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"Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin proposed introducing criminal penalties for the use of palm oil and other substitutes in dairy products. The head of the State Duma noted that cheap substitutes—beef fat or palm oil—are often used in products that should be made from milk, including ice cream, sweets, cheeses, yoghurts, butter,. [Nakanune..."

If palm oil is unhealthy are there other options?

The following are some oils that are primarily used for food preparation and not as an inexpensive unhealthy additive:

Dr. Mercola says, “Of all the available oils, coconut oil is the oil of choice for cooking because it is nearly a completely saturated fat, which means it is much less susceptible to heat damage. And coconut oil is one of the most unique and beneficial fats for your body.”

Olive oil is a great oil for taste and health, but never heat it over 250 F because it will become oxidized and do more harm than good.

Grass-fed butter or ghee are great healthy options for cooking at higher temperatures, as is avocado oil, which also makes a great dressing for salads and vegetables.

In fact, Dr. Axe says, “Avocado oil has even received prescription drug status in France because of its proven ability to counter the negative effects of arthritis!”

Now that's one powerful oil!"

https://diabetickitchen.com/5-cooking-oils-destroy-your-health/

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Jul 2, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat

The video with Tessa a while ago is what got me on your blog. That video was one of the best conversations ever! Talking about very deep and sometimes dark things, but finding joy and laughter anyway. I marveled at that video. Look forward to the new one. She should definitely put you at the top of her list. Also, I hope you can get back into Russia. It think itwould be better for the optics and your career too. I'll write Putin. :-)

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Hello Edward,

A friendly caution; I tried to listen to an episode #28 of a podcast "The Slavland Chronicles" with Rolo and you. First time for me.

It sounds like two highschoolers debating. Claming you literally have an IQ of 160 but crosstalking, shouting, stammering, forgetting if its 2023 or 2021, distorted sound, playback speed suddenly varying 125-150%, periods with no sound, interrupting each other, what a mess. Have you passed your twenties!? Terrible performance, content and technical standard. I give it an F for Failed, a one star. Please try to avoid appearance in such low quality productions again or post links to them.

I couldn't post this comment in the podcast coz I'm not a paying subscriber and probably will never be

https://open.substack.com/pub/roloslavskiy/p/red-list-28-the-wagner-mutiny-w-slavsquat?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1nnvzx

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Yahoo front page today has CNN headline that Ukraine officials are reporting that the FSB will soon assassinate Prizoghin - how in the world could Ukrainians officials know that?? wishful thinking?

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Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi says China will always be defending the existing world order, and is "ready to strengthen collaboration with all UN agencies and work for the realization of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on time":

https://english.news.cn/20230629/ae06b48243e44a988d8e9bd4efebb702/c.html

"BEIJING, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, on Thursday in Beijing.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, said that China has always firmly supported the cause of the UN as a founding member. China will always be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development and a defender of the international order, no matter where China is in history or what stage of development China has reached.

China firmly supports the central role of the UN in international affairs, firmly advocates and practices genuine multilateralism, and firmly upholds the basic norms governing international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, Wang said.

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"Development is our common cause," said Wang, adding, "China is ready to strengthen collaboration with all UN agencies and work for the realization of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development on time.""

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A question to the readers who understand the Russian language better than me: Western media are predicting an incident at Zaporizha nuclear power plant. While it is not certain yet when and what will happen, the only possible explanation seems to be that madman Putin will have done it. While trying to understand, both sides are not very specific, except the one is 100% that for Russia it makes no sense to blow up a power plant they control in a region the want to keep, while the other is 100% sure that it will happen, because Russia is literally only one step away from a total defeat by the hands of the Ukrainian troops, and therefore wants to create as much chaos as possible.

In short: I don't understand enough and trust neither side. The predictions of the Russian invasion were right (Marko Marjanović could predict it, to the dismay of many kremlinophile bloggers); but some events seem less likely "predicted" than "created," and this migth be such a case as well.

Searching for the arguments, someone came up with the following points. He claims, Russia decided that

1. no nuclear accidents in the "new territories” would be investigated for 5 years.

2. Russia's nuclear agency would bear no responsibility for nuclear incidences.

3. Russian citizens affected by a nuclear incident would not receive compensation.

4. a St Petersburg company, specializing in cleaning-up disasters, would have just listed vacancies for doing nuclear disaster clean-up,

and concluded thus that Russia is going to blow up the power plant. He provided some links that should prove these claims:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230705130428/https://supcourt-dpr.su/sites/default/files/webform/files/_postanovlenie_pravitelstva_rossiyskoy_federatsii_ot_.pdf

https://chemaccident.com/vakansii/

Two questions:

1. Are these texts authentic and do they support these claims?

2. Is the situation what is claimed it is? (F.e. if you expect the enemy blowing up a nuclear power plant, it might make sense to prepare emergency medicine as well and also not hold the defenders of the plant responsible).

Thanks!

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I don't know if this is going to help but... you said we can post everything and say hello. https://johnnycirucci.com/how-the-jesuits-rule-in-russia/ So hello and thank you for being so great.

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Partnering for a Brighter Shared Future - Progress Report on the Belt and Road Initiative In Support of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/wcm.files/upload/CMSydylyw/202209/202209190500015.pdf

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The second chapter of the book "Encounters with (People's) Poland" on my blog.

In English. I invite you to read it.

https://kmiec.substack.com/p/encounters-with-poland-peoples-stone

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Riley, I found your conversation with Rolo about the Wagner group. Most interesting. You might be interested in. looking at a propaganda piece by the Wall Street Urinal about the Wagner group period I think you could do a very interesting analysis of this piece of propaganda. Here's the link to the video:

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/shadow-men-inside-russias-secret-war-company/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rss

Keep up your excellent commentaries,

Tom Compton

Arizona

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Riley,i found your discussion with Rolo most enlightening about the machinations of the Wagner Group. I just Watched a propaganda piece by The Wall Street Urinal on the Wagner Grpup. I think it would make fot a very interesting analysis for you and Rolo to tackle. You can watch it here: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/shadow-men-inside-russias-secret-war-company/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rss

Keep up the great commentary

Tom Compton

Arizona

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New Atlas put out a 1 month breakdown of the counter-offensive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-a2lOuAfYsc

I think it's worth a watch though I don't think he understands the overall NATO strategy. Ukraine is a kamikaze attacker and met achieve the NATO aims while also being totally destroyed. He also is very fixated on the "1st line of defense" not being reached yet supposedly. Maybe this is true, but Russia is holding the exact same positions Ukraine built to hold out for 8 months in Bahkmut so why are they giving ground? Hard to believe there could be better defenses anywhere on the front, or maybe I'm missing something. Either way it does seem that Ukraine made good use of the coup to draw the Chechens to Rostov, so Russia will likely be playing catch-up for a while in Bahkmut.

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Thanks for the link to my translation, Riley. Actually I translated two of your articles. The other one is "La agenda ESG avanza por toda Rusia" ( http://es.freelander.es/opinion/agenda-esg-rusia/)

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