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[26]:

Business Career

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Entertainment and media

In the 1990s, Bannon ventured into entertainment and media, and became an executive producer in the Hollywood film and media industry. Bannon produced 18 films,[46] from Sean Penn's drama The Indian Runner (1991) to Julie Taymor's film Titus (1999). Bannon became a partner with entertainment industry executive Jeff Kwatinetz at film and television management company The Firm, Inc., 2002–2003.[56][70]

In 2004, Bannon made a documentary about Ronald Reagan titled In the Face of Evil. Through the making and screening of this film, Bannon was introduced to Reagan's War author Peter Schweizer and publisher Andrew Breitbart, who would later describe him as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Tea Party movement.[56] Bannon was involved in the financing and production of a number of films, including Fire from the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman (2010), The Undefeated (2011), and Occupy Unmasked (2012).

Bannon persuaded Goldman Sachs to invest, in 2006, in a company known as Internet Gaming Entertainment.[71] Following a lawsuit, the company rebranded as Affinity Media, and Bannon took over as CEO. From 2007 through 2011, Bannon was the chair and CEO of Affinity Media.[72][73]

In 2007, Bannon wrote an eight-page treatment for a new documentary called Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Facism (sic) in America. The outline states that "although driven by the 'best intentions,' institutions such as the media, the Jewish community and government agencies were appeasing jihadists aiming to create an Islamic republic."[74] In 2011, Bannon spoke at the Liberty Restoration Foundation in Orlando, Florida, about the Economic Crisis of 2008, the Troubled Assets Relief Program, and their impact in the origins of the Tea Party movement, while also discussing his films Generation Zero (2010) and The Undefeated.[75]

Bannon was executive chair and co-founder of the Government Accountability Institute, a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (where he helped orchestrate the publication of Breitbart News senior editor-at-large[76] Peter Schweizer's book Clinton Cash),[56][77] from its founding in 2012 until his departure in August 2016.[78] For the years 2012 through 2015, he received between $81,000 and $100,000 each year; the organization reported that he worked an average of 30 hours per week for the organization.[78] He has also worked as vice president of the board of Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics firm which allegedly used illegal tactics to target American voters in the 2016 election and is owned largely by the Mercer family,[79] the family that also co-owns Breitbart News.[80]

In 2015, Bannon was ranked No. 19 on Mediaite's list of the "25 Most Influential in Political News Media 2015".[81]

Bannon also hosted a radio show (Breitbart News Daily) on the SiriusXM Patriot satellite radio channel.[82]

Breitbart News

Bannon was a founding member of the board of Breitbart News,[83] a right-wing news, opinion and commentary website. Philip Elliott and Zeke J. Miller of Time say the site has "pushed racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic material into the vein of the alternative right".[13] Bannon said that Breitbart's ideological mix included libertarians, Zionists, the conservative gay community, same-sex marriage opponents, economic nationalists, populists, as well as alt-right, the alt-right comprising a very small proportion overall. Conceding the alt-right holds views with "racial and anti-Semitic overtones," Bannon said he has zero tolerance for such views.[84]

In March 2012, after founder Andrew Breitbart's death, Bannon became executive chair of Breitbart News LLC, the parent company of Breitbart News.[85][86][87] Under his leadership, Breitbart took a more alt-right and nationalistic approach toward its agenda.[88] In 2016, Bannon declared the website "the platform for the alt-right".[14] Speaking about his role at Breitbart, Bannon said: "We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class."[89]

On August 18, 2017, Breitbart announced that Bannon would return as executive chairman following his White House employment.[90] On January 9, 2018, he stepped down as executive chairman.[91]

Mercer | Breitbart | Bannon | Goldman Sachs | IGE / Affinity Media

This is getting weirder...

Given Bannon's history with Goldman Sachs, IGE & Breitbart, along with accusations of antisemitism and/or racism, I can't help but wonder about another person of interest...

Let's take a quick look at something else in the Bannon wiki, before we discuss said person of interst, though:

[26]:

Political career

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Departure from the White House

Bannon's employment in the White House ended on August 18, 2017, less than a week after the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally which degenerated into violence and acrimony. Whereas members of both political parties condemned the hatred and violence of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and alt-right activists, The New York Times noted that Trump "was the only national political figure to spread blame for the 'hatred, bigotry and violence' that resulted in the death of one person to 'many sides'".[149] The decision to blame "many sides" was reported to have come from Bannon.[150]~~

Why is this relevant? Bannon's fellow ex-Breitbart employee, Milo Yiannopoulos

[27. wiki: Milo Yiannopoulos]:

Milo Yiannopoulos (/jəˈnɒpələs/;[1] born Milo Hanrahan; 18 October 1984; also writing under the pen name Milo Andreas Wagner)[2][3] is a British political commentator, right-wing polemicist, and writer.

Yiannopoulos is a former senior editor for Breitbart News, who describes himself as a "cultural libertarian".[4] He is a critic of feminism, Islam, social justice, political correctness, and other movements. Though often described as a member of the alt-right, he rejects this label, stating that there are many "points of difference" between him and the alt-right movement.[5] In October 2017, leaked emails revealed that Yiannopoulos had repeatedly solicited neo-Nazi and white supremacist figures on the alt-right for feedback and story ideas in his work for the website Breitbart. The leaked emails also showed that his book, Dangerous, and many of his Breitbart articles were ghost-written by a Breitbart colleague.[6]~~

There's a lot of things regarding Milo Yiannopoulos which strike me as suspicious, when looking at things from the "shillfarms" & "play all sides" angles, with Soros $$ and other connections kept in mind. For the sake of keeping things moving, I'll try to be as brief but concise as possible here.

Controversies

Alleged support for paedophilia

~~Throughout the controversy, Yiannopoulos was criticised for [in his words] attending Hollywood "boat parties" and "house parties" in which boys he described as "very young - very young" were sexually abused, but failing to report the abusers to the authorities or to identify them during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.[140]~~

Milo’s Seeming Support for Man-Boy Love Is Worse Than the Inaction That Undid Paterno

Yiannopoulos' nauseating podcast interview sets new post-Sandusky low

^{By Selwyn Duke • 02/21/17 3:00pm}

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Bohemian bad boy of Breitbart Milo Yiannopoulos’ career had long been a testimonial to the notion that there’s no such thing as negative press. But this changed yesterday when attention was focused on comments he made advocating what one might call “situational pederasty.” Yet perhaps most damning is not what he said but what he didn’t.

Yiannopoulos failed to report child sex abuse so extreme that he himself said it “beggared belief.”

The admission was made in a 2015 interview with comedian and commentator Joe Rogan. At 4:46 in the video found here, the openly-homosexual Yiannopoulos explains how he attended the “boat parties” and “house parties” of Hollywood figures of the stature of film producer Bryan Singer (who has been accused of minor sex abuse). At these events, grown men were using for sex boys who were, as Yiannopoulos puts it, “very young—very young.”

Note that Yiannopoulos had just outlined how he’d been abused by a clergyman when he was 13 or 14, but nonetheless described his abuser as a “great priest.” He said in another YouTube video that sexual relationships “between younger boys and older men…can be hugely positive experiences,” as he discussed “the merits of gay relationships between adults and boys as young as 13,” as the BBC put it.

So how young were the boys at the Hollywood parties if they, even in Yiannopoulos’s eyes, “beggared belief”? Twelve? Eleven? He doesn’t say.

He also won’t say who the abusers were, telling Rogan, “I don’t want to be indiscreet about specific people because I think it’s going to be, yeah, dangerous.”

So, see something, say nothing?~~

~~Update: Milo Yiannopoulos has resigned from Breitbart News.

[29. ^ Update: Milo Yiannopoulos has resigned from Breitbart News. http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-breitbart-pedophilia-1201993063/ | archived ]

Note: The original source for ref 29 has been updated, but, archive.is is unable to capture it again...

We've run out of workable room again, reference 29 will be explored ahead in comment 12...