it's it's been kind of busy uh lately in the Pacific um and again I just I hate to ramble so much today. But I I'm always thinking that trickery is a foot right I'm always always assuming that something's going on because it it kind of is usually when it comes to these strategic assets you know they're not flying out there for no reason because you know they may think that they're collecting Intelligence on uh on somebody else. But hey look Russia and China are collecting Intelligence on these aircraft too you know this combined with the fact that like look man the the impacts of that spy balloon that's never going to be lived down uh so if I was planning a flight and I wanted to fool the American people if I wanted to fool an analyst like me who's watching adsb uh and I wanted to trick you know all the Americans who were trying to monitor all them you know the Air Force strategic aircraft I would camouflage my flight route so it makes it look like I'm spying on like a routine missile test when really there's something going on out there that we don't know about yet Russia knows what's going on China knows what's going on uh. But the American people don't and the dod at large is more concerned with high hiding their actions from the American population than from say the Russian military it's backwards it's weird. But hey the Spy balloon kind of proved that like China knew where that spy balloon was at Russia knew where that spy balloon was at so why why conceal it from the American people well I think about that a lot when I think about strategic Communications and strategic uh assets like this flying around that's the problem with fifth generation Warfare or whatever this is is that we have to make a lot more analytical leaps than we may like it's it bothers me I know that it's poor tradecraft I know that it's poor field craft I know that it's just not the right way of doing things and I've got a whole bookshelf of books telling me it's the wrong way to think about something. But dang it at a certain point you've just kind of got to go with your gut even though it's not the best option you know you have to work from something. Even if it's a bad assessment and even if you're wrong I mean I'm wrong a lot I'm probably wrong more than I am right but despite this you still have to do something and you still have to kind of consider these things so so I think that's a good illustration of how I can or anybody can draw any link analysis diagram I can use any bit of Doctrine I can create any Matrix and I can show you any kind of cool graphs and spreadsheets to support my theory because there is an abundance of information so it's really easy to cherry pick details that makes things seem more serious than they really are I guess the bottom line is that this is real this whole thing is really just a good illustration of why it's important to monitor aircraft especially strategic assets because we don't know what's going on most of the time and almost all of the time it's going to be speculation you know monitoring the hfgcs monitoring uh the the Russian baronet we don't know what's going on. But we can speculate to some degree and be decently accurate with our speculations because osync communities um not not that great because they're they've gotten a lot of really political these days. But you know the concept of Open Source intelligence is really is really effective even though in a fifth generation War it is most certainly a weapon itself so wrapping things up today I briefly wanted to kind of talk about some sort of future plans and roadmap kind of things that I'm working on uh really the priorities I have. Moving forward are Communications and education based uh so on the communications front I I think that for somebody like me whose main like profession I guess you could call it that is in the information space exchanging information working Intel stuff that's that's an information space job so for me I'm trying to make um long range Beyond line of sight radio communications a top priority especially when it comes to integrating into a more daily daily life situation I know HF radio is really boring for a lot of people. But there is nothing better okay there's nothing better for communicating with other with another human over a long range without using any pre-established infrastructure there's just nothing better um for for reasons that irritate me greatly. But it's just the way that it is for those of you who are more interested in our Communications Style videos and radio kind of stuff I'm working on more of that you guys know what I'm working on so some of you out there know the stuff we've been working on kind of behind the scenes so we'll be making a lot more of that public uh in just a bit on the more educational side of the house uh I think the the common like attitude is that we have way too much information to learn and not enough time uh to learn it before things get crazy again and we have to switch gears to talking about other stuff right the time to learn a skill is before you need to learn that skill Because by the time you need to learn that skill it's too late to learn it and you don't have enough time to practice and actually be as effective as you might want to be so that's why we've kind of prioritized more educational stuff and kind of breaking down some some of the more back to basic stuff is what I'm trying to do. Moving forward into the future also I'm trying to improve the redundancy of our little you know S2 ecosystem here many of you are aware of us being just on YouTube as a YouTube channel. But I'm trying to increase the resiliency and widespread use of it so a lot of our episodes can be found as a podcast on most podcasting apps or you can get it straight from the source Buzz Sprout is where we have all of our podcasts listed if you like listening to these Intel updates and more Audio Only format of course we've got Odyssey so if you don't like YouTube you don't want to watch videos on YouTube we have our Odyssey page mirrored to our YouTube channel so as soon as a video goes public on YouTube it gets sucked into Odyssey it may take a little while especially if there's a larger video and some of the longer videos I have to transcode manually to a different bit rate and upload them uh manually like that so it's a lot more work on my end for some of the larger videos so not all of our videos are on Odyssey I don't think um. But the process is there so I'm going to try to do that a lot more often same thing with Rumble a few of you have found our Rumble account I set up Rumble account so that we could do the same thing on Rumble we have mirrored our account to rumble so again as soon as a video goes hot on YouTube it will go pop up on Rumble as well now it will take a little bit longer on Rumble because they are in the process of pulling in all of our YouTube content to their platform and I've it's been running for like three months and it's taking a very long time for rumble to pull in all of our videos I don't know why. But it's just taking a long time because there's a lot of content but but hopefully. Moving forward we'll have decently accessible platforms for our video so you'll be able to watch it on whatever platform you so choose I'm going to also try experimenting a little bit more with Twitter uh with their sort of long form video format I haven't looked into it too much. But I'm gonna try because I think maybe and even an additional platform would be great I think um and you know Twitter's made a lot of changes lately I don't think for one minute that Twitter is a Bastion of free speech uh oh quite the contrary it may look like it. But I I am not sold on Twitter being a good platform for very much at least the stuff that we do here so uh I will look into it. Though for those of you who like Twitter yeah I I don't really know how that's gonna go so I mean I'll try it whatever and then. Finally I have created a an account on gab for us I don't think there's anybody following it right now but I've been kind of playing around with gab because they have uh it's kind of a offshoot platform it's not I don't know how popular it is uh. But I finally decided to just kind of bite the bullet and get started over there too I don't think they have the ability for long video format stuff. But uh hopefully with some of the more text-to-based stuff that we do and like updates and wire reports I'm trying to get as much out there in the ecosystem while still working on the radio stuff so that we have multiple redundancy plans in place. And so again lots to come on this there's none of this is finalized I'm just kind of working on it and trying and testing things out but we've got to move forward somehow right so I'm trying to do all of this you know and improve our workflow improve the efficiency here so that we can offer more services more information more educational resources more stuff for all of you while not working me into an early grave with overwork so so that's pretty much all I have for today lots of stuff I'm working on lots of stuff some of the other guys here are are helping out with and hopefully we can have a lot more of this stuff kind of solidified and and really be able to be more efficient in helping a lot of you get to where you want to be right so thank you all of you for your support we could not do it without you uh thank you again to all of our supporters on patreon and uh player or yutrion you guys are really the only reason why we're still around so thank you again for that and uh we'll uh hopefully keep plugging along with some of these goals and uh trying to just make it another day so I guess that's all I've got and we'll. See you next time and as always fight in the shade.