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• 20 Years Ago Today: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Valley of the Shadow — Authority: 122
  20 years ago, there were Nation States against nation States and the world was a chessboard between Communism and Capitalism. The Berlin wall was erected during the Kennedy years to keep dissidents inside the sphere of influence of the Stasi and their allies, the KGB . The twilight of my teenage years were spent ...
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• Remembering What Came Before The Wall

  
  NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation — Authority: 132
  A wonderful roundup of Berlin Wall articles by the inestimable Arts and Letters Daily yielded this gem, a peek into the files of the Stasi , the East German secret police. The banality of the details in those files (documented beautifully in the brilliant film The Lives Of Others ) still sends chills down the ...
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• American Ex-Pat View Of The Fall of the Wall

  
  The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority: 514
  Below is a note sent to me today by Bill Dawson, one of my regular readers in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of the German History Blog , and offered this picture, note and other resources dedicated to this anniversary of an extraordinary day 20 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall. As he mentions below, it is ...
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• Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

  
  Zeitgeist — Authority: 128
  World leaders are gathering in Berlin, Germany today to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall expedited the collapse of communism across eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War, and led to German reunification within a year 9th November 1989 ~ News Breaks of The Fall of the ...
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• Now You See it, Now You Don’t!

  
  Strangely Perfect — Authority: 125
  Is Nuclear power Safe?Watch how the politicians duck and dive.Watch how they pick and choose which bits of ’science’ to believe!Last week, smiley Alan Johnson fell out with serious Professor Nutt because the professor said some factual scientific things, things proven by statistics and analysis to have an ...
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• Nach dem Mauerfall…

  
  Paperholic — Authority: 133
  Am 9. November 1989 fiel in Berlin die Mauer. Aber erst im Frühjahr 1990 wurden die letzten Gefangenen aus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen ( Wikipedia-Artikel ) entlassen. Heute ist die ehemalige zentrale Untersuchungshaftanstalt der Staatssicherheit der DDR eine Gedenkstätte. Von dort die Fotos (by Paperholic): ...
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• Are there any examples of East German wifes informing on their husbands for Stasi?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  In a critique of Das Leben der Anderen ( The Lives of Others ) Slavoj Žižek asserts that "in all known cases of a married couple where a spouse betrayed a partner, it was always a man who became an informant." Famously, Ulrich Mühe, star of Das Leben der Anderen , asserted that his ex-wife spied on him for ...
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• What’s The Stasi?

  
  Steel White Table — Authority: 122
  I heard a story this morning about The Berlin Wall coming down 20 years ago today. The person being interviewed at one point talked about how the Stasi in East Germany affected everyone’s life. She said, “1 out of 7 people either worked for the Stasi or as informants.” A few years after the wall came down, she ...
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• Remembering the Berlin Wall: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

  
  Big Government — Authority: 798
  On Feb. 13, 1985, I stood in the Theaterplatz in Dresden listening to Erich Honecker give a speech.  The speech was not simply one of those standard commie stemwinders to which those of us reporting from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union were accustomed.  For one thing, we were gathered outside the newly ...
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• Berlin Wall anniversary: no cause for celebration for East Germanys former Stasi

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  For thousands of former employees of Communist East Germanys loathed Stasi secret police the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is no cause for celebration.
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• Devenez un (célèbre) espion de la guerre froide

  
  les carnets de clarisse — Authority: 112
  CIA ou Stasi ? Choisissez votre camp ! Puis accomplissez votre mission en ligne sur le site du Mémorial de Caen, via le jeu Devenez un célèbre espion de la guerre froide...La chute du mur de Berlin, fin de la guerre froideArticles, conférences, projection de films durant La nuit du mur, expositions virtuelles ...
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• Berlin Wall went down with a party — rather than a bang

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 496
  One of the most amazing aspects about the Berlin Wall’s sudden collapse 20 years ago was that no one lost their nerve. Not a single shot was fired. The Cold War ended with the biggest street party Berlin, or any city anywhere, has ever seen.  Who would have thought that’s how the Berlin Wall would go out? ...
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• LAPD Tries to East Germanize Los Angeles with iWatchLA Program

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  iWatchLA Public Service Announcement: iWatchLA Brochure : What Is iWATCH? iWATCH, iREPORT, i KEEP US SAFE (iWATCH) is a community program to help your neighborhood stay safe from terrorist activities. You and your fellow community members can report behaviors and activities that make you feel uncomfortable or ...
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• The lives of ... others?

  
  Crunchy Con — Authority: 710
  The strangest thing. Julie and I just finished watching the great German film "The Lives of Others," about how the surveillance state in East Germany dehumanized people. Sophisticated domestic spying technology in the hands of a police state turned people...
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• Twisted Tales

  
  A Comic A Day... — Authority: 415
  Halloween has long been my favorite holiday, so I’ve decided to return to reviewing comic books with some regularity this month. Every week this month, I’ll post at least one special Halloween-oriented review, criticizing the issue based on its reverence for this hallowed holiday season through four distinct ...
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• Rogue Secret Services : A VAST NETWORK OF INFORMERS , HARASSERS , MURDERERS...

  
  Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture — Authority: 121
  THE STASI "The need to know everything about the lives of others" - The History of Stasi-the notorious and bygone East Germany intelligence agency: Ministry for State Security (Mfs) also known known as "Stasi" - the East German Intelligence Agency Strategies: Torture, Harassment, assassinations, persecution of ...
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• Back to Stasiland

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 734
  In 1965, Carl-Wolfgang Holzapfel was arrested by East German border guards and spent nine months in solitary confinement in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , the notorious prison run by the Stasi [ previously ]. Starting today, Holzapfel is back behind bars in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen to remind people how they felt ...
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• The Bastard Sons Of Dioniso, “in Stasi Perpetua” è il nuovo album

  
  Sub Music — Authority: 136
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• Xtreme bingo

  
  Why Dont You Blog? — Authority: 106
  Get your playing card for the great new game of “Domestic Extremist Bingo” from the Guardian Online . Not sure how to claim your prize, sorry, but there seems to be a £9 million jackpot up for grabs. So get marking those cards. No prizes for spotting comedian Mark Thomas in there, either. But you can have ...
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• Posted without comment

  
  OnParkStreet — Authority: 127
  Well, not really.  Is this really so ? Will he not attend? 1. Germany is going to have to wait longer than expected for US President Barack Obama’s first official visit. Citing government sources in Berlin, Reuters reported on Friday that Obama will not attend the anniversary festivities marking two decades ...
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