True origins of Goebbels’ “total war” slogan

Like all other biographies of Joseph Goebbels, Das Goebbels Experiment, seen the other night at the Filmoteca, dates the “Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?” (“Do you want total war?”) call to the February 1943 Sport Palace speech/Sportpalastrede. Here is the truth, as told me by a Dutch bass player: It is not generally known that…

True origins of Goebbels' "total war" slogan

Like all other biographies of Joseph Goebbels, Das Goebbels Experiment, seen the other night at the Filmoteca, dates the “Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?” (“Do you want total war?”) call to the February 1943 Sport Palace speech/Sportpalastrede. Here is the truth, as told me by a Dutch bass player: It is not generally known that…

Well I never

One for conspiracy theorists: the body of this story about hidden costs for net firms in China is itself hidden at this moment.

Rejection is hard

Neither has the Jyllands-Posten published any of the letters I have (not, actually) sent it. Christoffer Zieler is a loser and Ahmed Akkari is a moron. I could do with a coffee.

Roadside memorials

I think this is a shame. Even if you take away the memorials, the bits of plastic and glass and mangled tree left by the towtruck can still be seen, and having a thicket of crosses on sharp bends serves to warn drivers and cheer cyclists (except of course when they were done wrong).

Carrefour boycott

Here‘s the story about Carrefour dropping Danish products and here‘s a slightly bigger pic.

Cartoons and toons and stuff

Karim–who I believe to be an active believer, is such is possible, and who, for all I know, may want to cut my head off–has an eminently sensible response to the cartoons: Muhammed was used to get such situations with the kouraich and the whole unfaithful lobby who accused him with sorcery, and the ability…