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Gonzalo Lira is a Black Nobility lesser known bit part player. He is descended from two Black Nob families - Hess and Carrera - Chilean Copper mine oligarchs. He is Jesuit educated at top expensive US Universities. He is in Ukraine for a REASON and that is for credibility and to lead us into a false narrative.

His Wikipedia page miraculously disappeared after I quoted from it in comments on this post made some weeks ago.

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/gonzalo-lira-is-having-a-laugh

I knew that the Wikipedia page would vanish so I copied it as follows:

Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López (born February 29, 1968) is a Chilean-American novelist,[4] film director,[5] financial blogger, YouTuber, and commentator in the manosphere known as Coach Red Pill. A resident of Kharkiv, Ukraine, he started vlogging about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine from a pro-Russia perspective, which has been described as mirroring Russian propaganda.[6][7] In April 2022, Lira alleged that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine but provided no details to support his allegations, and continued to vlog shortly thereafter.[8]

Contents

1 Early life

2 Career

3 Russian invasion of Ukraine

4 Filmography

5 Publications

6 See also

7 References

8 External links

Early life

Lira was born to Chilean parents in Burbank, California,[9] to Gonzalo Lia Valdés and María Isabel López Hess. Through his mother, he is a direct descendant of José Miguel Carrera.[10] He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, New York, Miami and also Guayaquil, Ecuador. He graduated from Saint George's College, Santiago in 1985, and from Dartmouth College in 1995 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College], with a degree in history and philosophy.[11] He is married to a Ukrainian woman from Ordzhonikidze, with whom he had 1 daughter.[12]

Career

According to El Mercurio, in December 1996, Lira signed a book contract with G. P. Putnam's Sons to publish a commercial thriller entitled Counterparts. In 1997, he published a Spanish-language novel, Tomáh Errázurih. In 1998, he directed a short action film, So Kinky. He published a second English-language commercial thriller, Acrobat, in 2002. In 2005, he filmed Secuestro in Chile, which despite a large investment, was not successful nor received favourable reviews.[13] It came in second in the box office in Chile during its opening weekend.[14][inconsistent]

Between 2010 and 2013, Lira published his thoughts on economics and other subjects on his blog, sometimes reposting them on the blog Business Insider.[5][15] On four occasions, he reposted them on the blog Naked Capitalism.[16] He also contributed to Zero Hedge, a fringe financial website.[17][18] During this period, Lira contacted Australian economist Steve Keen, proposing him to work together on a project and start a content paid subscription site. According to Keen, Gonzalo "overstated and over-promised what he could do, then under-delivered", and that his demeanor led to the departure of collaborators and employees.[6]

From 2017, Lira was active on YouTube, under the pseudonym Coach Red Pill (CRP). This name is an allusion to Red Pill and Blue Pill symbolism in the Manosphere community. The content was misogynistic[7] and anti-feminist in nature, appealing to incels.[13][19] Lira posted videos with advice such as "never date a woman in her thirties" and argued that all women really only want money, a house, and kids, as child-rearing is the one thing that will biologically validate them.[6] In one video, he advised viewers living in Western democracies to move to "a poor, underdeveloped country" due to the former's "totalitarian" deployment of COVID-19 vaccines.[20] He published over 500 videos, gaining 324,000 subscribers and around 2 million views.[21] In November 2021, Lira deleted most of his CRP content and began posting under his legal name.[13] He lives in Kharkiv, and has family in Ukraine.[6]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

In mid-February 2022, Lira said that "no one over the age of 12 or with an IQ over 90 seriously believes that the Russians are going to invade [Ukraine] anytime soon".[18] After they did in fact invade just over a week later, he began to vlog about the invasion from what has been described by The Daily Beast as a pro-Russian or "pro-Putin" perspective,[6][22] for example denying the Bucha massacre and calling it a "hoax".[7][18] Segments from Lira's vlogs have been replayed on Channel One Russia.[6] Some of Lira's former associates have voiced skepticism that he is still in Kharkiv, from where he says he continues to vlog.[6]

In April 2022, Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal, and Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative Maria Zakharova said Lira was missing. Ritter alleged Lira had been murdered by Ukrainian agents on Russia-state-owned media, Russia Today (RT). However, Lira reappeared, unharmed, on 22 April, alleging that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine but provided no details to support his allegations.[8][18]

Filmography

So Kinky (1998) — writer, director.

Secuestro (2005) aka Catalina's Kidnapping — co-writer, co-producer, director.

Publications

Lira, Gonzalo (1997). Tomáh Errázurih (1 ed.). Santiago de Chile: Mondadori. ISBN 956-258-057-1. OCLC 38081261.

Lira, Gonzalo (1998). Counterparts. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-14312-2. OCLC 37300650.[23]

Lira, Gonzalo (2002). Acrobat (1 ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-28694-5. OCLC 48515857.[24]

IMPORTANT >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Miguel_Carrera

Additional info: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gonzalo-lira-is-a-pro-putin-shill-in-ukraine-and-a-sleazy-manosphere-dating-coach

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Sweden’s national seismic network has said it detected two explosions close to unusual leaks in two Russian natural gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea to to Germany.

The network said it registered one blast early on Monday south east of the Danish island of Bornholm, and a slightly larger one later that night north east of the island.

It said the latter explosion was equivalent to a magnitude-2.3 earthquake.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/seismic-network-registers-two-explosions-near-russian-gas-pipeline-leaks-42021118.html

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