* Revisionist report an important Internet First: The Institute for Historical Review's 13th International Convention that took place at a secluded location in California was broadcast live across the globe!
A sour mainstream media took note. David Irving, as the surprise speaker of the get-together of leading Revisionists, received top billing articles and essays, several of which ended up on the wire.
Mark Weber, spokesperson for the Institute, stated that Irving had requested no publicity for his appearance at the conference to prevent what Weber called ". . . harassment and disruption by Jewish activists." Attendants of the conference, listening to more than a dozen speakers, proclaimed it a resounding success.
* As Switzerland is ". . . painfully re-examining its World War II record," it has "stirred 'unacceptable' anti-Semitic sentiments", according to Joseph Deiss, that country's foreign minister.
Several convictions for anti-Semitism have already resulted under the 1995 anti-racism law, which outlaws belittling of the Holocaust under the threadbare guise of being "racism".
* A German television station is working on a comedy about the Holocaust, titled "Goebbels and Geduldig" - Harry Geduldig, a Jew, infiltrates the Nazi party pretending to be Joseph Goebbels in order to save the woman he loves.
As can be expected of this type of filth, he ends up with Goebbels' wife, Magda. The film will air sometime in the fall of next year.
* The Canadian National Post of May 30, 2000 reported that polls in France, first published in Le Monde, showed that nearly 60% of French people believe there are too many immigrants and 64% say the police should have greater powers.
73% believe traditional values are not sufficiently defended in France, and 39% say European political integration is a threat to the nation's identity.
* Speaking of France: a French judge has ordered Yahoo, the California-based Internet portal, to pay damages on anti-Semitic charges.
According to Hatewatch, <http://hatewatch.org> the charge was that Yahoo had broken French law and committed "an offense to the collective memory'' of the country by conducting an online auction selling neo-Nazi objects in cyberspace.
Beneficiaries of this judgment are the Union of Jewish Students and an anti-racism group.
* A group of "forced labourers" for the wartime effort of the Third Reich living in Canada now seek payment for ". . . childhoods stolen by Nazis." Hundreds of calls have flooded the consular and legal section at the German Embassy in Ottawa.
* According to Wired Magazine, the Internet's search engines refuse to be politically correct, to the dismay of the Internet's censors. Specifically, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is furious at Yep.com whose search function works neutrally - regardless of the search term used.
Rabbi Cooper of the SWC ". . . is offended that Yep.com does not differentiate between racist content and, say, home repair. He says such an attitude makes hateful content more acceptable."
Yep.com's defense is that methodology rather than morality should be their concern. The company refuses to develop content guidelines, even though the censorious rabbi wanted it to remove offensive sites from its database.
* Widespread public outrage is reported from Russia that Beria, the monster of the Gulag camps and one of Stalin's most hated henchman, now seems to qualify for "posthumous rehabilitation".
A long-running campaign by Beria's relatives to clear his name of the crimes of which he was convicted after Stalin's death is reaching its climax with a verdict from the Supreme Court expected next week.
* An Austrian politician and member of the Far Right Freedom Party, John Gudenus, who once questioned the existence of Nazi gas chambers, described compensation payments to victims of Nazi-era slave labor as "protection money" (!)
Says he in an interview to Profil, an Austrian left-of-center magazine:
"The compensation is necessary in order not to disturb trade relations, especially with the United States. There is nothing else behind it. This compensation is nothing other than protection money that we have to pay. We are in a situation in which we have to knuckle under to the great powers, but Austrians today have nothing to do with the events of that time."
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