Newsbreaks für Wednesday

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A new hotel in Berlin aims to recreate the experience of living in Communist East Germany. “Of course all the rooms are bugged,” said the hotel’s owner, “but then again, you never have to call room service.
“You just shout your order into the chandelier.”

The rooms at The Ostel don’t have cable, but there is live surveillance. There’s even pay-per-view…Or, as we like to call it, “The Honeymoon Suite.”

The hotel’s restaurant is supposed to be pretty good. I say “supposed to be” because nobody’s been able to make it through the Wall.

The Ostel’s goal is to be a contrast to the “dog-eat-dog world" of today. That’s right, folks, there are only two choices: dog-eat-dog or everybody-eat-turnips.
In the future, people will look back on us and think, “What were they smoking? And how do we destroy it?”