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June 24, 2021
DEPROGRAMMING OF JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS IS UNDERWAY: The entire investigation is an attempt to prosecute people based on their beliefs. Those who purge their views and admit their wrongthink will be given mercy. Those who don’t will pay dearly.
But that seems awfully odd, considering: Biden Threatens to Nuke Americans but Manages to Blow Up a Big Democrat Narrative Instead. “Stick with me here. If Biden and his party truly believe the government is so all-powerful that any possible rebellion would be put down with ease, then how does that square with their claims that our ‘democracy’ was on the brink of destruction on January 6th because some unarmed people took selfies in Pelosi’s office? Either our system of government is so fragile that a dude in horns and facepaint can threaten its existence, or it’s so untouchable that the government would just nuke anyone who got within a mile of doing any harm to it. Which is it? Because it can’t be both. Are you starting to see how the Democrats’ views on guns and government power shift on a dime in order to sustain their political narratives?”
DON’T TRUST CHINA. CHINA IS ASSHOLE: They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks.
GET BACK — THREE MORE MONTHS: Peter Jackson Restored So Much Beatles Footage That Get Back Is Now a Six-Hour TV Series.
Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” was originally set for a theatrical release in late August, but Disney+ has now announced the documentary is moving to Thanksgiving and expanding into a three-part series. The streamer explained that “because of the wealth of tremendous footage Jackson has reviewed, which he has spent the past three years restoring and editing, ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ will be presented as three separate episodes.” The installments will roll out November 25-27 and be approximately two hours in length each.
But will more be less? The Beatles: Get Back Is Now a Six-Hour Mini-Series. So Why Does It Feel Like More Might Be Less?
If the Beatles aren’t worthy of the big screen, I don’t know who is.
But that’s no longer going to happen. Now we’ll all sit at home, watching the Beatles separately, on three separate nights. Beyond that, I’m compelled to ask: Six hours? It’s clear that Peter Jackson fell in love with this material and was eager to give us more of it, which sounds like a generous impulse. But six hours of “Get Back” is a lot of “Get Back.” (My curiosity is at fever pitch, but no one pretends that this was the Beatles’ greatest record.) Jackson’s last film, “They Shall Not Grow Old” (2018), was a brilliant documentary reconstruction of World War I that elevated the cataclysmic experience of that war to a newly heightened immediacy, and did it in just 99 minutes. It was a transcendent film. In general, though, Peter Jackson tends to be dominated by his go-big-or-go-home side, which first showed itself in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy (which I think of, in my snarkier moments, as nine hours of folks riding through the woods), then in the bloat of “King Kong,” and then in the jaw-dropping grandiosity with which he inflated “The Hobbit,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s slenderest Middle-earth novel, into three damn epic movies. Do you sense a trend here?
I’m not prejudging “The Beatles: Get Back.” I, of course, hope that it presents a revelatory vision of the Beatles. But I do have a trepidation, one that I feel justified in saying out loud. My fear is that Jackson, in chopping the “Get Back” footage down to a gargantuan six hours, hasn’t done the disciplined and demanding work of editing, of shaping, of putting an exquisitely honed movie together. My fear is that he’ll be giving us not a Beatles documentary but a Beatles document dump, the film equivalent of an overstuffed special-edition box set. Making “The Beatles: Get Back” into a must-see event on Disney Plus reduces the Beatles, on some level, to eyeball-driving artifacts of the newly commodified streaming world. We’ll see if that’s a fitting form for a group that was (to quote John Lennon) not just bigger than Jesus, but bigger than all of us.
It does sound like there will be a later physical release of the footage according to this fellow Beatles obsessive:
Will the original Let It Be finally be released on Blu-Ray as well? This quote from Jackson near the end of a lengthy Vanity Fair article on the upcoming Disney+ Thanksgiving streaming release sounds hopeful:
In a decisive and crucial creative act, Jackson says he avoided repeating footage from the original film. Even familiar scenes would use alternative camera angles. “One of our mantras is that Let It Be is one movie, and our movie is a different movie,” he says, “and we’re trying not to repeat any footage, with one or two tiny exceptions where we can’t do anything else. But we’re trying to not step on Let It Be’s toes so that it is still a film that has a reason to exist, and our movie will be a supplement to it.”
Presumably there will be a Super Deluxe box set, if not this Christmastime, then likely next year, including Blu-Rays of Get Back, Let It Be, and remixed CDs of the original Phil Spector version, the cashiered Glyn Johns mixes, and the 2003 Let It Be…Naked stripped down version.
And who knows? There could be an even more Super Duper Ultra Deluxe version of Get Back/Let It Be depending upon the sales of this upcoming solo Beatles boxed set:
But that will certainly change on Aug. 6, when Capitol/UMe presents the “All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Edition” in a variety of formats, the most “Are you crazy?” of which is the limited “Uber Deluxe Edition”: a toybox-sized wooden crate that includes the album and dozens of demos and outtakes spread across piles of vinyl, discs (in 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Atmos and Blu-Ray), books and other ephemera, and — perhaps best of all — the miniature facsimiles of the garden gnomes depicted on the cover, which were immortalized in a recent Variety article… all for just $998.98!
Fortunately, there will be more affordable version — sans gnomes, of course.
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VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: China Lied About COVID Again: Outbreak Might Have Begun Months Earlier.
Plus:
- Child neglect is a progressive, antiracist value
- How to tell if you’re the bad guy with this one easy test
- Donald Trump orders Taco Bell
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
DON’T TRUST — AND VERIFY: U.S. Has Lowest Trust of Media In 46 Countries Surveyed, According to Reuters Institute Report.
FROM BYRON REESE AND SCOTT HOFFMAN: Wasted: How We Squander Time, Money, and Natural Resources-and What We Can Do About It.
Waste. We spend a great deal of energy trying to avoid it, but once you train your eyes to look for it, you’ll see it all around you—in your home, your business, and your everyday life.
In Wasted, futurist Byron Reese and entrepreneur Scott Hoffman take readers on a fascinating journey through this modern world of waste, drawing on science, economics, and human behavior to envision what a world with far less of it—or none of it at all—might look like. Along the way, they explore thought-provoking issues such as
• why the United States got a higher proportion of its energy from renewable sources in 1950 than it does today
• whether the amount of gold in unused mobile phones can be extracted for profit
• how switching to water fountains on a single route from Singapore to Newark could prevent the use of 3,400 plastic bottles—on each flight
• whether the amount of money you save buying goods in bulk is offset by the amount you lose when some spoil.Ultimately, the question of reducing waste is scientific, philosophical, and, most of all, complex. According to Reese and Hoffman, the rush toward simple answers has often led to well-meaning efforts that cause more waste than they save. The only way we can hope to make progress is to treat waste as the complicated issue it is.
While the authors don’t promise easy answers, in this compelling book they take an important step toward solutions by examining the questions at play, giving actionable steps, and ensuring that you’ll never see the world of waste the same way again.
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ENRICHING OUR DESTROYERS: Iranian official says US agrees to lift Trump-era oil sanctions. “An Iranian official said on Wednesday the United States plans to lift all sanctions on Iran’s oil and shipping industries and delist some members of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s inner circle as part of efforts to restore the landmark nuclear agreement.”
EXCLUSIVE: Army Finally Defines ‘Extremism’ When It Comes to Screening Out ‘Hate Group’ Members. “Social justice content is leaking its way into the military through some mechanism. Now, the Army Recruitment Command uses subjective and easy-to-politicize criteria to identify potential ‘extremists’ who wish to enlist.”
ROGER SIMON: No Joke: Joy Behar Reveals Hidden Truth of Leftist Bigotry.
I never watch “The View”—life is too short—except when it is thrust upon me by a supposedly controversial clip on cable news.
One of those occasions arose the other day when their old standby Joy Behar made what she later called an “inappropriate” joke about Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib, who had just become the first active player in NFL history to come out as gay.
The liberal women on the show chortled away at the alleged witticism only to be caught up short by Meghan McCain—the woman carefully chosen for the “conservative” slot on the program—who registered extreme disapproval. The usual leftwing suspects rushed to downplay the incident, but nevertheless, it went viral.
If you haven’t yet heard the joke, played endlessly elsewhere, I’ll be discreet and leave it to this link. (Warning: It’s not a very good one. Richard Pryor and Joan Rivers are dead.)
But this is not about Ms. Behar—one of those mediocrities who for mysterious reasons ends up making millions on television.
Something more important is being revealed by this, to use the colloquial term, “Freudian slip.” (Actually, this kind of “accidental” revelation way predates Freud and is really just common sense. Aristophanes was no doubt aware of such things and probably many before him.)
Behind the joke, and the immediate positive response from the loyal liberal ladies on hand, is something I have observed, and have been yearning to say, for some time:
The left is considerably more bigoted than the right in matters of both race and sex.
And they’re likely going to excuse all of their bigotry about Nassib away: Liberals pounce on rumors that NFL player Carl Nassib is a pro-Trump Republican after he was praised for coming out as gay.
LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND JEN PSAKI: White House Rewrites History With Claim That Republicans, Not Democrats, Tried To Defund The Police.
SERIOUS PEOPLE ARE NOT IN CHARGE OF OUR INSTITUTIONS: Naval War College professor likens white privilege to getting free Wi-Fi. “Shanks Kaurin often cited the word ‘equity’ as she framed her arguments.”
Of course she did.
RADICAL LEFT, NOT THE RIGHT, IS THE MAJOR THREAT: Amazing, is it not, how His Fraudulency and his loyal mouthpieces in the Mainstream Media constantly talk about the national security threat allegedly posed by the Proud Boys, “White Supremacists,” and other elements of the “Radical Right.”
They’re not the perpetually rioting mobs burning down Portland, or causing billions of dollars in destruction across dozens of major cities. No, the guys lighting the fires, killing policemen and making American cities unlivable are all from the Radical Left. Issues & Insights has more, much more.