Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Bank of Japan to Pump $1.4 Trillion Into Economy in Unprecedented Stimulus
April 4th, 2013Via: Reuters: The Bank of Japan unleashed the world’s most intense burst of monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years, a radical gamble that sent the yen reeling and bond yields to record lows. New Governor Haruhiko Kuroda committed the BOJ to open-ended asset […]
CYPRUS: DEPOSITORS MIGHT BE ISSUED BANK STOCK WORTH 37.5% OF AMOUNTS OVER 100,000 EUROS, “WHILE THE REST OF THEIR DEPOSITS MAY NEVER BE PAID BACK”
March 30th, 2013Killing Joke – European Super State from Digital Beast on Vimeo. Via: Reuters: Big depositors in Cyprus’s largest bank stand to lose far more than initially feared under a European Union rescue package to save the island from bankruptcy, a source with direct knowledge of the terms said on Friday. Under conditions expected to be […]
Ex-Schools Chief in Atlanta Is Indicted in Massive Cheating Scandal
March 30th, 2013Via: New York Times: During his 35 years as a Georgia state investigator, Richard Hyde has persuaded all sorts of criminals — corrupt judges, drug dealers, money launderers, racketeers — to turn state’s evidence, but until Jackie Parks, he had never tried to flip an elementary school teacher. It worked. In the fall of 2010, […]
Google Maps a Japanese Nuclear Ghost Town
March 29th, 2013Via: The Atlantic: Two years after the the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the following tsunami and nuclear disaster, a large area around the failed Fukushima nuclear plant is still considered an exclusion zone. Namie, a small city just north of the nuclear power plant, was evacuated shortly after the quake, […]
Mexican Vigilantes Seize Town, Arrest Police
March 28th, 2013Via: AP: Hundreds of armed vigilantes have taken control of a town on a major highway in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, arresting local police officers and searching homes after a vigilante leader was killed. Several opened fire on a car of Mexican tourists headed to the beach for Easter week. Members of the […]
Cyprus Prepares Money Controls Before Banks Reopen
March 27th, 2013Via: AP: Cypriot authorities are preparing limits on how much money depositors can take out of their accounts a day before banks are set to reopen. A banking official said Wednesday — on condition of anonymity because the measures have yet to be officially announced — that they include restrictions on large-scale money transfers from […]
The Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go
March 27th, 2013Via: CNBC: If you meet Baxter, the latest humanoid robot from Rethink Robotics – you should get comfortable with him, because you’ll likely be seeing more of him soon. Rethink Robotics released Baxter last fall and received an overwhelming response from the manufacturing industry, selling out of their production capacity through April. He’s cheap to […]
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 […]
More People Have Access To Cellphones Than Toilets
March 24th, 2013The failure to see human waste as anything less than a valuable resource is THE most maddening nonsense that I’m aware of. The media would have you believe that this is some sort of expensive, complicated, pretty much unsolvable issue when the most basic solution is a 20 liter bucket (or what Americans refer to […]
Academia Is Eating Its Young
March 24th, 2013Don’t forget the fraud: Doubts About Johns Hopkins Research Have Gone Unanswered Scientific Fraud: ‘Nobody Had Noticed the Whole Thing Was Rotten’ American Society for Microbiology: ‘Has Modern Science Become Dysfunctional?’ Via: Press Button, Go Boink: It’s a difficult time for anyone in Academia. From teaching, to funding, to publishing, to translating research, to intellectual […]
