Author: Mark Tokarski

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

I prefer my Osama with balsamic, to keep it mild and palatable

The following excerpt is from the book Facts are Stubborn Things by Richard A. Danzig.

I consider Damian a good friend. We enjoy working and being in each other’s company. Damian is 38, nine years younger than me. He is a graduate of Annapolis, and after graduation, instead of accepting his commission, he chose to become a Navy SEAL. After completing basic training he completed advanced training in covert arts at the Naval Special Warfare Center. Based upon Damian’s leadership ability he quickly became a platoon leader and served for two tours of active duty in the Middle East. After his tours were completed, Damian attended the Naval War College and became a specialist in Naval Intelligence and Cyber Security. Damian never speaks about his engagements, but I know he received a Naval Metal of Honor for valor in combat in recognition of courage and bravery under fire.

                He has only one tattoo, barely visible on the rest of his right hand: “The Only Easy Day is Yesterday.” That tattoo says all you need to know about Damian. He is disciplined, determined and loyal. If a friend is someone you can call an emergency, day or night, no questions asked, then Damian is that friend.

                Like most SEALs,  he carries himself in a way that is calm and yet somehow intimidating. When you meet Damian, who stands 5 foot 10, you feel his presence before you notice his muscular build and chiseled features. His blonde hair is still in a Navy buzz cut and his posture is always perfect. He is centered in a way certain people are, who carried themselves with complete confidence in their skill, judgment, and ability.

I’ve been looking for books to read during long plane flights on our coming overseas trip. I took a chance on this one. I don’t mind cheesy, I don’t mind beach books, as I intend to leave each book where I read the last page. Our last three days are on a beach. But this one annoyed me, so much that I tossed it down on the carpet by my chair in disgust. 

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Sea level rise to begin soon. Be vewy vewy wowwied.

The above graph is of sea level rise projected for the city of San Francisco for the period 2018-2100. Please note the following:

Projected sea level rise is as follows based on “anthropogenic forcing”, or human activity:

Level of rise                     Meters                 Millimeters (mm)             mm per year

Extreme                              2.5                            2,500                                       30

High                                    2.0                           2,000                                       24

Intermediate high            1.5                           1,500                                         18

Intermediate                     1.0                           1,000                                         12

Low                                     0.3                              300                                          3.6

1900-2018 historic          0.23                            230                                          1.95

 

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Dr. King and Don King, ring-a-ding-ding?

Summary: Human beings naturally group due to many factors, but require effective leaders to force changes. Such leaders often rise organically, as can be seen in history with people like Genghis Kahn, whose presence is still widely felt due to his procreation habits. The leaders we have now and have had for several thousand years, are well aware of organic movements and how to destroy them. Two such recent movements come to mind: The racial unrest of the post-World War II era, and the anti-war movement that arose in response to a seemingly unnecessary and barbaric attack on native populations in Southeast Asia in the early 1960s forward.

The response to such movements is easy to predict – the true an hidden leaders among us, whose activities are clandestine, make and force upon us false leaders whose objective is to destroy organic movements, and render the population into eunuch status.  The anti-Vietnam-war movement was rendered impotent by the activities of people like Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, H Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Noam Chomsky, Dr. Benjamin Spock and  others. However, it was Charles Manson and company, who gave us a fake but highly publicized massacre in 1969, that drove the stake through the heart of the movement. Having taken on all of the apparent appearances of a populist surge, the anti-war movement was rendered impotent in the aftermath of the Tate-LaBianca killings, and never recovered as the war moved forward, finally having achieved its real goals by 1975.

Similarly, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s grew in strength, and needed to be reined in by false leaders, supplied by Intelligence. Among them were people like Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evans, Jesse Jackson, and Ralph Abernathy. But the most prominent of them was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This post examines his real origins, a 1959 arrest wherein he was chosen to become a new man with a fake background, a powerful public speaker named Dr. Martin Luther King, who apparently lived on to become fight promoter Don King. Predictably, the Civil Rights movement was left in tatters after King’s fake assassination in 1968. As false leaders do, he led his followers into a brick wall. His was an exercise in false hope, and of killing real hope.

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The Polar Vortex

We here in Colorado (at 7,900 feet) are in the midst of a cold snap, with temperatures in the below-zero range. Typically this time of year in our state we enjoy daytime temperatures in the thirties, though often with sub-freezing at night. This morning as I stepped outside our garage to deliver some recyclables to the bin, I was hit with what is called an “Artic blast”, and that is actually a correct label. Such cold air as we currently have is unnatural for our area, and does indeed originate in the Arctic.

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The Manhattan Contrarian continually puts out good and credible work

I read the Manhattan Contrarian regularly. That blog is listed in our blogroll. I have never thought to plug his work, as it has never occurred to me that he is in need of help from a lesser blog. But today I want to offer him some kudos.

The post I am referring to is The Energy Storage Fiasco: How Soon Will It Be Abandoned?, dated January 17, 2025. The photo above, is of the Moss Landing battery storage facility, located in Monterey County, California. It is the largest battery storage facility in the world.  Lithium ion batteries have a tendency to spontaneously combust, and this fire broke out on January 16, or two days ago from this writing. No one is yet revealing the amount of damage done by the fire, so I can only observe by the photo that it is substantial.

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One small oversight

Here’s an obviously staged photo taken at the fake Trump assassination attempt on July 13, 2024.

How can we tell it was staged? A shot had supposedly been taken at Trump from the direction that his white shirt is facing, opening him up to more shots from that direction. Any prominent public figure knows that when faced with danger the instructions are to get low and stay low, and crawl to safety. Since fight promoter Trump knows about staging, it is safe to say that he and the circle of people around him rehearsed this scene for dramatic effect, creating a courageous and defiant leader.

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Of climate models and other toys

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently announced that 2024 was the warmest year on record, the key being “on record.” When IPCC speaks it is treated in the media as an ex cathedra source (a Catholic expression meaning “from the chair”, or infallible). There are several reasons for this:

  • IPCC was set up on the founding principle that greenhouse gases were heating up our climate, a finalistic principle that has led to circular thinking from the beginning.
  • IPCC relies on 30 or so climate models coming from around the world, each starting with the assumption that the Earth’s climate is in equilibrium, and that only human activity will change that. All of these climate models drift off into catastrophic warming except one, the Russians, who have always produced better scientists than here in the West. Save that, none of the climate models are in sync with real climate data, and yet are followed with rigor by governments all over the planet. Hence, windmills littering the landscapes along with solar panels, and countries like Germany and Great Britain drifting into perilous shortages, blackouts, and rationing. One can infer from this, as during Covid, that all the governments on the planet (save perhaps Tanzania) march lockstep to an undisclosed higher power. We were once told that we should fear a “one world government”, but I am here to tell you that while we were barring our doors against it, it came in through the bathroom window.
  • All news agencies everywhere treat the IPCC as the man behind the green curtain, and none will dare pull back that curtain to reveal the Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs – like character who is governing our perceptions. This gives IPCC an entrenched aura of (unearned) authority, as in essence it is a propaganda body, and follows the principles of propaganda far more faithfully than those of science.

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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

I do not need to instruct most of my readers on the meaning of the Latin phrase used as the title of this piece. For the few uninitiated, post hoc, ergo propter hoc is a phrase used to describe a logical fallacy, one of the most common in use. It translates to “after this, therefore because of this.” Better to illustrate by example rather than ‘splain, John Brown, the man who initiated the beginning of the US Civil War by attacking the weapons storage facility at Harpers Ferry, was supposedly superstitious and guided by stars in the heavens to dictate his moves. If they aligned, he moved. The fallacy here is that stars had anything to do with his movements. That translates to after this, therefore because of this.

I worked on John Brown quite a bit, assisted by Kevin Starr, who added much more. My initial trigger was the fact that the armory at Harper’s Ferry on the night of the attack had but one guard on duty, and was in essence left unguarded. That told me that the event was staged, and that both Northern and Southern elements were in on it. Then we learn that Brown was juiced, part of the British peerage, and that it does not take much sleuthing to realize that his public hanging was staged, and that he walked away. It then logically follows that if the trigger event of the Civil War was staged, that the war itself, while costly in terms of lives and property, was a planned event. Lincoln, who would later fake his death, was in on it as well. The object of the war? Another time, another story. Slavery was part of it, but the driving force was a new kind of union of the states, and a major rewriting of our governing document, the Constitution. Power was transferred from the individual states to a new and powerful federal government.*

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A conversation with AI about 911

AI is programmed to repeat the essential arguments of propaganda surrounding the events of 9/11, and as such is just another Wikipedia, a LOOT, or Lies Of Our Times.

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Me: On 9/11/2001 three jetliners were said to have crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and another to have vanished in an old coal mine in Pennsylvania. The latter aside, what we saw on TV, the airliners leaving behind Wiley Coyote-type holes in the building, violates Newton’s Third Law, that every action is met by an equal and opposite reaction, so that the object with the greater mass will prevail, and the aircraft should have been annihilated and left on the streets of Manhattan.

AI: Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This law is universally applicable and is not violated in any physical scenario, including the events of September 11, 2001. The holes formed by the aircraft in the World Trade Center buildings do not violate Newton’s Third Law. When the planes hit the buildings, the planes and the buildings exerted equal and opposite forces on each other. The planes were destroyed due to the high-speed collision, while the buildings, though damaged, did not collapse instantaneously due to their structural integrity and the distribution of the impact force.

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