Tea at Trianon: Signal

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

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Signal

From Tierney's Real News:

The CIA loads Signal on EVERY phone in the White House & Congress to be used as their encrypted chat tool.
Why? Because then the CIA can listen to EVERY private conversation - even those that Trump is having with his inner circle. In other words, the CIA is automatically on EVERY CALL.
RATCLIFFE: “Signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA as it is for most CIA officers.”
Signal has been preinstalled on White House, Senate, CIA and FBI phones since 2020 - under Obama-Biden.
Goldberg of the Atlantic is CIA - that's how he got on the call. The CIA IS PRELOADED ON SIGNAL. Forget all the other noise.
Only this time - I believe that Goldberg thought he had something he could use against Team Trump at the upcoming hearings so he leaked it right away. He pretended that Team Trump was talking top-secret war plans on Signal when nothing mentioned was classified. His plan was to turn this into Signal-Gate - just like Watergate or Russia-Russia. (Read more.)