Disclaimer: The following is a series of fictional accounts of theoretical situations. However, the information contained within was taken from established scientific journals on covered technology and military studies of real life combat scenarios. Alt-Market does not condone the use of any of the tactics described within for “illegal” purposes. Obviously, the totalitarian subject matter portrayed here is “pure fantasy”, and would never be encountered in the U.S. where politicians and corporate bankers are forthright, honest, and honorable, wishing only the sweetest sugar coated chili-dog best for all of mankind…
Imagine, if you will, a fantastic near future in which the United States is facing an unmitigated economic implosion. Not just a mere market crash, or a stint of high unemployment, but a full spectrum collapse driven by unsustainable debt spending and hyperinflationary printing. The American people witness multiple credit downgrades of U.S. Treasury mechanisms, the dollar loses its reserve status, devaluation of the currency runs rampant, and the prices of commodities and imported goods immediately skyrocket.
In the background of this disaster, a group of financial elite with dreams of a new centralized economic and political system use the chaos to encourage a removal of long held civil liberties; displacing Constitutional protections they deem “outdated” and no longer “practical” in the midst of our modern day troubles. This group then institutes draconian policies through the executive orders of a puppet president, including indefinite detention, assassination, and even martial law against citizens. For now, let’s just refer to them as “The Swedes”….
The Swedes have an extraordinary array of technological tools at their disposal. The kind of equipment dictators like Stalin and Hitler would have killed for…literally. This technology is so pervasive and so unprecedented in the history of tyrannical governments that average people shiver at the very thought of resistance. The Swedes seem to be invincible.
Some Americans think about escaping to a foreign country before the zealots totally dominate, but ultimately, running is meaningless. The Swedes want a global control grid, not just an American one. Eventually, the expatriates will have to face the music as well.
Others believe that they can take their families and hide alone in far off mountains to wait out the storm, but they do not consider what will happen to their country and its principles while they curl up in a ball and pray that the catastrophe does not touch them. They forget that survival is hollow if one finds himself and his culture enslaved in the meantime.
And yet others, those who are aware of the consequences of unchecked oligarchy, decide to build communities of liberty minded individuals in preparation for the dangers ahead. They seek local and national solutions, social and political. However, always in the backs of their minds sits the understanding that these situations rarely if ever solve themselves, and rarely if ever end peacefully. Despots only respect one thing - Power. Those who refuse to fight back are, in their eyes, nothing but an easy meal, like a wounded animal in a forest of wolves. This third group of awake Americans comes to realize that one day the Swedes will move with severe aggression, and will have to be physically stopped. But how...?
With modern computer driven weaponry at their fingertips, any resistance appears futile. Some Americans, though, do their homework, and discover that most successful revolutions against better equipped opponents utilize low tech methods in highly intelligent ways. They study the inherent weaknesses of the enemy weapons platforms using readily available online manuals and scientific journals. They realize that these pieces of equipment costing millions of dollars each can be defeated using methods that cost little more than pocket change. A war of economic attrition ensues, whereby the Swedes find themselves completely dependent on systems that cannot be maintained without substantial financial sacrifice. With each new piece of hardware, comes an even more frustrating strategy of defiance. Here are just a few examples…
CCTV Surveillance Grid
Sam is a Liberty Movement sympathizer caught in the city during the establishment of a high-tech surveillance grid in his hometown. The dastardly Swedes relish the idea of being able to keep tabs on every person everywhere. They even establish a database in the heart of Colorado which collates information in real time, allowing them to build and organize files on millions of citizens. The success of this grid depends greatly on the capacity of their CCTV cameras placed in an ever expanding spider’s web across heavily populated regions. The cameras use biometric data collected and stored by airport body scanners which the “extremists” often refer to as “naked body scanners”. The data allows computers to quickly match specific body signs to identity.
The Swedes told the public that their data would not be saved for future reference, but of course, this was later found to be a lie. It did not take long before the scanners were moved from the airports, to train stations, to bus stations, to federal buildings, to street corners for random shakedowns. Sam knows that if his file is pulled up by one of the cameras, he is in serious trouble, and so makes plans to escape the city limits. With curfews being set earlier and earlier in the evening, he decides to make his move before it is too late.
The night vision and thermal vision capabilities on the latest CCTV cameras makes disguise nearly impossible. Makeup and prosthetics help to hide bone structure, and a knee brace helps to change the gait of Sam’s walk, but Sam also knows that the thermal filters on the cameras are actually able to see the heat of blood flow through facial arteries, which act as a face fingerprint. There is no low-tech way to forge this face fingerprint:
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse891/Sect601/textbook/9.pdf
So instead, Sam decides to block the camera system’s ability to use thermal vision at all. He does this with a few dollars and a hat, gluing small Infrared LED lightbulbs into the cap along with a tiny battery source. The IR lights drown out the CCTV ability to make any clear distinctions in his face, thus preventing any positive ID. Sam is clever, and plants similar IR devices on other people without their knowledge, diluting the attention of Swedish law enforcement officials who are left wondering if their cameras are malfunctioning or if their city is swarming with “terrorists”:
http://hacknmod.com/hack/blind-cameras-with-an-infrared-led-hat/
Fingerprint Scanners
Angela is a worker in a Swedish detention facility. At first, she believed that all the people quartered in the facility were terrorists who represented a threat to innocent lives. But, over time, she came to realize that the true innocents were being housed in the prison, most of them detained for no more than criticizing Swedish policy or protesting a political injustice. Angela makes plans to steal confidential information on the camp from her boss’ office and hand it over to the resistance. Unfortunately, her boss uses a fingerprint scanner to unlock his door. Luckily, she had done research into fail-test methods for such scanners in scientific and security journals and learned how to make molds using latent fingerprints:
http://stdot.com/pub/ffs_article_asten_akaseva.pdf
RFID Chips
RFID chipping is all the rage with the Swedes, so of course they were more than keen to introduce the intrusive technology to the U.S. once the control grid was established. The tiny inexpensive chips allowed tracking of nearly everything, from retail habits, to civilian movements, to common monetary transactions. Evan, a computer hobbyist and quiet supporter of the Liberty Movement, found that without certain RFID designations, many goods could not be purchased, at least in bulk. Only Swedish officials had the ability to go anywhere and to buy what they needed.
Evan found a solution, not necessarily “low-tech”, but easy enough to make using common materials and a basic knowledge of electronics and programming. His idea? Build an RFID Emulator/Cloner:
http://cq.cx/proxmark3.pl
The cloner had the ability to read particular RFID chips, even from a distance, and to then copy their unique signal. Evan was able to clone any chip anywhere and then implant the code on an RFID card or any other item containing a chip, making life easier for him, and information easier to get for others.
GPS Tracking
Evelyn was a political activist and independent journalist before the crash. Her writing had become quite prominent in freedom minded circles, but the dollar had fallen, and with it, the Constitution had been scrapped. Her criticisms of the Swedish controlled government were well known, and she had heard stories of liberty writers “disappearing”. She decided to leave the confines of the city to stay with a friend before the noose was tightened completely.
As she entered her vehicle and made her way outside the city along backroads, away from the highway and possible checkpoints, she noticed that a nondescript car seemed to be shadowing her from a distance. She made a few unplanned turns, and did not see the car again for twenty minutes. Then, it appeared again, at the very edge of her mirror’s field of vision. She realized that she may have a GPS tracking device implanted somewhere in her car, and to find it quickly would be impossible. Thankfully, she had purchased a GPS jamming device months ago, which allowed her to block any GPS transmissions within a small to medium radius. The device was furiously labeled by the FCC as “dangerous” and “illegal to use”, however, they remained very easy to buy until the crash:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/02/uk-research-measures-growing-gps-jamming-threat/
http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/2007/01/29/homemade-gps-jammer
Electronic Surveillance In General
Whether it be a CCTV camera, or a body scanner, sometimes the best option is not to evade or disguise, but to pull the plug entirely. At least, that was James’ point of view after the control grid went into overdrive and he couldn’t walk his dog without a blue-shirted Swedish agent fondling him on the sidewalk or forcing him to stroll through a body scanner. Finally, he had had enough, and so, decided that if they wanted to track every move of every person, it was going to cost them.
Using commonly available parts, James built a personal EMP device. Its range was dependent on the size of the power supply he tied to it, but when used properly, it would zap anything with a circuit within several feet of him:
http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm
The Body Scanners were useless. RFID tags went blank. CCTV cameras shorted. They would eventually be replaced, but the cost would be high, and as long as he didn’t get caught, James could experience, at least for a short time, the America of the past…
Sound Cannon / Silence Gun
Mary had seen her family in poverty, her country in ruins, and her government turn to outright treason. In her mind, the only recourse left was to take to the streets. However, this proved to be almost as useless as participating in the election process. New sound cannon vehicles were deployed in waves along with riot police to quell any and all protests, no matter how peaceful in nature.
Mary learned two things quickly. The first: always bring a gas mask to the party. The second: always think simple when faced with technological tyranny.
The sound cannon blast was terrible, making concentration difficult and causing panic amongst the protestors. Even worse though was the Silence Gun:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/weird-gun-future-attacks-words-not-people-193050045.html
Which actually recorded and then projected back a person’s voice only a split second after they began to talk, causing mental confusion and eventually, frustration and silence. The device was popular at political events where activists were likely to interrupt a candidate’s teleprompter speech to expose the public to a few truths. Mary was not a hacker, or a military specialist, or a technician of any kind. So, she wore ear plugs. Problem solved.
Night Vision / Thermal Imaging / Predator Drone
A considerable threat to those who decided to fight back against the Swedes was the widespread usage of night vision and thermal imagers by troops sent to hunt down and capture dissenters (the Swedes called them “enemy combatants). The use of FLIR cameras on aircraft and the feared predator drones were especially terrifying to those who knew very little about how such technology actually functions.
David, an insurgent against Swede governance, was tired of hearing about how the Predator Drones would be the doom of all who defied the establishment. He felt that this outlandish perception came more from the fact that the drones had no human passenger, and so, no potential casualty risk. The concept of facing down a machine that feels no combat apprehension is certainly disturbing, but not insurmountable. At bottom, what the enemy cannot see, the enemy cannot kill. And so, instead of trying in vain to fight the drones and their thermal / night vision on the terms of the oppressive military presence, he decided to make their vision advantage irrelevant by studying IR evasion used in sniper training.
Regular night vision relies, in most cases, on the use of an IR light which bounces off targets within the field of view. This is often referred to as “Active IR”. Thermal Vision reads existing IR at a different wavelength, usually in heat producing or high IR producing bodies, called “Passive IR”.
For evading Active IR night vision, David found that regular camouflaging methods along with smoke worked well. For defeating night vision altogether, he found that bright IR flashlights and floodlights, and even regular bright lights like camera flashes, shined directly at the target wearer of the night vision device, would cause blindness for a short period of time, leaving room for escape.
Thermal vision evasion was more difficult. David and his team first studied the IR Emissivity Tables of common everyday materials:
http://www.optotherm.com/emiss-table.htm
http://www.tnp-instruments.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/emissivity_how_to_check.pdf
All objects above the temperature of absolute zero release a certain level of electromagnetic radiation, which thermal imagers pick up and translate into a visual picture. Hiding one’s heat signature is difficult, but not impossible. The key, as David learned through military sniper training manuals and combat analysis, was to match his IR signature with that of his surroundings as much as possible.
He fashioned a hooded cloak using a material that would block much of his initial warmth, then lined the inside of it with emergency space blanket material, which reflects back around 90% body heat. The cloak design worked well because he could easily take down the hood and unwrap himself when not in immediate danger, allowing the material to cool as he walked.
Then David attached local vegetation to the material to help match its IR Emissivity to the surrounding foliage. This combination reduced his thermal signature drastically. Overhead drones could not identify him clearly as a human, if they were able to see him at all. Ground forces were a greater threat, but the element of surprise was still possible for the insurgents with cloaks.
In combat, the tandem dangers of drones overhead and ground forces in pursuit with thermal vision made life difficult. David carefully studied field guides to Predator Drone strengths and weaknesses:
http://info.publicintelligence.net/JFCOM-UAS-PocketGuide.pdf
David and his team then utilized a special strategy under these extreme circumstances called “False IR Signature”.
Operating in bad weather gave the freedom fighters an instant advantage. Heavy rain washed away thermal footprints and obscured body heat. Thick cloud cover made image integrity poor. Contrary to popular belief, the drones had many downfalls, and their eyes were limited in numerous ways.
When in the middle of combat, where drone surveillance was most dangerous to low-tech resistance, multiple fake IR signatures were created using whatever was available. David used a combination of IR Chemlights and hot burning road flares thrown all over the field to misdirect drone cameras. With IR hotspots everywhere, the thermal cameras had no idea where to focus, let alone which targets were real, and which were fake. IR strobe light flares flashed intermittently causing even more confusion, and masked to some extent muzzle flash from firearms.
Larger objects could also be faked using pieces of metal heated with fire, or even heated metallic balloons arranged in a sizable pattern to mimic a hot running car or tank. Drones would zero in on false targets and unleash missiles, only to waste the expensive ordinance on party favors and scrap. Through David’s knowledge and efforts, the game had become more level.
Technology Or Force Of Will?
Technological weaponry and surveillance should never be underestimated. Today’s advancements are terrifying, devastating, and were designed after decades of trial and error in peripheral wars and burgeoning dictatorships around the world. A technology cannot be defeated by someone who does not respect its capability. That said, in the end, wars are not won with fancy gadgets alone. All conflicts are decided by a primary driver; force of will.
Who has the strength of spirit to endure the longest? Who has the intelligence to outwit the technology? Who knows exactly what they are fighting for and why? These questions decide victory, not unmanned aircraft and computers.
In the introduction, I joke a little about the state of our Republic, but sadly, the fictional accounts above represent realities that Americans today must consider as practical and possible in the near future. “The Swedes” are not illusion, but a parable of the kind of totalitarianism that arises in the midst of any culture dominated by elitism and collectivism. Whether you believe this is realistic or not in our nation today I suppose is dependent on your level of awareness surrounding current events. My goal in covering the information above is not to convince you one way or the other of the dangers ahead. The point is to redistribute the knowledge so that one day, in the event that the stories portrayed turn out to be more true than you realize, you may have the ability to do something about those troubled times as an effective champion, rather than a helpless victim…
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written by ferndale , May 24, 2012
"in a future, deep in space, a tyrranical government sought control and wealth for it's corporate leadership..."
written by N2theRepublic! , May 24, 2012
Nice, and good links.
I especially like the Rod Serling-esque intro!
written by CM , May 24, 2012
As always Brandon, you are doing your part for the resistance. God bless you and thank you for your ability to articulate and inform the masses as we wake up to the tyranny that is upon us. Down with the "Swedes"!
written by CM , May 24, 2012
BTW.....Alex's current ongoing focus on "normalcy bias" was inspired by you....good job Brandon. Understanding this "bias" and the complacency associated with it is critical to coming to terms with our weakness. The American people are ignoring the obvious signs of tyranny that are bombarding us. We are sick....and we are in denial. This article should inspire the resistance to research and understand the means at our disposal for fighting back. Look out elitist....we are not animals and you WILL be held to account.
written by Pete DiOrio , May 24, 2012
Idiot Savant, instead of a drive-by tirade, why not elaborate on your "Why don't you stop the people doing this?" solution? What do you propose? Vote in the good collectivists? Shoot people? Might you be capable of providing some constructive solutions? We'll stand by.
written by bob g , May 24, 2012
with all this high tech crap, aren't the swedes worried about the population revolting?
I mean Sweden IS the home of the Nobel Peace Prize, isn't it?
written by Brandon Smith , May 25, 2012
Idiot Savant's mindless blathering is a perfect example of the kinds of people who are NOT going to make it through the collapse. They are legends in their own minds, but contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion or the cause. Notice how he expects ME to solve the problem for him, but wants me to do it HIS way. Then he fails to offer any solutions of his own. This is the very definition of schizophrenia.
Idiot,
I suggest you stop wasting your time reading my articles if you hate them so much, and start spending more energy on actually doing something legitimate for the movement. Unfortunately, you don't seem to have the guts to follow through on your own ideals. I don't know why you expect other people to be gung-ho about them....
written by Trisha , May 25, 2012
Everything your article refers to is 'today's reality'. It is, however, from the elite's point of view, nothing more than a stalling tactic. They need time to complete their theft of the world's wealth and to lay their plans for making their escape. They're leaving? Of course. Think about it: once the global economy is toast, where will the money come from to buy these hi-tech gizmos and to pay their enforcers? There won't be a tax base - few will have a decent job. There won't be nations ready to loan money to this or any other government.
The powers that be will have to finance this security state from their own pockets. And, for what? To preside over an impoverished, truculent and rebellious population? There's nothing in it for them except a continuous game of 'whack a' mole'.
http://www.scifi-babe.com/authors/The Utjenet Tablets P.htm
written by The One , May 25, 2012
Nice work Brandon. There are indeed many low tech methods of defeating the enemies high tech weapons and tools. The list you provided was a good start, especially the EMP devices. Many of these things will be made illegal or unavailable very soon so we need to pass this information on as quickly and widely as possible. All who wish to employ such methods must do their best to acquire and stash these things for the future but do it now or you wont get the chance later.
The Swedes are watching so act fast or will not have a prayer once they squash these threats. Knowledge is power... Attain as much as you can now!!! Peace.
written by Anonymouse , May 25, 2012
Thanks for all of the tips and links!!! I printed it all off for reference when the time comes that info like it is "streng verboten!"
I sure would like to find a copy of the schematic for the GPS jammer...they don't show it all on the link you posted, only a partial schenetic with the rest obscured. Do you have another link you can point me to for it?
I would highly recommend everone else print this stuff out now while it is still available.
written by Anonymouse , May 25, 2012
P.S. To reiterate what The One said above, I remember not too long ago where you could buy a GPS jammer here and now it appears that they are illegal. I kick myself now for not getting one a couple of years back when I first saw them for sale.
Now if only I could find a schematic of one...
written by Brandon Smith , May 25, 2012
You can still buy them legally here in the U.S. Its sort of a "gray area". But I suspect it will soon be illegal to sell them at all.
written by Redleg , May 25, 2012
Can you please post a link where to get them? I think I better do so now while it is still possible to do so.
written by Brandon Smith , May 25, 2012
Jammer Link:
http://www.jammerall.com/categories/GPS-Jammers/
written by The One , May 25, 2012
I posted a link for a cheap GPS / Cell phone jamming device but it disappeared when I tried to click on it to see if it was still up. Are posted links disabled?
www.onsources.com/products/Wholesale-Portable-GPS-+-GSM-Cell-Mobile-Phone-Jammer-tool.html
written by Brandon Smith , May 25, 2012
@The One
Not sure what's going on there. It takes me to the website, but says the page is "not found".
written by EmBee , May 27, 2012
I"ve always wondered if those "space blankets" could trap in body heat to thward the passive IR readers? If you were on the ground, completely covered by a blanket, with some vegetation over you, would it help you escape detection?
Also, is there a difference in heat signature between the living brush, and the branches and stems pulled off for cover?
written by Bill Derberg4 , May 27, 2012
Thanks, I love to learn about high tech stuff. I still think of "Minority Report" and how how Tom Cruise dealt with his tech dilemmas. I've always wondered how American troops with 4th generation night vision can be dealt with.
written by yank lll , May 28, 2012
There are other low tech solutions to the domestic enemy's arsenal. A balloon filled with oil based paint all but disables armored vehicles because they cant see out.. you can also use a mix of contact cement and fast evaporating solvent in bottles or other sticky combinations.. a few balloons filled with gear oil smashed on the ground at the feet of militarized enforcers violating the right to protest should give them pause to advance too far forward..
of course if the operators of those hi tech gadgets should fall suddenly incapable of performing that will also work.
written by Free, not a slave , May 28, 2012
Has anyone ordered from Jammerall.com? Is the business, which is located in Hong Kong, legitimate? Do you get into trouble as your order arrives in the States?
written by tech know , May 29, 2012
A couple of IR LEDs on your hat won't stop a camera from seeing your face. You can test it yourself by taking any remote control unit from your TV (which contains bright IR LEDs) into a dark room, and have somebody look at you with cell phone camera. Play with the direction of the remote, and you see the only time it hurts viewing is if it is aimed directly at the camera. The rest of the time it just tags you as a target of interest. All video cameras are sensitive to IR. Thermal Imaging is NOT the same as the IR (Infra Red) from LEDs. Just because they both have an IR in their name doesn't make them even close. In short the author is either ignorant or misleading his readers.
written by Brandon Smith , May 29, 2012
@Tech
Apparently, you did not watch the included video which PROVES that the strategy works. I suggest you do so before jumping to uneducated conclusions based on your extensive experience with TV remotes...
written by Papa Smurf , May 29, 2012
Chain mail may be useful versus microwave area denial systems if the rings are small and conductive. Just sayin'
written by Vendetta , June 05, 2012
Just look at their "reviews"... written by the same Chinese who sell the product. Not a single one which looks like someone actually bought the product, tested it, and decided to write about their experience.
Avoid at all costs. Brandon: recommend withdrawing your link to (and tacit support of) the site.
written by Brandon Smith , June 05, 2012
@Vendetta
It is just one of many companies that sell similar Jammer technology. Most sites that sell this kind of gear do not have a bunch of "Rate it" reviews like amazon. I think you are reading way too much into the design of their site.
But, if anyone has made a purchase with them and found the goods or services unreliable, I would be happy to take a look at their complaint.
Removing the link merely on someone's random suspicion, however, would be silly.
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written by jammer-buy , November 13, 2017
I decided to install a signal jammer to make mobile phones not in the service area of the test site. The goal is to prevent cheating. There is a small earphone in the ear that USES the phone to explain the phenomenon from the outside. We covered facilities that introduced the same functionality.
http://www.jammer-buy.com/blog/n-47.html
