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Shooting. They call it “sport”. Dress it in the language of tradition, countryside stewardship, and conservation. Wrap it in tweed and tie it with the reassuring ribbon of British heritage.
But what Protect the Wild’s investigators found behind the gates of a British farm tells a very different story – one the shooting industry has spent decades and millions of pounds keeping hidden from public view.
Earlier this evening ITV aired footage from our undercover investigation. We are very grateful they listened to us, looked at our evidence and decided to cover it.
If you missed it or would like to watch again, here it is:
The shooting industry produces tens of millions of pheasants and Red-legged Partridges every year for the gun. Birds are crammed into wire pens, unable to express natural behaviours, suffering injuries that go untreated, living short and brutal lives from hatchery to gun barrel. The scale is staggering. The indifference is worse.
The footage is shocking. Distressing. Already, the reaction has been one of shock and disgust from ordinary people across the country seeing, for the first time, what is done to prepare living creatures for “sport”.
We’ve been receiving emails from people who knew things were bad – just not THIS bad.
But it was far from the worst of it. It was just a few minutes. A glimpse. What ITV showed was just a fraction of the evidence we collected.
We recorded hundreds of hours. Multiple breaches. Across many farms.
“…Sounds cruel…”
Over the past 12 months, Protect the Wild’s undercover investigators placed hidden cameras at half a dozen farms across the UK. What we recorded over months and months of painstaking work tells the same story everywhere we looked.
Suffering on an industrial scale.
The shooting industry has spent years selling the public a lie. That it cares. That ‘welfare’ is baked into the operations.
Heart of England scrambled to release Facebook post just after the broadcast claiming “Welfare is at the heart of everything we do.”
Nonsense! It is part of a sprawling, greedy industry that has normalised mass suffering.
This is big business, operating in plain sight, propped up by decades of countryside mythology and political cowardice. Politicians from the current Labour government actually describe this system as ’sustainable’.
Over the coming months, Protect the Wild will be releasing many more findings from this investigation.
We will be documenting the conditions, the cruelty, the casual suffering treated as an acceptable cost of doing business.
We will be examining the legal frameworks that allow this industry to operate in ways that would be unacceptable in any other context.
We will be asking why birds that would be protected under animal welfare law in almost every other setting are excludedthe moment they become “game.”
“…high welfare standards…”
The industry’s response to ITV’s programme on our investigation was just what we expected: denial, deflection, and a shrug of the shoulders.
But this isn’t about a few rotten apples. We found pain and suffering everywhere we looked.
The shooting industry has friends in powerful places. It has lobbying groups, friendly ministers, and a carefully curated public image built on country fairs and charity shoots.
What it does not have – what it has never had – is a convincing answer to the question of how what our cameras recorded can be described as anything other than industrialised cruelty.
The birds you saw on ITV last night have no voice. The investigators who risked their safety to expose this have given them one. And we at Protect the Wild will not stop until the full picture is understood, the public debate is had, and those responsible are held to account.
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Here is what makes this setup so compelling. This company has cracked a problem that nobody else has solved at scale. It sits at the intersection of energy, environmental necessity, and a regulatory environment that is actively forcing demand in its direction. It owns hard assets with an estimated replacement value that dwarfs its current market cap. And it generates real revenue – with more expected ahead.
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At the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presented his vision for a massive human colony on Mars.
Elon Musk’s vision for a colony on Mars | Source: IAC
It was breathtaking. And to most people, it was literally unbelievable.
A colony large enough to be self-sustaining, with its own energy and food production, as well as transportation infrastructure to and from Earth.
It was the stuff of science fiction – except that it felt very real.
Real because it wasn’t a planetary scientist presenting a vision with no means to get there…
It was Musk who was building the means to make it all happen, with his aerospace company SpaceX.
He was literally building the “Mars Transportation Architecture” to shuttle people, equipment, and materials to make it all possible.
Better yet, Musk had already demonstrated his reusable rocket technology with the Falcon 9, which had already been in commercial service for years.
He was speaking from a position of having already accomplished something that many thought to be impossible, including former NASA astronauts.
Elon Musk Presenting at the International Astronautical Congress | Source: IAC
For those of us familiar with Musk’s recent presentations and interviews, this will also sound familiar.
But what’s incredible is that Musk gave that presentation in Adelaide back in 2017, nearly a decade ago.
Ambitions in Adelaide
Despite what Musk and his team at SpaceX have accomplished over the last 20 years – which is nothing short of fantastical and pure engineering brilliance pushing the absolute limits of physics there are still dyed-in-the-wool Elon Musk skeptics who suggest he is nothing more than a snake oil salesman who always misses his targets.
They use examples like the one below.
In 2017, Musk stated SpaceX’s goals of launching two Starship cargo missions to Mars in 2022, followed by two more cargo missions with two crew missions to Mars in 2024.
Clearly, that didn’t happen. Not yet anyway.
In Musk’s defense, he said at the time when presenting the above slide, “That’s not a typo, but it is aspirational.”
Musk threw the gauntlet down, presenting his vision to inspire his team at SpaceX – and the industry as a whole – to radically rethink what is possible in space exploration.
The goal was not just to rethink the engineering and technology, but to rethink the time frames in which this kind of vision could be accomplished.
What the skeptics don’t see is that this vision isn’t just a fancy presentation.
It is backed by bleeding-edge engineering and concrete initiatives by Musk and his team at SpaceX to make it happen.
And making it happen, he is.
TeraFab Is On!
Just within the last 24 hours, a public notice has been published in Grimes County, Texas, for a public hearing regarding Musk’s TeraFab, which is planned to become the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing plant.
Source: Grimes County, Texas, Government Office
As shown above, the initial investment is $55 billion, and the total capital investment could reach as much as $119 billion.
Musk can’t get enough semiconductor production from the industry, so he is doing something about it.
He is building his own fab (semiconductor fabrication plant).
Most people aren’t even aware that SpaceX is already building a semiconductor plant in Bastrop, Texas.
Equipment is literally being installed right now.
The plan is to begin high-volume production of semiconductors for SpaceX’s Starlink project by the end of this year.
This manufacturing plant is actually an advanced chip-packaging plant for Starlink’s RF semiconductors, as opposed to the TeraFab, which will manufacture the semiconductors.
Chip packaging takes the actual semiconductor (the die) and encases it in a protective case with either wire bonding or solder balls so that the packaged semiconductor can be connected to a circuit board.
And if this latest development weren’t enough, well-founded rumors have surfaced that SpaceX has acquired 136,000 acres of land in Pecan Island and Freshwater City, Louisiana.
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More Space for SpaceX
It is believed that SpaceX conducted a private transaction with ExxonMobil (XOM), which owned 125,000 acres for a “carbon capture and storage project” in the area.
Additional acreage was likely acquired from adjacent smaller landowners.
For perspective, 136,000 acres is about 212.5 square miles.
The current SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, is about 1,000 acres.
And SpaceX plans to expand that footprint by adding another 7,100 acres.
This new Louisiana land purchase dwarfs that.
The reality is that SpaceX needs more space for more manufacturing and launch capabilities to achieve its vision.
As a reminder, SpaceX – through its xAI division – is already working towards its stated plans to launch 1 million AI data center satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit.
Regular launches on SpaceX Starships will commence within 30 months, and it is expected that SpaceX will launch multiple Starships every single day.
To state the obvious, SpaceX would not be able to launch at that kind of cadence at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California, where many of SpaceX’s current Falcon 9 launches take place. The base simply isn’t large enough to handle that kind of volume.
SpaceX needs more space…and the Louisiana purchase would be suitable for launches to a sun-synchronous orbit.
And if that weren’t enough, last week, SpaceX’s board actually approved a new compensation plan for Elon Musk that directly ties his compensation to building out the 1 million AI data center satellite constellation and the colonization of Mars.
No, I am not kidding.
An Extraterrestrial Incentive
The new compensation package awards Musk 200 million super-voting restricted shares of SpaceX when Musk hits a $7.5 trillion valuation and establishes a permanent human settlement on Mars with one million residents.
Part of the new comp package also includes space-based computational infrastructure capable of 100 terawatts of processing power.
It goes without saying that this is the most extraordinary compensation structure in history. The outer limits of what might be possible. An extraterrestrial incentive plan.
I can almost hear the skeptics chortling and cackling.
Impossible, they say.
Absurd!
But if we understand Musk and his objectives, it makes perfect sense.
For Musk, it’s not about the money. The compensation plan is about Musk maintaining enough control over SpaceX so he can achieve his personal goals.
His goal is to expand human consciousness to the stars.
He wants to create a backup of human civilization on Mars, in case things go wrong on Earth.
So, he’s taking concrete actions to build what is necessary to make that happen.
And he intends to get it done in his lifetime and give the greatest gift to humanity that could ever be given.
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Q1 earnings: fantastic (but with a caveat) … Tech does the heavy lifting… Luke Lango’s “Summer of AI” … one stock from Louis Navellier for a summer surge… nervous about buying Tech today? Don’t be
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As I write on Wednesday morning, the markets are in rally mode thanks to positive geopolitical and earnings news.
First, Axios reported overnight that the U.S. and Iran are nearing a one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for nuclear negotiations.
President Trump, characteristically, is keeping everyone guessing. He called a deal “perhaps, a big assumption” and warned that “if they don’t agree, the bombing starts.”
Still, this is progress – fragile though it might be.
In response, oil is pulling back sharply, with Brent Crude falling from $114 to $101 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate Crude down from $102 to $95.
That’s still elevated, but encouraging, nonetheless. Reopening the Strait of Hormuz would be an enormous pressure-release for the economy.
Meanwhile, on the earnings front, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is the big headline winner of the day.
AMD beat on both the top and bottom line last evening, reporting revenue of $7.44 billion – up 36% year-over-year – driven by a 57% surge in its Data Center segment.
It’s yet more proof that the AI infrastructure buildout is very much intact.
Which brings us to the broader earnings picture this season…
Fantastic…but with a caveat
That’s the simplest way to sum up our Q1 earnings season so far.
At a high level, the numbers have been impressive. To illustrate, here’s FactSet, which is the go-to earnings data analytics group used by the pros:
For Q1 2026, the blended (year-over-year) earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 is 27.1%.
If 27.1% is the actual growth rate for the quarter, it will mark the highest earnings growth rate reported by the index since Q4 2021 (32.0%).
Remember that the Q4 2021 reference point was a period of surging economic activity in the post-COVID reopening. So, the fact that we’re in the same general ballpark is noteworthy.
Plus, the numbers have been coming in far better than forecasts from just weeks ago.
Back to FactSet:
On March 31, the estimated (year-over-year) earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 for Q1 2026 was 13.1%.
Ten sectors are reporting higher earnings today (compared to March 31) due to positive EPS surprises and upward revisions to EPS estimates.
Also, these earnings came during a period of economic stress that, fundamentally, is a headwind to growth.
On that note, here’s our technology expert, Luke Lango, from his Innovation Investor Daily Notes:
[This earnings season growth is being] reported in the middle of an active Middle Eastern war. While oil was at $90-120. While the consumer was drawing down savings to cover grocery bills. While the Fed was paralyzed between inflation and stagnation.
So, that’s the “fantastic” part.
What about that caveat?
Well, this is a classic case where the average hides a skewed distribution. When we look under the hood, we see a significant performance gap.
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Tech is the name of the game
The “Magnificent 7” and their peers continue to carry the heavy weight of this earnings growth.
To illustrate, without the Technology sector’s outsized contribution, the S&P 500’s Q1 earnings growth would plummet from double digits to roughly 5%.
To be clear, I’m not saying that Non-Tech is having a bad quarter. In fact, only two sectors are currently reporting year-over-year earnings declines (Health Care and Energy). What I’m saying is that while Non-Tech growth is “fine,” Tech’s growth is “phenomenal.”
For example, positive surprises from Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL), Meta Platforms Inc. (META) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) last week accounted for a staggering 71% of the total net dollar-level increase in earnings for the entire S&P 500 over that week.
As Luke has been saying for months at this point, there’s Tech…and then everything else.
How this translates into stock prices and your portfolio
Let’s take this down to the portfolio level.
To get a bead on what’s really happening with this market, let’s look at the S&P 500 ($SPX), the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index ($SPXEW), and the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF (XLK).
The S&P 500 is our baseline… the Equal Weight Index gives us a better idea of how the average S&P company – not necessarily “Tech” – is doing because it assigns equal weight to every company… and XLK is our proxy for pure Tech.
Below, we’ll look at the respective performances since the market’s late-March low.
While the S&P Equal Weight has posted a strong rebound – up 9%- the Big-Tech-weighted S&P 500 Index is almost doubling that return at nearly 16%.
But that’s nothing compared to XLK – pure Tech – which has exploded 32%.
We have a market where a handful of Tech companies are delivering “extraordinary” growth fueled by a generational shift in AI, while the rest of the market is delivering positive, but “ordinary” growth.
Here’s Luke’s bottom line:
Earnings are going up right now. By a bunch.
But they are going up the fastest in the world of AI. Which means that while the stock market will likely keep pushing higher, AI stocks will keep leading the pack.
Welcome to the Summer of AI.
One stock to consider for this Summer of AI
I can’t write a Digest about earnings strength without turning to legendary investor Louis Navellier, editor of Growth Investor.
Earnings aren’t just a metric Louis tracks – they’re the foundation that his entire four-decade career is built on.
The logic behind his quantitative algorithms is straightforward: when a company consistently beats earnings expectations, institutional money follows. And when the big money moves in, stock prices follow.
Now, Louis and his Growth Investorsubscribers have been having a phenomenal earnings season – for example, last week, 16 of the 20 companies in his portfolio that reported earnings beat estimates, with an average earnings surprise of 29%.
One of his recent outperformers is GE Vernova Inc. (GEV) – and it happens to be one of the AI-adjacent names Luke is excited about right now due to the Summer of AI.
You see, GE Vernova provides the energy infrastructure – turbines, grid technology, and power systems – that keeps data centers connected and humming. As AI demand grows, so does demand for what GEV makes.
Here’s Louis with how this demand has impacted GEV’s earnings:
First-quarter earnings surged 1,700% year-over-year to $4.75 billion, or $17.44 per share.
Adjusted earnings came in at $1.98 per share, beating estimates of $1.67 per share by 18.6%.
That’s not a mild beat. That’s the kind of number that gets institutional attention fast.
Growth Investor subscribers who followed Louis into GEV last August are sitting on 77% gains as I write. But if you’re not in GEV, you’re not too late.
Louis’ current Buy Below price is $1,288, about 2% higher than where GEV trades as I write on Wednesday. So, if you’re looking for a stock to ride during this Summer of AI, you still have room to get in.
One more thing from Louis before we move on…
Yesterday, this came across my desk from him, related to this earnings season:
With earnings coming in stronger than expected, it’s easy to follow the temptation to sit back and watch the profits roll in.
I think that’s a mistake. Because you should always be on the lookout for what’s next.
Right now, companies are spending billions to build out AI – data centers, power infrastructure, computing systems and more.
But according to my research, the next phase in the AI boom is happening in a little-known lab in Tennessee.
Hardly anyone is talking about it. But President Trump even compared the size and scope of this project to the Manhattan Project.
Stepping back, are you nervous about owning Tech/AI after the historic run since late March?
It’s a fair question.
As we just saw, XLK has exploded 32% off its late-March lows in a matter of weeks. That kind of move has a way of making even seasoned investors feel like they’ve missed the easy money – or worse, that they’re holding the bag at the top.
But before you second-guess your AI positions, consider this…
AI and Tech have something most of the market doesn’t: unusual earnings visibility backed by public, multi-year capital commitments.
Just last week, the hyperscalers reported earnings and, almost to a company, accelerated their AI infrastructure spending guidance.
The collective annual CapEx for these four companies is now projected to approach $700 billion in 2026.
Meanwhile, several explicitly signaled that CapEx will continue to increase into 2027. In fact, CNBC reports that the combined AI buildout spend for Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta is projected to cross the $1 trillion milestone in 2027.
That spending is poised to flow directly into the earnings of the companies supplying the buildout…
The chip designers, the power providers, the data center operators, the software platforms.
And crucially, it doesn’t depend on whether an exhausted consumer decides to splurge at Starbucks or buy a new car. The hyperscalers have publicly committed to their shareholders.
That’s a more insulated growth engine than most of the market can claim right now – and it’s an insulation that doesn’t extend beyond the AI ecosystem.
Non-AI stocks aren’t necessarily headed for a crash. But they don’t have this same structural earnings visibility. They’re exposed to consumer demand, interest rates, and slowing global demand. The risks are more traditional, and the upside is more limited.
Which brings us full circle to where we started today…
“Fantastic…but with a caveat.”
The “fantastic” is real: 27.1% earnings growth, blowing past forecasts, achieved in the middle of a war, a paralyzed Fed and a squeezed consumer. That’s not noise. That’s real strength.
But the caveat is equally real…
Strip out Tech and AI, and you’re looking at roughly 5% growth. Fine – but not the stuff that will accelerate your retirement.
So, the playbook is straightforward. Stay long Tech and AI with confidence – whether you’re doing it on your own, or with the help of Louis, or the guidance of Luke – the data, the earnings, and a trillion dollars in committed hyperscaler CapEx all support it. For the rest of the market, be more selective and cautious.
As always, know what you own, why, and when you’ll sell. But with those safeguards in place, enjoy this “Summer of AI.”
Have a good evening,
Jeff Remsburg
(Disclaimer: I own AMD, GOOGL, MSFT, and AMZN.)
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