“Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and other countries have so far resisted giving restitution of heirless property, citing laws stating it belongs to the state. But Jewish delegates said the Holocaust was a unique occurrence beyond normal legal provisions.”
Haaretz: East European nations yesterday stated for the first time that heirless Jewish property should be used to aid [...]

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EJP: Lithuania is to delay payments froms a compensation fund for Jewish property seized by the Nazis during World War II and kept by the state in the Soviet era, a government spokesman said Monday.
“The government has decided that compensation payouts will begin in 2012, because of the economic crisis, and will continue for 10 [...]

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EUObserver: The Czech social democrat party is discussing the possibility of suspending president Vaclav Klaus’ powers if he does not sign the EU’s Lisbon treaty.
The temporary suspension would require a simple majority of 41 votes in the country’s 81-seat senate and would allow caretaker prime minister Jan Fischer to sign the document instead.
Social democrat senator [...]

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Haaretz: By honoring novelist and Nazi-sympathizer Knut Hamsun, Norway has damaged the international Holocaust education drive that it has recently been appointed to head, campaigners against anti-Semitism told Haaretz. Yet, the leader of Norway’s Jewish community disagrees.
In March, Norway assumed chairmanship of the 26-nation Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education in the midst [...]

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The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор translation: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932–1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death because of the Soviet policies that forced farmers into collective farms. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest national calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern [...]

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Telegraph: Phyllip Cadwallader, 43, had called in to light a candle in memory of his late mother before competing in a running race.
He was dressed in a shirt, trousers and pair of brogues, but aroused attention because of he has a shaven head, tattoos and was carrying a bag.
BBC Radio 4 was about to start [...]

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Mail Online: A Labour minister has sparked controversy by claiming that an alternative symbol is needed for the Red Cross because of the logo’s supposed links to the Crusades.
Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said that the historic emblem risked undermining the work of the humanitarian organisation.
His intervention came as MPs debated the adoption of the [...]

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London Evning Standart: The British National Party will be forced to admit black and Jewish members under the Government’s new Equalities Bill, ministers revealed today.
Commons leader Harriet Harman said the new legislation would make it illegal to have a “whites-only” political party in the UK.
Under the BNP’s constitution, membership is “strictly defined” as “indigenous Caucasian”.
Ms [...]

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David Duke com: We have recovered an actual audio recording of David Duke’s arrest and even more importantly the interview with a Czech newspaper that immediately preceded it. This incredible recording, which was done on Dr. Duke’s mp3 recorder, is the complete interview by a Czech lady journalist that was interrupted by his sudden arrest [...]

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