"German Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Auschwitz for the first time. She says she feels deep shame for the barbaric crimes that were commited here by Germans." Apologies for sending one more post. When migrating in Australia, I could not imagine the state of the Anglo-Saxon world of today. Maybe, we will later talk about 9/11 as the Anglo-Saxon Reichstagsbrand, comparable to the burning of the German parliament in 1933. Since 9/11 US, UK and AU have been on war, directly in the Middle East, but also at home, where the 'war on terror" lead to more and more xenophobic tendencies fueling a dismantling of democracy, all under the pretense of "national security". This country and its leaders feel completely lunatic, irrational and inhumane. Regards Peter