Tea at Trianon: The Real Target

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, January 8, 2026

The Real Target

From Forbidden.News:

It isn’t regime change. It’s a surgical strike against the British Empire’s irregular warfare and a key component of that, which we have long called “Dope Inc.”, the nexus of narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and the City of London-centered banking system. And today, we’re going to break that down.
I’m Susan Kokinda. I’ve been tracking this since the 1970s, watching how the offshore banking operation was set up to sidestep regulation, sovereignty, and law enforcement. And I’m here to tell you that for the first time, someone is taking that on, and it’s Donald Trump.
So if this sounds like your kind of fight, please hit those like, share, and subscribe buttons so we can reach more people. Here’s what we’re going to cover today.
First, it’s not regime change – and the Empire knows it. Second, how the Empire’s operations of dirty money is now in the crosshair – and the Russians know it, and how Trump is deploying to defeat all of these imperial operations.
So let’s clear up the biggest misconception, right now. Many former MAGA allies, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, are screaming that this is “Neocon regime change 2.0”. They’re just looking at the surface or outright lying.
But listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He told us exactly what this is. (Read more.)