Trans-Pacific Trade Talks End Without Deal
• http://www.voanews.comNegotiations on a major trade deal have ended for now without agreement.
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UPDATE 1-Ecuador signs $2.5 bln oil supply deal with Thailand
• http://www.reuters.comEcuador's state oil company Petroecuador has signed a crude oil supply agreement with a division of Thailand's state-run PTT under which the Andean country will receive a $2.5 billion up-front payment, according to a statement from the company.
The CEO of collapsed bitcoin exchange MtGox has been arrested in Japan
• http://www.businessinsider.com, AFPJapanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpeles, CEO of the collapsed MtGox bitcoin exchange, over the loss of nearly $390 million worth of the virtual currency, local media said.
Puerto Rico will default
• Megan Davies and Jessica DiNapoliPuerto Rico will miss a payment on debt due August 1, the governor's chief of staff said on Friday, an event that will be considered a default by investors as the commonwealth lurches towards what could be one of the largest US municipal debt restruc
Rare ancient cat paw print found on Roman roof tile
• http://www.redorbit.comA Roman roof tile stored at a museum in southwestern England has been discovered to contain an unusual surprise paw prints made by a cat an estimated 2,000 years ago which were found by researchers looking through artifacts obtained during a 1969
Getting married helps people stop drinking
• http://www.redorbit.comIt's commonly acknowledged that marriage changes a person, and new study published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research has found that that change can be for the better:
World's Widest Suspension Bridge Being Built Over Bosphorus
• http://www.voanews.comA new bridge, the widest in the world, being constructed over the Bosphorus Strait, will provide another transportation route connecting Europe and Asia.
Plane Debris Arrives in France for MH370 Probe
• http://www.voanews.comAirplane debris that washed up on an Indian Ocean island that is believed to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 arrived in France Saturday.
Head Of Collapsed Mt.Gox Exchange Arrested With Half A Billion In Bitcoin Still Unaccounted
• http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-01/head-collBack in its 2013 heyday, when bitcoin soared from below $100 to over $1000 in the span of a few months (in no small part thanks to the collapse of the Cyprus banking system) there was only one real Bitcoin exchange:
Furious Americans Demand Extradition Of Cecil-Killing Dentist As Poachers Kill Lion's Brother
• http://www.zerohedge.comThere's a lot going on in the world, but you wouldn't know it if you tuned in to the nightly news because according to the mainstream media, the only thing that happened anywhere last week is that a dentist shot a lion.
Scorching 'heat dome' over Middle East sees temperatures soar to 165F in Iran
• http://www.telegraph.co, By James RothwellIran is enduring a "heat index" of nearly 72C while Iraq has called a public holiday due to the sweltering temperatures
Moscow vows to retaliate against latest US sanctions
• http://www.rt.comRussian Foreign Ministry has slammed fresh US sanctions, saying that Washington wants to aggravate tensions with Moscow and added that the move "would not be left without our reaction."
Surfer bitten by a shark fights for his life ....
• dailymail.co.uk....as alarming figures show attacks in Australia have more than DOUBLED in the past 20 years
Q&A: The hunt for flight MH370
• http://www.ft.com, Mark OdellHopes of a breakthrough in the search for flight MH370, the Malaysia Airlines aircraft that disappeared without a trace in March last year, are rising after a piece of aircraft wreckage washed up on the island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
Why Is the U.S. Releasing Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard?
• http://www.thedailybeast.com, Michael WeissThe White House denies it's freeing Jonathan Pollard as a salve to Israelis angry at the Iran deal, but the timing is curious--and ex-counterintelligence officials are against the move.
Turkey Escalates Airstrikes Against Kurdish Targets in Iraq
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzErdogan: Peace Process Is 'Impossible'
The China Syndrome: Global Meltdown
• https://www.lewrockwell.comKINGSTON, NY, 29 July 2015--By any measure, the Chinese equity markets are in turmoil. The Shanghai Index, up 150 percent in a year and down some 30 percent since mid-June, was hit hard again Monday, losing another 8.5 percent -- its second-biggest
Police State "Ministry of Truth" Hits Spain; Man Fined for Calling Police "Slackers
• http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.comOn July 1, the Spanish Government went to "Full Police State", with enactment of law forbidding dissent and unauthorized photos of law enforcement.
Cut the Government Workforce or Wither Puerto Rico
• http://blog.panampost.comPuerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla is trying to put a Band-Aid over a gaping fiscal wound.
Israel approves new homes in settlement after demolishing two buildings
• http://www.reuters.comIsrael gave final approval on Wednesday for plans to build 300 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, announcing the move as it carried out a court demolition order against two vacant apartment blocks in the same enclave.
Independent Russia, Iran Threat to Unilateral US Actions: Ex-White House Official
• https://www.lewrockwell.comA former White House official says the United States cannot stand independent countries, such as Russia and Iran, because they are a threat to Washington's unilateral actions.
An Exasperated Tsipras Calls For Syriza Referendum On Bailout Cancellation
• http://www.zerohedge.comAnyone who thought Greece's third bailout program was a done deal or that, at the very least, the market would get a few months of respite before having to grapple with daily Grexit headlines again, got a rude awakening late last week
Lagarde Says No To IMF Aid For Greece
• http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-30/lagarde-sOver the course of six painful months of negotitations between Athens and its creditors, one concern lurking in the background was whether the IMF would be on board with a third program for Greece.
Total Collapse: Greece Reverts To Barter Economy For First Time Since...
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenTotal Collapse: Greece Reverts To Barter Economy For First Time Since Nazi Occupation
Flight MH370 Wreckage Found, Close To Madagascar
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden16 Months after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared off the coast of Malaysia, The Telegraph reports that fragments of a wing washed up in the French island of Reunion (near Madagascar) could be wreckage from the missing plane, according to an
Is U.S. Economy Pushing the Fed Closer to a Rate Hike?
• http://www.bloomberg.comPriscilla Hancock of JPMorgan Asset Management and Bloomberg's Michael McKee preview today's Federal Reserve policy statement and examine how U.S. economic data plays into the Fed's decision on when to raise interest rates. They speak on "Market Make
Gold Is Only Going to Get Worse
• http://www.bloomberg.comOur survey shows a majority of traders and investors aren't optimistic.
China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines
• http://www.bloomberg.comThe hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around the same time -- United Airlines.
Russia Ends Foreign Currency Purchases in Boost for Easing
• http://www.bloomberg.comRussia's central bank halted purchases of foreign currency to replenish the country's international reserves, a move that may lay the groundwork for a fifth interest-rate cut this year at a meeting on Friday.
$100 Million to Sink Iran Peace Effort
• https://www.youtube.comMultiple lobbying groups in the US are expected to spend $100 million to force Congress to vote down the nuclear deal with Iran. Polls show that most Americans -- even most American Jews -- are in favor of the deal. Will Congress cave?
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