Philip Agee, born on 19th of january in 1935, was an ex-CIA officer who became a prominent critic of CIA policies, detailing his experiences in the text "Inside the Company: CIA Diary". Agee ultimately defected to Cuba, dying there in 2008.
Philip Agee (1935 - 2008) served as a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer for eight years, joining the organization in 1960. He was assigned posts in Montevideo, Mexico City, and Quito, Ecuador.
Agee resigned from the CIA in 1968 following the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City, in which the U.S.-supported government engaged in mass shootings and arrests of a crowd of more than ten thousand protesters. The same massacre also played a role in the political radicalization of Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas.
Agee moved to London and published "Inside the Company", a tell-all text that, among other things, detailed his work in spying on diplomats, engaging in illegal activity to force a diplomatic break between Ecuador and Cuba, naming President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica, President Luis Echeverría Álvarez of Mexico, and President Alfonso López Michelsen of Colombia as CIA collaborators, and exposing the identities of dozens of CIA agents.
For the exposure of agents, Agee was expelled from the United Kingdom. Agee was also eventually expelled from the Netherlands, France, West Germany and Italy, and was compelled to live under a series of socialist governments - Grenada under Maurice Bishop, then Nicaragua under the Sandinistas, and finally Cuba under Castro. Agee died in Cuba in January 2008.
"I don't think we have ever had real democracy in this country. Anyone who studies adoption of the constitution will understand quite clearly that; democracy - as we understand that on today; was the last thing the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the constitution....it was: to establish strong central authority responding the elitist interests in United States.
That's private property. And those men who wrote the constitution were representatives of the elites. They were the lawyers, bankers, merchants, the land owners, slave owners and so forth. And they write the constitution for their own private interest$. That is how government has served ever since. And that is why we have so little democracy in United States."
- Philip Agee
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i accidentally stumbled upon /exvegans and they were calling a bowl of pasta, chickpeas, and spinach unhealthy. Apparently because eating carbs is bad, and only vegans eat pasta or something i guess
Those are complex carbs with like 12% protein and spinach which is like the healthiest green by weight 😭
yeah i'm just like... wait, what do you consider healthy
Also minmax your beans, they are nutritionally quite different. I like some really proteiny meaty pintos and black beans the most
i like red beans the most, king bean imo
But yeah fr it is good to eat a varied diet, luckily all beans are perfect bean
except lima beans tho
Limas are a bit chalky and sprouty tasting for me
Idk just eat more caffeine substitute thermogenic food that requires lots of energy to burn. Complex carbs and protein burn like 30% of the caloric energy digesting it. Also I shit like beta carotenes and rutin in produce are probably underrated.
If only it didn't shrink so much during cooking 😭
Yeah 😓
Depends on what you're trying to do with em but there are some ways around it. Toss em in oil and cook at a super high heat for almost no time at all and you should keep most of the size but get some cooked flavor and mush to em, then you can add them at the end of what you're making
Yeah, most dietary limitations can devolve into an eating disorder if you get obsessive about it. But also, what kind of person hangs out in the exvegan subreddit? Literally for what?
I know a keto guy who argues that people werent supposed to eat non meat but... like... keto lol