Archive for March, 2013
When Harm in the Hospital Follows You Home
March 26th, 2013Via: ProPublica: A slip of the scalpel, an invisible microbe, a minute miscalculation. It’s estimated that something goes wrong for more than one million people per year during a visit to the hospital. Some patients experience a full physical recovery. Some are never fully healed. But even if patients are lucky enough to physically heal, […]
Student Loan Write-Offs Hit $3 Billion in First Two Months of Year
March 26th, 2013Via: Reuters: Banks wrote off $3 billion of student loan debt in the first two months of 2013, up more than 36 percent from the year-ago period, as many graduates remain jobless, underemployed or cash-strapped in a slow U.S. economic recovery, an Equifax study showed. The credit reporting agency also said Monday that student lending […]
EU to Bank Depositors in Other Member States: You Could Be Next
March 26th, 2013The fascist Borg collective is through effing around. Via: Telegraph: Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe’s single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced. The new policy will alarm hundreds of thousands of British expatriates who live and have […]
Britain: Boy Sells Phone App to Yahoo for $30 Million
March 26th, 2013Maybe someone will make an app that turns Cryptogon posts into Haiku and sell it for big bucks! 🙂 Paper money doom Spooks monitor internets Best go milk the goat Eh? Eh? Get those checkbooks out. Via: Reuters: Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you’re out of your teens? Just […]
‘Kerry, Karzai Bury Hatchet in Kabul Meeting’
March 26th, 2013Sequence of events: 1) 10 March 2013, Karzai Says Taliban ‘In Service to America’: “My guess is that Karzai probably perceives that he’s not getting a big enough cut of the opium pie.” 2) 12 March 2013, Over 20 Tons of Heroin Seized in Afghanistan: “Can you hear me now?” 3) 25 March 2013: John […]
NYPD Report Confirms Manipulation of Crime Stats
March 25th, 2013Via: Reuters: A New York Police Department whistleblower’s report that his precinct was systematically underreporting crime – an act that resulted in a suspension and time in a psychiatric ward – has been validated by an internal department investigation. The report, completed in 2010 but not made public, comes amid growing scrutiny of the NYPD […]
Pledge of Allegiance
March 25th, 2013Via: The Whitest Kids You Know:
Shocker: CIA Airlifting Weapons to Syrian Rebels
March 25th, 2013Via: New York Times: With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts […]
Top American and British Military Staffs to Meet for First Time Since 1940s
March 25th, 2013Via: Defense News: In what is believed to be the first time since the 1940s, the entire British defense staff will be here March 25 to discuss long-range strategy and the impact of budget cuts with their U.S. counterparts, according to U.S. and British sources. The meeting is reminiscent of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, […]
CYPRUS: UP TO 40% THEFT FROM BANK ACCOUNTS
March 25th, 2013Update: No Levies on Accounts with Balances Below €100,000 Via: Guardian / Liveblog: Jeroen Dijsselbloem: “I would l like to emphasis that none of these measures will affect desposits below €100,000.” — Confirmation and details are not out. BBC is going with the following right now. Via: BBC: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a deal […]
