The global demand for lithium, also known as white gold, is predicted to rise over 40 times by 2040, driven predominantly by the shift to electric vehicles. Grassroots protests and lawsuits against lithium mining are on the rise from the US and Chile to Serbia and Tibet amid rising concern about the socio-environmental impacts and increasingly tense geopolitics around supply.

Mining lithium is a fraught business, and the rise in demand for EVs is contributing to a rise in social and environmental harms – and global supply chain bottlenecks. If Americans continue to depend on cars at the current rate, by 2050 the US alone would need triple the amount of lithium currently produced for the entire global market, which would have dire consequences for water and food supplies, biodiversity, and Indigenous rights.

But at least these smug electric car drivers are decreasing their carbon footprint. Oh, wait, they aren’t… You can’t make electricity without burning fossil fuels… So, according to this hilarious story, “Topping up the e-Corsa’s charge by 80 per cent on a slow charger at peak times results in a cost of 16.18p per mile.” But. The “costs (of a petrol Corsa) are around 14.45 pence per mile.”

Question: What’s left to feel smug about after it costs more to drive your electric car?

Well, I guess you can pretend to feel all kinds of virtuous about saving Mother Earth in your Prius… you’re not saving anything. You’re certainly not saving money — lol. What’s more, no matter how much denial you conjure up, fossil fuels are still being burned to supply you with the electricity for your car, which, by the way, costs more than filling up your car with fossil fuels.

"The most urgent discourse at this time concerns the legal reform promoted by the government, which arouses serious controversy and serious concerns among large sections of the public." Herzog called on leaders and authorities to take the time for discourse and talk with an open heart, warning that the lack of communication was dangerous.

"It is permissible and proper to criticize any authorities, and it is important to understand the depths of frustration, anger and pain that are at the basis of that criticism," said Herzog. "It is legitimate to have a practical discussion about the boundaries of the sector and the relationship between the authorities - just like what happens in many democracies in the world - but with conversation."

Thousands of Israelis protested against the proposed changes to the legal system, on haBima square in Tel Aviv, on January 14, 2023. Herzog reiterated his own position that civil rights and democracy needed to be protected, and the judicial reforms proposed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin at the beginning of January were done hastily and without proper dialogue with key authorities and the public. The lack of discourse is what has led to the current "dangerous situation". "It seems that not only have we forgotten how to agree, but we can't even argue," said Herzog.

"The LAFD is now in earthquake mode. All 106 neighborhood fire stations will conduct a strategic survey of their districts, examining all major areas of concern (transportation infrastructures, large places of assemblages, apartment buildings, power-lines, etc). This survey will be conducted from the ground, air and sea. Once this process is complete and reports are consolidated, assuming there is no significant damage, Earthquake mode will be complete. This process typically takes less than one hour," Nicholas Prange with the Los Angeles Fire Department said in a statement around 2:30am Wednesday morning.

There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. While there are many variables involved, geologists say damage does not usually occur until the earthquake magnitude reaches somewhere above 4 or 5.

Around 30 M1 Abrams tanks will be sent from the US, while Berlin will initially supply 14 Leopard 2 tanks. Russia's own storage facilities have around 10,200 tanks, while an estimated 3,300 have been deployed in Ukraine, with 1,640 destroyed. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's officials hailed the move as a 'punching fist' for democracy, while Russia had warned it would cause a 'global catastrophe' and escalate the war beyond Ukraine's borders.

Pressure has been building for weeks on German chancellor Olaf Scholz's government to send the tanks and allow Nato allies to do the same. The German leader was wary of moves that could prompt Russia to escalate but he finally relented today. 'This decision follows our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability. We are acting in a closely coordinated manner internationally,' he said in a statement.

Terrifying footage shows the navy preparing for a nuclear launch as the hatch opens in preparation for the deadly missile. The vessel has been closely monitored by NATO navies on its mission, armed with the 6,670mph Mach 9 weapon which has a maximum 625 mile range. A day earlier reports said that the Gorshkov had made an unexpected diversion in the Atlantic amid Putin's war with West-backed Ukraine.

Moscow has boasted that the Gorshkov is 'the most dangerous enemy of surface ships in the world's oceans' now it is armed with the new hypersonic missile. The frigate's captain Igor Krokhmal has said previously: 'No one will see the missile launch or its flight. They will only see when the missile hits the target. A surface target, a coastal target. I don't think there will be anything to counter this in the next few years.'

Here, MailOnline looks at the deadliest mass shootings in the US so far this year.

• Half Moon Bay, California - 7 dead and 1 injured.


• Monterey Park, California - 12 dead and 10 injured. Gunman Huu Can Tran, 72, opened fire at patrons inside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday night, killing 11 people and injuring 10 others.


• Goshen, central California - 6 people - including a 17-year-old mother and her ten-month-old son - were killed in a shooting at a home in Goshen, central California, on January 16.


• High Point, North Carolina - 5 dead - Robert K Crayton, 45, shot his wife Athalia A Crayton, 46, and his three children before killing himself at their home in High Point, North Carolina on January 7.


• Enoch City, Utah 8 dead - Mike Haight, 42, murdered his wife, Tausha Haight, 40, and their five children, who ranged in age from four to 17, and his mother-in-law Gail Earl on January 4 at their home in Enoch, Utah.

Kishida’s government in December adopted key security and defense reforms, including a counterstrike capability that breaks from the country’s exclusively self-defense-only postwar principle.

Instead, in this piece I am going to focus on examples that are representative of the extreme violence that we witness night after night in communities all over the United States. If you put garbage in, you are going to get garbage out. So we should not be surprised that a culture which glorifies violence ends up being saturated with it.

So, you have this dog walking around with a gigantic tail that will shake the dog. When derivatives go, it’s a 48-hour event. Who do you think holds all these derivatives? You’ve got the big banks, all the big brokers, all the big insurance companies and they are all going to go down. It’s like one giant financial STD, and everybody is in bed together and everybody is infected.”

Add to this the announcement from Saudi Arabia that it will now accept payment in currencies other than the US dollar and you have the makings of a destabilizing hyperinflationary catastrophe for America. Holter says, “There will be other Arab nations to follow, and that is a huge hit to the artificial demand for the dollar. You had nations all over the world who were forced to buy dollars to buy oil, and that is no longer."

The result: is poverty, and billions of people have to suffer while the globalists enrich themselves enormously. The World Economic Forum is also where malicious ideas are formed, which are later worked out in detail by the media and politicians the Elites own. They appoint themselves but do not participate in democratic elections, said Kolakusic, who added that the World Economic Forum is the world’s leading cause of corruption.

Davos is where those with thousands of billions of euros meet those who wield political power in countries all over Europe and the world. Every year dozens of heads of state attend Davos to receive orders there that they must carry out, Kolakusic explained. And they are only too happy to do so because they owe their political career to this sect, says the MEP.

The United States still makes up the lion’s share, with its $801 billion in 2021 representing 39 percent of the world’s military spending. That’s more than the next nine countries combined — still more than 3 years ago when it was merely larger than the next seven combined. Most of these nine countries are geopolitically aligned with the US. And that’s far more than the $535 billion spent by the rest of the world’s 144 countries combined — $266 billion more, enough to fund one year of solar electricity for 757 million households.

While Russia increased its military spending by 2.9 percent, to $65.9 billion, during a period when it was militarizing the border with Ukraine, that pales in comparison to what the United States and NATO-allied countries are spending, combined — nearly $1.2 trillion, more than 17 times what Russia spent. That failed to dissuade Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine… it’s almost as if military spending is not the key to peace.

All this militarization continues apace, while the world is still dangerously unprepared to invest enough to prepare for ongoing crises like climate change, and the ongoing fallout of pandemics. Over-investment in the military is a factor that left the US so vulnerable to the pandemic in the first place.

Remarkably, the potential future Prime Minister told former BBC journalist Emily Maitlis at the conference that he prefers Davos to Westminster, saying that the seat of power in London is “too constrained”. “It’s closed and we are not having meaning… once you get out of Westminster, whether it’s Davos or anywhere else, you actually engage with people that you can see working with in the future. Westminster is just a tribal, shouting place,” the Labour leader said.

Responding to the statement, Brexit leader Nigel Farage said: “The mask has slipped. Keir Starmer is a full on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the WEF.”

The premier of the western Canadian province of Alberta, Danielle Smith, said of the WEF after her cabinet’s swearing-in ceremony last October: “I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders. That is offensive… the people who should be directing government are the people who vote for them. Quite frankly, until that organization stops bragging about how much control they have over political leaders, I have no interest in being involved with them.”

Meanwhile, Germany is firing its coal power plants back up and reconsidering its nuclear power phase-out. How about worrying about how German industry is going to function in the next year when green initiatives, such as hydrogen imports from Portugal and Norway, aren’t set to even get off the ground until at least 2030?

These elites represent no one’s interests but their own, which are economic and are for the benefit of their shareholders – hence the forum’s name. If the average citizen is now waking up to the fact that anything coming out of Davos should be scrutinized through that lens, then it can only be a good thing for freedom, democracy, and national sovereignty.