June 13, 2023 Update

The Wall Street Journal has provided a timely article on the use of geolocation and data mining by US intelligence agencies. The uses of aggregated data from public, private and geolocation derived sources has proven to be just as invasive as any cyber-intelligence gathering operation in the United States (or Israel). See below for more information.

Ridgecrest California, June 4, 2023 9:55 am PST

History is in the making at China Lake and today the Navy base in the middle of the Mojave Desert is named the Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS). We wouldn’t have known this had Pat Farris not published an Editorial in Friday’s edition of The News Review and I’m greatful that she did.

China Lake is a crown jewel in our nation’s military and weapons development programs. Earlier this year, the City of Ridgecrest conducted a test of geofencing and tracking technology developed by a company called Placer.ai. Unbeknownst to the people of China Lake and Ridgecrest (and the Navy), many of them carrying top secret security clearances, the City and Placer.ai were watching them. We have no doubt that Placer.ai is a clear threat to national security.

Placer.ai was announced as simple analysis tool for economic development purposes during a committee report at the May 3rd council meeting. The City of Ridgecrest intentionally buried the implementation of this technology in an economic development committee, and nobody in town had any clue what was going on. Geofencing and tracking is new technology coming to market, and it’s never been discussed or presented as an Agenda item for public debate.

This is in the WSJ today. It’s bad enough for the CIA/NSA to do it, Mossad is even more invasive and insidious. Placer gained an entry point to the municipal market in the City of Tehachapi California. The area is a bedroom community for Edwards Air Force Base. The City of Ridgecrest and the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake appear to be Placer.ai’s second municipal agency to test the program after two years in Tehachapi’s geospatial domain.

“Commercially available data from cars, phones and web browsers rivals results from wiretaps, cyber espionage and physical surveillance” – Wall Street Journal

Much of that data is sold to the government by vendors who claim it is “anonymized”—stripped of personal information such as names or addresses. But privacy advocates and researchers say that in the case of geolocation information on phones or cars, a name can often be inferred: Individuals typically park their cars at night and set down their phones at their homes. In the case of certain internet data, browsing behavior also can reveal personal information.

Wall Street Journal June 12, 2023

In an Editorial published by The News Review on Friday, Helen Tomlin wrote:

A (now deleted) promotional video procured from Placer.ai’s “daily motion site” describes the company’s data mining abilities in a more chilling way. YouTube’s Chad Chaddington captured and posted this video on YouTube, along with an accompanying transcription of its statements.

In it, Placer.ai claims its software “enables anyone to access a 360-degree view of any location the placer.ai dashboard provides.”  They provide “accurate foot traffic counts and dwell time” and “know where customers are coming from and going to and along which routes they travel.”  They can “analyze customer profiles’ income, gender, eating, and shopping habits…and much more.”

The News Review, June 2, 2023

The locals don’t call China Lake “The Secret City” today, but what the 4,000 employees of Department of Defense do there is most definitely secret, and the city wants to surveil everyone courtesy of “Big Brother”. Placer.ai is hypothetically a company that can know everything about you and can track where you go and what you do during every moment for the rest of your life. The irony is that Placer.ai is an Israeli company doing the spying. It doesn’t matter who is doing it, it’s what they’re doing.

The featured image of this post is a sign at the entrance to the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake California. Much of what the Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy do there is none of your business. When those 4,000 DOD employees people go home after a hard days work, they are warned to leave their secrets on the base.

Ask yourself one question before reading this post: What happens when people working at sensitive military installations are compromised by a foreign intelligence spy ring?

“The Eye in the Sky”

The Eye in the Sky?

Here’s the kicker, it’s highly likely that Placer.ai is really Israel’s Mossad Unit 8200 espionage and intelligence gathering operation. Would someone please contact the FBI? Or Councilman Blades? Or NAWS? Or Speaker Kevin McCarthy? Or have we surrendered the Flag? You don’t want to believe it, right?

Watch “Chad’s” videos. They speak for themselves and Chad is simply the messenger. He’s seasoned, whoever he is.

Publisher’s note: This story is developing and has been 60 years in the making. It’s all true, and it’s here at China Lake, my childhood hometown and the Navy base they called The Secret City. I learned a lot about the world during those 60 years, and I learned about this:

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

President John F. Kennedy April 27, 1961 “Secret Societies” Speech to the New York Press Club

Publisher’s note: NAWS is Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Navy Base, along with Edwards Air Force Base. It’s a requirement under Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s oath and position as Speaker of the House to address this issue immediately.