Argentina, China ink space cooperation deal
• http://ca.news.yahoo.comChina plans to build an antenna for deep space observation in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, Argentina's foreign ministry announced Wednesday.
Page Two
New Jersey habitual abuse of eminent domain
• NJ SpotlightNew Jersey government officials have become infamous for their habitual abuse of eminent domain—and their refusal to reform state laws to protect property owners. Having evidently tired of constant constituent criticism, they are turning to a new—but
War Without Mercy on Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
US Proxy Al Qaeda Death Squads in Syria
Stephen LendmanSyria
Olympics could spark global measles outbreak
• David Ferguson via The Raw Story.comA spike in international cases of measles and an increase in the number of parents choosing not to vaccinate their children has health officials worrying
Olympic officials replace backwards Arabic ‘welcome’ signs
• The Raw Story.comThe official shopping centre of the 2012 Olympics apologised on Thursday for putting up “Welcome to London” banners in Arabic that read backwards.
New device allows disabled people to draw on a computer using only their eyes
• The Raw Story.comA French researcher has built a device allowing disabled people to write or draw on a computer screen using only their eyes, a report said Thursday.
‘Cure’ research suggests new paths to HIV control
• The Raw Story.comThree studies presented Thursday at a major world conference on AIDS show new ways that scientists are striving toward a cure for the three-decade-old disease.
U.S. Olympic shooters say don’t link us to Colorado theater horror
• The Raw Story.comUS Olympic shooting competitors hope those watching the London Games do not link their firearm sports with the shooter who killed 12 people and wounded 58 others at an American theatre last week.
Florida man kills door-to-door salesman: I’ll kill anybody that steps on my property
• Eric W. Dolan via The Raw Story.comA man in Cape Coral, Florida on Wednesday was arrested for shooting and killing an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property.
Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with US
• APCuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that his government is willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it is a conversation between equals. At the end of a Revolution Day ce
UN chief makes 11th hour plea on arms treaty
• The Raw Story.comUN chief Ban Ki-moon made a last-ditch effort Thursday to break the deadlock over a landmark treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade, urging countries to “show flexibility.”
Mayor Ed Lee committed to stop and frisk
• San Francisco ChronicleMayor Ed Lee remains resolute in implementing some form of a stop-and-frisk program – even if it’s not called that – in the wake of the mass shooting in Colo., and a trip to Philadelphia, which has its own stop-and-frisk program.
U.S. braces for make-or-break economic data
• The Raw Story.comThe United States is bracing for growth figures that will set the tone for the last 100 days of the race to the White House and help decide if the Fed pulls the trigger on more economic stimulus.
Apple pitches gadget security to hacker crowd
• The Raw Story.comApple pitched security measures in its mobile gadgets on Thursday during its first presentation at a premier gathering of hackers and those intent on thwarting cyber attacks.
Deals to Keep Generic Drugs Off Market Get a Court Rebuff
• New York TimesIt would seem a business executive’s dream: legally pay a competitor to keep its product off the market for years. Generic drug makers and big-name pharmaceutical companies have been winning court rulings that allowed it.
Justice Department officials violated nepotism rules, new report says
• Washington PostEight Justice Department officials tried to get their children and other relatives hired at the department in violation of laws and regulations, according to a report released Thursday by the department’s inspector general.
London mayor calls out Romney in front of 100,000 at Olympic torch lighting
• David Edwards via The Raw Story.comLondon Mayor Boris Johnson shamed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in front of a crowd of 100,000 people at the Olympic torch lighting on Thursday.
Pakistan recounts in new report how doctor helped U.S. in bin Laden operation
• Washington PostThe Pakistani doctor who aided the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden would meet his handlers on Saturdays in Islamabad. They’d pick him up at certain gas stations, then make him lie in the back seat, hidden under a blanket, before taking him to be debri
Neanderthal-type species once roamed Africa, DNA shows
• Washington PostThe human family tree just got another — mysterious — branch, an African “sister species” to the heavy-browed Neanderthals that once roamed Europe. While no fossilized bones have been found from these enigmatic people, they did leave a calling car
Ninety arrested in nationwide synthetic drug crackdown
• ReutersFederal agents arrested more than 90 people and seized about 5 million packets of synthetic drugs - known on the street as "bath salts," "K2" and "Spice" - in the first U.S. nationwide crackdown on "designer drugs," the Drug Enforcement Administratio
Cassini Spacecraft Buzzes Saturn Moon Titan to See Methane Lake
• SpaceNASA's Cassini probe zipped by Saturn's largest moon Titan in a close flyby to search for a lake filled with liquid methane. The Cassini spacecraft flew within 629 miles of Titan to "look for a glint of sunlight reflecting off a methane lake,"
Turkey warns it would strike PKK fighters inside Syria
• AFPTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria of giving Kurdish rebels a free hand in its north and warned that Ankara would not hesitate to strike. "In the north, it (President Bashar al-Assad's regime) has allotted five provinces
WikiLeaks: Famous Spanish judge to defend Assange against 'American scheme'
• Christian Science MonitorWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hired human rights champion and former Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón to fight what he fears is an American scheme to eventually try him for revealing a stash of secret documents.
'Space Jumping' Skydiver Survives 18 Mile Freefall
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Mike WallA daredevil leapt from a balloon more than 18 miles above the Earth today (July 25), moving one step closer to a so-called "space jump" that would set the record for the world's highest skydive.
German tax authorities raiding homes of ‘suspected’ evaders
• http://www.sovereignman.com,Simon BlackLate last night I arrived to Brussels. As the capital of the European Union, Brussels is Europe’s political mother ship, the home base of the continent’s good idea factory.
Spain at 7% Stresses Inadequacies of Rescue Options: Euro Credit
• www.businessweek.com...policy makers are hamstrung in how to rescue an economy twice the combined size of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Moon Formed In Interplanetary Hit-and-Run Incident, Say Astronomers
• The Physics arXiv BlogA new theory of lunar formation suggests Earth was the victim of a hit-and-run incident--and that the culprit may still be at large
Decoding the secrets of balance
• http://www.bio-medicine.org, Katherine GombayIf you have ever looked over the edge of a cliff and felt dizzy, you understand the challenges faced by people who suffer from symptoms of vestibular dysfunction such as vertigo and dizziness.
How to Construct the Lightest, Most Open Olympic Stadium Ever Built
• http://www.popsci.com, By Tim NewcombThe centerpiece of this year's Olympics is unlike anything we've seen before
Watch Streaming Broadcast Live:
