**[[Home]]** → **<u>Toolbox</u>** --- %% Begin Waypoint %% - **[[Toolbox]]** - **Mind Mapping** - [[Forming a Plan of Attack]] - [[Graph Trends]] - [[Using Frameworks to Dig]] - **Obsidian** - [[Frequently-Used Resources]] - [[Node Edge Types]] - [[Tagging Standards]] - [[YAML Standards]] - [[Recommended Twitter Follows]] - **Things to Ponder** - [[Belief Systems and Biases]] - **Quotes** - [[Where Power Resides]] - [[Twitter Advanced Search]] %% End Waypoint %% --- %%https://linkin.bio/groundnews%% # Overview Part of cultivating your own big dig energy is knowing how to get the job you want done yourself. I am by no means an expert, but over the past several years I've prioritized cultivating a digging toolbox that is reliable, efficient, and effective. Depending on what you're looking for, you might need to adjust the angle from which you approach information sourcing. Everything on this list is something that I use myself, and I hope it helps you out! **Note:** I prioritize finding free ways to do things, but a few of these are services that I pay for. I will be sure to make a note if that is the case. But again - I pay for them because they are effective, and I actively use them.:) # Resources By Use Case & Topic ## Crime - FBI Crime Data Explorer - Description: The FBI's Crime Data Explorer (CDE) aims to provide transparency, create easier access, and expand awareness of criminal, and noncriminal, law enforcement data sharing; improve accountability for law enforcement; and provide a foundation to help shape public policy with the result of a safer nation. Use the CDE to discover available data through visualizations, download data in.csv format, and other large data files. - \- Link: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/home ## Finance ==**Cover My Ass Statement:**== I am not a financial expert, and you should absolutely not simply go off my resource list or suggestion alone. - **Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker** - Check the current status of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) worldwide. - <https://cbdctracker.org/> # News Feeds & RSS ## RSS Reader - **Inoreader** - I use Inoreader for my RSS feed, and started doing so about 4 months ago as of July 2023. Of all the RSS readers I've tried, Inoreader has the best interface (in my opinion) and the free version lets you add up to 150 feeds before you need to pay for it. Currently, I am still using the free version, but the paid version is very modestly priced should I ever want to upgrade. - <https://www.inoreader.com/> ## News Aggregates These are just some aggregates I like and check frequently to browse headlines. - **1stHeadlines** - A no-frills site that simply lays out the current list of mainstream media headlines in chronological order. I like it because I can keep on top of what's "breaking" without staying glued to social media feeds all day long. - Full Aggregate: <https://www.1stheadlines.com/index.htm> - Conservative Feed: https://wwwstheadlines.com/conservative.htm - Health/Medicine Feed: https://wwwstheadlines.com/health.htm - Technology Feed: <https://www.1stheadlines.com/technology.htm> - **The Duke Report** - A website that aggregates latest headlines from alternative media sources & outlets. The includes groups like InfoWars, George Webb, Housatonic, Jimmy Dore, Revolver News, etc. The full list of sources can be found [here](https://thedukereport.com/sources-methods/). - <https://thedukereport.com/> ## Politics ### Elections, Policy, & Politicians - **Ballotpedia** - Tried and true and easy to use. "The encyclopedia of American politics." - <https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page> ### Political Spending - **FollowtheMoney** - A great site where you can parse through political donor and recipient data, focusing on state elections. The interface takes a slight learning curve, but it is very powerful. - <https://www.followthemoney.org/> - You can track [ballot measures](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/ballot-measures), the [competitiveness](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/ci) of a particular race, get an [overview](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/election-overview) of an election, track [lobbying](https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?dt=3&lby-f-fc=2), get a list of [lobbyists](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/lobbyist-link), get information for your [specific district](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/mydistrict), research your [state legislature](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/legislative-overview), or use the [power mapping tool](https://www.followthemoney.org/tools/power-mapping) to examine support and donor information for specific measures and bills. ## Websites ### IP & Domain Lookup - **IP-Lookup** - Retrieve the IP address associated with a domain name. - <https://ip-lookup.net/domain-lookup.php> - **Research IP Address** - Once you have the IP, you can search for it to see potential location, service provider information, etc. - <https://ip-lookup.net/> - **Alternative Method** - You can achieve the same results via ICANN. I prefer the site layout for the previous URL, but both will work just fine. - <https://lookup.icann.org/en> --- These are all uncategorized and need to be sorted/elaborated on. - Reverse Image Search - [https://tineye.com/](https://tineye.com/ "https://tineye.com/") - PDF Search Engine - [http://pdfyes.com/](http://pdfyes.com/ "http://pdfyes.com/") - PowerPoint Search Engine - [http://vadlo.com/Powerpoint\_Search\_Engine.html](http://vadlo.com/Powerpoint_Search_Engine.html "http://vadlo.com/Powerpoint_Search_Engine.html") - Facebook Ad Library - Useful for tracking political ads and NGO propaganda. - [https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active\_status=all&ad\_type=all&country=US](https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=US "https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=US") - OpenCorporates - Database of almost every company in the world. - [https://opencorporates.com/](https://opencorporates.com/ "https://opencorporates.com/") - IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search - Best way to find form 990-PFs, which lay out nonprofit financials. - [https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organization-search](https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organization-search "https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organization-search") - Health Data: - [https://healthdata.gov/](https://healthdata.gov/ "https://healthdata.gov/") - Pharmaceutical Side Effect Search: - [https://www.druginformer.com/search/](https://www.druginformer.com/search/ "https://www.druginformer.com/search/") - Snapchat OSINT Multi-Viewer: - [https://www.osintcombine.com/snapchat-multi-viewer](https://www.osintcombine.com/snapchat-multi-viewer "https://www.osintcombine.com/snapchat-multi-viewer") - Nonprofit Foundation Information Guides: - [https://www.foundationguide.org/foundations-trust/](https://www.foundationguide.org/foundations-trust/ "https://www.foundationguide.org/foundations-trust/") - Article Citation Index - Search for authors, topics, etc., of scientific articles. - [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index "http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index") - Internet Archiver: - View old versions of sites or search through the index of millions of documents, photos, videos, etc. - https://archive.org/ - Username Search: - Do a single search to see what platforms a username appears on. - <https://checkusernames.com/> - AI Search Engine: - A very powerful search engine that uses AI to find exactly what you're looking for. It takes a little getting used to, but it does an amazing job. - <https://www.iseek.com/#/web> - Directory of Open Access Journals and Articles: - https://www.doaj.org/ - World Legal Information Institute: - Laws, legislation, treaties, law journals, etc. - http://www.worldlii.org/ - CrimeSpider: - It's a now-defunct website with endless resources for investigating crimes. However, it was archived extensively and can still be explored very thoroughly via Archive dot org. - [https://web.archive.org/web/20181011232223/http://crimespider.com:80/](https://web.archive.org/web/20181011232223/http://crimespider.com:80/ "https://web.archive.org/web/20181011232223/http://crimespider.com:80/") - UN Map Library: - Maps of pretty much anywhere. I know it's a UN site, but it's handy. - [https://research.un.org/en/maps/] - Old Maps: - A directory of old world maps. - http://www.oldmapsonline.org/ - ReliefWeb: - NGO aggregate. - https://reliefweb.int/ - Other Internet Tools and Resources for OSINT: - This site has a pretty extensive list of different resources and methods for internet deep dives. Very handy to have bookmarked! - http://www.onstrat.com/osint/ - Information on Publicly-Traded Companies - [Morningstar](https://www.morningstar.com/) - Transgender Issues & News - [Reduxx](https://reduxx.info/category/news/) - [American Deception - Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt](http://americandeception.com/ad/) - [American System Now](https://americansystemnow.com/) - [Anagram Server](https://wordsmith.org/anagram/) - [Anna's Archive Book Search](https://annas-archive.org/) - [Antony C. Sutton Website](http://antonysutton.com/) - [Archive.Today (Webpage History)](http://archive.today/) - [Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page) - [Bookfinder](https://www.bookfinder.com/) - [Brave Search](https://search.brave.com/) - [Calibre eBook Converter](https://calibre-ebook.com/) - [Carroll Quigley](http://www.carrollquigley.net/) - [Carroll Quigley Website](http://www.carrollquigley.net/) - [Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker](https://cbdctracker.org/) - [CIA FOIA Reading Room](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/) - [Conspiracy Archive](https://www.conspiracyarchive.com/) - [Court Listener](https://www.courtlistener.com/) - [Deep State Timeline](https://www.fbcoverup.com/docs/cyberhijack/cyber-hijack-findings.html#timeline) - [Deep Translator](https://www.deepl.com/) - [Deliberate Dumbing Down | Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt](http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/) - [DSearch](https://dsearch.com/) - [Elon's Jet](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af) - [EncycloReader (Search and read online encyclopedias)](https://encycloreader.org/) - [Fabian Society and Young Fabians (Tracts)](https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/fabiansociety/tracts) - [Faded Page (Free Books)](https://www.fadedpage.com/index.php) - [Famous Kin](https://famouskin.com/) - [Firefighters for 9.11 Truth (Resources)](https://www.ff911truth.org/investigation) - [Fleet Monitor (Ships At Sea)](https://universe.fleetmon.com/explorer) - [Flight Radar 24](https://www.flightradar24.com/) - [Food Supply Chain Attacks 2021 -2022](https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=4410859&x=-89.849631&y=44.059004&z=14) - [Gibiru Search](https://gibiru.com/) - [Global GPS Jamming](https://gpsjam.org/) - [Google Advanced Search (evil, we know)](https://www.google.com/advanced_search) - [Google Translate Websites](https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&op=websites) - [GraphWords (a visual thesaurus)](https://graphwords.com/word/look) - [Housatonic Research Encyclopedia](https://sites.google.com/a/housatonicits.com/home/research) - [Infogalactic Encyclopedia](https://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page) - [Internet Archive Books](https://archive.org/details/inlibrary) - [Internet Archive Wayback Machine](https://archive.org/web/) - [Justia](https://www.justia.com/) - [Marine Vessel Traffic](https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/) - [Mechanical Bible Translation Project](https://www.mechanical-translation.org/) - [Merriam Press Military History Publisher](https://www.merriam-press.com/) - [MetaGer Search](https://metager.org/) - [Modern History Project](https://modernhistoryproject.org/) - [Mojeek Search](https://www.mojeek.com/) - [Newspaper Archive](https://newspaperarchive.com/) - [Newspapers](https://www.newspapers.com/) - [Nitter (Alternate Twitter Front End)](https://nitter.net/) - [Off Shore Leaks](https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/) - [Online Liberty Library](https://oll.libertyfund.org/) - [Open Secrets (Money in Politics)](https://www.opensecrets.org/) - [Opportunity Zone Tax Shelter Map](https://opportunityzones.hud.gov/resources/map) - [OSINT Framework](https://osintframework.com/) - [PDF Books](https://www.pdfdrive.com/) - [Peekier Search](https://peekier.com/) - [Pimeyes Facial Recognition](https://pimeyes.com/en) - [Play Diplomacy Online (Teach Yourself Game Theory)](https://www.playdiplomacy.com/) - [PowerBase](https://powerbase.info/index.php/Main_Page) - [Presearch.io (information)](https://www.presearch.io/) - [Presearch.org (search engine)](https://presearch.org/) - [Qwant Search](https://www.qwant.com/) - [Rhodes Scholar Database](https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholars-alumni/rhodes-scholar-database/) - [Richard Grove's Brain](https://webbrain.com/brainpage/brain/D36749F1-3A40-09FA-957F-41294B88CB70#-4902) - [Sage Journals (Tavistock) Search](https://journals.sagepub.com/) - [Searx (DIY)](https://searx.github.io/searx/) - [Searx Search (Online Instances)](https://searx.space/) - [Signature Reduction](https://www.newsweek.com/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881) - [Sky Circles Twitter Bots by John Wiseman](https://skycircl.es/donate-nerd-mode/) - [Snapmap](https://map.snapchat.com/) - [Spartacus Educational](https://spartacus-educational.com/) - [Start Page Search](https://www.startpage.com/) - [Swiss Cows](https://swisscows.com/) - [Tavistock Document Search](https://www.tavinstitute.org/search/) - [The Anarchist Library](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index) - [The Model Archives of Marlowe Press](https://www.modelscomposites.com/) - [The Rothschild Archive](https://www.rothschildarchive.org/) - [Tropical Tidbits (Weather)](https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/) - [Twitter Advanced Search](https://twitter.com/search-advanced) - [Tyrant Tracker](https://criticalsway.notion.site/027dd0569a5947a2b43f28a9b6beb581?v=6fcf0686d0664ce595edbb14ec2399b8) - [US Patent Search](https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/) - [War Maps (Ukraine)](https://liveuamap.com/) - [Wikisource - Free Library](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page) - [WikiSpooks](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page) - [Windy (Weather)](https://www.windy.com/) - [Word Cloud Generator (Jason Davies)](https://www.jasondavies.com/wordcloud/) - [Wordnet (word sense, not definition)](http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn) - [World Cat (Library Search)](https://worldcat.org/) # Subreddits - InstagramReality - Unfaking Instagram posts. - [r/InstagramReality](https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/) - LinkedInLunatics - Funny LinkedIn nonsense. - [r/LinkedInLunatics](https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/) - RecruitingHell - More corporate nonsense, not just LinkedIn. - [r/RecruitingHell](https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/hot/) # Content Creators I Like ## Personal Knowledge Management > Vicky Zhao Creativity through systems mindset. > - Intersectional Thinking [Substack](https://intersectionalthinking.substack.com/) > - YouTube [Channel](https://www.youtube.com/@VickyZhaoBEEAMP/videos) Disbursement records on the [Federal Election Commission](Federal%20Election%20Commission.md) Website <https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements> ---- # Nonprofit Research - IRS Form 990-PF Lookup - https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos - Use this to find EIN & org names. - ProPublica Nonprofit Index - <https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits> - Use the org name to get better overview and form 990's earlier. Maritime Tracking [FleetMon](https://www.fleetmon.com/) - [Port Database](https://www.fleetmon.com/ports/) - [Vessel Database](https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/) [TradeWinds](https://www.tradewindsnews.com/) - Shipping News %%Footer Starts Here%% --- <center><img src="https://archive.is/do5ay/df25cfff93575f174c387ac9f4c64744da0fadb9.png" alt="Keep digging!" height="100px"></center> --- ## Tags ### Linked Pages & Footnotes