Zoom Meeting About Mae Brussell, Mr. Emory’s Late, Dear Friend and Professional Colleague

In the decades since her pass­ing, Mr. Emory’s late, dear friend and polit­i­cal asso­ciate Mae Brus­sell has gained renewed inter­est. This dis­cus­sion sep­a­rates “the wheat” (of which there was a great deal) from the chaff (also part of Mae’s lega­cy). Not one of the peo­ple who attached to her sit­u­a­tion in recent years lift­ed a fin­ger to help Mae when she was alive. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

FTR#1427: Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice and Counter-Culture Fascism, Part 3

NB: This post con­tains strong lan­guage, which may prove offen­sive to many. Mr. Emory feels it is impor­tant to present Par­frey’s ide­o­log­i­cal pro­nounce­ments in all of their can­dor, in order to present an unerr­ing pre­sen­ta­tion of his polit­i­cal out­look.

Intro­duc­tion: The con­clud­ing pro­gram of a three-part series, this broad­cast fur­ther devel­ops the Nazi and White Suprema­cist efforts and ide­ol­o­gy under­pin­ning Adam Par­frey, a pub­lish­er whose fas­cist out­look and pro­fes­sion­al works have flown large­ly below the radar.

The pro­gram also intro­duces the fas­cist ide­ol­o­gy and Nazi-fel­low trav­el­ing of Par­frey’s Abraxas Clique asso­ciate Boyd Rice, as well as plac­ing their efforts in the con­text of the dead­ly man­i­fes­ta­tions of the Atom­waf­fen group.

An impor­tant recent book by Spencer Sun­shine details the efforts of the two most impor­tant mem­bers of the Abraxas Clique, a neo­fas­cist “think tank,” that aimed at the cre­ation and dis­sem­i­na­tion of “coun­ter­cul­tur­al fas­cism.”

Com­bin­ing a fix­a­tion with, and ide­al­iza­tion of, Charles Man­son with ele­ments of Satanism and tra­di­tion­al Nazi and White Suprema­cist rhetoric and ide­ol­o­gy, Par­frey, Rice and Abraxas helped mint a sig­nif­i­cant, though large­ly over­looked, stra­tum in the con­tem­po­rary and ongo­ing fas­cist polit­i­cal land­scape.

From defunct “Unpop Art” site, run by Adam Par­frey and Boyd Rice.

These con­nec­tions and Boyd Rice’s out­look and pro­nounce­ments are fur­ther fleshed out in this, the third pro­gram in this series.

The phe­nom­e­non of counter-cul­ture fas­cism, the Man­son oper­a­tion and relat­ed top­ics are cov­ered in, among oth­er pro­grams, FTR#‘s 437, 1085, 1163, 1164, 1165 and FTR#‘s 1391, 1392, 1393.

Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Includes: Boyd Rice’s embrace of Rang­nar Red­beard’s Might is Right; Rice’s net­work­ing with Anton La Vey; Anton La Vey’s over­laps with the Nazi milieu; Abrax­as­’s 8/8/88 event; The cel­e­bra­tion of the Tate-La Bian­ca killings (which took place on the same date in 1969; Rice’s appear­ance on right-wing Chris­t­ian Bob Lar­son­’s show; The pres­ence of Doris Tate in that appear­ance (with the Man­son-cel­e­brat­ing Rice); Rice’s involve­ment with Nazi Robert Heick; Rice’s appear­ance in Nazi uni­form (bran­dish­ing a knife) along­side Heick; Heick­’s Amer­i­can Front and its involve­ment with the dead­ly Nazi skin­head move­ment; Rice’s belief that the world should return to a “Pre-Chris­t­ian” state; Rice’s belief that three-quar­ters of the earth­’s pop­u­la­tion should be exter­mi­nat­ed; The influ­ence of James Mason and “Siege” on the dead­ly Atom­waf­fen milieu; Mason’s embrace of total vio­lence or com­plete drop-out from soci­ety.

FTR#1426: Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice and Counter-Culture Fascism, Part 2

Intro­duc­tion: The sec­ond pro­gram of a three-part series, this broad­cast fur­ther devel­ops the Nazi and White Suprema­cist efforts and ide­ol­o­gy under­pin­ning Adam Par­frey, a pub­lish­er whose fas­cist out­look and pro­fes­sion­al works have flown large­ly below the radar.

The pro­gram also intro­duces the fas­cist ide­ol­o­gy and Nazi-fel­low trav­el­ing of Par­frey’s Abraxas Clique asso­ciate Boyd Rice.

An impor­tant recent book by Spencer Sun­shine details the efforts of the two most impor­tant mem­bers of the Abraxas Clique, a neo­fas­cist “think tank,” that aimed at the cre­ation and dis­sem­i­na­tion of “coun­ter­cul­tur­al fas­cism.”

Com­bin­ing a fix­a­tion with, and ide­al­iza­tion of, Charles Man­son with ele­ments of Satanism and tra­di­tion­al Nazi and White Suprema­cist rhetoric and ide­ol­o­gy, Par­frey, Rice and Abraxas helped mint a sig­nif­i­cant, though large­ly over­looked, stra­tum in the con­tem­po­rary and ongo­ing fas­cist polit­i­cal land­scape.

These con­nec­tions and Boyd Rice’s out­look and pro­nounce­ments will be fur­ther fleshed out in the third pro­gram in this series.

The phe­nom­e­non of counter-cul­ture fas­cism, the Man­son oper­a­tion and relat­ed top­ics are cov­ered in, among oth­er pro­grams, FTR#‘s 437, 1085, 1163, 1164, 1165 and FTR#‘s 1391, 1392, 1393.

1.The work of the Abraxas Clique is syn­op­sized by Spencer Sun­shine as fol­lows:

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 164–165.

” . . . . Part of the goal of the Abraxas Clique’s inter­est in 1960s fig­ures like Man­son, [Church of Satan founder] Anton] La Vey . . . . was to help build a lin­eage of ‘coun­ter­cul­tur­al fas­cism.’ ”. . . This vision of a reac­tionary cul­tur­al move­ment was not based on tra­di­tion­al forms, but rather avant-garde and icon­o­clas­tic approaches–was anoth­er way in which the Alt Right of the 2010s inher­it­ed the fruits of Abraxas Clique’s labors. . . .”

From defunct “Unpop Art” site, run by Adam Par­frey and Boyd Rice.

2.Parfrey’s polit­i­cal out­look is exem­pli­fied by his com­mu­ni­ca­tions with Nazi the­o­reti­cian James Mason, whose Siege was pub­lished with Par­frey’s assis­tance.

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 212.

” . . . . Yeah, the Jews got pissed at that mag­a­zine I sent you. None of them want to see my friend Hitler get his due . . . [Hitler] lift­ed the pride of the white peo­ple up and tried to get rid of the com­mies and exile the Jews where they would­n’t has­sle any­one but them­selves . . . But of course ‘soci­ety’ is mak­ing an ‘exam­ple’ of Charles Man­son in the same way they made an exam­ple of the Ger­mans at Nurem­burg . . . . I was look­ing for a spot 3,000 miles away from Cal­i­for­nia, and found it in spades and spics and Jews and rich ass­holes . . . I want to work with you, but more than that, I hail you with a stiff-armed salute from ground zero. . . .”

3.Another reveal­ing pas­sage is con­tained in a lat­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion between Par­frey and Mason:

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 215–216.

” . . . . I’m count­ing on heavy cen­sor­ship, con­dem­na­tion and sub­tle boy­cotts by ZOG [Zion­ist Occu­pa­tion Gov­ern­ment] when it appears. I’m try­ing to get togeth­er a book writ­ten by nig­ger and spic gang mem­bers on youth gangs for release at about the same time. To me, let­ting these cocaine-addled nig­ger mur­der­ers prat­tle on about their mis­er­able lives will be rope enough for them to hang them­selves. But then I can always point to the book when the ADL gets on my case about racism, neo-Nazism, etc. . . .”

4.Highlighting Par­frey’s big­otry against Lati­nos and his antic­i­pa­tion of “The Great Replace­ment The­o­ry” that has become a watch­word in the sec­ond Trump regime, Par­frey wrote to [impor­tant Nazi the­o­reti­cian and prac­ti­tion­er James] Mason:

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 216.

“ . . . . a coun­try that is over­come by immi­grants of racial dif­fer­ence would have been called an ‘inva­sion.’ I live in a Mex­i­can gang neigh­bor­hood, gun­fire every night. Many of the Mex­i­cans who move here aren’t aware that we have flush toi­lets, so many deposit their babies’ shit­ty dia­pers in pub­lic places. . . . What might hap­pen when these peo­ple can’t get food stamps or wel­fare? What about a sim­ple drought or a severe eco­nom­ic sit­u­a­tion? I don’t look for­ward to those times , but I do have front row seats to the apoc­a­lypse. . . .”

5.Exemplifying and illus­trat­ing Par­frey’s ide­o­log­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion is his descrip­tion of the Sec­ond World War. Note that he omits all ref­er­ence to the Pacif­ic the­ater of war.

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 216.

“ . . . . Par­frey described that war [World War II] as ‘real­ly a civ­il war between white peo­ple, and white peo­ple have been feel­ing guilty about them­selves ever since.’. . .”

6.Pafrey’s jour­nal­is­tic ethics are illus­trat­ed by an excerpt from his writ­ing in Nazi Robert Heick­’s Aryan War­rior.

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 217.

“ . . . . He [Par­frey] also specif­i­cal­ly men­tioned that [Nazi Robert] Heick’s Aryan War­rior includ­ed ‘con­tri­bu­tions from a Man­son-inspired group called the Abraxas Foun­da­tion that preach­es a doc­trine of evil’—while con­ve­nient­ly omit­ting his own mem­ber­ship in said group. . . .”

7.Parfrey man­i­fest­ed a vir­u­lent, pro­fane misog­y­nism.

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 223.

“ . . . . In Kevin Coogan’s arti­cle [‘How Black is Black Metal/’] one of the end­notes said ‘Fer­al House types hat­ed women like Andrea Juno.’ Par­frey replied that ‘Not one word has ever been print­ed in a Fer­al House book insult­ing or even dis­cussing Andrea Juno.’ Coogan’s reply was to quote an inter­view where Par­frey him­self called Juno ‘a psy­chot­ic cunt.’. . .”

8.Parfrey’s sig­nif­i­cance in the expan­sion of impor­tant Nazi James Mason’s ide­ol­o­gy is encap­su­lat­ed in a com­mu­ni­ca­tion to Par­frey by Mason:

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 217–218.

“ . . . . In late 1992, Mason thanked Par­frey for being ‘pri­mar­i­ly the one that first picked up my old leaflets from the mid-Sev­en­ties and breathed new life into my stuff’ and sold him the mock­ups of his late 1970s fly­ers and mag­a­zines. Par­frey was also thanked in Siege and after he got is copy, told Mason that, ‘I’m bowled over by the SIEGE book’ and that ‘it’s bet­ter than good: it’s defin­i­tive!’. . .”

FTR#1425: Adam Parfrey, Boyd Rice and Counter-Culture Fascism, Part 1

NB: This post con­tains strong lan­guage, which may prove offen­sive to many. Mr. Emory feels it is impor­tant to present Par­frey’s ide­o­log­i­cal pro­nounce­ments in all of their can­dor, in order to present an unerr­ing pre­sen­ta­tion of his polit­i­cal out­look.
Intro­duc­tion: The first pro­gram of a two-part series, this broad­cast sets forth the Nazi and White Suprema­cist efforts and ide­ol­o­gy under­pin­ning Adam Par­frey, a pub­lish­er whose fas­cist out­look and pro­fes­sion­al works have flown large­ly below the radar.

An impor­tant recent book by Spencer Sun­shine details the efforts of the two most impor­tant efforts of the Abraxas Clique, a neo­fas­cist “think tank,” that aimed at the cre­ation and dis­sem­i­na­tion of “coun­ter­cul­tur­al fas­cism.”

Com­bin­ing a fix­a­tion with, and ide­al­iza­tion of, Charles Man­son with ele­ments of Satanism and tra­di­tion­al Nazi and White Suprema­cist rhetoric and ide­ol­o­gy, Par­frey, Rice and Abraxas helped mint a sig­nif­i­cant, though large­ly over­looked, stra­tum in the con­tem­po­rary and ongo­ing fas­cist polit­i­cal land­scape.

These con­nec­tions will be fleshed out in the sec­ond pro­gram in this series.

The phe­nom­e­non of counter-cul­ture fas­cism, the Man­son oper­a­tion and relat­ed top­ics are cov­ered in, among oth­er pro­grams, FTR#‘s 437, 1085, 1163, 1164, 1165 and FTR#‘s 1391, 1392, 1393.

1.The work of the Abraxas Clique is syn­op­sized by Spencer Sun­shine as fol­lows:

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 164–165.

” . . . . Part of the goal of the Abraxas Clique’s inter­est in 1960s fig­ures like Man­son, [Church of Satan founder] Anton] La Vey . . . . was to help build a lin­eage of ‘coun­ter­cul­tur­al fas­cism.’ ”. . . This vision of a reac­tionary cul­tur­al move­ment was not based on tra­di­tion­al forms, but rather avant-garde and icon­o­clas­tic approaches–was anoth­er way in which the Alt Right of the 2010s inher­it­ed the fruits of Abraxas Clique’s labors. . . .”

From defunct “Unpop Art” site, run by Adam Par­frey and Boyd Rice.

2.Parfrey’s polit­i­cal out­look is exem­pli­fied by his com­mu­ni­ca­tions with Nazi the­o­reti­cian James Mason, whose Siege was pub­lished with Par­frey’s assis­tance.

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; p. 212.

” . . . . Yeah, the Jews got pissed at that mag­a­zine I sent you. None of them want to see my friend Hitler get his due . . . [Hitler] lift­ed the pride of the white peo­ple up and tried to get rid of the com­mies and exile the Jews where they would­n’t has­sle any­one but them­selves . . . But of course ‘soci­ety’ is mak­ing an ‘exam­ple’ of Charles Man­son in the same way they made an exam­ple of the Ger­mans at Nurem­burg . . . . I was look­ing for a spot 3,000 miles away from Cal­i­for­nia, and found it in spades and spics and Jews and rich ass­holes . . . I want to work with you, but more than that, I hail you with a stiff-armed salute from ground zero. . . .”

3.Another reveal­ing pas­sage is con­tained in a lat­er com­mu­ni­ca­tion between Par­frey and Mason:

Neo-Nazi Ter­ror­ism and Coun­ter­cul­tur­al Fas­cism: The Ori­gins and After­life of James Mason’s Siege by Spencer Sun­shine; Rout­ledge Press [SC]; Copy­right 2024 by Spencer Sun­shine; ISBN 978–0‑367–19060‑6; pp. 215–216.

” . . . . I’m count­ing on heavy cen­sor­ship, con­dem­na­tion and sub­tle boy­cotts by ZOG [Zion­ist Occu­pa­tion Gov­ern­ment] when it appears. I’m try­ing to get togeth­er a book writ­ten by nig­ger and spic gang mem­bers on youth gangs for release at about the same time. To me, let­ting these cocaine-addled nig­ger mur­der­ers prat­tle on about their mis­er­able lives will be rope enough for them to hang them­selves. But then I can always point to the book when the ADL gets on my case about racism, neo-Nazism, etc. . . .”

FTR#1420: The Annihilating Future Meets the Devastating Past, Part 3

Intro­duc­tion: Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of AI and what it can and can­not do, what it might do, what the peo­ple who con­trol it might do, what the peo­ple who con­trol it have done in the past, this pro­gram con­tin­ues to explore that dynam­ic.

After dis­cussing how AI CEO’s are delib­er­ate­ly us about AI’s, the pro­gram relates that Bernie Sanders is alarmed over AI.

Ele­ments of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: The role of John Fos­ter Dulles and Allen Dulles in help­ing to forge the polit­i­cal and inter­na­tion­al alliances that led to the fund­ing of the Third Reich; The fact that 70% of the invest­ment cap­i­tal in Nazi Ger­many came from the U.S.; The role of Sul­li­van & Cromwell’s John Fos­ter and Allen Dulles in arrang­ing the invest­ment of Amer­i­can mon­ey into the Third Reich; The role of John Fos­ter Dulles and Allen Dulles in frus­trat­ing Oper­a­tion Safe­haven, the effort to inter­dict the Nazi flight cap­i­tal pro­gram; The pri­ma­ry role of the Bush fam­i­ly in fund­ing the Third Reich; The com­plex rela­tion­ship between Ger­man indus­tri­al­ist Fritz Thyssen, the Bank Voor Han­del en Scheep­vaart and the Union Bank­ing Cor­po­ra­tion in the “mon­ey go round” involved in mask­ing Bush fam­i­ly invest­ment in the Third Reich; The curi­ous deaths of jour­nal­ist Eddie Roev­er and the man­ag­er of the Bank Voor Han­del en Scheep­vaart; The gen­e­sis of the Nazi branch of the GOP, stem­ming from Allen Dulles’ rela­tion­ship to Richard Nixon; The role of Ronald Rea­gan as the chief spokesper­son for the “Op” that front­ed for the GOP’s Nazi wing; The role of William Casey in cre­at­ing the immi­gra­tion pro­grams that led to the cre­ation of the GOP’s Nazi wing; The role of George H.W. Bush in mak­ing the GOP’s Nazi wing a per­ma­nent part of the GOP; The role of Richard Nixon in chang­ing U.S. immi­gra­tion law to per­mit SS offi­cers to emi­grate to the U.S.; The cozy rela­tion­ship of Allen Dulles, the CIA and Sen­a­tor Prescott Bush (Sr.), the man “over­see­ing” the CIA; The speech by U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio at the Munich Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence in lament­ing the out­come of World War II.

The CNP’s Satanic Fellow Travelers: the Synergistic Rise of Accelerationist Satanic Terror and the neo-Confederate Theocrats

Nazi ter­ror­ism isn’t like it was a gen­er­a­tion ago. It’s worse. Accel­er­a­tionism is the theme of the day and has been for years. But that was­n’t always the case. James Mason’s Siege could have fall­en into obscu­ri­ty. Instead, it has become the tem­plate for the next gen­er­a­tion of online Nazi extrem­ists, with the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) Satan­ic strains of accel­er­a­tionism becom­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar. Where­as Chris­t­ian Iden­ti­ty white suprema­cy was the expect­ed form of Nazi ter­ror in the 1990s from groups like the Aryan Nations, today an attack is far more like­ly to be car­ried about by a fol­low­er of Atom­waf­fen who has been indoc­tri­nat­ed with Satan­ic Nazi tracts like Iron Gates or Blue­bird that serve of con­tem­po­rary analogs to the Turn­er Diaries or Ser­pen­t’s Walk. That did­n’t just hap­pen. It turns out ‘main­stream’ white nation­al­ists set out to pop­u­lar­ize of accel­er­a­tionism over two decades ago, repub­lish­ing Siege and focus­ing atten­tion on fig­ures like O9A leader David Myatt and Hin­du-fas­cist Sav­i­t­ra Devi. And then, in 2003, Joshua Caleb Sut­ter, a young leader in the Aryan Nations, was sent to prison on charges relat­ed to a plot to attack abor­tion clin­ics and polit­i­cal oppo­nents. He emerged from prison a year lat­er as an under­cov­er FBI infor­mant who would spend the next two decades as the lead­ing pub­lish­er of accel­er­a­tionist Satan­ic Nazism. A form of Nazi Satanism that cel­e­brates rit­u­al­is­tic child abuse and has become inter­twine with some of the most sadis­tic and depraved cor­ners of the inter­net. Where chil­dren are lured into extrem­ists com­mu­ni­ties with gory and child pornog­ra­phy con­tent designed to desen­si­tize and then coerced into com­mit­ting acts of abuse and ter­ror them­selves. As Sut­ter once char­ac­ter­ized the “Tem­pel ov Blood” O9A off­shoot he runs, “this Tem­pel is in many ways a social pro­gram­ming exper­i­ment.” Nazi ter­ror­ism real­ly has some­how become more depraved than it already was.

At the same time, neo-Con­fed­er­ate Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist move­ments deeply aligned with the pow­er­ful Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) haven’t just grown. They’ve been thriv­ing and increas­ing­ly their reach. One such neo-Con­fed­er­ate preach­ers, Doug Wil­son, co-authored a book in 1996 argu­ing the Con­fed­er­ate South was the bib­li­cal ide­al soci­ety that need­ed to be recre­at­ed. His co-author, Steven J. Wilkins, was a co-founder of the League of South (LOS). Both has prominet CNP mem­bers RJ Rush­doony and Gary North as close theo­crat­ic col­lab­o­ra­tors. Wilkins went on to exe­cute a LOS plot takeover church­es in the South US that were deemed to be ripe recruit­ment pools for their neo-Con­fed­er­ate ide­ol­o­gy. Wil­son spent the fol­low­ing decades build­ing an increas­ing­ly influ­en­tial pro-Con­fed­er­ate net­work of church­es that now includes cur­rent Sec­re­tary of Defense Pete Hegseth as a mem­ber. It turns out Wil­son has also been involved with the plan­ning behind Project 2025 and is now plan­ning on open­ing a new con­gre­ga­tion in Wash­ing­ton DC which will serve as a hub for his grow­ing reli­gious empire.

At the same time Chris­t­ian Iden­ti­ty white pow­er ter­ror has large­ly been sup­plant­ed by nihilis­tic accel­er­a­tionism in the online era (thanks, in part, to the decades-long efforts of a paid FBI infor­mant), orga­nized neo-Con­fed­er­ate Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ism has grown so pow­er­ful it is now play­ing a role in the CNP’s ongo­ing “Sec­ond Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion”. That’s the incred­i­ble sto­ry we’re going to be exam­in­ing in this post.

Oligarchs for Austerity and the CNP Have a Big New Scheme: Suing their Way to a New Constitution

Did you hear? Pres­i­dent Trump is going to be run­ning for a third term in office. And he’s not jok­ing. Who knows how seri­ous he is, but as we’re going to see, the con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of third pres­i­den­tial term may not be as set in stone as many sus­pect. Along with the rest of the US Con­sti­tu­tion. A con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion could be just around the cor­ner. Just a law­suit away. And we can thank the DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by and their fel­low trav­el­ers at the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) and the Amer­i­can Leg­isla­tive Exchange Com­mit­tee (ALEC) for this loom­ing threat. The same aus­ter­i­ty lob­by that has spent years try­ing to roll back Oba­macare, evis­cer­ate Medicare and Med­ic­aid through block-grants, and gen­er­al­ly erode what’s left of the US’s social safe­ty-nets as more and more Amer­i­cans are forced to take any work avail­able just to qual­i­fy for increas­ing­ly mea­ger gov­ern­ment assis­tance. That aus­ter­i­ty lob­by. It’s back with a big sneaky plan: a law­suit pur­port­ing to prove that the 34 state thresh­old for an Arti­cle V con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion has already been met. David M. Walk­er — the for­mer US Comp­trol­ler for both Bill Clin­ton and George W. Bush — is lead­ing the legal effort, with legal sup­port from NRA lawyer (and CNP mem­ber) Charles “Chuck” Coop­er. If the law­suit suc­ceeds, get ready for a new con­sti­tu­tion writ­ten by and for the oli­garchy.

But this sto­ry isn’t just about this new law­suit. It’s also about how the DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by has been work­ing with CNP to push these con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion ambi­tions since at least 2013, which is right around the same time it become clear that the last major round of DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by­ing had failed in achiev­ing a “grand bar­gain” of slashed enti­tle­ments. A round of lob­by­ing that began in earnest as the 2008 finan­cial cri­sis was still play­ing out with David Walk­er — then Pres­i­dent and CEO of the new­ly formed aus­ter­i­ty-cen­tric Pete Peter­son Foun­da­tion — tak­ing on a lead role as pub­lic aus­ter­i­ty advo­cate. The Great Reces­sion was a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for a “grand bar­gain”. And it almost worked. But did­n’t work, at least not entire­ly, and it was­n’t long after that fail­ure became clear that we saw the aus­ter­i­ty lob­by and the CNP begin hatch­ing far more ambi­tious plans. Plans that just might be about come to fruition. Because as we’re also going to see, if a con­sti­tu­tion­al con­ven­tion does hap­pen, the forces behind this plan are the ones who will be run­ning it. The DC aus­ter­i­ty lob­by real­ly is just a law­suit away from win­ning every­thing.

The New World Ordoliberalism, Part 8: A New MIC Becomes the EU’s New Austerity Loophole. Maybe.

Life on earth real­ly can’t afford anoth­er major mil­i­tary indus­tri­al com­plex (MIC). But that’s what’s com­ing. Or at least the financ­ing is get­ting worked out as Europe deals reels from the dam­age already inflict­ed on the Transat­lantic alliance in the open months of the sec­ond Trump admin­is­tra­tion. It’s urgent. A new era of secu­ri­ty inde­pen­dence has begun for the Euro­pean com­mu­ni­ty and there’s no time to spare in get­ting start­ed on build­ing it. Plans are already tak­ing shape. Plans to dra­mat­i­cal­ly increase EU-wide defense spend­ing by effec­tive­ly forc­ing each EU mem­ber to achieve at least 3% of GDP on defense spend­ing, well about the 2% NATO min­i­mum. Rough­ly 650 bil­lion euros in extra defense spend­ing over the next four years. But what about the EU’s strict debt and aus­ter­i­ty rules? There’s a plan for that too: extra defense spend­ing will not count towards the EU’s debt and deficit rules. At least for the next four years. And per­haps longer. And yet, all signs indi­cate that this extra debt will have be repaid even­tu­al­ly. So are we look­ing at the begin­ning of a new MIC? Or the largest aus­ter­i­ty trap in EU his­to­ry? Time will tell.

Oth­er plans include 150 bil­lion euros in direct loans from the EU to mem­ber states for approved mil­i­tary hard­ware pur­chas­es. Loans that, again, will have to be repaid. But the loans will also be pro­vid­ed at low­er-than-mar­ket inter­est rates from funds raised direct­ly by the EU Com­mis­sion. In oth­er words, joint­ly-backed bonds, some­thing pre­vi­ous­ly anath­e­ma to Ger­many and the rest of the EU’s wealth­i­er mem­bers. Remark­ably, Ger­many isn’t just strong­ly behind the loan plan but wants it expand­ed to poten­tial­ly include loans to non-EU mem­bers like Nor­way, Switzer­land, or Turkey. These big spend­ing plans keep get­ting big­ger, with Ger­man back­ing. It’s an his­toric shift. Beyond that, Ger­many is already plan­ning an 800 bil­lion euro defense spend­ing splurge of its own over the next decade and call­ing for the EU’s plan to be extend­ed well beyond the four year pro­pos­al. Yes, Ger­many is back­ing much high­er EU-wide debt lev­els for the indef­i­nite future. As long as that debt is spent on the mil­i­tary, of course. That’s the incred­i­ble sto­ry cur­rent unfold­ing. The kind of sto­ry that points towards a big new EU MIC, much high­er EU debt lev­els, and, per­haps, the biggest aus­ter­i­ty trap in EU his­to­ry. The dev­il in the details. Details yet t be ham­mered out, and pos­si­bly not ever ham­mered out until long after the EU has com­mit­ted itself to this path and the trap has already been set.

Soft Fascism Florida-Style: Ron DeSantis’s War on Amendment 4

A fas­cist to the core. That’s how retired US gen­er­al Mark Mil­ley, who direct­ly served Trump as the chair of joint chiefs of staff, as described in Bob Wood­ward’s upcom­ing book. As Mil­ley put it, “He is the most dan­ger­ous per­son ever. I had sus­pi­cions when I talked to you about his men­tal decline and so forth, but now I real­ize he’s a total fas­cist. He is now the most dan­ger­ous per­son to this coun­try.” And while they may be true, it’s impor­tant to keep in mind that Don­ald Trump is far from the only aspir­ing fas­cist in con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can pol­i­tics. The Sched­ule F/Project 2025 scheme orches­trat­ed by the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy is a group effort, after all. And as we’re going to see, Flori­da Gov­er­nor Ron DeSan­tis has been lay­ing the ground­work for the kind of ‘soft fas­cism’ that we should antic­i­pate a lot more of under a sec­ond Trump pres­i­den­cy. The kind of ‘soft fas­cism’ that is shaped less by Trump’s per­son­al mad­ness and more by the theo­crat­ic ambi­tions of the move­ments that have long ani­mat­ed the Repub­li­can Par­ty. Which brings us to DeSan­tis’s war on Amend­ment 4, a bal­lot ini­tia­tive that would enshrine abor­tion rights in Flori­da’s state con­sti­tu­tion up to the moment of via­bil­i­ty, com­ing months after Flori­da Repub­li­cans put in place a restric­tive new 6 week abor­tion ban. After first try­ing to get Amend­ment 4 thrown off the bal­lot, the DeSan­tis admin­is­tra­tion has pro­ceed­ed to spend tax­pay­er funds on an anti-Amend­ment 4 pub­lic mes­sag­ing cam­paign includes tv and radio ads. An unprece­dent­ed inves­ti­ga­tion into the Amend­ment 4 bal­lot sig­na­tures has also been opened, with police show­ing up at peo­ple’s homes to con­firm they signed the peti­tion. Local elec­tion super­vi­sors are also under sus­pi­cion of ver­i­fy­ing invalid sig­na­tures. And as we’re going to also see, there’s no pos­si­ble way this inves­ti­ga­tion can get the Amend­ment 4 removed from the bal­lot even if it suc­ceed­ed in reveal­ing some fraud. It’s pure intim­i­da­tion. More recent­ly, the Flori­da gov­ern­ment has threat­ened tele­vi­sion sta­tion employ­ees with crim­i­nal charges if they air a pro-Amend­ment 4 ad. Why? Because the state claims the ads — which raise ques­tions about whether or not wom­en’s health is ade­quate­ly pro­tect­ed under the new 6 week abor­tion law — pose a threat to pub­lic health because the new law in no way endan­gers women. Yes, if you run an ad sug­gest­ing the new Flori­da abor­tion law — one of the strictest in the US — could put women at risk, you could be crim­i­nal­ly charged. So if you were won­der­ing how the GOP is plan­ning on han­dling pub­lic dis­con­tent over the unpop­u­lar pol­i­cy that are about to be imposed on the pub­lic at large, look to Flori­da. Ron DeSan­tis is one of the Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy’s favorite politi­cians for a rea­son.

FTR#‘s 1347 & 1348 Conversations with Monte

Intro­duc­tion: Tak­ing a respite from the pro­ject­ed long series of pro­grams on U.S. Asian pol­i­cy, these pro­grams begin with Mon­te’s dis­cus­sion of a link between Guy Ban­is­ter’s “detec­tive agency” and the coa­les­cence of the Process Church of the Final Judg­ment, a focal point of a four-part Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Series on “The Ulti­mate Evil.

A close for­mer asso­ciate of Ban­is­ter incor­po­rat­ed the Process Church, which appears to have served as an intel­li­gence front, to an extent.

The associate–Tommy Baumler–was a Nazi.

In this analy­sis, Monte uti­lized a book titled The Mad Bish­ops.

The bulk of the pro­grams con­sist of analy­sis of the lat­est “attempt” on Trump’s life, as well as the appar­ent Nazi gen­e­sis of the “Haitians eat­ing dogs and cats” meme.

It is our con­sen­sus that the “attempts” on Trump’s life are intend­ed to pro­voke vio­lence against Trump’s polit­i­cal oppo­nents.

Ryan Wes­ley Routh also net­worked with the Azov Bat­tal­ion.