Carthusian gladiators go to school
Steve Bannon meets Catholic reaction meets Danish bank meets fraudulent signature – and then Godzilla appeared! No but really:
The Italian government has delivered a potentially fatal blow to Steve Bannon’s plans to transform a medieval monastery near Rome into a training academy for the far-right.
It makes sense, doesn’t it. You want conservative? I’ll give you conservative: how about a medieval fucking monastery?! That’s right! I said medieval monastery!
But then it all fell apart.
Italy’s cultural heritage ministry announced on Friday (May 31) that it would revoke a lease granted to Bannon after reports of fraud in the competitive tender process. The former Breitbart chief and aide to US president Donald Trump was reportedly paying €100,000 ($110,000) per year to rent the 13th Century Carthusian monastery, but now will have to search for another spot.
The Italian state allowed the conservative Catholic organization Dignitatis Humanae Institute (DHI) to use the building early last year. Bannon happens to be a trustee of the institute, and planned to convert the space into a “gladiator school for cultural warriors,”where students would learn philosophy, theology, history, and economics, and receive political training from the former Trump aide himself.
Can’t you just see Bannon gladiating?
Yep, that’s Bannon all right.
But earlier this month, Italian newspaper Repubblica reported that a letter used to guarantee the lease was forged. The letter had the signature of an employee of Danish bank Jyske, but the bank said that employee hadn’t worked there for years, and called the letter fraudulent.
Oops. Oh well, he didn’t want to wear sandals anyway.
How many sane people are there remaining in the USofA?
I don’t know but the numbers are dwindling.
Oh god, can you imagine Bannon – or anyone in his orbit – giving lectures on philosophy, history and economics? Churning out an entire class of rightwing youtube drones nattering on about how rational they are, ugh.
I think it’s only the political training Bannon would be doing, given the syntax – the students would learn philosophy, theology, history, and economics, and receive political training from the Banster. Verbal separation.
Mind you, better he should be teaching carpentry in Topeka.
Lyndon LaRouche ran for president 8 times, and he argued that music should be tuned to “Verdi pitch” of C = 256 Hz (a.k.a. A = 432 Hz, which is lower than A = 440 Hz common today). That was conservative.
https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/music/revolution.html
LaRouche would also know the conspiracy theory that A = 440 Hz was created by Joseph Goebbels for some Nazi purposes that I don’t remember — or maybe I just won’t say.
Ophelia, would it be better for Bannon to be teaching carpentry in Topeka?
Well, maybe if you don’t need a house in Kansas.
@Dave Ricks Well that is weird…this is literally the second time I’ve heard about 432 Hz. The first time was a few months ago, when I bought a tuned drum from a small producer in Devon. He makes them at both 440 and 432, because 432 is in tune with the Earth’s energy, or something. I played both, and agreed that the 432 sounded more pleasing, but bought a 440 anyway in case I ever wanted to play with anyone.