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Let’s take a look at the Arizona Watchdog Project

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Over the past year, we’ve produced a series of investigative stories under a banner we called the Arizona Watchdog Project. This grant-funded effort has allowed us to support the work of two dogged reporters — Stephen Lemons and Beau Hodai — who spend weeks, even years, sussing out stories from documents and well-placed human sources.

They have reported patient, adversarial stories such as Beau’s latest, “Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil,” a deeply measured account of a 2024 gathering in which right-wing officials and advisors discussed ways to use the American military to control American cities. “This is just astonishingly great reporting,” the author Radley Balko, an expert on policing and security, wrote when he posted the story on Bluesky. And that’s just one of the dozens of similar stories we’ve brought to our audience, all free of charge to read.

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The Next Three Weeks Could Determine Your Investing Year

What happens now that we’ve lost the 200-day moving average… will we have an off ramp in the Middle East… how to invest despite volatility… when lofty valuations aren’t so lofty

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Three weeks…

That’s our make-or-break window.

In yesterday’s Digest, we highlighted two opposing market influences…

On one hand, there was the President Trump-inspired relief rally built on shaky geopolitical footing…on the other hand, there was the S&P’s technical damage after it broke below its 200-day moving average (MA).

As I write on Tuesday, the S&P is trying to build upon yesterday’s rally, but – at least for the moment – it hasn’t successfully retaken its 200-day MA.

Historically, this moment tends to separate routine shakeouts from something more serious.

Let’s go to hypergrowth expert, Luke Lango, from yesterday’s Innovation Investor Daily Notes:

The next few weeks are critical…

When the market retook its 200-day and then continued the rally over the next 3 weeks and didn’t look back, that almost always led to a really strong 12-month rally for stocks.

But when the market…fell back below its 200-day within the next 3 weeks, that almost always led to underperformance…

So, the next 2–3 weeks will be crucial.

This analysis aligns with the framework we discussed in yesterday’s Digest.

The last four weeks have pushed the S&P below its 200-day MA and to a fresh six-month low – two red flags that Editor Brian Hunt identified as fingerprints warning of a potential more serious drawdown.

Yesterday’s rebound (and our budding rebound today) didn’t erase that risk – rather, it simply started the three-week countdown that Luke identified.

Luke believes the chances are good that the market is leaning the right way, driven by a fast-moving geopolitical shift:

Path A — Successful Off-Ramp: 85-90%. The highest confidence we’ve had at any point in this three-week conflict…

Here is the signal that matters above all others today: it isn’t just stocks.

Every major asset class is simultaneously pricing the same conclusion. That is not sentiment. That is conviction.

So, the setup is clear…

If a rally holds, builds, and drives the S&P above its 200-day MA over the next few weeks in a V-shaped rally, the recent volatility will likely be remembered as a shakeout as we push higher into summer.

If it doesn’t, the technical damage we flagged yesterday will reassert itself and drive us lower.

This is the binary we’ll be tracking with you here in the Digest.

Now, stepping back, what happens over the next three weeks will tell us a lot about the market’s near-term direction – but it won’t change the market’s ultimate destination.

Because regardless of how this 200-day MA drama resolves, one trend continues to dominate the long-term investment landscape…

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AI isn’t just a boom – it’s a wealth transfer

History suggests that transformative technologies create enormous value – and much of that value accrues to the companies that build and deploy them, and to the investors who own them.

That “Thanks, Captain Obvious” quote comes from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink in his annual letter to shareholders.

He went on to highlight a point we’ve made repeatedly in the Digest:

There’s a real risk that artificial intelligence could widen wealth inequality if ownership does not broaden alongside it.

Fink’s overall message was that if AI is going to reshape the economy – and potentially displace jobs – the best defense isn’t fear…it’s investing in this revolutionary technology.

Now, yes – Fink saying “buy stocks” is a bit like a casino owner telling a gambler that the best way to win big is to bet even more…

Still, we agree with the overall message.

After all, if a technology threatens your income, one of the few moves you have is to align your wealth with that technology.

Own the companies. Own the infrastructure. Own the upside.

One of the risks today is how much investors are paying for that upside

Many of the obvious AI stocks have already been bid up to levels that, historically, underperform over a longer-term timeline.

Let’s go to our macro investing expert Eric Fry for more details:

Markets are cyclical – always and forever.

Share prices oscillate between low valuations and high ones… then back again.

Lowly valued stocks, generally speaking, tend to treat investors well, while richly valued ones tend to treat them poorly.

The lesson is almost insultingly simple: Buying stocks at low valuations tends to work out better than buying them at high ones.

That’s the tension investors face right now.

Yes, you want exposure to AI. But no, you don’t want to overpay at the top of a cycle – especially if the next three weeks bring a failed rally.

And there’s an even bigger wrinkle emerging beneath the surface…

AI isn’t just creating new winners – it’s actively destroying parts of the market.

We’re already seeing this play out in software. AI tools are compressing pricing, automating workflows, and threatening entire categories of recurring revenue. Business models that once looked durable are suddenly looking vulnerable.

This points toward one fundamental question that investors should ask today when evaluating a stock…

Will AI destroy this company’s future cash flows…or accelerate them?

The answer is everything.

It’s the difference between overpaying for a stock where AI weighs on revenue and intensifies valuation pressure…and owning a business whose earnings are about to accelerate thanks to AI, easing the strain of a sky-high multiple.

And this is where Eric’s recent Investment Report issue – highlighting the HALO framework – becomes incredibly useful.

Focus on where AI demand is exploding – not eroding

To make sure we’re all on the same page, HALO stands for “high-assets, low obsolescence.”

Here’s Eric with more:

The HALO trade is the straightforward idea that you can protect your wealth through buying assets that cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence.

Instead of chasing the most obvious AI winners – many of which are already priced for perfection – you look for businesses tied to physical assets… real-world constraints… and irreplaceable infrastructure.

These are areas where AI isn’t replacing businesses – it’s relying on them.

One of the clearest examples today is memory. As AI demands shift from software to infrastructure, the memory industry has transitioned from a cyclical commodity into a strategic, capital-intensive asset that is critical to AI hardware.

One of the poster children for the memory trade is Micron (MU). Here’s Eric speaking about Micron and our broader point in last Friday’s Digest takeover:

Micron’s memory sits at the heart of AI, data centers, and virtually all modern computing systems

In a world without enough DRAM, the AI Revolution hits a hard ceiling because it runs out of space to think.

No memory means no intelligence.

In other words, memory is not a “nice to have.” It’s a critical bottleneck.

But what about its valuation?

If you keep a pulse on the markets, you might think, “Jeff, Micron is up more than 300% over the last year. Isn’t this exactly what Eric warned about?”

That’s a fair question. On price alone, it does look like a “buy high” situation.

But here’s where digging deeper matters…

Given Micron’s positioning as a critical HALO stock within the wider AI supply chain, demand for its products – and therefore its earnings – have exploded alongside its stock price.

Let’s look at the resulting impact on MU’s valuation.

For context, the S&P’s current price-to-earnings ratio is 28. Meanwhile, over the last 10 years, Micron’s price-to-earnings ratio has fluctuated between 13 and 20, with a median of around 15.

So, what is MU’s forward price-to-earnings ratio, which includes analysts’ forecasts of 12-month forward earnings?

Roughly 7X – 8X.

In other words, what appears expensive based on “yesterday’s” earnings and the recent price runup may actually be attractive if MU’s future earnings materialize as forecasted.

Eric isn’t our only analyst who has flagged MU recently. Legendary investor Louis Navelleir just sounded off on the memory giant in yesterday’s Growth Investor Flash Alert:

Micron is a great buy at this moment.

They had spectacular results, but their sales are forecasted to be up over 236%.

Last quarter it was 196%.

So, the sales growth is just ridiculous, really due to the data centers.

Own the bottlenecks, not the hype

Zooming out, memory is just one example of how bottlenecks are creating opportunities in HALO stocks.

As Eric has been emphasizing, beyond memory, the AI boom is running headfirst into real-world constraints in energy, raw materials, and semiconductor capacity.

Each of these pressure points reflects the same underlying dynamic: demand is accelerating far faster than supply can respond. And when that happens, opportunity follows.

That’s the bigger takeaway: You don’t have to chase the most obvious AI winners or pay peak valuations for the market’s favorite names.

In fact, with the market in a make-or-break period over the next three weeks, this is a time to take fewer risks, not more.

But keep your eye out for stocks that AI cannot function without – the areas where demand is inelastic, supply is constrained, and pricing power is building. If the coming weeks bring sale prices, consider establishing positions.

For more on these bottleneck stocks, Eric went into far greater detail last week in his FutureProof 2026 event. He walked through the specific pressure points forming across the AI economy and, more importantly, highlighted the companies positioned to benefit.

Bringing this back to Fink, that’s really the more actionable version of his message

Yes, investors need exposure to AI. But the how matters.

It’s not about blindly buying whatever has “AI” attached to it. It’s about owning the parts of the ecosystem where AI is driving demand, strengthening margins, and accelerating future cash flows.

That’s how you align your wealth with this technology – and do it without falling into the trap that history has punished time and again: overpaying for the most crowded trades at exactly the wrong time.

We’ll keep tracking this here in the Digest.

Have a good evening,

Jeff Remsburg

(Disclaimer: I own MU.)

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Death of an Apocalyptic Environmentalist

Managing Editor’s Note: For more than 40 years, Market Wizard Larry Benedict has used an options strategy that lets him snap up quick profits in choppy markets, no matter which direction the market swings.

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Death of an Apocalyptic Environmentalist

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They were each other’s nemesis.

Ironically, they both believed in the same underlying problem: The world’s population was growing faster than the earth’s ability to feed it.

What they disagreed on was what to do about it.

William Vogt, an ecologist born in 1902, believed that if the world’s population continued to grow and consume at the pace expected, there would be devastation on a global scale.

Mass starvations causing the death of untold hundreds of millions were forecast.

Vogt founded a movement that was referred to as “apocalyptic environmentalism.”

It was based on creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

His desired “solution” to population growth was to limit it.

Vogt was such a strong advocate of population control…

He went so far as to become the national director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

“A Biographical Sketch”

A devout follower of Vogt, Paul Ehrlich was arguably an even more rabid, fanatical amplification of Vogt’s ideology.

And he became far more famous and well-known, thanks to his 1968 book “The Population Bomb.”

Ehrlich’s book forecasted widespread famines and mass starvation for large swaths of the human population.

He went so far as to write that “in the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death.”

He also forecasted life expectancy in the U.S. to fall to 42 years of age by 1980 due to the use of pesticides.

Selfishly, he proclaimed back then that the world’s population needed to be cut in half.

He went so far as to urge wealthy countries to cut off food assistance to the third world and to sterilize parts of the human population so that they couldn’t procreate.

He was heartless, self-righteous, and evil.

But Norman Borlaug, an agronomist born in 1914, had a different outlook on the issue of how to feed the world’s increasing population.

By using technology, Borlaug took another approach.

“Preceded By…”

Rather than looking to curtail or reduce the world’s population as a solution to reducing societal impact on the environment, he used technology to accommodate the world’s increase in population… and dramatically reduce global famine.

Borlaug was an innovator.

He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1937 in plant pathology and genetics.

He then took a research position in Mexico, where he developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat.

This was just the beginning of what many refer to as the “Green Revolution.”

And the impacts were astounding…

Borlaug’s goal was simple: To produce high-yielding crops to ensure that the world had enough food to avoid starvation.

And he succeeded, not by just a little bit, but to an exceptional degree.

It has been said that Borlaug has saved more lives than any other person in history, perhaps as many as 1 billion.

And one chart tells the whole story…

From the 1920s through the 1960s, there were still hundreds of famine-related deaths per 100,000 people globally.

In the 1960s, there were about 16.6 million total deaths due to famine.

But by the time Borlaug’s innovative approach to agriculture had taken hold on a global scale, that number had dropped by more than 80%.

Today, it sits at only three deaths per 100,000 people and continues to drop.

Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work, as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

And rightfully so.

This is truly one of the greatest stories of human ingenuity.

And yet, for decades after, population alarmist Paul Ehrlich amassed a large audience.

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Ehrlich continued to make dire predictions about our future…

Here is a list of his most significant predictions:

Mass global starvation in the 1970s and 1980s.
The global population will overtake the food supply, resulting in 100-200 million deaths from starvation.
There would be a “Great Die-Off” of 4 billion people in the 1980s, which would include about 65 million Americans.
By 1980, all important sea animal life would become extinct.
There would be food and water rationing in the 1970s.
“If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
A scarcity in resources would drive up metals prices, specifically copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten during the 1980s and 1990s (note: prices did the opposite and dropped).

Obviously, we all recognize that every single one of these predictions has been proven to be completely wrong.

It’s hard to believe that anyone would listen to Ehrlich at all after being so concretely proven to be incorrect in his “science.”

And yet, there still remain many who believe this nonsense.

There are even some strong arguments that the people behind the manmade COVID-19 virus, through gain-of-function research, and the corresponding mRNA “vaccines” (experimental drugs) were designed explicitly for population control – the largest genocide in world history – which we continue to see in the data in excess deaths across all countries that pushed the mRNA “vaccines.”

Vogt, Ehrlich, and his followers, full of fearmongering and impractical “solutions,” were wrong… dead wrong.

“Survived By…”

Ehrlich died on March 13 at 93.

He never, not once, admitted that his predictions were completely wrong (note: all of them were wrong).

In fact, in a 2009 interview, Ehrlich said that the biggest flaw in his book “The Population Bomb” was that it was “much too optimistic.”

His only concession was that his timing on his predictions was a bit too premature. Pathetic. His book was written 58 years ago.

Borlaug, on the other hand, with his supporters, used technology to feed the planet and stave off starvation.

Technology has already brought about a world of abundance.

The builders, creators, problem-solvers, business leaders, and engineers proactively used and developed technological solutions to the world’s challenges. We won, and we will keep winning.

This is the way.

Technology will lead to limitless, cheap, clean, abundant energy worldwide.

It will lead to cures for all diseases known to humanity…

It will continue to reduce the number of deaths worldwide related to transportation accidents…

It will continue to improve the quality of our lives…

It will eventually eliminate what is left of poverty around the world…

It will reduce the amount of human labor required.

It will recapture our time.

And in time, it will take us to the stars.

Paul Ehrlich is survived by 8,298,978,817 human beings on Earth, more than 130% more than in 1968.

Jeff, E/ACC

4chan’s hamster-filled reminder that U.S. companies need not comply…

“We are not in the mood to discuss the matter further, and have not been in the mood for 250 years.”
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Must Read: The Oil Trade Everyone’s Getting Wrong

The Oil Trade Everyone’s Getting Wrong

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Editor’s Note: With all the headlines focused on energy lately, you’re probably wondering what the best way is to play the oil trade right now.

Today, I have Thomas Yeung here to answer that question. If you don’t know him, Tom writes the Sunday edition of InvestorPlace Digest and plays a key role in our AI Revolution Portfolio and Power Portfolio 2026 services. He also works closely with my colleague Eric Fry across several premium services.

In the essay below, Tom explains why the most popular way to play oil right now could actually be working against investors – even if prices rise. More importantly, he shows where the attention should be going instead.

That’s where Eric’s recent FutureProof 2026 event comes in, where he reveals the true bottlenecks shaping the next phase of the AI boom.

Go here to check it out.

Now, here’s Tom with how you should play the oil trade right now…

Hello, Reader.

In the 1930s, Australian farmers attempted to control a sugarcane pest problem by using a strategy that had failed before:

Importing a foreign predator – in this case, the South American cane toad.

It soon became apparent that cane toads were adept at eating everything exceptthe scarab beetles they were meant to control.

They couldn’t climb the sugarcane to reach the adult beetles or burrow underground to find the larvae. Instead, they devoured everything else — small mammals, other amphibians, snails — and even poisoned potential predators with their natural toxin.

By the time biologists realized their mistake, it was too late.

Like the farmers, investors are also notoriously forgetful when it comes to using bad strategies in new situations.

Here are a few examples:

Real estate bubbles. From Miami to China’s Ordos City, speculators have piled into housing at nonsensical prices, saying, “No one ever made more land…”

Chasing “easy” profits overseas.Investors piled into foreign markets for higher returns… and got burned when conditions changed.
Betting on calm markets. Hedge funds assume things will stay stable — right before volatility spikes.

And now, the same error is happening in the energy market with retail investors buying up oil ETFs like the United States Oil Fund LP (USO).

Since the U.S. attacked Iran on February 28, investors have poured a net $685 million into USO alone, reversing a negative $682 million outflow since 2024.

This rush into USO – and the way retail investors are playing oil in general – is likely a mistake.

Your attention should be pointed elsewhere. It’s an investing approach you won’t regret.

Let’s dive in…

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How to Play Oil… the Wrong Way

Most investors assume that when they buy an oil fund, they’re buying oil.

They’re not.

Instead of holding actual barrels, these funds are buying futures contracts – bets on where oil prices might go next.

And that’s where the problems begin:

They don’t keep up when oil prices rise. Even when oil prices jump suddenly, these funds often lag behind the move.
Investors tend to pile in too late. By the time the headlines hit, much of the upside has already happened.
The structure works against you over time. These funds constantly reset their positions — and often end up buying high and selling low.

Here’s the key issue: These funds aren’t designed to track oil perfectly, but to manage a series of short-term bets on where prices are going next.

And over time, those small mismatches add up.

It’s a bit like trying to follow a moving target by constantly jumping ahead of it… and missing slightly every time. Eventually, those small misses turn into big losses.

Most importantly, oil itself hasn’t been a great long-term investment.

Every time prices spike, the world finds ways to increase supply — new drilling, new technology, or alternatives that eventually push prices back down.

That’s why, since launching in 2006, USO has lost about 80% of its value — even though oil has gone through multiple booms along the way. In other words, even when oil wins, investors using this approach often don’t.

Almost every oil price spike in history has been followed by a reversal. In commodities, high prices tend to fix themselves.

We’ve seen this play out again and again.

Most recently, oil surged above $120 in 2022 during the Russia-Ukraine conflict — only to fall back below $70 within months as supply adjusted and demand cooled.

The pattern is consistent: The higher prices go, the more pressure builds for them to come back down.

That’s why chasing oil here can be a distraction.

Instead, there are two smarter ways to play oil right now.

The first is to buy specific energy companies that can perform well even if oil prices fluctuate. These low-cost producers are making money, regardless of whether oil is at $150 or $50.

In fact, Eric’s most recent oil and gas recommendation is already up 36% in about a month. And he recently booked more than 300% gains on an “accelerated” oil trade.

The second smart way to play the oil trade is to ignore it completely — and avoid using the wrong tool for the job.

Because while many investors are focused on oil, the real opportunity is shifting elsewhere — toward the physical infrastructure powering the AI boom.

How to Play AI… the Right Way

That’s where Eric’s “Golden Rivets” come in: the real-world components needed to build and run AI systems.

The biggest winners in past technology booms weren’t always the most visible companies.

They were the ones supplying what made the boom possible.

That’s why Eric believes AI’s “Golden Rivets” — raw materials, energy, and memory — will be some of the biggest winners this time around.

In his FutureProof 2026 event, he breaks down exactly how this is playing out — and shares 15 companies already positioned to benefit.

Click here to watch Eric’s new FutureProof 2026 event.

Until next time,

Thomas Yeung

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Would You Let the Government Manage Your Money?

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Would You Let the Government Manage Your Money?

Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist, The Oxford Club

Can you think of a worse choice to manage money than a federal government bureaucrat?

It’s hard enough for professional money managers to beat the market. In 2025, nearly two-thirds of active mutual funds underperformed their benchmarks. These highly educated men and women spend all day watching the markets and analyzing stocks. So how do you think a federal employee is going to do?

It’s an important question because in the past year, the federal government has begun taking large stakes in public companies.

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Gianni Di Poce just connected two dots that most traders are missing.

Crude oil and the VIX are tracking each other almost tick for tick on the 15 minute chart.

That correlation explains why rallies keep failing.

Gianni laid out the data clearly…

Rising energy prices create the worst forward return environment for stocks compared to falling inflation, rising rates, or falling rates.

As long as crude oil holds up, the VIX stays elevated and clean upside trends in equities remain elusive.

But here is where it gets interesting…

Gold and silver just got hammered this week, taking out their early February lows and erasing all gains back to late November.

Gianni has been calling for this correction all quarter.

The key question now is whether crude oil follows the same path lower. If it does, Gianni believes stocks will do very well.

Here is what Gianni flagged in tonight’s video:

XLE hit a new all time high while the Nasdaq lagged, and energy dominance at the sector level is a headwind for sustained stock rallies.
Semiconductors outperformed the S&P 500, the Nasdaq, and even the Russell 2000 today, which is a bright spot within the broader tech weakness.
Bitcoin has been trending higher since its February 6 low, and Gianni sees that resilience as a positive signal for risk appetite.
Magnolia Oil, a position Gianni entered in late January, continues to make new all time highs alongside his EQT holding.
Dell is showing tremendous accumulation and approaching its May 2024 all time high, proving that opportunities still exist within large cap tech.

Gianni also addressed the private credit headlines spooking the market.

He compared the situation to the regional banking crisis in spring 2023, noting that the Fed stepped in then and would likely do so again.

Stocks had already bottomed five to six months before that crisis hit the headlines.

The bottom line is straightforward: Energy prices are the single biggest variable right now.

Watch whether crude oil follows precious metals lower.

If it does, Gianni expects the selling pressure in stocks to ease significantly.

Click here to watch Gianni break down the crude oil and VIX correlation and what it means for your positioning

To your success,

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Stop the Killing in Bath: Green Park Station, stop the cull.

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MAR 24READ IN APP

Tonight in Bath, pigeons at Green Park Station are facing a completely avoidable fate.

A cull has been organised reportedly by Sainsbury’s. A company called “renttokill” are said to be due on site. And unless action is taken, birds will be killed, not because there is no alternative, but because the real problem is being ignored.

Stop the cull!!

This was never a solution

Until today, there was at least some attempt at mitigation. The plan was to access nests, remove babies to a rescue, and encourage adult pigeons out before sealing entry points.

But that plan has already collapsed.

Rescuers on site report what should have been obvious from the start: the netting is compromised. There are multiple holes, far more than the two the contractor intends to fix. This changes everything.

Because it means that even if pigeons are killed tonight, others will return. They will re-enter through the same gaps, rebuild nests, raise young, and the cycle will begin again. More birds trapped. More birds killed. Over and over.

This is not management. It is animal suffering.

Stop the cull!!

May be an image of mourning dove and pigeon

A photograph from a public fb post regarding the netting, Emma Chamberline.

The real cause: dangerous netting

Let’s be clear about what is happening here.

The netting installed at Green Park Station is not functioning as a deterrent. It is damaged, incomplete, and dangerous. It has been reported that Green Park Station emplyoee said to a rescuer that “rent to kill” will not be able to close other holes – that against guidelines. Contractors and companies who install and use the netting are legally responsible to maintain it.

Birds are getting in, and once inside, they are at risk of becoming trapped, nesting in unsafe conditions, and raising young in a structure that could become a death trap at any moment. We already know there are babies inside and we know parents are feeding them.

If adults are killed tonight, those babies will not survive. They will slowly starve to death, hidden from view, because of a decision that never needed to be made.

Stop the cull!!

Killing birds will not fix this

It cannot be claimed this is necessary. No humane alternatives have been properly trialled. No meaningful effort has been made to resolve the issue without killing. No comprehensive repair of the structure has been planned.

And most critically: the netting is not being fixed.

You cannot kill pigeons while leaving the conditions that caused the problem untouched. It guarantees failure. It guarantees more deaths. Addtionally, The site is approximately 750 metres from peregrine falcons and just 200 metres from colony nesting sites of herring gulls and lesser black-backed gulls. Licensing conditions for lethal control include strict working distances from such species. This raises serious questions about whether these conditions are being met.

Stop the cull!!

Video showing the babies who will die if we can not stop the cull, Emma Chamberline.

What needs to happen now

This situation is urgent, but it is not irreversible.

There is still time to do the right thing.

We are calling on Sainsbury’s to take immediate action:

Postpone the cull immediately
Remove the netting entirely, it is causing harm, not preventing it
Allow all pigeons and babies on site to be safely rescued and rehabilitated
Contact Humane Wildlife Solutions to implement effective, humane deterrents that do not involve suffering or death

This is the only way to stop the cycle.

Stop the cull!!

A choice is being made tonight

This is not about pigeons being “a problem.”

This is about a choice.

A choice to ignore the root cause.
A choice to prioritise convenience over compassion.
A choice to allow preventable suffering to continue.

But it is also a moment where people can step in.

Take action, tell Sainsbury’s to stop the cull.

If you are near Bath, you can help right now.

📍 Gather from 10:30pm outside Sainsbury’s car park, Green Park Station
Stand visibly. Bear witness. Help deter this cull from going ahead.

📢 Contact Sainsbury’s and demand they stop the cull and remove the netting: 01225 444737

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