Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401897-pentagon-threat-military-response/

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has warned that any attack on the United States or its allies will be met with a "massive military response," and said that while the US was not “looking for the total annihilation” of North Korea, it had “many options to do so.”

“We have the ability to defend ourselves and our allies South Korea and Japan from attack, and our commitments to our allies are ironclad,” Mattis said in a statement he read out to journalists outside the White House.

“Any threat to the United States or its territories, including Guam or our allies, will be met with a massive military response – a response both effective and overwhelming.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401900-assange-us-north-korea/

Repeated threats made by the US and directed against North Korea have only worsened the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, as they prompt Pyongyang to further develop its weapons, whistleblower Julian Assange said.

“Constant US threats” have put the North “on a total war footing,” the WikiLeaks founder, who remains holed up in the Ecuador Embassy in London, said in a Twitter post, adding that such a situation gives a “massive boost” to its missile research and development activities, as well as rallying support for the leadership in Pyongyang.

Link: http://www.conservativekings.com/us/unprecedented-disaster-hurricane-harvey-has-shattered-the-rainfall-record-for-the-continental-united-states/

The previous record for rainfall in the continental United States occurred when Tropical Storm Amelia dumped 48 inches of rain on Medina, Texas in 1978. One spot in southeast Texas has received 52 inches of rain, 14 different spots in the Houston area got more than 40 inches of rain. Authorities are telling us that this will be the most costly disaster in all of U.S. history.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2017/08/border-patrol-launches-facial-recognition-every-person-leaving-us.html

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have announced plans to scan the faces of all flyers exiting the United States. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has launched a “Traveler Verification Service” (TVS) that envisions applying face recognition to all airline passengers, including U.S. citizens, boarding flights exiting the United States.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/DA_Launches_Criminal_Investigation_Into_Illegal_Arrest_Of_Utah_Nurse/60648/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Utah police have issued an apology after a video went viral of one of their own assaulting a nurse after she refused to draw blood from a patient who was unconscious at the University Hospital. The police department claims that an investigation has been launched into the incident and they've issued an apology to the hospital.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401819-la-tuna-fire-burbank-evacuation/

A ferocious bushfire near Los Angeles has spread across thousands of acres, prompting the mandatory evacuations of hundreds of homes in Burbank, California.

Burbank police announced mandatory evacuations of residents in the Brace Canyon Park area after the surrounding Verdugo Mountains caught fire at about 1:30pm on Friday afternoon.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401841-asteroid-earth-flyby-moons/

The highly anticipated asteroid ‘3122 Florence,’ measuring a whopping 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) in width, came within 4.4 million miles (7 million km) of Earth. The gap is the equivalent of 18 times the distance from our planet to the moon. “Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the NASA program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began,” Paul Chodas, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said of the fly-by.

Link: http://www.wealthydebates.com/made-in-the-usa-by-robots-china-to-open-sewbot-factory-in-arkansas-producing-shirts-for-33-cents/

“Made in America” will soon grace the labels of T-shirts produced by a Chinese company in Little Rock. By early 2018, Tianyuan Garments Co., based in the Suzhou Industrial Park in eastern China, will unveil a $20 million factory staffed by about 330 robots from Atlanta-based Softwear Automation Inc. The botmaker and garment company estimate the factory will stitch about 23 million T-shirts a year. The cost per shirt, according to Pete Santora, Softwear’s chief commercial officer: 33¢. “Around the world, even the cheapest labor market can’t compete with us,” Tang Xinhong, the chairman of Tianyuan, told the China Daily about the factory in July. The company, one of the biggest apparel makers in China, supplies Adidas, Armani, Reebok, and other major brands.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/America_tests_%27the_most_dangerous_nuclear_bomb_ever_produced%27%3A_F-15_drops_%241trillion_super-nuke_that_has_an_adjustable_yield_and_is_more_accurate_than_ever/60611/0/38/38/Y/M.html

he US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has revealed that it has conducted a second series of test flights involving an upgraded version of a nuclear bomb that has been part of the U.S. arsenal for decades. The bomb is described as the most dangerous nuclear device ever produced because its yeild can be adjusted between the equivalent of 50,000 tons and 300 tons of TNT. It is also more accurate than ever.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401526-china-war-doorstep-korea/

Beijing has said it will not allow war or chaos on the Korean Peninsula, as two US B-1B bombers conducted a new flight in the area, joined by South Korean and Japanese fighter jets in a show of force amid mounting tensions. Six American warplanes - two nuclear-capable B-1B strategic bombers and four Marine Corps F-35Bs - held a joint flight operation with Japanese F-15 fighter jets on Thursday, Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF) said in a statement. The squadron flew near the island of Kyushu, south of the Korean Peninsula.

Link: http://tass.com/world/962650

Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya: North Korea’s missile and nuclear program should be ended, and all problems of the Korean Peninsula should be solved through peaceful means. North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs should be ended promptly and without delay," the Russian diplomat said after a closed meeting of the UN Security Council.

Link: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/08/30/533426/Iran-automotive-cars-Japan-Nissan-Datsun

Iran Khodro (IKCO) expects to finalize a deal with Nissan Motor Co for production of low-budget Datsun cars, the largest Iranian automaker’s CEO Hashem Yekezare says. Nissan said it would send so-called knockdown kits, to be assembled locally, rather than finished autos to Iran and that the automaker was looking to export kits for several thousand vehicles a year. Iranian automaker targeting Datsun cars in the price range of $11,500. Datsun is a resurrected brand targeting emerging markets. Nissan quit using the Datsun brand in 1981; revived the nameplate in 2013 for increasing sales to Indonesia, India and Russia.

Link: http://www.moneynewsmagazine.com/economy/household-debt-in-the-us-just-hit-an-all-time-high/

Americans’ debt level notched another record high in the second quarter, after having earlier in the year surpassed its pre-crisis peak, on the back of modest rises in mortgage, auto and credit card debt, where delinquencies jumped. Total U.S. household debt was $12.84 trillion in the three months to June, up $552 billion from a year ago, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report

Link: http://www.moneynewsmagazine.com/economy/graduating-with-a-degree-in-debt-the-average-student-debt-balance-for-seniors-is-now-40000/

Average student loan balance for graduating seniors is now $40,000. Per capita wage of Americans is in the high $20,000 range. Student debt is one of those categories where your ability to pay said debt back is completely devoid from reality. You can go into one hundred thousand dollars of debt for a degree in art that has little earnings potential. There is now $1.4 trillion in student debt floating out in the system. People are having a harder time paying it back. high delinquency rates for student loans.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/military/201708301056906951-us-air-force-operating-uae/

One of most highly trafficked runways for US warplanes in the Middle East and the only foreign military base with F-22 Raptors will finally be recognized at an official level by the US military and diplomatic community, Military.com reports.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/201708251056761597-electronic-rifle-neutralizes-drones/

Take a look at Kalashnikov’s novel anti-drone rifle on display at Russia’s ARMY-2017 expo. It doesn’t fire bullets; instead, the rifle neutralizes the control channel of the drone. This electronic non-lethal rifle, developed by Russia's largest weapons' manufacturer, was equipped with a collimator sight, interchangeable GPS suppression units and a tactical handle. It can be used against improvised explosive devices and is capable of jamming mobile connections and Wi-Fi.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/military/201708191056611335-russia-weapons-middle-east-sales-huge-interest/?utm_source=adfox_site_41917&utm_medium=adfox_banner_2186157&utm_campaign=adfox_campaign_626010&ues=1

Russia's state arms exporter said that the demand for military aviation and other military equipment has sharply risen. Military expert Boris Rozhin: The global demand for military aviation has dramatically risen with its share in Russia's Rosoboronexport's supplies at the end of the year expected to exceed 50%; company' Director General Alexander Mikheev. Military expert Boris Rozhin:"Russia continues to return not only to the markets it had lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but it also enters so-called 'disputed' markets, where it [Russia] competes with the EU countries and the US, as it has competitive advantages related to relatively cheap cost of its products and their high efficiency,

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401372-pyongyang-missile-prelude-guam/

North Korea has announced that its latest test of Hwasong-12 missile, observed by the country’s leader Kim Jong-un, was a successful demonstration of Pyongyang’s determination to counter any potential threat stemming from the US' joint drills with South Korea.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401396-syrian-refugees-return-holiday/

Thousands of Syrians refugees are returning home from Turkey just in time to celebrate a major Muslim holiday amid significantly improved security, provided to a great extent by the Russian military and the reconciliation efforts within the de-escalation zones. , Syria's President Bashar Assad estimated that some 4.8 million Syrian refugees have fled the country during the ongoing civil war. Turkey has welcomed almost three million Syrians since the conflict broke out in 2011. For the past two weeks, those who have been displaced have been taking advantage of the newly created stability in Syria to return home to visit loved ones in time for Kurban Bayram (Feast of the Sacrifice, also known as Eid al-Adha) celebrations which begin on August 31.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401386-merkel-heckled-refugee-policy/

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled twice on Tuesday by right-wing anti-immigrant protesters as she stubbornly defended her open-door refugee policy, one of the most contested issues in the country’s upcoming federal election.