Since February 2026 the USA has blockaded Cuba. The idea is that they will be starved into submission. Medicine, oil and food are all prevented from entering Cuba. Obviously this means that the most vulnerable will die first. The USA is using tactics which would be familiar to 14th century English kings who did identical things for the same reasons. The USA’s tactics are a war crime and it is astonishing that their overt strategy is a war crime.
America’s Cuba war crime siege A 3 minute podcast
Simple foods can be made crazily complex by lunatics with too much time on their hands or poseurs or wannabe celebrity cooks. Ignore them and focus on essentials. This recipe is stupid simple, quick and different. Bruschetta is peasant food so bond with your inner-peasant.
Ingredients
Thick sliced bread of any kind – best if you get uncut and cut a thick slice!
Smooth peanut butter
Tomato
Technique
Dice the tomato – if its small use two
Grill toast one side of bread
Turnover and put a thick smear of peanut butter on untoasted side
Carry on grilling until it’s melted into the bread (30 seconds or so – keep an eye on it)
Get it out and evenly spread the diced tomato covering the whole surface
Carry on grilling until tomato is sizzling (a minute or so)
Voila!
Peasant food suitable for the refined taste of the 21st century that values style over substance. This recipe is stylish and sustaining
Style over Substance
If you’re too posh to acknowledge your inner-peasant, go here
BBC recipes Bruschetta recipes – BBC Food
Trump has been ridiculed for saying, on 17 occasions, that the USA has won the Iran war. But he’s talking about tactical victories. He’s not talking about strategic victories such as the one in Germany in 1945.
Can you win a war 17 times? Three minute podcast
Rumsfeld’s *Known, Knowns* speech goes down in history as one of the greatest statements of warfare. In just a few lines he demonstrated that all war is a gamble. This podcast uses those words to analyse the Iranian war in Rumsfeld’s terms. It is very, very revealing.
Forever wars and philosophy – YouTube It is 3 minutes as usual
For I trace the beginnings of British foreign investment to the treasure which Drake stole from Spain in 1580. In that year he returned to England bringing with him the prodigious spoils of the Golden Hind. Queen Elizabeth was a considerable shareholder in the syndicate which had financed the expedition. Out of her share she paid off the whole of England’s foreign debt, balanced her Budget, and found herself with about £40,000 in hand. This she invested in the Levant Company—which prospered. Out of the profits of the Levant Company, the East India Company was founded; and the profits of this great enterprise were the foundation of England’s subsequent foreign investment. Now it happens that £40,000 accumulating at 3¼ per cent compound interest approximately corresponds to the actual volume of England’s foreign investments at various dates, and would actually amount to-day to the total of £4,000,000,000 which I have already quoted as being what our foreign investments now are. Thus, every £1 which Drake brought home in 1580 has now become £100,000*. Such is the power of compound interest! (my emphasis)
Note
Essays in Persuasion, by John Maynard Keynes Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren 1930
Jim went into a pub and said to the landlord: ‘If you give me free drinks all night, I’ll entertain your customers and they’ll stay all night buying drinks.’
“How will you do that?”
Jim put his hamster on the piano. The hamster began playing the greatest piano music anyone had heard.
“That’s incredible! Have you got anything else?”
Jim put his parrot on the bar. The hamster played the piano and the parrot sang along. He was like Pavarotti. Everyone was amazed and stayed all night drinking.
The landlord was delighted. “I must have these animals. Will you sell them to me?’
Jim said no.
“Will you sell one?”
“OK, I’ll sell the parrot for £100.”
Fred whispered to Jim and said: “That’s stupid selling a clever parrot for a £100.”
“The hamster is a ventriloquist.”
(this joke has been modified)
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