Tea at Trianon: PRAVDA

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

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

PRAVDA

From Tierney's Real News:

PRAVDA began publication in May of 1912 in the Russian Empire and it emerged as the leading Communist newspaper of the Soviet Union after the Communists overthrew Russia in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Communist Committee of the USSR from 1912 to 1991 - for over 75 years - when the Soviet Union was finally “allegedly” dissolved and scattered all over the world.
Pravda is a Russian word meaning "truth" - which is a joke because they didn't report truth at all! They were YELLOW journalists. The fake news in America copies the PRAVDA method and uses yellow journalism all the time - a sensationalist news style using exaggerated headlines, scandals, and emotional appeals - to create a left-wing manufactured alternate view of reality instead of the truth.
The headline below from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal is a great example of PRAVDA yellow journalism in America today. They are telling you that you shouldn't believe your eyes and ears - that things aren't as great as you think they are and you should be GLOOMY and DEPRESSED. And this is supposed to be a conservative newspaper! No matter how good things get under President Trump, PRAVDA will tell you different until you agree to usher in Communism to save you! (Read more.)