Just News – RT – Bitcoin plunges by 30% after record high of $20,000

RT – Bitcoin plunges by 30% after record high of $20,000
The price of bitcoin fell to less than $13,080 on Friday morning, according to CoinDesk.com. That makes an 18-percent drop since its previous slide, and more than 30 percent since it reached the historic $20,000 mark last week.
The cryptocurrency has experienced its second major drop in just days. Rival bitcoin cash has also fallen, plunging to $2,536 per coin, following its rapid climb of more than 50 percent to almost $4,330 per token on December 20.

RT – Just try selling your bitcoin: Cryptocurrency pioneer warns against ‘extremely risky’ investment

The co-founder of Bitcoin.com, one of the world’s largest sites devoted to the leading virtual currency, has sold all his bitcoins and recommends people stay away from it for the moment and look for alternatives.
“I would say an investment in bitcoin is right now the riskiest investment you can make. There’s an extremely high risk,” Emil Oldenburg said in an interview with Swedish tech site Breakit.
“I have in fact sold all my bitcoins recently and switched to bitcoin cash,” he added.
Oldenburg complains about long transactions with high fees. According to some estimates, bitcoin transaction fees are doubling every three months, and an average bitcoin transaction is takes four and a half hours to be confirmed. The average trading fee peaked at $26 recently.
The reason why bitcoin users don’t understand its cons is that they only buy it and don’t sell or trade it, according to Oldenburg.
“As soon as people realize that this is how it works, they will start to sell. The old bitcoin network is as good as unusable,” he said.
The investor explained fees for bitcoin cash transactions are more reasonable.
“It only costs $0.012 to send a bitcoin cash transaction, and there are no lead times. The only drawback is that you need larger hard drives, but that’s not a problem for most people.”

RT – Bitcoin heading to $0.00 & many will lose everything when bubble pops – warns investor Peter Schiff
Bitcoin is a massive speculative bubble that will implode, and people who are buying it now will be left holding the bag, according to economist Peter Schiff, best known for predicting the 2008 financial crash.
“People who got it years ago, even people who got it at the beginning of the year have the opportunity to cash out and make a lot of money. But people who are buying it at these prices or higher prices are going to lose practically everything,” Schiff told RT International Channel.
“These currencies are going to trade to zero or pretty close to it when the bubble pops,” predicts Schiff. “Right now, the only reason why people are buying bitcoin is because the price is going up. When it turns around, they are not going to sell it for the same reason.”
“There is no value in bitcoin, you can’t use it as money,” Schiff points out. “It’s too slow, too expensive and too vulnerable.”
The investor called bitcoin a “speculative digital asset,” and as soon as its price stops going up, it will implode.
According to Schiff, there is a problem with fiat currencies. However, there are 1,300 digital currencies with massive inflation. “Even bitcoin itself has spun off bitcoin cash, bitcoin gold. There is no limit to supply of bitcoin-branded worthless tokens that can be created,” he said.

RT – Insider trading probe leads to crash of bitcoin cash
The price of bitcoin cash plunged 10 percent when trading resumed following an investigation by a leading cryptocurrency exchange into possible insider trading.
Bitcoin cash’s wild price swings led Coinbase to suspect exchange staff of possible insider trading. The third most valuable cryptocurrency’s price had more than doubled since Monday.
“If we find evidence of any employee or contractor violating our policies — directly or indirectly — I will not hesitate to terminate the employee immediately and take appropriate legal action,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted in his blog.
All Coinbase employees and contractors were “explicitly prohibited” more than a month ago from trading in bitcoin cash and revealing launch plans, he said.
The exchange suspended trade on Tuesday minutes after the opening and eventually canceled orders.
According to CoinMarketCap, the price of bitcoin cash soared to $9,500 as trading began on the Coinbase exchange GDAX. Coinbase did not recognize that price on its exchange. The rise of bitcoin cash is also suspected of causing a sell-off in bitcoin. On Thursday, bitcoin cash was trading at $3,627 while bitcoin was selling for $17,000.

Corrupt Kaine Mandated STD Shot For 6th-Graders After Merck Investment

Corrupt Kaine Mandated STD Shot For 6th-Graders After Merck Investment
Tim Kaine: US Senator from Virginia and self-described “traditional” Catholic. As Governor of Virginia, Kaine signed into law a bill mandating human papillomavirus vaccination (HPV) for 6th-grade girls even though HPV is spread through sexual intercourse. The move came just months after Merck announced it would invest $57 million into its Virginia HPV vaccine facility. Over the years, Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil has come under fire for its terrible reputation of lacking in both efficacy and safety.
At the time of Merck’s announced investment, Kaine proclaimed: “This announcement not only increases Merck’s investment in Virginia, it provides a vital vaccine for women’s health.” Such a proclamation is totally devoid of evidence. While the vaccine does prevent HPV infections, it is yet to be determined whether it is actually effective at preventing the cervical cancer that is associated with the virus. The vaccine has also been associated with numerous deaths and debilitating disabilities in young women and girls.

Is There Objective Evidence that the Current HPV Vaccinination Programs are not Justified?

Graphic Video: HPV Vaccine’s Horrific Side-Effects

This isn’t made up stuff here. This is real life. The following was published by her mother last July.
This was a very hard video to post, my 12 yr old daughter was fine before her vaccine, now this is her life. We live in New Zealand and I thought our healthcare system was ok, we have been left to deal with this ourselves. I’m showing this because I want people to know what damage this vaccine can and does cause. Please research before deciding. I didn’t, sorry the audio wasn’t the best, what I’m saying is “I’ve just carried Briar out of the bath as her legs keep collapsing, this is the amount of pain she is in after pain killers, that her pain feels like a ‘big knife’ in her legs, just over a year ago she could do all this, have a bath, play sport, just basically have a life, then the HPV vaccine happened and she can’t do a thing, this is her life and this is the part nobody sees. I didn’t want to cause her more pain but I wanted to show what her life is now.” Thank you everyone for your support and advice, we will be starting I.v vit c shortly and I will keep you updated xxx Please feel free to leave comments, please also remember that I am just human, I made the decision to give her all 3 vaccines, based on my Drs telling me it was the best thing for her, I did not (at the time) even consider it was hpv vaccine that was causing her pain, it wasn’t until I was able to take a step back and look at all the reasons for her decline in health. Of course I feel guilty, who wouldn’t?! But this can no long be on just my shoulders. We all make the best decisions we can at the time with the information we have in front of us. Thank you to all those who have supported us! It really has been so positive from this horrible situation. Once again thank you xx I have created a Facebook page for anyone that would like to follow Briar’s journey.
She’s begging that more parents do their research. Because what happens when you do your research? You find out Japan removed HPV Vaccine from the market it 2013.
Around 2,000 reported side effects after using Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine have determined Japanese government officials to withdraw Gardasil from the market in 2013, despite the vaccine being highly promoted in the United States and now approved by the European Union.
“Japanese health officials have recorded nearly 2,000 adverse reactions – hundreds of them serious,” reported Judicial Watch, the Washington-based corruption watchdog that has been monitoring the effects – and health costs – of the drug’s use in the United States for years.
“The alarming reports have led Japan’s government to take action, suspending recommendation for the controversial vaccine which is billed as a miracle shot that can prevent certain strains of cervical cancer caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV).”
An entire modern country denies the drug to its people due to fears of tragic, horrific side-effects. Do people really believe this all to be rooted in conspiracy theory? They want y our children to take 3-doses of something an entire country has deemed unsafe. Allow that to settle in before you share the next Time or NYTimes article touting biased studies over the success of this “cancer prevention vaccine.” Fortunately, on Gardasil’s patient information, they recommend this: You should not receive a booster vaccine if you have had a life-threatening allergic reaction after the first shot. So IF you survived the side-effects the first time around, maybe it isn’t for you. Great way to find out, isn’t it?

Forbes’ Matt Herper Cites Misleading Gardasil Press Release

The press release also included quotes from Professor Susanne Krüger Kjær, lead investigator of one of the studies:
“These latest data show an encouraging trend of continued protection with Gardasil against HPV-related cervical, vaginal and vulvar disease in women through eight years,” said Professor Susanne Krüger Kjær, Danish Cancer Society. “These studies provide further evidence for the ongoing efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety of Gardasil.”
Absent from Sanofi Pasteur MSD’s press release, however, is the conclusion from Professor Kjær’s own study which reads:
“The qHPV vaccine shows a trend of continued protection in women, although there is as yet insufficient data to confirm that protection is maintained.”
If Matt Herper can go to the trouble of digging up a drug company press release from a year ago on research presented at a conference, then why couldn’t he go to the extra trouble to dig up the abstract of the actual research the press release was about? Why did he instead settle for the misleading press release written by a PR person employed by Gardasil’s manufacturer to second-guess the statements of Dr. Diane Harper – an international authority on HPV who was involved in clinical trials of Gardasil? Perhaps because the abstract would prove that the press release Herper cited is a misleading representation of research.

GOVERNOR KAINE ANNOUNCES VACCINE PRODUCTION FACILITY EXPANSION IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
-Merck will invest $57 million to expand cervical cancer vaccine manufacturing facility –
RICHMOND – Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that Merck & Co., Inc. will invest $57 million to expand the role its Elkton facility plays in producing GARDASIL®, Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine. The investment will include construction of a new building and the installation of equipment for the purification process—a key stage in manufacturing the product. Merck recently completed construction of a vaccine fermentation facility at Elkton, which will be used to support an earlier stage in the GARDASIL manufacturing process.
The project was announced during the Virginia Biz-Bio Event at the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park in Richmond.
“This announcement not only increases Merck’s investment in Virginia, it provides a vital vaccine for women’s health,” said Governor Kaine. “Implementing this new process at the Elkton plant shows the confidence Merck has in Virginia’s positive business climate and dedicated workforce.”

London to become Chinese offshore banking center

London to become Chinese offshore banking center

Britain has relaxed stringent rules for Chinese banks willing to set up in London. Beijing in turn opened up its markets to British-based investors, marking the latest move to establish the yuan as one of the world’s key currencies.

               

“A great nation like China should have a global currency,”   said UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, during his   official five day visit to China. And the UK is gladly willing to   contribute “through the international center of finance:   London”.

Under the agreed pilot program, China sanctioned London-based   investors to buy up to 80 billion yuan ($13.1 billion) of stocks,   bonds and money market instruments directly, avoiding Hong Kong   transactions, Reuters reports.

Meanwhile, Britain will let Chinese banks set up wholesale   branches in London, easing regulations the country had imposed   after the financial crisis broke out. Since 2008, Britain has   insisted that most foreign lenders should set up their UK   operations as “subsidiaries” rather than branches, which provides   greater protection for depositors and taxpayers. Less regulation   will be welcomed by Chinese lenders who have always complained   the rules made it hard to operate in Britain, prompting them to   move much of their business to Luxembourg.