http://a2e.de/phm News from Hartmut Pilch en 2010-03-24 http://a2e.de/phm/10/03/mauro Leading Italian Linguist Tullio de Mauro finds in a recent book on "Culture of the Italians" that analphabetism is on the rise due to TV and Internet. The subject is not new but it was very prominent in Corriere della Sera these days. 2010-03-20 http://a2e.de/phm/10/03/sheehan A US general remarked that the Srebrenica massacre occurred under the eyes of Dutch peacekeepers because the Dutch army has, after 1989, lost its orientation toward combat and has instead become a self-referential community that is focussed on internal issues like social justice and non-discrimination. This led to a hearing. 2010-03-09 http://a2e.de/phm/10/03/chakumero The tax office had confiscated posessions of an indebted company and sold them off via Internet auction, among them the rights to an unusually broad trademark.