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Smoky Mexican Stuffed Bell Peppers

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef

3 bell peppers (red, yellow, orange), sliced in half

1 cup red onion, diced

1 jalapeno, minced, seeds removed (or not!)

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 tbsp Chipotle seasoning

1 tsp cumin, ground

2 tbsp chipotle tomato paste (or regular)

1 tsp Himalayan pink sea salt

2 tbsp ghee butter

1/2 cup cheddar, shredded

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Place all but one bell pepper halves in a baking dish and sprinkle with pink s+p. Bake for about 5 minutes. Remove and set aside.

2. Meanwhile, dice the remaining bell pepper half, set aside.

3. Heat skillet over medium heat, add 2 tbsp ghee and then ground beef. Season with chipotle, cumin, pink s+p, and brown beef, stirring occasionally. Add diced red onions, diced bell pepper, and jalapeno and cook another 3-4 minutes. Next, add chipotle tomato paste and minced garlic, cook another few minutes.

4. Spoon meat mixture into bell pepper shells and bake for about 10 minutes. Then add shredded cheese and cook another minute or just until melted.

5. Garnish with avocado, cilantro and lime juice if desired!

The first point I want to make, then emphasize, then re-emphasize, is that there is no ‘the’ cause of cardiovascular disease. By which I mean that there is not, and never has been, any one single factor that can be considered to be ‘the’ cause. Instead, there are many. They can work by themselves or combine with others.

So you can say that, for example, diabetes is ‘a’ cause of cardiovascular disease. But you cannot say that it is ‘the’ cause. Yes ‘a’ cause but not ‘the’ cause. This is not purely semantics. Whilst the difference may seem subtle, it is critical. A table, or the table. A man, or the man. An answer, or the answer.

If there is no ‘the’ cause, what does this mean in practice? It means that many different things, or factors, or whatever term you use to describe them, can lead to exactly the same disease.

Phytic acid not only grabs on to or chelates important minerals, but also inhibits enzymes that we need to digest our food, including pepsin, needed for the breakdown of proteins in the stomach, and amylase needed for the breakdown of starch into sugar. Trypsin, needed for protein digestion in the small intestine, is also inhibited by phytates.

There is no doubt that nuts are a notoriously healthy snack food. While they once got a bad rap for their high fat content, we’ve gotten over it.

We know nuts are packed with loads of vitamins, some protein, fibre and antioxidants, so they’ve gotten their seal of approval.

There is a downside to most nuts though – phytic acid! In short, phytic acid or phytates bind to minerals that we consume making them difficult for the body to process and utilise properly.

These minerals cannot be absorbed by the body efficiently, basically deeming those good qualities of nuts useless. Over time, a diet high in phytates can lead to severe mineral deficiencies despite a “healthy” diet.

The best of the best

*Macadamia

*Walnuts

*Pistachios

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. ”

― Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era

½ cup coconut oil
2 eggs
⅓ cup dark chocolate chips
½ cup maple sugar
½ teaspoon sea salt
3 tablespoons arrowroot starch
½ cup cocoa or cacao powder
2 teaspoons vanilla

The reason that humans suffer from indigestion and autoimmune reactions from unsprouted foods is because we aren’t designed to break down antinutrients in plant compounds that lock up or deplete vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Regularly consuming high amounts of antinutrients can significantly impact your health.

Why nuclear energy is no panacea for civilizational decline

It makes no sense to list all the other drawbacks of nuclear at this point. The gap in scale between fossil fuels and nuclear is so big, that even if we had all the Uranium fuel in the Universe, it would be extremely difficult to replace a fossil fuel infrastructure with an entirely new one built around nuclear energy in such a short period of time.

In fact, this book is not so much about when we will run out of oil, as it is about whether or not we will able to supply the world with energy at the rate that it is likely to demand.

Deposits are a public/private partnership which create generally usable money out of risky banking activities.

The model we are taught as children is, like most models, useful but inaccurate. “You take this $20 bill to a bank and deposit it. They will keep it safe for you, and then give you $20 back in the future, plus a little extra for having the use of it in the meanwhile. We call that interest.”

Let’s start dissecting this transaction. You don’t deposit a $20 bill. You purchase a $20 deposit, coincidentally using a piece of paper with the same number on it. The deposit is a liability (a debt) of the bank to you. The bill which you gave the bank in return for the deposit is now theirs, the same as if you had bought a cup of coffee from Starbucks. On their balance sheet, it is now an asset.

But the fact remains: neither Musk's extraordinary efforts to cut waste and fraud, nor Trump's efforts to cut trade deficits and boost revenues by imposing tariffs, and certainly not the plan to cut $1.5 trillion in spending while authorizing $4 trillion in new borrowing currently winding its way through the various committees in the US House of Representatives, are likely to materially affect the eventual outcome when financial panic finally arrives.

...for all this utopia to come along humans must be all successfully conditioned to think and feel the same way (good luck with that), and all of them must sign up to this plan without any personal ambitions for power and wealth (an even greater luck with that)

Do you want to know what your boss can see about your online activity in Microsoft 365? In this video, we dive deep into the surprising extent of your company's employee tracking capabilities in M365, focusing on what can be tracked and monitored in Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and Bing. Discover how your emails, search history, Teams messages, and even your file access can be monitored.

Tungsten is the only metal close enough to the density of gold that it can be substituted in certain types gold coins.

Crypto trading is still fake

Hello, crypto fans! I haven’t forgotten you! I’ve just spent the past nine months or so writing the same article about bitcoin repeatedly:

Trading is thin;
The price is set on unregulated offshore casinos;
Bitcoin is pumped with stablecoins printed out of thin air as loans;
This isn’t a bubble, it’s a balloon being inflated with hot air.

Botanical name: Pinus sylvestris Part used: Fresh male strobiles and pollen (wildcrafted)  Ingredients: Fresh Scots Pine pollen, certified organic non-GMO cane alcohol, pure Adirondack water.

Barlowe's Herbal Elixirs was founded in 2009 in order to provide the highest quality herbal products for the treatment of a wide variety of ailments which are common in today's society.

Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.

Spooner's writings include the abolitionist book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery