Lesbian-Only Cemetery To Open In Berlin

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Lesbian-Only Cemetery To Open In Berlin

New book claims Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker and died in South America in 1984 aged 95

posted on Jan, 25 2014 @ 08:50 AM

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read and the sort of tripe I expect from the Daily Fail.

So man in the photo is Hitler…even though the man in the photo has no face. Plus he’s allegedly with his “girlfriend”, a black woman. Considering Hitler’s racial beliefs and theories do you think he’d be inclined to have a black woman as a girlfriend?

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New book claims Hitler escaped his Berlin bunker and died in South America in 1984 aged 95

VIDEO: "La grande Bellezza" triunfa en la 26ª edición de los premios de la Academia del Cine Europea

“La grande Bellezza”, del director italiano Paolo Sorrentino, ha sido la gran triunfadora de la 26ª edición de los premios de la Academia del Cine Europeo. La cinta, que narra el retrato de la Roma decadente a través de los ojos de un periodista, se ha llevado los premios a la mejor película del año, mejor director y mejor interpretación masculina.

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VIDEO: Imprisoned by the Stasi, back to tell his story

Before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, East Germany jailed thousands for crimes against the state, including distributing banned books. We introduce you to one former prisoner and how he exacted some small revenge years later.

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Uncomfortable Monument: Art Fills Former Spy Station in Berlin

Berlin’s most famous spy station, a National Security Agency complex built on the rubble from World War II, is being filled with art for a weekend show that starts on Friday. The former NSA listening station, abandoned for years, has been transformed from a moldering junkyard to giant art show, and just in time to contribute to the debate on recent revelations about the US agency’s widespread spying around the world.

A day ahead of the opening, artist Dirk Krechting was sweating as he pulled a bucket full of water up four floors on a rope. He was putting the finishing touches on what he calls a simple and cliché statement about spying and warfare. The piece, a bathtub filled with bright red water and a small satellite dish perched above, literally looks like a bloodbath. It’s located directly in the middle of a gigantic radar ball that used to be part of the listening station.

“I tried to be aggressive and show the uselessness of this installation, the uselessness of spying,” said Krechting, 44, a Dutchman who splits his time between Amsterdam and Berlin.

Spying and the NSA scandal have become a major political issue during a German election year, and the art show addresses the revelations directly. With more than 70 artists involved, works include everything from video installations to robot-like sculptures made from material found at the derelict NSA site.

“I wanted the artists to enjoy the space and play with the history here,” said Jill Ariela, a freelance curator working with a group of the artists on the WestTurm Pavilion exhibition. “It can feel heavy in many ways because of the history but it’s really beautiful too. I want it to be a really light experience.”

Past and Present

The art show is part of a broader national heritage day on Sept. 8 with a theme “Beyond Good and Beautiful: Inconvenient Monuments.” In Berlin alone, more than 300 historic sites are open to the public for the event. But the NSA station at Teufelsberg, which translates to “Devil’s Mountain,” may be one of the most inconvenient monuments in the city.

Set on Berlin’s highest point, the “mountain” is a 115-meter (377-foot) mound of rubble collected from what remained of Berlin following World War II. At the very top is a collection of industrial-style buildings topped with five white radar balls that formed part of the NSA’s “Echelon” global espionage network, which was used to spy behind the iron curtain during the Cold War. It was in use from 1957 to 1991 and then abandoned.

For many years, it was a surreal landscape of broken glass, tangled wiring and smashed electronics — one of many abandoned spaces throughout the German capital. Just three or four years ago, it was still loosely guarded, with easy access through a gap in the fence. But more recently, two West German architects who own Teufelsberg with a firm called IGTB have been working with two tour operators to make it safer and more orderly, cutting down calls to police.

One of the tour operators, Niklas Mascher, said he hopes the art show this weekend will help showcase the site and highlight Teufelsberg’s broader importance. Specifically, he would like to see the site designated as a monument, especially considering the recent revelations on spying and the “soft totalitarianism” of the NSA.

“This year the topic is uncomfortable monuments,” said Mascher, “and ours is a perfect example.”

Teufelsberg will be open to the public all weekend, though guests must still be accompanied by a guide and sign a liability waiver. Sign-ups are accepted at the site from 10 a.m. through 10 p.m. The opening night performances for the WestTurm Pavilion show are on Friday at 7 p.m.

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Uncomfortable Monument: Art Fills Former Spy Station in Berlin

Troubling Questions: No-Spy Pact Backfires on Berlin

When German Chancellery Chief of Staff Ronald Pofalla sat before a parliamentary committee on Monday, his prepared text was almost entirely marked up in yellow. Everything that he intended to present to the Parliamentary Control Panel, the body in German parliament charged with keeping tabs on the country’s intelligence agencies, was apparently important. He ran down the 15 items on his list, speaking without pause — just as he did at his last appearance before the committee, more than two weeks ago.

Pofalla appeared before the committee to clear the air. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives hope finally to put a lid on the NSA scandal, which was set off by reports leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The core of Pofalla’s message was simple: The American intelligence agency and its British counterpart adhere to German law and have agreed in writing to do so. Pofalla went on to say that the rights of millions of Germans have not been violated, ostensibly in response to recent criticism by the opposition Social Democrats. The data that the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, has handed over to America’s National Security Agency pertained to reconnaissance abroad and not to German citizens, he assured the panel.

It was a peculiar sort of political spectacle. Merkel’s chief of staff and the government’s official intelligence coordinator praised the “hard work” of the agency and quoted written assurances made recently by the American and British intelligence agencies to the German government. Pofalla painted a picture of a harmonious world of German-American intelligence cooperation. And it’s this collaboration, he said, that has prevented terrorist attacks on German and US soldiers in Afghanistan.

If you subscribe to Pofalla’s version of events, all the recent fuss is actually superfluous.

Only, there’s a hitch in this rosy scenario. The BND and the NSA have agreed on pursuing brand new “no-spy pact.” The agreement, says Pofalla, represents a unique opportunity to set standards for the future work of Western intelligence agencies.

The No-Spy Pact

Just last Friday, BND chief Gerhard Schindler sent NSA Director Keith B. Alexander a written request that discussions over a mutual no-spying pact be initiated. It is to be the placebo administered to the public at election time, to pacify brewing concern and say, “Look, everything is going to be just fine.”

Yet the establishment of such a no-spying agreement implies that espionage has been allowed up to now, an unwitting confirmation of the information in the documents leaked by Snowden — including the internal paper that SPIEGEL reported on this week: As a target of espionage, Germany ranks somewhere in the middle of the priority list, about on par with France and Japan. In the leaked document, the US notes a particular interest in Germany’s foreign policy and economic situation, citing threats to the financial system and “economic stability” as high-priority subjects of interest when it comes to spying in the European Union.

The no-spying agreement isn’t likely to make the NSA scandal disappear. On the contrary, Berlin will be faced with new questions: What should comprise such a pact? Will it only pertain to the work of foreign intelligence agencies? Or will it address the interests of citizens whose Internet data flow through American servers and can potentially be captured and cached? None of this has been definitively answered, all written assurances to the contrary.

Pofalla obviously anticipated what new questions might be raised by the envisaged agreement. It was he who carefully said that the US agency would not have made the offer, “if their assurance that they would abide by the law were not true.” This is twisted logic — logic that only Pofalla himself could explain.

But an explanation never came. Just like at his last appearance before the committee, the Chancellery chief declined to take any questions. After item 15, Pofalla exited without a word.

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