Crooked Bough News Round-up

— TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO PODCAST HAS GONE BEFORE – ON TREK WITH JAMARL THOMAS

 

at 4/17/26 2:12am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with For our audience, which is exposed every few minutes of the day to the knowns, speculation about the known facts, and the hopefulness, wishfulness, and theories of what’s about to happen, that’s an impossible amount of data and information to make sense of things. Let’s try an unusual method of figuring []

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— JESUS CHRIST! XI JINPING IS HUGGING DONALD TRUMP ON THE SIDELINES OF THREE US-ISRAELI GENOCIDAL WARS

 

at 4/16/26 1:30am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with In successive tweets on Wednesday afternoon (April 15), President Donald Trump posted a new picture himself as the embodiment of God the Son on earth (lead image, left).  Forty-four  minutes earlier, he had announced that “President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there [China] in a few weeks.”    []

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— THE CHINESE TRY PUSSYFOOTING AT THE HORMUZ STRAIT

 

at 4/15/26 12:47am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Between saying something if you are a Chinese admiral and Defense Minister and meaning something if you are a Politburo member and Foreign Minister, there is a pussyfooting difference. If you are the US Treasury Secretary and you tell the Chinese what you mean, that’s different. And then if you are []

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— BLOOD, MONEY, AND THE TRUMP DYNASTY – IRAN SHOWS HOW TO FIGHT

 

at 4/14/26 2:21am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the world in which President Donald Trump plans his future (lead image), and the presidential dynasty of his sons to succeed him, the gunman believes he can take away both lives and bribes. Unless the victim catches him by surprise, outgunning him and those of his allies who have paid []

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— VLADIMIR PUTIN, KIRILL DMITRIEV AND WHISPERS OF THE RUSSIAN SUCCESSION

 

at 4/13/26 2:08am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Inside the Kremlin Wall there is only one man sitting or standing whose closeness to President Vladimir Putin has so excited his ambition to be rich (billion-dollar rich), and to be powerful (the next head of government), that he dares to shout from the ramparts that peace on the Ukrainian battlefield, []

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— DONALD TRUMP DECLARES THAT HE AND JESUS CHRIST — NOT IRAN, NOT POPE LEO XIV, AND DEFINITELY NOT JD VANCE — WILL DECIDE THE SUCCESSION

 

at 4/13/26 1:58am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with As the frontrunner in the race to succeed President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance had more to lose in the negotiations with Iran in Islamabad than his principal rivals – they are Trump the father and his sons, Donald Jr and Eric Trump; or Mario Rubio, the Secretary of State []

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— CURTAIN UP, CURTAIN DOWN ON THE ISLAMABAD NEGOTIATIONS — IRAN’S DEAD-HAND WARFIGHTING STRATEGY  BEATS OFF US DEAD-HEAD  PROPAGANDA   

 

at 4/11/26 11:54pm

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with On the eve of the Islamabad negotiations, by intention, the US oligarch-run media platform known as the Washington Posteditorialized in favour of a five-point combination of invasion and genocide for Iran in order to achieve a “final and decisive conclusion” if Iran refuses to come to “an acceptable agreement”. That meant []

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— GOD ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH – THE POPE AND THE US BISHOPS ARE THREATENING THE CATHOLIC VOTE FOR TRUMP AND HIS SUCCESSORS

 

at 4/9/26 11:51pm

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with When it comes to the role God plays in Vatican politics, inside the Holy See and outside in the warmaking capital of the US, there can never be too much ado about nothing. You don’t have to be a believer to understand that in war and politics, God is Not Nothing. []

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— THE DOOLITTLE QUESTION, THE DO-NOTHING ANSWER – THE POWER SHIFT  WHICH THE IRAN WAR IS CAUSING IN MOSCOW

 

at 4/9/26 1:19am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Professor Higgins’s question to Colonel Pickering about Eliza Doolittle in the line from the musical, My Fair Lady,(lead image) was: Why can’t a woman be more like a man? In Moscow, where the course of the Iran war is having a profound impact on military, intelligence, Foreign Ministry, and Kremlin officials, []

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— FIGHT BACK! GORILLA RADIO EXPLAINS WHY AND HOW

 

at 4/8/26 2:26am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with Broadcast with Chris Cook on Tuesday evening, the news broke midway that President Donald Trump had withdrawn his CBOU – Crazy Bastards Obliteration Ultimatum – and agreed to a ceasefire for two weeks of negotiations with Iran. This news followed by several hours in New York, the double veto by China []

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— BEFORE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP RAN UP HIS WHITE FLAG, HERE ARE THE REASONS HE DID SO – NEW PODCAST WITH RED PILL DIARIES

 

at 4/8/26 2:09am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with President Donald Trump has been defeated on the battlefield near Isfahan over the weekend. He was then defeated on the morning of Tuesday in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in his attempt, manipulating Bahrain, to legalize the use of force against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Finally, minutes short []

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— WHAT THE CAPTURED RYDER DOCUMENTS REVEAL OF THE US-ISRAELI PLAN TO DESTROY IRAN  — AND WHAT COMES NEXT

 

at 4/7/26 12:39am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Alive or dead, US Air Force (USAF) Major Amanda Ryder has just destroyed President Donald Trump’s future. The document bag (lead image, bottom left) and documents (right) which the Iranian Law Enforcement Force (Faraja) has disclosed and published in the last twenty-four hours, are evidence of the weekend firefight and destruction []

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— THE PERSIAN BACKSTABBER STRIKES AGAIN

 

at 4/6/26 5:33am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Mohammed Javad Zarif(lead images) has grown fatter and more swollen-headed since he was replaced as Iran’s Foreign Minister in 2021, then removed as Vice President in 2025. In Moscow, Zarif is known as a Russia-hating, backstabbing liar who negotiates with deceit and whose word is worthless. Click for more. For Zarif []

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— THE COLLAPSE OF TRUMP’S MIND LEAVES NO ALTERNATIVE

 

at 4/6/26 1:04am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with In the four days between April 1 and April 5, President Donald Trump made a record of the collapse of his mind into genocidal violence which none of his officials can dissuade, limit, control, if they try, or even conceal. Not the the military experts of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; []

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— THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS TRAPPED UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT WITHOUT A PADDLE

 

at 4/3/26 1:34am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with By an accident of the calendar, this year’s Good Friday follows just two days after April Fools’ Day. It is no accident that the Trump Administration has put its Arab and European allies for the war against Iran on the battlefield of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in order to []

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— RUSSIAN PUBLIC OPINION SWINGS TO IRAN’S SIDE, AGAINST THE US AND ISRAEL – THE KREMLIN FOLLOWS

 

at 4/2/26 5:58am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with Russian public opinion is swinging decisively in favour of Iran and hostility towards the US and Israel is growing, according to the latest nationwide opinion pollconducted by the Levada polling group of Moscow between March 18 and 26, 2026. Sympathy for Iran is expressed by 40% of the nationwide sample; []

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— HORMUZ IS THE TRUMP CARD TRUMPING ALL IN THE GAME – INCLUDING CHINA

 

at 4/1/26 1:37am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The news broke shortly after today’s Dialogue Works podcast went to air. This is China’s attempt to take from Iran its two trump cards in defending itself from the US, Israel and their allies: First card Iran’s right of self-defence and retaliation against each and every base, including radars, logistics, []

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— THE BOOMERANG IS NOW THE MOST POWERFUL WARFIGHTING WEAPON IN THE WORLD

 

at 3/31/26 12:53am

By John Helmer, Moscow  @bears_with The weapon was first used at least forty thousand years ago, not only by Australian aboriginals (lead image, left) but also by ancient Egyptians and native Americans like the Navajo. Even the Poles are known to have masteredthe technology of shaping mammoth tusks and throwing them at people whose meat they []

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— FATE OF THE IRAN NAVY SQUADRON – INDIA CONTINUES TO SIDE AGAINST IRAN, JOINS US PRESSURE AGAINST SRI LANKAN NEUTRALITY – RUSSIA OFFERS OIL RESCUE FOR SRI LANKA, PREMIUM FOR INDIA

 

at 3/29/26 4:06am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with The survivors of the US attack and sinking of the Iranian frigate IRIS Denaon March 4 are direct witnesses of exactly what happened not only in the hours and minutes before the attack, but also in the days preceding –at least a week when Iranian officials were requesting sanctuary []

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— JUGGLING VOTES, MONEY AND BULLETS – PRESIDENT PUTIN WEIGHS THE RISK OF LOSING THE STATE DUMA ELECTION IN SEPTEMBER TO THE OPPOSITION

 

at 3/27/26 12:41am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with No president in his right mind goes willingly into elections facing inflation, war casualties, recession, and hope for investment from his rivals and enemies – simultaneously. I’m not talking about Donald Trump on November 3, the Congressional election day. This is about Vladimir Putin on September 20, the State Duma election []

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— JIGSAW PUZZLE — IRAN’S WAR-WINNING TRACK, RUSSIA’S DOG & PONY  TRICK

 

at 3/25/26 2:52am

By John Helmer, Moscow@bears_with “Sergei Victorovich”, President Vladimir Putin said behind his hand to his Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov (lead image, left). “Do me a favour. When you’re talking to the Iranians, promise whatever they need to keep fighting and deter Trump. But keep it secret. And in public, waffle. Your job is to reassure []

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