22.10.2016 Author: Grete Mautner
How Come the Biden Family is Above US Laws?
Column: Society
Region: USA in the World
Each notion proclaimed by the White House as
the top priority of the Obama administration’s policies is in fact just a
slogan. Quite often such slogans are used by the ruling elites to divert the
attention of the public from their behind-the-scenes crimes, under the guise of
the ongoing struggle for the greater good.
Just look at the slogan of the “War on Terror” that
was adopted by both the Bush and Obama administrations. As a matter of fact, it
turned out to be an extremely convenient cover up for money laundering schemes,
carried out hand-in-hand with military contractors. As a result, billions of
dollars were allegedly spent in this so-called fight for the great good,
while terrorist groups across the globe continue to prosper. In fact,
Washington unleashed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other countries with
the sole purpose of signing new military contracts, getting new weapon
supplied, while limiting the civil rights of US citizens that were
originally granted to them by the founding fathers of the country. As for the
states that were invaded, where Washington promised to “strike a decisive blow
to terrorist networks”, they’ve been plunged into misery and chaos, which
doesn’t not simply increase anti-American sentiments in those states, but
breeds new supporters of various extremist organizations.
As for the number of extremist organizations that
Washington promised to put an end to, they are being actively used in covert
operations, as it’s been noted by numerous media reports. It’s been pointed out
that even Hillary Clinton came as far as admitting to Goldman Sachs that Washington has been
supplying weapons to the states that are funding jihadists.
We’re witnessing a pretty similar situation with the
war against corruption that has been declared by Washington. It’s trut
that it has been fining American banks because of the fact they
employed relatives of high-profile Chinese officials in exchange for certain
commercial and economic privileges. But why, then, the representatives of
the Obama administration are not being punished for similar sins? Are they just
allowed to get engaged in all forms of corruption?
At this stage pretty much everyone knows about the
“special role” that the US Vice President John Biden played in the “taming of
Ukraine” due to his numerous trips to this state, that allowed him to establish
“personal control” over Kiev’s economy and finances. In fact, he used the
position he occupies to get his son Robert Hunter Biden employed
by the Ukranian oil and gas companies. This blatant violations of all
legal norms has been reported by The New York Times:
When Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. traveled to
Kiev, Ukraine, on Sunday for a series of meetings with the country’s leaders,
one of the issues on his agenda was to encourage a more aggressive fight
against Ukraine’s rampant corruption and stronger efforts to rein in the power
of its oligarchs.
But the credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption
message may have been undermined by the association of his son, Hunter Biden,
with one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with
its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine’s ecology minister under former
President Viktor F. Yanukovych before he was forced into exile
For many readers it would be curious to learn that
back in 2014, Hunter Biden was dismissed from the US NAVY for numerous
offences, including frequent cocaine use. Even before his father became
vice-president, Hunter was at the head of a number of hedge fund companies run
by Paradigm. In 2007 he signed a deal with his uncle – that resulted in a
number of lawsuits involving the Bidens and a number of their former business
partners.
It is noteworthy that all through the last summer, Joe
Biden has been actively preparing for a visit to Latvia, where he is planning
“to discuss economic relations between Latvia and the United States, the
situation in Ukraine and Syria, as well as the progress of implementation of the
decisions adopted at the NATO summit in Warsaw “. However, it was immediately
clear that it was unlikely that Biden would be occupied with discussing NATO
matters with Riga. Instead, Hunter’s father is going to pull out the same trick
that he used in Ukraine, promising military and financial aid from Washington
to Latvia in exchange for the position of Deputy Director in Latvijas Gāze for his son. After all, next year will see the
privatization of this gas company – and
Hunter will be able to make his family much richer on his new job. It’s
believed that during the privatization of the company, the Inčukalns gas storage facility would be sold to the US
companies for 5 billion euros instead of 10 billion, while the last sum is much
closer to its actual worth, due to the Biden family machinations.
What is striking – a lot of people in the political
establishment of both Latvia and the United States are fully aware of this
scheme, but they try to remain silent, although according to both the European
and American laws on corruption, no civil servant can use
his position for seeking personal gains.
In general, it should be emphasized that corruption
has deep historical roots in the United States, since local businessmen have
always been trying to use corrupted politicians to receive a maximum profit
from tricking the state.
Yet, it’s hard to comprehend why the known corrupt
representatives of the American political establishment remain unpunished to
this date? If Washington is not afraid of slapping JPMorgan Chase with a costly
fine, how come it fails to bring the Biden family to justice?
Grete Mautner is an indepenent researcher and
journalist from Germany, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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