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Europe’s Slave Trade

At the culmination of a five-year criminal investigation, this special report from Journeyman Pictures exposes an old scourge that has once again reared its ugly head in Europe — the trafficking in human slaves. The report focuses on Romanian workers lured to the Czech Republic on promises of well-paying jobs. Instead, they have been conscripted as unpaid laborers on asparagus farms, beaten, their IDs confiscated to prevent their escape and forced to live in decrepit hovels. The traffickers have now been convicted, but the Dutch company that hired them has professed ignorance of their actions and so far gone without prosecution.

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World of Beers XXVII

On tap tonight: Skol, Romania.

It’s hard to make ground with your hot date when you’ve got a buttinski boss always horning in.

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How Dallas Won the Cold War

Reason.TV’s Nick Gillespie remembers the heyday of Dallas, the uber-popular TV show that once boasted ratings higher than late 1970s’ interest rates. While it was a huge cultural phenomenon in the United States, the show’s greatest impact might have occurred in Romania, where it helped to topple the brutal Ceausescu regime. Says Larry Hagman, who played the villainous J.R., “”I think we were directly or indirectly responsible for the fall of the [communism]. They would see the wealthy Ewings and say, ‘Hey, we don’t have all this stuff.'”

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