Deutsche Bank Trader Prosecuted By DoJ Was A London Gold And Silver Fixer

‘Beginning in at least May 2008 and continuing through at least July 2013 (the “Relevant Period”), Defendants James Vorley (“Vorley”) and Cedric Chanu (“Chanu”) engaged in a manipulative and deceptive scheme (the “Scheme”) while placing orders and trading in the precious metals futures markets on a registered entity.’

So begins the civil enforcement action filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on 26 January 2018 against two former Deutsche Bank precious metals traders James Vorley and Cedric Chanu. During their trading careers at Deutsche, Vorley was employed by Deutsche Bank in London and Chanu by Deutsche Bank in Singapore.

According to the UK’s FSA Register, James Vorley performed regulated activities (i.e. trading) at Deutsche Bank London between June 2007 and November 2014. Before that, Vorley was employed in a similar role at the Bank of Nova Scotia between December 2001 and April 2007.

According to the CFTC complaint:

“Vorley and Chanu repeatedly engaged in manipulative or deceptive acts and practices by spoofing (bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution).

On numerous occasions, Vorley and/or Chanu placed orders for COMEX gold, silver, platinum or palladium futures contracts that they wanted to get filled (Genuine Order) and entered orders for the same contract on the opposite side of the market that they intended to cancel before execution (Spoof Order).”

The CFTC complaint continues:

“Vorley and Chanu also engaged in spoofing in coordination with other traders on the precious metals desk and taught another trader on the desk how to spoof.”

This other trader that they tutored is David Liew, also of Deutsche Bank in Singapore, who has now turned prosecution witness for the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) – see below.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/deutsche-bank-trader-prosecuted-doj-was-london-gold-and-silver-fixer

Rules are for the Little People: Pelosi Admits She Attended Mass in San Francisco While the Rest of the State Was Locked Down

Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi broke Democrat Governor Newsom’s rules and attended Catholic mass in San Francisco during the lockdown.

The rest of the state is forbidden from attending church services.

And the Democrat governor has threatened several religious communities with fines for holding church service.

Earlier this month Speaker Pelosi was caught going to the salon for a blow dry.

Salons are also shut down in the state.

Catholic News Agency reported:

After San Francisco’s archbishop called on the city to reopen churches for indoor Masses, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said he should listen to the “science,” but admitted she had recently attended a church service in the city, possibly in violation of public health orders.

“With all due respect to my archbishop, I think we should follow science on this,” Pelosi told reporters at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Friday.

“I don’t know if [San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone] was speaking as our pastor or as a lobbyist—advocate. But whatever it is, I am sure that he must have meant [reopen churches] if it is scientifically safe, rather than jeopardizing people’s health if they want to go to Church,” she added.

Center for American Liberty CEO Harmeet Dhillon is available for interview to discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitting on Friday that she has attended church services in San Francisco despite the local and state prohibition.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/rules-little-people-pelosi-admits-attended-mass-san-francisco-rest-state-locked-video/

Is China Funding Democrats and the Biden Campaign? Democrats’ ActBlue Reportedly Cannot Validate If Donations Are from US or Foreign Donors

The Gateway Pundit reported on May 30th that the recent riots in Democrat-led cities around the country were coordinated and linked to domestic terrorists, foreign entities, and other radical groups and Marxists linked to the Democrat Party. Black Lives Matter (BLM) was one of these groups.

The Gateway Pundit was also the first to report that ActBlue was raising money using BLM as its front group.

The Daily Caller confirmed this and reported that BLM is not a non-profit organization and instead nonprofit organization (Thousand Currents) said it provides ‘fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services to BLM’.

Candice Owen reported on the BLM – ActBlue relationship and was targeted by a bogus fact-checker. Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch jumped in and stated that the findings confirmed what we and Candice Owen reported:

“Thousand Currents” is a supposedly non-profit organization and Susan Rosenberg served on its Board. Susan Rosenberg was a member of the Weather Underground terrorist group, which included Obama friend Bill Ayers. President Bill Clinton gave her a pardon on his last day in office.

So, in summary, contributions to BLM are funneled through ActBlue, the major resource for Democrat donations, and then funneled to at least one organization ran by a member of a domestic terrorist group.

We next reported that ActBlue in Texas is paying, not only candidates, but thousands of other unidentified individuals.

We still question if ActBlue is paying rioters for their attempts to destroy American cities.

Then we reported that per FOX News half of all donations to ActBlue in 2019 came from untraceable, unemployed donors:

A preliminary computer analysis by the Take Back Action Fund, obtained exclusively by Fox News, has found that nearly half of all 2019 donations to ActBlue were made by people claiming to be unemployed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/09/china-funding-democrats-biden-campaign-democrats-actblue-reportedly-cannot-validate-donations-us-foreign-donors/

"Trying To Break Us Down": Mass Protests Hit Israel As 2nd Nationwide Lockdown Takes Effect

As Israel's second nationwide mandatory lockdown went into effect on Friday, hundreds took the streets in Tel Aviv to protest what citizens complain is unnecessary government overreach which will only harm businesses while achieving little positive effect.

Israel's Health ministry cited a recent spike in COVID-19 cases in making the argument last week that a new national lockdown is warranted; however, government ministers concerned about the devastating impact on small businesses as well as freedom of worship clashed with factions pushing the new lockdown.

The entire country has been declared a 'hot zone' and the lockdown took effect by Friday afternoon, just before the the start of Rosh Hashanah, the two day festive celebration marking the Jewish New Year.

It comes as new infections have risen 5,000 on some days, bringing the country to over 175,000 cases including 1,160 deaths.

The mainstay of the protests began Thursday night:

Hundreds of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv late Thursday against a second nationwide lockdown to combat Israel’s surging coronavirus outbreak.

“The economy is in free-fall, people are losing their jobs, they’re depressed,” said Yael, one of between 300 and 400 demonstrators at Habima Square.

And a recently laid off protester told The Times of Israel:

“And all this for what? For nothing!”

Ironically, though schools and business have been shuttered for at least two weeks starting Friday the government has said demonstrations still remain legal, so it's expected more will pop up especially as the lockdown takes an economic toll, fueling resentment at the entire population being forced into quarantine.

Restaurants especially have been hit hard during the prior pandemic lockdown:

Protest groups in downtown Tel Aviv decried that it was all a ploy of Prime Minister Netanyahu, designed to ensure his personal political survival by continuing to sell fear, especially as he's still facing serious corruption charges.

“The shutdown is in order to turn us into submissive, suppressed sheep,” one protester told Russia's RT. She argued that ultimately the new measures are “to try to break us down.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/trying-break-us-down-mass-protests-hit-israel-2nd-nationwide-lockdown-takes-effect

‘Utter shambles’: UK court told escaped prisoner tried to turn himself in SEVEN TIMES but police refused

A British inmate who fled an open prison subsequently tried to hand himself in over the course of a month, but the Metropolitan Police refused to arrest him on seven occasions, his lawyer said.

Akram Uddin, who had been serving time for firearms offenses, fled incarceration on June 17 in order to visit his mother.

Within weeks, though, he had made seven attempts to surrender to the authorities. However, the officers at Lewisham police station in southeast London turned him away every time, Uddin's lawyer, Liam Walker, told Maidstone Crown Court during a sentencing hearing on Friday, the Guardian reported.

It's “utterly astonishing” that an escaped prisoner, who is asking to be taken into custody, is being refused, Walker pointed out. He insisted that Uddin did everything in his power to be taken back, including informing his solicitor that he was going to surrender at a certain police station, arriving there with a packed bag in preparation for being taken in, and providing his full details to the officers.

To badly paraphrase Oscar Wilde: to pass up the opportunity to arrest an escaped prisoner once may be regarded as misfortune, to pass up that opportunity seven times is an utter shambles.

The escapee's last visit to the station occurred on August 13, with him being told to come back in six days. But one day before that term expired, Uddin was finally arrested. He was handed a four-month sentence for absconding prison.

Walker insisted that this case – more than any other in his 20 years of legal practice – “illustrates the extent of the managed decay of the criminal justice system” in Britain.

The judge seemed to agree, as he ordered police to conduct a probe into Uddin's ordeal and inform the court of its findings within 28 days.

The police confirmed to The Guardian that they've already started the inquiry, however, they contested the claims of the man's legal team, saying: “There is no record of an Akram Uddin having attended Lewisham police station on dates between July 13 and August 13.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/501098-london-police-escaped-prisoner/

Barack Obama, Joe Biden perform total 180 on filling Supreme Court vacancy in election year

'That's not in the constitutional text'

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama declared Friday the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death should not be filled until after the election.

Their position is a complete reversal of what they said in 2016, when Antonin Scalia's sudden death left a vacancy on the high court just nine months before the presidential election.

What did Biden say in 2016?

In response to Republicans who vowed to not consider Obama's nominee — Appellate Judge Merrick Garland — Biden said it is acceptable to move forward with Supreme Court hearings even just months before an election.

Biden's comments, made in March 2016, came in response to Republicans citing a speech he delivered in 1992 about election year Supreme Court nominations. He said:

They completely ignore the fact at the time I was speaking of the time of the dangers of nominating an extreme candidate without proper Senate consultation. They completely neglected to quote my unequivocal bottom line. So let me set the record straight as they say. I said, and I quote, "If the president consults and cooperates with the Senate or moderates his selection then nominees may enjoy my support as did Justice Kennedy and Justice Souter."

I made it absolutely clear I would go forward with the confirmation process as chairman, even a few months ahead of a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advise and not merely the consent of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires."

But Biden said on Friday: "Let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg."

What did Obama say in 2016?

Obama stated plainly that the Constitution requires the Senate to consider Supreme Court nominees, declaring that no rule exists stating that such consideration may only happen in non-election years.

"When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the president is to nominate someone, the Senate is to consider that nomination, and either they disapprove of that nominee or that nominee is elevated to the Supreme Court," Obama said in February 2016, just days after Scalia's death.

"Historically, this has not been viewed as a question," he continued. "There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off-years. That's not in the constitutional text."

Just dug up this clip of Obama in 2016: "When there is a vacancy on the SCOTUS, the President is to nominate someo… https://t.co/7zjsboqKpx

— Kelb Hull (@Kelb Hull)1600525773.0

But on Friday, Obama said: "Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn't fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in. A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what's convenient or advantageous in the moment."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/obama-biden-election-year-supreme-court-vacancy

Trump Promises To Nominate A New Supreme Court Justice ‘Without Delay’

President Donald Trump promised Saturday to nominate a new Supreme Court justice “without delay.”

“We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices,” the president tweeted Saturday morning, tagging the Republican Party in his tweet.

“We have this obligation, without delay,” he added.

His comments come the morning after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died Friday at the age of 87 due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. The late justice’s death has left a vacancy on the court less than two months before the 2020 presidential election.

According to NPR, Ginsburg told her granddaughter Clara Spera a few days before her death: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/19/trump-supreme-court-ruth-bader-gingsburg-scotus/

51 Far-Left Antifa Anarchists Arrested After Attacking Police

Police in Thessaloniki arrested 51 far-left Antifa anarchist extremists who attacked officers following a demonstration in the city on Wednesday night.

The arrests came after the anarchist extremists held a demonstration in the city and then caused damage at the White Tower, a former Byzantine fortification along the harbourfront that has since been converted into a museum.

Police attempted to get the anarchists under control and were met with force as the group attacked the officers with bats and other weapons, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.

Officers arrested 45 men and six women. Police also confiscated 28 stick weapons, 15 helmets, a Swiss Army knife, and a metal baton.

Greek Police Seize Weapons and Explosives After Raiding Antifa Squat https://t.co/spBnabCDNj

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) August 19, 2020

The arrests come after a wave of far-left Antifa activity in Thessaloniki in recent months and after the raiding of a squat occupied by anarchist activists last month. Officers seized weapons along with explosives after clearing out the squat, known as “Terra Incognita”.

It is believed that extremists were using Terra Incognita as a base of operations to plot attacks against both police and political opponents. Investigators were also able to seize a financial ledger containing information on those who had donated to the Antifa group.

In May, far-left extremists attempted to set off a bomb at the home of former minister of state Dimitris Stamatis in the Kalamariá area of Thessaloniki. A 27-year-old man was caught with improvised explosives hidden in his backpack before he could detonate the device.

His alleged partner, a 28-year-old woman, was also arrested after allegedly taking the role of a lookout for the suspected bomber. Police managed to seize a tear gas canister, four homemade explosive devices, plastic bottles full of flammable material, and electronic devices after raiding residences connected to the pair.

UN Shares Antifa Flag, Tells U.S. Antifa Has Right to 'Freedom of Expression', 'Peaceful Assembly' https://t.co/5kLmIHN3NA

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 20, 2020

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/19/51-far-left-antifa-anarchists-arrested-attacking-greek-police/

Cruz: ‘We Risk a Constitutional Crisis’ if Ginsburg Successor Not Confirmed Before Election

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated that President Donald Trump should nominate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor next week, and that the Senate should confirm a successor before the election. Cruz argued that Democrats plan to challenge the 2020 election, and having a 4-4 court would “risk a constitutional crisis” given that likelihood.

Cruz said, “I believe that the president should, next week, nominate a successor to the court. And I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day. There’s going to be enormous pressure from the media. There’s going to be enormous pressure from Democrats to delay filling this vacancy. But this election — this nomination is why Donald Trump was elected. This confirmation is why the voters voted for a Republican majority in the Senate. And I’ll tell you one reason in particular, Sean, why I think it is tremendously important that not only does the nomination happen next week, but that the confirmation happen before Election Day: Because Democrats and Joe Biden have made clear, they intend to challenge this election, they intend to fight the legitimacy of the election. … And we cannot have Election Day come and go with a 4-4 court. A 4-4 court that is equally divided cannot decide anything, and I think we risk a constitutional crisis if we do not have a nine-justice Supreme Court, particularly when there is such a risk of a contested litigation — and a contested election.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/18/cruz-we-risk-a-constitutional-crisis-if-ginsburg-successor-not-confirmed-before-election/

So Much for ‘Green Jobs’: Wind Turbine Manufacturing Work Goes to Communist China

Another hole has been punched in the leftist promise of a so-called “green jobs revolution”, as wind turbine manufacturing jobs are sent to Communist-run China and the Middle East.

Local manufacturing firm BiFab, located just miles from the enormous Seagreen offshore wind project, has not been awarded any of the work on the expensive turbines for Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), with 84 of 114 required being awarded to a Chinese yard and 30 to a firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

“We are extremely disappointed that the developers have chosen to exclude Scottish yards from any fabrication contracts,” said DF Barnes, which owns BiFab along with the Scottish Government, in comments reported by The Press and Journal.

“Since acquiring BiFab, we have been trying exceptionally hard to get people back to work in our yards.

“Instead, Scottish and Southern Energy, in the face of what could be one of the worst recessions in modern history, has chosen to give all the fabrication work for one of the largest offshore windfarm projects in the world to companies in China and the UAE,” they lamented.

Trump slammed Joe Biden during the RNC for taking the donations of American workers while helping to offshore their jobs to China. https://t.co/fRNpC9fi46

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 29, 2020

Hazel Nolan, a spokesman for the GMB workers’ union, was even more robust: “We warn industry majors like SSE and the governments at Holyrood and Westminster that constant disappointment is now turning to growing anger – our communities dependent on offshore wind fabrication contracts are being totally failed, and so is the country,” she said.

“The public have been consistently lied to for the last decade over the prospects for green jobs in Scotland and across the rest of the UK, from the ‘Saudi Arabia of renewables’ to the ‘green jobs revolution’, while the bulk of the manufacturing contracts are awarded to anywhere but here,” the official added bitterly.

“Scraps off the table from our own offshore wind sector is bad enough but when billion-pound fabrication contracts are wholly completed abroad and then shipped to the waters off Scotland, you know that any credible prospects for a green economic recovery are sailing by.”

Responding, SSE claimed that “We wanted nothing more than to award work to a Scottish firm that would help set them up for future success.”

“Unfortunately,” they added, “on this occasion, the gap between BiFab’s offering and that of competing fabricators was too significant to close” — highlighting, if inadvertently, the issue with free trade and competition between Western industry and sweatshop economies with dictatorial regimes.

This is an issue U.S. President Donald Trump has to an extent successfully tackled through import tariffs on countries like China — although this he has been denounced as a “protectionist” and “populist” both by left-liberals and many establishment “conservatives” who believe that near-untrammelled global trade is an essential ingredient for free market capitalism for doing so.

“We’ve not only lost our jobs to them and built a middle class in China while we decimated our own, we have also lost all sorts of technological know-how.” https://t.co/WNw0NfVpe0

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 1, 2018

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/09/19/so-much-for-green-jobs-scottish-turbine-manufacturing-work-goes-to-communist-china/

Sheldon Adelson to Spend $50M on President Donald Trump Reelection Effort

Las Vegas Sands billionaire Sheldon Adelson is prepared to donate up to $50 million to help his former casino colleague turned politician Donald Trump win reelection.

Adelson, 87, has an estimated net worth of $31.7 billion. He’s been the Republican Party’s largest contributor in each of the last two election cycles, and while he and wife, Dr. Miriam Adelson, have kept their fortune close to their chests during much of the 2020 election run, that will soon change.

Casino.org reported last month that Adelson will fund the President’s reelection push over the final two months. CNBC reported this week that sources close to the casino tycoon say he has set aside $20 million to $50 million to help Trump keep occupancy of the White House.

After some rumored feuding between Trump and Adelson in early August, Adelson’s right-hand man, Andy Abboud, told a group of Republican donors that Nevada’s richest family is “110 percent behind the president.”

“That’s going to become apparent shortly,” Abboud was quoted as saying. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows that the Adelsons’ most recent donations were in July and went to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). Those contributions totaled just shy of $500,000.

In June, the Adelsons gave $25 million to the Senate Leadership Fund.

Trump PAC

Sheldon Adelson is expected to give his next multimillion-dollar contribution to Preserve America, a super political action committee (PAC) that is working to reelect Donald Trump to another four years.

Preserve America has raised $28.4 million this year. The PAC is being steered by GOP strategist Chris LaCivita, who is best known for being the mastermind behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the campaign that upended John Kerry’s presidential bid in 2004.

Along with Adelson, billionaire Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus is opening his deep pockets to fund Preserve America.

The 2020 presidential election will be the most expensive in US history. Billions will have been spent by the time November 3 comes and goes. OpenSecrets, the Center for Responsive Politics that tracks campaign fundraising, says more than $2.8 billion has already been raised by 2020 presidential candidates.

Former Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg, who dumped more than $1 billion on his own unsuccessful 2020 bid, is spending another $100 million on pro-Joe Biden ads in Florida over the final two months.

Latest Odds

Biden remains the betting favorite on PredictIt, his shares of winning trading at 59 cents to Trump’s at 44 cents.

UK bookmakers have it closer. Biden’s odds are at 5/6 (implied chance of 54.5 percent). Trump is at even money.

The polling average on Real Clear Politics has Biden with a 5.8-point advantage in the general election. However, that’s down from 7.5 points last week.

https://www.casino.org/news/sheldon-adelson-to-spend-50m-president-donald-trump-reelection/

US leaders ruining region, betraying own people to protect Israel: Iran's Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US leaders, who have been providing all-out support for Israel, have not only ruined the West Asia region, but also betrayed their own people.

Zarif made the remarks in a Thursday tweet in clear allusion to recent comments by US President Donald Trump, who said during a rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on September 8 that the US was not involved in the Middle East for oil, but because we “want to protect Israel.”

Bragging about America’s energy independence during the rally, Trump said, “While I’m president, America will remain the number one producer of oil and natural gas in the world. We will remain energy independent. It should be for many, many years to come. The fact is, we don’t have to be in the Middle East, other than we want to protect Israel. We’ve been very good to Israel. Other than that, we don’t have to be in the Middle East.”

Pointing to Trump’s remarks, Iran’s foreign minister tweeted, the “latest admissions by @realDonaldTrump” clearly showed “where his family's loyalty really rests.”

Zarif then recalled Trump’s past confession that the United States has spent more than seven trillion dollars on its presence in the Middle East, which is apparently aimed at nothing, but to protect the Zionist regime, asking, “Why SEVEN TRILLION hard-earned US taxpayer dollars & so many American lives have been sacrificed” just to protect Israel?”

Latest admissions by @realDonaldTrump:

-Where his family's loyalty really rests

-Why SEVEN TRILLION hard-earned US taxpayer dollars & so many American lives have been sacrificed.#IsraelFirsters have not just ruined our region—they've betrayed their own people, just for votes. pic.twitter.com/dcpZTucyxP

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 17, 2020

Read more:

America has spent $6.4 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001

He then concluded by saying that in their effort to provide unbridled support to Israel, American leaders who put the Tel Aviv regime ahead of all other priorities, “have not just ruined our region,” but “they've betrayed their own people, just for votes.”

Under its foreign policy, the United States goes to the extremist extent to shield and shore up Israel.

Despite the American regional presence apparently being excused under the “war on terror” terms, the roughly two-decades-old military intervention has witnessed systematic and irreparable weakening of the countries that surround the occupying entity.

The US also provides billions of taxpayer money in military assistance to the occupying regime every year that last year amounted to $3.8 billion. It also casts its veto against almost any United Nations resolutions that could take the regime to task over its continued occupation of Palestinian land and daily acts of fatal aggression against Palestinians. Thanks to Washington’s support, Tel Aviv has also unexceptionally evaded accountability over its nuclear program that is known to be the only one in the Middle East with a huge military lean.

https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/09/17/634327/Iran-United-States-Israel-Trump-votes-presidential-elections