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Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Yesterday, on Monday, the American ratings agency Moody’s lowered the credit futures from “stable” to “negative” of three EU countries – Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
Germans are in no mood to deal with opportunist Moodys, a detached and biased market analyst based on another continent who thinks it can just run rough-shod over other peoples – in this case European – economies. [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 3 hated American horsemen of the Apocalypse, 3 hated rating agencies, chinese rating agency, euro vs. dollar, European rating agency, George W Stupid, Germans in no mood for 'Moodys', Merkel proposes EU rating agency, Moody's and Fitch, Standard & Poor's
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
![800px-A400M-1969[1] a400m](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/800px-A400M-196911-150x150.jpg)
Europe’s A400M cargo transport aircraft will perform only limited flying display at Farnborough.
Airbus will apparently not be flying Europe’s flagship army cargo plane, the A400 at today’s Farnborough Airshow because of concern over recurring engine problems.The construction of the A400M is Europe’s most important defense project and is capable of transporting 37 tons of payload over 8700 kilometers.
Due to this same problem with the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: A400 Atlas, a400m, A400M - Europe's cargo transport aircraft, A400m Atlas, a400m Atlas not grizzly, A400M ILA Berlin 2010, A400M Wingover First Display ILA Berlin 2010, ILA Berlin 2010
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Sunday, July 8th, 2012
![407px-Angela_Merkel_24092007[1] Angela Merkel - foto Wikipedia - source Ricardo Stuckert/PR](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/407px-Angela_Merkel_2409200716-203x300.jpg)
Angela Merkel – foto Wikipedia – source Ricardo Stuckert/PRToday’s edition of the Deutsche Welle put it well – “From bitter enemies to firm friends: Germany and France have achieved true reconciliation over the last 50 years. The Elysée Treaty, signed back in 1963, can serve as an example to others.” http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16078972,00.html .
Chancellor Merkel met President Hollande in Reims, Eastern France earlier today. They [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 50 years of German-Franco reconciliation, Chancellor Merkel goes out on a political limb, Chancelor Merkel meets President Hollande in Reims, deutsche welle, Francois Hollande, French Elections - Chancellor Merkel, politics makes strange bedfellows, The Elysée Treaty, Wolfgang Schäuble
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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Angela Merkel met the newly appointed French President Hollande in Berlin this evening.
It was more a getting-to-know each other type of meeting and an opportunity to again clear the air, or at least clean the air of the former French President, Sarkozy.
President Hollande’s trip began in rather inauspicious circumstances when the President’s plane was apparently hit by lightning climbing out of Paris [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Chancellor Merkel goes out on a political limb, Francois Hollande, French Elections - Chancellor Merkel, merkel-to-support-sarkozys-re-election, Peer Steinbrück, Piraten Partie, politics makes strange bedfellows, robin hood tax sarkozy, SPD win big in German regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Tobin tax, upstart Piraten Partie, upstart Piraten Partie also do well – CDU loses big-time but Merkel’s national position as Chancellor unaffected, Wolfgang Schäuble
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Berlin ist ja für schnelle Veränderung bekannt. Sehr große Veränderungen werden längerfristig geplant, manchmal ist die einberechnete Zeit jedoch zu kurz. Wie bei der Geschichte der Berliner Flughäfen. Berlin mit seinen Ursprünglich vier Flughäfen war schon immer Dreh- und Angelpunkt für den Luftverkehr.
Die Teilung Deutschlands zwang die Berliner zum umdenken. Da Westberlin eine vergleichsweise kleine Fläche war, mussten die vorhandenen Flugplätze gut [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: brand, Fluggesellschaften, Flughafen, Katastrophenschutz, Luftbrücke, Matthias, Platzeck, Probleme, Raves, Regierung, Regierungsterminal, Westberlin
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

The Dutch PM Mark Rutte, leader of the Liberal VVD Party has indicated that because of failed budget negotiations earlier today that early elections are very likely. The Dutch Liberals are a sister party of the German FDP.
Reason for this sudden collapse of the cabinet is the populist right-wing hatemonger Geert Wilders. He had black-mailed his former coalition partners in the past [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'albino-ostrich-like' Wilders, Breivik admires Wilders, Diederik Samsom, dutch government almost falls, dutch government falls, Dutch pulblic relieved, Emile Roemer, extremely odius CDA member Verhagen, hatemonger wilders, Hatemonger Wilders ends opportunist alliance with Dutch Liberals and Conservatives, lame and supine coalition government of Holland, rascist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Socialist Party, wilders brings down dutch coalition government, Wilders causes Dutch government collapse, Wilders Dutch Goebbels, wilders dutch government falls, Wilders loves Netanyahu, xenophobe wilders
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Saturday, March 31st, 2012

This Ceramic ‘Conehead’ statuette was found by blog reader Oleg on the corner of Boxhagener Strasse & Wühlischstraße near Ostkreuz – it is in neighbourhood or Bezirk of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
‘Coneheads’ are an alien family, natives of the planet Remulak, who found themselves stranded on Earth and when questioned by Earthlings where they are from they inevitably reply that they are “from France”. Their [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Boxhagener Strasse & Wühlischstraße, Canadian actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd, Ceramic CONEHEAD statuette, Ceramic CONEHEAD statuette - Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Conehead monument Berlin, Conehead visit Berlin, Coneheads active in Berlin, Connie Conehead visits Berlin, Conny Conehead in Berlin, funny fotos in Berlin, funny pictures from berlin, Remulak
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Woman on stilts in front of Berlin Reichstag – foto -http://owlfliesnorth.tumblr.com/
Kiwi Blog reader – New Zealander Ms Carmel Blanchard sent us this funny foto of ……….yes what can one say other than that we have a woman/man on stilts – infront of the Berliner Dome in Berlin Mitte. [Schloßplatz, Mitte 10178 Berlin,[
She sent this picture on our www.ota-berlin.de blog website in [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: anti-wall street protests, funny fotos in Berlin, funny pictures from berlin, kiwis in Berlin, new zealanders in Berlin
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012

The former home country of megalomania and kitsch has undergone a transition over the recent years that is a bit of a jaw-dropping affair, to say the least. The Krauts have gone from a nation of grumpy white-socked misanthropes with a world-domineering streak and ‘Lebensraum’-claiming towels to a people of cool and charisma.
Germany has turned into the promised land. How did that [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 2006 World Cup, Best of Germany, bohemian, commerce, Economy, Fritz, germany, hip Berlin, kitsch, Krauts, megalomania, pazifist, poor but sexy, Rosa-Luxemburg Straße, Woodstock
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
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Political forces can sometimes bring and even force together people who might otherwise have very little in common - this could be the case with the German Chancellor Merkel and the French President Sarkozy.
” Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” is how William Shakespeare put it with a man who has been shipwrecked and finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleeping [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Chancellor Merkel goes out on a political limb, Francois Hollande, French Elections - Chancellor Merkel, Merkel to support Sarkozy’s re-election, politics makes strange bedfellows, robin hood tax sarkozy, Tobin tax
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
German Foreign Minister Westerwelle has gone on the diplomatic offensive and debunked US media caricature of Europe and Germany as short-sighted and untrue. Last Friday he defended the EU’s and Germany’s response to the Euro-zone debt crisis management on a visit in the US and exposed the falseness of the caricature of Europe that prevails in US politics.
Speaking to a Washington so-called [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: euro vs. dollar, fdp, guido westerwelle, westerwelle corrects US media image of Europe, Westerwelle criticizes US media, Westerwelle US media perceptions
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