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by JdN French correspondent

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How’s your life this Christmas? Can you barely afford to fill up your tank with petrol, pay the skyrocketing cost of meat and bread caused by the exorbitant fuel prices which farmers and distributors now have to pay to bring their produce to market?

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I know these past six months have been especially brutal for me. I often have gone without my car for weeks at a time as I couldn’t afford the cost of fuel, opted not to put on winter tyres as I couldn’t afford them and therefore had to sit home when we had less than one cm [= 2/5ths of an inch] of snow that blew in from the Pyrenees. I couldn’t afford to repair my car while I saved more money.

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Meanwhile in Ukraine – a popular meme these days- the corrupt president and his wife have been living it up. I first discovered how rich they were after sifting through the “Pandora Papers”  last year. If you haven’t gone down that rabbit hole yet, I highly advise a good Google search to see who has much of your money.

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*** Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers):

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The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021.^[1][2][3] The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 billionaires, celebrities, and business leaders. The news organizations of the ICIJ described the document leak as their most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet, containing documents, images, emails and spreadsheets from 14 financial service companies, in nations including Panama, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates,^[4][5] surpassing their previous release of the Panama Papers in 2016, which had 11.5 million confidential documents (2.6 terabytes).^{[6][7][8][9][10]} At the time of the release of the papers, the ICIJ said it is not identifying its source for the documents.^[11]

Estimates by the ICIJ of money held offshore (outside the country where the money was made) range from US$5.6 trillion to US$32 trillion.^[3][12][13]

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In total, 35 current and former national leaders appear in the leak, alongside 400 public officials from nearly 100 countries and more than 100 billionaires.^[14] As per laws of tax, some of the activities were legal but could not be justified. Some files were showing the date of 1970, but they were actually created between the years 1996 to 2020. The data included 130 billionaires listed by the Forbes, over 330 politicians, celebrities, members of the royal families and even some religious leaders. Among those names are former British prime minister Tony Blair, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, Montenegrin president Milo Đukanović, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, United Arab Emirates prime minister and Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Lebanese prime minister Najib Mikati,^[15] Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso, family members of former Argentine president Mauricio Macri and his spin-doctor, Ecuadorian Jaime Durán Barba,^[16][17][18] and Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades.^[19][20] More than 100 billionaires, 29,000 offshore accounts, 30 current and former leaders, and 336 politicians^[21] were named in the first leaks on 3 October 2021.^[1][11]

King Abdullah II of Jordan is one of the main figures named in the papers, with documents showing he had invested over US$100 million in property across the UK and the US; they included houses in Malibu, California,^[22] Washington, D.C., London and Ascot.^[23][24] A UK company controlled by Cherie Blair was shown to have acquired a £6.45 million property in London by purchasing Romanstone International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company; had the property been acquired directly, £312,000 would have been payable in stamp duty. Tony Blair’s name appears in a statement of joint income for the associated mortgage.^[25]

The papers also reveal how an office block owned by Azerbaijan‘s ruling Aliyev family was sold to the Crown Estate, the sovereign’s public estate, for £66 million in 2018, netting the Aliyevs a £31 million profit. Another office block worth £33 million was sold to the family in 2009, and was gifted to the son of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev, Heydar.^[5] According to Las Vegas Sun, “Members of the inner circle of Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan are accused of hiding millions of dollars in wealth in secret companies or trusts”.^[26] Supporters of former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko accused his successor Zelensky, who came to power on an anti-corruption campaign, of tax evasion.^[27] Elsewhere, close associates of Russian president Vladimir Putin, like Svetlana Krivonogikh and Gennady Timchenko, were revealed to have secret assets in Monaco, and Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš, who had campaigned on promising to crack down on corruption and tax evasion, did not declare the use of an offshore investment company in the purchase of eight properties, including two villas, in Mougins on the French Riviera for £12 million.^[5][28][29] As a result of the Pandora Papers, more information emerged about Russia-linked, allegedly Kremlin-linked, donations to the Tories.^[30] Uhuru Kenyatta was also mentioned, despite being quoted in 2018 as stating, “Every public servant’s assets must be declared publicly so that people can question and ask – what is legitimate?”^[11] Kenyatta and six members of his family have been linked to 13 offshore companies.^[31] The leaked list also includes transnational criminal organization leaders, such as Raffaele Amato, boss of the Amato-Pagano clan, a clan within the Camorra, dedicated to international drug trafficking. Amato used a shell company in the UK to buy land and real estate in Spain.^[32][33][34]

Other global names mentioned include Shakira, who was incorporating new offshore entities while going on trial for tax evasion; model Claudia Schiffer; Indian cricket player Sachin Tendulkar; Indian billionaire Anil Ambani; fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi’s sister Purvi Modi; Alexandre Cazes, the founder of the dark web site AlphaBay, used to deal in illegal drugs; Pakistani finance minister, Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin, and several of family members of Pakistan’s top generals; and the CEO of Channel One Russia, Konstantin Ernst. Miguel Bosé, Pep Guardiola and Julio Iglesias are also named.^{[35][36][37][38][39][40]}

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Then there was a phone call with my real estate agent cousin from Turin who informed me that President Zelensky had been in trouble in Italy – not for having a 10-million-euro mansion in one of the ritziest locations on the Piedmontese coast – but for renting said villa to Russians!! 

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This came after the Z-Man had literally begged Italy to ban Russians from visiting Sardinia, though Russian money and business patronage are sorely needed by the native Sardinians, the full-time residents of the island, and  by the working people in other beautiful resorts in Italy which the rich enjoy.

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I’m no fan of Russian “oligarchs,” of course, and I am also often very critical of Putin, for all of his huge achievements in many areas, for 1) his heavy-handed “vaccine” mandates as well as for 2) how he has handled the war with Ukraine, which has dragged out now dangerously into its tenth month.

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And now there’s Madame Zelenska’s exploits in Paris while in service of her crooked husband – the penis-piano-playing piece of excrement that’s single-handedly destroyed “his” nation since being brought into office by the Obama-Biden-Clinton regime….

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– under the promise of fighting corruption and establishing good relations with both the west and the east.

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I put “his” in quotes as we all know Zelensky is about as Ukrainian as you and I are.

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His allegiance is to his purse, and his blood is tied to members of a certain group hailing from a spit of sand a thousand miles south of the Black Sea.

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The French have been brainwashed into thinking that the convicted jewish date-rape hebephile Roman Polanski is some poor, persecuted, highly gifted and sensitive artist — who certainly should not be extradited by France back to the prudish, harsh and puritanical US to serve out his rape sentence…. Oh, and misunderstood date-rapist Polanski is jewish, ergo a pitiful victim… ohz, and refusing to send him back is a way for a once mighty France to symbolically defy “the Americans.”

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So really it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Madame Zelenska (the female form of “Zelensky”)  ventured to the capital of France, Paris, for a four-day visit this past week. As reported by Le Monde, “Members of the Ukrainian government also came. This included Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, and several ministers in charge of reconstruction, including Yulia Svyrydenko (economy), Oleksandr Kubrakov (infrastructure) and German Galushchenko (energy).”

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However, within days of Zelenska’s visit the establishment media – who had been singing her praises – were telling their audience how important it was that we give Ukraine everything it needs, no matter the cost and how much faster it delivers us to the brink of nuclear war.

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Although many people in France do obediently support Ukraine, just as before they compliantly took the jab,

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…the French, rather like your American MAGA types, have people on both the Right and Left that are opposed to NATO, to the West’s involvement in Ukraine’s foreign affairs, and to any war with Russia.

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As expected, amateur journalists like myself wanted to see what the women got up to during the Ukrainian “first lady’s” sojourn in Paris. What we uncovered arrived quickly due to the new, Elon Musk-run Twitter now being a platform that facilitates the exchange of information and ideas freely, as it must be.

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I learned on social media today that a “reliable store clerk” working on the ritzy Avenue Montaigne, was reporting that Olena Zelenska went on a Christmas shopping spree spending €40,000 euros in an hour in one single shop.

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This was only hours after she had been received by French first lady Brigitte Macron, and the day before she had begged France for billions. Macron – the globalist WEF puppet that he is – of course complied with her demands.

While her people are dying – because of her and her husband’s evil relationship with the very worse people in the West – she was living the high life in one of Paris’s ritziest areas.

Wiki:

Avenue Montaigne boasts numerous stores specialising in high fashion, such as Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, Fendi, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Chloe, Giorgio Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana, as well as jewellers like Bulgari and other upscale establishments such as the prestigious Plaza Athénée hotel, built in 1913.^[1][2]

By the 1980s, the avenue Montaigne was considered to be la grande dame of French streets for high fashion and accessories, and is now considered more important than rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré. 

.Adding insult to injury is the fact that the your nation’s demented president and his administration are trying to push the US House of Representatives to pass another $38 billion spending package for Ukraine, which will bring the total spent to well over $100 billion. This money will make the Zelensky cabal even richer, cost thousands more lives in Ukraine and set us atop a precipice from which humanity might not ever return.

But 60 or 80 grand spent shopping when you literally have billions stashed away somewhere is inconsequential for the Zelenskys.

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It in fact says more about us than her, and how corrupt our media is to avoid bringing information like this to its readers.

Why should she think it matters what she is filmed doing? These people are wilfully ignorant, conspicuously arrogant and downright vulgar — as they know they can do no wrong in the eyes of the people – the media people – who should be questioning as journalists where all the money is going.

So I ask again, how are you doing financially this Christmas?

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Ukrainian President Zelensky’s Wife Goes to Paris and Begs for Money and Goods Then Reportedly Goes on 40,000 Euro Shopping Spree

By Joe Hoft
Published December 15, 2022 at 8:45am
538 Comments

— 14 December 2022 $137 via Gabpay from B in Georgia

— 13 December 2022 AUS$50 (= US$30) from P in Australia

— 12 December 2022 100 euros (=US$90) from M in France