Author: Mark Tokarski

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

The magical ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ (Part 2): Leona Helmsley, Bernie Madoff

Leona Helmsley

HelmsleyLeona Helmsley was painted in the media as a shrew, and was branded that for supposedly having said “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” This goes back to 1989, and so may not be fresh material for most readers here, but is still useful to try to understand.

She claimed not to have said that. The words were attributed to her by a former housekeeper, and are not credible – that is, even if Helmsley held that opinion, she would not have shared it with one of the “little people.” The Wiki footnote on that quote is “11.”* Yet the words became her brand. It was almost as if she was railroaded.

Two other names pop up in this affair, Alan Dershowitz, and Rudy Giuliani. Both names raise red flags, as Dershowitz, in addition to being Noam Chomsky’s foil, would be one of the actor-lawyers in the OJ Simpson show trial (to be covered in another segment), and Giuliani, then a United States Attorney, would turn up as mayor of New York on 9/11/2001, surely a trusted insider to that gigantic hoax.

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Do they hold the magical ‘Get Out of Jail Free card? (Part One): Wesley Snipes, Rod Blogojevich, Martha Stewart

Tyrone in part one of his book JFKTV down below, makes a profound statement:

“…the fact that a half-century of research has not produced a definite answer to the JFK assassination, nor has it brought anyone to justice, it is long overdue to question whether or not the assassination took place at all. And it’s reasonable to ask that question in a country that still insists it operates under the rule of law.”

We are not a country of laws, that is, you and I have to abide by them, as the consequences can be severe. We pay our taxes, don’t fake our deaths, don’t steal from or murder one another because we know there are prisons, and that they are not pleasant pastoral campuses with tennis courts and saunas.

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One of the most fake photos of all time: The LBJ Swearing In Ceremony, Part 2

Since I have quite a bit to offer to complement Daddieuhoh’s work yesterday, I thought I would do it as a separate post. There is quite a bit going on in the photos he brought to us. I will offer the ones I will be working with as a montage:

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The true art of lying

One of the most ink-consuming episodes in recent American history involved a man named Daniel Ellsberg and a 7,000 page document called the “Pentagon Papers.” The entire affair was highly instructive.

ellsbergEllsberg was an insider, and is to this day called out to perform in public when other rebels, like Edward Snowden, need an imprimatur of genuineness. His role as an actor was readily apparent when, faced with a prison sentence, he was remarkably set free due to “bungling” by the Nixon Administration group called the “White House Plumbers, who left a driver’s license … excuse me, left easily discovered evidence of the burglary of the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist. This in turn caused the court to set Ellsberg free. This sort of play-acting is sometimes called a “Kabuki Dance,” or an ” … event that is designed to create the appearance of conflict or of an uncertain outcome, when in fact the actors have worked together to determine the outcome beforehand.” (Wikipedia, my favorite source of lies.)

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Back to the important stuff

I cannot change history. I can’t do anything about anything except those things affecting me personally and the people I know. Like all of you, I do my best.

So let’s get down to something important, and I mean really important: Rihanna is twins! And I can put up very strong evidence.

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Where did I go wrong?

I am sitting here wondering where it all went wrong. We were having so much fun!

First came the Miles Mathis attack, which though hurtful contained enough truth so as to be taken seriously. That spawned a review of some of the work done, and indeed I have made mistakes with photo analysis, mistakes of enthusiasm, but still, mistakes. So far five “twins” have disappeared, and one “Zombie” has been affirmed, and the work continues. None of that work is hidden, only not linked now on the right hand side. It is also disclaimed as error. (It is a bit soothing that one of our twins, Rihanna, will be affirmed shortly.)

As a result of that we lost “Straight,” upset that the work is not given the respect he feels it is due. It’s a legitimate failure of minds to meet. His spot is open. I miss him.

Then I came upon Vexman, whose work will not be seen here anymore … I don’t care if it is a labor of truth or fantasy or deliberate deceit, it has cast such a pall on this blog that I realize I have the power to make it go away, and can, and will. I am not a person who enjoys “power” per se, but I am one who enjoys the search for truth, life, music, humor, and we have none of that at present.

I left the following comment on Vexman’s last piece, part 3 of his series on Russian history and Jews and unspeakable horror. Since the comment will disappear with the post, I re-post it here:

Holodomor/Holocaust … interesting use of language. I have to stop and wonder at this piece of history, how it could happen in a vacuum. Just as the idea of 700,000 people perishing by means of gunshot in the back of the head, it has the sound of fantasticism, designed to horrify and enrage. We are not in charge of our own history, and so don’t know the truth of events of 15 years ago, yet we are asked to believe these tales of murder and famine … on what basis? I am also offended that “Jews” is being used in the pejorative. I want this whole series to be done and forgotten.

I realized after I wrote that that indeed I can make the whole series be done, if not forgotten. Vexman has his own blog. I urge that he move the whole body of work there, and those of you who want to read it go there. It is not being denied to you, only denied at this venue.

I want blogging to be fun again. Good bye, Vexman. I will catch your work at Vexman’s Thoughts.

 

No more twins!

We went off the tracks here with the twins business. We had discovered real twins in show business, knew of the ability of the industry to keep its secrets, and using some credible photographic analysis coupled with confirmation bias, projected too much.

So far I have examined four sets of twins, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Aniston. They’re all in the reccycle bin. While Straight still thinks that Beyoncé is a twin, I told him that if I cannot defend it, I cannot assert it. I don’t think she is a twin – it was just a publicity stunt involving alter ego Sasha Fierce that promoted the aberrant photos that led me off track. It was confirmation bias, writ large.

Beyond that, I am finding myself echoing the sentiments of a few commenters as I sweat out these matters … so what? So what about twins? They don’t matter. They are not interesting. They are just show business people.

I am going to get out of the twin-spotting business, to de-link the entire list with cautionary notes on each, and get on with my life with a hard lesson learned. There might indeed be a set or two of twins in there – some nuggets among the fool’s gold. Jared Leto comes to mind, having, like Elvis, both a music and acting career at once. If so, more power to him/them. The ones I left on the list – Rihanna, Drake, Joplin etc., I regard as defensible.

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Matt Damon impersonates Tom Brady on Kimmel Live

I was passively watching a rerun of Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday while fiddling with something else, when he announced that New England quarterback Tom Brady was on. Right away I thought spoof, and as the door opened and a fully clad football player walked out, I instantly knew, even before the big reveal, that it was Matt Damon.

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Scarecrows

bannon

Time Magazine has a penchant for giving us the enemies du jour of the empire in a most frightening fashion, almost caricature. Sometimes they even use parts of the word “Time” as devil’s horns, as above. I’ve seen on Facebook that Steve Bannon is scaring people, and this cover by Time confirms that something is up. Time is always lockstep with the latest propaganda push.They are using him as a scarecrow.

See below the fold for a rogue’s gallery of Time covers over the years.

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