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Trump Teases Bombshell DOGE Finding: ‘What They Found Is Incredible’

Trump Teases Bombshell DOGE Finding: ‘What They Found Is Incredible’

President Donald Trump teased another explosive revelation from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as Democrats and legacy media escalate their ongoing campaign against the cost-cutting initiative and its leader, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

While speaking with the press aboard Air Force One en route to South Florida for the weekend, Trump said: “They found something today that’s horrible,” adding. “You’ll find out very soon. What they found is incredible.”

Trump also gave Musk credit for his leadership at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has so far achieved an estimated savings of $140 billion, amounting to roughly $869.57 per taxpayer. 

“Elon is fantastic,” the president said. “He’s a patriot. He found millions of dollars of fraud.”

“He loves the country that’s why he does it,” he added. Addressing speculation about Musk’s future, Trump responded to reporters, “I want him to stay as long as possible.”

The president also commented on the recent wave of violent attacks targeting Tesla vehicles and dealerships, incidents he has previously labeled as “terrorism.” 

“It’s a shame what they are doing with his car company,” he said. “It’s a great car, great product.”

According to a since debunked Politico report citing unnamed sources, Trump has privately indicated to close associates that Musk plans to scale back his involvement as an advisor in the near future. While Musk and the White House denied the report, Trump told reporters on AF1 that “Elon is fantastic,” but he has “a number of companies to run.”

“I want him to stay as long as possible,” said Trump. “There’s going to be a point where he’s going to have to leave.”

Over the weekend, at a Wisconsin rally aimed at boosting voter turnout, Musk and DOGE volunteer Antonio Gracias disclosed that millions of noncitizens were granted Social Security numbers under former President Joe Biden’s administration. They presented a chart illustrating a consistent annual rise, peaking at over 2 million in FY 2024, which concluded on September 30. In both FY23 and FY25—the latter starting in October and running through September of this year—approximately 1 million noncitizens received Social Security numbers.

“None of this would have happened without President Trump,” Gracias told Fox News. “President Trump had the courage to allow us to go across databases. He signed an executive order. It’s never been done before, where agencies could talk to each other and databases could talk with each other.”

“That allowed us to connect all this data, to find these people across the system, across the benefit system, all the way to the voting records. It really took a lot of courage,” he added.

Now the question is; what’s this ‘horrible’ thing DOGE found? And is it just a ‘LOOK, SQUIRREL!’ to distract from all the ‘fun’ we’re having in response to new tariffs?

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 21:20

Bill Banning Geoengineering And Weather Modification Passes Florida Senate

Bill Banning Geoengineering And Weather Modification Passes Florida Senate

Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,

he Florida Senate passed a bill prohibiting geoengineering and weather modification by a vote of 28-9, Thursday. SB-56, dubbed the “chemtrails bill” by the media, prohibits “the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight.”

The bill also requires the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to set up a system where residents can report “suspected geoengineering activities” and directs the FDEP to investigate those claims, WFLA reported.

Geoengineering, or climate engineering is defined as “the intentional large-scale alteration of the planetary environment to counteract [alleged] anthropogenic climate change.”

Florida’s bill banning the practice must now be approved in the Florida House, which has its own watered down version.

If a bill passes, Florida would become the second state in the nation to ban geoengineering. Tennessee passed its own bill banning geoengineering and weather modification in 2024.

Over two dozen other states, including Kentucky, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Arizona, Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, Missouri, and Maine have introduced similar legislation in 2024 or 2025, and are pending further action.

The Tennessee law went into effect July 1, 2024. Florida’s legislation is set to take effect on July 1.

The bill’s sponsor, Republican Ileana Garcia, said the legislation became necessary after her constituents repeatedly voiced concerns about unknown entities altering the atmosphere in Florida without their consent.

“Many of us senators receive concerns, complaints on a regular basis regarding these condensation trails, aka chemtrails,” Garcia said in a committee hearing last month. “There’s a lot of skepticism.”

“I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don’t you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don’t know who they are or what they’re doing?” Garcia said Thursday.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo expressed support for the Senate Bill on Wednesday.

“Big thanks to Senator Garcia for leading efforts to reduce geoengineering and weather modification activities in our Florida skies,” Ladapo posted on X. “These planes release aluminum, sulfates, and other compounds with unknown and harmful effects on human health. We have to keep fighting to clean up the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.”

Governor Ron DeSantis said that he supports the bill passed by the Senate, but that it was “gutted” by the House lawmakers who cut it down from 10 pages to a single page on Wednesday.

“I support the legislation, however, the Florida House of Representatives has gutted Sen. Garcia’s legislation, and they would actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification,” DeSantis said in a video posted to X.

The House version of the bill does not forbid the practice of weather modification outright, just without a license. It also comes with a less steep penalty.

The Senate version, which would impose a sweeping ban, calls for violators to be charged with a third-degree felony and face a fine up to $100,000. The House version would charge those without a license, or who lie on their application, with a second-degree misdemeanor and up to a $10,000 fine.

“People have a lot of kooky ideas that they can get in and put things in the atmosphere to block the sun and save us from climate change,” DeSantis said. “We’re not playing that game in Florida.”

“Thank you for your support, Governor,” Garcia posted on X. “Don’t tread on our☀️sunshine!”

California based attorney Nicole Shanahan also applauded the bill on X.

“Banning geoengineering at the state level is a good start but real change happens when we expose the bad actors who have been funding these projects and are heavily invested in preventing an end to this at the federal level,” Shanahan wrote. She thanked her former running mate, former Independent candidate for president, now HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  “for naming it what it is: a crime.”

In an interview last year, RFK Jr. warned that The World Economic Forum and Bill Gates had “hijacked geoengineering,” with Gates funding these projects around the world.

“They aggravate the problem then sell us the solution,” Kennedy explained, adding that the solution is that “they want is more social controls.”

“Geoengineering is a threat that the environmental community needs to know about and the rest of us needs to know about,” he said.

Shanahan recently sat down with researcher Peter Kirby, author of Chemtrails Exposed: a New Manhattan Project, for a long, eye-opening discussion on what’s been going on in our skies.

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 20:55

The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild

The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination ™, and that is likely the best outcome.

Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins.

Welcome to the Trade War Poker Table: nobody wins, as everyone has the same hand of jokers.

This is not to say that exploitive, mercantilist “free trade” (no such thing has ever existed) is desirable, much less possible. We’re reaping the consequences of what was passed off as “free trade”: corporations gleefully gutted National Security to boost profits by offshoring everything that could be offshored.

Every nation can impose tariffs or limit imports by other means. Tit for tat tariffs, concessions, grand deals, side deals–everyone has access to the same deck of cards. Who wins each round of play is an open question, as is who wins the game.

There are several time-tested strategies in the game for Global Domination ™. One is domination gained by exporting far more than you import, building up treasure in the form of vast trade surpluses.

The problem with this strategy is eventually the nations being stripped by your mercantilist strategy wise up and limit your exports. There is only one way to get around this: military force, i.e. establish a Colonial Empire in which your colonies are forced to buy your surplus production (exports) via a bayonet in their back.

Absent force and a colonial empire, mercantilism is eventually defeated by its own success.

There is another way to play for Global Domination ™, and it’s the exact opposite of mercantilism: run large, sustained trade deficits by importing more than you export, which beneath the surface is a remarkable flow of trade: the importing nation “exports” its currency in size in exchange for goods and services.

Once this currency is “exported” in sufficient quantities, it becomes the dominant currency simply from its ubiquity, its liquidity (i.e. its quantity and ubiquity make it easy to trade everywhere) and its trustworthiness due to its wide ownership across global markets: since the currency is spread across the globe, the issuing nation no longer controls its valuation; that’s now set by the market.

This is Global Domination ™ via financing trade rather than by running trade surpluses by exporting tangible goods. Pick one, as you can’t have both: either export goods to run mercantilist trade surpluses, and build up a trove of other nation’s currencies, or “export” your own currency via sustained trade deficits so it becomes the global lingua franca of financing trade.

Due to the demands of the Cold War, this was the U.S. strategy in the postwar era. As I have often explained, the U.S. was not merely in an arms race with the Soviet Union; it was also in a war for influence and alliances. The strongest adhesive in alliances is self-interest; by absorbing the surplus production of its allies in Europe and Asia in exchange for dollars, the U.S. cemented alliances that essentially encircled the Soviet Empire.

This strategy was far more effective than open conflict, but it came with a cost. Just as the success of mercantilism generates its own undoing, so too does maintaining a reserve currency via trade deficits / exporting one’s currency. Should the issuing nation (in this era, the U.S.) decide to limit imports and reduce its trade deficit, its currency will slowly lose the global scale needed to sustain its market dominance.

This is Triffin’s Paradox, which I’ve addressed many times over the years: any currency–and the system for creating and distributing the currency–has two masters it cannot possibly serve equally: the domestic economy and the global economy. Any nation that wants to control the valuation of its currency cannot possibly achieve global financial dominance, as the only way to gain and maintain global financial dominance is to surrender control of the currency’s valuation to the market via exporting currency in such vast quantities that the global market sets the value.

There’s a profound irony in this. To manage the domestic economy, the state wants to control everything: the issuance of currency and its valuation via its relative abundance or scarcity, which is reflected in the cost of credit (i.e. interest rates) and asset prices.

But to gain the high ground in the global financial landscape, the currency must serve the global demand for a currency that is ubiquitous, extremely liquid and trustworthy precisely because its value cannot be reset by state diktat. The valuation of a truly global currency is constantly influenced by interest rates, bond issuance, demand and so on–all the features of a transparent marketplace.

The game of Global Domination ™ will never be decided by a deck of jokers. The real game is 5-card draw: you play the cards you’ve been dealt by Nature, history, culture and chance. Every nation has a spectrum of strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages. Some are rich in resources, some are poor in resources. Some have advantageous geography, some less so. Some have cultural coherence, others have diversity; each is a strength and a weakness.

In Nature, the winner is not necessarily the strongest or the one most blessed by chance. The winner tends to be the one with the greatest capacity and incentives for flexibility, experimentation, a level playing field (i.e. social mobility) decentralized capital and all the traits of fast adaptation: if not an appetite then at least a capacity for a continual churn of instability, failure and self-criticism, which are the necessary components of experimentation.

There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination ™, and that is likely the best outcome. Any form of dominance generates its own undoing.

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 18:25

Will Hoarders Spark Run On Imported Goods? These Are The Most-Exposed US Retailers

Will Hoarders Spark Run On Imported Goods? These Are The Most-Exposed US Retailers

Ahead of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout on Wednesday afternoon—particularly the 25% tariff on vehicles and auto parts imported into the U.S.—reports surfaced last week of consumers rushing to dealerships to purchase vehicles already on the lot, as those would be exempt from the new levies. We suspect that if consumers are willing to flock to auto dealerships, they’re probably just as willing to stock up on their favorite Chinese-made products before the next round of tariffs takes effect this weekend and next Wednesday.  

Tariffs on Chinese goods are set to increase by 34% next Wednesday, on top of the existing 20%, bringing the effective rate to 54%. This will significantly impact companies heavily reliant on Chinese manufacturing (and other Asian countries), forcing them to absorb the cost or pass it on to consumers—setting the stage for sticker shock.

Goldman analysts Brooke Roach, Kate McShane, and others earlier today provided clients with a breakdown of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs: 

  • On April 2nd, President Trump announced reciprocal tariffs. This includes a 10% tariff increase on all countries (excluding Mexico and Canada) and a higher rate of increase on select countries with trade deficits, set to take effect on April 5th and April 9th, respectively.

  • We believe the most material impact to our retail coverage from the announcement is the increase in tariffs on key sourcing partners for retail such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

  • China: Tariffs on China move to 54% (a 34% increase vs. the 20% tariff already in effect).

  • Tariffs broadened to key sourcing partners: Tariffs on other key sourcing partners for U.S. retail are set to be implemented, including Vietnam (46%), Indonesia (32%), Bangladesh (37%), Italy (20%), India (27%), and Cambodia (49%). Imports from the European Union will also be subject to a 20% tariff.

  • Canada and Mexico: The announcement maintains tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Exemptions under USMCA will remain, which exempt compliant products from the 25% tariff rate on both countries. Should current orders be terminated, USMCA compliant products would receive preferential treatment while non-USMCA compliant goods would be tariffed at a 12% rate.

  • Material increase to softlines tariff rate overall: On our calculations, the announcement implies a ~38% weighted average tariff rate for total apparel and footwear imports to the U.S.

Given the tariff breakdown and timeline, Roach and McShane provided clients with a “China Tariff-O-Meter,” highlighting companies in their retail coverage whose supply chains are heavily exposed to China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.

From their Softlines coverage, companies such as Warby Parker, Torrid Holdings, Groupe Dynamite, Nike, Yeti Coolers, and SharkNinja have high exposure to China and other Asian countries targeted by Trump’s upcoming round of tariffs. In other words, the products from these companies entering U.S. ports in the coming days will be subjected to sizeable tariffs.

In their Hardline coverage, companies such as Floor & Decor, Lowe’s, RH, Williams-Sonoma, Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dollar Tree, and Five Below have elevated or high supply chain exposure to China or other Asian countries. 

Take note of the Softline and Hardline retailers listed above. If there’s a product you’ve been eyeing—whether it’s a new couch from RH or some Chinese junk from Five Below—now might be the time to buy.

To avoid paying higher prices for foreign goods, just buy American.

We also suspect searches for “American Made” will begin to rise.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 18:00

Tucker Carlson Horrified As Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic

Tucker Carlson Horrified As Dr. Mary Talley Bowden Drops Chilling COVID Statistic

Via VigiliantFox.com,

Dr. Mary Talley Bowden left Tucker Carlson visibly shaken after dropping a chilling COVID vaccine statistic that’s impacting millions of children right now.

Before her appearance on Carlson’s show, Dr. Bowden, a Texas-based ENT specialist, rose to prominence in the medical freedom movement by speaking out against vaccine mandates and advocating for early treatment options like ivermectin.

She gained national attention after she was suspended by Houston Methodist Hospital for challenging the prevailing COVID narrative.

Despite the backlash, Bowden has remained committed to the Hippocratic Oath, successfully treating an impressive total of over 6,000 COVID patients without a single death.

Before Tucker became visibly disturbed, Dr. Bowden pointed to data from the CDC’s VAERS system, explaining that over 38,000 deaths have been reported following the rollout of the so-called COVID-19 vaccines.

She said that under normal circumstances, such numbers would’ve prompted the FDA to pull the shots.

Instead, they pushed forward, adding the COVID vaccine to the routine childhood schedule, with the expectation that babies receive three doses by just nine months of age.

She added that the shots are still under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for children under 12—not fully FDA approved—and yet they remain on the official vaccine schedule.

Tucker was horrified when Dr. Bowden mentioned a disturbing fact: “According to the CDC, 9 million American children have gotten the latest version of these COVID shots,” she said.

Clearly caught off guard, Carlson asked, “Actually?”

“Yes,” Bowden confirmed.

“Still?” he pressed.

“Yes. Yes. 9 million [kids]—12% [of US children have been injected].”

Tucker, in disbelief, asked, “Wait, this is going on right now?”

“Yes,” Bowden replied.

“I think we voted against this,” Tucker said.

“Yeah,” Bowden confirmed.

“Correct?” Tucker stressed.

“I don’t know,” Dr. Bowden answered.

“You’re very diplomatic, but I’m just stunned to learn that that’s happening right now,” Tucker exclaimed.

“Could this be shut down?” he asked.

“It should have been shut down a long time ago,” Dr. Bowden answered. “And you know, what’s the—”

Tucker interrupted: “9 million babies have had COVID shots?”

“Yeah. Well, children. Minors,” Dr. Bowden clarified.

Tucker’s reaction at the end says it all:

The conversation took another dark turn when Carlson asked about the potential long-term consequences of these shots, to which Dr. Bowden pointed to a disturbing trend.

“I don’t see a ton of cancer in my practice,” she said, “but I do have friends at MD Anderson, and they said they’ve never seen anything like it. The young people coming in with very advanced tumors, I think that’s what we have to be worried about now.”

She explained that getting updated cancer data is difficult, but the anecdotal reports are piling up. “It’s hard to get up-to-date cancer numbers, but I’m hearing all sorts of things. There are probably people who have access to that data, but publicly, it’s hard [to get access].”

This raises a profound question we must now consider as a society: What have we done?

In our rush to vaccinate every man, woman, and child, have we compromised the long-term health of a population that never needed these shots in the first place?

What data was ignored? If so, who made decisions to ignore that data, and will they ever answer for the consequences? It’s time for a serious conversation about accountability.

You can watch the full, eye-opening conversation below:

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 17:40

Health And Human Services Layoffs Begin Leaving Federal Workers Stunned

Health And Human Services Layoffs Begin Leaving Federal Workers Stunned

The first stage of cuts to Health and Human Services (HHS) have begun with 10,000 employees slated to be fired in the coming weeks.  Pink slips have been replaced with emails and deactivated key cards as workers line up at HHS offices across the country to find out if they still have a job.  The establishment media is out in force to paint a tragic narrative of “public servants” who only want to do good for less fortunate souls no unable to fulfill their calling.  It’s all quite dramatic.

It’s hard to say when government bureaucrats suddenly became an army of charitable saints sacrificing themselves for the good of humanity.  The HHS currently employs around 82,000 people within 10 regional offices and the average income for a worker is around $100,000 with benefits.  The majority of them are pencil pushers and social workers, not doctors or scientists making grand discoveries in medical technology.  When they do get involved in medical study, disasters seem to follow. 

Keep in mind that the HHS was partly involved in the funding of gain of function research by EcoHealth Alliance, which, in conjunction with projects run by Dr. Peter Daszak and Dr. Anthony Fauci at the NIH, reportedly led to the creation of human transmissible coronaviruses at the Wuhan Level 4 Virology Lab in China (ground zero for Covid).  

The annual budget of the HHS is $1.8 trillion – It accounts for around 20% of all federal dollars spent every year and tracking where this immense pool of cash goes is far more complex than the shady operations of USAID.  The agency is, by any measure, a monstrosity.  Cuts are intended to hit the FDA, CDC, and the NIH, all under the umbrella of the HHS. 

A large portion of programs instituted by HHS tap into pandemic funds set aside during covid (yes, the covid cash is still floating around after 5 years).  This money goes to support numerous programs that the majority of Americans voted against, including DEI programs, illegal immigrant programs and gender affirming care programs (gender based care for minors was indeed pursued by the HHS).  

The point is, it’s not worth feeling sorry for these people.  When they had unmitigated power they abused it in grand fashion and everything that happens from here onward is pure Karma. 

Democrats in at least 23 states are taking action to sue the Trump Administration over the budget cuts and layoffs.  In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday, the states are seeking a temporary restraining order and injunctive relief to immediately halt the administration’s funding cuts that they say will lead to key public health services being discontinued and thousands of health-care workers losing their jobs.

The civil suits are unlikely to make much difference in the end, just as they failed to stop the cuts to USAID.  The HHS, now under the management of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is expected to undergo unprecedented changes in the coming months and a level of accountability the institution has probably never dealt with before.  

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago. HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again,” the agency said in a statement last week.

Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 17:20

Pentagon Watchdog Launches Investigation Into SecDef Hegseth Over Use Of Signal

Pentagon Watchdog Launches Investigation Into SecDef Hegseth Over Use Of Signal

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,

The inspector general for the Department of Defense is investigating Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his use of the messaging app Signal.

Acting Pentagon Inspector General Steven A. Stebbins said in an April 3 memorandum to Hegseth that the probe would cover whether Hegseth and other military personnel complied with Department of Defense policies and procedures for using a commercial messaging application for official business.

“Additionally, we will review compliance with classification and records retention requirements,” he said.

A Department of Defense spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email, “Per our longstanding policy, we don’t comment on ongoing investigations.”

Hegseth has not reacted as of yet to the development.

Hegseth and other top U.S. officials in mid-March messaged on Signal about strikes in Yemen against Houthi terrorists.

The Atlantic released the messages after Jeffrey Goldberg, its editor-in-chief, was added to the chat group.

Hegseth and the White House have said no classified information was shared.

Developing…

Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 17:00

Microsoft Scales Back AI Data Center Projects In US, Australia, UK

Microsoft Scales Back AI Data Center Projects In US, Australia, UK

TD Cowen analyst Michael Elias has explained to clients through multiple notes over the last month that Microsoft has scaled back on data center projects in the U.S. and Europe. This development is unsurprising, as readers have been aware of the emerging risks posed by the cheaper and more efficient Chinese DeepSeek (as noted on Jan. 27), prompting us to question whether AI data capacity will be achieved sooner than initially anticipated.

Another worrying sign for the AI bubble—or rather, a continuation of Elias’ reporting on Microsoft scaling back data center projects—comes from Bloomberg, which provides additional color on MSFT supposedly halting data center construction sites in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. 

Here’s more from the report, citing people familiar with talks (list courtesy of Bloomberg):

  • Microsoft recently withdrew from negotiations to lease space between London and Cambridge in the UK at a site being marketed for its ability to host advanced Nvidia chips, according to people familiar with the talks, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter.

  • The company has also halted negotiations for data center space at a site near Chicago, according to a person familiar with the talks.

  • In some cases, Microsoft is delaying construction. For example, it has paused work on parts of a data center campus it owns about an hour outside of Jakarta, according to people familiar with the situation.

  • Microsoft also has put on hold some planned expansion at a site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, part of a complex visited by then-President Joe Biden, according to another person.

  • In London, Microsoft was negotiating to lease space at Ada Infrastructure’s 210-megawatt Docklands data center but has held off on committing to the project, according to people familiar with the matter.

Elias first raised concerns about Microsoft scaling back on AI computing capacity in a note on Feb. 24, in which he stated that Microsoft was terminating AI data center leases. This was followed by a separate note last week, in which the analyst reported that Microsoft had walked away from data center projects in the U.S. and Europe, amounting to a capacity of approximately 2 gigawatts of electricity.

“We continue to believe the lease cancellations and deferrals of capacity points to data center oversupply relative to its current demand forecast,” Elias said last week. 

News of the cheaper Chinese DeepSeek—a response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT—in late January, which is allegedly 40–50 times more efficient than other large language models, had Goldman’s Rich Privorotsky at the time proposing a new theme that spelled bad news for the AI bubble: “If you can do more with less, it naturally raises the question of whether so much capacity is necessary.”

The whole “do more with less” theme produced by DeepSeek sparked a debate that AI peak demand capacity could be reached much sooner than Goldman’s forecast of late 2026. 

Capex revisions next?

Year to date, Goldman’s AI and power baskets have gotten the memo…

Goldman’s China AI basket leads US AI baskets.

. . .

Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 15:25

Massive International Pedophile Streaming Network Discovered; 2 Million Users Shared Child-Porn Across 35 Countries

Massive International Pedophile Streaming Network Discovered; 2 Million Users Shared Child-Porn Across 35 Countries

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

A massive darknet international pedophile child porn network calling itself “Kidflix” has been discovered and shut down by Europol.

Investigators stated that site shockingly had more than 91,000 child porn videos on it, with around three new videos being uploaded to its servers every hour.

Users were paying a fee for access to stream and upload their own videos of child sex abuse. They were able to make payments via cryptocurrencies to avoid a paper trail, and were given the incentive of earning tokens to spend on the site by uploading content.

Dozens of arrests were made, the agency announced Wednesday, noting that the network had around two million users and spanned across 35 countries.

The network was terminated at the direction of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office in Germany.

German broadcaster NTV reports that 79 people have been arrested thus far, with around 1,400 further suspects identified.

The investigation spanned almost three years and has now concluded with thousands of electronic devices being seized and the servers of the monstrosity, located in both Germany and the Netherlands, being shut down.

The report notes that Europol officials believe those arrested not only watched and uploaded child pornography, but are also suspected of carrying out the sexual abuse of the children.

This isn’t even an isolated incident, these massive pedo operations are in play everywhere.

Earlier this year, French police announced arrested 37 people and seized over a million picture and video files of child pornography from computers, tablets, smartphones, and even cameras.

According to The French newspaper La Dépêche reported that the operation, which began in November, involved 270 gendarmes, including 36 cybercrime specialist investigators.

A separate international operation last December also led to the arrest of 95 people in France in connection to a cross-border child pornography ring.

In that case, police seized hundreds of devices with an estimated 375,000 photos and 156,000 videos of child pornography, making up 217 terabytes of data.

While investigators have managed to rescue some of the children who were victims of these horrendous activities in each case, the numbers are always disappointingly low, and it’s clear many thousands more, if not millions are still suffering.

The level of evil is unimaginable.

Leftists will tell you it’s all just a big conspiracy theory though.

And in some cases they will investigate anyone who tries to expose it.

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 15:05

‘Disloyal’ NSC Staffers Fired After Laura Loomer Brings Receipts To The White House

‘Disloyal’ NSC Staffers Fired After Laura Loomer Brings Receipts To The White House

Three staffers on the National Security Council have been fired after journalist Laura Loomer met with President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, where she presented him with a list of ‘disloyal’ employees, the NY Times reports, thanks to ongoing (and copious) leaks from the administration.

Mr. Trump may act on some of Ms. Loomer’s recommendations, two of the people said. Ms. Loomer walked into the White House with a sheaf of papers, which amounted to a mass of opposition research attacking the character and loyalty of numerous N.S.C. officials, two of the people said. She proceeded to excoriate them in front of their boss, the national security adviser Michael Waltz, who was also in the meeting. -NYT

The rest of the Times report amounts to a character assassination on Loomer, which was to be expected – writing that “Loomer’s rhetoric and actions have been so extreme that she has alienated others even on the far right.”

The White House meeting came after weeks of Loomer posting about various ‘disloyal’ Democrats within the Trump administration – including deputy national security adviser Alex Wong, who she says added a journalist from The Atlantic to a DoD Signal chat on behalf of his boss, national security adviser Michael Waltz (Waltz was in Wednesday’s meeting, according to the report). In posts to X, Loomer noted that Wong’s wife worked as a DOJ lawyer for the Biden and Obama administrations, and her father is a large shareholder in a Chinese satellite manufacturer.

The roughly 30-minute meeting with Loomer was held shortly before Trump’s major tariff announcement in the White House Rose Garden. Also in the meeting aside from Waltz were VP JD Vance, Sergio Gor – the head of presidential personnel, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and White House communications director Steven Cheung, according to the NYT‘s leakers.

Loomer Responds

“I woke up this morning to learn that there are still people in and around the West Wing who are LEAKING to the hostile, left-wing media about President Trump’s *confidential* and *private* meetings in the Oval Office,” Loomer wrote on X in response to the news, adding that she would not divulge any details about her meeting.

According to Loomer, there’s “More to come!”

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Tyler Durden
Thu, 04/03/2025 – 14:05