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The head of MI6 has revealed the service will be taking its lead from fiction - and hiring for someone to fill the role of 'Q'.
Q, as many of those who enjoy the James Bond franchise will know, is the head of Q Branch, the research and development division of MI6.

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Colors of the SEVENTH CLASS 28 - 30 degrees of the Scottish Rite https://archive.is/VfNNi

These six degrees are the culmination of the "Scottish" system. The first three are related to the Kadosh degree (Knight Kadosh), one of the fundamental Scottish degrees which served for a time as the highest degree of the canon preceding the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In these degrees no aprons are used. The use of black gloves in the 29° and 30° contrasts with the white gloves used in the next three degrees. The black gloves are related, of course, to the theme of death and vengeance of the Kadosh. The last three Scottish Rite Degrees are known as Administrative Degrees, although this is not entirely correct, since the 32°, Master (or Prince) of the Royal Secret, encompasses the entire Scottish Rite scale of degrees in a coherent and logical system. Again, in these degrees the apron is no longer used, perhaps to indicate that when reaching this level of development, the Mason no longer works physically, but only conceptually.

The Knight Kadosh is a Freemasonic degree or ceremony of initiation performed by certain branches of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (or simply, "Scottish Rite"). It is the Thirtieth Degree of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite for the United States of America,[1] and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Canada.[2] The Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, does not confer a degree entitled "Knight Kadosh." Instead its thirtieth degree is entitled "Grand Inspector."

The term "Kadosh" is derived from the Hebrew word "קדוש", which means holy or consecrated.[4] "Kadosh" and "Knight Kadosh" is often abbreviated in masonic documents as "K--H∴"[5] and "K∴K∴D∴H"..

..In 1801, the first and oldest Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite was founded in Charleston, South Carolina. This body adopted many of the degrees of the Council of Emperors of the East and West, including that of "Knight Kadosh." The "Knight Kadosh" degree was adopted as the thirtieth degree and was simply titled "Knight Kadosh."[8][10] The degree received a substantial re-write in the 1850s when Albert Pike was Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. It was further revised in 2000..

Controversy
The Knight Kadosh degree is occasionally accused of being anti-Catholic. The 1918 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia stated that, in the ceremony in use in the Southern Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the United States, purported to have been written by Albert Pike, the Papal tiara is trampled during the initiation.[14] This allegation does not appear in any subsequent editions of the Catholic Encyclopedia,[15] although it was repeated by Father William Saunders in the Arlington Catholic Herald in 1996.

Neither the Catholic Encyclopedia's nor Father Saunders' account agrees with Pike's earliest version of the ritual, which includes neither trampling or stabbing a skull and no mention of papal tiaras at all.[17] However, this earliest Pike revision of the Scottish Rite degree rituals, publicly available as "The Magnum Opus or Great Work," was not adopted by the Rite's Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States and thus was never practiced in that jurisdiction or any other Scottish Rite jurisdiction recognized by it. Whether these elements are included in the current official version of the ritual or in earlier official versions is not disclosed to non-members.

Pike's book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry does mention hostility to the papal tiara by the historical Knights Templar when discussing the Kadosh degree;[18] however, this is Pike's commentary on the degree and is not part of the degree itself.

Knight of Kadosh, or Knight of the White & Black Eagle - 30TH Masonic Scottish Rite FreeMason 30th Degree Lapel Tie OR Hat Pin

Ingress (or Ingress Prime) is an augmented reality (AR) mobile game developed and published by Niantic for Android and iOS devices. The game first released on December 14, 2013 for Android devices and then for iOS devices on July 14, 2014...

Setting and plot
An unknown, transdimensional force called Exotic Matter (XM) was discovered as a byproduct of the Higgs boson research (Large Hadron Collider) by a team of scientists at CERN in Switzerland.[8][9] This substance has been associated with the Shapers, a mysterious phenomenon or alien race.[10]

Within the game, human reactions to this discovery fall into two factions known as the Enlightened and the Resistance. The Enlightened faction embrace the powers of XM to transcend mankind and believe their mission is to assist in the enlightenment of mankind by harnessing this energy. The Resistance faction see XM as a potential threat to humanity and believe their mission is to defend the human race by resisting the effects of those seeking to control others with XM...

..founder and current CEO of Niantic, Inc., a software company spun out of Google and the creator of Pokémon Go. Hanke previously led Google's Geo Product division, which includes Google Earth, Google Maps, StreetView, SketchUp, and Panoramio.

In his first post-college role, he spent four years with the United States Foreign Service in Washington, DC and overseas in Myanmar working on foreign policy issues...

Hanke became the co-founder and CEO of geospatial data visualization firm Keyhole in 2001.[8] Early funding was provided by the corporate venture group within Sony, and the startup was able to garner significant attention from the use of their mapping technology in media reporting overlays during the early parts of the Iraq War.[4] Keyhole's mapping technology was also noted by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and Google acquired Keyhole in 2004 in a deal worth $35 million in stock...

Hanke joined Google as a part of Keyhole's acquisition, and he became the Vice President of Product Management for Google Geo division.[3] During this period, he oversaw the transformation of Keyhole's technology into Google Earth and Google Maps in 2005. He also negotiated an agreement with Apple to include Google Maps on the iPhone.[9] Other significant products followed, including StreetView, SketchUp, and Panoramio. During this period, he shaped the team he would later use to found Niantic..

On Tuesday (AEST), US news website Gawker alleged [Pokemon Go]'s creator, Niantec, was linked to the CIA. This followed reports spawned by blogger Adam Reeve claiming Pokemon Go commanded a list of intrusive tracking permissions for gameplay. John Hanke is Niantec’s CEO. He created software called Keyhole in 2001 and Gawker based much of its theory on Mr Hanke’s business dealings.

Keyhole was funded by a CIA venture capital firm. Most of the money used to fund Keyhole came from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

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At Niantic, we are constantly exploring new and innovative ways to leverage the latest Augmented Reality (AR) technology to positively impact communities. AR is already influencing how people behave and move around their neighborhoods and cities, so we set out to create a discussion around what the future Augmented City will look like, asking, “How can collaboration help us shape the future we want to see?”

..The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) is an initiative proposed by the President of the Government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in 2005. It was co-sponsored by the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

..Mozilla participates in the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations[1] which is run by Islamists.[2][3][4] Mozilla's representative is Sydette Harry of the Coral Project which is an alliance of Mozilla, the Berkman Center, the New York Times, and the Washington Post to "give publishers the ability to better understand their contributors and control the level of discourse on their sites."..

The Coral Project is led by staff from Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

On the Sunlight Foundation, the Open Source and Open Government movements and the co-option of Counter Culture

..The Sunlight Foundation's donors include the Open Society Foundations, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Omidyar Network, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation..

The Sunlight Foundation was founded by Ellen S. Miller and Michael R. Klein.. Mr. Klein is also a director of ASTAR Air Cargo, Inc...

CEO of the Knight Foundation Alberto Ibarguen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Ibarg%C3%BCen..

Google went into the Christ Church Primary School in Hampstead UK ...Y Combinator and Google's influence in the education sphere.....

Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/33

Make School is funded by Learn Capital, Y Combinator, Mitch Kapor, Alexis Ohanian, Tim Draper and others.

In 1990 with John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, Mitch Kapor co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation..In 2003, Kapor became the founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation > Sunlight Foundation > Knight Foundation

Stewart Brand, Long Now; Mitch Kapor at THE EDGE SCIENCE DINNER 2003 https://www.edge.org/igd/1097