Turkish Prosecutors Demand '2,000-Year' Prison Term For Jailed Istanbul Mayor

Via The Cradle

A Turkish prosecutor has demanded more than 2,000 years in prison for Istanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, accusing him of leading a vast corruption network that allegedly defrauded the state of billions of liras, according to an indictment unveiled on Tuesday.

Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Akin Gurlek said the nearly 4,000-page document names 402 suspects, including Imamoglu, and charges them with forming a criminal organization, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and bid-rigging. 

Ekrem Imamoglu, via Bursa Press

He said the alleged network caused 160 billion Turkish liras (around $3.8 billion) in losses to the state over 10 years.

The indictment, which includes findings by the Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK) and what Gurlek described as "digital and video evidence," portrays Imamoglu as the founder and head of the organization. It also accuses several business figures of being coerced into paying bribes through a secret municipal fund.

Turkish media reported that Imamoglu faces 142 separate charges and could serve up to 2,352 years in prison if convicted. 

The mayor, detained since March, has rejected all accusations and denounced them as politically driven. His arrest sparked the largest demonstrations in Turkiye in over a decade.

Imamoglu previously received a separate prison term in July for allegedly insulting and threatening the city’s chief prosecutor – a verdict he is appealing. 

Additional charges against him include espionage, document forgery, and defamation of public officials. He is also accused of transferring residents’ personal data to obtain foreign campaign funding, which Imamoglu has dismissed as "nonsense."

The government has denied accusations by Imamoglu and his Republican People’s Party (CHP) that the proceedings are politically motivated, insisting that Turkiye’s courts are independent.

The Istanbul municipality and Imamoglu’s lawyers have not commented on the latest indictment, with the trial date to be set once the court accepts the case.

The sweeping indictment against Imamoglu aligns with what Turkish academic and writer Fatih Yasli describes as a broader campaign by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government to dismantle the country’s democratic framework. 

Yasli argues that Ankara has turned the judiciary into a mechanism of "de-electoralization," or criminalizing opposition forces while extending selective overtures to the Kurdish movement. 

Within this context, the case against the Istanbul mayor, the most prominent figure in the Republican People’s Party (CHP), is seen as part of a wider effort to fracture the opposition, reclaim CHP-led municipalities, and entrench Erdogan’s power through judicial and administrative control rather than through elections.

Tyler Durden Wed, 11/12/2025 - 02:45

Vienna Teachers Warn Of Rising Radical Attitudes Among New Immigrant Students

Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,

Viennese teachers are reporting growing challenges with students from immigrant backgrounds who are increasingly unwilling to learn German or adapt to local values, according to teachers’ union representative Thomas Krebs of the Christian Trade Unionists Group (FCG).

Speaking to Heute, Krebs said many of those arriving from conflict or crisis regions now bring radical beliefs that pose problems in Austrian classrooms.

“In the past, people fled from extremism. Now, many people come to us radicalized by extremism and spread these ideas here as well,” said Krebs.

He cited incidents of female teachers being disrespected or assaulted by male students and parents, saying such behavior reflects imported attitudes that reject gender equality.

“This disrespect ranges from refusing to shake hands to insults and physical assaults,” he added.

Krebs said the problem also affects staff relations, with reports of some male teachers refusing to shake hands with female colleagues for similar reasons. He warned that children from Western or secular families are sometimes treated as inferior by classmates, while those from conservative backgrounds who wish to integrate face pressure to conform.

“Students from Western cultural backgrounds are not seen as equals,” Krebs said, adding that liberal democratic values are often dismissed in favor of religious rules.

According to the union, teachers frequently encounter resistance to Austria’s educational standards.

“Our educational principles are often rejected. For example, religious content is prioritized over the content of the curriculum prescribed by Austrian law,” Krebs stated.

The FCG union is calling for new measures to address what it describes as a widening integration gap. It wants not only mandatory German-language instruction but also compulsory integration programs held outside of school, with attendance monitored by authorities.

“Effective teaching is only possible if there is also a willingness to integrate,” Krebs said. “The values of our democratic society must be conveyed in such a way that fundamental rights and culture are understood as an enrichment and not opposed.”

Recent data and testimony have reinforced concerns about language barriers and integration in Vienna’s schools. Of the roughly 16,700 first-graders enrolled in the city, more than 44 percent — about 7,400 children — do not have sufficient German skills to follow lessons. In the 2018/2019 school year, the proportion was 30 percent. Officials note that around 60 percent of these students were actually born in Austria, suggesting that many are growing up in what commentator Andreas Mölzer described as “closed parallel societies that simply refuse integration.”

“This means they grow up in families and closed parallel societies that simply refuse integration. Integration into our social system and our cultural fabric depends primarily on language acquisition,” Mölzer wrote in the Austrian daily Krone, warning that many such children risk “entering life without a qualification and with limited career prospects.”

Statistics from Austria’s middle schools show the same pattern. According to STATcube last October, only about 8,500 of Vienna’s 26,800 middle school students use German as their primary language, while 76 percent speak another language at home. In some districts, including Margareten, Hernals, and Alsergrund, that figure exceeds 90 percent.

Freedom Party (FPÖ) education spokesman Hermann Brückl called the situation “a full-blown educational emergency,” claiming that “German is becoming a foreign language in our own classrooms.” He pointed to data showing that 41.2 percent of students in Vienna’s compulsory schools now identify as Muslim, surpassing Christian students, who make up 34.5 percent. The figures were confirmed by the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF).

Brückl’s party argued that political leaders have failed to address “parallel societies” in schools. “Instead of demanding achievement and integration, parallel societies are being cultivated directly in our schools,” Brückl said, adding that the number of pupils in German-language support courses has grown by a third since 2019, and those in special education classes have doubled.

Last October, former principal and author Christian Klar warned of what he called a “rapid Islamization” of Austrian schools. In an interview last year, he said schools in Vienna’s northern districts now have up to 90 percent of students from migrant backgrounds, leading to “increasing pressure on non-Muslim students” and rising anti-Semitic incidents. Klar argues that Austrian schools must “take a massive stand” against fundamentalist attitudes and ensure that classrooms remain neutral spaces free of religious coercion.

Teachers’ unions report that Vienna’s schools are struggling to cope. Krebs previously said staff resignations are increasing, citing “violence, extremism, and misogyny” as the main reasons. Evelyn Kometter, chair of Austria’s national parents’ association, described classrooms where “only three out of 22 students can speak German,” forcing teachers to repeat instructions multiple times. “By then, two-thirds of the lesson is already over,” she said.

Krebs warned that expanding capacity alone will not solve the problem. “They can think of nothing better to do than to plow up the last green spaces and sports facilities for schools with excavators and construction equipment and to pave them over with containers and huge extensions without any real plan,” he said.

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Tyler Durden Wed, 11/12/2025 - 02:00

The Age Of Brazen Madness... And The Collapse Of Fear

Authored by Armstrong Williams via The Epoch Times,

When a 29-year-old man in Minnesota can post a TikTok video allegedly offering $45,000 for the assassination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, we can’t dismiss it as another outburst from an online extremist. It’s a symptom of something far deeper—the moral corrosion of our civic life.

According to the FBI, Tyler Avalos uploaded a video on Oct. 16 captioned “WANTED: Pam Bondi. REWARD: $45,000. DEAD OR ALIVE (PREFERABLY DEAD),” complete with Bondi’s image in a rifle’s crosshairs. This wasn’t done in secret corners of the dark web. It was posted openly on TikTok—the global stage for attention seekers and provocateurs.

That brazenness should alarm every American. It tells us the guardrails that once kept outrage and violence in check have collapsed.

There was a time when people feared consequences—not irrationally but morally. That fear was a civic virtue, a recognition that actions carried weight. Now, we live in an age where shock replaces shame, and fame replaces fear. Social media has transformed the unhinged into the influential.

Platforms such as TikTok and X reward extremity, not reason. The algorithm doesn’t care if you’re serious or insane, only that you’re loud. For people who feel powerless or ignored, outrage becomes currency. Violence becomes a shortcut to significance.

When someone can post a public assassination bounty and expect followers before federal agents, deterrence is gone.

Avalos’s alleged threat isn’t just criminal—it’s emblematic of political nihilism: the belief that nothing is sacred, that speech is merely spectacle, and that power justifies anything. From threats against judges to violence at rallies, this nihilism has infected the bloodstream of U.S. politics.

And both sides are guilty.

The left excuses its extremists as “activists.”

The right excuses its own as “patriots.”

Each side’s moral blind spot validates the other’s madness. But when society measures justice by team loyalty, it ceases to be a society at all.

The republic only endures when restraint is voluntary—when people choose not to cross the line because they still feel its existence. Today, that line has been erased.

Deterrence requires two things: certainty and consequence. Both have eroded.

Americans watch as violent rioters go free while ordinary citizens who defend themselves face prosecution. They see selective justice—leniency for the powerful, vengeance for the politically inconvenient. When the law looks partisan, people stop fearing it. When the rules depend on who you are, not what you did, deterrence dies.

A nation cannot maintain order when justice is conditional. The law must be blind, not biased.

In a fame-driven society, notoriety has become the new immortality. The unhinged no longer fear prison; they crave recognition. Attention—even infamy—has become reward enough.

That’s why enforcement must be swift and visible. The FBI’s quick action in arresting Avalos was necessary and right. Justice delayed is weakness broadcast. But enforcement alone won’t fix the deeper rot. We must restore moral deterrence—the cultural understanding that some acts are beneath us as human beings and unacceptable as citizens.

What we are witnessing is the collapse of consequence. Every civilization that dies first loses its capacity for shame. Once people stop fearing moral failure, legal punishment soon follows. The boundaries of right and wrong blur into the fog of “my truth” and “your truth.”

That’s where America stands—a nation of endless outrage, with no sense of proportion or restraint. Politicians feed the frenzy because it keeps voters angry and engaged. But anger is combustible. When words lose guardrails, violence finds opportunity.

The answer isn’t just tougher laws. It’s tougher character. It’s moral courage—the kind that refuses to justify violence, no matter who it targets. Deterrence begins not in Washington but in the conscience of every citizen.

America doesn’t need a speech code; it needs a moral compass. We must once again teach that liberty is not license, that freedom requires responsibility, and that the rule of law must apply evenly or it applies to no one.

Until that happens, we’ll keep breeding more Tyler Avaloses—men who confuse infamy with importance, and chaos with courage.

And when fear—the healthy kind—finally dies, civilization follows.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 23:25

China May Have Just Cracked The Code On An Outer Space Particle Beam

As if nuclear armageddon down here on Earth wasn't enough to worry about...China could soon be readying particle beams from outer space.

Particle beams — streams of high-speed atoms or subatomic particles — have long been the holy grail of space warfare. The concept sounds simple: zap an enemy satellite with a beam so intense it melts or fries the target. Reality, however, has been less cooperative — mainly because of power, according to the South China Morning Post.

Building such a weapon means delivering megawatts of energy with microsecond precision, a combo engineers usually describe as “pick one.” Systems that are powerful are clumsy; systems that are precise can’t handle the juice.

But Chinese scientists now claim they’ve solved this decades-old physics headache. In a study published in Advanced Small Satellite Technology, a team led by Su Zhenhua of DFH Satellite Co. unveiled a prototype power system that reportedly hits both marks — high power and pinpoint control.

Their device pushed out 2.6 megawatts of pulsed power while keeping synchronization accuracy to 0.63 microseconds. “Existing pulsed power supplies typically have an output power of less than 1 megawatt and synchronisation control accuracy worse than 1 millisecond,” Su’s team wrote.

SCMP writes that the researchers said more juice was needed because “devices like electromagnetic jamming warfare simulators and particle beam systems demand extremely high instantaneous power.” The prototype, they added, “solves the problems of insufficient power supply and degraded control accuracy.”

Instead of relying on miracle materials, the team redesigned the entire system — from solar-fed capacitors to ultra-precise discharge control — ensuring all 36 power modules fire within 630 nanoseconds of each other. The result: 2.59 MW of clean, square-wave pulses, perfect for particle accelerators, lasers, or any other “definitely not weapon” applications.

While the paper highlights peaceful uses — laser comms, ion thrusters, radar — the timing is hard to miss. With the U.S. expanding its Starlink and Starshield constellations, China’s interest in space-based power systems seems less about better weather forecasting and more about keeping pace in the orbital arms race.

Whether the system can survive space’s brutal environment — radiation, vacuum, temperature swings — is still unclear. At least for now, China’s latest power breakthrough may be less “Death Star ready” and more “promising PowerPoint slide.”

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 23:00

US Troops Train For Jungle Warfare In Panama, First Time In Decades

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com,

The US War Department has begun sending conventional ground forces to Panama for training in jungle warfare for the first time in more than two decades, ABC News reported on Monday.

News of the training in Panama comes amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and a push toward a potential war with Venezuela, a country with vast jungles. A US military official told ABC that the training in Panama is not intended to prepare troops for a potential mission in Venezuela, but President Trump has reportedly been reviewing options for attacking the country.

While the US hasn’t sent enough forces to the Caribbean for a full-scale invasion of Venezuela, US military planners reportedly do believe it has a sufficient force to seize strategic ports and airfields in Venezuela.

US Army image showing US Marines at the Combined Jungle Operations Training Course at Base Aeronaval Cristóbal Colón, Panama.

According to a report from The New York Times, one of the options presented to President Trump would involve sending troops to capture airfields or oil infrastructure inside the country.

The ABC report said that US soldiers and Marines are participating in a three-week training course once called “Green Hell” due to the similarities to combat in Vietnam at the Base Aeronaval Cristóbal Colón, formerly known as Fort Sherman.

The jungle training course at the base was shuttered in 1999 when the US pulled troops out of the country as part of a deal to cede control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government.

Earlier this year, President Trump was calling for the US to "retake" the Panama Canal, which led to the US signing a deal with Panama that allows US troop deployments to bases along the canal for training and military exercises.

Proponents of a regime change war with Venezuela to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro point to the 1989 US invasion of Panama that led to the arrest of Panamanian leader and former CIA asset Manuel Noriega.

But a major difference between a potential invasion of Venezuela and the US invasion that ousted Noriega is the fact that the US had a long-established military presence in Panama at the time.

Maduro has vowed that Venezuela is ready to fight if the US attacks, and Russia has recently delivered air defenses to the country and is considering further support.

The Venezuelan leader also says that a pro-government militia that has millions of members is also ready to take up arms against any invading force.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 22:35

Citizens On Patrol, Eh? Canadian Military To Teach 300,000 To Shoot Guns, Fly Drones, And Drive Trucks

The Canadian military is hoping to recruit and train 300,000 public servants as part of a national mobilization plan, according to a directive from their defense department.

Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan.

The plan would call for federal and provincial employees to be given a one-week training course in firearms, flying drones, and driving trucks, according to the directive signed by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck. 

The public servants would be inducted into the Supplementary Reserve, which is currently made up of inactive or retired members of the Canadian Forces who are willing to return to duty if called. At this point, there are 4,384 personnel in the Supplementary Reserves, but in the case of an emergency, that would be boosted to 300,000, according to the directive from Beck and Carignan.

While the supplementary recruiting push will “prioritize volunteer public servants at the federal and provincial/territorial level” the entry standards wouldn’t be strict, according to the nine-page unclassified directive. -Ottawa Citizen

"The entry criteria for the Supplementary or other Reserve should be less restrictive than the Reserve Force for age limits as well as physical and fitness requirements," reads the document. 

Once inducted into the ranks, the public servants would need to do one week per year of military training, but would not be issued uniforms. While they would receive medical coverage in exchange for their annual military service, the week of training would not count toward their pensions, the directive reads. 

The directive also approves the creation of a "tiger team" (tigers are not native to Canada) - which will work on establishing a Defense Mobilization Plan (DMP) which will examine what changes are needed between government legislation and other factors to allow for such a large addition of Canadians into the military. 

"Initial planning has begun to explore how the CAF (Canadian Armed Forces) could contribute to greater national resilience, including leveraging increased readiness from an expanded Reserve Force for defence purposes, in times of crisis, or for natural disasters for example," Department of National Defence spokeswoman Andrée-Anne Poulin told the Citizen - though the military wouldn't comment on the timelines for the creation of the mobilization plan despite the fact that this directive was issued in May. 

The directive would also beef up the Canadian Forces reservists - volunteers who are in current military units that are considered part-time, and are involved in training on a year-round basis. The current reserve force under the directive would jump from 23,561 to 100,000 for the mobilization plan. And again, they have no plan on how to even do this. 

According Carignan and Beck, the plan requires a Whole of Society (WoS) effort - meaning that all Canadians will need to contribute to the initiative, and that the Privy Council Office would lead a government "approach to population engagement to advance servant culture around sovereignty and public accountability," whatever that means. 

"Defence will not accomplish the outcome alone, rather it will necessitate shaping, facilitation and engagement with the Privy Council Office, other government departments and agencies as well as socialization with the Canadian public," they added.

The so-called 'tiger team' will also consult with Canadian allies, "including Finland which is a recognized leader in this area." 

Of note, Finland's military is based on conscription - every male citizen aged 18-60 is liable to serve in the military, while women can apply on a voluntary basis (but what is a woman?).

After Finnish citizens complete their compulsory full-time military service, they join the reserves - which now has an age limit of 65. 

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Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 22:10

Chinese-Owned Trailer Park Near US Stealth Bomber Base Linked To Suspicious Vancouver Activity

Submitted by The Bureau's Sam Cooper,

A sprawling U.S. investigative report has placed a Richmond, B.C., couple already identified in a high-profile Chinese-diaspora repression case at the center of an even more explosive national-security controversy south of the border: they are linked to a web of shell companies that own a trailer park beside Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri — home to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and launch point for the June 2025 strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The same couple are named in B.C. court filings and appear in video evidence from a saga outside Vancouver journalist Bingchen Gao's home, where activists aligned with Miles Guo — a New York–based tycoon with reported Chinese intelligence ties — staged repeated demonstrations in a siege-like campaign.

Taken together, the property records unearthed by the Daily Caller News Foundation, along with court and corporate documents reviewed by The Bureau to verify the American reporting, outline a cross-border pattern of potential Chinese state activity, echoing past cases of high-profile actors using Vancouver as a base for operations into the United States.

Raising the stakes, The Bureau has also identified a former Vancouver business entity tied to the couple, involved in hard-rock lithium exploration in Canada's Northwest Territories — an alarming detail suggesting their network could intersect with China's drive for critical minerals supply chains in North America.

The real estate thread south of the border is clear. Missouri business and environmental filings assembled by investigative reporter Philip Lenczycki show the Knob Noster Trailer Park is registered to Property Solutions 3603 LP, with a state operating permit locating the property directly north of Whiteman — roughly a mile from the runway. Companion filings in Utah and Georgia connect similarly named entities to the Richmond residents, Esther Mei and Cheng Hu. The couple, who share a Richmond home according to court documents, did not respond to repeated requests for comment, Lenczycki reported.

A former CIA operations officer said such thinly veiled ownership structures are typical of state-linked activity, including the use of foreign nationals to place assets near critical infrastructure. Bryan Dean Wright, a former CIA officer, told the Daily Caller there was "zero chance a Chinese couple from Canada rolled into Knob Noster and saw a strictly financial investment in a dumpy plot of land," arguing that the trailer park "would hypothetically give Xi Jinping a range of options to wreak havoc."

Wright's assessment is not proof of wrongdoing, but his conclusion aligns with patterns previously reported by The Bureau.

At a recent hearing in Washington, D.C., Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Director Donnie Anderson told lawmakers that investigations into PRC-linked cannabis operations have uncovered claims of Chinese government interests strategically purchasing property near sensitive U.S. infrastructure — including a munitions plant in Oklahoma supplying a large share of the Pentagon's heavy weapons.

Across North America, cases of PRC-linked farmland acquisitions are moving from headlines to court filings and prompting calls for official investigations. The Bureau has reported on major land purchases in Prince Edward Island allegedly tied to Beijing's United Front network, and on the premier's subsequent call for RCMP and FINTRAC investigations.

What brings the Richmond couple's story into sharper focus for Canadian readers is the series of incidents outside Bingchen Gao's home in 2020 and 2023.

Reporting on charges against Miles Guo in 2024, Global News in British Columbia wrote that demonstrators clad in New Federal State of China clothing protested outside Gao's home for 77 days in 2020 and returned in January 2023. The outlet noted the group "would say little… save calling Gao' very dangerous' and calling for his expulsion from Canada."

In an earlier case, the Chinese journalist Gao fought a high-profile defamation battle with Vancouver developer Miaofei Pan, a leader of the Canadian Alliance of Chinese Associations (CACA) — which former PRC diplomat Chen Yonglin has publicly described as operating at a "controlling level" of the United Front Work Department in B.C. Pan and another CACA leader dispute that characterization, but they have also been questioned by the RCMP in probes into alleged PRC "police station" activity in Richmond, where no charges have been laid.

Pan, a prominent Liberal donor, was featured in The Globe and Mail's reporting on wealthy Chinese immigrants hosting fundraisers attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In his defamation case against Gao, Pan was awarded $1 in damages after B.C. Supreme Court Justice Neena Sharma rebuked his conduct, writing that she had "serious concerns" about his credibility.

In the subsequent Surrey neighborhood-siege case, civil pleadings and video evidence show Gao alleging an extended campaign by New Federal State of China demonstrators, including Esther Mei and Cheng Hu, outside his residence, followed by online amplification.

Gao's claim states that from September 15, 2020, to December 3, 2020, and from January 20 to 25, 2023, the defendants appeared in front of his home, holding signs declaring "Gao Bingchen is a spy of the Chinese Communist Party." The filing names several individuals, including the Richmond couple linked to the Missouri trailer park.

With this network's legal connections to Miles Guo — also established in B.C. court records reviewed by the Daily Caller — the rabbit hole deepens. The NFSC formally launched in 2020, and Guo was convicted in New York in 2024 in a billion-dollar fraud case. A U.S. bankruptcy adversary filing lists Vancouver Sailing Farm Ltd. among defendants, a documented Canadian arm within the Guo-linked network. Guo has publicly described intelligence "affiliations" and proximity to senior Chinese security figures.

As I reported in Wilful Blindness (pp. 72–78), fugitive smuggling tycoon Lai Changxing — who migrated to Vancouver and was long alleged by police to have Big Circle Boys ties — operated within a PLA military-intelligence milieu overseen by Maj. Gen. Ji Shengde, later purged amid the Yuanhua scandal. U.S. fundraiser Johnny Chung testified that Ji directed $300,000 toward the 1996 Clinton campaign, and Miles Guo has claimed close ties to both Lai and Ji, saying he was asked by Ji to assist the PLA's 2nd Department — a characterization he later repeated in interviews describing himself as an "affiliate" of Chinese state security.

If the Missouri trailer-park findings ultimately confirm Chinese-state adjacency through direct links to Vancouver-based property owners, they would fit a well-established Canadian pattern.

Historian Dennis Molinaro's Under Assault traces how Beijing has repeatedly used Canada as a staging ground to reach its true strategic target — the United States. He charts a progression from political influence and industrial theft to targeted scientific infiltration, often leveraging patriotic sentiment and financial inducements within the overseas Chinese diaspora.

The book revisits Su Bin's Boeing-theft case from Vancouver and a Toronto conduit for U.S. Tesla battery IP — both examples where Canadian enforcement followed only after U.S. intervention.

Su Bin — arrested in Richmond, B.C., in 2014 and later extradited — admitted conspiring with China-based accomplices tied to the People's Liberation Army to hack major U.S. defense contractors for export-controlled data on flagship air programs, including Boeing's C-17 Globemaster III and, by tasking, the F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters. He pleaded guilty in March 2016 and was sentenced to 46 months that July, with the plea acknowledging a years-long operation to steal sensitive military information and transmit it to China in violation of computer-intrusion and Arms Export Control statutes.

As former FBI agent Justin Vallese — cited by Molinaro — said after Su Bin's conviction, he "didn't know how many Su Bins there are."

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 20:55

Fermi's Massive Texas Data Center Struggles To Sign Its First Major Tenant

More storms clouds are gathering over the torrid, and in some cases chaotic, rollout of US data centers. 

Fermi's massive 11 GW energy and data center project in Texas, called Project Matador, which the company has envisioned to be the world's largest AI data center and energy campus in the Texas Panhandle, near Amarillo, is struggling to close the deal with its first major data center tenant. And since Fermi is set up as REIT that allocates income from tenants to shareholders, the delay may raise doubts about attracting other potential money-generating tenants, in a toxic feedback loop.

Fermi's Donald J. Trump campus is an array of solar, natural gas and nuclear power generation, as well as storage and 2.6 million square feet of data-center capacity. With 11 gigawatts of power, including 6 gigawatts of nuclear power and 5 gigawatts of gas-powered generation, Project Matador ranks as the "largest advanced energy and data campus in the world" to deliver next-generation AI at scale, Fermi said.

Fermi's Project Matador - The President Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus.

Besides the name of the plant, the company has ties to Trump through Rick Perry, a co-founder and board member. The latest filings show that Perry owned a little more than 16.5 million Fermi shares, which represented 2.5% of the shares outstanding.

Fermi CEO Toby Neugebauer said Fermi's goal is to catch up in November and regain the roughly 21-day delay in signing its first tenant with "intense" face-to-face meetings. It expects the lease to be signed in the current fourth quarter.

"I wouldn't take anything as a sign of weakness with that delay," Neugebauer told Wall Street analysts. "I would just say, you know, these are very large corporations who have multiple different stakeholders who have to sign off on everything that's agreed to. And sometimes that takes longer than the commercial guys would prefer."

It's not all bad news. The company which went public on Oct 1, said it is still on track to start generating power next year; it has also already reached some major milestones with respect to regulatory progress with the NRC, as well as securing the permitting for the initial 6 GW of gas turbine power.

Progress with the NRC has included acceptance of their initial portion of a combined license application (COLA) for four Westinghouse AP1000 reactors, achieved back in early September. Fermi has since submitted additional portions of the application, and will continue to submit the remainder of the required portions over the next year. This process could be sped up considerably if required environmental pre-work is reduced due to NEPA regulation revisions. The NRC has also agreed to an 18-month review timeline after the application is fully submitted. Fermi signed a Front-End Engineering Design contract with Hyundai E&C in October, with forging of long-lead nuclear components by Doosan Enerbility now in production

Last month, Fermi also scored a major win that has stifled the development of an endless number of data centers in the US. They were able to secure over 2.5 million gallons of water per day from the city of Amarillo, and agreed to pay twice the rate typically charged. Their location near one of the largest aquifers in the world has proven to be a huge benefit.

For gas power, earlier this month, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality granted preliminary approval for 6 GW of natural gas-based power generation, marking over half the project's capacity and positioning it as one of the world's largest such facilities. This approval, subject to additional discussions and close out administrative proceedings, integrates combined-cycle gas turbines with the first gigawatt targeted for coming online by late 2026.

While the regulatory rollout for the Trump-linked Fermi is going according to plan, the company's latest headache appears to be with bringing potential tenants to the table for signing formal lease agreements.

While Fermi did not name the prospective tenant, it described it as an investment grade-rated corporation with power needs, and which has signed a letter of intent for a 20-year term, plus four additional five year blocks, in addition to advancing $150 million for the purpose of beginning some construction.

Investors are concerned with the 21-day delay in signing on the tenant, but management argues that the delay is not a sign of cold feet, and instead point to the $150 million construction advance as a sign of good faith, claiming investors should not be concerned with continued progress across multiple fronts.

It is also hard to imagine a data center would not see the benefit of signing with Project Matador due to the massive delays experienced at other locations with regards to securing permits or power, such as the recent headaches seen in California.

Project Matador is in many ways the embodiment of the Trump administration’s goals of building AI data center infrastructure in the United States as fast as possible, along with ensuring the majority of that is powered by nuclear energy. With constant reference to the AI race being the new “Manhattan Project”, it is hard to imagine the administration will not do everything within its power to ensure the success of America in the new global arms race.

That said Fermi's stock fell Tuesday as investors brushed aside some positive developments announced in the company's first release of quarterly results, such as beating an internal estimate for the amount of gas-fired generation it expects to bring online in 2026; following the news of the delay, FRMI is almost back to its post IPO lows.

The company reported a net loss for the first nine months of 2025 of $332 million, including $173.8 million in "charitable contributions", $111.6 million of losses related to convertible notes and other securities. Fermi also said it expects to have about 2.2 gigawatts of gas-fired generation secured or under letter of intent in 2026, up from its initial target for 1 gigawatt from earlier this year.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 20:30

White House Declares 'Anti-Communism Week' Honoring 100 Million Lives Lost

Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on Nov. 7 announcing “Anti-Communism Week,” which will commemorate the approximately 100 million victims who lost their lives to communist political systems over the years.

The White House in Washington on Oct. 20, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

“This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies,” the proclamation, issued on the National Day for the Victims of Communism, reads.

The order highlights the “devastation” of communist rule in countries around the world since its inception in Russia in 1917 by Vladimir Lenin following the Bolshevik Revolution. The collectivist ideology stems from “The Communist Manifesto,” written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.

Common principles of communist rule include the destruction of family structures, the abolition of traditional societal morals, and the outlawing of religions and spiritual liberty.

In the proclamation, Trump honors individuals “taken by regimes that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given rights and dignity of those they oppressed.”

“As we honor their memory, we renew our national promise to stand firm against communism, to uphold the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more that no system of government can ever replace the will and conscience of a free people,” Trump wrote in the proclamation.

He highlighted the progress made since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, ending the decades-long Cold War, while also cautioning against the subversive and persistent nature of tyranny.

“New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the language of ‘social justice’ and ‘democratic socialism,’ yet their message remains the same: give up your freedom, place your trust in the power of the government, and trade the promise of prosperity for the empty comfort of control,” the proclamation reads.

Standard attempts to infiltrate Western societies include the use of disinformation campaigns, divisive rhetoric, the polarization of issues, and the manipulation of political movements to amplify pro-communist messaging, among other tactics.

Signs promoting communist ideologies were visible at the recent No Kings rallies in Washington, and The Epoch Times also observed dozens of pro-communist banners and placards in protests surrounding the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Some activists are calling for the elimination of private property and the dissolution of existing social structures. The messaging echoes the communist notion that political discord and chaos are necessary to create order.

Slogans depict the movement as one for the workers and common people, a theme used to generate support, though the historical record repeatedly demonstrates the trajectory of communism toward totalitarian control.

Approximately 1.5 billion people in five countries currently reside under communist regimes, with the majority in China and others in Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Chinese Communist Party leaders have maintained strict control of the society since 1949, using imprisonment, forced organ harvesting, and murder, among other methods, to keep citizens in line.

Communist authorities uniformly seek to eradicate traditional values, aiming to elevate the regime to the highest authority on moral matters and to consolidate power at the top of the regime’s hierarchy.

The United States “rejects this evil doctrine,” and demonstrates a commitment to its founding principles, the president’s proclamation states.

“No ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them,” the proclamation reads.

“We honor the victims of oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that communism and every system that denies the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, once and for all, on the ash heap of history.”

Among many nonprofit groups addressing communism, the Washington-based Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is advocating for a “world free from the false hope of communism.”

“Communism has always been, and will always be, incompatible with liberty, prosperity, and the dignity of life,” the organization said in a statement. “We remember that while it always promises equality and liberation, it has only ever robbed people of their most basic rights and freedoms.”

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 20:05

Rep. Massie Still Investigating Jan. 6 Provocateur Ray Epps

Authored by Ken Silva via HeadlineUSA,

Remember Ray Epps, the J6er who encouraged others to go into the Capitol and committed violence against police officers, only to receive a year of probation for his crimes?

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., hasn’t forgotten. Massie announced on Friday that he wrote a letter to the FBI about Epps last month, seeking answers about its investigation into him.

Massie asked why the FBI initially closed its investigation into Epps by July 2021, despite having an abundance of evidence about him.

I sent a letter to the FBI director one month ago requesting unreleased information on Ray Epps. pic.twitter.com/I3amze9lUZ

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 9, 2025

According to FBI records, agents had “photographic/and or video evidence that James Ray Epps conspired to and/or recruited others to storm the United States Capitol Building.”

However, a July 29, 2021, FBI report said that its “investigation did not reveal sufficient evidence that Epps … engaged in acts of violence or committed any other criminal violations.” That’s despite the fact that video had already surfaced showing him pushing a sign into a group of police officers, and that Epps had admitted to trespassing on Capitol grounds.

The Justice Department apparently reopened the Epps case after Massie, Revolver News and other conservatives began to question whether he was being protected by government. The DOJ eventually slapped him with a lone misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, and he received one year of probation in January 2024.

“This disparate treatment is particularly troubling when contrasted with the cases of most January 6 defendants,” Massie said in his recent letter to FBI Director Kashyap Patel. “Moreover, it raises the broader question of whether other defendants were similarly spared prosecution under comparable circumstances.”

Massie seeks all internal communications between FBI Headquarters and its Phoenix field office, which initially investigated Epps. He also seeks all communications between the FBI and DOJ about him.

Additionally, Massie wants to know whether the DOJ or any of its components, including the FBI, had any communication with Epps prior to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest. Such communications might indicate whether Epps was working for the government at the time.

Massie sought answers by Oct. 10. It’s unclear whether the FBI ever responded to the congressman’s letter, which is dated Oct. 3.

Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 19:15

Land In "Data Center Alley" Sets New Price Record 

Loudoun County, Virginia, known by some as "Data Center Alley," is home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, mostly clustered around Ashburn. Roughly 70% of global internet traffic passes through its fiber backbone at some point, attracting hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, and making any remaining land zoned for massive data-center development among some of the most valuable real estate on Earth.

Local media outlet Loudon Now has put a price tag on a 97-acre parcel east of Leesburg that sold earlier this month for a whopping $615 million, setting a new per-acre record in the county at over $6 million. 

The seller, JK Land Holdings, had purchased the Twin Creeks site for $57 million four years ago and secured approval for five two-story data centers. The buyer, an affiliate of SDC Capital Partners, recently acquired a separate portion of the property, previously sold to Dominion Energy for $45 million, to build a substation. 

JK Land Holdings manager Chuck Kuhn declined to comment about the transaction but noted, "This transaction brought $4 million of transfer taxes alone into Loudoun County—right this week."

"This one project alone will create between 150 and 200 full-time jobs in the county. It's going to create hundreds of construction jobs for years in the county. … When you think about the construction workers utilizing hotel rooms, restaurants, gas stations, stores, etc., it's really going to be a financial shot in the arm to the county and the town," Kuhn said. 

Kuhn said that limited industrial-zoned parcels in the county and new zoning curbs are fueling record land values, and warned that Loudoun is "getting to the end of data in the county as we know it."

"It's supply and demand. We're getting into very, very limited supply in the Northern Virginia area. You're seeing sizable transactions," he said. "With the new zoning regulations, we're getting to the end of data in Loudoun County as we know it, and it's driving up values. And that's unfortunate to see. I don't think data is right everywhere, but areas away from residential, away from schools, away from parks, certainly areas zoned for heavy industrial and quarry operations can be perfect locations."

Beyond driving up data center-zoned land values across the county, the AI infrastructure boom across the Mid-Atlantic has strained grids, sending electricity prices soaring. 

Years of misguided green energy policies by Democrats led to premature retirements of fossil-fuel plants, stripping grids of much-needed spare capacity. Instead of focusing on producing new stable power generation, Democrats went all-in on unreliable solar and wind.

"Price-Spikes & Blackouts": America's Power Crisis Is Just Getting Started https://t.co/vb51PEwHnb

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 13, 2025

What's needed now is competent governance and common-sense energy policies after a decade of failed far-left climate crusades that produce nothing but a power bill inflation crisis. Nuclear is a 2030s story.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 18:50

Indigenous People Gone Wild: Protesters Storm Globalist COP30 Climate Summit In Brazil

TeleSURtv reporter André Vieira captured video showing dozens of what he described as "indigenous people" breaking through barriers and storming the UN's annual global climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The summit brings together globalist world leaders, left-wing climate activists, and "trust-the-science" researchers to discuss climate pledges that they aim to transform into enforceable actions. 

"Indigenous people occupied the #COP30 on the night of this Tuesday to demand that negotiators place them at the center of the debates," Vieira wrote on X, adding, "Nearly 3,000 indigenous people are in Belém to participate in the activities over the coming days." 

Vieira's X post also featured a video of indigenous people storming COP30, the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 

Los indígenas ocuparon en la noche de este martes la #COP30 para exigir a los negociadores estar en el centro de los debates.

Cerca de 3.000 indígenas están en Belém para participar en las actividades durante los próximos días. pic.twitter.com/5UaGXFtq5G

— André Vieira (@AndreteleSUR) November 11, 2025

Reuters confirmed the report, saying:

Protestors brandishing batons forced their way into the venue hosting COP30 on Tuesday, where they clashed with security guards at the entrance.

The protestors clashed with security at the entrance to the venue, which was then barricaded with tables. A Reuters witness saw one security guard being rushed away in a wheelchair while clutching his stomach.

Here's more footage:

WATCH: Protesters with batons storm COP30 climate conference venue in Belem, Brazil — clashes erupt with security, at least one injured pic.twitter.com/qVp4CGAP19

— Rapid Report (@RapidReport2025) November 11, 2025

Beyond the unrest, some in the Western world are waking up to the sad reality that so-called "action" from these climate summits has amounted to little more than economic self-destruction. 

Just look at Germany, whose green transition has paralyzed its industrial base and nuked its car industry, while the U.S. narrowly avoids the same fate due in part to President Trump's 'America First' agenda. 

#COP30noBrasil. Learn from Europe how to:
• Make energy more expensive
• Crash the economy
• Export jobs to China
• Have no impact on the atmospheric CO2
• Have no impact on the climate ...
• And a negative impact on the environment pic.twitter.com/ViPyGc9ZeI

— JOSE GEFAELL (@ChGefaell) November 6, 2025

Meanwhile, China reaps the benefits, expanding coal production and manufacturing dominance as the West, in the name of climate change, pushes ahead with a self-sabotaging green agenda. 

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 18:30

Florida AG Targets JPMorgan Over Trump Debanking, Jack Smith Collusion

Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA,

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier launched a state investigation Monday into JP Morgan after the bank abruptly closed the accounts of President Donald Trump’s media company in 2024.

Uthmeier announced the probe in a video statement on X and in a letter to JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, affirming the financial institution may have violated multiple criminal and civil anti-fraud laws as well as prohibitions against de-banking.

“Rest assured, this office will be investigating to ascertain the nature of these secret and suspicious circumstances,” Uthmeier wrote in the letter, confirming that the Office of Statewide Prosecution and Enforcement Division would handle the matter “immediately.”

Here is our preservation notice to JP Morgan Chase: https://t.co/SrQ0n8gOEF pic.twitter.com/1nfFuXE5Ow

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) November 10, 2025

The state investigation follows revelations from declassified FBI documents revealing that JP Morgan began scrutinizing Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, a Florida corporation, in 2023.

The timing coincided with subpoenas from then-Special Counsel Jack Smith, who had been directed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump after the 2020 election.

JPMorgan then reportedly pressed TMTG for transaction details dating back years, raising concerns that the bank’s inquiries were “pretextual,” Uthmeier wrote.

JPMorgan “insisted this fact-gathering was merely ‘due diligence,’” the Florida attorney general added. “These inquiries, however, appear to be pretextual and unrelated to their stated purpose.”

Shortly after TMTG closed a merger in March 2024, JPMorgan terminated the corporation’s bank accounts.

“The timing of this activity and JPMC’s termination of its business relationships with TMTG raise obvious, troubling questions,” Uthmeier stated.

He also ordered JPMorgan to “initiate a litigation hold to preserve all documents and records (in all formats) that may be relevant to this matter.”

Debanking became a common tactic for major financial institutions targeting Republicans, particularly those tied to Trump after the 2020 election.

These actions followed widespread Big Tech censorship, including efforts aimed at shutting down Trump, some of which later resulted in multi-million-dollar settlements.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 18:25

China Bars U.S. Military From Access To Rare Earths, Increasing Risk Of "Derailing" Trade Truce

China plans to ease exports of rare earths and other restricted materials to the U.S. through a “validated end-user” (VEU) system that would bar firms linked to the U.S. military while fast-tracking approvals for others, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

The VEU would let Xi Jinping honor his pledge to President Trump to facilitate exports while ensuring materials don’t reach military suppliers. If enforced strictly, the system could complicate imports for U.S. automotive and aerospace companies with both civilian and defense contracts. The plan remains subject to change, sources said.

WSJ writes that rare-earth magnets and similar materials are used in both civilian products—like electric vehicles and jets—and military hardware such as fighters and drones. The proposed VEU mirrors the U.S. version, active since 2007, which allows pre-approved firms to import sensitive goods without individual licenses but requires compliance inspections.

Since April, China has limited rare-earth exports to gain leverage in the trade war. After the Oct. 30 Trump–Xi truce, Beijing pledged to issue general licenses to “ease the flow of controlled materials,” though it appears to be maintaining some restrictions.

Beijing has not specified which companies will qualify or how long VEU approvals will last. Under the U.S. model, similar clearances have been revoked—an issue that has unsettled Beijing. As uncertainty persists, many firms continue to seek non-Chinese sources.

U.S. and European companies have reported reduced access to rare-earth magnets; Chinese exports to the U.S. fell 29% in September despite Beijing’s promises to relax curbs.

Elsewhere, Bloomberg noted that while the U.S. may resume receiving rare earths, added limits on military access “may increase the risk of derailing the current ‘trade truce,’” said Vey-Sern Ling, senior equity adviser at Union Bancaire Privée.

Recall just days ago we noted that China's deal with the U.S. on rare earths may have "hit a snag", writing that China was developing a new rare earth licensing system that could speed up exports, though it’s unlikely to fully reverse restrictions as hoped by Washington, according to industry sources cited by Reuters. 

Reuters wrote last week that the new regime would simplify approvals compared to the rules introduced in April and expanded in October, which require a license for each shipment and have caused significant delays and shortages. Beijing’s curbs—covering over 90% of the world’s processed rare earths and magnets—have become a key point of leverage in its trade dispute with Washington.

Despite a recent U.S.-China agreement pausing some restrictions for a year, insiders say broader export controls remain in place. General licenses are expected to be harder to obtain for buyers linked to defense or sensitive sectors. Since April, EU firms have filed roughly 2,000 applications, with just over half approved.

We had speculated about how close the deal could be to collapse as recently as last week, and we said that it felt like "'the cracks in this latest trade deal are already starting to show..."

We concluded that "the game of export whack-a-mole in the second World Trade War continues: today the US is getting rare earths (at least until Trump has another Truth Social meltdown), but just got stopped out on other, just as important materials. This export control rotation will continue until the day the US is self-sufficient, which however due to the abovementioned environmental limitations, will take a very long time..."

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 18:00

How AI Is Supercharging Scientific Fraud

Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Academics and cybersecurity professionals warn that a wave of fake scientific research created with artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly slipping past plagiarism checks and into the scholarly record. This phenomenon puts the future credibility of scientific research at risk by amplifying the long-running industry of “paper-mill” fraud, experts say.

Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock

Academic paper mills—fake organizations that profit from falsified studies and authorship—have plagued scholars for years and AI is now acting as a force multiplier.

Some experts believe structural changes are needed, not just better plagiarism checkers, to solve the problem.

The scope of the problem is staggering, with more than 10,000 research papers retracted globally in 2023, according to Nature Portfolio.

Manuscripts fabricated using large language models (LLMs) are proliferating across multiple academic disciplines and platforms, including Google Scholar, the University of Borås found. A recent analysis published in Nature Portfolio observed that LLM tools including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can generate plausible research that passes standard plagiarism checks.

In May, Diomidis Spinellis, a computer science academic and professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, published an independent study of AI-generated content found in the Global International Journal of Innovative Research after discovering his name had been used in a false attribution.

Spinellis noted that just five of the 53 articles examined with the fewest in-text citations showed signs of human involvement. AI detection scores confirmed “high probabilities” of AI-created content in the remaining 48.

The ChatGPT app and website are displayed on a phone and a laptop in an illustration photo from 2025. Academics and cybersecurity experts warn that AI-generated fake research is slipping past plagiarism checks and entering the scholarly record, threatening the credibility of scientific work. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

In an analysis of AI-generated “junk” science published on Google Scholar, Swedish university researchers identified more than 100 suspected AI-generated articles.

Google did not respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.

The Swedish study authors said a key concern with AI-created research—human-assisted or otherwise—is that misinformation could be used for “strategic manipulation.”

“The risk of what we call ‘evidence hacking’ increases significantly when AI-generated research is spread in search engines. This can have tangible consequences as incorrect results can seep further into society and possibly also into more and more domains,” study author Björn Ekström said.

Moreover, the Swedish university team believes that even if the articles are withdrawn, AI papers create a burden for the already hard-pressed peer review system.

Far-Reaching Consequences

“The most damaging impact of a flood of AI-generated junk science will be on research areas that concern people,” Nishanshi Shukla, an AI ethicist at Western Governors University, told The Epoch Times.

Shukla said that when AI is used to analyze data, human oversight and analysis are critical.

“When the entirety of research is generated by AI, there is a risk of homogenization of knowledge,” she said.

“In [the] near term, this means that all research [that] follows similar paths and methods is corrupted by similar assumptions and biases, and caters to only certain groups of people,” she said. “In the long term, this means that there is no new knowledge, and knowledge production is a cyclic process devoid of human critical thinking.”

A person views an example of a “deepfake” video manipulated using artificial intelligence, by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, in Washington on Jan. 25, 2019. A key concern with AI-created research—human-assisted or otherwise—is that misinformation could be used for “strategic manipulation,” researchers said. Alexandra Robinson/AFP via Getty Images

Michal Prywata, co-founder of AI research company Vertus, agrees that the AI fake science trend is problematic—and the effects are already visible.

“What we’re essentially seeing right now is the equivalent of a denial-of-service attack. Real researchers drowning in noise, peer reviewers are overwhelmed, and citations are being polluted with fabricated references. It’s making true scientific progress harder to identify and validate,” Prywata told The Epoch Times.

In his work with frontier AI systems, Prywata has seen the byproducts of mass-deployed LLMs up close, which he believes is at the heart of the issue.

“This is the predictable consequence of treating AI as a productivity tool rather than understanding what intelligence really is,” he said.“LLMs, as they are now, are not built like minds. These are sophisticated pattern-matching systems that are incredibly good at producing plausible-sounding text, and that’s exactly what fake research needs to look credible.”

Chief information security officer at Optiv, Nathan Wenzler, believes the future of public trust is at stake.

“As more incorrect or outright false AI-generated content is added into respectable journals and key scientific reviews, the near and long-term effects are the same: an erosion of trust,” Wenzler told The Epoch Times.

From the security end, Wenzler said universities now face a different kind of threat when it comes to the theft of intellectual property.

“We’ve seen cyberattacks from nation-state actors that specifically target the theft of research from universities and research institutes, and these same nation-states turn around and release the findings from their own universities as if they had performed the research themselves,” he said.

Ultimately, Wenzler said this stands to have a huge financial impact on the organizations counting on grants to advance legitimate scientific studies, technology, health care, and more.

Research scientists develop a replicating RNA vaccine at a microbiology lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle on Dec. 10, 2020. Experts warn that universities now face heightened risks of intellectual property theft from AI-augmented nation-state cyberattacks. Karen Ducey/Getty Images

Wenzler described a possible real-world example: “AI could easily be used to augment these cyberattacks, modify the content of the stolen research just enough to create the illusion that it is unique and separate content, or create a false narrative that existing research is flawed by creating fake counterpoint data to undermine the credibility of the original data and findings.

“The potential financial impact is massive, but the way it could impact advancements that benefit people across the globe is immeasurable,” he said.

Prywata pointed out that a large segment of the public already questions academia.

“What scares me is that this will accelerate people questioning scientific institutions,” he said. “People now have evidence that the system can be gamed at scale. I’d say that’s dangerous for society.”

The stream of fake AI-generated research papers is happening at a time when public trust in science remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2024 Pew Research Center analysis found just 26 percent of respondents have a great deal of confidence in scientists to act in the best interests of the public. Fifty-one percent stated they have a fair amount of confidence; by contrast, the number of respondents who expressed the same level of confidence in science in 2020 was 87 percent.

At the same time, Americans have grown distrustful of advancements in AI. A recent Brookings Institution study found that participants exposed to information about AI advancements became distrustful across different metrics, including linguistics, medicine, and dating, when compared to non-AI advancements in the same areas.

Read the rest here...

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 17:40

Rare 'Cannibal CME' Set To Slam Earth, Raising Risk Of Ground-Level Radiation Surge, Threats To Critical Infrastructure

Three coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that erupted from the sun in recent days are expected to merge into a powerful "cannibal CME" and smash into the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday, triggering intense geomagnetic activity that could make the northern lights visible across much of the United States.

"As many as three CMEs are approaching Earth, including today's fast-moving X5-class CME from sunspot 4274," SpaceWeatherNews wrote in a report on its website. 

Here’s a close-up movie of the X5.1 flare from AR 4274, followed by a stunning post-eruption arcade formation. One of the most eruptive events of this solar cycle. pic.twitter.com/VvT6kCeCBZ

— Edward.Vijayakumar (@edwanx) November 11, 2025

The website that tracks solar flares continued, "There is a chance that the three CMEs will merge into a single 'Cannibal CME,' a potent type of storm cloud that could cause a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm when it arrives on Nov. 12."

Via SolarHam data. 

SpaceWeatherNews said if the geomagnetic storm develops, northern lights would descend to mid-latitudes and become visible in more than half of the Lower 48.

Now this is very alarming. The report continued:

A 'GROUND LEVEL EVENT' IS UNDERWAY: Today's X5-class solar flare from sunspot 4274 hurled a fuisillade of energetic protons toward Earth. Some of the particles are so powerful, they are penetrating the atmosphere all the way to the ground. "This is a very significant event," says Professor Clive Dyer of the Surrey Space Centre. "Neutron monitors around the world are detecting it."

This is called a Ground Level Event (GLE). GLEs of this magnitude are rare; they happen only once or twice every solar cycle. "This one is comparable to the GLE of Dec. 13, 2006," says Dyer. That makes it a ~20-year event.

For comparison, during the 2006 GLE, passengers on high-latitude air flights experienced a peak dose rate of 25-30 microSieverts per hour at cruising altitude. This translated to an estimated 20% increase in the total effective radiation dose. Something similar may be happening now.

"This is a very significant event and analysis will help us prepare for larger events such as a repeat of Feb. 23 1956, which is soon to have its 70th anniversary and gave a thousandfold increase in radiation at 40000 feet," says Dyer.

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center ranks the incoming solar event a 4 out of 5 on NOAA's space weather scale, meaning it's classified as "Severe."

SWPC warned, "Detrimental impacts to some of our critical infrastructure technology are possible, but mitigation is possible." 

A Carrington-class storm would be absolutely catastrophic for power grids and the AI infrastructure being installed at lightning pace. And there are others. 

... Which US power grid is most at risk? Find out here.

Also, Solar Cycle 25 has peaked (more here). 

During my climate talks, some have trouble visualizing simultaneous overlapping solar cycles -- so I created this diagram. pic.twitter.com/laB1ItLsNO

— John Shewchuk (@_ClimateCraze) February 3, 2024

Triple Solar Storm Alert - X5 Solar Flare/BIG CME

Will Starlink's satellite internet service experience disruptions tomorrow?

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 17:20

New Alliance, Old Scandal: The COVID Failure Haunting Hochul

Authored by J.T. Young via RealClearPolitics,

Recently Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York was joining 14 other states in a “nonpartisan initiative” (though all 15 states have Democratic governors) called the Governors Public Health Alliance, a “coordinating hub for governors and their public health leaders and a unified, cross-state liaison with the global health community. The Alliance also provides a platform for governors to exchange best practices, align policies, and coordinate on issues like vaccine access, emergency response and health security.” 

Despite claiming the GPHA is “nonpartisan,” Hochul’s press release is anything but: “From undermining vaccine access and abortion rights to slashing billions in Medicaid funding from those in need, the federal government is wreaking havoc on public health and the institutions we rely on.” 

Hochul’s announcement also states: “This new Alliance builds on New York’s ongoing work to protect access to public health and scientific information amidst ongoing attacks from the federal government.” 

Finally, the press release burnishes GPHA’s credentials by stating: “The Alliance is advised by leading public health experts, including former CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen,” as well as others. 

All these platitudes of partisanship and self-promotion are par-for-the-course for a governor seeking reelection. However, for New York in general, and Hochul in particular, they are the height of hypocrisy. 

By harping on being above politics, adhering to best health care practices, promoting vaccines, protecting public health, relying on scientific information, and following CDC expertise, Hochul’s announcement resurrects the ignominious role New York played during the pandemic: specifically, the Cuomo-Hochul administration’s decision to admit potentially COVID-positive patients into the state’s nursing homes – among the worst decisions made by any state during the pandemic. 

In doing what it unconscionably did, the Cuomo-Hochul administration violated everything its press release on the GPHA is now touting. It did so in March 2020. Over the following months, it sought to cover up the number of deaths its horrendous policy caused. Then after Hochul became governor, following Cuomo’s resignation in disgrace (and looming conviction on sexual harassment), the Hochul administration stonewalled an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic – doing so for months. Even after the Hochul administration delivered documents, it used every means to ensure it failed to deliver the real information the subcommittee sought. 

For those who may have forgotten exactly how bad New York’s actions were regarding nursing homes during the pandemic, the Select Subcommittee summed it up in its Dec. 2, 2024, final report: “Age and comorbidities were the most important risk factor for predicting hospitalization and death from COVID-19. This fact was known by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the earliest days of the pandemic. Despite knowing the threat COVID-19 posed to the elderly, the Cuomo administration issued the March 25 directive that ordered potentially COVID-positive nursing home residents be admitted or readmitted to a nursing home and prohibited testing.”

Sadly, the predictable results from such a disastrous policy occurred: Well over 15,000 nursing home patients died in and out facilities. Of course, the Cuomo administration attempted to count far fewer. The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity found “A comprehensive new analysis indicates that the Cuomo administration undercounted nursing home deaths by 68%.”

The FREOPP report stated: “While New York was not counting the number of long-term care residents who died of COVID-19 in hospitals, the state appeared to be outperforming other states along the Acela Corridor. But after accounting for such residents who died in hospitals, New York experienced nursing home and assisted living fatalities comparable to states such as Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, who were among the hardest hit. This is in part due to policy decisions by those states that discharged seniors with active COVID-19 infections from hospitals to LTC facilities.” 

Amazingly, Cuomo was touting New York’s low death rate in its nursing homes: “You look at the nursing home deaths in this state,” Cuomo said. “Do you know what number we are by percentage before you made that statement? We’re No. 46 out of 50 states, and we had the worst problem, and we’re 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes.”

Bad as cause and outcome were, the Cuomo-Hochul administration compounded it, trying to hide the excessive deaths by fudging the numbers. Said the Select Committee report: “The Cuomo Administration sought to cover-up the impact of the March 25 Directive by continually altering the methodology of how nursing home fatalities were counted and by repeatedly asserting the March 25 Directive followed federal guidance …” Needless to say, the March 25 directive did not follow either CMS or CDC guidance. 

Apologists wishing to sweep these actions to the past or to Cuomo alone should be aware that the story did not stop there. 

After Hochul became governor following Cuomo’s August 2021 resignation, her administration was repeatedly asked for information regarding the March 25 Directive and its “cover-up.” According to the Select Subcommittee report, “Kathy Hochul promised to be ‘fully transparent’ regarding COVID-19 in nursing homes.”

In understatement, the Select Subcommittee’s report stated that Hochul’s administration “was not fully transparent regarding the former-Cuomo Administration’s failures.” Instead, it took three letters, eight months, and a subpoena before any information was delivered. Even then, the documents were “incomplete and substantially redacted – often, without apparent legal basis. Further, there are responsive documents the Select Subcommittee knows exist – through public reporting and witness testimony – that were not included…”

Hochul’s role in the initial New York nursing home directive and “cover-up” is unknown. Perhaps without the “substantial” redactions and with the “withheld thousands of pages of responsive documents pursuant to tenuous legal privileges,” things would be more clear. But her role since taking office is quite clear: to bury the past.

All of this is supremely hypocritical now that Hochul is using COVID, vaccines, and following federal guidance in her announcement for a transparently political stunt. For five years, two New York administrations have tried to hide what occurred in that state’s nursing homes – one of the pandemic’s worst scandals. And as a capper, “two other states … had orders similar to New York’s March 25 Directive.” Those states were New Jersey and Pennsylvania; both are also in the new GPHA. 

In their haste to play politics, these governors should have taken a closer look at history – their own pandemic histories. Gov. Hochul should also be hoping New York voters do not take close look at a scandal that has still not been fully revealed.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 17:00

US Mulls Major New Base Near Gaza For 'Stabilization Operations'

The United States is reportedly planning to establish a major military base near Israel's border with Gaza, Israeli sources as well as Bloomberg are reporting.

Israeli officials familiar with initial discussions said the facility would serve international forces stationed in Gaza to help uphold the current Trump-brokered ceasefire and could accommodate several thousand troops. The site would be big enough to host a significant American military presence and support future international stabilization operations, and would be a significant extension of Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat.

Via Associated Press

But unlike the current coordination center, this would support many thousands of international forces and not just the few hundred staffing the CMCC currently.

The proposed base would have the aim of strengthening American influence on the ground, allowing Washington to manage developments in Gaza more independently, the Israeli reports say.

However, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not acknowledged any such planning, suggesting these ideas are just at the conception phase, amid speculative reports.

Bloomberg says it would host 10,000 people and would be established "near Gaza", while Responsible Statecraft says it would be a half-billion dollar endeavor:

The proposed base, which would reportedly cost $500 million and be capable of housing thousands of U.S. troops, would dramatically expand the American military’s presence in Israel. The plan also bolsters speculation that the Trump administration hopes to play a hands-on role in the stabilization and reconstruction of Gaza following reports about Washington’s growing contributions to aid provision and even housing development in the war-torn region.

The local Palestinian population would without doubt see this as another act of US hegemony in the Middle East, and as a way the bolster Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. They would also be wary of Trump's so-called Gaza Riviera plans floated early in the administration.

Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute has weighed in following the reports, point out that "Trump ran successfully on ending the forever wars in the Middle East."

Stark images of Gaza lying in rubble after two years of Hamas-Israel war...

We get a firsthand look at the 'yellow line' in Gaza that sits amid the debris. The destruction here is catastrophic. As phase one of the ceasefire holds, work is already underway to implement phase two. pic.twitter.com/z96IG12Aid

— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) November 10, 2025

However, "Building a U.S. military base in historic Palestine is antithetical to the America First foreign policy he was elected to implement," Sheline said. She noted too this could endanger American troops and increase "the possibility that the US will take over Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine, potentially bogging us down in the region indefinitely."

The Trump White House has consistently pledged 'no boots on the ground' in Gaza amid the peace deal, but a large US base would certainly be a big step closer to violating that promise. Such mission and scope creep is an unfortunate pattern of US actions in the Mideast, spanning decades.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 16:40

The War That Made The Fed; The Fed That Made The War

Authored by Byron King via DailyReckoning.com,

It’s Veterans’ Day, originally called “Armistice Day” to commemorate the end of the Great War (aka World War I) on Nov. 11, 1918.

In this regard, it’s appropriate to discuss the war. And since this is an investment-oriented letter, we’ll address how the U.S. Federal Reserve helped finance it.

Below, we’ll look at how the 1914-18 conflict reshaped America’s system of national finance, and laid foundations that eventually brought us to the current situation of $38 trillion in national debt and $4,000 gold.

Great War recruiting poster. Courtesy Imperial War Museum.

The Central Bank’s War

Most people don’t associate the Fed with World War I, but the institution played a crucial role in the event and I’ll go down that rabbit hole. Here are some historical basics.

Let’s begin on Friday night, December 23, 1913, meaning Christmas Eve weekend when few people (except deep insiders) were paying attention. President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law.

President Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act. Courtesy Federal Reserve History site.

To all intents and purposes this new entity was America’s central bank, although its creators didn’t label it as such due to strong public aversion to the idea. Recall, for example, how in 1832 President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill that proposed to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States. Long story; not here.

Later, as 1914 unfolded the Fed stood up and began to work within the U.S. government system and of course played a role within the national economy. By design of its promoters, the Fed was intended to oversee a so-called “elastic currency,” not necessarily tethered to a fixed supply of gold in the vaults of America’s banks.

That is, the idea behind the Fed was to avoid monetary disasters like the Panic of 1907, when the federal government literally ran out of cash and had to borrow gold from banker J.P Morgan. The Fed’s mission was to issue credit – aka “create money” in the form of dollars – during tight times and ensure the general liquidity of the American economy.

Banker J.P. Morgan bailed out Uncle Sam after the 1907 Panic. Courtesy Library of Congress.

And who knows? The idea might have worked out well, except for what happened later in 1914, in August to be exact, when Europe went to war on all fronts. The short version is that Austria invaded Serbia; Russia mobilized; Germany mobilized; France mobilized; Britain mobilized; and pretty soon, almost every nation in Europe was fighting, to include combat across the globe from Africa to South America to the South Pacific.

Just a few months later, by about December 1914, pretty much every nation involved in the European fight was at or near technical insolvency. Governments had blown through their respective treasuries and could no longer pay the bills; but since when has that ever stopped a war, right?

Meanwhile, in those few short months, the European war sparked a business revival in the U.S. The short version is that innumerable banks and businesses sold and financed goods to belligerent nations, mostly to Britain, France and other “allied” parties because an Anglo-French naval blockade of Continental Europe kept Germany or Austria from importing too much from the U.S.

Insolvent or not, when Britain and France ran out of cash with which to pay for U.S. goods, they turned to credit markets. And in the U.S., President Wilson was okay with that. He supported American banks and businesses to make sales with credit, and this is also where the Fed comes in because it backed the banks’ issuance of credit.

Plus, under Wilson, the U.S. government went so far as to guarantee many billions of dollars’ worth of British and French bonds. This meant that if investors bought British or French paper, they would be assured of return on their investment if the bonds defaulted.

The takeaway here is that, among its first macroeconomic impacts, the Fed issued credit to enable Britain, France and other nations to buy U.S. materiel. This was inflationary at home in the U.S., and beyond doubt it enabled and prolonged the European war.

War, Bond Markets, and a Global Credit System

This Fed-backed wartime credit system continued to 1917, when the U.S. formally entered the war and began a vast, internal military buildup. Then, the requirements for U.S. government funding immediately skyrocketed, a macroeconomic issue that landed squarely at the front door of the Fed.

In other words, instead of just issuing and guaranteeing credit for Britain, France, etc., the Fed now had to fund a colossal American military effort that included bringing millions of men into the Army and Navy, plus building out a vast array of equipment, munitions and much more.

This U.S. military buildup led to new levels of federal borrowing at a historically unprecedented scale, via a series of what were called “Liberty” loans, and a later “Victory” loan issuance.

The Sine Qua Non of war: men and money. Courtesy U.S. Navy, History & Heritage Command.

In essence, the U.S. government sold Liberty Bonds during the war, and Victory bonds as the war concluded, all to raise money to fund military operations and then meet post-war obligations.

One interesting aside is that in those days before computers and electronic trading, bonds were printed on sturdy paper in fancy script, like this:

U.S. 1918, 25-year Second Liberty Loan, $50 face value @4.25%. Courtesy U.S. Treasury.

Obviously, there’s a $50 bond. And note the “coupons” printed on the same sheet of paper. But also, note the single serial number on the bond and all of the coupons. The idea was that after a period of holding, the bondholder would “clip the coupon” (i.e., literally cut it out with a pair of scissors), take it to a bank, and redeem it for the interest due.

All in all, millions of Americans and many foreigners bought these bonds, and thus was created a global-scale market for U.S. government debt. If there was any pre-war doubt about the idea of the U.S. dollar as a global-scale currency, the Liberty-Victory bonds sealed the deal.

Indeed, this 1910s-era, wartime government finance mechanism became DNA, so to speak, of modern American federal fundraising. World War I and the Fed created those above-noted bond markets that are closed on Veterans’ Day, today. And the pathway from financing the Great War to the current system of deficit spending and national debt is clear; it’s the same mechanism, updated to modern technology, to be sure.

Modern War Is Industrial War

Now, a few more comments on what all that Fed-credit bought, way back in the 1910s. Because the war was about far more than high finance, raising money and bond trading.

First, all of that financial credit to Britain, France and other nations allowed them to raise large armies and navies, send them into battle, and get entire generations of young people killed; and Germany and Austria lost similar, large numbers. Even today, that demographic echo bounces around across Europe if not the world.

Anymore, it’s difficult to envision the scale of manpower (and it was almost entirely men) who went into the armed forces of all belligerent nations; and this certainly includes the U.S. after President Wilson marched the U.S. formally into war in 1917. Obviously, the war distorted the entire scope of the population and labor force within Western nations. And people write long books about this; not here, not today.

Great War recruiting poster for British Army. Courtesy Dominicwinter.co.uk.

In a related macroeconomic impact, the global war required vast amounts of goods and services to equip all of these new armies and navies. And again, American and Fed-backed credit led to immense redirections of capital in economies across the world, and certainly within the U.S. And this was the true industrial origin of the modern military-industrial (and Congressional) complex that relies on large levels of government funding.

Great War poster depicting military and industry. Courtesy Bonhams.com.

For example, during the war U.S. President Wilson essentially nationalized America’s railway system, supposedly to expedite movement of troops, equipment and other supplies. The effect was several years of profound overuse and underinvestment, a situation from which the overall rail industry never really recovered.

Meanwhile, across America the war led to boom-times (excuse the pun) for agriculture and quite a bit of manufacturing, which led to large amounts of excess capacity that fell into disuse when the war ended in November 1918. And this led to a postwar recession, or more accurately a “mini-depression” that carried over to about 1921.

Also of interest, a youngish fellow named Franklin Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Wilson and learned quite a few things about how the U.S. government worked; especially, how to raise a lot of money and spend it in a hurry. More books on these matters, to be sure; but not here.

My goal with this note is simply to point out that it’s Veterans’ Day, remember the Great War, spur a few thoughts about all who fought and sacrificed, and highlight how the Fed played a major role in funding it all.

Indeed, World War I was the war that made the Fed; and in another sense the Fed made the war. We still live with that legacy.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 16:20

US Government Agencies Terminate 67 Wasteful Contracts Worth $1.4 Billion: DOGE

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

Federal government agencies terminated and descoped 67 wasteful contracts over the past five days, which had a ceiling value of $1.4 billion, while saving $648 million in taxpayer funds, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced in an X post on Nov. 8.

The canceled contracts include “a $54k State Dept. training contract for ‘leader as a coach course’, a $456k USAGM broadcasting contract for ‘24/7 FM broadcast service in hosting, operations, technical, and maintenance support in Juba, South Sudan’, and a $1.3M State Dept. education contract for ‘Botswana MI curriculum,’” the post said.

In another Nov. 8 X post, DOGE praised the cross-agency coordination involved in tackling fraud related to the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program.

Businesses that partake in the 8(a) program are eligible to receive federal contracting as well as training and technical assistance.

According to DOGE, the General Services Administration has facilitated the nonrenewal or termination of 17 “wasteful” 8(a) contracts, generating a savings of $75.1 million. These contracts were active across four federal agencies—the Department of Agriculture, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, and the Department of War.

DOGE had responded to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s Nov. 7 X post about the crackdown on fraudulent use of government programs.

“President Trump has directed his administration to eliminate fraud and waste wherever it occurs, ensuring that each taxpayer dollar is spent as intended,” Bessent wrote.

“Treasury will not tolerate fraudulent misuse of federal contracting programs. These initiatives must benefit legitimate small businesses that deliver measurable value to the government and the public.”

Democrats have raised concerns about DOGE’s activities, particularly regarding the data privacy of Americans.

In September, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) released a report suggesting that DOGE’s activities were likely violating federal privacy and security laws while putting the personal data of millions of Americans at risk, according to a Sept. 25 statement from the lawmaker’s office.

The report was based on investigations done by Peters’s staff and whistleblower statements.

At the Social Security Administration, DOGE employees had access to personal data of all Americans, including their Social Security Numbers (SSNs), the report said, adding that such access was made available in a cloud environment without “any verified security controls.”

“One whistleblower noted the possibility that the agency may need to re-issue SSNs to all who possess one. A compromised SSN can be personally devastating. That’s because SSNs are the backbone for accessing all kinds of public and private services, from acquiring a driver’s license to going to the doctor,” the report said.

“Unwinding the harm done by identity thieves can involve years of credit and identity monitoring, mountains of paperwork. If penetrated, this data vulnerability could result in the most significant data breach of Americans’ sensitive data in history.”

Meanwhile, during an Oct. 31 interview with Joe Rogan on his podcast, former DOGE head Elon Musk said the initiative continues to reduce government waste and fraud.

Musk said that since he left DOGE in May, the initiative has become less publicized because people who oppose DOGE now have no single person to target.

“You turn off the money spigot to fraudsters, they get very upset, to say the least,” he said.

“My death threat level went ballistic, you know, was like a rocket going to orbit. But now that I’m not in D.C., I guess they don’t really have a person to attack anymore.”

According to the DOGE website, the initiative has so far saved $214 billion in taxpayer funds as of Oct.4.

This comes to more than $1,329 saved per taxpayer, based on an estimate of 161 million individual federal taxpayers.

The savings were made through a combination of asset sales, interest savings, grant cancellations, minimizing fraud and improper payments, workforce reductions, and regulatory savings.

The Department of Health and Human Services ranks as the top agency that has registered the most savings under DOGE. This was followed by the General Services Administration, the Social Security Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Small Business Administration.

Tyler Durden Tue, 11/11/2025 - 15:40