World Politics

[Ferminal]

**** me, you can't make this stuff up. Feel bad for laughing when the country is being used as a rag doll.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-...-son-joins-board-largest-ukraine-gas-producer

 

[blutto]

....oh gosh yeah but is that sweet or what?....just another is a long series of "words fail me moments" in the drama that is the glorious revolution in NeoNazistan....

...which brings to mind a blog, Clusterf**knation, I ran into the other day whose name seemed so right on the money...real beauty eh?...

...and somehow somewhere someone is actually assuming thinking people are going to swallow this $hit sandwich and not detect that something stinks?...

...and this actually made the MSM ( see below ) and not just a "specialist" blog...Clusterf%#fnation indeed...

....from... http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/bidens-son-gets-ukrainian-oil-company-gig/

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Biden’s Son Gets Ukrainian Oil Company Gig


Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son Hunter Biden has joined the board of directors of Ukraine’s largest oil company at a time that the U.S. is urging Ukraine to develop energy independence from Russia and just days after the vice president visited Ukraine.

The vice president’s office and the White House rejected any suggestion that there was a conflict of interest.

“Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer,” Vice President Biden’s spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff told ABC News. “The vice president does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company.”

White House spokesman Jay Carney said, “Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are obviously private citizens and where they work … does not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the vice president or president.”

According to a press release from the oil company, Burisma Holdings, Biden will help the company manage its relationships with “international organizations,” in addition to overseeing the company’s legal unit.

“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,” Hunter Biden said in a statement.

“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,” he said.

Biden, a graduate of Yale Law School, is a counsel to the New York-based law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

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[FoxxyBrown1111]

**** me, you can't make this stuff up. Feel bad for laughing when the country is being used as a rag doll.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-...-son-joins-board-largest-ukraine-gas-producer

Some would (some still) have thought Naomi Kleins book was a big conspiracy theory. But she was right in every aspect...
I thought I see ghosts sometimes. But no, reality is even worse. Should have never taken the "red pill".

 

[blackcat]

most certainly correct. it is a proxy affair where the main actors stakes are very different.

putin's proxies are not in mexico, canada or cuba, but in his own backyard he wants keep free of nato's freedom gear.

and George dubbya, his ol man, Ollie Norf, and Jimmy Baker, and Ronnie Reagan all happy with a Star Wars boondoggle for northropp grumman and boeing.

ok, some of the actors might be dead. one actor indeed.

but zbiggy and kissinger still playing the fairytales.

not that those guys are the neo-cons, but the weekly standard bill crystal no not meg ryan orgasm comedian actor but the neo con and the brookings folk, they luv this $h1t its their raison d'etre.

they dont call em the thinkw@nks on the beltway for nuffin

/unstream_ov_ unconsciouness

 

[blackcat]

w@nk should not be swear word filtered. its not a profanity
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=****

 

[blackcat]

Thanks to Twitter, we in the UK now get constant bombardment of superficial sh1te from Cameron and his clan of chinless c@ckwombles.

Thanks to Twitter, we can respond at will...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/creative-ways-to-insult-david-cameron-on-twitter?bffbuk&s=mobile

cameron and clegg are the smooth skinned boys.
they hand out ponds moisturiser at Eton. Dont believe the apocryphal tale about other so called creams and their dermis properties

#Cambridge_spies
#what_happens_in_british_public_school_boarding_dorms_stays_in_british_public_schools
#gordonstoun
#chariots_of_fire
#muscular_christianity

 

[aphronesis]

From the article posted by blutto above

“Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer,” Vice President Biden’s spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff told ABC News. “The vice president does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company.”

What a brilliant--staggeringly so--way to publicly sidestep and ignore all the relevant issues.

 

[blackcat]

K-Street and the Beltway ThinkW@nks are where its at.

 

[darwin553]

I'm loving the new Australian budget. It's been made substantially more difficult for people under the age of 30 to get welfare payments. That'll be a right laugh for me, I live in an area where the majority of young people are unemployed and need the dole to get by. What are they going to do when they can't get their money from the government? It's about to get West Baltimore up in here. There are already drive-by shootings happening pretty much on a daily basis. Will that bump to defence be used in putting down the soon-to-be rise of violent drug lords in western Sydney? Will it ****.

Hey but at least you have started your degree!

 

[blutto]

From the article posted by blutto above

“Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer,” Vice President Biden’s spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff told ABC News. “The vice president does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company.”

What a brilliant--staggeringly so--way to publicly sidestep and ignore all the relevant issues.

...couldn't agree more....and find below a few articles that flesh out some of the story...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-gas-company-is-a-problem-for-u-s-soft-power/

....and below note where the companies holding are....and how US policy is aimed these days...as in eastern Ukraine which the US is desperate beyond any common sense trying to place within their sphere of control...

http://burisma.com/production/

...and a bit of Biden family history...

http://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/

...and btw do note that some of Kerry's inner circle are also on the board of Bursima as is apparently a past president of Poland....small world eh?...

Cheers

 

[aphronesis]

...couldn't agree more....and find below a few articles that flesh some of the story...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-gas-company-is-a-problem-for-u-s-soft-power/

....and below note where the companies holding are....and how US policy is aimed these days...as in eastern Ukraine which the US is desperate beyond any common sense trying to place within their sphere of control...

http://burisma.com/production/

...and a bit of Biden family history...

http://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/

...and btw do note that some of Kerry's inner circle are also on the board of Bursima as is apparently a past president of Poland....small world eh?...

Cheers

Uh huh. Although it's schematic and cooks some of the evidence (the 70s oil embargo for example--at least in terms of causality), I think David Harvey's "Brief History of Neoliberalism" and the one on Imperalism cover the rudiments of what's in play here--starting with the Chilean experiment of course.

 

[RetroActive]

Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-25559089

The research found that long-term unemployed young people were more than twice as likely as their peers to have been prescribed anti-depressants.

One in three (32%) had contemplated suicide, while one in four (24%) had self-harmed.

The report found 40% of jobless young people had faced symptoms of mental illness, including suicidal thoughts, feelings of self-loathing and panic attacks, as a direct result of unemployment.

Three quarters of long-term unemployed young people (72%) did not have someone to confide in, the study found.

Do we have a problem yet? naah, things are always getting better...

 

[blackcat]

chile boys ftw
freidman put new definition to grooming at Chicago uni

okokok Chicago boys not chile boys, I knew it sounded wrong

Uh huh. Although it's schematic and cooks some of the evidence (the 70s oil embargo for example--at least in terms of causality), I think David Harvey's "Brief History of Neoliberalism" and the one on Imperalism cover the rudiments of what's in play here--starting with the Chilean experiment of course.

 

[blutto]

....here is a little something to put the business model used by the fossil fuel industry into perspective.....

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/05/15/Canadas-34-Billion-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies/

....please note two important numbers in the article: $34bil and $2tril....and just to put the first number into perspective the total Cdn budget over the same timeframe was $279.2bil....

...and btw this does not take into account the cost of various hostilities fought on behalf of that industry or the cost to society in general and infra-structure in particular thru its less than ideal usage...

...gotta just love the bull$hit, errr, pixie dust that powers the magic of the market place...

Cheers

 

[blackcat]

Uh huh. Although it's schematic and cooks some of the evidence (the 70s oil embargo for example--at least in terms of causality), I think David Harvey's "Brief History of Neoliberalism" and the one on Imperalism cover the rudiments of what's in play here--starting with the Chilean experiment of course.

marc rich clinton

 

[blutto]

....another day another hiccup in the mad rush to support the glorious revolution in NeoNazistan....this time, as in the French warships example mentioned earlier, the hiccup is directly related to protecting business interests...

...so just to be sure we are absolutely on the same page here...pushing for " democracy and freedom and stuff " is the moral thang we just gotta do, until it costs one of our rich friends money, then not so much....

...the title of the article is...

"Exclusive: Canada trimmed Russia sanctions to protect business interests"

....the sub-title should be something along the lines of "And btw Stephen Harper is a Two Faced Scumbag"...

....do remember Harper's father career was spent in the accounting department of a major oil company ....so this apple that apparently hasn't fallen far from the tree has got the understanding of the money thing down pat don't he?...

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive...ect-business-interests-050645689--sector.html

Cheers

 

[blackcat]

....another day another hiccup in the mad rush to support the glorious revolution in NeoNazistan....this time, as in the French warships example mentioned earlier, the hiccup is directly related to protecting business interests...

...so just to be sure we are absolutely on the same page here...pushing for " democracy and freedom and stuff " is the moral thang we just gotta do, until it costs one of our rich friends money, then not so much....

...the title of the article is...

"Exclusive: Canada trimmed Russia sanctions to protect business interests"

....the sub-title should be something along the lines of "And btw Stephen Harper is a Two Faced Scumbag"...

....do remember Harper's father career was spent in the accounting department of a major oil company ....so this apple that apparently hasn't fallen far from the tree has got the understanding of the money thing down pat don't he?...

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/exclusive...ect-business-interests-050645689--sector.html

Cheers

smedly butler

remember about 6 years ago, that FC Schalke, or Shalke, they signed the richest sponsorship agreement in Bundesliga history. <think> AIG and Man U or any Real headline shirt sponsor

I personally always thought, a new Peace Tour thru the central Europe countries (and the east former Soviet society ones too)under the marque of Gazprom. And Putin has accrued(is this the word) his 30billion wealth thru G-prom stock!

like the US bases in Afghanistan. There is a journo, may be Pepe Escobar the brazilian or colombian journo, who wrote, or formed a theory by mapping the US bases in Afghanistan and the potential gas pipelines from the caucuses. Since and Zbigniew Brzezinski (defer to authority fallacy) about the key of central asia as a crossroads. And by taking this (hypothetically) off his chessboard , you can cut out IRan as a port for resources going off to the Sinos.

Now, as if the foreign department have one single formed cogent paper and policy. They dont, and my reply has nigh zero relevancy too, but when Brookings and PNAC put out papers on their US interests, and full spectrum dominance, Iraq and Afghanistan were less about terrorism and resources and global gas pipelines/resources, and just base power projection, and restoring this order.

 

[aphronesis]

marc rich clinton

Not quite the thread for it, but yea: much as the latter would like to say "aw shucks we just didn't know." see how that plays out in a couple of years.

 

[blackcat]

Not quite the thread for it, but yea: much as the latter would like to say "aw shucks we just didn't know." see how that plays out in a couple of years.

nima shirazi or trita parsi are the dudes to go to for your persian news http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/

 

[aphronesis]

nima shirazi or trita parsi are the dudes to go to for your persian news http://www.wideasleepinamerica.com/

excellent. i'll be the envy of the brunch set.

 

[blackcat]

excellent. i'll be the envy of the brunch set.

well, in the noughties, Tabriz Petrochemical always brought a strong team to Tour de Langkawi, and usually got atleast one rider in the top ten on GC.

I think Mehdi Sohrabi was their big hitter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochimi_Tabriz_Cycling_Team

since i am not a particpant in the thread, cant tell if this reply re:brunch set was sardonic or not. but i cant be f'ed talking abbas kiarostami and iranian film

but heres more persian as Flynt and Hillary Leverett bring it
http://www.raceforiran.com/
(ex state dep't academics)

 

[aphronesis]

well, in the noughties, Tabriz Petrochemical always brought a strong team to Tour de Langkawi, and usually got atleast one rider in the top ten on GC.

I think Mehdi Sohrabi was their big hitter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochimi_Tabriz_Cycling_Team

since i am not a particpant in the thread, cant tell if this reply re:brunch set was sardonic or not. but i cant be f'ed talking abbas kiarostami and iranian film

but heres more persian as Flynt and Hillary Leverett bring it
http://www.raceforiran.com/
(ex state dep't academics)

Sardonic, but self deprecating to my environment, not toward you.

thanks actually.

 

[Ferminal]

well, in the noughties, Tabriz Petrochemical always brought a strong team to Tour de Langkawi, and usually got atleast one rider in the top ten on GC.

I think Mehdi Sohrabi was their big hitter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochimi_Tabriz_Cycling_Team

since i am not a particpant in the thread, cant tell if this reply re:brunch set was sardonic or not. but i cant be f'ed talking abbas kiarostami and iranian film

but heres more persian as Flynt and Hillary Leverett bring it
http://www.raceforiran.com/
(ex state dep't academics)

FYI they won it this year, Sohrabi passed the baton on.

 

[RetroActive]

Break the Silence
A World War is Beckoning
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/14/a-world-war-is-beckoning/

Why do we *tolerate the threat of *another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our *indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of *hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.

A popular truism is that “the world changed” following 9/11. But what has changed? According to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a silent coup has taken place in Washington and rampant militarism now rules. The Pentagon *currently runs “special operations” – secret wars – in 124 countries. At home, rising poverty and hemorrhaging liberty are the historic corollary of a perpetual war state. Add the risk of nuclear war, and the question begs: why do we tolerate this?

 

[blutto]

Break the Silence
A World War is Beckoning
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/14/a-world-war-is-beckoning/

...good un....find below a link to an article that plows more or less the same field....

...a nice bit is the following...

"If the beastly neocons would not have forced his hand by expelling the legitimate president of Ukraine and installing their puppets, the world might have enjoyed a long spell of peace.

But then the western military alliance under the US leadership would fall into abeyance, US military industries would lose out, and US hegemony would evaporate. Peace is not good for the US military and hegemony-creating media machine. So dreams of peace in our lifetime are likely to remain just dreams."

....they might have said...war is how we do stuff and peace is for pussies...and to put a bit of polish on it we point fingers, press shiny triggers as supposedly required, have great and gaudy parades, dress up our military dead as heroes, and the others ( who are the vast majority as we found out up-thread ) we turn into forgotten landfill, and to put a sanctimonious exclamation mark on the cake we ask our gawd to bless us, and, by inference, the stinking rotting mess we just created...

....from..
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2014/05/58944-israel-shamir-the-ukraine-in-turmoil/

Cheers