by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with It’s Easter for Christians, and President Donald Trump’s message is a religious one. He aims to be one of the angels of deliverance whom the gospels report to have showed themselves at the tomb of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. Rolling the stone from the entrance to the tomb, and in […]

by Editor - Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with At 10 on Monday morning this week, the official White House log shows that President Donald Trump was preparing himself to greet the President of Salvador who was arriving at the White House door in an hour’s time.   But in a tweet Trump composed beforehand, he announced: “The War between […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Kirill Dmitriev (lead image) is the Stanford and Harvard educated official appointed by President Vladimir Putin to persuade American businessmen to invest in the profits to be made from dismantling US  economic sanctions against Russia. Today at the Kremlin (April 11), he tried again in fresh talks with Putin and Stephen […]

by Editor - Saturday, April 12th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with According to the official White House schedule,   President Donald Trump doesn’t start his day until lunchtime when he sits down with his political heir, Vice President J.D. Vance, at 12:30. He has more lunches with Vance than he receives briefings from his secret services on the threats of his enemies. Trump […]

by Editor - Thursday, April 10th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with Until recently it was impossible to grow bananas in Russia except in the greenhouse of Count Pyotr Sheremetev at Kuskovo. That eighteenth-century establishment was so costly to operate,   the fruit was a rarity meant for the tsar’s table, and not too tasty either. More than two hundred years of Russian banana […]

by Editor - Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with The snowdrops have already come through the snow. The grape hyacinths are flowering in their place. By the time the bluebells appear, I shall be back at my desk.

by Editor - Monday, March 24th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In Hollywood as in Bollywood, filmmakers and the executive directors representing the  production financiers  know that the money shot is the climactic moment in the shooting script which is put there to excite the audience, and to persuade the investors there’s money to be made.  In porno films, the money shot […]

by Editor - Sunday, March 23rd, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with “Don’t you ever let me hear this again, or I’ll lose my temper.” That was Lucky Luciano’s (lead image, left) ultimatum to Vito Genovese (right) in 1946 when Luciano was in Havana, Cuba,  organizing his business comeback in the US, as Genovese tried persuading him to delegate the operations to himself. “Right […]

by Editor - Friday, March 21st, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with In the very first Pentagon press briefing of the Trump Administration, held this past Tuesday, Air Force Lieutenant General Alexus Grynkewich, who directs US military operations on the Ukraine battlefield and in Yemen, announced:  “President Trump and Secretary Hegseth,  they understand that when America gets involved in a fight, it’s our […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
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by John Helmer, Moscow   @bears_with At the beginning of this month, Bild, the German media sensationalist, claimed to have discovered “incredible developments between [Presidents] Trump and Putin. And they affect Germany! Bild research reveals secret talks between the US and Russia in Switzerland. It’s about an explosive gas deal for Germany! At the centre of the affair: once […]

by Editor - Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
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