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RemovedJun 20·edited Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav
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Ah, good old times. We are most deservedly not at the Euro 24. When we finally get a team we'll qualify like the rest of Eastern Europe did at this cup and well done, all of you!

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

Good one Irina - oh the hypocrisy of nations, not just the EU - or the ability to lie straight faced and think nothing of it! Seems to be an onward and upward trend! I think people deceive themselves and then believe their own deceit! I could put that another way - people believe their own sh!t doesn't stink!

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Thanks, JF! Agree, it's not exclusive for the EU they're just really, really good at doing it in a very obvious way.

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

"... we should all get frying"! Brilliant! Another great takedown of a broad swath of stupidity. Thanks!

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My pleasure!

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

One has to admit, the Chinese know how to do diplomacy. They don't automatically hit back at the EU car industry, no. They are "launching an anti-dumping investigation into imports of European pork and pork byproducts". And for good reasons - EU carmakers always opposed the tariffs on Chinese EVs. And second - the EU farm lobby is quite loud and influential.

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That's because the Chinese are among the few adults in a room full of snotty brats. :D

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

Well - no messaging services left in the EU. Back to the traditional letter writing and owning some carrier pigeons. Nostalgic or realistic 🤔

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Imagine that. I still keep a stack of letters I wrote and received some 30 years ago while living abroad. To think that, and a once-a-week phone call with mum and dad, was normal communication. We have come a long way. Time to go back, I guess.

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

I’m just wondering whether this will be the straw that breaks EU citizens backs - and people take to the streets. To be honest, the EU is coming out with so much fluff and stupidity in legislative proposals, we should run a book on which one will be the one where citizens’ patience finally snaps.

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So am I and I'm not optimistic but if there was a book, I'd probably bet on France/Hungary. I won't bet much, though. They've lulled us into self-destructive apathy.

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Boiling frogs...

Ironic if the French revolt...

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The leftwingnut libtards are amusing in a sordid way - as long as you are sane!

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

Pardon me while I borrow part of a good quote...."Hypocrisy, they name is Bobblehead." Irina, I don't know how many nails the netzero coffin requires, but many thanks for all of your excellent hammering! 🤘😎🤘

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A lot, Karloff, a lot. And it's a big coffin. But we try. Thank you for your support. :)

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

Excellent article but, please, what is "Guess Where"?

The face of hypocrisy also happily imports massive amounts of used cooking oil from Guess Where

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It's China. Sorry I didn't make it clearer.

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

Ms. Slav,

Thank you for some of the latest examples of the great art of hypocrisy from the continent of culture. We savages here in the colonies are known for our two-faced ways, even harkening back to the beginning by being branded as having “forked tongues”.

I’m reminded of a lesser known phrase of Lord Acton: “Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”

I would add, regardless of geography.

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Indeed. True words.

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Belt and Road worked for Chinese in Africa and elsewhere, now Europe is getting a full dose...

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“…to import more of that same gas. An ingenious solution, no doubt, and not at all hypocritical.” The true ingenuity was to import it liquified which has to be stored in quickly built offshore storage containers making it much more expensive. Take that, Putin!

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I am sure Irina you will be as shocked as your regulars here and I am at this News from the UK Daily Telegraph: “Exporters in China and Malaysia are using virgin palm oil instead of recycled cooking fat to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), research from lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests.

This means that rather than reducing CO2 emissions, the drive to adopt SAF may instead be driving deforestation.

SAF accounts for just 0.2pc of total jet fuel use, although the British Government has ordered UK airlines to lift that proportion to 10pc by the end of the decade.

Cooking oil forms the basis for 80pc of the world’s SAF, making old chip fat a valuable commodity.

However, unscrupulous suppliers are seeking to turn a profit by cutting out the kitchen altogether and shipping virgin palm oil to unwary refiners and airlines.

Malaysia is the worst offender, according to T&E, as campaigners cast doubt over the country’s claims that it exports three times more used cooking oil than it collects.

Last year Britain secured almost 30pc of its SAF from oil shipped from Malaysia.

Cian Delaney, the group’s biofuels campaigner, said: “With Malaysia being one of the world’s largest palm oil producers, it would heavily indicate that used cooking oil is simply a backdoor for palm. Fraud is almost certainly happening at a mass scale.”

China also appears to be engaged in cooking oil fraud, T&E said.”

Who would have thought it?

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The very words "cooking oil fraud" paint a mind-boggling picture. Who needs forests and various life forms in them when we can have SAFs!

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

Alas, hypocrisy is simply SOP for Western institutions and media, so they don't actually recognize the folly of their words and ways. However, the rest of us see and feel the consequences, and you categorize and skewer them beautifully.

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Jun 20Liked by Irina Slav

The EU- where you have to press an annoying button to accept cookies on every website for your privacy protection while the government reads your email.

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How wonderfully put.

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Jun 21Liked by Irina Slav

This is George Carlin-level satire. Very fun to read. So much talent.

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I am greatly humbled. Thank you.

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Jun 22Liked by Irina Slav

Good day Irina, everyone.

I've got something on my mind I would like to express, with all my respect.

I think that when viewing Our messages, third parties (who, by the way, are in a deep spiritual cesspool) are actually looking for any clues as to what they should really do next. Having no access to the collective consciousness, driven by their disgustingly selfish motives and the whip from above, they are simply desperate because something like an honest conversation with an ordinary person cannot fit into their sooty, paranoid heads. Well, why, if they can read it for themselves, right? (There is certainly a solid percentage of deviants who froth watching my niece's bare butt as she jumps on a trampoline, as well as a percentage who make money in dark chambers from these photos, but this percentage has no interest in the common good or politics at all). I know this because it appeared in my mind. I know, because I am connected to all of you. I can only imagine how dry and strange it must feel for a human who has stripped himself of his humanity at his own, unconscious request, existing in one league with pedophiles. Intelligent observers say that you shouldn't touch shit because it stinks even more. It's a pity that the actions of these people are not organic, we could just leave them and wait for them to evaporate.

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