Author: Mark Tokarski

Just a man who likes to read, argue, and occasionally be surprised.

Welcome to the calm zone

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I have been busy researching an event from 2002, the failed coup d’état in Venezuela. Then-president Hugo Chavez was taken hostage for a couple of days and then restored to power. The upshot is that Chavez was controlled opposition and that the event was manufactured for the benefit of the Venezuelan people. It instilled confidence in Chavez, its whole purpose. (Wikipedia clues us in in the first sentence with the number “47.” That is a spook marker telling us the event was fake. We are not supposed to know that.) [A better word than “fake” is “manufactured,” as thousands of honest people were sucked into it by agents provocateur.]

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What became of the recounts?

“Democracy was invented as a device for reconciling government with liberty. It is clear that government is necessary if anything worthy to be called civilization is to exist, but all history shows that any set of men entrusted with power over another set will abuse their power if they can do so with impunity. Democracy is intended to make men’s tenure of power temporary and dependent upon popular approval. Insofar as it achieves this it prevents the worst abuses of power. (Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1959)

“No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by group leaders in who it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.” (Edward Bernays (“Father of Modern Advertising”), Propaganda, 1928)

“The chief problem of American political life for a long time has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.” Prof. Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966)

Bernays words, that no serious sociologist believes in the voice of the people, neatly sums up the general attitude of our leadership class regarding elections: they are a necessary evil, but in no way should be allowed to influence public policy (as Professor Quigley makes clear). Consequently over the centuries American elections have always been the object of fraud and foul play. The only time the voice of the people is allowed to make a real choice is when the same people in power control both candidates. Then the votes can be counted and a winner legitimately declared. Thus I have no doubt that Nixon beat Humphrey in 1968.

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2017: Piece of Mindful

A certain blogger I know is a high school teacher. People who frequent this blog know to grant no special status on that profession, as its function is to keep the chains invisible.  This teacher does not know that, of course. (If teachers don’t know their own function, well, then, who was it that asked the famous question … “is our children learning?”)

This particular teacher promotes a method of intellectual exploration called use of “trusted sources.” Each step in the thought process must be sanctioned by a higher authority. It is our educational system reduced to its core:

                                                                    Obey.

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The Second Restoration

This blog was started in 2006 as a joint project between my son and I – he wrote for a year or so and then moved on, leaving it to me. I found it a nice outlet. Each morning my mind is awash in ideas, some even mildly interesting. So I kept at it, but did not understand how the concept of “blogging” had been captured by the two parties and was being used as a mechanism to keep the herds inside the fences. To my dismay I was removed from the links of party-affiliated blogs and banned from commenting. My manners were less harsh and my insight far better than people who remained loyal to the parties. Still, isolated and ignored in all the right places, I kept at it. It was something to do.

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The execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém: Another Famous Photo is fake

vietna-execution-offical-photoWarning to readers: Below the fold are some gruesome photos of an alleged execution of a young Vietnamese boy in 1968, the famous Saigon Execution photo by famous war photographer Eddie Adams. I am convinced it was faked, and so have no problem showing both it and a related film clip of the incident. If you are squeamish about blood, be warned, read no further. If you do, take comfort, as it is fake blood.

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OPEC: Another public hoax

OPEC meets on December 10 in Vienna. World oil output to be curtailed.

My career was as a CPA serving oil and gas clients, among other things. The industry has had a shakeout these last couple of years, and many individual investors have sold their holdings, fulfilling the market dictum for all unsophisticated non-insiders:

Buy high, sell low.

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The game is afoot

My brief once-weekly sojourn to Huffington Post: Supposedly a majority of Americans want the Electoral College vote tomorrow postponed due to the interference by the Russians. (The poll, sponsored by some group called “Avaaz” is like the election itself fake.) Hillary Clinton supposedly won the popular vote by perhaps three million. Since no votes were counted, that is part of a script.

What does it mean? I don’t have a crystal ball, but there is a game at play.

For one, with electronic voting machines in  place everywhere now, there is no assurance that any votes were counted, much less accurately. They can stage an entire election without even counting one vote. The “recounts” are staged to assure us that the original counts are real, that too part of the hoax. (How can there be a “re”count when there was never a “count”?)

For another, the office of president is long reduced to a mere ribbon-cutting post held by actors. The Russians know this, and they know that our elections, like theirs, are fake. So the idea that they would interfere is high comedy. They’ve got to be looking on in wonder at this cuckoo’s nest.

That leaves us to guess what is really going on here. Have at it please. I am stumped.

A post in need of more (and better) work

A short while back we put up a post called John Lennon Family Photos. Some interesting anomalies turned up. I will highlight three of the photos:

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The man standing behind the two children is called the “boarder.” But more importantly, the girl has been pasted in. (Her whites are too white, arm lines too sharp.) That was done to hide something.

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Again the same boy and girl, and the “boarder.” This time the man on the left is pasted in (his head is too big), and again, this is done to hide something.

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The walrus taunt

I was reading this morning about about British playwright and director Edmund Goulding, and learned that in his early years he first pranced onto the stage playing the walrus in Alice in Wonderland. Just curious, I looked for the walrus in Through the Looking Glass, and came on the poem The Walrus and the Carpenter. It is 18 stanzas containing 108 lines for those who pay attention to the number game. The “carpenter” is not a significant character, that is, he could have been any profession but the word “carpenter” was a better fit for the verse. It was not chosen by Lewis Carrol, but instead by his editor. It’s the walrus that matters.

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Phan Thị Kim Phúc: Another long-running psyop

All that follows is but my opinion based on photographic, video and written evidence that has accumulated over the years.

Below the fold is a 1:31 video that could be described as the “making of the Famous Photo, that of Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after a napalm attack on her village. Please be advised that both the photograph and video are of a naked child. This is uncomfortable for all of us, but it is such a well-known photo that we feel at ease in running it here with a mere warning. If that troubles you, please read no further.

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