By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the International System of Units, hertz is a unit of frequency for measuring the number of times a repeating event occurs per second, like waves, cycles or vibrations of pitch, sound, or electrical current.  The common multiples are kilohertz, megahertz, and gigahertz. Merz is the unit measuring the number of times German […]

by Editor - Monday, December 22nd, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Friedrich Merz (lead image) — Germany’s chancellor for just eight months with only 28%  of the vote —  is a Joseph Kennedy  fascist. That’s the line which Kennedy, then US Ambassador to the UK, ran to President Franklin Roosevelt between 1938 and 1940 — “fascism is the cure of communism”. Now […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 21st, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Blowing the shofar, the Jewish ritual ram’s horn, has traditionally been the signal to start an attack or a war, and also to celebrate victory at the end of a war.   In the lead picture, two rabbis, Eli Schlanger (left) and Yossi Friedman (right) blew the shofar above Bondi Beach in […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with From Regis Tremblay in Crimea comes a comprehensive answer to the questions the alt-media bloggers and podcasters don’t want to answer. Click to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0bN683uaq4 

by Editor - Thursday, December 18th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with There’s a line in Shooting the Past, a 1999 film by the London filmmaker Stephen Poliakoff, in which the leading character, who runs a large historical photo archive, asks whether it is possible for a photograph to capture a lie coming out of the mouth of a liar. The character isn’t […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 16th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with President Donald Trump wants to turn the Indian Ocean (lead image) into a zone of deterrence against war. That’s to say, he aims to deter anyone from objecting to, resisting or defending against his terms for the wars (and ceasefires) US forces are currently fighting against Yemen, Iran, Sudan, and through […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 14th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Anthony Hughes was in such a hurry to open and shut the British Government’s case against President Vladimir Putin for the Novichok chemical warfare attack in England in 2018, he failed to tie the top button of his shirt. This was also a precaution against choking on what Hughes recited as […]

by Editor - Friday, December 12th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As all cricket and football followers know, the British are bad losers.  They blame the other side or the umpire; they stampede inside the stadium, then they riot outside. They believe their cleverness is in getting the media to portray their defeats on the battlefield as feats of heroism. That’s been […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Seven months ahead of time, Roman Hofman (Гофман, Gofman), military secretary (advisor) to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since April 2024,  has been nominated as the new director of Mossad, succeeding David Barnea whose term ends in June 2026. Netanyahu’s move cuts Gofman’s tenure in the prime minister’s office prematurely short; […]

by Editor - Wednesday, December 10th, 2025
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By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Last week it was President Donald Trump telling reporters he didn’t know what response President Vladimir Putin had made to the term-sheet for ending the Ukraine war which he sent to the Kremlin on December 2 with Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner.   “I don’t know what the Kremlin is doing,” […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
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