“On some of those, we look pretty bad and on others we’re golden; the best in the nation,” James says. “All of us publish newspaper ads that say we’re the best on one or another.” Safety in a hospital generally refers to avoiding harm caused by the doctor or facility, such as a result of infection or post-operative complications…
Month: September 2012
Violence Against Roma (Gypsies) Surges in Central and Eastern Europe
ERRC: …This year alone in Bulgaria, a Romani political party headquarters was targeted with a bomb, killing the man who went to pick it up. In Slovakia an off-duty policeman shot two Romani people dead and injured three others, and Romani families were shot at while they were being evicted. And in Hungary, Roma have […]
Greek parties in ‘basic agreement’ over cuts
ALJAZEERA: Greece’s coalition government reached a “basic agreement” on a new round of austerity cuts demanded by its international lenders. The measures, secured on Thursday by the country’s three coalition parties after weeks of fruitless efforts, had to be agreed upon or Greece would have been cut off from vital bailout loans that it needs […]
Netanyahu spells out red line for Iran
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, piled fresh pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear programme in a speech to the UN on Thursday that spelt out for the first time an Israeli “red line” for Tehran, Brandishing a red marker and a diagram showing a bomb, Mr Netanyahu warned that Iran was on track to […]
Witnesses testify about difficulties getting state photo voter ID
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, we’re often told, and proof of it could be found in Thursday’s Photo voter ID hearing in Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg. The state Republican Party — normally a group that rails against bureaucracy, red tape, and big government…
Major Banks Hit with Biggest Cyberattacks in History
CNN: There’s a good chance your bank’s website was attacked over the past week. Since Sept. 19, the websites of Bank of America (BAC), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), U.S. Bank (USB) and PNC Bank (PNC) have all suffered day-long slowdowns and been sporadically unreachable for many customers. The attackers, who took aim at […]
Mars Water: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Signs Of Ancient Stream
HUFFINGTON POST: The Curiosity Rover has found evidence of an ancient stream that flowed “vigorously” on Mars where the Rover is now exploring, NASA said on Thursday. NPR reports that this is “definitive proof” that water once existed on Mars. Stream bed gravels were observed among the rocks on the surface of Mars, according to […]
Penn Square Partners and City have rejected Martin Plan
According to [a resource deemed reliable], both PSP and the City have rejected the Martin Plan. No real surprise here, the Martin Plan asks both parties to actually pay money towards the CC, why would they support that?
Democrat Kathleen Kane leads Republican David Freed in money chase
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: Six weeks before Election Day, Democrat Kathleen Kane leads Republican opponent David Freed in the fight for campaign cash. Kane a former assistant district attorney from Lackawanna County, has raised more than $1.47 million since May 15, compared to Freed’s $869,000, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Department of […]
Tom Smith gaining on Sen. Bob Casey in poll
ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL: A Quinnipiac University survey of likely voters released Wednesday shows Casey ahead of Smith by six percentage points, and Obama ahead of Romney by 12. Quinnipiac showed Smith trailing by 18 on Aug. 1. A Franklin & Marshall College poll also out Wednesday shows Casey with a 10-point lead among likely voters. […]
Obama Approval Rating Rises In Post-Convention Polls
HUFFINGTON POST: The latest release of the Gallup Daily tracking poll Wednesday showed President Barack Obama leading Republican nominee Mitt Romney by six percentage points (50 to 44 percent), a shift from the tied race their tracking had shown just five days earlier… Recent surveys have shown widespread awareness and mostly negative reactions to Romney’s […]
Kane says Corbett ‘probably’ played politics with Sandusky case
“You can’t get the whole story unless you start at the beginning,” she said. “So I don’t care if I have to go back 20 years, we’ll go back 20 years and then we’ll follow the facts from there on. And you know what? The truth always comes out. It just takes that person to be willing to dig deep and to find the truth and to just keep chasing the facts…
Daddy Justice Civil Rights Case to Jury
I sued Berks County, two judges and row officers for first amendment violations. They censured my cameras from public areas and attempted to block my investigation. One example: The judges had taken control of areas including [for] row officers, county commissioners and even prison board meetings which are not part of the judicial branch. Pro […]
Mitt Romney Invokes Health Care Law: Nothing ‘Shows More Empathy’
HUFFINGTON POST: GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney touted his health care law as governor of Massachusetts on Wednesday, a move that tends to create awkwardness for the candidate as he tries to thread the needle between standing behind his achievement and criticizing the president’s health care law, which is modeled after it. “I think throughout […]