empty request object

I just integrated a broken django setup, 1.9, python 2.7, nginx,
uWSGI, RHEL 6. First thing I observed, the views are not receiving
anything in the request object, e.g.:

(Pdb) print request
<WSGIRequest: GET '/'>

Other django systems I've worked with I always get something, e.g.:

(Pdb) print request
<WSGIRequest
path:/,
GET:<QueryDict: {}>,
POST:<QueryDict: {}>,
COOKIES:{'csrftoken': 'ieefjZZJjeif993i4nfmnkZZKJ',
'messages': '2f148ec0f66f94740a8ff273dd544b554d28c96c$[["__json_message",0,20,"The
tool \\"U7316\\" was added successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The
tool \\"U7321\\" was added successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The
tool \\"SEMA116\\" was added
successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The tool \\"U7324\\" was added
successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The tool \\"U7324\\" was
changed successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The tool \\"SEMA116\\"
was changed successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The tool
\\"U7331\\" was added successfully."],["__json_message",0,20,"The tool
\\"SEMA207\\" was added successfully."]]',
'sessionid': 'xg254b6ki5m981n8oko4n88jnqsj0m1y'},
META:{'Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render': '/tmp/launch-FIgPyl/Render',
.
.
.

I've never seen this before. What could be causing this? Where would I
being to look?

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