Thoughts on our circumstances...: What is your personal ethos or do you even have one?

Saturday, March 9, 2024

What is your personal ethos or do you even have one?

Editor's note: No, this "gladiator school" in Italy won't work despite the possible good intentions. If America is going to survive and become "great" again it is doubtful Christianity and Catholicism will contribute anything healthy in this existential struggle. This isn't meant to trash Christianity and Christians, but American society requires a better ethos and that means discarding ancient myths, folklore, religious mysticism and superstition by spinning these into a more constructive ethos for America's youth. Jason Reza Jorjani underscores the threat of imminent global and civil conflicts, stressing the erosion of America's Promethean essence by the destructive Bolshevik "woke" ideologies and the critical need to defend America's pioneering spirit and cultural sovereignty. Jorjani sates: "We are at this moment faced with the simultaneous entry of the United States of America into a Third World War and a Second American Civil War. I have warned about this for years and, most unfortunately, it now seems both inevitable and imminent. I hereby commit Prometheus to defending America in this struggle." We need to move right now to move America's youth into a higher more robust and creative cohesive sense of ethics to move beyond these imminent threats. Religion and Christianity will not be sufficient to prosecute intellectual warfare against America's internal enemies. We can state fairly emphatically at this juncture in America the country does not need "a cocktail of libertarianism and conservative Catholicism." A "Judeo-Christian west?" America does not need and neither can it afford "right-wing politicians." America needs and now demands a Promethean ethos and a war against empire.

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Source: Politico

Steve Bannon's man in Italy wins fight over right-wing 'gladiator school'

Victorious former EU Parliament staffer said the court verdict was a blow against "politically driven” prosecutions elsewhere of Donald Trump-allied figures.

Benjamin Harnwell stands in front of the 700-year-old Trisulti charterhouse that was rented to

establish an academy with Steve Bannon | Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images

March 7, 2024 | By Ben Munster

ROME — Italian courts have vindicated a scheme, sponsored by key allies of former U.S. President Donald Trump, to set up a "gladiator school" for right-wing wannabe politicians in an ancient monastery in the mountains of central Italy.

Benjamin Harnwell, a former British Conservative European Parliament staffer, rented out the 700-year-old Trisulti charterhouse east of Rome in 2017 with a view to establishing an "Academy for the Judeo-Christian West" with his longtime friend Steve Bannon, the hard-right activist and podcaster who played a key role in Trump's election victory in 2016.

Shortly after moving in, Harnwell was sued by Italy's top state prosecutor, which alleged that he had fraudulently obtained the lease for the monastery and failed to pay €200,000 in rent.

After five years of grueling lawsuits through civil and criminal courts, Harnwell was exonerated Thursday after a magistrate in a northern Roman courthouse ruled that he had obtained the lease correctly and had paid all funds due, corroborating the verdict of previous rulings in the civil court. The state's prosecutor, which had automatically picked up the case following allegations made in an investigative TV documentary, also dropped two of its charges.

"Steve Bannon's Academy for the Judeo-Christian West — the 'gladiator school' — lives to fight another day," a jubilant Harnwell told POLITICO as he left the courtroom, adding that it was a blow against "politically driven" prosecutions elsewhere of Trump-allied figures. "They destroyed my reputation with accusations they knew weren't true even at the time they were making them."

The ruling Thursday potentially lays the groundwork for Harnwell reclaiming the monastery after he was pre-emptively evicted in 2021 amid demonstrations from activists from a nearby town against the occupation of a cherished heritage site by individuals linked to the far right.

The proposed academy's curriculum — a cocktail of libertarianism and conservative Catholicism — had planned to include courses on "Cultural Marxism," "The Church as an Early Business Enterprise” and Islam, and aimed to provide the world's future populist politicians and influencers with the rhetorical skills needed to challenge liberal world views.

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