I want to be dispassionate about this … nothing personal. In the larger scheme, people like me do not have impact. One only need glance at how much coverage, how many hits, a figure like, say, Madonna receives to understand how the mass media controls the public mind. I wrote recently about Eva Peron and her daughter, Madonna Ciccone, and my visits on this blog soared from less than 500 on a good day to over 6,000. Then they plummeted again.
Why did that happen? Word of mouth probably. Eva Peron (Madonna Ciccone nee Fortin, “Evita”) is so far removed that hardly anyone knows, much less cares, of her. Madonna, on the other hand, her daughter, is still cranking along. Eva was once First Lady of Argentina in the early 50s, and during the recent final of the FIFA world cup between Argentina and England, who should be featured but the 68-year-old pop star, Madonna Ciccone! . Whaaaaat? Was Che Guevara not available?
This is not about that. This is about censorship, and not about me personally getting roughed up by it. It is about the extent to which it goes on, and how utterly effective it is. I’ll go back to 2020 and the Scamdemic, and Facebook and Youtube and Nextdoor, three outlets that get heavy traffic, the last, less so but still managed from high above with eyes on all activity. Each outlet made it clear that there would be allowed no criticism of the World Health Organization (WHO) or of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Nextdoor even announced on a banner headline that any comments critical of either agency would be immediately removed.
Both Facebook and YouTube had, at that time, moved into positions of prominence in the online community. It is not hard to guess why – each is a heavily funded and censored propaganda outlet. But as I’ve mentioned before here, real censorship is not obvious. If something is openly censored, it is done to draw attention, not quash it. Fool’s Crow, a book by Blackfoot author James Welch, was banned in the school district in Laurel, Montana. Imagine how many kids read that book who would not have otherwise, following its banning.
I wrote before in a post called Censorship, Real Censorship, how some well-intended but deluded friends of ours in Bozeman had once constructed a big clunky moveable display of “censored books. The problem I had with it was that each book they listed, notably Animal Farm, Invisible Man, and Fool’s Crow had not only not been censored, but were granted prominence by fake censorship. The travelling display was a tribute to really effective censorship. Books that are really banned … we don’t know about. They never got printed.
I am printing at the end of this piece an op-ed of sorts that I submitted to the Canyon Courier, a local tabloid. My piece will not be printed, and as you read it I hope you see that it is not due to bad writing. I want to make clear, however, that there is no obligation to print anything by anybody, and the Courier is within bounds in not printing my piece. It is their newspaper, and their right. All I want to do is to place it within the larger scheme of things.
Going back to 2020, I was aware before many others that the “Pandemic” was fake, though it would take me time to understand that the real purpose of the draconian measures taken by “health” organizations had nothing to do with health. Those people wily nilly suspended the Bill of Rights and the Nuremberg Accords. Should we be surprised? No, not at all. They merely showed us that such documents are window dressing, and thaw behind them real power does not care two shits for them. I took that lesson to heart, and thereafter ceased to care two shits about our founding documents, our form of governance, voting, and least of all for something I knew to be fake and useless anyway, protesting.
I wrote on Facebook about the Pandemic being fake. I had learned before it that both Facebook and Youtube had staffed up prior to the 3/11/20 event,, and were ready to shut down any dissenting voices. I therefore decided to speak my peace and get off of Facebook. I closed my account, but later learned that Facebook never closes and account or disposes of anything written. It is meant to be a permanent record. Lest you thinks that Facebook, now Meta, is even aware of me, it is not. It is merely a computer database with immense storage and search capabilities. If it needs to know about somebody, it can mine its own data back to the first comment by that person.
Mark Zuckerberg is not a genius. I don’t know how smart the guy was when at Harvard, but assume that he was able to set up a communications network that caught the eye of CIA, which injected, according to Mr. Mathis, $3 million into his work to set up Facebook. We don’t know how much government (DARPA) funding followed, but can see on the outside looking in that Facebook was able to displace MySpace, the original inventor (or recipient) of the technology. That’s a head scratcher for me, how CIA accomplishes its objectives so easily. MySpace is still around, I am told, but relegated to music wonks. Facebook went on to become the biggest social media empire imaginable, with reach into all of our lives.
The Pandemic achieved its real purpose, and that purpose is as safely guarded a secret as the true reason for Apollo. We will never know. After three years I attempted to get back on Facebook using my real name and email, and was told I had to wait for a few things to clear. My computer went into a spin cycle that went on for hours, until I finally realized that it was Meta’s way of saying “Fuck you.” Recently, I changed my name to Mark Iksrakot, my name spelled backwards, and thought I had fooled them, as I now have an account, but they still try to hook me up with relatives from before, and some high school people. They know. It knows.
But real censorship is yet to be on full display here. I am also banned on YouTube, and memory does not serve well enough to be sure, so I don’t know if it was because I spoke out on the Scamdemic, or the McCartney twins. I did rattle both cages, and I know that I was banned by Mike Williams, the “Sage of Quay”, who is apparently hired as a limited hangout on the real nature and purpose of the Beatles. I find Williams tolerable, as he has let out important things to know if anyone has a real interest in how psyops like the Beatles are accomplished.
Like Facebook, the Beatles were a massive operation years in planning, one that was done with great effect so that it saturated all of our society. When intelligence, Intel with a capital I, wants to do something, it has at its disposal not only vast resources, but very smart people.
George Martin, the man put in charge of the Beatles music, was able to recruit some of the best songwriters on the planet, and to use the facilities of EMI to publish remarkably tuneful music written by unknown geniuses. Lennon and McCartney became, even 64 years after their original appearance on Sullivan, alleged and accidentally discovered diamonds in the rough. They were told to take credit for it all, and to pretend. My only suspicion of either of them being genuinely authentic humans is John Lennon’s death, which was fake. Did he have enough of the fakery? Did he want out? We’ll never know.
I subscribe to a Canadian outlet called “Climate Discussion Nexus.” It’s wonky, and so right up my alley. I once tried to comment on one of their articles, and found I was banned. I contacted John Robson, head of the operation, and asked why, in a most respectful fashion. He wrote back that he did now know, and said it had nothing to do with me, as I was obviously not angry. He did say in passing that CDN uses Youtube to publish its comments page, and I understood immediately the problem. I am banned on YT, and therefore on CDN. And, there’s nothing anyone can do about it. I still subscribe and contribute to CDN. They’re OK, just caught up in the web.
That is how vast the reach of Youtube, and Facebook and Instagram and TikTok, and whatever new outlets have passed me by. It’s not just me. There must be hundreds of thousands like me who are silenced but this hidden censorship apparatus. We’ll never know how many of us there are.
I don’t matter, of course. I have no illusions about my own reach. Even in my heady days when I was getting 2,000 hits a day, I was nothing. Bill Maher/Pete Ham is a complete phony merely acting out his designated role, and has millions of followers. Millions! When I say I am nothing, I mean it.
And, if you’re curious about the reach of censorship, real censorship, just try to comprehend the meaning of the word “unknowable.” We’re deep in it, and even the readers and commenter here, smart and wily, are often yet to grasp how effective the power of the velvet glove is. We’re allowed to live and enjoy our lives and exchanges, as we are hermetically sealed. Like the envelopes containing the answers for the Carnac the Magnificent to glean in his mystical way, we cannot fathom such power. )There’s an outdated reference for you. Carnac is heavily promoted on Meta/Facebook these days.)
Back in the 1940s our hidden leaders understood the power of television, and allowed it to flourish so that every home had a TV set that was cutting edge technology, like today. So too with the Internet. It was technology meant to enslave us, and has done so.
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Below is the piece I wrote for Canyon Courier, blocked by Scott Taylor, its editor. Keep in mind that CC is part of a larger chain, so that its censorship comes from high above. I bear Mr. Taylor no ill will. When first I contacted him, he seemed enthusiastic about what I had written, a short letter. It never saw light of day, and then he went dark. Decide for yourself if I am readable.
Dear Mr. Taylor, I offer the following in response to the article you ran on 8/27/26 titled “Money to fight fires limited as threat grows.” I found the language he used to be excessive and unduly alarming. Thanks,Mark Tokarski_________________________To: Scott Taylor, Editor, Canyon CourierLanguage is a useful tool for describing our world but is limited. We are given many words that describe the ordinary things going on around us. It’s been warm this summer, for instance. It’s been dry, and we could use a bit more moisture. Some years are like that, some dry, some wetter.Those words do not describe danger, and do not alarm us. They merely describe our reality. However, back in 2023, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared that the Earth has entered an “era of global boiling”.Is that a proper use of language? Does it contain an accurate description of our reality? No way. It is just hyperbole, or extravagant use of words to create alarm, as in yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater”. He was using extreme language to create undue alarm. The planet Is not boiling. Our climate fluctuates within margins of comfort, sometimes hot, other times cold.I write this after reading a Canyon Courier article in the August 27 issue, Money to fight fires limited as threat grows”, by Chase Woodruff. He writes (my emphasis):
- “The Upper Yampa Water Conservation District … faced severe cuts to their allotments amid unprecedented drought conditions … “
- “But even as farmers and ranchers dealt with the impacts of a historically dry summer…”
- [Money was] “appropriated by the state legislature in 2021, in the aftermath of the previous year’s record-shattering outbreak of wildfires.”
- “But as climate change continues to intensify wildfire hazards in Colorado …”
To set the record straight:
- Is drought out here in the West “unprecedented”. No way. We are in the rain shadow of a large mountain range. It’s normal. Look up the Palmer Drought Severity Index to find out just how normal it is.
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