The massive spending of the government on the Ukrainian war is just providing huge wealth to the military/industrial complex.
That segment of our economy was a key component before the Ukrainian war, but is becoming an even more dominant segment, which means our economy needs war to prosper.
Eisenhower will be rolling over in his grave.
Deal with it or it will deal with you.
The US economy needs war to thrive. Legacy all the way back to WW2 where we became the arms merchant for the allies.
Don’t just react emotionally. Think first, then act with deliberation after assessing your options.
The more you practice doing this, the easier it gets. Muscle memory.
US and Nato destroyed Ukraine with their anti-Russia policy. US promotes war everywhere because it is good for its defense industries.
Living in the US, with its pension for war, one feels a bit like a citizen of Nazi Germany who realizes that the country is being led by a madman, only here the madman is the entire government.
Reagan called the Soviet Union the “evil empire.” Today, we are the evil empire, with a sanctimonious press that endorses everything the war-mongering government does.
Proud to be American? No, embarrassed and disappointed.
The trick to putting together delicious and nutritious recipes is knowing one’s own particular tastes. Most people have a vague sense of the tastes they like, but if you have a very detailed sense of the tastes that please you, you are in a much better position to put together ingredients in a dish that ultimately will be very pleasing.
For instance, I’ve discovered that I really really like the following: garlic, onion, slight and subtle curry, fennel, sour/sweet combinations, cooked tomato, walnut/almond/pecan, lemon juice on leafy greens, mint, basil, vanilla, chocolate, cinnamon.
Before I got into learning how to cook, I had no idea that these are the tastes that I crave, so that eating various dishes was at best a haphazard experience.
But now, I can use this self-knowledge to create recipes that, generally speaking, will be outstanding from a taste perspective — not because I got this outstanding recipe from a book but because I created a recipe that matches my personal taste profile.
Veggie-intense casserole with vegan cheese — vegan cheese basically cashews and nutritional yeast. Baked Stokes purple sweet potato (keep the skin on for its nutrition) with cinnamon that sticks because of a coating of Tahini (tastes like cake, not potato, and can sweeten even more by adding a little Stevia). Veggie stew with a garlic/curry blend for predominant taste. Overnight oatmeal with vanilla flavoring (vanilla extract and vanilla powder) and blueberries and walnuts — almost like eating blueberry flavored vanilla ice cream.
You want to bake the Stokes sweet potato just long enough so that the skin on the outside is dry and crisp, but the inside is moist. 400 degrees for 55 minutes with large, buy-sized pieces.
The healthy fat in Tahini is perfect for potatoes because potatoes are naturally extremely low in fat.
After you bake the potato, put it in the refrigerator because this will cause the starch in the potato to turn into resistant starch. This resistant starch will feed your microbiome but reduce the calories you actually ingest.
When you want to eat a serving of the baked sweet potato, take it out of the frig and warm it up first at room temperature to eat it later. The resistant starch will remain resistant starch.
The two purple sweet potatoes that you MUST absolutely try are the Stokes purple sweet potato or the Okinawan purple sweet potato. Whole Foods has the former; you can order the latter from a Hawaiian company.
Purple sweet potatoes have amazing nutritional value, in part due to that color.
None of the other sweet potatoes compare favorably to the purple sweet potato, but always buy organic, as potato is always one of the Dirty Dozen.
Two objectives for this day. Come in at 1900 calories instead of the usual 2150. Walk 175 minutes.
How to turn off the inner critic?
Never forget that all modern “medicine” — pills — are to some degree toxins, foreign to the body, with the potential for a litany of unhealthy outcomes.
Always ask yourself whether this miracle pill is actually a modern version of medieval medicine where they bled people with leeches as the principal “cure”. Yeah, right.
The main cause for all disease — including heart disease and cancer and all the modern autoimmune diseases — is a poor diet; and the only real cure for disease is a healthy, nutritious diet. Food causes the problem but can also fix it.
When you turn to medicine as the cure, you are turning toward voodoo. For instance, look at what they are now saying about the consequences of taking statin drugs or the use of stents in blocked arteries. Both are now thought to be equivalent to the medieval bleed with leeches — AGAIN!
Don’t trust “miracle” medicine; trust healthy whole food. Hippocrates understood this 2400 years ago.
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