The United States, is of course, an inherently ‘racist’ country. It is the product of European (White) settlers appropriating a non-White country, and in the
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
The St Bartholomew Day’s Massacre (1572)
‘During the night of August 23/24, 1572 on the eve of St Bartholomew’s Day, Catholics engaged in a mass slaughter of thousands of Huguenots in Paris – men and women, old men and infants. Catherine de Medicis is to have said that it was kind to be cruel to the Huguenots and cruel to be kind. The Spanish ambassador reported elatedly to Philip II: “As I write, they are killing them all, they are stripping them naked, dragging them through the streets, plundering the houses, and sparing not even children. Blessed be God who has converted the French princes to His cause! May He inspire their hearts to continue as they have begun.” And Pope Gregory XIII exclaimed that the massacre pleased him more than fifty victories at Lepanto. That night of carnage staggered the imagination of contemporaries and descendants.’
John Ruskin: Useful Work as the Only ‘Pure’ Religion (c. 1886)
In the first three paragraphs, John Ruskin is describing his 1849 visit to the Grande Chartreuse. This is the head-monastery of the Carthusian (Catholic) monastic
BBC Radio Play: Kill the Cameraman First (2002) – a Communist Revolution in the UK!
The British Government Forces (supporting the bourgeois status quo) seeks to brutally eradicate the armed working-class masses. A British Revolutionary fighter states ‘the graveyards of the world are full of our hopes…’
John Ruskin on Byron’s ‘Perfect’ Revolutionary Paragraph
‘Of course, I could no more measure Byron’s greatest powers at this time than I could Turner’s; but I saw that both were right in
China: How the Falun Gong Cult Poisons the Minds of Students (21.11.2017)
法轮功是如何毒害莘莘学子的 (Translation & Research by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) The Falun Gong Cult was founded by the disaffected office worker Li Hongzhi (李洪志) in the 1990s.