Help Yourself Headlines Finance The Trigger Has Been Pulled And The Slaughter Of The Bonds Has Begun
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Digital Cash Replacement from Royal Canadian Mint in the Works
Whistleblower Reveals World Bank Corruption in New Interview
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hat does it look like when a 30 year bull market ends abruptly? What happens when bond yields start doing things that they haven’t done in 50 years? If your answer to those questions involves the word “slaughter”, you are probably on the right track. Right now, bonds are being absolutely slaughtered, and this is only just the beginning. Over the last several years, reckless bond buying by the Federal Reserve has forced yields down to absolutely ridiculous levels. Lots of bond investors made a lot of money riding the bubble that Bernanke created. But now that Bernanke has indicated that the bond buying will be coming to an end, investors are going into panic mode and the bond bubble is starting to burst.
ecure chips have already made it into our credit and debit cards. Next up, they could replace pocket change. The Royal Canadian Mint has been pushing forward with its “MintChip” prototype, a digital cash replacement aimed at transactions under $10, since it surfaced a year ago. The Crown corporation is factoring in developer feedback, hiring a product manager and consulting with the financial sector.
histleblowers continue to endure an increasing level of targeting and prosecution by an administration that touts its commitment to transparency. Despite this, many brave insiders continue to come forward to reveal the extent of corruption at the highest levels. The World Bank is already notorious for its wide range of human rights violations, land-grab schemes, environmental destruction and economic attacks on sovereign nations and local communities. Hudes offers some additional details about what she asserts is one single group controlling world financial markets and media. She also offers names of people who were involved in blackmail surrounding a 2007 prostitution scandal. Hear the story that corporate media is ignoring.....
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Geo-Politics Canada Government Spies on its Own People: Report
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he Canadian government has been spying on its people by monitoring their telephone records and Internet data,Press TV reports. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on June 10 that Defense Minister Peter MacKay had approved a “metadata” surveillance program in 2011 that tracks online activity and phone calls in search of suspicious activities. However, in response to a question whether the Ottawa government was monitoring the phone and email records of the Canadian people, MacKay claimed that the “program is specifically prohibited from looking at the information of Canadians.”
Modern Art was CIA ‘weapon’
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or decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
DARPA Manager Explains Multiple Ways Cars Can Be Hacked
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ith speculation increasing of foul play involving the tragic car explosion that killed investigative reporter Michael Hastings, several reports have emerged how it is indeed possible to hijack the controls of modern vehicles through hacking.Dr. Kathleen Fisher speaks in 2012 on DARPA’s High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program, particularly multiple ways all modern cars are vulnerable to hacking.
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Floods in Southern Alberta Caused by NEXRAD Stations in the U.S. & Canada - SHOCKING EVIDENCE
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Ecuador Nixes Trade Deal, Offers US Cash for ‘Education About Human Rights’
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cuador unilaterally canceled its trade deal with the United States on Thursday and offered to provide $23 million a year to help the country with its “human rights” education, the latest twist in a showdown over NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The move follows a “threat” made earlier this week by U.S. lawmakers not to renew an expiring preferential trade deal with Ecuador if the country grants Snowden’s request for political asylum, Communications Secretary Fernando Alvarado told reporters in Quito. Snowden remains in the transit area of the Moscow airport and Ecuador has said it could take months to process his application. “Ecuador gives up, unilaterally and irrevocably, the said customs benefits,” Alvarado said. “What’s more, Ecuador offers the United States economic aid of $23 million annually, similar to what we received with the trade benefits, with the intention of providing education about human rights.”
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Wheat Farmers Sue Monsanto for Release of Unapproved GM Wheat
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merican wheat farmers are outraged over the recent discovery of unapproved geneticallymodified (GM) wheat growing in Oregon, and one Kansas wheat farmer has decided to go on the offensive by suing the company responsible for this impetuous crime: Monsanto.
irstly, we are surprised that none of the major media outlets have mentioned that the heavy rainfall southern Alberta received in the past two days originated from southern Montana. We will describe how the recent weather pattern formed, which brought majority of the recent flooding of rain, accompanied by videos. Part II discusses mainly Calgary and surrounding areas in south Alberta, strictly using the Pacific and Prairie radar stations data.
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