“After Morales is ousted in coup, the lithium question looms large in Bolivia. The overthrow of the elected leader cannot be understood without a glance at the nation's massive reserves of this crucial mineral. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country.

Tesla (United States) and Pure Energy Minerals (Canada) both showed great interest in having a direct stake in Bolivian lithium. But they could not make a deal that would take into consideration the parameters set by the Morales government. Morales himself was a direct impediment to the takeover of the lithium fields by the non-Chinese transnational firms. He had to go… After the coup, Tesla’s stock rose astronomically.”

On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously passed the “Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019”, and the House of Representatives passed the same bill by a 417 to 1 vote on Wednesday. Needless to say, the Chinese are beyond angry that Congress has done this.

As the two largest economies on the entire planet decouple from one another, it is going to cause global economic activity as a whole to dramatically slow down. Corporate revenues will fall, credit markets will start to tighten, and fear will increasingly creep into global financial markets.

Collectively, the economies of the United States and China account for approximately 40 percent of the GDP of the entire world. As we cause chaos for one another, everyone else is going to experience tremendous pain as well. The stage is set for a global nightmare, and at this point it doesn’t appear that there is a way that we will be able to escape it.

A fresh dispute between Washington and Beijing over US legislation on Hong Kong has also threatened to undermine their trade talks and delay a phase one deal that investors had initially hoped to be signed by now. The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bills to back protesters in Hong Kong and send a warning to China about human rights, with Trump expected to sign them into law.

The measure, which has angered Beijing, would require the State Department to certify at least once a year that Hong Kong retains enough autonomy to qualify for the special US trading consideration that helped it become a world financial centre.

"We urge the US side to cease this activity, stop before it's too late and take measures to prevent these measures from becoming law, stop meddling in Hong Kong's affairs and China's affairs," said Geng Shuang, spokesman at China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "If they must insist on going down this wrong path China will take strong countermeasures," Geng told reporters at a regular briefing on Thursday.

On Thursday, the ruling Chinese Communist Party's main newspaper, the People's Daily, urged the US to "rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice" and stop interfering in Hong Kong matters and China's internal affairs. "If the US side obstinately clings to its course, the Chinese side will inevitably adopt forceful measures to take resolute revenge, and all consequences will be borne by the United States," it said in a front-page editorial.

The allegations against Netanyahu include accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from business figures, including luxury items like cigars and Champagne. He is also accused of handing out political favors in exchange for more favorable coverage by an Israeli newspaper and an online outlet. Netanyahu could face a 10-year prison sentence if found guilty of bribery. Fraud and breach of trust are punishable by a maximum of three years in prison.

The announcement came shortly before Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit planned to hold a nationally televised news conference. Under an untested Israeli law, a sitting prime minister does not have to resign if accused of criminal charges. Netanyahu, a caretaker prime minister, is expected to request parliamentary immunity. But the bombshell disclosure could make it difficult for him to remain in office.

Most of the recent advances in AI — artificial intelligence — have come in the realm of perceptual intelligence. This has enabled our devices to see (and recognize faces of our friends, for example), to hear (and recognize that song) and even to parse text (and recognize the rough intent of the email in your mailbox). Today’s AI technology can also generate these percepts — our devices can generate scenes and faces that never existed, clone voice to generate speech, and even write pithy (if stilted) responses to the emails in your inbox.

This ability to generate perceptions puts AI in a position of great promise and great peril. Synthetic media can have many beneficial applications. After all, inducing suspension of disbelief in the audience is the cornerstone of much of entertainment. Nevertheless, it is the potential misuses of the technology — especially going under the name of “deep fakes” — that are raising alarms.

Elections can be manipulated through spread of deep fake videos that put certain candidates in compromising positions. Spoofing voice and video calls can unleash a slew of new consumer scams. Individual privacy can be invaded by inserting people’s likenesses into compromising (and sometimes pornographic) pictures and videos.

Once again, it all came down to Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) leader Avigdor Lieberman, who reportedly ruled out backing any kind of minority government, and blamed both Netanyahu and Gantz for not budging from their positions for “personal issues.”

Lieberman’s demand that religious Jews be subject to military draft – and Deri’s refusal – sank Netanyahu’s attempts to form a coalition in May, forcing the September election. President Rivlin has repeatedly urged all parties to come to some sort of an agreement and said he wanted to avoid a third election at all costs, but it is unclear what other choice he might have at this point.

Attorney Lisa Bloom, who represents five of Epstein's 'slaves', has said she is now ready to subpoena Andrew and force him to appear in a US court - but prosecutors would treat him as a witness to help prosecute Epstein's co-conspirators rather than a criminal suspect. The Queen took decisive action against her second son last night in a desperate bid to contain the fall-out from the duke's disastrous Newsnight interview about his years of friendship with the paedophile.

The BBC special he volunteered to take part in triggered days of catastrophic headlines and caused a string of businesses and charities to desert him, with experts calling it the biggest crisis to grip the royal family for decades. The Duke was forced out of public life after lengthy discussions with his eldest brother the Prince of Wales, who is touring New Zealand, and the Queen summoned Andrew to Buckingham Palace and told him to step down but allowed him to draft his own statement.

A royal insider said: 'When the Queen and the Prince of Wales stand firm together they are a pretty formidable combination in terms of getting things done.' More than 20 major companies and charities – including Barclays, KPMG and the English National Ballet – distanced themselves from Andrew and the initiatives he has been backing. This isn't a short-term solution. It's early retirement: Queen's biographer ROBERT HARDMAN predicts a bleak future for Prince Andrew.

As with so many things these days, the action-forcing change-agent is Donald Trump. In Macron’s words, “We find ourselves for the first time with an American president who doesn’t share our idea of the European project.” To put that another way, with apologies to Ben Franklin, Macron is saying that if the European countries don’t hang together, they will each hang separately. So if Europe is to be on its own, Macron is right to believe that it needs to get serious about its military might.

This action was initiated by the sudden onset of symptoms experienced by the President’s food tester, who was reported stricken with such severe symptoms that urgent medical tests were conducted on that person while the President was diverted to Walter Reed for a priority medical examination involving a battery of chemical tests.

The President is reportedly fine and did not experience the same symptoms that are reported to have overcome the food tester. We currently do not know the condition of the food tester. No additional details have been made public about which tests were conducted on the President and what chemical byproduct was found.

Alex Jones told Natural News that he believes this incident may have been a deep state attack using an exotic chemical poison with a delayed activation signature. He underscored, “the importance of people understanding that we are in the climate of civil war, and this kind of attempted poisoning is par for the course, historically speaking, when they want to take out a leader” and make it appear to be death by natural causes.

It is becoming increasingly apparent to all Americans that the Democrats and the deep state work in concert, and that they abide by no laws, ethics or morality. There is nothing they won’t do, it seems, to destroy the President and seize power, even if it means carrying out a chemical assassination of the President. The entire impeachment fiasco, as a matter of fact, is the deep state’s attempt to overturn the will of the American voters and install their own leader who will protect the deep state rather than exposing it.

Over just the last few days, left-leaning TV personality Bill Maher, who has for years spread malicious smears against conservatives, Christians and Trump supporters, suddenly claimed he was fearful of the possibility of a civil war, saying we all now need to “learn to live with each other.” Similarly, former President Barack Obama is now warning Leftists that they’ve gone too extreme, with their positions now being rejected by an increasing number of American voters. All Americans must prepare for more attempts to assassinate President Trump or forcibly remove him from power.