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This is a cross post from Edmund Standing’s blog
A notorious video clip featuring Nick Griffin speaking at a meeting of American ‘white nationalists’ in 2000 was discussed on Question Time. Here it is:

Griffin claimed that in this speech he was trying to win over ‘youngsters’ that former KKK leader David Duke (with whom he shared [...]

Last night, Nick Griffin claimed:
Finally my father was in the RAF during the second World War while Mr Straw’s father was in prison for refusing to fight Adolf Hitler.
Unity from the Ministry of Truth/Liberal Conspiracy takes up the story:
However, yesterday’s Suffolk Evening Star carried an interview with Griffin’s father in which its stated that:
Mr Griffin, [...]

In a time-wasting and space-wasting article in The Washington Post (and I mean that in the best sense), Monica Hesse writes about how some people are using the blogosphere to hone their senses of humor.
“Humor is the pre-identified currency online,” says David Karp, founder of the microblogging site Tumblr.com, or, as Wired’s Scott Brown calls [...]

This is a cross post from Edmund Standing’s blog
Who has in the past described himself as a ‘Strasserite’? – Nick Griffin, BNP leader.
What did Strasser have to say?
We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation [...]

Although I’ve appreciated some of his work, filmmaker Michael Moore has a history of, um, making selective use of facts. So I’m not sure how credible is his rather amusing account (on the Jimmy Kimmel TV show) of meeting Hugo Chavez during the Venice Film Festival.

Among other things, Moore claims that Chavez asked him what [...]

This is a cross post from the CST Blog
Last night on Question Time, Nick Griffin came up with one of the most transparent evasions imaginable when asked whether he denied the Holocaust, replying: “I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial.”
Like much of what Griffin said during the programme, this is not exactly the truth.
Griffin [...]

The Taliban’s play for Pakistan continues…
According to The Associated Press:
A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan on Friday, while an explosion killed 17 on a bus heading to wedding elsewhere in the region, the latest in a surge of militant attacks this month. Also, a car bomb [...]

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