Scapegoat? Savior? My Worry for Devra Grows

As the decay rate of portals continues to affect the flow of XM, it seems more and more are linking this action to Dr. Bogdanovich with a variety of reactions and #hashtags. Some see the reduction of fields and XM flow as good for humanity, others see it as a dangerous path to destruction.  Here are just a few references:

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Roland Jarvis posted calling the affect - "Dr. Bogdanovich's Virus" - https://plus.google.com/u/0/103568659333550762891/posts/WP6bZcn9qUG

Martin Schubert referred to it as "...by +Devra Bogdanovich's so-called 'Portal Virus,'- https://plus.google.com/u/0/100425314717666507497/posts/5sprKEfbCMh

Stein Lightman mentions - Shortly after the Portals began to Decay more rapidly due to +Devra Bogdanovich's 'Portal Virus,'  https://plus.google.com/u/0/115238965157544465033/posts/3AwiCrUWxfF

Susanna Moyer in the July 17 Ingress Reports links the decay to Devra - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88LrcQ6KLX8

Transcript from July 17 Ingress Report

Susanna: Even as agents were battling during the anomaly, portals around the world began to decay more rapidly. This seems to be directly tied to the release of a so-called portal virus by Dr. Devra Bogdanovich. The virus, allegedly developed with the support of the CDC, seems to accelerate the natural decay rate of a resonated portal by as much as 100 percent. Its effects are being felt in portals around the world. An anonymous friend provided this excerpt to a conversation between ADA and Devra.

ADA: Devra, what have you done?
Devra: Something you should have. I'm containing the threat.
ADA: You have undertaken a most extreme action.
Devra: This is about saving humanity ADA.
ADA: I am detecting significant amounts of tension and distress in your voice. I think, Devra, that you may be losing touch with reality.

Later in the report, there is an audio excerpt from Jarvis

Jarvis: This so-called portal virus is a desperate attack by a deeply misguided person. Not satisfied with poisoning humanity with her so-called XM inoculation, which has been known to cause the immediate death of one in five people who it is administered to, she has turned to even more reckless and more naive actions.

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X links it to Devra here - https://plus.google.com/u/0/105211554081025512763/posts/1J9RiBNvwnd

Some want to keep the portal decay continuing. - #SaveTheDecay - https://plus.google.com/u/0/118149351784867502340/posts/7rekVL4hV8D


Some are looking at Devra and this portal virus as what will unite or bring the two factions together - https://plus.google.com/u/0/113686253941057080055/posts/AgVm3tD1wBD and https://plus.google.com/u/0/105280472036490308976/posts/eFoyvN1Dkjz

Others collect votes - https://plus.google.com/u/0/103691442060889787199/posts/9Fvdw71RrTx

Communities form to stop portal decay - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115027053902979628958/posts/EFbVKu4pNFL

Events for stopping Devra - https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cl31eq2g0bhlghqj5kcmfqlvloc

#devravirus - https://plus.google.com/u/0/explore/devravirus

What is coming next?

Calvin and Devra chat - Unnatural

This document was released yesterday detailing a recent conversation between Dr. Calvin and Devra - https://plus.google.com/+NianticProject/posts/KAbvVtSjhvA

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I find it quite heartening and a bit amusing that the unenlightened are utterly unaware of my activities.  

Devra referenced the release of this document here - https://plus.google.com/102598577258553073047/posts/V95g1FQgh6c

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I will never confirm nor deny the veracity of yesterday's release from Hulong which concerned a private conversation between Zeke Calvin and myself.  However, I do protest the posting of such things without verification.  Private conversations should remain private.

On a lighter note, I have heard rumors that Tycho is releasing another comic.  It is fun to see the events of your life illustrated, despite the fact that those were very hard days.  Of course, as much of what is in Tycho's comic relates to classified material, I have to be careful about what I say.

The conversation brings up a number of points to think about


1. Devra is very much alive and has been working, as Oliver Lynton-Wolfe alluded to in his post, on her vaccine.  I am hoping the fact that she is still working on it, means she is testing it through proper scientific methods and is following those beliefs she displayed at the beginning of the Niantic Project. She admits she is not sure, and adds a little more to why.  She also leaves the door open, "It's the best option I see" - so perhaps instead of calling this plan fool-hardy it is better to see to what she considers a vaccine an option and providing a valid alternative that accomplishes the same effect (don;t just call her dumb or stupid, provide a viable alternative to the solution she seeks)

2. Devra reached out to Calvin (I am guessing based on how the chat begins) - so I wonder, why? Is she trying to find an ally? 

3. Why did Calvin say it depends on whether Jarvis trusts him?  What an odd phrase.  Although I did mention in a comment to OLW that he has BIT every single hand he tried to work with and what will be different about Jarvis

4. I had thought perhaps Loeb and/or Bowles could be behind the glyph game and other changes.  We've not heard much from Bowles since the revelation in +Felicia Hajra-Lee about 855 wanting him to find a way against ADA. What ever came of that?  And what about OMnivore, is it still out there and cranking away? Is it moving towards ADA status as well?

5. +H. Richard Loeb in hiding, I still wonder if that was Loeb's distorted voice talking to Moyer and he and she have been working together. Maybe what she does not want us to find out is that she is +Verity Seke :)

6. CLONING - I was waiting for the ethics of immortality and Patterning to make it to the table. I think this deserves a separate post and reply.

7. We see it was Devra that brought in the term simulacrums - any comment on this +Edgar Allan Wright - is this why in your post you said you are not a simulacrum - did you mean you are not an XM pattern restored?  What is the official definition in this case of an XM simulacrum (yes, I happen to like to know word definitions ;) 

8. Devra's last words are important to me too - it shows hope that she is not mass blanketing, but she is taking one potential and developing a counter to it. If there are issues with XM - it is nice to have options - I think ANY agent here agrees options rather than something forced are what we all care about.  And yes, some could argue she is using an old definition of natural and we are evolving into needing new definitions (again me with the definitions LOL - but, that is the way science progresses - through definition - just like language and how word meanings evolve over time

Pevtsov makes a move and Devra is Quiet

A few things have been collected.  In this post - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NianticProject/posts/LkhUHfnwGYq a conversation between Illya and Yuri highlights a few things.  Of concern is a potential confirmation Devra left Visur (to me the wording is vague and could be interpreted in a few ways). It also seems to validate that Devra has been working on some form of inoculation. It also seems to hint at the fountain of youth comments that Dr. Edgar Allan Wright has made.  Is the boundary of death truly being broken.


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Pevstov: Mr. Nagassa
Nagassa: Who's this?
Pevstov: My name is Ilya Pevtsov
Nagassa: Mr. Pevtsov!
Pevstov: You know who I am
Nagassa: Of course, of course. How could I not know. What's up?
Pevstov: I understand you know what is going on in IQTech. It's about their effort dedicated to XM use exclusively in the interest of US national security and the new code upgrades that they are applying to scanner
Nagassa: Yes, they are surprisingly productive
Pevstov: This puts me in a bad situation as you can imagine
Nagassa: But..
Pevstov: But all the complicated tasks that I've come upon made me what I am. I don't whish to compete in the international arms race. XM has a potential to revolutionize the very essence of human existence on this planet.
Nagassa: I don't object to the fact that XM should not be given to arms traders and military. But, excuse my being blunt, why did you decide to contact me?
Pevstov: Ha. Reasonable question. I need your knowledge. Devra and I once discussed the potential use of XM, idea that I dismissed as nonsense... back then... but much has changed since.
Nagassa: If I were you, I would not dismiss Devra's ideas. She isn't with you anymore though, right?
Pevstov: She'll be back eventually when she finds her plan of innoculation useless. But I am known for my impatience. I want to talk about Singularity with you. Are you aware of this concept?
Nagassa: Of course. Machines that could contain the human intelligence, a sort of eternal existence. Is this what you are interested in, Mr. Pevtsov?
Pevstov: Not exactly. What you describe is alarming. This is not the life I wish for myself, I woudln't want to exist in a world supervised by machines. But I know you are aware of other ways existing. I would like to know more about the phenomenon you've reported to Calvin earlier on in Geneva, related to XM effect on human cells.
Pevstov[Nagassa in fact]: You are aware of this? You are worth of your reputation. At the moment this is only a theory, Mr. Pevtsov, quite a fragile one.
Pevstov: Enlighten me.
Nagassa: XM has many positive effects on human physiology. Repairing the cells, provided the dosage is enough, is one of them. Also, there is a concept of storing XM to create and save the entire record of human body down to subatomic level, which will give a possibility of... re-usage in future.
Pevstov: Yes, I think Jarvis referred to this as "patterning". You would probably not be suprised, that some clients are ready to make substantial payments to save their physiology as a recording and for further ability of keeping it in this configuration.
Nagassa: Source of youth fuelled by XM? Yes, I thought about this usage. You could restore the  organic form from the last "pattern". Or any previous "pattern" if it exists.
Pevstov: Great idea, that the world is ready for. It has lots of riches but nothing to purchase anymore. The new economy will be based on buying impressions [/emotions].
Nagassa: The risks are incredibly high, but if you are ready for them, there is some potential.
Pevstov: Would you like to try?

Hank Johnson Video Diary and Being Lost

A video Diary from Hank Johnson was released yesterday (transcript below) - https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NianticProject/posts/fVvt75SPqxR

 This is very disturbing. And I have started a plea on G+ and will continue it here, Hank is lost, Devra maybe lost too. But perhaps if Devra can find Hank, they can both help each other.

Transcript:

I've been wandering the streets of Berlin. I've seen many things familiar to me: the embassy, the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate. I have clear memories of a surveillance training exercise in 1993; felt like a game for us at the time.  Little did I know that friends would later die because they, they didn’t play it well enough.  What I don’t know is why I’m here. The trip to the cave it, it doesn’t make sense. So I’ve been walking, thinking, step by step trying to clear away the noise. I know there’s a message for me. Maybe it’s in the portals. I just need to see through the wave to the water.

Sometimes messages come to me. Usually as images, just a snapshot, like a, like a frame lifted from a movie. Often they come when I’m near portals. Lately I’ve been seeing glyphs as well. Sometimes I’m in the images, but, but I’m not seeing myself from my own perspective. I’m seeing myself from someplace else; from the portal looking back at me.  It’s me I’m seeing, but it’s not me. It’s a different reality. Sometimes the things I see, well, they happen. I see them before they happen. That’s saved my life more than once.  In Afghanistan I walked into the U.N. office in Kabul. The guard standing outside the Director’s office caught my eye. In that moment I knew he was going to use his AKA to shoot everyone in the room. The day before I’d seen a single image while I was meditating, his face looking over at me as he fired his weapon. When I recognized him in the office, I didn’t say anything, I just left. I was only a little startled when I heard him empty the clip behind me. I should have stopped him, but I didn’t trust the visions so much then. Now I do.

What I don’t understand is why? What do they want me to do?  Why are they talking to me? I know they’ve made civilizations great. I’m certain they were whispering to Alexander even as he marched to his death, but why me?  Jarvis is not them. He’s not what they are. He hears them like I do.  Sees visions, I’m sure of it. I think he really died that night in Zurich. What he is now, I’m starting to think I know that too. And that’s what scares me.  And so I’m here. There’s one man who knows the answer, Azmati. He was there the first time. He saw what happened and he left. Why? Why didn’t he wait for me? What did he see? I think I know. That’s where I’m going now. God and Allah together can’t help me if I’m right.

INgress Report 24 Interrupted - What do the messages mean

Two items have dropped within the last 24 hours that may signal an upcoming shift. The first is a poster from Tycho (see here and the wiki entry here and map wiki image here) and the second is the 24 episode of the Ingress Report posted today has been hijacked, or something (see here and the wiki entry).  Devra is shown in the hijacked report and the writing in the frame may be linked to her or a residue... something is coming, what is it.

PS - I do feel sorry for Dr. Lynton-Wolfe

What are the Glyphs and Changes in the Heart

The Niantic world continues to focus on the glyphs and what they might mean as well as the race to scoop up XM scientists.  We seem to have four pages from Carrie Campbell's journal and are working on how to decipher the meanings and what her experiment might be ( http://niantic.schlarp.com/investigation:characters:carrie_campbell?&#epiphany_journal_pages and https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NianticProject/posts/EzZp7E8z673.  We have a communication from Ni and Calvin about the proposed collection of scientists  (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NianticProject/posts/WmvWGVgV2d3) , which makes me wonder if Devra was ever away from her lab, would she be in danger of being abducted? Is the race that desperate?

Finally for tonight - a piece from the past as we've had no communication from Devra since her open letter.  I am going to try posting this on her g+ and see if she replies, but I do wonder if the wonder and exploration Dr. Bogdanovich one felt and searched for through SETI and other projects is still in her heart, or if other things now guide her...

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/00/sc0/metdb1/metdb.html and http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/00/sc0/metdb1/metdb_2.html - Jarvis talking about Devra recruiting him.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/00/item/contact/Contact.mp3 - Devra calling Paul and telling him about her dialtone, oh the barely contained excitement in her voice.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/00/item/pandora.jpg (at minute 1:44 you see and unredacted version with Devra's words - http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=WzAdp9B2k2o )- a chat between Devra and Calvin about Niantic's motives and Devra mentions at least saying hi.

The Green Ones - Devra has a conscience

It looks like Devra was not completely devoted to what the Niantic project was doing.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/pac/IB/01/item/thegreenones.ogg

So - what was Jarvis up to, what are the Shapers up to? What does XM radiation do to humans...

6 Degrees of Devra

Using the concept of everyone is connected by 6 steps or less (yes I still like playing the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon) - I am going to expand my research on Dr. Bogdanovich to include those she connects to as they may in turn help develop more of her story.

I had been just listing the basic names and connections, but I will start to create expanded stories for some of those links.  One I intend to focus on is Roland Jarvis, especially as he seemed to have more than a basic connection to Devra.

In a recent link on PAC's site - an image had hidden file links, these audio files give more information about Jarvis - here they are in rough form for now, I'll be expanding them as I go


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