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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Douglas Valentine exposed Special Forces drug smuggling in his Phoenix Project book 36 years ago! Seth Harp Fort Bragg Cartel

 

 in The Phoenix Program, pages 266-267

As one CIA officer recalled, "When the so-called Vietnamization of the war began, everyone knew that even though the Company would still be running CORDS, it was the beginning of the end. The contract employees began getting laid off, especially those running operations in Laos. The

others, mostly ex-Army types, knew their turn was coming, so they began trying to make as much money as they could. Air America pilots doubled the amount of opium they carried.* 

*Drugs were also smuggled on CIA/SOG black flights, which were exempt from customs checks. Likewise, SOG personnel carried military assistance adviser "Get out of Jail Free" cards, exempting them from search and seizure by their adversaries in the Military Police and Criminal Investigation Division.

There was even a shadowy drug ring, made up of paratroopers and Green Berets as well as a local cops and marines from Camp Lejeune, that was trafficking hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the United States from Mexico and allegedly smuggling heroin out of Afghanistan. Underlying it all was a cartoonishly macho culture of drinking, drugs, sex and lawlessness.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/12/fort-bragg-delta-force-women-military-hegseth-00495824?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHrEF2k_jZ-96ldNyAGstzOaXbYrUXcuNEMrt_ofdpbA3qprFWpW67JhqW3ic_aem_MsgRr9NPU2fFaUQVG8hcCg

Pi is the fundamental frequency of a perfectly symmetric system: The Eigenvalue problem

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjU7HHYdeXk

 

 

 

 

 

10% fall in energy means 10% fall on Global Production to happen very soon: Steve Keen economist

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrBNfVn8r60

 

William Robert Plumlee, "Tosh" or Robert "Tosh" Plumlee - exposes Lee Harvey Oswald as CIA operative turned patsy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiNckw0Whg4 part 1 STill tokin' podcast

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGj_s3IQWZ0 part 2

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddAb5GHKJ-k Ciphered Past podcast

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87-eO2-W08I

CIA Insider Tosh Plumlee: The "Abort Mission" & The Secret School of Illusionary Warfare

CIA Contract Pilot Attended the School of Illusionary Warfare with Lee Harvey Oswald in ‘58 TrineDay Books releases memoire of Robert "Tosh" Plumlee, Deep Cover, Shallow Graves, a covert contract pilot who claims to have participated in numerous clandestine U.S. intelligence operations beginning in the early 1950s and continuing through the Cold War. The book combines autobiography, political history, and investigative narrative centered on Plumlee’s involvement in covert aviation missions linked to U.S. intelligence agencies, anti-Castro Cuban operations, organized crime figures, and eventually the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. According to former CIA officer and co-author of the book Cult of Intelligence, Victor Marchetti, The School of Illusionary Warfare was considered a top-secret government blacksite. It was located on an old World War II submarine base on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and run by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the oldest intelligence organization in the United States. Marchetti wrote that no one outside of a tight circle of instructors and recruits even knew about its existence. The School of Illusionary Warfare was an offshoot of MK-Ultra and used the techniques developed by director Sidney Gottlieb to create a new type of soldier – a super soldier, if you will, who was mentally strong and psychologically prepared to fight the new brain warfare through a combination of techniques known as psych ops. CIA contact pilot William “Tosh” Plumlee in his new book Deep Cover Shallow Graves describes how he attend the School of Illusionary in the summer of 1958 with fifty-four other students including a young operative named Lee Harvey Oswald. “All of us in my class were young, naive, patriotic and the product of broken homes. In other words, we were impressionable,” he reports. While stationed in Miami and flying weapons for the CIA to supply Fidel Castro and his rebels in the mountains Cuba, Plumlee was approached by CIA official Wild Bill Harvey and told to attend the school. He was later introduced to another CIA officer named George Joannides who was running the psychology warfare program taught at Nags Head – a program designed by the infamous Sidney Gottlieb, director of the MK-Ultra Program under CIA director Allen Dulles. Dulles and Gottlieb both believed there were ways to influence and control the human mind that could lead to an advantage over our Soviet enemies in the Cold War. On April 10, 1953 Allen Dulles described the impetus behind the psychological warfare program in a speech to the alumni of Princeton University. “In the past few years we have become accustomed to hearing much about the battle for men’s minds – the war of ideologies,” he said. “I wonder, however, whether we clearly perceive the magnitude of the problem, whether we realize how sinister the battle for men’s minds has become in Soviet hands. We might call it, in its new form, ‘brain warfare.’” Three weeks later as part of what Dulles referred to as “brain warfare” he approved MK-Ultra, a top-secret CIA program to control the human mind via electro-shock therapy, hypnosis, polygraphs, radiation, and a variety of drugs, toxins, and chemicals. The Nag Head Casino and two bungalows served as classrooms when Plumlee attended the School of Illusionary Warfare. Psychological programming was the main objective at Nags Head. It was performed (or inflicted) on recruits who were taught how to use to it control other people. They learned how to infiltrate a foreign country and capture a radio station to use it to broadcast propaganda. They were taught that if they could control what was communicated to a population, they could control their thinking and their actions. According to Plumlee they also learned that if they lied well enough, people would start to believe them. Some Illusionary War training took place at another secret ONI-CIA base 150 miles northwest of Nags Head known as Point Harvey along the Albemarle Sound. Back then it was the site of hardcore MK-Ultra drug experiments. The base was also used to train assassins and was where the 1stDemotions Section and the 101st Airborne Division – known as the Filthy Thirteen – trained during World War II. The Dirty Thirteen was the inspiration for the hit movie The Dirty Dozen starring Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson and Jim Brown. Students were tested for abilities like remote viewing, the ability to plant an idea in a subject’s mind and predicting future events. Those who showed aptitude in those areas were selected for further training. They were taught techniques to influence a subject’s decision-making. Instructors used sublimation to communicate directly to students’ subconscious minds. According to Plumlee, they were hypnotized regularly. While under hypnosis they were programmed with instructions – like, never compromise a mission; complete your objective; yours is not to reason why, it is simply to do, or die; the mission is more important than your life. As the 55 students progressed with the training, they were separated into specialized groups. Students who went into MK-Ultra were given drugs like LSD to manipulate their mental states, break down their conscious minds and program their unconscious minds to perform specific tasks. Plumlee contends that some of them later became assassins and were dispatched to places like Haight Ashbury in San Francisco and Vietnam. In Lee Harvey Oswald’s case, he was placed in advance Russian studies and was being groomed to defect to the Soviet Union with another eight to ten other recruits, This is from an interview former CIA officer Victor Marchetti did with author Anthony Summers in the late ‘70s: At the time, in 1959, the United States was having real difficulty in acquiring information out of the Soviet Union; the technical systems had, of course, not developed to the point that they are at today, and we were resorting to all sorts of activities. One of these activities was an ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) program which involved three dozen, maybe forty, young men who were made to appear disenchanted, poor, American youths who had become turned off and wanted to see what communism was all about. Some of these people lasted only a few weeks. They were sent into the Soviet Union, or into eastern Europe, with the specific intention the Soviets would pick them up and “double” them if they suspected them of being US agents, or recruit them as KGB

After completing the eight-week course, Plumlee ran into Oswald several other times before Oswald was arrested in Dallas and later killed. He saw him in early 1959 while Plumlee was taking a jungle warfare course in Honolulu. His cover was that he was a flight instructor for Hickam Aeroservice. Nights in Honolulu, Plumlee frequented the Shell Bar on Waikiki Boulevard where all the second lieutenant trainees hung out. One night he walked in and saw Oswald sitting there with some other young military-looking guys dressed in civilian clothes. Lee and Plumlee acknowledged one another, and one of the guys in Oswald’s group told him that they were about to take a ship to return to Atsugi Naval Airbase in Japan. There Oswald continued radar training at the U-2 base before defecting to the Soviet Union in October 1959. The hope was, according to former CIA officer Victor Marchetti, that the KGB would try to turn Oswald into an agent, which would give the CIA valuable penetration into the KGB. But things didn’t go as planned. According to KGB defector Yuri Nosenko, instead of recruiting Oswald as an agent, the Russians viewed him with suspicion and sent him to Minsk in Byelorussia to work as a lathe factory making televisions and radios. There in March 1961, he met a pretty nineteen-year-old pharmacy student named Marina Prusakova and they married six weeks later. Tosh Plumlee ran into Oswald again in the spring of 1963 after Oswald had returned to the US and was living in Dallas. Plumlee remembered that he had just finished flying mobsters Johnny Roselli and John Martino from Houston to Galveston. His next trip was Houston to Dallas to coordinate arms shipments for the anti-Castro rebels. He met Oswald sometime in the month of April at a CIA safehouse run Alpha 66 member Manuel Rodriguez Orcarberrio, which stood directly behind an apartment Lee and his family were renting on 214 W. Neely Street in a section of Dallas known as Oak Cliff. According to real estate records, from March 2nd to April 24th, 1963, Oswald lived upstairs with Marina and their baby daughter, June, paying $60 per month, plus utilities. It was there in the backyard eight months before the Kennedy assassination where Oswald allegedly persuaded Marina to snap three photos of him posing proudly with the Italian WWII military surplus Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and scope he had just purchased for $21.45 from a Chicago mail order company. It’s the same rifle that was later found on the Sixth Floor of the Dallas Book Depository Building minutes after the assassination. When Plumlee saw Lee at the safehouse, he assumed Lee had some sort of relationship with the anti-Castro Cubans. The two men recognized each other from Nags Head and talked briefly about where they had been and what they had been involved in. Plumlee reports that they had maybe three conversations over the course of the next two months at various CIA safehouses in the Dallas area, including one on Beckley Avenue, one near Sunset High School and another on Hallendale. There was no doubt in Plumlee’s mind that Oswald was an operative, either for the CIA or military intelligence. As operatives, they knew not to discuss operations, personal information or politics. Plumlee learned later that among the things Lee was doing was serving as a confidential informer for the FBI, which was trying to gain information on the anti-Castro Cuban’s activities. The FBI suspected that the Cubans were involved in stealing weapons from the National Guard Armory at Dallas Love Field. Also involved in the anti-Castro gunrunning operation was a mobster and strip club owner named Jack Ruby. Once, Oswald traced a .30 caliber machine gun that had been stolen from the National Guard Armory to a pawn shop near a CIA safehouse on Sunset Boulevard near Sunset High School run by Alpha 66 member Cecil Hernandez. When Oswald passed this information to the FBI, he was paid $50. Otherwise, Oswald struck Plumlee as something of a loner, meaning that he didn’t hang out with a lot of people. Nor did he frequent bars like the Cubans. Plumlee also sensed that he and Marina had a strained relationship. Some nights he could hear them shouting at one another. The only time Plumlee saw Marina was when she and Lee were having a loud argument on the balcony of the Nealy Street apartment they were renting. He watched then from the safehouse across the alley. The next time Plumlee saw Oswald was that night on TV after he had been arrested as the lone suspect in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Already, the FBI was putting out the story that he was a lone nut who had killed the president in a desperate bid for fame. Plumlee suspected something much more sinister was at foot. He also believed Lee was truthful in his assertion to the press that he was “just a patsy.” Lee was being held in a cell at Dallas Police Department and Dallas Municipal headquarters at 2014 Main Street which is crudely joined to a newer annex that shares the underground parking lot where Oswald would be gunned down by bar owner Jack Ruby two days later. On the fifth floor of the Municipal Building is the location of the jail cell where Oswald and, later, Ruby were confined. On the third-floor are the corridors and detective offices where Oswald underwent twelve hours of interrogation and later took part in an impromptu press conference where he denied any involvement in the president’s assassination. The Municipal Building is also where Oswald requested that the operator place two calls to phone numbers in North Carolina the night before he was killed. Around a quarter to ten Alveeta A. Treon arrived for her shift at the telephone switchboard. Treon was there to relieve her co-worker, Louise Swinney, who had been given orders by their supervisor to assist two men in listening to a call that would come through their switchboard. Treon assumed the men were Secret Service. She suspected that Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin who was being held there, would be making another call. He had already phoned his Russian wife, Marina, and an ACLU lawyer in New York. This call was treated differently. Oswald rang the switchboard at a quarter till 11, Dallas Time. Swinney took the call and scribbled Oswald’s information as the two self-proclaimed Secret Service men listened in. “I was dumbfounded at what happened next,” Treon later told a Senate investigator. “Swinney told (Oswald, ‘I’m sorry, the number doesn’t answer.’ Swinney then unplugged and disconnected Oswald without ever really trying to put the call through.

Afterward, Swinney tore the sheet from her notepad and threw it into the trash. When her shift ended, she left. Treon retrieved the wadded piece of paper from the trash and copied the information onto a standard long-distance telephone call slip to save as a souvenir. The slip reveals that Oswald had given Treon two phone numbers and a name associated with one of them – “John Hurt” and “Raleigh N.C.”  A decade later independent researcher Michael Canfield secured a copy of the slip, while conducting research for his book Coup d’Etat in America. When Canfield called and spoke to John Hurt of Raleigh, NC, Hurt said he didn’t know Oswald, but revealed, “I was in the counterintelligence corps in the Army during World War II.” In an interview with JFK researcher and university dean Walter Proctor, Victor Marchetti – the 14-year CIA veteran who had served as executive assistant to Deputy Director Richard Helms – revealed that in calling Hurt, Oswald was clearly following standard procedure for a CIA asset under duress. “[Oswald] was probably calling his cut-out. He was calling somebody who could put him in touch with his case officer,” Marchetti told Proctor. “He couldn’t go beyond that person. There’s no way he could. He just had to depend on this person to say, ‘OK, I’ll deliver the message.’ Now, if the cut-out has already been alerted to cut him off and ignore him, then …”  “Marchetti was absolutely correct,” Plumlee reports.  “As an operative that’s exactly the same procedure I would have followed.”  But Marchetti, Proctor, Canfield and others all seemed to have forgotten the second number Oswald was trying to reach that night. It belonged to CIA operative Edward Gibbons Moore II, who was the manager of the Nags Head Casino. The casino in the ‘50s and ‘60s was operating as a CIA cut-out base. Says Plumlee, “All of us operatives who were trained at the School of Illusionary Warfare had that number and knew to call Moore if we drank too much and got arrested or had another kind of run-in with law enforcement. We’d call Ed Moore and he would arrange to have the problem taken care of.” Oswald was trying to enlist Moore’s help the night before he died, but the call was never placed. The two men posing as Secret Service agents made sure of that.  The Nags Head casino was later used to house Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs. In the ‘70s when Moore was called to testify before the Church Committee and started to spill the beans about Nags Head and his activities, the government accused and found him guilty of trying sell documents to the Soviet Union. (I refer you to the May 5, 1977 article by Robert Meyers in the Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/05/06/moore-guilty-of-trying-to-sell-ciafiles/e7987987-a9f0-434f-b8ce-55601f215fa9/) It was their way of discrediting Moore.  Plumlee says, “I have no doubt that Lee was innocent. He never tried to kill President Kennedy. He was a young patriot like me from a broken family who was recruited and trained to complete clandestine missions for the government.”  He continues, “Like one of our instructors at Nags Head told me in the summer of ’58, ‘You’re not intelligent enough to be agents, or you wouldn’t be in this unit. You’re nothing but cannon fodder.’”

Deep Cover, Shallow Graves by Robert "Tosh" Plumlee with Ralph Pezzullo Available for pre-order, out April 14, 2026 at: https://trineday.com/collections/upcoming-releases/products/deep-cover-shallow-graves