"Finland becomes the 31st member of Raytheon’s extortion racket"
Laughed more than I should have. Sweden are looking to betray (I mean 'extradite') a Turkish man so they too can join the Raytheon extortion racket, under the pretence that Turkey 'agrees' to a 'fair trial'. Because we know how fair trial the murder-journalists-in-toilets Turkish government are:
Reportedly he's now reversed course (I don't trust it; Elon is just working on a new, more subtle scheme) but he's managed to destroy the trust of Matt Taibbi, who has now left Twitter.
Imagine destroying a budding association with Substack over fears the tiny Substack's "Notes" (which will probably be a half-assed flop) might somehow overtake a billion-dollar company.
But Elon is our Fren, UD. I'm at the point where every time someone mentions Elon, all I can think about is a ventriloquist's dummy. He's the face of the group of investors(oligarchs) that took Twitter private. No doubt the Intel Community is wiggling spme fingers.
At this point, you gotta be some utterly fucktarded sob to still be thinking of the US, UK, France, or any other regime of the terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate as a democracy or a republic, or that China and Russia represent any sort of actual alternative to the corporate taxcattle surveillance, control and taxing/fleecing grids that the Western mafia branches are.
Work on you reading comprehension. The terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate and its Russia/China partners are working towrds the same SDG of the UN, not to mention their choreography of the EUkraine "war".
A column charting my journey towards self-sufficiency in the face of the Great Reset.
Transhumanism, technocracy and small-holding make surprisingly interesting bedfellows. It’s impossible to own livestock at the beginning of the 21st Century and not look over your shoulder, slightly unnerved by the parallels.
If NATO had simply included countries that had a shore on the Atlantic it would have been honest.
In Finland there was to be a referendum, instead a 1000 person Gallup poll was used to justify the mood of the people. A citizen initiative asking for debate in parliament gained over the 50'000 required signatures but was ignored. NATO is a bad joke.
I would argue NATO is a bit worse than a bad joke. Bad jokes cause embarrassment, NATO causes hundreds of thousands of deaths. Less CO2 emissions though, and I hear by 2050 NATO vehicles are to be fossil fuel free (no joke).
Talking about bad jokes - now that your princes AquaMarin opened the door for war with Russia, where are you going to bury those 150millions of Russkies?
Yes, NATO is the pit of evil. If a war in Finland in on the table then a means would have been found to make it happen, NATO membership was a easy way to pretend to provoke Russia. All the large nation leaders are on the same team and it is not a nice bunch.
I am writing a 4 part series on the so-called "Clean Energy Transition" by 2050, which totally exposes the utter logistical impossibility of those agendas. Could use a few more shares! Cheers!
Riley Waggaman on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell - 6 April 2023, 56 minutes.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Author at Brownstone Institute. Riley Waggaman is an American writer and journalist based in Moscow. He contributes to Anti-Empire and Russian Faith, and previously worked for Press TV, RT and Russia Insider.
Jeff: Waggaman terms the support being given Russia’s regime by most of the “alternative” media and many activists “monstrous”. He notes how he has had to take HIV tests in order to enter Russia and renew his passport Excellent discussion of bio-security efforts by the Russian state, its, support for WHO, implementation of the “Sanitary Shield” around Russia and the Putin regime advocating it for the entire world, i,” pushing testing and genetic “vaccines,” same in Russia as in the US, UK EU, China. Jesse spoke out well on the lack of proof for the existence of either HIV, or SARS-CoV-2, He debunked the entire notion of a bio weapon leaked from lab, including the very idea that . one targeting Slavs could be made, as if Slavic people are defined by genes rather than language He further noted that contagion theory has never been demonstrated, so even fully lab created organisms are not plausible. . Putin: wishes to make “cattle tag” easier to use, in response to football games boycotts over requirements for QR codes. EXCELLENT interview.
Just finished the audio - definitely worth a listen.
Riley (or anyone), could you explain more by what you mean about the oligarchs pumping gas across Ukraine? I think I heard/read about that before--as in, if this was truly a real war, would that still be going on?
More recently, a State Duma deputy accused Gazprom of "cooperation with the enemy" for continuing its gas transit deals with Kiev. https://svpressa.ru/politic/news/368588/
It's difficult to understand why Russians and Ukrainians are being ordered to kill each other if it's business as usual for the oligarchs. That's my 10 kopecks, at least...
Okay, thanks for clarifying--I think I heard or read that before, but I just wasn't clear on the details. Anyway, yes, exactly- it doesn't make sense that Russians and Ukrainians are being ordered to kill each other while oligarchs are operating as usual.
I think this whole thing is completely orchestrated and pre-planned as phase 2 of their Great Reset (destroying the petro-dollar and moving to a multi-polar world). Years ago, I watched this video with Col. Fletcher Prouty ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeW4GcJ0oro&t=14s) where he talked about being a cargo pilot in WW2 and how he saw them setting up for the wars on Korea and Vietnam before WW2 was over-- that's when he questioned who gave the order and realized there was an elite behind-the-scenes power running the show. So, after listening to that, I just assume all of these are planned out decades in advance.
And fwiw, Andy Schectman, a precious metals dealer, also seems to see a hidden hand orchestrating all that's going on financially and geopolitically--he connects a lot of dots, going all the way back to 2017 to the present. And as a metals dealer, he has inside info in terms of the change of status of gold to tier 1 asset, who is buying massive amounts of gold, where it's going etc.):
Why Are Central Banks Around the World Hoarding Gold? With Andy Schectman
And IMO, all of the "screw ups" by the puppet Biden admin are deliberate--this has all been gamed out, it's a deliberate plan to destroy America and the petro-dollar and move forward with the Great Reset, but the cover story will be that everything went to hell because Biden is senile and the VP is dumb (which is all an act--you can pull up old videos of her speaking and she doesn't act like this; plus all of these people get speech writers).
Maybe... If Russian had stopped selling gas thru the Ukro pipeline, key potential allies (and the part of the population in those countries sympathetic to Russia) in Europe like Hungary or others would have suffered a lot and most of the local support would have vanished. It seems clear to me that Russia, having been trying to gather support in the West, wouldn't starve population which have been demonstrating for one year against the war, not considering Russia as a bully...
Search this page (see magnifying glass at top) re Ukraine pipelines. Russia's government is paying Ukraine's to allow these shipments across, and Ukraine is willingly allowing them.
Most people have been totally mesmerized by tech, the promise of "convenience," "reliability," "predictability," rendered into sheep who don't even need the dog to herd them, willingly line up because "it's hip, it's the latest,....." I have so far survived without EVER getting a cellphone, i hated them ever since they started appearing in the late '90s.
Luongo is AWFUL, him and Ehret both examples of Nowhere Men, see what they want to see.
Yes, I agree on Luongo and Ehret. Both basically appear to be invested in their own point of view and unable to take in information that contradicts that point of view.
I've always had resistance to technology--I'm just not technologically savvy and have always resented them updating the technology just when I finally got used to the earlier technology. I never saw the need and it always felt like it was a top down agenda being pushed on us. I do have a cell phone, but bare minimum and mainly in case I get stranded somewhere or the car breaks down. I've seen some say everyone just needs to get rid of their smart phone and that will put an end to this, but I don't see many latching onto that idea. In fact, it seems like people are just mindlessly accepting advances in technology without thinking about the implications (e.g. I recently saw a story about people using some kind of face or hand pay system).
Indeed, people need to get rid of their "Stupid" phones, evil devices, from the mining of the resources needed to make them (e.g. Coltan) by slave labor in Africa, the assembling of the components and devices in sweat shops in China and elsewhere (largely in Asia), the surveillance aspect, the way they de-skill us, rendering many people incapable of reading maps, the way they channel us into self absorbed bubbles, people walking and not looking where they;re walking, or doing so while riding bike, DRIVING,...people chatting loudly into them and disrupting quiet spaces, even out in nature,.. Pantera Bread stores now offer discounts for using hand pay, promoting this of course as "convenient,".... Cattle tagging, the cattle lining up for tags.
Sandra, people are addicted to smartphone thru hormonal retribution. that is the only reason they just don't get rid of it even if understanding it's very nefarious effect... It is a sad fact.
(btw don’t let the kickstarter link give you the impression I am tryna make money, that crowd funding campaign is long gone, the link is to a public update that contains the full recipe)
Awesome sounds good :) If you think she would enjoy some trying recipes to try creating with what she harvests from the seeds I am finally done my book and I would be willing to send a copy of the eBook PDF as a gift.
That meal in the pic above looks great, can you break down what is going on there for those of us that are not in the know? :)
Gavin, this is not a borscht, it's just soup. Forget freaking shiitake mushrooms, sweet potatoes and wild rice, or stop calling it a borscht. Trust me, I'd know.
Ahh a borscht purist :) I like your gumption and appreciate your taking the time to express your borscht pride.
I should have stated that I was not claiming to be offering any kind of traditional recipe in the post (alas, kickstarter does not allow creators to edit updates after thirty minutes have passed). I do apologize if I offended you with my cultural appropriation of the term "borscht" but when I wrote the recipe it just did not seem like that big of a deal (as I was not claiming to be some kind of "borscht expert" or anything) but apparently it was a big deal to you (and thus likely others as well) so that was my bad.
Now that I think of it, I imagine there are a bunch of people in Japan that are pretty pissed off about my calling my fermented heirloom soy bean, amaranth and trail of tears black bean paste ( https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/amaranth-seed-trail-of-tears-and ) "Miso" too (considering that traditional Miso paste is made using solely Soy Beans, Koji, salt and Lactic acid bacteria). I`ll try to think up non-culturally specific titles for my recipe publications in the future so I do not offend any traditional recipe purists.
On a lighter note, have you ever tried shiitake mushrooms? We grow them in our garden using wind fallen logs and find them to be a very versatile and protein rich ingredient in the kitchen.
I am not purist, you have to grow with borscht in order to understand what are appropriate changes to it, and what are not. White mushrooms would be appropriate addition for a meat-free borscht, but not shiitake. And yes, I tried to cook shiitake in the past, and they are not as flavorful as other mushrooms that we are used to. Rather terrible mushrooms, of the kind that one would eat only if there is severe shortage of any other food. Of course, this is my opinion only. Note: white mushrooms are sponge mushrooms that stay white after drying.
So your not a traditional cultural recipe purist but rather you are just generally a borscht enthusiast and you like to police other soup makers in what ingredients are "appropriate"?
I think I like this comment even more than the first one!
Firstly I would just like to let you know that as someone that has just published a recipe book (and someone who makes large batches of my recipes to bring to parties and gatherings with my friends and co-workers regularly) I have received quite a bit of feedback (from people that have a wide range of cultural backgrounds) on the flavor and quality of the food that results from my recipes. The Borscht (sorry the not-borscht nameless soup) has been well received all around (except for a few pouty Gen Z kids that were scared of beets and cabbage in general and refused to try it as they preferred microwaved frozen pizzas).
I also find your anti-shiitake stance very amusing, thank you for the laughter, it is a precious (and highly appropriate) ingredient in the soup of life now a days indeed.
Are you open to the possibility that if you tried my (not)-borscht nameless soup which I shared a recipe for above, that you would in fact find that it tastes good?
So when you say "white mushrooms" you are actually referring to Morel Mushrooms (Morchella esculenta)? and not white "button" mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)? If so I can understand what you mean about how the rich flavor of a Morel would compliment the hearty ingredients in a Borscht. Thanks for the excellent idea! I think I will try that in my next batch :)
I have been able to cultivate them with some success near the raised beds in my garden using a mature fruit body (aka mushroom) from the wild as a source of spores (and then mixing / blending the mushroom with a food source and some materials that shift the soil into an ideal PH range for the mycelium to take hold, such as hard wood ash).
When you mentioned how you would only eat shiitake mushrooms "if there is severe shortage of any other food." is this hardcore anti-shiitake mushroom stance purely based on the fact that you do not like the flavor of the mushrooms (based on the way you cooked them)? Or are you taking nutrition into account in your hypothetical involving mass starvation and having to choose between mushrooms to survive?
Again thank you for your comments and I actually really appreciate the Morel suggestion too, hope you have a great day!
This is my personal invitation to Riley and anyone living in or visiting Tbilisi, Georgia to visit our English-language Orthodox Christian community meeting at St. George Georgian Orthodox Church in the Dighomi Massif neighborhood of Tbilisi. Every two weeks we have English Vespers on Friday at 4pm (followed by confessions in English) and English Divine Liturgy on Saturday at 9am (followed by a supra lunch in the church hall). We have a wonderful wise and godly priest, Fr. Archil, who serves both the Georgian and the English congregations. We are expats and immigrants from USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, plus some from various other countries with English as a second language. The next English Liturgy will be on April 29, then every two weeks. All Orthodox Christians and those curious about Christ and Orthodoxy are welcome. Our location: https://goo.gl/maps/fQ5XGG64Rz3VxJAw7
Riley, is there some way to pay for your blog via Russia? I am your big fan, but my Russian credit cards can't make international Globo Homo transactions.
It always depends on whether you like any kind of meat in your borscht, or not, and other things. Traditional recipes includes some sort of meat, beets, carrots, onions, cabbage, I always have celery, sometimes some other veggies. I know that in Canadian Ukrainian tradition they used beans instead of meat (mostly because they couldn't afford meat). The main thing is not to boil cabbage and such veggies as celery or sweet peppers for too long, and remove from the heat when they already cooked but not overcooked. And always remember that it's better to boil beets with the meat in the beginning, and then fish them out of the water, cool, and grate them and add to the pot in the very end, adding lemon juice to the borscht, to keep the colour of it on the right side. When you cook meat with beets, it gives any meat really nice taste.
No, I was not talking about morels. I thought that I was rather clear about white mushrooms, didn't realize that you know next to nothing about mushrooms. In my response to you I pointed out that "white mushrooms" are usually sponge mushrooms that stay white after drying. Morels are not sponge mushrooms. White mushrooms are some of Boletus mushrooms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus
These are most popular for replacing meat in soups and other dishes during lent or for use in cases when meat is not available or not appropriate for some other reason.
You know, I don't really care what you call your rice soup with beets, I just thought that I better point out that rice soup with beets does not become a borscht just because you call it "borscht". That's all. All the best to you, and I do not care how many people liked your rice and beets soup.
I enjoy these discussion threads Mr Riley!
"Finland becomes the 31st member of Raytheon’s extortion racket"
Laughed more than I should have. Sweden are looking to betray (I mean 'extradite') a Turkish man so they too can join the Raytheon extortion racket, under the pretence that Turkey 'agrees' to a 'fair trial'. Because we know how fair trial the murder-journalists-in-toilets Turkish government are:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sweden-agrees-extradite-turkish-national-bid-nato-entry
How to show your country has moral integrity: betray a man to his guaranteed death so you can join a warmongering org.
Speaking of morals - shameless link plugging time - have you heard how Elon Musk has jumped the shark and started blockading Substack?
https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/mad-mrna-musk-censors-substack
Reportedly he's now reversed course (I don't trust it; Elon is just working on a new, more subtle scheme) but he's managed to destroy the trust of Matt Taibbi, who has now left Twitter.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/matt-taibbi-leaving-twitter-after-musk-changes-over-substack-notes/
Imagine destroying a budding association with Substack over fears the tiny Substack's "Notes" (which will probably be a half-assed flop) might somehow overtake a billion-dollar company.
But Elon is our Fren, UD. I'm at the point where every time someone mentions Elon, all I can think about is a ventriloquist's dummy. He's the face of the group of investors(oligarchs) that took Twitter private. No doubt the Intel Community is wiggling spme fingers.
At this point, you gotta be some utterly fucktarded sob to still be thinking of the US, UK, France, or any other regime of the terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate as a democracy or a republic, or that China and Russia represent any sort of actual alternative to the corporate taxcattle surveillance, control and taxing/fleecing grids that the Western mafia branches are.
Eurasia is totally different to Oceania Winston
Work on you reading comprehension. The terrorist USEUNATO conglomerate and its Russia/China partners are working towrds the same SDG of the UN, not to mention their choreography of the EUkraine "war".
Now we’re supposed to trust twitter. BS
Aye, everybody in
The show is about to begin
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First and most importantly, you're fucking awesome. No one could cover geopolitics with the same level of derision.
Second: link dump:
I write here:
https://walkingwithgoats.substack.com/
A column charting my journey towards self-sufficiency in the face of the Great Reset.
Transhumanism, technocracy and small-holding make surprisingly interesting bedfellows. It’s impossible to own livestock at the beginning of the 21st Century and not look over your shoulder, slightly unnerved by the parallels.
If I owned livestock, I’d be looking over my shoulder, because I’d be unnerved by the livestock.
Goats creep up.
This is why I like chickens. You know where you stand with them.
We call them Hylicks
You get used to them pretty quickly. Genetic memory?
If NATO had simply included countries that had a shore on the Atlantic it would have been honest.
In Finland there was to be a referendum, instead a 1000 person Gallup poll was used to justify the mood of the people. A citizen initiative asking for debate in parliament gained over the 50'000 required signatures but was ignored. NATO is a bad joke.
I would argue NATO is a bit worse than a bad joke. Bad jokes cause embarrassment, NATO causes hundreds of thousands of deaths. Less CO2 emissions though, and I hear by 2050 NATO vehicles are to be fossil fuel free (no joke).
Talking about bad jokes - now that your princes AquaMarin opened the door for war with Russia, where are you going to bury those 150millions of Russkies?
Yes, NATO is the pit of evil. If a war in Finland in on the table then a means would have been found to make it happen, NATO membership was a easy way to pretend to provoke Russia. All the large nation leaders are on the same team and it is not a nice bunch.
Hi from north of Toronto, Canada
🥌🇨🇦🍁
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canada-strategic-maple-syrup-reserve
I am writing a 4 part series on the so-called "Clean Energy Transition" by 2050, which totally exposes the utter logistical impossibility of those agendas. Could use a few more shares! Cheers!
Part 1 - Australia Net Zero by 2050
https://fullbroadside.substack.com/p/full-broadsides-clean-energy-transition
Part 2 - Global Net Zero by 2050
https://fullbroadside.substack.com/p/clean-energy-transition-part-2
Part 3 - Transportation Net Zero by 2050
https://fullbroadside.substack.com/p/clean-energy-transition-part-3
Part 4 - Critical Mineral Acquisition by 2050
(TBA - probably finish this part today or tomorrow)
Thanks, Riley, little shots can go a LONG way!
Speaking of which,
Jesse Zurawell interviews Riley Waggaman regarding the bio-security apparatus being constructed by Russia’s regime.
https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/e/riley-waggaman-on-perspective-with-jesse-zurawell-6-april-2023/
Riley Waggaman on Perspective with Jesse Zurawell - 6 April 2023, 56 minutes.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Author at Brownstone Institute. Riley Waggaman is an American writer and journalist based in Moscow. He contributes to Anti-Empire and Russian Faith, and previously worked for Press TV, RT and Russia Insider.
Jeff: Waggaman terms the support being given Russia’s regime by most of the “alternative” media and many activists “monstrous”. He notes how he has had to take HIV tests in order to enter Russia and renew his passport Excellent discussion of bio-security efforts by the Russian state, its, support for WHO, implementation of the “Sanitary Shield” around Russia and the Putin regime advocating it for the entire world, i,” pushing testing and genetic “vaccines,” same in Russia as in the US, UK EU, China. Jesse spoke out well on the lack of proof for the existence of either HIV, or SARS-CoV-2, He debunked the entire notion of a bio weapon leaked from lab, including the very idea that . one targeting Slavs could be made, as if Slavic people are defined by genes rather than language He further noted that contagion theory has never been demonstrated, so even fully lab created organisms are not plausible. . Putin: wishes to make “cattle tag” easier to use, in response to football games boycotts over requirements for QR codes. EXCELLENT interview.
Just finished the audio - definitely worth a listen.
Riley (or anyone), could you explain more by what you mean about the oligarchs pumping gas across Ukraine? I think I heard/read about that before--as in, if this was truly a real war, would that still be going on?
hey Sandra.
the war hasn't stopped Gazprom from paying Kiev to transport its gas across Ukraine. wrote about it in some detail here: https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/the-ones-we-should-be-fighting-will
More recently, a State Duma deputy accused Gazprom of "cooperation with the enemy" for continuing its gas transit deals with Kiev. https://svpressa.ru/politic/news/368588/
It's difficult to understand why Russians and Ukrainians are being ordered to kill each other if it's business as usual for the oligarchs. That's my 10 kopecks, at least...
Okay, thanks for clarifying--I think I heard or read that before, but I just wasn't clear on the details. Anyway, yes, exactly- it doesn't make sense that Russians and Ukrainians are being ordered to kill each other while oligarchs are operating as usual.
I think this whole thing is completely orchestrated and pre-planned as phase 2 of their Great Reset (destroying the petro-dollar and moving to a multi-polar world). Years ago, I watched this video with Col. Fletcher Prouty ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeW4GcJ0oro&t=14s) where he talked about being a cargo pilot in WW2 and how he saw them setting up for the wars on Korea and Vietnam before WW2 was over-- that's when he questioned who gave the order and realized there was an elite behind-the-scenes power running the show. So, after listening to that, I just assume all of these are planned out decades in advance.
And fwiw, Andy Schectman, a precious metals dealer, also seems to see a hidden hand orchestrating all that's going on financially and geopolitically--he connects a lot of dots, going all the way back to 2017 to the present. And as a metals dealer, he has inside info in terms of the change of status of gold to tier 1 asset, who is buying massive amounts of gold, where it's going etc.):
Why Are Central Banks Around the World Hoarding Gold? With Andy Schectman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2HxR7IWlg
4 Signs the U.S. Dollar May Be Toast – Robert Kiyosaki, Kim Kiyosaki, Andy Schectman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwQ91P8vLqE
And IMO, all of the "screw ups" by the puppet Biden admin are deliberate--this has all been gamed out, it's a deliberate plan to destroy America and the petro-dollar and move forward with the Great Reset, but the cover story will be that everything went to hell because Biden is senile and the VP is dumb (which is all an act--you can pull up old videos of her speaking and she doesn't act like this; plus all of these people get speech writers).
Maybe... If Russian had stopped selling gas thru the Ukro pipeline, key potential allies (and the part of the population in those countries sympathetic to Russia) in Europe like Hungary or others would have suffered a lot and most of the local support would have vanished. It seems clear to me that Russia, having been trying to gather support in the West, wouldn't starve population which have been demonstrating for one year against the war, not considering Russia as a bully...
Search this page (see magnifying glass at top) re Ukraine pipelines. Russia's government is paying Ukraine's to allow these shipments across, and Ukraine is willingly allowing them.
Thanks for posting. I'll give that a listen- sounds like a good interview (the last time I heard Riley was in that debate that was hard to listen to because of Luongo https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/02/debate-russia-and-the-great-reset-resistance-or-complicity/)
So are QR codes now everywhere, including Russia? I hate the sight of them but nobody else even seems to get the plot.
The Final Solution. Full Digitization. “The QR Codification of the World”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/final-solution/5758334
Most people have been totally mesmerized by tech, the promise of "convenience," "reliability," "predictability," rendered into sheep who don't even need the dog to herd them, willingly line up because "it's hip, it's the latest,....." I have so far survived without EVER getting a cellphone, i hated them ever since they started appearing in the late '90s.
Luongo is AWFUL, him and Ehret both examples of Nowhere Men, see what they want to see.
Yes, I agree on Luongo and Ehret. Both basically appear to be invested in their own point of view and unable to take in information that contradicts that point of view.
I've always had resistance to technology--I'm just not technologically savvy and have always resented them updating the technology just when I finally got used to the earlier technology. I never saw the need and it always felt like it was a top down agenda being pushed on us. I do have a cell phone, but bare minimum and mainly in case I get stranded somewhere or the car breaks down. I've seen some say everyone just needs to get rid of their smart phone and that will put an end to this, but I don't see many latching onto that idea. In fact, it seems like people are just mindlessly accepting advances in technology without thinking about the implications (e.g. I recently saw a story about people using some kind of face or hand pay system).
Indeed, people need to get rid of their "Stupid" phones, evil devices, from the mining of the resources needed to make them (e.g. Coltan) by slave labor in Africa, the assembling of the components and devices in sweat shops in China and elsewhere (largely in Asia), the surveillance aspect, the way they de-skill us, rendering many people incapable of reading maps, the way they channel us into self absorbed bubbles, people walking and not looking where they;re walking, or doing so while riding bike, DRIVING,...people chatting loudly into them and disrupting quiet spaces, even out in nature,.. Pantera Bread stores now offer discounts for using hand pay, promoting this of course as "convenient,".... Cattle tagging, the cattle lining up for tags.
Sandra, people are addicted to smartphone thru hormonal retribution. that is the only reason they just don't get rid of it even if understanding it's very nefarious effect... It is a sad fact.
Hey man, hope you are well.
It is seed starting and forest foraging time here in Canada so I am busy busy but feeling good getting lots of fresh air.
Is your mom gonna try growing any of those seeds I sent in the garden this spring? If so I would enjoy hearing how they turn out :)
The picture you shared at the top of this post made me want to share one of my favorite recipes with you.
I present to you 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗻-𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺𝘀
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/recipes4reciprocity/recipes-for-reciprocity-a-regenerative-recipe-book/posts/3576330
(btw don’t let the kickstarter link give you the impression I am tryna make money, that crowd funding campaign is long gone, the link is to a public update that contains the full recipe)
Enjoy!
hey Gavin!
Great to hear from you. I will ask my mom about those seeds. If I remember correctly, she did try to plant a few!
best,
riley
Hey Riley
Awesome sounds good :) If you think she would enjoy some trying recipes to try creating with what she harvests from the seeds I am finally done my book and I would be willing to send a copy of the eBook PDF as a gift.
That meal in the pic above looks great, can you break down what is going on there for those of us that are not in the know? :)
Have a good one and stay smiling my friend
Gavin, this is not a borscht, it's just soup. Forget freaking shiitake mushrooms, sweet potatoes and wild rice, or stop calling it a borscht. Trust me, I'd know.
Ahh a borscht purist :) I like your gumption and appreciate your taking the time to express your borscht pride.
I should have stated that I was not claiming to be offering any kind of traditional recipe in the post (alas, kickstarter does not allow creators to edit updates after thirty minutes have passed). I do apologize if I offended you with my cultural appropriation of the term "borscht" but when I wrote the recipe it just did not seem like that big of a deal (as I was not claiming to be some kind of "borscht expert" or anything) but apparently it was a big deal to you (and thus likely others as well) so that was my bad.
Now that I think of it, I imagine there are a bunch of people in Japan that are pretty pissed off about my calling my fermented heirloom soy bean, amaranth and trail of tears black bean paste ( https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/amaranth-seed-trail-of-tears-and ) "Miso" too (considering that traditional Miso paste is made using solely Soy Beans, Koji, salt and Lactic acid bacteria). I`ll try to think up non-culturally specific titles for my recipe publications in the future so I do not offend any traditional recipe purists.
On a lighter note, have you ever tried shiitake mushrooms? We grow them in our garden using wind fallen logs and find them to be a very versatile and protein rich ingredient in the kitchen.
Thanks for the comment.
I am not purist, you have to grow with borscht in order to understand what are appropriate changes to it, and what are not. White mushrooms would be appropriate addition for a meat-free borscht, but not shiitake. And yes, I tried to cook shiitake in the past, and they are not as flavorful as other mushrooms that we are used to. Rather terrible mushrooms, of the kind that one would eat only if there is severe shortage of any other food. Of course, this is my opinion only. Note: white mushrooms are sponge mushrooms that stay white after drying.
So your not a traditional cultural recipe purist but rather you are just generally a borscht enthusiast and you like to police other soup makers in what ingredients are "appropriate"?
I think I like this comment even more than the first one!
Firstly I would just like to let you know that as someone that has just published a recipe book (and someone who makes large batches of my recipes to bring to parties and gatherings with my friends and co-workers regularly) I have received quite a bit of feedback (from people that have a wide range of cultural backgrounds) on the flavor and quality of the food that results from my recipes. The Borscht (sorry the not-borscht nameless soup) has been well received all around (except for a few pouty Gen Z kids that were scared of beets and cabbage in general and refused to try it as they preferred microwaved frozen pizzas).
I also find your anti-shiitake stance very amusing, thank you for the laughter, it is a precious (and highly appropriate) ingredient in the soup of life now a days indeed.
Are you open to the possibility that if you tried my (not)-borscht nameless soup which I shared a recipe for above, that you would in fact find that it tastes good?
So when you say "white mushrooms" you are actually referring to Morel Mushrooms (Morchella esculenta)? and not white "button" mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)? If so I can understand what you mean about how the rich flavor of a Morel would compliment the hearty ingredients in a Borscht. Thanks for the excellent idea! I think I will try that in my next batch :)
I actually included Morel Mushrooms (Morchella esculenta) in my most recent article on substack about foraging in spring time (which you can find here : https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/embracing-the-abundance-of-spring )
Do you ever see any morels near where you live?
I have been able to cultivate them with some success near the raised beds in my garden using a mature fruit body (aka mushroom) from the wild as a source of spores (and then mixing / blending the mushroom with a food source and some materials that shift the soil into an ideal PH range for the mycelium to take hold, such as hard wood ash).
When you mentioned how you would only eat shiitake mushrooms "if there is severe shortage of any other food." is this hardcore anti-shiitake mushroom stance purely based on the fact that you do not like the flavor of the mushrooms (based on the way you cooked them)? Or are you taking nutrition into account in your hypothetical involving mass starvation and having to choose between mushrooms to survive?
Again thank you for your comments and I actually really appreciate the Morel suggestion too, hope you have a great day!
This is my personal invitation to Riley and anyone living in or visiting Tbilisi, Georgia to visit our English-language Orthodox Christian community meeting at St. George Georgian Orthodox Church in the Dighomi Massif neighborhood of Tbilisi. Every two weeks we have English Vespers on Friday at 4pm (followed by confessions in English) and English Divine Liturgy on Saturday at 9am (followed by a supra lunch in the church hall). We have a wonderful wise and godly priest, Fr. Archil, who serves both the Georgian and the English congregations. We are expats and immigrants from USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, plus some from various other countries with English as a second language. The next English Liturgy will be on April 29, then every two weeks. All Orthodox Christians and those curious about Christ and Orthodoxy are welcome. Our location: https://goo.gl/maps/fQ5XGG64Rz3VxJAw7
this sounds great, I will put it on my calendar!
FYI, the problem with subscribing is that I follow 50 different people who each want me to subscribe.
I cannot subscribe to all. Solve that problem!
Perhaps a single subscription for up to 10, or 20, or 30 substack contributors?
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Russia continues to desperately cling to COVD and the tuition fees are increasing by 26%; Hmm, sounds very Western.
Riley, is there some way to pay for your blog via Russia? I am your big fan, but my Russian credit cards can't make international Globo Homo transactions.
sadly I don't think so. I appreciate your readership, though!
China-related but...
China issues new COVID-19 vaccination plan to further curb risks
and this in April 2023...
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-04-11/China-issues-new-COVID-19-vaccination-plan-to-further-curb-risks-1iUfqWGEQcE/index.html
It always depends on whether you like any kind of meat in your borscht, or not, and other things. Traditional recipes includes some sort of meat, beets, carrots, onions, cabbage, I always have celery, sometimes some other veggies. I know that in Canadian Ukrainian tradition they used beans instead of meat (mostly because they couldn't afford meat). The main thing is not to boil cabbage and such veggies as celery or sweet peppers for too long, and remove from the heat when they already cooked but not overcooked. And always remember that it's better to boil beets with the meat in the beginning, and then fish them out of the water, cool, and grate them and add to the pot in the very end, adding lemon juice to the borscht, to keep the colour of it on the right side. When you cook meat with beets, it gives any meat really nice taste.
No, I was not talking about morels. I thought that I was rather clear about white mushrooms, didn't realize that you know next to nothing about mushrooms. In my response to you I pointed out that "white mushrooms" are usually sponge mushrooms that stay white after drying. Morels are not sponge mushrooms. White mushrooms are some of Boletus mushrooms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus
These are most popular for replacing meat in soups and other dishes during lent or for use in cases when meat is not available or not appropriate for some other reason.
You know, I don't really care what you call your rice soup with beets, I just thought that I better point out that rice soup with beets does not become a borscht just because you call it "borscht". That's all. All the best to you, and I do not care how many people liked your rice and beets soup.
What is this soup, csorba?
What is this soup, csorba?