Author: Mark Tokarski

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

Jonestown … the end

New Note to Readers: I republished this back in January of 2024, and am doing so again. I was on another blog, and a commenter there dismissively used the expression “drank the Kool Aid” to criticize another person. I realized then that ‘Drink the Kool Aid” serves the identical function as another meme, “Watcha got there, a conspiracy theory?” It allows people of low curiosity and possibly even lower intellect to criticize people more curious and smarter than them, and to thereby win arguments and gain an upper hand against their betters. Thus do we live in a land where public opinion is governed by fools. I republish this one more time to emphasize that it is those who use the expression “Drank the Kool Aid” who drank the Kool Aid, the public psyop and fake event known as “Jonestown massacre,” where no one died.

Note to Readers: I’ve got a few ideas percolating on the back burner, waiting to take shape. Looking back over the years, I found my Jonestown work to be among the most satisfying. I had no help, and started to publish before I completely grasped how they had pulled it off. The coup de grâce was a trip to the SOG (seat of government) website for (formerly?) British Guyana, where a government geological agency has detailed maps of mineral deposits in the country, proven and potential. Right where “Jonestown” was said to be there is a gold mine. This validated my speculation that photos of the compound were really those of a mining camp.

I am re-publishing this piece because the opening links to everything before. The conclusions at the opening include the very last: No one died. I might add that the expression “drank the Kool-Aid” entered the lexicon after this event, and the Intel agents behind it (all retired or dead by now) had to be laughing because even as it is used against people with healthy skeptical minds who do not believe in LOOT, the Lies of Our Times, it really describes those who think events like 911, or January 6, or the OKC bombing were real. The joke is on them, the irony is precious. The people who think Jonestown was a real event … drank the Kool-Aid!

As always I have left comments before intact and have allowed for new ones as well.

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The complete five-part Jonestown series:
Jim Jones: The Fake early years
Jonestown: Introduction
Jonestown: More Questions than answers
Jonestown: Not so remote after all
Jonestown: The end

To draw this business around Jonestown to a conclusion, I will try to answer the question “Why?”

First, some obvious conclusions.

  • Due to the location of purported Jonestown, there was no need to bring anyone from San Francisco down there. They probably used military or actual mining company employees to stage the fake mass suicide photo-op. No one was going to travel there afterwards.

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The Spanish flu and underlying questions

To say that what I do is compulsive is akin to saying a Marathon runner really enjoys running. He/she doesn’t enjoy the suffering, I don’t imagine, but feels a need to conquer some madness inside, some burning desire to excel at something that most people don’t think or care about, running. I read a lot, but not compulsively, that is, I feel no urge to complete a book start to finish, and if I don’t like what I’m reading, I set it aside. If I really don’t like what I’m reading, I ceremoniously toss the damned thing in the recycle bin. I would easily drop out of the marathon at mile marker 3.0. I don’t suffer that burning desire, and don’t understand those so motivated.

Anyway, when I encounter a book I like, I shortly thereafter forget its contents. I can actually read it again and it will hit me as brand new. So, long ago, I developed the habit of revisiting a book I liked not too long after finishing it, and transcribing passages I had read and flagged. The idea was that manually typing out those passages would seal them inside my cranium with some permanence.  It works! Sort of. These days I use transcription software, so typos abound, often comical, often hard to rectify without going back to the page of the crime.

The book I read recently is called “Can You Catch a Cold?”, Untold History of Human Experiments, by Daniel Roytas. (Video link here, Amazon link here.) I’m not big on credentials, but do note that the author lacks a “Dr.” before or a “PhD” after his name. But that does not matter if the only thing that matters is content. I also note that the book is not indexed, a true defect in my mind. Indexing is a time-consuming but worthy exercise. There are also some annoying typos  contained within, not uncommon in this time of self-published works. The “Forward by Dr. Samantha Bailey” helps some, as I like her and her husband Mark, but living on the outside of their chosen fields must be degrading, with the resultant preaching while in exile being more like circle jerking than actually reaching anyone. Nonetheless, truth is where it is found, and I tip my hat to those who labor onward.

All that in mind, I am going to cite a long passage from this book on the Spanish flu of the post-World War I era, as I found it revealing and gripping. Read it too if you can, or not. I seldom follow orders, and when someone tells me I need to read this or that, I usually continue on doing what I am doing without heeding the advice. I made it through high school in that manner, and yes, I missed a lot in the process, but agree with Paul Simon that most of it was crap.

So, if you start to read what follows and then say “Ah, fook this,” I get it.

Have fun! Or not. There is a payoff at the end, so skip there if you want. Or skip it all and go to my own brief observations at the very end, and share your own in the comments. I know of one person, not sure who, claiming that the Spanish Flu was a hoax. I do not believe that. I believe it real, and just as with polio and micro encephalitis and God only know what else, was blamed on a virus as a cover-up. That is, really, the true function of viruses.

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Lawsuit based on bad science … ain’t dead yet

I refer you to an article, Missoula judge dismisses federal climate lawsuit, plaintiffs plan to appeal, which you will find in the Billings (Montana) Gazette, or any of the other related Lee Newspaper outlets. Unfortunately, the article is paywalled. At one time I subscribed to the Gazette, paying $1.00 for three months. I thought the price was a bit excessive, but only modestly so. More recently, I have subscribed for one year for $26.00, wildly overpriced, but still, affordable.

The article is centered on a lawsuit brought by “Our Children’s Trust”, a group of naive and poorly educated kids used as fronts in a cynical maneuver to bypass science and legislatures and make “Climate Change” an actionable offense. By that means misanthropic morons can take legal action against our society. The judge, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen, bent the knee before the CC crowd, but said in conclusion that “… while this court is certainly troubled by the very real harms presented by climate change and the challenged [executive orders’] effect on carbon dioxide emissions, this concern does not automatically confer upon it the power to act.”

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Mathew Silverstone, a closer look

I thought I would give a try to explaining some photo manipulation as done above, with Mathew Silverstone, said to be a victim in the 9/10/2025 shootings at Evergreen High School, Evergreen, Colorado. It takes a minute or so to acclimate yourself, but it is a matter of perspective. Right off I can see that the head is too big for the body. Its width, cheekbone to cheekbone, is 45% of his shoulder width. I have a large head, size 7-3/4 hat size, but my width is only 35% of my shoulders. Same with my wife, on a smaller scale, of course, 35%. Try the measurement on yourself and see if you get something similar. This is one big noggin we are looking at.

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A little McLuhan for us as we view events through the eyes of the TV

The mode of the TV image has nothing in common with film or photo, except that it offers also a nonverbal gestalt or posture of forms. With TV, the viewer is the screen. He is bombarded with light impulses that James Joyce called the “Charge of the Light Brigade” that imbues his “soulskin with subconscious inklings.” The TV image is visually low in data. The TV images is not a still shot. It is not a photo in any sense, but a ceaselessly forming contour of things limned by the scanning-finger. The resulting plastic contour appears by light through, not light on, and the image so formed as the quality of sculpture and icon, rather than a picture. The TV image offers some three million dots per second to the receiver. From these he accepts only a few dozen each instant, from which to make an image. (Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, edited version by W. Terrence Gordon, 2003, p418)

McLuhan, who died in 1980, wrote the above in an era where TV, colorized, was still a small screen with blurred images. Today we have 40-inch (minimum) high-definition screens, but I don’t imagine the power of TV has gotten anything but bigger as a result. It is still a two-dimensional medium, and we literally enter the screen and participate in the programming. McLuhan differentiated this from movies, which were and are highly defined, TV “cool”, movies “hot”. It could be that with the advent of better TV images, the medium is “hotter” now than then, but from what I see, maybe not.

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The Evergreen, Colorado school shootings, 9/10/25, once more

I had to take down the original post I did on this event. I had foolishly linked it to NextDoor, which masquerades as a local source for pictures of bears in our yards and warnings of traffic jams. I had mentioned there that I could not locate either the shooter or one of the alleged victims in any public people source, like TruePeopleSearch or Geni. I then wrote the post and linked it there, inviting anyone curious to join us in our discussion, warning them to be civil.

I awoke to the scene pictured on the left, which is a spray can used for BBQ that I keep on a rolling rack on the deck. It had been taken from there, and the cap removed, the can upright, and a pine cone and birdseed nut in between. Since it was done in a manner that had everything in line and upright, it was not a bear or raccoon or fox, our normal visitors. It was a human who did this for us. It was none too subtle, and indeed carried a message, that by suggesting the shooting event was faked, that I was a nut, that I am not rational.

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Baseball notes

We had something I found interesting going in a post I had to take down due to emergence of hatefulness, an ugly aspect of the ongoing mass shooting sprees, all fake. I’ll come back to it.

Tyrone mentioned that one team, the Cleveland Indians/Guardians, hold the futility record, not having won a World Series since 1948, 77 years. I looked a bit further and found that there are a few teams who had not made WS appearances (win or lose) for long stretches of time, like Pittsburgh, Seattle, Oakland, Minnesota, Colorado and Cincinnati, and they shared one thing in common: small TV markets.

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Cowan and Kaufman, C+K = 33?

Mike Wallach, proprietor of The Viral Delusion, runs a nice website and I am happy to send along a few bucks each month. However, back in July he ran a video, The Viral Delusion Episode Three: Monkey Business: Polio, Measles And How It All Began,  and right away, just a couple of minutes into it, I was looking up at the nose hairs of Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman. The latter for sure I do not trust, as someone pointed out to me long ago that Edward Snowden, then said to be quarantined in an airport in Moscow, and Mr. Kaufman bore a striking resemblance to one another.

No way, I thought, but decided to expend the effort to do the comparisons anyway. For newbies, my underlying criteria is based on the premise that our heads form their final for-life shape in our late teens and early 20s, and that as a result, the distance between our eye pupils can be used as a constant throughout our lives. That in mind, if I align eye pupils at a common distance, I can compare two faces to find differences and similarities.

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