heh. You can almost hear the exploding heads of the modernists who are busy hijacking the Vatican and forgot to check for a "hail mary pass" from the end zone. (/s).
Locally, it caused a kerfuffle after the bureaucrats figured out what he was doing. Artnewspaper article here.
The ministry’s attempt to revoke the group’s lease was launched after Steve Bannon and Benjamin Harnwell announced that they intended to use the monastery to launch an Academy for the Judeo-Christian West which would offer courses in history, philosophy, theology and politics... a revelation which sparked public protests and parliamentary questions from Left-wing parties.
Italics mine...
the whole thing sounds fishy to me, but there is a lot of money in the "trad catholic" community floating around, and I wonder about this because the "trad Catholic" types are naive and vulnerable for fraudsters to bilk them out of their money.
Bannon seems to be a bit nutty, in a "happy warrior/breitbart/oldversion of drudge" way, and I think he's nuts, or at least a little off in his judgement, which is probably why Trumpie boy fired him quite a long time ago.
but all the headlines will link him to Trumpieboy, because it's election year.
The press made a big thing that he was arrested on a yacht of a Chinese millionaire, hinting to those who don't read beyond the headlines that he was a minion of Xi's China. (backstory: this would neutralize lots of stories about Hunter Biden and other politicians kids hired by Chinese companies that might be an issue in the next election).
one problem: That "Chinese Billionaire" was Guo Wengui, a well known opponent to the present Chinese government.
He runs his own news site: GNEWS, and posts youtube stuff in Chinese and English debunking their propaganda.
their take on the matter?
“Fake news”, I said. That is my reaction when I heard from my friend for the first time that there’s a breaking news on Chinese websites said Steve Bannon was arrested.
Ten minutes later, BBC report the same news, and then CNN, FOX, and then it spread to everyone. It took them only 21 minutes to do these things from writing to editing to publishing the news after the things happened. How efficient the China’s propaganda system this time is! Does CCP involve it? I have no idea. All I know is CCP is mad with joy now. Because Mr. Bannon is one of the most threatening people to CCP. From now on, The U.S. judicial system will drag Bannon into the quagmire of litigation.
So is Bannon's arrest due to manipulation of the federal Jusitice system as a result of Chinese interference, in order to influence the American election?
Nah, it would never happen (just ignore that story about the Houston Consulate).
actually, I doubt it: more likely the federal attorney figured Bannon was a "low hanging" fruit so they arrested him as a way to smear Trump.
and indeed, one wonders if others in the wall scheme did siphon a bit of money off into their own pockets and Bannon got caught in the kerfuffle... or maybe they just didn't keep their books tidy so open to be arrested (however, not for a yacht as some stories claim: even Snopes says this is fake news.)
a more nuanced evaluation of all of this can be read at this essay by Spengler, who writes for PJMedia and used to have a column at the Asian times, and worked with Mr Bannon on Ted Cruz' campaign but has major disagreements with him.
Note the part about the shadowy Mr Guo, the billionaire mentioned above. Mr Guo is in trouble with the feds over money too, and the little I read about big finance makes me remember what Lolo used to say to me about politicians and the oligarchy in Manila: They're all crooks.
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