Tuesday, July 9, 2019

NETFLIX doesn't know what it's doing

NETFLIX is losing FRIENDS at the end of 2020 and THE OFFICE will be gone in 2021.  CNBC insists:

Netflix has been preparing to lose “Friends,” just as it realized it may lose “The Office” to NBCUniversal’s streaming service, which will happen in 2021, and has been spending billions on new original content exclusive to the service to keep customers satisfied.


What world does CNBC live in?

NETFLIX has not been focusing on keeping "customers satisfied."

They have axed ONE DAY AT A TIME, SENSE8, JESSICA JONES, IRON FIST, DAREDEVIL, LUKE CAGE and they're about to be done with FULLER HOUSE and THE RANCH.

Anyone paying attention could tell you that NETFLIX's moves over the last two years have upset subscribers.


Too bad for them.  They're going to have to depend on what they can create and they tend to screw up everything they create in one way or another.

COMPLEX reports -- actually reports -- on NETFLIX:



According to The Information, via Engadget, Netflix is a bit more cautious after dropping $115 million on the movie Triple Frontier
While Netflix has notably whiffed on TV shows like The Get Down and Marco Polo, its original movies tended to be pocket-sized rom-coms and dramas with correspondingly smaller budgets. While the expensive fantasy movie Bright was roasted mercilessly by critics, all that chatter drew huge audiences. Triple Frontier failed to meet expectations and didn't generate much buzz, so the company is revaluating big swings. Netflix's content head Ted Sarandos reportedly told a meeting that the company as a whole needs to be more careful about the way they spend money. This means that upcoming flashy flicks like Martin Scorsese's gangster pic The Irishman might be the last of a dying breed. All of this doesn't necessarily mean that Netflix won't make any more films or shows that are expensive, they'll probably just be a bit more particular with their selections.  


TRIPLE FRONTIER?

From WIKIPEDIA:

Triple Frontier is a 2019 American action thriller film directed by J. C. Chandor, with a screenplay by Chandor and Mark Boal, from a story by Boal. The film stars Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, and Pedro Pascal as a group of former Special Operations soldiers who reunite to plan a heist job of a South American crime lord.
The film was released by Netflix in select theaters on March 6, 2019, before its worldwide streaming release on March 13, 2019.

It didn't interest me in the least.  I can't imagine that it would have interested anyone.

What were they thinking with that cast?

Since becoming "Buttman" (for his groping of women), Ben's not been very popular and who would bother to watch any of the other actors?

At various times, the film was supposed to feature Johnny Depp, Channing Tatum, Tom Hanks, Tom Hardy, Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg.  That cast -- never supposed to all be together -- might have been worth watching.

Ben Affleck is B-list due to his scandal.  (I like Ben, I'm not passing judgment, I'm just noting reality.)  He's no longer Batman.  He got fired from that.

So Ben is the only 'name' in the cast and he's basically Charlie Sheen currently.

How do you spend $150 million on a bad film starring Charlie Sheen?

NEFTLIX doesn't know what it's doing.  Not one bit.

Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Tuesday, July 9, 2019.  Corruption and spin continue -- and new questions for Joe Biden about ethics.



The Iraq army, along with the Popular Mobilization Units that includes the , tribal groups and U.S.-led Coalition warplanes, began phase one of the ‘Will of Victory’ Operation against ISIS on Sunday to secure the provinces of Nineveh, Salahaddin and Anbar.




Sunday, Iraq launched Will of Victory.  How do we know it's accomplishing nothing?  Due to the lies of success already being made.





Significant progress made by ’s Armed Forces during the first 24 hours of Operation ‘Will of Victory’ in the desert regions of Anbar, Ninawa and Salahuddin.

Around 30 villages have been cleared & upwards of 50 [ISIS] camp sites, “guesthouses” and arms caches destroyed.





Noted Shi'ite propagandist H. Sumeri is our source for claims of success?

Yea, they're in trouble.

How long did H. Sumeri proclaim success with regards to 'liberating' Ramadi?  Or Mosul?  Yes, they're in trouble.

Or, alternative option, they're just not really accomplishing anything.

They're apparently trying that glorious 'clear and hold' strategy that everyone's been after since David Petraeus was the top US commander in Iraq.  Clear and hold has never really worked.

Can it ever work?

If they want to invest in hundreds of thousands troops and to attempt it only in a very tiny region (say one province), it might.  It might not.

The issue is one of legitimacy and these efforts have never had legitimacy.

The Iraqi government is not a government that serves the Iraqi people.  There has been no buy-in.  It is a corrupt government installed by the US government.  It's interests are not the well being of the Iraqi people.  Corruption is rampant.  Mosul, for example, two years after liberation there is still no rebuilding worth noting.  Where did that money go?

The Iraqi government was really good at forcing some people out of camps in the hopes that they could make them return to Mosul.  They just weren't very good about rebuilding Mosul.

Or much of anything.  Remember when THE NEW YORK TIMES, under Bully Boy Bush, used to report on the 'progress' in Iraq's judicial system?  Even they had to throw in the towel on that nonsense.  And it remains a problem to this day.




Camp on steroids.

1,000s of suspects languish in squalid, overcrowded facilities in that amount to inhuman treatment.

A "ticking time bomb."

 






And speaking of Iraq and corruption, a new charge has emerged regarding former Vice President Joe Biden who is currently seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.





Did you know:

Joe Biden's brother, James Biden was given a $1.5 Billion dollar government contract to build homes in Iraq during the Obama Administration

How many billion dollar deals were given to the Biden family while he was VP?

Why is this getting no coverage?

RT!




True?  October 22, 2012, Joel Gehrke (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) reported:


HillStone International won a coveted government contract in part because the company has “the little brother of the vice president as a partner,” as David Richter, president of HillStone’s parent company explained to investors in a recent meeting reported on by Fox Business today.
“Since November 2010, James Biden has been the executive vice president of Hill International’s housing subsidiary despite little if any documented work history in residential construction,” Fox explains. “And if the company’s projections are accurate, both Hill and Biden are on the verge of a huge payday, beneficiaries, some analysts believe, of James Biden’s connections to the Obama Administration through his older brother.”

True?  I still don't know.  I want a stronger source on the issue.

We have already seen Hunter Biden getting employment and windfalls as he followed his father around.  Did James Biden also make it onto the gravy train and is this a question that the press intends to explore?

It matters.  The Iraqi people were not helped by James Biden or HillStone International.  The American people were not helped by millions of their tax dollars being turned over to this inept company.



Joe Biden record: Iraq, banks, crime, and more - 





Joe Biden's record?  With regards to Iraq, his record is obscene and, therefore, none of his family should have been involved in anything to do with Iraq -- certainly nothing to do with profiting off of Iraq.

Joe is one of the most hated Americans in Iraq.  He earned that after the illegal war started.  How?  By repeatedly insisting that Iraq should be split up.  This played to the Kurds but did not play to the Shia and the Sunni.  As we said repeatedly in real time as Joe proposed this over and over, if this is an idea that comes from the Iraqi people, fine -- but if not, it needs to be tossed aside.

As late as 2008, while he ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination (he'd bow out after the Iowa caucus), Joe was still proposing this.  He had no understanding of Iraq.  He would hector Ayad Allawi and others in the fall of 2010 that Iraq was like Ireland and no one -- including US military personnel present -- could figure out what the hell Joe Biden was attempting to say this time.

As for the Kurds, he sold them out.  They were tricked by him repeatedly and had Jalal Talabani remained healthy and in power, Joe could have continued to trick them because Jalal was an idiot.  But Jalal's stroke took him out of power.  And the Kurds started connecting Joe's failed promises (lies) to a history of promises made by the US government but never kept -- going back to the administration of Richard Nixon.

When Joe became Vice President, he had strong ties to the Kurds.  But the Kurds noticed that these ties did not help them from that moment forward.  Instead, Joe used the 'friendship' to get the Kurds to back down on this or settle for that, time and again, their own interests were destroyed by Joe.  Hero Talabani, Jalal's widow, has been stating that the friendship cost the Kurds and when even Hero is slamming you, you're no longer a friend of the Kurds.

Joe is one of 24 candidates seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

24?  Yes, one of the male candidates has withdrawn from the race.




This is SHOCKING!!! I mean with his total lack of charisma & personality it’s a wonder even he thought he could be a contender. Every soundbite basically needed to end with “PLEASE CLAP”

Swalwell Becomes First Democrat to Drop Out of Presidential Race





Despite Donald Trump Jr.'s claim, Eric Swalwell actually does have personality and chemistry.

Of all the men on the stage during the first two debates last month, Eric's the last one who should have dropped out.

It's a crowded field and it is hard for anyone to stand out unless you are the press favorite -- like Joe has been.  There are many candidates who are polling low but are building up a base and if they continue to work at it, we're still over a year away from the election, they should see their polling increase.

Eric has stated he wants to focus on his re-election (to the US House of Representatives) and that's his right.  But Donald Trump Jr. is not the last word and, based on his remarks regarding Eric, DTJ is also not a very astute critic.



Rep. Eric Swalwell on endorsing: "I'm really impressed with the field. I'm not going to make any decisions right now."
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It's way too soon for an endorsement but if and when he makes one, he should get some promise on an issue he campaigned on.


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