Artificial intelligence is coming for your job: 41% of employers intend to downsize their workforce as AI automates certain tasks, a World Economic Forum survey showed Wednesday. Out of hundreds of large companies surveyed around the world, 77% also said they were planning to reskill and upskill their existing workers between 2025-2030 to better work alongside AI, according to findings published in the WEF’s Future of Jobs Report. But, unlike the previous, 2023 edition, this year’s report did not say that most technologies, including AI, were expected to be “a net positive” for job numbers. https://www.technocracy.news/the-wef-says-41-of-companies-worldwide-planning-for-ai-to-shrink-workforces/

Proof of CO2 causing global warming? Settled science? Not so fast: The scientific abstract "conclusion" is often different from the actual findings and implications of the research, in order to get it published. Why it is important to read scientific papers beyond their abstracts, especially when it is about the role of CO2 in climate https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/why-it-is-important-to-read-scientific

The new analysis, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, found that fluoride exposure exceeding 1.5 milligrams per liter (mg/L) was associated with reduced intelligence among children. The study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), took nine years to complete and is the largest meta-analysis to date on the health effects of fluoride. The studies reviewed measured fluoride levels in drinking water and in urine. The authors used urinary fluoride as a proxy for total fluoride exposure. Among the 74 reviewed studies, 64 found that higher levels of fluoride exposure were linked to lower IQ in children. The strength of this association is considered moderate to large. https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/conspiracy-fact-higher-fluoride-levels-linked-lower-iq-scores-children-new-review-finds

Chronic conditions -- how many people do you know with them? (I'm betting a LOT!) If you’re an American over the age of 18 who’s never been vaccinated (with anything, ever) your risk of even one chronic condition is less than 6%. If you’ve also avoided the “vitamin” K-shot injection (typically given at birth) AND your mother was not vaccinated during the pregnancy, your risk of one condition after the age of 18 drops down to 4.49%....No cancers, diabetes, arthritis, or heart disease were reported in the entirely unvaccinated adults. Based upon the random sample size, this means that the more serious conditions are below 0.09% in the entirely unvaccinated adult population. However, vaccine-exposed Americans over the age of 18 carry a 60% risk of at least one chronic condition, with a 48% risk of heart disease, over 10% risk of diabetes, 18% risk of arthritis, and myriad other life-shortening and/or debilitating diseases, including MANY brain and neurological disorders. 42% of vaccine-exposed American adults are suffering from more than 1 condition, i.e., multiple conditions. And 12% of American adults are suffering from 5 or more conditions. https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/published-paper-on-unvaccinated-health

It’s not just dyes and seed oils poisoning Americans and ending their lives short; plastic chemicals are increasingly being found in popular fast foods and supermarket staples. The former CEO of GitHub, Nat Friedman, who is also an investor seeding AI, infrastructure, open source, and frontier tech companies and is focused on health, published data on X about plastic chemicals found in a majority of foods across the San Francisco Bay Area. “We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises,” Friedman wrote on X. https://activistpost.com/2024/12/we-tested-300-bay-area-foods-for-plastic-chemicals-heres-what-we-found.html

A network facilitating spy agencies’ intelligence-sharing between the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, known as Five Eyes, has its sights set on encryption, and proceeding from that, also online anonymity. Even more online censorship would also not be a bad idea – these are some of the highlights from the first public-facing paper the organizations behind this group have published. https://reclaimthenet.org/ive-eyes-targets-encryption-online-anonymity-censorship-extremism

A Canadian doctor who was censored for discussing Covid topics during the pandemic is taking her legal battle to the country’s Supreme Court, in a bid to have free speech restrictions imposed on her finally removed. Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill made the decision after the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled to uphold three “cautions” she received for tweets opposing what she considered to be harmful Covid lockdowns, published in August 2020. https://reclaimthenet.org/canadian-doctor-kulvinder-kaur-gill-supreme-court-free-speech-covid-lockdown-case

And more on the poke (these are real published studies): shedding IS a real thing -- you been poked? That makes you a carrier (and a potential threat) . . . https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-study-finds-concerning-evidence

The federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has urged the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to emulate the United States' initiative to tackle wasteful government spending and a bloated bureaucracy. In a column published for the Western Standard on Nov. 20, CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano wrote that Canada should establish an agency akin to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's forthcoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is expected to streamline government functions and cut unnecessary expenditures. Terrazzano believes such an agency would be essential to curbing "crazy" and wasteful government spending. "This [DOGE] is the blueprint… All we need now is a prime minister with the guts to pick up the scissors," Terrazzano wrote in his column. https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-12-06-canada-trudeau-adopt-trump-doge-curb-spending.html

From the national debt to negative jobs reports, data has been piling up that suggests America’s economic bubble is ready to burst. Now, with the Fed’s most recent round of rate cuts moving through the economy, fault lines are appearing in the commercial real estate sector. The following article was originally published by the Mises Institute. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Peter Schiff or SchiffGold. The pain is especially apparent in the so-called “CRE-CLO” bond market. CRE-CLO bonds are packaged commercial real estate mortgages comprising short-term floating rate loans. These bridge loans were recently, and most notably, used to facilitate the biggest apartment investment bubble in history, but were also used in financing other commercial real estate sectors including office, retail, hotel, industrial, and self-storage. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/commercial-real-estate-bond-distress-reaches-record-high