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2019-11-11 Home Front: Politix
U.S. Politicians Can't Stop Taking Len Blavatnik's Money
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Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-11 08:20|| || Front Page|| [336104 views ]  Top

#1 "Kleptocracy." Now there's a good word.
Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-11 09:37||   2019-11-11 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Blavatnik's money is no more tainted than Soros's.

The latter actually attacked the treasury and nearly destroyed the currency of Britain. The former angled himself a piece of the post-Soviet pie in the 1990s. Since then, he's engaged in exactly the same kinds of legal, high-risk corporate buccaneering-- cf Lyondell Basel's restructuring-- that every other major American private equity or hedge fund billionaire has been engaged in. This last phase of Blavatnik's career- the last 20 years or so-- puts him in the same category as Carl Icahn or Boone Pickens.

If there is a moral difference between Soros and Blavatnik, its to be found in how they spend their billions.

Blavatnik has given his money to great and noble institutions like Harvard and IIRC London's wonderful Courtauld Institute and IIRC Slade School of Art. He supports great scholars and fine artists.

Soros supports advocates of fraud, cop-killing, and sedition.
Posted by Lex 2019-11-11 11:47||   2019-11-11 11:47|| Front Page Top

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