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EPA Could Approve GMO Mosquitoes for Consumers’ Backyards
December 3rd, 2024Via: The Defender: A U.K.-based biotech company is seeking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval to sell genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes directly to U.S. consumers as a “biopesticide.” If the EPA approves the company’s product registration application, Oxitec could sell boxes of GM Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — under the brand name “Friendly” — directly to consumers […]
SOUTH KOREA’S PRESIDENT DECLARES MARTIAL LAW, CLAIMS THREATS FROM NORTH KOREA
December 3rd, 2024Updated: Martial Law Lifted, Lawmakers Call to Impeach President Yoon Via: Reuters: South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday called for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law only to reverse the move hours later, triggering the biggest political crisis in decades in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The surprise declaration late on Tuesday […]
Mexico Stops 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Tariff Threat
December 3rd, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Days after Donald Trump announced that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States,” or face 25% import duties on Mexican goods, it appears she’s done just that.
Trump: 100% Tariffs on BRICS Countries If They Create New Currency that Competes Against U.S. Dollar
November 30th, 2024Will Rothschild Dies After House Fire in the Hollywood Hills
November 28th, 2024Via: ABC7: A man identified by neighbors as a member of the wealthy Rothschild family died following a fire at a two-story hillside home in the Hollywood Hills Wednesday. Crews responded to the 8500 block of Lookout Mountain Avenue around 4:40 p.m. A total of 45 firefighters extinguished the blaze in about 33 minutes, according […]
Rate of Insider Selling Highest in Two Decades
November 28th, 2024Via: Real Investment Advice: Record numbers of US executives are selling shares in their companies, as corporate insiders from Goldman Sachs to Tesla and even Donald Trump’s own media group cash in on the stock market surge that has followed his election victory. The rate of so-called insider sales has hit a record high for […]
Trying to Solve Fusion Power Generation with AI
November 26th, 2024Via: The Chemical Engineer: FUSION energy development is locked in step with artificial intelligence (AI), according to the findings of a new survey into how companies are using it to rapidly iterate their technology. There’s a well-worn putdown that nuclear fusion has struggled to shake: that the technology is only 30 years from commercial application, […]
Trump Vows New Canada, Mexico, China Tariffs that Threaten Global Trade
November 25th, 2024Do you need any electronics, mobile phones, computers, displays, or any other things not made in the U.S.? Even if companies were to capitulate and build factories in the U.S. (some will, most won’t) it’s not going to happen in time. Via: Reuters: President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged big tariffs on the United States’ […]
The CIA, NSA, and Pokémon Go
November 25th, 2024From 2012, Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’: “We can rely on good luck to get the data that we need, or we can ‘soft control’ users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them,” Bustamante said. In the paper, “Crowd Soft Control: Moving beyond the […]
Potentially Cancerous New Chemical Found in Tap Water in Tens of Millions of Homes
November 24th, 2024I’m sure it’s just an unfortunate coincidence that millions of people are drinking this… Via: Daily Mail: A potentially cancerous chemical has been discovered in drinking water consumed by tens of millions of Americans. Known as chloronitramide anion, the compound is released when a popular disinfectant called chloramine (a mix of chlorine and ammonia) naturally […]
