Italian Style Tomato Based Fish Soup Recipe, Random Stuff, and More

This is the latest in my series on quick, easy, and tasty meals:  
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https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/04/cheesy-tomato-based-pasta-recipe-adding.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/08/cheapeasyhealthy-tomato-based-pasta.html
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http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/09/sweet-chilli-chickenporkbeef-noodle.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/05/vegas-style-food-recipes.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/05/learning-to-cook.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/03/mee-noodle-and-nasi-rice-goreng-recipes.html
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http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/02/koreanjapanese-pork-bolgogi-bbq-pork.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/02/simple-pasta-recipes.html

This is being placed here for my own possible records and for others to use if so desired. This is based on recipes online and an interpretation of restaurants that I occasionally frequent. The point of these recipes is to achieve the best taste, in the quickest possible time, at the cheapest possible price. That's why the ingredients are somewhat non-traditional at times. Here's the other thing, it's obvious that they can be altered quickly and easily to suit other core ingredients. Don't be afraid to experiment.

For a while now I've wondered whether it's possible to create a simple Italian style tomato based fish soup recipe using cheap ingredients that was really simple and quick. It is.

The following ingredients are required:
- fish (anything is fine as long as it's boneless to make cooking and eating easier)
- diced tomatoes
- some sort of soup stock. I used chicken stock (cubes, liquid, or homemade is OK)
- Italian herb mix
- garlic
- water

- chilli sauce (can be Tobasco, Sambal Oelek, Sriracha or something else but it must be slightly sour to balance out flavours)

- chopped vegetables (such as carrot, broccoli, celery, potato, etc...)(optional)

- lemon juice/vinegar (optional)

- onion (optional)
- soy sauce (optional)
- fish sauce (optional)
- salt (optional)
- sugar (optional)
- pepper (optional)

You can basically put everything in a pot and cook until ready. Add optional ingredients at the end as they're mainly used to modify the taste to suit. Goes well with bread, pasta, and rice.

It'll look something like the following:
fish soup recipe
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/sicilian-fish-soup/
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/dads_fish_stew/

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- Russian businesses bidding for public sector contracts are forced to shell out vast quantities of cash in order to win major deals, a new study conducted by researchers at one of the country's top universities has revealed.
The research, involving more than 1,200 company representatives surveyed by the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and made available to Moscow business daily outlet RBK on Monday, found that 71% of suppliers had encountered corruption during tendering processes. The average kickback is estimated to be around 22.5% of the contract's total value.
Researchers acknowledged that many may have avoided giving truthful answers to direct questions about dishonest dealings for fear of prosecution or public condemnation, however. The overwhelming majority (83%) of those surveyed said they condemned corruption.
The total amount of bribes in public procurement is estimated at almost $88.9 billion – 6.2% of Russia's official nominal GDP in 2020, or just over 35% of the federal budget revenue. According to the Institute of Public Administration at HSE, the volume of corrupt payments in procurement is higher even than spending on education or healthcare.
Just over half of the sample was made up of representatives of micro-enterprises (53%), while 34% represented small businesses, 6% medium-sized firms and 7% large companies.
Earlier this year, the head of the anti-corruption taskforce in the Prosecutor General's office, Viktor Baldin, revealed that the greatest number of bribery cases over the past year had been reported in the Russian capital, Moscow, which is home to government departments and senior public servants, as well as being a global financial and commercial hub.
The Republic of Tatarstan situated around 800km east of Moscow, took second place for dishonest dealings. Manufacturing hub Bashkortostan, tourism and commercial hot-spot Krasnodar, and Chelyabinsk, the industrial center of the Urals, also featured high in the rankings.
Corruption has long been a topic of concern in Russia. In 2018, a survey found that close to 80% of those living in the country wanted to see the introduction of the death penalty for officials and security officers convicted of pocketing dishonest cash.
https://www.rt.com/russia/543798-bribery-public-sector-contracts/
- Reunification with the self-governing island democracy is not only the biggest piece of unfinished business for the Chinese Communist Party, but also would represent a major strategic boost.
"It matters because it's a piece of strategic geography and if China owns it, it can project military force into the wider region much more easily," Mr Shoebridge said. "In opposition to that, when it's not in mainland ownership it's a big constraint on PLA power projection."
In addition, Taiwan is a centre of hi-tech excellence in the field of semiconductors, which is currently an "enormous gap" for China.
"Transferring that technological capacity into the Chinese economy would close an enormous strategic technological gap China has and inflict enormous damage on the rest of us," he said.
Then there is the simple fact that Taiwan is a "vibrant democracy of 23 million people in the Indo-Pacific". "Well, if that doesn't matter to others – as a democracy of 25 million in the Indo-Pacific, we're making a fundamental error," Mr Shoebridge said.
He added, "The focus should be on credible deterrence – not on who would win a war."
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He has described himself as "not particularly religious".[43]
In the mid 2000s, Porter married Lucy Gunn, but they divorced. In 2008, Porter married Jennifer Negus, a former colleague,[2] and granddaughter of former independent senator Syd Negus.[44] He took paternity leave after his wife gave birth to their first child the day after being sworn in as the social services minister.[45] They later had a second child, but announced their separation in January 2020.[46][2]
In November 2020, it was alleged on Four Corners that, although married, Porter had kissed and cuddled a colleague's political staffer in a public setting.[8] Porter denied the allegation. He claimed that the staffer in question had also denied to Four Corners that the event occurred, but that the denial was not mentioned in the report.[47] He again denied the allegation on the Perth radio station 6PR.[48]
In the program, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claimed that Porter's alleged behaviour had caused concern in the party room, although that was disputed by Porter.[8] Not long after he said he had raised the alleged incident with Porter, Turnbull promoted Porter to the position of Attorney-General. Porter attributed the criticisms made by Turnbull to a falling-out between the two men during the 2018 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, the event which ended Turnbull's prime ministership.[49]
Rape allegation
Main article: 2021 Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations
In late February 2021, Australian media reported an alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl in 1988. It alleged that the male offender was now (in 2021) a federal cabinet minister. She had written a long statement for her solicitor in 2019, and had contacted several politicians and police. She died by suicide in 2020 and her statement was sent anonymously in February 2021 to the prime minister and several other members of parliament.[50][51][52] On 2 March 2021 the police announced there was "insufficient admissible evidence" to secure a prosecution.[53] Porter announced on 3 March 2021 that he was the person named in the allegations. He confirmed he met the woman in Sydney when he was 17, but denied the accusation and any sexual contact with her. He also announced he would take immediate leave to look after his mental health following the accusations.[53][54][55]
On 15 March 2021, Porter launched a defamation claim against the ABC and reporter Louise Milligan, for publishing the allegation. His claim argued that although the original allegation did not name him, he was "readily identifiable" and that the article was intended to harm him.[56]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Porter
- What Westerners might never be inclined to think is that they have been manipulated into these beliefs by a deliberate US campaign to change public opinion against China, to demonize, discredit and isolate the country, to derail its international engagement and justify Washington's new priorities against it.  
However, that, of course, is exactly what has happened. America's foreign policy engine relies on a playbook which is known as "manufacturing consent" – the weaponization of the resources of the state to coordinate experts, think tanks and journalists to focus attention on issues which subsequently sway public opinion to create organic support for Washington's policy preferences.
It is a strategy designed to create a "self-fulfilling prophecy" by masking aggression under the guise of inciting a "moral case" against the target in question. This is often done using the mantra of human rights, exploiting and manipulating people's goodwill through the theatrical orchestration of crisis, and subsequently masking the intended foreign policy objectives as a justified act of benevolence and "concern." It's what the US has done in the build-up to every war, and it's what they are doing now regarding China.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/547290-chinas-global-image-worse/