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John Helmer writes Dances With Bears, a personal blog at johnhelmer.net about politics and economics. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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Why HN links it

Linked in one comment, a question about whether the Skripal case was mentioned in a drug-cartel drone story. The comment links posts on the Skripal case and an OPCW report, and does not judge them.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Did I miss the mention of Skripal in that link? https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/04/the-skripal-case-two-yea... http://johnhelmer.net/austria-confirms-opcw-report-on-skripa... https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/07/15/mainstream... https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/09/the-impossib...

    Comment linking /austria-confirms-opcw-report-on-skripal-faking-by-the-british-vienna-exposes-financial-times-lies-and-cover-up/

    on “Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones”
  2. Submitted Gardening Against Evil Days as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Anne Applebaum Is Not a War Profiteer as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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