Sunday, August 23, 2026

Did my ancestors get kicked out of Ireland? "a conspiracy to exterminate the Irish race"

 pdf for a Ph.D. thesis

Limerick and Galway all had a high level of dependency on external relief
agencies,....disbandment of public works in Limerick...  general state of lawlessness existed in Limerick....The Limerick Reporter described emigration as ‘an evil without parallel, except that presented by the wild excesses of those exterminating tyrants who glory in eliminating the people from the soil."....the Select Committee on Colonisation from Ireland in 1847, which resulted in Limerick, along with Dublin, becoming one of the chief
ports for landlord-assisted emigration in Ireland...the authorities should promote emigration to the colonies...Most economists agreed that Ireland suffered from chronic ‘overpopulation’,
but they disagreed on the practicability of addressing the problem through emigration....state assistance for emigration during the Irish Famine....assisted hundreds of people to emigrate from west Limerick between 1838 and 1858....the amount of surplus labour was enormous, and inordinary  times labourers were only employed for approximately 140 days of the year. He stated that he believed that an official scheme of emigration was the only possible solution to the distress.

So that is when my ancestors left Limerick!!  

 So my ancestors were encouraged to leave Limerick with elite funding! Wow....

 

 

Saturday, August 22, 2026

The Hoe Squad: For Profit Involuntary Servitude Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons: Arkansas $10 million a year prison ag profit

  hundreds of incarcerated men forced to work for free as part of the “Hoe Squad” at the Cummins Unit, the Arkansas Division of Correction’s (ADC) oldest and largest prison.

  “I’m on my hands and knees, and I’m planting onions in this field. I looked up and the only thing that I could see was white men on horses with shotguns, and as I looked around me, all I could see in my mind were Black men on their knees planting onions. We were literally slaves.”

https://prismreports.org/2026/07/14/prison-farm-forced-labor-arkansas/

 There are currently more than 660 prisons in the U.S. with agricultural operations,... making prisons $10 million a year in crop production sold to Tyson, etc.

The state first bought the Cummins property in 1902 to operate as Arkansas’ first working prison farm. From the time of its opening until the 1930s, the prison solely incarcerated Black Americans, who were required to pick cotton. 

Before it was the Cummins Unit, the prison was the site of two plantations. In 1873, eight years after slavery ended, Arkansas codified a convict-lease system that allowed individuals and companies to pay the prison to “lease” incarcerated people to work in factories and mines and on farms and railroads. The workers were not compensated for their labor. 

 

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