Ends and Odds

The above is not an active video, just a screen grab. The reason – it is on Ab’s Fakeotube at Fakeologist. Use this link to access the video. I have watched it, and posted about it too. I encourage others to do so too.

When I first learned of this video, I was warned to watch it on YouTube as soon as possible, as it probably will not be tolerated there for long. And sure enough, YouTube has taken it down, claiming that it contains “misinformation”. WAINS? (Why am I not surprised – I am offering a new acronym.) At least YouTube did not claim the movie “violated community standards”, as Facebook claimed I had done.

This is about the things we accept, even accept as normal. YouTube started out small, and was acquired by Google, and is now as corrupt as Google itself. Google started out as a small search engine, but a really good one because it did not allow ads and presented results honestly in terms of number of Internet hits a site was getting. That ended soon after, and Google went completely corrupt. Now corrupt Google owns corrupt YouTube, and censorship has gone completely off the charts.

I have been using Yandex as a search engine. I know that Miles Mathis recommended it as an email server, and then backed away. I did not go that route, sticking with Protonmail, as I don ‘t think I am being censored or spied on, maybe just shadow-banned. I use Brave as my browser, and switched to the Yandex browser. It was night and day – Yandex does not filter ads and pop-ups, and my screen was jumping and flashing all over the place again. I went back to Brave as my browser, as it runs a tight ship. Not much gets through. (Mozilla Firefox started out that way, and then degraded to just another browser.)

However, I still use Yandex as a search engine, and it seems to work well – I searched for “Climate: The Movie” and the first page was nothing but actual links to the movie. The same search on Google produces links to the movie too, surprisingly (is Google responding to critics?), but of course offers “fact checking” links too.

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Below is a blast from the past:

William F. Buckley Jr. interviews five guests, and this video is just a clip from each, totaling 15:35. Here is the rundown:

I admit I probably watched some of those live. I’m that old. Everybody looks so young. Chomsky is now grizzled and comes off angry. Huey P. Newton, head of the Black Panthers, was probably an agent (as was Chomsky, IMHO).

All of that aside, I take it in because I like the tone. Everyone is respectful, no one speaks over one another, tempers are under control, the small audience (which was used for Q&A on the original shows, is well-dressed, respectful of both host and guest. Questions and answers are thoughtful. All tempers are under control.

It was a different era.  By the way, Buckley hosted Firing Line for 33 years before he retired.

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Again, a clip from a different era. I don’t think that Dave Letterman invented the remote segment, but he surely made them legendary. When he took over the Late Night slot following Johnny Carson, replacing Tom Snyder, he had trouble getting guests to come on. So he did two things: One, he took ordinary people and made them into regular guests, like Larry “Bud” Melman, Paul Schaffer, and the guy that ran the diner down below 30 Rock. Secondly, he began shooting remote segments. Most, like this one, are funny and well-written. I would guess this is from Dave’s CBS 11:30 PM show, as Seinfeld was on the air in that era too, early to late nineties.

As time went on the 12:30 PM show caught on (10:30 where I lived). I would stay up every night waiting for it, and after the kids fell asleep I would have a bowl of chocolate marble ice cream and drink a cherry coke, masturbate and then watch Dave. I could do all of that in an evening in those days.

Anyway, the clip above is a Dave classic, long in the making and very well written. By the way, Dave was in the talk show business for 33 years before he retired.

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“We’ll know that our disinformation campaign has worked when everything the American public believes is false.” — William Casey, Reagan’s CIA Director, 1981

I did a little (not enough) research on this quote to see if it was real. Apparently so, I learned. The quote was originally said to be given us by Mae Brussell, who ran a radio show in California focused on the spooks that surrounded the JFK assassination. But that was done just to discredit the sources, and thereby blackwash the quote.

Petra Liverani ran a post today on her Substack, Blood and bandages: are they real? She used the Casey quote at the beginning, and I commented that I had learned that the quote was witnessed by Barbara Honegger, who witnessed it at an meeting of cabinet secretaries in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing of the White House. (That information is a little too specific for my taste.) Honegger gave it to White House reporter Sarah McClendon, who went public with it.

I know nothing about Honegger. But Petra told me she’s a spook …

“Well, Barbara Honegger is, of course, an agent, distracting away from the staged death and injury of 9/11. Love the way we’re supposed to believe she’s bona fide considering her “credentials” … so I think you are correct that it’s fake, Mark … and yes beautiful irony! I’m completely convinced it is now actually and have modified the text accordingly.”

That means that the quote was probably fake, but deliberately planted with Honegger using McClendon and someone above her using Honegger. They do stuff like that, I think, just to tantalize us who have functioning brains, keeping us in the dark in a different way.

It reminds me of John Lennon’s songwriter’s words, “Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.”

56 thoughts on “Ends and Odds

  1. “But that was done just to discredit the sources, and thereby blackwash the quote.”

    You can essentially call that infamous quote a controlled leak, in much the same way that Assange’s and Snowden’s revelations were controlled leaks. It fits in with their “revelation-of-the-method” methodology, where they disclose what they do or will plan to do to those paying attention. Plus, as you mention, it serves to discredit “truthers” in the minds of those who aren’t converted to our perspective of reality.

    “So he did two things: One, he took ordinary people and made them into regular guests, like Larry “Bud” Melman, Paul Schaffer, and the guy that ran the diner down below 30 Rock.”

    I don’t think he allowed truly ‘ordinary’ people on his show as regular guests. Likely, he allowed unknowns who had ties to his show or the industry and made them famous. These people always promote their own at any opportune moment and sully those who ain’t in “the big club”, so I don’t see why this would be the exception. The names Melman and Schaffer are especially telling, since they look to be Jewish surnames. With deeper research, they might even connect to show business, further proving my hypothesis.

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    1. Paul Schaffer is an amazing musician, but Dave incorporated him into the larger scheme of sidekick and participant in remote shoots and other skits. He became an integral part of the show.

      Conan O’Brien was given Late Night when Dave went to CBS, and as Conan tells it, Tom Hanks came into his dressing room after and said “This doesn’t happen!” He wasn’t being congratulatory, just offering some confusion at O’Brien, never a screen presence and likely not a Freemason landing a big gig like that. That’s all I can make of it.

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      1. Whether Schaffer was talented or not doesn’t prove he wasn’t connected to his patrons prior to his break in talk shows. The same can be said for O’Brien, even if he wasn’t a Freemason.

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        1. I’ve listened to Conan enough to know that his family was Catholic and church-going, so that if he or his father belonged to anything, it would have been Knights of Columbus, which was founded by the Church to give Catholic men an alternative to Freemasonry. Secret oaths not allowed. Weird though, Conan and his family, Ma and Pa and six kids, are all pure Irish, that is, no strays ever got over the fence even as the ancestors immigrated in the 1800s.

          Schaffer got to his place in life on talent. That’s all I know about him, other than he’s Canadian.

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          1. Then again, Conan’s religious background might be a cover for something else, likely him and his brood being closet Jews and Masons (despite the Church’s qualms about both, which are simply facades, IMO). We’ve seen how Christianity is merely a front for these people (as well as a punching bag when convenient), so it’s perfectly reasonable to assume the same is true for Conan.

            Also, Jews have always existed in Ireland (at least since the time of William the Conqueror, who was another Jew), so even if his lineage was mostly stuck put there until recently, there’s no telling that his family didn’t have some local crypto-Jewish blue blood running through their veins.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ireland

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            1. I found out about Irish Jews from Stiller and Meara, as she was supposedly Irish Catholic but came from a Jewish line in Ireland, or so I recall.

              Conan can at best be called ex or fallen-away Catholic. No one in the family attained fame besides him, and they surely could not have known in his youth even that comedy was his calling. He did not find out he was funny until he wrote for the Lampoon, and was later aghast that people would actually pay him to be funny, at first as a writer, and not as a performer until age 30. Before that he wrote for SNL and then the Simpsons. Lorne Michaels knew he could bust up the whole writers room, and on that basis suggested him as Letterman’s replacement on Late Night, originally offered to Gary Shandling. That show was a high wire act until it caught on, a few years after going on air. Conan and Andy Richter are both embarrassed by their early shows, not having a clue.

              Anyway, sometime take a look at Steve Martin hosting the Oscars and mentioning Cristoph Waltz as the smooth but ruthless German officer Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastards, hunting for Jews. Martin did comedic pause and then, with his eyes and gesturing with his hands, without speaking, was suggesting that the place to look for Jews was in the audience that night.

              Jews Jews Jews, you seem obsessed. Everyone is one or is passing, like Mathis saying everyone in Hollywood is gay. To the degree that I care, I think that the Jews in my life positively influenced me in college and are very good people.

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              1. Call me obsessed, but it’s not without reason. Your anecdotal experience with the Jews in your life doesn’t discount the points I’ve made above. Just because there good ones out there does not mean the ones at the top are benign.

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                  1. Smartest on the planet? They wouldn’t rig the tests or outcome, would they? Or perhaps send their kid to intensive training for standardized tests? Ever see a Jew out hiking? You won’t they hate hiking and the outdoors. Smartest people my F-ing ass they are.

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                    1. Plus who’s tell us what’s smart? Stuff the IQ crap and save it for the Mensa idiots

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                    2. In fact, one can argue that the smarter they are, the more prone they are to scheming and other devious s**t to get their way. This is especially true for the highly-placed Jews.

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                  2. Because the smarter you are, the more you realize everyone else is cattle, goy, or what have you. Brilliant, now I can lie cheat and steal with impunity. So smart!

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                    1. People are allowed to disagree with one another on this blog, it is even a good thing. I am not in the position of disagreeing with either of you, just not having your certainty.

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          2. Conan Christopher O’Brien was born on April 18, 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts.[6] His father, Thomas Francis O’Brien (b. 1929), is a physician and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School where he specializes in epidemiology.[7][8] His mother, Ruth O’Brien (née Reardon; b. 1931), is a retired attorney and former partner at the Boston firm Ropes & Gray.[9] O’Brien has three brothers and two sisters.[10] O’Brien attended Brookline High School, where he served as the managing editor of the school newspaper, then called The Sagamore.[7] He was a congressional intern for Congressmen Robert Drinan and Barney Frank, and in his senior year won the National Council of Teachers of English writing contest with his short story “To Bury the Living”.[11][12]

            After graduating as valedictorian in 1981, O’Brien entered Harvard University.[13] He lived in Holworthy Hall during his first year with future businessman Luis Ubiñas and two other roommates,[14] and in Mather House during his three upper-class years.[15] He majored in History & Literature, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985.[16][17] O’Brien’s senior thesis, entitled Literary Progeria in the Works of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, concerned the use of children as symbols in the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.[18][19] During college, O’Brien briefly played drums in a band called the Bad Clams and was a writer for the Harvard Lampoon humor magazine.[20][better source needed] During his sophomore and junior years, he served as the Lampoon’s president.[21] At this time, O’Brien’s future boss at NBCJeff Zucker, was serving as president of the school newspaper The Harvard Crimson.[22]

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            1. His mother’s law firm is one of the biggest legal firms in business, btw, having overseen multibillion dollar cases such as “Altimeter Growth Corp. in its merger to take Grab public for $39.6 billion, the largest special-purpose acquisition company merger in history ….” That pegs her as being among the big wigs, even more so than her husband.

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropes_%26_Gray#Prominent_transactions

              Also, Conan’s little stunt as a congressional intern is quite telling. He clearly had the connections that made his career possible, something you wouldn’t see in a random nobody’s CV.

              Even his scholastic years says plenty about him. How many of us can attest to becoming managing editors for our school newspapers, even with the talent or acumen befitting such a role? Not many, I bet. And even less can attest to winning an award from a national literary group for their short stories, which in Conan’s case is strangely hard to find (the closest you can get is the link shared below). I bet his familial or political connections helped to garner such favorable treatment along the way.

              https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-conan-obrien-start/87254726/

              In the above newspaper article, it provides some detail about his short story, which conveniently reflects many aspects of Conan’s own early life. It also mentions that his grandfathers were involved in banking and real estate, indicating that he came from wealth. That might explain why he spent his early years in a large, comfy house which he called “The Corporation”. His family obviously had enough money to afford such a place, which further proves they were upper class.

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              1. That is all speculation, suspicious speculation I might add. The conclusions you draw from such speculation seem to satisfy a need for everything and everyone in entertainment to be wired. Sometimes they have real talent that puts them on a high perch. For instance, Conan left SNL to write for The Simpsons for a few years, and while there he wrote the Monorail, said to be the best episode ever. Did someone ghost it for him?

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                1. I never denied his talent. All I am saying here is him being talented wasn’t the only thing that worked in his favor, which I don’t think is suspicious to assume at all when the evidence clearly implies that’s so.

                  The only ones in entertainment that aren’t “wired” are the low-hanging fruit that barely receive a footnote, much less glorified talk shows and big roles in productions like ‘The Simpsons’. You are looking at people that take bit roles in underrated TV shows or films and receive little publicity in return, AKA C- or D-list actors. Conan is not one of them.

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              2. Your whole paragraph above is idle Wikipedia-like lazy speculation. Way too easy. Yesterday you did not know that Conan’s mother and father were accomplished professionals, today you peg her, at least, as a “big wig”, offering no credit for her success to hard work. Conan has talked about how their household eschewed alcohol, not for religious reasons, but rather due to a family background of abuse. That led to a sense of hard work and discipline that produced at least in Conan scholastic success along with an unexpected career in comedy. You act as if it were all part of some plan. Nonsense!

                I used to work for a millionaire in my early career, Mary Alice Fortin, a woman of modest wealth (mother of Stockard Channing, a comedic actress of only modest talent). She married Philip N.Fortin, a wealthy man by his own going, investing in IBM in its infancy and some notoriously rich oil fields that are still going strong today (Elk Basin, Murphy Dome, for instance.) Philip had no progeny, and Mary Alice must have spotted this, as when he died she inherited everything.

                Anyway, I ramble. I used to joke that between me and Mary Alice, who was worth $35 million at that time, we averaged $17.5 million each in wealth. Why, Mrs. O’Brien, working for Altimeter, must also have been as big wiggy as I, even as I left employment of Mrs. F in empty as a pocket, empty as a pocket with nothing to lose.

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                1. Your response in the first paragraph sounds like you knew Conan and are offended by what I suggested, which is odd enough, or like a fan having a temper tantrum. That, or you’re sarcastic. I hope it’s the latter, because from what I’ve seen of your blog, you should know better by now than to believe people like Conan achieved huge success based on merit alone, even if he did put some effort into his career. That’s the most naive or disingenuous assumption I’ve ever heard as of late.

                  Your past work history with the wealthy is pretty interesting, to say the least. And I wouldn’t consider Mary’s fortune to be “modest” by any stretch of the imagination (unless you meant she began with little money to her name, and even that I find hard to believe). $30m+ is nothing to scoff at, even though it may be chum change compared to the larger fortunes of oligarchs like Jeff Bezos or the Rothschilds. By most people’s standards, at least, it is anything but “modest”. So yes, she and her colleagues were “big wigs”, as well, even if they’re not directly connected to the Families by blood.

                  And finally, regarding your missive that my analysis is “idle Wikipedia-like lazy speculation”, I beg to differ. Much of what I write above isn’t fruitless speculation, but rather acknowledged facts pieced together with some speculative commentary included to explain my perspective of the evidence. Whatever faults it may have, that’s certainly better than literally posting whole Wikipedia paragraphs with almost no commentary at all that we see here from other commenters.

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                2. “Yesterday you did not know that Conan’s mother and father were accomplished professionals, ….”

                  Of course, I didn’t know who Conan’s family was until recently. I barely paid heed to him at all until I saw this post a few days ago, so naturally I didn’t have any predisposed knowledge about his personal life. It only took looking at Wikipedia and other sources to see what they’re all about, and much of it isn’t even hidden nor hard to deduce from.

                  In his mother’s case, for instance, her work with a giant law firm wasn’t obscured whatsoever, for that business has its own Wiki page that’s linked to O’Brien’s bio in the same site and it’s easily accessible. That isn’t something to be overlooked.

                  I also did some research on his father, who turned out to be an epidemiologist at Harvard, though I didn’t bother to elaborate on him as much as I did on his wife earlier. Turns out his genealogy is scrubbed (at least on Geni), unlike his spouse’s. That’s one red-flag. If they had no problem posting his wife’s family true (albeit an incomplete one), why not his? They don’t even mention his parents.

                  https://www.geni.com/people/Dr-Thomas-F-O-Brien/6000000013451632486

                  “…. offering no credit for her success to hard work.”

                  But I didn’t deny them, either. I was merely pointing out her prominent role as a lawyer in a big legal firm. Hence the term “big wig”, which is hardly an ill-befitting description.

                  And even if I did offer credit for her “hard work”, that still doesn’t disprove everything else I’ve shown. The fact is that privilege played a huge role in their success, as proven by the fact that their paternal bloodlines were involved in real estate and banking (see the newspapers.com link, again).

                  If you’re curious about her family tree, here’s one version linked below:

                  https://www.geni.com/people/Ruth-Reardon-O-Brien/6000000013451612707

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          1. So both of the above straight from wiki. 30 seconds to discover they were anything but nobodies. Definately top 1% of the top 1%. Probably not elite but certainly servants of the elite. Can’t be bothered looking up the others. I’d assume similar stories

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    1. I like how Conan is slouching on the couch pressing his fingers against his skull like he wants to blow his brains out, as I would listening to that execrable Stern thing.

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        1. Howard Stern KNEW it was a terrorist act from the first plane hitting the tower. So it was no accident this man was given several hundred million dollars to host a show on Sirius satellite radio, he clearly should have been Secretary of Defense on 9/11 and many lives would have been saved. Stern for president, what a brilliant mind!

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      1. From 1’39” you can tell Conan is thinking, is the .38 special big enough to end it all, or should I choose the .357 magnum? And if i blow my brains out on this show, will my children get their inheritance?

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  2. Where are the comments disappearing to? Has someone tampered with the back end of this site?

    It used to be so easy to comment here once upon a time and now it never works.

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    1. I have now run into this issue, I composed a long review of Michael Mann, tried to post. Nothing happens. I try to login again; it says I already posted that comment. OK. So where is it? I don’t see it. I saved it and will repost later, or maybe Mark has to approve? I don’t like the smartass “you’ve already commented auto reply from wordpress” when there is no comment.

      As far why the powers that be ignore us, well I’ve concluded that true, real, truthers are very rare, and similar to reformed alcoholics. Piece of mindful acts as something like a confessional session at an AA meeting (I haven’t been to one, just guessing?), where all that’s required is the truth and no BS to participate. Yet the vast majority of society is clearly happy intoxicated with lies and has no interest in sobering up with us here in this lonely forum. Which is why we are allowed to exist.

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      1. Yes. I was trying to post on several articles, the Michael Mann faux trial, the MM 9/11 article with a link to a video of the empty, stripped buildings months before the controlled demolitions, but no matter how many times I rewrote and posted my comments, they never materialized.

        WordPress, during the scamdemic took down a bunch of sites for “misinformation”. So there’s active monitoring and censorship going on at WP behind the scenes.

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        1. what a bunch of cocksuckers, i hope they like taking it deep and hard from M. Mann because thats what they f-ing deserve in the future. Look at that loser Manns face, he’s gonna be behind you ramming it hard you g-damn f-ing spineless censors. We’re gonna get you I swear…

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        2. I forgot to add that by replying to my e-mail notifications from PoM via WordPress, my comments go through – like this one.

          Setting a “Like” still requires a login and that is 90% failure, even with diligent clearing of credentials, etcetera.

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          1. Hi, Thanks for the reply and info.

            Yes, that didn’t really work for me… previously replying from the email notifications. But I just figured out yesterday, if I don’t tick the remember me box, BEFORE logging in, the comments won’t post.

            I still have to log in for every single comment. I’ll keep trying with the like button.

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    1. Basically I can’t like comments, 9 out of 10 disappear and I have to log in continually. So was wondering if there’s some code glitch, or comments being pre-scooped you guys are unaware of.

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  3. I haven’t had issues, except need to make sure I am logged into my wordpress account before commenting. It helps to have the personal icon, as that shows up in the widget menu when you are logged in.

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