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River of Grass, Kelly Reichardt (1994)

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River of Grass (1994) Kelly Reichardt

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River of Grass (Reichardt, 1994)

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River of Grass | Kelly Reichardt | 1994

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River of Grass | Kelly Reichardt | 1994

Dick Russell

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63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read by Jess Ventura and Dick Russell

Former W.W.E. wrestler Jesse Ventura is a notorious conspiracy theory hack. I say hack because despite having a show dedicated to conspiracy theories, being the former governor of the state of Minnesota, and his personal political leanings being libertarian, he has not only failed to uncover or dismantle any conspiracies but rather instead increased the power and spread of many disproved theories (sometimes doing this it seems unintentionally), basically he is a ‘useful idiot’ for people who are behind actual conspiracy theories.

This is what makes this book interesting. In 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read, Jesse and (really the real writer and researcher of the book) Dick Russell do provide 63 real documents, documents as in a collection of writings and words that do exist and you can easily find on the internet, with most being official U.S. documents. All these documents are real and some were classified at one time. Perhaps someone who is trying to ‘get’ into conspiracy theories might benefit from this book due to each chapter being a different conspiracy (wherever they are true or not, see the four different 9/11 theories Jesse has in the book) and the very good last chapter that is nothing but resources to further research.

Despite my powerful shots at Jesse above, I actually would have preferred that this book was Jesse talking about/ranting about the theories he presents. The book is laid out with each chapter being about one conspiracy. They each began with a half page of text briefly explaining what the document is and what it is about with some angry one sentence that Jesse wrote that essentially says ‘damn you government!’. Then the next 1-4 pages are poorly scanned pictures of documents. Like they are taken from a camera over a piece of paper or something. Almost all of them are unreadable not just because of the quality of the photo taking, but because they are heavily redacted, covered in scratches and marks, blurry, or hand written. Really they should have just written the document as plain text first and then shown the crappy pictures. Really low effort and just completely ruins the book as a legit resource (expect for that last chapter). This is mainly my personal problem with the book. I can handle the misinformation, the overlapping theories, Jesse’s unhinged rants, and his chaos agent-like role in conspiracy theories, but this collection of photographs that one can’t see is at equal standing at just making up things or drawing a picture with canyons and declaring it the evidence that you found. Maybe Jesse has suffered too many body slam to the head to see through the clouds of bad book publishing that comes from ghost writing.

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Films seen in 2020

# 24 - River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt, 1994)