I do not believe that the government started Google; however, I do believe that Google was taken over by the government in a clandestine operation; and, that it has been secretly controlled and operated just like the countless other businesses the government runs around the world (that we never hear anything about.)

Everything you need to know to figure this out on your own is hiding in plain sight. Start with the movie, Argo, to gain an understanding of just how easy it is for the government to step out of the shadows and insert themselves into the business business world. A few phone calls, wire transfers, forged identification, and there isn’t much that couldn’t be done. In order to gain total control over a company, you only need to control a majority of people on the board of directors; no one else at the company needs to know anything.

The original Google founders (aka the Google Guys) keep a really low profile and remind me more of Milli Vanilli than internet visionaries. [ Maybe it would be different if they were white and born in the US; maybe they aren’t really on board with spying; i can only speculate why the seem so elusive.] They seem to be kept on such a tight leash, I often joke that the the Tsarnev brothers had about as much control of their future as the Google guys do.

The majority of reports on the company I’ve seen seem to relegate the Google Guys to the corner, and go out of their way to to accentuate the “game changing” role of the pretty blonde girl (aka Marissa Meyer). [Similar to the way the director of Heart’s music videos focused on the blonde sister and hid the brunette sister.] Oh, and what was the incredible insight the blonde girl provided? Simplify the interface! And that has made all the difference… [ right! It wasn’t just a simple user interface, it was access to unlimited funds and the ability to buy up all the competition that really made the difference.] In any competitive market, if someone is that much better than everyone else, there is probably a reason (see Major League Baseball.)

Why does Google get to gobble up companies on a seemingly weekly basis? Barely a word out of regulators about anti-trust concerns. Remember when Microsoft was under too much scrutiny? They couldn’t even release an operating service pack without permission from the DOJ. Why the double standard? It is almost as if the government is intentionally trying to create a monopoly. Just like there used to be laws preventing bankers from playing the stock market with depositor funds, there are plenty of laws preventing a company from forming (even attempting to form) a monopoly–it is just bad business.

Some call Google’s acquisitions strategic–it seems a lot more predatory to me. During the Gold Rush, towns would spring up virtually overnight. Anytime there was word of a new discovery, prospectors would flood into that area like ants to a picnic. [A saloon would be opened the following weekend.] Anywhere there was gold and a saloon, you would find a parasitic congregation of criminals looking for a big score. The criminal would set up shop in the bar and wait for word of a miner striking it rich. If the newly rich miner thought finding the gold was hard, he would quickly learn getting out of town alive and with his gold to be the biggest challenge of all. It’s a lot easier to steal than it is to produce something. Silicone Valley has been the modern Gold Rush, and the government had been sitting at the bar looking for just the right company to buy, and that company was Google. [ How ironic if it was the company’s, “Do no evil” motto that made them a perfect cover. ]

Using Google as cover, the government is able to cherry pick the best companies and technologies. Best of all, someone in the private sector does all the hard work; creating a brand, figuring out the bugs, and then this giant shark comes along and gobbles them up. Do you think the public would have allowed Google to buy YouTube if we knew it was really the government disguised as Google? [Funny that the government wants full transparency from us, yet they hide so many of their actions from us.] What is more valuable information or gold? If the information contains the location of the gold, it is far more valuable.

Have you ever known your local politicians (AND politicians in every country around the world) to keep saying, “no” when it comes to taxing something? Especially something that could produce as much revenue as a tax on internet activities. [These are the same guys who want you to have a GPS tracker in your car because they can’t stand anyone getting away without paying.] They don’t dare tax it because they want you to use it. The more you use internet, the more they learn and the more valuable the information they hold becomes.

Ever wonder where the government gets all the money to continue to fight wars and provide more and more benefits to citizens (hell, even non-citizens too!)? After losing trillions from the failure of Freddy Mac and Fannie May, they are handing out mobile phone, food stamps, and disability checks like Billie Ray Valentine buying free drinks in the old neighborhood. Perhaps they have revenue they don’t want us to know about. It’s not like we don’t know that the government can run successful and profitable clandestine businesses.

As you can see in the above Afghanistan Opium Production Chart, once the US took over from the Russians in 2002, they have not only maintained, but exceeded previous production levels. The occupation of Afghanistan has been a lie from the start. It isn’t about terror or oil, it is about the ONLY commodity in that country–opium; not only does it pay for the war, it turns a profit. [ That’s why we aren’t going to be leaving Afghanistan, ever. ] You don’t hear politicians complaining about how much the war costs anymore, because it doesn’t cost, it pays! Do you notice the same pattern? The government creates a lie, so it can steal something of valuable, and then profit from it. Rinse, repeat.

Isn’t it just a little too convenient that Google gets to park their jet(s) on a government owned facility? Plenty of other tech companies with aircraft, why Google is the only one? In contrast, If a company jet accidentally tried to land at a government base of any kind, it would be shot down before the plane gets its landing gear down.

If Google was being run by an intelligence agency, surely there would be instances where “employees” would be caught doing stuff they weren’t supposed to be doing in places they weren’t supposed to be, right? Oh yeah, that already happened in Egypt.

Around 2002, I was using a spare computer to run my own SMTP email server (stands for Simple Mail Transport Protocol.) The purpose for running it, was so I could send my email. As time went on, I began to notice more and more messages were not being delivered. A look at the SMTP server’s log files revealed error messages saying that my computer wasn’t authorized to communicate with other email servers. In a classic, “bureaucratic / authoritarian” move, the big companies stopped accepting mail except from each other. With my own personal email server not authorized to send email to places like Google, Yahoo, or Hotmail, I was forced to give in and use Gmail to send my messages. And just like that, I was part of the captive audience, without the slightest suspicion I was being herded like a farm animal. This didn’t mean much to me at the time, but in retrospect, it seems pretty obvious that the government wanted every email to go through certain servers, so they could be collected.

Even though I like both the actors, I haven’t seen this movie. When I watched the trailer, it just didn’t look that interesting or funny. Now, when I consider it as a propaganda piece to boost the image of a lawless-monopolistic-government-run spying operation, I want to see it. Normally, Hollywood isn’t so friendly when it comes to portraying large corporations (except those that happen to be in control of your data.)

Why does a company with so much money need a floating barge full of workers? It isn’t because they are short on cash. I suspect they are using foreign workers to perform tasks that ordinary Americans would not understand or engage in.

When the government gives away free mobile phones, which operating system does it have? [ Another coincidence I’m sure. ] What software package does the government use for word processing and spread sheets? Google Docs, you don’t say!

Remember a few years back when the, “Do no evil.” company stood up to China and stopped censoring the internet? This was supposed to be in retaliation to some sort of hacking attack. The “official” story here doesn’t make a lot of sense. Try this as an alternate scenario: Chinese government discovers that Google is being used to spy on China; they tell Google to get out of the country; Google makes up some story about hacking and leaves China. [ And we shall never speak of this again. ]

Google Earth, Google Maps both just happen to be essential tools for the spy business. The level of detail in Google Earth would not be possible without access to government resources. The maps of North Korea go so far as to identify “Concentration Camps.” Highly unlikely that sort of detail is even necessary since no one in North Korea would ever be able to see or use it. Plenty of other explanations though; all of which include supporting spying operations.

We learned that the Google Cars were driving around every neighborhood in America, “inadvertently” collecting login information. The cars was supposedly recording video, not passwords. How do you accidentally do this in every location? Accidentally put wi-fi scanning equipment next to the camera, in EVERY single vehicle? [ Why not? no one really seems to care. ] That’s like a realtor saying she is going to take some pictures of your house; only later you learn that in addition to taking pictures, she crawled in an open window went through your files and wrote down all of your credit card information–inadvertently. Does the realtor get a free pass because she didn’t use the data? Or would she be prosecuted for breaking and entering? But you see, it’s all okay; no one loses their job or goes to jail, because Google and the government are on the same team.

By no means is this a complete list; these are just the first things that came to mind. I plan to update this post as I get more information. The next time you hear something about Google, ask yourself, if is it more or less likely that Google is being run by the government?