Psaki Defends Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen For Taking Money From Citadel – Won’t Commit to Recusal in GameStop Scandal

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended newly-confirmed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for taking speaking fees from Citadel.

Janet Yellen was previously paid more than $800,000 in speaking fees by Citadel.

On Thursday, Robinhood, an online brokerage firm, blocked retail investors trading GameStop and other stocks – a clear manipulation – in order to stop the bleeding and protect Citadel, a multinational hedge fund with a vested interest in Robinhood.

Citadel and Point72 infused nearly $3 billion into Melvin Capital, a hedge fund that took a beating after betting against GameStop as Reddit traders caused GME to soar.

The word on the street is that Citadel actually reloaded their shorts before they told Robinhood to stop trading GME (GameStop).

It gets juicier…

A person who purports to be a Robinhood employee (unconfirmed) blew the whistle on a conversation that went down with the brokerage firm’s C-Suite, Sequoia Capital (a venture capital firm that focuses on tech) AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

“Vladimir, yes founder Vladimir, and the C-Suite, received calls from Sequoia Capital and the White House that pressured into closing trading on GME etc. I guarantee you the same took place at E-trade and the others who closed trading,” the anonymous Robinhood employee posted to Reddit.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/psaki-defends-treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-taking-money-citadel-wont-commit-recusal-gamestop-scandal-video/

Laywer: Forrest Sherman CO was fired for turning rusted AK-47 into war trophy for his ship

The commanding officer of the warship Forrest Sherman was fired Wednesday due to what a Navy press release deemed a “loss of confidence in his ability to command.”

But Cmdr. Frank Azzarello’s attorney told Navy Times Wednesday night that there is more to the story than the vague “loss of confidence” line that Big Navy puts out for every CO relief.

Azzarello was fired because he turned an old AK-47 rifle into a ship trophy following an at-sea raid of a weapons cache believed to be heading from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen and didn’t follow the proper U.S. Defense Department procedures, his attorney, Timothy Parlatore, said.

Regs exist when a commander wants to make a war trophy, and Azzarello was not aware of those regs, the attorney said.

U.S. 2nd Fleet officials declined to comment on the particulars of the firing.

Forrest Sherman’s November 2019 boarding and seizure of the weapons from a dhow in the Middle East “was a big one,” Parlatore noted, and U.S. Central Command put out a press release highlighting the massive weapons seizure.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/01/28/laywer-forrest-sherman-co-was-fired-for-turning-rusted-ak-47-into-war-trophy-for-his-ship/

Biden Treasury Sec Yellen Paid by Chinese Communist Party-Linked Group

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s financial disclosures reveal she was paid to speak at Caixin – a Beijing-based media outlet with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

The financial relationship is revealed via her most recent disclosure as item 33 on a 68-item-long list titled “Filer’s Sources of Compensation Exceeding $5,000 in a Year.”

Caixin has been highlighted by The Washington Post for its ties to the Chinese Communist Party through its founder Hu Shuli, including personal friendships with former party leadership:

“Caixin, which Hu founded after leaving Caijing in 2013, has been able to navigate China’s media landscape better than most. Some attribute this to Hu’s savvy and personal connections — she comes from a line of Communist Party intellectuals and maintains a friendship with Wang Qishan, China’s vice president.”

“A 2009 New Yorker profile noted that Hu lived in an elite compound favored by government media workers. Yaxue Cao, a Washington-based activist, said Caixin couldn’t truly be considered independent because of Hu’s connections. “Instead of independence, it’s a privilege,” Cao said,” the Post continued.

As a result, Caixin has abstained from touching sensitive issues such as the the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

And, as with all media outlets in China, Hu’s former publication Caijing is described as “restricted by China’s Central Propaganda Department and required a government-affiliated sponsor.”

In addition to personal ties, Caixin also has financial ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

In 2019 the media company attempted to raise up to $200 million, according to Reuters.

Revealed in the group’s financial were its primary backers: “tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd and investment firm China Media Capital (CMC).”

The State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation has described Tencent as a “tool of the Chinese government,” noting the company has “no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party ‘no’ if officials decide to ask for their assistance.”

It provides “a foundation of technology-facilitated surveillance and social control” as part of the CCP’s broader crusade “to shape the world consistent with its authoritarian model,” the report added.

And CMC was started by a former Deputy Secretary General and Chief of Staff to the Chinese Communist Party’s Shanghai Municipal Government and counts its principal financial backing from state-owned China Development Bank.

The news comes as critics suggest Yellen’s appointment to the role of U.S. Treasury Secretary was premature and that she faced little scrutiny from lawmakers on Capitol Hill as a result of the Biden nomination.

Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked if – given Yellen’s close financial ties to Citadel, one of the firms underwriting the short selling of GameStop – she should recuse herself from the situation.

Psaki responded with what has become a typical non-response from the Biden regime:

https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/yellen-spoke-at-chinese-media-org/

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Robinhood hit with 2 lawsuits after restricting GameStop, AMC trades

Naked Brands, Tootsie Roll, Nokia, Trivago and American Airlines also were restricted by the app

Two Robinhood users filed separate lawsuits against the brokerage app Thursday after it and other apps restricted trading of certain securities.

The first lawsuit filed in the Southern District Court of New York alleges that Robinhood "purposefully, willingly, and knowingly" restricted certain securities transactions, including GameStop. The other filed in the Northern District Court of Illinois alleges that the app manipulated its platform.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/robinhood-lawsuits-gamestop-amc-restrictions

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'Difficult' to see truth coming out of WHO COVID-19 investigation in Wuhan

Sky News Australia

New York Post Columnist Miranda Devine says it is “difficult” to see anything truthful coming out of the WHO investigation in Wuhan since the organisation is “fairly compromised” by China.

“I think the World Health Organization is fairly compromised by China and has been from the start,” she told Sky News.

“At the beginning of the pandemic they were downplaying it and in fact even said there was no person to person transmission when obviously it was running rampant in Wuhan.

“They are deeply embedded with the Chinese Communist party and it’s very difficult to see that anything truthful will come out of this, but you live in hope”.

https://youtu.be/8WgplAdzdnc

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Department of Justice Announces Arrests in Conspiracy and Dog Fighting Ring Investigation

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-arrests-conspiracy-and-dog-fighting-ring-investigation