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You’ve heard of paying retailers with the tap of a smartphone, but Royal Bank thinks shoppers are ready to take another big step: wearing payment options on their wrist.
The bank has paired with Toronto-based technology developer Bionym to test a wristband called Nymi (pronounced Nim-ee), which identifies owners through their unique heartbeat and then lets them charge purchases to their credit card.
The device looks like a watch, and will soon grace the wrists of 250 RBC clients and staff under a pilot project in Toronto that runs through February. Continue reading “Royal Bank to test out Toronto company’s Nymi technology”
C-Net – by Don Reisinger and Roger Cheng
President Barack Obama urged the government to adopt tighter regulations on broadband service in an effort to preserve “a free and open Internet.”
In a statement released Monday, Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to enforce the principle of treating Internet the same way, also known as Net neutrality. That means treating broadband services like utilities, so Internet service providers would be unable “to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.” Continue reading “Obama says broadband Internet should be regulated like utility”
More than 100 officials at the Washington headquarters of the US central bank — the Federal Reserve — get an average of a quarter of a million dollars per year, which is more than what Fed Chair Janet Yellen receives.
Yellen earns $201,700 a year, but her 113 staffers make $246,506 annually, excluding bonuses and other benefits, the Reuters news agency reported on Friday. Continue reading “113 staffers at US Fed get quarter of a million dollars per year”
Details of a US federal program known as ‘civil asset forfeiture,’ which enables police to seize the property of suspected criminals without having to prove their guilt, are revealed in a series of video seminars obtained by the New York Times.
“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” says Harry Connelly Jr., the city attorney of Las Cruces, New Mexico, in a taped lecture. “Just so beautiful, I mean, the cops were undercover and they were just like ‘Ahhhh.’ And he gets out and he’s just reeking of alcohol. And it’s like, ‘Oh, my goodness, we can hardly wait,’” he says, describing the 2008 seizure of a car made possible by the policy. Continue reading “Cops use ‘wish list’ when seizing ‘little goodies’…such as cars or homes”
A massive cloud smelling like ‘hell’ sparked a widespread panic in Moscow. Residents were afraid of a toxic gas after warnings to stay indoors.
The source of the rotten eggs smell turned out to be a leak from a sulfur dioxide processing facility at an oil refinery in Moscow, as the Emergencies Ministry confirmed.
The city’s ecology watchdog and the Emergencies Ministry said that the level of hydrogen sulfide was over the permitted level for a short period of time, while the levels of sulfur dioxide remained within the norm. The two gases are byproducts of oil processing. Continue reading “Mystery fog, ‘toxic’ sulfur odor covers Moscow”
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man accused of masterminding the theft of a 300-year-old, $5 million Stradivarius violin that was snatched from a musician in Milwaukee was sentenced Monday to seven years in prison.
Salah Salahadyn, 42, once told an acquaintance that such a theft was his dream crime because of the instrument’s value and the ease of grabbing it from a musician walking down the street. The centuries-old instrument was stolen in January from Frank Almond, a concertmaster at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, as he walked to his vehicle following a performance. Almond was attacked with a stun gun during the theft. Continue reading “Man accused in theft of $5M violin gets prison”
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials said Sunday that the head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike in western Anbar province. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such an attack or on the militant leader being injured.
Iraq’s Defense and Interior ministries both issued statements saying al-Baghdadi had been wounded, without elaborating, and the news was broadcast on state-run television Sunday night. The reports came at a time when President Barack Obama said the U.S.-led coalition was in a position to start going on the offensive against the Islamic State militants. Continue reading “Iraqi officials say IS leader wounded in airstrike”
BEIJING (AP) — An uneasy handshake Monday between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe marked the first meeting between the two men since either took power, and an awkward first gesture toward easing two years of high tensions.
As the two men approached each other, stern-faced, to shake hands in front of cameras, Abe briefly tried to say something to Xi, who gave no response and turned away, appearing distinctly uncomfortable, to fix his gaze toward the cameras for the rest of the handshake. Continue reading “An awkward handshake: Leaders of China, Japan meet”
NEW YORK (AP) — The residents of Belle Harbor Manor spent four miserable months in emergency shelters after Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters surged through their assisted-living center on New York City’s Rockaway peninsula.
Now, the home’s disabled, elderly and mostly poor residents have a new headache: The Federal Emergency Management Agency has asked at least a dozen of them to pay back thousands of dollars in disaster aid. Continue reading “NYC adult home residents asked to repay FEMA aid”
What the heck is Obama wearing when he arrived in China? Fox & Friends called it “Star Trek” fashion but it looks more like Kenya fashion to me, only not as cool.
Apparently our still self-assured though beaten POTUS hasn’t learned his lesson about chewing gum either because he’s chomping his cud again in the video FNC just showed which hasn’t hit the internet yet. Continue reading “Obama arrives in Asia wearing WHAT?”
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
The fact that the United States and NATO are arming the death squads fighting the secular government of Bashar al-Assad is, by now, accepted news in both the alternative and mainstream media circles. However, due to the U.S. State Department’s and its media mouthpieces’ incessant claims that there is such a thing as “moderate” rebels vs. extremist rebels in Syria, it is not considered “credible” or mainstream to suggest that the United States is, in fact, arming extremists. Continue reading “ISIS Fires American-Made Missiles At Syrian Army”
Natural News – by Jonathan Benson
Relatively new to the food products market, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a Southern California-based family company famous for its organic, fair-trade pure castile soaps, has come under scrutiny by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for merely sharing with its customers the proven health benefits of eating extra-virgin coconut oil.
The FDA sent a letter to Dr. Bronner’s on July 8, 2014, warning that its Magic “All-One!” Fresh-Pressed Virgin Coconut Oil had suddenly transformed into an “unapproved drug” based on one simple health claim indicated on its packaging. By selling its coconut oil with the stated claim, maintains the FDA, Dr. Bronner’s is engaging in the sale and distribution of an illegal drug. Continue reading “FDA targets Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps for sharing health benefits of coconut oil”
Five Syrian nuclear scientists have reportedly been killed by unknown assailants while riding a bus north of Damascus, near the research center where they worked, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports.
“Unidentified attackers murdered five nuclear energy engineers who worked in the scientific research center near the neighborhood of Barzeh, northern Damascus,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. Continue reading “5 nuclear scientists assassinated near Damascus – report”
A suicide bomber has killed at least 48 students at a high school assembly in northeastern Nigeria, witnesses say.
Survivors told the Associated Press that the explosives detonated Monday morning during the weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College in Potiskum, capital of the Yobe state. They also said that the bomber was disguised in a school uniform and carried the explosives in a rucksack commonly used by students. Continue reading “At least 48 reported killed in suicide bombing at northeast Nigeria school”
American Everyman – by Willy Loman
ISIS™ in Egypt
Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (ABM), the most active Islamist group in Egypt, has pledged loyalty to the Islamic State (IS), AFP reports, citing an audio message ABM posted on its Twitter account. Continue reading “ISIS™ Goes Everywhere Obama Needs to Prop-up Puppet Regimes”
TruthDig – by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Demonstrators, indignant over the Mexican government’s role in the disappearance of 43 students, set fire to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s ceremonial palace door in Mexico City on Saturday. The act was fueled by months of anger bubbling in the Latin American country over the ignominious event which took place in September when students in Iguala, a town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, came together raise money for a demonstration in which they planned to protest budgets cuts to their teachers college. The protests culminated in a bloody confrontation with police sent by Iguala’s former mayor, José Luis Abarca, and his wife, who allegedly feared the demonstrations would interrupt an event she was hosting. During the clashes, 6 people were killed and 43 students disappeared at the hands of the police, who, according to officials, turned the students over to a local drug gang who have confessed to burning the bodies and throwing the remains in a river. Continue reading “#YaMeCanse: Mexico Turmoil Reaches Boiling Point as Protests Over Students’ Disappearance Continue”
“People have to have immediate updates on stories of the day. It’s an addiction. And for an addict, his own state of mind is far less important than finding his next jolt. He only knows Need. And the last thing he wants to consider is that, at bottom, he is inventing that Need.” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
Reality is a psychological operation.
“Reality” basically means some group has force, money, and access to fawning media. They can define what exists. Continue reading “Ebola, Monsanto, James Holmes: basis of psyops”
The first thing you need to know is: pharmaceutical companies would develop and sell a vaccine to combat flying turtles if they could make money from it.
And shockingly, that point is relevant to the Ebola vaccine, because as yet I have seen no evidence that Ebola virus has ever been properly identified in any human being.
Therefore, there is no evidence anyone needs protection from the virus. Continue reading “Watch out: genetically engineered Ebola vaccine”
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