Just how much pain are the sanctions inflicting on the Russian people? We have been told by Big Media that the Russian people will soon rise up against Vladimir Putin because of the difficulties being experienced.
YouTube has a video tour of a grocery outside St Petersburg that shows just how difficult things have become for the Russian people.
One of the items rising from the memory banks of some people is the File Gate scandal during the Clinton administration.
The White House FBI files controversy of the Clinton Administration, often referred to as Filegate, arose in June 1996 around improper access in 1993 and 1994 to FBI security-clearance documents. The revelations provoked a strong political and press reaction because many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations, including top presidential advisors. Allegations were made that senior White House figures, including First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have requested and read the files for political purposes.
One observer of all things political noted:
There is little that surprises me about how corrupt Washington is but this item blew me away. Sundance over at The Last Refuge is reporting that the FBI maintains a work space INSIDE the law firm of Perkins Coie.
Sundance notes:
The leaked Roe v Wade draft opinion continues to expose the mental illness that is running rampant among those on the left.
A few weeks ago it would have been branded as some far-out conspiracy theory that military personnel from NATO countries including the US were directly involved in Ukraine. I am certain that the newly constituted “Ministry of Truth” in the DHS would have been at the forefront of such denials. They would be claiming it to be Russian disinformation.
However, reports persist that “foreign mercenaries” are directly involved in frontline fighting. In particular, a core part of the Nazi Azov Battalion continues to hold out in the bowels of the vast Azovstal steel complex in the port city of Mariupol. Rumors are that Azov itself includes large numbers of non-Ukrainians and that it was trained by the Special Forces of the US, UK, France, and possibly other NATO countries. There are persistent rumors that NATO personnel are trapped in Azovstal.
The news has dominated the news cycle. Liberal heads are exploding all over the country. There has been and will continue to be an avalanche of commentary over the days and weeks ahead. A major leak never before seen of Supreme Court deliberations. A draft opinion by Justice Alito was leaked to Politico that suggested strongly that Roe v Wade and Casey would be overturned. Now, until the final report comes out, this is not the final word. When that will happen is anyone’s guess.
Sundance over at CTH often talks about the marionette strings. Sundance notes that once you see them, you cannot unsee them. Elon Musk has seriously rattled the cages of those who would enslave the country and the world to achieve the Great Reset. Musk has made the marionette strings that much more visible.
Musk has called freedom of speech the foundation of democracy. To counter Elon Musk’s attempted takeover of Twitter and to bring free speech to Twitter, the heavy hitters of the Democratic Party have been brought out. Former President Barack Obama and twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been given a script that calls for more censorship of social media. They rushed to the podium “to save democracy.”
Exposing a coup.
The Elon Musk/Twitter saga has been most interesting to watch. After purchasing a 9.2% share of Twitter, he then proposed buying the company outright.
Twitter acted to prevent the takeover by using a poison pill approach. This would involve issuing shares at half price if any investor would gain ownership of more than 15% of the outstanding shares.
Twitter’s actions (poison pill offer) publicized Twitter’s desire to censor free speech.
What is this the sole purpose of all of Elon Musk’s actions?
Karl Denninger has done yeoman’s work on stats connected to the COVID scam. Last week he published a post that is not his usual stats-loaded one about how the elites have used COVID to control us. Instead he talked about obituaries and what stories they tell.
I have not written a whole lot about what is going on in Ukraine because there is almost no way to get accurate information. Russian State media runs propaganda for Putin. In Western countries, Big Media is little more than the same kind of propaganda arm. To quote one wag, the media here are just stenographers who repeat whatever the government elites tell them. The days of independent journalists digging out stories are gone.