A PROFILE
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE JOE BIDEN?
The president-elect according to media projections in the United States has a long imperial record (Photo: Reuters)
12 Nov 2020 , 8:09 am .
Joe Biden, the "projected" president of the United States , is 76 years old and has been a member of Congress for 36 years. He was vice president of the country for another eight during the Obama Administration. During the campaign that ended in the elections on November 3, he did his best to appear the antithesis of Donald Trump, his conservative adversary, also in his seventies.
At the same time that Trump danced, made noise with his political rallies without social distance and with few masks, Biden campaigned from his basement or appeared at events where attendees stood in white circles separated from each other.
Trump confronted journalists, answered their questions and was tirelessly investigated by them while Biden went almost two months without receiving reporters and they did not seem interested.
Whoever, in his first presidential campaign, in 1988, was accused of plagiarizing the speeches of British Labor leader Neil Kinnock, has always had a tendency to confront people at their rallies, to go off script and get into unnecessary quagmire. When he tried his luck again 20 years later, in 2008, he only obtained 1% of the votes, but this time his strategy was to keep quiet.
The equivalent to Juan Peña of the Venezuelan story " El Diente Roto " has not been presented as a change for US policy because it is not, rather its message is and has been "Build Back Better" or that the country go back to "being what you always were" with "... all those good things."
Let's see what it takes to be Joe Biden.
YOU NEED TO BE OF SERVICE TO THE ULTRA-RICH
During the 1980s Biden voted in favor of the landmark Reagan tax bill that lowered the top income tax rate from 70 to 50% and exempted many wealthy families from inheritance tax, a measure that cost the federal government $ 83 billion in annual revenue.
His alignment with corporate and financial interests is total, for which he had the support of the country's political and financial elite. This helped him to carry out a costly electoral campaign and with the national machinery of the Democratic Party.
Even when in the electorate and the rank and file of his party there are plenty of claims and positions in support of a popular agenda, he managed to maneuver between false moderate or center positions and the rescue of the corporate political establishment where he has played in favor of large companies, the banking, insurance companies, rising military spending, and financial deregulation.
While casino mogul Sheldon Adelson donated $ 40 million to Trump, Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York who spent more than $ 700 million this year on his aborted presidential bid, spent 85 more (0.15% of his fortune) in helping Biden win in the vital state of Florida (which he lost to Trump on November 3).
Michael Bloomberg, a former Republican who calls himself "independent," supported Biden financially (Photo: Politico)
It should be noted that the "projected" winner of the gringo elections promised in the campaign to raise their taxes, and yet they, the richest 1% of the richest 1%, were on their side. By early August, Biden had received donations from more than 130 Forbes-listed individuals with fortunes of more than $ 800 million, while Trump had convinced fewer than 100.
Biden raised nearly $ 1 billion in his election campaign by tripling Trump's funding , narrowly topping Obama's 2008 collection. The money comes from his top funders in Wall Street's elites.
Kamala Harris, his vice-presidential running mate, is highly appreciated by the big donors: in the primaries he was among the candidates who received the most money from the tycoons. The only limit that both have placed on their most generous supporters is not to accept money from oil or gas entrepreneurs, so as not to compromise the reforms they plan against climate change.
Wall Street pulled the strings of the Democratic Party and elected Biden, who had not won a single state primary election in his life, in the 72 hours leading up to Super Tuesday (the date on which one-third of the delegates who vote at the Convention are decided August National), before that his campaign was practically dead for being a hollow candidate, without enthusiasm.
It is a fundamental piece to advance in the Great Reset (Great Reset) planned by the World Economic Forum for its next annual meeting between January and February. It is a move by these elites that covers more than 50 fields of knowledge and practice, according to analyst Pepe Escobar . It interconnects everything from recommendations for the recovery of the economy to "sustainable business models", from restoring the environment to redesigning social contracts. Of course, all decided and imposed by 1%.
YOU NEED TO BE PROTECTED BY CORPORATE MEDIA
Given the circumstances in which his candidacy emerged, it was assumed that he would also be assured of favorable coverage by the large media and television networks. So it was, and it is not by chance, his relationship with the world of the mass media is not new.
In January 2012, the mansion of the owner of the Megaupload website in New Zealand was raided and both the collection of luxury cars and the data of 135 computers of the tycoon Kim Schimts (Kim Dotcom) were confiscated. The German-born millionaire was charged with copyright infringement and wire fraud for allegedly illegally uploading millions of songs to the file-sharing website
Biden ordered an illegal search of Kim Dotcom's home in New Zealand to protect the interests of the mass media (Photo: File)
A judge ruled that all the court orders used by the police in the search, invasion and search of Kim Schmitz's house, were illegal and therefore invalid. It was learned that Joe Biden, then vice president of the United States and best friend of former senator and head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), Chris Dodd, gave the order to close Megaupload to his former lawyer and then district attorney Neil MacBride .
Dotcom claims to have evidence that in June 2011 there was a meeting in the West Wing of the White House that included Mike Ellis of MPAA Asia, an expert on extraditions and a former superintendent of the Hong Kong police. Ellis himself also met with then-Minister of Justice Simon Power in New Zealand.
In addition to Dodd, the meeting was attended by Barry Meyer (CEO of Warner Bros), Brad Gray (CEO of Paramount Pictures), Jeff Blake (vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment), Ronald Meyer (president of Universal Studios) and Rich Ross (director Walt Disney), among others.
Last March, Biden's former assistant filed a complaint against him for sexual assault in 1993 with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department. From that date (days 24 and 25) the mainstream media practically ignored the story , the candidate had 10 presentations in 15 days and was never consulted about it until April 12, almost 20 days after the first publications.
The New York Times wrote an article that he summarized in a tweet that was later deleted due to the scandal it caused: "We did not find any pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden." Data from the Media Research Center revealed that, as of April 27, the total number of minutes of coverage the Tara Reade case received on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and MSNBC was 12 minutes and 25 seconds.
The CNN network began to cover the story until April 25 (15 minutes of coverage in total in those three days), 38 days later the program "Morning Joe" with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski (May 1 on MSNBC), interviewed and consulted directly on Reade's indictment. Neither of those mentioned interviewed Tara Reade.
Recently the corporate media completely ignored the report of the New York Post on the activities of his son Hunter Biden in one of the private companies most important gas in Ukraine, Burisma Holdings. They attacked it as "dubious" (CNN), "misinformation" ( The Economist ), a "conspiracy" (NBC News), "fake news" ( The Guardian ) or part of a planned takedown of Biden (CNN).
CBS News reporter Bo Erickson was attacked by other journalists for asking the Democratic presidential candidate to comment on the Post's allegations .
IT IS IMPORTANT TO BE THE LIKE OF THE TECH GIANTS
Hunter Biden received a position as a member of Burisma's board of directors, earning $ 50,000 per month, shortly after the still vice president had threatened to withdraw the guarantees that the United States gave the European country for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to maintain. the credit mechanism that had been approved to that country since 2015.
Many emails and texts allegedly written to and from Hunter reflect his efforts to induce his father to take action as Vice President for Burisma's benefit, he had introduced his father to top executives at the energy company a few months before he lobbied officials of the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating the company.
A report published by The New York Post implicates Hunter Biden, son of the president-elect "projected" by the US media, in influence trafficking with a Ukrainian company (Photo: redreporttoday.com)redreporttoday . com )
Neither Facebook nor Twitter users were able to share or link to the New York Post story , in fact, Twitter blocked the newspaper's account for two weeks in what Glenn Greenwald calls a "de facto union of media, giants of Silicon Valley and the intelligence community to suppress these stories. "
At least 69% of Americans use Facebook, and 43% (more than 140 million people) receive news from it. Twitter is also influential, with nearly a quarter of the country using the service. Therefore, the decision to completely censor the story of two of the most important news outlets was influential, especially since the Post continues to defend the veracity of its reports, betting its reputation on it.
The Facebook executive who blocked all negative evidence of Hunter and Joe Biden's corrupt activity in Ukraine is the same person who was coordinating the corrupt activity between the Biden family payments and Ukraine. This is Anna Makanju, who is currently in charge of Facebook's electoral integrity program.
She is a former non-resident senior member of the Atlantic Council, a seemingly non-partisan think tank that deals with international affairs. In fact, it is a decidedly partisan organization to which Burisma began paying a lot of money ($ 300,000) in 2016, just as Makanju was advising Biden on Shokin's resignation.
Biden said in a campaign that social networks like Facebook and Twitter have not done enough to control disinformation and hate speech, which critics of the companies say have helped amplify hoaxes and extremist views. The Trump administration filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google just weeks before the presidential election, which has been the federal government's most significant challenge to the tech industry in more than two decades.
What could be a years-long battle could force Google to spin off parts of its business empire if the government ultimately prevails, plus an eventual Biden Justice Department is expected not to pursue this particular lawsuit.
Democrats in Congress who support the Trump administration's action against the company include Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who oversaw a 15-month investigation into the monopoly power of big tech companies, however the venture capitalist and consultant Politician Bradley Tusk predicts that Biden's Justice Department could simply drop the federal lawsuit and hit the reset button.
IT IS ESSENTIAL TO SERVE AS AN EFFICIENT WAR MACHINE
Biden has been the subject of criticism for his votes in the Senate, especially those that defined whether or not wars like the Gulf were started in 1991, when he voted against it, but in 2003 he provided political cover for the massive military attack on Iraq authorized. by Republican President George Bush.
He is said to have done more than any other Democratic senator to give the invasion the green light from his powerful position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and shielded by the theory of possession of weapons of mass destruction.
The Plan Colombia , which was originally presented as "a proposal for peace and development" by the then President of Colombia, Andres Pastrana, in 1999, the Clinton administration made him a massive militarization of Colombian society that only benefited the industrial- complex military.
Biden successfully lobbied for 80% of the $ 7.5 billion total to go to the Colombian Military Forces; Much of the weapons came into the hands of far-right paramilitary squads linked to the government.Joe Biden brags
"I'm the guy who put together Plan Colombia".
#PlanColombia used murderous, failed drug war policies as cover to destabilize democracy in South America, arming right wing death squads so openly that Congress had to force it to stop with an amendment.
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In the post-9/11 era, drug traffickers were renamed "narco-terrorists" as a justifying narrative for US interference. Biden was one of its key architects. "I'm the guy who drew up Plan Colombia," he declared, adding that he "straightened out that government for a long time."
What was heralded as a major anti-drug push turned into a war against the population, with the Colombian government carrying out a regime of massive chemical defoliation, forcing large numbers of people to abandon the land and clearing it for multinational corporations.
More than 10,000 innocent civilians were killed by paramilitaries, the government disguised them as narco-terrorists, and their number was used to obtain more funds from the United States on the grounds that the corpses equaled progress in the fight against drugs.
The false positives and mass graves are the result of the implementation of Plan Colombia, a militaristic initiative promoted by Biden (Photo: El Espectador)
The United Nations estimates that 7.4 million Colombians are internally displaced to this day due to the ongoing civil war and Plan Colombia, and millions more are leaving the country entirely. The stated goal of the drug reduction plan did not even work, as cocaine producers simply crossed the border into other Andean countries unaffected by the war and returned when the violence subsided. By 2017, national coca production reached an all-time high, according to the UN.
It goes without saying that the Obama / Biden duo used preventive war, that is, they used Bush's preventive doctrine to justify their military policy in the Middle East. Biden exhibits a three-headed hydra that would surely participate in an eventual government.
The female trio made up of Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State with Obama and currently head of the Democratic Party; Susan Rice, former ambassador to the UN and also former National Security Advisor during the Barack Obama terms; and Michèle Flournoy, undersecretary of defense under Obama, are responsible for sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan instead of drawing soldiers, supporting the Pentagon's plan to leave a remaining force of 10-20,000 US military personnel in Iraq, and lobby for the United States to channel arms to rebels in Syria's civil war.
These people and others from the Biden environment figure in the intervention and destruction of the Libyan state, the support for the Saudi aggression in Yemen, the war of the drone wars , the indefinite detention without trial in Guantánamo, the prosecution of whistleblowers and torture laundering. They have used their connections to earn huge salaries at consulting firms and others in the private sector that feed off government contracts.
"SUPPORT" CIVIL RIGHTS BUT NOT
The veteran politician has a history of outspoken advocacy of neoliberalism and expertly evades his position on class inequalities. His good relationships with established elites in the African American sectors and the union world do not mean that he has real acceptance or ancestry over the workers or the so-called black or Latino communities.
In the 1970s, he led against desegregating schools through public transportation by promoting nearly a dozen laws aimed at placing strict limits on federal agencies and the ability of courts to order buses to achieve racial integration in the schools.
He was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two black appointments to the Justice Department and maintained a close relationship with arch-segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, who left the Democratic Party and became a Republican due to his vehement opposition to the Civil Rights Law.
He defeated a 1977 amendment that would have removed all restrictions on federal funding of abortions and produced the "Biden Amendment," which prohibited US aid from being used for abortion-related biomedical research.
Throughout the 1980s, he and Thurmond worked on a series of bills that radically reformed the criminal justice system, including the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which limited probation and slashed reductions in sentences for good behavior. Biden continued to attack Republican George HW Bush from the right on crime in 1989, condemning his draconian proposals for not going far enough.
In a speech to the full Senate in 1993 he said:
"It does not matter whether or not they are people who were needy or marginalized in their youth. It does not matter whether or not they had a past that allowed them to be part of the social fabric. It does not matter whether or not they were victims of the The end result is that they are about to beat my mother, shoot my sister ... ".
Even as Bush pushed for substantial increases in the prison industrial system, Biden continually demanded more, publishing his own plans that included billions more in funding for a greater number of police officers, the FBI and the DEA.
All of this culminated in what he called his "greatest achievement" in politics in 2007: the controversial 1994 Anti-Crime Bill.
From less than 200,000 in 1970, the prison population skyrocketed in the 1980s and 1990s, increasing to 740,000 in 1990 and 1.33 million in 2000; it continued to grow to the point where nearly a quarter of the world's prisoners are Americans.
African Americans, whom Biden and Hillary Clinton described as "thugs" and "super predators" on various occasions, are incarcerated at five times the rate of whites. In five states (Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont and Wisconsin), the disparity is more than 10 to 1. One in three black men will be incarcerated in his lifetime. The United States locks up a greater proportion of its citizens than any other country in the world, which is a lucrative business at the expense of prisoners.
Biden's legislative and executive work has grown the number of black prisoners in the United States and, with them, lucrative businesses at his expense (Photo: File)
Much of the increase in numbers can be attributed to Richard Nixon's drug war, now often understood as a political project to criminalize his two main political enemies: blacks and the pacifist left.
"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be against the war or to be black, but by having the public associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then by criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities." admitted one of Nixon's aides to Harper's Magazine .
BACK TO "ALL THAT GOOD STUFF"?
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party's leading candidate in the face of Bernie Sanders' "danger" to the country's liberal status quo , was posing as a "moderate" as the party's internal elections progressed.
He added to his political platform the main campaign proposals of his adversaries, shifting, even a margin of maneuver comfortable enough not to put at risk his own electoral base, his ideological and programmatic position more to the left than it was. early in the process , and further to the left than he was during his tenure as vice president.
For example, in recent days Biden retracted the intransigent position he adopted during the Obama presidency and the Trumpist anti- immigration policies implemented since the second administration of the first black American president.Warren and Sanders to be frozen out of Biden cabinet, report says
‘We cannot afford to put any seats in jeopardy,’ says Democrat Gerry Connolly
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It's almost certain that when Biden talks about going back to "all that good stuff" he isn't talking about:
How college graduates don't raise their heads because they are in debt and trapped in the stocks of a predatory lending industry.
How many family tragedies were produced by the tightening of bankruptcy laws that he and Republicans in the 1990s caused, based on the idea that too many middle class people were accumulating debt on their credit cards irresponsibly and then declaring bankruptcy .
How does the possibility that, if he assumes the presidency, cut Medicare and freeze federal spending on Social Security as it was promoted with his vote in the 1980s, especially when "Medicare for all" is a proposal that has the support of 70% of Americans.
How many of the migrant children who are separated from their families exist because their $ 750 million plan, which included privatizations and austerity measures, perpetuated the same economic and political conditions that led their parents and grandparents to flee unemployment.
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Google Translator.
I guess that distance does improve perspective...And how about that top photo? It really is creepy.