Day: November 9, 2019

Categories Business

Google Cashes in on Scammers Wooing Investors Into Get-Rich Schemes on its Search Engine – Report

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Google is promoting scam websites that are using its search engine to woo people seeking investment opportunities to put their money into “high-risk or potentially fraudulent” schemes, The Times has found. … Read More >Google Cashes in on Scammers Wooing Investors Into Get-Rich Schemes on its Search Engine – Report

Categories World

Germany marks fall of Berlin Wall but forgets DDR lessons – US ‘socialist defector’ Victor Grossman

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Germany celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall is seen as a moment of unity. Yet, lessons East Germany once had to offer were cast aside, a US-born publicist and author, who defected to East Germany in 1952, said. … Read More >Germany marks fall of Berlin Wall but forgets DDR lessons – US ‘socialist defector’ Victor Grossman

Categories Op-ed

A winter of Kremlin’s content: Construction boom shows doomsayer ‘experts’ wrong on Russia

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The cottage industry of ‘experts’ predicting the inevitable demise of Russia for years is ignoring the hard evidence of progress such as the infrastructure projects that the West is unable or unwilling to undertake itself. … Read More >A winter of Kremlin’s content: Construction boom shows doomsayer ‘experts’ wrong on Russia

Categories World

‘Cold War mentality & zero-sum mindset’: Chinese embassy blasts Pompeo over ‘authoritarianism’ claim

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The Chinese embassy in Germany has dismissed the US secretary of state’s accusations of the Chinese government’s growing authoritarianism as the product of a “Cold War mentality and zero-sum game mindset.” … Read More >‘Cold War mentality & zero-sum mindset’: Chinese embassy blasts Pompeo over ‘authoritarianism’ claim

Categories EU

380,000 Soviet troops in East Germany were told not to interfere with bringing down the Berlin Wall – Gorbachev

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The USSR had scores of soldiers deployed in East Germany in 1989 but all of them were ordered to stand down to allow for Berlin’s “wall of mistrust” to fall, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said. … Read More >380,000 Soviet troops in East Germany were told not to interfere with bringing down the Berlin Wall – Gorbachev

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‘We are on a path of war again’: 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Europe betrays its own hopes (By Willy Wimmer)

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Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the symbols of the Cold War, Europe remains divided because it chose confrontation over a common future, Willy Wimmer, Germany’s former State Secretary for Defense believes. … Read More >‘We are on a path of war again’: 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, Europe betrays its own hopes (By Willy Wimmer)