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Index-

What's new? Recent additions to this website

Usenet foolishness: kooks and trolls-
Russian and Soviet links-


including the Cyber-USSR
Anti-Prohibitionism
Drug Prohibition-
Gun Prohibition-

Some other political causes (not available yet)
Reason, Skepticism, and Freethought
Witchhunts (daycare and other)-
Some links to skeptical and freethought sites-
Misc.foreign topics

East Asia (China, Korea, and Cambodia)-
Documents of the Far Left and Far Right-
Misc. Reference materials [accent marks; coins]-
Arts and literature (eg national anthems)-

Kooks, mostly non-political--

Donna Kossy's Kooks Museum
Bill Palmer

Trolls--

(A "troll" is someone who helps a kook to "be all he can be," as the US Army recruiting slogan puts it.)
Raoul Xemblinosky's homepage
For Raoul, however, the politically correct term is "Usenet performance artist."

Some references
Cyrillic alphabet converter

Il'ya Repin's painting: Cossacks writing a letter to the Sultan
A delightful classic
Site includes the bawdy text of the letter

Boyan Collections (indexed) of Russians' poetic speech

Soviet stuff:

Charter and index for the Cyber-USSR-- Stalin-era kitsch
(Do you suspect that Usenet denizens are kooks? The Great Leader and Teacher showed us the way!)
What's new? (Recent additions to the Cyber-USSR)
N.I. Yezhov's homepage, including short biography [revised 980724]
N.I. Yezhov was police chief at the height of Stalin's Great Purge (1936-38).

Criminal Code of the RSFSR, 1934

Section 58 ("Counterrevolutionary Crimes"), in English and Russian

N.I. Yezhov's professional achievements,
including the full text of a 1936 Moscow show trial
"Kirov," a screenplay by Oliver Stonesky

The Great Leader and Teacher I.V. Stalin (5 minutes of stormy applause)

Pavlik Morozov [revised 20060711]
This delightful cherub denounced his father to the secret police, and was adopted as a patron saint by the Young Pioneers.

Info on songs and slogans:


Internationale
"Communist Manifesto": "Workers of all nations, unite!"
A glossary of ideologically-correct insults [990402]

Anti-Prohibitionism

Drug Prohibition

Drug Prohibition is the single most-easily-removed cause of crime, and of the poverty, unemployment, despair, and -- yes -- drug abuse that crime causes.

Druglibrary -- The most extensive on-line, drug policy library in the world. Hosted by the Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNet).


As just one example of the kind of info available here, they tabulate US government data showing a 40% drop in the US homicide rate after the repeal of Alcohol Prohibition (1933).

Stanton Peele's website on addiction and recovery. Dr. Peele is an outspoken critic of the "disease" model of alcohol abuse and other drug abuse. He believes, and cites research to back it up, that patients are most likely to be helped by therapy that encourages them to build on their strengths and take direct responsibility for themselves.

Drug Policy Foundation, leading anti-Prohibitionists

In his book For Your Own Good, libertarian Jacob Sullum takes a skeptical look at "second-hand smoke."

Misc. humor

Tobacco -- an appraisal by the original "health Nazi"
Alcohol -- Proof that Our Lord did not condone drinking at Cana! (John 2:1-10)
"DARE" poster

Some Usenet threads (not available yet)

Gun Prohibition

Are you familiar with the HCI factoid, that if you keep a gun in your home, it is 43 times more likely to harm an innocent family member than to protect you from crime? (Not true, unless you shack up with a habitual violent criminal) This, and other prohibitionist myths, are carefully debunked at the "Official pro-gun FAQ." [990620]

overlawyered.com
Walter Olson's website, satirizing abusive lawsuits.

consumerfreedom.com
"Consumer Freedom Network" (formerly "Guest Choice Network"): originally founded by restaurant and tavern owners who want to leave health choices to informed consumers, rather than political zealots and cranks.

Editor's note: despite the tone of the previous sentence, I approve of efforts by schools to curb junk-food sales in cafeterias.

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
http://www.thefire.org/

"Open Law"s challenge to Congress's perpetual extension of copyright at the behest of wealthy media conglomerates.
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvreno/
The US Constitution allows copyright only for a "limited" term (Article 1, Section 8, clause 8). The Court's failure, thus far, to enforce this limit encourages suppression of free speech, as in the "Wind Done Gone" case.

http://www.publicresource.org/
Carl Malamud's "Public Resource" makes US public documents (eg. court decisions, patent filings, and building codes) freely accessible to the taxpayers who paid for them and the people required to know and obey them.

http://freerangekids.wordpress.com/
(The name is a parody off "free-range" livestock.)
Questions the panic and litigation-fear that keeps kids from normal, growing activities like walking to school, Halloween trick-or-treating, and school recess.

Witchhunts (day care and other)

Articles on the Fells Acres Day-care ritual-abuse case

Judge Borenstein overturns a Fells Acres verdict [added 980612]

http://www.ncrj.org/
National Committee for Reason and Justice, Inc. (NCRJ)
educates public and publicizes defense funds for innocent people sent to jail by hysteria and/or junk science.

innocenceproject.org
The Innocence Project promotes (1) the use of DNA evidence to clear the falsely convicted and (2) examination of the causes of proven false convictions, eg. false confessions and mistaken eyewitness identifications.

quackwatch.org
debunks bogus medical claims.

Some links: Freethought and Skepticism [added ca 990301]

Caution: I am an anti-Communist and Cold Warrior. Articles relevant to the Cold War are followed by the marker [CW].

Robert W. Poole Jr. on Barry Goldwater's foreign policy wisdom [CW]

East Asia--

China benefits from Taiwan independence.
Korea
Critique of anti-Americanism in Bruce Cumings, "Korea's Place in the Sun") [CW]
Mass murder of US POWs in the Korean War [CW]

More on PoWs: US (and French) maltreatment of German PoWs, 1945-48

Cambodia
Bruce Sharp's index of Cambodia articles
I summarize Ben Kiernan's estimate of the Khmer Rouge death toll [CW]
Noam Chomsky's support for the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1978
My Usenet debate, Sep 1996 [CW]
James Donald's more thorough look at same subject:
"Distortions at Fourth Hand" [CW]

Bruce Sharp's Usenet debate (1995)[CW]

Chile: What led up to Pinochet's 1973 coup? [CW]

Comments on the Massacre of 11 Sep 2001

Heroic Flight UA93 Passengers deserve the Medal of Honor!

Arabs v. Israel.

I share the "two-state solution" consensus that Israeli settlements beyond the 1967 border are an obstacle to peace, I also, however, share Israeli exasperation with (a) Palestinian spokesman who are presented as reasonable to Western audiences, but spout the most extreme rejectionism to their own audiences, and (b) left-leaning European NGOs who would deny Israel (or any civilized society) the right of self-defense against terrorism.

http://www.memri.org/
The Middle East Media Research Institute
offers translations of what Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim political figures are really saying about the West and Israel.
http://www.ngo-monitor.org/
NGO Monitor
Supposed "human rights" organizations that apparently consider the very existence of Israel to be a "human rights violation."

Documents of the Far Right and Far Left

Far Right

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
An archive of German Nazi propaganda (1933-1945)
"Did Six Million Really Die" (Holocaust Revisionism)
"The Turner Diaries"
South Carolina's declaration of secession (24 Dec 1860) proudly defends slavery.

Far Left
Favorable views of Stalin

ne.politics, ne.general (New England)
soc.culture.russian (1995-1998, intermittently since then)
alt.politics.libertarian


Until Jun 2007, a deja/google search could find most of my Usenet postings under author
"Hugo S. Cunningham". For reasons unclear, that no longer works. They can still be found under my original "author" E-mail addresses (real or artificial), but those have changed over the years.

Since 2004, try
checkwebsite@cyberussr.com (or a search for "cyberussr" will pick them up)
Some older ones include
hcunn@tiac.net (1998 and before)
hcunn@removethis.tiac.net (1998-2001)
hcunn1221 att yahoo dot reverse-moc (2001-2004) (spam-resistant format)
hcunn@removethis.surfbest.net (2001-2004, rare)
hcunn1221@removethis.yahoo dot reverse-moc (2001-2004) (spam-resistant format)

gold standards, bullion coins, and exchange rates, 1815-1914 [added 980321]

ISO Latin-1 "accented" characters in HTML

Some colors supported by HTML 3.2

Robert Beard of Bucknell University started a portal to on-line dictionaries in many foreign languages

 

Music (mostly political and historical) [added 980508]
National Anthems of the world
Collections by Xing Hang and, later, Shirish Kalele, have dropped off-line. On 7 Apr 2001, I found MIDI files with at least some lyrics at URL:
http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/International.shtml
. If this one should drop off line, try a search against
"national anthems" world

A couple of Soviet songs

"Desiderata" licensing information [added 980306]

Some curious quotations (a work in progress) [990405]

Bad poetry

A delightful overview was provided by Nicholas T. Parsons, "The Joy of Bad Verse," Collins (8 Grafton St., London W1 [UK]), 1988. I don't know if it is still in print.

Several sites honor William McGonagall of Dundee, allegedly the worst poet in the English language. You can check them out and see for yourself, eg:
http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/

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