ARTICLE: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less

As the nation’s obesity crisis continues unabated, federal regulators on Monday issued their bluntest nutrition advice to date: drink water instead of sugary drinks like soda, fill your plate with fruits and vegetables and cut down on processed foods filled with sodium, fat or sugar.


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ARTICLE: For the Government Cheese Lovers

Gift: President Obama receives a Green Bay Packers jersey bearing Charles Woodson's name from Wisconsin governor Scott Walker (centre) and Green Bay mayor James Schmitt in Wisconsin today

President Obama’s rallying cry for Americans to pull together quickly unravelled today as government economists revealed the biggest budget gap in U.S. history.  The weak economy and a new round of tax cuts will push up the U.S. deficit this year to almost $1.5 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

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ARTICLE: Social Security fund slides into permanent deficit

"It means that Social Security is increasingly adding to our long-term fiscal problem, and it's happening now," said Eugene Steuerle, a former Treasury official who is now a fellow at the Urban Institute think tank.  It's a bad time for the nation to be hit with more financial problems. The federal budget deficit will surge to a record $1.5 trillion flood of red ink this year, congressional budget experts estimated Wednesday, blaming the slow economic recovery and a tax cut law enacted in December.

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ARTICLE: Paper Money Madness - Inflation-Fueled Economic Growth Does Not Indicate That An Economy Is Getting Stronger

Imagine if suddenly everyone in the United States had the amount of money they owned instantly doubled. Would the U.S. economy be twice as healthy? Of course not. Very quickly prices would rise to meet the new level of money.  Well, in the United States today our "authorities" are pumping massive amounts of new dollars into the system. That is one reason why so many people are so upset about the Federal Reserve's "quantitative easing 2" program.


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ARTICLE: Internet Shut Down Amid Egypt Protests; Social Outcry Strengthens

This Internet restriction seems to be in response to the massive growth of social networking and the direct impact it has had on mobilization against “a regime that is not listening, is not acting,” according to opposition leader, and Nobel Peace laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei.  Friday is set to intensify as a groundswell of support for social change has been charted by social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook, which showed exponentially increased traffic before revealing a sharp decrease that indicated the cutoff.

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ARTICLE: Egypt - Internet down, police counterterror unit up

Internet service in Egypt was disrupted and the government deployed an elite special operations force in Cairo on Friday, hours before an anticipated new wave of anti-government protests.  The developments were a sign that President Hosni Mubarak's regime was toughening its crackdown following the biggest protests in years against his nearly 30-year rule.

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ARTICLE: Internet Down in Egypt

The Associated Press reported from Cairo that internet access went dark ahead of what are expected to be huge protests Friday against 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. E-mails Threat Level sent to sources in Cairo went unanswered. And links to Egyptian-based blogs we’ve been following are not available.


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