Link: https://www.rt.com/news/399493-kuwait-oil-spill-beaches/

The Kuwaiti authorities are working to contain an oil spill that has tarred the beaches and left long black slicks in the area of Ras al-Zour, but activists have accused it of covering up the full scale of the damage.

On Saturday, the government announced that boats and crews were dispatched to drop containment booms in the area, a kind of floating barrier to stop the oil spill moving further. According to the state-run Kuwait News Agency, the authorities’ priorities were first to secure waterways, power plants and water facilities.

Link: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-08-09/fbi-raided-paul-manaforts-house-in-july

FBI agents raided the home of President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in late July, seizing documents and other materials related to the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Link: http://www.whitehousewhispers.com/world/guams-worries-grow-as-tensions-rise-between-us-north-korea/

Residents of the tiny Pacific island of Guam say they’re afraid of being caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea after Pyongyang announced it was examining plans for attacking the strategically important U.S. territory.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/LAPD_Still_Trying_to_Launch_Police_Drones_Despite_Public_Outcry/60238/0/38/38/Y/M.html

LAPD proposed testing an “unmanned aerial system” during a one-year pilot program. Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala told the Police Commission that the idea was to use a small drone to help officers during certain types of incidents, such as and reports of potential bombs or active shooters. The devices, she said, could help gather crucial information as such situations unfold, without putting officers at risk. The LAPD would draw up clear guidelines before flying the drone and each use would require the approval of a high-ranking department official,

Link: https://sputniknews.com/art_living/201708091056301605-trump-opioid-crisis-emergency/

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said in a press conference in Bedminster, New Jersey. "The president certainly believes that we will treat it as an emergency and it is an emergency," Although the White House is considering all possible options to fight the opioid crisis, the Trump administration has no intention to declare a national emergency at this time because the issue can be resolved without it.

Link: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201708091056306864-paris-vehicle-hits-soldiers-operation/

The injured soldiers belong to Operation Sentinelle, an operation introduced in the wake of the terrorist attacks in 2015. Reuters quotes Levallois Mayor Patrick Balkany as saying that a there is "no doubt it was a deliberate act." July 14, 2016, a terrorist in a truck rammed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the southern city of Nice, leaving 86 people dead.

Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/08/542305822/photos-a-massive-wildfire-is-now-blazing-in-greenland

In a region better known for its ice and snow, it's a fire that now has scientists struggling to learn more. Since at least the end of last month, a stretch of land in western Greenland has been alight with a with a "sizable wildfire," NASA says. NASA notes the fire, while not unprecedented in Greenland, still makes for an "unusual event" on an island mostly covered by ice. NASA satellites have detected an "exceptional" number of wildfires in 2017.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/Swat_Team_terrorizes_drug-free_family_of_tea-drinking_tomato-growers/60218/0/38/38/Y/M.html

After finding wet tea leaves in a garbage can, a SWAT team in Kansas City raided a family home looking for marijuana, terrorizing the family for hours. The cops found nothing, and when the family sued, the "federal district judge who heard the case dismissed it, declaring that the police had probable cause and had acted reasonably,

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/399015-turkey-iran-border-wall/

Turkey has begun construction of a wall along the border with Iran in a bid to crack down on smuggling and terrorism, following the building of a similar barrier already standing on the border with Syria. In June, Ankara announced that it had finished building a 700km-long wall running along most of its 828km border with Syria, complete with an “integrated security” system comprising of sophisticated lighting, sensors and security cameras.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/399034-duterte-airstrikes-war-on-drugs/

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to unleash the full might of the military against the private militias of corrupt politicians, including sending in fighter jets to bomb their positions. ,000 people have been killed in the police crackdown on drug dealers since the start of Duterte’s presidency in July 2016, according to data from the Philippine National Police (PNP). The Philippines authorities have claimed that a large portion of those deaths have come from suspects resisting arrest in police operations while others have come at the hands of vigilantes or rival crime syndicates working outside the law.

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/399028-lockheed-martin-defense-missile-systems/

The Pentagon’s top weapons supplier, Lockheed Martin, says that customers’ requests for missile defense systems are rising, and North Korea’s continued threats as well as the US reaction may be responsible. Lockheed mainly sells security and intelligence products, which include ships, planes and missile defense systems that are sold to the US military, intelligence community and NASA.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/08/06/530903/Venezuela-military-rebellion-Maduro

Authorities in the ruling Socialist Party of Venezuela announced that an anti-government military action has been suppressed. Diosdado Cabello, a senior official in President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling party, said on Sunday that the reported rebellion in a military base in the town of Naguanagua was crushed in the beginning earlier in the day and that the situation in the base was now under control.

Link: http://govtslaves.info/novelist-1800s-warn-us-advance-donald-trump-last-president/

Ingersoll Lockwood wrote a series of novels which have striking parallels to events happening today. The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulgar and Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey, an extremely wealthy little boy with “a very active brain” named Baron Trump is guided on a series of extraordinary adventures by a man known as “Don”. Trump’s adventures begin his voyage, heading to Russia to locate an entrance into alternate dimensions. Lockwood wrote another novel“The Last President” in which the election of a very unpopular “outsider candidate” sparks huge mob riots by “anarchists and socialists” in New York City

Link: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/two-prominent-anti-clinton-activists-found-dead-in-two-days-mainstream-media-blackout_082016

Victor Thorn a seasoned Clinton researcher and writer for American Free Press, was found dead from a gunshot wound on a mountaintop near his home. It was his birthday. He would have been 54 years old. His death is being called a suicide. Shawn Lucas who was recently personally serving the Democratic National Committee and Debbie Wasserman Schultz with a nationwide class action lawsuit at the DNC HQ accusing the DNC and its former chairwoman of committing fraud by favoring Hillary Clinton and rigging the primary process in her favor over Bernie Sanders, was found dead from so-far “unknown causes”. Just a few weeks ago, DNC staffer Seth Rich a 27-year-old in charge of the DNC’s voter expansion data, was gunned down.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/US_Credit_Card_Debt_Surpasses_Financial_Crisis_Record%2C_As_Student_And_Auto_Loans_Hit_New_All_Time_High/60190/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Monthly update from the Federal Reserve confirmed that as of the end of June, total revolving (i.e. credit card) credit rose to $1,021.7 billion, an increase of $4.1 billion on the month, and a new all time high, taking out the previous record high set during the summer of 2008.

Link: http://www.blacklistednews.com/First_Genetically_Engineered_Salmon_Sold_in_Canada/60186/0/38/38/Y/M.html

AquaBounty Technologies, the company in Maynard, Massachusetts, that developed the fish, announced it has sold 4.5 tonnes of its hotly debated product to customers in Canada.The sale marks the first time that a genetically engineered animal has been sold for food on the open market. The fish, a variety of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), is engineered to grow faster than its non-genetically modified counterpart, reaching market size in half the time — about 18 months. AquaBounty raised the fish in tanks in a small facility in Panama. It plans to ramp up production by expanding a site on Canada’s Prince Edward Island,

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/398874-tea-coffee-su-indonesia-russia/

Indonesia says it will barter coffee, palm oil and other commodities for Russian fighter jets, calling US and European sanctions against Russia an opportunity to boost trade. “This barter under the supervision of both governments hopefully will soon be realized through the exchange of 11 Sukhoi Su-35s and a number of Indonesian exports, starting from coffee and tea to palm oil

Link: https://www.rt.com/business/398853-russia-reduce-reliance-us-payment/

The Russian government will intensify efforts to cut the country’s dependence on US payment systems and the dollar as a settling currency, said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Monday, as quoted by RIA Novosti. “We will, of course, speed up the work on import substitution, reduce dependence on US payment systems, on the dollar as a settling currency and so on. It is becoming a vitally important,” said Ryabkov.“The US is using its dominating role in the monetary and financial system to impose pressure on foreign business, including Russian companies,”

Link: https://www.rt.com/usa/398901-faa-drones-regulations-police-tracking/

Law enforcement in the US wants to be able to identify and track all unmanned vehicles in the sky. Meanwhile, the military was given the green light to shoot down private drones.

American law enforcement agencies oppose the government’s plans to allow extensive unmanned flights until federal regulators come up with requirements for the drones to be registered and tracked.

Link: https://www.rt.com/news/398746-trump-china-trade-war/

Amid expectations of the US launching investigations into China’s alleged theft of American intellectual property as well as unfair trade practices, Beijing appears unmoved by the imminent probe while US businesses fear reprisals in case the row unintentionally escalates.

Washington is expected to soon announce investigations into how China tackles copyright protection, protectionism and market access. President Donald Trump reportedly intents to use a provision in the Trade Act of 1974, which would allow him to slap tariffs and other barriers on Chinese products while circumventing the World Trade Organization (WTO) mechanisms for redressing grievances.