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Stuff You Should Know
"west germany" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"To see my parents. Burger and dash were spared the death penalty because they basically had a hard time proving in court that they didn't, you know, fully intend to betray the operation. Yeah, exactly. Right. So they did not get electrocuted. They were sentenced burger to hard labor for the rest of his life. Yeah. And dash was given 30 years. But president Truman commuted their sentences, released them and deported them, had them shipped to West Germany. West Berlin said don't come back. Nope. Get out. And the other guys are buried in a Potter's field, by the way, and outside Washington. Yes. Which is now the D.C. municipal water treatment plant. Oh, really? Yeah. Where they were buried? Yeah, just right. Now they're part of the system. I guess. And so dash and burger go back to Germany. And burger starts feeding the media, the story. Basically 5 years later. And blames dash for the deaths of these other 6 German patriots. Who were saboteurs, right? And dasch tried to publicly clear himself. He first saw it a pardon in America so that he could come back. Yeah, he really wanted to get out of Germany. Yeah, I can imagine. And America said no. We're not going to do that. We're not going to pardon you. We're still mad at you. Germany said, we're mad at you too. And so he just kind of faded out of the public spotlight. Yep, he ended up dying in 1992 at the age of 89 and I didn't see any follow-up for burger for burger. I think he wasn't quite as vilified as dash was. Right, for sure. But that was not the last time the Germans sent the tours ashore. There was at least one other ill fated attempt in 1944, another German submarine. These are expensive boats, man. Yeah. They are really taking a massive risk to drop off a couple of saboteurs. Yeah. But they did it again off off of Maine. Yep. In a snowstorm. And two former American residents, German Americans, were sent off under the main coast in a snowstorm. They were seen by a local boy scout using a compass during the snowstorm on the side of the road, and the boy scout was suspicious so he'd traced their tracks all the way back to the shoreline where they come out of nowhere and he's like, I'm going to call a police so these guys boy scouts actually caught these guys. Yeah, that's pretty cool. What's ironic is one of these German American saboteurs was a boy scout himself. So it was like boy scout on boy scout handling. Wow. And they got picked up immediately and as far as everybody knows, that's the last time Germany ever tried that. Yeah, I think the idea was that Hitler was like this is embarrassing. Yeah, let's just focus on the rocket program. Yeah, we can't keep sending guys to the United States who immediately get there and start doing stupid things. Right. Giving themselves up, going to see mom and dad. Seeing in movies, playing peanut goal. So that's it. That's the story of the time the Nazis invaded Florida and New York and Maine. If you want to know more about that, check out history net, check out damn interesting. Check out all sorts of stuff. Yes. To search it. You'll find all sorts of cool things on it. I would not look for the movie coming soon to a theater near you. No, the third act nonexistent. No, not really. No, it's just kind of a letdown. Doesn't end with a bang. No. Hands with Germany being mad at them. And America too. Let's see, I think I said Germany's mad. Which means it's time for listener Mayo. I'm going to call this a cute or cutest youngest fan. And it includes an audio clip. Hey guys, did you hear this? Yes, it's pretty great. Yes. My son archer is two and a half years old. Just two and a half. We listen to podcasts together while I rock them to sleep at nap time in bedtime. Anytime he's tired, he says mommy, let's go archer's room and listen to podcast. 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Crypto Voices
"west germany" Discussed on Crypto Voices
"About all of that. And in the minutes, this not one inch, they agreed, or they didn't agree. First of all, Gorbachev himself said in plain English in 2014, NATO was never on the table. But you only have to use a map and understand history to see that NATO couldn't have been on the table. This was February of 1990 when that statement was made. All those things were happening. The Soviet Union was still on until December of 19 91. Very, very few people knew that the Soviet Union was going to collapse when it did and how it did. And certainly thank God it did peacefully. But you know, the Baltics, we were making moves in 89 as well. We had the singing revolution and all of these things. But as far as this whole creations, fairytale story that NATO double crossed Gorbachev or whatever. It wasn't even on the table. And anyway, why would we have to promise that? But it wasn't on the table. NATO didn't like the Warsaw Pact, which was the Soviet union's bullshit counter to NATO. That was what existed on the map east of East Germany and including Germany. The only discussion was reunified Germany and what to do about weapons, missiles and everything in West Germany of the U.S. had nothing to do with anything that was east east of that used to be Germany. Because the Soviet Union was on. So it couldn't even have been in the discussion. It's impossible. The maps that the children were looking in school books didn't exist to say anything else. There's no way there was a discussion about NATO expansion in 1990. It just doesn't, it's an absolute made up piece of bullshit imagination. And unfortunately, this sort of alt right or even intellectual dark web type people. They just drone on about this without having any concepts of history understanding about how the Soviet Union broke up. And then further to that, further to that, the more important point is, it's fair game once the Soviet Union breaks up. Once the Soviet Union breaks up, every single person in Eastern Europe and you see what they wanted to do, they clamored into NATO. They desired it, we desired it the Baltics got it in 2004. And they had every right to do so.
What's the 311
"west germany" Discussed on What's the 311
"Welcome to part two. I'm doing part two because it's really informative. Like the information is really informative and if you really listen to it, you can apply it to everyday life. So I know y'all, I told you I might do part two, but I'm actually am gonna do part two. So this is part two. So welcome to Sonya podcast. So part two to the theory of life is why nation fails explain how certain institutions are set up by governments affect whether or not a country develops. Countries were strong property rights capitalism and non corrupt government, generally developed countries that don't have capitalism or strong property rights. Or whose governments are highly corrupted generally fail to develop. In addition to successful countries need to embrace new and notifications, that leads to creative destruction and they need to offer ordinary citizen way to improve their lot, their lot in life by creating value for others. Rather than reducing them to slaves or peasants, one reason why lever century Venice drives so much said that our says is because ordinary people will become rich on trade and expeditions. That explain how culture someone places like east and West Germany or North and South Korea can have such different economies. The citizens have different incentives so they behave differently. It also explains why countries like Chile, China and Singapore grow so roughly once they transition to market economics. I mean, market economies, people have spent a lot of money trying to deceased property in third world, but according to why nation fails, investing more in that education or in fractions isn't the answer. If it country wants to develop, it has to get act together and embrace free market economic. Policies. So let's say, for example. We run out of oil. We managed to put this off for a long time by inventing better ways to extract it from the ground. But it's just a fact oil was a gnar renewable resource and we only have so much. So if our society depends on oil, it's headed for a major confessed catastrophe. So by accelerating the shift to renewable energy, you can actually get all you. So now we'll build machines. So now they saying that they are going to build machines that are smarter than us. I know y'all all heard that. Something will go wrong and we won't be able to stop these machines. The same way cows can't fight back against humans. So we have to be peer to go toe to toe with these machines when the time comes. So we need to become much, much smarter. Finally, we need a backup plan in case earth become unhabitable. Something could happen to earth at a moment notice and asteroid could hit us. We could have nuclear war and it could happen in a matter of just a few days or seconds. So we might not have much time to react. That's why we have to build civilization on another planet now. Why times are good? And while we're rich and resources. Our politics is mostly based around short term problems. But long-term problems are a lot more important. Short term problems mean people lose their homes, learn to long-term problems can mean fantasies with mass casualties. So it's critical to think long term. Then short term. And the reason why you should think long term is to. Think like what's going to happen in the future, you know, and I know a lot of times what us now because so much is happening so many people is getting killed and so many people are dying. We wondering if we ever going to see a future. But I feel like this information on more for the younger generation and even them nowadays, they are not even making it to a certain age. But if they do, if they do make it to a certain age, then disinformation will actually help them. So. Y'all know how everyone said that electrical cars can never be commercially viable. But now they are coming to standards. They are they became the standard people said the private companies could never go to space, but today's big X is the world biggest player in the space race. So people lack imagination and tend to have shitty ideas that don't understand as impossible. But humanity is all about stretching the limits of what's possible. So if you have a big dream, don't worry if this seems difficult to pull it off. Go for it. Go for it. Y'all always hear me say that go for whatever you want to do. Go and do what you want to do in life. And get as much knowledge, get as much resources, get as much everything that you need, get it, just get it because you want to need it. You're going to need it. And it's going to help you in the long run. So. Just keep just keep educating yourself. Just keep figuring out what's best for you. Just keep doing it, get as much as you can. That's going to help you in life. And I like to thank you for listening to my podcast. Please give it a 5 star review on speaker Spotify. 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The Stuttering John Podcast
"west germany" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"If you tell the lowest white man that he's higher than the highest black man, he'll, you know, he'll let you pick his pocket all day long. And wow. And that's where we're at. And it's become, you know, societies have almost always had cast systems, but typically in most societies anyway, people can break out of their castes. They can migrate across casts, you know, they can get out of poverty and those kinds of things. By inventing whiteness, what they did is they said, okay, all other races aren't even eligible for entrance into this cast. This is going to be a cast unique. And of course, there's people today who are still trying to preserve that by not wanting to teach the racial history of our nation and our schools and things like that. Wow, it's just so interesting because you also go back to surveillance and social control in East Germany. I lived in West Germany right on the East German border for a year back in the 80s. Back in the spring when the ground would thaw the land mines would go off and wake us up in the morning. And because of the border, the frontier of the border was mined and they had guard towers and all this kind of stuff. And that was and one time, I think it was a early November of 86, my oldest daughter and I went into East Berlin from West Berlin. And through checkpoint Charlie and all that stuff. Actually, it was all underground then. And there were no cabs. We couldn't find a cabin. He's Berlin. And finally, this kind of gypsy cab driver pulled up and said, hop in, his name, he said his name was toasting. And he had a hundred questions for us. He said, you know, it's illegal what I'm doing. This is free enterprise. It's illegal here. So we have to come up with a cover story. So let's pretend you're my cousin from the America and I'm your nephew and you know, who was born in Germany. And my name is toasting and your name is and tell me your name. And then you want to know where I went to school and what kind of job I had and all about my daughter and the four hours or so that he gave us this guided tour of Berlin. The East Berlin, he probably learned more about me than anybody in my whole life, has ever interrogated me on it. And I thought we were playing along to avoid the police. And it wasn't until I got back to West Berlin and told a friend of mine what happened and he says, oh, he was a Stasi agent. He was building a dossier on you. Oh my God. Oh, yeah, of course. You know, in East Germany, one third of the people were being paid to spy on the other two thirds of the people. Wow. So that's the world we don't want it. And he pretend to be your friend and he's helping you. That's what the mob does, Tom. Exactly. Okay, I have to say this part of your book scared the crap out of me, 'cause I do, I am, I do frequently pub on regular basis, okay? And you tell a story how if you're sitting next to a guy and suddenly the guy seems to know every single thing about you, what high school you went to. Like, and you don't understand how he would know all this. And you say, all that guy had to do was see your name or whatever it is on your credit card and then go through the bathroom, use a smartphone, and he could come up with all that info in a couple of minutes..
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Two Schools of Thought When It Comes to Ukraine
"There are two schools of thought in thinking about the Ukraine and neither of them seems to me to be satisfactory. The first one is, well, let's call it the warmongering approach. Here's Michael mcfaul of former U.S. ambassador to Russia. He says in the global struggle between democracy and dictatorship and the fight for a peaceful Europe, Ukraine is on the front line, not unlike West Germany during the Cold War. Well, number one, this is a facile transplantation from one crisis to another a second is a huge difference between Ukraine and West Germany to take a single example. Ukraine used to be part of Russia. In fact, in my series talking about Russian literature, a number of the Russian writers, and I'll talk later today about Google. Google was born in the Ukraine in the Ukraine was then part of the tsarist, empires, so part of what makes this a little tricky is that in the case of Ukraine, Russia is saying not that we are invading a bordering or neighboring country, but rather we are exercising influence and seeking to sort of absorb a country that was always, or at least that was historically part of Russia. By the way, China makes exactly the same claim about Taiwan. It's what China is saying is we're not, we're not invading India, we're not invading Europe or essentially absorbing a country, Taiwan that was part of China, look at the people over there they are Chinese. So we have to understand the point of view of the people that were up against. Now, on the other side, as the warmongering side that I mentioned, on the other side, you've got the I would call it quasi isolation aside. It's not our fight. We have nothing to do with this. Here's Matt Walsh, kind of a typical expression of this view. Ukraine is not our country and not our problem. Anyone who would risk a war with Russia for the sake of some random country 6000 miles away is a fool or a psychopath or both. Now, strictly speaking this is true. I don't see it's difficult to think of the United States going to war over the Ukraine, but it's also difficult to consider the United States going to war over Taiwan. And then when the United States go to war, if China took over South Korea, how about if China then took over Japan with the United States go to war over that? So when you apply this kind of America first principle, at an extreme, it would seem to suggest that the United States should basically mind its own business, let all the bullies of the world satisfy their appetite for aggression, we are hands off, what's this got to do with us until you show up basically you know what New York City or in California, this is not our problem. I really can not agree with this. I think it actually reflects a naive and perhaps even foolish view of power politics. Why? Because the simple truth is that there are innumerable options in between doing nothing and going
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"west germany" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"The kind of stopgap But yeah for those reasons. The charisma and looks i would definitely put it in the top ten but sometimes importance i i. I think it's hard to argue. The case wrap it was there are other egg other honorable mentions for servicer other surprised that wentz included just the harrier. The harrier is the other one that that i think people be surprised again. It doesn't it doesn't really do anything in the cold war in terms of actual fighting it comes in. When does it come into sixty nine. And two service is very low wallowed. It's probably not gonna survive very long in west germany so at the tactical and strategic. It doesn't seem to offer very much and also is responsible for the deaths of a lot of pilots And though it did influence the thirty five bay you could say. The harry is a a cul de sac. Certainly in the exacts propulsion method will in the exact vertical lift method. So it's a cul de sac so in terms of strategic tactical and technical importance upsets heart. But the harry. Melissa as well right. I mean i think the argument would be that it enabled sort of the late cold war british carrier force which was a strategically significant in terms of the sort of british over in the night. How that so. We're talking about roy. Levels harry is the is western frequent right right. There were that was A contingent of ram hurry agenda threes deployed in the full cleanse. So that would be the strongest. One of the strongest cases for inclusion back in the sea harrier was doing most of the work that i would probably could see harry on on the royal naval fleets errand list but not necessarily the harry on the list. Okay well Joe this has been fantastic. You have anything else. You wanted to add for any any other objections. You wanted to to get in front of that. You think our listeners might show. Most people disagree with like i think this. It's a balancing act and tens never really reflect. Reality is just. It's of discussion starting point by think these these are.
Extinction of Dinosaurs on the earth
"west germany" Discussed on Extinction of Dinosaurs on the earth
"Extraterrestrial creatures, or confused human beings scientists have been researching whether life exists on other planets as well and are trying to find out whether an intelligent creature like man exists. They have chosen for this purpose the planet moon since it is nearest to earth. They sent manned and unmanned space shuttles. The findings are that the surface of moon is barren and even a unicellular organism can not exist because the elements necessary for the existence of life like water and air are not present. Mercury is nearest to the earth at a distance of 58 million kilometers. Since the heat prevents even a liquid state of matter to be present, the question of life doesn't to rise. Venus is 107 million kilometers from sun and it is filled with carbon dioxide. There might be ice blocks, radio waves can not penetrate its surface. However, recent researches have revealed that the surface of Venus is plainer than that of moon. Though there are no oceans, there are mountains on it, but the temperature is 480° and a grade and straight away we can dismiss chances of life. Mars is 227 million kilometers from sun. The surface is craggy in the stones are at in color. In certain respects it also has volcanos, valleys, and snow mountains. However, water doesn't exist. The temperature ranges between -138° centigrade and 27° centigrade and the average temperature is -40° centigrade, which is prohibitive to life. Jupiter is 773 million kilometers from sun. Next in reckoning are the planets Saturn, Uranus and Neptune which are 1418 2853, 4469 million kilometers away respectively. Life needs water and plain land and even planet like Pluto's condition is still uncertain when we come to satellites like the moon, which are 33 in number. In them these are 6 satellites which are 2000 miles far. 5 among these are barren. We are left with Titan, which is one of the ten satellites of Saturn. This is 7 58,400 miles away from Saturn with a diameter of 3000 miles. When we examine these facts we find that no planet or satellite is habitable. I warn the confused human beings and scientists not to waste millions of dollars. Since I am a believer in Bible, it is my duty to warn my brethren. These people seem to run after mirages. The same money could be used to feed the underprivileged millions. The doesn't seem to be a method in their madness, and I shall describe to what extent their madness has taken them. This is a combined effort, phoebus is the biggest moon of Mars. It is 5830 miles from Mars and is potato shaped. Scientists believe that Mars has attracted a star shaped body in the cosmos. Scientists believe that the distance between the two would get reduced and phoebus in future might fall on Mars's debris, Russians are not the only one who has undertaken these explorations on Phoebe's but 12 nations like Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, east and West Germany helped Russia in instrumentation while American experts have advised them. Russia desired that America take part in exploration of phoebus but if declined because it would have set back America by $100 billion equivalent to 13,000 crores of rupees, but still Americans are afraid that Russians might be the first to step on Mars. Ronald Reagan then president of the medical allocated $100 million in view of this, but this amount will be.
Bertcast's Podcast
"west germany" Discussed on Bertcast's Podcast
"I had very romantic. I agree. I think it's because we grew up time where drugs were illegal. You i mean it was. I had marching orders. You do not do drugs. You not do not transport drugs you not sell drugs. Yeah you do not. There's no flying with. We've in your backpack. there's and now it's changed so much that you're like i mean i feel like i feel like i feel like a like a communist. Most on the walls of the wall fell and been like sweet. We walk over to germany now to west germany. It's just insane to me. When did you get you got sober age twelve. I was thirty seven twenty twelve. You've shown that video of you on the ground a number of times. Yeah because god bless the girl. I was with at the time she just i. There were so many of those episodes really and she just like had the camera was there and she would just captured it for who knows why but now we know why but yeah i mean that's kind of what. Yeah i know. I listen to you and i worry about you because i listen to podcasts. You know that people use listen to. Yeah but for the rest of us we feel like we spend more time with you guys than we do with our families and stuff. I spend more time with rogan. Than i do. My kids Lau and it feels. Like i mean me too and to be filing here and be like talking to you. It's like totally crazy but I don't worry about you. Know i worry about you. I hear about when i heard you. I think you were talking to cigarroa. And you're like yeah so guys. I'm going to rehab. And i was like wow as like what is the no substance was like man. He's in for a big surprise way. I describe it is like it's not the not having the substances. Yeah it's the being confronted with the reason the substances worked so well with you..
Let's Start A Cult
The Story of Colonia Dignidad, Chile's Secret Nazi Cult
"To avoid being arrested by authorities schaefer accompanied by a few of his followers fled west germany in nineteen sixty one and sought refuge in the middle east there. He was introduced to prominent chilean embassador. Who invited him to live. In chile at the time chile was under president. George alexandria whose administration granted shaffer a farm located a few kilometers outside the city of peril and chilies linear Liniers province sure. We'll go with the government's help. He bought a forty four hundred acre ranch located at the foot holes of the andy mountains and established a religious. Commune called collina dignidad which translates to dignity. Colin and we will soon see that it was anything but dignity sounds sounds like it's going to be on the up and up. Yes that's one way to put. Founded on william m bronze teaching colonia dignidad espoused principles like anti-communism and strict adherence to the bible given schafer's passed as a member of the hitler youth and an officer of the let. Oh god left quaff left while you got this one again lutwa. Thank you for help. Every every time on that one as religious commun- was also heavily influenced by nazism of course colonia dignified began with surprise. The nazi has influence colonia dignidad began with ten of schafer's original followers. But as the years passed its members swelled. This was field. By waves of immigrants from germany who were enticed by the communist way of living which involves sustainable. Agriculture practices and numerous charity works for the local population. However what they found upon arriving in chile was something else entirely.
SRB Media Podcasts
"west germany" Discussed on SRB Media Podcasts
"Five weekly podcast. The current view then and now with the bills. It to terry coronado seems. It's absolutely bladder. dominating birmingham. We're really a the wave. So much kelly me again. It's going to start tomorrow. He's not to buddy a- in blah builder. Not not you. Bite obviously Running down old janet. 'twas beatles buccaneer forward gesture in today's show but not too bad. Yeah and what we have to say is as we're opening up these podcast resting police. Debbarma we lost one of the greatest goal scorers generation Good mola last week year. Obviously sad news. That's age we get data. We never know how long we're going to las theirselves norway but grateful baller a great gym and a credit to the only germany b- to itself and everyone else within his family's all one of the best of all time the the bomber absolutely in in the main sagoes school and does not just refer to buy in. But for west germany's walks. It was west. Germany then dies sixty eight goals in sixty two international games and a welcome winners while the lot. Absolutely everything and you could give the. He was one of those players at really. Put germany back on the map. When you take that into context. The peaches played on yet. Another not going to not not not mess. In manila though i mean their go scott all these phenomenal. Yeah but there were none of the none of this blatant fouling today. When you look what he did you know. Sixty eight sixty two sixty three sixty eight games. Sixty eight goals in sixty two games. Yeah incredible into nominal. I'm won the world. If you didn't see it you you would believe. Would you own believable. And he was he was. That cohen apply review. Stickies back so it in. Turn your need school that that typical almost trademark good muller goal. Low the goal that he scored in the world cup for that when west germany the world cup in seventeen. It's funny because when you when you say that about sticking his backside yeah because of people like him what was what would he..
Scientific Sense
"west germany" Discussed on Scientific Sense
"'cause it appears to me that is early intervention On kids is probably the easiest. Cheapest migita yes. I think that's right. And if you think about intervening so that kids are are healthy and grow up healthy. Then you fast forward to the time when they're fifty or sixty. They're going to be a lot less likely to be disabled from various conditions and increasingly. We have you know or the people are working longer. You know the dan given tyrant seems like a an old concept he more. If you can con- society Descriptions to convert to society. So so you can keep abadie healthy population. They're going to add value society for a long time so again glean but the mpv question The coens on intervening on kiss appear to be extremely well in that nathaniel patrons analysis in several cases. He says that they're in finnish. Music did the. The benefits exceed the cost to to such an extent. But that's certainly true. And the inequality that i was talking about immortality kind of manifest itself in the you know there's really two groups among older americans so there's People i know who are academics are still being able to be productive at seventy five been within eighty and then there are a lot of people who by the time. They're fifty years old have disabilities that prevent them from working. And so you end up with these sort of tune to disability programs are very rapidly growing and very expensive and consume a lot of healthcare as well so preventing. Those kinds of disabilities is a really important thing. You could be quickly under study. From germany june settled statistical. Office in population comes income So what is find you look at mortality rates from nine thousand nine hundred twenty fifteen for business school so so what's observation there. Oh so the the interesting thing that you can do looking at germany to compare what happened in east germany and west germany. And so. I think what illustrates this you know. We focus a lot on inequality but we also need to focus on the levels and so it the former east. Germany had fairly high mortality rates. But it was very equality and that's not necessarily white want so with reunification. They had decline in mortality. What increasing inequality no so. There was a certain obvious tradeoff there and so consideration been eastern What's the conclusion from the beaten. Oh well i would say the conclusion is that inequality every one way to have perfect equality is to have everybody have really miserable existence write-off apparently. That's not zeke. Yes yes..
The Conscious Action Podcast
"west germany" Discussed on The Conscious Action Podcast
"What makes sense and rational means you can write it down in excel sheet fro con procon on on twenty willing to do and sometimes the list clear and did well. Maybe have to do that and i. I took a lot of these decisions and in the end. I just i just wanted to get through it. I wanted to become successful rich and famous so that i can leave of that behind and finally doing what they really wanted to do. And then i remember one morning By our working for the oldest business in the world ese. Peer career search Korea advice for the students and the former students can the escalation An iphone what these are the best trained people in the worst day They have the blue chip ticket in their pocket. And they are all making more money than i probably ever will. And i didn't find a single person with Like it glowing heart so they would just all performing and hoping for like when they retire. And i was sitting in the cafe in in berlin fury side in the sunshine because i had the heaven to go to work later later later incident. Just sit there work in the because transplant everything for remote. Because i was working a lot. With the paris-based association. I will listen berlin and most of the alumni were looking somewhere in west germany or maybe abroad that means i was on the phone or internet based anyway in this Don't have to dark office and stay here in the in the When the cafe can coffee to selected people showing by sunshine some treats in front. I really liked this. Nfl imagine that life. And then i thought well why why not and then it was the most scary question that asks the myself this immense somebody would keep paying need the money and all i need to do is proof to them. Once a month that i'm.
AP News Radio
Europe Floods: Search for Missing Goes on as Death Toll Tops 90
"The death toll from devastating floods across parts of West Germany and Belgium who's risen above ninety as the search continues for hundreds of people still unaccounted for authorities in the German state of Rhineland Palatinate say fifty people have died there including at least nine residents of an assisted living facility for people with disabilities while in neighboring north Rhine Westfalia the death toll stands at around thirty some thirteen hundred people are still reportedly missing though authorities say efforts to contact them could be hampered by disrupted roads and phone connections the flash floods this week for the days of heavy rain full which turns streams and streets into raging torrents that swept away calls the coolest houses to collapse across the region I'm Charles de Ledesma
SRB Media Podcasts
"west germany" Discussed on SRB Media Podcasts
"Isn't it is similar. Supporting goalpost jumpers for goalposts. You you you wanna apply for all you passing movement. It's it's all it's all relative but it just strikes me that the why england set ourselves up too many sidewise and backward passes in facts. Let's move onto the last all england. The west germany was west german. Mdi's at wembley. It was a hundred international. It was a two nil win. Which game that you played in your debut along with the worth in gilbert and amazing to is the last time that we believe jim at wembley stadium. Yeah yeah i mean Really was afraid with prayed. Balchik with tong revie. They really didn't pick me like he.
Monocle 24: The Briefing
"west germany" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"I'm andrew miller coming up on today's program a looming regional election in germany causing nerves. To jangle ahead of a national vote later this year increasing pressure for another postponement of the tokyo olympics. Will money talk louder than science later in the show. I'm nolan jarl's monica senior editor. And i've flown in all the way from zurich to promote our beautiful new book the monocle book of homes. More from olen lighter and we will have our weekly wrap up of what we have learned since this time last friday. That's all coming up right here on the briefing on monocle. Twenty four and welcome to today's edition of the briefing with me and ramallah on sunday citizens of the german state of saxony anhalt will go to the polls in the last regional election before the entire country votes later this year. Unsurprisingly the sucks any on hold vote vote rather is causing considerable excitement among cephlon just pundits and other such rune readers attempting to gauge the mood of the nation. The portents are it is fair to say discouraging for the christian democratic union of outgoing chancellor angela merkel and indeed everyone disquieted by the spectacle of far right your who's gathering momentum some polls have the alternative for germany party in first place joined with more on this by manacles. News editor christian And by quentin. Peel associate fellow at chatham houses europe program and former financial times correspondent in berlin. Chris come to you first these polls in saxony anhalt anhalt are the really that concerned. I mean the writer i was about to add. I realize is actually no help to assault. When i say doesn't the. Ifp always do quite well in this part of germany. That's not actually that reassuring itself is it that in itself is not reassuring no but Perhaps to two point it what you're getting at if we're looking at whether this is portends well or badly for the september general elections. It's always important of course to say that you know regional. There are regional differences. That don't necessarily extend to the national stage and that's particularly true. I would say In this case the the afdc alternative for germany Last time around in these regional elections in saxony. I'm high had an amazing result. Already of over twenty percent twenty four percent. They're expected to hold that this time around. So it's not really in that sense of story of them gaining if you will and when it comes to nationally they're actually at least long current polls expected to fall a little bit in that september election so in that sense. The story is really a bit more about the christian. Democrats the ruling party in germany. They're the ones that are struggling. And they're the ones that would hope to gain some kind of momentum from regional like this and the fact that have not seen any benefits If you will. They're expected to to hold their own just about maybe fall a little bit in their support insects neon how that's the kind of the story that's also then going to continue to feed their troubles nationally. That's the fact that you know. I think people are going to take away from this because they have a week leader nationally and lashes. Who hasn't pulled very well And yeah in terms of saxony anhalt itself. It's this sort of ongoing story with an eastern germany where there is a strong far-right presence at this point with the alternative for germany. And then you have. All the other parties forming the sort of bulwark against them. There's a coalition there right now of christian democrats social democrats and the greens all together in one government like a unity government against the right and they're just about holding their own quentin just to expand on that a bit. If this is more a case of the cd you votes tanking vote rather tanking than afdc. Actually increasing would a good result for afdc on sunday nevertheless make The cd you nervous about. What might be happening to the national. Vote eight word. I think but. I would caution against overrating it. We're not seeing a swing to the isd It's looking like pedaling. Pretty much what it did last time normally seeing a collapse in the christian democrat vote. That's holding up at about thirty percent and its the christian. Democrats tope the po. Which the moment all. But one of the opinion polls suggesting. Then i think i mean lash it the The new cd leader and candidate for chancellor after angular macro. I think he might come away from this election somewhat reassured but he these nervous time because these elections do show that the politics of the old east germany. Oh very different to the politics of west germany. The two sides of the country A not sitting together in in happy home and actually just to follow that up quickly. Quentin yo doubtless aware of the comments by knock on defeats the cd us. Commissioner for the eastern states needs from east germany himself but he has said recently that he thinks some parts of east. Germany are as he put it past. Hope as as far as becoming members of a democracy is concerned that a commonly held view. Well it certainly is a view that exists but actually the communist east germany. Never do anything. If you like to. D nazi fi become whereas in west. Germany was a really comprehensive asset to To to bring younger people in the population run to realize the iniquitous of of the nazi regime in east germany. It really didn't happen that baps. Why there's still this residue of quite strong support for the Right in east. Germany and suspicion of democracy and it hasn't been helped by the fact that he's germany has been languishing economically ever since unification chris one of the other major narratives about the looming federal election in germany is the The idea or perhaps even expectation that this is going to be a very big election for the greens who could even conceivably end up in government. Is this election on sunday. Going to tell us anything at all about that or afdc more the default opposition in this part of germany. Well i think it will tell us something about that. It won't in terms of the national polling as we discussed in part because the greens also are not very strong in saxony anhalt. They're pulling low below ten percent and that's so they're not going to be part of this story what i would say though that i think is interesting. Is it kind of shows the bind that in lush as this sort of centrist successor to who finds himself in. Because it's it's in a way a strange that you feel the cd. You is the one party that is kind of stuck in this this middle corner where the greens in anonyna- bareback are the fresh centrist voice. If you will. They've moved they've sort of tacked to the right a little bit if you will The last few years to show themselves as a competent party that can govern And that's voters are responding to that to some degree..
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
"west germany" Discussed on The Peter Schiff Show Podcast
"And services will be too high and you won't have any customers and you got a business but when the government hires people since it doesn't operate at a profit doesn't matter what it pays workers it could pay whatever it wants especially since it can print the money so the government doesn't give a damn if it's overpaying its workers and of course if the government starts overpaying a lot of workers what does that do the wages that the private sector has to pay. It puts a lot of pressure on those wages and so everybody is going to end up paying a higher wages at the government starts overpaying people because it's got all this money but what's going to happen of course is the value that money is going to collapse because we have to print all this money in order to pay all these bills. And so all these paychecks. don't bounce. we're not going to get the money from these higher taxes. Despite what the government thinks they're going to raise they're going to raise a lot less and so yes. People are going to get these high paying jobs but they're not going to be productive jobs. They may be good for the workers but they're not going to be good for the economy and they won't be good for the worker very long because pretty soon the value those paychecks is going to collapse because they're going to be paid in money. That doesn't buy very much because if government was the secret if high paying good jobs came from government then why did. The soviet union collapsed. Why was it that it was east. Germany that fell apart and not west germany. Why is it that. Every single society whether it's vietnam whether it's korea whether it's a hong kong and taiwan versus mainland china of course before mainland china you know decided to become a capitalist country. But every time we've taken a society and cut it in half and you have one half that has big government and one half that has more freedom. It's always the free or half that prosperous not the government half if government spending created opportunity and jobs if government provided better jobs in the free market. Then this wouldn't be the case and they would have had walls to prevent people from coming in to east germany. Not going out and another thing. I thought was funny about the biden. Talk was even got into smaller things like internet and according to joe biden one of the big problems that we have in america today is internet access is too expensive and so the biden administration is going to make sure that more people have more affordable access to the internet..
We Saw the Devil
"west germany" Discussed on We Saw the Devil
"They found a box of condoms and personal lubricant and his glove box. They found two full length pornos on his phone and hundreds of hours of violent rape base porn on his home computer. It was also uncovered. That roman heinz had attacked other backpackers in the past. I wish stuff like that. Like people like him didn't have that outlet. I know i don. I just really think that should be outlawed entirely. I mean i'm not saying censor are or anything like that. But there's no art in like rape born two years before his attack on land and beatrice hines raped and assaulted another young female by packer and adelaide. He was actually temporarily jailed for that attack but placed on good behaviour bond under the conditions that he would not use any means to contact other people upon that release he breached his bond then attacking another woman and she was also about cocker. But here's the thing between his twenty fourteen rape and assault and the two thousand sixteen rape and assault against via tresin. Lena respectively roman heinz had reach out to thirteen other backpackers offering rides. Leinna and beatrice were numbers. Fourteen and fifteen one of the women who corresponded with on gum tree was a backpacker from japan and she accepted his ride she actually met up with him and got in the car with him but after he discovered that she had taken a his picture and posted it online. He immediately ended the trip and dropped her off. At a roadhouse go grow. He became obsessed with her. Investigators discovered that he began to google. Search phrases like how to hurt a woman during sex and do japanese women like being raped because he didn't get opportunities. Aqua his most commonly searched words were like keywords right were brutal rape and fetish. His online shopping reflected searches for bondage harnesses bondage kits and slave gear. And all of that is what the court heard during roman heinz's trial before south australia's supreme court and a little bit more about roman. There's not a terrible amount of information. But he was born in west germany and he moved australia in nineteen fifty-nine with his parents and two brothers. He was married twice and had five children. The first marriage lasted lake six or seven years. His second marriage actually lasted twenty two years. Five children yet five children and his ex wives were shocked by the news. They called him. Docile herring sweet. His children loved him. Nothing like nothing a mess really. Can you imagine sleeping next film monster like and not knowing how means shocked by how weird and felt the same way. They're like what he very much had an escalating interest in rape violent pornography and his behavior was almost textbook exco asian in total he was sentenced for eight offenses of violence against four different women. The charges related to lena beatrice were aggravated kidnapping causing harm with the intent to cause harm assault endangering life and indecent assault. I wonder how this would have played out. Had he not had to rape porn. I kind of wonder those things right..
WBSM 1420
"west germany" Discussed on WBSM 1420
"Texas, Mainly places that don't have an income tax. Thanks for the call Mike session. You're next with Howie Carr Go ahead session. Yeah, honey, I can You hear me? Ok? Yes. Okay, Hurry. I I've been to the Super Bowl. I visited Tampa yesterday. Came back here on discussion. Session. Your session. Hold on. You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. I've been checking the video. You were not wearing a mask. You were having a beer with governor to Santos. Turn yourself in. Yeah. You want blue, young? Um, uh, People are enjoying life in the It was so full of life in the Tampa, Florida on here. Come back here for a frozen heart in Boston, Okay? And you know that value government has removed the mask mandate. I know. I saw that. Governor Reynolds Governor Reynolds. Why can't we get a governor like Reynolds or the Santa says the Santos is the best though session. Isn't it amazing? Coming back to Massachusetts Now it must be what it was like to go into East Germany. After you had been in West Germany came in back. I'm gonna take a jeep going back to jail. Wow. If you go T And if you go to U Mass, you are in a jail. They've turned the dorms into jails. And if you escape, they won't that no one will take you in. Even if you paid to be in the gym. It's just amazing. Thanks for the call session. I hope you had a good time with the Super Bowl, isn't it? It's so nice. I'm sorry. I don't want to rub it in. It's nice to be in Florida. Daniel, You're next with Howie Carr. Go ahead, Daniel. Hey, Howie. That change of subject shaming, but it's about John Kerry. Um You know he's married to that Heinz lady she own time..
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"west germany" Discussed on WBZ NewsRadio 1030
"Maine and Vermont and three states shows a charcuterie charcuterie. What has happened to us here in Massachusetts? By the way, it's chilly all the way. 903 out to the roadways. Now, Laurie Grandi is watching the Subaru retailers of New England all wheel drive traffic on the threes about Jeff. It's snowing out there, you know that maid's slippery conditions out there just waiting for a tow truck. Still, the arrive on scene south on 4 95 to clear vehicle away from a crash at Boston Road in Westford. Once that tow truck gets there. We should be all set. Expressway North. Nine continues to be heavy. Not bad, but you know a lot of volume there Morrissey Boulevard to Columbia Road. Your friends are with you out there. Your neighbors, probably that guy from high school lever connector downtown. It's sluggish all the way from 93 getting onto store or drive. Things continue to be slow going as well. 95 north on Deposit Street, too. 93, but it's better. It's not like it was before. It's just, you know, kind of a lot of volume out there now on the Cape in West Germany, that work crews out there once again today, Just so's you're aware Route six West bound by Willow Street. We're also working once again today in New Hampshire. Just so you know this to 93 south on the right hand. Lane is taken up by Rockingham Road in Londonderry. Out west of town right now in Marlborough to 90 eastbound still dealing with the car that slipped off the road into a tree on the ramp to 45 South bound Laurie Grandi WBC's traffic of the three cloudy again and it's snowing again and a lot of locations and that snow will be passing over the Boston area in short order, and it's not gonna be around.
KQED Radio
"west germany" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Psychologist like to call it automatic process is on and you tour a couple of interesting brain structures, Theo Magdala and then the men's Olympic area of the central straight and then the dopamine circuits. We get a lot of clues about what these structures do for us for us from people like Ricky. Mind half the terrorists. So what's that story? Okay, Um, Magdala, a MiG djilas all about aggression until you look more closely, and then you see, it's actually all about fear. And anxiety, which of us tells you an awful lot about aggression in a world in which no a MiG Deloitte and Iran's need be afraid we'd all be sleeping between lions and lambs. Just extent to which aggression is anchored in fear and provocation and threats and ambiguity. S O The evidence for that has been all the usual lab techniques. You stimulated an animal. You got an aggressive outburst, you leisure that you don't see any aggression anymore. But bizarrely, there's been a few rare human cases of people with tumors and their Magdala associated with outbursts of violence. On sort of the first one in sort of a literature is someone who has defined one of the cliches of contemporary violence. Think I, Charles Whitman. This is like a trivia question on jeopardy for 2000. Charles Whitman is the guy in the early sixties who climbed the tower at University of Texas and open fire and everyone below This was literally the first choir boy from next door. The guy was an Eagle scout that what was that about? And he had spent the previous year searching out doctors saying, I don't know why I'm having these violent thoughts. But there Making no sense to me. But I'm having these horrible violent thoughts and on postmortem had a tumor and is a megillah. Another individual As you mentioned the the What was their formal name? The gang of mine, huh? Yeah, they had some Trotsky ite sort of me. But the bottom Meyerhoff game one of the extreme leftist radical groups in West Germany, and like Theeighties or something, she one of the two leaders had been a totally conventional Genteelly, left leaning journalist before suddenly veered into great violence on and postmortem tumor in the Magdala. No. Yeah, some odd biology happening there. Absolutely. Tell us about dopamine and what to tell us. I love how you grapple with something that perhaps a lot of people not answer. Grappling with which is you know you have these mysterious primates in your house called teenagers. And then you consult being who you are You consult the neuroscience and helps you understand teenagers. So what is dopamine? Tell us about pleasure and happiness and teenage life will doesn't make me any effect more effective that Parenting aspects, But dopamine. Okay, everybody knows what dopamine is about. It's about pleasure. Cocaine works on dopamine synapses. All the euphoria ants do. It's about pleasure. It's about reward. It's about that buzz after it happens. Into your closely on. It's not about that at all. It's about the anticipation. That's where you get the biggest rises and dopamine that the anticipation beforehand. On. In addition, it's the thing that drives the behavior you need to do to get that reward. That's where the motivation comes from. That's where the goal seeking behavior comes from. And what's totally fascinating is you Get somebody on an intermittent reinforcement schedule, as opposed to you do the work. You got to reward you do the work. You could award announced that you do the work. You get a reward about 50% of the time. And dopamine goes through the roof like nothing you will see in a mammal. What have you done? You have stuck into the equation of the word maybe And maybe is unbelievably addictive and maybe just pours opening out of there and maybe gets you Studying for good s A T scores to get into a good college to get a good job to get into a good nursing home. And it's just like this whole cascade of expectation. Dopamine and what you teach your Children. God, no one's that they don't want to hang your life is the delight of maybe Will's Nirvana. Maybe.
ESPN FC
Italian 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi dies aged 64
"Italy continues to mourn. The passing of footballing legend paolo rossi nineteen hundred eighty. Two world. cup hero passed away this week. At the age of sixty four they see some of the headlines sports summing it up simply for always craig still with so shocked. But we'll get his thoughts and just you were telling me nineteen eighty two really your first world cup experience a fan at least ten or eleven year old just watching and seeing all these great players. I'd never seen because we didn't get the pictures by them was holiday any soccer on tv particularly from from other countries in europe. But the game i remember was was rossi scoring a hat trick in this game here against a fantastic brazil side in a knockout stages and the game was three two. It was a terrific game. The socrates zico in deir in junior. And of course great italians say and polaroid was just a belief from had a three year bonds for a much fixing scandal that was reduced to two years so ends will basil. Could pick them so. It can fly italian team. And i just remember him as this great portrait of goals. Of course the final daily the great when when he's running away given all out. That was the foster world cup. That i really remember. I remember watching that game in particular brazil vs italy because it was so many great players on the field and of course pro rossy got hot track to knock out that brazilian team Rossi won the golden boot the golden ball and the tournament. Yeah not a bad. Summer's work there Shock you always say that nineteen seventy eight was your first world cup but you obviously would have been paying attention in eighty two. What do you remember about rossi listeners. As coming from it's almost by default to you adopt brazil as the national team that you follow for the international competitions so from a brazil perspective heartbreak seventeenth specially with argentina. Gone on to win it. And then that eighty two team and how talented. It was still referred to as the best team to have not won the world cup or the expectation around brazil going into that tournament. Even all the pre-game expectations brazil against italy. How how one sided was going to be and then upsets paolo rossi on his hat trick. That craig mentioned for me also. It was kind of my my first exposure to that kind of strike on in the six yard box kind of striker as instinctive as clinical as he was on how the ball always seem to find players. Like like paolo rossi. That was an education for me as as a young fan despite the disappointment around brazil. An unexperienced that. I will never forget the very least a performance on an individual that i will never forget of course a hat trick in the match against brazil couple of goals in the semi final against poland. And then the opener in the final against west germany. There you see. Many career accomplishments paolo. Rossi passed away earlier this week. At the age of sixty four.
TIME's Top Stories
Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona dies at 60
"Are expected to pay their respects in buenos aires. Thursday as maradonas coffin lies in state at the casa rosada or pink house presidential palace. In naples where. Madonna led napoli to italian league championships in nineteen eighty-seven and nineteen ninety. Thousands of people congregated in streets and in front of the studio sao paulo to sing swap stories and mourn. He was the first power figure that united the world of football says kantor everyone regardless of their nationality wanted to see him play because of his magic. He made argentina famous around the world. He made napoli famous around the world. It's very hard for any reader to understand what he meant for. Napoli the very poor southern city in italy that no one paid attention to and suddenly this kid put napoli on the map playing soccer and rebelled against the industrial north and beat the powerhouses of milan and event events. An inter. who were the more important and powerful teams not only in italy but in the and europe especially maradona hailed from a shantytown on the outskirts of buenos aires and made his professional debut with the club. Argentinos juniors when he was fifteen. I was in the stadium for his first game. Says in reggae mail. A florida psychologist. Who grew up in buenos aires. Now that's become a myth. A million people now say they were there. But i really was. I promise mel talked to his niece in buenos aires on wednesday she said the streets were eerily silent like a cemetery during the day of madonna's death but nineteen eighty six argentina england world cup quarter-final the game in which maradona certified his legend carried particular significance for argentina following the nineteen eighty two falklands war england prevailed in the military conflict with argentina over sovereignty of the archipelago. Some three hundred miles off of argentina's southern coast maradona scoring the first goal with the hand of god and the second goal being the greatest golden history. It gave the argentinians some type or redemption against the english says kantor on the world cup stage and donna could not replicate the nineteen eighty six title while he was still brilliant at the nineteen ninety world cup. Argentina lost to west germany in the final in nineteen ninety four in the united states. He was kicked out of the tournament for testing positive. For ephedrine better donnas demons were well-documented. He struggled with drug addiction. Voracious appetites before wednesday. He dodged several near death experiences. Diego had died so many times before. Kantor it's incredible that he lived this long despite his imperfections. Maradona will be mourned. The world over champions league games had moments of silence. One coach recommended that madonna's number ten be retired throughout world soccer. The vatican announced that pope francis was keeping madonna in his prayers. Undoubtedly for me. He is the greatest player of all time says cantor. He played in an era much different than today. It was more physical game. He was butchered in every single game that he played and he excelled. He had the ball glued to his left foot. His center of gravity was so low. He was just a magician with the ball. An artist poetry in motion.
BBC World Service
Germany marks low-key 30th anniversary of reunification
"Go to Germany. Now. Today marks a special anniversary for the country 30 years since the reunification of Eastern West Although the commemorations will be muted inevitably because of Corona virus, three decades as a single nation marks an important moment for Europe's biggest economy. GDP per inhabitant across Germany has risen fourfold since 1990. But the rising living standards hasn't been felt equally across East and West. East Germans, on average, still earn less than their West German counterparts and satisfaction with the political cars Indeed, with democracy as a form of government is lower in the east than it is in the West. That's according to a report by the government ombudsman for the former communist East Germany. Well, Dr Ulrich, A garage is a professor of European policy and the study of democracy. Don't know University crims in Austria and joins us Rekha. Welcome. Good morning. Good morning. How significant a day is this? Well, I think it is a very significant day for years. It's quite I mean, it's three decades on DH. I remember quite well the 25 years ceremonies, a Sze Yu said. Now the pandemic avoids that We have big celebrations, but indifference to 25 years and 30 years unification celebration. And I would say it's very important. But for the first time, there is also a sort ofthe reflection about what has been really happening. Yeah, you know, In the past celebrations we watch just celebrating and now there is a sort of deeper meditation about what did they do to the country politically, economically and so forth. That's interesting, and presumably, also, that's influenced to a degree by the fact that you've now got A lot of young adults who have never known Germany any different. Yes, there is. This sort of young generation was born after who never experienced the country divided And there's a lot of study that those don't feel The difference is that elder generation's would still sort of detect. But as I said, for the first time with these 30 years celebration it it seems to me that if you're listening to all these radio features that were obviously having in Germany today in the past weeks. So for the first time, you have a lot of critiques above the process that has been managed in 89, for instance, the toy hunt taking over the rotten industries and former JD and all these things. So there is a sort ofthe former GDR feeling that comes up sort off this heavenly being override it. Let me bring my guest him who may have some thoughts or questions to you, Rachel Shabby. What comes to mind for you? I think this is a fascinating subject and discussion. And I just wonder when you say Professor garrote when you say that there is deep in meditation about what it did to the country politically and economically. What sort of things are coming up in that conversation? For instance, just this morning when I was waking up with my German radio, and there will Ah, somebody saying who is a former media intellectual, but also sport a person. And who would say? Obviously, there was this What we call a regime so dictatorship regime? Yeah. But for the first time we tried to see it in a more saythe electrical way. Which is? Yes, it was ah dictatorship regime, But people were not all oppressed or did not in general field all oppressed. So there is this little sort of shades of gray in how you discuss that people actually could have been happy. And we do not want to be destroy biographies, you know? And you have for the first time people listening to former GDR sort ofthe personalities and and biographies, which say there was a life in Judea. It was not just dictatorship. Rachel was not the answer. You were expecting. Yeah, I wondered if it would be along those lines. Whether people would actually be able to articulate on a personal level. It wasn't all horrible, Andi. There are sort of that There are nuances to that conversation, and I wondered also, if there would be Ah, discussion about the inequalities that still persists. Germany. I'll come to you on that. In a moment we bring Bobby and then by all means, come back. The question I have is that the sense ofthe off unity that Germans now face Expedience. How much of that is influenced by the fact that for half off thes 30 years, Germany has been run by someone from the East. Someone from the GDR Angela Merkel. Not only has Germany been run by her, she's popular at home abroad, widely regarded as the great statesman off are off our time. I mean, To what degree does that help in this reunification? It's very interesting that you posed this question. And the interesting thing about Mrs Merkel is that she is a sod off. How can I say this? Let's say neutral. If you read the There is something interesting about her that she is not checked. She's not tacked East and she's not even tend women. Yeah, you have a lot of discussions, whether the fact very fact that we had for now, 16 years of German Female chancellor did something to the gender question in Germany. But the thing is that these things you do not really associate with Mrs backup. Neither the East West divide nor the gender thing because she tends to be if you read German newspapers. Often she's characterized as mut mother on, and that is interesting that the East thing doesn't take on her. It's not an obvious thing. So probably it has influence. Probably there's something beneath the surface is, but I would not come to it as an obvious sort of because she has been an East Europe, East German women that now 30 years after some of the country unification is OK. I would not make that link was not the answer. You were expecting. No, no, it was from the album. From the outside. It seems striking to me that she is from the East. But But now that I think of it, she doesn't really make a big deal of it herself. So I suppose it makes sense to pick up on the point that Rachel made about inequalities and how much they still exist on are talked about in the context of what went before. Inequalities. Rachel many thanks for the question. Yes, A lot of inequalities between East and West are still existant and on many layers of society. The thing is that the quality question is not really an East Western. You also have the prophet ear's off the benefit of unification. All the people who were basically trained and skilled and mobile by them in 89, you have those who were more say residual. And you know what? And More the countryside. He, um, so it's not only an East West divide. It's also a rule. Urban defied. If you go like say, for instance, or the recent prison is not as performance performing as likely, But life is a very good example for urban cluster that really has risen out of nothing. And you could also point to HINA, for instance, which always have this, you know, making watches and little eye tech industries and the little clusters there. But then you go to the mall rule areas in save the Arctic Sea making book for Pullman, and then you have a roomful of divide, And this is all about equality. And then one important thing is what is seldom told. But obviously we had a brain dying. We had 16 million people. Informer, Julia today there 11 Million, so five million left. But because there's no counting between East and West Germany about sort of leaving the country, it's not really in the statistics. You need to accept in a way that the brains and the mobile people left somewhere really rapidly after 89 movie
My Seven Chakras
Raise Your Frequency & Tune-up Your Energy With Crystal Singing Bowls With Colin Hillstrom
"Once up action tribe here host and founder of mice, Chaka's my seven Corales dot com, the show where we help you expedients, effortless healing awakening, and Barnes today's episode we go deep into conversations and discussions about sound healing, one of our most favorite topics, raising levels of consciousness, letting off stock emotions, and the power of immersing yourself in healing sound, but before diving in. I'd like to remind you that. I have recently released a twenty page document that outlines some of my favorite Whiz, my tried and tested with to raise my wife rations and feel better a worst immediately, so if you'd like to check that out for that free download, my seven juxtapose dot com forward slash feel better now. Mice showed US dot com slash. Feel better now and get your pdf download all right, so let's bring on our special guest for today's. Golden Hills from is an innovator and practitioner specializing in alchemy. Sound Healing For archetype consciousness coaching advanced light meditation and transmission homeopathy. Believes that continually growing once awareness, understanding and knowledge of the chucker system is a most practical way for living a more balanced alliance, successful and Fulfilling Life Colin created his first full time wellness center in nine, hundred, ninety four, and has studied and certified on various. Mazda practitioners, including Dr, Ryan, or banners, and would renowned sound healer and Inuit Sherry, Edward, so as you can imagine topics for today are going to be in and around sound and vibration, frequency and healing in consciousness, and you're gonNA. Really enjoy today's conversation so Golan welcome to our show, and are you ready to inspire? Yes I am thank you. Thank you very much for having me on the show and Yes, ready to inspire is all about that right? I mean a lot of people talk about. On spirituality and social growth, and all sort of things and And those conversations can become quite hetty often approach from a left brain kind of side. The question at the end of the day's would actually we inspired you today, and that's what he wants about being letting Spiridon, and and really living by inspiration, though yes ready to inspire today, you Betcha. Absolutely and also listeners for some context as you probably know most of the guests that I've interviewed in the past activity, ninety percent of our business in the US. and. Especially since I am in a very conscious and you know spinach centered place. Vancouver was to reach out to some of the experts and visionaries and healers in the vicinity, and perhaps having person conversations with them, and so calling is actually bist into Victoria, not far from Vancouver, and this is me going in the direction of connecting with amazing people locally, and then, if possible, now that's a hint having in percent of us with folks in my community about healing about sound about frequency. Right so super excited about this session collapse. We can start with your childhood. What was it like growing up in your husband? And where did you grow up? I grew up near Hamburg Germany Two years old when I immigrated to Canada. and. So, what was it like growing up? I grew up in a very small city of about forty thousand people between Hambleton over. A city that has no post. Post secondary education, though virtually everybody after great thirteen, the Germans middle different from the Canadian like after great for you begin to specialize the either day in the General School, the Middle School until grade, ten or you early on Tuesday academic route Nicole was called high school, which is basically great, five hundred, thirteen, leading towards post secondary education. So virtually all my friends including myself degrade thirteen. We went somewhere else because there was no other place to study and I studied. At the university, of Munich for a year while it's actually not really quite true I enrolled in. In our school of law at the University of Munich, I went to one lecture and I thought that everybody else was like. Advanced compared to me and I decided to drive truck for year instead of going to university so I did that. And then I decided to study business administration and I enrolled at the University of Hamburg. I went to a few lectures. Derek got few credits and just couldn't wait for my ticket to leave. Germany, I was Prior to that thirteen years old spent a Lotta Time in France on exchange program. That's. That was A. That was very. Informative for me that Germany's a place that's really know for tunnel vision, and that's just very dramatic. Way is just like you basically almost like you just have blinders around yourself dislike like a horse. Pulling a cart in a way and that's in a way. That's the dramatic way of seeing you'd think of the way geographic on Germany's a wedge between East, and West Germany. That's just like the mind. Develop Sideway, though when I was thirteen years old I got the opportunity to do a debate in an exchange program. The French student and that was kind of my first. And my mind that there was also. A different wages. And absolutely loved it, and I remember like being We as a family are my host family I would go out with a with a fisherman on the little fisher boat are hardly tours and I thought to myself at the two year old. When I'm old. Enough I'M GONNA leave this place Germany, and I'm going to move to France on. We're GONNA become a fisherman. and they went over seventeen or eighteen years old. I thought I can't wait to get away from here
Sci-Fi Talk Byte
Byte David Hasselhoff
"Hi Welcome to season two of bite. This is Tony Auto and so parenting an apocalypse. It's it's not the same way you know how it works. Any views usually two to four minutes long but sometimes they can be a little longer. Only when you when you live long enough. All kinds of strange things happened very right in saying that. The Greek heroes the original superheroes in part because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion David Hasselhoff speculated with me on how he would do a Knight Rider movie and the style kit the way he was and then bring it into the you know two thousand and twenty and bring it into now and you know it could be like Kit Meets. Michael and his well Michael. You look a lot older and I say well things have changed since you've been gone and then House fast. Michael and I say all the cars talk now and it's great because they all do you know and then yeah. I turbo booster and have a car whiz by kit. Kit goes what happened. I said. Well Buddy you need to hit refresh. And he goes Michael. What's for fresh you know? He doesn't know he's gotTa be updated into the technology of today and of course we'll do that movie and then make him into the supermarket. We should be and it'll be cool absolutely. It would be a lot of fun to see that I really wouldn't be up for. You also has an audio book up against the wall like listen to his flashback. Autumn Nineteen eighty-nine East Germany changes in the air. Like the winds of fall and on the wind freedom can be sniffed communist. Europe is crumbling and Moscow. Gorbachev is opening the way to the end of the Soviet Union and Prague people are marching changes coming and East Germany. To the feeling is in the air like the. Chris snap of fall freedom in their minds and hearts and on their lips. My hit single looking for freedom. Unbeknownst to me this song chart topper in West. Germany has also become an underground anthem in the east traded on homemade cassettes sung in bars and nightclubs. I'm a star among fans. I have never met and who have never seen or heard me accept him. Blurry photocopies and pirated TV signals. Look for up against the wall. The audio book read by David Hasselhoff himself on audible for bite. This is Tony Talada.
AM Tampa Bay
He was the man trying to protect Lee Harvey Oswald
"Jim Lovell was a police detective in Dallas two days after the Kennedy assassination in nineteen sixty three Lovell was transporting the suspected killer Lee Harvey Oswald when this is a placement walled was shot by Jack ruby I want to question being brave I didn't have anywhere to go and a figure from Watergate William Ruckelshaus a deputy Attorney General who resigned rather than carry out president Nixon's order to fire the Watergate prosecutor part of the infamous Saturday night massacre three men who ran for president Richard lugar the Indiana senator who ran in nineteen ninety six Lyndon larouche a conspiracy theorist to ran eight times and United States put pressure on various governments including the governments of Britain France and West Germany to support this policy of putting Khamenei into power in Iraq animados sometimes used as a theme song crazy who's nineteen ninety two candidacy may have changed history the always colorful businessman Ross Perot your business faithful thirteen dollars fourteen dollars out of the factory workers who can factor south of borders our a young twenty
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
The East German punks who helped bring down the Berlin Wall
"Berlin Wall. Couldn't keep all Western culture out. And it couldn't keep old East berliners down inspired by the music born over the wall by radio radio stations in West Berlin. A spirited and resourceful punk rock scene flourished in the city's east to more author of burning down the House that's H. Cia. US punk rock revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall joins me to countdown his East German punk rock top five tim first of all before we stopped. Stop playing the songs. How did punk rock find? Its Way to East Germany. You could pick up western radio almost the entire country of Germany and so everybody talks about the first time they heard the pistols usually on KNBR forces radio or BBC and that was just a moment that changed people's lives. It was so different from anything that ever heard. NFL Ika switches me sore inside them. How soon did it take root the first hearings that people had of the sex pistols? So I'm guessing this is seventy six seventy seven. How quickly did jump the fence? The first punk in East Berlin was a fifteen year old. A girl who went by the name major and that was September nineteen seventy seven and within less than a year. She already had thirty five opened on her and she was labeled enemy of the state and in her case case. That led to constant attainments interrogation and despite that a senior rounder. They wait until she turned eighteen and they arrested or tried her put in jail offer year and Stacey prison and that she slept with what's called the Berlin fabled meaning that when she got out of prison they took her mmediately to a textile facility in the middle of nowhere and she was expected to work there for the next next five years. And be sort of politically rehabilitated. And would not see your family or friends. She ran away almost immediately. Back to East Berlin was rearrested put back and Stacey prison for eighteen months and then at the end of that term ex patriot. Meaning they to ship off the West Germany to Take care of problem. This first strike is called. MFS which is the determine initials for the Ministry for State Security which is the study by benkhaled nominal since from nineteen eighty to about four or five years after ground zero of companies Germany. You can kind of see how the Stasi on GonNa go for conquer. Well they also make a direct comparison between the dossier and Hitler's S S which did not overrule on an explicitly. Anti Fascist in the music was their tool that is just how they fought dictatorships of the music. Wasn't they weren't trying to be tickly. Artful I don't think it was all about the message. And whereas other activists groups had a more reformist approach let's change Environmental regulations are some of the legal system. The punks just said screw. The system was bringing down and that was a really powerful message especially for bringing you to their costs. One of the interesting things about normalises day ended ended up going to prison for almost two years for their lyrics in nineteen ninety-three and I think what happened to them. During that process shows why the scene became so important as far as being a significant it can force in the revolution. They constantly were offered to go to the West. When they're in jail the wooden really rather just go to the west and the member the kept saying no? We're GONNA stay here and fight because that was quite coleman wave dispensing with troublemakers. Wasn't yeah exactly but two punks mostly rejected that and they insisted that they can stay and fight. And I think that basically the big Goan in in a place like East Germany was what happens when you run afoul of the secret police. The Sasi and the punks did that experiment. And what they proved was in going through the jail terms going through the payments going through interogations the blacklisting from jobs in schools the conscription into army units specialising political reeducation and the fact that they came back and kept fighting. That was a game changing revelation. Because it showed that you could resist and survive and that's deal the resolve of a lot of the opposition minded people within the country in that in turn allowed the protest move out into the streets worker then snowball into the big mass protests that we know from eighty nine. Let's move along out to sean climate. At what point to divide join the revolution. They're very early. Bantu and there are unique because they come from a little farm town in the south of East Germany and end and yet they became if anything. It's not really a star type culture but there was closest star system. We're in the eastern or Pengzi. How big was it possible to get? I'm guessing terrifically it couldn't record you couldn't play except in churches and get on the radio so yeah it was very limited seen it first and everything had to be done very personally. So you couldn't do mail wasn't security consent flyers for shows. The phones weren't security. Couldn't call friends say you're doing a Gig so it all had to be done through what they call the whisper network person to person. We're doing a GIG. And he told that friend Ephron told another friend but by eighty three they were getting concerts in the thousands. And that's when the stuff you really crackdown but Shaun calm created in nineteen eighty-four after they had some the trouble with this dossier has resulted crackdown. They created the song called clue which means sort of like the tomboys the people that get beaten by the police and it has a line in there. We are the people. We are power and punks from Leipzig claim that that is the source of the chant. That became the sort of signature chant during the marches of eighty nine lexus. which was the people? The
Weekend Edition Sunday
Over 100,000 celebrate 30 years since fall of Berlin Wall
"Walls weather meant to keep people out or keep the men's separated and apart have a way of falling with the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at hand Holly Hubbard pressen has this perspective on the evening of November ninth nineteen eighty nine I was seated at a bar in San Francisco celebrating my birthday with friends when I looked up at the television and my jaw dropped pictured on the screen where east and west Berliners hacking away at the cement wall that had divided them for twenty eight years the jubilant scene so unexpected in my lifetime moved me to tears the eight hundred and sixty six mile long barrier system that divided east and West Germany including Berlin was supposed to stand for another fifty even one hundred years that's what Eric Honecker east Germany's last president told the nation ten months before the communist regime collapsed and he was forced to resign the prior year right a company to German friend on a visit to our family in West Berlin in her car we traveled from the very across the border into East Germany where we were confined to the heavily armed transport corridor that led to the democratic island city that was West Berlin though I traveled through the Soviet block before this was my first trip to West Berlin and the experience rattled me I had west German friends with relatives in the east who hadn't seen one another in decades not because they didn't want to but because the communist regime would not allow it fearing that such familial exchanges would undermine its ideology reflecting back on those long ago images I'm reminded of the impermanence of walls today Germany as a unified country the U. S. less so one no physical while separates Americans from one another the country is clearly divided what separates us is not cement or barbed wire but race religion class and politics if I've learned anything from the German unification thirty years ago it's that differences need not divide and that the will of the people makes for a mighty pick ax when held in a defiant collective
WSJ What's News
Germany marks 30th anniversary of Berlin Wall's fall
"Another anniversary is coming up this weekend but this one is celebratory Germany as marking thirty years. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall that led to the downfall of communist rule in eastern Europe and the reunification of East and West Germany. Our Sam Western spoke about it. With reporter Sara your motto. Who is in Berlin? So Oh Sarah could you tell me how the city of Berlin has been preparing for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. So yeah so this week. The city Berlin has had a number of exhibitions and installations that will culminate in a sort of celebration at the Brandenburg Berchtesgaden. On Saturday the actual thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the wall and there have been other sorts of commemorations throughout the city. As I mentioned there will be via concert With lots of music from the eighty nine ninety era and a large demonstration of ribbons sort of flying and floating over that road leading up to the Brandenburg Gate how receptive of people being to these celebrations. And how important are all of a in the day to day lives of people living in Berlin run of the historians. I spoke to said that there has been a huge difference in the emotional emotional climate in Germany. Just in the last five years everyone says that the twenty fifth anniversary in two thousand fourteen was this huge celebration and people were really happy about it this year. Things are a little bit different. This anniversary this occasion has given people an opportunity to talk about the legacy of reunification folks on the east have some agitation and some a lot of nuance feelings. But some uncomfortable feelings. About the fact that a country they had lived in basically just disappeared and for better for worse. They say it wasn't necessarily a reunification of Germany but that West Germany overtook Doc East Germany. And there's also mixed feelings on the western side too because for many years after the country was reunified. The tax system was set up in such a way that the West German states contributed extra funds to encourage the redevelopment of East Germany. So so all of which is to say. There's definitely more awareness that there are fractures within German society and people are talking about them. I mean that's interesting testing because that reflective attitude is not something you tend to associate with the fall of the Berlin Wall with the images of celebration. You've you've chosen to use the wall itself as a way to kind of tell these stories. Could you just talk about the reporting that you've done in the buildup to the thirty year anniversary on some of the things that you've discovered. Yeah definitely and the wall has become the physical wall itself has become a really interesting way to tell this story because even though the collapse of East Germany happened thirty years ago steps to commemorate the Physical Wall and preserve it and catalog. It didn't happen for a long long time and it sort of ties into what we were saying before about the current environment in Germany the country is now in the later stages of reunification really beginning to grapple with the legacy and so we chose to do that through trying to track her wall and one of these stories stories so you searching for a lost piece of wool of the broken heart of Berlin. Could you just tell us about that story. And how you went about finding this last piece of all this is one of the. I think one of my favorite stories have done in my career as a journalist as we started our reporting a few months ago in advance of this anniversary. Try to find out how many pieces of the wall still existed around the world and there. Aren't that many there. Are referenced. The two it's a broken heart there. Are these two to pieces of the wall. Each piece has half of a red heart. It had been originally painted nineteen eighty-four by artists in West Germany. At the time of the wall fell it got a lot of attention. A Home Builder in New Jersey of all people managed to get a contract with the East German government and import them into the. US US they were the first pole pieces of the Berlin Wall to be brought into the US. There's a lot of demand for these pieces and the New Jersey man who I mentioned who imported them's names Joseph Morelli he brokered a deal with a financial advisor in North Carolina. Who really wanted one of those pieces and bought it to feature her in a museum he was establishing so Joe Morelli put it on a flatbed truck sent it down to North Carolina but the left peace? It's fate had been a mystery basically ever since and there had been a lot of red herrings and diverted tactics we gone through old newspaper clips. Some of which said that it went for auction at Christie's called Christie's they said they never done any such sale in a note I was talking about. We also heard that there. May they have been attempts to steal it so anyway in trying to prove or disprove some of these rumors I ended up speaking with people at the. US As Intrepid Museum which is where the two pieces of the heart were originally displayed. At first. They didn't know where it was. And then after a deep record search they found that they had sent sent the left piece of the wall to the German American pop artist. Peter Max in two thousand six that led me
The Economist: The Intelligence
Persistence of division: after the Berlin Wall
"Tomorrow marks thirty years since the Berlin Wall fell with the Iron Curtain Separating East West Young East Germans dash the last one hundred to the wall and will hold into the West by West German food. They don't come on. The wall was built overnight in nineteen sixty one dividing city and a country in symbolizing a divided continent but three decades ago. There was a change in the air. In East Germany. Revolutions had begun to sweep through central and eastern Europe. Communist rule was beginning thing to come to an end. There was a sense having lived in a pressure cooker not just that year but for a number of years preceding it and I think we all I decided to go on like this and macelroy is a senior editor at the economist in nineteen eighty nine. She was working as a correspondent in East Germany. My the experience that the fall of the Berlin Wall was sitting at a press conference with condition of ski head of the Berlin Party. Who accidentally fall by trying to relax travel restrictions and then saying for immediately so a number of us then rushed to checkpoint Charlie and do other crossing points tried to persuade border guards at the wall was they didn't believe us and then a couple of Acer it was on the evening news and that seemed to who people like a suction from across the city tens of thousands of people to go due to the wall and to stop shouting? Let us cross. Let Us Cross and about eleven o'clock in the evening. The gods was no other advice just gave up an I did that. And that's the way it happened. quickey is sue easy enthusiast. People celebrated celebrated on both sides of the wall some took to it with hammers and shovels tearing it down piece by piece not surprising lots of hugging lots tosses of vodka and we take some with the Berlin Wall in historical significance. WHO's a healing of the scar? God that ran throughout Germany it was a country being slotted back together again but it was also a Europe whole and free. It was about pushing. I'm back together something. It'd been destroyed in that Calamitous War in the twentieth century for those living in East Germany the change was profound and I watch television all night and I was in tears and I just couldn't believe what I saw. I have the feeling something's happening in this year. Of course no idea and no thought that the war would come down. Cornelia Guenter manages our Berlin Bureau who was born in East Germany. My knife has changed enormously many aspects first of all I was able to travel. That was always my wish and in my desire for me it was very very happy thing that has had a very positive impact on my life but not everyone in the east called at the same in his speech last month. German Chancellor Angela Markle who is herself east. Germany said in Ulster. Today must all learn to understand why live from many people in East Germany German unity has not been a solely positive experience. Reunification made successes of some victims of others. Today it's being debated like never before one of the interesting things that's happened in the last few years. Is that large parts of West Germany. How many have started to realize that the way that they look at reunification is not the way many people in the east so retort experienced? It's almost half of West German. Say They consider reunification to have been a success story and the same goes for less than a third of East Germans. Tom nuttal Berlin bureau chief. The speed with which change with brought to East Germany was almost unfathomable if Germany was to be folded into what was a modern market economy like West Germany. Then mass layoffs and deindustrialization the industrialization were inevitable. Because voss way to these Germany was simply uncompetitive with mass privatization of East German companies to bring them into onto the market. That was a union of the currencies that ensured that the East German currency could be exchanged at one to one rate for the West German deutschemark. Moth what that meant is that firms in East Germany. All of a sudden having to pay their workers salaries that they could no longer afford and voss way to them with bust overnight essentially and had to lay their workers off by one estimate. Eighty percent of East German workers at some point in the post reunification years found themselves out of a job. And do you see evidence of that trauma still today. Yes you do you see it. In a small but persistent economic gap wages ages in the east are between eighty to eighty five percent the average of what they are in the West as productivity gap the proportion of large German companies companies that are headquartered in the east is absolutely tiny and then you have things like they call it. The transfer of elite of the sort of upper echelon of public jobs in the East only four percent of them occupied by east.
Monocle 24: The Urbanist
The fall of the Berlin Wall
"So as years ago this Saturday a wall slicing through the heart of Berlin and separating the Soviet controlled east from the British American American and French secured West Foul after twenty eight years. The Iron Curtain had been breached. Thousands of East Germans came across the border. Today perhaps more than one hundred thousand so many that border police lost count and at every border crossing the thousands of West Germans there to say welcome off the second mode will the Potsdam agreement divided control and reconstruction of Germany between the victorious allies and with the British and Americans not willing to hand full control of the capital over to the Soviets the city was similarly a divided but with Berlin residing in the east the agreement men that a Western en clave was born and the west of the city became a potential escape route for eastern defectors east. Germany was losing its best and brightest and flows in charge. Something had to be. He done so in the early hours of the thirteenth of August nineteen sixty one barrier began to be enforced. This story has all the hallmarks of a political story. Still Alive and kicking today at its heart. The Berlin Wall was an immigration issue orbit one of keeping citizens in rather than out we used to be on together's then about twelve thousand years ago. We began to stopping together. As and at that point when static everything everything you have is precious to. You is also static. If you are feeling concerned that somebody else might covet your goods at that point you will defend them and building. Wolves will be part of that. And that's where the wool building started about twelve thousand years ago. It was no point until them. And before that and it has been throughout history whether it's the walls of troy the walls of Jericho Constantinople etc etc and most walls barriers and fences are physical manifestations stations of something much deeper which is the concept of us and then which was true in the time of the Great Wall of China one side barbarians the other side civilization and it's true now of trump's wall they are all these manifestations of division. That's the author author journalist Him Marshall who quite literally wrote the book on walls divided. Why we're living in an age of walls? Chronicles the thousands of miles of fences senses and barriers in our world and how they affect the political landscape too. So how did this particular wall come about the Berlin Wall and the subsequent fence which then fenced off East Germany from West Germany is actually probably a one off in the this will is actually a prison wall to keep people in so they count escape. What is most wolves That we don't want that law over. They're coming over the will to us so it is different in that respect as you get to the late. Nineteen fifty s Germany was divided into zones as one of the losers of the second world. War The problem was that the American can Marshall Plan was already kicking in and the western areas. We're doing much better economically. And so of course people in the Russian sectors sectors of East Berlin voting with their feet and in the years running up to when it was built a couple of million East Germans thought look the standard of life is much better over there and they started moving now. That is a direct challenge to the Russians to the Soviet Union and to the idea of communism because because if it is a physical manifestation is. That's working better for me I'm going that suggests something about your system. So they could not put up with his hemorrhaging. Both at an economical level. All of the workforce but probably more importantly for the Soviet Union and its populations. They can't put up with that because it's a challenge to their concept that our always life is the better way of life for everybody and people supported and so over night one night when the wall and the flow of people was cutoff immediately. I've been in both when the wall existed. But also he hears later and what struck me in the years. I've been since as I find it quite hard to imagine where wasn't people so this is where the war was. This river was a place where people use to try and swim across this dividing line. How complicated indicate it was it to divide a city when you think of our city London how you ever run a fence across the middle of it that would be effective? Well the Russians and East Germans had the advantage of not being directly answerable to their the peoples living there and there were the sectors as you know there was the French control sector British American and there was the Russian control sector so as they had control over that sector and the Americans. The British couldn't say no you can't put at a brick on top of another brick there. They simply walled off their sector unless said they did he overnight. They brought huge concrete slabs in and other things things fencing and they did it overnight but it wasn't politically difficult insofar as the other occupying power bill and didn't have a say in it so obviously go with the contours of the sector. They occupied and that was East Berlin. I mean if it'd been southbound South Bill would now be that buzzword that we have in politics not East Berlin just geographically. That's how far they got the sector that they took for centuries raise walls have been built to keep out invading armies but this was the first wall in all recorded history to keep an entire country from fleeing fleeing into West Berlin is three and a half million before the war was erected if the gods were there guns unsuccessful in keeping people from fleeing that there's the barbed wire if they crossed that that was the wall they reached the top. There was the broken glass and with that a city was divided. Millions of Berlin citizens were now defined by their street address. Peter Miller what is a journalist in East Berlin and the author of nine thousand nine hundred nine Berlin Wall my part in his downfall. Peter told us how he ended up with quite peculiar assignment. I immediately joined Reuters news agency London after finishing university and they sent me straight away after working as a trainee. They sent me to Brussels when I came back to London later about six months and then they say well how up in so it's my job. It's okay I don't Germany level moral and they said well nothing much happens at least seventy days. I'd say a couple of minutes but anyway they put me in there because they'd has the office since easterly separated in nineteen forty nine and a want to give it up because no other non German news agency had enough us on eastern side. The rule. So I I've lived in Paris and lived in Brussels. I thought it was just too good enough for two minutes and slightly disconcerted. I went there and discovered the billion Elian accents and started to pick it up and at the same time had to world. The when I was about to bury I hugged together would be East Germany. which was shook but I ended up there and I found probably one of the exciting places I'd ever be and so there I found myself going through checkpoint quite chilly and finding of flats it Roy says head for study use it was quite doubting? Tell me what was life. Like for a a journalist working in eastbound at the time did you have a sense that you are being watched by the infamous stars e the secret police. It's there's two sides to that question. was that ever since the Russians have done these German Roy shooting in Nineteen fifty-six and he just really accepted it was nothing we could do. Getting cross the Woolworth always dangerous restatements. Who tried to many had been shots and really very so nothing happening city except funding the old dissident who is willing to speak out yes? He took that for granted. Then only after the wolf find became done. We discovered that they started the headed. Twenty nine microphones in the FLACCO. Black I live in which was expected to be a little bit. Quite that many life for foreign journalists in East Berlin was clearly a well. Mona set one for many many in these Ovo life did go on. They wanted to escape and they took risks with their lives and hopes of making it to the West. I am what was seen as freedom.
First Light
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
"Reagan today a tribute to the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall it's on a site overlooking the location where president Reagan delivered his legendary speech imploring Mister Gorbachev tear down this wall well that was quite a memory anyway we have our Westwood One news correspondent jazz Henry standing by live in Berlin this morning so jazz good morning to you are actually good afternoon to you or early it's about it's about mid day right now and that was nineteen eighty seven the president Reagan made that speech at the Brandenburg gate two years later not necessarily a direct cause and effect a correlation but two years later the walking down we celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of that to your tomorrow so it would that was a big big celebration the whole world celebrated with the with the German people when that happened but you know then they came to review the reality of reuniting east and West Germany and integrating them into the society of Europe so she was very celebratory van what's it like now sh well people are still happy particularly those who were alive at the time they can contrast what East Germany was like at the time and what it's like now but there a lot of people been born since then and some of them living in the eastern parts of Germany I feel that still yet today the economy is not as vibrant in that part of the country job opportunities perhaps educational opportunities don't match what's that exists in the west some people in the government here are admitting that there were some mistakes made when that they actually unified the east was just sort of brought into the western constitution there's some other things that might have been done differently but say it's hard to completely second gas because compared to many countries around the world be Germany has in you know what might seem a long time were short time depending on your view thirty years brought about quite to impress the reunification so are we listen to your montage that you made for us just a couple of minutes ago and at the end the woman was saying that the people in the east still don't feel I guess equal economically you know to the west is did you find that I've talked to some of people living in the eastern part of the country who formerly lived under the the old government and of course they say you know life is better now that we can travel you know we're not so contained and there's not be a network but foreman's that's one has to worry about the Stasi security service keeping an eye on everyone but they said that in the old west and East Germany there was sort of a collective mindset and neighborhood mindset that it was sort of grew from the better aspects of the communist ideal of people helping each other they say when they became in essence taken over by the west that said you know the capitalist system of every person out for themselves doggy dog what was hard to get used to and a lot of people particularly were sort of mid career at that time had a hard time making the jump of the sort that angle Americal has made a force you she's been chancellor here for fourteen years originally an east German but she's really more the exception than the rule in how well easterners have done but there are signs that slowly the economy salaries and such in the east are improving to up Terry T. with the west but that's still not the case chancellor Merkel of course open wide the the doors of Germany to refugees and a lot of them ended up in Berlin and we have young people the young workers coming from all across Europe in into Berlin so what are the company's able to hire them well they they into at both related and many of them into the eastern part of Germany someone in the in the western parts but she needs to Germany because of the period under communism they didn't become as multicultural as West Germany did West Germany brought in the guest workers from Turkey for instance in the nineteen seventies and so in the east there are people who are feeling you know I should be paid more for the work that I do there should be better opportunities and look there these people who don't look like me being brought into our city to be settled yeah they're probably going to compete for the same jobs and that's led to some dissatisfaction three mentioned the the unveiling or the showing of the statue of Ronald Reagan today what other kinds of celebrations are being planned well there's a big party is scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Brandenburg gate course the Brandenburg gate is where president Kennedy spoke in nineteen sixty three or call each bin ein Berliner speech president Reagan as we mentioned in nineteen eighty seven it's been the center of the city sense the eighteen hundreds of sort of ceremonial center so there will be a big concert there now there's some possibility it might be raining so that I could have it have an impact but as you can imagine that since this is Germany there'll be classical music and this is the evening wears on there will be a lot of like trying to dance music but if everyone were looking to see what sort of crowd might come out for that tree even putting the weather aside but I'm guessing it's probably a larger major going to be an older crowd people who remember the it's just the amazement of what happened November ninth nineteen eighty nine so we still have a lot of American troops in Germany and course all around Europe but in in Germany so are they are they showing up for either out in the streets for this I'm not seen any so far interestingly I was at a government events government sponsored event last night and the culture minister of Germany made up points to talk about how appreciative Germany in particular Germans of of her age work for the American support immediately after the wall fell and it came as a surprise to many people what happened afterward it might have been something short of reunification she said she was saying that they could be some sort of confederation or alliance but she said that president George H. W. bush was
This Day in History Class
On This Day in History: The East German Balloon Escape
"Welcome to this day in history class where history waits for or no one today is September Sixteenth Twenty nineteen the day it was September Sixteenth nineteen seventy nine eight people escaped communist East Germany by floating over border fences to West Germany and a homemade hot air balloon. The German Federal Republic better known known as West Germany was created in nineteen forty nine when zones controlled by America Britain and France merged the Soviets then created East Germany also known as the German Democratic Republic from their zone of occupation though Berlin the former German capital well was situated within the Soviet zone. The city was divided into West Berlin and East Berlin East Germany built the Berlin Wall in nineteen sixty one to cut off the allied occupied West Berlin from East Berlin and surrounding East Germany. Many people attempted to escape East Germany see for West Germany motivated by troublesome political events in East Germany and better living conditions in West Germany but east Germany punished and demeaned and people who tried to flee the state the border was hundreds of miles long and made of metal fences with barbed wire watched by east German soldiers in watchtowers towers with searchlights sirens fleeing was punishable with fines and imprisonment and many people who tried to make it over the border were killed by landmines in cards still refugees attempted to flee using Abor Riecke tactics mechanic Peter. Sto Vic and his friend Rick Layer Guenter missile were eager to leave oppressive East Germany so they got the idea to escape with their families a hot air balloon after watching television show on the history of ballooning they studied how to make a balloon and realized that to carry eight passengers plus the weight of equipment and materials they would need beat a balloon that could hold ninety nine thousand cubic feet of air they bought rolls of material and bedsheets from shops around. East Germany and their wives stitch spend together to make the balloon the burner was made out of propane bottles and a stove pipe. The cast iron platform had posted on the corners for hand holes in rows anchors and the guardrail. What's a clothesline the whole time they were building the balloon. They were still going to work in their first. A few tests of their balloon were unsuccessful and they experimented with different materials to improve the balloons construction on the night of July third one thousand nine hundred ninety nine the cells family went to a meadow about twenty five miles from the border and attempted to make the trip to West Germany. The vessels cels had backed out afraid. The plan was too risky. Unfortunately the balloon dropped to the ground due to water vapor that added weight to the balloon in in the family did not make it across the border. They abandoned the balloon and wet back home fearing the East German authorities would be on their trails Thune soon. The Celtics decided to build a new larger balloon on September Sixteenth Nineteen seventy-nine. Both families went to the launch site. I took a twenty eight minute hot air balloon trip across the border into West Germany people who lived in Iowa the Bavarian town near where the hot air balloon landed offered the family's food money clothes housing and jobs the Celtics later moved to Switzerland then back to Germany after German Senate reunification in one thousand nine hundred ninety. The story of the balloon escape has been told in a book and movies. I'm eavesdrop coat and hopefully a you know a little more about history today than you did yesterday.
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German Elections Reveal, and Deepen, a New East-West Divide
"The east of germany is is a natural hotbed for extreme political parties to build support. This is a part of the country <hes> with that was heavily industrialized of caused during the soviet era the berlin wall comes down east and west germany reunified and suddenly all of those industries in the east that had been state <hes> supported and operating within a command economy now find themselves subject to market forces and they closed down and they have not been in large measure measure replaced the a._f._d._c. The alternative for germany far right party poised to make great gains in saxony particularly italy in rural eastern fringes. This is a part of the country where an anti immigration group per gita grew and flourished previously obviously it's a part of the country that saw anti-foreigner riots last summer after an immigrant killed a german in syrian asylum-seeker killed a german citizen so it's it's a soft ground in which these far right movements can make gains. We will have to see just how substantial those gains are when the votes accounted and we'll help form the big question which which jennifer was getting at which is to what extent these far right populist movements now reaching the end of their natural life in countries like italy and austria where we also saw government collapse aw as if they still got legs in them is the steve bannon dream of extremism within europe still in some sense alive i agree and to the extent that steve bannon and has been touring or at least in previous years was touring europe <hes> in pursuit of some kind of right wing international right both in the united states and in europe up to to break up alliances and see a resurgence of the right wing these next elections both in the united states and in europe tells a lot about about the longevity of his project
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In Germany, Working Mothers Say They Face Job Discrimination
"Support for this podcast and the following message come from Google from Connecticut California from Mississippi to Minnesota. Millions of businesses are using Google tools to grow online learn. How Google is supporting businesses in your state at Google dot com mm slash economic impact? Now we have an update on Women's equality women say they are still excluded from many positions of power even in a country that is governed by a woman. The country is Germany where the chancellor's uncle miracle and our. Our correspondent for this story is N._p._R.'s Deborah Amos. It is highly derogatory an insult that describes working mothers and a slur untrue it turns out for a certain bird ready here. It is raven mother. It sounds worse Ersan German of Robin Mutter a Raven mother is a mother who does not care about our children who to Elminger as the president of the Berlin Social Science Research Center. She says the term Raven mother has a long history. From when Germans connected women with hearth and home not the workplace a raven mother is a mother who is interest primarily leans chop and just an an attractive woman so it's still a cultural thing this radio weather yeah I mean very much so even a man you know would say of causes Germany lags behind Europe's other big economies when it comes to women in business leadership roles. She says so women in Shami started way later than other European countries to enter the labour market in big numbers and that has to do with the history of German laws. My name is Bob. Are you one. I'm the C._E._O.. Of A big burden welfare organization that escort Palley. Not she says it was only nineteen. Seventy seven that legislative change gave women gender equality in marriage and at last addressed a fundamental question that kept women from taking jobs outside of the home women are allowed to work with all of the skinned women on the streets of Berlin have their own stories and that Richter says when she grew up in East Germany women were expected to work the kids went to state run kindergartens. She only learned about Raven mothers. When East and West Germany became one? It's really unfair because it keeps the women far from the job market. Goudron Westerman says she couldn't worry about name. Calling after her son was born she went right back to work. I was never thinking thinking about someone calling me raving mother because my husband had no job that would have allowed me to stay at home and here's another thing about choice working. Women in Germany often chose not to have kids which contributed to. A shrinking population it took a supermom to turn it around enter Ursula von Der line a medical doctor with seven children. She became family minister in two thousand five her new policies including better childcare for younger children and and parental leave for dad's help to reverse the decline later funder line became Germany's first female defense minister now. She's the likely next president of the European Council the first woman to hold that job but public opinion opinion takes time to change says the sociologist Elman Dinger. Nobody called underline a raven mother but they found other ways to complain. How can you show off your kids you know how can you even dare to do?