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Friday, March 16th, 2012
As U2′s Los Angeles performed Belfast yearnings for religious and income neutral postcodes go, there are places ‘where the streets have no name’. This seems true not only in Utopia but elsewhere, too. Namely in New York City. Who doesn’t know the NYC grid, after all?!
As a student I did a bike-messenger stint in Manhattan, so tourists would frequently ask me for [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Belfast, Berlin, Berlin bears, gauck, Knut, Märkisches Museum, Maxi, Maxi and Schnute, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, red city hall, Schnute, u2, Wall Street, Wallstraße, Where the streets have no names
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Jebali visited Berlin on Wednesday and met with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Tunisia is historically a valuable partner for Germany in North Africa and since it routed the corrupt and hated former President – who was exiled and now resides in comfort in Saudi Arabia – the country has set a positive example for other Arabic countries dealing with old autocratic and [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: al jazeera, deutsche welle, Saudi Arabia, Saudia Arabia and Qatar enemies of the Syrian people not 'friends', so-called friends of Syria like the UK, tunisia playing progress role in North Africa, Tunisia takes correct position on Syria, uk, UK and BBC mouthpiece hypocritcal, UK and BBC want only regime change, UK ramblo politics
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Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Guido Westerwelle – OTA-Berlin The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will not even discuss German military involvement in Syria, calling it counterproductive and pointing to the futility of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
While there is clear evidence of violent political unrest in Syria, Westerwelle correctly sees that by supporting one side over the other – as the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Cameron & Hague losers at EU summit, deutsche welle, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, iraqbodycount, no EU military involvement in Syria, no German military involvement in Syria, no idiot UK type intervention in Syria, no to Cameron / Hague loser adverturism, no to UK's bellicose and mad middle east policy, UK loser duo, UK tries to hijack EU policy over Syria...unsuccessfully, William Hague and David Cameron
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
A former neo-nazi NPD leader wanted to spend a few days in a spa hotel, but the brave management rejected his reservation because of his active right-wing dangerous ideology. The right-wing extremist took his complaint before the Supreme Court and today the verdict reads that basically any hotel operator has the right to reject right-wing extremists as guests.
The wife of this certain Udo Voigt, [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'No room at the German Inn' for NPD neo-nazis, Bad Saarow, Hotel Esplanade Brandenburg Storkow, just say no to NPD, Neo Nazi has no place to stay in Germany, Neo-Nazis thrown out of German Hotel, no hotel for nazis, NPD no place to stay, Scharmützelsee
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
[Photo shows Clara Zetkin -left- with Rosa Luxemborg in Berlin about 100 years ago - circa 1910- from Wikipedia]
In 1919 at the’ International Conference of Working Women’ in Copenhagen, Denmark, the groundwork for the first ‘International Women’s Day’ was established. This conference – attended by more than 100 women from 17 countries representing unions, socialist parties and working women’s clubs-agreed to [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Barnetstraße, Clara Zetkin, Dita Scholl, international womans day, International Women's Day in Berlin, international womens day 2012, International Womens Day Berlin, Maren Kabaratestin Kroymann, Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan, Rosa Luxemburg, What is Woman's day?
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
ITB Berlin has become a driving force in the travel industry and provides leading impulses to a continuously growing market and is rightfully called ‘The World’s Leading Travel Trade Show’. http://www.itb-berlin.de/en/
ITB Berlin is today’s leading B2B-Platform of all tourism industry offers – where supply and demand meet at the right place and is recognized for its unique opportunities to benefit [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 2012 ITB Berlin Convention, eTravel World, I, International Tourism Bourse ITB Berlin, ITB Berlin 2012, ITB Berlin is THE B2B-Platform, ITB Mobile Solutions and Social Media, Messe Berlin, ‘social media and mobile travel services’
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Friday, March 2nd, 2012
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but of the contributor – in this case Mr Emil Hoogensteyn. This blog is brought to you by …..OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ is part of OTA-Berlin – ‘……the intelligent Apartment-Alternative to Hotels in Berlin’. The Blog provides OTA-Berlin guests a quick overview of the cultural, sports, social and other related activities taking place in [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Angela Merkel -’OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ Personage of the Year 2011 It has been 3 months since a far-right terrorist neo-nazi cell was uncovered in Germany, and today the whole nation held a memorial service for the victims of neo-Nazi violence.
Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the Berlin memorial service in Berlin which was attended by circa 1,200 people, including the relatives [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Memorial service in Berlin, Ms Maria Böhmer, nationwide moment of silence across Germany, right-wing neo-nazis should be crushed
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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
Posted in Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin General, Berlin Tourist Attractions, Culture, Economy, Economy Berlin, Economy EU, Economy Germany, Football Europe, German Culture, History, History Berlin, History Germany, Local Berlin, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany, Shopping, Shopping in Berlin Mitte | No Comments »
Friday, February 17th, 2012
President Wulff -foto Wikipedia -source CFK_y_Christian_Wulff.jpg German State prosecutors late yesterday have asked the Bundestag – Germany’s parliament – to lift the President Wulff’s immunity in view of investigations regarding a scandal over alleged favours he received previously as head of the German state of Lower Saxony.
This puts him very close to having to resign – any other decision [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: German presidend red-card offense, German presidend should issue himself red-card, German President Wulff yellow-card or red-card, Immunity for President Wulff ?, Merkel's popularity not hurt by Wulff scandal, OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog Poll, OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog Wulff Poll, Poll should Wulff stay or go, Should German President Wulff go or stay? Part 3, Should German President Wulff resign, Süddeutschen Zeitung, support for merkel not effected, Wulf like 2nd-hand car salesman, Wulff should have the honour to resign, Wulff should resign
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Sunday, February 12th, 2012
You can always tell a person by the friends they keep – for Spain`s fascist ruler, the dictator Franco, his best friends who helped him come and stay in power were Hitler and Mussolini.
Nowhere in Europe can one proclaim openly that one supports either of these murderous miscreants with impunity – however in Spain today fascist Francisco Franco lies buried in state, just [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: "The Spanish Holocaust" by Paul Preston, amnesty law`- made by Franco supporters to protect Franco supporters, Baltasar Garzón, Franco ghost still alive, Franco supporters, Germany has dealt with its WWII past - Spain has not, peoples party are Franco sympathizers, right-wing government of PM Mariano Rajoy, spain, Spain judiciary under political pressure, Spains judges support Franco, Spains justice system questionable, Support Judge Baltasar Garzón-
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