by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A British Ministry of Defence document, issued on March 12 but unnoticed since then, reports  the ministry has searched its files and records of the blood sampling and testing for Novichok in the blood of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, but “failed to locate any information that provides the exact time that […]

by Editor - Thursday, December 5th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with It was Richard Nixon (lead image, left) who famously connected his election defeat with the notion he had been victimized by other people’s boots, particularly the press.  “You don’t have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.” Nixon had lost the vote for California […]

by Editor - Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with If the price of crude oil is stable or rising, the money spent on Russian art works at the semi-annual sales of the London art auction houses usually follows suit. In June, when the last Russian Art Week was held, the price of oil was experiencing a seesaw between $71 and […]

by Editor - Sunday, December 1st, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Nobody learned to write a simple narrative better than Georges Simenon, with the result that over a lifetime of 86 years he drew 550 million paid-up readers, not counting millions more of library and other loaners. He rewarded himself with a well-known fortune banked in Switzerland, and carefully counted numbers of […]

by Editor - Thursday, November 28th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Every year for fifteen years now, Bruce Misamore, David Godfrey, and Steven Theede have been paid millions of dollars in lawyer and manager salaries, bonuses, and travel expenses by the men who weren’t in Russian jail with Mikhail Khodorkovsky (lead image, left);  and then when he got out, by Khodorkovsky too. […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 26th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Slaughtering sheep, goats and chickens with the idea of checking their innards to tell the fortunes of human beings started with the ancient Babylonians, peaked in ancient Rome, and despite the best efforts of the Catholic popes, it was still going strong in medieval England. The killing was called casting the […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 24th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The operational chief of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a British officer whose combat role in Syria between 2016 and 2018 the OSCE is attempting to conceal. Mark Etherington, a British Army paratrooper, was “working on Syria”, according […]

by Editor - Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Dutch Government have released  highly sensitive intelligence confirming what is said to be telephone communications between Russian military commanders, the Russian Defence Ministry, and at least one Kremlin staff man in their communications with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The purported telephone interceptions […]

by Editor - Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A new book has just been printed by Harvard University Press, written by a professor of French history at the University of Houston, Texas, explaining five ideas for Americans from events which took place in the court of Empress Catherine II (the Great) in St. Petersburg over five months between October […]

by Editor - Sunday, November 17th, 2019
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Igor Kolomoisky has given the New York Times the interview US intelligence agency officials wanted him to give.  As they predicted, he spoke right on cue. The rest, as intelligence agency officials say the world over, is history. Only Kolomoisky and the New York Times don’t know history.

by Editor - Wednesday, November 13th, 2019
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