New Jon Stock Sleep Room book on William Walter Sargant mind control torture but "can't prove" MKULTRA ties?

 His treatments resulted in victims’ incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.. His [Ewen Cameron] work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist Dr. William Sargant at St. Thomas‘ Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey, who was also
involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent. causing similar long term damage... Dr.
Cameron and Dr. Sargant are only two identified Canadian experimenters, but the MKULTRA file makes reference to many other unnamed physicians who
were recruited by the ClA.

I just went to the CIA foia archives to search William Sargant and got the above result.

that is an Intellipedia website posting...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_Room_(book)

 I ordered the book... it is not available used in the U.S. so.... I guess it's brand-new to the U.S. There are two prominent reviews in the UK

I cite William Sargant in my research - a British writer on "shamanism" as mind control working with MKULTRA! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/the-sleep-room-by-jon-stock-a-very-british-medical-scandal-william-sargant-review-a-horrifying-study-of-medical-abuse 

Lobotomies, electroconvulsive therapy and sexual abuse — what really happened in Ward 5  

William Sargant psychiatrist pioneering, yet brutal, physical treatments 4 mental illness/mind control Lobotomies, electroconvulsive therapy and sexual abuse — happened in Ward 5

the patients, nearly all of whom were female, were drugged into long-term stupors, being roused from their beds only to be fed, washed or given innumerable doses of ECT.

A typical “narcosis” treatment comprised three months of near-total unconsciousness, after which time the patient had often been reduced to a “walking zombie” with permanent memory loss.

 In recent years writer Gordon Thomas has suggested that Sargant's experiments with deep sleep treatment were part of British involvement with the CIA MKULTRA programme into mind control.^[40] Donald Ewen Cameron was experimenting along similar lines in Canada, and it later emerged that his work was in part funded by the CIA.^[41] Cameron often sought Sargant's advice and on one occasion Sargant sent Cameron a note saying: "Whatever you manage in this field, I thought of it first".^[42] Books about Cameron's experiments have commented on links between the two psychiatrists.^[43] Although Sargant acted as a consultant for MI5, no evidence has emerged that his work with deep sleep treatment at St Thomas' hospital had any links with intelligence services.^[44][45][46]

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sargant

Oops - that Wiki article is out of date - no citing of the new Jon Stock book!

 "‘No suffering can compare with the suffering of the mind or what has been called the dark night of the soul. It is well, sometimes, to wake up haunted by what still has to be endured..." Sargant 1967

 AI: 

Brainwashing and Conditioning: In his book Battle for the Mind, he argued that intense religious experiences, conversions, and "possession" states were not supernatural, but rather the result of Pavlovian conditioning, where the brain is overloaded, inducing a state of high suggestibility.

Physicalist Approach: He firmly believed that mental issues and behaviors were caused by physical, bodily processes, rather than spiritual ones.

Focus on Treatment: He focused on extreme physical treatments like electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), drug-induced sleep, and lobotomy to "reset" the brain

 

Will the Ukrainian Holdomor be repeated globally soon? Famine in the midst of Imperial Implosion

 https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/review-of-anne-applebaums-red-famine-stalins-war-o

This is a fascinating critique of Anne Applebaum's book Red Famine on the Holdomor in Ukraine. I am not taking a "side" here - but one criticism of Applebaum's claim struck me as curious:

 Applebaum claims that the government’s procurements to alleviate that shortage “comprehensively destroyed the peasants incentives to produce more grain” (87). Yet later she writes that the 1930 harvest was much larger than the 1929 harvest (161). How could that have happened if peasants’ incentives were “comprehensively destroyed”?

Because crops are planted the season before they are harvested!! That's the same reason the lack of fertilizer now will only be felt next Fall when the harvest is to take place. Some farmers in the U.S. are choosing not to farm since the cost of fertilizer is prohibitive or the fertilizer is just not available. That same crisis is now happening worldwide....

 Stalin’s references to mechanized agriculture but dismisses them as a “Soviet cult of science” (87-89), not considering that Soviet leaders and planners were trying to emulate American farming, which was even more mechanized and scientifically based. She does not consider that repeated crop failures, which she mentioned, could have persuaded Soviet leaders that Soviet peasant farming needed to be modernized.¹²  Rather, she attributes the decision to collectivize agriculture to the 1928 Central Committee plenums that allegedly concluded that peasants had to be “squeezed” and “sacrificed” for industry (90-91). Yet modernizing agriculture was a central issue in those plenums. She never mentions that in 1929, the Soviets established VASKhNiL, the central agricultural research academy, under the leadership of the great biologist Nikolai Vavilov, who did not seek to “squeeze” the peasants. 

 Well adopting US "combine" technology has also "squeezed" the farmers in the U.S. also - hence the 1980s "Farm crisis" never ended. The median income of farmers in the U.S. is often negative income or just barely a couple thousand dollars! Most farmers are forced to have an "off-farm" job and those are harder to come by these days. So the farm crisis is worse than ever.

WION news just reported how the soybean farm expansion in Brazil has relied on destroying the rainforest - to the extent of some 40% of soybean farms directly destroying equatorial rainforest. This problem was driven by Cargill installing ILLEGAL soybean storage elevators in the rainforest as I reported back in 2006...And so a US private corporation owned by 14 billionaires - the largest private corporation in the world - directly undermines US farmers when Cargill buys up Brazilian soybeans to export to China and Europe as animal feed....

Meanwhile some 25% of the world's freshwater and oxygen is from the Amazonian rainforest that is turning into a carbon emission source due to abrupt global warming and deforestation to grow soybeans! oops... The point being that modernizing farming worldwide is accelerating the ecological crisis....

A good book on this is "Marx Against the Peasants" - as former MIT history professor David F. Noble points out in his Religion of Technology book - Marxism believed in the "edenic respites" of technology (to quote Marx). But ecology has other things in mind.

Professor Michael E. Hudson's critique of modern economics, AI: 

". and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year (2018) by economist Michael Hudson examines the history of debt forgiveness from Mesopotamia through the Roman Empire. Hudson argues that ancient societies regularly cancelled debts to prevent economic collapse and debt bondage, a tradition he argues is essential for modern economic health 

 emphasizes that ecology is a nonlinear S-curve while finance is exponential growth and the true message of Jesus was sin as debt - to reestablish the Good News of debt forgiveness...

  Yet she admits that in 1931 there were “bouts of drought,” which is an understatement; even Stalin publicly stated that drought “considerably” reduced the 1931 harvest.¹⁴  Russia and Ukraine had a long history of droughts and famines, which she admits (283); how can she know that no one, even peasants, saw the drought as a cause of shortages? In discussing the regime’s decision in spring 1932 to stop the procurements and provide food and seed for the villages to produce a new harvest, she asserts that officials “knew” that “food aid to Ukraine was a tacit admission of Stalin’s failure,” but also “knew” that “catastrophe would follow” if Ukraine did not get aid (173). 

 Food Aid has been used by the U.S. to create Imperial dependence and it sounds like the same technique was used to try to undermine the Ukrainian peasants. For example Cargill dumped grain into somalia at 1/6th the local food price - I had a published University op-ed exposing this. Cargill has offices in 80 countries and all these offices trade through Switzerland in derivatives as speculative gambling of "futures" - so Cargill made billions from the 2008 global crash. 

Obviously if there is a drought but there is also an industrialization process of increasing urban city populations then there is going to be a bad distribution of food to feed the cities at the expense of the suffering rural areas. The cities are relying on an "infinite growth" economies whereas traditional peasants realize that farm crops will have bad years.

Now we realize that the droughts and flooding and extreme weather will increase exponentially as the Ruddiman Hypothesis has been proven correct - the invention of farming triggered abrupt global warming globally.

The review of Applebaum's book in the end blames the peasants for withholding and thus profiteering from growing food - but growing food again is a gamble against the cycles of Nature - the soil loses fertility, the weather can be extreme. Any profits by farmers have to be invested back into planting trees to maintain soil fertility or doing intensive rotational grazing - meaning more land is needed to maintain soil fertility. Farming requires that profits have to be recycled back into Nature - unless we try to rely on synthetic input farming whereby the soil is no longer fertile but dependent on external inputs that just run off into the ocean.

Now even the ocean is being killed off and that's the source of 75% of the world's oxygen - oops. 90% of global warming heat has been absorbed by the oceans and those some 50 gigatons of heat will be releasing back into the atmosphere now as the ocean circulation is shut down.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/iran-war-analysis-how-60-nations-have-responded-to-the-global-energy-crisis/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2026-04-29&utm_campaign=Selected+Carbon+Brief+s+highlights+from+April 

Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint in the Persian Gulf, is causing what the IEA has called the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market”. 

A fifth of the world’s oil and LNG is normally shipped through this region, with 90% of those supplies going to destinations in Asia. Without these supplies, fuel prices have surged.

Governments around the world have taken emergency actions in response to this new energy crisis, shielding their citizens from price spikes, conserving energy where possible and considering longer-term energy policies.

Even with a two-week ceasefire announced, the energy crisis is expected to continue, given the extensive damage to infrastructure and continuing uncertainties. 

Asian crunch

 

the Celestial Key to the Vedas is 10,000 years old? B.G. Sidharth physicist book reviews by Robert Tulip (Christos)

  " It is possible that the sculpture originally formed the handle of a mirror.[2] The yakshi is evidence of commercial trade between India and Rome in the first century CE. However, the iconography, in particular the exposed genitals, reveals that the figure is more likely to depict a yakshi, a female tree spirit that represents fertility, or possibly a syncretic version of Venus-Sri-Lakshmi from an ancient exchange between Classical Greco-Roman and Indian cultures.[1] The figure is now in the Secret Museum in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.[5] Contents The statuette was discovered in October 1938 beside the Casa dei Quattro stili at Pompeii."

 Of particular interest is the observation that the Rig Veda refers to a mythical era that corresponds to the date of 7300 B.C. This date is shown to "refer to an epoch when the vernal equinox was in Tishya or Pushya" (p.65)--where Tishya and Pushya are Indian lunar asterisms (i.e. constellations). The author's conjecture that the Rig Veda had its origins in a civilization dating back to the 8th millennium B.C. would seem to agree with the discovery of an Anatolian civilization belonging to the same era (p.7). Interestingly, an Anatolian sculpture dating from that era would seem to be that of the clean-shaven head of a Vedic priest, complete with its characteristic pigtail (pp.8,160).

 Archaeologists excavating the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey have unearthed the figurine of a voluptuous woman in excellent condition. More than 2,000 figurines have been found at Çatalhöyük, but very few of them intact like this one. Several of them were also Mother figures; this is the first one to be found intact and with finely crafted details. It is also unusual in that it was discovered under a platform next to a piece of obsidian where it appears to have been deliberately placed likely for ritual purposes rather than discarded in garbage pits where archaeologists have found many broken statuettes, mostly made of clay. The beautiful Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, for example, who is herself a zaftig female archetype seated on a throne and captured in the very act of giving birth, was found missing her head and the right hand rest in the shape of a leopard or panther head.

Çatalhöyük is one of the largest and most significant Neolithic settlements, which blossomed during the 8th to late 7th millennium B.C..

The Sculpture: While the "seated woman of Çatalhöyük" is a famous figurine from this period, discussions linking Anatolian finds to Indo-Vedic origins often point to various, sometimes uniquely styled, human and animal figures found at the site.

Ritualistic Nature: These figurines, often crafted from clay or stone, were typically discovered in domestic settings and are considered to have had ritualistic significance.

 The excavations in the fortress are also the first archaeological diggings on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

Cybele, an Anatolian mother goddess, is the symbol of prosperity with her pregnant belly, seated on her throne.

In Anatolian mythology she was the personification of the earth. In Greek mythology in which she was equated to Earth-goddess Gaia, Cybele was mostly associated with fertile nature, mountains, town and city walls, as well as wild animals such as lions.

 Shifting the Paradigm on Ancient Culture
This book by Indian scientist Dr BG Sidharth presents a highly plausible account of the original purpose and connections of Vedic thought, describing the allegorical richness and antiquity of the hidden cosmology in the oldest Indian literature.
Recognising the profundity of Vedic thought has broad cultural implications. It is important to see Vedic connections to Judeo-Christian and Greek thought, and to refute the modern imperial dogmas that have subordinated India to Europe in mythology as well as in politics over the last few centuries.
A key theme highlighted by Dr Sidharth is the method of camouflage used by the original Vedic authors. Many obscure images in Vedic literature appear to be part of secret mystery initiation wisdom traditions, giving accurate astronomical information in code, while concealing the real meaning from the public. In many cases, it is entirely possible to assess the most probable original meaning. Alas, the oral traditions that held the ancient real meaning have been largely broken. Yet this principle of encoding astronomy in myth provides an effective heuristic to interpret Vedic ideas, a method that can help to assess what the real purpose and meaning of the texts really are.
This ancient camouflage method that Dr Sidharth documents in Vedic literature also applies to the Bible, with much of its imagery serving as parable for secret astronomical wisdom. Assessing the probable meaning of such codes offers a scientific rather than fundamentalist method to understand what the authors intended.
With the Vedas, it appears there really were ancient astronomers in India who understood accurate knowledge that was later lost. This seems the most plausible reason why the Vedas include concealed information on the accurate timing of the month and year, and the timing of precession of the equinoxes at just under 72 years per degree. Finding such hidden possibilities is important in shifting assumptions about western superiority, origins and timing. It appears that the Indian origins of the Vedas were in oral traditions that are many thousands of years older than is often assumed.
The racist claim from the colonial era that all Indian knowledge actually came from Europe continues to exert a surprisingly widespread and baleful influence which this book helps to overcome. Other excellent books which also help to destroy this persistent pernicious myth of western origins of science include Black Athena by Martin Bernal, on the eastern roots of western thought, and The Memory Code by Lynne Kelly, which demonstrates that this Vedic camouflage method of transmitting important knowledge is actually universal among pre-literate societies.

   It is a matter of astronomical fact that the cycle of time establishes twelve zodiacal ages in the Great Year. There are numerous references to the Great Year throughout the Bible. The twelve foundation stones of the holy city are the twelve Aeons, Christ as Alpha and Omega is the turning point of time between two Great Years, the end of the Aeon or Age discussed by Christ is the end of the Age of Pisces, and the various fish and lamb symbols indicate the natural temporal shift of the sun from the Age of Aries (the lamb) to the Age of Pisces (the fish) at the time of Christ. Murdock comments that rather than being a real person, Jesus Christ symbolizes the mythical avatar of the Piscean Age (p457).

Such ideas were viewed by the church as heresy. The Gnostics were condemned for seeking to explain in natural terms how eternal truth could be manifest in human life. Their cosmic framework of twelve ages, with Christ symbolizing the turning point of time, provided a purely empirical explanation for Jesus as a symbol of the connection between humanity and eternity. Precession explains how our planet is evolving against what Ezekiel called the `wheels within wheels' of the cosmos and what Plato, in the Timaeus, called the relation between the same (the cosmos) and the different (the solar system) (p227). This Gnostic heresy of the twelve ages provides an accurate scientific basis to understand the real nature of Christ.

15 billionaires earned $66.6 billion each in past 18 months as half of US fascist corporate wealth increase ($1 trillion)

 $66,666,666,666 = 1 trillion/15 people over 16 months (I increased it to 18 months since I'm just that nice).

Tax Wealth activists just released this info... Why the fascists insist that fascism was socialist and not corporate control of the state? hilarious.

Key German Corporate Fascist Supporters IG Farben: A massive chemical conglomerate that was a major financial backer of the Nazis. It produced Zyklon B, the poison gas used in concentration camps, and its leaders were tried for war crimes. Krupp: A major arms manufacturer that supported the Nazis and used forced labor. Volkswagen: Founded in 1937 by the Nazi party to produce the "people's car," the company heavily used forced laborers from concentration camps. BMW: Günther Quandt and his son Herbert Quandt, who controlled large stakes in BMW, were Nazi party members. Their factories used forced labor. Deutsche Bank: Involved in the "Aryanization" of the German economy, which involved seizing Jewish-owned businesses. Siemens: Involved in using forced labor during the Holocaust. Hugo Boss: Designed and manufactured Nazi uniforms. Continental: Used concentration camp detainees for labor, including testing rubber shoe soles to exhaustion. Topf and Sons: Supplied the incineration ovens used in Auschwitz and other concentration camps. 

International Corporations with Nazi Ties 

General Motors (GM): Owned Opel, a German car manufacturer that supplied vehicles to the Nazi military. Researcher Bradford Snell argued that GM was crucial to the Nazi war machine. 

Ford Motor Company: Ford's German subsidiary, Ford-Werke, produced military vehicles using forced labor. Henry Ford was known for his anti-Semitic views. IBM: Supplied punch card machines (Hollerith systems) through its German subsidiary, Dehomag, which helped the Nazis categorize populations and track prisoners, including during the Holocaust. 

 Coca-Cola: Its German subsidiary created Fanta to maintain sales during wartime supply shortages. Standard Oil (now ExxonMobil/Chevron): Provided technology and resources that helped Germany with synthetic rubber and fuel, crucial for the war effort. 

 IT&T (International Telephone & Telegraph): Held significant shares in German aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf. 

Chase National Bank (now JPMorgan Chase): Engaged in financial activities for the Nazi regime. Associated Press (AP): Maintained a formal agreement with the Nazi regime and hired Nazi propagandists. 

Key Takeaways on Collaboration Forced Labor: Many companies, both German and foreign-owned, utilized slave labor from concentration camps, particularly as the war progressed. Motivation: While some owners were sympathetic to Nazi ideology, many businesses were motivated by the prospect of lucrative contracts and maintaining market presence. Post-War Status: After 1945, many of these companies reabsorbed their German subsidiaries and, in some cases, were compensated by the Allied governments for damages to their German factories, including those that were bombed 

1/2 spin virtual photon magnetic moment is found in noncommutativity but not standard physics! Carmelo P. Martin Chiara Marletto

 AI says: The premise that virtual photons possess a spin-1/2 and a magnetic moment is generally not part of Standard Model physics but appears in specialized theoretical frameworks like Noncommutative Quantum Electrodynamics (NCQED)

Noncommutative Quantum Electrodynamics (NCQED) is a theoretical extension of standard Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) where the coordinates of spacetime do not commute, meaning

and

satisfy the relation

, where

is a real, antisymmetric tensor that determines the noncommutative scale

. This framework, often defined on the Moyal space (Moyal-Weyl product), allows for the study of quantum field theories where Lorentz symmetry is violated

Entanglement through high-energy scattering in noncommutative quantum electrodynamics 

And yet, unlike in the ordinary case, noncommutative U (1) gauge fields –which give rise to photons– do interact. ...First, photons do interact and, secondly, fermion
fields with zero electric charge couple to the photon field.
These two features are consequences of the spacetime being
a noncommutative manifold.... We shall see that
when the photons which collide have opposite helicity the
concurrence has the same expression as in the case of glu-
ons studied in [40]. Hence maximal entanglement is gener-
ated if and only polar scattering angle, θ, is equal to π/2.
The same result is obtained if fermions of opposite helic-
ity collide head-on in the laboratory reference frame. ..., the noncommuta-
tive character of spacetime would leave a quantitative imprint
on the entanglement phenomenon. ... by using the spinor helicity formalism
to argue that only if the helicities of the incoming photons are
such (h1, h2) = (+, −) or (h1, h2) = (−, +), the scattering
process in (3.1) yields entanglement. Indeed, let us first recall
that, due to crossing symmetry [45], any amplitude involv-
ing two incoming and two outgoing particles is related to
the amplitude of four incoming particles upon replacing the
former two outgoing particles with their antiparticles with
opposite momentum and opposite helicity.

 AI: Noncommutative QED calculations reveal that the Moyal deformation produces extra phase factors in Feynman diagrams, which can lead to violations of crossing symmetry.

 Noncommutative Quantum Ghosts

The photons present in the other two modes, the scalar and the longitudinal, are considered unobservable and are referred to as “virtual particles” or “ghosts”. Here we argue that this view, which is rooted in standard quantum electrodynamics, is a consequence of assuming that charges are always dressed in such modes and that naked charges do not have an independent existence. In particular, we present a thought experiment where, assuming that naked charges can be independently manipulated, one can then measure the entanglement generated between a charge and the scalar modes. This entanglement is a direct function of the number of photons present in the scalar field. Our conclusion, therefore, is that the scalar quantum variables, under this assumption, would be as “real” as the transverse ones, where reality is defined by their ability to affect the charge. A striking consequence of this is that there is a critical value of charge beyond which we cannot detect its spatial superposition by local means.

AI:  massive virtual particles, particularly those in quantum vacuum fluctuations (such as virtual electron-positron pairs), possess a magnetic moment.

 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03495

 Chiara Marletto (Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford) on 14th October, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liMVjbq45f0 We also perform proof-of-principle experimental emulations of the proposed witness of non-classicality, using a three-qubit Nuclear Magnetic Resonance quantum computer. Our result is robust, as it relies on minimal assumptions, and remarkably, it can be applied in a broad range of contexts, from quantum biology to quantum gravity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scarifying Dandelions? We'll see what happens along with hand harvested Dandelion tincture

 I blended up the whole Dandelions - roots, flowers, leaves, stems - into the Vitamix as a tincture and also fresh drink. About two gallons stored in the frig from harvesting about six liters of Dandelions with the hand Dandelion weeder...

Then I Scarified - to dug out the Dandelions - and mulched - so that all the nutrients would go back to the grass.... We'll see what happens.... it makes the Dandelions go away then when they get scarified...The first year Dandelions have their roots in the thatch layer - so...

 

 

Bubonic Plague could have wiped out the early Indus Valley civilization - introduced by Steppe Indo-Europeans

 The Spread of Indo-European (Dr. Nick Patterson)

The Racist reason for US nuking Japan: John LaFarge of Nukewatch

 In his 2011 book, “Atomic Cover-Up,” Greg Mitchell wrote, “If Hiroshima suggests how cheap life had become in the atomic age, Nagasaki shows that it could be judged to have no value whatsoever.”

Mitchell noted that the U.S. writer Dwight MacDonald cited, in 1945, America’s “decline to barbarism” for dropping “half-understood poisons” on a civilian population.

Mitchell reported that novelist Kurt Vonnegut said, “The most racist, nastiest act by this country, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki.” Vonnegut experienced the February 1945 firebombing of Dresden firsthand and described it in his masterpiece, “Slaughterhouse Five.”

On Aug. 17, 1945, David Lawrence, the conservative columnist and editor of US News, put it this way: “Last week we destroyed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Japanese cities with the new atomic bomb. … We shall not soon purge ourselves of the feeling of guilt. … We … did not hesitate to employ the most destructive weapon of all times indiscriminately against men, women and children. … Surely we cannot be proud of what we have done. If we state our inner thoughts honestly, we are ashamed of it.”

If shame is the natural response to Hiroshima, how is one to respond to Nagasaki, especially in view of all the declassified government papers on the subject? How to justify Nagasaki?

The saving of U.S. soldiers’ lives is held up as the official justification for both U.S. atomic bombings. Leaving aside the ethical and legal question of slaughtering civilians to protect troops, what can be made of the Nagasaki bombing?

The most underreported statement in this context is that of then-Secretary of State James Byrnes, quoted on the front page of the Aug, 29, 1945, New York Times under the headline, “Japan Beaten Before Atom Bomb, Byrnes Says, Citing Peace Bids.” Secretary Byrnes cited what he called “proof that the Japanese knew that they were beaten before the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.”

On Sept. 20, 1945, the famous bombing commander Gen. Curtis LeMay told a press conference, “The war would have been over in two weeks without the Russians entering and without the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all.” According to Robert Lifton’s and Greg Mitchel’s “Hiroshima in America: 50 Years of Denial,” published in 1995, only weeks after the atomic attacks, President Harry Truman himself publicly declared that the bomb “did not win the war.”

The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey was conducted by Paul Nitze less than a year after the atomic bombings. It concluded that “certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.”

Likewise, according to Gar Alperovitz in his comprehensive 1995 book, “The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb,” the Intelligence Group of the then-U.S. War Department’s Military Intelligence Division conducted a study from January to April 1946. The group declared that the bombs had not been needed to end the war, and that it was “almost a certainty that the Japanese would have capitulated upon the entry of Russia into the war” — which it did on Aug. 8, 1945. In 2013, new research by historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and others showed that Japan surrendered because the Soviets joined the war.

Nagasaki was attacked with a plutonium bomb in what some say was an experiment, adding weight to Vonnegut’s charge of wartime racism. According to “Atomic Cover-Up,” the mayor of Nagasaki from 1979 to 1995 Hitoshi Motoshima said, “The reason for Nagasaki was to experiment with the plutonium bomb.”

According to Joseph Gerson’s book, “With Hiroshima Eyes,” 74,000 were killed instantly at Nagasaki, another 75,000 were injured, and 120,000 were poisoned. Having defeated Japan even before the attack on Hiroshima, how can anything but racism explain the massacre of Nagasaki?

John LaForge of Luck, Wis., is co-director of Nukewatch in Wisconsin and edits its Quarterly newsletter.

NYC detective had wanted to go to West Point but he got a 40 in high school chemistry class

 That's ironic since I realized the curve was so bad for my high school chemistry final that if I guessed on the multiple choice I would BEAT the curve!! I finished my final as fast as possible with a big smile on my face and I got a C in high school chemistry. Our teacher was terrible but I never liked the subject anyway....

I wonder if this fellow could have gone to West Point if only had had guessed and thus "beat the odds" of trying. hahahaha.  

 

My great-grandmother Alvina Switzer (photo): a Women's Christian Temperance Union activist (wife of a Methodist minister)

 

 Above is my great-grandmother who took my mom up to Canada for six weeks when my mom was ten years old....

 Frances Willard: As president from 1879 to 1898, she transformed the WCTU into the largest women’s organization in the world by 1890.

major 19th-century women's organization that advocated for the total abstinence from alcohol and a wide range of social reforms. Under Frances Willard, it became a massive, influential political force using the motto "Do everything" to fight for women’s suffrage, labor rights, and public health. 

Key Beliefs and Goals

• Total Abstinence: The WCTU promoted "moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful," specifically targeting alcohol to protect families, women, and children.
• Social Reform ("Do Everything" Policy):
  Led by Frances Willard, the organization shifted from solely temperance to a broader agenda, including advocating for women's suffrage, education, prison reform, child labor laws, and sanitation.
"Agitate, Educate, Legislate": This motto guided their strategy, utilizing education and political action to change policy, ultimately contributing to the push for Prohibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chronic high dose Alcohol drinking proven to increase Amyloid plaques as Alzheimers disease and Dementia

 Alcohol and Alzheimer's Disease—Does Alcohol Dependence Contribute to Beta-Amyloid Deposition, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease? - the question is asked in 2017 as a paper title

A 2020 study said statistically - no relation between alcohol and amyloid plaques 

A 2023 study says alcohol both causes and protects from amyloid plaques as Alzheimer's disease 

 Long-term intake of high-dose alcohol can induce cognitive deficits and improve the activity of β-APP decomposition-related enzymes, increase Aβ content and deposition, and initiate AD progression,

 Amyloid plaques proven to be increased by high dose chronic alcohol drinking

Ethanol Increases Diffuse Amyloid Plaque Load and Impairs Memory in the 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

 A 2025 study confirms the 2021 study - high dose alcohol increases amyloid plaques as Alzheimers Disease 

 pronounced ethanol exposure, when started early in the disease before amyloid pathology is established, can worsen AD progression in an amyloidosis model.

AI says:

High-dose chronic alcohol consumption causes a significant portion of dementia, with studies indicating that up to 38% of early-onset dementia cases are directly linked to alcohol use disorders 

  Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are associated with a three times greater risk of developing all types of dementia.  all types of alcohol use and increased dementia risk.

 

 

Addiction originally meant "overwhelming devotion" as dependancy on God: DEPENDENT on BEING QUIET is addiction?

 podcast with an anthropologist in Mexico City

I didn't realize that "love as an addiction" of co-dependency is "trending" right now... wow. It seems all of reality must be put through the Big Pharma cheese grater. 

both "binge drinking" and "routine moderate drinking" are considered addictions yet both are interwoven with social dynamics... to relax after working hard...

If you want quality sleep - you are DEPENDENT on BEING QUIET to help settle your brain to turn serotonin into melatonin....

Why is one dependence worse than another if we are still dependent on a certain mental state of being quiet?.... Being quiet is actually allowing the foundation of reality to resonate in our brains and soul - nonlocality as noncommutativity....

The mental FEAR of Dependency can be worse than dependency itself since otherwise we are materialistic people dependent on material biochemical solutions.

 The point of addiction is not being in control and embracing being out of control.... but the FEAR of Dependency reflects the NEED to be in control....

Kidney is fear in TCM due to glutamate processing in the brain - and left-brain dominance represses the subconscious kidney fear....

 Kidney fear is tied to UNconscious trauma as pain in the brain - damage to the dopamine neurons in the hippocampus....

 Glutamate is activated as a co-transmitter in dopamine (DA) processing primarily within the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and its projection terminals in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell... Glutamate is thought to assist in loading DA into synaptic vesicles via VGLUT2, increasing the density of DA release.

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3250102/

 So GABA drugs that increase GABA activation like alcohol and Benzos - cause the body to stop naturally producing GABA....

Caffeine increases glutamate via the adenosine receptor agonist....

 Glutamate is activated or released in conjunction with adenosine processing primarily in the extracellular space of the central nervous system (CNS), particularly during high-frequency neuronal activity, metabolic stress, or injury....Adenosine acts as a neuromodulator that regulates glutamate levels through a homeostatic feedback loop involving neurons and astrocytes...During high-frequency neuronal activity, ATP is co-released with glutamate. This ATP is converted into adenosine by extracellular nucleotidases, which then binds to A1 or A2A receptors to regulate further glutamate release.....During injury, high levels of extracellular glutamate are produced, which subsequently enhance extracellular adenosine production, leading to A2A-mediated excitotoxicity....adenosine A1 receptor activation acts as a negative feedback mechanism, blocking the initial release of glutamate induced by hypertonic stress

 The anthropologists point is that the social cohesion role of dependency is more important than the individual isolation of not being dependent - such that dependency is a cultural cohesion that overrides the individual control of isolation....

But that above dynamic ignores the truth of quantum nonlocality as the foundation of reality....

 coffee can raise cholesterol, but primarily when it is unfiltered. Natural oils in coffee beans...capsaicin in cayenne lowers bad cholesterol....

"We overdose often because we are alone...because we isolate people so much..." 

 Fasting or a special diet can be a collective thing....but people in the U.S. - "middle class" - spend a lot of time alone.... Everyone is addicted to something....

 In terms of Mahayana Buddhism we could argue that "being quiet" or hypofrontal syndrome is a left-brain addiction to logical inference that is not falsifiable inherently... it reifies logic over the empirical realm of matter. Yet if all of matter is made of photons then consciousness as spirit inherently creates new matter also....

 

 

 

 

Did I repair my Power Steering Rack line leak last night? YES

 Wow no leaking at all anymore! I drove it hard today also - so if it was going to leak it would have done so. I did a hose repair - I cut a hose line (for transmission) - and found two hose clamps. It took me an hour of serious origami hand torture to use a hose clamp pliers and socket hand driver to tighten the hose clamps. After I was done I looked up power steering line replacement and it was NOT what I had fixed! I realized I must have been fixing the brake lines? But now I realize it indeed was the Power steering RACK line...!!

 

The repair I did seems to be working - I didn't lose much power steering fluid today. I also added Titan Seal Leak for power steering lines - as silicone repair of seals...

 So in the above photo he takes apart a lot of the vehicle to get at those power steering RACK lines...

What I did was literally use my "pianist hands" to maneuver a hose clamp inside that cross beam or whatever it is....

There had been a branch jam into the car and I didn't think much of it - since I tend to think vehicles are indestructible. hahaha. I should have known better.... I did pull the branch out after driving with it on for a day....not on any main road but farm landscape work....

 

 

Nine Light Skin Tone PGS are byproduct of last 8000 years of wheat farming diet lack of Vitamin D in Europe

 

 Selection for light skin tone at ten loci We found nine loci with genome-wide signals of selection for light skin tone, one probable signal and no loci showing selection for dark skin tone (Fig.%3h–q).

 https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/reich.hms.harvard.edu/files/inline-files/2026_Akbari_Nature_selection_0.pdf

 One of the strongest signals is an increase over time in the PGS for light skin pigmentation (γ%=%1.80%±%0.10 standard deviations increase in mean PGS in ten millennia; P%=%5.7%×%10−74; Fig. 4 and Extended Data
Fig. 9). This plausibly reflects selection for increased synthesis of vitamin D in regions of low sunlight in farmers with little of it in their diets

  a PGS is a single numerical score that sums the effects of thousands or millions of different genetic variants (alleles)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Negative Time: "The Future Informs the Past:" Yakir Aharonov vs Aephraim Steinberg paradoxes

 "what is the velocity of the energy....so I have my amplifier, I fire a laser at it...some light comes out? Is it from my laser or my amplifier? Energy is fungible. Energy is energy."...

 "No the energy that was already stored in the amplified as the inverted two-level atoms leaks out..."

If you assume there is no superluminal information as energy ...but how do you prove that is correct - how do you prove where the energy came from...

There are better ways of talking about the energy velocity ....

the propagation of the wave - a ripple and a wave packet envelope have two different velocities - the ripple is the phase velocity but don't worry about it.... the group velocity tells you where the energy is on average...

when the phase velocity is superluminal physicists said "don't worry about it."....

But when the group velocity was superluminal - physicists said "we must be missing something" and so... the information velocity is still slower than light - so causality is not violated....So then the energy velocity is also typically slower than light...

It turns out by their definition - in the case of a tunnel barrier or an absorbing medium where very little is transmitted, the group velocity maybe faster than C, the information velocity is never faster than C and the energy velocity is much slower than C since most it is absorbed or reflected back...

Can we make the energy velocity high? In the transparent case of an "on resonance" - the energy velocity turns out to be superluminal - faster than light!!

So now we need a better definition for the actual propagating energy to maintain causality....

"We know it can't be faster than light" but there are different ways of defining it...

 four velocities - a technique of "constant fraction discrimination" as 1/2 of the maximum amplitude...that's the definition of information velocity. Then there's the "front velocity" - the speed of light as the ultimate information velocity of d/c

It's the difference between physics and math - physics is based on precise experiments.... and the story behind it is not rigorous....

 If in mine reference frame if it is superluminal than in another reference frame it is backwards in time - violating causality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZ3Kto6NIc 

 The dwell time or excitation time - the amount of time the atoms spend in the excited state - was also in negative time as "on resonance."

 there are "several times" not just "a time." 

Operators correspond to observables... the limit corresponds to position classically...

Measuring time has different definitions...a "time scale" can be negative but not "time itself" ...

Time measurement is not an operator... the things we measure are a function of time... so we can't measure time itself... so measuring time is always indirect... time itself is not an "observable property."

 so we have to define what is the "constant" as the "unit" - a "click of the cesium" is a second...

 there's an "intrinsic uncertainty" - not just a measurement disturbance... in quantum physics...

It is time-frequency uncertainty.... that is less than Heisenberg's uncertainty principle...

 the more you "open the aperture" the more you disturb the momentum (mass direction and speed) but you get precise position and vice versa and the limit is inherent to the measurement process (not what you are measuring with)...  Heisenberg Uncertainty:

 the smaller a particle is, the lighter it is (with less weight) and therefore the WORSE the position resolution - that does not exist classically.

 Yakir Aharonov emphasizes time symmetry. So in weak measurements can go backwards in time and the future informs the past. Steinberg says "he finds this difficult to believe."

 "the uncertainty principle can't help you with negative time"

 the "wave theory" - de Broglie-Bohm quantum physics - as a nonlocal "hidden variable" does explain negative time....

Bohmian mechanics ADDS something because it takes about the "hidden trajectories" along the way...

 and the weak measurements corroborate that the trajectories are real - and not just probabilities.

 1/2 spin is a mathematical law but we don't understand the physics underlying the nonlocality of it....

except it is noncommutativity!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does Green Tea work for weight loss? Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), shown to inhibit octanoylated ghrelin (the active form of the hunger hormone)

 Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a primary catechin found in green tea, has been shown to inhibit the secretion and production of octanoylated ghrelin (the active form of the hunger hormone ghrelin) https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/41/4/41_b17-00805/_html/-char/en

 . EGCG significantly reduced the octanoylated ghrelin level in AGS-GHRL8 cells. In mice, three days of treatment with TEAVIGO^®, which contains 97.69% EGCG, lowered the plasma octanoylated ghrelin level by 40% from that in control mice. In addition, TEAVIGO^® reduced the mRNA expression of ghrelin and prohormone convertase 1/3, an enzyme responsible for the processing of proghrelin to mature ghrelin, in the mouse stomach, suggesting that the reduced expression of these genes may contribute to the inhibition of octanoylated ghrelin production.

hmm ... I think it does work! I used to not like green tea because of the tannins creating a headache but this is due to the serotonin increasing. Serotonin increasing means the vagus nerve is activated to the stomach....

 The vagus nerve serves as a critical communication bridge between the stomach and the brain, transmitting sensations of fullness (satiety) to stop hunger.

 Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), a compound in green tea, can increase serotonin (5-HT) levels in the hippocampus,

fascinating!!

The key is to drink TONS of water when drinking lots of green tea - otherwise ...

 Serotonin increases cause headaches primarily by affecting blood vessels and triggering nerve inflammation. High serotonin levels cause cerebral blood vessels to shrink (vasoconstriction), reducing blood flow and triggering pain, while an abrupt drop in levels later causes vessels to swell,...

serotonin syndrome, a dangerous condition that causes headaches, along with muscle rigidity, fever, and confusion.

Pain Modulation: While low levels are associated with higher pain sensitivity, sudden spikes disrupt the brain’s regulation of pain, causing a paradox where high serotonin brings on headache symptoms

 Serotonin (5-HT) acts as a potent vasoconstrictor (shrinking blood vessels) through direct action on vascular smooth muscle, even though it can simultaneously activate the vagus nerve, which generally promotes relaxation and vasodilation. The contradictory effects arise because serotonin acts on multiple receptors, with the constrictor effect often overriding

 High levels of serotonin, particularly in the context of serotonin syndrome (toxicity), lead to significant sympathetic nervous system overactivation,...Lower doses or specific 5-HT receptor activation can, in contrast, result in sympathoinhibition (lower sympathetic tone).

  Low (0.2 nmol) 5-HT doses lowered mean arterial pressure, heart rate and renal nerve activity consistently..... dosage hard to tell due to precursors and digestion, etc.

 Tea and tea polyphenols are promising chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic agents against a variety of tumors including prostate cancer (CaP) (1, 2).

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3363324/

 green tea, likely through its main polyphenolic components, the catechins, exerts antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities, making it an ideal dietary component or functional food ingredient for preventing and/or managing chronic disorders characterized by a high involvement of oxidative stress and inflammation.

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286063111_Antioxidant_Capacity_of_Green_Tea_Camellia_sinensis

 Coffee in turn triggers peristalsis much faster than tea... why?

coffee-derived acids or other bitter compounds (such as polyphenols) produced during roasting are key drivers. 

• Caffeine: Acts as a stimulant for gastric acid secretion (GAS) via bitter taste signaling in the stomach and mouth.
• Roasting Compounds/Polyphenols: Compounds developed during the roasting process are thought to be strong stimulants for gastrin release.
• Bitter Compounds: Other bitter substances in coffee, such as chlorogenic acid derivatives, are thought to contribute to this effect, ... These compounds stimulate G-cells in the stomach, which produce gastrin, and act on bitter taste receptors (TAS2Rs)
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• Secretion is stimulated by peptide/amino acids in the stomach, vagal stimulation, and stomach distension.
• Inhibitors: High levels of gastric acid (low pH) inhibit further gastrin release through somatostatin.

 

Significantly greater muscle growth from only when the leg muscle is fully stretched: Walking secret

 

 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33977835/

 vastus lateralis is the largest, most powerful muscle of the quadriceps group, situated on the lateral (outer) side of the thigh.

 

Walking generally allows for a more natural, higher range of knee motion compared to using a walker, which can promote a more rigid, less flexed gait. 

• Rollator Walking Limits Flexion: Biomechanical studies indicate that walking with a rollator (wheeled walker) reduces the range of motion of the knee and ankle joints, often leading to less flexion in these joints compared to normal walking.
• Reduced Knee Moment: Rollator walking can reduce the knee extensor moment (the force on the knee) by up to 50% compared to normal walking

 This study on leg curls proves why walking is key to leg strength - fully extending glutes and quads

After 12 weeks...the muscle when fully stretched provides a powerful stimulus for growth

 for bicep curls make sure to fully flex and stretch the arm down to get the most effect...

 

 

 

 

This study proves a 50% increase in muscle strength when the knee is flexed by 70% or more as occurs during walking.

"where the muscle is in a lengthened state, may promote a hypertrophic response even greater...the greater mechanical stress imposed under the
condition of a stretched muscle may therefore promote a synergistic anabolic stimulus." ...

The study compared changes in strength and regional muscle hypertrophy between different ranges of motion (ROM) in the knee extension exercise. Forty-five untrained women were randomized to either a control group or to perform the exercise in one of the following 4 groups (0°=extended knee): Full ROM (FULL_ROM: 100°-30° of knee flexion); Initial Partial ROM (INITIAL_ROM: 100°-65°); Final Partial ROM (FINAL_ROM: 65°-30°); Varied ROM (VAR_ROM: daily alternation between the ROM of INITIAL_ROM and FINAL_ROM). Pre- and post-training assessments included one repetition maximum (1RM) testing in the ROM corresponding to the initial, final and full ROM, and measurement of cross-sectional areas of the rectus femoris and vastus lateralis muscles at 40%, 50%, 60% and 70% of femur length in regard to regional muscle hypertrophy. Results showed that the INITIAL_ROM group presented a greater relative increase than all groups at 70%

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33977835/

 vastus lateralis is the largest, most powerful muscle of the quadriceps group, situated on the lateral (outer) side of the thigh.

Walking generally allows for a more natural, higher range of knee motion compared to using a walker, which can promote a more rigid, less flexed gait. 

• Rollator Walking Limits Flexion: Biomechanical studies indicate that walking with a rollator (wheeled walker) reduces the range of motion of the knee and ankle joints, often leading to less flexion in these joints compared to normal walking.
• Reduced Knee Moment: Rollator walking can reduce the knee extensor moment (the force on the knee) by up to 50% compared to normal walking

 This study on leg curls proves why walking is key to leg strength - fully extending glutes and quads

After 12 weeks...the muscle when fully stretched provides a powerful stimulus for growth... relative increase of cross-sectional area at 40%, 50%, 60%, and 70% of femur length. INITIAL = INITIALROM; FINAL =
FINALROM; FULL = FULLROM; VAR = VARRO

"where the muscle is in a lengthened state, may promote a hypertrophic response even greater...the greater mechanical stress imposed under the condition of a stretched muscle may therefore promote a synergistic anabolic stimulus." .
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