Cooking, Drinks, Food

Preparing Iced Tea without Boiling Water

For every 1 quart of water, add 4 tea bags or 1 tablespoon (8-10g) of loose-leaf tea. Combine the water and tea into a resealable container and place in the fridge, steeping only for 5 hours for the best flavor. After 5 hours, remove the tea bags or strain.

If you want to sweeten your cold-brewed tea, make a simple syrup. This will allow the sugar to sweeten the tea rather than just collecting on the bottom of your cup.

Simple syrup: combine equal parts of sugar and water (e.g. 1 cup water to 1 cup of sugar; yields about 1.5 cups of simple syrup) in a saucepan, and heat on the stove until the sugar has dissolved completely. Let it cool, then add to taste your tea. You can also get creative and add flavoring to the simple syrup by adding fresh herbs or other ingredients after the sugar has dissolved and you’ve removed the syrup from the stove. For example, you could add mint, rosemary, ginger, vanilla, or citrus peel. Let the extra ingredients steep in the syrup while the syrup cools, then remove (leaving in the flavoring ingredients will shorten the syrup’s shelf life).

News, Politics, USA

Donald Trump Radicalization In America – With UPDATES-

1. House to Move to Impeach Trump After Push to Have Pence Remove Him From Office

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she will introduce a resolution on Monday; ‘We will act with urgency’

2. House to call on Pence and Cabinet to use 25th Amendment and move to impeach Trump

I saw this coming long time ago, and made a post about it last June 2020: Link>>READ HERE

When you allow the beast to rule, you create more hate and destruction. Extremist content on the web was raw material for the riot and insurrection that happened last January 6.

Now, -link>> the US Capitol Hill is gated in, there is less freedom for the people who respect the law to get close to such a beautiful and historic building, but a necessary measure to keep the domestic terrorists outside and protect the US Capitol edifice and the human beings (lawmakers, cleaning personal, secretaries, general help, etc) who work there.

We have to ask ourselves: Who is responsible for this? The pro-Trump media is part of the problem, that is for sure, but also the people who believe Trump’s lies and conspiracy theories. Now I wonder if this attack on life and freedom by Trump and Trump enablers is going to stop here or it’s going to continue and grow.

There are already 128 lawmakers who are radicalized. even after the terror on Capitol Hill happened and 5 people died, including one police officer. They voted for the objections to decertify some of the electoral votes. This was promoted by Trump.

Domestic terrorists making fun of precious history in Capitol Hill

It is very dangerous to have so many radicalized lawmakers, very dangerous for the future of the United States of America. I hope and wish that people, in their great wisdom, can vote them out before anything else or worse happens.

The green, white and black flag is based on a design similar to a Nazi flag.

“Take care of yourselves and each other, please” DRAMACN

CONCLUSION: Years of trump lies culminated in bloodshed.

mental health, Politics

Donald Trump Hate Groups Increase in America – San Diego Holds Many

BEFORE I START THIS POST, PLEASE READ: I am not affiliated to any political party. I am a free thinker and nobody owns me, nothing owns me. I owe nothing to nobody. So, no, I don’t hate Trump, I don’t love Obama nor vice versa. I just analyze publicly certain situations when I think they are out of control.

And United States of America so called president (yes, with ‘p’ lower case) is out of control. It is chaos reigning in the world right now. If there is chaos in the USA, there is chaos in the world, simply because the US has been the leader of the globe for decades. And that -chaos- is not good for the USA and it is not good for the planet.

I cannot call him “President Trump”, because he might have the title but he does not behave like one. I have no respect for him at all. He is crude, rude, low class, vulgar, even perverse. Yes, I have been quiet, but he has gone too far. He is absolutely and irrefutable out of his mind, saying things like “there is a vaccine for AIDS” …. WHAT?! When I heard this, how can I say it without insulting him badly? ah, no, impossible to find a decent word.

What I cannot comprehend is why there are still many people who believe the words that come out of his mouth and follow him to his rallies. He is not “going to drain the swamp” people, because HE IS part of the swamp. He gives tax relieves to his friends. He hasn’t revealed his taxes because he has powerful friends who protect him from doing so, because it is good for what ever they are doing with him and through him: M.O.N.E.Y.

Worst of all, he has created a climate of hate, terrible fear and death. Frankly, I am making this post as a statement of my opposition to killing and the suppression of life. As a medical doctor I have the obligation and responsibility to save lives, to extend the lifespan of my patients, I make their lives more comfortable and help them live with physical and mental dignity.

Trump, with the hate that invades his tiny little mind, is infecting humanity and it’s my obligation to say it so, as a doctor. As a medical doctor I oppose the use of choke-holds, I oppose brutality and aggression against ANY human being. I will NEVER agree to the use of deadly force to control any type of situation (those that many hate groups, consider it to be “normal”!) Those are excuses to kill because of hate and rage.

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MY FINAL THOUGHTS: Hate creates sadness, anxiety, depression, physical illnesses that can threaten human lives. Hate produces a huge increment in suicide numbers, a terrible loss of lives. STOP HATE! It is imperative that we stop hate. Yes, one person cannot stop violence in the world, but we can do something pro-love, against fear, against hate in our neck of the woods. If we defend and/or save one life in our lifetime, oh goodness, it’d be a wonderful thing. Let’s try to do it. Just one, one at a time. Let’s teach our children love and compassion, not fear, not hate.

Let’s teach love and compassion

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These are some reports about HATE GROUPS in the US since the Trump Era

White nationalist hate groups in the US have increased 55% throughout the Trump era, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and a “surging” racist movement continues to be driven by “a deep fear of demographic change”.

“Though the experts appear to understand the threat, they remain hamstrung by the Trump administration, which has hired members of hate groups into high-level positions and has on its staff people like Stephen Miller, the senior policy adviser in the White House who has long been allied with anti-immigrant hate groups,” it said.

The law center said the number of hate groups rose by 7 percent last year to 1,020, a 30 percent jump from 2014. That broadly echoes other worrying developments, including a 30 percent increase in the number of hate crimes reported to the F.B.I. from 2015 through 2017 and a surge of right-wing violence that the Anti-Defamation League said had killed at least 50 people in 2018.

LINK HERE

List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups

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