Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401870-la-tuna-fire-update/

The La Tuna bush fire is now the largest by acres in the history of Los Angeles after burning more than 5,895 acres of land, according to fire service officials. Governor of California Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in LA County, Sunday. The declaration will ensure that state and federal assistance will be provided as quickly as possible.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/401904-syria-army-isis-deir-ezzor/

Syrian troops are now at the gates of the Islamic State-besieged city of Deir ez-Zor, the governor of the province said, as the government forces continue to press forward, obliterating terrorist positions in the vicinity and on the outskirts of the city. The key Euphrates city of Deir ez-Zor has been under terrorist siege for two and a half years, after being cut off from government-held areas in May 2015 during the jihadists’ offensive on Palmyra. The surrounded city, alongside a neighboring military base and airfield, have since been supplied with food and ammunition via airdrops by Russian and Syrian transport planes and helicopters.

Link: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/08/10/national/unexploded-ordnance-found-fukushima-no-1-nuclear-power-plant/#.Wa0MUMZOnIU

An object appearing to be unexploded ordnance was found at disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant by a worker, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., who reported the find to police.

The site where the Fukushima No. 1 plant is located used to be an airfield for the Japanese military during WWII.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/401855-idaho-soda-springs-earthquake/

An 5.3 earthquake followed by half a dozen aftershocks have struck Idaho near the state border with Wyoming, some 28 km east of Soda Springs which has a population of roughly 3,000 people, the USGS announced. Idaho is rarely associated with earthquakes, due to the state’s close proximity to the supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park, seismic activity is possible in the area. Salt Lake City, Utah is located 214.5km (133.3 mi) from the epicenter of the quake.

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/while-you-were-sleeping-north-korea-perfected-a-hydrogen-bomb_092017

North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb on Sunday according to officials in the country. If confirmed, it would be the most powerful nuclear explosion ever achieved by the isolated country. The explosion of North Korea’s hydrogen bomb was first picked up as an earthquake at exactly noon, local time. Measuring 6.3 on the richter scale by the US Geological Survey, such an explosion is at least 5 times stronger than any previous detonation performed by the country and roughly 8 times stronger than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima during World War II.

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.