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Doctor who treated Alexei Navalny after poisoning dead at 55: reports

The Russian doctor who was in charge of treating Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok has died suddenly at age 55, according to multiple reports.

Sergey Maximishin died of a heart attack after being taken to the hospital where he worked on Wednesday night due to a spike in his blood pressure, Life.ru reported, citing a Russian Health Ministry spokeswoman.

“The doctor actually died of a heart attack, because he had a really stressful job and he actually lost people who were close to him,” said spokeswoman Galina Nazarova.

“It’s just the human heart,” she told the outlet.

Maksimshin, who was the head of intensive care, died in the cardiology ER of his hospital in Omsk.

“He gave his local hospital 28 years, saved thousands of lives, and left many talented students who will carry on his legacy,” the Omsk Region Health Minister Alexander Murakhovsky said.

“Sergey Maximishin literally dragged out from “the other side” even the most critical, hopeless patients with his hands.”

About 1,400 people have been arrested, mostly in Moscow and St. Petersburg, during heated protests over the Jan. 17 arrest of Navalny, 44, a fierce Kremlin critic who was detained on his return to Russia from Germany, where his treatment for poisoning had been continued.

Navalny has been ordered to serve 3 1/2 years prison after authorities ruled that his trip to Germany violated his parole.

https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/doctor-who-treated-alexei-navalny-after-poisoning-dead-at-55-reports/

GCHQ cleaning up loose ends

Tom Cotton: DREAM Act Would Offer Amnesty to Illegal Aliens with Criminal Convictions

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Thursday that Democrats’ DREAM Act legislation, if enacted into federal law, would permit the extension of amnesty to illegal aliens with criminal convictions.

“[The DREAM Act] would ignore criminal records,” Cotton explained in an interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. “It would exclude multiple criminal convictions at the state and federal levels, [including] serious and violent felonies that have been pleaded down to lower offenses. It would give Alejandro Mayorka — who we’ve seen is surrounded by serious ethical questions — the ability to issue waivers, even for people like human traffickers.”

Cotton reflected on his analysis of the DREAM Act, introduced on Thursday by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). He noted how the Democrat Party and broader left frame the DREAM Act and similar amnesty proposals as a humanitarian measure for children.

“The Dream Act [is] often portrayed by people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Dick Durbin as helping the Tiny Tim Cratchits of the world, the poor chimney sweep out there who’s seven years old and just trying to get a loaf of bread to survive on,” Cotton stated.

“Most of the people that the so-called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program benefited when Obama instituted it were already in their 20s. Now many of these people are in their 20s or even their 30s,” Cotton said. “About seven out of eight, in fact, are in their 20s. So these people are in the situation where they arrived here as minors, and therefore are illegal immigrants, but we’re mostly talking about adults. We’re not talking about little children.”

“The DREAM Act goes far beyond that program,” Cotton said of former Barack Obama’s executive order. He continued:

It would have amnesty for more than two million such people, and then here’s the kicker. The main selling point that the Democrats and, unfortunately, some Republicans use for this proposal is that children shouldn’t pay for the sins of the parents. Okay, I understand that. Now, I would say maybe they shouldn’t benefit from the sins of the parents, either, but how about parents paying for the sins of the parents, right?

Cotton highlighted the DREAM Act’s facilitation of chain migration.

“The whole point is that the children were brought here, they had no choice, they were minors they know no other country, and the parents are the ones that made the choice,” Cotton remarked. “Dick Durbin’s DREAM Act would allow those children — who are now adults — once they get legal status, to then turn around and get amnesty and citizenship for their parents who violated our laws in the first place and created this situation.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/04/tom-cotton-dream-act-would-offer-amnesty-illegal-aliens-criminal-convictions/

Yellen cheers ‘RESILIENT’ markets, calls for ‘timely study’ into GameStop craze, as Wall Street crushes Reddit rebellion

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, central bankers and financial regulators essentially declared victory over a populist investor uprising, agreeing that markets proved “resilient” through a trading rally that is now being tamed.

And lest amateur traders think they can take another run at the Wall Street establishment, Yellen and friends agreed on Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will need to quickly complete a study of the market tumult to find “whether trading practices are consistent with investor protection and fair and efficient markets.”

“Secretary Yellen believes it is imperative to uphold the integrity of these markets and ensure investor protection,” the Treasury Department said in a statement, signaling more scrutiny.

The investors needing protection lately were large hedge funds that short-sold stocks such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment, only to lose billions of dollars when amateur investors using message boards on Reddit and other social media platforms undertook coordinated buying binges to drive up share prices. So-called short squeezes gain further momentum as short sellers are forced to buy shares amid surging prices to cover their wrong-way bets, resulting in ruinous losses.

GameStop was the poster child for the campaign, led by Reddit message group WallStreetBets, rising to an intraday high of $483, a 188-fold increase from its 52-week low of $2.57. But investment app Robinhood and other brokerages put trading restrictions on shares of the so-called ‘meme stocks’, helping to burst the bubble. GameStop shares fell a further 42 percent on Thursday, closing at $53.50. The stock has dropped nearly 90 percent in the past week, wiping out more than $30 billion in brief gains.