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GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933

Mike Papantonio | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Air America, Pap Attack, Berlin, Party, Scozzafava, Mike Papantonio, Purity Test, GoLeft.Tv, Election, Rino, Golefttv, Nazi, Ring of Fire, Republican, Politics News
Mike Papantonio

Finally, Republicans have memorialized their flat-earth style of politics by demanding that their candidates stop thinking and swear a purity oath. Regardless of whether it's dumb luck at work here, Obama should be grateful.

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Top 3 Travel Spots: Tim Ferriss And Kevin Rose's Picks

Tim Ferriss | Posted 12.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Tim Ferriss, China, Kevin Rose, Dublin, Tokyo, Thailand, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Travel, Berlin, Living News
Tim Ferriss

In this episode, we discuss our top 3 favorite travel spots. Details include favorite areas, seasons, things to look for and, occasionally, things to look out for...

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Israeli ministers head to Berlin for special session with German counterparts

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.29.2009 | Home

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Berlin on Monday for a special joint session of the German and Israeli governments, a symbolic visit highli...

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Two documents handwritten by Kafka sold at Swiss auction

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Berlin, Basel-Switzerland, Switzerland, Tel Aviv-Israel, Israel, Home News

BERLIN - While a legal battle is still underway in Israel over the fate of Franz Kafka's manuscripts in Tel Aviv, two documents in the noted author's ...

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Protesters Burn More Than 200 Luxury Cars In Berlin

High Gear Media | High Gear Media | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home

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More than 200 cars, mostly luxury models, have been burned in Berlin by protestors supporting leftist organisations in the German capital over...

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EasyJet apologizes for photo shoot at Holocaust memorial

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

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Budget airline easyJet has apologized for printing photographs of models posing at Berlin's Holocaust memorial in its in-flight magazine and says it h...

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Foursquare Boasts More Than 100,000 Users

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home

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Since Foursquare's launch, it has added more than 100 worldwide cities to its roster, recently launching in Berlin, Paris, and Madrid; the New-York ba...

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The Pope, The Arts, A Nation in Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: The Wrapping of the Reichstag, The Depression, Germany, West Germany, Wpa, Berlin, Christo, Berlin Wall, National Endowment for the Arts, Living, The Pope, East Germany, Politics, World, Jeanne-Claude, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

We as a nation have not been upholding ample support for the arts, despite the deep spiritual healing that it can bring -- its joys, its shared experience, its sense of what and who we are.

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Southern Jersey Acme workers plan strike about health-care benefits

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

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Acme supermarket cashiers and clerks said they will strike Friday night if negotiators fail to come to an agreement on health-care benefits, a rep...

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Uncommon Knowledge: Vaclav Klaus

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

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Uncommon Knowledge: Vaclav Klaus Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1941 during WW II, Vaclav Klaus grew up during the Cold War. After earning a doct...

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Books: 20th anniversary of fall of Berlin wall

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

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Two new books explore the history of the Berlin Wall, Stephen King's new "Under the Dome'' and a handful of books on women poets. ...

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Week in Review: 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

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Garrick Utley, the president of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York, and Rana Foroohar, senior editor of Newsweek's international ...

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Celebrating Berlin While Enabling Israel's Apartheid Wall

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: History, Apartheid, West Bank, Israel Wall, Middle East, Berlin, Angela Merkel, Israel, Berlin Wall, Injustice, Palestinians, Barack Obama, I, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.

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Annie Lennox: Positive About HIV

Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home

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Wearing a powerful T-shirt, pop star Annie Lennox accepts the 2009 Woman of Peace Award in Berlin. ...

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Berlin Wall: The Impact of the Fall 20 Years Later

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home

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Berlin Wall: The Impact of the Fall 20 Years Later On November, 2, almost twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Marshall Fund of...

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20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain

FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Twenty years have passed since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The epo...

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Cold War's End -- The Wall Comes Down

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The fall of The Wall signified the fall of the Soviet Union, and an end to the Cold War. And while this was of enormous historical import, I fear that future generations won't really pay much attention to it.

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Both sides remember the day the Berlin Wall fell down

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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For decades, the Berlin Wall stood as the symbol of the Cold War. Built in 1961, it was the line in the sand where western democracy ended and communi...

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Berlin Wall Anniversary (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall Monday. Here is a look at this historic day in photos. Get HuffPost World On Fac...

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Music for the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tim Mohr | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment

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Tim Mohr

The awareness of mortality in 1980s nuke-pop was amplified by the inescapably bleak Cold War reality. With the fall of the Wall, much of the threat evaporated. The music, however, lives on.

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Which leader contributed most to the fall of the Berlin Wall?

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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Gorbachev and other notable Soviet leaders. Photo: Flickr user hangele Today is the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s demise. World...

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Today: Salvador mudslides, the Berlin Wall and eco-buses

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

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Stories compiled by Gizem Yarbil, Connie Kargbo, Channtal Fleischfresser, Christine Kiernan, Ivette Feliciano, and Mohammad al-Kassim, and edited by ...

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Who Caused the End of the Cold War?

Joseph Nye | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

Read More: Berlin Wall, Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev, Berlin, The Cold War, Soviet Union, World News
Joseph Nye

The end of the Cold War was a greater historical transformation than 9/11, but controversy persists about its causes.

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Remembering Kristallnacht in Berlin: The Story of Hans Riess

Stefan Sirucek | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Stefan Sirucek

The reason November 9 -- the day the Berlin Wall fell -- is not a national holiday in Germany, is that it also marks a much darker anniversary: Kristallnacht, the so-called "Night of Broken Glass."

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Leaders to mark fall of Berlin Wall

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

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German capital to celebrate 20th anniversary of collapse that led to reunification....

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