Sleaze Pizza
One of the film festival hits of
2017, described as an “intensely felt palimpsest of joy and despair” conveying
the “infectious joy” of summer [1] and finding “magic in the mundane” [2], was
Sean Baker’s The Florida Project. I watched it with the intention of
posting a review, but found it so depressing and upsetting that I abandoned my
plan for a write-up. As with Larry Clark’s Kids (1995), one of The
Florida Project’s selling points is its shocking depiction of unchaperoned
children in inappropriate situations. Six-year-old actress Brooklynn Prince
stars as Moonee, a foulmouthed, mischievous girl who stays at a sleazy
Kissimmee motel with her semi-homeless stripper/hooker mother. Moonee’s
imitation of the adults in her life finds her, for instance, calling another
little girl a “stupid thot” or twerking for her mother’s amusement: “Oh, wow,
you got some twerk skills, girl.” “Now watch me shake my booty,” Moonee sings,
directing her posterior toward the camera. Writer-director Baker and co-writer
Chris Bergoch make a point of unnecessarily and repeatedly sexualizing the
children in the film, with a small girl’s enjoyment of ice cream receiving the
encouragement, “Get that lick, girl”, and a little boy commenting on a topless
sunbather, “Hey, her boobies are so big that I can rub my face in them.” “I
wish I had a bigger stomach, like I was pregnant,” the six-year-old star muses
in one of the meal scenes – a line that might be dismissed as believably childlike
silliness if not for the sleaziness of its occurrence in such a tawdry movie.
Variety critic Owen
Gleiberman praised Baker as a “graceful neorealist voyeur”, an odd compliment
for the director of a movie about a small child [3]. Even the poster for The
Florida Project is in very questionable taste, cutting off the top of the
young star’s head and instead directing viewers’ attention to her legs and
torso. Likewise, within the film, the camera is not always focused on Moonee’s
face. The most disturbing moment for me when I watched The Florida Project
not long after its release, however, was the scene in which Moonee, lying on
her back in a bed, lowers a slice of cheese pizza into her mouth. At the time,
my suspicion was that this detail had been included to taunt believers in
Pizzagate, some of whom held that a reference to “cheese pizza” in a leaked
John Podesta email alluded to child pornography; but because The Florida
Project was shot in the summer of 2016 – months before the Pizzagate hashtag
exploded on Twitter – this seems highly unlikely. Such concerns were rife at
the time, however. In May 2017, the same month The Florida Project was
receiving rave reviews in Variety and other publications, a New Jersey
corrections officer named Stephen Salamak was targeted by federal authorities,
Keldy Ortiz reported, “when an undercover officer responded to a Craigslist ad
placed by the Lodi man seeking ‘Woman/Moms that are into Cheese Pizza’, which
is a description for child pornography, authorities said.” [4]
Pedophilia is an overt element of Baker’s film, with one sequence involving an elderly predator whose intentions are foiled by the intervention of the motel manager played by Willem Dafoe. “The pedophile scene was definitely rooted in reality,” Baker told Paper interviewer Alexander Hakimi:
Something that
kept coming up when speaking to residents [of motels in central Florida] and
reading articles was that pedophilia is rampant because children are there.
There are sex offenders living in the motels that children are living in. It
was something we had to address. [5]
“We were always going to work it into the film somehow, but
we weren’t sure how yet,” Baker elaborated to SlashFilm’s Marshall
Shaffer, explaining that the genesis of the sequence with the pedophile was an
incident in which he and writing partner Chris Bergoch were themselves
assumed to be child molesters:
And then what happened was that
Chris and I walked onto the property of one of these motels and were planning
on interviewing people we could come across. This is actually kind of a funny
story. We walk onto the playground of this one motel, and I think we were just
saying, “Hey kids, what’s up, how are you doing?” And suddenly this guy came
out of nowhere. One second he wasn’t there; the next second, he was there. I
turn around and there’s this dude holding a drill – I thought at first he was a
maintenance guy at the motel. He’s giving us the once-over and sizing us up,
trying to figure out who we are.
I put myself in those situations a
lot, so I didn’t think much of it. I just said to him, “We’re making a film, no
big deal.” And then my co-screenwriter Chris said, “No, no, Sean. This looks
bad. This looks really bad.” And I said, “What?” He said, “We’re two
40-year-old guys walking onto a playground, and you have your Chihuahua with
you. It looks really bad.” I was like, “Oooh, yeah.”
I turned to this gentleman and
said, “We’re making a film, we’re here doing research.” He said, “Come with me,”
and he brought us into the office to interrogate us. I could tell at that point
he completely suspects us of being up to no good, and we’re predators [in his
eyes]. We sit down in this office and I was like, “Oh boy, I’d better talk
fast.”
[…] In many ways, he inspired the
Bobby character [the hotel manager played by Willem Dafoe]. That whole incident
where we walked onto the playground is what inspired that moment with the
pedophile. [6]
Curiously, Bergoch and Baker
chose to give the pedophile a biographical detail that further connects him to
them, mentioning that he is from Cherry Hills, New Jersey, which is where the
writers used to attend sci-fi conventions [7]. This is not to insinuate that
Bergoch and Baker are child rapists – it is much more likely that they are not
– but they do seem to find humor in child abuse, with the duo’s two previous
collaborations, 2012’s Starlet and 2015’s Tangerine, both
featuring irreverent allusions. “You fuckin’ touch us all,” a prostitute
accuses a “sand nigger” pornographer in Starlet: “You fuckin’ love
molesting all the little girls, huh?” The claim is never substantiated, but the
presence of the pornographer’s children in his home, which doubles as a studio,
is unnerving. Tangerine, a celebrated film for which Baker hired actual
transsexual streetwalkers to play the leads, features a scene played for laughs
in which a man exits a donut shop with his infant daughter in his arms as a
whore shouts after them: “I’ll see you in ten years, kid” – the implication
being that that the man’s daughter is destined to work as a
ten-or-eleven-year-old prostitute. Additionally, Baker’s next movie following The
Florida Project, 2021’s Red Rocket, depicts the efforts of a
down-on-his-luck porn star and hustler to take a barely-legal and rather
childish-looking high school girl under his wing and initiate her into the
world of XXX.
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| Sean Baker |
Given the particularly seedy nature of his résumé and his history of employing prostitutes and adult film industry veterans as performers and consultants, Baker hardly seems like an obvious choice to receive financing to make a movie in which he would be working with child actors. Deeming him suited to the task, however, was June Pictures, the now-defunct venture of producers Alex Saks and Andrew Duncan, an odd character who withdrew from the company after twelve people made sexual harassment allegations against him:
In mid-December 2016, Duncan
allegedly initiated a FaceTime call at night with a female producer
on the upcoming teen comedy Dude. Lying with his shirt open on a
bed, sources say Duncan in crude language asked the producer – whom he did not
know well – to have sex with her husband while he watched. When he became aware
of another woman present in the producer’s home, he asked all three adults to
have sex while he watched. […]
Earlier in December 2016, at a crew
dinner on location in Oklahoma for a film called Wildlife, an
apparently inebriated Duncan allegedly kissed a female crewmember on
the lips without her consent, squeezed another attendee on her bottom while
hugging her, […] and offered to purchase hotel rooms for the night if others
reported their sexual activities back to him. […]
In August, at a dinner with Saks
and the producers of the upcoming film Book Club at Vincenti in
Los Angeles, a seemingly inebriated Duncan allegedly attempted to kiss a female
producer on the lips without her consent and repeatedly propositioned two women
at the table, one related to the female producer, for a threesome. […]
Asked about allegations that Duncan
had asked for payoffs to be made to prostitutes, CFO Dori Rath
responded, “I have not been directed to do anything with any funds that are
within June Pictures. But as far as any questions about what payments have been
made, it’s a private company. I can’t comment on funds in a private company,
but to my knowledge, I have never been directed to make payments anywhere that
would not be appropriate.”
“Mr. Duncan was a financier on
our feature, and we are grateful that we were able to fulfill our vision on our
own terms, however our personal experiences with him were limited,” Baker
claimed in his statement on the allegations [8]. Duncan, however, contends that
Baker’s statement was misleading and issued under “duress”, insisting, “I […] spent
months with him on location.” [9]
Also contributing extrafilmically to The Florida Project’s unsavory character is the backstory informing its title. “When Walt Disney was keeping his plans for WDW [i.e., Walt Disney World] under wraps, way before it opened in 1971, its code name was ‘The Florida Project’,” Baker’s co-writer Chris Bergoch explained [10]. It is a strange admission to make, because if Bergoch has read about the conditions of secrecy in which Disney World was planned, then he is almost certainly aware of Disney’s “Florida Project” collaborator Paul Helliwell, a CIA money launderer with deep connections in the world of organized crime, one of Helliwell’s responsibilities having been to facilitate and shield Disney’s real estate acquisitions with disinformation and suppression of publicity [11]. In linking The Florida Project with Disney’s intelligence-linked subterfuge, if only superficially, Bergoch imbues it with a vague sense of conspiracy and hidden motives. Secrets and lies are a motif of The Florida Project – the big and little things adults and children attempt to hide from one another – and the sight or sound of helicopters in several scenes lends the film an occasional air of paranoia, as if the military-industrial complex is always lurking somewhere in the background.
Indeed, The Florida Project
does intersect tangentially with the weird politics of the Trump era. Its
disgraced producer, Andrew Duncan, in addition to dabbling in the movie industry,
is a globohomo operative of some note. With Warburg Pincus executive Elizabeth “Bess”
Weatherman, he is a cofounder of the MIC-linked Romulus T. Weatherman
Foundation, which advertises itself as being “dedicated to protecting children,
human rights, and democracy around the world”, and assists enthusiastically
with “refugee” resettlement [12]. The pair also helped establish the Jerome A.
Cohen Professorship of Law at New York University in honor of an academic who
influenced Henry Kissinger’s determination to open China to the penetration of
American capital [13], and Duncan takes a particular interest in vilifying the stubbornly
resilient authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party:
I’m proud of my efforts to help
secure the release of five women who were imprisoned in Beijing for peacefully
protesting sexual harassment on Bejing’s [sic] public transit system. I also
helped lead a years-long campaign that secured the release of US
businesswoman, Sandy Phan-Gillis, who had been imprisoned in China without
charges. [14]
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| Andrew Duncan and erstwhile June Pictures partner Alex Saks |
Reputed spy Phan-Gillis, a Vietnamese-American of Chinese descent, had traveled to China as part of a US trade delegation in 2015, when she was detained by Chinese authorities who accused her of stealing state secrets [15]. Confirming his sympathies with deep-statery directed at China’s government, Duncan produced the 2017 Netflix documentary Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, profiling Joshua Wong, touted by the neoliberal establishment as the saintly Gandhi figure of the 2014 “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong. Duncan’s darling Wong, in the late Andre Vltchek’s words, is an “evangelical fanatic” and “a ‘selfie-generation’ Western implant, without any understanding of global politics […] But this young, confused kid was picked up quickly by the radar of the US anti-Chinese warriors, and in 2018 nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize”, since then “flying from one Western capital to another, smearing the People’s Republic of China”, even rubbing shoulders with the jihadist “White Helmets” [16]. In a 2019 stunt, Duncan purchased 300 tickets to a Brooklyn Nets game to fill the stands with people wearing “Stand with Hong Kong” t-shirts, also announcing his intention “to fly NBA players to Asia on a ‘fact-finding mission’ and to spread democracy throughout the region.” [17] He is also fond of scoldingly tagging China-friendly Apple CEO Tim Cook in his tweets [18].
Controversially, Duncan utilized IGX LLC, the same company
through which he financed June Pictures, to allegedly obscure a $500,000
donation to Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s flopped 2016 presidential campaign via
the Rubio-backing Conservative Solutions PAC [19]. Rubio is a reliable
anti-China hawk and, unsurprisingly, has obediently championed Joshua Wong.
Duncan is no Republican loyalist, however. “Of 25 contributions made by Duncan
in his own name during the 2016 electoral cycle,” observes Peter Lee, “there’s
$12,300 to the Democratic National Committee, $20,400 in 3 contributions to
various Hillary Clinton-affiliated recipients, $12,900 in 4 contributions
for Clinton’s running mate Tim Kaine, and around $10,000 each for Virginia
Republican Mark Warner and ex-Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown.” [20] Duncan’s
Warburg Pincus collaborator Bess Weatherman also donated $15,000 to the Hillary
Victory Fund in 2016 [21].
Duncan’s Clinton affinity and relationship with Weatherman is significant in view of Rubio’s uncharacteristic behavior in the aftermath of the leak of John Podesta’s emails and on the eve of the meming of Pizzagate. Ordinarily a theatrical critic of the former First Lady and eager to pounce on her numerous foibles, Rubio sounded a note of caution in the case of WikiLeaks:
Marco Rubio has been mum on the
WikiLeaks hack of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman and advises Republicans
to do the same, warning that while Democrats are being hacked today,
Republicans could be exposed tomorrow.
In a statement out Wednesday
morning, the Florida senator refused to acknowledge any of the revelations
exposed by WikiLeaks’ hack of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s personal
email account.
“I will not discuss any issue that
has become public solely on the basis of Wikileaks,” said Rubio, who sits on
the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee. “As our intelligence agencies have said,
these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our
electoral process and I will not indulge it.”
Rubio’s position is a clear break
with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and some of his surrogates.
Trump has repeatedly exploited the hack, blasting out though his Facebook and
Twitter accounts negative Clinton headlines that have emerged and encouraging
his supporters at rallies to look at the revelations themselves because, he
said, the media aren’t reporting on it enough. [22]
Trump’s maverick populism had obliterated the hopes of
establishment “cuckservative” candidates like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio of
attaining their party’s nomination, but Trump’s extensive history of shady
associations and dealings continued to dog him during the race. His insurgent 2016
campaign divided Zionist opinion, allying itself with the Israeli right and enlisting
a notably gross and disreputable Jewish element. Collaborating with Trump
attorney Michael Cohen to launch the ShouldTrumpRun.com website in 2011 was
eccentric Zionist pharmaceuticals billionaire and self-styled “No. 1 King of
All Fun” Stewart “Stewie Rah Rah” Rahr [23], who made the news with such
exploits as emailing acquaintances a sex tape of himself with three women in a
limousine, being banned from a sushi restaurant for threatening a waiter, and
being detained by police for waving a gun at Trump Tower [24]. Also in 2011,
Trump burnished his rowdy right-wing credentials by throwing his weight behind
the Obama-bashing “birther” allegations of Israeli mudslinger Orly Taitz [25].
Trump’s alliance with Likud party chief Benjamin Netanyahu, reinforced by Ivanka
Trump’s marriage to Netanyahu-backer Jared Kushner, was also key to shaping his
eventual presidential campaign and agenda. Still more sinister associations
peopled Trump’s past, however, threatening to discredit him in 2016. Specifically,
his relationship with Israeli intelligence asset and sex trafficker Jeffrey
Epstein was receiving renewed scrutiny.
It was in this context that WikiLeaks released the Podesta emails that would give rise to Pizzagate. As if by design, this collation and macabre interpretation of strange references and connections in the Clinton milieu diverted attention away from Trump’s entanglement with the notorious Israeli blackmailer and toward a conveniently gentile-centered and politically partisan cast of characters including John and Tony Podesta, David Brock, and restauranteur James Alefantis, whose sexually perverted social media history and unexpected recognition by GQ as one of “The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington” [26] piqued amateur researchers’ curiosity. As Aedon Cassiel writes in a useful but flawed summary of the Pizzagate allegations published by Counter-Currents and The Unz Review:
The evidence is of wildly varying
levels of quality, ranging from the pareidolia of “Jesus is appearing to me in
my toast” to “wait, that’s actually pretty damn creepy.” […]
While many of these
claims are wild speculation over coincidences (though by no means all
of them are), at some point I think a bunch of weird coincidences involving
pedophilia and kids becomes sort of damning in and of itself. In one email
[from Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff, Tamera Luzzatto], Podesta is
among those being invited to a farm and the host says, “Bonnie will be Uber
Service to transport Ruby, Emerson, and Maeve Luzzatto (11, 9, and
almost 7) so you’ll have some further entertainment, and they will be in [the]
pool for sure.”
Could that have an innocent
explanation? Sure, maybe. But inviting a group of adult men to a gathering and
calling young children “further entertainment” while listing their ages is weird, whether
it ends up having an explanation or not. […] [27]
Of interest to Pizzagaters in connection with this was Evie’s
Crib, a blog from 2009 that pictured Ms. Luzzatto with infants and
advertised “raw and uncut” access [28]. Cassiel continues:
For yet another
coincidence, Lauren Silsby-Gayler is the former director of The New
Life Children’s Refuge in Haiti. It is a matter of public record that she was
caught, prosecuted, and sent to jail while in that role for trying to abduct
dozens of children, most of whom had homes and families. The main
lawyer paid to represent Silsby-Gayler, “President of the Sephardic Jewish
community in the Dominican Republic” [Jorge Puello], was himself suspected of
involvement in human trafficking.
When the Clintons gained influence
in the region, one of their first acts was to work to get Silsby-Gayler
off the hook. Among the Podesta Wikileaks are State Department
emails discussing their case. Meanwhile, she now works on the executive
board of AlertSense … which collaborates with IPAWS [i.e., the Integrated
Public Alert and Warning System] to send out nation-wide Amber Alerts. [29]
Intriguing to observe at the time of the Pizzagate imbroglio was the pincer movement with which corporate news organizations and a dominant element of the alternative media approached the emerging mythos. While mainstream outlets embarked upon a synchronized denunciation of “fake news”, denying outright the possibility of any truth to the pedophilia allegations, Alex Jones and his ilk simultaneously hastened to propagate Pizzagate while also making it as stupid as possible. Tony Podesta’s sadistic and pedophilia-suggestive taste in art would alone have been sufficiently scandal-worthy; but, building on the “spirit cooking” shtick of morbid performance artist Marina Abramovic, whose name comes up in the John Podesta emails, Jones and others introduced a hokey supernatural element into the brew, characterizing Hillary Clinton as a devil-worshipper and elaborating Alefantis’s questionable social media posts about children into a phantasmagoria of speculations about underground tunnels, sacrifices to Moloch, and secret family relationships between the Podestas, Laurance Rockefeller, and Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington. Also typical of the outrageous sensationalism of the time was the purported Comet Pizza “menu” of available children touted by InfoWars goofball Joe Biggs. “When I think about all the children Hillary Clinton has personally murdered and chopped up and raped, I have zero fear standing up against her,” Alex Jones declared, adding, “Hillary Clinton is one of the most vicious serial killers the planet’s ever seen.” [30] It is worth mentioning that Jones rose to prominence during the George W. Bush years, when he served the major function of steering popular distrust of the government and establishment media, the official 9/11 narrative, and the “War on Terror” agenda away from criticism of Zionism and into more manageable cognitive containment zones, and that he has consistently associated himself with causes subversive of effective political dissent, most notably the Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy theory during Obama’s presidency.
John Podesta’s email account was alleged by oligarchical
media to have been hacked by the Russians, the popular alternative theory being
that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, reputedly a Bernie Sanders supporter, had
leaked the emails to WikiLeaks in retaliation for the Democratic Party’s sabotage
of Sanders and the blatant favoritism the party displayed for the preferred
establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton. In a report that was subsequently
retracted for lack of “editorial scrutiny” [31], Fox News cited “law
enforcement sources” claiming Rich “had leaked thousands of internal emails to
WikiLeaks” [32], with Breitbart – a news organization that, by its own
admission, was “conceived in Israel” [33] – also boosting the Seth Rich angle.
Even WikiLeaks figurehead Julian Assange heavily insinuated that Rich had been
a WikiLeaks source in an interview with a Dutch news program [34], and I,
myself, believed it at the time. The first and largest investor in Crowdstrike,
the firm that “linked” the DNC breach to Russia’s government [35], was Warburg
Pincus [36], whose director, Timothy Geithner, held Treasury posts under the
Clinton and Obama administrations. In addition, Warburg Pincus has employed the
lobbying services of the Podesta Group [37], thus calling Crowdstrike’s forensic
impartiality into question. It is also interesting to note that Russia,
ostensibly the source of the Podesta emails and allegedly responsible for the
trending of the resulting conspiracy theories, did not endorse Pizzagate, with
even Russia Today denouncing the lore as “fake news”. [38]
Among the notables promoting Pizzagate was Michael Flynn, Jr., whose father, Israeli asset General Michael Flynn, was Trump’s national security advisor [39]. General Flynn inadvertently furnished the Democrats with material for their construction of the Russiagate narrative when, on Israel’s behalf, Flynn sought a meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, during which he “lobbied Kislyak to exercise Russia’s veto against the passage of a United Nations security council resolution condemning the growth of Israel’s illegal settlements,” Max Blumenthal explains: “Thanks to Flynn’s indictment, we now know that the Israeli prime minister was able to transform the Trump administration into his own personal vehicle for undermining Obama’s lone effort to hold Israel accountable at the UN.” [40]
As to the ultimate origins of Pizzagate, too, signs point
not to Russia but to Israel. As Erin Banco and Betsy Woodruff wrote in the
aftermath of the Mueller investigation:
A few months into Donald Trump’s
2016 campaign, his team reviewed a strange pitch. It came from a company called
Psy Group, which had links to Israeli intelligence, and it laid out how fake
social media accounts could manipulate the American election. That outreach
caught the attention of Robert Mueller’s team. And now, the Senate Intelligence
Committee – which is still investigating foreign interference in the 2016
election – has reached out to the company’s founder for questioning, according
to two sources familiar with the outreach.
Royi Burstien, the founder and ex-CEO
of Psy Group, isn’t alone, according to two people familiar with the matter;
the committee also sent an inquiry to Joel Zamel – a self-styled Mark
Zuckerberg of the national-security world who reportedly owned Psy Group.
The Israeli-Australian discussed Psy Group’s “Campaign Intelligence and & Influence
Services Proposal” with Donald Trump Jr. during the campaign, and campaign
staff also reached out to the company about social media manipulation to help
Trump win the White House.
Zamel also attended meetings during
the transition that included discussions about how to undermine and ultimately
take down the regime in Iran, according to communications reviewed by The
Daily Beast. Top Trump World power brokers, including Steve Bannon and Michael
Flynn, were present for the talks. [41]
“The business partner of a British security consultant who
has come under scrutiny by the Senate Intelligence Committee for his
connections to Psy Group and Oleg Deripaska, incorporated a Florida LLC in July
2016,” Forensic News reporter Scott Stedman revealed in 2019:
The security consultant, Walter
Tzvi Soriano, entered into business with a former Israeli defense contractor
Guy Levinin and another Israeli man, Doron Cohen on July 22, 2016, the
same day that WikiLeaks leaked the first DNC emails […]
The Florida LLC, Playland
Investments, of which Cohen and Soriano are partners, appears to be active and
involved in real estate in the United States. The third partner involved in the
venture, Guy Levintin, is a Florida-based real estate investor
catering to Israeli clients. […]
Soriano’s background as a shadowy
intelligence collector/analyst appears to also have connections to the Israeli
government and Prime Minister Netanyahu. A 2018 Israeli news exposé revealed
that Soriano, nicknamed “The Thug”, has been a confidant of Netanyahu’s for
decades and has acted as somewhat of a fixer for the Israeli leader. [42]
As for the utility and motives of Assange’s operation, the amateur-sleuth
video WikiLeaks: Another Mossad Psyop is recommendably thought-provoking.
Florida, meanwhile, if recent developments are any indication, remains as deeply sordid
as ever, with Kent Stermon, military contractor, Boys and Girls Club board
member, and prominent ally of would-be Trump successor Ron DeSantis, having
been found dead of apparent suicide in the midst of being investigated for
undisclosed “sexual misconduct” allegations [43].
Rainer Chlodwig von K.
Rainer is the author of Drugs, Jungles, and Jingoism.
Endnotes
[1] Kiang, Jessica. “Tangerine
Director Sean Baker’s Boisterous and Heartbreaking The Florida Project”.
The Playlist (May 23, 2017): https://archive.ph/UxcZu
[2] Whitney, E. Oliver. “The
Florida Project Is a Magnificent, Spirited Follow-Up from the Tangerine
Filmmaker”. Screen Crush (September 8, 2017): https://archive.ph/rSBSA
[3] Gleiberman, Owen. “Film
Review: The Florida Project”. Variety (May 22, 2017): https://archive.ph/Ggrne
[4] Ortiz, Keldy. “Corrections
Officer Pleads Guilty to Child Porn”. Community News (August 9, 2018),
p. 2.
[5] Hakimi, Alexander. “The
Florida Project Director Sean Baker on Working with Untrained Actors and
Secret Filming in Disney World”. Paper (October 20, 2017): https://archive.ph/k1rj7
[6] Shaffer, Marshall. “The
Florida Project Director Sean Baker on Finding the Humor in Tragedy
(Interview)”. SlashFilm (October 6, 2017): https://archive.vn/SIKFU
[8] Baum, Gary; and Kim Masters.
“Florida Project Producer Accused of Sexual Harassment by a Dozen Insiders”. The
Hollywood Reporter (December 15, 2017): https://archive.ph/ZgzBN
[9] Duncan, Andrew. “Florida
Project Producer Responds to Misconduct Allegations: Holding the News Media
Accountable”. Mediaite (January 23, 2018): https://archive.vn/N9nnN
[10] Murphy, J.J. The Florida
Project. Austin, TX: University of Austin Press, 2021.
[11] Agness, P.J. “The Spies Who
Built a Magic Kingdom”. Koala Media (May 10, 2022): https://archive.ph/IGYLB
[14] Duncan, Andrew. “Florida
Project Producer Responds to Misconduct Allegations: Holding the News Media
Accountable”. Mediaite (January 23, 2018): https://archive.vn/N9nnN
[15] Watt, Louise. “UN Panel:
China Is Arbitrarily Detaining US Citizen – A Texan”. Fort Worth
Star-Telegram (July 7, 2016), p. 16A.
[16] Vltchek, Andre. “Joshua
Wong, Juan Guaido – New Generation of Pro-Western ‘Saints’”. Global Research
(October 4, 2019): https://www.globalresearch.ca/joshua-wong-juan-guaido-new-generation-pro-western-saints/5691042
[17] Wilson, Alex. “Andrew
Duncan’s Pro-Democracy Protest”. Patch (September 13, 2021): https://archive.ph/CpRur
[18] https://web.archive.org/web/20220611181932/twitter.com/andrewpduncan2
[19] Lee, Peter. “Andrew Duncan:
Secret Santa to Joshua Wong, Marco Rubio, Jerome Cohen … and Godfather to the
Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act AND the Hong Kong National Security
Law???” Peter Lee’s China Threat Report (July 1, 2020): https://archive.ph/kqS7R
[20] Ibid.
[21] https://www.city-data.com/elec2/elec-GULF-STREAM-FL.html
[22] McCaskill, Nolan. “Rubio
Warns GOP to Stay Silent on WikiLeaks Hack”. Politico (October 19,
2016): https://archive.ph/JrUfI
[23] “Trump Associate Scopes Out
Iowa Politics”. St. Cloud Times (March 5, 2011), p. 3B.
[24] Stein, Joshua David. “No. 1
King of All Fun”. Chicago Tribune (June 17, 2014), p. 1A-18.
[25] Coker, Matt. “Donald Trump
Gives Orly Taitz Sloppy, Wet Kiss”. OC Weekly (March 18, 2011): https://web.archive.org/web/20110320225015/http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/03/donald_trump_gives_orly_taitz.php
[26] Cherlin, Reid, et al. “The
50 Most Powerful People in Washington”. GQ (January 17, 2012): https://archive.vn/xBuUU
[27] Cassiel, Aedon. “Pizzagate”.
The Unz Review (December 2, 2016): https://www.unz.com/article/pizzagate/
[29] Cassiel, Aedon. “Pizzagate”.
The Unz Review (December 2, 2016): https://www.unz.com/article/pizzagate/
[30] Seder, Sam. “Alex Jones
Pulls Pizzagate Video from Site Following Controversy, But We Have the INSANE
Audio!” The Majority Report (December 15, 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iiU1Bfyvts
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