British historian David Irving has pleaded guilty in a court in Vienna to charges of denying the Holocaust.
The charges relate to a speech and an interview he gave in Austria in 1989 in which he denied the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Mr Irving, 68, faces up to 10 years in jail [...]
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David Irving Holocaust trial under way
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David Irving to Plead Guilty
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[Why have they made it illegal to deny holocaust in Austria? Why not prove he (Irving) is a liar and a cheat by having a TV debate on his versions of History and let them (prosecution) prove his is wrong. As it stands is David voices his opinion he will be jailed.-ed]
David Irving, [...]
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UK Entry to the Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Competition
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The first entry to the Iranian “holocaust cartoon” competition to come from Europe has been submitted.
Drawn by well-known professional cartoonist Robert Edwards, who was once famously jailed in 1981 in his native Britain for producing comic cartoon strips which also called into question the holocaust and multi-racialism in general, the cartoon shows the Iranian [...]
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Church apologises for slave trade
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[May i suggest that you sell your land to finance some reparations if you feel like dragging up ancient history in such a manner (nothing to do with trying to get more Africans in church service)-ed]
The Church of England has voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade.
An amendment “recognising [...]
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Graf Spee Eagle Rises
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[What PR nonsense to cover up the Swastika from a ship after 60+ years. The Swastika is all over India-ed]
Divers have salvaged a 2m (6ft) bronze imperial eagle from the German World War II battleship Graf Spee that was scuttled in the River Plate.
Three divers had to loosen 145 bolts [...]
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Pigeon to be honoured as war hero
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A pigeon from the British Royal Air Force which delivered the first news of success for the allies on D-day is to be celebrated as the greatest pigeon to have served its country.
Gustav, as the pigeon is called, will be honoured in London’s Imperial War Museum during the celebration of the museum’s 60th anniversary.
Gustav’s ‘mission’ [...]
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The British amateur historian uncovers secret German WW2 bunker (24 acres)
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[I would like to point out that there is a multi media report from the actual site and it is well worth a view (click link below and select "watch report")-ed]
The British amateur historian says he literally stumbled across it - a huge German gun battery hidden on the Normandy coast.
Built in 1942 the [...]
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Jewish Leaders Urge Eating Pigs
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JERUSALEM—Ending a strict, six-millennia prohibition of the consumption of cloven-hoofed beasts, the World Rabbinical Council announced Tuesday that Jews worldwide may “dig in to the delicious taste of ham.”
“The Jewish people have always had the utmost reverence for the laws of God, as handed down from Abraham to his son Isaac, to his son Jacob. [...]
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Britain ran post-WW2 torture camp
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LONDON — Britain ran a post-Second World War interrogation camp in which prisoners were systematically beaten, tortured and starved to death, a newspaper reported today.
The report in the British newspaper the Guardian cited documents recently released under the Freedom of Information Act that described the suffering of some of 372 men and 44 women detained [...]
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Slavery Reparations
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Islam’s place in British history
The Islamic terror began in ‘the terrible summer of 1625’ when North African corsair slave raiders invaded and devastated the southern coasts of England, and for a short while even raised the green battle standard of Islam over English territory that had engraved upon it the terrible promise “The gates [...]
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Tool find puts man in N. Europe earlier
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Ancient tools found in Britain show that humans lived in northern Europe 200,000 years earlier than was previously known, at a time when England’s climate was warm enough to be the home of lions, elephants and saber-tooth tigers, scientists announced Wednesday.
The 32 black flint artifacts, found in river sediments in Pakefield in eastern England, date [...]
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Britain’s dirty little secret
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The British government operated a secret torture centre during the second world war to extract information and confessions from German prisoners, according to official papers which have been unearthed by the Guardian.
More than 3,000 prisoners passed through the centre, where many were systematically beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand still for more than 24 [...]
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Possible Birthplace of St. Patrick Found
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Saint a cultural icon to millions of Whites
For an archaeologist, it’s the find of a lifetime, and Steve Dickinson, a tutor at Lancaster University in Northern England, hopes his hunches will prove correct and that he has found nothing less than the birthplace of Saint Patrick.
According to a local report, ‘Mr Dickinson…said: “We decided to [...]
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The Great Siege of Malta
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On September 8, 1565, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one of the greatest Turkish sieges of a European nation was raised, when a coalition of White forces joined local heroes to defeat an Ottoman horde on the island of Malta. Four hundred and forty years later, the Maltese are facing [...]
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Nationalism, Racialism and Early British Socialism
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Modern socialists would be highly embarrassed to learn of the nationalist and racialist attitudes displayed by many early British socialists. Prominent among these was Robert Blatchford, editor of a newspaper entitled The Clarion, and author of Merrie England (1893) and Britain for the British (1902).
Bob Blatchford advocated a form of non-Marxian socialism which he [...]
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medieval English invented rap?
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“Ample proof that rap has been around for 500 years.” Sorry, blacks, you can’t even claim rap as your own!
John Skelton lived from the 1460s until 1529. He came after Geoffrey Chaucer and Sir Thomas Mallory. He preceded Spenser and Shakespeare. He was a young man when Mallory’s “Le Mort d’Arthur” was published, and [...]
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Shakespeare the Rebel
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A code-breaking book which aims to change the image of William Shakespeare and reveal him as a subversive who embedded dangerous political messages in his work is to be published in Britain.
Far from being an ambitious entertainer who played down his Catholic roots under a repressive Elizabethan regime, Shakespeare took deliberate risks each time he [...]
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Norman revival in Channel Islands
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Encouraging news about the continued rebirth of European folk-culture has come out of the tiny Channel Islands lying between France and England. For the first time in generations the use of the Norman language of the UK’s Channel Island of Jersey (the language is called Jèrriais) is increasing, mainly amongst youth. There are language programs [...]
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UK’s Oldest Town to become asylum seeker centre
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BRITAIN’S oldest recorded town is set to be one of the new centres for an influx of 800 asylum seekers.
Colchester is one of six locations that have chosen by the East of England Regional Assembly to become special dispersal areas for asylum seekers.
Ipswich, Norwich and Peterborough and Ipswich currently used as official centres, but now [...]
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Dresden Mon Amour
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“A signal is needed against the one-sided mourning in Germany,” declared Peter Lauer, a sixty-four-year-old schoolteacher taking part in a neo-Nazi counterdemonstration to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden, on February 13 of this year. “We must also mourn the German victims.” The emotionally charged anniversary was also marked by an official [...]
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