Tea at Trianon: Pirates

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

Monday, August 11, 2025

Pirates

From Tierney's Real News:

Trust me, this is the same food stealing scam that Hamas runs in Gaza for the Muslim Brotherhood out of Qatar. Hamas steals the food from their own people, and pockets the money for the food for themselves, and then they blame Israel and America - and trot out pictures of starving children to deflect attention away from themselves - so you’ll feel sorry for Hamas.
Hamas is the front for the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel just like CAIR is in America. On June 24, 2025, a bill called the "Designate CAIR as a Terrorist Organization Act" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and perhaps that fact will finally be codified.
Abdiaziz Farah, one of the ringleaders in the food scheme, was found guilty of stealing over $47 MILLION of Federal funds intended to feed poor American children - part of a larger scam that took $400 MILLION! Farah used the money to buy luxury vehicles and overseas real estate—including properties in Kenya outside the reach of U.S. authorities. He was sentenced to 28 years in prison. (Read more.)