by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The law is an ass” is an English expression of almost four hundred years of age. While credit for inventing the very first use of it has been argued over, there is no doubt that it was Charles Dickens in his Oliver Twist of 1838 who began the popularity of combining law […]

by Editor - Monday, September 30th, 2024
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by Slobodan Despot, Montreux, and John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with A plea bargain for the Russian Telegram owner Pavel Durov (aka Paul Du Rove, lead image lower right)) has been arranged in Paris with President Emmanuel Macron (upper right) by their common friend, Xavier Niel (upper left), a French internet billionaire with a history of his own  internet sex […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of imperial conquest and rule of the Arabs – that’s Turkish, Italian, British, French, American, Israeli – decapitation of leaders has always been preferable to genocide of peoples because it’s much cheaper. Slavery, as the Portuguese empire first developed it, was the cost accountant’s solution to making genocide […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 29th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last time an obscure official of junior rank named Vladimir Medinsky (lead image) was recorded officially as having words with President Vladimir Putin was on November 20, 2019.   At the time Medinsky was the Minister of Culture, and he was briefing Putin on one of his portfolio activities, the […]

by Editor - Friday, September 27th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A short break.

by Editor - Monday, September 9th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Presidential candidate Donald Trump has repeated his promise to end the Ukraine war the day after his re-election with a bribe for President Vladimir Putin and his two pro-American constituencies, the Central Bank of Russia and the Russian oligarchs. Applauded by an audience of New York lawyers and businessmen on Thursday […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 8th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Sergei Kirienko, a former prime minister of Russia and currently the Number-2 man in charge of President Vladimir Putin’s staff, believes Russia can win the information war against the US and its allies. In his meetings behind closed doors at the Kremlin, Kirienko has revealed that he thinks Americans are so […]

by Editor - Friday, September 6th, 2024
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By Slobodan Despot, Montreux*  @bears_with The owner of Telegram, as far as we know, is still in France. The bird without a nest now lives with a police ankle tag on its foot. It is still unclear why he himself landed in the trap set. But we are beginning to understand how he thinks. The intelligence […]

by Editor - Thursday, September 5th, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Pavel Durov (lead image) aka Paul du Rove (“vagabond” in French) doesn’t put his money where his mouth is. This is because more than half the assets and almost half the revenues of Durov’s Telegram group of companies  are digital units which Telegram itself programmes, stores, trades, values, and revalues, so […]

by Editor - Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with What can an employee of the Rupert Murdoch media machine and an employee of a George Soros think tank reveal in a new book about the evils of President Vladimir Putin which they and a foreign legion of thousands haven’t already said before – except that there is still money to […]

by Editor - Sunday, September 1st, 2024
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