The Surveillance State: DIVA Software

From the Archives, 2016.

When Martial Law begins steam-rolling in these larger cities across the CONUS, this is just one of the tools Uncle Sam will unleash to either arrest or plant “protesters” (ie Domestic Terrorist).

Considering how technology like this grows and sharpens itself exponentially, it would behoove the martial citizen to consider how something like this can be abused and in turn, circumvented when the time comes.

The program is called Deep Intermodal Video Analytics—or DIVA—and it seeks to locate shooters and terrorists before they strike.

The intelligence community is working on amping up people-recognition power to spot, in live videos, shooters and potential terrorists before they have a chance to attack.

Part of the problem with current video surveillance techniques is the difficulty of recognizing objects and people, simultaneously, in real-time.

But Deep Intermodal Video Analytics, or DIVA, a research project out of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will attempt to automatically detect suspicious activities, with the help of live video pouring in through multiple camera feeds.

ODNI’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency is gathering academics and private sector experts for a July 12 “Proposers’ Day,” in anticipation of releasing a work solicitation.

“The DIVA program will produce a common framework and software prototype for activity detection, person/object detection and recognition across a multicamera network,”IARPA officials said in a synopsis of the project published June 3. “The impact will be the development of tools for forensic analysis, as well as real-time alerting for user-defined threat scenarios.”

In other words, the tech would scour incoming video surveillance and body-camera imagery from areas of interest for people and objects who could present a threat, or individuals and items that might have been involved in a past crime.

This is the type of video-recognition system that might have been used for identifying would-be suicide bombers before the Paris and Brussels attacks, some video analytics experts say.

Privacy laws in the United States and Europe differ, so it is unclear whether such activity-recognition software would have been legal to use on video around the time of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Nextgov has contacted ODNI for comment.

Read the Remainder at Defense One

So we’re ‘Domestic Terrorists’, is that it?

The old saying that “One man’s Terrorist is another man’s Freedom Fighter” holds true now more than ever. The key as history dictates is to let the actions of the Aggressor (a Government gone off the rails) speak for themselves. Because the more Unconstitutional action they take, including violence against civilians via police thuggery, the more public opinion will grow in favor of the so-called “domestic terrorist”.

It’s Guerilla Warfare 101 and you better be ready to Boogaloo when the time comes!

Over past few weeks I’ve had the blessing of running a classes for some great people. People you’d never know from anyone, on a dirt road you’d never go down, at a dead end with a pack of dogs that would verifiably and easily eat an unwelcome guest. And that’s the way it should be.…

via So we’re ‘Domestic Terrorists’, is that it? — American Partisan

Texas News (Houston): Yet another news station (KPRC) on the designated terrorist group CAIR payroll?

Thanks to “Multiculturalism is our strength,” Houston is well on it’s way to becoming another Dearborn Michigan.

Sam Houston is rolling over in his grave vomiting.

 

Why would any news station in Texas think Texans would be the least bit interested in every little thing that Muslims do on Ramadamadingdong? CAIR on TV . KPRC in Houston does seem to spend an inordinate amount of time covering CAIR–concerned Muslim topics: The decision by @USSupremeCourt regarding the so called “Muslim Ban” has…

via HOUSTON: Yet another news station (KPRC) on the designated terrorist group CAIR payroll? — BARE NAKED ISLAM

As a General Rule, Crowds are BAD

From the Archives, 2018

At a car show recently held in Victoria Texas, a drunk paroled felon who had been locked up for (wait for it) D.W.I, drove his car into a crowd of people, killing a 65 year old man.

This type of threat where a vehicle is used as the weapon, has become common place in the last few years, as witnessed in the Bastille Day Attack in Nice, France in 2016 , the Hudson River Park Bike Path Attack in New York in 2017 and most recently the Yonge Street Van Attack in Toronto Canada.

Regardless of the motive of the attacker whether it be islamic terrorism or a delusional drunk moron, the end result is the same: Mass carnage.

As John Farnam points out in his recent quip, words like “security”, “protection” and “safety” are words that exist only in the vocabulary of sheeple. It is no longer realistic for the armed civilian to assume any of these things EXIST when you go out in public.

In fact, when you start looking at all of the mass casualty attacks worldwide just in the past five years, the old adage of “there is safety in numbers” is proven a severe falsehood.

In the 21st Century, people gathering in large crowds must now be considered a serious liability to the martial citizen. Apart from vehicle attacks, just look at what happened with the Las Vegas shooting.

The bottom line is this: The only “security” that exist in venues like this is what you, the ARMED citizen create for yourself and your tribe.

Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!

Learning from Insurgent Tactics: The Vehicle as a Weapon

From the Archives, 2015

Armored Van used in Attack on Dallas PD 6/13. Bought on Ebay for $8K

The attack on Dallas PD this past Saturday by a man in an armored van represents a variation on a tactic that has not been seen since the DC Sniper Murders in 2002, where a man and his young accomplice, using a Chevy Caprice sedan and turning the trunk into a “mobile” sniper hide, killed 10 people and critically wounded three others. The two concepts, an Armored Wagon or Van and the Mobile Sniper Hide, have at their core, basically the same concept: To Use a vehicle as a platform for a shooter or shooters to engage civilians and law enforcement, attempting to kill as many as possible. The differences lay in HOW these methods are applied.

The Mobile Sniper Hide (MSH) is a covert weapon, meaning it’s strength lies in NOT being detected, as the shooter engages targets both quietly and quickly as possible, keeping the location of the shooter (and shot) both hid (in the DC Sniper Case, by shooting from the car’s trunk through a small hole). The Armored Wagon on the other hand, OVERTLY engages targets (through gun ports), purposely drawing fire as it rolls on, ie like the Dallas PD attack recently.

The critical keys to remember if the AV concept is to work effectively, is that the engine block must be further bullet proofed (a .50 Caliber round took out the engine block) the tires must be run flats and reserve fuel bladders added.  If the engine or tires get disabled, or you run out of gas at a critical juncture, you are no longer mobile and have no egress options available; you are dead in the water, literally.

As far as the two concepts go, the Mobile Sniper Hide is a much more effective tool for the lone or small unit of of Guerilla fighters who live in a civilian population that is not controlled by military forces. Less attention is drawn to the vehicle as a whole, making it easier to hit and run (in reference to the One Shot Sniper Method discussed in the book Fry the Brain by John West.)

If history is studied, armored vans (or improvised fighting vehicles) work well in WAR zones, where both the VOLUME of fire coming OUT of the vehicle and the expectation of SUPPORT (from other vehicles and infantry) can be expected to be large. The downside of course is ANTI–Tank and Vehicle weapons such as Mines, IED’s, RPG’s, Javelins and Grenade Launchers. The evolution of the IFV is an interesting study for the CO. Although I typically steer away from Wiki-Pedia, their entry on this subject is quite extensive and for the most part, correct. Read it HERE.

Another element of the insurgents use of vehicles to achieve a desired aim can be seen currently with the situation in Iraq where a large number of American Humvees that had been given to the Iraqi Security Forces were stolen by ISIS and turned into VBIED’s (Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Devices). Read that story HERE. 

VBIED’s (or car bombs) have been a technique that has seen widespread use by insurgents and terrorist alike. Some of the worst attacks (as far a total number killed) have occurred on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. However, if you ask any American with a sense of history, they will tell you by far, the two attacks that are seared into their memory are The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, both car bomb attacks.

In 2010, a car bomb was detected and diffused in New York’s Times Square, thanks to some street vendors who were paying attention. Just another example of why AWARENESS is our first and primary weapon in self-defense.

 

Bibliography and Suggested Reading

• Fry the Brain by John West

• Buda’s Wagon by Mike Davis

• Bandit Country by Toby Harnden

• Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough

 

Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!