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[l] at 2/12/25 1:24am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with For their daily bread, Russians pay much less than the citizens of the US, the European Union, and other bread-eating states in the warfighting alliance. At current prices, the Russian loaf of white bread is cheaper by almost seven times than the American; six times less than the Norwegian; four times []

[Category: Foodstuffs]

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[l] at 2/9/25 9:19pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The last Chinese as clever, as profiteering, and as popular in the imagination of millions as DeepSeek was Dr Fu Manchu. “Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan,” wrote his creator Sax Rohmer, the alias of an Englishman:  “invest him []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 2/6/25 12:28am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Holding hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, US President Donald Trump has adopted genocide as his personal method for destroying the Arabs of Palestine. “Really very unlucky”, Trump declared the Palestinians have been for being the wrong people in the wrong place. “Being in its presence just has not []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 2/4/25 10:06pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with On January 17, when the Presidents of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian,  signed the Treaty on the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation,  they were standing at the front of a line of Russian and Iranian (Persian) tsars, shahs, generals, ministers, []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 2/3/25 2:21am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with When Tulsi Gabbard, nominee to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), was asked by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence what she thought of Russia Today (RT), she replied: “RT News is a propaganda arm of the Russian state government and is not a reliable source of objective news reporting.” []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/29/25 12:46am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In our first appearance together on Dialogue Works, Nima Alkhorshid opens the discussion of how Russia is taking its fight to President Donald Trump – the best enemy Russia has ever had in the long US war because he is imperialist in ideology, pathological in mentality, and altogether predictable. (He is []

[Category: Interviews]

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[l] at 1/27/25 1:10am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Over-confidence in the face of the adversary can be the death of kings. In the two great battles whose outcomes turned a small, defensive Anglo-Saxon island into an offensive global empire, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Battle of Bosworth Field of 1485, the ruling English kings, Harold Godwinson []

[Category: US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/27/25 1:10am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Over-confidence in the face of the adversary can be the death of kings. In the two great battles whose outcomes turned a small, defensive Anglo-Saxon island into an offensive global empire, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the Battle of Bosworth Field of 1485, the ruling English kings, Harold Godwinson []

[Category: US-Russia]

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[l] at 1/23/25 12:41pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with If you go down in the woods today, youre sure of a big surprise If you go down in the woods today, youd better go in disguise For every oligarch there ever was Will gather there for certain because Todays the day the oligarchs have their picnic. Every oligarch whos been []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/22/25 1:06am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with No government can survive when it fails to control the cost in blood on the battlefield and the cost of potatoes, butter and bread on the home front. The combination at the same time is politically lethal. US President Lyndon Johnson learned this between 1965 and 1968, when the rate of []

[Category: Foodstuffs, Russian Politics]

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[l] at 1/20/25 12:57am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In anticipation of the start of end-of-war negotiations between President Donald Trump’s retired general Keith Kellogg and the Kremlin, Dmitri Rogozin has proposed three fresh principles for the Russian outcome – acceleration, decapitation, mobilization. Since 1996 Rogozin is the longest running contestant for the Russian presidency longer running than Vladimir []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/20/25 12:57am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In anticipation of the start of end-of-war negotiations between President Donald Trump’s retired general Keith Kellogg and the Kremlin, Dmitri Rogozin has proposed three fresh principles for the Russian outcome – acceleration, decapitation, mobilization. Since 1996 Rogozin is the longest running contestant for the Russian presidency longer running than Vladimir []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/19/25 3:06am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with There was a time when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was President of Iran (1989-97) and he despatched from his personal office secret intelligence-gatherers to Moscow. That was during the Yeltsin administration, when there was no love lost for Iran inside the Kremlin wall. So Rafsanjani’s advisors came under cover of merchants []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/16/25 1:00am
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The war to destroy Russia has been an evil in which the British, Americans, Germans and French have combined for more than a century now. In the present stage on the Ukrainian battlefield, every weapon and force fielded by the Anglo-Americans and their allies has been defeated; the Ukraine itself, territorially []

[Category: Interviews, Skripal]

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[l] at 1/13/25 11:50pm
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Novichok is the notorious warfighting poison which has killed no one but fooled everyone. At least that’s how British Government officials, their scientists, chemical warfighters, policemen, media reporters, and trailing after them all, their judges, intend the story to be told. Theirs is the story of the assassination, ordered by President []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/12/25 11:58pm
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In a single line expressed through a reporter, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has explained the defeat of Syria as a tactical withdrawal in preparation for the “military conflict with NATO, and in the next 10 years. So, Russia right now needs solutions that will ensure at least a long-term balance []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 1/12/25 11:38pm
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Imagine the history of a bank written by the driver of the getaway car used by a gang of holdup men after their heist. Then imagine the driver and his gang are religious fundamentalists convinced that what they are doing is God’s mission to reform the banking business by introducing daylight []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 12/20/24 3:57am
by John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Diogenes of Sinope (lead image, centre), the still famous philosopher of ancient Greece, had an unusually long and exceptionally miserable life between 412 and 323 BC. There’s no telling whether he inherited the profits of his father’s money manipulation business, but by the time he was captured by pirates, enslaved, and []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 12/19/24 12:49pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Quoting Mark Twain, President Vladimir Putin has made his first public statement on Syria during his Direct Line broadcast on Thursday. “Whoever wants to imagine Russia weakened…I want to recall the famous man and writer, who once said: ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.’”   During four and a []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 12/17/24 9:10pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the English-language media markets it is impossible for any journalist, editor, publisher or owner to be more corrupt, more of a liar, more of a fraud, and more of a success at selling all three than Rupert Murdoch. That was until the mass media at which Murdoch excelled were superseded []

[Category: DwB]

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[l] at 12/14/24 9:16pm
by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with President Vladimir Putin gave a party rally speech in Moscow on Saturday in which he omitted to mention seven of the eight domestic issues most troubling Russian voters – inflation; high interest-rate caused stagnation in the economy; corruption;  low quality education;  poor public health care; terrorism; and illegal immigrants.   He []

[Category: DwB]

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