By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the annals of warfare, armchair generals, cyber warriors, and media propaganda may speed up the decision to use force. They never decide the outcome. Today, in Myanmar as in Donbass, eastern Ukraine, we have reached the point where words have stopped; sticks and stones have started. The further away these […]

by Editor - Monday, April 12th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Joseph Biden (lead image, left) has been showing symptoms of late-stage Parkinson’s Disease, which includes episodic dementia caused by Lewy Bodies (striatal amyloid plaques).  President Volodomyr Zelensky (right) is suffering from memory failure, mood swings, and other neurological disorders after his hospitalisation for Covid-19 five months ago.  This report of […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 8th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with This is the way it is going. A veteran German source, whose family comes from Prussia and knows the history of wars on the Eastern Front very well, says that the Poles “are notoriously bad at bluffing. They threaten beyond their capacities. They invite trouble, and when it happens, they fold.” […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Two Swiss bankers will go on trial this week in the Swiss Federal Criminal Court charged with money-laundering offences when they supervised and assisted the movement out of Russia, then  through Switzerland,  of at least 700 million Swiss francs. The money was moved by Sergei Pugachev (lead image, left) between 2008 […]

by Editor - Sunday, April 4th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere”. It’s a well-known Chinese maxim, especially in Myanmar (Burma), China’s backdoor to the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Navy’s forward defence line.     Russia’s policy towards Myanmar since the military takeover on February 1 is […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 1st, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The first session of the inquest into the death of Dawn Sturgess, held in London on Tuesday, was almost entirely predictable. The counsel for the coroner,  like the lawyers for the Sturgess family and for the Home Office, repeated without qualification the allegation that a Novichok poison weapon they say was […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Bernadette Caffarey (lead image, 2nd from left) is the go-to person when high British government officials need a spokesman after a suspicious death has occurred in the vicinity of the secret services; and when withholding of evidence from a coroner or criminal court judge requires discretion, sensitivity, trust. That’s trust on the […]

by Editor - Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with For more than three centuries the judges of the United Kingdom’s courts have struggled to preserve their independence from the monarch and the government, and thus their power to rule on the truth before them, not the lies presented by the ruling powers.   When giving public lectures, optimistic, pensioned, and […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 28th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In a series of moves coordinated with German and other NATO government officials, Alexei Navalny has released a fabricated internet message while his wife Yulia Navalnaya is in Germany to seek German, British and US Government aid for Navalny’s release from prison on terms that will end his political ambitions in […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 28th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Kiev regime of Volodymyr Zelensky is now in the same strategically vulnerable position as Petro Poroshenko’s regime was after the presidential election of May 2014. Both were facing domestic alienation and armed opposition, which for different reasons in the east of the country and the west, were impossible for the […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 25th, 2021
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