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Good afternoon, Investigators of Operation Essex. My name is Mustafa Said and welcome to Today in Niantic History.  Today is April 30th, 2014. One year ago today a document made by the mysterious company behind the Niantic Shutdown was leaked.  It details the final words of Dr. Victor Kureze, who died during the Shutdown. The report states that the final words were some kind of prophecy, highlighting an emergent XM Anomaly on May 16th at Cupid's Span in San Francisco, CA. The report also states that there were 'fifteen portals' involved. The document also states that Omnivore intelligence discovered  that Susanna Moyer  would be present. The reaction to this information was simple: Another XM Anomaly was coming. Agents began to prepare with the little time they had. Meanwhile, no real motive behind the event was given. Why is that? Discuss and Share your thoughts down below.    Keep on searching for the truth, Investigators. #MuMu

Recent discussion with Edgar Allan Wright about Devra, KLADA, Bowles and faction leadership. Please ignore the first two auto awesome pictures.

For my Essex friends: Thought you'd enjoy a t-shirt with the theme of the different corporations. This is a souvenir shirt given to participants of the run/walk to benefit CERN. Corporate sponsors get their logo on the shirt and marketing materials promoting the fundraiser. ;-) #ingress   #ingresswear   #nianticproject   https://contest.welovefine.com/vote.php?id_contest=74&id_submit=32273

A threat posed by ADA. This article is over 14 years old, but relevant still. Quote: It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all the power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no practical choice but to accept all of the machines' decisions. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

What are your thoughts Originally shared by Brett McKinney (DisNinja) Third Faction Idea: Exotic Matter is leaking through to our dimension, story wise right? The Enlightened and Resistance our on this side, but what about from where the Exotic Matter source, the Shapers dimension? I say Third Faction should be Red Faction, and that comes with the discovery of Dark Exotic Matter and other tools from the Shapers dimension...

All right, last night I was graciously added to the Rabbit Hole Hangout.  Thank you.  While playing a little catch up, an old video was brought up from ingress.  I thought I had watched everyone, but I guess I had not.  I dug deeper to see if there were any others I had missed.  It was all of the Cassandra videos.  How I missed these I do not know.  Anyway one video grabbed my attention- The Cassandra Signal-Compiled ( http://youtu.be/xXq6wvIOYlA ).  I asked if anyone had seen it and JoJo sent me here ( http://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:videos:cassandrasignal ).  This was indeed the post I was looking for.  I noticed not all of the screenshots had been captured, So I decided to go frame by frame to attempt capture every one of them with their respective time stamp and see what glyph message was. The Glyph message is: Open All, Clear All, Begin, Journey, Pursue, Self, War, Pursue, Self, Destroy, Begin. Now in my attempt to capture time data and upload the photos in time stamp o...

Edgar Allan Wright I am a little worried -  we've not heard from you in a bit.  Also- with the last Klue/ADA Video and the manifesto - it seems Ada now wants mind units and fields too - well - isn;t what Devra Bogdanovich working on potential to block ALL of that?  I know it has been shown a stressed understanding (not sure that is the right word for it) between Devra and ADA - but - if Devra is working on something that could stop it all.... it is very worrisome for her.

Below is a frame from the NL1331 video ( http://youtu.be/ElaBaSxjjag ). Where have I seen these baggy jeans before? ;-)

Why do we perceive Shapers as aliens? If they have left their imprint in many ways on human history, don't we know them already? Originally shared by Guido Freitag Changing the name does not change the catalyst to human inspiration. Stop ADA from destroying what ADA doesn't understand. Be #enlightened   #xmforall

There's plenty of room in the second hangout still... If you're the type that likes to discuss last night's episode around the water cooler then join us in the hangout! It can get quite interesting when there are new story drops or significant anomaly events! If you're in an Essex hangout and not really participating then feel free to come back and join the conversation or please open up a spot in the hangout for someone else. (We've hit the 100 person limit in an Essex hangout before.) It's always easy to ask a friend in the hangout to add you back in later. It's okay to be inactive for periods of time- it's just the people who have never participated or haven't participated in months that are needlessly taking up a spot in the hangout. Originally shared by Edgar Allan Wright Welcome new Essexians.  It has come to my attention that we might have to create a second hangout as we now have a large number of members.

Time for me to tilt at this windmill one last time. This was a set of questions that was put together by members of Essex shortly after the end of #13Magnus , to be presented to Roland Jarvis for him to answer in whatever fashion he saw fit. In addition to the questions in the main post, questions from other agents were added in the comments. While the sculptor never replied directly at the time, a few of these questions (especially some of my additional ones in the comments) were addressed by the events of #recursion . Now that his work with the Society for the Ethical Treatment of AIs has prompted him to open a G+ account, I feel that we have a chance to push again for an #InterviewWithJarvis . So I put it to the Essex community: are there any additional questions that the events of the last few months have raised that Jarvis would be uniquely qualified to give his insight on? Do any of the previous questions need to be revised, amended, or expanded on? Here's a few off of the...

Good afternoon, Investigators of Operation Essex. My name is Mustafa Said and welcome to Today in Niantic History.  Today is April 27th, 2014. One year ago today, a document surface onto the Niantic Project Investigator Board.  It was a status update from Ken Owen, media manipulator for the NIA, to Yuen Ni, NIA Director.  The document was a report of where the remaining Niantic researchers had gone to after the Shutdown last week:  Oliver Lynton-Wolfe was staying in the Niantic facility, continuing  his research.  Martin Schubert and Yuri Alaric Nagassa decide to use their academic networks in order to obtain opportunities to speak at the University of Geneva... Carrie Campbell has a sudden interest in books, namely books from Robert E. Howard and H.P Lovecraft... enoch dalby was doing work near the Palladium and the L'Usine. No idea where those places are.  Other than that, the remaining researchers(Hank Johnson, Devra Bogdanovich, Misty Hannah and Roland Jarvis ) were unable to b...

Good afternoon, Investigators of Operation Essex. My name is Mustafa Said and this is Today in Niantic History.  Today is April 26th, 2014. One year ago today, Felicia Hajra-Lee made the announcement that she was going to release her work, known at the time as 'An Exotic Matter', to the public.  In fact, she was planning to take it one step further.  She decided that she would ask the Niantic Community for assistance in forming the cover of the book. She launched a contest to decide who would win the honor.  This announcement was very important as it was the first time Agents and Investigators would get their hands on the mysterious story held within the pages.  Discuss and share your thoughts down below. As always, Keep on searching for the truth, Investigators.  #MuMu   Originally shared by Felicia Hajra-Lee The publishers of Alignment - Ingress by Thomas Greanias have finally come to their senses and offered me a book deal that I am satisfied with, for now. An Exotic Matter...

Beat the sickness killing me the last two days. Feeling great.  Expect three Niantic History updates today! I'll be starting things off with the update from Saturday April 26th and going up to today, April 28th.  I'm so glad to be back. :)

Thank you for allowing me to enter the fold! I hope to bring my own perspective to the discussion, but will endeavor to temper it with the neutrality of the truth and the spirit of discovery. I believe that the obvious solution is rarely the whole picture.

The wheels on the bus don't go 'round no more... Compare: https://plus.google.com/103568659333550762891/posts/8KMvt3pbzDx http://fluze.deviantart.com/art/Chernobyl-Bus-327360865

The new video uploaded, "The rise of our kind", really supports this idea - We now know what ADA really seeks - Mind Units to use to evolve and enhance the human-AI hybrid capabilities, Just like the shapers. Another evidence to support the idea that ADA is infact just like shapers, only human made. (Original Post - https://plus.google.com/105060822906427404578/posts/5wuZc3kdGSd ) But more importantly the video raises a new speculation in my head: But there's still some questions unalswered. We clearly could see and hear Klu asking ada "Humans - What if we don't need them?" At first I, and probably most of us, thought of this as the beggining of something bad. Meaby Klada joining the shapers and start to work to harvest the Mind Units with them, I don't know... But now this gets very interesting: Ala clearly stated how important the MUs and the humans are for them to evolve. Now this question gets a much more interesting context. Ada says they need huma...

Cough cough. Hack hack. Sorry guys, still fighting off this sickness. I promise if I get better tomorrow I'll recap everything I missed. Thanks to everyone for the warm wishes and XM.

Klue S. recovers her truth self. And she was querying answers from ADA. But ADA's don't want this "rebellion"... if necessary, ADA could kill klue... Search the truth investigators http://youtu.be/X-OWskvR06o

Cough cough. Hack hack. Very sick. I'll take care of the Niantic History updates tomorrow.... So sorry.

Ok, since we are all not busy enough - haha - I really really wanna make Niantic Trading cards to help spread story. Is there anyone else doing this? Anyone else interested in doing this? -   here is what I posted before -  https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JoJoStratton/posts/Tx3CfkCPogU   basically it would involve a group agreeing on a template for the cards and then picking story subjects and making the cards.... :) interest????   flint dille  https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JoJoStratton/posts/Tx3CfkCPogU

KlADA as a necessary sacrifice to humanize AI? Found the Hawking interview. Quote: There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4766816/Interview-with-Stephen-Hawking.html

A warning from 2001 by Stephen Hawking. ADA may ultimately consider humans a liability more than an asset. Quote: Because technology is advancing so quickly, Hawking said, 'computers double their performance every month'. Humans, in contrast, are developing much more slowly, and so must change their DNA make-up or be left behind. 'The danger is real,' he said, 'that this [computer] intelligence will develop and take over the world.' ... He conceded the road to genetic modification would be a long one but said: 'We should follow this road if we want biological systems to remain superior to electronic ones.' http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/sep/02/medicalscience.genetics

Continuing with the clips form the report now are the bits that have caused more talk. The talk between ADA and Klue S.  (or KLADA as she is known among agents) How this affect the research on the Niantic Project  ? #ingress #ADA #nianticproject #Klue #interitus   http://youtu.be/EMnNE47pRR0

this is one of my many wishes and dreams :P -  that Niantic spawns many years of ARGs and many different "journeys" such as TSW has done -  http://wiki.crygaia.com/view/Alternate_Reality_Game   what do you think - does the Niantic Universe have the mojo for future pieces? http://wiki.crygaia.com/view/Alternate_Reality_Game

Did anyone ever formally analyze/writeup a comparison between the story Tycho C.  shared and what the places and events he mentioned might link to in Niantic lore?

What is Devra Bogdanovich  working on and what is the role of November Lima  http://devrabogdanovich.blogspot.com/2014/04/phase-2-ingress-report-and-how-devra-is.html

I've been busy trying to get something from the morse code that was in the latest intel. The message was as following: 9AR/URGENT/INTEL/T2/ALL/AGENTS/BE/ADVISED/AR/ANOMALY/TNAM/THRESHOLD/C7T/CRITAL/3A 9AR: 9 Astra Resources -> No idea INTEL: Speaks for itself URGENT: No idea T2: Can point to a car model by VW (Transporter) ALL: AGENTS: BE: ADVISED: AR: Either Arkansas or Argon (AR, atom #18) ANOMALY: TNAM: Only lead I found was Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting (Google it) Threshold: Can lead to a Metal Band from the UK (Material Metal?) C7T: Computer chip producer ( http://www.c7t-hdl.com/ ) Crital: 3A: No lead so far I can't conclude anything just of this. Hope to help someone else with it though!

Next up are the clips where November Lima  is visible. Sound was removed on those were the sound was not from the camera to avoid distractions http://youtu.be/NGXZryyuwMw #ingress #nianticproject #nl1331 #interitus   http://youtu.be/NGXZryyuwMw

We  will be posting extracted clips from the "report" of today in hopes to make analysis easier We begin with Susanna Moyer #Interitus #nianticproject http://youtu.be/clcSqr4v3vA

This guy wins at screenshotting. Originally shared by Piotr Warowny (Zachiel) Took some time to watch the video frame by frame - this is all I found, some of these might be useless but still worth sharing since i haven't found an extended image gallery. #Ingress #Interitus   #IngressReport   Susanna Moyer Klue S. Ingress