Archive for the ‘Politics Germany’ Category
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
![623px-Grass[1] Günter Grass -Wikipedia foto -source Bild:Grass.jpg - Author - Florian K](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/623px-Grass12-300x288.jpg)
Last Wednesday 84 year old German author and Nobel laureate Günter Grass wrote in a poem called “What must be said” that the present regime in Israel is a threat to world peace.http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/04/gunter-grass-speaks-out-atommach-israel-gefahr-fur-den-weltfrieden-israel-a-danger-to-world-peace-what-must-be-said-commentary-by-ota-berlin-constituency-blog-contributor-mr-emil/
The respected French-German publicist Alfred Grosser, the son of Jewish parents is, on the debate on the poem written by Gunter Grass, clearly on the side of the writer.
Alfred Grosser, [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, April 8th, 2012
![623px-Grass[1] Günter Grass -Wikipedia foto -source Bild:Grass.jpg - Author - Florian K](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/623px-Grass12-150x150.jpg)
Last Wednesday 84 year old German author and Nobel laureate Günter Grass wrote in a poem called “What must be said” that the present regime in Israel is a threat to world peace.http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/04/04/gunter-grass-speaks-out-atommach-israel-gefahr-fur-den-weltfrieden-israel-a-danger-to-world-peace-what-must-be-said-commentary-by-ota-berlin-constituency-blog-contributor-mr-emil/
Günter Grass told German public broadcaster Norddeutsche Rundfunk/NDR on Thursday that an organized campaign against him will fail. Going after the man instead of the ball – blaming the messenger [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
![623px-Grass[1] Günter Grass -Wikipedia foto -source Bild:Grass.jpg - Author - Florian K](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/623px-Grass12-150x150.jpg)
Against the backdrop of the nuclear dispute with Iran the 1999 Literature Nobel Prize winner, the 84-year-old German writer Günter Grass, has sharply criticized both his own country Germany and Israel.
Grass wrote as much in a poem today called “What must be said” which was sent to the German “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”, and other international publications like the Italian “La Repubblica” and the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'Israel a danger to World Peace' Günter Grass, Grass critisizes Israel, Günter Grass, Günter Grass 'Atommach Israel Gefahr für den Weltfrieden', Günter Grass speaks out
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Sunday, March 18th, 2012
![448px-2011_Joachim_Gauck[1] Pastor Gauck -foto Wikipedia - source J. Patrick Fischer](http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/wp-content/448px-2011_Joachim_Gauck1-215x300.jpg)
Pastor Gauck -foto Wikipedia – source J. Patrick FischerAs was expected a majority of the German Bundestag/Parliament , the judiciary and the state legislatures elected former DDR activist pastor Joachim Gauck as Germany`s new German Bundespräsident.
Gauck, who enjoyed the backing of the major large parties, received 991 of the 1,232 ballots cast and the Linke`s Partei candidate Beate Klarsfeld got a respectful [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'Mr Clean', die linke, Gauck will have problems, Joachim Gauck becomes President, Mr Clean Gauck, No Gauck’, pastor Joachim Gauck, perhaps also a 2 year president, religious demagogue, right-wing hate-monger Gert Wilders, right-wing ideologue, western Ayatollah, ‘NotMyPresident’
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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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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
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