Russian Bear Awoken Last month, Russia signed a deal establishing a military base in the breakaway state of Abkhazia, reinforcing Russia’s image as a threat to stability in the region. The deal allows for the building of a military base that would house 3,000 Russian troops for 49 years. Plans to build a naval base in Abkhazia’s port of Ochamchire also indicate Russia’s commitment to future presence... 

The far right may pose a serious challenge in June parliamentary polls Preliminary results in Dutch local polls suggest an anti-Islam party has made major gains and may pose a serious challenge in June parliamentary polls. The Freedom Party (or PVV), led by Geert Wilders, is opposed to what it calls the country’s “Islamisation”. General elections have been called following the collapse... 

Scientists at the heart of the Climategate row were yesterday accused by a leading academic body of undermining science’s credibility. The Institute of Physics said ‘worrying implications’ had been raised after it was revealed the University of East Anglia had manipulated data on global warming. The rebuke – the strongest yet from the scientific community – came as Professor... 

The New Conservative Party’s claims to be committed to preserving Britain identity is in tatters after it nominated a Ugandan as one of its council candidates in Barking and Dagenham. Richard Ssemitego will fight the Eastbury council seat in Barking and Dagenham on behalf of New Conservatives. The announcement was made, appropriately enough, at a Bangladeshi Women Association Community Hall in Barking... 

David Cameron has vowed to boost the number of ethnic MPs if he wins the election David Cameron hopes to more than treble the number of female Tory MPs and boast up to 15 ethnic minority members if he wins the general election. Inisiders say his candidate selection policy will have the ‘Obama effect’ and change the face of the white, male-dominated party. Currently the Tories have 18 women... 

Labour 'wanted social change', according to the new document Labour encouraged mass immigration even though it knew that voters opposed it, Whitehall documents confirmed yesterday. The Government said the public disagreed with immigration because of ‘racism’ and ministers were told to try to alter public attitudes. The thinking on immigration among Labour leaders was set down in... 

Psychologist Gartner fulfils the very criteria he levels at “conspiracy theorists” to claim their concerns are a product of mental instability In an article entitled Dark Minds: When does incredulity become paranoia, Psychology Today writer John Gartner attempts to make the case that the concerns of “conspiracy theorists” are not based in reality but are a product of mental instability, while... 

White-owned companies in Zimbabwe will be forced to hand control to black businessmen under laws reminiscent of those that led to the seizure of the nation’s farms. The regulations demand that companies, including foreign firms, hand over at least 51 per cent of ownership to “indigenous” Zimbabweans. Thousands of businesses, including the operations of Barclays bank, Standard Chartered... 

Nearly half of western Europeans believe jews exploit their ‘past persecution’ in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says. The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel’s Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that “jews exploit the past to extort money,” Haaretz... 

Ernst Zundel with Ingrid Rimland at an IHR conference, May 2000 A message from From Ingrid Rimland Zundel (Ernst Zundel’s wife) Seven Years Behind Bars: Anniversary of Ernst Zundel’s Arrest To all – Allegedly, in just a few weeks, on March 1, 2010, Europe’s best-known political prisoner and my husband, Ernst Zundel, is scheduled to be released from prison. In an emotional telephone... 

Florida voters don’t want immigration laws waived to make it easier for Haitians to stay in the United States or immigrate into the country, a new poll shows. Fifty-one percent of 1,618 registered Florida voters surveyed by Quinnipiac (Conn.) University said they wanted immigration laws enforced compared to 43 percent opposed to them being waived in the wake of the deadly Haitian earthquake... 

Dr. Henry T. Sampson and Dr. George H. Miley (both pictured at right), are two engineering professor teaching in Illinois. Though it looks like Sampson has since retired from teaching and now writes books on the history of blacks in theater and movies. In 1971 they jointly obtained a patent for their own version of a “Gamma Electric Cell” they designed to convert gamma rays into electrical output. Sampson... 

Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, one of Poland’s most prominent religious figures, is reported to have told an Italian Catholic news web site that the Holocaust was a “Jewish invention”. The bishop says his remarks were “taken out of context” however. “The Holocaust, as such, is a Jewish invention [invenzione ebraica]. We could just as well establish a day of... 

Decades of Conservative and Labour immigration policies have turned Britain into the world’s collective rubbish bin as new figures reveal that there are criminals from 160 different countries in UK jails. The total number of foreign inmates, all arrested in Britain after emigrating here and then committing serious crimes, is at least one out of every five prisoners, according to other figures released... 

Rajendra Pachauri The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers. Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. But he admitted that there...