Friday, April 24, 2026

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.

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

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.

 

 

Monday, April 20, 2026

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....

 

 

 

 

Sunday, April 19, 2026

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....