Intel Update - September 7 - Dunning and Kruger's Finest

Hello again, everyone, and welcome back to the underground. This is the Angela update for September 1st through the 7th, 2024. So, let's get right to it. Starting with the Northeast region, one story of note that is sort of developing at the moment, uh and that is the rating of the NYPD Commissioner by the FBI. This comes after many months or even a few years of FBI officials kind of going after varying uh New York politicians, the mayor, people in the mayor's office, uh things like that for really just corruption reasons. So, very few details have become public on this particular scandal. However, this uh a lot of assumptions are being made that this is probably related to the investigations into uh New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Uh however, a few sources are claiming that that's not the case. So, as of this morning, some unconfirmed rumors suggest that this may have to do with Commissioner Caban's brother, uh as a sort of like an organized crime mafia sort of thing. So, apparently, uh they're going after the commissioner because his brother is allegedly a sort of um fixer with uh affiliated with a lot of um businesses, nightclubs, restaurants throughout New York City. Essentially, it's kind of the same old story as always. The family members of a very high-ranking official take advantage of that fame and fortune to make problems disappear, right? Don't know if any of this is true or not. It wouldn't surprise me one way or the other. Just as kind of a blanket statement going into the you know coming to the end of 2024, I think a lot of stuff's happened, you know, over the past few years just to make me personally think anytime the FBI's involved in something, especially with corruption, I don't actually look at that through the lens of the FBI trying to do the right thing. I look at that through the lens of the FBI trying to eliminate their competition or carrying out some sort of retaliatory measures, right? So, I don't think that the FBI's actually trying to do the right thing and remove these people from you know, clean up corruption and things like that. I don't think that's the case. I think that especially in an election year, we're we're not really seeing any sort of genuine federal law enforcement. Very, very few and far between. There's There are very, very, very few um cases where like a legitimate threat is identified uh and stopped. So, I know a lot of people will probably disagree with that, but I anytime you you have a just take the United States out of it. Anytime you have a federal national law enforcement agency, no matter where it is in the world, that is targeting a a very powerful person, you have to look at that through the lens of well, maybe this isn't just a sort of normal street crime thing. There may be more to it than just corruption, right? So, that's kind of the way I'm looking at it. Either way, it's it's not really that interesting or surprising, but I thought I would mention it because it's kind of a scandal that just keeps keeps on giving, right? Going back to the original theory, this could also be uh the FBI trying to shake the tree and get Eric Adams' people to squeal on him. That could be the case, uh trying to put pressure. If you're trying to go after a high-ranking politician in an area, what do you do? You go after their power bases, you go after big businesses in their area, you go after their law enforcement, you go after their friends, you go after their family. The FBI does this all the time, and and this is uh this could be that as well, or it could be a completely separate uh investigation uh on its own. So, either way, something to kind of keep an eye on moving forward. Moving down to the Southeast region, we'll briefly start with an incident that I did not mention in the wire, but uh it's it's kind of become a a very big scandal, and that is the uh school shooting down in Georgia. Uh I haven't mentioned it in the wire, and and I don't really have a whole lot to say about it now, uh just because the details keep changing. There's a lot more new information that comes out. And this is one of those sort of one-and-done incidents where there's not a lot of future threat with regards to this specific incident, right, it's a school shooting. Once the Once the incident is over, it's kind of it's kind of done for that particular school or area, right, usually. So, when these kinds of one-and-done incidents happen, uh really the best that we can do is look at the incident, learn the best we can from it, try to prevent it from happening next time, looking at indicators and warnings and all that kind of stuff. And so far, a lot of those details, the details that we can use to to to learn uh something from this horrific incident, those details are very sketchy. So, really the very large blanket that we can lay on pretty much everything is situational awareness, right? Being situationally aware, being aware of the risks, understanding that many, many, many times, uh there are a lot of predetermining factors, there are a lot of indications and warnings, there are a lot of signs that something like this is going to happen. So, being aware of that and understanding that even though everyone can see the signs, it doesn't necessarily mean anything's going to be done about it. So, sometimes you may have to remove yourself from the situation rather than uh waiting on authorities to do the right thing and kind of stop this uh tragedy from happening, right? Again, I don't want to get into it too much because really the I think one of the larger lessons to be learned about this is that uh the father of the shooter has been charged uh in conjunction with this for gifting the shooter a rifle. So, that immediately gets right into a lot of political, social opinion sort of things. Not a whole lot of operational like useful information that we can get other than just be careful, right? Again, just briefly touching on it just to, you know, remind everyone that this did occur, and a lot of the details are sketchy, and a lot of the details are not really not really that helpful other than just really being a constant reminder to be vigilant, be aware, and uh move on from there, right? Moving on to the other uh very highly controversial issue, uh which I'm labeling it in Florida because this is it impacts Florida, uh and this is the United States of America stealing the plane of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Earlier this week, the US uh jacked his plane from the Dominican Republic and flew it to Florida, uh allegedly seizing it, right? Due to some sort of violation with um sanctions or something. It's been very diplomatically challenging. The reasons that I spent so much time writing a super long wire report on this uh is due to the precedent that has been set, and now if you are in a certain job, career field, if you're based in a certain location, now your risks are elevated, too, because the State Department chose to do something stupid. Here's what I mean by that. Diplomatic immunity is a thing. Uh it's not something that a lot of Americans have really good experience with because most of the time they just hear it in a Hollywood context, meaning that they hear of diplomatic immunity being applied uh in terms of like an ambassador being able to get 50,000 parking tickets and nothing be done about it, right? Or being able to in some kind of cop show, you know, being able to get away with murder because we just can't get them, they've got diplomatic immunity. That's all Hollywood stuff, right? In the real world here, diplomatic immunity is a much more nuanced concept, right? It really helps to think of this situation as going back to like medieval times, right? If you've got, you know, two gigantic armies on the battlefield, you know, you've got the king of one nation on one side and the king of another nation on the other, and they both ride their horses out into the middle to kind of settle the dispute without any bloodshed, and one king steals the other king's horse, how do you think that's going to go, right? This is the same kind of idea. This was not uh as far as I know, this was not Nicolás Maduro's personal plane. This was a diplomatic plane. This was a uh plane for the Venezuelan government. This is like Venezuela's Air Force One. So, now, by stealing it, you know, illegally so, so hijacking it, more important than that, more important than the law, the United States has violated their own sort of um precedent, their own sort of social norm and moray in the international community. So, the next step to think is, well, why can't Nicaragua steal a State Department plane now? Why can't Turkey just arrest an ambassador, you know? There's international law is largely a farce, but international law is an attempt to solidify social norms and morays. If you're trying to negotiate with someone, it's best to not shoot the negotiator. And this is the kind of thing the State Department's become famous for right now. So, now, Venezuela has no motive. They have no motive to be peaceful towards the United States, and that's going to come in into play here in a moment when I talk about the vectors for retaliation. But all What was all of this for, what's the benefit, $13 million, a $13 million aircraft, all right, cool. Throw it on eBay if you want. You might not get that resale value out of it because the CIA probably gutted the thing as soon as it landed in Florida. But in any case, uh what was it for? $13 million worth of aircraft? You know, we give How many hundreds of millions of dollars to other countries every single minute of our existence, $13 million is nothing. So, what did the United States get for this? We didn't get any key leaders, we didn't get any personnel. The United States did not get any diplomatic um like prestige for it. We've now gotten the Dominican Republic in trouble with Venezuela, where the DR has really been a key mediator for Venezuela. So, anytime Venezuela has some kind of internal problems, they fly over to to the DR to to settle it, sort of thing. And that's exactly what was happening. So, I don't I don't think Maduro was actually there. I think this aircraft was kind of was probably parked in the Dominican Republic and we and the State Department snatched it from there. But you see the problem. Dude shows up to in good faith, you know, as much as you know, Nicolas Maduro is not a super great guy in the context of things, but he was meeting with his opposition, right? Like he did show up to the meetings, he did show up. So, you know, if he wasn't interested in some sort of mediation, he would have just blown it off and not not like participated in peace talks with his opposition after he, you know, stole the election sort of thing, he showed up. He's been interested in in some sort of mediation, right, so, how much, probably not much. I mean, he has uncontrolled power throughout his entire country. But he was still you know, going through the motions, right? The United States yanked the rug out from underneath him. And we did so, the United States did so for zero gain. So, I don't know what they're smoking at the State Department, but it must be some pretty good stuff because they're doing some pretty crazy stuff. Again, our country into a lot of trouble, here's why. Here's why all of this matters, the vectors for retaliation. I know that old Tony Blinken may not be a fan of Sun Tzu, but it's generally ill-advised to poke the bear, to poke a nation and to to do everything you can to antagonize that nation when they've got hundreds of billions of dollars of petroleum in their waters that you are benefiting from. You see where this is going? Um if if Venezuela, if Maduro wanted to retaliate, go after the Orinoco field, it's literally right there. Most of it's in Venezuelan waters. Uh there if if Venezuela wanted to do a tit-for-tat sort of thing, guess what? There there are hundreds of oil workers, hundreds of workers on dozens of oil rigs right there within helicopter range of Venezuelan uh forces. So, if if Maduro wanted to play ball, there you go, you congratulations. You stole this plane, but now you've endangered the lives of hundreds if not thousands of international workers, we've already seen this. Venezuela already snatched an American. Uh I didn't mention it in the wire because I haven't really figured out what was going on there. Uh but allegedly there's an American soldier or American service member uh in Venezuela uh unofficially. And Venezuela snatched him, threw him in threw him in prison. So, uh you know, this is exactly the kind of thing that Venezuela is going to do. Anybody who's an American in Venezuela is now a target. You just parade him around as spies, do a whole sort of you know, Tehran, you know, Iranian embassy uh hostage crisis again, you know? The the potential is there. And just to put the cherry on top, right now, Venezuela's having some problems domestically. And one of the biggest thorns in Maduro's side right now is this little-known gang called Tren de Agua. These guys are not big fans of the Maduro regime. So, they have been causing a lot of problems for Maduro, particularly in the countryside, not so much in Caracas proper, but on the roads, bandits, all kinds of stuff, right? TDA in Venezuela has caused a lot of problems for for the Venezuelan military. They've blown up a lot of stuff. They've killed a lot of Venezuelan soldiers. And as we all know, they're in the United States right now. The TDA has a huge presence in Colorado. They've got a very large presence in Texas as well down there in El Paso. So, if you were Maduro, what would you do? You have this thorn in your side who is just causing you havoc, causing you problems. That same enemy is in the United States in little-known places where they can cause a lot of problems. So, what would you do if you were Maduro? You could make peace with TDA. You could get them to understand some kind of agreement. You could negotiate with them. You can grant them things. You can say, "Hey, look, you're causing me problems, do you want? We'll give you a free bus ticket to America." You know? That's what he could do. He could also uh have some sort of exchange deal. He can use them as a proxy in America. Uh I don't think that one's very likely because of the politics in in play here. And Maduro is kind of a strong personality, so I don't think he's likely to to change that much, but the potential is there courtesy of the State Department. So, because these guys wanted to hand out some letters of accommodation and some awards to themselves, they've now caused a a situation where we've got an Iranian hostage crisis potential. We've got a 9/11 potential. We've got a a Red Dawn potential. Like we're we're checking all the boxes of how bad this could potentially be, for what, for nothing, for nothing in return. Other than just ticking off the entire planet. So, how likely is any of that, i don't know. Probably not very likely, but it's not good anyway, you know, it's not very good. Um the plane's already been replaced, of course, the very minute that it was taken. But Maduro's got a long memory, and he's going to be in power for a long time. So, stealing his plane is is like it's like stealing his dog, you know? It's like you like, "Man, you don't do that." Like this is not something that you do in the international community. That's why it's not done very often. So again, just as kind of a newsflash for those who are in the State Department who apparently did not take international relations 101. If you're going to shoot yourself in the foot diplomatically and do something that's going to tick somebody off in the international arena, you better well have gotten something out of it. And the United States hasn't gotten anything out of this, what do we get? Just the ability to give ourselves a pat on the back? Like what what benefit is that? Now you've just eliminated You have eliminated the peaceful option for Maduro, congratulations, you know? So, I see this working its way out probably to some degree in Colorado. I don't know how much. TDA is is now that the major media's kind of gotten a hold of it. Um It's it's probably overhyped in some to some degree, but underhyped in others. But anyway, we'll talk about that in a moment. For Venezuela, just it's never a good thing when we've gotten all these wars breaking out around the planet when the United States shoots itself in the foot uh diplomatically and eliminates peace as an option for a nation, that's just not good. Now Maduro is if he had any any chance of changing his mind beforehand, he is not going to do it now. So, good luck, you know? This is not going to be not going to be not going to be very friendly time between the United States and Venezuela over the next few years, but in any case, enough ranting and raving on that that that whole situation and how poorly it's been done just just irks me cuz I know these people are making probably half a million dollars a year to sit at State and just pat themselves on the back, and that really just kind of irks me greatly. So, but speaking of Venezuela, let's move out to west and talk about TDA for a moment. So, uh the locals in conjunction with whatever agency is probably sharing intel with them arrested four alleged uh alleged shot callers in the Aurora area. So, uh these rather four unfortunate-looking uh gentlemen here uh have been arrested in conjunction with murders, general crime in the area. You you get the picture, right? How much does this matter, i don't know. Probably not very much in the long run because I very highly doubt that the people calling the shots in Aurora are in Aurora. I think they're probably in Venezuela or at minimum uh in El Paso down in Texas. So, it is very very important to remember that right now the media, even a lot of other like analytical efforts, are trying to make this out to be or it's it's being framed like this is the first time a cartel has come to America. And that is not true. Nothing that TDA is doing here is new. Much much worse stuff has been going on in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, any anywhere in California really where there's a huge, you know, cartel presence. Texas along the border, Arizona, New Mexico, places like that, right? Those places have been ravaged by cartel activities for decades now. And let's not forget places like Chicago, Detroit, New York City. You see where we're going? Crime and organized crime of a cartel or gang nature is by by no means new. What makes this such a unique thing to focus on and why why I myself am focusing on so this so much is because one, it's a foreign well, it's not designated as a foreign terrorist organization or FTO, I don't think. Uh but it is a foreign gang that has foreign leadership, okay, so thing one. Thing two, they're in places where they're not traditionally uh which are not like traditional hotbeds for crime. Aurora, Colorado, Denver area, it's some of the most beautiful heartland America that there that there is, right? It's it is quintessential, you know, American homeland, right? And it's not something that has been overrun with crime up until recently. Past couple years, yeah, Denver's had a huge problem. Uh so, this isn't just, you know, a new thing that's popped up. This has been a couple of years in the making, but go back 10 years and Denver was a completely different place. You know, Aurora was a completely different place. It was it had that small-town vibe, you know, 10 15 years ago. Now, we've got foreign, you know, gangs setting up shop. So, the reason that I myself am focusing on this is not because I'm just kind of bewildered that cartels exist. That's not That's not it at all. I'm just focusing on this because this is a good proxy for when this shows up in other places that traditionally don't have a whole lot of crime or a whole lot of foreign gangs and things like that. So, this is why if you live in a small-town America which isn't used to this kind of crime, pay attention. If you're in places like San Diego, you know, El Paso, don't even bother, you know? Like this isn't probably worth your your to focus on uh except for ironically a place where TDA is coming into the United States at, but you know, other places probably not super worth your time if you already have a significant cartel presence. Where you should pay attention is if you've got a huge presence of nonprofits, NGOs, charities, right? That are setting up shop in your area, you have a very small law enforcement presence, you've got a very um homogeneous population, and you got a lot of charities being set up to bring, you know, refugees into your country or or into your like into your area, pay attention cuz this is going to be some pretty dangerous stuff for you. So, uh again, that's most of America. That's most of rural America, and where this is going to pop up next, who knows. How bad is it going to be, who knows. Speaking more locally with Denver uh in the overall area, how is this going to impact things, i don't know. Uh I'm I am uh working on developing the area a little bit more. I'm doing my own intelligence preparation of the battle space or IPB uh of the area just so I can get a little bit more familiar with it because I think this is going to be the poster child for many many problems. Uh and if you're in the area, I would very strongly encourage doing your own IPB of the area as well because this stuff is very important. Again, this is just a good reminder to, you know, focus locally, make sure that you are uh understanding of your local area so that you can identify whether or not this is a potential for you. So, that's pretty much all I have for the United States this week. Let's move over to the uh Red Sea Horn of Africa region, and let's talk about some of the more um issues people probably don't care about so much, but this may become an issue uh in the future. So, right now the Horn of Africa is a mess uh as one could probably imagine, but even more so of a mess than usual. Um Egypt has announced military exercises in Somalia uh strengthening ties with Mogadishu, whereas Ethiopia has announced or rather they're just doing exercises with Somaliland and in Somalia as well. It's really hard to say who's where uh because Ethiopia has had a, you know, several thousand soldiers in Somalia uh for a while now. The difference being is really it's the Somali Peninsula. It's not so much lines on a map. Remember, Somalia is a failed state. Uh really, Somalia doesn't exist outside of Mogadishu so much. Um It's just kind of a tribal thing. There are local tribal areas. So, these lines on a map for Somalia don't really matter so much. Now, up in the the land of Punt, Puntland, uh which has become known as Somaliland in the northwestern uh quadrant of Somalia, that's a little bit more of a high-income area, I guess you should say. Somaliland has kind of become a conglomeration. It is Somaliland is a district in northwestern Somalia, which has made efforts to become its own nation-state. Uh they do have a border. They've enacted their own border. They've got their own passports. They've got their own immigration control. So, uh they're not recognized by very many people uh just yet. And uh that's one of the big uh points of contention. So, Ethiopia Ethiopia has uh struck a deal with Somaliland to access a port, a a naval port for trade. This is very very important, and this is one of those This is one of those hills that Ethiopia is willing to die on because Ethiopia is a landlocked nation. So, they don't have any seaports. Somalia does, well, more Somaliland does. So, they made an agreement with Somaliland. Well, that just ticks off Somalia, who still says they own Somaliland. So, Mogadishu is kind of upset. The warlords running Mogadishu are very upset about this whole thing. And Egypt says, "Hey, Somalia, uh we'll come back you guys." So, we've got this like I region-wide war getting ready to break out, maybe, potentially, I don't know. Uh the problem with this area is that they kind of like to fight themselves a lot. So, Ethiopia up in the Tigray region has had some pretty serious problems with a civil war, really. They just uh came to an agreement with that recently. So, there Ethiopia is not fighting the militants up in Tigray, although that is kind of that's kind of always a problem for them. They just can't They just can't exert influence that far out from their capital. Uh anyway, Eritrea and Djibouti are also huge factors. Djibouti because they support the Yemenis uh across the across the way there, across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and they hate the United States, so they've kind of kicked the US out of Djibouti. There's still a limited presence there, but not very much. Uh but you see how this is just kind of a a conglomeration of a very large mess. So, why does this matter? It probably doesn't for the average American. Uh right now the Houthis alone, they're very small number of people are causing untold havoc for this for this stretch of water, right? And the the global markets uh have adjusted for trade going around uh the Cape of Good Hope. However, you know, wintertime down there, uh they've had a lot of problems. They've lost a lot of containers. They losses have been a lot higher. It's almost like uh there's a reason that the world stopped going around the Cape of Good Hope uh and started going up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal. There's almost There's almost like there's a reason for that, it's not just shorter, it's actually like safer. So, again, this is causing huge problems for the global economy just because some dudes with AKs in the desert who are in a tribe, they don't even consider themselves to be a nation, are causing problems, right? So, again, something to keep in mind. If Egypt wants to get squirrely with it, I mean, they could. I don't know how many troops they've sent to Somalia. It's not like they're on social media, right? I mean, there's not a whole lot of there's not a whole lot of indications to figure out how many are there, at least from an open-source uh perspective. Probably a few thousand for exercises, I don't know. Ethiopia is probably likely to do the same thing, but they've also Again, Ethiopia has troops in Somalia. It's just lines on a map don't matter so much in this part of the world, so especially with the failed state, but in any case, something to something to be uh mindful of, really, just to kind of be aware of all this stuff so that when I pull up a wire report one day and say that Egypt's at war with Ethiopia or something like that, you'll understand that this has been a long time coming. So, anyway, not a whole lot uh other interest uh with regards to that, though. Something a little bit more um pertinent for America are the events in the Middle East / Southern European Mediterranean theater uh over the past few days. So, we have this incident with the USS Wasp, the incident in Izmir. Uh you can read about it in the wire. That's probably the most succinct way of talking about it, but essentially some USS Wasp ARG did a port call to Izmir, routine port call, nothing out of the ordinary. In classic fashion, the uh intelligence analysts on board the USS Wasp uh completely missed all of the indicators and warnings that were stacking up to suggest that um there were increased risks of docking in Izmir. So, again, underway sailors don't get a whole lot of There's not There's not that much intel they do while underway. A lot of it they get from, you know, outside sources, but you know, just checking social media would have let them know that just a few hours before they uh pulled into port there, uh local Turkish officials let slip that Turkey had uh applied to join BRICS. So, the economic / sort of pseudo-military pact uh that has become the uh alternate uh to the United States, the European Union, things like that. So, so it's sort of largely trade-centric, but could easily become a confederation of states sort of agreement uh that is really headed up by Russia and China for the most part. Uh Turkey has signaled that they want to distance themselves from the United States despite being a NATO member. And this uh stirred up a lot of uh anti-American sentiment right as the Wasp pulled right into port, right? So, classic case, they let all the sailors and Marines off off the vessel, and a couple of them get into a couple of scraps with some locals. Um the local group there, the youth group of Turkey, what do they call themselves, tGB. Yeah, in Turkish, it's the acronym is TGB. These guys have a real bad habit of snatching Americans, holding them down, and putting a bag over their head, and beating them or mock executing them in some cases uh in the streets of Turkey. This has happened like I think this is the fourth time, uh maybe the fifth or sixth time, I don't know. Uh publicly, it's I think the third or fourth time this has happened in the past few years. So, so this is not really new at all. Uh however, just as a little bit of free intel analysis for the guys over at Fleet Forces Command, you might not want to head back to Turkey for a while because the Turks don't like Americans right now. So, so again, I don't know what they're smoking, uh but even Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming. So, in any case, uh it has been one heck of a time trying to get several thousand drunk Marines and sailors back on board the ship cuz of course once this happened and once those videos hit social media, they immediately canceled liberty. They immediately said everybody get back to the ship sort of thing. Um but Steve McQueen, these guys are not. So, it's taken a while. And the USS Wasp uh has taken a while it took them a while to get up steam. So, um yeah, it's not one of those things where you can just pick up and go, all right? It's a It's a big ship. So, again, not a good thing all around. Again, Turkey is supposed to be our allies. So, they did arrest a few of the guys, allegedly. Don't know much more than that. This is a local thing, right? So, again, not a whole lot of information either way. Uh another story where there's not a whole lot of information is the recent killing of an American citizen in the West Bank. Details very sketchy and the Israeli issue now is just kind of a lightning rod topic. So, who knows what's true anymore? However, this is probably what happened. My guess is that an Israeli sniper, an IDF sniper took out an American citizen not knowing it was an American at one of the protests in the West Bank. So, there have been enduring protests against Israeli occupation in the West Bank uh for decades now, but more recently they've just kind of been regular as you know since the whole thing started. Again, probably just just trying to go for a leader. The person that they killed is of Turkish descent. So, it wouldn't have looked visually through a sniper scope like that's an American over there. You know, she looked like, you know, Palestinian really. So, um again, I don't know if this is a complete deliberate targeting of an American or just an Israeli sniper shooting at the leadership of a protest, which is you know, again, lightning rod topic, but I think that's fairly common. So, again, I I don't really know how much of this is is going to be a a diplomatic incident. It already is kind of a diplomatic incident because now the United States, the White House asks, "Okay, well, what were you doing shooting at protesters, were they armed, no. Well, what were you doing shooting at protesters?" kind of thing. So, again, the past 9 10 months of this war has really generated a lot of questions that are very very uncomfortable to answer. Uh even if you're in the pursuit of truth, especially if you're in the pursuit of of what's actually going on and the truth of what's going on. There's a lot of nuance there and it's really just hard to to get to the meat of the matter um for many number of reasons. So, anyway, I did want to mention it because this has the potential for the United States to you know, be a little upset with BB again, but it's it's very very astronomically unlikely to change anything at all. But I did want to mention it because you're probably going to see a lot from this death over the next few weeks or so. Uh especially from like Palestinian sources. So, all the Palestinian or pro-Palestine or pro-Hamas or pro-Hezbollah, the the the range of those media sources that that do exist, they've all kind of talked about this in the past few days. So, I thought I'd mention it as well. That's pretty much all I have. So, let's talk about some of the Ghost Net reports again. Um I pulled a little sneaky this time and I chose a different web SDR. So, I got a lot of view that I hadn't heard before. And it's always It's always interesting to me when I when I tune up a different SDR. This time I chose one right in the middle of the country. Um usually where a lot of people tell me, "I don't have anybody to talk to. I'm not able to get anybody in this, you know, region of the country like, you know, central north central Midwest kind of area." Um a lot of people tell me, "I can't hear anybody, i can't get anybody. I I don't I don't have anybody to talk to up here." Well, here you go. Uh so, I got a lot of people from right in the middle of the country. Um caught a lot of people talking about a lot of different things. So, again, a few people from Texas. There's a lot of people in Texas. Texas has got a pretty good population and a lot of people who are into ham radio. So, again, Texas is a good um uh intermediary between the East and West Coast for for for radio stuff. So, just kind of a FYI thing. If you're trying to get a a shot all the way across the country, you may have to relay through a Texas station or an Oklahoma station to to make that happen. But, anyway, days are starting to get shorter, radio propagation's changing. The sunlight is changing, right? So, days are getting shorter, nighttime's getting sooner. Better propagation uh for a lot of the West Coast guys. So, something I've been working on. I'm not neglecting you guys. I know that 40 m at the time that's scheduled on Thursday is not great, i know. Um I'm just trying to have a happy medium for you know, the entire country. And that's really hard to do sometimes. But in any case, we've got a lot of people talking about the um uh you know, just random things. You've got a little bit of rag chewing here and there. It's not It's not a huge problem when there's not a lot of people talking about things. Um but we've got a lot of people who are talking about Here's one guy talking about in uh Grand Prairie, Texas. Uh we've got a do not do not use the water uh notice a boil water advisory apparently. So, yeah, this is really really good to know. Uh really good to be be mindful of. Um I I really try to stress um what's worth talking about in a wire report. Like, I'm going to have to have a whole dedicated video on it, but the short version is think about if you're using this HF radio stuff, think about who would want to know. Um for those people who are wondering, this kind of report talking about a a water treatment issue in one city in America, this may seem to be not worth putting on HF radio because not many people outside of the area of Grand Prairie, Texas are going to care about a water issue, i disagree. I think this is a perfect report for this because who knows how many other people that are affected by this water treatment in the next town over or the next town over or if there's a river involved. You know, these are the kind of reports that you might want to start pushing. No one gives one hoot if there's going to be a gang shooting on this particular street in this particular city because that happens in every major city. And it's not likely to affect anything outside that city or even outside that street. Whereas, water, that can impact a lot of people. So, this is the kind of thing that this is very helpful. So, again, a lot of people were talking about the whole mesh testing rule change. I had made a post on Twitter about that uh regarding the potential rule change for the FCC and um there's a company that's trying to step on mesh testing's kind of operating area. So, again, check out the posts I've made on Twitter uh for that. It's a It's a little bit too much to get into right now. There's there are a few other radio guys who have kind of covered that more than I ever could. But definitely something to be mindful of. And yeah, this is working very very well, um pretty good. And as we see one guy from who came in from Raleigh, uh he had, let's see here, 52 stations heard. So, that's 52 people were heard from the Raleigh area. So, this is a lot of people. Like for for It may not seem to be that much. You know, it's not like we're talking YouTube here where there's thousands and thousands of people, right? But 52 people for a ham radio net is pretty dang big. That's a lot of people. So, especially from from being heard in one area. If you multiply that around the whole country, I don't even know the true number. Um I don't think anybody can know the true number unless somebody writes some software to figure that out. But yeah, pretty interesting stuff. It's going to be interesting to see how we get into the winter season again with this and uh how we'll have a time change for for some states that that have the uh uh daylight saving shift. We'll see how that plays with things again and hopefully it'll make propagation a little bit better. But yeah, that's pretty much all I have for today. Um here are the sources again. Not too many, but a lot of stuff going on. A lot of stuff going on around the country. So, yeah, things are moving, the election's upcoming. Things are getting pretty crazy, you know. Always important to remember that I think a lot of this extra craziness is just due to the election year. So, um things are accelerating. In some ways good, in some ways bad. You know, there's always you know, balance to be had in some regards whether or not we're around to see it or not is another is another thing. But yeah, I think we're doing pretty good even with the craziness going around. We're definitely adapting to these strange times for sure. So, yeah, just keep charging forward and we'll see what we can do. So, again, we'll be right back at it with the standard wire reports on Monday. And we'll see what next week brings. So, thank you all for watching. And we will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.