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Google Working Feverishly To Place RFID Microchip In Your Brain

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12 years ago

July 22, 2013

Geoffrey Grider

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Google’s real goal seems to be singularity

The power of computing, and the thrill of its apparently infinite possibilities, has also long been a source of fear.

Going into a San Francisco second-hand book shop, shortly before a visit to Google’s headquarters in California, I happened upon a copy of Dick Tracy, an old novel based on Chester Gould’s cartoon strip starring America’s favourite detective. For a 1970 publication, the plot seemed remarkably topical. Dick, and his sidekick Sam Catchem, find themselves battling a sinister character known as “Mr Computer” who wants to control the world. His strange powers enable him to remember everything he hears or sees and recall it instantly. This is a bad guy who can store data, analyse voice patterns and read private thoughts.

My visit to the legendary “Googleplex” at Mountain View comes at an awkward time for the company. Edward Snowden’s revelations about the snooping of the US Government’s National Security Agency (NSA) in its clandestine electronic-surveillance programme PRISM have provoked a crisis of trust in Silicon Valley. Larry Page, Google co-founder and CEO, rushed out a blog to deny claims in leaked NSA documents that it – in parallel with other American internet giants – had been co-operating with the spying programme since 2009. “Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ internet activity on such a scale is completely false,” he said.

Trust is everything to Google

It stands on the verge of a technological breakthrough that can transform its relationship with us. Already, it is universally recognised as the world leader in searching for information. It handles around 90 per cent of internet searches in the UK: when we want to know something, most of us turn to Google. But it wants more – it wants to become our constant companion.

The rapid evolution of mobile technology has brought new opportunities to a business generating annual revenue in excess of $50bn (£33.7bn). It began, just 15 years ago, as a service that enabled you to type a request into a personal computer and be given links to associated websites. Things have rather moved on. Soon Google hopes to have the ubiquitous presence of a personal assistant that never stops working, capable of conversing naturally in any language. Ultimately, as Page and co-founder Sergey Brin have asserted, the goal is to insert a chip inside your head for the most effortless search engine imaginable. Some will find this prospect exciting. Others might want to call for Dick Tracy.

The first stage of this new level of intimacy is Google Glass, which I am invited to trial as part of a briefing on the company’s future plans

My first impression is that this revolutionary contraption is remarkably unobtrusive. It looks like a pair of glasses and, at 36 grams, weighs about the same as a typical pair of sunglasses due to its largely titanium frame. Despite the chunkiness of the right temple – made from plastic and where all the technology is stored – there is no sense of imbalance.

The awkwardness only starts when you start to interact. You turn the contraption on by tapping your finger on the right side of the frame, or surreptitiously throwing your head back. On a screen projected a few inches in front of your right eyeball is a digital clock and the magic words “OK glass”, the uttering of which takes you to a range of task options: ask a question, take a picture, record a video, get directions to, send a message to, make a call to, make a video call to.

The idea of Google Glass is that you can walk down busy streets receiving helpful facts – without needing to take your mobile phone from your pocket. It could end the urban hazard of pedestrians staring at their mobiles instead of looking where they’re going.

At the moment it’s a work in progress, which is why the prototype is called the Explorer and the 10,000 American-based pioneers who are trialling the apparatus – mostly web developers and heavy social-media users – are dubbed “explorers”.

Does it work? Yes and no. Answering questions is its central feature. It likes straightforward instruction such as “OK Glass… Google – what is the height of David Cameron?”, returning within four seconds with an image of the Prime Minister and a computer voice telling me “David Cameron is six feet zero inches tall”. But when I ask for the name of the wife of his predecessor, Gordon Brown, I’m offered details of “Golden Brown”, a hit for The Stranglers in 1982.

The camera and video option is novel and discreet, except when you bark out the words: “OK Glass, take a picture!” Three seconds after giving the order, you have a shot (or film) which you can share with friends on the Google+ social network. One Explorer recently used Google Glass to snap a police arrest as it was taking place. The potential is enormous: a proud mum could film her son taking a penalty kick in a football match while dad, abroad but connected through the Google Hangout service, could watch the action live through his wife’s Google Glass. The more you hand your life over to Google, the more you get out of this technology.

Google Glass is part of a wider ecosystem and is not currently intended as an alternative to a mobile phone but as a complement to it. Glass needs the mobile in your pocket to locate your position and connect to your contacts via 4G and Bluetooth. Rather than encouraging users to be constantly gibbering in public, the default position for this device is “off”, I am told. The screen has been positioned above the eye line and at two o’clock on a clock face to ensure that the people f you are with know from your squint when you are consulting Glass.

But none of these caveats can conceal the scale of Google’s ambition. It is staking its future on a vast store of information called the Knowledge Graph, which is growing at an exponential rate. When it launched in May 2012, Knowledge Graph was a pool of 3.5 billion facts on 500 million of the world’s most searched subjects. In a little over a year the knowledge held on the Google servers has grown to 18 billion facts on around 570 million subjects.

This Knowledge Graph is the base for Google Now, the latest incarnation of Google which is personalising the search engine by giving you a series of bespoke “cards” as you log on. They tell you the local weather, the traffic you might face on the way to work, details of your meetings and restaurant bookings taken from your Google email account, your team’s latest result and so on.

In Building 43 of the Googleplex, Ben Gomes talks with barely concealed excitement about a “new epoch”. A Google fellow and the company’s Vice President of Search he has been working on these technologies for 14 years. “[Knowledge Graph] is everything you have at some point asked a query about – plus everything that everyone else has thought of!” he exclaims. “It’s a meld of all the world’s interests and information needs.”

The future, he says, is for this enormous resource to be “present everywhere”. It’s a long step from the British Council library in Bangalore, where Gomes used to go to obtain his reading matter. “You borrowed a book – if it was available – and then you read it and got the next book. I got two books and that was all the information that I had for a week,” he says. “Today it would be unthinkable for that [information] not to be available in seconds.”

Google’s options have grown with recent advances in speech-recognition technology (it can now decipher 35 languages) and in natural-language processing, the “holy grail” that means the computer can understand what is being spoken (for example, knowing that “tall” refers to height) and hold a conversation. The “OK Google…” voice-prompted search tool (already installed on mobile apps) is to become standard on the Google Chrome engine.

Scott Huffman, Google’s engineering director, says the company’s intention is to “transform the ways people interact with Google”. That means having conversations similar to those you would have with humans. No longer will we have to go to “settings” to recalibrate our devices – we will simply order them to make the desired changes. And those devices will not be in our pockets – but all around us in every room.

“If you look back 10 years there was a computer on my desk and today there’s a computer in my pocket and it still has a screen and a keyboard,” says Huffman.

“But fast forward a bit and… I think there is going to be a device in the ceiling with microphones, and it will be in my glasses or my wristwatch or my shirt. And like the Google Glass it won’t have a keyboard… you just say ‘OK Google, blah-blah-blah’ and you get what you want.”

Where will it end?

Gomes agrees that a chip embedded in the brain is far from a sci-fi fantasy. “Already people are beginning to experiment with handicapped people for manoeuvring their wheelchairs,” he says. “They are getting a few senses of direction with the wheelchair but getting from there to actual words is a long ways off. We have to do this in the brain a lot better to make that interaction possible. We have impatience for that to happen but the pieces of technology have to develop.”

Any visitor to the Googleplex will testify that this is not a regular company. By lunchtime, Googlers are out on the sand of the beach volleyball court. A statue of a dinosaur skeleton – a pointed juxtaposition of past and future – has been decorated with model pink flamingos, hanging from its bones. Around the central patio there are awnings in Google-style primary colours which add to the impression of a holiday resort.

Building 43 is decorated with a giant model of Virgin Galactic’s Space Ship One, donated by Sir Richard Branson, and Building 2000 has a long, silver, swirling slide that allows you to bypass the stairs.

It’s no wonder people want to work here. About 10,000 do. But the company gets two million applications a year, a demand reflected in the new Hollywood movie The Internship, which was partly filmed at the Googleplex.

In the Dick Tracy novel, Mr Computer (his initials were I.B.M.) came a cropper when the detective’s deliberately eccentric behaviour caused his adversary’s brain to malfunction. But what would we do without Google? Since my visit I’ve found myself engaging more and more with its services. source – Independent UK

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SmartLA 2028: I’m Sure It’s Just A Massive Coincidence, But Did You Know They’re Planning On Turning Los Angeles Into A Smart City In Just 3 Years?

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2 weeks ago

January 9, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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In the confusion of the COVID Pandemic of 2020, a plan was quietly hatched to turn Los Angeles into a digitized smart city, welcome to SmartLA 2028

Earlier today, we wrote an article asking a question about the massive fire that has destroyed 12,000+ acres in Los Angeles, wondering if it happen by neglect or by planning. Did Gavin Newsom failed to prepare his state for this fire because he was so hyper-focused on transgender rights and healthcare for illegals? That’s a very likely possibility, and certainly part of the story, but as Paul Harvey used to say, “now for the rest of the story”. The rest of the story takes us to a little something called ‘SmartLA 2028’, the plan to turn all of Los Angeles into a digitized, smart city. That’s the memo.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (KJB)

Remaking a city is hard work, it takes a lot of time, a lot of planning and a lot of money, with little guarantee that the city you wish to make can be created from the existing structure. But what if there was a massive fire, say the largest fire in the history of Los Angeles, and much of the city you want to remake gets destroyed? Well, making the new city now would be so much easier to do. Is that what they just did? I don’t know, but it sure is crazy suspicious to have a preventable fire of this magnitude that somehow was not prevented, raze much of Los Angeles to the ground, leaving the mandate to rebuild, and as quickly as possible. Before you make up your mind, just remember that, if you were alive in 2020, you’ve already been exposed to a man-made virus intentionally released on the world from a lab in China, you’ve already been locked down against your will, and you were bullied into taking a ‘vaccine’ you did not want and did not trust that has already sickened and killed millions of people. Now, is staging a fire to turn Los Angeles into a smart city really so hard to imagine? Nope, makes a whole lot of sense to me.

In the confusion of the COVID Pandemic of 2020, a plan was quietly hatched to turn Los Angeles into a digitized smart city that would administer social justice, implement digital surveillance, and begin to start the process of making all residents give up their vehicles to take public transportation. One key ‘tell’ you will notice is the use of the term ‘stakeholder’ when referring to the residents of Los Angeles. You know who else talks like that? Klaus Schwab in the Great Reset. Here below is their plan to create a smart city out of Los Angeles, the full PDF is below it.

SmartLA 2028: Technology for a better Los Angeles

In 2019, the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) convened its Smart City Committee, composed of 24 departments and elected officials. While Los Angeles had become a civic technology leader (winning #1 U.S. Digital City award for three straight years), the exponential growth of new technologies and increasing public expectations SmartLA 2028 1requires new levels of coordination to realize our vision. Our Smart City Committee came to the following conclusions:

Smart cities are multi-faceted and made up of several components, not just IT infrastructure
Smart cities are evolving, which requires both near-term and long-term goals that adhere to an overarching set of Smart City values
Smart cities require collaboration, where government and non-government entities work together to deliver best-in-class services to the public
Smart cities require local resident and business participation, especially in light of major social movements, such as the protests for racial justice, the Digital Divide, and social impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic
Smart cities don’t happen by accident; they require careful strategic planning and investment to become intelligent urban ecosystems designed for the humans that live there. Understanding the importance of technology for the modern city, SmartLA 2028 is our concise smart city strategy, which is followed by specific working group meetings and an implementation plan for impacted City of Los Angeles departments.

The events of the year 2020 further remind us of the importance of being a Smart City. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a humanitarian and economic crisis. The protests for racial justice are a stark reminder of the urgency to unite and act upon our guiding principles for a just society that upholds and values the lives of all Americans, regardless of race.

Los Angeles residents will experience an improved quality of life by leveraging technology to meet urban challenges. No longer the “car capital of the world”, residents will choose how they wish to get around LA, using a single, digital payment platform, with choices like renovated Metro rail and bus systems or micro transit choices, such as on-demand LANow shuttles or dockless bicycles. Neighborhoods will again welcome the pedestrian and allow easy access to green space. NTEB TRANSLATION: You will give up your car, and like it (Klaus Schwab 2021)

Other advancements will enable Angelenos to access City services like park information or library digital content from the comfort of their homes through an Amazon Echo, Google Home, or Apple Siri. Living in a Digital Economy, the City of Los Angeles will continue to improve both the speed of Internet access and accessibility for underserved communities through a dedicated digital inclusion fund. NTEB TRANSLATION: There is no need to leave your home, everything will come to you, this is what a 15-minute smart city is built to do.

LA’s Smart City Strategy – SmartLA 2028

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From An ISIS Terror Attack In New Orleans To A Tesla Cybertruck Exploded In Front Of A Trump Hotel, We’re Getting The Message Of What’s Waiting In 2025

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January 1, 2025

Geoffrey Grider

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An ISIS terror attack started us off on New Year’s Eve, and now a Tesla Cybertruck has exploded like a bomb in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. What’s the message here?

Over the past few weeks on our NTEB Prophecy News Podcast, we’ve been warning you to buckle up for some serious stuff in 2025. We repeated that warning with our good friends at The Soul Trap in a special New Year’s Eve podcast last night. A podcast so hot, mind you, that YouTube removed it almost as soon as it aired. Yeah, man, that’s the business. All those warnings have come true in spectacular fashion as we are, right now, a mere 15 hours and 20 minutes into the new year of 2025, and already we’ve witnessed a mass casualty event in New Orleans where 10 died and 30 were wounded by a homegrown ISIS terrorist, and now a Tesla Cybertruck exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. Almost forgot, the skies have literally been scorched from chemtrail activity this morning.

“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” Habakkuk 1:5 (KJB)

On the Podcast last night, Bro. Tillis, Bro. Kevin and I talked about the extremely high likelihood that 2025 was going to be a ‘sister year’ to 2020, and let me just say right now we’re calling it. Donald Trump famously campaigned, (some would say infamously), for president alongside the world’s richest man and tech titan Elon Musk. You might even say that it was Musk’s help that put Trump in the White House. So what do we now make of a Tesla Cybertruck, outfitted as a literal bomb, and exploded in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas? It’s a message is what it is, and that message is ‘prepare for war’ in 2025, because it’s not only coming, it’s here. That’s the memo.

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Tesla Cybertruck ‘explodes’ at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, video goes viral

FROM THE HINDUSTAN TIMES: Authorities are investigating a car fire that took place at Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday. A vehicle was reportedly caught up in flames, leaving a cloud of smoke outside the Trump International Hotel in Nevada, reported Fox 5 Las Vegas. While the fire has since been put out, the Las Vegas police department said that they are looking into what caused the incident at the hotel’s entrance.

Tesla Cyber truck explodes in front of Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. ISIS attack in New Orleans, Tesla bomb in Vegas, what’s next?? pic.twitter.com/Z3JiMM1NGM

— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) January 1, 2025

In the video obtained by the outlet, smoke can be seen billowing from the 64-storey luxury hotel. A Clark County spokesperson confirmed that a vehicle fire was first reported around 8:40 am in the valet area, per KSNV. While no injuries have been reported, roads near the hotel were shut down. Fashion Show Drive is currently closed from Las Vegas Boulevard to Sammy Davis Jr. Drive.

This is the exact moment that homegrown ISIS terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar plowed into a New Year’s Eve crowd in New Orleans, killing 10 and wounding 30. Welcome to 2025, now buckle up. pic.twitter.com/TRwIXYzcF5

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According to a viral clip shared on X, a Tesla Cybertruck can be seen wrapped up in flames at the president-elect’s hotel. Internet personality Nick Sortor also shared the video along with the tweet, “Police are now calling the Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas an “ACTIVE CRIME SCENE.” Multiple injuries are being reported as well. Is someone trying to send a message?”

Another X user who goes by the name Marissa said that they were staying at the Trump Hotel. “Staying at Trump International right now. The elevators are off & the hallways are smoky on the 26th floor. No communication from the hotel to the guests yet,” the user wrote while attaching seemingly real-time videos from the hotel. READ MORE

Massive Chemtrail Spraying To Welcome In The New Year Of 2025

Looks like 2025 is going be another NTEB ‘year of prophecy’ as the end times craziness is pinning the needle here on Day 1 of 2025. Please enjoy this short film we are calling ‘Chemtrails Over Central Florida’, and Happy New Year!

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DRONE MYSTERY SOLVED: Palantir and Shield AI Are Releasing The Hivemind Autonomous Drone Deployment System And We’re The Test Subjects

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December 16, 2024

Geoffrey Grider

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Palantir and Shield AI are collaborating on a new effort to use Hivemind technology to allow drones and other uncrewed systems to autonomously detect and respond to threats without direct human control

On the Podcast that ended just moments ago, we showed you the incredible trail that starts with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel creating PayPal, takes you to a company called Palantir who created a COVID Vaccine Recipient Tracking System called Tiberius for the Trump administration, to Thiel ‘gifting’ JD Vance $15,000,000.00 in 2022, to Vance becoming VP in 2024, to Elon Musk who ‘adopted’ Trump and used his vast wealth to drive his election bid over the finish line, back to Palantir who is, right now, working with an AI company called Shield to launch the Hivemind. What is the Hivemind? It’s the reason for the drone sightings all across the country, it’s a practice run.

“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.” Daniel 2:19 (KJB)

Alex Burtness, director of product management at Shield AI, said the Hivemind system enables uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) to perform tasks such as threat detection, targeting, and mission adaptation without manual input. Palantir’s interface provides operators with command and control, situational awareness, and data-driven decision-making, Burtness said. “It allows them to see the big picture,” he said.

The aircraft uses sensors to create a map or world-view, the Hivemind then tells the aircraft or autopilot where to go and what to do to execute its mission. No GPS, no waypoints, and no comms are needed for aircraft to accomplish their missions.

Donald Trump in the closing weeks of his campaign, was all of a sudden courted by tech titans Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and a few others. They all wanted in and no one knew exactly why. Shortly after Trump’s stunning win on November 5th, the drones started appearing in the skies over New Jersey. They have increased in frequency and duration since that time. Strangely, Elon Musk who loves all things sci-fi, created a rocket ship company bigger than NASA, built a town called Starbase in Texas, and wants to colonize Mars has had exactly ZERO interest in finding out anything about the drones, or even talking about them. Why? Because these drones are a test run, a practice run to launch the Hivemind. Whoever controls autonomous drones will control everything, and this is why the tech titans are all onboard with Trump. The Pandemic was Phase 1, this is Phase 2. Phase 3 will be implementation along the lines of Revelation 13. Got questions? Great, here’s some more answers.

Pentagon Press Secretary REFUSES to explain why the CIA/FBI drone briefing remains classified, but tells you there’s nothing to worry about. Our government is 100% behind these drones, using companies like Palantir to run these nighttime operations. Lockdown is coming. pic.twitter.com/73I9OsayCc

— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) December 18, 2024

We’re building Hivemind, our AI pilot, to enable swarms of drones and aircraft to operate autonomously without GPS, communications, or a pilot.

Now before you make up your mind about what I just said, did you know about HR 8610? There is a bill before Congress right now called the HR 8610 Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act, and it is there to “reauthorize and reform counter-unmanned aircraft system authorities, to improve transparency, security, safety, and accountability related to such authorities, and for other purposes.” Isn’t that an amazing coincidence? I mean, what are the chances of that? Pretty good, as it turns out.

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So is it possible that all the drones sightings over the past few weeks, more than 5,000, are because the American people are being used as guinea pigs in a massive experiment to bring in the Hivemind system. Not only is it possible, it is highly probable when you consider we were used as test subjects during the forced COVID vaccine injections from 2021 – 2023. (Well, I was not used in that way, but maybe you were as 230,637,348 Americans got the clot shot.) The tech titans who have attached themselves to the incoming Trump administration – Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk – are in prime standing to not only launch the Hivemind, but everything else they’ve been working on in secret DARPA, Meta and X backroom experiments.

But since they say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, let me leave you with this. At the Army Navy football game attended by Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk, one of the main sponsors for their massive Jumbotron billboard was, you guess it, Palantir. You can see the screen capture at the top of this article, that’s not Photoshop. During that game, dystopian software company Palantir released this commercial that will tie the rag on the bush, and connect all the dots for you.

END TIMES MATH: Peter Thiel + JD Vance + Donald Trump + Palantir = NJ Drone Sightings. This is the Palantir commercial from the Army Navy Game last week. We will discuss this in detail today on our Podcast, don’t miss it! #dronesightings #palantir pic.twitter.com/RnIpQ9suec

— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) December 16, 2024

What does the Palantir commercial show you? Well, on the surface it purports to show you a massive cyber system protecting America from her enemies, but after you’ve watched it a few times, you see a little deeper into the release of bursts of drones, and then you know exactly what you’re looking at. The drone sightings over the past few weeks have been a real-time experiment to see how Americans will react to an aerial army patrolling the skies. Peter Thiel bought himself a VP in 2022, Elon Musk bought himself a Commander-in-chief in 2024, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, ChatGPT guru Sam Altman and Meta monster Mark Zuckerberg just paid for Trump’s inauguration. (“cue crypto replacing the dollar”) The tech titans have taken over, and that’s exactly what they have planned for us here on Day 1,736 of 15 Days To Flatten The Curve. Welcome to the Hivemind.