"One takeaway is quite clear. Whatever comes next, it's going to come from independent creators who control their own IPs. Hollywood is a propaganda factory that's forgotten how to entertain. The Big Two comics publishers are now brand management firms maintaining copyrights for propaganda films. The Big Five book publishers are dead and on their way to going broke.

"Creating a cultural touchstone like Spider-Man or Star Wars takes a visionary with an idea that resonates with mass audiences by solving longstanding storytelling problems in revolutionary ways. Furthermore, that next-level artistic vision must be paired with expert marketing savvy.

"A combination like that only comes around once or twice in a generation, and in Current Year, the big media corporations have become too bloated, monopolistic, and shortsighted to foster what's next.

"The revolution awaits an indie creator to come along with the right idea at the right time and maximally leverage the new open distribution infrastructure. We're already seeing the first glimmers of this future in newpub."

https://www.kairospublications.com/blog/u4jiidl4hnqj5wnkuha9zh1w0ch3cm#:~:text=One%20takeaway%20is,future%20in%20newpub.

"I recently rewatched “Shape of things to come” 1936 edition. It’s a reasonably close adaptation of his book of the same name: he wrote the screenplay. It is touted by various kinds of art-poufs as being important as a film somehow. It is insanely bad. This was supposed to be muh hard science, yet people are running around with ridiculous capes and useless giant helmets. The movie is a series of speeches given by the same couple of actors, portraying different characters and their descendants through history. The connecting material is 1935 era special effects set pieces. There’s no dramatic arc. The smarty pants guy makes smug remarks about war, the dorky guy makes dumb remarks about war, then the same actors do it again in a post apocalyptic future, then again in their totalitarian “utopia.” Some “bad” man who hates progress (played by post apocalyptic warlord actor) gives a speech about how we should stop all this progress nonsense, foments a riot, then they shoot a couple of kids into space in a big gun, wiping out the evil rioters. Then the father of one of the kids (a totalitarian Klaus Schwab dictator who probably wants you to eat the bugs) gives a rousing speech about how progress is good, actually. I wanted to kill all the characters in this movie. I watched it as a kid, figuring it would be like all the cool 50s HG Wells movies, but it wasn’t: those took enough liberties with Wells stories to make them halfway decent. This was the pure, unadulterated Wells, and it sucked."
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/hg-wells-was-awful-in-every-way/#:~:text=I%20recently%20rewatched,it%20sucked.

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“It’s unusual for an aircraft to experience so many technical diversions in such a short space of time. If the same defect keeps recurring, that is a cause for concern, because it implies that the engineering department is unable to definitively identify the root cause of the problem,” says Smith.

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Locations of sunken ships in WWII
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What’s happening is that as the second Trump administration comes into focus people are starting to think that maybe we could have serious reform of what is by far the country’s biggest economic problem — the debasement of the dollar and the inflation it so often portends.

Could this be the moment to set the goal for the issuance of a gold-backed long term bond? This is the idea, which I’ve nursed for years, of issuing a U.S. Treasury bond convertible into gold at maturity. What could better symbolize America’s vision for a new Golden Age than issuing gold-backed bonds on July 4, 2026 — America’s 250th birthday — to mature 50 years later on our country’s 300th birthday?

It would establish a beachhead for America’s commitment to sound finances and sound money going forward at a moment when both goals are encountering flak. Just this week came news that the latest inflation number has perked back up above 3 percent, which is 50 percent above the Fed’s target.

Notably, Elon Musk has come out for putting at the head of the Federal Reserve the former congressman Ron Paul. It’s hard to imagine that Dr. Paul would want that job, given that he thinks the Federal Reserve itself is unconstitutional. Yet Mr. Musk’s endorsement of Dr. Paul’s longstanding call for a broad congressional audit of our central bank speaks volumes.

Meantime the Senate has confirmed President Trump’s former budget director, Russell Vought, to return as head of OMB. “I am not a huge fan of the Fed,” Mr. Vought has said. “They have existed with this notion that they have this priestly ability to make decisions. And in fact, I don’t actually think they’re that good at it.”

Chatter is in the air about whether America should mark to market the price of the substantial gold reserves it holds on the nation’s balance sheet at a statutory price of $42.22 a troy ounce. That compares to gold’s current market price in excess of $2,900 a troy ounce. The chatter followed a recent Financial Times column that speculated on a role for gold in America’s financial future.

Mr. Trump’s new treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, had vowed at an Oval Office event that “we’re going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet for the American people.” Monetizing the 261 million troy ounces in gold held by the U.S. government by revaluing them would deliver a windfall gain of roughly three-quarters of a trillion dollars. It adds up.

Different sages or speculators are offering ideas for using financial gains to be realized through a revaluation of America’s gold reserves. No less an authority on monetary matters than James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer sketches how the increased cash resources could be used to pay down existing Treasury debt in Hamiltonian fashion. Proponents of a strategic Bitcoin reserve, such as Senator Lummis of Wyoming, have launched a bid to finance Bitcoin acquisitions through gold revaluation. 

What a moment, though, to announce the establishment of an  official link between the dollar and gold by issuing a Treasury bond that guarantees redemption in gold. It would be the realization of President Reagan’s earlier vow to fight crippling inflation caused by too much government spending.

“We’ll never regain price stability until we restore some form of gold backing to the dollar,” the Gipper said in a campaign ad. “As president, my first priority will be to make the dollar the most trusted currency in the world.”

Could President Trump make it happen where Reagan was unable to overpower the resistance? By revaluing the gold and then pledging American gold reserves as collateral behind the newly issued government bonds, America would set up a barometer for measuring progress toward monetary soundness.

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend - Captain America: Brave New World

The closest thing to a compliment this film keeps getting is; given how low your expectations are, it’s probably better than you think it is.

https://arkhaven.substack.com/p/the-dark-herald-does-not-recommend

We've now blown past the total sales from the Black Friday event. Make this last day of incredible based book bargains count and show our magnificent based authors and creators some love.

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"They tried to kill us... They tried to sterilise us."

Dr. Naomi Wolf: "The centrepiece of the Pfizer papers is an intentional attack on human sexuality, and especially on women and babies."

"They killed the babies, and they knew it. They poisoned the breast milk, and they knew it. They damaged the placentas, and they knew it. They lowered the sperm count, and they knew it."

"They have a chart of the babies they're injuring. They have a chart of the women's menstrual cycles that they're disrupting."

"This is satanic on a massive level... The fact that they knew they were doing this, which—if you read the Pfizer papers—you cannot conclude otherwise."

"A lot of people died, there's gonna be horrible struggles with fertility, but we survived and the truth came out."

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Last day of the highest-selling Based Book Sale yet! Over 2,000 units moved.
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"USAID was a full blown covert influence organization meddling in elections, schools, societies, and who knows what else both abroad and at home. it used networks of NGO cutouts to fund interventions in US elections, to support innumerable US candidates, george soros, 10’s of thousands of partisans, illegal immigration, all manner of DEI and critical everything theory, trans, and even fabricating evidence in the impeachment attempts on donald trump."
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-global-crime-scene#:~:text=USAID%20was%20a,donald%20trump.

BREAKING UPDATE: Colleague @davidspunt reports DOJ is moving to dismiss the criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, with FOX obtaining a letter from acting deputy AG Emil Bove sent to SDNY, instructing them to drop the federal case against Adams and dismiss it without prejudice.

Bill Melugin