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Nutriscore: the traffic light labelling wanted by Germany and France and pushed by Nestlé and Unilever

The Nutriscore (traffic light labelling) on the cover gives a good idea: according to this system, olive oil would get a failing grade while Coca-Cola would be ‘promoted’. The system is ‘sponsored’ by food multinationals such as Coca-Cola, Mondelez (formerly Kraft), Pepsico,Unilever, Mars and Nestlé.

Geopolitics and History

Ukraine, fighting without soldiers: the battle of Lyptsi and the robot-only army

“Drones and AI played a small but significant part in the very early stages of the conflict in Ukraine; they were new technologies with distinctly asymmetrical potential that bridged the gap with a much stronger aggressor… the conflict in Ukraine is a momentous turning point, as it demonstrated how quickly a relatively untrained military force can train and arm itself using commercially available and relatively inexpensive technologies