March 1, 2005

Winnipegger pleads guilty for role in $250M pyramid scheme Winnipeg man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to taking part in a conspiracy to continue operating a pyramid scheme after it was ordered shut down by authorities. Jeremy Carter admitting to helping collect more than $250 million from almost 7,000 victims of the pyramid scheme, according to a release from the United States Attorney's office in California. Carter faces up to five years in jail.  [CBC | Manitoba News] 3:25:59 PM

I have felt for a long time that holocaust denial is now expressed by comparing the Israeli's, or American's as Nazi's. The whole Bush = Hitler thing is just another way of saying that the holocaust was not all that bad. Asaf Romirowsky writes about "Anti-Semitism Revisited" for FrontPageMagazine and talks about that, and more. This most recent anti-Semitic evolution is primarily driven by the Muslim worlds engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the Arab media. The comparison of Israeli actions with Nazi actions trivializes the significance of the Holocaust: if the Israelis are no better than the Nazis, then the Nazis' actions were no worse than the Israelis'. Such is the perception that the Arab world is trying to disseminate in the West. The Palestinian leadership uses these similarities to stimulate Arab and Western support and sympathy. Moreover, this emphasis on a similarity between Nazism and Zionism bolsters Palestinian claims of oppression by Israel. When you "trivializes the significance of the Holocaust", at some level you also deny that it happened on the scale that it did. 3:23:52 PM

CTV Zundel deported to Germany CBC Toronto - Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel has been deported to Germany, Canadian government sources confirmed Tuesday. Zundel, 64, was due in Germany later Tuesday, where he faced arrest and prosecution for spreading hate, unidentified sources told the Canadian Press. A Federal Court judge paved the way for the deportation last week when he found Zundel a threat to national security because of his connection with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. 2:55:32 PM