Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

• First of all, a correction and clarification. In a previous ZGram on the Nuremberg executioner, Woods, I gave the date of the reference of the Stag article as December 1996. That was a typo, of course; it should have been December 1946.
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• Also, many of you have sent me an Associated Press article of someone else claiming to have been the executioner. Woods has been in every article and book that I have ever read. I leave it up to your imagination why this disinformation tale is now being concocted.
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• I need your help. A student website needs someone to help them get their David Irving tape to work in Real Audio. E-mail me and let me know if you can help, and I will help you get in touch.
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• Also, I need somebody to double-check a Swedish translation of about 6-7 pages against an original. The same for a Romanian translation.
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• Finally, someone has volunteered to do a systematic letters-to-the-editor writing campaign and other assorted outreach. I envision a small but highly literate, dedicated corps of writers to comment on and disseminate news in their own words as it comes in. This is a very serious volunteer job requiring sophistication, and I want real commitment to be on "stand-by as needed". Please - no loose cannons need apply.
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• Now to the political news:
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• We get a great many items pertaining to the Middle East conflict, most of which I could not begin to evaluate, since I know very little about what's really happening there. All I can say is that my heart aches for the Palestinians, and I want to do what I can. I must tell you, however, that a lot of these items come anonymous and without reference. I often get chided that I go ahead disseminating such information without first checking it out and making sure that I have all my data pat. I do not have a private news bureau. I do the best I can with what I have; I see no merit in saving up my indignation for a rainy day. Take the item below and ask yourself if this is something I should put on the back burner until I have tracked down the source:
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• "Zionist troops have prevented doctors and ambulances from entering the West Bank with medical supplies to relieve shortages in hospitals following the massacre last week.
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• Relief agencies, Doctors of the World, and Medecin du Monde-Suisse accused the Zionists of attacking medical personnel. They expressed shock that humanitarian workers might be targets of Israeli snipers. Among others, Dr. Mustafa Barghuthi, President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, was wounded by troops in Ramallah on Friday.
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• 100 Palestinian lawyers have called, meanwhile, for an international court to try Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, at a demonstration in Gaza."
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• From France comes word that there is "panic, disarray and squabbling" in the enemy camp. Referring to two specific Baynac articles from "le Nouveau Quotidien", one correspondent wrote:
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• ". . . (these articles are) very much an expression of failure, frustration, and funk. The term "malaise" is a recurring one. In a certain way, this article will prove as great (if not a greater) boon to our cause than an outrightly revisionist op-ed piece precisely BECAUSE it was authored by a true believer trying to make some sense of the "ravages" of Revisionism.
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• It's obvious he can't: he's last seen trying to balance a pyramid on its apex. One blurb reads [translated]: 'One must prove that the non-existence of the gas chambers is impossible.'
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• Wow. It's come to that . . . ! "
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• How is France going to deal with it? You guessed it. More and more "hate laws" - with ever stiffer penalties. According to an ANA release, the French cabinet backed a plan on October 16, 1996 that will
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• ". . . tighten anti-racism laws and increase penalties for racist statements. The bill was drafted by Justice Minister Jacques Toubon after National Front Leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said in August: "Yes, I believe in racial inequality, certainly, it's obvious."
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• Politicians and others said Le Pen should be prosecuted for that statement under an 1881 law, which was updated in 1972, against inciting racial hatred. Toubon said that the law should be tightened before it can be used against statements like Le Pen's.
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• Under the bill, a racial statement could be punishable by a fine of up to 300,000 francs ($60,000) and a year in prison. If the statement is judged to be an incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence the punishment would be 500,000 francs ($100,000) and two years in prison.
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• Toubon said "In these dangerous times, it is important that we put a stop to these racist actions."
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• In Austria, the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party, led by Jorg Haider, has won a third of the seats in the current election. The increasingly successful nationalist party, which fought on a platform of opposition to deeper European integration, won 28% of the vote - its best result so far - and only 2% down on the votes received by the main parties. The Social Democrats, who govern Austria at present in a coalition with the People's Party, scored their worst result since 1918.
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• The result underscores increasing alienation from establishment parties by electorates all over Europe, whose wishes have been trampled underfoot for decades.
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• Somebody here in the United States sent me an interesting link that I haven't had time to check out. It is http://thomas.loc.gov/home/hot-week.html where, apparently there is a reference to
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• ". . . expenses of the Holocaust Memorial Council, as authorized by Public Law 96-388 (36 U.S.C. 1401), as amended, $30,707,000, of which $1,575,000 for the Museum's repair and rehabilitation program and $1,264,000 for the Museum's exhibitions program shall remain available until expended . . ."
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• That is a lot of money. For someone who is finance-savvy, this seems to be an interesting trail to follow to see where it might lead.
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• Switzerland isn't too happy either with holohuckstering. The influential business paper "Finanz und Wirtschaft" raised the same point in its (week before last?) weekend edition:
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• "Certain circles are using the tragic fate of Holocaust victims to discredit the (still) extant advantage Switzerland as a financial centre and its banks have in global competition,'' it wrote, citing Swiss strength in private banking and asset management.
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• And, finally, a little private smile of satisfaction: The latest ZGram spam, done in my name but utterly without my knowledge and approval, has netted us quite a few readers. A great many victims of these spams came to check what we were really all about - and were astonished and pleasantly surprised to find not rednecks but civility. Here is a typical excerpt:

"Hi, I would not have found your excellent web site had it not been for brillo@virago-net.com's advocating spamming yours and other web sites, except for minority sites, that this person or thing deems offensive.

I am glad to see other points of view long withheld from the public by the occupied media."

Who's brillo@virago-net.com? I haven't the faintest idea.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade."

(Plutarch)

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