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Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
How the Tories & LibDems Destroyed My Family (2010-2019)
As impoverished workers, my family has never been rich. We have also been hindered by illness and disability – this is why we have valued
China: The Terrorist Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
Islamo-fascism was an invention of the CIA in the 1970s, and designed to convert the poorly educated tribal peoples of Afghanistan, and recruit them to
Houston Riots (1917) – the Racist Executions and Imprisonment of Black Soldiers in the US!
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
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
