Crooked Bough News Round-up

— RUSSIAN “RESTRAINT” TOWARDS ASSASSINATION OF ARAB LEADERS

 

at 10/21/24 12:56am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi was murdered on October 20, 2011, and to mark the thirteenth anniversary of his death, the Russian Foreign Ministry received Qaddafi’s daughter, Aisha Qaddafi, in Moscow on Friday. This is the first open meeting in Russia between high-ranking Russian officials and the Qaddafi family. The political []

[Category: DwB, Israel, Mideast]

— THE DEBATE – THE GENERAL STAFF V THE KREMLIN, JOHN HELMER V GILBERT DOCTOROW

 

at 10/18/24 1:38am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The winners of the war are the Russian General Staff. Everyone in Russia understands that the Russian Army is winning and will win this war…I believe Gilbert is wrong on the history of the negotiations that have gone on since before this war began… It’s [Russian] military protection that guarantees [Ukrainian] []

[Category: DwB]

— DMITRY ROGOZIN FOR PRESIDENT

 

at 10/16/24 1:17am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with According to the Russian Constitution amendments adopted in 2020,  Vladimir Putin can run for re-election in 2030 and win another term until 2036, when he will be 84. The contest over the presidential succession may thus be postponed for another decade. Or else it is under way already. That’s one of []

[Category: DwB]

— THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S NOVICHOK TRIAL REVEALS A TOXIC SHOCK

 

at 10/15/24 1:37am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the first day of public hearings directed by retired judge Anthony Hughes – titled Lord Hughes of Ombersley (lead image) – the evidence compiled over six years by the police, secret services, CCTV records, and witnesses is that Novichok, identified as one of the world’s fastest acting nerve poisons, was []

[Category: Skripal]

— “OVER BY CHRISTMAS” — TIMETABLE JUST ANNOUNCED FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S NOVICHOK TRIAL IN KANGAROO COURT  

 

at 10/11/24 4:37am

by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The timetable for public hearings has been announced by the British government and its judge, Lord Anthony Hughes, to repeat the official allegations of Novichok attacks by Russian agents against Sergei and Yulia Skripal on March 4, then Dawn Sturgess on June 30, 2018. The first hearing will open on next []

[Category: Skripal]

— IN THE WAR ECONOMY RUSSIA HAS TAUGHT THE PIGS TO SING

 

at 10/11/24 2:13am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If you want to understand who is winning the American war against Russia on the Ukrainian battlefield, and also in the world’s commodity trade markets, you can start by calculating the life expectancy of a NATO-trained Ukrainian soldier on the front line, or of a NATO staff officer in a command []

[Category: DwB]

— WHAT IS RUSSIA DECIDING FOR TERMS TO END THE WAR IN THE UKRAINE – GORILLA RADIO EXPLAINS

 

at 10/9/24 2:28am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The Russian history of end-of-war negotiations for the capitulation of Germany and for the World War II peace settlement requires it to be understood now: it was the Red Army’s defeat of the enemy on the battlefield all the way to Berlin which preceded and which was the precondition for the []

[Category: DwB]

— ISRAEL’S  BOND SALE TO AMERICANS – HOW TO STOP THE BIG STEAL 

 

at 10/8/24 1:29am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Just days before Iran and Arab forces launched their October 1 operation to expose Israel’s military vulnerabilities, four Palestinian Americans launched the most serious threat to Israel’s survival in the economic war that is under way in parallel. On September 24 they filed an 89-page brief in a Florida state court []

[Category: Israel]

— THE WAR CAME TO POKROVSK

 

at 10/4/24 2:19am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Pokrovsk, in the northwestern corner of Donetsk region, is almost a Russian city again. Established as a minor Russian rail junction in 1880, it was badly damaged by the Italians and Germans who captured the city between 1941 and 1943, killing more than 8,000 Red Army defenders, 5,000 residents, and all []

[Category: DwB]

— PRESIDENT PUTIN’S MEDINSKY GAMBIT, ISTANBUL-II, AND “BETRAYAL OF RUSSIA’S STATE INTERESTS”

 

at 10/2/24 1:11am

By Gilbert Doctorow in Brussels*  @bears_with As a rule, on these pages I (Gilbert Doctorow, lead image) do not write critiques or responses to the writings of others, but today will be an exception.  A colleague in Germany sent me the link below to a remarkable essay by John Helmer which is too important to ignore. []

[Category: DwB]

— THE END OF THE SKRIPALS

 

at 9/30/24 2:04am

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 Twistof 1838 who began the popularity of combining law []

[Category: DwB, Skripal]

— THE CASE OF PAVEL DUROV ENDS ON A FRENCH LETTER WITH A LOOPHOLE

 

at 9/30/24 1:07am

by Slobodan Despot, Montreux, and John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with A plea bargain for the Russian Telegram owner Pavel Durov (akaPaul Du Rove, lead imagelower 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 []

[Category: DwB]

— REPEAT REMINDER:  JEWISH ANTI-SEMITISM TOWARDS ARABS WAS HAMAS’S STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY ON OCTOBER 7 — STILL IS*

 

at 9/29/24 3:33am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the history of imperial conquest and rule of the Arabs – that’s Roman, Persian, 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 []

[Category: DwB]

— SENDING A BOY TO DO A MAN’S JOB – VLADIMIR MEDINSKY TO NEGOTIATE  ISTANBUL-II

 

at 9/27/24 2:01am

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 []

[Category: DwB]

— THE BEAR’S BREAK FROM DANCING

 

at 9/9/24 2:56am

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with A short break.

[Category: DwB]

— TRUMP REPEATS PUTIN BRIBE – LIMITED SANCTIONS RELIEF IN EXCHANGE FOR STOPPING RUSSIAN GENERAL STAFF PLAN OF OPERATIONS, ACCEPTANCE OF US DOLLAR DOMINANCE

 

at 9/9/24 12:40am

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 []

[Category: DwB]

— THE WAR AND THE WORLD, ACCORDING TO SERGEI KIRIENKO IN THE KREMLIN

 

at 9/6/24 1:41am

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 []

[Category: DwB]

— THE EDIFYING MISADVENTURE OF THE CHEVALIER DU ROVE (aka PAVEL DUROV)

 

at 9/6/24 12:59am

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 []

[Category: DwB]

— PAVEL DUROV, PAUL DU ROVE – FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO PLAY FOOL, STOCK SPECULATOR, FRAUDSTER

 

at 9/4/24 12:58am

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 []

[Category: DwB]

— RUSSIAN MERCENARY YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN’S FLASH IN THE PAN   

 

at 9/1/24 10:33pm

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 []

[Category: DwB]

— RED ARMY HONOUR, PRESIDENT PUTIN & THE START OF WORLD WAR III – THE DURAN PODCAST

 

at 8/29/24 11:29pm

by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “The Russian Army stands for a moral defence of the country which [Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev] could no longer accept, either from Gorbachev or from Yeltsin. He said in his suicide note ‘I have earned the right to step out of my life’.   Now that is not possible except from a Russian []

[Category: DwB]

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