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Two decades after President Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe’s economy by urging black subsistence farmers to violently force white commercial farmers and their workers off their land, his successor has thrown in the towel.

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More #Biden2020 Gaffes this weekend

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden continued to struggle campaigning in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, further drawing criticisms from those who believe that his fitness for office is an issue.

Biden stated while using a teleprompter [emphasis added]:

You want a nominee that will bring this party together, who will run a progressive, positive campaign, and turn this primary from a campaign that’s about negative attacks into one about what we’re for because we cannot re-elect, we cannot win this re-election, excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump if, in fact, we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.\

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren will drop out of the Democratic presidential race, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders as the last major contenders for the nomination. Warren’s exit — like that of billionaire Mike Bloomberg — came after the Massachusetts senator’s poor showings in crucial Super Tuesday contests. The eventual Democratic nominee will face President Donald Trump in the contest for the White House.

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“My name is Joe Biden, I’m a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, vote for me on Super Thursday in North South Carolina because we hold these truths to be self-evident all men and women created by the, you know, the thing.”

Joe Biden tries to quote the Declaration of Independence, failspic.twitter.com/ULzGB0XtQK

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) March 2, 2020

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ended her Democratic presidential campaign on Monday and endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice president’s White House bid.

She is flying to Dallas and plans to join Biden at his rally Monday night.

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• Jack Welch was a railroad conductor’s son who rose to chairman and CEO of General Electric.
• During the 20 years he led the conglomerate, its market value grew from $12 billion to $410 billion.
• Fortune magazine once called him “manager of the century,” but he also was known as “Neutron Jack” for slashing tens of thousands of jobs.

Jack Welch, a railroad conductor’s son who became chairman and CEO of General Electric and led it for two decades, growing its market value from $12 billion to $410 billion, has died. He was 84.

His death was announced Monday by his wife, Suzy.

With a determination to win by busting up bureaucratic complacency, Welch earned two titles — “manager of the century,” and “Neutron Jack” for slashing tens of thousands of jobs. Under his leadership, GE became the world’s most valuable company, after Microsoft. Its fortunes later turned south.

While at the helm, Welch bought and sold scores of businesses, expanding the industrial giant into financial services and consulting. GE Capital Bank was founded seven years into his tenure. His acquisitions included RCA — then-owner of NBC — and Kidder Peabody, the brokerage that became entangled in an insider trading scandal.

He also streamlined the conglomerate’s bloated bureaucracy by giving managers free rein to make changes they deemed beneficial to the bottom line.

He invented the “vitality curve,” in which managers were ranked into three groups. The top 20% “A” group was “filled with passion, committed to making things happen.” The “vital” 70% “B” group was essential to the company and encouraged to join the A’s. Then there was the bottom 10% “C” group. “The underperformers generally had to go,” Welch said in his 2001 book, “Jack: Straight From the Gut.”

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Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the 2020 presidential primary race, a senior campaign aide told CNBC.

He is flying to South Bend, Indiana to make the announcement, where he served as mayor for two terms.

The Indiana Democrat waged an unlikely campaign that saw a little-known mayor overpower governors and U.S. senators in the race for the party nomination.

Along the way, Buttigieg assembled a substantial war chest and a vast national operation. A two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg was the first openly gay major presidential contender. He scored a narrow delegate edge over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses and finished a strong second place in New Hampshire’s primary.

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PATHWAY TO PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN: President Donald J. Trump is following through on his promise and taking a decisive step to achieve negotiated peace in Afghanistan.

• President Trump is making good on his promise to bring our troops home from endless wars overseas by working toward peace in Afghanistan.
• Following a successful 7-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan, the United States is taking decisive steps toward a negotiated peace in Afghanistan.
• The United States and Afghan governments will be issuing a joint declaration reaffirming our strong partnership, including our continued support for Afghan security forces.
• An agreement has been reached with the Taliban that secures important commitments that are necessary to finally end the conflict in Afghanistan.
• While work remains, this progress provides a historic opportunity for peace.

• Through our negotiations, America has secured strong commitments from the Taliban to permanently sever their ties to international terrorists.
• As the agreement is implemented, we will be watching closely and making determinations about compliance based on our own judgment and the safety of our personnel.
• We will begin reducing the number of troops, while sustaining a counterterrorism force to continue dismantling terrorist groups that seek to attack the United States.
• The pace of removal for American troops stationed in Afghanistan is conditions based and will depend on how well the Taliban comply with the commitments they have made.

• President Trump is working each and every day to continue to keep America safe—including by rebuilding our military and combating terror around the globe.
• We will ensure that Afghan soil can never again be used to threaten American lives.
• We will always do what is necessary to ensure the safety and security of the American people.

• President Trump promised to bring our troops home from overseas and is following through on that promise.
• In Afghanistan, our service members have done important work to root out terrorism and bring peace, but it is time to bring them home.
• Our Nation thanks the hundreds of thousands of American service members and our allies who have proudly served in Afghanistan, particularly the fallen and families of the fallen.

• Ultimately, it is the people of Afghanistan who must come together to achieve lasting peace for their future.
• For its part, the government of Afghanistan has committed to establishing an inclusive national team to participate in intra-Afghan negotiations.
• The Taliban have committed to enter negotiations with the Afghan government, its political leaders, and Afghan civil society, including women.
• Based on these announcements, we call on all sides to continue to reduce violence in Afghanistan as all sides come together to write a roadmap for their country’s future.
• In the meantime, the United States will continue working with allies and partners to monitor the situation and preserve the gains of the last 19 years.

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Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to “be removed from control” of the company in a letter to the Financial Times.

Soros accused Zuckerberg of engaging in “some kind of mutual assistance arrangement with Donald Trump that will help him to get re-elected” by continuing to run political ads on Facebook. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has taken the opposite approach, banning all political advertising worldwide last October.

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