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Homeland Security tests to begin at T stops in Cambridge, Somerville

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Boston.com
Brock Parker, 8/27/12

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The federal government Wednesday will begin releasing bacteria at Red Line MBTA stations in Cambridge and Somerville at set times to test sensors designed to detect biological agents that could be released in a terrorist attack.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said in a press release Monday that the harmless bacteria is non-infectious and the tests will be performed when the stations are closed.

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Spain Approves Establishment of 'Bad Bank'

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The New York Times
By , August 31, 2012

Spain’s economy minister, Luis de Guindos, voiced confidence on Friday in the “bad bank” plan. (Paul Hann/Reuters)

MADRID — The Spanish government on Friday approved the creation of a so-called bad bank to absorb the most troubled real estate assets of the country’s financial institutions, helping to clear the way for Madrid to receive European rescue money for Spain’s troubled banking industry.

The move is meant not only to let Spanish banks eventually begin to receive money from the €100 billion, or $126 billion, reserve that European finance ministers have approved, but also to restore market confidence in the country’s banking system. Spanish banks have been having problems borrowing money, even as depositors withdraw money at a rising pace and move it to foreign banks.

Spain's Bankia loses 4.45 bn euros in first half of 2012

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MADRID — Spain's rescued lender Bankia said Friday it had lost 4.45 billion euros ($5.6 billion) in the first half of 2012, prompting an immediate promise of state cash.

Created with fanfare in 2010 from a merger of seven troubled regional savings banks, and then listed on the market in July 2011, Bankia's fortunes have collapsed in dramatic style.

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A New Run On The Banks? Spaniards Pulling Cash Out At Record Rates

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International Business Times
By Oliver Tree and Mike Obel, August 28, 2012

Spanish consumers are pulling their cash out of banks at record levels, according to figures released on Tuesday.

Private sector deposits fell by nearly 5 percent in July to €1.509, the Telegraph reported, citing European Central Bank data, as public confidence in the banking system reached all-time lows amid a worsening economic situation.

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UFO 'Secrets' To Be Revealed In September, Says National Atomic Testing Museum

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Lee Speigel, 9/01/12

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In just a few weeks, some kind of UFO-related secrets will be revealed at a Smithsonian Institution affiliated museum. That's the implied promise in the title of a special lecture coming up at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas on Sept. 22.

The secrets haven't yet been revealed, but the players involved certainly present the potential for something intriguing to emerge from this one-night event that's part of the museum's ongoing Area 51 lecture series.

Watch this promo for the upcoming UFO lecture at the National Atomic Testing Museum.

Ben Bernanke Fails To Move The Gold Market Lower

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ETF Daily News
Jeff Nielson, August 31, 2012

Following the solid gains in the price of gold last week and the much more explosive rise in the price of silver, all expectations (even among normally bearish commentators) were that bullion prices would continue rising this week. That all changed Monday morning, however.

At that point the Corporate Media released their Script for this week (written by the banking cabal itself). They “predicted” that B.S. Bernanke would “disappoint the market” when his prepared remarks would be released to the world on August 31st.

Students fight college ID tracking badges

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WCSH6
August 29, 2012

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (NBC) - Students and parents are rallying against new ID badges that track student movement on the campuses of two San Antonio, Texas schools.

Father Steven Hernandez does not agree with the district's new pilot program called Radio Frequency Identification System, or RFID.

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