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POPSMerkel thanks Gorbachev on Berlin Wall anniversary Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev crossed a former fortified border on Monday to cheers of Gorby! Gorby! as a throng of grateful Germans recalled the night 20 years ago that the Berlin Wall gave way to their desire for freedom and unity.
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POPSCzechs Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of Velvet Revolution In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Czech's Velvet Revolution, I clipped this article along with a few pictures of Prague. I have not had the pleasure of visiting Prague, but a close friend of mine did some years ago. To this day, he remarks that it is the most beautiful of the European capitals.
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POPSObama Skips Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall, Sends a Video.....About Himself Did He Not Show Up Because It Wasn’t All About Him? Left-wing German paper Der Spiegel seems to have gotten that impression: Der Spiegel summed up as “People of the World, Look at Me”. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,567932,00.html Even worse- Obama spoke about himself to the crowd: “Few would have seen on that day that… that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent.” And, of course, he did not mention Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher in his speech.
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POPSVEE Day in Alameda, California, we practiced duck-and-cover as well as earthquake drills. Nothing quaint or or historic about it then. Here’s Reagan speechwriter Anthony R. Dolan at the Wall Street Journal on the power of “Four Little Words” … you remember them: “Tear down that wall” … and the earth-shaking ideas they represented as well as the action that backed them. The popular myth is that the wall kind of toppled over by itself, with a little push from people power. That of course ignores not only the prior 44 years of Cold War … interspersed with several hot ones that cost us tens of thousands of American lives … it also ignores the massive military buildup of the 1980s, the encouragement of liberation movements behind the Iron Curtain, the tough engagement with old-school Soviet leaders and, not least, the cordial engagement with a Soviet leader who realized it was time to throw in the towel. An atmosphere was finally created in which people felt like they could
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POPSGordon Brown to 'buy off' Germany and France to get President Blair Tony Blair is why Britain is in the state it is in right now and Gordon Brown(nose) want him to have a go at Screwing up the EU (More than it already is.) Not to mention that he is a 33 degree Freemason amongst other shady and Dark organisations. Simply put you wouldn't want this guy running a business let alone a continent.
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POPSJoop Advises Merkel to Don More Revealing Clothes German Chancellor Angela Merkel is used to unsolicited remarks about her dowdy taste in clothes. Now, fashion designer Wolfgang Joop has come up with an unusual tip for the world's most powerful woman: Wear more low-cut tops.
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POPSWorld War II's first victim more (at source): And on Tuesday, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets the prime ministers of Russia and Poland in Gdansk (formerly Danzig) to commemorate the day 70 years ago when Hitler's tanks rolled across Poland's borders, little thought will be given to the place where it started – or the man who died there. However, on Monday, in the manicured grounds of the radio station on the edge of the industrial city of Gliwice, which is now within Poland's borders, there will be a low-key commemoration and, for the first time, German and Polish historians will gather to discuss what took place. The radio station, still dominated by the 111-ft high transmitting mast, was reopened as a museum in 2005. This week, its director, Andrzej Jarczewski, said: "Many people will have never known what took place here to start the entire war. It is not a moment easily remembered for many reasons.
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POPSGerman real estate company may vote to approve nationalization The interesting thing about this is the difference between American and European perspectives. Actions that are decried as socialism (like buying a 90% stake in a company) here are actually conservative in Europe (Merkel is the leader of the center-right Christian Democrats). Of course, since a wealthy American might lose his stake in the company, I fully expect Fox News to make a lot of hay out of this story.
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POPSHow Often Do You Want to Hear "Oops" from Nuclear Industry Well, for sure not just three days after restarting a plant. Those proposing nukes again as saviors to nations too greedy and dumb not to reduce use of energy, ought to take notice but they won't. They choose ignore facts that don't support their financial and power investments in going nuke.
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POPSGermany 'not silent' on stabbing 
Ms Sherbini's husband was attacked by the assailant as he tried to defend his wife and was also accidentally shot by German police. He is in hospital in critical condition. This is an abhorrent deed, one that has left us all dismayed and shocked Thomas Steg German government spokesman The Egyptian media have expressed outrage, asking how the incident was allowed to happen and dubbing Ms Sherbini "the martyr of the Hijab", in reference to her Islamic headscarf. The German government was criticised for what was seen to be a muted reaction. On Tuesday, spokesman Thomas Steg defended the government's reaction, saying Germany had "not been silent", and that early details about the case had not been sufficiently clear for a "spontaneous reaction". "This is an abhorrent deed, one that has left us all dismayed and shocked," he said. He added that Chancellor Merkel would discuss the incident with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at this week's Group of Eight summit in It
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POPSObama on Iran: Don’t Blame Me Even political leaders in Europe, specifically French President Nicolas Sarcozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have talked about the moral imperative of supporting the Iranian people. That the president of the United States is choosing to wash his hands is a profound disappointment.
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POPSBudget Woes Bonanza For GOP? (Cont) But some economists warn that any short-term economic improvement will probably resemble the "jobless recovery" of the early 1990s, given the loss of jobs in the manufacturing, construction, retail and other sectors. Democrats were trounced in midterm elections two years after Clinton took office, partly because the economic recovery then underway had not significantly reduced unemployment. "There's a potential there that the seemingly out-of-control fiscal situation in Washington could galvanize the public," Edwards said. "The question is whether the Republicans will be smart enough to take advantage of this."
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POPSEconomy Shows Cracks in European Union The article also said: "Germany and France together are the traditional motor of the European Union, but relations between them are cold, with the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, putting national interests first, whether the issue is social benefits or saving jobs in the faltering car industry."
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POPSAcross Europe, Left-Leaning Parties See Clout Faltering "In some countries, the left has disintegrated into a myriad of groups. There have been so many defections from France's Socialist Party that the country now has half-a-dozen left-leaning movements. They include the New Anti-Capitalist Party, a Trotskyite movement, and the Left Front, an alliance of Communists and Communist-leaning politicians. The Socialist Party is divided over whether it should tie up with the Greens or with the MoDem, a center-right movement."
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