WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday froze again during a news conference in Kentucky, after previously losing his ability to speak earlier this year during an event in Washington, DC.
"What are my thoughts about what?" McConnell said when asked about reelection. The senator then froze in silence after the question was repeated.
Another attendee then braced McConnell, claiming that they would "need a minute" to recover. McConnell resumed speaking after several moments of silence.

The military conflict in Ukraine, like many before it is inexorably tied to the media – particularly the Western media. The amount of disinformation that the West has contrived and disseminated in order to stoke support for Ukraine or at least muddy the waters, is terrifying. Every corner of the Anglo-American-controlled media, from CNN to The Guardian, from BBC to Foreign Affairs, has primarily shown only one side of the story.

We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa.

Yet time waits for no one. The Empire will strike back in full force; in fact its multi-hydra Hybrid War tentacles are already on display.

The Ukrainians need lots of Nike running shoes so they can marathon to the Polish border when the Russian steamroller arrives

               —Kadyrovite

Gus: one could wonder if the old FOX, Rupert, let Tucker Carlson loose on the world with the intent to push a secret agenda of more truthful opinion which could not be promoted on the NEWSCORP Network…. See, Carlson is still under contract with FOX, but not in the stable any more. Carlson’s interviews are more incisive than ever before — and reflect an agenda which may not be contrary to the old FOX Rupert… This agenda is possibly more intelligent than the main stream media that has gone totally woke and liberal-apeshit (meaning LGBTIQ+, arsonist and fascist)… 

Germany plans to concentrate its efforts on providing Ukrainian forces with artillery pieces, munitions and air defense systems, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday following a closed government meeting. Berlin wants the weapons it sends to Kiev to be “immediately effective,” he said, adding that most Germans supposedly back the government’s “carefully weighed” policy on Ukraine.

“The truth is that Germany is the second largest supplier [of weapons to Ukraine] after the US,” Scholz told journalists at a joint press conference held alongside ruling coalition leaders. He then listed the weapons Berlin had already provided to Kiev, including tanks, air defense systems like IRIS-T, and US-made Patriots, adding that it always seeks to send weapons that can make a difference on the battlefield.

The Australian Government’s public analysis of climate risk, our greatest threat, is dangerously misleading. The Intergenerational Report 2023 (IGR) is a prime example. By dumbing down the implications of climate change with simplified economic models, the IGR and similar reports are institutionalising the global failure to face climate reality.

By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop

I despair that there appears to be no discernible political debate over economic policy in the U.K. at all, outwith a few left websites and magazines with tiny readerships.

The Labour Party has completely abandoned the mildly social democratic platform of  its former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and now actively renounces public ownership of utilities, improved workers’ rights that provide greater job security, public spending to stimulate the economy and the use of taxation to redistribute wealth.

Pope Francis has served as an “instrument of Russian propaganda”after speaking warmly about the nation’s rich historical legacy, Mikhail Podoliak, a top aide to Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky, has said.

The head of the Catholic Church is engaging in “a destructive discourse for contemporary humanism,”Podoliak claimed, in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published on Wednesday.

The comment referred to a video conference which the Pope held with Russian Catholics on Friday, during which Francis reminded his audience in St. Petersburg that they are all “heirs of the great Russia… of saints, of kings, [the] Russia of Peter the Great and Catherine II, of the great Russian Empire, of so much culture and humanity.” The urged the people of Russia to cherish this historical lineage.

The whitewashing of the historical context for the war in Ukraine has resulted in a profoundly embarrassing episode for the United States embassy in Prague.  

An Aug. 21 Tweet from the embassy with a message roughly translated from Czech to mean “Aggression always comes from the Kremlin,” showed two photographs: the first displayed Soviet tanks in the streets of Prague in 1968.  The second showed fire burning in front of a building and was marked “Odesa 2023.”  

It should be a given that Ukraine has spies within the Russian intelligence agency FSB and that Russia has spies within the SBU, the Ukrainian intelligence agency.

In time of conflict, these spies can become double agent, or be used as double agents, until their usefulness becomes problematic.

This is where J C Masterman, the head of the English DOUBLE-CROSS SYSTEM, saw trouble in his exposition of the dangers in dealing with manipulating false information that would land on the lap of the enemies.

As he explained, success and failure were often dangerously close. He had six reasons the whole operation of his D-C S hung in the balance until D-Day…

During his 31 months in office, US President Joe Biden has repeatedly accused China of betting that Washington cannot keep up with Beijing and claimed that he has told Chinese leaders that it's never a good bet to bet against the United States.

Such accusations are bizarre, to say the least, because the Chinese people haven't heard their leaders saying such things about the US. As China's Ambassador to the US Xie Feng said at the recent Aspen Security Forum, China does not intend to challenge or displace any country, and instead of outcompeting others, Chinese people's focus is on "outdoing ourselves".

Chinese leaders, senior officials and lawmakers are laser focused on domestic issues and never indulge in loose talk about other countries, unlike their US counterparts.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's appearance on Kitchen Cabinet provoked outrage over the show's glorification of the man despite his "crimes", writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.

THE HOST of ABC TV’s Kitchen Cabinet, Annabel Crabb, took to Twitter/X at the weekend to denounce what she perceives as an ‘orgy of outrage’ from users at the appearance of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton on her show.

Crabb claims her series offers politicians the rare opportunity to do a “soft” interview in the kitchens of their own homes as they prepare and share a meal with her.

There are rising complaints from Donald Trump and his supporters that the Biden administration has “weaponized” the criminal justice system to harass and intimidate political and ideological opponents. That maneuver, they contend, is creating a corrupt, “two-tier” system with one, very lenient standard for the president’s allies and another, far harsher, standard for his adversaries.

As whistleblowers languish in prison, allies of the national security state get sweetheart plea deals.

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide." — John Adams in a letter to John Taylor 1814

By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost 

IN 1910, THE PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA, ALFRED DEAKIN, TRAVELLING IN NEW SOUTH WALES, HAD FOUR CAR CRASHES, SURVIVED TWO TRAIN ACCIDENTS AND TWO HORSE BUGGIES THAT OVERTURNED, IN ONE WEEK. THE CARTOON ABOVE, PUBLISHED IN THE MELBOURNE PUNCH, HAS BEEN USED TO ILLUSTRATE WHERE WE'RE AT ABOUT 113 YEARS LATER...

BY Alastair Crooke

We seem headed for a point of impact, with the prospect of collision in full view – and one as obvious as it was in 1911.