Yet more proof that the Danish government’s tax on fat is about making money, not being healthy. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, only 10% of Danes are obese!
On a recent BBC World Have Your Say program, a Danish politician said that the purpose of a democratic representative government is to […] Continue Reading…
“I spent seven years at the University of Michigan getting a PHD in Medieval European History, and I realized that I wasn’t making a difference there, and I thought I can make more of a difference on the street organizing people, getting the 99% out to have a voice.”-Occupy LA protestor
October 3, protestors in […] Continue Reading…
The Supreme Court refused to hear a case concerning Constitutional Privacy Rights for people who’ve been arrested. Specifically the ability of police to search your cell phone for info.
By refusing to hear the case, the Supreme Court essentially upheld a lower court’s ruling that no search warrant is needed to search your personal belongings […] Continue Reading…
Since I posted part 4 of Pacific Ring of Fire Seismic Events, the United States Geological Survey added one more quake to it’s “Largest and Deadliest Earthquake” list; the March 11 earthquake near Japan.
But have there been more large quakes this year, not qualifying for the USGS title of “Deadliest”, but still large, and […] Continue Reading…
According to Federal numbers, the percentage of unemployed young men in Idaho is more than the national average.
In 2009 the national average was 17%, in Idaho it hit 20%! Idaho’s 2010 rate was around 18%.
Unemployment claims are down, but according to Idaho Labor Department officials that’s because people just don’t qualify for unemployment assistance […] Continue Reading…
Delta Dental of Idaho is going to cut insurance payments to dentists by as much as 13%.
Delta officials say they have to do it to keep costs down to employers who offer their employees the Delta Dental plan.
Idaho dentists say they will have to jack up prices to make up the difference. One dentist […] Continue Reading…
Researchers from eight countries are reporting that the hole in the ozone layer above the North Pole is now as big as the hole over the South Pole.
The North Pole hole now covers an area about 3,000 kilometers (1864.113 miles) long and 1,000 km (621.371 miles) wide.
Of course environmentalists are blaming it on man […] Continue Reading…
Under the guise of forcing people to eat “healthy”, the governments of Denmark and Hungary have imposed the world’s first taxes targeting specific foods. Of course those foods are the most affordable for the growing number of people with less and less income.
Hungary has imposed a potato chip snack tax. Snack chips (called crisps, […] Continue Reading…
The computer chip maker Micron Technology is in big trouble, and since 2009 isn’t even the second biggest employer in Boise, Idaho. Yet, Idaho real estate agent web sites, which encourage out’a staters to move to Idaho, continue to list Micron as the top employer. Other web sites, and blogs, list the number of […] Continue Reading…
September 30, The Idaho Wheat Association announced a U.S.$484 million deal with Taiwan Flour Mills Association.
The deal will involve Idaho exporting about 62.5 million bushels of Idaho wheat to Taiwan, through 2013.