This morning, HULU sent me an e-mail:
Our upgraded design makes it easier to find more of the shows and movies you love at a glance!
We're excited for Hulu fans to find more favorites with less searching and more watching. More to see, more to love, more to Hulu.
I would say it's nonsense and a failure. If you go to HULU's community page, you'll find this:
228 votes Bring Back My Channels on Home Screen submitted by ChrisBee in Finding TV & Movies on July 26, 2020 at 05:40 PM You recently removed my channels from the home page. I used that every time I watched tv. It differs from the live guide so I want both. Please bring back my channels.
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Here are some of the comments:
Jmjrj (Customer) Just now I do not like the new update. I use my channels all the time and my husband is not tech savvy so this is even worse for him. Please go back to my channels.
View This Post Khuin5 (Customer) 40m ago Hubby and I do not lime this update at all. Seems lime you have to scroll a ton more stations to get to the station you want when before it 3 across now it’s 1 row!! Stupid.
1 view View This Post PatBis (Customer) 49m ago Bring back the My Channels option. It takes longer to find what I want. Very disappointed in this ‘update’. Seems like it’s gone backwards in terms of functionality.
1 view Khuin5 likes this. View This Post DelRey (Customer) 50m ago Yes, pls bring back My Channel. I don’t watch a lot and it saves me time looking for shows to watch. I miss My Channel! View This Post
thrivenraider (Customer)
Edited 51m ago My Channels was the fastest and easiest way to find what you watch the most... So frustrating now... Takes so long I just finally turn it off. BRING BACK MY CHANNELS..... iF YOU WANTED TO CHANGE ANYTHING... ADD A PREVIOUS CHANNEL OPTION ON REMOTE 1 view View This Post Blaird (Customer) 59m ago My picture has been horrible since the change, seriously thinking about going back to cable!
View This Post Naname (Customer)
1h ago Please bring back my channels
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CaresaboutTV (Customer)
Edited 56m ago I do not like the new format. I need my home screen back! Hulu now looks like everyone else (i.e. Netflix). Boo!!!
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ChicagoSteve (Customer)
1h ago
I agree as well. My Channels always showed the most recent channels and now having to scroll forever is very annoying! I also don't like the "AD" for a show that takes up 75% of the home screen
And forget Live Guide. I used to be able to use that. You click down at the screen and it display a live guide and you choose recent channels or all channels, etc. So I tried that last night. Going from the As to get to TBS and TCM? I got kicked out every time before I could get there. It was insane.
I do not like the new HULU. I am seriously thinking about dropping it and moving over to YOUTUBE. I did not like SLING and left SLING for HULU LIVE (I already had HULU plus at that point) but I'm really considering dropping HULU. How serious am I? I started my seven day trial period with YOUTUBE tonight.
After nearly three days of travel, the final leg for Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Viviana Molina was down a flight of stairs.
Molina,
back early from a six-month deployment in Iraq, surprised her husband,
Grand Prairie police Officer Edgar Molina, by interrupting him in the
lobby of police headquarters as he conducted an interview with the news
media.
The Molinas worked
together at the Grand Prairie Police Department until nine months ago,
when Viviana enlisted with the Air Force.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas have been delayed in returning home.
“I got lucky and got to come home a week early,” Viviana Molina said.
Baghdad had record breaking heat on Tuesday at 51.8C, today 49C is forecast, but for Basra in Iraq 53C is likely today, the all time record in Iraq is 53.8C
5:00 AM · Jul 30, 2020
RT's RUPTLY reported earlier this week on some how Iraqis attempted to stay cool by jumping into the Tigris River.
What
most can't do is step inside to cool off. That's because all these
years after the launch of the 2003 US-led invasion, all these years of
occupation, all these years of US-installed prime ministers have failed
to deliver reliable electricity. Matilda Coleman (UPNEWSINFO) observes, "With the state electricity grid failing, many households were relying on
generators to power fridges, fans or air conditioning units, the
machines adding a guttural hum to the city’s already-noisy streets." THE NATIONAL notes:
Iraqi men cool off under a public shower at a street in central Baghdad, Iraq. EPA
Baghdad experienced its hottest day on record on Wednesday, as protests against a lack of basic services continued. Power shortages, a common occurrence since 2003, led to the latest street protests as people struggled to keep cool. Temperatures climbed to 51.7°C on Wednesday, surpassing a record high temperature of 51.2°C in the capital. The protests began on Sunday night in Baghdad and several southern
cities, and turned violent in the capital. On Monday, two men died after
being struck directly by tear gas canisters that are typically fired in
arcs over protesters and on less powerful trajectories.
And to explain how serious this is, let's include GULF NEWS:
Chronic power outages combined with low oil prices threaten Iraq's
political stability, and Opec's second-biggest producer must act fast to
boost electricity supply or face a new crisis within the next two
months.
That's the conclusion of Fatih Birol, the head of the International
Energy Agency, which advises the world's richest economies on energy
policy.
Iraq faces a widening shortfall in electricity, due largely to a lack of
investment in ageing power plants and networks, and the plunge in crude
prices this year limits what it can spend to upgrade them. Baghdad must
slash red tape and prioritize maintenance and spending on power
facilities to stave off social and political turmoil, Birol warned.
'If there are not urgent and concrete steps taken for the electricity
sector, we may well have major problems in the next two months in terms
of electricity supply, he said in an interview. 'It may well lead to
unrest within the country.
In a grim sign of what could come, security forces in Baghdad opened fire Sunday on protesters complaining about power cuts.
Iraq is going through the summer heat (around 50 degrees) and the government decided to cut off the electricity for the people not to protest. Where’s the humanity? Families are suffering and the world is silent. All this in a country rich in oil... F**k the Iraqi government
Heartbreaking story! People in central and south of Iraq sleep inside their car to avoid the scorching heat as the #Iraqi government fails to provide electricity.
2:53 PM · Jul 29, 2020
In
the US, is there anything more disgusting than right-wing Senator Tammy
Duckworth. She started her political career pretending to be liberal
and knocking the actual leftist out of the Democratic Party primary.
But she lost the general because who the hell wants Tammy? Rahm and
others spent forever grooming her so she could appear 'electable.' She
votes like someone who was groomed and paid for. She talks like a
nutcase.
Maybe because she is one?
She's
spent the last years thinking up nicknames for Donald Trump -- I'm sure
the people of Illinois are happy with that hard work -- as opposed to
her working to improve their lives. She's spat on the presidency
because she's just trash.
That's all she's ever been and that's all she'll ever be.
Donald
Trump did not serve in Vietnam. Good. I wish no American had gone to
Vietnam. But because he did not serve in the US military, Macho Manly
Tammy has given him all these rude nicknames. They're beneath her and
they're beneath the office of the president.
It's
strange though, isn't it?, how she's trying to become Joe Biden's
running mate since Joe also avoided service in Vietnam. He had, you
understand, 'asthma.' Didn't stop him from playing sports in high
school or college.
Somehow, manly Tammy's not cupping her crotch, spitting on the ground and thinking up nicknames for Joe.
We bring up Freak Duckworth today because she went on ABC and started repeating claims about Russia putting a bounty on US troops in Afghanistan.
Long after the story has been discredited, there's Freak Tammy
screeching at the top of her lungs, hiding as always behind her military
time, and screaming that others are traitors. In better days, say the
1950s or 1960s, people would be drumming her out of the Sentate.
Instead, she gets to play Joe McCarthy in drag.
The Los Angeles Times reported
Thursday night that a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Afghanistan, which Donald Trump had demanded, has been put off until
after the U.S. presidential election in November.
Maintaining
imperial interests in Afghanistan seems to be one of the main reasons
for the so-far uncorroborated, possibly cooked-up “scandal” known now as
Bountygate.
Other
motives appear to be the same twofer that was at the core of
Russiagate: first, unnamed intelligence officials meddling in domestic
U.S. politics, this time to undermine Trump’s re-election campaign; and,
second, to even further demonize and pressure Russia.
The
public has been subjected to daily morsels of supposedly factual
stories meant to further deepen the plot. The first item dropped online
on June 26 with The New York Times’ initial reporting on the say-so of “American intelligence officials.”
It
seemed yet another attempt to launder disinformation through big media,
giving it more credibility than if it had come directly from the
security services. A discerning reader, however, would want more than
the word of a bunch of spooks who make a living practicing deception.
The
“evidence” for the story that Russia paid the Taliban to kill U.S.
soldiers came from interrogation of Afghan detainees. If the
interrogations were “enhanced” the evidence is even more unreliable.
For the record, Consortium News
supports no candidate and has been a strong critic of Trump. But we see
intelligence agencies’ insertion into domestic politics to be a greater
threat than even eight years of Trump for the precedent it is setting.
As spooks like to say, “Administrations come and go. And we’re still
here.”
Tammy Duckworth is
becoming a public embarrassment. History will not look kindly on her
nor will it approve of the silence of other Democrats in Congress who
should have called her out long ago.
Then I turned on HULU tonight after getting done with work and WTF!!!!
It's an all new layout. It's like it's trying to copy AMAZON PRIME -- which Ava and C.I. rated the highest in their article. And that would be fine if I could find "My Channels." It's gone -- even in the workaround that Ava and C.I. pointed to (using "Browse").
I don't like this at all.
Again, if I had a "My Channels" option, everything would be fine.
But "Live TV" and "My Channels" has never been the same thing.
If I can't find a workaround for "My Channels," I'm honestly going to drop HULU. That's how pissed I am by the new layout. I'll go with YOUTUBE which a friend has been trying to get me to switch to for about three months now.
I loved HULU.
Loved.
Past tense.
There layout is what's going to drive me away, not content.
Oh, drive me away -- I will be dropping NETFLIX. I've said that for some time and noted that I would do so after GRACE AND FRANKIE came to an end. NETFLIX just announced GRACE AND FRANKIE's final season will start streaming next January.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Iraq is slammed with one crisis after another.
Iraq faces many, many problems. There's the coronavirus. Zehra Nur Duz (ANADOLU AGENCY) reported
yesterday, "The Iraqi Health Ministry said 77 people died from COVID-19
over the past 24 hours, pushing the nationwide death toll to 4,535." WORLDOMETER notes Iraq has had 115,332 confirmed coronavirus cases so far. RUDAW Tweets:
The government of France’s most populous region donated 100,000 face masks to the Kurdistan Region’s health ministry on Tuesday as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across Iraq.
The testing was professional and easy, thanks to Texas Army National Guard. thank God the results were negative
1:04 PM · Jul 28, 2020
Coronavirus
has been used in Iraq to crack down on dissent. That's the government
using the disease. It's also been used by terrorist groups -- including
ISIS. Taylor Luck (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) notes:
“From approximately March 2020, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
pandemic became a factor in ISIL operational, propaganda, and
fundraising activities,” the U.N. Security Council was warned last week.
ISIS is “consolidating in Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic,”
said a U.N. report to the Council, “and showing confidence in its
ability to increasingly operate in a brazen manner in its core area.” Alarming
experts is ISIS’s ability to move freely between eastern Syria and
western Iraq – territory that once fell under its “caliphate” – entering
towns and villages with relative ease. Its ranks boast around 10,000
fighters, according to U.N. and analysts’ estimates. “The pandemic
came at a time with preexisting conditions on the ground in Iraq and
Syria that allowed ISIS to benefit,” says Hassan Hassan, director of the
Non-State Actors and Geopolitics program at the Washington-based Center
for Global Policy.
ISIS was never
defeated. It was routed out of Mosul -- though Mosul still hasn't been
rebuilt. Routing it out of Mosul wasn't a 'victory.' They never should
have been able to seize Mosul -- let alone hold it for years. In the
time since it was routed out of Mosul, it has remained active. MENAFN reports, "The Iraqi military stated that two Iraqi policemen and a
frontier safeguard were murdered on Tuesday in two assaults by the
Islamic State (IS) militants in western Iraq." Also reporting on Iraq this morning is Lawk Ghafuri (RUDAW):
The Islamic State group (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the
killing of a top Iraqi army commander in Anbar province, west of Baghdad
in an "ambush" late Tuesday.
In a statement published on ISIS' Telegram propaganda channel, the
extremist group claimed its militants "killed General Brigadier Ahmed
al-Lami, commander of 7th division of the 29th brigade of the Iraqi Army
in an ambush in Anbar."
The statement also claimed that another officer was killed in the ambush which also injured an Iraqi soldier.
Yehia Rasool, spokesperson for the Iraqi commander-in-chief released a statement early Wednesday confirming the death of the “brave commander.”
The U.S. will hand over control of bases in Iraq and is likely to
reduce its overall troop level within the country as progress against
the remnants of the Islamic State group continues, a senior official
with the American-led coalition said. On July 25, U.S. forces will hand over control of the Besmaya base
south of Baghdad to Iraqi forces, and Spain’s training contingent will
return home, USAF Maj. Gen. Kenneth P. Ekman, the deputy commander of
Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters via
videoconference July 22. “There will be some degree of a reduction in force in Iraq, that’s what success looks like,” he said.
Now
if it takes the US government lying that ISIS has been defeated to
finally get all US troops out of Iraq, okay, I can live with others
lying. But even then, I wouldn't just stay silent in the face of those
lies. ISIS has never been defeated. It can't be defeated militarily.
For
a few brief weeks, then-President Barack Obama told some truths about
Iraq. He noted that the problems were the government -- Nouri al-Maliki
was prime minister at the time. He was right. ISIS is a threat to
stability. The Iraqi government has never given the Iraqi people
anything that they'd want to stabilize -- let alone fight to protect.
Early
last October, while working in his office in Baghdad, a businessman
named Hussein Laqees got a phone call from a number he’d never seen
before. “We need to talk,” the caller said. The man’s voice was gruff
and self-assured, a little menacing. He demanded that Laqees come meet
him but refused to give his name.
Laqees
demurred, and the call ended. He might have forgotten the whole
exchange had a colleague not been in touch a few minutes later with
worrisome news. The mystery caller, he said, was from Kataib Hezbollah, a
powerful Iraqi militia with strong ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
They had a business proposal to discuss.
When
the militiaman called again, Laqees reluctantly agreed to a meeting. He
gathered a few colleagues, and they all drove to a house off Sadoun
Street in downtown Baghdad, arriving near dusk. Inside, he was led into a
dim office and introduced to a small, bald man who got right to the
point. “You need to work with us, there is no other choice,” the bald
man said. “You can keep your staff, but you must do as we say.” He
explained that Kataib Hezbollah would take 20 percent of Laqees’s gross
revenue — about 50 percent of his profits.
Laqees
refused. His company, Palm Jet, had a five-year government contract to
run a V.I.P. terminal at Baghdad’s international airport, along with a
nearby hotel; it also works routinely with Western aeronautics firms
like Lockheed Martin. He could not have any dealings with a group like
Kataib Hezbollah, which is listed by the U.S. government as a foreign
terrorist organization (as is the unrelated Lebanese group also called
Hezbollah). The bald man replied that if Laqees refused, he would seize
everything he owned in Baghdad. Laqees looked at him in disbelief. “I’m
an investor,” he said. “There is law.” The bald man shot back: “We are
the law.” He told Laqees to give him an answer by noon the next day.
The
following afternoon, five Chevrolet S.U.V.s rolled up outside the
V.I.P. terminal. Twelve men got out, dressed in black paramilitary gear
and carrying guns. They found Laqees in the cafe of the airport hotel,
smoking and sipping coffee. He had been calling all his government
contacts since the night before, along with the airport’s department
heads. No one had called back. It was as if they’d been warned — or
perhaps paid off. The militiamen took Laqees’s phone and told him to
sign a document relinquishing his contract. He stalled for time. One of
his employees slipped outside to take a cellphone picture of the
militiamen’s vehicles, but they caught him, smashed his phone and beat
him up. Laqees, who is Lebanese, had been working in Iraq since 2011. He
knew the country was troubled by crime and corruption, but he believed
that the airport, with its hundreds of uniformed immigration and
security officials, was different. “I wait 20 minutes, maybe someone
will come,” Laqees told me later. “Police, something.” Finally, he
walked to the departures hall and caught a flight to Dubai. Days later,
Kataib Hezbollah installed its preferred contractor in his place. Laqees
has not returned to Iraq since.
Worth also notes:
The militias have been aided and abetted
by a new Iraqi political class whose sole ethic is self-enrichment.
Over the years, this cross-sectarian cabal has mastered scams at every
level: routine checkpoint shakedowns, bank fraud, embezzling from the
government payroll. Adel Abdul Mahdi, who was hailed as a potential
reformer when he became Iraq’s prime minister in 2018, hoped to
subordinate the militias to the state. Instead, they outmaneuvered and
overpowered him. His cabinet included people with ties to some of the
worst graft schemes afflicting the country.
The
United States is deeply implicated in all this, and not just because
its serial invasions wrecked the country and helped ravage the economy.
America provides the money that sustains it, even as U.S. officials wink
at the self-dealing of Iraqi allies. The Federal Reserve of New York
still supplies Iraq with at least $10 billion a year in hard currency
from the country’s oil sales. Much of that is passed on to commercial
banks, ostensibly for imports, in a process that was hijacked long ago
by Iraq’s money-laundering cartels. At the same time, the United States
inflicts punishing sanctions on two countries -- Iran and Syria -- with
which Iraq shares notoriously permeable borders. It is the ideal
breeding ground for corruption.
Paddy
Cock-burn. Remember that idiot? What's our non-American Middle East
correspondent writing about right now? Oh, right, propaganda to get
Donald Trump defeated in November. Well, maybe that's better than all
his valentines to Adel Abdul Mahdi. Mahdi was never serious about
ending corruption. If he had been, Worth wouldn't be noting that
Mahdi's "cabinet included people with ties to some of the worst graft
schemes afflicting the country."
It was always
obvious that he didn't know what he was talking about. Elaine called
him out when Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House. An Iraqi woman
was killed because of who she married and there's Paddy Cock Burn
getting the details wrong of a public execution. And THE INDEPENDENT
let him get away with it. He has had one error after another in report
after report, he is known in the Middle East as someone who is
anti-Arab. His most recent laughable book claimed that ISIS was
defeated. He's an idiot. Scott Horton loves Paddy Cocks but that's
part of the reason Scott Horton has been so wrong about Iraq over and
over. Remember, Scott cheered on Nouri al-Maliki, cheered him and
praised him. Nouri was -- and remains -- a thug. He is responsible for
the rise of ISIS in Iraq. But when you get your information from
professional liar Paddy Cock Burn, you're going to be misled.
Robert F. Worth offers:
The coronavirus pandemic has now pushed Iraq to the brink of an
existential crisis. The global collapse of demand for oil has brought
prices to historic lows, delivering a terrible shock to a country whose
economy depends almost entirely on oil revenue. But it could also offer
the new Iraqi prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, an extraordinary
opportunity to face his country’s most intractable problem. Corruption
can now be framed as a life-or-death issue: Iraq must choose between
feeding its people and enriching its kleptocrats. Kadhimi has promised
to take up this challenge. He is not likely to succeed unless the United
States seizes this chance to undo some of the damage it has done in
Iraq, and to make common cause with the protesters who are hoping to
re-establish their country on a new footing.
That
may sound like common sense. It may also cause alarm because THE NEW
YORK TIMES is not known for (a) doing a good job reporting on Iraq or
(b) actually wanting to help Iraq. Could the suggestion that the US
back the protesters actually be yet another ploy to sell further US
control and occupation of Iraq? That's a strong possibility.
Equally
true: No one in the Oval Office has ever supported the Iraqi
protesters. Not Bully Boy Bush, not Barack Obama and not Donald Trump.
One example, the Hawija massacre. Let's drop back to April 23, 2015:
Did they immediately demand justice? Or that Nouri step down? Or express solidarity with the protesters?
No, they just looked the other way and continued holding hands with Nouri al-Maliki.
In fact, at that point they pretty much had their hands down Nouri's pants.
Oh, the Yazidis! Trapped on a mountain top!
But when Nouri's forces killed protesters -- and Hawija is only the
biggest slaughter -- Barack Obama was still thrilled to hold hands with
the man he installed in 2010.
Because Nouri lost the election.
Despite bribery and bullying, in 2010, he came in second in the elections.
But Barack Obama overturned the election results. And, via the US-brokered Erbil agreement, he gave Nouri a second term.
Liar Patrick Cockburn ignores that as well.
He wants you to know that Iran decreed Nouri would get a second term in October and that's how it happened.
Well if tehran is so damn all powerful, than their decision in October should have been immediately implemented, right?
But that's not what happened is it?
November 10, 2010, The Erbil Agreement is signed. November 11, 2010,
the Iraqi Parliament has their first real session in over eight months
and finally declares a president, a Speaker of Parliament and Nouri as
prime minister-designate -- all the things that were supposed to happen
in April of 2010 but didn't.
March 7, 2010, Iraq concluded Parliamentary elections. The Guardian's editorial board noted in August 2010,
"These elections were hailed prematurely by Mr Obama as a success, but
everything that has happened since has surely doused that optimism in a
cold shower of reality."
Bully Boy Bush installed Nouri as prime minister in 2006.
The Iraqi people suffered.
And in 2010, they went to the polls.
And they voted for something other than Nouri.
Despite his bribery, his bullying, the threats and so much more, they voted Nouri out.
But Barack overturned their votes and insisted Nouri get a second term.
So, yes, the Hawija massacre is something Barack bears responsibility for.
US forces are leaving Iraq in small numbers. Why? A number of reasons. Peace isn't one. Let's note this video.
Chronic
power outages combined with low oil prices threaten Iraq’s political
stability, and OPEC’s second-biggest producer must act fast to boost
electricity supply or face a new crisis within the next two months.
That’s
the conclusion of Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy
Agency, which advises the world’s richest economies on energy policy.
Iraq
faces a widening shortfall in electricity, due largely to a lack of
investment in aging power plants and networks, and the plunge in crude
prices this year limits what it can spend to upgrade them. Baghdad must
slash red tape and prioritize maintenance and spending on power
facilities to stave off social and political turmoil, Birol warned.
“If
there are not urgent and concrete steps taken for the electricity
sector, we may well have major problems in the next two months in terms
of electricity supply,” he said in an interview. “It may well lead to
unrest within the country.”
In
a grim sign of what could come, security forces in Baghdad opened fire
Sunday on protesters complaining about power cuts. Two demonstrators
were killed and at least 20 others wounded. Iraq’s Prime Minister
Mustafa al-Kadhimi ordered an investigation into the killings.
