Are American sports all rigged?

The death of Mohammad Ali is a milestone, a remarkable man, but I will never forget his fight with Sonny Liston where he won by means of a phantom punch.  The fight was rigged. I don’t know if Ali was in on it. He did not necessarily have to be.

I clipped this comment from Quora and reprint it – it is from Anonymous, and it echoes my suspicions after the last two Superbowls, two years ago with Seattle giving it to New England at the end, and this year with Cam Newton fumbling and just watching Denver recover. Fix is on!!!

ALL professional sports championships are rigged. And not just rigged by referees (as the controlled opposition wants you to think) but rigged from the top to bottom with the assistance of select players and coaches on each team.

Every Super Bowl you have ever watched has been rigged. Most playoff games and regular season games too. Some superstars are manufactured (such as Cam Newton) and some are repressed if they don’t play along.

Most veteran QBs are in on the fixes, ALL head coaches, most coordinators, and certain players in certain positions (CB, OL, RB, WR, etc.). It’s important to know that not all the players or coaches are in on it, although some may suspect but are not willing to risk their career or earnings over it. Most of the players and lower level coaches are dupes IMO.

This also includes owners and GMs. Some owners are actually a front for corporations, agencies, or secret billionaires who really own the team (Terry Pegula comes to mind). To them it is just an investment. They don’t care if their team wins or loses, as long as the fans show up.

Super Bowl champions have more to do with narratives and giving favors to certain owners than with the play on the field. It’s a racket that has cost working class fans billions of dollars over the decades. It has also cost most players their brains and bodies, despite the outcomes being pre-determined. It also explains how Vegas is always so close to the real spread. Vegas never loses, because they know who’s going to win.

For those looking to do more research and go further down the rabbit hole, try to find out why nearly all of the expansion owners of the 1960’s came out of the Navy. That’s right, the NFL is a military creation. The Navy is the home of intelligence. Football is subconscious military promotion, originating from elite schools such as Harvard and Yale.

NBA fixes every game. The NHL is better IMO but fixes a few regular season games to ensure favored or big market teams advance and fixes all the playoff games that need fixing.

In case you’re wondering, Spygate , Bountygate, and Deflategate never happened. All done for marketing, awareness, and controlled opposition purposes. Done with full consent of all parties. Why would people risk their reputations? Well, you need to start asking who these people really are and if the biographies we are told are actually true.

For those open-minded willing to go down this path, prepare for depression, then enlightenment. The entire world you have been told by newspapers, TV, and media is not what you think it is. In fact, Quora is not what you think it is. And some of the posters who you trust are not who you think they are (including some who answered this question).

 

TABAR

An author I am reading right now summed up the attitude of American journalists, explaining why they are not naturally curious, do not ask the right questions, and trust authority figures to give them good information. He called the attitude “Things Are Basically All Right.”

I have seen this, and it is an apt description. Professional journalists are trained to pooh-pooh anything that messes with vanilla:

We have a good system in place with competent people in charge. TABAR.

Things are not all right, in fact, things got out of hand decades, even centuries ago, right under the noses of our professional journalists. They are oblivious, even smug in the self-assurance that they have got this thing down and have better insight than the rest of us.

But I think on a deeper level they are not the product of professional training in information gathering and analysis. They are the product of selection and conditioning.

They self-select due to dullness. Imagine wanting to be in an profession that requires submission to people with no sparkle (editors) who themselves must submit to authoritarians who discourage creativity and protect power (publishers). To want to be in that field, to aspire to such low heights, requires a narrow world view.

But suppose that a few curious souls do enter the profession. They quickly learn that burrowing and asking the wrong questions, stroking powerful cats the wrong direction, gets them nothing but trouble. They learn to He Said She Said those stories and get a quote from both* sides and move on.

That kind of lackluster performance and those millions of forgettable stories are the seeds of advancement. Eventually, dulled down and cleansed of curiosity, a reporter might become an editor! Only the dull need apply.

And remember the editor’s creed: Things Are Basically All Right.
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*In the real world, not only are there more options that “both” sides, but more importantly, there are also the “neither side” possibility along with “they lie, they lie, they lie” and “truth is there but hidden” and “ask a different question” possibilities, all off limits. My Dad had a profound observation on the nature of women. “Complicated” was how he summed it up. So is the whole world.

Cuba and Venezuela: Long time targets

I often visit Huffington Post to see if anything real or important is going on. It is the bellwether of fake news. It is a slow news day today, Trump Trump Trump Hillary Bernie Trump Trump.

So I want to take a moment to address an exchange I had with Swede yesterday, a kind of  Cold War-revisited debate about various countries and their economic and governmental systems. His targets were Cuba and Venezuela.

I don’t know what to make if the underlying economics, since that science is itself phony top to bottom. The ideological underpinnings are just as confusing, as neither socialism or capitalism exist in a real world run by banking, energy, medical and other cartels. Add to that fake leaders and color revolutions and agents provocateur, and it is a royal mess.

What to make of it? I don’t know. But I will speculate, and expect to be met with countetarguments of merit.

The object of Western policies have been isolation and for Cuba, punishment of its unruly population, and for Venezuela, regime change.

The Cubans threw off their Spanish colonial masters back at the turn of the 20th century, only to be recolonized by the U.S. That was the whole purpose of the Spanish-American War, to wrest the prize from Spain.

But Cubans never really settled down, and for the first half of the 20th century there were strong popular movements in Cuba to overthrow fascist governments and take an independent course. Given such widespread resistance to US control, a decision was made to install a fake leader (Castro*) and then with his cooperation starve the population by means of terror and embargo into submission.

It looks to have recently finally produced results. Obama’s reopening of relations can only signal that the Cuban population is finally deeply indoctrinated and under control, just like Americans.

Venezuela is given different handling, as it has large reserves of oil. By means of free elections, that country has introduced reforms such as subsidized food, energy, medical care and housing for its impoverished population. A clumsy Western-backed coup in 2002 failed, apparently (we never know what or who is real), so that the country has now come under economic attack again.

The oligarchy of Venezuela can easily put the screws on the population, shutting down supply lines, closing warehouses, and creating artificial shortages of necessities. Couple this with embedded Western-back provocateurs to foment street rebellion, and the stage is set for another try at coup d’etat. All it takes is an American Green Beret or three in disguise to fire into crowds, and the jackals of Western media will howl that Venezuelan troops fired on their own people. This is standard operating procedure, used in 2002 and in Ukraine in 2014. It triggers the illusion of widespread protest against the regime, pushing it over the edge.

But there is an added twist this time around … oil prices. The oil markets, just like diamonds and commodities, are controlled. The oil cartel can raise and lower prices at will. The low prices of the last two years are no accident, as Saudi Arabia, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, was ordered to flood the market, and acts on command.

There is more than one target for low prices, an old Rockefeller trick going back centuries. One is, obviously, Russia, but that regime is more stable and able to endure more than it was when the same tactic was successfully applied in 1986.

Venezuela is a target, and it appears to be working. It depends heavily on oil exports.

But another target is the American market, which has been flooded with new reserves from Bakken and shale. It is expensive oil to produce, and the cartel pricing has now driven most independents into bankruptcy. The cartel will take control of  those operations when prices are raised again, I assume.

In short, high oil prices will soon return. The scam has worked.

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*Castro received huge US media support (cover of Life Magazine?) and aid and arms from the CIA … now we understand why. He was our boy from the beginning. 

Are airport lines and MS804 related?

Number of people killed to this date by Muslim terrorists: 0

Number of people killed to this date by Western-backed terrorists, Special ops, private security forces and regular military: Hru.*

I thought I might keep a running tally of victims of Muslim terrorism, starting today. I have tallied all events, real and fake, up to this time and the number of resulting deaths. That number is shown above. I’ll refer back to and update it now and again.

We had to take our granddaughter to the Denver airport this morning. She checked with TSA last evening and was warned that wait times could be up to three hours. We decided that was a crock, and went on the regular schedule. And sure enough, wait times were about 20 minutes.

I was thinking, I admit, about the loss of Egyptian Flight MS804, which appears now to be another hoax. No bodies is generally the first clue. My friend Nathan Stolpman wants to connect 804 to the TSA problem, but I am not seeing it. He thinks TSA wants to push us all in to “TSA Pre” so that our fake security Trojan Horse travel monitors always know when we are traveling. But in a country where everyone is under surveillance, like ours, trust me, when we book an airline reservation, someone knows about it. That is already done.

So why a fake airline downing? Who knows? The Greeks screwed up right away when they said there were no airplane parts. News reports now say it may be “mechanical failure,” which is a back-down, as they initially claimed without any justification that it was an act of terrorism. But the Airbus 320 is probably the safest airliner ever to fly, with no history of mechanical failure. Our spooks might have another Sandy Hook on their hands – a fake event that was so poorly executed that they had to quietly shelve it. (Sandy Hook was superseded by the fake Boston Marathon bombing. I assume something else will soon be along to remove MS804 from the public mind. Mass shooting, anyone? Seattle?)

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One of three security lines at Denver International this Wednesday morning

One thing caught my eye, though it too turned out to be nothing – I took this photo this morning of the lines at DIA. Notice the blue corridor with no one in it. That is the “Clear” line. “Clear” is a means of jumping ahead of the lines, though not security. To participate, we need only be fingerprinted, retina scanned, and pay them $179 a year.

As a business model, Clear is clearly failing. It is overpriced – if it actually got us through security, it might be worth considering. But merely to jump ahead in line? I think not. And you can see that even on a busy day, one person is using it.

But I checked out Clear when I got home this morning, wanting to know who is behind the company. It is Alclear LLC, and I don’t recognize any names – Seidman-Becker, Cohen, Cornick, Farmer, Levine, Lupowitz, Trelin, McLaughlin, Jacobson – do those ring any bells with anyone? Me neither.

I was really looking for the name “Chertoff,” as in Michael. He’s a predatory capitalist/fascist, and was assailed for pushing body scanning technology while head of Homeland Security, and profiting from it on the other end.  In a country as corrupt as ours that passes without notice. There is no conflict of interest when everyone in power is corrupt anyway. But my dot-connecting mindset suspected that perhaps TSA was doing a slowdown to promote Clear. Clear seems to be failing anyway, and there are no pushes in its direction. If anything, TSA Pre is getting a boost.

So alas, it all seems random to me, the fake airline down, the airport messes – TSA with its high school grad force is simply not very efficient and is stressed and pointless anyway, as again, remember, … the number of people killed to date by Muslim terrorists is … zero.

But if ever anyone really wanted to inflict some carnage, all they have to do is to go to any airport and find the people waiting in line to go through security. If anyone was going to strike it would be there. Large crowds milling about, all with unchecked luggage?

But it never happens, does it. Think about it.
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*This word was coined by Richard Adams in his book Watership Down. His rabbits could only count to four, having that many feet. Anything beyond that was incomprehensible to them, or “hru.”

Imaginary cages

imageWe hitch our wagons to false reality. Without it, we are adrift. It is supplied by two-dimensional media. Education, religion and group pressure reinforce it.

My own experience in breaking free came at a time when I was chained to a regime of fear involving nuclear bombs and communism. It was instilled in my youth with “duck and cover” and bomb shelters and air raid drills and military displays everywhere. It was all done deliberately to scare us into submission.

I remember the room I was in and where I sat. I had been reading and furiously trying to understand something else when it suddenly became real: Communism was fake. It never threatened me or anyone. It was a hoax. There was no evil empire, no ICBMs aimed at us. It was MAD – mutually agreed deception. The Soviets and the Americans were really friends.

A sense of exhilaration came over me. I might have even laughed. For the first time in my life, I had no fear.

There was far more to unravel, and still is. Lately I have been writing about public hoaxes and fake deaths and the like. It is fun. These things are so easy to see once the veil of propaganda is removed. They always unravel, and easily.

But for readers who happen by here it is frightening. The immediate conditioned response is shock,  derision and ridicule. You are clinging to false reality. It gives you security. Remove it, and what is left?

The answer is something you have not experienced, something you might even fear: freedom.

Take one item – this will scare the crap out of you: You “know,” because it was on TV news, that OJ Simpson murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. That’s just a small matter in the big picture, but something that occupied our lives for a full year. But open it up for inquiry. What if the event was fake? What if the trial was fake? What if Nicole and Ron are still alive? What if OJ never went to prison?

I could easily supply all your answers, but I know you too well. You don’t want those answers because they scare you. If they lied about that, if it was a contrived hoax, what else is a lie? Your wagon is hitched to those lies. Unhitching is scary … and … why would they do that? Why would they tell such a fantastic lie?

For me, realization is exhilaration. Are we different?

We live in the woods, and have bird feeders about. We have a problem with fox squirrels. They are aggressive and destructive. I am unable to shoot anything. So thirty squirrels ago I bought a HaveAHart animal trap. Whenever a squirrel becomes a pest, I set the trap.

Once caged, the animal is in panic, sure it is facing death. The look in their eyes tells me that, and I cannot communicate that there is nothing to fear. I put them in the back of my truck, under the tonneau and in darkness, and drive them seven miles to a mountain park. During that whole time they are cowering, urinating and sometimes squealing. Death awaits.

I take the cage and point it to high grass and open it. They suddenly realize there is a ray of hope and bolt, dodging and weaving, sure they are being chased. They’ll do anything to stay out of the cage. Never again.

I imagine it takes a few hours for the adrenaline to wear off, to return to normal pulse and to realize he has his life back. I imagine at that point in time he experiences true freedom. His life had been taken away, but it was all fake. He had nothing to fear, but he did not know that.

He has experienced something we all need – appreciation of real freedom.

Zika hoaxers are doubling down

A group of 150 “experts” have written a letter to the World Health Organization asking it to delay or relocate the upcoming summer olympics. The other shoe is falling.

Media loves “experts,” as it removes accountability in reporting. Reliance on an expert allows them to say anything, no matter how absurd, with complete self-assurance. (News is often managed in this way, as reporters are controlled by sources claiming expertise, allowing lies to pass through to us unfiltered.)

Worse yet, in our country, “doctors” have an almost priestly quality about them. Once we learn someone is a doctor we drop skepticism. We just believe. We don’t even think to ask “Doctor of what?” Geography?

No matter – I just pored over the list of the 150 “experts,” and only 18 are “doctors,” and specialties are only offered for a few. These include obgyn, psychiatry, bioethics, brain injury, and yes … geography. There are no epidemiologists or virologists. There are professors and bureaucrats aplenty, but no boots on  the ground.

It is a hoax, a confidence game.

Hoaxology

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I say what is on my mind, and don’t care much about the consequences. Group membership, the opinions of others are not as important to me as to others.

This was not always the case. But it is now. I slowly realized over time that the opinions of others that I cared so much about were not very smart opinions, and that I should ignore them.

I sat down here to write about the HIV and Zika viruses, which are hoaxes. But that is not going to pour forth through my fingers today. Readers do not have a solid basis in Hoaxology. It would be like throwing baseballs at a brick wall.*

We are swimming in corruption. It has spread like a plague. I do not know whether the corruption has swelled, or merely my awareness of it. But every aspect of our lives today are somehow affected by corruption – economics, taxation, education, corporations and banks, journalism, the sciences, psychiatry and medicine, nutrition, health and wellness, physics, elections, government and of course, religion.

Take just one example, journalism. It took me a few years to grasp. The 9/11 hoax was the key to understanding. Once I realized that event was made for TV, I knew that every news outlet from the TV networks to the newspapers and radio, and even little entities like Popular Mechanics had been corrupted.

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Stephen Hawking (1942-1985)

That was a breakthrough, because after that I realized that people who do TV and radio news, Internet news sites like Huffington post, magazines, documentaries … are all either too stupid to know better, or active participants in the lies around us. Mostly the former. So I can ignore them. And I do.

We are immersed in state-controlled news and information, corrupt in its entirety. Even the books that appear at Barnes and Noble have been vetted, ghostwritten, or done for hire. So nothing that comes from that source can be relied on.

And so it did not surprise me to learn that HIV was a hoax, and that “AIDS” is a malady caused by a host of pathogens and activities that suppress the immune system. The “science” behind it follows the money. It is corrupt.

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And so it was easy to see that Zika is a hoax because it is a repeat of HIV – they are claiming without evidence that a non-replicating virus is a pathogen, and that mere transmission is evidence of anything they care to link it to.  And the virus is harmless, if it even exists.

And the virus, they tell us, was discovered in 1947.

So they invent the virus, are scaring the crap out of everyone, and now they want our money to fight it. (By coincidence, the virus also gets companies like Monsanto, who spread vile substances, off the hook.) The only thing between them and the money are the politicians, who are also corrupt.

I don’t get depressed, that is, I have normal ups and downs, but I am happy to have learned all that I have learned. It has led to a carefree existence. The planet is OK, people are OK (there are no terrorists), and we will survive as a species, and hopefully transcend the spooks who currently run the show and want us to fear everything.

I am not afraid. Like everyone, I will die of something. But not AIDS, not Zika. And not some stupid terrorist.
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*I am told by one occasional passer-by that if it has proper vector and velocity, the baseball will go through the brick wall like a plane through a building.

The Trump/Bernie charade

Time and again now, in personal dealings, on Facebook, on radio and TV, I am seeing self-imagined intelligent people saying derogatory things about Donald Trump.

On the other side of that coin are the same type people saying kind things about Bernie Sanders.

It is media manipulation, writ large. You’re being diddled, folks. Statements by Trump and Sanders are being magnified by news media and entertainers and aimed at target audiences.

Trump’s (scripted) comments are for reactionary right wingers, a significant portion of the population. His intemperate remarks on immigrants, foreigners in general, building walls and anti-trade agreements are calculated to get a rise out of that crowd. He’s fake.

Sanders’ (scripted) remarks are for deluded liberals and progressives. His incantations are for policies that he surely knows will never see light of day in our business-run country: public-sponsored health care and higher education, anti-trade agreements and taxation of oligarchs. This is all calculated to get a rise out of the NPR/PBS set. He’s fake.

Reactionaries and liberals and progressives are being herded in opposing camps for one purpose: the selection and then election of Hillary as the next president. It is classic divide and conquer. Yes, the office of president has no power, but public opinion can create problems for the rulers, and so has to be maneuvered into submission.

The Trump/Sanders gambit is immensely clever. It was masked in a hoard of candidates, all of whom dutifully stepped aside when ordered to do so, leaving us with what we see now: Two shills and Hillary. (I doubt very much that reported vote counts in primaries are even close to accurate.)

The American public is polled incessantly, our attitudes and ideas constantly held under the microscope. If you want to see some of this polling, which is not published, consult the Council on Foreign Relations.

The purpose of the polling is only for management purposes. The oligarchs and their puppet politicians exist in a sphere far to the right of public opinion, but they do need to know and understand their enemy, the American public. So the job of media is to be sure Americans feel an effective blowing off of steam through elections, but realize no change in public policies.

It is herd management, nothing more. Public policy, after all, is none of our damned business.

Climate change exists … only between our ears

GoreNote: As with everything I write here, it is only my studied opinion that follows. It is my view that we currently have the technology to get us off oil, but it is withheld from us. If indeed global warming were real, technology would not be withheld. Even oligarchs have to live on this planet with us.

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I have written a lot about what I call “public hoaxes,” which are quite common. Because television has such a hold on Americans, I am automatically disbelieved by “reasonable” people. But what I tell you is true, and what television tells you is lies.

I understand why people do not believe me. Our opinions are not our own, but rather a result of our suggestibility. People are not “reasoned in” to beliefs, and so cannot be reasoned out. Our egos steps to the fore. When I say that John Lennon’s death was faked or that Zika is a hoax, reason and logic go out the window, and defense mechanisms take over.

I am really saying that you have been fooled, and badly, and as a matter of policy. What we are experiencing around us is called, behind the curtain, “public mythology.” It is serious and studied policy, and is deliberately fostered to keep us dazed and confused and under control.

I write about public myths and hoaxes. You do not like that, and react angrily. It is a personal affront for me to say that you are not on top of things. But you are not. You are being snookered and manipulated, right and left. Sorry to be the bearer of such news.

Just to demonstrate how the process works, let’s take a controversial subject, global warming, or “climate change.” It doesn’t exist. It is completely made up. It has merely been suggested to us, and we have supplied our own evidence.

Where is the homework? Where is the rigorous science behind it? Climategate gave away that game. There was shown to be a uniform pattern of deliberate lies behind climate statistics.

But that does not matter, because we have done our own homework. Once it was suggested to us that we are involved in catastrophic climate change, by authority figures no less, we began to look around for verification. And we found it! We have droughts, forest fires, receding glaciers, ocean temperatures that are (might be) changing, disappearing islands … and all of that causes us to worry, keeps us in a state of tension.

We never get to relax, do we.

None of that matters, as the planet is always in a state of flux. We’ll be fine. Just as the Millerites were wrong about the year 1843 (but are still trying to get it right), so too will current climate science be shelved as the planet and its population go on and on and on without catastrophic end.

Climate change exists between our ears, passed on to us courtesy of our state/oligarchic-controlled media. It is a hoax.

Why? Good question. For that we have to look for proposed solutions.

  • Do they want to curtail use of oil? No.
  • Do they want us to stop buying cheap disposable consumer goods that take immense energy to produce, only to be tossed? No.
  • Do they want us to expect a lower standard of living? Yes.
  • Do they advance bogus and useless technology (solar panels, electric cars and windmills)? Yes.
  • Do they advance crazy and manipulative economic schemes like cap-and-trade? Yes.

Do they really want to solve the so-called problem with real solutions that hold real promise, like Tesla technology, tidal energy and hydrogen? No. The current system is built on oil. We should have transitioned off oil decades ago, but it is not allowed. Too much money is tied up in current technology to allow change.

So relax, everyone. We’re OK, the planet is OK. We could all stand to live a more simple existence, as resources are finite. Those are problems we need to deal with. We have the technology, but it is hidden away from us at this time. If we have a real problem, the technology will be made available by necessity.

But the end is not near. Not hardly.

The confidence game

I think what I saw on TV’s Jeopardy was more recent than the video above, and it has stuck in my craw. Please look closely at David Muir, news Anchor for ABC News. He is dressed impeccably, his eyes are piercing. He takes himself very seriously.

He is an idiot. He was hired because he delivers that serious and believable cadence, and because he is so damned good looking. No doubt if you went out for beers with the man, by evening’s end you would discover that, like the state of North Dakota, there is no “there” there. The man probably can’t place Lebanon on the map.

Television casts a hypnotic spell wherein the mode of delivery is the message. Muir could as easily tell us that Canada is infected with dinosaur lice and Americans have stopped aging now, and typical viewers would think ?”Hmmm. How about that.”

That is how news works. It is not about anything true. Most of what we call “news” is lies and distortions. It is designed to get viewers to “look here, not there.” It is merely about distraction and believability.