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The Junior Classics are Complete

Six years ago, we embarked upon a massive project. I don’t think we quite realized just how massive it would be, since instead of simply replicating the original 1919 set published one century before, which had been our original intention, we ended up recreating all ten volumes from scratch, complete with original spine and cover illustrations from Lacey Fairchild. In assembling the set, we published more than 1.2 million words and literally hundreds of illustrations all carefully curated for content and quality; the time it took us to finish the task may make more sense when the size of the project is taken into account.

The campaign was a huge success, as 1,781 backers supported it, and waited patiently as the years passed and we only managed to get out one or two volumes each year on average. But now we’re very pleased to be able to say that we have finished the final two volumes and present the first picture of the entire set assembled together. The books have already been ordered for the backers of the royale editions (the demys will ship in January), and we expect them to reach the warehouse the second week of December.

Since it’s Thanksgiving time and we have a substantial leather book sale on, we thought we should go ahead and make these excellent books available as part of it. Which is why, until the end of the month, you can purchase the entire set for $249.99, which is a discount of $100 from the retail price. And if you’ve already purchased the previous eight volumes, you can buy the two new volumes together for a sale price of $59.99, discounted from $69.99. There is no need for backers to do anything except confirm their shipping addresses when NDM sends out the shipping notifications, unless, of course, you’re looking for a second set to give as a gift.

The publication of Volumes 9 and 10 marks the completion of Castalia House’s first major project, and while it took us a lot longer than we’d ever imagined it would, we have arrived with a level of quality that I believe the backers have found satisfactory despite the wait. We’re already working on completing the deluxe leather set, and we will be introducing a special subscription in January for those who are interested in acquiring one next year.

Please note that the complete 10-volume set can also be purchased for the same Thanksgiving sale price of $249.99 at NDM Express. If, for some reason, you’re having trouble with your card at our European store, please try NDM.

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Clown World is Buying Time

But for what, exactly? Or is this just the pointless floundering of those desperate to stave off the inevitable until the last possible moment, like an NFL coach calling timeout with less than a minute less when his team is down by 21 points?

It’s no surprise that Simplicius concludes what most of us also thought: the latest so-called “peace plan” is just more Trump administration pettifogging.

We can conclude that the initial read from the very beginning—that this entire ‘peace plan’ charade is nothing more than empty blather—was in fact correct. The Russian side views the various schemes as little else than extremely preliminary starting points for the serious discussions to take place long after.

Putin did again mention in his new presentation that Russia was open to stopping hostilities if Ukrainian forces left Donetsk and Lugansk; I’ve already described before the game-theoretic value of Putin’s gambit on this count, as Russia has virtually nothing to lose to offer this.

Apart from all this back and forth, the war continues as before—nothing has changed. In fact, my operative theory now is that the MSM makes a big deal of this empty spectacle for one purpose only: to use it as a smokescreen to cover the rapid advances and victories of the Russian Armed Forces. By clogging the news cycle with this vapid ‘settlement’ business that is clear to everyone will go no where, mainstream corporate press outlets get to bury the real lede of Russia’s mounting triumphs and the AFU’s consequent collapse.

At this point, the only directive from the corporate cabal that controls both the global MSM outlets and the fascist EU apparatus is: buy more time at all costs.

The absolute lack of concern for the lives of the Ukrainian soldiery on the part of the Kiev regime would be shocking, if the reason for it wasn’t so obvious. Never accept foreign rulers, because they really, truly, don’t give even a fragment of a damn about the people, much less the national interest.

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They Were Not Good for the Economy

I’ve pointed out that no matter how relentlessly the Clown Worlders pontificate about the importance of the false values and repeat their rhetorical mantras, eventually reality is going to impose itself. And today, Great Britain has officially returned to the economic dark ages of the 1970s due to the way in which free trade and immigration have, much to the surprise of all the mainstream economists, resulted in the exact opposite of economic prosperity:

Rachel Reeves insisted her monster £30 billion Budget tax rise was the ‘absolute minimum’ pain for working people today – despite splurging huge sums on benefits. The Chancellor said she ‘had’ to impose more pain on the country even though the Treasury’s own watchdog only told her there was a £6billion hole in the public finances.

The huge raid unveiled yesterday includes an eye-watering £12.7billion from extending the hated tax threshold freeze for another three years.

Around a quarter of the working population will be paying higher or top rate tax by then, up from just 15 per cent when it was imposed in 2021. The higher rate threshold would have been £70,370 by 2030 instead of £50,270 if it had risen in line with inflation.

All those refugees being handed hotel accommodation, monthly stipends, and free smartphones have to be paid for somehow, after all. To say nothing of the three generations of immigrants who still haven’t even begun to break even with regards to their net contributions to the British economy.

It does seem that the composition of migration has become less favourable from an economic perspective, with fewer people getting skilled worker visas and a higher share of refugees, who often need a lot of support.’

Translation: as bad as the negative economic impact of migration is already, it’s only going to get worse as employable foreigners avoid the shrinking destination economies while the unemployable continue to flood in.

When a nation breaks with the wisdom of its past traditions, it begins to die. The fact that it doesn’t die immediately seems to confuse a lot of educated and credentialed retards into believing that their new assumptions are viable when the truth is that there is a significant amount of inertia in a society that takes time to peter out before the full effects of the new course become apparent to everyone.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Today is our annual reminder of two things:

First, to be grateful to God for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us, our families. And indeed, I for one, am very thankful for this community and the incredible opportunities it has provided me.

Second, an annual reminder of the imperative to a) sink the ships and b) never, ever, feed the migrants.

It’s truly astonishing to look back at history and see how many problems various peoples have caused themselves by their inability to understand the inevitable long-term consequences of their actions. And yet, here we are, watching the same obvious mistakes being made again and again in real-time.

Nevertheless, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Based Books on Sale

The 2025 Based Books Sale is here! Visit the Based Books site for the comprehensive list of 250+ ebooks that are either 0.99 or free from independent authors. I am participating in this year’s sale with the following books:

If you’ve already read the books, something that you can do to help the authors is to provide a rating, or better yet, a review. Amazon’s algorithms favor books that are sold, rated, and reviewed, so this is an important means of supporting your favorite authors.

And, of course, the Castalia Library – Castalia House – Arkhaven Comics Thanksgiving sale continues at the Arkhaven store and at NDM Express, with Library books available for as little as $59.99.

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An Objective, Achieved

I am, and have been for more than thirty years, a dedicated fan of David Sylvian. His music represents the pinnacle of all post-classical music as far as I am concerned, and while I consider Gone To Earth my proverbial desert island CD, I regard Orpheus, off Secrets of the Beehive, to be his best and most well-written song. And I’m not the only member of Psykosonik to regret never having met him when we were both living in the Twin Cities, although in fairness, I didn’t know it at the time.

And while I know I will never ascend to those musical heights, that knowledge hasn’t stopped me from trying to achieve something on the musical side that might at least merit being compared to it in some way, even if the comparison is entirely one-sided to my detriment. Think AODAL compared to LOTR, for example.

Anyhow, after dozens of attempts over 37 years, I think I finally managed to write a song that might qualify in that regard. It’s good enough that the professional audio engineer with whom I’ve been working chose to use it to demonstrate his incredible abilities to mix and master an AI track to levels that no one would have believed possible even three months ago. It’s called One Last Breath and you can hear a pre-release version of it at AI Central, as well as a link to Max’s detailed explanation of what he does to breath audio life into the artifice of AI-generated music.

If you’re producing any AI music, you absolutely have to follow the link to Max’s site, as he goes into more detail, provides before and after examples, and even has a special Thanksgiving sale offer on both mixes and masters. I very, very highly recommend the mix-and-master option using the extracted stems; while the mastering audibly improves the sound, the mixing is what really takes the track to the higher levels of audio nirvana. Please note that I don’t get anything out of this, this isn’t part of a referral program or anything, I’m just an extremely satisfied customer and fan of Max’s work.

Mission control, I’m letting go
There’s nothing left you need to know
Tell them I went out like fire
Tell them anything they require
But between us, just you and me
I finally learned how to break free
To be the man I always thought I’d be

Anyhow, check it out, and feel free to let me know what you think of it. For those who are curious about some of the oddly specific references in the lyrics, it was written for the soundtrack of the Moon comedy that Chuck Dixon and I wrote as a vehicle for Owen Benjamin, which we hope to make one day.

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Clown World is Agreement-Incapable

The 28-point peace plan announced last week is obviously dead on arrival. Clown World’s European puppets are already engaging in their characteristic surreal legalism as they explain how they’re going to put European troops from 20 countries into Odessa the day after the Russians sign the agreement, and that will be fine because they won’t be NATO troops even though all the countries contributing the troops are NATO members. This very clever approach was courtesy of President Macron of France.

The second component, the second line, is what we call the reinsurance forces. This means that, far from the front line, but in fallback sites, in Kiev, in Odessa, to give an example, things are planned, they have a confidentiality component, we set up reinsurance forces. Meaning that there are British, French, Turkish soldiers, who, on the day when peace is signed, i.e. not in a context of war, are there to carry out training and provide security, just as we do in certain countries on NATO’s eastern flank.

This will be a different case, because it’s not NATO, it’s an intergovernmental coalition, but we have around twenty countries that have already said what they are prepared to do actively, either in the air, on land, or at sea.

I didn’t think the peace plan was viable because it didn’t give the Russians the one thing they want that they don’t already control, which is Odessa. If you’re winning a war in the operational, strategic, and economic contexts, there is no reason to take any deal that doesn’t give you what you’re going to be able to take eventually.

And now that its clear that the Europeans will play word games about NATO in order to establish their speed bumps intended to trigger US military intervention, there is no point in signing Minsk 3.0 and guarantee the war continues in 2-3 years in a potentially less advantageous environment.

Although, to be honest, I don’t see any sign that the European militaries will be any stronger in the future than they are today; by then at least one of the major governments, or quite possibly both the French and German regimes, will have been replaced by a pro-Russian nationalist one.

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KU Question

QUESTION FOR KINDLE UNLIMITED SUBSCRIBERS ONLY:

What percentage of the Kindle Select books that you start reading do you actually read through entirely? Do NOT count regular ebooks that you buy directly, this is just about KU.

FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:

When you quit reading a Kindle Select title, about how far into the book are you on average?

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The Romans Didn’t Learn

Spacebunny and I were watching a English documentary on the sack of Rome in 410 AD by Alaric and the Goths. The lesson, apparently, is that the sack of Rome was caused by the following:

  • Extreme income inequality
  • Roman distrust of Stilicho due solely to his half-Roman background.
  • A failure to be nice enough to the migrant refugees

So really, you know, it was the Romans own fault that the people of Rome were massacred, the women were taken away for sex slavery, and their civic and private treasures were looted for three straight days.

Sadly, it appears that the Romans still aren’t being nice enough to the migrant refugees 1,615 years later, as one engaged young couple recently discovered.

A man was held down and forced to watch as migrants who smashed into his car raped his 18-year-old fiancée in Italy, according to police in Rome. The couple, said to have been naked prior to the incident, had parked in a quiet corner of Tor Tre Teste, a park in the eastern part of the capital, minutes before they were surrounded by the group who attacked their vehicle.

Police said the attackers broke the window and first pulled the man, 24, from the car before forcing the woman out as she tried to cover herself with an item of clothing.

The man told cops he was restrained by two of the attackers as his fiancée was dragged a short distance away. As she was sexually assaulted, he screamed for help, begged them to stop and even threatened revenge, but was unable to break free.

After the attack, all three perpetrators fled the scene. The couple, both Italian, then contracted police and filed a report. According to the authorities, the couple were terrified and confused. Cops also added that it was possible that there were up to five attackers involved.

Officers have since arrested three Moroccan men on charges of gang rape and robbery.

This is what happens when you don’t let the poor refugees die at the hands of the Huns. This is what happens when you don’t sink the damn ships. Sixteen centuries have passed and still Man has learned absolutely nothing about the fundamental purpose of walls, borders, and oceans, which is to keep the foreigners out, no matter how dire their plight or desperate their sob stories.

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Let Experience Be Silent

When Reason anticipates it by more than 21 years:

Fact check true but it’s worse than people inside the bubble know when you talk to real Americans outside the wicked snow globe of Washington DC.

Myself and many of my colleagues came courageously roaring into 2025 with legislation that matched the 2024 electoral mandate only to be totally sidelined by Johnson under full obedience of the WH.

Executive orders are temporary, Q memes have not and obliterated the deep state, and my colleagues constantly trying to pass loyalty tests instead of demanding what is right won’t help Americans pay their rent or stop corporations from buying up homes, buy their groceries, provide good paying jobs and stop foreigners with visas from stealing their jobs, stop American tax dollars from funding foreign wars and causes, or rebuild the value of the dollar.

Passing effective legislation that gets signed into law is permanent and actually solves Americans problems.

Now that House members are switching gears into campaign mode and will be fighting for their lives, our legislative majority has been mostly wasted. Our best shot was the first 6-9 months. And when Republicans likely lose the midterms it will become total and complete political war and gridlock once again.

The Uniparty always wins no matter which way the political pendulum swings leaving the American people empty handed.

It’s not that Rep. Greene is wrong, it’s that there was no need to send her to Washington DC to discover what I was already pointing out publicly in 2004. Because you can’t fix a corpse.

Any last vestiges of hope in the Republican Party have been shattered by the current regime, wherein a Republican President, Republican House, Republican Senate and Republican-nominated Supreme Court have demonstrated that they have zero interest in the timeless vision of America’s founders. Supporting them in the hopes that they will revive American liberties is akin to hoping that shock paddles will suffice to revive a month-old corpse. American freedom is not only dead, it has been rotting for some time.

Republicans fixed nothing and restored nothing when they had complete control of the government two decades ago. So, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they did very little this time around.

Representative democracy is entirely incapable of reigning in a rogue ruling elite. More and more people around the world understand this; the Japanese people are merely the latest to learn that no matter how you change the “representatives”, the will of the people will not be heard, much less obeyed. Which is why it is obviously and observably impossible for the American people to vote their way out of the collapse of the United States, as Clown World is neither capable of giving up its control nor restabilizing the situation.

Remember back in the 1980s and 1990s when the innocent Clown Worlders used to believe that education, diversity, and calling white people racist was somehow going to make things better? Thirty years of relentless downward spiral later, and that’s still their only solution to the problem, although they’ve apparently improved it by substituting antisemitic for racist.

Is there one single solitary individual anywhere in the United States who can still assert with a straight face that continuing the Clown World program is going to prevent the United States from collapsing of the weight of its political, economic, demographic, and philosophical incoherencies?

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