“Trump Fires More Than a Dozen Independent Inspectors General at a Series of Agencies.” AP News, January 25, 2025.
Purge ongoing
“Trump Fires More Than a Dozen Independent Inspectors General at a Series of Agencies.” AP News, January 25, 2025.
So what can we do about it?
We're Losing The Internet. But It's Not Too Late
Governments are conducting a sneak attack on the internet and we’re about to lose what we didn’t even know we had.
In the UK, they may have already lost it. The Online Safety Act, which was smuggled into British law on the pretext of restricting access to porn, went live last week. Already it has led to Spotify, Reddit, Twitter/X, YouTube and a load of other websites blocking access unless you upload ID for age verification. The law, which the UK government initially said would only apply to adult content, was written in such a broad way that it brings a huge amount of internet traffic into its orbit. For example, and you can read it here, the law prohibits, without ID verification, access to any content which “realistically depicts serious violence against a fictional creature or the serious injury of a fictional creature.” So, cartoons. SpongeBob. Tom & Jerry. Roadrunner. It would be a joke, but unlike SpongeBob, it’s really not funny. It also prohibits access to any type of "violent content” meaning large amounts of graphic content from the holocaust of Gaza is no longer free to access on sites like Reddit and Twitter/X. Maybe the timing is purely coincidental, but it really doesn’t feel like it.
Because sites don’t want to be liable for showing adult content, even in the form of song lyrics or a comically large hammer to the head of a cartoon cat, the legally expedient thing for them to do is require verification. To verify ages, these sites are using a variety of shady verification companies, some of which have connections to the security state, with a number of them owned and operated by ex-Israeli spies. (Yes I realise this is becoming a common theme).
One of the main Israeli players in the authentication space is AU10TIX, founded by former officers in Israel’s counterintelligence agency, Shin Bet. It’s current CEO is Dan Yerushalmi, a former Unit 8200 Israeli intelligence spook. The facial recognition technology used by AU10TIX is based on the same software used by the IDF and Shin Bet to compile images of every Palestinian who enters Israel from the West Bank. AU10TIX was previously used by Twitter/X to verify user identities when signing up to its premium service. Current AU10TIX clients include PayPal, Google, Uber and international banks including Nordea, Santander and Denmark’s Saxo Bank.
Other Israeli age verification firms run by former Israeli intelligence officers include Scanovate, Identiq and AGEify. There are of course non-Israeli owned verification companies who may not be passing all your details onto the Mossad to check if you’ve ever said free Palestine. But there are no restrictions on what these companies can do with your data, no laws on what data they can collect and who they can sell it to. And if you care about not living under fascism, this is important. More on that later.
It’s not just the UK. A blanket ban on under-16s accessing social media is due to come into force in Australia by the end of the year. The only way to prevent access to under-16s is to know everyone’s age, so the Australian law requires anyone who wants to access a social media site - Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter/X, TikTok - to verify themselves using government ID. Law makers in New Zealand are pushing a similar ban.
Beginning next week, YouTube is rolling out ID and age verification for a small number of users. The idea is to test and refine processes before rolling it out globally. States across the US have enacted age verification laws and there is a push for a federal bill to cover the whole country. The EU is pushing ahead with an identikit bill to the UK’s. All of course under the guise of protecting children from adult content.
OMG! WTH?
WHO SAID THEY COULD DO THIS?
THE GREAT STARLINK RE-ENTRY EVENT: SpaceX just conducted a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric chemistry.
Earlier this year, analysts noticed something strange: Starlink satellites were falling out of the sky--a lot of them. Four to five per day were re-entering Earth's atmosphere and vaporizing in plain sight. This went on for months. Between December 2024 and July 2025, more than 525 Starlinks deorbited.
Above: The number of Starlinks deorbited each month since 2020.
What’s going on? In short: routine housecleaning. These were mostly first-generation (Gen1) satellites, deliberately retired to make room for newer models. SpaceX is currently launching up to 50 new Starlinks per week, maintaining a fleet of 8,000 satellites. Weeding out the old ones is just business as usual.
What’s not usual is the atmospheric fallout. The fiery re-entry of even one Gen1 Starlink satellite produces about 30 kilograms of aluminum oxide vapor, a compound that erodes the ozone layer. A new study finds these oxides have increased 8-fold between 2016 and 2022, and the Great Re-entry Event increases this pollution even more.
To put this into perspective: Before the first Starlink launches began in 2019, only about 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere.
Right: A current map of Starlink satellites orbiting Earth. [more]
Even before the current surge, scientists were sounding the alarm. In February 2023, NASA flew a WB-57 aircraft over Alaska at 60,000 feet to collect stratospheric aerosols. A study published later that year found 10% of sampled particles contained aluminum and other metals from the "burn-up" of satellites.
With multiple companies racing to deploy megaconstellations, projections suggest more than 60,000 satellites could be in orbit by 2040. That means reentry debris could soon rival the natural influx of meteoroids, but with very different chemistry. Meteors are mostly rock. Satellites are mostly metal.
A simulation by NOAA scientists suggests that aluminum-rich space dust could heat the stratosphere and mesosphere by up to 1.5°C, and slow the southern polar vortex, potentially altering global weather patterns.
What happens next? We’re about to find out.
I say Potato You say Tomato
Tomatoes randomly mated with another plant 9 million years ago. The result? Potatoes.
Researchers say they have finally uncovered the mysterious origins of one of our favorite carbs: the humble potato. 
Random mating between wild tomato plants and potato-like species 8 million to 9 million years ago may have given rise to one of our favorite carbs: the potato.
Together with 107 extant, wild potato species, the cultivated potatoes we know today (Solanum tuberosum) belong to the lineage Petota. New research suggests that this lineage, or group of closely related species, emerged from interbreeding between the ancestors of two other lineages: Tomato, which consists of 17 living species, including the salad essential Solanum lycopersicum, and Etuberosum, which has three living species native to South America.
"From an evolutionary perspective, we had an unresolved [disagreement] in the relationships between Tomato, Petota and Etuberosum lineages," Sandra Knapp, a research botanist at the Natural History Museum in London and co-author of the new study, told Live Science in an email.
The importance of interbreeding in this case, Knapp said, is that it created new combinations of genes in the Petota lineage, giving rise to tubers — the swollen, underground organs that store water and nutrients, which humans eat. The ancestors of modern Tomato and Etuberosum plants did not have tubers, and these structures have not appeared in either lineage since they interbred to produce a hybrid.
"Our findings show how a hybridization event between species can spark the evolution of new traits, allowing even more species to emerge," study co-author Sanwen Huang, a professor of agricultural genomics at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said in a statement. "We've finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from."
The researchers analyzed the genomes of 128 Petota, Tomato and Etuberosum plants to resolve the evolutionary relationships between these lineages. They used advanced genomic tools that were not previously available, explaining why scientists haven't obtained these results before, Knapp said. The team published its findings Thursday (July 31) in the journal Cell.
The analysis revealed "mosaic-like" genetic patterns in Petota that represented an even mix of DNA inherited from both Tomato and Etuberosum, dating the origin of potatoes to an interbreeding event between the two lineages between 8 million and 9 million years ago, the researchers wrote in the study.
An ancient hybridization event
between Etuberosum and Tomato is possible because these lineages shared a
last common ancestor between 13 million and 14 million years ago,
according to the study. Despite evolving independently after this common
ancestor disappeared, Etuberosum and Tomato plants may still have had
enough in common genetically to interbreed 5 million years later. 
The potato plants resulting from this match produced tubers, which the researchers linked to several genes. Notably, the team identified SP6A, a gene that came from the Tomato lineage but evolved in potatoes to provide instructions on when to make tubers. The researchers also highlighted the gene IT1 as involved in forming tubers, but this gene came from the Etuberosum side, according to the study.
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Tubers helped potato plants conquer new soil at a time when the Andes mountains were undergoing rapid uplift, the researchers suggest. Interbreeding "led to a reshuffling of genes such that the new lineage produced tubers, allowing these plants to expand into the newly created cold, dry habitats in the rising Andes mountain chain," Knapp said.
Potato plants' ability to store nutrients and water likely helped them survive in harsher environments than Etuberosum and Tomato plants. This not only promoted the geographical expansion of potatoes, but it also prevented mating with Etuberosum and Tomato plants, allowing Petota to evolve into a completely new lineage, according to the study.
"Evolving a tuber gave potatoes a huge advantage in harsh environments, fueling an explosion of new species and contributing to the rich diversity of potatoes we see and rely on today," Huang said.
deaths near water
The vaxxed are dropping dead near water. Why?
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I have a feeling that it is the temporary "shock" to the system that makes these vulnerable people die. Just like with the athletes who seem to get an effect from the adrenaline rush and die. Or perhaps newscasters who get a "rush" when they are on the air and keel over. Evidently, the human system just gets more delicate with the destruction of the immune system which the shots are, it seems, designed to do. With a few years of evidence now as to what is going on on the planet, it seems to me that the "alien" forces at work, are happy enough to be causing a slow but very certain death of the human race. All part of the bigger package, with the climate engineering, the false flag events that cause people to react and stay at one another's throats. We were, it seems, set up for this kind of thing (and not noticing it) by all of the early Mars invasion movies, whereby visible weapons of war (Ray guns and things like that) were employed, just like the traditional battles that humans fight (albeit with other weapons of a more primitive sort). It is all a giant bamboozling of the human race, so they can wipe us out and make the planet safe for a new generation of "genius" robots. Pure genius in every sense, exactly what we might have expected from our favorite demon down under (not talking about Ardern by the way -- she is just the evil witch that we used to hide in the closet when the guests were around).
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