Tag: media

Sandman 2 Sucks

Even The Guardian, hitherto one of Neil Gaiman’s most reliable cheerleaders and microphones, has finally discovered that Gaiman isn’t a very good storyteller, let alone showrunner:

The Sandman season two review – Neil Gaiman’s emo drama is so pretentious it ruins everything

The Sandman really is a curious beast. Where other, similar series centre around a hero warrior, the main guy here is more of an emo worrier, for ever standing stiffly in the shadowy corner of the frame, evading other characters’ gazes as he sulkily delivers platitudes suffused with doom and – quite literally, given the production’s apparent lighting shortage, gloom. The rhombus-jawed Sturridge is physically ideal for the role of Morpheus, with his concave cheeks and a set of eyelashes that could have someone’s eye out. But while his impeccably backcombed barnet and swishy monochrome outfits suggest he is about to break into a chorus of Echo and the Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon at any moment – someone in the design department enjoys their 1980s pop, because they have also styled Freddie Fox’s Loki to look eerily like Billy Idol – he is, by design, never that entertaining. Even when he is turning Thor’s throbbing hammer to dust or personally granting William Shakespeare creative immortality, what could be fantastic adventures are always shuffled through stroppily as if they are tedious obligations.

It just about works as an elaborate analogy for teenage disaffection – a time when you feel as if you’re acquiring some sort of awful power, but everyone becomes angry when you try to wield it, and not knowing why makes you more peevish still. When the show co-opts Greek, Norse and Christian mythologies, though, it doesn’t do much with them.

Gaiman still hasn’t been locked up or cancelled yet, and it’s still possible that between his ethnic and Scientologist connections, he will continue to escape accountability until he dies unrepentant and takes his seat that would appear to be reserved for Hell.

But the bloom is well off the rose. Even the people and organizations that have been blowing hallucinogenic smoke up everyone’s backsides for the last 30 years have finally cottoned on to the charade and are no longer interested in helping him maintain his facade.

And that unmasking may well be the cruelest fate of all to a raging narcissist who has always known that he was an imposter.

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Satan’s Little Slave

What a wretched little creature. I remember when he used to agonize over being forced to say what he was told to say. Apparently he’s grown more comfortable with that over time. He simply doesn’t have a single original thought in his head. I used to feel some pity for him, but you know, he made his choice to serve Mammon.

And when you bow down before the one you serve, you get what you deserve.

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Epstein? What Epstein?

I think we’re about six months away from the so-called “Justice Department” declaring that there never was anyone named Jeffrey Epstein.

WASHINGTON—Trump Justice Department officials are backtracking on a promise to open up the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, attempting to shut down long-simmering questions and conspiracies about the case they once promoted.

Officials said Monday that after an “exhaustive review” they had found no “incriminating client list” or additional documents that warrant public disclosure. The FBI also confirmed a medical examiner’s finding that Epstein killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, responding to unproven claims that the disgraced financier was murdered to keep him quiet about other powerful people who sexually abused the young women and girls he trafficked.

“There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions,” the Justice Department and FBI wrote in a memo released Monday. “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”

This is such an obviously false assertion that one wonders who is supposed to believe it. The NPCs have never paid attention to any of this, and the fact that there have been media reports for years about the massive quantity of information carted away from Epstein’s various properties by the FBI make the claims obviously false.

Epstein isn’t even dead. A report from earlier this year wondered how it was possible that money was still moving in and out of one of his “secret bank accounts”. There is an easy explanation for that, of course.

This is why I am an Omni-Narrational Skeptic. It’s impossible to believe anything the media says about anything because what the media says about any one particular thing is always mutating in near real-time.

I think the recent Epstein-related nonsense is probably related to the Iran-Israel conflict, although I don’t know how or why. But it’s clear that some parties are getting very desperate indeed, based on the fact that Netanyahu showed up at the White House the day after this ridiculous announcement. I assume there is going to be a major media push on US assistance for Israel, although that may not involve war since it’s now apparent to everyone that there isn’t much the USA can actually do about Iran.

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Why UATV is Necessary

It’s both short-sighted and foolish to attempt to build your business on the mainstream social platforms. Because no matter who you are, no matter how innocuous you believe yourself to be, sooner or later you’re going to find yourself in violation of the Narrative and you will be deplatformed.

On Tuesday, July 1, 2025, African Stream published its final video, a defiant farewell message. With that, the once-thriving pan-African media outlet confirmed it was shutting down for good. Not because it broke the law. Not because it spread disinformation or incited violence. But because it told the wrong story, one that challenged U.S. power in Africa and resonated too deeply with Black audiences around the world. When Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused it of being a Kremlin front, Big Tech didn’t hesitate, and within hours, the platform was erased from nearly every major social media site.

In September, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made the call and announced an all-out war against the organization, claiming, without evidence, that it was a Russian front group. “Russian state-funded media outlet RT secretly runs the online platform, African Stream, across a wide range of social media platforms,” he said, adding:

According to the outlet’s website, ‘African Stream is’ – and I quote ‘a pan-African digital media organization based exclusively on social media platforms, focused on giving a voice to all Africans, both at home and abroad.’ In reality, the only voice it gives is to Kremlin propagandists.”

Within hours, big social media platforms jumped into action. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok all deleted African Stream’s accounts, while Twitter demonetized the organization.

Remember, all of these “Russia Russia Russia” and “Kremlin propagandist” accusations are not only nonsensical, they are complete fictions that the accusers 100-percent know to be false, because they made them up. But they suffice, because the big social media platforms are quite literally the modern successors of the three television networks of the 1950s and 1960s.

They are the primary medium by which the Narrative is propagated and maintained, now that no one but the Boomers are watching reading newspapers and watching network television.

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Don’t Trust the Disinformation

To absolutely no one’s surprise, it turns out that Israel lied about the ineffectiveness of Iranian missile strikes:

Israel concealed that Iranian missiles hit several key military sites across the country during the recent 12-day war, The Telegraph reported on Saturday, citing radar data.

The data, provided to the British paper by Oregon State University researchers who track bomb damage using satellite radar, indicates that six Iranian missiles hit five military facilities in the north, south, and center of Israel, including a major air base, an intelligence gathering center, and a logistics base. The extent of the reported damage is unclear.

However, the hits were not publicly reported due to heavy military censorship, according to the report. When pressed on the issue, the Israel Defense Forces, declined to comment, only saying that “all relevant units maintained functional continuity throughout the operation.”

It’s obviously understandable that a military prefers to avoid admitting various weaknesses and failures. There’s nothing surprising or wrong with that. The problem is when the media reports military disinformation despite knowing full well that the military’s press reports are not merely inaccurate, but purposefully and knowingly false.

And the reality is that a lot more than six Iranian missiles hit a lot more than five sites. This is merely the first crack in the disinformation dam.

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Winning

Another piece of evidence concerning the current state of the Israeli-Iranian war:

Foreign photographers will no longer be allowed to film at the scenes of missile strikes in Israel without prior written approval from military censors, under new directives issued by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi.

The move, which targets major international outlets such as Al Jazeera, CNN, and The New York Times, empowers the Israel Police, the Government Press Office (GPO), and the military censor to enforce stricter controls on foreign reporting of war-related damage inside Israel. According to the directive, enforcement will apply regardless of the media outlet for which the footage is being filmed.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with wartime censorship. But it’s not exactly consistent with the claims of air supremacy over Tehran, the ineffectiveness of Iranian missile strikes, or confidence in the situation either.

One hopes this is a sign that the Israeli government has given up its hopes of starting a war that the USA would finish, but it’s far too soon to tell anything at all. Personally, I continue to be skeptical that any conclusive result can be even potentially obtained by either side, given that it is geographically limited to being an airpower war.

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Mailvox: Sad Cope

A reader doesn’t believe there is more than one “Trump”:

This whole “there are many Donald Trumps and the one who is clearly controlled op Clown World 2.0 is not the real one” thing reeks of sad cope. I know it may come as a shock but the NYC, billionaire, used car salesman, reality TV star, seriously creepy looking, sweaty orange faced rats nest hair, who openly lusts for his first born daughter, who could have easily been unalived by God knows who at any moment over the past decade, may not be be the good guy. Or even A good guy. 

My observation that there are at least three different “Donald Trumps” and six different “Joe Bidens” isn’t something I heard somewhere or dreamed up to cling to my vision of Red MAGA America. It’s just that: observation.

If you genuinely can’t see the difference between one man who is 5’8″ and another man who is 6’3″, or between one man who shuffles and another who is six inches taller and bounds to the podium, then obviously there is nothing I’m going to say to you that will convince you and I can’t help you.

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The Science is Settled

How do you know you are an influential intellectual? People quote you and cite your ideas all over the world.

And how do you know you are a dangerous intellectual deemed a persona non grata by the scriptwriters of the Narrative? People quote you and cite your ideas all over the world without ever once referring to you by name or even implication.

This “Male Hierarchy Test” developed by “Experts from IDRlabs” on the basis of “the six categories of men identified by scientists” will look more than a little… familiar to the readers of this and one or two other sites.

The thing to remember is that this is standard practice when you’re not useful to the Narrative for one reason or another. It is amazing at how many innovative intellectuals have been effectively erased from history so that iconic frauds like Darwin, Edison, and Einstein can be manufactured and sold to the public in the place of the real innovators.

It’s no different than what we see in the world of political commentary, where new gatekeepers are constructed, inflated, and pushed on the public as soon as their fraudulent predecessors inevitably expose themselves as controlled opposition.

But the important thing is that the ideas get out there and take on a life of their own. The true intellectual has no need whatsoever of public adulation or awards, because the only reward that is worth treasuring is that magic moment of clarity one experiences when the summa encyclopedia of human knowledge and understanding is genuinely expanded. Not only is that something that no one can ever take away, it is something that the famous frauds, charlatans, and grifters will never, ever, know.

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There is No Joe Biden

But there were certainly six fake ones. President Trump draws attention to one of the more outlandish Q assertions:

President Trump has sent the country into an uproar after sharing what his haters are calling a “conspiracy theory” regarding Joe Biden.

Trump shared a post on his Truth Social from a user called llijh. In her post, she alleges Biden was executed in 2020 and has been replaced by a clone.

The president presented the post entirely without comment.

“There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference,” the post from llijh states.

As always, the only thing that we can be certain of is that the mainstream narrative is false. So far, Clown World’s propaganda machine has already altered the Official Story enough to admit that Joe Biden was non compos mentis for the entirety of his fake term to which he was never elected in the first place. How much further it will be altered remains to be seen.

What I find most interesting is the repetition of the claim that Biden was executed, which has also been made of John McCain, Hilary Clinton, and other major political figures. We know the Deep State exists, we know there is a resistance to it that appears to be centered in military circles, particularly military intelligence, but we don’t actually know much more than that. So the fact that President Trump is drawing our attention to such things is interesting, regardless of his real reasons for doing so.

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Praise for UATV

I’m 49 and Australian. Without any shadow of doubt, this singular Owen and Vox conversation was more intellectually charged than anything our local media had thrown up in my entire lifetime.

High praise indeed. If you haven’t resubscribed yet, this is the time to do so, unless you’re outside the USA, in which case you’ll need to wait two more weeks. My current streaming schedule:

  • Monday: Big Bear Stream with Owen
  • Wednesday: Darkstream
  • Thursday: Arkhaven Nights with JDA
  • Friday/Saturday: Darkstream

I plan to keep to this schedule over the summer as we work to rebuild the subscriber base. And I haven’t forgotten about the Taiwan Invasion analysis; I will give everyone a heads-up before I stream that one.

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