The Importance of Mushrooms as a Food Source

It is no secret that Europeans love mushrooms, and for good reason. Mushrooms may have very well saved their forebearers from the wide spread famines that periodically occurred.   In times of starvation people people actively sought many of these widespread and abundant edibles.

There are many health benefits from eating mushrooms.  Fungi are not like plants because they contain vitamin D and they are rich in B vitamins.   These delicacies are also a passable meat substitute, sometime referred to as the "other white meat".  Mushrooms actively boost the immune system and provide many minerals and vitamins to keep you healthy, something you can not say about bucket food fare.

A number of edible fungi are easy to learn how to identify.  Just be sure to know which varieties can cause a horrible death.

Young edible Chicken of the Woods Mushroom

Not to be confused with the similarity colored, 

and poisonous, Jack-O-Lantern mushroom.

The Peril in Our Country Rises Again

The plot to take over the U.S. is a long one.  Major General Smedley Butler, USMC virtually single handedly foiled the first corporate attempted coupe of our government.  Their plot was soundly defeated.  Senator Joe McCarthy came along to stir up trouble but he was exposed .   However a more successful approach was Supreme Court  justice Lewis Powell’s  Memorandum that he sent out outlining a model for another more covert scheme to gather power under the control of big businesses.  Another thinker, Kevin Phillips, ideas were instrumental in promoting the agenda but he realized the dark implications and has distanced himself from the scheme.  The ultimate result of years of maneuvering has resulted in a concerted effort to control all avenues to power, even the Democratic party  through the Third way Democrats which has essentially co-opted the party today.