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To: John Lacelle who wrote (10)	10/7/2000 6:20:25 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33

From 1984 to One-Dimensional Man: Critical Reflections on Orwell and Marcuse Section Two By Douglas Kellner uta.edu

To: John Lacelle who wrote (10)	11/23/2000 5:18:55 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 33

News from Eurasia.... Neo-Nazi Arms Buildup Feared Reuters Thursday, November 23, 2000 WIESBADEN, Germany-- German neo-Nazis are building up arsenals of weapons that could be used in terrorist attacks like those of the leftist Baader-Meinhof gang in the 1970s, a top security official warned Wednesday. Heinz Fromm, head of Germany's internal security agency, said the police had seized more weapons and explosives from far-right groups this year than before and said extremists were now starting to talk about using firepower to back political aims. Officials said they had found small caches of explosives, pipe bombs and machine guns in a half-dozen raids this year. In the past, weapons confiscated were typically baseball bats for street fighting and Nazi-era handguns and knives sought mostly as collectors' items. "There is growing evidence for rightist terrorism," said Mr. Fromm, whose Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution monitors extremists on both the right and far left. ________________

To: John Lacelle who wrote (10)	1/11/2001 5:51:16 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 33

Herbert Marcuse Aggressiveness in Advanced Industrial Society (1967) From Negations : Essays in Critical Theory by Herbert Marcuse.Copyright 1968 by Herbert Marcuse. Translations from German copyright 1968 by Beacon Press. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston. wbenjamin.org Excerpt: Is not the individual who functions normally, adequately, and healthily as a citizen of a sick society - is not such an individual himself sick? And would not a sick society require an antagonistic concept of mental health, a meta-concept designating (and preserving) mental qualities which are tabooed, arrested, or distorted by the "sanity" prevalent in the sick society? (For example, mental health equals the ability to live as a dissenter, to live a nonadjusted life.) As a tentative definition of "sick society" we can say that a society is sick when its basic institutions and relations, its structure, are such that they do not permit the use of the available material and intellectual resources for the optimal development and satisfaction of individual needs. The larger the discrepancy between the potential and actual human conditions, the greater the social need for what I term "surplus-repression," that is, repression necessitated not by the growth and preservation of civilization but by the vested interest in maintaining an established society. Such surplus-repression introduces (over and above, or rather underneath, the social conflicts) new strains and stresses in the individuals. Usually handled by the normal working of the social process, which assures adjustment and submission (fear of loss of job or status, ostracism, and so forth) no special enforcement policies with respect to the mind are required. But in the contemporary affluent society, the discrepancy between the established modes of existence and the real possibilities of human freedom is so great that, in order to prevent an explosion, society has to insure a more effective mental coordination of individuals: in its unconscious as well as conscious dimensions, the psyche is opened up and subjected to systematic manipulation and control. [...] __________________

To: John Lacelle who wrote (10)	3/6/2001 4:44:09 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 33

March 4 2001 EUROPE French seek wider role for EU army Stephen Grey, Brussels THE French foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, has called for the European defence force to have its own intelligence operation, free from Nato control. His comments appear to undermine British attempts to play down the independence of the new organisation. Védrine's call came as it emerged that the EU hopes to declare its military staff ready to handle small operations by December. The full rapid-reaction force of 60,000 troops will not be in place until 2003. "The European Union must have a minimum of means of observation, information, analysis and evaluation as well as elements of operational planning," Védrine told The Sunday Times. "The EU should have its own capability and this is also in Nato's interests." Védrine insisted that the force, although complementary to Nato, would be autonomous. He said the EU had agreed that some operations be planned without Nato - and therefore American - involvement. [snip] sunday-times.co.uk