Contains bug fixes to get parity to work as a blockchain client.
**NOTE:** Please merge https://github.com/embark-framework/embark/pull/1950 first before merging this PR, as this PR contains removal of dependencies from `packages/embark` that are needed for geth. So if this is merged first, and the geth PR (https://github.com/embark-framework/embark/pull/1950) is not merged, then geth will not have some of the dependencies it needs.
Eric Mastro