A little decompression.  Humus, humous, whatever is a staple in our house, but recently because of dietary requirements we have not had too much of it.

The time has come and I have garbanzos soaking on the kitchen counter top.  Please! not the canned stuff!  You can make this – just make it – as people scramble eggs .. No instruction is needed.  But this time I’m doing it up a little.  I like it not so very very smooth, so for that, you have to keep some skin on – old old style and not new new smooth as silk style.

Beans soaking, add a little baking soda for those skins, take off about half the skins by rubbing beans between your hands, rinse beans really well and a number of times, put beans up to cook with a pinch of salt and that will be quick if they were well soaked but not oversoaked – depending on the age of your dried beans.

Cool a little and into the food processor.  First process garlic, lemon or lime juice and cumin together.  No, I have no idea how much – you have to have ‘hands’ for this one and read a bunch of recipes so you can get used to the ‘how much’ of things.  I use a whole bag’o’beans, and perhaps five garlic ‘teeth’ as they call it here, a lemon or lime juiced, and half a teaspoon of cumin, depending if you use tahini or not.  You may need another pinch of salt.

Then, the question – humous is humous – tahini humous is tahini humous – depends on what you like.  If I have fresh tahini, and we do have a field of sesame seeds on the farm, make tahini humous and now add tahini.  Not too much, because I like the garbanzo and garlic and lemon taste and just a dab of tahini.

Now add the beans to your first mix – and process with about half a cup of olive oil.  Repeat so as not to overload the food processor.  Keep enough out to eat, and freeze the rest in containers.  It has to rest a bit, for the flavors to meld.

Now comes the fun part – either make some kind of flatbread quickly, or use tortilla or other big hearty chips of some kind, or even toasted bread if you have nothing else on hand, and serve with black olives and any kind of pickles on the side and fresh big summer tomato slices and a further drizzle of olive oil over the top.  Garnish with a bit of curly parsley or even some chopped sweet basil.

NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COVID VACCINES ARE NOT VACCINES:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won the case COVID VACCINES ARE NOT VACCINES.
Finally the ruling of the Supreme Court “COVID VACCINES ARE NOT VACCINES”.
Fox News reported 20 June 2023:

New York Supreme Court reinstates all employees fired for being unvaccinated.

Hardly anyone noticed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won the case against all the pharmaceutical lobbyists. Covid vaccines are not vaccines. In its ruling, the Supreme Court affirms that the damage caused by Covid mRNA gene therapies is irreparable. Since the Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States, there are no further appeals and the appeal options have been exhausted. In an initial statement, Robert F. Kennedy emphasized that this was a success that was only possible thanks to the international cooperation of a large number of lawyers and scientists.

Of course, this ruling opens up new possibilities internationally against the entanglement of politics and the pharmaceutical industry. In Switzerland in particular, this ruling is likely to make waves, because Switzerland has a special position here with its federal constitution. On the one hand, the Nurenberg Code is in the constitution with Article 118b, and the misuse of genetic engineering on humans is prohibited in Switzerland, according to Article 119 of the Federal Constitution. This is supplemented by Article 230 bis of the Criminal Code,…Thus, the perpetrators face up to 10 years in prison.

But this verdict should also make the rest of the world sit up and take notice, because the Nuremberg Code has international validity and is also included in Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In the case of criminal charges, reference must be made in the declaration to the thalidomide scandal in order to lend particular weight to the significance of this charge. So politics is in for a hot fall. It should also be noted that the German lawyer Dr. Rainer Fuellmich and more than 100 German lawyers have participated in these trials.

No media talks about it, neither in Switzerland nor in Europe. This will be reported, if at all, even in the government loyal German public media, unfortunately, only when it is unavoidable for politics.

Apricot!  Oh My!  Where we are we do not have them, and imported is never right.

I grew up on those fruits that are both tart and sweet.  Shelves full of bottles of apricot jam, dried apricots (outside air), dried apricots in a chicken stew, apricot tarts, crumbles, tartlets and cookies, apricot chutney, and handfuls of fresh picked.   Dried apricot seeds – a little bitter, but usually good.  It was fun to hammer with a hammer and collect the seed!  Perfect job for a few kids.

OK, we lived on farms, and this is what we did .. a fat slice of fresh homemade bread, a big spoon of clotted cream on the bread, another spoon of apricot jam in the middle .. eat with knife and fork.

A bit of a story around Spief.

In one of the business programs, the idea was opened up that they followed a very different methodology for the big sessions.  From way back in the psychology days I got interested, and to my greatest surprise, I recognized it straight away.  I have no idea what they said, but I got the technology.

So this methodology is called Open Space Technology and it is really a lot of fun and there are no dry presentations that one has to sit through.  Everyone participates – it is the biggest cafe clatch ever, with real measurable outcomes.

Back in the late 80’s early 90’s I had a decision to make.  Computers for a future, or industrial psychology for a future.  Industrial psychology was out, because I was expected to do things against my moral senses.  Computers won but, if they did not, I would have become a deft hand at this Open Space Technology and I once even used it for a big computer class.  It is hard work for facilitators because the audience or participants create their own agenda. It is a methodology that is designed to be highly participatory, inclusive, and collaborative.

So, you have this big room of people and they have a burning agenda.  And you ask them to do a list of sub-items on this agenda and self-select around those sub-items and go and make new groups and storm solutions that look viable.  So, you are discussing say seven sub-items with people that feel drawn to one of those, and feel they can bring value.  It’s noisy, it’s a mess but at the end of the day, each group very briefly presents their solutions.  Hard to manage and facilitate but you can handle big groups and people remain enthusiastic because they can work on exactly what their thing is and what they are bullish on.

That specific methodology made the larger and open Spief sessions big successes.  Man, I wish I was there!

There are some values underpinning this and they are …

– Whoever comes are the right people: Since people can choose what sessions to attend there has to be trust, that the people that come are the right people. Even if a session only has two participants these two people might be exactly the right people to meet at that time to do something great together.
– ‍Whatever happens is the only thing that could have: Open Space Technology events have an emerging character. No one can possibly predict, how things might unfold.
– ‍Whenever it starts is the right time: Creativity moves on its own timeline independent of the meeting or event schedule.
– When it is over, it is over: Getting the work done is more important than sticking to the schedule. When a group is in the perfect flow, then they can decide to continue their discussions. Or, if they finish their topic earlier, the can also close the session and do something else instead.

I have seen such groups jell so completely, that they take their topic and start working it post-conference.  I’m sure we will see this flow out of Spief.  People were absolutely enthusiastic.

Just fine on my side AHH.

Smoothie wrote about the Japanese internment camps during the 2nd WW based on some utterings from a Czech. https://www.politico.eu/article/petr-pavel-russia-czech-republic-surveillance/ 

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/06/to-give-some-insight.html 

There were German ones as well.

I got interested in this years ago and studied a bit.  These internment camps were in Canada too and I visited the site of one that had been changed into a very beautiful remembrance garden.  But somehow, visiting the place, I was convinced I could feel the despair.  For the Japanese, even if they had US citizenship, they were still corralled into the internment camps.  There were apologies made by some US Presidents for this.

Smoothie might sense some pressure here and if that is so, I would think it is something to pay attention to, given the level of sheer hatred and his specific competence, being weapons.

The Chinese educated classes from US universities are returning to China, even though they lived their whole lives in the US.  The last number I saw, was around 1,000 this year alone.

War is probably the most horrible thing that the human population can take part in.  The costs are everywhere!

Somebody, please hide this man away!

Trump: When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil. pic.twitter.com/5q3Jr1j1Ho

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 10, 2023