Lowry: In GOP civil war, Trump takes the advantage - for now
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Well, it’s on.
Donald Trump ended his post-presidency silence not with a blast at President Joe Biden, or at the left, or at the House impeachment managers but at the true enemy Mitch McConnell.
The Trump forces aren’t forming a third party, but they do want to take over or, more accurately, maintain their current grip on the GOP, and McConnell is an obstacle.
The Senate minority leader declared his independence from Trump in his lacerating speech at the end of the Senate impeachment trial.
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Cryptology Asset Group PLC: Appoints Current Head of Asset Management, Patrick Lowry, as the New CEO
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MALTA / ACCESSWIRE / February 18, 2021 / Cryptology Asset Group (ISIN: MT0001770107; Ticker: 4UD), a leading European investment company for blockchain- and crypto-related business models, co-founded by Christian Angermayer and crypto-legend Mike Novogratz, announced that Patrick Lowry has been appointed as the new CEO. An experienced manager with substantial capital markets experience, Patrick will succeed Jefim Gewiet, who will step into the role of COO for the company.
Patrick is an accomplished asset manager with extensive experience managing crypto assets and blockchain-based venture capital investments. He is the founder and CEO of Iconic Holding, an asset management group and portfolio company of Cryptology. Prior to founding Iconic Holding, Patrick was a member of the Deutsche Börse venture capital team, a Senior Associate at Philadelphia-based private equity firm
Lowry: Washington D.C. looks like an armed camp
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Washington, D.C., is not, counter to what you might think, a war zone.
The city isn’t divided down the middle between the forces of the U.S. government on one hand and secessionist rebels on the other. Insurgents aren’t mortaring Reagan National Airport. Neither Virginia nor Maryland is about to declare war on the district.
And yet thousands of National Guard troops are still in the city, and security measures undertaken in the immediate aftermath of the riot at the U.S. Capitol remain in place.
This is bad policy and bad symbolism. It is too much, too late. It is a classic bureaucratic overreaction to a failure that can’t be undone by theatrical measures after the fact.