And it actually happened again, with the fall of the Berlin wall.

Wall Street has collapsed. The present crisis, the fall of Wall Street, is to neo liberalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was to communism.

They argued it again 25 years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were wrong then and they are wrong now.

The Berlin Wall falls. We do Desert Storm.

Time to get to Berlin, to the Wall.

For several years now more specifically, since the fall of the Berlin Wall the entire international political structure has been in the process of transformation.

In September 2000, the world seemed very different. We were trying to articulate the new security order in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

For my part, I would say So much the better for us , because we Africans have no reason to cry over the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 33 civilian conflicts have started or have been reactivated, leaving close to 5 million dead, 17 million refugees and serious humanitarian crises.

It had been said that the adoption of resolution 2758 (XXVI) had been as important in world affairs as the fall of the Berlin Wall that achievement must not be reversed.

When the Berlin wall fell, a generation of ideological certainties was swept away.

Of course, the fall of the house of Lehman Brothers has nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Indeed, on the surface it seems to be its perfect antithesis the collapse of a wall symbolizing oppression and artificial divisions versus the collapse of a seemingly indestructible and reassuring institution of financial capitalism.

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, countries in Central and Eastern Europe are at varying stages of meeting the challenges in their transition from socialist to market based economies.

Take a fall, butt a wall Split a seam

Like the harnessing of electricity in our cities or the fall of the Berlin Wall, English represents hope for a better future a future where the world has a common language to solve its common problems.

But the situations in Bosnia and Ukraine are still very fluid. Twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and 23 years after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the post communist transition is still incomplete.

From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Consultative Group Coordinating Committee (Cocom) monitored and controlled the export of Western technology to the Soviet Union. It did so by a gentlemen s agreement, and with reasonable success.

Since then, the symbol of the great revolution of 1989 has been the fall of the Berlin Wall. But the Roundtable talks in Warsaw 20 years ago this month is where the Iron Curtain began to be dismantled.

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be commemorated in November, and it has been five years since the European Union s Big Bang enlargement. The Cold War division of Europe is well and truly over.

LONDON This could have been a year of joy for Europe. The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall will be commemorated in November, and it has been five years since the European Union s Big Bang enlargement.

ATHENS The year 2009 has been one of great change, taking place amidst even greater uncertainty. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the resilience of the post Cold War security system in Europe is being tested.

44. While many had welcomed the fall of the Berlin Wall, the international community had little to celebrate in the erection in the United States of America of new and improved walls to shut out immigration from the south.

Five months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and Czechoslovakia s Velvet Revolution, Poland had negotiated its way out of totalitarianism. But the Mazowiecki government faced a nearly impossible task building democratic political institutions while resuscitating the country s torpid economy.

In terms of the French Republic s credo, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, the first principle, liberty, became the motto of our age after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the second is gaining greater precedence today as the economy falters.

Third stage 4. With the end of the cold war symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall, this period was marked by many processes of democratization or return to democracy along with peace agreements putting an end to internal armed conflicts.

And after the Berlin Wall fell, the Navy made these systems available to whale bio acousticians to see what they could hear.

A man touched down on the moon. A wall came down in Berlin. A world was connected by our own science and imagination.

In Europe alone, the Berlin Wall has been torn down, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have broken up, and Czechoslovakia has split in two.

In 1999, during the New York celebrations marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I myself heard Shevardnadze assert that Georgia had given the twentieth century two historic figures One who erected the Iron Curtain Joseph Stalin , and one who tore it down meaning himself.

I am old enough to remember both the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ascent and collapse of Nazism, of Fascism, and of Soviet Communism. Together the members of NATO have helped to protect Kosovo and recently brought aid to the victims of a devastating tsunami.

Rather, they follow one or more generations of chronic decline, when fear of economic loss gives way to targeted anger, and charismatic voices surface to orchestrate the response. This pattern has recurred throughout history, from the French Revolution all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Rastenburg calling Berlin. Rastenburg calling Berlin.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the necessity that had been driving containment disappeared. The US, inebriated by victory, saw in the triumph over the Soviet bloc another sign of its exceptionalism, and found itself taken in by the mirage that its Cold War success was itself a strategy.

The current political upheaval in the Arab world could transform the Middle East and North Africa in the same way that the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 fundamentally changed Europe. Indeed, 1989 was a watershed, producing the most profound global geopolitical changes in the most compressed timeframe in history.

The engineers told us, for the climbing robots, that, if they don't have a tail, they fall off the wall.

He who digs a pit may fall into it and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

He who digs a pit may fall into it and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and more than a decade after the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), shockingly little is being done to stop these abuses, and the prospects of the victims ever getting justice, let alone bringing the perpetrators to account, seem ever more remote.

Eurozone leaders demanded that Greek public assets be transferred to a Treuhand like fund a fire sale vehicle similar to the one used after the fall of the Berlin Wall to privatize quickly, at great financial loss, and with devastating effects on employment all of the vanishing East German state s public property.

Meanwhile, as the crisis has deepened, a new consensus about Europe s monetary union has emerged. The euro, according to this view, was devised in a fit of giddy and irresponsible optimism or, alternatively, panic at the prospect of German hegemony over Europe in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I was the first Western foreign minister to travel to Libya since the crisis began. What I saw reminded me of my country 20 years ago, just after Poland s first free elections, which, together with the fall of the Berlin Wall barely six months later, came to symbolize the Cold War s end.

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