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How to Sabotage a Newsgroup

Observations on verbal violence and the Usenet newsgroup alt.revisionism, with hints for potential participants Violence in speech does lead to violent action, as witnessed by the recent death of Yitzhak Rabin and its lengthy, ugly prelude of verbal excoriation of the basest sort. Yet many are those who rabidly maintain that the moral content of…

Hit the Road Before It Hits You

“Think of the internet as a highway.” — There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the “Information Superhighway.” They don't know didley about the Net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor. Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the Net… A highway hundreds of…

Auschwitz Commandant Confesses to OJ Simpson Murders & Elie Orders a Whopper

OJ Simpson Pronounces Himself “Vindicated” But Still Cannot Spell It June 9, 1998 (from wire services) In a startling new development, the former commandant of Auschwitz has confessed to the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in June, 1994, in a signed confession found on the grounds of the Happy Hunting Golf Park…

George Orwell

Background George Orwell was the pen name of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in…

An exchange between Dr. Fredrick Toben and Jamie McCarthy

An open letter to the Director of the Adelaide Institute, Dr. Frederick Toben by Jamie McCarthy, Nizkor Hello, Dr. Toben. I have just stopped by your home page: http://www.adam.com.au/~fredadin/adins.html [now at www.adelaideinstitute.com] …and I would like to make two initial comments on behalf of the Nizkor Project. Our home page, by the way, is: http://www.almanac.bc.ca/…

Mirror, mirror . . . sowing the seeds of vengeance

Immediately after the Second World War, the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung wrote [Essays on Contemporary Events, London: 1947, pp. 51f.]: “One should not for a moment imagine that anybody could possibly have escaped this play of opposites. Even a saint would have to pray unceasingly for the souls of Hitler and Himmler, the Gestapo…

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