Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
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After I returned to Kenya from five years and five months of forced exile in October 2022, I met @WilliamsRuto and suggested that the Kenya Kwanza brigade should establish The State Capture Commission and allow me to head it.
Ruto, @rigathi and virtually everyone in Kenya Kwanza started sweating and squirming. They were so scared that they avoided meeting me again.
It became obvious that they—including @rigathi—had just used the idea of establishing The State Capture Commission as a political scarecrow.
Had they allowed me to lead The State Capture Commission, we wouldn’t have ever heard a squeal from looters like Uhuru Kenyatta and the organized bandits again. But, of course, the Kenyan Kwanza brigade, including @rigathi, knew that the work of The State Capture Commission would have been their collective political coffins because all of them are badly tainted.
Let none of them lie to you that they are interested in fighting corruption. I mean all of them—in Kenya Kwanza, United Opposition and the Organized Bandits.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
#SocialismIsTheSolution
#SocialismIsTheCure
#RevolutionNow
That Ruto is cornered is no longer something to dismiss, because the political mood, the anger on the ground and the fractures around him are becoming harder to ignore.
“Ruto Must Go” can win an election, but it cannot run a country, and the opposition must now start telling Kenyans what happens after the celebrations are over.
Start with the national debt. Which loans will they honour, which ones will they audit, what happens to odious or questionable debt, and how exactly will they stop Kenya from borrowing simply to repay previous borrowing?
Then tell us what happens to this bloated government structure where almost every problem has somehow produced an authority, agency, board, council, commission, fund, secretariat, director general, board chairman, CEO, offices, vehicles and allowances.
Why, for example, does Kenya need a whole Kenya Water Towers Agency with its own board and administration to coordinate conservation of water towers instead of placing that work directly inside the responsible ministry alongside the existing forestry, water and environmental departments?
The government itself has admitted that some State corporations have overlapping or duplicated mandates and has been trying to merge or restructure them, which tells you the problem is not imaginary.
How many water agencies does one country need before water actually reaches people's taps, when we already have the Ministry of Water, Water Works Development Agencies, the National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority, Water Resources Authority and other institutions funded from the same taxpayer?
How many agricultural boards, authorities and corporations do we need before farmers receive affordable fertiliser, functioning markets and reasonable prices for what they produce?
How many youth funds, women funds, enterprise funds and empowerment programmes must exist separately, each carrying administrators and operational costs, instead of creating one properly managed financing institution with measurable results?
Why do functions that could comfortably sit as departments inside ministries repeatedly become standalone State corporations requiring CEOs, boards, procurement departments, HR departments, finance departments, legal departments and expensive headquarters?
The opposition must tell us which State corporations it will abolish, which ones it will merge, which boards disappear on day one and how much money those changes will actually save taxpayers.
Tell us what happens to SHA and whether healthcare will continue being built around deductions, unexplained private technology companies and layers of agencies before money finally reaches the hospital treating the patient.
Tell us what happens to the housing levy, and whether government should really be collecting money from every worker, building houses, identifying beneficiaries, financing mortgages and competing with private developers at the same time.
Tell us what happens to university funding, HELB, school capitation and the endless experiments that leave parents discovering new education policies after schools have already opened.
Tell us what happens to county financing and whether governors will continue travelling to Nairobi every few months begging Treasury to release money that Parliament already allocated to counties.
Tell us what happens to corruption cases, because Kenyans do not need another government that arrives with its own thieves, protects them for five years and suddenly discovers corruption when somebody falls out politically.
Tell us what happens to procurement. Will every tender, beneficial owner, contract variation and final payment become publicly searchable, or will we continue pretending transparency exists when more than half of government contractors can remain hidden behind companies?
Tell us what happens to the police. Will the next president still call commanders when he wants opponents arrested, or will Kenya finally build a police service where an officer fears the law more than he fears State House?
Tell us what happens to the DCI, ODPP, EACC, intelligence services and other institutions that become extremely energetic when powerful people have private problems but suddenly develop weak knees when politically connected goons, killers and thieves are involved.
Tell us what happens to State House spending, advisers, presidential delivery units, special envoys, taskforces and endless committees created whenever somebody in government wants another office.
Tell us what happens to Cabinet size, principal secretaries, CAS style positions if they return under another name, government advisers and political appointees scattered through State corporations.
Tell us whether government vehicles will still consume billions transporting officials to meetings where they discuss why government has no money.
Tell us whether every new president will continue creating offices for election losers and coalition partners instead of forcing political parties to carry the cost of their own political settlements.
Tell us what happens to taxes, because promising to reduce taxation is easy until the same politicians enter Treasury and discover they inherited a government whose recurrent expenditure they are unwilling to cut.
Tell us what happens to pending bills, because thousands of businesses have supplied government, paid VAT, borrowed money to perform contracts and then waited years for the State to pay them.
Tell us what happens to electricity costs, fuel taxes, manufacturing, agriculture and small businesses, because Kenya cannot tax itself into prosperity and then wonder why investors move production elsewhere.
And most importantly, tell us what happens to the structure of political power itself.
If all the opposition is offering is another president controlling Parliament, influencing prosecutors, intimidating independent institutions, appointing friends everywhere and borrowing billions with no consequences, then we are simply preparing the next “Must Go” movement.
Ruto going is now a reality.
But Kenya cannot spend the next year discussing who takes the cake without asking why the cake is this expensive, why so many people are eating from it and why ordinary Kenyans are always the ones paying for it.
With the structural, institutional and legal defects in the colonial plantation we call Kenya, even if you elect Jesus Christ, the problems will never be solved, the citizens will never be accorded dignity and both equity and social justice will never be realized.
All your saviours, slave masters and organized bandits know this but they are not interested to address the structural and institutional defects because if they are effectively addressed, organized bandits will not be able to plunder, murder and abuse power with impunity—which are their main motivations.
So, they excite you with empty slogans, beautiful poetry, eloquent speeches, ethnic jingoism and lofty promises they have no intentions of implementing because you are nothing but a cheap, idiotic and gullible slave.
Until you wake up and realize that only a REVOLUTION—the complete and total overhaul of the colonial state and its transformation is the solution—you will keep cheering and chasing after conmen for months and years then spend the rest of your pathetic lives knasing your teeth, or grovelling to your graves.
Don’t ask me “how?” when I have repeatedly told you to organize yourselves and take power. It’s the only tested and effective way.
Revolution is the only means all oppressed peoples in France, Russia, China, Cuba, even the imperialist United States of America, liberated themselves from monarchies and transformed their societies from inhumane and oppressive systems to more improved ones.
Kenya is nothing but a slave plantation controlled by organized monarchical bandits.
Elections mean nothing in a structurally unjust society like Kenya. The injustices were established by design and the bandits whom you are cheering were carefully selected to keep you in bondage. They really don’t care about the slogans they chant or parties they form and pretend to belong to. Those are merely mechanisms of control and manipulation.
That’s why Rigathi Gachagua waxed lyrical about “getting rid of state capture” during the 2022 election but kept quiet immediately he was sworn in and never complained until Ruto orchestrated his impeachment.
The same way Edwin Sifuna took money from Ruto and voted for Gachagua’s impeachment—together with all the Linda Bandits—but he is now pretending to be Gachagua’s “comrade in struggle.”
The less said about Babu Patel’s, Natembeya’s, Matiang’i’s and Uhuru Kenyatta’s thuggery the better.
James Orengo has been an MP for more than 40 years and the Siaya Governor for more than 4 years. He is the CEO of Siaya with tens of billions of public money per year which he cannot account for. How does such a person sing “change” and zombies clap when he hasn’t brought change even to the chicken of Siaya county?
What programs do the Linda Bandits have for creating employment? For eliminating corruption? For eliminating police brutality? Of course,nothing.
Most Kenyans agree that Ruto must go and must be a one term president. But the solution is not to bring in another Ruto clothed in subterfuge. That’s why Ruto must go with all members of the organized bandits including those supporting, funding and owning the Linda Banditry. All bandits must go to jail. Kenya must be liberated of ALL merchants of Impunity—including Ruto, Uhuru Kenyatta, Matiang’i, Gachagua et al. Until then, the excitement is childish, idiotic and retrogressive!
Without a revolution, you will keep recycling eloquent and cunning merchants of impunity and bandits forever!
#RevolutionNow