Tea at Trianon: Will Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Will Coronavirus Kill the New World Order?

From PJB at WND:

As of Thursday, Italy had reported 12,000 cases and 827 deaths, a mortality rate of nearly 7%. This suggests that the unreported and undetected infections in shutdown Italy are far more numerous. In the U.S., the death toll at this writing is 39, a tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the flu. But the problem is this: COVID-19 has not nearly run its course in the USA, while the reaction in society and the economy approaches what we might expect from a boiling national disaster. The stock market has plunged further and faster than it did in the Great Crash of 1929. Trillions of dollars in wealth have vanished. If Sen. Bernie Sanders does not like "millionaires and billionaires," he should be pleased. There are far fewer of them today than there were when he won the New Hampshire primary. (Read more.)

An interesting coincidence? From Mystic Post:

Did Dean Koonts predict Coronavirus? Already several weeks ago some British tabloids had reported the curious analogy between the Coronavirus epidemic that broke out in China and the novel ‘The eyes of Darkness’ by the American writer Dean Koontz . Over the weeks the news of the existence of the novel has spread like wildfire on the web. On the web, the curious similarity has turned into a precognition.

Of course, there are several similarities with the current health situation: the virus is called ‘Wuhan 400’ and in the story narrated by the writer it caused a serious form of pneumonia. The rest, of course, is fantasy literary construction. One of the most shared pages on the web reads: “A Chinese scientist named Li Chen fled to the United States, carrying a copy on disk of the most important and dangerous Chinese biological weapon of the decade. They call it ‘Wuhan-400’ because it was developed in their RDNA laboratories near the city of Wuhan; and it was the 400th viable strain of microorganisms created at that research center." (Read more.)