Andra_Jenny
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Rebuilding Post-Structuralism
The Bulgarian-born author credited with planting the seeds of political correctness on American college campuses now says her ideas have been co-opted by totalitarian radicals who are more interested in group identity than individual freedom, writes Alan Riding in The New York Times.
Julia Kristeva is the matriarch of the so-called "post-structuralist" movement, which holds that language can be relative and that its hidden meanings can be seen through the prism of history and people's own experiences. Following the theory's rise, some groups began to see signs of oppression in the very language they themselves used.
Kristeva now says she and her work have been misunderstood by groups that held her out as an icon of feminism and multiculturalism. She believes the group identity adopted by some feminist, gay and ethnic leaders is "totalitarian" and that freedom of the individual should take precedence over communitarianism; that political assertion of sexual, ethnic and religious identities eventually erodes democracy.
"What is important is not to affirm the power and identity of groups, but to increase the freedom of individuals," she tells Riding. "To assume a group identity is a dead end. And if some people have interpreted French thinking to mean they should, they are totally wrong."
'Rape' In All Its Manifestations
Syndicated columnist John Leo has come out with a new dictionary of politically correct terms for modern aficionados of the genre. Among the jewels:
compound: the home and property of someone reporters consider an extremist
cult: any small religion disapproved of by three or more journalists
not multicultural enough: white
underrepresented: we need quotas
should look like America: we need quotas
numerical goals and timetables: quotas
race-sensitive programs: quotas
fair group representation: quotas
employment equity: quotas
equitable distribution of available resources: quotas
sensitivity training: indoctrination
freshman orientation: indoctrination
homophobia: disagreement with the demands, tactics or manners of any gay activist
emotional violence: criticism
verbal abuse: any joke or remark you don't like
symbolic rape: criticism
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20010709.shtml
A_J asks:
Why was it that I was supposed to not refer to these guys as commie bastards?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/15/215825.shtml
Influence of Russia's Special Services Increases
Col. Stanislav Lunev
Monday, July 16, 2001
After having been called "trustworthy" by President Bush last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to pursue his vision of a Russia that is once again a great power – a vision he pursues at the expense of the basic freedoms and rights of the Russian people. During his drive to restore a totalitarian regime, former KGB official Putin has been employing the traditional methods of Russia's secret police in establishing control over Russia's population as well as over their contacts with other countries' citizens.
Russians are now living in a country where the president, the defense minister and other top officials are the proud products of the KGB and the FSB (the main KGB successor in the domestic spy business).
Under Putin, Russia's special services dramatically expanded their powers and have become increasingly influential. During the last two years their personnel numbers have increased and currently are, at a minimum, twice as large as the KGB.
These services include such major agencies as the Federal Security Service, or FSB (in charge of counterintelligence), the Federal Agency for the Protection of Government Communications (or FAPSI), the Federal Border Guards Service (or FPS), the Main Bodyguards Directorate (or GUO), the Presidential Security Service (or PSB), The Foreign Intelligence Service (or SVR), and some others. In total there are two dozen special services operating in Russia authorized to engage in domestic and foreign spying.
All these services together, however, are not capable of fighting against corruption and organized crime in Russia, where special services officials are cooperating with Mafia-type criminal syndicates, which have their own people in the leadership of law enforcement agencies as well as at the top level of the country's political and government establishment.
Russia's special services are very weak in fighting against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and military-related technologies, or against real espionage, and simply cannot protect the Russian people from any danger.
However, these services are very good in maintaining totalitarian control over the population of the country, where democracy does not exist and major freedoms and civil rights are totally ignored.
In recent months, Russian special services were given new authority and currently can open criminal cases against individuals solely on the basis of anonymous telephone calls and other unsubstantiated reports. From now on, everybody in Russia can report on his enemies, neighbors and anybody else, and by doing so can be sure that they will have a lot of trouble explaining to government officials.
At the same time, Russian special services were given new rights as a result of the spy-mania campaign, especially designed to give the Russian people the wrong idea that foreigners living in their country who do not cooperate with Russia's special services are, or could be, foreign spies. This is allegedly the case of foreigners who are contacting Russians for business or scientific and other purposes.
According to press reports, from now on, in an ominous revival of Soviet-era rule, about 1 million Russian scholars have been ordered to submit reports on their contacts with foreigners. In Soviet times, all travel by scholars and scientists was carefully controlled, and they were forced to make written reports about any contact with foreigners to their supervisors in the KGB.
The practice stopped after the USSR disintegrated in 1991, but is now being revived by a May 24 directive titled "The Academy of Sciences Action Plan to Prevent Damage to the Russian State in the Spheres of Economic and Scientific Cooperation."
The scholars and scientists of the Academy were ordered to submit regular reports on their foreign travel, conferences, and laboratory visits by foreigners, articles in foreign publications, international cooperation agreements and acceptance of foreign grants. They were also ordered to introduce strict security measures in their use of the Internet and other international computer networks.
To prove the government's propaganda that practically all foreigners who do not cooperate with Moscow are spies, Russia's special services continue fabricating false criminal cases against foreigners who are rash enough to go to Russia for business, educational, scientific and other purposes.
NewMax.com has already reported on some of these fabricated so-called spy cases involving American citizens, but there have been new evelopments in the case of one of them, student John Tobin.
On June 26, Russian security officials said they might bring espionage charges against John Tobin, an American Fulbright scholar jailed on a drug conviction in Russia – a claim his lawyers call a dubious legal bid to keep Tobin behind bars. He was arrested in January on charges of obtaining, possessing and distributing marijuana.
A court in Voronezh, a city in southern Russia, sentenced Tobin to 37 months in prison in April, but a higher court reduced the sentence to a year on appeal. His case attracted broad attention when Russian security officials publicly accused him of being a spy in training and an alleged interrogation expert. Accusations were based on information that Tobin had attended the U.S. Defense Department Language Institute and was a member of a military reserve unit.
No espionage charges were filed, and Mr.Tobin said in e-mail correspondence with his relatives that he was framed because he refused to become a spy for Russia. The newest development in his case came after a man named Dmitry Kuznetsov claimed that Tobin interrogated him more than three years ago when he was in jail in the U.S. on charges of embezzling grant funds from an American university.
He said Tobin – who was only 20 years old at the time – tried to recruit him to work for the FBI. He also said that Tobin quizzed him about a number of American professors who were his friends.
There is no doubt that from the beginning Tobin's case was fabricated by the local Voronezh office of FSB. At the time of this falsification, FSB officials made so many mistakes that they had no chance to accuse the American student of spying in court.
The new Kuznetsov story, which would not constitute evidence of any crime even if it turned out to be true, couldn't affect Tobin's situation if he were in the custody of any democratic country, but not in Russia, where everything is possible. At Moscow's request the local FSB field office can fabricate a new case against the American student just like that and dramatically increase his term in prison.
However, if it can happen to an American citizen, it would be hard to expect any justice and fair treatment for ordinary Russians, who have practically no legal rights and are totally dependent on the special services. Increased powers for these services mean nothing else but a new repression against Russians and more newly fabricated so-called spy-cases against Americans and other foreigners rash enough to do business with Russia and uncooperative with its special services.
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 15, 2001 19:01:25 ET XXXXX
ALL RECORDS SMASHED: RUSH LIMBAUGH IN $250 MILLION RADIO DEAL; SIGNS THROUGH '09
**Exclusive**
The radio industry will soon be rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit by a record-setting deal that will crown Rush Limbaugh the highest-paid voice in the history of radio!
The ink is still wet on a contract Limbaugh has signed which will keep him at CLEARCHANNELPREMIERE through 2009, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned exclusively.
The total package is valued north of $250 million, according to sources with direct knowledge of the deal, with a $35 million signing bonus jump-starting the cash flush for Rush.
The deal gives Limbaugh a high percentage of ad revenue from his daily syndicated broadcast, already the most lucrative hours since radio’s inception.
Heard in more than 600 markets, Limbaugh’s earnings now pace him ahead of the annual salaries for Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Barbara Walters -- combined!
Say goodbye to your morning bacon
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGANDADW7PC.html
Maybe your toast too...
Rebuilding Post-Structuralism
The Bulgarian-born author credited with planting the seeds of political correctness on American college campuses now says her ideas have been co-opted by totalitarian radicals who are more interested in group identity than individual freedom, writes Alan Riding in The New York Times.
Julia Kristeva is the matriarch of the so-called "post-structuralist" movement, which holds that language can be relative and that its hidden meanings can be seen through the prism of history and people's own experiences. Following the theory's rise, some groups began to see signs of oppression in the very language they themselves used.
Kristeva now says she and her work have been misunderstood by groups that held her out as an icon of feminism and multiculturalism. She believes the group identity adopted by some feminist, gay and ethnic leaders is "totalitarian" and that freedom of the individual should take precedence over communitarianism; that political assertion of sexual, ethnic and religious identities eventually erodes democracy.
"What is important is not to affirm the power and identity of groups, but to increase the freedom of individuals," she tells Riding. "To assume a group identity is a dead end. And if some people have interpreted French thinking to mean they should, they are totally wrong."
'Rape' In All Its Manifestations
Syndicated columnist John Leo has come out with a new dictionary of politically correct terms for modern aficionados of the genre. Among the jewels:
compound: the home and property of someone reporters consider an extremist
cult: any small religion disapproved of by three or more journalists
not multicultural enough: white
underrepresented: we need quotas
should look like America: we need quotas
numerical goals and timetables: quotas
race-sensitive programs: quotas
fair group representation: quotas
employment equity: quotas
equitable distribution of available resources: quotas
sensitivity training: indoctrination
freshman orientation: indoctrination
homophobia: disagreement with the demands, tactics or manners of any gay activist
emotional violence: criticism
verbal abuse: any joke or remark you don't like
symbolic rape: criticism
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/johnleo/jl20010709.shtml
A_J asks:
Why was it that I was supposed to not refer to these guys as commie bastards?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/15/215825.shtml
Influence of Russia's Special Services Increases
Col. Stanislav Lunev
Monday, July 16, 2001
After having been called "trustworthy" by President Bush last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to pursue his vision of a Russia that is once again a great power – a vision he pursues at the expense of the basic freedoms and rights of the Russian people. During his drive to restore a totalitarian regime, former KGB official Putin has been employing the traditional methods of Russia's secret police in establishing control over Russia's population as well as over their contacts with other countries' citizens.
Russians are now living in a country where the president, the defense minister and other top officials are the proud products of the KGB and the FSB (the main KGB successor in the domestic spy business).
Under Putin, Russia's special services dramatically expanded their powers and have become increasingly influential. During the last two years their personnel numbers have increased and currently are, at a minimum, twice as large as the KGB.
These services include such major agencies as the Federal Security Service, or FSB (in charge of counterintelligence), the Federal Agency for the Protection of Government Communications (or FAPSI), the Federal Border Guards Service (or FPS), the Main Bodyguards Directorate (or GUO), the Presidential Security Service (or PSB), The Foreign Intelligence Service (or SVR), and some others. In total there are two dozen special services operating in Russia authorized to engage in domestic and foreign spying.
All these services together, however, are not capable of fighting against corruption and organized crime in Russia, where special services officials are cooperating with Mafia-type criminal syndicates, which have their own people in the leadership of law enforcement agencies as well as at the top level of the country's political and government establishment.
Russia's special services are very weak in fighting against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and military-related technologies, or against real espionage, and simply cannot protect the Russian people from any danger.
However, these services are very good in maintaining totalitarian control over the population of the country, where democracy does not exist and major freedoms and civil rights are totally ignored.
In recent months, Russian special services were given new authority and currently can open criminal cases against individuals solely on the basis of anonymous telephone calls and other unsubstantiated reports. From now on, everybody in Russia can report on his enemies, neighbors and anybody else, and by doing so can be sure that they will have a lot of trouble explaining to government officials.
At the same time, Russian special services were given new rights as a result of the spy-mania campaign, especially designed to give the Russian people the wrong idea that foreigners living in their country who do not cooperate with Russia's special services are, or could be, foreign spies. This is allegedly the case of foreigners who are contacting Russians for business or scientific and other purposes.
According to press reports, from now on, in an ominous revival of Soviet-era rule, about 1 million Russian scholars have been ordered to submit reports on their contacts with foreigners. In Soviet times, all travel by scholars and scientists was carefully controlled, and they were forced to make written reports about any contact with foreigners to their supervisors in the KGB.
The practice stopped after the USSR disintegrated in 1991, but is now being revived by a May 24 directive titled "The Academy of Sciences Action Plan to Prevent Damage to the Russian State in the Spheres of Economic and Scientific Cooperation."
The scholars and scientists of the Academy were ordered to submit regular reports on their foreign travel, conferences, and laboratory visits by foreigners, articles in foreign publications, international cooperation agreements and acceptance of foreign grants. They were also ordered to introduce strict security measures in their use of the Internet and other international computer networks.
To prove the government's propaganda that practically all foreigners who do not cooperate with Moscow are spies, Russia's special services continue fabricating false criminal cases against foreigners who are rash enough to go to Russia for business, educational, scientific and other purposes.
NewMax.com has already reported on some of these fabricated so-called spy cases involving American citizens, but there have been new evelopments in the case of one of them, student John Tobin.
On June 26, Russian security officials said they might bring espionage charges against John Tobin, an American Fulbright scholar jailed on a drug conviction in Russia – a claim his lawyers call a dubious legal bid to keep Tobin behind bars. He was arrested in January on charges of obtaining, possessing and distributing marijuana.
A court in Voronezh, a city in southern Russia, sentenced Tobin to 37 months in prison in April, but a higher court reduced the sentence to a year on appeal. His case attracted broad attention when Russian security officials publicly accused him of being a spy in training and an alleged interrogation expert. Accusations were based on information that Tobin had attended the U.S. Defense Department Language Institute and was a member of a military reserve unit.
No espionage charges were filed, and Mr.Tobin said in e-mail correspondence with his relatives that he was framed because he refused to become a spy for Russia. The newest development in his case came after a man named Dmitry Kuznetsov claimed that Tobin interrogated him more than three years ago when he was in jail in the U.S. on charges of embezzling grant funds from an American university.
He said Tobin – who was only 20 years old at the time – tried to recruit him to work for the FBI. He also said that Tobin quizzed him about a number of American professors who were his friends.
There is no doubt that from the beginning Tobin's case was fabricated by the local Voronezh office of FSB. At the time of this falsification, FSB officials made so many mistakes that they had no chance to accuse the American student of spying in court.
The new Kuznetsov story, which would not constitute evidence of any crime even if it turned out to be true, couldn't affect Tobin's situation if he were in the custody of any democratic country, but not in Russia, where everything is possible. At Moscow's request the local FSB field office can fabricate a new case against the American student just like that and dramatically increase his term in prison.
However, if it can happen to an American citizen, it would be hard to expect any justice and fair treatment for ordinary Russians, who have practically no legal rights and are totally dependent on the special services. Increased powers for these services mean nothing else but a new repression against Russians and more newly fabricated so-called spy-cases against Americans and other foreigners rash enough to do business with Russia and uncooperative with its special services.
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 15, 2001 19:01:25 ET XXXXX
ALL RECORDS SMASHED: RUSH LIMBAUGH IN $250 MILLION RADIO DEAL; SIGNS THROUGH '09
**Exclusive**
The radio industry will soon be rocked, realigned and blasted into a new orbit by a record-setting deal that will crown Rush Limbaugh the highest-paid voice in the history of radio!
The ink is still wet on a contract Limbaugh has signed which will keep him at CLEARCHANNELPREMIERE through 2009, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned exclusively.
The total package is valued north of $250 million, according to sources with direct knowledge of the deal, with a $35 million signing bonus jump-starting the cash flush for Rush.
The deal gives Limbaugh a high percentage of ad revenue from his daily syndicated broadcast, already the most lucrative hours since radio’s inception.
Heard in more than 600 markets, Limbaugh’s earnings now pace him ahead of the annual salaries for Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Barbara Walters -- combined!
Say goodbye to your morning bacon
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGANDADW7PC.html
Maybe your toast too...
