Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort The American Diet

Obesity Economics: How Subsidies Distort The American Diet | ZeroHedge

“Some 56.2 percent of the daily calories consumed by US adults come from federally subsidized food commodities: corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, sorghum, dairy, and livestock. While these calorie-dense foods once made sense for a government preparing for famine or total war, in recent decades they’ve instead helped make us fatter and sicker.” 

The multi-state push to BAN mRNA has begun

Bills will be introduced in up to 15 states.

28% of U.S. Adults Scored at the Lowest Proficiency Level of Literacy (Level 1 or below) in 2023 , up Significantly from 19% in 2017

Key Findings from the 2023 PIAAC Study:

  • Increased Low Literacy: A substantial jump from 19% (2017) to 28% (2023) of adults performing at the lowest literacy level, struggling with basic reading tasks like understanding simple sentences or short texts.
  • Declining Scores: Average literacy scores for U.S. adults dropped 12 points between 2017 and 2023, with similar declines in numeracy.
  • Widening Gap: The divide between the highest and lowest-performing adults is growing, as top scorers remain stable while others’ scores fall.
  • Functional Illiteracy: Around 45 million U.S. adults read below a 5th-grade level, meaning they have difficulty with everyday reading tasks, notes National University. 

Economic Impact: Low literacy is linked to lower earnings, higher poverty, and significant national economic costs, estimated in the trillions, points out ProLiteracy. 

Source: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

All 12 Vaccinated vs. Unvaccinated Studies Found the Same Thing: Unvaccinated Children Are Far Healthier

Nicolas Hulscher “joined Del Bigtree in studio on The HighWire to discuss what the data now make unavoidable: the CDC’s 81-dose hyper-vaccination schedule is driving the modern epidemics of chronic disease and autism. This was not a philosophical debate or a clash of opinions. We walked through irrefutable, peer-reviewed evidence showing that whenever vaccinated and unvaccinated children are compared directly, the unvaccinated group is far healthier—every single time.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/all-12-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The truth about Trump’s plot against Venezuela comes out of trump’s mouth

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before – until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.” — President Donald Trump, December 17, 2025

Paul Craig Roberts:

“Now we know what President Trump’s orchestrated Venezuelan crisis is all about. Trump is demanding that the Venezuelan government reverse its nationalization of its own assets that dates back to 1976 and turn the oil industry over to Washington. Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976. The state-owned company PetrĂłleos de Venezuela S.A. was created to control oil resources previously in the hands of Exxon, Shell, and Mobil. A second phase of nationalization under Hugo Chávez in 2007 brought the remaining Orinoco Oil Belt projects under state control.  When Trump says Venezuela stole US oil he means Venezuela nationalized the resources that the United States stole from Venezuela. Trump’s actions against Venezuela amount to piracy and an attempt to loot and plunder the country and its resources. It is yet another example of Washington operating entirely outside the realm of law.

The truth about Trump’s plot against Venezuela comes out of trump’s mouth

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