Saturday, August 22, 2026

Did Ozark Trail Meadow boots put Vasque Talus boots out of business? They look exactly the same (one is $55, one is $150)

 I was just hauling brush with my neighbor and I noticed his boots looked precisely the same as the Ozark Trail boots (vid review) I just got at Goodwill for $12. Those Ozark Trail Meadow boots are sold by Walmart for $40. But the sole and design looks exactly the same as the Vasque boots by Redwing. Wow. They're both made in China. One has "label" soles (Vibram) and "label" leather - but are they really that different?

modern Vasque technical footwear lines like the Talus are manufactured overseas in Asian production facilities, including China and Vietnam 

 Ozark Trail Men's Meadows 2.0 Waterproof Mid Hiking Boots

Vasque by Red Wing Shoes 7366 Talus

The Vasque Talus AT UltraDry utilizes premium components like waterproof Nubuck leather and high-traction Vibram Mega Nuasi outsoles. Ozark Trail models use basic split-grain or synthetic leather and generic rubber lug soles to keep retail costs minimal. [1]

 May wear down quickly with heavy use on rough surfaces.

 

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Thursday, August 20, 2026

the extreme dust bowl in 1936 compared to abrupt global warming now

 My mom told me how her dad told her about how bad things were that summer that my mom was born. 90 years ago. But how does that compare to today? vid link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Trump: An established credibly alleged child rapist the night before he attacks Iran: John Doe 174

 Donald Trump is identified as Doe 174 in unsealed court documents from a 2015 civil lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. An analysis of the federal court docket entries tied the pseudonym to Trump, whose name appears in the related unsealed deposition transcripts...

 In March 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice released three previously withheld FBI 302 interview memos detailing four 2019 interviews with an accuser (referred to in court contexts as Jane Doe 4) who alleged she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and sexually assaulted by Donald Trump as a minor.

  The unidentified woman told FBI agents that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein starting at age 13 in the 1980s, alleging that Donald Trump physically and sexually assaulted her during encounters when she was between 13 and 15 years old.

Sarah Ransome settled against Epstein and Ransome reported that Donald Trump regularly abused at Epstein's NYC mansion. So the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Ransome got threats against her and her family when she said there are videotapes. She fled to the UK and rescinded her retraction that she explained was solely due to the threats against her and her family. The corporate media has ignored this credible witness Sarah Ransome speaking out against Donald Trump as a regular abuser at Epstein's NYC mansion.

 https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English/videos/-the-us-department-of-justice-published-an-interview-that-outlines-sexual-assaul/2425556837915936/

 

 

 

Dating Apps are Rape Services: 15% of women get raped through dating apps

 In 2019, Columbia Journalism Investigations did a survey of 1,200 women who have used dating platforms over the last 15 years and found that more than 30 percent of them said that they had experienced some kind of sexual assault by someone they had met through a dating app, and more than 50 percent of those experiences were rape.

https://www.bodycentredayspa.com/kelleher-international-sexual-assault 

A medical forensic chart study published by researchers from Brigham Young University found that 14% (often referenced or rounded near 15%) of acquaintance sexual assault cases reviewed involved a first in-person meeting arranged through a dating app. [1, 2, 3]

  • Sample Base: Researchers analyzed nearly 2,000 acquaintance sexual assault cases from medical forensic records between 2017 and 2020, finding that 274 cases (13.92%, or roughly 14%) stemmed from a first date set up via an online platform. [1, 2, 3, 4]
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  • An Oregon man went on the run after police say he tortured a woman and was using dating apps to find potential victims;
  • A Kalamazoo Michigan woman was kidnapped for 3 weeks and brutally beaten by a man she met on a dating app;
  • A Maryland man was arrested in February, accused of terrorizing, raping and robbing men he allegedly lured through a popular dating app
  •  https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/01/04/byu-study-finds-hundreds-sexual/

     During her three-year tenure with Kelleher, Daggett was introduced to twenty-five men. Only five matches resulted in more than two dates.

    https://harpers.org/archive/2018/02/fifty-worst-dates/ 

     

     

     

    Tuesday, August 18, 2026

    Bioremediation of PFAS with special bacteria: Labrys portucalensis F11 [0.6.1 |0.6.15], Acidimicrobium sp. strain A6, and certain Pseudomonas species

    https://www.pca.state.mn.us/pollutants-and-contaminants/pfas 

       On a per-pound basis, this type of clean up would cost $2.8 million-$18 million per pound of PFAS. In comparison, purchasing PFAS costs between $50-$1,000 per pound.

    https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/01/bacteria-found-to-eat-forever-chemicals.html

    Now, a University at Buffalo-led team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.

    Published in this month’s issue of Science of the Total Environment, the team’s study found that Labrys portucalensis F11 (F11) metabolized over 90% of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) following an exposure period of 100 days....

    Eventually, F11 could be deployed in PFAS-contaminated water and soil. This might involve creating conditions to grow the strain within activated sludge at a wastewater treatment plant, or even injecting the bacteria directly into the soil or groundwater of a contaminated site, a process called bioaugmentation. 

    “In wastewater- activated sludge systems, you could accelerate removal of undesired compounds by adding a specific strain to the existing bacterial consortium in the treatment plants,” Aga says. “Bioaugmentation is a promising method that has not yet been explored for PFAS remediation in the environment.”

  • Carbon-Fluorine Bonds: PFAS molecules have extremely strong carbon-fluorine bonds. These tough bonds make the chemicals resistant to natural breakdown, earning them the name "forever chemicals". [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Specialized Strains: Recent studies show specific bacteria like Labrys portucalensis F11 [0.6.1 |0.6.15], Acidimicrobium sp. strain A6, and certain Pseudomonas species can target these compounds. [1, 2, 3]
  • Defluorination: These microbes use special enzymes to detach fluorine atoms and metabolize the remaining carbon for energy [0.6.1 |0.6.15]. [1, 2, 3]
  • Bioaccumulation: Some human gut bacteria do not destroy PFAS, but they can absorb and trap the chemicals inside their cells to help excrete them
  • Monday, August 17, 2026

    Jonathon Lundgren: 1000 farms project: Regenerative agriculture can feed the world while sequestering carbon co2!

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_mtHQSVx2g

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8O1dx5TdXI 

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOVlMaZGup0&t=58s

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

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRQ1kKNNXis 

    https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/initiatives/regenerative-agriculture/ 

     

    Just ordered Alexander P. Anderson Minnesota farmer-botantist "short stories/poetry" book from 1941 (inventor of Puffed Rice!!)

     https://www.featherstonefarm.com/our-story

    they sell at our local co-op - gotta try some of their organic corn just now harvested!  

    I just ordered his 1941 Minnesota Botany book for $10 from Dallas Halfprice books.
    Anderson, Alexander P. The Seventh Reader: Short Stories with Some Verse. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1941.

    The cereal also gained attention as “food shot from guns of peace.”

    Online articles from the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Botanical Garden explain:

    In 1902, Alexander Anderson received a patent for “a dry method of swelling starch materials of all kinds to render them porous, thereby enhancing their nutritive value and rendering them more readily and completely digested.” The following year he signed an agreement with Quaker Oats to begin large-scale production of puffed rice and wheat cereals. (Source: “Alexander Anderson and the Cereal Shot from Guns” at https://invention.si.edu/alexander-anderson-and-cereal-shot-guns.)

    Prior to being marketed as a cereal, Anderson’s puffed rice was promoted as a confection at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Cannon-like cylinders discharged downpours of puffed rice in a giant cage, wowing the crowds, who purchased packages of the novel treat. (Source: “Breakfast in a Blast: The Invention of Puffed Cereal at NYBG” at https://www.nybg.org.)

    Then, the cannons stopped firing. In April 2019, Mae’s Food Blog, posted “The Quaker Oats Company Has Stopped Puffing!” (Read more at https://maefood.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-quaker-oats-company-has-stopped.html.)

    Poof!

    Quaker Puffed Rice--and Puffed Wheat--disappeared.