Blockchain technology provided an elegant solution. Instead of passing funds through the US banking system’s costly and inefficient network of correspondent accounts, Blockchain technology provides an easy way for banks to send payments directly to one another. I cannot understate how important this technology is. Blockchain may very well be what neutralizes the US government’s domination of the global financial system. And while there’s been a lot of momentum in this direction even I’m surprised at how fast it’s moving.

Today, four of the world’s largest banks announced a brand new joint venture to create a new financial settlement protocol built on Blockchain technology. Deutsche Bank from Germany, UBS from Switzerland, Santander from Spain, and Bank of New York Mellon have joined together to launch what they’re naming the very un-sexy “utility settlement coin”. Like Ripple, Setl, Monetas, and several other competing technologies, Utility Settlement Coin has the potential to end the reliance on the US banking system for cross-border payments and financial transactions.

Banks will be able to send payments to one another directly without having to transit through the Wall Street financial toll plaza. (Global consulting firm Oliver Wyman estimates the cost of clearing and settling international financial transactions at up to $80 billion annually.) This has enormous implications, especially for US banks. The Federal Reserve, for example, has already warned that financial technology could pose stability risks to the US financial system. And they’re right.

If foreign banks are able to transact directly with one another without having to go through the US banking system, then why would they need to park trillions of dollars in the United States? They wouldn’t. Adoption of this technology could cause a gigantic vacuum of deposits out of the US banking system. US banks would take a big hit. And the US government would have far fewer foreign buyers to sell its ever-expanding piles of debt.

Make no mistake, the adoption of this technology is a game-changing development with far-reaching implications. And it’s happening very quickly. If these mega-banks can hit their milestones, they’ll launch commercially in eighteen months. Mark it on your calendar – that may be the end of peak US financial dominance.

Unlike festering frictions over trade, the new front is in an area - investment - where the global rules of engagement are more amorphous and where national security interests are more prominent. That raises the risk of a rapid escalation of tensions that can’t be so easily contained.

“The implicit accusation when rejecting overseas direct investment is much stronger than trade,” said James Laurenceson, deputy director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology in Sydney. Using a national-security rationale to blocking outbound investment by China “is far more confronting. It suggests that China is untrustworthy and has potentially nefarious intentions. That’s what Beijing objects to.”

But it’s not just security concerns that are driving the increased backlash against stepped-up Chinese investment abroad, especially by state-owned companies. It’s also the suspicion that the Communist-led government is trying to game the system by snapping up foreign firms in key areas of the economy while blocking others from doing the same in China.

Recently, when we attempted to share stories on FB that contained the phrase, the stories were completely blocked, along with a message that warned the article “violated community standards.” When we replaced the phrase with “compulsory immunizations,” the article was accepted by FB and allowed to be shared.

You can confirm this yourself by attempting to share this Newstarget.com story which uses the phrase “m-nd-t-ry v-cc-n-t–ns” in the title. FB will block you from posting or sharing the story. But you’re free to post this other story, which is the exact same story, but the phrase is replaced with “compulsory immunizations.” That phrase is currently allowed by FB (but will likely soon be banned as well).

Facebook thinks any discussion of immunizations that does not completely agree with the false government narrative is a “violation of community standards”. What this demonstrates is that Facebook is, of course, part of the info-Gestapo that includes Google, Twitter and Yahoo, all of which are deliberately censoring an ever-expanding selection of articles, posts, comments and websites which do not obediently worship the official quack science narratives of the criminal government.

It’s not just that you’re not allowed to disagree with the official government narrative on immunizations… you’re not even allowed to TALK about the subject!

The warning to Japan reportedly came just ahead of the Hague international arbitration court’s ruling over the disputed South China Sea islands which Beijing continues to claim, despite a verdict which stripped China of the disputed territory. Tokyo will “cross a red line” if Japan’s Self-Defense Forces sail with the Americans, Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua allegedly told a Japanese official in Tokyo, Kyodo reported citing a source.

Japan should not take part in a “joint military action with US forces that is aimed at excluding China in the South China Sea,” Cheng is reported to have told Japanese officials late in June. “(China) will not concede on sovereignty issues and is not afraid of military provocations.” According to the source, the official reassured the ambassador that Japan had no plans to join the US sails, which have intensified lately by constant American warship maneuvering near artificial islands that China has built in the South China Sea.

One of their headlines that really caught my attention was “Don’t believe everything you read about Hillary Clinton’s health on Google”. By the way, there were three Hillary Clinton campaign ads on that one page alone. But CNN took things to an entirely new level this week when it published an article entitled “Clinton’s health is fine, but what about Trump?” I was so flabbergasted by that headline that my wife came into my office to see what all of the commotion was about. No, Hillary Clinton’s health is not “fine”, and we will get to that later in this article.

As I have previously documented, the mainstream media isn’t even pretending to be objective in this race, and they have shifted into panic mode as they try to stop the damage to their favored candidate. One writer for the New York Times even went so far as to suggest that search engines should manipulate the results that they show to the public to help hide Hillary Clinton’s health problems.

But these aren’t just rumors. Her extended coughing fits have become increasingly difficult to explain. Even worse for her campaign is the fact that she has gone into seizures while on camera. She has been falling down with alarming regularity, and she also has a huge unexplained hole in her tongue. Clinton should just be honest with the American people about all of these things.

There are legitimate questions about Hillary Clinton’s health, and the American people deserve the truth. Unfortunately, they aren’t going to be getting it from the mainstream media.

It may sound like an Orwellian nightmare, but the technology to implant RFID chips into human beings and track their every move has been there for years. RFID stands for radio frequency identification, and uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects, including an implanted chip. A growing conspiracy theory claims we will all soon be chipped through vaccination programmes and at birth, or be forced to have a contactless microchip instead of money.

As with all conspiracies, there are variations on the theory and they vary in extremeness. At the bottom end is the claim that world governments will phase out cash so the only way you can buy anything is with an implanted chip that can then be used to ID and monitor you. Next up is the theory that the chips will be secretly implanted into children and some adults through vaccination programmes.

The most extreme claim ties in with religious conspiracy theorists. They have said the implanted RFID chip will stand for the Mark of the Beast as referred to in the Book of Revelation. Again, all humans will be forced to take an implant, so those in power can know our every detail and monitor our every move.

Debunking website, thatsnonsense.com has rubbished all the conspiracy theories surrounding RFID chips. The website said online rumours are circulating that all American citizens will be microchipped with RFID by the year 2017 and this has been confirmed by NBC News. It said: "The theory that the American government is actively looking to implant Americans with RFID tracking chips to help control the population is a long running conspiracy that is as persistent as it is consistently baseless, lacking any evidence whatsoever.

But new research in the US has found that the crops used for biofuel absorb only 37 per cent of the C02 that is later released into the atmosphere when the plants are burnt, meaning the process actually increases the amount of greenhouse gas in the air. The scientists behind the study have called on governments to rethink their carbon policies in light of the findings.

The use of biofuels is controversial because it means crops and farm space that could otherwise be devoted to food production are in fact used for energy. They currently make up just under 3 per cent of global energy consumption, and use in the US grew from 4.2 billion gallons a year in 2005 to 14.6 billion gallons a year in 2013.

HaCohen warned that broadening commerce on Shabbat will not just have negative economic ramifications but will also have ethical, social and educational implications. "This has been the situation for many years now but this will be the death certificate for the official day of rest in Israel. With regard to activating businesses on Shabbat there are ramifications beyond the economic sphere, as well as changes in the public image of the state of Israel." he said

According to Professor HaCohen, broadening the permit for commerce on Shabbat will hurt the weaker members of society who will be forced often against their will to work on Shabbat and will not be able to rest with their families. It will also hurt the small businesses which will not be able to compete with the larger chains.

"A lack of distinction between commerce and entertainment as well as the initiation of public transport on Shabbat could cause the collapse of the last vestiges of the 'sovereign' day of rest." warns HaCohen. "Due to the importance of the subject and its complexity and sensitivity, dramatic changes such as these ought to be implemented with wide social support and after a profound discussion of all the ramifications. They should not be implemented through legislation and the courts."

Professor HaCohen emphasized that "as long as the final recommendations have not been published and the necessary changes in law have not been implemented, it is worth looking carefully at the full scope of the ramifications of these recommendations. Despite this, if the recommendations are as has been publicized, they spell out an official announcement of the death of Shabbat as the official day of rest in the state of Israel."

It’s death or glory now for their crumbling EU. There will be MORE integration. There WILL be the EU army that UK europhiles insisted was a fiction. And after inviting a million “refugees” to Germany, Merkel now aims to give Africa billions of taxpayers’ euros hoping to stop migrants crossing the Med. How she will sell all this to the smaller, poorer nations of Europe — or her own voters — is anyone’s guess.

Even many Remainers here must surely now have doubts over Brussels’ plan to engulf every member state. Meanwhile UK exports have hit a two-year high. The housing market has shrugged off the referendum. Vastly more firms intend to hire than fire.

We seem to be riding out the post-June 23 wobble. It is crucial Chancellor Philip Hammond now secures our medium and long-term fortunes.

That means a bold Autumn Statement. It means ignoring the deluded threats of EU control freaks and slashing corporation tax. It means investing in major infrastructure projects and maybe cutting VAT and income tax too. Britain’s prospects are good. Can anyone seriously say the same for the EU’s?

Former Gaulliste president Nicolas Sarkozy has caught the headlines this week, launching a come-back bid with a package of hard-Right policies unseen in a western European democracy in modern times. But the uproar on the Left is just as revealing. Arnaud Montebourg, the enfant terrible of the Socialist movement, has launched his own bid for the Socialist Party with a critique of such ferocity that it bears examination.

The former economy minister says France voted for a left-wing French manifesto four years ago and ended up with a "right-wing German policy regime". This is objectively true. The vote was meaningless. "I believe that we have reached the end of road for the European Union, and that France no longer has any interest in it. The EU has left us mired in crisis long after the rest of the world has moved on," he said.