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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with There’s a lot to be afraid of in life. Mine has been dominated by the fear of suffocating to death. Compared to that, verbal insults, the headmaster’s cane, my father’s screaming, army camp, police on horses, Harvard University, the doorman at Fortnum’s, bad reviews, Russian gunmen, Georgian gunmen, and threats by […]
by Editor - Monday, September 27th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When China was an empire in 1792, the emperor Ch’ieng Lung told the British ambassador to take his gifts and bribes back to London, along with this message for the British king: “we have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country’s manufactures. You, O […]
by Editor - Sunday, September 26th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with It has not been proved that an unlimited number monkeys in a room with typewriters to match and an infinite amount of time would type the complete works of Shakespeare, or even one of the Bard’s lines. But the improbability of the infinite monkey theorem is nothing compared to the certainty […]
by Editor - Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Following last week’s meeting in Washington of Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne (lead image left), the Australian defence minister and their US counterparts, a strategic military and basing agreement was announced between Australia, the UK and US (AUKUS). This is being reinforced with summit meetings in Washington this week. The declared […]
by Editor - Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Robots can be easily programmed to correct their mistakes; robot voters can be programmed to re-vote. But robots are missing the intelligence to cover up their tracks. In the twenty-four hours since the Russian polls closed on Sunday at 8, the robot voters of Russia have exposed themselves to one of […]
by Editor - Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow, and Liane Theuerkauf, Munich @bears_with The leading hospital doctors on Novichok poisoning in Britain and Germany are not allowed by their governments to reveal publicly the medical information they have exchanged with each other. James Haslam, the chief doctor at Salisbury District Hospital treating Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal for Novichok poisoning […]
by Editor - Thursday, September 16th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow and Liane Theuerkauf, Munich @bears_with Philipp Jacoby, the only German doctor treating Alexei Navalny for alleged poisoning to have testified publicly, has given a new press interview to alter the interpretation of the evidence he gave last week. “People close to Navalny”, he now says, “warned me about John Helmer”. In two […]
by Editor - Sunday, September 12th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Faster than a speeding bullet — more powerful than a locomotive — able to leap tall lies at a single bound. More farsighted than Clark Kent (alias Superman), greener than Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), more tenacious than Peter Parker (Spiderman), as sworn to vengeance against lawlessness as Bruce Wayne (Batman). That’s […]
by Editor - Thursday, September 9th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Small peoples deal with their inferiority complex towards larger, more powerful peoples in special ways. The Greeks remember their ancient victories over the Trojans and Persians, and more recently their defeat of the Italians at the start of World War II. The Galicians of Ukraine remember their killing of Jews, Poles […]
by Editor - Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
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By John Helmer, Moscow, and Liane Theuerkauf, Munich @bears_with The planning to fly Alexei Navalny (lead image) from Russia to Germany, and there to accuse the Kremlin of trying to kill him with Novichok, started before Navalny himself knew he was ill. The new evidence comes from records of the German medical evacuation team based in […]
by Editor - Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
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