{"id":1490102,"date":"2024-09-16T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1490102"},"modified":"2024-09-16T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T07:55:00","slug":"blinken-brags-over-gershkovich-pretends-gonzalo-lira-didnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/blinken-brags-over-gershkovich-pretends-gonzalo-lira-didnt-exist\/1490102\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken Brags Over Gershkovich, Pretends Gonzalo Lira Didn’t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blinken Brags Over Gershkovich, Pretends Gonzalo Lira Didn’t Exist<\/span><\/p>\n

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Submitted by Liam Cosgrove,<\/em><\/p>\n

While speaking to “journalists” during a Friday press conference, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken patted<\/strong> himself on the back <\/strong>for securing the release of the Wall Street Journal’s Evan Gershkovich – telling them “Maybe the most striking part of spending time with Evan, is simply how wonderful it feels to see him free. Home where he belongs.”<\/p>\n

“Evan\u2019s freedom is also a reminder of all Americans who are still held hostage or wrongfully detained,” <\/strong><\/em>Blinken continued.<\/p>\n

“We will not forget you, and we will not rest until we get you home.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to overstate what an egregious display of sanctimonious hypocrisy this is when Blinken\u2019s department wittingly neglected Gonzalo Lira<\/strong> \u2014 the California-born writer<\/a> for mainstream financial outlets like Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and even ZeroHedge \u2014 as he was tortured in a Ukrainian dungeon for eight months until his eventual death at the start of this year.<\/strong> State Spox Matthew Miller was aware of Lira being tortured for at least five of those months.<\/p>\n

Anthony Blinken spoke today after meeting WSJ\u2019s Evan Gerskovich, recently freed from Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvan\u2019s freedom is a reminder of all Americans who are still wrongfully detained\u2026 We will not forget you.\u201d<\/p>\n

But they did forget one. Left to be tortured and die in Ukrainian prison \ud83e\uddf5 pic.twitter.com\/yaJyQHbx1q<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Liam Cosgrove (@cosgrove_iv) September 13, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Lira\u2019s father has accused Biden administration of greenlighting the arrest<\/strong> of his son, pointing to a video published to Lira\u2019s YouTube days before his arrest in which he was uncharacteristically critical of Biden and Kamala. The <\/strong>video<\/strong><\/a>, interestingly enough, is titled “Joe Biden Will Be Removed\u2014Kamala Will Be President.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

That such a greenlight was given is not far-fetched<\/strong> considering Ukraine\u2019s massive incentive to curry favor with the American government that had approved more than $100 billion already by this point (now at $175 billion). Would the Ukrainians risk the political backlash of arresting a U.S. citizen unless first given the go-ahead?<\/p>\n

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Regardless, the State Department\u2019s Miller acknowledged<\/a> to me that he was aware of Lira\u2019s arrest in May of 2023. Three months later, Miller then \u2014 after being made aware of allegations that Lira\u2019s prison guards had tortured him with severe beating and having his cornea scraped with a toothpick \u2014 said he wanted to investigate<\/a> the torture claims.<\/p>\n

Yet, despite near-constant email correspondence between Lira\u2019s father and State Dept officials, nothing was done and Lira died of pneumonia<\/strong>, an infection commonly treatable with antibiotics.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Government Becoming More Despotic<\/h2>\n

A story<\/a> that slid under the radar this July: Natsya Umka, a Kyiv-based fashion blogger with 600k followers, made an Instagram post, saying \u201cpeople want peace\u201d<\/strong> and that Ukraine does not need \u201cthe border of 1991\u201d (which would include Crimea). For doing so, she was promptly called in to the offices of the Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) for \u201ctalk\u201d.<\/p>\n

Umka posted videos before and after the meeting, appearing noticeably shaken up in the latter video where she claims to have been unable to eat for three days. Most notably\u2026 in the video after her \u201cmeeting\u201d with the SBU, Umka suddenly supports the war effort: \u201cEverything is fine and we will definitely win.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

WSJ: Ukraine’s national police summoned a Kyiv blogger because she posted:<\/p>\n

“No one needs the border of 1991. All people want peace… How many more people must be lost for this to stop?”<\/p>\n

After the meeting \u2014 despite an inability to eat from “stress” \u2014 she now supports the warpic.twitter.com\/iSGlL3d9Ve<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Liam Cosgrove (@cosgrove_iv) September 14, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Is this the liberal democracy we are risking nuclear war to maintain? Hundreds of billions of dollars and the possibility to destroy life on Earth so we can pay the pensions of these thugs who intimidate mothers into silence, who imprison and torture Americans to death?<\/p>\n

From an email Lira’s father sent Friday morning, coincidentally a few hours before the Blinken presser:
\n“I ask for justice in this violent world<\/strong>, Gonzalo expressed his political views without violence, never threatening, nor advocating violence. Gonzalo Lira Sr.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 09\/15\/2024 – 23:55<\/span><\/p>\n

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