Otto Lidenbrock
Otto Lidenbrock's Journal"A Statement on behalf of Hunter Biden"
Ukraine: Burisma Holdings Limited (“Burisma”)
In April 2014, Hunter was asked to join the board of Burisma, the largest independent natural gas producer in Ukraine. At the time, Hunter was of counsel with Boies Schiller Flexner LLP [fn 1] (“Boies Schiller”), a major U.S. law firm, and was advising Burisma on its corporate reform initiatives, an important aspect of fueling Burisma’s international growth and diversity. Vibrant energy production, particularly natural gas, was central to Ukraine’s independence and to stemming the tide of Vladimir Putin’s attack on the principles of a democratic Europe.
To further its goals of independence, Burisma sought to adopt standards and practices traditionally employed by Western companies. At Hunter’s urging, Boies Schiller engaged Nardello & Co., a leading global investigative firm, to assess, among other things, Burisma’s corporate structure and governance practices.
Burisma agreed to pay the legal expenses of Boies Schiller to support Hunter in developing corporate reform initiatives.
Because of Burisma’s stated commitment to corporate best practices, it was able to attract well-qualified board members, including the former president of Poland, Aleksander Kwasniewski, a leading advocate of democratic principles in the region. President Kwasniewski, familiar with Hunter’s work on behalf of Burisma, recommended that Hunter join the board.
Hunter joined the board as a non-executive director, meaning he was an independent board member and not a member of the management team. At no time was Hunter in charge of the company’s legal affairs. Like all Burisma directors, Hunter was compensated for his board service.
Hunter focused his work on the principles of corporate transparency, governance and responsibility, which was based on his prior experience as a lawyer and director on other boards, including the Chair of World Food Program USA, which supports the largest humanitarian organization in the world, Vice-Chair of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), to which he was appointed by President George W. Bush, Center for National Policy, Truman National Security Project, and the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign.
Hunter stepped off Bursima’s board in April, 2019. Despite extensive scrutiny, at no time has any law enforcement agency, either domestic or foreign, alleged that Hunter engaged in wrongdoing at any point during his five-year term.
Full statement in link:
https://medium.com/@george.mesires/a-statement-on-behalf-of-hunter-biden-dated-october-13-2019-d80bc11087ab
Posting in this sub forum as received message from host that it is relevant
If Warren is the frontrunner it's time the media took off the kid gloves
Look, I understand no democrat is going to bring up the Native American thing. While other candidates had their pasts scrutinised none of them, nor the moderators at the debate questioned her. There's nothing to gain from bringing up a Trump weaponized talking point on our side. However in the GE you can bet the media will once again bring it straight back up to both sides the election.
I've given her due credit for her surge. She's run the best campaign in terms of mobilising supporters and interacting with voters. I think she offers a more credible progressive agenda than Sanders because she spent years as a private citizen studying cases of bankruptcy and law. She probably has a better idea of what is politically viable because of that and of course she helped form the CFPB.
She also has less baggage than Biden.
But that doesn't mean she is the defacto nominee. The fact is she has been treated kinder than other candidates.When Sanders is asked about middle class taxes going up, people sort of mock him for saying "millionaires and billionaires" (or these days just billionaires) are the ones who will have to pay up as a stock answer.
Is Warren's wealth tax any different? Colbert of all people was the one who pressed her more to offer a more developed answer. And please note I said developed, not different. It is better to do it now than when the socialist card gets played out in the GE.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-desperately-tries-to-get-elizabeth-warren-to-bad-mouth-joe-biden
Another example is from the LGBTQ forum when many people noticed the subtle difference in questioning that she received compared to Kamala Harris.
https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1175254472836243458
Intentional or not it's not a good look for the moderator.
There's the fact she seemed to agree that the 2016 Primaries were rigged. Has anyone asked her about that stance since because it is pretty insulting to the millions more Hillary voters. Sanders doesn't have much goodwill from devout HRC supporters for perpetuating the idea but Warren agreed.
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/elizabeth-warren-dnc-rigged/index.html
There's the fact she was a registered republican until the age of 47. Not a big deal because part of the 2020 mantra is we can try and flip disenchanted GOP-ers. However considering Joe Biden has his past scrutinised minutely, he could say in the next debate that when he was one of the first senators to endorse Jimmy Carter, Warren voted for the man who pardoned Nixon. That's not a winning point but it's a point that he has been a democrat all his adult life. Sanders gets stick for not being a democrat but he was never a republican.
Don't mistake this post as a takedown of Warren please. I think it's a discussion that at some point is needed because whoever the nominee is will be battered and bruised by the media in the GE campaign. So it's good to get prepared now. It's clear some of the other campaigns have noticed this and now you are seeing some jabs fired her way regarding policy. But ultimately its' the media responsibility to vet the candidates and hold them accountable.
The Democratic National Convention is 9 months away and Trump is already running TV ads about Biden
This has to be unprecedented.
It's one thing opening the Twitter app on your phone and posting tweets about "Sleepy Joe". It's another to spend millions of dollars to spread videos (disinformation) to households and targetted audiences. Remember Twitter reflects only a small percentage of the electorate (and the wider public). The social media platform that has the biggest impact is Facebook.
Even then it's extremely early to start doing this.
He's scared of Biden.
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