Slavery

Saw an interesting book review today
in the Sueddeusche Zeitung:
>Noch immer geleugnet, by Egon Flaig

scary stuff, slavery appears alive and well.
I have heard about this before, parts of the african
population (but not only them) are still targets,
and some of the cultures who have been importing
slaves for more than 1000 years, are apparently still
doing it. I wonder where one gets better information
about this kind of thing...

the United Nations are aware of this sort of stuff,
for example in a report of the Office of the High Comissioner on Human Rights.
But these organizations have to arrive at some bureaucratic consenus for public consumption, so as not to insult member states too much. Some aspects of the problem could well be worse. Some examples have been written about in respected journals, and I'm sure there is a lot more. It doesn't seem to get much press in the dailies.

first post

Still working on my vacation plans, its hard to get flights.
And the airlines complain about lack of business, this doesnt
seem very consistent.

Ausserdem noch: bei der Euro dieser ganze Streit ueber
Deutschland - Holland. Wochenlang, mindestens. Vor dem
Spiel: ist Weltkrieg Revanche, oder sogar Rache. Man hat
so richtig Angst.

Und dann ? 1-1.

Entscheidung wird vertagt ? Oder war es doch nur ein Fussballspiel.

Na ja.