Month: January 2018

George Soros (photo by Harald Dettenborn) COGwriter Billionaire George Soros made comments about the future of internet firms and governmental control: January 28, 2018 Billionaire philanthropist and leading donor to liberal causes George Soros predicted Thursday that regulation and taxation will soon dethrone Facebook and Google, describing the tech industry’s major players as powerful monopolies […]

COGwriter The following was from the German press: 28 January 2018 A draft EU law to restrain Chinese acquisitions of European firms and technologies is progressing, according to a deputy German minister. Matthias Machnig has said the initiative has found support in European capitals. … Germany, together with France and Italy, had launched the legislative […]

Afghan Taliban Militants COGwriter The Taliban claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack in Afghanistan today: January 27, 2018 A suicide car bomb Saturday ripped through a crowded area outside a government building in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 95 people and wounding more than 163 others. The Health Ministry confirmed the casualty toll. Thick, dark […]

Arctic region Previously Proposed Silk Road Corridors (Lommes) COGwriter The Chinese continue to work to increase their international influence and change the current Anglo-American dominated world order: China proposes ‘Polar Silk Road’ across Arctic to streamline trade 26 January 2018 China on Friday published its first official policy paper outlining its strategy for the Arctic […]

Emblem of the Eurasian Economic Union COGwriter While Davos is going on and the world is watching Europe and the USA, The Guardian put out the following: Never mind Brexit, or even Europe. The future is Eurasian Europe is disappearing. Not because – as you often hear – we are returning to a world of […]