Bannonin natsiakatemia

[Master of Speed]

Steve Bannon’s alt-right academy — and one village’s fight to stop it

How an Italian monastery became part of a plan for a populist Europe.

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One of the most influential figures in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, Bannon spent four years before that election running Breitbart News, turning it into a single platform for the disparate rightwing elements of modern America, from pro-lifers and climate-change deniers to white supremacists.

Since being ousted from his position as White House chief strategist in 2017, he has shifted his attention to Europe, helping launch the Brussels-based The Movement, a rightwing think-tank to support nationalist, anti-establishment groups.

With European Parliament elections to be held later this month, Bannon is attempting to reinvent himself as Europe’s high priest of populism, uniting nationalist parties in shared opposition to immigration, progressive liberal values and the EU itself. Drawing on his expertise in polling, messaging, slogans and data targeting, he has toured European capitals touting himself as a mentor to a new breed of “strongmen” such as Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini and Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban.

While a number of Europe’s rightwing leaders have sought to keep Bannon at arm’s length, in Italy, his Christian-centric, pro-family (and vehemently anti-abortion) message has chimed with ultra-conservative Catholics. With their help, he is finalising preparations for the opening of an alt-right academy, in a monastery in the mountains above Anagni.

Bannon plans to turn this unlikely location into the centre of a European network of finishing schools for ultra-conservatives. The Academy of the Judeo-Christian West will, Bannon claims, serve as an incubator for nationalist leaders of the future.

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Looking out over the former hunting grounds, Bannon describes his vision. “Come back here in a few years and you’ll find 100 students; 20 to 25 faculty [staff]. You’ve already had a couple of classes graduate [by then] and people are back in media, back in political campaigns, serving as junior ministers in government and starting to build a network . . . I think this academy will start to build a cadre.”

https://www.ft.com/content/d38ffde2-6bf ... 1eeaef6d84

[Lusku]

onkohan luostarissa seinällä Jeesuksen vai Putinin kuva?

[tauti]

onkohan luostarissa seinällä Jeesuksen vai Putinin kuva?

Lenin

[Lusku]

onkohan luostarissa seinällä Jeesuksen vai Putinin kuva?

Lenin

ai niin tietysti

[Sulo Kokki]

Oiskohan Timo from Finland ready to help

[☽☽☽]

Menestyyköhän paremmin kun Crowleyn italian luostari

[Lana Ctrl-Alt-Del Rey]

Menestyyköhän paremmin kun Crowleyn italian luostari

Toivotaan että Bannonin ura seuraa Crowleyä. Hoitokotiin horisemaan omiaan sitten seuraavaks.

[☽☽☽]

Menestyyköhän paremmin kun Crowleyn italian luostari

Toivotaan että Bannonin ura seuraa Crowleyä. Hoitokotiin horisemaan omiaan sitten seuraavaks.

Heroiinia unohtamatta

[Heissan vaan!]

Eikö tuostakaan saatana ihmissyövästä päästä koskaan eroon

[Villijam]

he has toured European capitals touting himself as a mentor to a new breed of “strongmen” such as Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini and Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban.

Vohoi

[Lana Ctrl-Alt-Del Rey]

Eikö tuostakaan saatana ihmissyövästä päästä koskaan eroon

Näyttänyt jo pitkään siltä että ois juomassa itsensä enkelikuoroon, mutta ei vaan tunnu tapahtuvan.

[Jussin villapaita]

Eikö tuostakaan saatana ihmissyövästä päästä koskaan eroon

Näyttänyt jo pitkään siltä että ois juomassa itsensä enkelikuoroon, mutta ei vaan tunnu tapahtuvan.

Kyllä se siitä. Aatella että tää jamppa oli vielä alle 2 vuotta sitten valkoisen talon päästrategi. Niillä höyryillä vielä pistelee, mutta parin vuoden päästä lienee syvän pään kakkosdivarikamaa.

[Pasi Fist]

Hieman OT:

En ole vieläkään ehtinyt sitä Errol Morrisin American Dharma pätkää ehtinyt katsoa. Meinaan kyllä tsekata.

Errol Morris’ American Dharma

Years ago I wanted to start an ostrich anti-defamation league because I thought ostriches were being unfairly criticized for a perfectly reasonable strategy—sticking their heads in a hole in the ground in order to avoid danger. Now I think there’s a lot to be said for the opposite point of view. That facing danger, square on, is usually the best course of action. Our country was plunged into chaos, or worse, in 2016. And Stephen K. Bannon was at the center of it. I feel that it is important to talk to him, to investigate him, and to understand his point of view.

Steve Bannon asked me why I wanted to make American Dharma. I told him I didn’t understand him or why he was doing what he was doing. But I thought if making a film could help me, and others, understand any of this, then it would be a good thing.

Does shedding light on Bannon give him more attention? Maybe. But I worry more about indifference, silence, avoidance, a lack of thoughtful analysis. The movie both contextualizes his remarks and pushes back against many of them. But my task as a filmmaker is neither to sanitize Bannon nor to attack him, but to try and capture his ideas and represent what he’s trying to achieve—even if that scares me.

One question that the film raises: is Steve Bannon a true believer or an opportunist? I think it’s usually a mixture of both. Take it from me, a former door-to-door salesman, the simple answer is that if you’re selling something it’s much better to believe in it. It’s much easier to sell what you believe. Bannon flirts with classical ideas of fate, of destiny—all, I suppose, wrapped up in his theory of dharma. But what is dharma? Fate? Destiny? Duty? Obligation? At times dharma seems like it could be anything or everything.

I recently published a book (The Ashtray) that is really about truth, what truth means, and also the denial of truth. We live in a time when people are trying to make up reality on the spur of the moment, as if reality doesn’t exist independent of us. As if reality is simply up for grabs. I passionately believe that there is a real world out there and that there is such a thing as truth. And one of the most repellant things ongoing is the denial of that fact. It is one of the most frightening things about our current world that people feel they can claim anything, believe anything and that it can never be challenged. That’s beyond moral equivalence. It’s a kind of total equivalence, where World of Warcraft is more real than the world itself.

Bannon invokes a much simpler, black-and-white, fantasy world of Hollywood from the 1950s and early 1960s—and an America that tried very hard to reflect those images. The worlds of John Ford, of David Lean, of Henry King, of Orson Welles and of Stanley Kubrick may be incredibly powerful, but they’re movie worlds, not reality. One of the true ironies for me is that Bannon’s interpretation of every single quoted movie in this film is at variance with mine, as if we’re actually looking at two different movies. And maybe we are. But we still inhabit the same world with the same problems and the need for solutions. – Errol Morris

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/ ... rican.html

[Master of Speed]

Nyt kun Boris Johnsson on pian pääministeri, niin tälle neuvoja antava Bannon on taas ajankohtainen.

[Ingmar Bergmanin kuolema]

Vedetäänköhän tässä akatemiassa samalla copy/paste MAGA -meiningillä, mitä Bannon luennoi ehkä viime vuonna pitkin Eurooppaa. Siellä se selitti joillekin tshekkiläisille erikoismiehille, että tullimuurit ja kauppasodat Fuck yeah ja nyt vaan jätkät tekemään. Erikoismiehet siinä sitten hämmenyksissään kuuntelivat ilosanomaa, Tshekki kun käytännössä elää ja kuolee Saksan-viennin varassa ja kauppasodat ovat muutenkin suht hankalasti järjestettävissä Euroopassa.