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Do You Really Have Nothing to Hide? The “Right to Remain Silent” Protects the Innocent
The Bill of Rights contains the 5th Amendment, which is the right to remain silent. This is the one right that law enforcement hates, and the American public has been conditioned to believe over the years that this amendment is only for criminals who don't want to incriminate themselves, and so they have been trained to say to you: "If you don't have anything to hide, why won't you answer my questions?" But the fact is that the 5th Amendment was placed in the Bill of Rights to protect innocent people from a tyrannical government. If you have never watched Law Professor James Duane's classic lecture to a group of students on why he is "proud to admit that I will NEVER talk to a police officer," this is must viewing. Generally, when questioned by officers, the best response is to simply state: "I don't answer questions." These officers are counting on you not knowing your rights, and being able to intimidate you for information. In an article published by Robin Koerner at the Brownstone Institute today, you will learn how innocently answering questions posed by a TSA Officer can result in you being put on a list where you can no longer travel, even if you did nothing wrong.
U.S. Spy Firm Can Track Cryptocurrency Users – Offers its Services to the Highest Bidder
Leaked files reviewed by MintPress expose how intelligence services the world over can track cryptocurrency transactions to their source and therefore identify users by monitoring the movements of smartphone and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, such as Amazon Echo. The contents comprehensively detonate the myth of crypto anonymity, and have grave implications for individuals and states seeking to shield their financial activity from the prying eyes of hostile governments and authorities. The documents are among a trove related to the secret operations of Anomaly 6, a shadowy private spying firm founded by a pair of U.S. military intelligence veterans. The company covertly embeds software development kits, or SDKs, in hundreds of popular apps, then slices through layers of “anonymized” data in order to uncover sensitive information about any individual it chooses anywhere on Earth, at any time. In all, Anomaly 6 can simultaneously monitor roughly three billion smartphone devices – equivalent to a fifth of the world’s total population – in real-time. The company’s international surveillance reach could be more sweeping – and invasive – than even that of the C.I.A. and N.S.A. MintPress can reveal individuals, organizations, and states seeking to bypass traditional financial structures and systems loom prominently in Anomaly 6’s mephitic crosshairs, and spying on their transactions is a pivotal component of its sales pitch to government and private clients. This Orwellian technology leaves cryptocurrency users the world over nowhere to hide.
Health Impact News Quits All Social Media – Sorry Trolls!
Health Impact News received notice this week that our Twitter account has been reinstated. However, we will not be logging into this account and using it, and in addition, we have now deleted our other social media accounts and will no longer post any articles on Social Media.
ALERT! Are You Ready for the Coming Foreign Invasion of the U.S. This Week?
When Democratic Mayors and Governors publicly state their opposition to the removal of a policy that was implemented by Republican President Donald Trump, and at the same time voice their displeasure with the Democratic Biden Administration, it's time to sit up and take notice, because that is exactly what has been happening for the past several days as Trump's Title 42 policy that stemmed the tide of illegal immigrants crossing the borders is set to expire this week, Wednesday, December 21, 2022. California Governor Gavin Newsom, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, and El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, all Democrats, are declaring states of emergency as they fear what is about to happen on Wednesday this week when Trump's Title 42 policy is set to end. On Friday (December 16, 2022), Judge Emmet Sullivan, from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, rejected an appeal by 19 Republican states to maintain Title 42. So unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes today or tomorrow and overrules Sullivan's decision, which at this point seems very unlikely, something that neither the Democrat nor the Republican State leaders want, is going to happen. Why? I honestly don't know, and although I have some good ideas why, they would be pure speculation at this point. What we do know is that if this happens on Wednesday, the United States is going to become a much more dangerous place, as the flow of criminal cartel gang members (and possibly military-trained mercenaries??), illegal drugs like fentanyl, and sex trafficking of unaccompanied minor children, is going to increase exponentially, just before the Christmas holiday weekend. Coincidentally, Wednesday is the shortest day of the year and the Winter Solstice, a pagan Satanic holiday that pre-dates the Christian Christmas holiday. The situation at the border has already been so bad that last month Texas Governor Greg Abbott referred to the mass border crossings as an "invasion" and invoked the state's "Invasion Clauses," and is now deploying Texas Military and National Guard troops to the border with heavy artillery, including tanks. So please do not underestimate the seriousness of what is about to happen, as I did not use hyperbole in the headline for this article: this is going to be a FOREIGN INVASION on U.S. soil.
Tucker Carlson Repeats Old News: The CIA Orchestrated the Assassination of JFK
Apparently somebody in the Biden Administration decided it was time to insert the John F. Kennedy assassination back into the news cycle this week. They "released" thousands of documents on the event that apparently just confirmed the U.S. Government's official position on the matter: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The larger news story that made the rounds in the Alternative Media came from Tucker Carlson of Fox News who stated: "Today we spoke to someone who had access to the still-hidden JFK files, and is deeply familiar with their contents. We asked this person directly: did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy? Here’s the reply: 'The answer is yes. I believe they were involved.'" This was treated as "breaking news" in the Alternative Media this week as if this had never been stated in the corporate media before. But the fact is that this is very old news, and pretty much every major corporate news organization has published something similar to this for decades now. And of course, those of us in the Alternative Media have covered this topic in depth for many years now. In 2020, we published an interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Ron Paul's Liberty Report show, where Kennedy said not only did the CIA kill his uncle, but also his father. If you want to go beyond what the controlled opposition corporate media is reporting about this, and understand the much larger picture of how the CIA and our government operates, the best film I have seen on this topic is Francis Richard Conolly's epic 2014 film, JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick. It has an 8.6 out of 10 rating on IMDB.com, and as far as I know it was only self-published on YouTube, as no production company or studio would dare to touch the subjects covered in this film. There are still several copies on YouTube. It is almost 3.5 hours long, and may take you a few days to watch, but it is well worth it. I have watched it twice over the years.
What are the Consequences of Sending Thousands of Satellites into Orbit Around Earth?
On the evening of Thursday, December 8, 2022, OneWeb launched 40 satellites from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing the total number of active satellites in orbit around the Earth to more than 7,000. These cell towers in space are altering the electromagnetic environment of the entire planet and are debilitating and exterminating all life on it. Even the first fleet of 28 military satellites launched by the United States caused a worldwide pandemic of influenza when they became operational on June 13, 1968. The Hong Kong flu began in June 1968, lasted through April 1970, and killed up to four million people worldwide. Up until about a decade ago, an average of 80 to 100 satellites per year were launched into varying orbits. Some reentered Earth's atmosphere quickly, while others will remain in orbit for decades. This now seems quaint. In the last five years, driven largely by the rise of communications networks such as SpaceX's Starlink and a proliferation of small satellites, the number of objects launched into space has increased dramatically. In 2017, according to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the annual number exceeded 300. By 2020, the annual number of objects launched exceeded 1,000 for the first time. This year, the total has already surpassed 2,000. With more broadband-from-space networks like Amazon's Project Kuiper on the way, further growth can be expected. This radically increasing number of satellites, most of which are orbiting within 1,000 km of the Earth's surface, comes as low-Earth orbit is ever more cluttered with debris. At some point, the heavens above will reach a breaking point.
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Investigative journalist Whitney Webb was recently interviewed on the Jimmy Dore show discussing her new 2-volume book: One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein. This interview is quickly going viral, and for good reason. This is one you are going to want to watch. Whitney reveals how organized crime began working for U.S. Military intelligence during World War II, and even developed their own organized crime syndicate that worked together with the U.S. Government. This syndicate was based on ethnic criminal groups, such as the Irish, Italian, and Jewish mobs. Sexual blackmail was their modus operandi, and they continued working with U.S. Intelligence after the war, as the CIA was formed. You will most likely hear shocking things in this interview you have not heard before, and Whitney claims it is all documented (I have not read the books yet). During this interview she explains that Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia operation was not an anomaly, but is a regular mode of business that still operates today. She also explains how Epstein's public crimes are all about child sex trafficking, but that he allegedly ran a separate operation where he groomed girls who became young women who were then sold off to the rich and famous. She briefly discusses Epstein's relationship with Donald Trump back in the 1990s, and states that there is alleged evidence that Epstein provided Trump with two high profile girlfriends at the time, one of whom became his wife (Melania) and eventually the First Lady of the United States. Another bombshell she throws out is that she found a "mainstream media" article from 2001 that documents how Jeffrey Epstein gained most of his wealth from three men: Leslie Wexner, Donald Trump, and Bill Gates. This is most definitely one interview you are going to want to watch. The last thing Whitney Webb says at the end of the interview is: "If any of this stuff sounds crazy to people, I would encourage you to read the books. I have exhaustively footnoted everything. There's a source for everything I say. You can go and check this out for yourself. Please, fact check me all you want." I can't even begin to explain how valuable this is, because for the past few years the major datafeeds that feed the search engines, including privacy-based search engines like Duckduckgo.com, are owned primarily by Google and Microsoft, and they have been rewriting the algorithms on many searches to only show you what they want you to find. That doesn't mean it isn't still out there on the Internet. It just means it is a lot more difficult to find it today, here at the end of 2022. So in this case, with one of the most researched journalists and experts on Jeffrey Epstein and the pedophile sex trafficking networks among the rich and powerful, showing you where to go to find the things she discusses in her book, and in this interview, that is VERY valuable information.
Biden’s DOJ Arrests Bankman-Fried in Unprecedented Move to Prevent Him from Incriminating Himself Before Congress
Within one day the entire narrative surrounding the downfall of Billionaire Crypto King Sam Bankman-Fried has gone from "why hasn't this guy been arrested yet," to "what is the government afraid he is going to reveal?" Who all is this guy connected to, and just how far does the corruption spread? Yesterday, one day before he was scheduled to appear in Congress before Maxine Waters, the DOJ issued an arrest warrant and authorities in the Bahamas, finally, arrested Bankman-Fried. But now he can't testify before Congress. According to criminal defense attorney Jonathan Turley, this is unprecedented. Never before has the plaintiff in a criminal case, in this case the U.S. Department of Justice, intervened to prevent a defendant from testifying before Congress where he would have undoubtedly incriminated himself and made their case a slam dunk. I think this bizarre story has now gone from "will he be arrested" to "will he be suicided away, like Jeffrey Epstein, to protect the guilty?"
Bailouts Start: Union Pensions Get $36 BILLION as BIS Warns of Potential Catastrophic Financial Collapse in 2023
After betraying the U.S. Railroad Unions last week by forcing them into a labor agreement they did not want, the Biden Administration announced $36 BILLION bailout of pensions with 350,000 union members, including many truck drivers. I wonder how many union members will actually sleep soundly after this promise by President Biden? Will that money actually be there when they retire, and if so, what will its value be? The big financial news of the past week came out of Switzerland and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) which reported that there are $80 trillion of hidden, off-balance sheet dollar debt in FX swaps (derivatives.) Shortly after this report was issued, analysts at BlackRock stated that we should "get ready for a recession unlike any other," and that Central Banks will not be able to bail out everyone.
Banks Freeze Funds of Pro-Free Speech Video Platform Bitchute
As our regular readers know, Health Impact News is committed to publishing the truth and exposing evil, wherever that path leads, as I own 100% of the Health Impact News network with no debt and no investors. I also do not derive any personal income from Health Impact News, as my income comes from my online store, Healthy Traditions. Therefore, we can publish anything we want, and we can afford to lose readers who are offended by the Truth. Of course that has been happening in mass since 2020, not only because of Big Tech censorship, but also because we do not support either political party in the United States, and therefore expose evil from both the Right and Left political spectrum. This has led to many on the Right, especially Trump supporters, to attack us and stop reading our articles. When it comes to publishing video content, since YouTube has no longer been an option for some time now, we have found Bitchute to be the best platform, mainly because they we can turn off comments there to silence the trolls, mostly from the Right, and because Bitchute doesn't seem to take a political position one way or another. When it comes to searching for videos that may be banned elsewhere, Bitchute is the best platform, by far. Based out of the U.K., Bitchute has been our safest place to publish video content. Many other video platforms that claim to promote "free speech" really only mean Right Wing "free speech." We had to mostly stop publishing on Rumble, for example, because there is no way to turn off comments, and it was too time consuming to babysit the comment section where many people on the Right wanted to attack us and trash our videos. Rumble has also deleted some of our videos with no warning and no explanations. I don't call that "pro-free speech," especially when your enemies and critics can come in and hijack your content and you have no way to ban them or turn off comments. We left Gab for similar reasons. On most of these alternative "pro-free speech" platforms, it is just assumed that you support Trump and MAGA political talking heads. We do not. However, Bitchute is now under attack themselves, and banks are freezing their assets, putting this excellent online video platform in danger. They are trying to get their message of censorship out to the rest of the world with a campaign they have started on GiveSendGo, which we are republishing here. Health Impact News does NOT accept donations, and any donations sent to us are returned to the sender. So we would never ask the public for money. I do recommend supporting Bitchute, however, as this online platform will be a huge loss to the Health Freedom Movement if the Globalists get their way and force them off the Internet.
Freemason Satanist Technocrat Elon Musk: The New Idol of the Christian Right
Freemason Donald Trump has new competition among his faithful followers on the Christian Right, as a new savior is being crowned in the Conservative Right alternative media. "Elon Musk set out to save civilization when he bought Twitter. He meant it. Civilization can only be saved through free and open communication and not behind walls constructed by elitists and totalitarians. On Saturday Elon Musk released the Twitter Files, Part 4 report on the company’s discussions on the censoring and banning of United States President Donald Trump." (Source: Gateway Pundit) Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and revealing previously censored information against Trump and conservatives, is undoubtedly being observed by those on the Christian Right as an "answer to prayer" as a new coalition of Christian Pastors is forming to help Donald Trump get re-elected. "Jackson Lahmeyer, the Oklahoma United States Senate candidate who took on anti-Trump incumbent James Lankford, has launched a new organization to rally the evangelical faithful to President Donald J. Trump’s corner ahead of the 2024 GOP primary. President Trump has long ties to the Christian evangelical community, despite what the fake news media wants to say. Pastor Lahmeyer gained recognition during his campaign for offering religious exemptions to help his fellow citizens escape the deadly COVID-19 vaccine. Pastors for Trump, is geared towards organizing Christians across the United States." (Source: Gateway Pundit) What could be more insane than a "Pastor" who "gained recognition during his campaign for offering religious exemptions to help his fellow citizens escape the deadly COVID-19 vaccine" starting an organization of other "pastors" to put back into office the very man who funded the COVID-19 gene altering shots, and then pressured the FDA to pass it? I am not sure there is anything more dysfunctional than that, but if there is, it is calling Elon Musk the "savior of civilization" and supporter of "free and open communication and not behind walls constructed by elitists and totalitarians." Could it be that Freemason Satanist Elon Musk will soon be joining forces with fellow Freemasonist Donald Trump, and turning Twitter into the world's largest surveillance tool in the U.S., similar to China's WeChat which is used for social credit scores and Covid vaccine passports?
Railroaders Say Morale, Quality-Of-Life At All-Time Low as Nation Faces Potential Logistics Nightmare
The headlines in the corporate news media will report today and in the next couple of days that Congress has intervened to prevent a railroad union strike, but that is only half the story. Strike or no strike, the nation is in trouble as nearly 40% of the freight in the U.S. is moved by rail, and forcing railroad workers to work when they are sick and unhappy is not a problem that Congress can fix. In the article below that we are republishing, it will be reported that railroad workers are not happy, with morale at an all-time low. And while they will give some reasons for this, there is one reason that is not allowed to be discussed in the corporate media, and that is the fact that just like any other industry where COVID-19 vaccines were mandated as a requirement for employment, which included the railroads, there is a reduction of labor due to deaths, and an increase of people working with disabilities. While the exodus from the railroad industry may not be as dramatic as the 334,000 people who have already left the medical system, I am sure that it will be problematic nonetheless, as overworked and sick railroad employees either quit or move on to other jobs. This is undoubtedly happening all across the U.S. right now in many industries where the COVID vaccines were mandated, even though you will not read about it in the corporate news.
Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes Facing 40 Years in Prison for Trusting in Trump
On December 28, 2020 I published an article titled: Trump Proves He’s Been Part of the Swamp All Along – Do NOT Go to D.C. on Jan. 6th! where I wrote: "If you still think Trump is going to save the Republic and you are planning on heading to Washington D.C. on January 6th to show your support of him, you could very well be putting your own life at risk and be taking a suicide trip. Washington D.C. is a cesspool of corruption and Satanic activity, and it could be pure suicidal for American patriots and militia groups to all be there at one time, giving the enemy the opportunity to take out as many of you at one time as they can. Why would you risk that? For Trump?? President Trump is still the President of the United States and the Commander in Chief of the nation’s armed forces. If he wants to start arresting criminals for treason, he doesn’t need my help or your help, at least not in Washington D.C., one of the most corrupt places on the planet. If Americans want to take their country back and drain the swamp, you better start planning on doing it now, without Trump’s help. There is no telling what his handlers are going to tell him to do in the days ahead, and even if he himself does not have nefarious plans in store for citizens and militia groups who may go to Washington D.C. on January 6th, there probably are many others who do. Don’t risk it!! Stay home and start planning now to take control of your local and State government criminals, where you will be fighting on your own territory where you can have better control of the situation. It is going to take massive defections from true and honorable Americans who are still left in the military and law enforcement if there is any hope at this point for saving America. Pray to God, and trust God, not Trump." One of those people who did go to Washington D.C. on January 6th, 2021, following Trump's directives, was Stewart Rhodes, the leader of Oath Keepers. Earlier this week Mr. Rhodes was convicted in Federal Court of "seditious conspiracy" and "obstruction of an official proceeding," with each charge carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, for being in Washington D.C. on January 6th. Why didn't President Trump pardon Rhodes and many others before leaving office, since he is the one who invited them all to Washington D.C. on that fateful day? Right before Trump left office, many people were also pleading with him to pardon Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. But he didn't pardon them either. Who did President Trump pardon during his final days in office? He pardoned Jewish spies who betrayed America, and Big Pharma criminals.
You Are Being Watched! More Security Cameras Per Capita in the U.S. than in China: Silicon Valley Whistleblower
The technology used in China to confine people to quarantine camps and determine social credit scores already exists here in the U.S. also. In fact, according to a Silicon Valley whistleblower, there are more security cameras per capita here in the U.S., right NOW, than there are in China! This is most certainly an important issue that everyone needs to be educated about, and so I highly recommend you spend the time to watch this recent interview with Silicon Valley whistleblower Aman Jabbi who was recently interviewed by Maria Zeee. I used to earn my living from Big Tech, and have been warning people for years that the biggest threat from Big Tech is NOT technology that is supposedly going to replace humans or breed new "transhumans," but that the biggest threat was from using artificial intelligence (AI) to be able to monitor huge amounts of data to try and track every single person on the face of the planet. But having been out of the technology field for many years now, even I learned many things from this interview with Aman Jabbi, who has since moved out of Silicon Valley to live in a remote area of Montana. Aman's area of expertise is in camera technology, and watching his presentation introduced me to new concepts I was not previously familiar with, such as geofencing, panopticon, talk pedometers, and LED incapacitators. If you are not familiar with these terms, as I wasn't, this video is must viewing. It was published a week ago and already has over 270,000 views at the time I am writing this. One of things Aman discussed was the fact that collecting data on children is a "BIG BUSINESS," and parents are unwittingly supplying this data to Big Tech by using their products, such as the "Talk Pedometer." This gives the State and Child "Protective" Services a way to spy on parents and take away their children if they don't approve of their parenting style. Another topic Aman covered in his presentation was "LED Capacitators" and "smart light poles." These are weapons, and the fact that these LED light weapons exist is not an area of dispute, as there is even a Wikipedia page about them, and law enforcement agencies are allegedly already using them.
Ron DeSantis’s Military Career: Torturing Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
It used to be that if I published anything critical of Donald Trump, that I was accused of being a "liberal" or "Democrat" (I am neither). Now, I am being accused of supporting Ron DeSantis if I write anything critical of Donald Trump. So let me set the record straight here. I support Jesus Christ, and his imminent return to earth when he will not be coming as a helpless baby born in a manger this time, but as the Judge and Executioner of Satan and his followers. There is no salvation by politicians. None. I have exposed the corruption in Florida and with DeSantis in previous articles, as Florida is a hub for child trafficking that DeSantis continues to not only allow, but also participate in, and he is also solidly pro-vaccine including pro-COVID-19 vaccine. In addition to these crimes that Governor DeSantis has participated in, Mike Prysner has just published a video looking at Ron DeSantis's military career when he served in Iraq and also at Guantanamo Bay as an attorney in the Navy's Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG). Mike Prysner served in Iraq himself, and was reportedly appalled at the corruption he saw in the way the military interrogated prisoners and other ways they abused people, which led him to start working with other military veterans who also suffered trauma from their experiences in the military. Prysner actually interviewed a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who was there when Ron DeSantis was also there. DeSantis was allegedly sent to Guantanamo Bay to be an advocate for the prisoners there, to make sure their rights were not being violated. But according to this former Guantanamo detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, not only did DeSantis not stand up for their rights, he betrayed them and participated in their torture. This is information about Ron DeSantis you are not likely to read about or hear elsewhere.
Is Donald Trump a Freemason? Is Trump Tower in New York a Satanic Temple?
This past week, I have highlighted many of the crimes that were committed in 2020 when COVID-19 started, and while Donald Trump was President. This has prompted some of the members of the Donald Trump religious cult to contact me and complain about my treatment of Trump in these articles, even though I was not attacking Trump personally, but just reporting the facts of what happened in 2020 that has now resulted in the deaths and injuries of millions of people, all implemented while Trump was president. Many of Trump's followers believe in the "Trump is stupid" view, which claims that Trump was fooled by all the people around him, and didn't know what he was doing. These people want Trump to be president again, even though he has not repented or apologized for participating in all the criminal activities that were done in the name of COVID. In this view, many believe that not only was Trump ignorant and is still not repenting of the sins he committed, but he is "God's chosen" man to be president. But what about Donald Trump? Is he truly God's chosen man, or is he a Freemason like all presidents before him, serving Satan as his master who put him into power?
FTX Created Money Out of Thin Air Like the Federal Reserve – NYSE Crash Will be Next After U.S. Banks Fail
Pam Martens of Wall Street On Parade exposed in her column today how the FTX crypto exchange, which is now bankrupt because too many people tried to withdraw their funds at the same time exposing how it was all a big Ponzi scheme, operated the same way as the Federal Reserve does in printing money out of thin air. What does this mean? It means that U.S. banks are just as guilty in running a fraudulent Ponzi scheme as FTX, and that we are just one bank run away where too many people try to withdraw their funds all at the same time where the entire U.S. financial system will collapse. Meanwhile, across the pond over in Europe, German authorities are actually planning for bank runs and social unrest as they face blackouts this winter, which would prevent people from being able to withdraw their money in a society that values cash and privacy. The entire world is about to find out just how fragile the technology is, where all it takes to bring down the entire system is to pull the plug on its energy source, electricity.
New York Federal Reserve Bank Announces Test of Digital Dollar with Major Banks
Here we go. In just one week since the fall of FTX and the upheaval of the private cryptocurrency world, the New York Federal Reserve announced today that it was starting a trial run of a "digital dollar" with several major banks. I expect that the plans to move towards a Central Bank Digital Currency will pick up speed now, using the FTX scandal as an excuse to start regulating all digital currency. This is another step towards The Great Reset.
Big Tech Crash 2022: Amazon Fires 10,000 Employees, Largest Layoff In Company History
Over the past month, technology companies have laid off tens of thousands of employees. And the momentum in layoffs only appears to be worsening. According to a new report via NYTimes this morning, Amazon could add to the count this week as approximately 10,000 people in corporate and technology jobs will be slashed, in what could be the most significant job cut in the company's history. Amazon would become the latest tech company to reduce headcount. Just in the last few months, Twitter, Facebook parent Meta, ride-hailing company Lyft, software service firm Salesforce, payment platform Stripe, and a growing list of tech companies have announced layoffs of engineers, salespeople, and support staff.
The Religion of the Technocrats is Failing, as is Their Technology
As I noted in my article about the demise of self-driving vehicles, the faith in artificial intelligence is crashing down to reality, as investors in the technology find out the hard way that computers just cannot do all the things that the techno-prophecies have claimed. This was exposed in a recently published Bloomberg article quite eloquently by publishing quotes from Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who created the model for self-driving vehicle research and was, for more than a decade, "the field’s biggest star." So strong was his belief in artificial intelligence, that he literally started a new religion worshiping it called "The Way of the Future" Church. But after several years of waiting for the AI messiah to arrive and start replacing humans, his faith was shattered. Fast forward now 5 years later where AI cannot even figure out how to make a left turn in normal traffic, and these AI believers are quickly abandoning the faith, and starting to understand the limitations of computers.