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Senator Mitt Romney profited roughly $20K for each American laid off via his firm Bain Capitol

John Binder
Breitbart
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 00:00 UTC
Romney
© Getty Images/George FreySenator Mitt Romney
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who supported convicting President Donald Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, profited thousands of dollars every time an American worker was laid off from their job after investments by his firm Bain Capital.

While head of Bain Capital between 1984 and 1999, Mitt Romney helped win giant profits for investors that ultimately left small and medium-sized American companies bankrupted and forced to lay off thousands of American workers.

According to a rough estimate by AOL Finance, conducted in 2012, Romney earned about $20,000 for every American worker who was laid off as a result of Bain Capital's investments:
Romney himself profited handsomely from his time running Bain Capital. Although the exact details of his personal finances are not available, news reports estimate his net worth at somewhere between $190 and $250 million, much of it derived from his Bain Capital days. Very rough math might suggest that Romney made as much as $20,000 per job lost.

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Trump slams Romney & Pelosi for faith-based hypocrisy during impeachment

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Trump slams Romney & Pelosi for faith-based hypocrisy during impeachment


RT
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:55 UTC
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© Reuters / Leah Millis
US President Donald Trump took a veiled swipe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the sole Republican senator to vote for his removal, Mitt Romney, slamming those who use their faith to justify "doing what they know is wrong."

Trump avoided calling the sanctimonious pair out by name during the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, but everyone listening seemed to know which "very dishonest and corrupt people" he was referring to with his accusations of rank religious hypocrisy.

"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong," the president said. "Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so. They know what they are doing is wrong but they put themselves far ahead of our great country."

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Al-Qaeda's little helpers: Israeli air force strikes Damascus, Turks protect Jabhat al-Nusra as battle for Saraqib ramps up


South Front
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:55 UTC
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© Reuters / SANA Handout
Early on February 6, the Israeli Air Force delivered an wide-scale strike on targets in the countyside of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and in the province of Daraa Israeli aircraft launched several missiles from airspace over the occupied Golan Heights and southern Lebanon.

According to Syrian sources, the Al-Kiswa area, Marj al-Sultan, Baghdad Bridge near Damascus and the area south of Izraa in the province of Daraa became the main targets of the attack.

Syria's State media claimed that the Syrian Air Defense shot down most of the Israeli missiles before they were able to reach their targets. Pro-Israeli sources claim that the strikes successfully hit Iran-related targets destroying weapon depots and HQs of Iranian-backed forces.

The attack took place as the Syrian Army was storming the key stronghold of al-Qaeda-linked militants in the province of Idlib - the town of Saraqib. Right on cue, the Israeli military joined the club of al-Qaeda's little helpers.



Comment: The Syrian General Command stated that the Israelis and Turks worked together on this latest aggression:
"at 02:00 am on Thursday and in a blatant synchronicity with the Israeli air aggression and even under its cover, a Turkish military convoy that includes a number of vehicles and armored vehicles passed from Oglinar area into Syria.

The statement noted that the Turkish military convoy "deployed on the line between the towns of Binnish, Ma'ar Masrin and Taftanaz with the aim to protect terrorists, on top Jabhat al-Nusra, and to impede the advance of the Syrian Arab Army and to prevent it from completing the elimination of systematic terrorism which besieges civilians in Idleb province and take them as hostages and human shields."


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Russian, Turkish military specialists among hundreds killed & injured in last two months of terrorist attacks in Syria's Idlib


RT
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:56 UTC
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© Reuters/ Ammar AbdullahFighters of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in southwestern Aleppo in 2016.
Terrorists took over the Idlib de-escalation zone and carried out thousands of attacks in the last two months, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that the West is portraying them as "moderate opposition."

Idlib governorate, the last stronghold of anti-government forces in Syria, saw a surge of violence by radical jihadists who have no desire for a peaceful resolution to the almost nine-year-long conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Most of the attacks are carried out by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the latest iteration of al-Qaeda in Syria.

The area was proclaimed a de-escalation zone under the Russia-Turkey agreements. In mid-January, Russian and Turkish forces tried to impose a 'regime of silence' there, but the attacks only escalated.
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Out of control, or 'remember why they need us'? Too many convicted terrorists to track, warns senior British police officer


RT
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:16 UTC
Neil Basu
© FRANK AUGSTEIN/APNeil Basu, an assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard.
British police are overwhelmed with suspected and convicted terrorists to track, as they simply cannot keep an eye on every single extremist, says Neil Basu, senior national coordinator for counter-terrorism.

In an article for the Evening Standard on Wednesday, Basu revealed that he was "supportive" of UK government plans to introduce emergency laws on February 27 that will prevent existing convicted terrorists from being automatically released from jail after serving just a third of their sentence.

Basu, who was speaking out after 20-year-old Sudesh Amman stabbed two people in Streatham, London before being shot dead by police officers, admitted that police were struggling to keep on top of surveillance of dangerous individuals.

Comment: While it may be the case that police resources are stretched too thin to track all of the possible threats to the public, 'Islamic terrorism' in London is not a serious threat to the status quo and, in its relatively weak form, has proven to be 'the gift that keeps on giving' for those in power in the UK.

As we've seen 'Islamic terrorism' practiced in the UK in recent years, it keeps the country in a state of tension in the run-up to major political events. It also, to quote the tyrannical chancellor in the movie V for Vendetta, is related to wanting "everyone to remember why they need us!" - to keep the populace engaged but only insofar as they lend their support to a crooked few.

That's the theory of strategy anyway. A more mundane reason for Basu to make such statements is to ensure more funding for his budget. No matter that rogue authorities within the govt likely have a direct hand in creating, instigating and fostering the problem in the first place.

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Democrats failed to impeach Trump, but they won't give up trying - they've got nothing else left

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 14:33 UTC
trump protesters resist
© Reuters / Bryan R SmithDemonstrators in New York protest the acquittal of President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial, February 5, 2020.
Even before Donald Trump was elected US president, Democrats began talking about impeachment. Now that it has failed, will they finally accept the result of the 2016 election? Don't get your hopes up.

Trump's acquittal in the Senate on Wednesday was a foregone conclusion, given as it takes two thirds of the senators present to convict. The only way for 20 Republicans to switch sides was for the House case to be open and shut - something that only Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) and 'Russiagate' truthers in the media actually believed.

In the end, the sole Republican to break ranks was Mitt Romney, and only on one of the articles. Not guilty, exonerated, case closed, let's "move on" - as Democrats themselves advised in 1999, after the same thing happened to Bill Clinton.
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Report: White House to issue Executive Order directing federal buildings to be built in classical style

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:51 UTC
us architecture
That's more like it
The White House is reportedly preparing an executive order that would direct all new federal buildings to be built in the classical architectural style.

The Architectural Record has obtained a preliminary draft of the order, entitled 'Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again', under which "the White House would require rewriting the Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture, issued in 1962, to ensure that "the classical architectural style shall be the preferred and default style" for new and upgraded federal buildings.


The order would reverse favoring Brutalist and Deconstructivist styles advocated by the General Service Administration's (GSA) Design Excellence Program and would instead favor the architectural styles of "democratic Athens" and "republican Rome."

The executive order trashes brutalist buildings such as the U.S. Federal Building in San Francisco, the U.S. Courthouse in Austin, Texas, and the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami as having "little aesthetic appeal."
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Netanyahu guarantees to annex parts of West Bank 'as soon as we win March election'

Oleg Burunov
Sputnik
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 07:10 UTC
Israel palestine
© REUTERS / Mohamad Torokman
Trump's Middle East peace deal, which was unveiled on 28 January and vehemently rejected by Palestinians, specifically stipulates that Israel extend its sovereignty over parts of the West Bank, including those located in the strategic Jordan Valley, as well as Jewish settlements there.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he would ask the government to greenlight the extension of sovereignty over the territory in the West Bank only if he wins the 2 March elections.

Using Biblical terms for the West Bank, Netanyahu said during a campaign event in Beit Shemesh on Tuesday that "as soon as we win, we'll apply Israeli law to all of the Jewish communities in the Jordan Valley and in Judea and Samaria".

Comment: Meanwhile Netanyahu is teasing the blood thirsty with a possible war on Gaza to coincide with the March elections.

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Lavrov's "pragmatic" trip to Latin America to foster cooperation, not to spite Washington


RT
Thu, 06 Feb 2020 02:07 UTC
south america flag
© FILE PHOTO. AFP / Hoang Dinh NamFILE PHOTO.
The Russian foreign minister's three-day trip to Latin America has provoked nervous reactions in the US, where it is assumed to be part of an anti-American agenda even though Moscow has legitimate economic interests in the region.

During the trip that started on Wednesday, Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to pay one-day visits to Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela - setting the tongues wagging in Washington.

The Hill branded the whole trip a "show of support" for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom US President Donald Trump had just declared a "dictator" while offering support to self-proclaimed "interim leader" Juan Guaido.

Even Reuters has insinuated that Lavrov was "sent" by the Kremlin to Caracas to somehow "counteract" American sanctions. The standard line of mainstream media outlets seems to be that Moscow seeks to "strengthen influence in the region."

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Step to nuclear doomsday: US puts low-yield nukes on submarines to counter made-up Russian 'strategy'

Scott Ritter
RT
Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:14 UTC
Trident
© Reuters / US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ronald Gutridge / HandoutFILE PHOTO: Trident II D5 missile test-launched from the US ballistic missile submarine
The US has deployed "low-yield" nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it's to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a "Russian strategy" made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.

In a statement released earlier this week, US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood announced that "the US Navy has fielded the W76-2 low-yield submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead." This new operational capability, Rood declared, "demonstrates to potential adversaries that there is no advantage to limited nuclear employment because the United States can credibly and decisively respond to any threat scenario."

The threat underpinning justification for this new US nuclear deterrent had its roots in testimony delivered to the House Armed Services Committee in June 2015 by US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, who declared that "Russian military doctrine includes what some have called an 'escalate to deescalate strategy' - a strategy that purportedly seeks to deescalate a conventional conflict through coercive threats, including limited nuclear use."

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