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| Communist Theme Park To Open It's Gates | 0 comments |
 2 Mar 2003 @ 19:51This reminds me of a song lyric I wrote once. "You can't turn back, but you can turn back on, you can't turn back the clock." Letecia sent me this, as she does so many wonderful tid and tad bits. Oddly Enough - UK Reuters Communist theme park to open its gates Thu Feb 27,10:18 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Hoping to capitalise on a wave of nostalgia for Communist East Germany, a Berlin company is planning to build a theme park that revives life behind the Iron Curtain in the country that disappeared nearly 13 years ago. Massine Productions GmbH hopes to recreate a 10,000-square metre (107,600 sq ft) replica of East Germany, complete with surly border guards, rigorous customs inspections, authentic East German mark notes, and restaurants with regulation bland East German food. "The aim isn't to make big joke out of East Germany," said Susanne Reich, a spokeswoman for the company which is expected to invest several million euros on the project, slated for the southeastern Berlin district of Koepenick. "It was an important part of Germany's history and the period should be recreated as accurately as possible." Nostalgia for East Germany has lingered ever since reunification in 1990. Known as "Ostalgie", a play on the German words for east and nostalgia, the spirit has given rise to scores of "GDR parties", books, songs and popular films. A German film "Good Bye, Lenin", in which a man recreates East Germany in a 79-square-metre (850-sq-ft) flat to protect his ailing mother from the shock of reunification after she comes out of a coma, has surged to the top of the German film charts and more than a million people have been to see it. Even though East Germany lasted just four decades, Reich insists that the project has the potential to go the distance: "We've spoken to a number of tourist agencies in Europe and the United States, and there's been plenty of interest." More > |
| Beyonda News | 0 comments |
 2 Mar 2003 @ 19:28Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda has kept me laughing for years. His motto on his website Wake Up Laughing is "Where we take humor seriously and seriousness humorously." In times of international stress he always manages to offer a new angle and twist on things. Check out Swami's 2003 State of the Universe Address where he offers some creative possibilities for our current events. More > |
| The Bush FAMILY Record | 1 comment |
 2 Mar 2003 @ 19:17My buddy Greg Hurley ( my ever so conspiratorial email friend)sent me this short family history of the Bush family hustle. Sounds like a new kind of dance though in doesn't appear to be so new. There are many families who have, what a good friend of mine calls, "circumstantial integrity". So I can't fault them for following tradition. We all have our own demons to face, some peoples are just larger than others. But who am I to judge, mine feel pretty humongous sometimes. While opportunism isn’t new in U.S. politics, never did so many in one family extract so many dollars from taxpayers as when George Bush senior was president a decade ago. As documented below from impeccable cited sources, the exploits of six Bushes, including George W., range from stock sales that were probed or sanctioned to arranging U.S. business investments for a Japanese Mob front. They range from lobbying for a Mafia-linked businessman that enabled massive Medicare fraud to misconduct that helped trigger S&L collapses costing taxpayers $1.2 billion. More > |
| More on Lysistrata | 0 comments |
 2 Mar 2003 @ 18:28Join us and be a part of A GLOBAL ACTION FOR PEACE! In over 750 cities in 45 countries Monday 03.03.03 The Fabulous Monsters joins the.. The Lysistrata Project A Theatrical Act of Global Dissent to Stop the War on Iraq based on the sexy ancient Greek play about women on opposing sides of the Trojan War who joined together to get the men to end the war. Aristophanes' Lysistrata a women's translation by Drue Robinson Hagan presented as a A Tag -team Staged Reading First Amendment Bacchanalia 20 L.A. theatre companies coming together to present the world's first war protest comedy! The Wilshire Ebell Theatre 4401 West 8th Street (Lucerne/Wilshire) doors open at 6:30pm, reading starts at 8:00pm with peace orgs, speakers, celebrities, food and bev, music suggested donation: $20 for reserved tickets pay-what-you-can at the door benefiting OPERATION USA- direct aid to Iraq and THE ACLU FOUNDATION-protecting our civil liberties when our leaders are hell-bent on war More > |