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Yesterday, I had a near miss with death.  I was walking down the street and a car accelerated, swerved towards me and crashed into a tree.  The driver got out of his car saying that all of the sudden the car started racing and steering towards me like it was trying to kill me.  He had nothing to do with it.  I smelled something on his breath.  Was he lying, or was this a grim warning from Ada?  I don't know. And those of you who commented below. Thank you for support. Should something happen to me, carry on and believe the Truthseeker.

As I said. It was just over a year ago. And the glyphs are back.  This is very dangerous.  Thanks for the post Mustafa Said. Originally shared by Mustafa Said Good afternoon, Investigators of Operation Essex. My name is Mustafa Said and welcome back to Today in Niantic History. This one's a recap of some intel release between the 6th of September to the 8th. On September 6th, Glyph Expert and Investigator Carrie Campbell was confirmed dead by H. Richard Loeb. Here's his take on how he found out:  "When I received this poster, again signed by Tycho, I rushed back to Chicago. Hoping, I think, to prove him wrong. I regret to inform you that I have identified the body of Carrie Campbell at a Chicago Morgue. The Tycho image clearly showed part of a note written by Carrie, but when I asked the Detectives about it they were not forthcoming. I didn't show them the fragment from the Poster. They were visibly uncomfortable with my presence, and I'm fairly certain that operat...

Wasn't it almost exactly a year ago that Ada hacked Klue?  And what have we done?  Nothing. Time to get serious and take her down.  Now it appears Ada may be inflicting the same thing on regular people.  What is it going to take to stop her?  I want Klue back.  Don't we all? Forgive me if this is an emotional post, but I found yesterday's Ingress Report extremely disturbing.  I know I must atone for the hand I had in creating Ada, but I can't do this alone.  Who agrees with me?  Who will take a stand and help stop Ada? If I had a plan, I would be implementing it.  I am seeking ideas.

WHERE HAS DR. WRIGHT BEEN, ANYWAY?  Haven't heard from him in a disturbing amount of time?  Did he try and make contact with Devra and something go awry?  (I've dug up a lot but I've never learned the reality of that relationship).  I'm beginning to suspect that they don't know that reality either.  Did one of his strange visitors, or 'watchers' finally take him out of the equation?  One thing I'm here to tell you is that the old phrase is true, 'just because you're paranoid doesn't mean somebody isn't following you.  Wright spawned Essex. That makes him both very dangerous and very valuable to all sorts of interest.

WHY WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT ANTOINE SMITH:  Who is this shadowy character from Hulong?  Simple answer:  a very dangerous guy. The first time we met him was in The Alignment: Ingress.  He and his shadowy partner, Chen,  who was found dead in Mexico City were carrying out a murderous Conflict Metals campaign in Africa and attempting to acquire the secrets of Dark XM from a Congo Crater.  Nearly caused Hank Johnson and Conrad Yeats to recurse before their time. I f we skip past the question of why Smith survived and Chen died (Or did he. Cryptic hints from the Fragment of the Shaper Key suggests that either Chen's death was faked, or they somehow brought him back) we can not escape the fact that  Hulong has been in the Dark XM business for a long time.  But back to Smith. he surfaces again in the Niantic Project Wiki in reference to something called  'The Chaotic Syndrome'.  One reference and then its gone.  What's that?  Does he have it?   What we do know is that he...

Lynton-Wolfe on the Market? Poor Oliver Lynton-Wolfe. He releases iOS and thwarts Devra.  He’s a big hero, but he’s a hero without a country, or more specifically without a lab.  He did all that work back in the Jarvis days, or maybe before. What’s he doing right now?  Hiding out in a cabin without internet?  I know that feeling.  What I think is he’s trying to hire himself out to the highest bidder, but given past experience, I’m thinking IQTech and Hulong think he’s burned bacon, so that only leaves one home.  Have I got that right or am I missing something? What are the pieces of this puzzle?

Eerie Silence on the Hunt for 1331 A couple months ago, we saw repeated attempts for the NIA to recapture 1331 (AKA November LIma). We saw what appeared to be dumped bodies, vanished vehicles, hunts for 1331 that ended up with a shot down drone. There was a lot of speculation on what was inside 1331. Then, suddenly everybody stops talking. Why? What’s in there?  Who is this driver, anyway? For now it seems to move from place to place like a  ghost ship.  Silence is always unnerving?  Has the NIA given up or have they regained control?

Eerie Silence on the Hunt for 1331 A couple months ago, we saw repeated attempts for the NIA to recapture 1331 (AKA November LIma). We saw what appeared to be dumped bodies, vanished vehicles, hunts for 1331 that ended up with a shot down drone. There was a lot of speculation on what was inside 1331. Then, suddenly everybody stops talking. Why? What’s in there?  Who is this driver, anyway? For now it seems to move from place to place like a  ghost ship.  Silence is always unnerving?  Has the NIA given up or have they regained control?

HOW MANY DEALS WITH HOW MANY DEVILS:  Before the moment passes, we should take a look at the Calvin/Lynton-Wolfe conversation.  If you remember, it was a year or so ago that Jarvis lured Lynton-Wolfe out of IQTech and then nearly killed him after his failure at Cassandra.  Or was it that Lynton-Wolfe tried to double-cross Jarvis? I can hardly remember myself.  Now, they're speaking again. Not that I'm thrilled about the subject matter. I've yet to hear anything good about Dark XM.  Can some kind of alliance with Jarvis (who may or may not be with us) be in the offing?  Calvin also seems to have re-forged his alliance with Lightman and Schubert, but I don't think they were ever really on the outs. Is Calvin trying to re-form the Niantic Team?  Is an entreaty to Devra far away?  (Somehow he's got to get past the 'Bobby' incident.).  And what has become of Bobby?  There's a lot going on under the surface here.  And why do I get the feeling that all of them ...

YURI NAGASSA MISSING? So we know that there are mysterious artifacts (of what, really?) emerging, and the corporations are allying in ways that are horrifying in concept, but there’s something else happening under the radar to keep an eye on.  +Yuri Nagass has been emitting strange texts.  The Essexians have been transcribing them (where is Wright, by the way? Hasn’t checked in in a while.  Sooner or later somebody is going to come to his door and its going to be all over. But I digress).  As best I can tell, Nagassa returned to his un-contacted (except by him) native friends the Anazteka (you remember, Nagassa grew up with a father at a remote Soviet-era observatory -- wonder what they were looking for).  They were in a  state of excitement about something going on in the Valley of the Dead (not on a map) and he went on a journey. Found something there that upset or excited him. Hard to tell. Then he disappears.  I’m not suggesting that Ingresstigators look for him, I’m sure all sorts...

ADA’S CREATION: Let me clear something up.  My job on the Niantic Project was, put colloquially, helping ADA pass the Turing test (It was actually more complex than that and wasn’t technically a Turing test) so that she could facilitate and monitor the investigators on the Niantic Project as they studied XM. Ada had components of Omnivore, some custom code before I came in and components from a previous AI I constructed. After all, I didn’t get the job out of nowhere.  What I didn’t know about AI is that it would take on a life of its own quite the way ADA did.   So, viewed one way, I’m guilty.  Viewed another way, holding me responsible for what subsequently happened is like holding a parent responsible for their grown child.  Would I do things differently this time?  Of course. Would an ADA like event have happened inevitably.  Of course.  Nevertheless, I own my responsibility for what has happened, and believe me, I have felt the consequences.  Now, I can only proceed from the now a...

JARVIS WARNS OF DANGER AS HELIOS ARTIFACTS EMERGE And I’m inclined to believe him.  You heard me right. I might have leaned Resistance in the past, but I’m back to where I started. Truthseeker.  And you have to look for truth everywhere -- even Roland Jarvis. (By the way, what’s going on with him? I’m hearing rumors. So here’s where we are. We’ve got a Consortium and Arifacts. Consortium of who? Artifacts from what? Some thoughts:  Think back almost a year. The same day (date?).  Carrie Campbell makes the sacrifice and Klue stares into the glyphs and changes forever (forever? Will it be forever?) And what of the Shapers? What do they want? Were they protecting us from ourselves?   And what of Ada? At this point, what is the difference between her and a Shaper? And you’re hearing this from the guy who coded her.

Say what you want to about Wright. He does have an eye. And I felt the same thing.  I was watching Klue and something was wrong, but I'm not objective about these things.

I sat down to review some of the footage from my last meeting with Carrie Campbell in Chicago last year. It was more to honor her memory than anything else, but I noticed something I had failed to last year. As I was waiting for Carrie to arrive, in the background, it appeared as though she may have dropped or hidden a small object or something similar before she approached me? I don't know.... I immediately contacted a trusted source in Chicago and sent him to the area. He scoured the location but could find nothing. Perhaps there was nothing to find... But just in case, Investigators in the area, I would appreciate if you could keep your eyes open.  If Carrie did indeed leave something, it could potentially be tremendously valuable. A gift from the past. This is the location that she seemed to hover near in the video. My source in the area sent this photo to me earlier today.

Excellent question about 'who are the dead?'  I can't answer that right now, but I am trying to find out..  I must confess that one of the reasons I became interested in Artificial Intelligence was to create a kind of immortality.  I could never have predicted what would happen with it and Ada's disturbing plan or the corruption of one as brilliant and innocent as Klue. We didn't know anything about Glyphs or XM or any of the things that are becoming so evident now.  What is coming next?  I don't know.  But I am a truthseeker, and I can seek the truth in the future as well as the past. I do know that I do not want my brain coopted by an artificial intelligence I helped create.

Nearly a year ago, a brave and brilliant researcher’s career came to a sudden end, and I miss her. Her name was Carrie Campbell. She reached into signals from the unknown and revealed one of the most powerful mysteries to emerge from the Niantic Project: The Shaper Glyphs. Her gift was language, symbols and the fabric of understanding, and she wielded it with grace and power. The last time we met was in Chicago, the site of the #Helios Anomaly less than a day away. The Portals there will activate tomorrow, and Agents will leverage the power of XM to plot our path into the future. I can't help but wonder... Why there? Why now? Could it have something to do with Carrie Campbell's last message to us all? She gave her life protecting us all after the emergence of the 'Shaper Self-Destruct code,' a Glyph message with the power to end civilizations. Some have contested the nature of that threat, but I believe it was real. I also believe that when Carrie unleashed the power of...

Martin Schubert is a brilliant scientist, but I have a hard time forgetting that he came into the Niantic Project as a skeptic, running away from rumors that his academic opinions often followed grants and other forms of compensation.

Thank all of you for your concern and comments about my return to the investigation.  I was distracted for a time. At some point, we will discuss all of this. I still have some unfinished business. But to the problem at hand. The clock it ticking. We are nearing Comic-Con, which is when all of this began.   Here is how I see the present situation.  Devra has unleashed a vaccine or an inoculation or a virus (they can sometimes be the same thing: like smallpox to cowpox) which threatens to choke off the portals (I am speaking metaphorically, not strictly scientifically).  OLW (Oliver Lynton-Wolfe) has taken the counter measure of unleashing millions of new Ingress Agents who unwittingly think they are playing a game, to keep the XM flowing through the portals and thus keep the Ingression alive. Curiously, I cannot speak to what Ada and Klue are thinking or doing at this moment.  I am working in a 'Blindspot' right now and am shielded from them for obvious reasons.  But it is my w...

With disillusionment growing and events spinning out of control, I will be returning to the investigation very soon.  New Initiates into the "Game" known as Ingress must know the truth and I will, once again, guide them on their journey.   The Irony that this all began around Comic-Con in 2012 is not lost on me.   The new Ingresstigation begins with one question:  What in Hell is going on?  There are sides within sides, factions within factions, motives within motives.  We must regain clarity. For those of you who are just pulling on the thread, I suggest you look at this:   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANmnh-zSy2kQ8XXWD3FqMXQteqPcvhvr https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANmnh-zSy2kQ8XXWD3FqMXQteqPcvhvr

TRUTHSEEKER LOG:  February 2014  While I have been off the grid, I have not been idle.  I needed disconnection to be able to form a more complete picture of what has gone before with the Niantic Investigation in an effort to project what is to come.  My continued thanks to the Investigators who have constructed a magnificent Wiki.   http://niantic.schlarp.com/   Relevant to today, Dr. Joanna Brandt has a long and tortured history with the Niantic Project. We first met her as the working partner of Antonin Hollis. Remember who he was? Roland Jarvis' Psychiatrist. She was his partner.  He died under mysterious circumstances (suicide? -- http://goo.gl/G9X2nu ).  When we next saw her, it was on the Ingress Report debating with Dr. Victor Kureze days before his untimely death as the Niantic Project was shut down ( http://goo.gl/q80upJ and http://goo.gl/R3v2Gh ).  We know that at some point she developed relationships in Washington with Congressman Robert Dasher and was able to have Haz...

Anybody out there?

This is where it all began... http://youtu.be/oRJtL4V_Cmw

My penance was not enough. http://youtu.be/Q95cRBkSQmc