by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with At the end of President Putin’s war talks in Moscow with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (lead image) on March 5, Erdogan refused to shake the hand of Russian Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu. Erdogan’s insult, in the presence of Putin, revealed the Turkish president’s anger at the defeat  his ambitions have […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with An attempt is underway to arrange a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) to restore the agreement on oil production cuts which MbS broke at the March 6 meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries with Russia (OPEC+).  The Crown Prince is […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian toilet paper is a national secret – not a state secret, but a commercial one. This is because production, sales and profits have been growing fast – and this has been for the past five years, before the current toilet paper panic. Secrecy is also in operation because the major […]

by Editor - Thursday, March 19th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Defence lawyers for Oleg Pulatov, one of the four men charged by the Dutch government with murder in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, have told the court the prosecutors were acting illegally in the case they have presented so far. A lawyer for the 298 victims killed on board […]

by Editor - Monday, March 16th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, the principal chemical warfare testing unit of the British Ministry of Defence, has acknowledged it was producing and testing the organophosphate nerve agent Novichok from 2014. This is four years before Sergei Skripal, the retired double agent for the UK’s Secret […]

by Editor - Monday, March 16th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Lesions in the frontal lobe of a normal human being will cause deficits in the executive mental capacities; things like organizing data, planning action, archiving for memory, controlling anger, and the ability to make inferences about the intentions of others. Neurological trials have proved this beyond reasonable doubt. The lead images […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 15th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the first two hours of the first day of the Dutch trial of allegations of murder in the shooting-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, Hendrik Steenhuis, the presiding judge, revealed that the judgement for  Dutch court jurisdiction for the case to proceed is inevitable. He did that three months before […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russia is not the initiator of the war on the oil front which is now under way. Not Russian Energy Minister, Alexander Novak (lead image, right), but Mohammed Bin Salman (left), the Saudi Crown Prince and chief executive of the sheikhdom. This is war propaganda from the Financial Times : “ […]

by Editor - Monday, March 9th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Bribes; early release from prison; threats to kill; covert operations inside Russia, including rendition; and intimidation of relatives. These have been five of the methods planned for obtaining witness testimony for the trial of the criminal destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014.  The trial opens on Monday, […]

by Editor - Monday, March 9th, 2020
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by John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In Operation MINCEMEAT, the brightest and the best of British secret intelligence available in London between January and March 1943, dressed up a corpse as a high-ranking British Army  courier. He was dropped into the water off the Spanish coast, so that he would wash up for a German Army patrol […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 8th, 2020
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