14 July Intel Update: Strategic Baselines

hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the Intel update for Friday the 14th of July 2023 and as usual it is being recorded on the day prior I know it's been a very long time since I've done an Intel update uh so this one's going to be a little bit more strategic in nature and we're going to talk about a lot more uh broad brush topics than uh specific incidents that have occurred since the you know months that I've kind of been away from these this is really just more of a way to get my feet wet uh getting back into the swing of doing briefings again at the end of the briefing today I'll kind of uh expand a little bit more into my line of thinking and the things that I'm concerned with moving forward you know into this into the future because uh we're we're we've definitely hit the gas right and uh there's a lot of very troubling things on the horizon and I think a lot of people are very worried rightfully so about you know a lot of different topics so I'll kind of share some of the things that I'm concerned about moving forward and really it has nothing to do with world events it's more along the lines of how we react to uh world events but again we'll get bout moving forward and really it has nothing to do with world events it's more along the lines of how we react to uh world events but again we'll get to that at the end so for right now let's start with the Strategic Trends basically things that I have noticed and that can be applied as more of a blanket statement for the United States and North America at large I guess the first thing that many of you have noticed that myself included over the past few months is the increase of strategic Aviation assets basically the US military has been very very active over the past few months observably so through traditional ocent observers through people who kind of track aircraft as like a hobby and people just generally looking up into the skies you know standing in their yard and noticing that there are a lot more military aircraft of differing types or types that they've never seen before traveling around the United States now of course we cannot really apply blanket statements to the entire U.S military right all we really have is kind of the gut feeling that that there's a lot of military assets flying around in the United States and a lot of them due to Ocean people tracking where the the gut feeling that that there's a lot of military assets flying around in the United States and a lot of them due to Ocean people tracking where they're going and being aware that very sensitive military equipment is flying around in the skies in places where it's not normally observe Earth to be flying around a lot of people have noticed that military aircraft are by and large a lot of the time flying around without their transponder turned on now I've heard a lot of reasons behind this none of which I can verify one of the main theories that people have noticed a lot of military assets flying around without their transponder off is simply the result of a software update apparently the the story at least I've heard through the grapevine again this is all rumor is that a few months ago a software update was patched through to a lot of different types of airframes uh helicopters fixed Wing things like that to make the automatic transponder mode be switched to basically a blackout mode now this rumor doesn't make sense for a lot of different reasons it may be for helicopters but you know fixed-wing assets are really going to have to use their transponder when they're flying around fferent reasons it may be for helicopters but you know fixed-wing assets are really going to have to use their transponder when they're flying around the United States especially some of those bigger Air Force aircraft that are you know transports and things like that so and I having some knowledge of how army helicopter uh transponder modes work is it doesn't seem like that'd be a very easy thing to do but it might explain some of the reasons why it seems like a lot of units are just going you know completely black and we're seeing no transponders being used mostly with rotary Wing aircraft helicopters and things like that it could also be sop I know personally several units uh in my general area have decided that it's sop now to fly around without any transponder mode on whatsoever or just leaving you know things like iff on which would not be detected via adsb also a lot of military assets are being rolled off the line without adsb functionality because they just don't think that that's something that they need or at least that again is what I've heard again this is really just kind of a rumor thing because obviously the Department of Defense is not going to tell us why or how t in is what I've heard again this is really just kind of a rumor thing because obviously the Department of Defense is not going to tell us why or how they're no longer using transponders for a lot of their movements the dod of course has blanket permission from the FAA to turn off their transponder on all of their aircraft flying around the United States now most of the time like I've pointed out many many many times in previous videos on aircraft tracking the dod mostly does not do this because you know in an era of post 911 if you're a civilian air traffic controller and you've got a very large radar signature flying through your controlled airspace and it is not got a transponder on that is kind of a a big red flag right so to prevent a lot of unnecessary Strife between military pilots and the suit their you know civilian air traffic controllers throughout the United States mostly military Pilots of of all airframes tend to turn their adsb tracking on uh or if they're going to be going blacked out they're going to be going dark uh they're going to be flying around in designated training areas so that air traffic controllers don't freak out however like I mentioned the Strategic k hey're going to be flying around in designated training areas so that air traffic controllers don't freak out however like I mentioned the Strategic kind of trend here that we're noticing is that this may be coming to an end there have been a lot of extremely rare airframes flying around up and down the East Coast ever since the Chinese Bible an incident there have really just been an awful lot of aircraft flying around the skies and I I'm sorry I can't be more specific than that because it's just a general Trend that a lot of people have noticed I just want to let everybody notice hey I've noticed it too some of this is to be expected but it also means that our Baseline for activity has shifted now if you're preparing for something in the future militarily you're going to want to shift your own Baseline right going back to World War one this is a classic standard battle tactic right of you know if you're sitting in a trench and the bad guys are in the other trench over there and you notice an awful lot of movement and it looks like there's five times the number of people over there you know that there's an attack coming right so what you want to do is shift Your Bass lines slowly here's five times the number of people over there you know that there's an attack coming right so what you want to do is shift Your Bass lines slowly and make it look like there's nothing out of the ordinary while you're massing for an attack or some kind of large operation I don't know if that's what's happening with the United States I think the United States is absolutely preparing for World War III which is most certainly broken out at least in a fifth generation Warfare aspect but it does seem like the dod is shifting their Baseline either unintentionally or intentionally which is in interesting considering all of the training woes that the dod has had over the past few months the dod has been bleeding Personnel for quite a long time but it really kind of kicked into high gear during the illegal mandate period over the past few years so on the one hand you've got the military just absolutely strapped for personnel parts are an issue maintenance is an issue you've got military units pulling tanks and and military hardware out of museums so that they can use them for either training or in a real world scenario you've got the military at large going through a very very tough time useums so that they can use them for either training or in a real world scenario you've got the military at large going through a very very tough time and yet it seems like there's an increase in domestic operations so that's very interesting all I can say is that this is a gut feeling there really isn't very much analysis that I could uh point to other than you know just general flight traffic increases but I just wanted to point that out that there has definitely been a shift in the Strategic Baseline in the United States domestically another more unsettling domestic problem has been the rise of strategic infrastructure targeting throughout at the United States I know a lot of people want me to get back into the into the swing of tracking all of these different strategic critical infrastructure incidents right we have to call them incidents because there's no evidence that there is an attack but it's weird that all that a lot of factories and food production facilities just suddenly catch fire or explode or something like that I will uh get back to doing the homework to finding out about a lot of these facilities but since the last brief I just wanted to make a another blanket st l uh get back to doing the homework to finding out about a lot of these facilities but since the last brief I just wanted to make a another blanket statement saying these attacks or incidents right have continued there has been very little uh cessation in all of the different kinds of infrastructure problems we've been seeing again this is for multiple reasons in my opinion but I just want to make it clear to everyone that I haven't done a brief for so long not because these incidents haven't been happening these events most certainly have happened whether I've covered them or not uh and it's just become kind of a new Norm we all know that mainstream media has just been a straight up propaganda machine for a very long period of time and therefore most people in America now get their General daily news from social media well unfortunately social media is becoming in my opinion a less and less viable option due to both censorship and uh claims of Free Speech but actually locking down uh and creating more censorship as well uh so it's kind of a mess in the information space it is a straight up dumpster fire I personally you know it's my career has been in the information space and I d nd of a mess in the information space it is a straight up dumpster fire I personally you know it's my career has been in the information space and I don't know what's real or not anymore so I certainly cannot expect the average person out there who just wants to read the news to be able to discern uh what's real and what's fake what's overblown or what's underreported that's really hard for the professional analysts to identify nowadays but it's even harder for the average person who's just you know looking to get the information out there and this problem with social media and it's it's you know the fact that it's not as reliable anymore as it used to be is I think really at least partially due to what I'm calling changing social dynamics in other words there's a lot of feelings out there and the world and there's a lot of politics I don't know if you could call it politics or not but there's a lot of ideas a lot of ideology and it's becoming ever more difficult to just have a normal conversation with another human being it is becoming very very difficult to do that even face to face off of the internet even in my very very small community I've noticed that it has changed uh very ng very very difficult to do that even face to face off of the internet even in my very very small community I've noticed that it has changed uh very significantly over the past few years for I guess many reasons it's not just the cities that are becoming absolute you know dystopias uh these this ideology and this problem is present even at the most uh simple human interaction in a lot of the country right so again we'll talk more about this at the end but I I just wanted to stress how difficult this makes communication Society has changed so much that I honestly am having a very hard time finding anybody in real life that shares my opinion on even the simplest of things it used to be you could walk into a room of 10 people and agree with you know five or six of those people or or even maybe more than half of those people on General topics you could probably get you know agree with most of those people on very broad topics very Broad Social ideas and social mores and norms and things like that nowadays I feel like every time I've walked into a room of 10 people I would be very lucky to even have one person who I share the most broad ideology with and I don't say that to just compla ed into a room of 10 people I would be very lucky to even have one person who I share the most broad ideology with and I don't say that to just complain I say that because it makes communication very very difficult when you can't even gauge what words to use in a standard conversation with normal people in everyday life it just becomes such an information war that average everyday human communication you you absolutely you just latch on to it when you find someone that isn't absolutely repulsive to your entire belief system and that is occurring not just in the cities but in a lot of places around the country I know not exactly a cheery thought uh but it's become so much of a problem that it's it's uh it's really kind of hampering uh people's efforts to build communities myself included uh has just been a an absolute nightmare over the past couple of years uh just to interact with other human beings in a way that is uh you know what I would consider to be normal I don't think I've changed that much over the past few years uh when it comes to social norms and mores but man I tell you things are crazy out there so crazy in fact that it makes it hard to exchange even the most basic uh omes to social norms and mores but man I tell you things are crazy out there so crazy in fact that it makes it hard to exchange even the most basic uh social interaction so so with all of that kind of negative Aura around everything let's let's jump to some of the regions around the United States and we'll talk about some of the uh problems that we can actually sink our teeth into and maybe work around and the first of which is in the Northeast region now again this is a more broad topic right that throughout the entire region is really the the place where this is uh most uh applicable but the USGS the United States geology survey now I published a report a couple of days ago maybe a couple of weeks ago now detailing the extensive use of pfas chemicals otherwise known as forever chemicals in short the report that they published uh indicates very strongly that approximately 45 percent of the entire drinking water supply in the United States has been tainted with forever chemicals over the past few years I will provide the link for the study yourself so if you want to read throughout the entire research study you can you can to me it looked like a pretty good study but it's been a lo study yourself so if you want to read throughout the entire research study you can you can to me it looked like a pretty good study but it's been a long time since I've uh I've been on the big data side of things there's their testing parameters however were around 700 Wells from strategic watersheds spread evenly around the United States so it's a pretty good representation of the average water supply throughout the entire country and the reason that I put this report here in the Northeast region is because the Northeast region is some of the most heavily contained laminated specifically places like New Jersey New York City the uh the the levels of forever chemicals in the drinking water supply there uh was was very very high so I encourage you to take a look at this report uh and take a look at the map at least and see if you're located near some of these more heavily tainted sites of course they're going to be in more urbanized areas where there's more people living and things like that but again since these forever chemicals are used pretty much everywhere throughout the United States uh for agricultural reasons you know the the poisoning of our our entire continent basically c sed pretty much everywhere throughout the United States uh for agricultural reasons you know the the poisoning of our our entire continent basically continues so just something to keep in mind uh we could talk all day about forever chemicals and how this has become a problem and been a problem for a long time this isn't really a new thing it's been a problem since long before I was even born but I did want to mention it now because the report was a little bit more recent moving on to the Southeast region another more strategic issue is there has been an outbreak of malaria so uh several cases of organically obtained as in people who got it here in the United States malaria have been detected in Florida and in Texas of course some of them you know the hotter States right so if you were to do the research and find out what kinds of medical uh experiments were being conducted in Florida uh just uh last year you might not be surprised to find out uh who is kind of linked to this sort of thing it's one of those things where you notice that a drill or an exercise or some kind of study is being conducted and oh look it just so happens to be that the first malaria outbreak in many many yea a drill or an exercise or some kind of study is being conducted and oh look it just so happens to be that the first malaria outbreak in many many years has occurred down in Florida in roughly the same area where this uh these these scientific experiments were being conducted right so again one of those fifth generation Warfare things right you know is where you're never really going to know who did it or if it's just an organic thing but we can all uh kind of infer from incomplete data sometimes who who the culprit of this might be if there is a culprit at all and uh so yeah it's just one of those things you're just gonna have to Heap on your plate uh as if we don't already have a full enough plate every single one of us uh now we have to be concerned a little bit about malaria now obviously I cannot speak to the medical implications of malaria and the different strains and variants of malaria itself uh but I have had malaria before I did contract it in Southwest Asia uh when I was doing some work over there and uh it was not a fun experience I would not uh I would not recommend it but it wasn't horrific I was still able to function it just felt like I had the flu for a very long xperience I would not uh I would not recommend it but it wasn't horrific I was still able to function it just felt like I had the flu for a very long period of time and uh it just was generally not pleasant but again it wasn't horrific I was able to still go to work uh mostly every day while getting over it so yeah it's just uh very interesting that malaria is now back in the United States it's going to be hard to see how uh how prevalent it is but my guess is that um we'll see in the next few weeks of a mass uh insecticidal campaign it throughout Florida and probably Texas as well depending on how many more cases they get which is probably going to be worse than just getting malaria so sort of along the same lines and since this is basically the briefing of just my personal gut feelings I have noticed and a lot of people have noticed that there has been at least in the American South a rise in various kinds of pests this season it seems like there have been an awful lot of ticks and mosquitoes and gnats and all kinds of bugs that aren't normally present in this many that this quantity it just seems like it's been very bad this year and I can't really say if that's more along the l n't normally present in this many that this quantity it just seems like it's been very bad this year and I can't really say if that's more along the lines of some kind of you know biological cycle or something or if it's just due to weather or if it's due to something else but I have noticed that so so I guess this is really just a reminder just to stay safe this summer and keep the pests away as much as possible especially the ones that can cause diseases right so let's go ahead and move on to the East Central midwestern region uh really I just have one main thing to mention and that is the recent bill that has been introduced and passed through the house I think uh this bill in the state of Michigan is a very serious Bill uh I would highly recommend reading the bill yourself I will provide the link at the end and you can take a look yourself and uh just read it it's not a very long bill but it's very dystopian in nature as we all know the political government and regime of Michigan has become basically the poster child for tyranny throughout the region and uh it's just one thing after the next right however this bill is going to make it very very difficult for people like me to e hroughout the region and uh it's just one thing after the next right however this bill is going to make it very very difficult for people like me to even talk about what's happening in Michigan right it's going to make it very difficult for for really anyone to say anything whatsoever in the state of Michigan uh without being criminally prosecuted and I have very high confidence that this is going to pass it will probably be challenged in court but we know how the court system works these days it uh it's not exactly interested in pursuing Justice anymore so so I don't really think that this is going to be a good thing for Michigan and I think that a lot of citizens throughout the area are going to be walking on eggshells like they have been already underneath this state's uh particularly intense uh leadership style so we'll just leave it at that and you guys can uh check the bill out yourself and I'm actually going to have to skip over the rest of the United States so we'll get to the the other half of the Midwest the southwest and the western United States another day uh there's just been too much on my plate to to dive into those regions uh because really I wanted to start talkin e western United States another day uh there's just been too much on my plate to to dive into those regions uh because really I wanted to start talking a little bit more about Europe as we all know Europe is again a gigantic dumpster fire uh particularly France so France is in what I think it would be accurate to call a prolonged uh wrol State France has been experiencing widespread kinetic activity for a couple of weeks now that has resulted from many many different issues now I know that makes no sense so so let me explain France like most western Nations has they've had a lot of issues bubbling beneath the surface for a while now uh tyrannical leadership insane communist policies lockdowns High food prices censorship you name it France has been dealing with it much like the United States uh France has also been dealing with an unprecedented immigration crisis uh and about two weeks ago France had their own little George Floyd moment which taking the initial incident out of the equation uh that the actual incident was you know the police shooting uh if you take that out of the equation this was just really just the spark that Lit The Waiting bonfire now it seems like the unrest c olice shooting uh if you take that out of the equation this was just really just the spark that Lit The Waiting bonfire now it seems like the unrest can hardly be called that anymore that's why I'm hesitant to even call what's happening riots it's way worse than just riots right this is way worse than the yellow vest stuff this is more of a straight up kinetic conflict uh various French government agencies and of course the police are now openly calling it a civil War I don't know if I would go that far personally but it sure does seem like the worst riot in Europe has seen for for a very long time uh like many Riots of similar origin uh the initial incident seems to have been forgotten uh this is no longer about a police shooting and it's no longer just a simple issue of people being upset about that uh it truly does seem like a free-for-all since many French citizens who did not exactly have good feelings towards police prior to this they're now supporting the police because of what's happening to their entire nation uh other citizens see no winners here and they're living in a war zone where nobody is in the right the sentiments expressed by French citizens are of course very ha ns see no winners here and they're living in a war zone where nobody is in the right the sentiments expressed by French citizens are of course very hard to gauge and you know very hard for someone like me a foreigner to understand uh and I can make up any research study to support my idea but I think this severe unrest is really more of a culture Clash a forbidden topic that nobody can touch without getting their livelihoods Stripped Away we're long past the time in which the truth has been criminalized so we're all just kind of left with a lot of frustrations that can't be expressed and a lot of issues that can't be solved because certain people have a Stranglehold on all speech now so this just makes conflict even more worse again what I was kind of talking about in the beginning is that the flow of information throughout the world seems to have reached a point to where it's impossible to just communicate very simply about things so these riots and unrest and just you know pandemonium throughout France is is going to be an enduring issue I think because of this now of course the riots will probably die down in due time uh this conflict will probably simmer down to some degree uh issue I think because of this now of course the riots will probably die down in due time uh this conflict will probably simmer down to some degree uh after a while however just do the sheer number of people engaging in this Warfare uh it's going to be a while we're not going to see stability in France for probably uh several months at least so yeah this is going to be one of those enduring problems that we kind of keep touching on as it goes on moving on to Eastern Europe Europe I did want to touch on one issue which has larger implications but is really mostly related to Ukraine now as many of you know I have stopped covering the conflict in Ukraine for both personal and professional reasons on the professional side of the house it's it is impossible it is not allowed to have a neutral perspective of the Ukrainian conflict on YouTube YouTube mandates that we support Ukraine uh through their policies so you cannot have any statements at all which are negative towards Ukraine which is why you're only seeing half of the story right however all of that being said I think we can kind of toe the line here a little bit and mention the United States policy and decision to send cluster Mun ver all of that being said I think we can kind of toe the line here a little bit and mention the United States policy and decision to send cluster Munitions to Ukraine for use in that conflict now let me state right up front both Ukraine and Russia have used cluster Munitions and other indiscriminate weapons throughout the entire conflict it's just that the United States States this change in policy is now sending Ukraine uh weapons that the United States has personally uh signed several different treaties if I'm not mistaken assign different treaties to bands so the United States is sending uh weapons to Ukraine that the United States has banned or or signed on that they will not use anymore uh in a clear uh breach of their own uh policies now Ukraine uh cluster emissions are not illegal they're not banned in Russia Russia never signed on to these agreements in the first place so you know things like land mines and other you know indiscriminate uh weapons that that can uh and have been known to cause Mass uh problems for civilians after a conflict is over uh such as cluster Munitions and you know things like that uh Russia and most of Eastern Europe has really just not been intere ter a conflict is over uh such as cluster Munitions and you know things like that uh Russia and most of Eastern Europe has really just not been interested in stopping the usage of these types of weapons but the United States has or so we thought at least so the bottom line for all of this is that the United States is floating the idea of sending Munitions to Ukraine now I have no doubt that the United States has secretly been providing all kinds of banned Munitions to Ukraine in the first place but that's just my own personal opinion the real change in Doctrine here is what's got a lot of people uh hung up on this escalating the war a lot of Talking Heads on TV are saying that this is going to escalate the War uh more so than it has in the past and it absolutely will even though Russia has been using cluster musicians since day one the United States stepping up the conflict and the reasons behind sending cluster Munitions are somewhat frightening to be honest uh the Biden regime through different various spokespersons as well as Biden himself has said the reason for sending cluster Munitions now is because we're out of ammunition the United States is actually critically low on ammu himself has said the reason for sending cluster Munitions now is because we're out of ammunition the United States is actually critically low on ammunition for our own wartime stockpiles I've heard rumors and stories of training Stateside being taken place with concrete rounds and concrete bombs because we've sent basically every single munition in the US Army and in the United States military to Ukraine except for a small wartime stockpile that we keep here at home and I'm sure that's been gutted as well as we covered in the initial uh phases of this conflict armories all across the United States were emptied out to send basically everything we had to Ukraine so as if that's not unnerving enough so this looks like a great opportunity for Russia to do what Russia does best and capitalize on the missteps by American policy makers like clockwork and especially since the Soviet times all Russia has to do is sit back and wait for the United States to make a mistake that makes them look like a hypocrite and Russia pounces and that's exactly what's going to happen and Russia's recent statements have have reflected this right Russia has a has The Uncanny ability to say something in respo ly what's going to happen and Russia's recent statements have have reflected this right Russia has a has The Uncanny ability to say something in response to you to an American policy that most Americans would nod their head and agree with right so Russia has stated that uh because of this policy this must mean that Ukraine is uh very much in a weakened State and that they're losing the conflict uh otherwise why would you resort to sending band missions that you know the world should never see the Russian political you know regime has a great way of phrasing statements in such a way that any reasonable person would just nod their head in agreement um despite the fact that it may not be the full story uh but yeah I did just want to mention on that we're probably going to see a renewal or some kind of um uh response from Russia regarding uh the decision of the United States to send cluster missions to Ukraine keeping with the theme of Russia I wanted to briefly mention on bricks uh bricks as we all know is the international trade Coalition comprising of Brazil Russia India China and South Africa there are other nations that are kind of like bricks Plus members uh that are not really m on comprising of Brazil Russia India China and South Africa there are other nations that are kind of like bricks Plus members uh that are not really members of the full-on brics organization but for the most part this will get us going uh these nations are exploring the possibility of creating a joint currency which will be pinned to Gold anybody with any sort of understanding of the history of Economics knows how serious of an issue this is for those countries it will be great it will strengthen their currency it will it will create a a very good thing economically for a lot of those uh for for all of those Nations that choose to go this route however when we look at the history of Nations that have tried and or either successfully unsuccessfully to pin their currency to gold and get away and get back to the gold standard I think it would be very very hard to argue against the statement that Nations that do this tend to get involved in very hot Wars at the behest of the United States without getting too much into the history of things uh we've got two other very famous Nations that have done this in the past uh Gaddafi and Saddam right so both of the you know both the nations of I s uh we've got two other very famous Nations that have done this in the past uh Gaddafi and Saddam right so both of the you know both the nations of Iraq and Libya tried to pin their currency uh to gold and look what happened to those Nations almost immediately afterwards now I'm not saying that that's the only reason why the United States uh it carried out military operations against these countries uh but it was most certainly a contributing factor how much of a contributing factor I guess is up to for Up For Debate but yeah uh if bricks uh one of the largest international trade coalitions in the world were decided to do this it would absolutely devastate the US dollar um that would not be a good thing for the US dollar and the United States would um very very hot things would happen because of that I think now fortunately uh for for now uh we've got some time left because it looks like India has basically torpeded the idea India has really had some economic problems of their own and um they're looking at strengthening the rupee a little bit more than just create than just abandoning it and creating a whole new currency uh India's been going through some problems for a while now ittle bit more than just create than just abandoning it and creating a whole new currency uh India's been going through some problems for a while now in the economic front so they are kind of hesitant to get on board with a total changeover at the moment and of course China will probably not necessarily uh be too enthused about this as well because you know the yuan is is also Rising uh in value however with all economics pertaining to China no one uh can possibly have any kind of assessment that's accurate about the Chinese economy because it's a closed Society right it's a Communist Regime so we're not you know who knew Communist governments kind of lie about things uh so it's really hard to tell where China is at economically as it pertains to their currency right you know you've got a country that purposefully devalues their currency for for many many years that can't necessarily be a good thing so either way I know that's a lot more rambling about economics than anybody ever wants to hear uh but I think the bottom line is that there are very concerning things on the horizon and one of the major contributing factors to a very significant War Warfare in general is economics you ere are very concerning things on the horizon and one of the major contributing factors to a very significant War Warfare in general is economics you know economics leads to War uh more than any other type of cause although the road to war is long with many different paths and there are many different uh contributing factors towards Warfare fair but but economics is a major factor just by itself so let's move on and wrap things up with some of the more enduring concerns that I have moving forward taking all of this information and all the stuff that I haven't even covered today I need to account uh you guys are pretty smart and I I can't possibly talk about every little single news item that has occurred in the months that I've kind of been away from these briefings and all of us throughout our just daily lives we pick up on things we see things in the news that may or may not be true we see things not on the news that are definitely true or definitely false uh the information Warfare has just become absolutely palpable at this stage and honestly a lot of this information Warfare is being carried out by organizations agencies and very powerful people who claim to be uh bastions of and honestly a lot of this information Warfare is being carried out by organizations agencies and very powerful people who claim to be uh bastions of free speech and they're most certainly not I've said this before and I'll say it again uh there's a there's a phrase that that kind of is is very much a military phrase but I'm sure it's in other parts of society as well and that idea is that if you don't have a solution to a problem don't even talk about the problem right because you you never want to bring up a problem unless you have a solution for it on the face of it that sounds like a really good you know idea however I absolutely despise it I completely disagree with the sentiment because we're now on this at least in my opinion we're now on the the the time period where we've got an awful lot of problems that we can't simply ignore because we don't have a solution for it so I'm afraid to say that a lot of the content at least we here personally are going to be working on is going to be the identification of a problem and not necessarily the solutions for that problem uh we're gonna have to talk about things that we don't have a solution for now on the other hand I don't think ssarily the solutions for that problem uh we're gonna have to talk about things that we don't have a solution for now on the other hand I don't think it's a really good idea to dwell on problems that are very clearly out of your scope of control right don't worry about what you can't change basically uh I agree with that to some degree as well you know everything is a little bit of a balance so with all of this being said uh here are a couple of my enduring concerns concerns that I'm going to have moving forward and one of the the main ones is just basic human needs food Water Shelter you name it right your basic survival stuff but not necessarily from a perspective of prepping I think the prepping Community has gone or at least you know the prepping community that I see online now hopefully the world doesn't really isn't really that much of a reflection of what happens online but it seems to me like priorities have become very very skewed over the past few years and it's not just about stockpiling but in-house production of a civilization basically you know for me personally I grew up in the country I grew up in the very rural area and you know now that I've moved back to a very r ation basically you know for me personally I grew up in the country I grew up in the very rural area and you know now that I've moved back to a very rural area I'm again reminded as to how uh human beings kind of got away from subsistence farming uh because it's kind of a hard life trying to build civilization you know just at your house yourself is very very difficult there is a reason why cities sprang up there's a reason why civilization came as a result of cities and unfortunately right now the same places that are essential for human survival are you know just cesspools of awfulness so we've got a lot of challenges right I don't know if it's just me personally and my observations and the stuff that I've you know kind of been dealing with over the past couple of years or if it's just me going through the same stuff that all of you are going through uh but I've noticed that everything seems to be harder these days doing so much uh many years ago with regards to self-reliance and and you know being off the grid and things like that and it seems like everything is just harder now and I don't know why maybe it has to do with uh you know supply chain stuff more more tangible issues and it seems like everything is just harder now and I don't know why maybe it has to do with uh you know supply chain stuff more more tangible issues you can you can talk about maybe things are just a lot more difficult it's harder to get parts of course inflation's a huge problem you know it seems like every honest man in the country is broke uh these days so maybe that has something to do with with how things seem to be more difficult but I don't know all I know is that it seems to me like if every day is getting more and more difficult and maybe it is and this applies not just to basic human needs but also everything like Communications uh standard preparedness stuff Seaburn uh topics like this I don't know maybe I'm just getting to the point where I'm overwhelmed but man it it's uh it's tough living and it's only going to get tougher I know this and and you all know this as well but I feel like it still needs to be said that man things are getting harder and you could say that all day long but man living it is very very difficult and this is made even worse due to the situation with regards to the institutions in our country as many of you know we're living in basically a prolo and this is made even worse due to the situation with regards to the institutions in our country as many of you know we're living in basically a prolonged without rule of law situation except although survival manuals and those catchy little blogs uh we're not without rule of law it's just the rule of laws being applied uh to different people at different times and for different reasons it makes it even different it makes it so difficult to even just say what you think and it's why I have to censor myself so freaking much I know a lot of people don't like that I censor myself a lot of the time but but I will say that it's a lot different when it's when it's happening to you and um there's only so much a person can take and I am doing my best personally to take measures to make sure that I'm not censored so that we here can say uh you know say the truth as we see it right you know I could probably have a whole podcast dedicated to me talking about my own thoughts on censorship and my own ideology I guess my you know what I believe in on that topic but I guess the short version is that look uh we don't live in a free Society I think that's palpably clear and despite the Talking Heads n that topic but I guess the short version is that look uh we don't live in a free Society I think that's palpably clear and despite the Talking Heads who get on TV and and shot this at the top of their lungs they have the money to say what they want you know they have the funding to be able to get out of things it seems to me like the Americans that defend you know talk about censorship and all that kind of stuff they're talking about people like Tucker Carlson you know so many people came out behind him and supported him you know when he got censored and canceled right but when it's the average person like me uh who gets canceled it doesn't seem like anyone bats an eye so that's why I say that it's a lot easier when it's not happening to you and it's why I'm spending many sleepless nights trying to find ways to prevent censorship because it's not just about jumping from platform to platform we have to reinvent how Communications exist in the world so you know it's really hard it's really hard to exist in a world where your entire livelihood can get shut off because you said the wrong thing in a meeting you know and this really kind of hints that the last uh thing that I'm more co velihood can get shut off because you said the wrong thing in a meeting you know and this really kind of hints that the last uh thing that I'm more concerned about which is the culture shift but I'm not even sure that's an accurate representation I'm I'm very much confused these days as to whether or not culture has shifted has has culture shifted into something that we don't like anymore or has culture always been this way and we just haven't noticed it because we've been stuck in our own little bubbles I personally don't know I'm inclined to believe it's probably a little bit of both maybe we have our answer you know maybe that's uh maybe that's the theme for today is we kind of have our answer as to why so many people did not resist uh over the past couple of years in everything from medical tyranny to their jobs to things like that maybe we have our answer maybe they don't want to I don't tend to be very pessimistic um even these days I try to be I try to force myself to be optimistic I generally think I'm a I've been a realist for most of my life but I try to be optimistic these days because I think that it's probably a necessary feature for getting through life at this point r most of my life but I try to be optimistic these days because I think that it's probably a necessary feature for getting through life at this point but man it's really hard uh not to point out some pessimistic ideas which is that you know what maybe the reason why a lot of people went along with this tyranny is because they agreed with it unfortunately this idea makes everything we do in life so much more difficult uh it just complicates things and it's largely the reason why I haven't been able to do these briefs for a long time because it's basically just you know a cycle of well you know this horrible thing happens I can't find any way to make this positive uh and I have no solution for it it's just awful uh you know what do you do when you have a news cycle and it's not even just a mainstream media it's you have just every single world event that's occur heard is something that's both negative and you can't really do anything about it you know like I mentioned earlier I I just don't want to talk about stuff that I don't really have any solution for it's going to happen whether or not we want to or not and even just knowing about it is not really that helpful because it's just ave any solution for it's going to happen whether or not we want to or not and even just knowing about it is not really that helpful because it's just going to move on to the next thing right I don't know maybe a lot of this negativity is just because I'm personally overwhelmed at the moment hey you know I'm working myself to death you know they're on a renovation project and you know maybe that's just the reason why I seem to be more outwardly bitter than I than I probably am you know I don't mean that I don't mean to be overly negative for sure and I certainly don't want to let these people uh win the the last square inch of terrain that I actually have control over that which is between my ears but I thought that having a more unscripted uh real kind of uh briefing instead of a uh just a news brief might actually be a little bit more helpful for some of you who are who are working through the same thing and uh trying to figure out well what's going on and um where we're headed you know as a people every every day that goes by I become a lot less sure of the information that I'm seeing and I become a lot less sure of myself unfortunately it's inevitable and Generation War like th ome a lot less sure of the information that I'm seeing and I become a lot less sure of myself unfortunately it's inevitable and Generation War like that so uh keeping your head on right is is very important like I've said before but it it's easier said than done isn't it and I know a lot of you are are at the end of your rope uh with regards to what's going on in the world and you're just you're just looking for some solution any solution and uh I don't have those Solutions and the only thing I can do is say that you know I'm not quite at the end of my rope yet but I can see it from here and uh so I know how you feel um all those all of you out there who are dealing with very challenging things even for me there are days where I just have to keep telling myself you know focus on the things you can change get fit you know eat right move forward and let God handle the rest even if some days I don't feel like it uh that's just kind of the way it is and that's how I'm moving forward through a lot of this stuff and to sort of wrap things up that's why I focus a lot uh recently on more educational topics I know it's like you know like you know getting a kid to eat their vegetables right p that's why I focus a lot uh recently on more educational topics I know it's like you know like you know getting a kid to eat their vegetables right uh and it's not you know educational stuff is never going to be as popular uh as more entertainment type content especially on like YouTube which you know algorithmically does things to stuff like that but I'm focusing on it uh because I feel like this is one way that I can sort of Tamp Down The Dread and kind of help people move forward and and at the same time share some knowledge that's that's very helpful you know I've said for a long time that we have too much knowledge to learn and uh not enough time left and that was most certainly true uh so I think that putting out educational content at a Breakneck Pace while still keeping a good quality is uh very important and learning things being able to understand topics that you previously didn't understand and at the same time understand stuff that's going to help you through the next few years you know I think that's a great confidence booster and is really good for for helping us get through uh what is most certainly going to be a challenging decade so that's why I'm kind of focusin booster and is really good for for helping us get through uh what is most certainly going to be a challenging decade so that's why I'm kind of focusing on the educational stuff in addition to some of the other projects I'm kind of working on so that's pretty much all I have for today uh thank you all for watching I assume seriously mean that and I'm sorry if it wasn't the more Intel Centric update that everyone was probably expecting this one to be but hey it gets us back in the swing of things and uh as more International and and large you know strategic issues start to impact us on a uh on a daily basis I think it's good to kind of understand how things are are working uh up at these strategic levels even if we we can't really do much about it and a special thank you to all of our supporters on patreon and utreon which is uh now player uh you guys are awesome and we could not do any of this work without your support I seriously mean that so thanks for helping us carry on and we will continue moving on even if we have to for the time being fight in the shade