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Toddler Obesity Is on the Rise

Severe obesity among children aged 2 to 4 years was on a downward trend, decreasing from 2.1% in 2010 to 1.8% in 2016. But research published in Pediatrics shows the trend is on the rise once again, with severe obesity reaching 2% among this toddler age group in 2020.1

Among certain states and ethnic groups, rates were even higher. Prevalence of severe obesity among 2- to 4-year-olds reached 2.8% in California as well as in Hispanic children. “We were doing well and now we see this upward trend,...

Nuclear War Could Come Unexpectedly!

According to time.com: We know that an all-out U.S.-Russia nuclear war would be bad. But how bad, exactly? How do your chances of surviving the explosions, radiation, and nuclear winter depend on where you live? The past year’s unprecedented nuclear saber-rattling and last weekend’s chaos in Russia has made this question timely. To help answer it, I’ve worked with an amazing interdisciplinary group of scientists to produce the most scientifically realistic simulation of a nuclear war using only ...

2024: Navigating the Storm

2024 is shaping up to be about Iran and China.   Ukraine is dead.   Israel has extended its bombing campaign to include Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.   All while claiming Iran is the instigator of everything – sort of like a Trump did it mantra.   Israel has been bombing Palestine for 70 years.   Each time, the motive is the same – to displace as many as possible so as to reduce the population – a Bill Gates agenda.  There are now 7 million Palestinian refugees across the globe out of a population ...

How Yemen Changed Everything

Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able to upset the whole chessboard, usually via a move in the back rank whose effect simply cannot be calculated.

Yes, a pawn can impose a seismic checkmate. That’s where we are, geopolitically, right now.

The cascading effects of a single move on the chessboard – Yemen’s Ansarallah stunning and carefully targeted blockad...

Trump-Biden: Tag Team

Trump increased spending temporarily by 13% of GDP and permanently by at least 1%. DeSantis decreased spending by at least 0.8%. This choice is easy.

Data: usgovernmentspending.com: national-only, total national, state, and local

Seven tag teams successively raised the floor for total spending

Governments in the USA have in large part been grown by tag teams.

In the 1800s, Thomas Jefferson’s embargo, which broadened into James Madison’s War of 1812, ratcheted total government spending up fro...

Wilson’s Folly, the Washington Hegemon, and Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth

Another Christmas and there is still no peace on earth. And the proximate cause of that vexing reality is the $1.3 trillion Warfare State planted on the banks of the Potomac—along with its web of war-making capabilities, bases, alliances and vassals stretching to the four corners of the planet. So positioned, it stands in stark mockery of John Qunicy Adam’s sage advice to his new nation 200-years ago:

Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her...

Elon Musk: ‘I Think I Would Not Vote for’ Joe Biden in 2024

Elon Musk says he won’t be voting for Joe Biden for president in 2024. Nor will he vote for Republican Nikki Haley, who he referred to as a “pro-censorship” candidate.

Musk made his comments during an attention-grabbing 90-minute interview at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. Musk shocked audience members, many of whom were corporate executives, when he said companies that were pulling ads from X could go “f*ck themselves.”

At present, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Disney, among other...

Biden Needs To Come To Israel’s – And His Own – Rescue

For now Israel seems to lose its war against the Palestinian resistance.

The October 7 attempt to gain hostages by Hamas and Islamic Jihad was successful. Israeli outrage about it should have been directed against the Israeli government and its army for their chaotic response. They likely killed more Israelis than Hamas did.

But outrage was instead instigated against the external enemy. In this case all Palestinians.

A united Israel urged its government to wage revenge. The government’s announce...

The New Weimar?

Living as we are under the collective inferiority of the West, and humbled as we are when faced with the cultural achievements of tribal Africans, primitive Amazonian tribesmen, Saudi Arabian witch doctors, and savages in general, I was relieved to see that Hollywood is hard at work in maintaining the myth that everything that the West has achieved since the Greeks was due to the white man’s cruelty and ability to steal from the Dark Continent.

Now, please don’t get me wrong. I don’t watch the d...

Democracy Dies in Daylight

A month ago in the Washington Post, not long before the Colorado mess, neoconservative icon Robert Kagan wrote, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.” We may accuse Kagan — husband of Victoria Nuland, co-founder of the Project for a New American Century, and co-author (with Bill Kristol) of the “benevolent hegemony” theory of world conquest that was the real reason for America’s Iraq invasion — of much. We can’t accuse him of not knowing history. The graphi...