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Death (and Resurrection?) of Hollywood?

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2025-12-15

It's money makes the world go round ...  Oh Wait! maybe it's AI?

Is Hollywood doomed?

Is megabucks film-making doomed? 

Well, perhaps yes, yes, and no.

The world is changing beyond recognition in front of us - and who can say that Hollywood hasn't been a huge, perhaps THE HUGE influence on our lives cultures and traditions so far?

As a child I went to see the great Disney movies - Bambi, Snow White (and the wicked witch!), Pinocchio, etc. Magical experiences all. Some of us care-worn souls may psycho-analyse them for hidden messages of portent these days, but back then they were viewed as brilliant feel-good entertainment.

And they were. Every child in their innocence should still see them. 

Investors Daily reads the runes and gives us the good news and the bad.

Prepare yourself - Hollywood will be different ... 

 

 

Tax Them Out of House and Home ...

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2025-12-14

... one generation at a time.

Another story of taxation run wild.

Is this "peak taxation"? 

Not a chance, except for an intervening general economic collapse, or maybe a general taxation strike - pretty difficult when your employer pays your tax to HMRC before he pays you ...

An interesting question though - if your employer owes you money under your contract of employment, are they entitled to give some of it to someone else just because the someone else says so? Custom and practice is not necessarily law, and we are discovering new things every day now. 

Although it's an interesting question, maybe the first port of call would be to check the fine print in your offer/contract of employment ....   and after that, a session with ChatGpt or maybe Grok.

Dominic Frisby laments.

 

 

Climate Scam Continues to Fall Apart

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2025-12-13

Junk science climate scare paper (published April 2024) retracted by Nature.

How did it pass peer review? What took them so long?

"Kotz was patent nonsense ... Yet Kotz was avidly picked up by government agencies around the world seemingly desperate to use any old gobbledegook to push the Net Zero fantasy"

"In a report to the British Parliament, the Climate Change Committee referenced Kotz in a section discussing economic damage arising from climate risk. Meanwhile, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) appears to have been a keen fan of Kotz and all its downstream impact works such as NGFS Phase V."

Chris Morrison reports for the Daily Sceptic.

Are we getting the picture yet?

If they would lie about climate change, what would they not lie about?

 

Europe, Ukraine, Trump, Russia - Update

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2025-12-12

Two reports for the price of one - Sebastian is nothing if not concise and to the point.

(19 minutes)

Like / Dislike this video here.

(14 minutes)

Like / Dislike this video here.

 

Tax Them Out of Business

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2025-12-11

This is an attack on the small businesses upon which rural and not so rural communities depend.

Like the lockdowns in days of Covid, small businesses will be forced into closure whilst big businesses buy up their assets for pennies on the pound - prove me wrong? Even if they don't, they will flood the now less crowded marketplace with mass-produced products that will be the only affordable products available.

So the monopolies move in and the creative potential of the small business will be replaced by the bland sameness of the big chains, and whilst the local people won't be able to push up prices to cover taxes and costs, the big corporates will make a killing. 

Just as the supermarkets have over the years pushed out the retail grocers, bakers, hardware stores, and made inroads on the clothing front, so too now the market for small pubs restaurants and more importantly, farmers will be  passed from control by the many to control by the very few, all courtesy of "our" elected government that no longer works for the people - if it ever did.

" ... the Fox Inn in Patching, West Sussex ... shut the doors in October after costs tripled since 2021 and a letter arrived warning that his business rates would double next year"

It seems a familiar story.

It's much the same in the US apparently (this is not financial advice!) ... although there's a caveat:

"The theory that it’s driven by health preferences is certainly possible, but until we can see consumer behaviour in a more benign price environment, it’s too soon to fully adopt that thesis"

Hmmm. 

 

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