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Old 11-09-2014, 02:54 AM
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25 years ago: Good Bye Communism!

Please check my thread "The fall of the wall" at AudioKarma. This thread also shows Dan's "Dr.Jekyll/Mr Hyde" attitude. At AK he is almost always Dr. Jekyll, here he was almost always Mr. Hyde which was unacceptable at last. Pity. However - the fall of the wall means the triumph of democracy!

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Except, some Americans think Communism has come here, their numbers are many and they are idiots.

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Old 11-09-2014, 07:14 AM
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You are right. As always.
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Old 11-09-2014, 07:46 AM
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It sure would be fun to be in Berlin today, though it would be fun to be in Berlin on any day - fun place. The first time I went there with my parents and sibling was just a few months after the wall went up. The second time was 30 years later when we walked through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin with a bunch of smuggled Ostmarks we bought at the train station in West Berlin. It was an ugly, depressing place (particularly when compared to the western showcase of West Berlin), but really cheap, especially when using smuggled currency. Four of us ate and drank all day for about $10. I still have a number of Red Army belts and buckles I picked up on that trip in trade for cigarettes.
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Old 11-09-2014, 08:21 AM
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It is astonishing that CNN sent a sheer endless live coverage from Berlin yesterday and today it is the same. Hala Gorani, Jim Clancy and Fred Pleitgen were/are reporting with fine comments and impressive pictures. Fred Pleitgen with a lot of very good background stories.

But this quantity of coverage is very astonishing to me.
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Old 11-09-2014, 08:41 AM
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CNN loves to have something to go wall-to-wall with....
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I was there many moons ago for a standards meeting at DIN headquarters.
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Old 11-09-2014, 11:04 AM
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CNN loves to have something to go wall-to-wall with....
It is the only American News channel that is available to me. So I have no choice. Like the voters in East German "elections". By the way, the last election in the GDR was in May 1989, and the Communist Party got 98.5% of the votes. Fraud as always, but that time was the first time that the East German public prosecutor's office investigated, with no result of course... But this was another sign that a big change was dawning...
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CNN loves to have something to go wall-to-wall with....
That's far less true with CNN International when overseas. They have to compete with BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky News, etc., all of which are better than cable news here.
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CNN loves to have something to go wall-to-wall with....
No pun intended?

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