Revealed: Trump-linked US Christian 'fundamentalists' pour millions of 'dark money' into Europe, boo

[blondebanshee]

US Christian right ‘fundamentalists’ linked to the Trump administration and Steve Bannon are among a dozen American groups that have poured at least $50 million of ‘dark money’ into Europe over the last decade, openDemocracy can reveal today.

Between them, these groups have backed ‘armies’ of ultra-conservative lawyers and political activists, as well as ‘family values’ campaigns against LGBT rights, sex education and abortion – and a number appear to have increasing links with Europe’s far right.

They are spending money on a scale “not previously imagined”, according to lawmakers and human rights advocates, who have called our findings “shocking”. Reacting to openDemocracy’s findings, a cross-party group of more than 40 MEPs has called on the EU’s transparency tsar Frans Timmermans to look into the influence of “US Christian fundamentalists… with the greatest urgency” ahead of May’s European Parliament elections.

[link:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/revealed-trump-linked-us-christian-fundamentalists-pour-millions-of-dark-money-into-europe-boosting-the-far-right/|

[malaise]

1. I'm waiting for the details on how much they poured into

South America, Central America and the Caribbean - you know dark money from our so called moral superiors.

Fascism is spreading with a bible and lots of guns

[java108]

2. "Stodgy ayatollahs in their double-knit ties,

Burn lots of books so they can feed you their lies,
Masturbating with a flag and a bible,
God must be dead if you're alive."
- "Moral Majority" by the Dead Kennedys.

It bums me out that a song that is 38 years old still has such relevance.

[rockfordfile]

3. Steve Bannon should be arrested. It seems he's helping spark up antisemitism

Creating traitor fascists in Europe. The murder and death across Europe by fascists that lead to WW2. All the Americans that died fighting right-wing fascism.