The new tax will be applied to foods such as butter and cheese.
People cannot control themselves and the statistics prove it. Delicious, fatty, comfort foods are driving obesity, disease, and medical costs to unacceptable levels. The once theoretical debate on food sin taxes has entered reality in Europe, where Denmark just implemented the world’s first tax on saturated fats.
Elvy Musikka, 72, displays her marijuana cigarettes, which she regularly receives from the U.S. Government.
On a moonlit highway in rural Oregon, sometime after midnight a state trooper is checking a car he has just pulled over. In the car he finds less than an ounce of pot on one passenger. That passenger is a 72-year-old woman blind in one eye.
Continue reading… “U.S. government provides legal marijauna in decades old program”
The free checking account will soon be gone.
According to a survey released by Bankrate.com only 45% of non-interest bank checking accounts are free, down from 65% in 2010 and 76% two years ago. Fees, meanwhile, are rising: The average monthly fee for a non-interest account is $4.37, up 75% from a year ago.
Continue reading… “Prepare to say goodbye to the free checking account”
Apple Inc. has removed from its French online store an application called “Jew or Not Jew” that says it allows users to identify whether a politician or celebrity is Jewish, amid pressure from French social activists.
Continue reading… “Apple withdraws app in France amid pressure from social activists”
U.S. poverty rate hits 15.1%
Income fell for the third straight year in 2010 in the typical American household. The poverty level rose up to its highest leve since 1993 as the aftermath of the latest recession continued to take a toll.
Continue reading… “Household income falls, poverty rate hits highest level since 1993”
Futurist Thomas Frey: Over the past couple years, internet-fueled uprisings in Egypt, Lybia, Syria, and other parts of the world have made Chinese officials very nervous. They have exerted a firm hand in controlling any communications deemed detrimental to the ruling party and have now gone so far as to block any Google searches of the English words “democracy” and “freedom.”
Continue reading… “The Great Information Wall of China”
U.S. falls to 5th place in world ranking.
The United States has fallen further down a global ranking of the world’s most competitive economies. The U.S. has landed at fifth place because of its huge deficits and declining public faith in government, a global economic group said Wednesday.
Continue reading… “America drops to 5th place in global ranking”
Great lies continue to be propagated
Futurist Thomas Frey: In early 2003 I had a conversation with Dee Hock, founder and former CEO of VISA. At the time we were interested in hiring him to be the keynote speaker at our upcoming Future of Money Summit, an event that would take place in November of that year.
Continue reading… “Eight False Promises of the Internet”
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks about the Medicare Fraud Strike Force.
Federal health care fraud prosecutions in the first eight months of 2011 are on pace to rise 85% over last year due in large part to ramped-up enforcement efforts under the Obama administration, according to new government statistics.
Continue reading… “Health care fraud prosecutions could rise 85% in 2011”
Alpha Centauri or bust.
Darpa, the government agency that helped invent the Internet, now wants to do the same for travel to the stars.
Continue reading… “Darpa seeks plan to send humans to the stars”
USPTO issues 8,000,000th patent on August 17, 2011.
The first patent granted by the USPTO was in 1836 and 175 years later, the government body now has a database that is eight million strong.
Continue reading… “USPTO’s major milestones from one to eight million patents”
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