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Tamas Gergo Samu interviews John Helmer @bears_with Tamas Gergo Samu conducted this interview by email earlier this month. Samu, a journalist, has been a Hungarian parliament deputy in Budapest; then an adviser to the head of the Movement for a Better Hungary (Jobbik Magyarországért Mozgalom), a key party in the parliamentary opposition bloc known as United for […]
by Editor - Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
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By Thomas Röper, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (lead image, centre) and Thomas Haldenwang (extreme right) the internal security chief Scholz accepted from Angela Merkel, have pulled off a media coup in the style of the first German minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (on knees).* No German currently employed […]
by Editor - Saturday, December 10th, 2022
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Introduced by John Helmer, Moscow, and reported by Christopher Black, Toronto @bears_with There will be no Russian appeal to the high Dutch courts in the case of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. A district court judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, ruled on November 17 to acquit one Russian and convict two other Russians and a Ukrainian, all fighting for […]
by Editor - Friday, December 9th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When the US economy was in collapse in 1929, the advertising copywriters for Coca Cola were told to come up with a new slogan. The chief executive of the beverage company thought that for Coke to beat its rivals, it was necessary to persuade Americans who were desperate financially to pay […]
by Editor - Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with All states give titles, awards and medals to individuals who contribute exceptionally on the battlefield, in civilian life, and also in financing elections. The British House of Lords would be empty without soldiers who saved the monarch’s throne and businessmen who paid for the prime minister’s seat. In Russia there is […]
by Editor - Tuesday, December 6th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with During the last German administration of Ukraine, the German military and their Ukrainian allies murdered Jewish, Polish and Russian Ukrainian men, women, and children in roughly equal numbers. In this war, the Zelensky administration is depopulating the country of its women; relocating eastern city refugees to the west; leaving the lights […]
by Editor - Monday, December 5th, 2022
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By Olga Samofalova, introduced and translated by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with When Ursula von der Leyen (lead image) was nominated in 2019 to be Germany’s candidate to lead the European Commission, German politicians from her own party privately described her as too stupid and potentially too corrupt to be risked inside Germany during the political succession […]
by Editor - Friday, December 2nd, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch who is under British and European Union sanctions, is lobbying in Washington for an early peace deal with the Ukraine. According to a document Abramovich has filed through the New York law firm of Kobre & Kim, Abramovich has told the US Department of Justice (DOJ) […]
by Editor - Thursday, December 1st, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with There were only two ways for Alexei Kudrin to become the president of Russia that he and the US government have always wanted. The first was for him to become prime minister first, and for him to get the job through the back door, exactly as Vladimir Putin got it from […]
by Editor - Wednesday, November 30th, 2022
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with For the buffer zone to achieve the demilitarization of the Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned in July that military factors, not politics, will decide. “I see no reason to question what President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, and reaffirmed a few days ago,” Lavrov said. “Our goals […]
by Editor - Monday, November 28th, 2022
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