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The laugh of the day is Mitt Romeny Claims Obama Worse Than Even I Expected . It’s easy enough to cite failures of Obama
Links Staged Provocations Ahead Possible US-Syrian War August 20, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – With the alleged brutal murder of American journalist James Wright Foley, a wave of anger and aggression across Western audiences has been generated.
Veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh warned in a prophetic 2007 New Yorker article titled, " The Redirection Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? " that (emphasis added): To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran.
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Via translation from Libre Mercado, Spain Again Borrows Abroad to Finance Consumption . One of the main and genuine green shoots making the Spanish economy begins to show the first worrying signs of weakness
Bangkok’s Nation newspaper in an article titled, " Thailand to help launch investment bank for Asia ,"  reported that: Thailand has been invited by China to become one of the founding fathers of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which is supported by this country’s central bank. "There was no reason to refuse," Bank of Thailand Governor Prasarn Trairatvorakul said yesterday. Thailand was offered a primary signing agreement as a member from October to November, according to a report by the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO). The recent moves by the new military-led government of Thailand in relation to China have certainly given it more leverage against the West who regularly seeks to turn uncooperative nations into geopolitical pariahs. The West so far has nothing to offer Thailand in terms of incentives beyond increasingly ineffective threats and coercion. Chinese Opportunities, Western Threats Indeed, while China offers Thailand opportunities to join alternative financial markets and strengthen regional ties, the West has resorted to a series of sociopolitical attacks aimed at undermining the credibility and stability of Thailand’s new government. The latest attempt comes in the form of baseless allegations made by a notoriously dishonest, confrontational pro-Shinawatra propagandist Kritsuda Khunasen who claims she was "tortured" by the military while recently detained.
Rising Robots: Is it Obvious Robots Cost Human Jobs? Looking for Someone to Blame
Links Ebola and the Absent “Humanitarians†August 18, 2014 (Ulson Gunnar – NEO) - The US spent over two billion dollars  during NATO’s armed assault on Libya both in ordnance used during months of aerial bombardment and in covert support for terrorists used as proxy ground forces in the overthrow of the Libyan government. The United Kingdom is estimated to have spent even more.
See the article here: ‘ISIS a pretext for US-sponsored regime change in Iraq’