Vice President Joe Biden's Son Joins Board Of Largest Ukraine Gas Producer

[Chef Ramsay]

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.
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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.

More @ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-13/farce-complete-joe-bidens-son-joins-board-largest-ukraine-gas-producer

[Wilikon]

Yep!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=366048.msg6615670#msg6615670

[fritzi]

Graft methods can certainly be unique. Does either Biden have any sense of ethics at all? Does anyone believe that Biden's visit to Ukraine was just coincidental to his son's appointment?

[Sithara007]

Now Merkel & Co. should think hard, whether they want to be part of Obama's war machine. These proxy wars only help the US, and no one else.

[bryant.coleman]

The US has been conducting wars for the last 60 years or so, to gain possession of additional natural gas / petroleum resources. Ukraine is just a small entry in that long list. The next nation to be there will be Iran.

[Charlie Prime]

National Socialism.

You're soaking in it.

[Nemo1024]

The US has been conducting wars for the last 60 years or so, to gain possession of additional natural gas / petroleum resources. Ukraine is just a small entry in that long list. The next nation to be there will be Iran.

Regarding Iran... Russia closed down 6 or 8 GPS calibration stations on its territory as US refused to have GLONAS stations on its. Now Russia said they will open some GLONAS calibration stations in Iran. What does it tell you?

[bryant.coleman]

Regarding Iran... Russia closed down 6 or 8 GPS calibration stations on its territory as US refused to have GLONAS stations on its. Now Russia said they will open some GLONAS calibration stations in Iran. What does it tell you?

GPS data can be exploited by the US military for launching missile strikes. So it was a good step from Russia. Allying with nations such as Venezuela, Cuba and Iran could send a tough message to the war crazy politicians of the United States. Still, it was unfortunate that Russia supported the embargoes against Iran. Should have vetoed it.

[Davis14]

Yeah well the rich get richer and the poor get poor. Aww cronycaptilalism at its finest.

[tennis]

Wow, there's so much under all of the things we see in the media.  Politics is so interesting and so deep... it's hard to understand what's really going on with all of the dis-information that's fed to us.  I think it's about seeking out as much info as you can from the best sources you can possibly find - and finding these sources and filtering them can really deem so difficult.  That's why most people who talk about conspiracies seem to have some sort of mental illness... I mean who can we trust at this point to give us real unbiased info.  No matter who you turn to we're all dealing with disinformation being thrown at us from every angle and we're all corrupted in some way.

Anyways end rant... just in awe that after watching a few Ukranian-Russian struggle documentaries that there's so much more behind what I've been told.

[validium]

This just goes to prove that the USA government has something to do with the Crimean situation. Next invasion>>

[vhong]

I just wonder at times what it would have been like to have been born into a different family. One whose parents and/or lineage had powerful political connections that would have allowed me a position early in life that would guarantee me not having to work for the rest of my life.

[sana8410]

It is just the beginning of the next wave of corruption after the neo nazi coupe in Kiev. The USA Will install their puppets in every segment of Ukraine economy and policy. And they even dont try to hide it for the rest of the world.

[TaunSew]

I just wonder at times what it would have been like to have been born into a different family. One whose parents and/or lineage had powerful political connections that would have allowed me a position early in life that would guarantee me not having to work for the rest of my life.

It wasn't some lottery.  Your parents had sex without a condom and you came out 9 months later, it was that simple and innocent, and everyone is born that way.

[bryant.coleman]

OK... I have added Ukraine to the list of nations invaded by the US, to seize their natural resources.

1949 Greece
1952 Cuba
1953 Iran
1953 British Guyana
1954 Guatemala
1955 South Vietnam
1957 Haiti
1958 Laos
1960 South Korea
1960 Laos
1960 Ecuador.
1963 Dominican Republic
1963 South Vietnam
1963 Honduras
1963 Guatemala
1963 Ecuador.
1964 Brazil
1964 Bolivia
1965 Zaire.
1966 Ghana
1967 Greece
1970 Cambodia
1970 Bolivia
1972 El Salvador
1973 Chile
1979 South Korea Pro-USA government wanted.
1980 Liberia
1982 Chad
1983 Grenada
1987 Fiji.
2002 Venezuela.
2004 Haiti
2009 Honduras
2013 Egypt
2014 Ukraine

[Balthazar]

OK... I have added Ukraine to the list of nations invaded by the US, to seize their natural resources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

There was a similar US-backed coup in Russia too.

Yatsenjuk = Gaidar
Turchinov = Yeltsin

Unrests, illegitimate adjustments in constitution, unknown snipers, armed crackdown of the Parliament and worthless talks about democracy.

[bryant.coleman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis

There was a similar US-backed coup in Russia too.

Forgot that. US was behind Yeltsin also. The 8 years of rule by the drunkard put Russia behind by 80 years. Not even the Nazis during the WW2 did as much damage to Russia as Yeltsin did in the eight years.

[Charlie Prime]

The next nation to be there will be Iran.

I heard that was some new fake "humanitarian crisis" thing about schoolgirls in Nigeria.

Nigeria has big energy resources.  They could be next in line for American violence.

[Balthazar]

Ukraine has rights over gas fields in the Crimea

Not anymore, because all ukrainian state property in the Crimea was nationalized by Aksyonov's government.

[bryant.coleman]

I heard that was some new fake "humanitarian crisis" thing about schoolgirls in Nigeria.

Nigeria has big energy resources.  They could be next in line for American violence.

Most of the oil rigs in Nigeria are already owned by the American petroleum corporations (Chevron, Exxon-Mobil.etc), although some are owned by the Europeans (Royal Dutch Shell, Agip, and Total). Therefore, the US doesn't need to invade Nigeria. Nigeria is not gaining anything from its oil wealth. The entire Niger delta looks like an environmental catastrophe zone.