New Pentagon report says Kenya and Nigeria feature in China’s plans to set up military outposts in Africa
In a previous report, the Pentagon estimated that Beijing had more than 400 operational nuclear warheads in 2021. If he sticks it out, then the way to get rid of him would be a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons, the Parliament.
Findings: Most social media users who buy hard drugs online are aged between 13 and 18 years
The world’s first internet-facilitated sale, in the early 1970s and on the internet precursor Arpanet, was for an undetermined amount of cannabis. The agreement was between students. Today, strangers may contact you on social media offering drugs to buy. For as many people who believe this is something of a utopian development, you can be sure many more view it as dystopian – especially if the dealers are in fact scammers or selling dodgy goods.
How hard drug peddlers turned emojis, gifs into cool tools of trade to evade security surveillance
For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall and snowmen symbolise cocaine. Love hearts, lightning bolts and pill capsules mean MDMA or molly. Brown hearts and dragons represent heroin. Grapes and baby...
Carmakers Honda, Nissan plan to create $54 billion that woul make it world’s third-largest auto group
Honda and Nissan discussions are focused on finding ways to bolster collaboration and include the possibility of setting up a holding company, said the people, who declined to be identified because the information has not been made public.
Genetically engineered crops caused farmers billions of dollars in market losses from transgenic contamination, now US federal court rules GMOs must be regulated
The December 3 ruling overturns the 2020 rule overhaul by the first Trump administration that had eliminated most government oversight over GE crops, trees and grasses. The court held that the previous regulations violated the Plant Protection Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Trump’s trade wars with China already on the cards before he even assumes office
The transition team calls for clawing back whatever funds remain from Biden’s $7.5 billion plan to build charging stations and shifting the money to battery-minerals processing and the “national defence supply chain and critical infrastructure.”
‘Uncharted territories’: Biologist warns of high risks of Covid vaccine DNA contamination
Kevin McKernan also discussed the lingering presence of spike protein from the mRNA shots in the body, noting that multiple recent studies have shown it lingers for significantly longer than vaccine manufacturers claimed.
Study by scientists at Chinese university finds widely used insecticide harms maize soil health
Locomotion behaviour, due to basic nervous system functions, for nematodes is assessed through three actions, body bends, head thrashes and pharyngeal pumping. After 24 hours of exposure to imidacloprid, the researchers noted that the frequencies of all three behaviours were suppressed, confirming neurotoxicity to nematode species.
Police in Brazil turn to forensic technology aids to crack down on illicit Amazon gold trade
Once dominated by prospectors with gold pans, artisanal mining in Brazil has become an industrial-scale activity with heavy excavating machinery and million-dollar river dredgers. Criminal organisations fly people, equipment and gold into and out of the region with helicopters and planes that land at clandestine airstrips.
Trump transition recommends scrapping car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Tesla
In one example, NHTSA fined Cruise, the self-driving startup owned by General Motors $1.5 million in September for failing to report a 2023 incident in which a vehicle hit and dragged a pedestrian who had been struck by another car. GM this week said Cruise will stop development of self-driving technology.
