CIA Origin National Enquirer?

[Sweejak]

CIA Origin National Enquirer?

"It would have been very natural for someone who just came out
of the CIA Psychological Warfare Division to appeal to the CIA for funding, or at least be qualified to obtain funding for some type of
propaganda operationsuch as a National Enquirer tabloid."
- Terry Hansen, Author, The Missing Times

Podcast via Earthfiles:

http://www.earthfiles333.com/earthfiles ... dcast.html

[Uncle $cam]

You might find this book quite interesting if you can overlook the title...
http://feralhouse.com/titles/investigat ... atient.php

Despite it's title, it's a very interesting and perhaps, in depth look at propaganda and the CIA.

[Sweejak]

OMG, I kinda like the title, who can resist!

Anyone ever take a good look at the Anthrax killing of ... forgot his name... didn't he publish the famous shots of the Bush girls drunk on the floor?

Here it is
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/ ... index.html

Employees of American Media, based in Delray Beach, Florida, worked in temporary locations Tuesday as law enforcement and health officials scoured their building for evidence and for further traces of the bacteria. AMI's building, which also includes offices of the National Enquirer and The Globe, remained sealed.

Robert Stevens, 63, died Friday of inhalation of anthrax. Traces of anthrax were found in his work station at The Sun, according to both Agwunobi and AMI's chief executive, David Pecker.

and

Anthrax widow sues federal government
"The widow of the Florida man who became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks filed suit Wednesday against the federal government, claiming that lax security at a U.S. Army lab led to his death.
Maureen Stevens, the widow of tabloid photo editor Bob Stevens, is seeking $50 million.
Stevens died after inhaling anthrax that investigators believe was in a letter sent to American Media Inc. at its offices in Boca Raton, Florida.
Stevens worked on the third floor as a photo editor for The Sun, a tabloid published by American Media, which also publishes the National Enquirer, the Globe and the Weekly World News. He died October 5, three days after he entered the hospital with flu-like symptoms.
The letter with anthrax delivered to American Media was never recovered but at least one other employee who worked with Stevens contracted anthrax and recovered. The American Media Inc. headquarters was quarantined by investigators and remains sealed.
In the lawsuit, Stevens said the anthrax that killed her husband was of the same strain as anthrax produced at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.
Richard Schuler, a lawyer for Stevens, claimed that lax security at the lab may have aided whomever mailed the anthrax .
"They have tighter security at a 7-11," he said, referring to the ubiquitous convenience store chain. - CNN (9/24/03)

"You won't find stories about anthrax in the newest issues of the tabloids produced by American Media, the company that evacuated its Boca Raton, Fla., headquarters last week after the lethal bacteria was found to have killed one employee and infected several others.
But just as the National Enquirer, Star, Sun, etc., are pledging not to stray from their respective missions, their direction already has taken a detour since Sept. 11.
The Sun, where anthrax claimed the life of photo editor Bob Stevens and sent other employees to the hospital, actually has been the least topical of the tabloids...
Days before anthrax hit his company, Coz said the tabloids already were covering -- or not covering -- certain stories differently. For instance, at least one of this year's headline grabbers now would be considered off limits: "Jenna and Barbara Bush. The Enquirer two or three months ago did one pretty big story after [Jenna] got arrested for underage drinking violations. That is an example of a story that the tabloids wouldn't do at this time. We wouldn't do that under the umbrella of patriotism." - Chicago Tribune (10/16/01)

http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/bush.html

[Sweejak]

Sheesh, the book is all of $1.00

Review:

Hogshire believes tabloids are Rightist institutions that reinforce the "traditional patriarchal power structure." E.g. tabloids' "Rags-To-Riches" tales support the notion that anyone can succeed under capitalism if they are honest and work long hard hours. Tabloids' "fat obsession" reinforce oppressive sexist standards of beauty. And "Fall of the Mighty" stories alleviate class antagonisms by assuring working class readers that the rich and powerful are always punished for their greed and wrongdoing. Hogshire also speculates about the tabloids' CIA and Mafia ties in the 1960s. A short (147 pages), lively, and informative book despite its biases, by a former tabloid writer (who bites the hand that fed him).

http://tinyurl.com/2frp8f

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

The tabloids have become even more wild and crazy as self-satire.

How would this serve the purposes of the CIA?

> Eat up bandwith by getting the curious to read nonsense.
> Discredit anything readable by invoking a knee-jerk response of "ya can't believe everything ya read."
> Sneak real news by in disguise as 'tabloid silliness.'*

*Last year I saw a tabloid carry a story about the Yale fraternity running the US for ages called Skull and Bones. The story even mentioned that Prescott Bush was involved in digging up the grave of Geronimo with a pending lawsuit and that Harriet Tubman's grave was missing, too.
All true. But hidden in a tabloid to innoculate readers against resemblance to reality.

on edit: Social engineering to reinforce stereotypes and role models to get obedient shopper/soldiers, natch. Stores are designed much like a conditioning maze by consultants who've watched how primates graze and respond to high-commitment items vs low-commitment items, risk-aversion vs risk-attraction, etc.

Survival issues surface when meting out budget to get food.
The optics have the check-out chute are heavily Time, TV Guide, Disney, and anxiety-pamphlets (beauty-riches-style-celeb).

And those publishers have a track record of government influence, to say the least.

Now DVDs, especially Disney, have flooded the supermarket check-out chutes.
Heavy on the needy princess stuff.

[Sweejak]

> Discredit anything readable by invoking a knee-jerk response of "ya can't believe everything ya read."

http://tinyurl.com/26pw8p

[semper occultus]

IV/ Electile Dysfunction

http://popbitch.com/2017/10/iv-electile-dysfunction/


So far this story has dealt with the mob bosses of New York, the political powerbrokers of Washington, the supermarkets of suburbia and a corporate CEO from Connecticut – but it won’t have escaped your attention that most of the action has been zeroing in on Florida.

As you may recall, Florida is the location of the Tabloid Triangle. It’s where Gene Pope Junior relocated to escape mob threats. It’s where American Media, Inc. chose to open its offices, where David Pecker runs its daily operations from. It’s the site of Mar-A-Lago, where President Trump spends a great deal of his time. And it’s also the home of the final big player in all of this (but we’ll get to him shortly…)

It’s a unique state, Florida. Not just in the hurricane-shootin’, gator-wrastlin’, dolphin-fuckin’, PCP-snortin’, face-eatin’ sense. The Sunshine State plays a very particular part in American politics too.

Over the last 90 years, Florida has become one of the more reliable bellwethers of the national political mood, managing to predict presidential races with an uncanny accuracy. Since the 1920s, it has only failed to call the wider election correctly twice (in 1960, when it called for Richard Nixon over John F Kennedy; and in 1992, when it called for George Bush Sr over Bill Clinton).

And while there are other swing states that have proved to be just as accurate year after year (New Mexico, Nevada and Ohio, for example) none of them has the electoral clout that Florida has. Florida controls 29 of the 538 electoral votes, making the state as valuable to a presidential candidate as all three of those others, New Mexico (5 votes), Nevada (6) and Ohio (18), combined.

So when Florida was called for Trump at around 22:50 on election night, it was one of the surest signs that he had the national race all sewn up.

Is it a coincidence that all of these things happened in Florida? No. Not exactly. But it’s not exactly a huge conspiracy either.

This might feel like a wildly anticlimactic reveal after 12,000 words of build-up, but we aren’t about to tell you that the National Enquirer was what swung the election for Trump – because we don’t think it was. What’s more, we don’t think the National Enquirer was even seriously attempting to swing it either. That just happened.

However, there was something going on behind the scenes at American Media, Inc. during the election cycle – and that story is much more interesting.

Not only is it interesting, it’s actually something that might yet prove useful to keep tabs on as the Mueller investigation unfolds and America looks toward the 2018 midterms.

So, at the risk of rehashing one of the most overly-hashed political events in living memory, let’s examine how all of these intertwined stories came to play a crucial part in the 2016 Presidential election – and see how the National Enquirer paved the way for the most implausible President of the modern American era: Donald J Trump.