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KulakRevolt  1yr ago (anarchonomicon.com)   Edited 1yr ago   4560 thread views

The Anarchonomicon REAL Banned Book List

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Regime-banned books are in school libraries and on indigo bookshelves at eye level for children.

REAL banned books are often decades out of print, going for hundreds of dollars used on eBay, they've been disappeared by publishers and distributors in spite of interest and demand. Others have authors who've died or been imprisoned for their ideas, yet more have been removed from city or university-wide library systems so that their "Misinformation" and "Lies" do not poison impressionable scholars.

Yet more are suppressed algorithmically, not appearing on the author's wikipedia page and not appearing in Google search if you type the author and "book" or "memoirs"... but only appearing when you already know the full title of the work (try this yourself: Type in "Pinochet Memoirs", and then type in "Pinochet: A journey through a life")

Yet others are explicitly banned, some to the point where a mere PDF on your hard drive can result in a decade-long sentence... IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, NEW ZEALAND, and AUSTRIA.

This has been a massive project. over 200 titles on the full list and 10,000 words in my "Cursory" survey.

Let me take you on a journey into the heart of the forbidden

UPDATE: Also Checkout My Addendum to The Real Banned Book list on Holocaust Revisionist Liturature

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I'd be interested to see also a list of effectively banned videos related to these books. Extremist groups often create video's arguing their worldview and these video's often veered into the mixing together seemingly unrelated ideologies. It's a combination of fascinating and hilarious. Imagine, for example, seeing a video on Northern Irish Loyalist extremism and then suddenly the video starts explaining the necessity of a Land Value Tax. Incredible.

Or if in the midst of a Kahanist speech there was some side ramble against the Israeli government because of the importance of environmental regulations on water usage for sustained economic use.

If anyone else remembers, there was a time in early ISIS when they spooked the world by virtue of having a good media game instead of Al Qaeda style grainy shaky cam in the mountains. They produced a video explaining how after ISIS will fix the economy by brining back the Gold (Dinar) Standard in resistance the Federal Reserve. It is inadvertently hilarious/voyeuristically fascinating as they go back and forth between ancient history lessons, quotes from the Quran about weights & measures, and Free State Project tier screeds against the Federal Reserve. All in English.

You can still find it on Internet Archive (views: 150) but it's otherwise effectively scrubbed from the internet.

I can't help but find such absurdities to be interesting to collect.

There is a BBC-Produced documentary called "How to Start a Sex Cult" which I find intriguing as it was not actually ever released by BBC, considered "Too Extreme." Mostly it gets taken down from Youtube for similar reasons. The guy in it was arrested in Darlington for Sex Abuse. The whole episode is fascinating, bordering on Errol Morris docu reality. I reached out to the documentarian who filmed it once, even hired a PI in England to find the subject (and learned that PIs are often scam-artists). The documentarian also made some lovely photographs of the subjects of the docu.

I wonder just how many other crazy films there are out there which no one will ever get to watch. There's a movie called "The Punk Syndrome" about a Punk Rock band of guys with Autism in Sweden. Not banned, totally PC, but hard to find because no one funds it anymore? I saw it at a film fest in Taiwan, where it got a standing ovation (because no one knows Punk Rock like a bunch of documentary film fest attendees at a University in Taichung, right?).

Such beautiful and true pieces of art, just slipping into memory holes (albeit for different reasons). Makes me sad.

For that matter, Natgeo no longer puts "To Hell and Back" on their own website, you have to go to Author's Website to get it. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0603/features/peru.html. It was the most linked article they had at one time, and then it was ungooglable for awhile. Kira Selak reposted it in her self site and you would find it with a google search again. So easy for even mainstream things to disappear nowadays.

There's a movie called "The Punk Syndrome" about a Punk Rock band of guys with Autism in Sweden. Not banned, totally PC, but hard to find because no one funds it anymore? I saw it at a film fest in Taiwan, where it got a standing ovation (because no one knows Punk Rock like a bunch of documentary film fest attendees at a University in Taichung, right?).

A demonstration of the power of the internet for information retrieval and social aggregation: The production company has put the documentary film on Vimeo (and true punks they are, charge 4.70€ for rental streaming. Trailer is free.) Brought to you by information superhighway.

You just made me happier than you might realize. May your day have some sort of Magikal Punk Rock blessing of happiness and prosperity upon it.

I know @KulakRevolt gives a headnod to Holocaust Revisionist literature in his article without specifically including it. But given that Holocaust Denial was basically the first class of political content to be banned from YouTube, and the first class of book political content to be banned from Amazon books, I would be remiss if I did not specifically mention banned Revisionist materials that are responsive to your interest.

This is especially the case because the long-time publisher of the Revisionist written literature recently declared it was suspending operations and restructuring the business. This is on the heels of some extraordinary suppression efforts of Revisionist written material, including growing censorship laws in the Western world and very recent UN Declarations demanding member states actively combat this material.

So, one example of a banned video related to a banned book is a video on the Majdanek Gas Chamber Myth released by the same publisher of a banned book on the same study. Any reasonable person who is willing to spend a few hours can see that this is a clear case where the banned book provides a more truthful interpretation of history than what passed as official history of an alleged gas chamber extermination camp. This is only one such case of dozens of volumes from the same publisher, which are all more banned in the real sense of the word than anything else Kulak has on that list.

THe Full list is the Image file.

And it includes EXTENSIVE Holocaust revisionist literature

My family was employed by the son of a Holocaust victim. Multiple friends of mine have their entire extended family tree snuffed out and all that remains is a small nucleus that moved to America during the golden age of European migration.

So no. While I don't agree with government suppression of such materials I assure you you will find no fertile grounds for conversion here.

It was a war in which 70 million people died, mostly civilians. That fact doesn't really help us answer the question of whether this bathing and disinfestation facility in Majdanek really was used to gas Jews, or if Revisionists are correct that it was used to disinfest prisoners and delouse clothing. Revisionists are obviously correct given the incredible amount of physical and documentary evidence they have procurred in their study.

I've read stories about entire family trees snuffed out in Gaza. If I accused Israel of gassing Gazans inside gas chambers disguised as shower rooms, you refuted that claim, and then I replied "I know people who have had family die in Gaza" what would you think of me? Probably that I have an irrational attachment to an implausible narrative.

I know @KulakRevolt gives a headnod to Holocaust Revisionist literature in his article without specifically including it.

What? He included an entire section about it.

Yes, he discussed the literature and linked to a 1981 bibliography. There is a very large volume of newer published works which precipitated the large-scale Amazon book bans of hundreds of volumes. He explained why he did not include them, it's too large a category and much of it is too technical for a casual audience. I am suggesting a banned Revisionist technical study on Majdanek, which has an accompanying Banned video.

It's a great list, I'm certainly not complaining he didn't just list a bunch of Revisionist books, I just think it's an interesting addendum given this recent work directly caused widespread censorship reforms on Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, etc.

The full list is the image file I link to whenever I reference "THE FULL LIST"

And it Includes maybe 30+ Pieces of revisionist literature

The 10,000 word Article you just read is the Cursory survey of the list, when I go through 10% of the list just to talk about the different type of banned books

If I covered all 200+ banned books in the article format, It'd be a book in itself

I'll take a closer look at the full list. Great piece by the way, I'm sure I'll be coming back to it more than once.

I found the tone of the "banned video" very off-putting. From the parody "20th Century HOAX" intro to the incessant claim that Zyklon B was exclusively used as a "LIFESAVING measure to keep the prisoners HEALTHY and FREE of typhus." My guess is that the intended audience is not a reasonable person seeking the truth, but those who already deny the holocaust and are searching for arguments.

In a narrow sense, the death-toll of 78,000 is more truthful than the 1946 Soviet estimate of 1.5 million, but the overall message of the video is extremely dishonest.

Because Zyklon B was a life-saving measure. Even the non-Revisionist Jean-Claude Pressac estimated that 97% of all Zyklon B at Auschwitz was used for delousing clothing to prevent the spread of epidemic typhus. Of course Revisionists contest the idea that 3% of that supply was used to murder millions of people inside gas chambers disguised as shower rooms, but the point is that even non-revisionists accept that the vast majority of the use of Zyklon B was for the purpose of disinfestation to prevent the spread of epidemic typhus. Zyklon B was used across the entire Reich at nearly all concentration camps, not just the 4 "extermination camps."

The Soviets investigators, Nuremberg reports submitted as evidence in trials, and Majdanek museum all identified the Bath and Disinfestation building as the center of gas chamber extermination, but after the Revisionist technical study they admit that the rooms in question were used to delouse clothing with Zyklon B, not gas prisoners, indeed as a lifesaving measure.

You do realize that when a house gets fumigated the inhabitants have to leave don't you?

Yes the question is whether they did that or not, or whether the facilities could support a mass execution via gassing campaign.

Every prison and concentration camp the US ever ran did some form of delousing. The import of a delousing agent doesn't prove anything on its own aside from the fact that they deloused their prisoners

Not taking aside on the Revisionist claim, aside to state I think it's inherently plausible...

40 million people died in the east, and 8 million Germans died in the war, many of starvation... Mass Deaths of Jews are an overdetermined event, we'd expect them to die in vast numbers as prisoners in a regime that can't keep it's elite and upper-middle class alive.

Proving the holocaust is actually a difficult proposition. You're going into a ship that lost life support and where everyone turned on each other and trying to argue that "No No No... Aside from the catastrophic unsurvivable war in which millions died and the ship itself losing the ability to feed or sustain life... the people in charge of the ship also ran a methodical machinelike campaign of organized perfectly run extermination BEFORE they lost power and everything went to hell and millions died anyway"

That's inherently hard to prove... It's like proving a mass shooting happened on 9/11 on floor 50 of Tower Two between the time when the first plane hit and the time the tower fell... no one was paying attention, and it'd be a heroic effort to disentangle the bodies.

And yet you don't delouse clothes while people are wearing them. Even if we accept the apologetics of guys like you and SS at face value it only begs the question of; if this wasn't a progrom why did the camps exist in the first place?

Why did the Camps for the boer in south africa exist, the ones for Japanese Americans exist, or the Ones for Ukrainian americans exist?

Why did the gulags exist?

This was the great era of slave labour camps from the US to Canada to the UK to the Soviet union.

Litterally everyone had camps. The difference is the Nazis lost, lost the ability to feed their own poeple, let alone prisoners, and suffered 8 million germans dead, in addition to another 2 million ethnically cleansed from the east.

It's not clear the Japanese Americans or Ukrainian Canadians would have fared better if they lost and were invaded. Thus why it is so difficult to prove that in addition to everything that was going on that we'd expect to kill the Jews in the camps from lack of life support, there was ALSO a deliberate plan of mass extermination.

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You do realize that when a house gets fumigated the inhabitants have to leave don't you?

I remember hanging out in a fraternity basement with a bunch of fellow engineering interns. Several were gathered surreptitiously round one guy with his laptop. They were excitedly discussing the latest newsletter from ISIS.

It was incredibly professional. Clean graphic design, good typesetting, tasteful imagery. This wasn’t shock content, but the more refined propaganda of a well-funded movement. No sketchy scans and OCR here. The articles were multi-page tracts on Islamic principles, two columns, twelve point font. Each ended, naturally, with the conclusion that this particular group would be the one to bring down the West.

Fascinating indeed.

When ISIS first started doing propaganda video's I recall a real sense of "wait these people are actually serious. they are actually trying" as opposed to a sense of pathetic LARPer's who'd have Dog Catching the Car syndrome if they ever actually took power.

Similarly I recall reading of Al Qaeda lifers basically complaining that the only people they can recruit are violent young men and the mentally ill and so they were desperate for more bureaucrats/judges to oversee the territory they've briefly overrun.

Credit where credit is due, the IRGC and ISIL's production values were always top shelf.

Out of idle curiosity, were they Muslim interns?

Nope. Well, I guess I can’t prove it, but they were white, college-age, rocket scientists in training, which is really stacking the odds against religiosity.

Being white makes it unlikely they were muslims but there's a lot of religious people becoming engineers.

I’ve gotten several similar responses. Do you have any stats on it? I get the impression it’s a Chinese cardiologist situation, one where the prevalence doesn’t necessarily match.

Maybe it's just local selection pressures but anecdotally aerospace and defense seem to be where most of the more religiously inclined "techy" types end up.

Hmm.. Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis are all fans of amateur rocketry and even space flight, so it's not as big a knock against that thesis as it sounds!

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