The end of the line

This blog started in 2006, my son Steve and I got it going while I lived in Bozeman, Montana. Steve dropped out not too long after that, unable to write day in and day out … unlike me. I was charged, never short of ideas, and in the early days wrote about other Montana blogs. There were quite a few of them, and then slowly they began to drop off, one by one, until today there are only two, Travis Mateer’s ZoomChron, and my own.

I’ve been thinking for some time now that this was going to have to end. It’s not that I am 73 and old and tired, as I am indeed 73 but feeling strong and in good physical health. 18 years is a good run for a blog. I’ve had help from time to time, but mostly I’ve had to go it alone. I’ve always enjoyed good commenters, and the blog will remain open for that purpose.

Here’s my plan: I am done writing posts, but all posts on the blog will still be open to comments. In the meantime, I am going to go back in time and sort out the thousands of posts into categories of interest, say our Bokenovsky Brats, or in depth pieces like John Denver, Columbine and Jonestown. One by one I am going to run these compilation posts just as a way to bring them to the surface and then let them ride me into the sunset. We, I and others, have done an amazing amount of research and posting here, a treasure trove in my view, and I will continue to pay my annual WordPress dues to keep it online.

Other ideas? The blog has 1,871 followers, though I am not sure what that means in terms of actual humans who read the emails every time I put up a post. However, it is a resource, and I would welcome others who like to write to chime in here, publish a piece or two and see if it broadens the base for others. Dave Klausler and Steve Kelly come to mind, but others have published here and are welcome to return.

And, of course, there is Tyrone McCloskey, here as we blossomed in 2015 or so. He wowed me with his JFKTV piece. I converted his work to HTML, and moved all the photos over along with it, a mighty task, but worth it. Tyrone is still listed as a writer here, but I would add “emeritus” to that. He’s been a good and steady friend of the blog throughout. G’day to you, sir.

What I will not miss is the unrelenting self-imposed pressure to put up fresh material. That part is done. I will still be notified every time there is a comment, so I’ll be hanging out.

37 thoughts on “The end of the line”

  4. I will miss seeing new posts from you, but understand where you’re coming from. Possible suggestion if it is not too much pressure/ hassle – maybe just start an occasional “open comments thread on x topic”, eg the current big thing (Gaza/ Israel at the moment.) I am always interested to read what pom commenters think about the news of the day. Or just other topics you may be interested in, but do not want to write a whole piece about.

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  6. Hi Mark,

    A bittersweet epitaph if ever there was one. I have always enjoyed your posts, looked forward to your insight on things current and otherwise.
    I also remember the excellent posts by “Maarten Rosseart”, his “Into the desert” being an intriguing and thought provoking account, (no longer accessible?), and the other brilliant minds brought to focus here ( Tyrone McCloskey, Steve Kelly & Dave Klausler etc ).
    Hope you reconsider and add your unique perspective now and then, when you feel so disposed, if you should decide thence applicable.

    Riccardo.

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  7. I understand your decision but regret that there will not be more new posts. Although I rarely commented, I truly enjoyed your insights, feeling connection to the topics you raised. I also immediately noticed your surname which raised my curiosity even more as I am of Polish descent.

    Thank you so much for your hard work, research, skills, eloquence and time. You have been an important part of many a morning in my UK abode.

    Take good care of yourself and know that you will be thoroughly missed.
    How about a post now and then…😁 Just to let us know how you’re doing!
    Much Love ❤️.
    Beata

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  8. Hi Mark, I have enjoyed your blog very much, especially during the height of covid mania! It helped keep me sane and so will have a special place in my memory. I’ll check back from time to time, of course, and I wish you all the best going forward.

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  9. Sad to hear you go, Mark. Miles Mathis just formally signed off from CTTF yesterday. After writing in a paper that the dance party in Southern Israel was fake and staged by Phoenicians, his handler Josh tweeted that he was attending funeral for one of the victims of the massacre. Those two need to get their stories straight. Whatever the truth may be, it does not fare well for either’s credibility. Good luck in the future.

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    2. If you took the trouble to read his latest update, Miles actually states:-

      “There are basically three possibilities: 1) Josh has been caught up in the emotion there, surrounded by his people, and he isn’t thinking straight. He has decided to accept this because it is the easiest thing to do. It has gotten to the point that to hold the line of truth, he would have to leave Israel and his children, and he can’t do that. So he is going along. 2) Josh has been visited by the Men in Black, ordered to play along, and his accounts have been hijacked. Someone else is now writing his tweets. 3) Josh was an agent all along, hired to do a confidence trick on me and pretend to be an ally. That was everyone’s fear from the beginning, and some are saying we now have proof. I still don’t think that is the case, since if so they lost badly in the exchange. In order to gain my trust Josh wrote several papers for my site, including of course the one on Iron Dome and Hamas. Those papers did Israel no good. You will say he and his superiors got to spy on us, but spying goes both ways. While they were keeping tabs on us, we were keeping tabs on them. I don’t think they learned much of use, except that there is a resistance, and they already knew that. They already knew my real name, since I don’t hide it, and they knew where I lived from bank forms, so I lost nothing in the exchange. You will say that is why they ended the Josh project: it wasn’t going anywhere. In some ways it had backfired. They hadn’t made a dent in me or my readership and their only hope was to try and do some minor damage on the way out. Possibly, but I don’t think so. If they wanted to target me with a project, they could have come up with something better than Josh going pro-Israel. That’s a bit too pat, isn’t it? It is way too easy to explain away as I did above. And it hardly touches me.”

      Link here if you can handle that:-

      Click to access isra.pdf

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        1. Yes, I saw that. Not only are we Langley bots, but we’re apparently vampires as well, and the Mighty Miles Mathis drove his stake through our hearts! Miles the Great Hyperbolist. I do owe Miles and Josh a vote of thanks for leading me to Mark and POM. I was an avid reader of Miles’ early work. But the exhaustive genealogy, which I consider rather spurious, and the ever-changing array of villains (the Jews, the Military-Industrial Complex, CIA, DOD, DHS, the Peerage and now, finally, the Phoenicians) has made me skeptical at best. But I followed them to Cutting Through The Fog until I realized only sycophantic adulation passed muster with the small handful of commentators in that chat. But it was the piece that Mark ran on Miles, which he later retracted, that brought me here permanently. The waters are much warmer over here. I had taken quite enough abuse from the likes of Jared Magneson, Vexman, and Josh himself. I also discovered that those gentlemen at one time posted their nonsense here too, suddenly changed their minds, and leveled a torrent of baseless accusations at the writers here (quite an obvious psychological tactic), and then started Cutting Through the Fog as an act of defiance and allegiance to their leader. But that piece on Miles raised some serious questions that were answered with vicious adhoms directed here at honest skeptics and sincere researchers. POM was a place for civil discourse, and Mark very generously allowed all kinds of perspectives, voices, and information to be heard and shared. Apparently, if you disagree with, or raise any skepticism over, Miles’ research–i.e. if you don’t accept it as the only explanation, or subscribe entirely to Mathisian dogma–you are an agent from Langley, a spook, or any number of other less complimentary terms hurled my way. Mark, et. al., have much thicker skin, apparently. And so naturally I drifted here and stayed, lurking mostly, but every once in a while dropping a comment. But given the current contradictory positions both Miles and Josh hold together now, my skepticism deepens more. It is indeed an ugly cloud hanging over Team Mathis. At best, a limited hangout and, at worst, some kind of strange inter-agency psyop. Miles would have us believe that Josh has just mysteriously vanished, that his accounts have been hacked by impostors, that he hasn’t responded on CTTF in almost a year, nor sent Miles any emails in that time too. That he’s been co-opted by Mossad or has been forced to surrender in his search for truth due to unrelenting outside pressure. In the digital age we currently live in, that is not good enough, Miles. No way, buddy! Or maybe Miles has just been duped. Who knows, and who cares at this point? Facts are facts. And facts are the only currency we trade in. And in this case, the facts are not adding up. So on that note, it is sad to see the last bastion for research (at least I believe it to be) and the last place for civil discourse and the free exchange of ideas call it quits. I came here as a refugee from CTTF and stayed on. I think the key difference between Team Mathis and POM is simple. With team Mathis the case is closed and not open for further investigation. Here at POM, the case remains open. All the best to you guys in the future, and genuine thanks for your equanimity and, I dare say, your magnanimity. And remember, The Star of David is a symbol, whose meaning was only revealed to Solomon, the King of Freemasonry.

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          1. Got here via the same route, CTtheFarts. The best thing about MM’s site these days is Unpopular Opinion’s (Lestrade) WW2 analysis.

            Echoing others above, I also owe a debt of gratitude to Mark, et al for the solace and insights during the ‘rona circus. It was crucial to know that others smelled a rat besides me.

            The archives, especially JFK, are a super resource.

            Mark, let’s call it semi-retirement, OK?

            If you are ever in Baja AZ, like maybe during winter, look me up, MT!

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      2. Miles has gone mum on Israeli Fake Project Nonsense. Download Telegram App and tell that carnage is moulage. Now I firmly believe in media fakes. But this one will go down as the fake of all fakes. Point being, Miles quit trying to prove Israel slaughter is fake, and no one has heard from Josh. Terrible position Miles is in right now.

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        1. When I did my John Denver fake death work, Josh contacted me to suggest that autopsy work would contain evidence of alcohol in his system due to use af a cadaver that was not JD. That happens when bodies sit around for days … JD’s autopsy was the next day. It was fake. I really appreciated that advice.

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  10. Hi Mark and thanks for the update. I’ve followed the blog long before I started posting as it provided some great content and discussion.

    On another note, I posted this before, but our friend Legalman finally finished his movie. Have you had a chance to watch it?

    https://jonesplantationfilm.com/

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  11. My sincere thanks to you Mark, you were an important part of my waking up. You did some stunning work and I will always remember that with gratitude

    I’m almost exactly the same age as you and I feel pretty well exactly the same about my health too, I’m glad to say. Learning is a lifelong process and I am still learning all the time. In fact I’m learning more than ever I did. Our natural realm is simply wonderful and the more that I learn about how things really work then, the more that I realise just how much there is that I don’t really know

    So I now question everything, particularly the mainstream stories by the inveterate lying, deceiving, liars in media/science/academia etc, who profess to know exactly what is what, and what happened in the past too. The covid scam was very instructive in this respect for those that were paying attention and didn’t fall for their fear porn. Their uniform global explanations and solutions were very telling. We all saw the extent of their coordinated depravity and deceit

    I also think that it is wise not to take sides in any of their relentless divisive schemes. That’s what they want you to do. So best to be a detached observer and not attach yourself to any of their current madness. Far better to stay in nature and what is real in your own life

    I firmly believe that we will all face a reckoning at some point too. Did you do harm, or did you do the right thing as required by natural law? You can see the harm doers by simply looking at their face as they grow old. Just look at the faces of our so called “elites”, not a pretty face among them, gargoyles all

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  12. It’s been quite a ride, Mark. Thank you for all your work keeping this platform going for open discussion(s) and debate — two activities that no longer are welcome in our narrowing social/cultural experience. The ruling class is nervous, and they should be. The universe always deals harshly with imbalance. And thanks for allowing me to do a bit of writing, and commenting on various topics I find fascinating. Stay amazing.

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  14. 18 that number! Should make it an even 20 for good luck. Nothing wrong with taking a break. You may have jumped the gun, Winter is coming up lots of down time to write about stuff.

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  15. Mark, thanks for the platform. Ironically, my heavy family burdens have been alleviated just as you’re closing up, but it’s not a big loss because I haven’t any ideas at all. I think I spent everything on the subjects that made up the central nodes of my research, so I don’t feel I left anything on the table. I hope you feel that way, too. (Most of my energy has gone into my self-publishing.)

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    1. I can only infer that your mother died. I am reaching here, saying more than maybe you meant. But I remember my older brother Steve, who died in 2011, who told me that in his opinion we do not really become adults until our parents die. He was my father figure.

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      1. Yes. As to adulthood, at 65 that’s a tough age to start. I’m focusing on rebuilding my physical stamina as bedsitting for 4 years will turn you into jelly over time.

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    1. It gets worse, Kenneth. My birthday is 4/20, same as Hitler’s, and the 110th day of the year. Seeing an 11 there? Tokarski is of Jewish origin, a region of Ukraine I am told. The name is in the Jewish registry, the ‘ski’ a Polish adaption. People of that region often immigrated to the US via Pennsylvania, as my grandfather did, mining coal there before moving to Montana to work the Anaconda Company smelter in Great Falls. OK, here is the biggest and best clue of all: Our driveway up here in the foothills of Denver is … 330 feet long. I plead guilty.

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  18. People who see through the Matrix are so spread out and isolated, and I’m so grateful to you for at least providing the illusion of community for many of us. You’ve done some great work, but you’ve also been so authentically yourself, which I’ve appreciated even when I’ve given you shit for it. Not only do I automatically question the “reality” of everything I read, see and hear online, I question the intentions and true identity of the people it comes from. This site is a rare exception. Even when I disagree with you or get pissed off at or exasperated with you, I believe you’re exactly who and what you say you are. Now that you’re wrapping things up, I’m surprised to realize how meaningful and important that’s been to me. Thank you, Mark.

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  19. Your work, as well as MM’s work, on the McCartney revelations was a Godsend for me. I wasted probably 7 years or more reading Paul is Dead/Paul Was Replaced forums, which are probably run by the spy agencies. Thank You for helping to end the torture! Also your corona/covid research provided great insight. The guy who runs the “Quantum of Conscience” videos on YT sometimes mentions that our time here on Earth is a “temporary train stop”. I look forward to seeing you on the other side!

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  20. Hey Mark, So it’s the end of the line. I never expected that from you, I thought they’d have to pry your cold dead fingers from the keyboard.You had a helluva run and left on your own terms, couldn’t expect anything less. you are your own man. Thank you for the treasure of brilliant work and time. I’ll miss all the content. This world is filled with enough toxic shit to fill the “Berkley Pit” in Butte Montana that not even you can sort out. Take care of yourself, good luck…And keep on Truckin’.

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