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The Farce Is Complete: Joe Biden's Son Joins Board Of Largest Ukraine Gas Producer

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The farce is complete...

Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas producer, has expanded its Board of Directors by bringing on Mr. R Hunter Biden as a new director.

 

R. Hunter Biden will be in charge of the Holdings’ legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international organizations. On his new appointment, he commented: “Burisma’s track record of innovations and industry leadership in the field of natural gas means that it can be a strong driver of a strong economy in Ukraine. As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings, Mr. Alan Apter, noted: “The company’s strategy is aimed at the strongest concentration of professional staff and the introduction of best corporate practices, and we’re delighted that Mr. Biden is joining us to help us achieve these goals.”

R. Hunter Biden is a counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, a national law firm based in New York, USA, which served in cases including “Bush vs. Gore”, and “U.S. vs. Microsoft”. He is one of the co-founders and a managing partner of the investment advisory company Rosemont Seneca Partners, as well as chairman of the board of Rosemont Seneca Advisors. He is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Masters Program in the School of Foreign Service.

Mr. Biden has experience in public service and foreign policy. He is a director for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, The Center for National Policy, and the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute. Having served as a Senior Vice President at MBNA bank, former U.S. President Bill Clinton appointed him an Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination under Secretary of Commerce William Daley. Mr. Biden served as Honorary Co-Chair of the 2008 Obama-Biden Inaugural Committee.

Mr. Biden is a member of the bar in the State of Connecticut, and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Court of Federal Claims. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

R. Hunter Biden is also a well-known public figure. He is chairman of the Board of the World Food Programme U.S.A., together with the world’s largest humanitarian organization, the United Nations World Food Programme. In this capacity he offers assistance to the poor in developing countries, fighting hunger and poverty, and helping to provide food and education to 300 million malnourished children around the world.

Company Background:
Burisma Holdings is a privately owned oil and gas company with assets in Ukraine and operating in the energy market since 2002. To date, the company holds a portfolio with permits to develop fields in the Dnieper-Donets, the Carpathian and the Azov-Kuban basins. In 2013, the daily gas production grew steadily and at year-end amounted to 11.6 thousand BOE (barrels of oil equivalent – incl. gas, condensate and crude oil), or 1.8 million m3 of natural gas. The company sells these volumes in the domestic market through traders, as well as directly to final consumers.

 

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Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:52 | 4754415 bobby02
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With production of 10k bpd and most of the license areas in close proxmity to Russia, they need a frackin' miracle, not a lobbyist.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:07 | 4754502 prains
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....emerging from thr Fog of Woar, here come the cronies to capitalize

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:39 | 4754662 Van Halen
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Can you imagine the Left's apoplectic fit if one of the Bush daughters joined the board of an OIL COMPANY? Or do any of you remember the Left driving around with bumperstickers complaining about gas previously being under $2.50/gallon? Seen that happen in the last six years?

But THEIR guy does it and, "Oh, look! Nigerian schoolgirls!"

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 12:49 | 4755405 Cathartes Aura
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jeezus dude - Bush Sons occupy governmental positions right up to the prezzydent, decades of inbred embeds.  how far back you need to reSearch??

stop drawing lines in yer mind - none of the ABOVE rule!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 15:20 | 4756032 Chump
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I'm glad you're back and posting more.  Cheers.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 17:07 | 4756445 Cathartes Aura
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much appreciated Chump, glad to see you and a few other old faves are still up 'n' commenting.  hope you're doing well.

the rottin' stink of all that's going down lately was bound to catch my delicate nose. . .

picked up a thermal, circling above, hissin'

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 19:45 | 4757058 Van Halen
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Oh, I get it. Bush is bad because more oil ties than Biden.

All set!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:17 | 4754921 -.-
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Hit listed.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 14:01 | 4755730 JLee2027
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What's this "R Hunter" bs? Doesn't he like his first name?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 14:31 | 4755848 SILVERGEDDON
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In late breaking news, Vladimir Putin announced that he had been voted in as the 2016 Republican Presidential election winner. 

After taking office form the weenie in chief later this year, he plans on spending his days off cutting bush with Bush, shooting people in the face with Cheney, and wrestling giant Wookies with Michelle. All televised, of course.

American Idol, the Champion of Network TV.

What the fuck more do you want ? 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 16:09 | 4756243 hampsterwheel
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have you seen this yet --- US Mercenary captured in Ukraine - (The Russians are yelling profanity at him like crazy) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f6b_1399974144

 

Wed, 05/14/2014 - 00:42 | 4757868 jaxville
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Let me guess.....  Biden is a "chosen" one.

Wed, 05/14/2014 - 03:59 | 4758046 Holocaustofpoor...
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Another illuminati pawn has been landed on the scène.
Time to suck the Ukraine economy and resources dry in faveur of the fkn banksters. The way Psaki avoided the isseu in front of the world press....do US officials dont have Any molecule shame???

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:37 | 4754320 PlusTic
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LMFAO...you knew it was coming, it was only a question of who was getting the concession...reminds me of the manganese concession the Harriman's got last time we got involved in that region of the world! Crony, Crony, Crony...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:36 | 4754324 negative rates
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In politics today, it's who you know, and not what you know that counts.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:02 | 4754473 Ralph Spoilsport
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Delaware State Anthem

Verse 1:

Oh the hills of dear New Castle,
and the smiling vales between,
When the corn is all in tassel,
And the meadowlands are green;
Where the cattle crop the clover,
And its breath is in the air,
While the sun is shining over
Our beloved Delaware.

Chorus:

Oh our Delaware
Our beloved Delaware!
For the sun is shining over
our beloved Delaware,
Oh our Delaware
Our beloved Delaware!
Heres the loyal son that pledges,
Faith to good old Delaware.

Verse 2:

Where the wheat fields break and billow,
In the peaceful land of Kent,
Where the toiler seeks his pillow,
With the blessings of content;
Where the bloom that tints the peaches,
Cheeks of merry maidens share,
And the woodland chorus preaches
A rejoiceing Delaware.

Verse 3:

Dear old Sussex visions linger,
Of the holly and the pine,
Of Henlopens Jeweled finger,
Flashing out across the brine;
Of the gardens and the hedges,
And the welcome waiting there,
For the loyal son that pledges
Faith to good old Delaware.

Verse 4:

From New Castle's rolling meadows,
Through the fair rich fields of Kent,
To the Sussex shores hear echoes,
Of the pledge we now present;
Politicians like Biden and son Hunter,
Corrupt powermongers to their cores,
Continue Delaware's tradition,
Of sending DC our finest whores.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 14:44 | 4755912 ebear
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Delaware people can remember all that?   Damn, I can barely remember the words to Hey Jude!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:36 | 4754325 outamyeffinway
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The monarchy grows.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:53 | 4754431 intric8
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This has to be a fucking joke. Wheres the punchline?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:59 | 4754800 Cpl Hicks
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Lots of punch lines coming up....

Hillary elected Prez.

Barry appointed ambassador to Pebble Beach.

Michelle appointed ambassador to some clothing store for plus-sized gals.

Chelsea appointed chair of the NY Fed.

Ad infinitum.....

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:49 | 4755131 lakecity55
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Hmm, yes... Chelsea did marry into The Tribe recently....

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 14:46 | 4755919 ebear
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You know you've arrived when they put your head on a Pez dispenser.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:28 | 4755008 HardAssets
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The punchline ?

 

 

Maybe it'll be some poor F16 pilot who gets shot down by a SAM.

Or maybe it'll be some poor crew in the drink treading water when an anti-ship missile strikes home.

"Sorry boys & girls . . . . Daddy ain't coming home."

The kiss ass crowd chuckle at the puchline, while the guys they order out there pay the consequences for their little rip off games.

What a fukin' country.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:34 | 4755037 Theta_Burn
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The punchline is Ukraine isn't much of a producer of natural gas, they just siphon off the Russian blend

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:34 | 4754644 CPL
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In most HR studies around the situation of nepotism and cronyism in a workplace regardless who's Dad got them the job.  Organizationally it's lethal, acts like a poison pill of sorts to an organization's ability to function.  Personally I've never seen it end well in any contract I've been on for two reasons.

1) Entitlement.  The feeling of entitlement that cronyism can create can cause insubordination and disrespect for management and other employees that creates a drop in workplace morale. Friends of managers or the owner may also feel that they deserve pay raises or promotions ahead of more qualified employees because of the circumstances under which they were hired.  It can freeze the ability of a workplace to function the same day as a transition and a workplace that is frozen isn't worth much.

2)  Distorts pay scales.  It takes about a quarter or so before the people that know their jobs leave to get a better job, because someone was slid under the noses of everyone with a better payrate.  Or because the person doing the job now has to wear an extra hat with duties to cover the nepotism driven HR placement without compensation. 

A common symptom to look in an organization is more managers than workers.  Which makes as much sense as a boat with 80 captains and 2 crew members.  Not a hell of a lot gets done.   Well, that's not true, means meetings.  Lots and lots of transitional meetings about nothing, which must be really awesome because they always seem to happen during hierarchy reorgs and EX-Com placements.

Game On.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:36 | 4754326 Apocalicious
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Fuck me. 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:45 | 4754369 Smegley Wanxalot
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please no ... the article is traumatizing enough.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 12:37 | 4755355 JuliaS
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Please wait for your turn.

- Sincerely, US government.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:36 | 4754327 Chaos_Theory
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See Janet?  Oligarchy is the answer.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:37 | 4754329 silvermail
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Department of State: The United States do not approve to the results of a hockey game between Russian and American national teams.

U.S. reported categorical disagreement with the so-called "victory" of the Russian national team in a game with U.S. national team at the World Hockey Championship 2014, held in Belarus these days. This was stated by the Speaker of the U.S. State Department J. Psaki : " This game had nothing to do with hockey. In the 21st century we can not play hockey as if it is 20th. The Imperial ambitions of Russian national team were demonstrated in game's methods, as it was during the worst years of the Soviet Union: dirtiest «puck carousel» conducted by the Russian team at the American gate and blocking democratic goals in their own one, it is an attempt to revise status quo and a threat to European security." When asked J. Psaki specified that she did not know the meaning of "carousel", but it was written in her speech, and it is surely something terrible and incompatible with human values: " We have no doubt that Russia stands behind all of this. This is evidenced by Putin's recent participation in the so-called "Night Hockey League" match where he personally scored 6 goals in the opponent's gate. Now it becomes obvious, it was all planned in Russia from the beginning." Ms Speaker also said that President Obama has expressed deep concern about the results of the game and said that "Russia is not only located on the wrong side of history, but also on the wrong side of geography, physics and even PT." She mentioned that against the Russian national team players the economic sanctions will be immediately imposed: "We , together with our European partners around the world , decided to introduce immediate broad economic sanctions against the persons directly involved in the incident. Russia will pay dearly for it. We have adopted difficult decision, all discount cards of Russian national team players in European and American network sports stores, like Reebok, Nike, Adidas, will be frozen until the next seasonal sales. Imperial schemes designers and agents must understand that they will not go away with it." Ms. Psaki has pointed out the beard of Russian hockey player Ovechkin defiantly shaved in protest against Eurovision song contest results: "It is a protest against the common European values , against the choice of Europe , In the 21st century, one can not just shave his beard at his will, this is unacceptable, beard should immediately return!"
Later it became known that the 6th U.S. fleet will be immediately thrown to the shores of Belarus to strengthen security during the World Cup. The fact that Belarus does borders any sea apparently does not bother the White House.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:04 | 4754838 Cpl Hicks
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You really thought that one through!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:06 | 4754847 Urban Roman
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It depends on what your definition of "win" is.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:37 | 4754330 pragmatic hobo
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it's onion world ...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:46 | 4754378 Hulk
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Being a writer for the Onion must be one of the best gigs going...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:08 | 4754511 BlindMonkey
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Nope.  It would be hard as hell.  How do you front-run the bizarro world that is reality?  You almost can't go too extreme because the real headlines will be right behind whatever you write.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:37 | 4754331 ratpack1968
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Farce is right...they dont even try to hide their corruption anymore. 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:05 | 4754494 Chupacabra-322
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Of course not. Tyrants always openly demonstrate their sense of power & control, as do Psychopaths.

Their Criminality isn't "hidden in plain view" anymore. It's ALL out in the open now for All The world to see.

And, if ypu haven't noticed, the world is absolutely NO longer "cheering" us on.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:07 | 4754504 intric8
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Did you know that one IMF stipulation for Ukraines 12 billion loan is to have chevron come in and manage the russian pipeline passing through ukraine?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:38 | 4754335 youngman
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Follow the money...follow the money..it always works...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:38 | 4754336 WhoIsJohnGaltCoin
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I had a feeling he was just Biden his time

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:38 | 4754337 WhoIsJohnGaltCoin
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Dbl post

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:38 | 4754338 ratpack1968
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I think Mrs. Biden may have slept with Robert Reich

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:42 | 4754354 LouRukeyser
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So that's where Tim Geithner came from.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:38 | 4754339 eatthebanksters
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Ah, there's no suchthing as crony capitalism....

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:39 | 4754342 papaswamp
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Oh well that means war is a definite then...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:50 | 4754409 Mine Is Bigger
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They could have easily waited a couple of weeks until the presidential election is over.  It seems the Kiev junta wants to alienate as many Ukrainians as possible, doesn't it?  Maybe they need to drive southern Ukraine to hold referendums as well.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:39 | 4754343 blabam
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American democracy was successfully installed.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:39 | 4754345 Living The Dream
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The farce has been complete for a long time.  It's just growing larger...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:40 | 4754348 autofixer
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But he deserves it.  He obviously got where he is based on his merit.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:41 | 4754351 Global Hunter
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The degenerate inbreds don't even bother trying to hide their corruption any longer.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:14 | 4754528 Chupacabra-322
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It's not corruption. You're using the wron C word. It's Criminal. Please start referring to it as such.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 14:57 | 4755966 Sabibaby
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Can't hide the stench of those stinky Cunts!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:42 | 4754353 Spastica Rex
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The farce is complete.

Actually, I think the farce has legs.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:42 | 4754355 JustObserving
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Moscow to ban US from using Russian rocket engines for military launches

http://rt.com/news/158680-russia-usa-rocket-gps/

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:43 | 4754358 cpnscarlet
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America- Loathe it and leave it.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 15:07 | 4755992 August
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America- Loathe it and leave it.

Check and double-check.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:43 | 4754360 Atlas Crapped
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YCMTSU !

(youcantmakethisshitup)

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:43 | 4754361 orangegeek
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Disagree - organizations with boards appoint members who are often educated and connected.

 

Biden-son is both.

 

Joe was/is a drunk - not many braincells left.  Biden-son doesn't appear to have this problem.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:49 | 4754402 Bosch
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Just because he was handed a diploma from an expensive university doesn't exclude him from being a total moron.  

In fact, genetics strongly suggests he probably is. 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:55 | 4754444 Keyser
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The apple never falls far from the tree, or so the saying goes... The fact that he is tied into this deal only proves that he's a scumbag who is only in it for the $$$... Dad must be proud... 

 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:10 | 4754517 Spastica Rex
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It's only nepotism if you're personally so unconnected as to not have a well educated family member placed in a privileged position solely on their own merit.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 16:31 | 4756347 WillyGroper
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In fact, genetics strongly suggests he probably is. 

I believe that's precisely what got us into the god forsaken mess to begin with.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:03 | 4754455 Dr. Venkman
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Hunter is a coke head, just like his attorney general brother  (who now suffers from brain damage and frequents Jefferson Memorial per the same) and skank sister.  THey are all degreed out the ass. . .However, they are all Idiots.

 

Edit: I do not care how people spend their time or money, but AG Biden's issue is particularly troublesome to me as he is the Attorney General in DE and is part of an state operation that sends people to jail for the same, or similar, things.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:57 | 4754458 nope-1004
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I +1 you for the "Biden is a drunk" comment.

 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:54 | 4755157 lakecity55
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So... his blood sacrifice back then to TPTB was to have his wife and kid knocked off. They must have promised him some serious loot.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 20:07 | 4757100 Ralph Spoilsport
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I remember this clearly and the accident was caused by Joe's first wife pulling out in front of the truck. The truckdriver wasn't drinking or on drugs and was never the same after it happened:

"Joe Biden, who turned 30 in late November, was in Washington to set up his Senate office. Neilia Biden, 30, was at the wheel with their three young children – three-year-old Beau Biden, now the state’s Democratic attorney general, two-year-old Hunter Biden, now a lawyer in Washington, and 13-month-old Amy Biden.

The tractor-trailer was heading toward Pennsylvania on Limestone Road when it broadsided the station wagon, sending it spinning for 150 feet, breaking the windshield and crushing in a rear door, while the truck itself skidded for 20 feet and landed on its side, according to The News Journal, which was printed in two editions in those days as The Morning News and the Evening Journal.

Old campaign literature littered the road, along with the truck’s load of corncobs. Dunn, the truck driver, heaved himself out of the wreckage and was the first to get to the station wagon, the newspaper said.

Neilia and Amy Biden died from the crash. Hunter Biden sustained head injuries. Beau Biden had a broken leg that kept him in the hospital beyond the start of the Senate’s new term, leading their broken-hearted father to decide to take his oath of office in the hospital chapel and to vacillate about whether he should be sworn in at all.

“We can always get another senator, but they can’t get another father,” he said.

The state police investigated the accident. The concern then was not that Dunn would get away with anything as serious as drunken driving, but that he could get railroaded. He had plowed into the family of a United States senator, after all.

As the chief deputy attorney general, Jerome Herlihy was assigned to the incident. Two days later, he issued his report, clearing Dunn.

A story headlined, “No Charges Due for Trucker in Biden Deaths,” in the Evening Journal read: “[Herlihy] said there was no evidence that [Dunn] was speeding, drinking or driving a truck with faulty brakes. In addition, Herlihy said, witnesses to the crash near Hockessin provided no basis for a prosecution.”

The truck driver died in 1999 but his family was outraged by Biden's insinuation that he was the one at fault:

"While campaigning in Iowa for the Democratic presidential nomination, however, Biden did.

“Let me tell you a little story,” he was quoted as saying last Friday in the New York Times.

“I got elected when I was 29, and I got elected November the 7th. And on December 18 of that year, my wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree. A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly – and I never pursued it – drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly, and killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons, with what were thought to be at the time permanent, fundamental injuries.”

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:44 | 4754366 maneco
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The best way to hide corruption is in plain sight!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:46 | 4754379 Bernoulli
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This is a joke, right? ZH, you're messing with us, right?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:31 | 4754626 Ignatius
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You sound as if you're struggling with the idea of dying for the Biden family.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:49 | 4754726 zipit
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This is the new normal (it's not even new anymore).

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:46 | 4754380 Dr. Engali
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Nothing to see here. It's business as usual in the U.S.S.of A...... move along...move along.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:46 | 4754382 CuttingEdge
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With respect to the global shenanigans of the US and partners in crime (Merkie still taking it up the ass from Obama to keep DB alive), my mind has lost the capacity to be boggled.

 

I do so hope Mr Snowden's approaching fireworks display includes Kenya...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:47 | 4754386 NEOSERF
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Would be nice if he was based in an office in Kiev.  In other news Obama's daughter has been named Burisma's "Chief Adjunct for Pipeline Sovereignty and Security"...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:47 | 4754388 Rootin' for Putin
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So, the Bidens will be named in the next round of US sanctions, right?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:47 | 4754389 Colonel Klink
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Anyone else notice the world would be a better place if certain entire family lines were wiped out?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:17 | 4754922 Ignatius
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If only, but I see a line forming up behind them.

Humanity has a real problem.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 12:56 | 4755438 Zadig
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As long as kleptocracy remains our primary system of government, there'll be no shortage of despicable families eager to rule.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 13:01 | 4755450 Ignatius
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Yes, perverse incentives yield perverse results.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 13:03 | 4755459 Cathartes Aura
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given how far back some of those family lines go, and how prolific the breeding, and how completely the generational embedding truly is

oh my, yes.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:47 | 4754392 Dr. Venkman
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Another in a long line of Bidens that have failed to accomplish anything except being a connected political hack.

"a counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP" -- funny, he is not listed as an attorney . . . David Boies of Bush v. Gore and former senate Judiciary lawyer must just keep him on the payroll for his boyish looks.

http://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/search_out?sa_LastName=B

This should surprise no one, of course.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:16 | 4754542 shovelhead
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His experience with the World Food Project qualifies him to go get the sandwiches.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:49 | 4754397 Reaper
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Hopefully, he'll relocate to the Ukraine quickly.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:49 | 4754398 spellbound
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( : - O )

 

 

 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:09 | 4754401 Mercury
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He is one of the co-founders and a managing partner of the investment advisory company Rosemont Seneca Partners, as well as chairman of the board of Rosemont Seneca Advisors.


Rosemont Seneca Partners  is one of those D.C. Crony Jr. "investment advisory" outfits, similar to Ted Kennedy Jr.'s Marwood Group where politicians/bureaucrats legally sell info about who's getting what contract/pork/regulatory blessing, then the advisory firm turns around and sells that “research” to hedge funds, Steve Cohen etc.

This together with the rest of the bullshit on his CV = impeccable crony credentials.

 

Brush up here: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/silver-curtain?page=1

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:55 | 4754770 Cthonic
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Thanks for the memory refresh.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:50 | 4754406 Irishcyclist
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Largesse and patrimony in action.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:52 | 4754421 DIgnified
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"We're in a lot of trouble.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFvT_qEZJf8

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:52 | 4754422 williambanzai7
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No wonder everyone wants  to leave Connecticut.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:52 | 4754423 the not so migh...
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 daddy got him a job,  thats so cute

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:53 | 4754426 replaceme
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last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook and a dick in it.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:53 | 4754427 Yen Cross
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  Are you sure he's not related to John "Horsehead" Kohn? But seriously, how much moar incestiuos can all these crony douchebag politicians be with their inside deals...Fucking sickening!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:53 | 4754430 MontgomeryScott
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Holy SHIT!

When are Pelosi's husband or Reid's kids gonna get in on the take?

Fucking BIDEN'S KID!

Fucking LAWYERS and OLIGARCHS and NEPOTISTS and MASS MURDERERS!

PLEASE, tell me HITLER didn't have children too.

Paging Ms. Merkel...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:29 | 4754620 Boxed Merlot
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When are Pelosi's husband or Reid's kids gonna get in on the take?...

 

 

Pelosi's daughter is hawking her "Don't Tread on my Obabamcare" Prius bumperstickers and Rory Reid already has his hands out collecting Chinese mammon like Mr. Diane Feinstien facilitating US land deals.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&u...

 

I didn't see any "Delaware Corporation" or "Teneo" references in the Jr Bidens illustrious career.  I suppose his dad could claim having the same goal of providing for the basic needs of 300 million children too as the population of the US is showing the world how far and how quickly a nation can devolve into utter dependency.

jmo

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:52 | 4754740 Itchy and Scratchy
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Pelosi entered office with marginal assets.

Current DOCUMENTED wealth over US$30 million.

One of the major investments the Pelosi paracites made was for a derilict abandoned airport that was miraculously re-zoned right after the insects purchased it and then purchased by the government from them for over US$50m.

No charges, convictions or jail time. What a country!

Still think that old C_NT is batshit crazy?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:53 | 4754432 Robot Traders Mom
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I'm trying to think of who is actually surprised by this...Nobody outside of America is surprised. ZH readers aren't surprised. Obama loyalists won't actually believe it. Neocons don't care unless he is somehow tied to Benghazi.

We live in a fucked-up world of ignorance and corruption.

www.TopTheNews.com

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:54 | 4754439 Itchy and Scratchy
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The face of unbridled shameless taxpayer extortion! Hope all the democratic liberal types enjoy 'their' paracite!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:00 | 4754461 somecallmetimmah
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"...Largest Ukraine Gas Producer"...which *is* Joe Biden himself, correct?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 09:59 | 4754469 hugovanderbubble
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Cold War 2,0

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:00 | 4754470 spanish inquisition
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Guess he learned the following from his dad's work in the current administration. My highlights.

...I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:05 | 4754474 Son of Captain Nemo
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Don't try to misconstrue the message here?...  They are only trying to help the people of Ukraine get on their feet again!

With the theft of Ukraine's Gas industry he is also going to repatriate the GLD his father stole from Ukraine's banks at a very modest interest charge...  Too bad they can't bring back to life the hundreds of people they've also murdered but I guess thats the price of doing "international business these days"

J.H.C.  how do these motherfuckers look at themselves in the mirror every morning after what they've done!

Isn't anybody ready to say ENOUGH!!! Yet???

 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:08 | 4754509 Flagit
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Vampires cast no reflection.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:01 | 4754480 IndianaJohn
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They washed down and put a good suit of clothes on the crazy man who begs money under the bridge, here in LaPorte IN. I wonder why they didn't shave him too?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:07 | 4754503 NDXTrader
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If you read it in the Onion you wouldn't think it was that funny because it wouldn't be believable enough. Next, Sasha Obama joins Blackwater's board

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:08 | 4754508 Falconsixone
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Typical psycho jew looking mug on that douchebag. I bet he repeats everything you say like he talking in to a recorder or his mother ship.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:10 | 4754514 therearetoomany...
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Now it's to the point where they don't even bother trying to hide. 

Pitchforks, torches and guillotines yet, America?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:09 | 4754516 NaiLib
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Chinese Nepotism in it's most ugly form. The nomenklatura in the USA has completely abandoned any sense of respect for democracy.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:13 | 4754526 Ban KKiller
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Fascists come in all colors....even red, white and blue. 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:12 | 4754523 xavi1951
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Next will be a run for the Senate then the Presidency.  

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:13 | 4754527 Vooter
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Do they produce potassium cyanide gas, by any chance?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:14 | 4754529 Calmyourself
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That is damn Raycissism!  Sasha and Malia get stiffed?  How about positions on the Toys "R us  board.. Nepotism should be color blind,  Raciss...

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:14 | 4754530 Itchy and Scratchy
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I luv that little American flag pin on his lapel! What a patriot! Only one noose needed for both that paracite & the lovely Asst Sec of State Victoria (FU) Nuland (nee: Nudleman) Kagan! They'd look nice hangin' in the town square together!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:15 | 4754534 F.A. Hayek
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I'm sure they conducted an exhaustive international search and came up with him as the best candidate for the job. This is a big fucking deal!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:18 | 4754544 NDXTrader
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Growing up with his Dad I'm sure he knowsa lot about gas and hot air

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:15 | 4754535 Charles Nelson ...
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"It's a BIG CLUB, and you ain't in it" ~ George Carlin

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:16 | 4754541 JailBanksters
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Circle is more than complete, It's all in the Family.

Of all the People in World, the best person for the Job is this Lawyer, that just so happened to be Honorary Co-Chair of the 2008 Obama Innauguration

Yeah right, just co-incidence, clearly it could happen to anyone

 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:19 | 4754555 Mabussur
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Until this I was still hoping that Obama and Putin weren't in cahoot. At least now I know. How depressing.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:21 | 4754565 Joe A
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To be expanded soon to the agricultural sector in Ukraine.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:24 | 4754592 NDXTrader
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Well, they did have to have someone on the ground to divert some of that IMF money to offshore, numbered accounts

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:54 | 4754769 Perfecthedge
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A fucking Lawyer mind you!  Out of all things they desperately needed a fucking lawyer to make things "better for the people of Ukraine".  Oh and an expert in setting up "financial funds". 

This is the equivalent of a pedophile as pre-school overseer. 

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:28 | 4754617 shovelhead
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At least he's working for a private company...

 

That will receive large transfusions of US public money in the very near future. I'm sure some of the IMF money will find a way to Burisma to perk up 'R&D for Ukrainian National Energy Security issues".

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:30 | 4754623 anarcholeptic
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Great eyes. Eugenics is really working for these elitists.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:35 | 4754648 Richard Whitney
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This is the guy who worked for the lobbying firm that lobbied Biden for legislation that enriched their clients. Sweet, huh?

Then, when Joe thought he might be a presidential candidate, Joe had Hunter resign, so Joe wouldn't have to answer questions about the son who was a lobbyist.

So Hunter became a hedge fund manager. He must have been pretty bad, the prime investor sued when Hunter lost him a lot of money, but the settlement reqyired that the winner no speak about it. That preserves Joe's reputation.

Now Hunter is on the board at Burisma. The Clintons, Bushes, Bidens et al are a pox on this country.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:36 | 4754651 f16hoser
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UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE

You can't make this shit up!

Crony Capitalism. Can I even use the word CAPITALISM anymore???

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:49 | 4754728 Perfecthedge
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You are insulting true capitalists.  Better call it by the right name: Fascism.  Just plain old fascism.  Right there, right here for you to tell your grandchildren how the wars and famine all started.  Live.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:41 | 4754676 Jethro
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How does one buy stock in Russian Polonium mining companies?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:45 | 4754699 Overfed
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One would have to buy stock in Russian breeder reactors.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:10 | 4754679 NuYawkFrankie
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re Joe Biden's Son Joins Board Of Largest Ukraine Gas Producer.

 

I'm disgusted!!!

Surely Harry Reid's son, Rory, is more deserving of that "job" - in compensation for having been kicked off the Bundy Ranch!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 13:02 | 4755458 Ignatius
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Fresh angle, Frankie!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:41 | 4754680 Eurodollar
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Just sickeing. I am so tired of this shi*. Time to move to Russia.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:46 | 4754704 Seize Mars
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As LOP would say, "tick tock, motherfuckers."

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:46 | 4754711 Perfecthedge
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R. Hunter Biden is also a well-known public figure. He is chairman of the Board of the World Food Programme U.S.A., together with the world’s largest humanitarian organization, the United Nations World Food Programme. In this capacity he offers assistance to the poor in developing countries, fighting hunger and poverty, and helping to provide food and education to 300 million malnourished children around the world.  installs CIA puppets and spreads fascism and colonialism into poor countries, where children and woman and the weak will be murdered due to his presence and actions.

Corrected that for you.

I guess he submitted his CV through LinkedIn and the Ukrainians found it there and thought: "Well, well, well...finally a good candidate for this position.  Let's contact this capable young man and invite him to become member of the Board. He can stay in the US, we will gladly send him whatever money we can find, because this is totally worth it, you know."


Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:56 | 4754773 Itchy and Scratchy
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My guess is that this paracite didn't extort any more than US$25 million from those programs! Maximum! (The children weren't that hungry)

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 12:20 | 4755253 Emergency Ward
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If it's named "Programme" that's the code for "almost all of the "contribution" loot goes to the directors' tax-deductible salaries and pensions".  Ha, you're right, the children weren't that hungry.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:48 | 4754722 FreeNewEnergy
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I love the smell of nepotism in the morning.

Smells like... VICTORY!

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:49 | 4754729 atthelake
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How much time does he have to spend in Ukraine?

 

Doesn't he have health issues?

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:49 | 4754731 kchrisc
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Corruption, the family business.

Enjoy it for now, because when the sheeple wake up, the guillotines will come out.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 12:04 | 4755194 forwardho
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Let US enjoy it for now, because when the sheeple wake up, so will the blast furnaces.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:52 | 4754744 damicol
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/peoples-governor-newly-independ...

 

 

 please please retaliate and  assassinate this cock sucker

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:58 | 4754790 JR
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There’s freedom, and there’s force. And it’s clear which side the people are on and which side the United States government is on.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:53 | 4754753 JR
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Will the circle be unbroken?

The US-funded coup in Ukraine has legalized plunder, by financial elites working through IMF loans to plunder pension funds and raising prices so the banks can get their loans repaid.  As Nuland said, the US State Department has spent $5 billion to take “Ukraine into the future that it deserves,’ by which she meant handing it over to the IMF looters – all “legal” now by the use of force.

Ukraine’s tantalizing bounty includes agriculture, diversified heavy industry, and Ukrainians' assets when Ukraine defaults on its IMF loans…and, of course, Ukraine’s largest gas producer, Burisma Holdings.

With IMF operative Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Yats) now in power with the help of the fascists and third force Blackwater, what can go wrong? Oh, wait, there seems to be some opposition...

Frederic Bastiat: “Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim—when he defends himself—as a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder…

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”

Only liberty will clear the air in Ukraine.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:57 | 4754785 Obamanism
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This makes Harry Reid and his sons look like beginners. Harry Reid had only the BLM to back him up in land disputes. Joe Biden and his son has NATO to back them up.
Mr Bundy had the militia to back him up and Mr Putin has Cossacks.
Wonder if the MSM will even notice this

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:59 | 4754801 smokintoad
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And they just removed the burisma.com website.  The link worked once for me. Then I tried the top page and got the webserver default. Then the linked page came back 404 not found... and nevermind.  Now it seems to be back and working.  Very weird.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 16:13 | 4756251 Fíréan
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US Financier Mr. Devon Archer joins Burisma Holdings.

The website works ok., it may be your server blocking.

http://burisma.com/american-financier-devon-archer-joined-the-board-of-d...

 

"US Financier Mr. Devon Archer joins the Board of Directors of Burisma Holdings

Owner of oil and gas assets in Ukraine Burisma Holdings has strengthened its Board of Directors by bringing in a new independent director. This position took a co-founder and a Managing Director of the Rosemont Seneca Partners (New York, USA) Mr. Devon Archer.

Owner of oil and gas assets in Ukraine Burisma Holdings has strengthened its Board of Directors by bringing in a new independent director. This position took a co-founder and a Managing Director of the Rosemont Seneca Partners (New York, USA) Mr. Devon Archer."

Devon Archer is one of the most renowned experts in the investment filed in the United States. Over the last ten year he has been best known as a co-founder and a Managing Director of Rosemont Seneca Partners and Rosemont Capital, where he is responsible for developing investment strategies on managing private equity capital for investments in debt instruments with fixed income and real estate investments. Mr. Archer has many years of experience at major global companies including Citigroup, MetLife, Sitaro Group and others. During the presidential campaign in the United States in 2004 he served as a senior adviser to Mr. John Kerry. Mr. Devon Archer graduated from Yale University (USA) in 1996. He is married and has a son.

Got to laugh at the "new independent director" bit !

My bold and underlined emphasis, ( wel, the underlined didn't happen)

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:01 | 4754815 dexter_morgan
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I'm sure he got the job because he was the most qualified candidate.

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:02 | 4754823 El Hosel
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Did you say farce?

    http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=dxpe

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:03 | 4754830 GrinandBearit
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"It's a big fucking club... 

and YOU ain't in it!"

 

- George Carlin

Tue, 05/13/2014 - 11:05 | 4754848 Gavrikon
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This shithead needs some dioxide.

R U listening, Vladimir Vladimirovich?

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