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JPost: 'Russia convinced Syria will not use chemical weapons'
CTVNews: Syrian official warns US against intervention
Reuters: Syrian army batters parts of Damascus, 40 killed
Guardian: Syria crisis: 'shelling in Damascus' - live updates
Reuters: No feeling of liberation in rebel-held Syrian town
MSNBC: US deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000 in 'forgotten' war
ABCNews: HK Welcomes Home Sailors Arrested in Island Row
NYT: UN Leader Will Attend Iran Summit Over American and Israeli Objections
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Telegraph: Ecuador says Julian Assange can stay at embassy indefinitely
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MarketDailyNews: It’s “Worth Nuclear War” To Save The U.S. Dollar
Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul: “Both parties are driven by the neoconservatives (“neocons”) who believe that American hegemony over the world is worth nuclear war to accomplish,” states former Asst. Secretary of Treasury and Reagonics architect Paul Craig Roberts in his latest blog post of Aug. 20.BeforeItsNews: Your Banks Owns Your Checking Account And Will Seize It Anytime
In his post, titled, Amerika’s Future is Death, the 73-year-old former Washington elite-turned-willful-outcast warns readers of fantastic tales circulating American culture, which are meant to serve as an explanation for the economic and social chaos swirling violently within the U.S., including talk of secret Bilderberg meetings, covert plans for a New World Order, and accusations of a crazy cabal of neocons hellbent on sparking a full-blown WWIII.
The tale continues with an endgame scenario to secure complete U.S. hegemony with an attack upon Iran, completing a decades-long neocon plan to manhandle the freedom genie back into the bottle.
Global Financial News
NYT: Euro Watch: Greece and Germany Strike Conciliatory Note
MacroBusiness: Zombie China - It is now quite well-known now that non-performing loans in China are surging, and loans at risk of turning non-performing are also on the rise.Telegraph: China bubble in ‘danger zone’ warns Bank of Japan
ResilientCommunities: Here’s What You Need to Know About the Collapse of Greece
Commodities/Metals
CommodityOnline: 'Gold is exploding Silver catching up'
ETFDailyNews: Michael Fowler: $2,000 Gold Price Will Soon Kickstart Mining Shares (GDX, BRD, AZK, WDO, CFO)
Mineweb: US investment demand gold's current key swing factor - WGC
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NYT: Court Blocks EPA Rule on Cross-State Pollution
WashingtonPost: Tropical Storm Isaac getting better organized in the Atlantic as it approaches the Caribbean
MSNBC: Migration in the Americas: On the run from water in Panama
Reuters: Warmer temperatures eyed in devastation of Massachusetts butterflies
Food and Water
USFoodPolicy: Incorrect reports say that California's Prop 37 has zero tolerance for accidental GMO content - California voters are considering a ballot initiative to require mandatory labeling for foods that contain Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) ingredients. A recent Oakland Tribune editorial against the initiative gets key facts wrong. The editorial, which was widely published in other newspapers, claims that the proposal has a zero-tolerance for accidental GMO content in foods that aren't labeled as containing GMOs. Such a policy would force producers of essentially non-GMO products to use the label "may contain GMOs," simply out of fear of litigation. But the editorial is mistaken.
ScienceDaily: Good news for banana lovers: Help may be on the way to slow that rapid over-ripening
TheScientist: Nanoparticles Harm Crops
Grist: Don’t toss your cookies: Curbing the crisis of food waste
Rodale: You're Throwing Away $2,275 Every Year on This
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BlacklistedNews: Hackers backdoor the human brain, successfully extract sensitive data
With a chilling hint of the not-so-distant future, researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers have shown that it’s possible to hack your brain, forcing you to reveal information that you’d rather keep secret.
Science and Technology
ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Has Been Hacked. What Will You Do?
ScienceDaily: Male mice exposed to chronic social stress have anxious female offspring
Medical and Health
Sanctuary chimps show high rates of drug-resistant staph = Chimpanzees from African sanctuaries carry drug-resistant, human-associated strains of the bacteria Staphlyococcus aureus, a pathogen the infected chimpanzees could spread to endangered wild ape populations if they were reintroduced to their natural habitat. The study was the first to apply the same modern sequencing technology of bacterial genomes used in hospitals to track the transmission of staph from humans to African wildlife.
CNN: West Nile outbreak largest ever in US
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NYT: Tennis Referee, in New York for US Open, Arrested in Murder Case
CBS: Holmes saw 3 mental health docs before shooting
Time: Todd Akin Fallout: Rape, Abortion and the Dark History of Qualifying Violence against women
The caller said he was putting it out for seagulls and raccoons to eat, not as an anti-Muslim statement.
NBCNews: Police: NJ mom decapitated son, put head in freezer before killing herself
RadioFreeEurope: Amnesty Urges Islamabad To Protect Girl Charged With Blasphemy
Politics
Boston.com: Republican Party approves strict anti-abortion platform
LAT: Todd Akin skips withdrawal deadline, stays in Senate race
Hosted: Tropical Storm Isaac could hit Republican convention
Bloomberg: Isaac Better Organized, Set to Be Hurricane Tomorrow, NHC Says
WashingtonPost: Akin comments expose GOP rift over abortion
ABCNews: Secret Service Arrests Armed Man for Alleged Obama Threat
TheCaucus: Paul and Republican Party Officials Reach Deal on Delegates
NYT: Patients Would Pay More if Romney Restores Medicare Savings, Analysts Say - Mitt Romney’s promise to restore $716 billion that he says President Obama “robbed” from Medicare has some health care experts puzzled, and not just because his running mate, Representative Paul D. Ryan, included the same savings in his House budgets.
Newsday: Poll shows Paul Ryan does not alter White House race
Reuters: Alaska sues to avoid federal oversight of elections
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