Gonzalo Lira, Accused of Shilling for Putin, Arrested in Ukraine

[Surly1]

Gonzalo Lira, a prolific online personality who became an outspoken supporter of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, had his home in Kharkiv raided by the security services.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gonzalo-lira-red-pill-dating-coach-who-is-accused-of-shilling-for-putin-is-arrested-in-ukraine



Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has arrested Gonzalo Lira—a dual citizen of the United States and Chile, who has been living in Kharkiv—on charges of producing pro-Russian propaganda.

Lira, a prolific and controversial online personality, is accused of creating and disseminating materials that justify Putin's armed aggression against Ukraine. He is facing the possibility of being imprisoned for five to eight years.

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Wonder if Nicole Foss is laughing?

[RE]

Well, at least Speedy Gonzalo finally got his Inflation.   Question is, WTF is he doing in Ukraine and who is writing his paycheck?

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[K-Dog]

No doubt Gonzalo is getting Russian Money.

Mute the audio.  It sucks.  I snagged the video from Twitter.  Chief Red Pill goes down.  An Icarus fool who played Putin's tool flew too close to the sun.

Not that opposing the war is a bad thing, it is not.

[Surly1]

No doubt Gonzalo is getting Russian Money.
Chief Red Pill goes down.  An Icarus fool who played Putin's tool flew too close to the sun.

Not that opposing the war is a bad thing, it is not.

Not at all. It's possible to oppose the war and yet not shill for Putin. Guess Gonzalo followed the path blazed by Greenwald and Taibbi: sell out your principles for fat stacks and checks that always clear.

I remember many years ago when Gonzalo was going to debate Nicole Foss, hyperinflationisto versus deflationista, in some internet version of a PPV cage match. Wonder what came of that?

[K-Dog]

American citizen Gonzalo Lira dies from neglect in Ukrainian prison.

Gonzalo Lira lived a live where outrageous behavior paid off.  The dice rolls were in his favor until they were not.

Being critical of Ukraine while living in the battle zone was as smart as me writing comments about Kunstler's website being a troll farm on Kunstler's own website.  Not very smart.  One could say I brought gang stalking on myself.  The problem with that is that I did not know about such things before it happened, and Coach Red Pill did not know that Ukraine security would give him pneumonia and kill him.

According to Newsweek:

Lira baselessly branded Ukraine's leader a "cokehead," and described the Russian operation as "one of the most brilliant invasions in military history."

Implication being he deserved death for being 'crazy'.  Newsweek being ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN Volodymyr Zelenskyy (who Newsweek would not name) has never done coke.

Regardless, Coach Red Pill now finds there is no pussy after death and that his You Tube channel has had a free of charge overhaul.  I won't put a link to it since it is now curated into propaganda.

When this video about Lira was made Lira, was in the process of being killed.  The source of the video appears to be a video channel that was set up to discredit Lira and for no other reason.

Who would do such a thing?



Speaking of which...... see the next comment.  What is shadow banning.

[K-Dog]

Shadow banning, is blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user.  I decided to see what the Charles Manson of Doom is up to last night.  That being Sam Mitchell.  I 'had' to leave a comment, which you can clearly see in this screenshot from my computer.




Now I look at the same page using a remote connection.  I see that I am SHADOW BANNED.  Which is not new news to me.  After you are gangstalked by the federal government, shadow banning is a logical consequence.




The page on my home computer uses a dark theme and the remote computer uses a light theme.  I made the comment at Mitchell's website 8 hours before I took the screenshots for this post.  You can see that I have been deleted. Nobody can see my comment but me.  (Unless they connect their computer to my WiFi.  Free coffee to anyone who does.  Just park in front of the house, there is room for two of you.) 

Here is what is being censored.

@KEITHHAYES001
8 hours ago (edited)
Fishing has  caused depletion.  This depletion is masked by improved technology, in the same way oil depletion is masked by improved technology.  The underlying principle is Jevon's Paradox, but in a more general sense than which the principle is normally applied.  I shall explain.

The technology of extraction improves, so the efficiency gain of the paradox is in the extraction rather than in the consumption of the resource in question.  But dialectically this is two sides of the same coin when we consider the whole process.  George Dillard is wrong, very wrong.  But he may be ignorant rather than outright deceitful.  He fooled himself into thinking the buffalo recovered.  His reality certainly is not yours.  He seems not to have visited the land of numbers.

The point of bringing improved technology into all this is to make the point that the oceans are more empty than they seem.  That alone brings George's close into doubt. 

But two minutes of research makes the close more ridiculous.  I discovered that quick that about 20% of fish are caught illegally.  Closing with any optimism knowing that there is no law enforcement and that illegal fishing is out of control would be negligent.  I hope George spends at least as much time on research as readers will spend reading his pulp when he writes his next article.

And to all who think this is no big deal, fuck you.

[Sandy]

Big Brother.

[K-Dog]

Big Brother.

Exactly Right

[RE]

American citizen Gonzalo Lira dies from neglect in Ukrainian prison.

One of my earliest interviews was with Speedy Gonzalo back in the early days on the Diner when he had his online pay per view debate with Nicole Foss of The Automatic Earth over the Hyper-Inflation vs Deflation debate on the outcome of Quantitative Easing.  Speedy was on the HI side of the debate while Nicole argued for Deflation.  As it turned out, neither outcome was entirely true, as the newly printed money mainly disappeared into the Black Hole of Bailouts for the banks and reappeared on the balance sheet of Federal Debt which the Taxpayers will never pay off.

He was living in Chile at the time and fiercely anti-Amerikan and anti-Capitalist.  Much like Dmitry Orlov, he idolized and deified Vlad the Impaler in his writings, but unlike Dmitry who moved himself to live safely under Uncle Vlad's protection in Mother Russia, Speedy was stupid enough to drop himself into Ukraine to do 1st person war correspondent type journalism.  To then go and write this kind of inflammatory gonzo reporting while still there would be like if Hunter Thompson wrote character assassinations of the Hell's Angels while  hanging out with them.  Hunter instead heroized them, so he got wasted with them quite safely.  If he was writing shit like that, he should have been embedded with a Russian regiment and surrounded by friendly Kalishnikovs.  Just plain dumb, and Speedy wins the Darwin Award for this early ticket to the Great Beyond.

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[K-Dog]

If you find the interview send me a PM so we can put it on our server.

Much like Dmitry Orlov

Yes, the two personalities share (shared) the bombastic quality of self defined expert.  Like they were brothers.  Talk louder than everyone else so nobody challenges you.  Orlov is more sneaky about it.  I agree with your analysis.  A Darwin award is in order. Living where Nazis are embedded in government, and then praising Putin who is at war with that same government is dumber than dumb.  If he was where Orlov is, outside of St. Petersberg, then praising Putin would not be so dumb.

Self-promotion works until it does not.  Self-promotion fueled by stirring shit with a stick can make a big stink.

[monsta666]

Speedy was on the HI side of the debate while Nicole argued for Deflation.  As it turned out, neither outcome was entirely true, as the newly printed money mainly disappeared into the Black Hole of Bailouts for the banks and reappeared on the balance sheet of Federal Debt which the Taxpayers will never pay off.

In fairness to them, I believe much of this hyperinflation/deflation debate centred on the premise on what outcome would occur once the shit hits the fan. We have not reached that moment yet, so this debate is still, to me at least, an untested theory. Once we start seeing systemic collapse of worldwide banks then that would be the real acid test on whether the hyperinflation/deflation wins.

Shame about his death. Never knew he was such a pro-Russia man but would agree pulling a stunt like that was likely to end in tears.

[RE]

In fairness to them, I believe much of this hyperinflation/deflation debate centred on the premise on what outcome would occur once the shit hits the fan. We have not reached that moment yet, so this debate is still, to me at least, an untested theory. Once we start seeing systemic collapse of worldwide banks then that would be the real acid test on whether the hyperinflation/deflation wins.

No, the debate was specifically about the money printing/QE being done at that time, in response to the financial crisis of 2008.  The HI hypothesis was the most popular, with collapse pundit financial luminaries like Karl Denninger & Mish calling for that also.  Nicole was one of the few who predicted deflation, in fact the only semi-famous name I can remember in that camp.

As we move forward from here, I don't think you could tie either outcome to the QE of 15 years ago.  The question you are asking is a different one, is that when SHTF Day finally does arrive, will the final collapse of the monetary system be HI or DF?  To be able to answer that, you have to be able to define what SHTF Day is, so you know when it has happeneed.  A rear view mirror definition would be SHTF Day was the day the monetary system went into a terminal HI or DF spiral.  Looking forward though, it's harder to define.


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[K-Dog]

will the final collapse of the monetary system be HI or DF?

In collapse there is no market.  Inflation or deflation makes no sense.  What the final run-up is seems hardly to matter.

[RE]

will the final collapse of the monetary system be HI or DF?

In collapse there is no market.  Inflation or deflation makes no sense.  What the final run-up is seems hardly to matter.

Agreed, either leads to the same result so it really doesn't matter.  It's more just a question of academic interest.  There's nothing around money will buy, the only form of trade that will work is barter.  Gold may work as a barter item, but compared to an equal weight of lead in a box of ammo the latter is the better barter item.

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[Surly1]

will the final collapse of the monetary system be HI or DF?

In collapse there is no market.  Inflation or deflation makes no sense.  What the final run-up is seems hardly to matter.

Agreed, either leads to the same result so it really doesn't matter.  It's more just a question of academic interest.  There's nothing around money will buy, the only form of trade that will work is barter.  Gold may work as a barter item, but compared to an equal weight of lead in a box of ammo the latter is the better barter item.

RE

I remember back in the day when you said one of the best preps could be a storage locker full of pint bottles of liquor, specifically for barter. That idea has aged like fine wine.