position:linguist

Gregory Klimov. The Terror Machine
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About author
Gregory Petrovich Klimov

Russian writer, member of the Writers’ Union of Russia. Author of the bestseller “Terror Machine”, published in 12 languages ​​in the “Reader’s Digest” sold more than 17 million copies. Three films based on this book were made in England, Germany and the United States in the years 1953-1954 German film “WEG OHNE UMKEHR”, was awarded at the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1954, the title of “the best German film of the year.” English “THE ROAD OF NO RETURN” and the American “NO WAY BACK” movies for a long time did not descend from screens all over the world.

The author of the books:

1951 MAШИНА ТЕРРОРА (БЕРЛИНСКИЙ КРЕМЛЬ, КРЫЛЬЯ ХОЛОПА, ПЕСНЬ ПОБЕДИТЕЛЯ)
[TERROR MACHINE 1951 (BERLIN Kremlin LACKEY’S WINGS, WINNING SONG)]
1970 КНЯЗЬ MИРА СEГO
[THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD]
1973 ДEЛO #69
[The case #69]
1975 ИМЯ MOЕ ЛEГИOН
[MY NAME IS THE LEGION]
1981 ПРОТОКОЛЫ СОВЕТСКИХ МУДРЕЦОВ
[THE PROTOCOLS OF THE SOVIET ELDERS]
1987 КРАСНАЯ КАББAЛA
[RED KABBALAH]
1989 БОЖИЙ НАРОД
[GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE]

Grigory Klimov, born September 26, 1918 in the city of Novocherkassk, Russia, in the family a doctor. In 1941 graduated with honors from the Novocherkassk Industrial Institute, and entered the Military-Diplomatic Academy in Moscow.

In 1945 he graduated from the Academy and was assigned to work in Berlin, as the engineer-in-chief of the Soviet military administration.

In 1947 he was ordered to go back to the Stalin’s Moscow. After much deliberation, he fled to West Germany.

In 1949-1950 worked at the CIA’s highly classified subject “COLLAPSE OF THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM BY MEANS OF A SPECIAL TYPE PEOPLE. PEOPLE WITH THE POWER COMPLEX (Complex of latent homosexuality of Lenin).” The code name - Harvard Project. In 1951-55 he was the chairman of the Central Association of the Post-war Emigrants From The Soviet Union [ЦОПЭ] (TSOPE) and chief editor of the magazine “Freedom” and “Anti-Communist” (the latter in German).

In 1958-59 worked as a consultant at the Cornell Project in New York, where he was also engaged in all sorts of cunning psychological studies related to the Hungarian uprising of 1956.

The results of 50 years of work on this subject are reflected in the seven books. The last three are the abstracts of the series of lectures for the entire top of the command officers of the KGB, on the eve of perestroika.

All the books were published by Sovetskaya Kuban [СОВЕТСКАЯ КУБАНЬ] - Krasnodar, RUSSIA. Total circulation has exceeded one million.

For orders, please contact a representative of the publishing house Sovetskaya Kuban. Mironov Vladimir Leonidovich by e-mail klimov_gregory@yahoo.com

You can send your opinion about books or via e-mail to klimov_gregory@yahoo.com:

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Gregory Klimov - Search results - Wikipedia
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Klimov (surname)
Russian linguist Gregory Klimov (1918-2007), pen-name of Igor Kalmykov a.k.a. Ralph Werner, Soviet defector and writer Igor Klimov (born 1989), Russian

#anticommunisme #conspirationnisme #Russie #USA #guerre_froide

A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy - Issue 48: Chaos
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In his recent Nautilus essay, “The Kekulé Problem,” Cormac McCarthy suggests that our unconscious mental processes are a modern echo of the prelinguistic minds of our prehistoric ancestors. He sees a stark contrast between language as a fairly recent cultural invention and the unconscious as an ancient biological system; the two are made from entirely different cloth, which is why, according to McCarthy, the unconscious “is loathe to speak to us.” It is “just not used to giving verbal instructions and is not happy doing so,” preferring to communicate with our consciousness in images and metaphors. As a linguist, I don’t think I quite agree with the renowned novelist’s characterization of the unconscious mind as fundamentally non-verbal—which I guess is Canadian polite-speak for: Wow, I really (...)

The Scientist Who Helped Amy Adams Talk to Aliens in “Arrival” - Facts So Romantic
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Earlier this year, when Amy Adams was in Montreal working on the sci-fi movie, Arrival, out today, she hung out with linguist Jessica Coon. In the film, Adams plays a linguist tasked by the United States government with deciphering a visiting aliens’ language. The film’s producers tapped Coon, an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University, as a scientific advisor because she specializes in studying languages spoken by relatively few people, notably Mayan tongues in Central America. Coon says chatting about her work—analyzing the structure of rare languages, working in the field—with Adams is probably the “most glamorous thing” she will ever do in her academic life. For Coon there’s a sense of urgency in her work, since many obscure languages are fast going (...)

25 Fascinating Charts Of Negotiation Styles Around The World - Business Insider

Language is only the most obvious part of the global communication gap. Different cultures also have distinct approaches to communication during meetings and negotiations, as described by British linguist Richard D. Lewis, whose best-selling book, “When Cultures Collide,” charts these as well as leadership styles and cultural identities.

Lewis, who speaks ten languages, acknowledges the danger of cultural comparisons in his book: “Determining national characteristics is treading a minefield of inaccurate assessment and surprising exception. There is, however, such a thing as a national norm.”

In support of cross-cultural studies, he writes: “By focusing on the cultural roots of national behavior, both in society and business, we can foresee and calculate with a surprising degree of accuracy how others will react to our plans for them, and we can make certain assumptions as to how they will approach us. A working knowledge of the basic traits of other cultures (as well as our own) will minimize unpleasant surprises (culture shock), give us insights in advance, and enable us to interact successfully with nationalities with whom we previously had difficulty.”

Lewis’ communication diagrams show how cultures use language to negotiate, with wider shapes showing greater conversational range, obstacles marked in gray, and cultural traits noted as well.

Americans, for instance, tend to launch right into #negotiations , respond to discord confrontationally, and resolve with one or both sides making concessions.

Canadians tend to be more low-key and inclined to seek harmony, though they are similarly direct.

We’ll go over the rest in brief after a selection of charts taken with permission from the 2005 third edition of “When Cultures Collide.”

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How a Country’s Land Shapes Its Language - Facts So Romantic
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To Hawaiian speakers, vowels reign supreme. Only eight consonants exist in the language’s 13-letter alphabet, so most of its meaning is derived from oohs and aahs, ohs and eehs. One might say Hawaiian sounds a lot like the sea that surrounds it; the bulk of its words are simple and spare, flowing smoothly from vowel to vowel. Mahalo. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have German. With its 30-letter alphabet, clipped consonants, and “uvulars”—sounds made by constricting the tongue against the back wall of the throat—German is famously harsh and guttural. Auf Wiedehrsen! One might say—if one weren’t German, that is—that the language is cold and craggy, just like the country. What accounts for how discrepant these languages sound? Ian Maddieson, a linguist at the University of New Mexico, (...)

Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography: Enriching our emotional landscape through 216 ‘untranslatable’ words pertaining to well-being - The Journal of Positive Psychology -
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The significance of such words is much debated. A dominant theoretical notion here is ‘linguistic relativity’ (Hussein, 2012). First formulated by the German philosophers Herder (1744–1803) and Humboldt (1767–1835), it came to prominence with the linguist Sapir (1929) and his student Whorf (1940). Their so-called ‘Sapir-Whorf hypothesis’ holds that language plays a constitutive role in the way that people experience, understand and even perceive the world. As Whorf (1956, pp. 213–214) put it, ‘We dissect nature along lines laid out by our native languages … The world is presented as a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized … largely by the linguistic systems in our minds’. This hypothesis comes in various strengths. Its stronger form is linguistic determinism, where language inextricably constitutes and constrains thought. For instance, Whorf argued that the Hopi people had a different experience of time due to particularities in their grammar, such that they lacked a linear sense of past, present and future. This strong determinism has been criticised, e.g. by Pinker (1995), who argued that the Hopi experience of time was not particularly different to that of Western cultures. However, the milder form of the hypothesis, linguistic relativism, simply holds that language shapes thought and experience. This milder hypothesis is generally accepted by most anthropologists and other such scholars (Perlovsky, 2009).

#relativité_linguistique #langue #langage #grammaire #représentations #pensée

The Word “Million” Didn’t Exist Until We Needed It - Facts So Romantic
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I would cut off my right hand if you find it.” That was the guarantee retired Columbia history professor Jens Ulff-Møller made that there was no word for “million” in Old English, a medieval predecessor of the language you’re currently reading.Battle of Hastings, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.Myrabella/Wikicommons Some Anglo-Saxon writers understood the idea of a million, and they had a term for it: a “thousand thousand.” But, unlike the speakers of most modern languages, they had no single word for that quantity. Why would that concise word be absent in earlier language? It seems that there was no word for million in Old English simply because its speakers had no great use for it. In the Anglo-Saxon world, no object was made, and few were discussed, in such quantities. Armin Mester, a linguist (...)

Noam Chomsky & Abby Martin: Electing the President of an Empire
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At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky.

Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential...

Revealed: how Indigenous Australian storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7,000 years ago | Australia news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/16/indigenous-australian-storytelling-records-sea-level-rises-over-milleni

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Indigenous stories of dramatic sea level rises across Australia date back more than 7,000 years in a continuous oral tradition without parallel anywhere in the world, according to new research.

Sunshine Coast University marine geographer Patrick Nunn and University of New England linguist Nicholas Reid believe that 21 Indigenous stories from across the continent faithfully record events between 18,000 and 7000 years ago, when the sea rose 120m.

Reid said a key feature of Indigenous storytelling culture – a distinctive “cross-generational cross-checking” process – might explain the remarkable consistency in accounts passed down by preliterate people which researchers previously believed could not persist for more than 800 years.

“The idea that 300 generations could faithfully tell a story that didn’t degenerate into Chinese whispers, that was passing on factual information that we know happened from independent chronology, that just seems too good to be true, right?” Reid told Guardian Australia.

#australie #aborigène #peuples_premiers #culture #résilience

Noam Chomsky on the Roots of American Racism - The New York Times
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This is the eighth in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Noam Chomsky, a linguist, political philosopher and one of the world’s most prominent public intellectuals. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, “On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare,” with Andre Vltchek.

– George Yancy

George Yancy: When I think about the title of your book “On Western Terrorism,” I’m reminded of the fact that many black people in the United States have had a long history of being terrorized by white racism, from random beatings to the lynching of more than 3,000 black people (including women) between 1882 and 1968. This is why in 2003, when I read about the dehumanizing acts committed at Abu Ghraib prison, I wasn’t surprised. I recall that after the photos appeared President George W. Bush said that “This is not the America I know.” But isn’t this the America black people have always known?

Here’s what Shakespeare’s plays sounded like with their original English accent | 22 Words
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In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most basic question you probably have right now — How do you know what it sounded like back then? — and they discuss the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays in the original accent…

#linguistique #rime #shakespeare

Matt DeHart’s Story
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Matt DeHart grew up in a family with a military background. His father worked for the #NSA and his mother worked for the US Military as a linguist analysing signals intelligence. In the early 2000s, Matt became active online and developed his political outlook. He was involved with the image and messageboard website #4chan almost from its inception, and recruited 4chan members for a worldwide World of Warcraft #WoW guild. The hactivist group #Anonymous, which Matt became a part of, arose out of the online 4chan community.

In 2008, Matt joined the Indiana Air National Guard’s 181st Intelligence Wing, as an all-source intelligence analyst, eventually being granted a Top Secret security clearance. The unit operates Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or #drones. Meanwhile, Matt participated in online activism with Anonymous to support freedom of information. “Part of my job with Anonymous was I helped people communicate securely,” he said. “I would protect people from NSA spying.”

Matt administered a server associated with the #Tor hidden service known as the Shell Onion, providing anonymous shell accounts. While monitoring the server in 2009, he came across an unencrypted file containing an FBI investigation in illegal #CIA activities. Whilst he deleted that file, there was also an encrypted file of the same size and name on another server that he says was headed for #WikiLeaks. A few months later, Matt was honourably discharged from the Air Nation Guard, ostensibly for depression.

#prisonniers_politiques

Aboriginal stories of sea level rise preserved for thousands of years
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Details of life before and after this significant sea rise, which flooded areas around the Australian coast that were previously dry land, were recorded in the oral histories of the continent’s Indigenous people.

Nunn and his linguist colleague Dr Nick Reid have collected more than a dozen stories from different clans around the country that refer to the inundation of the coast.

The story of Botany Bay refers to a clan that split in two. The elders headed inland, while the younger members remained on the then swampy land near the coast.

When the elders later returned they found Botany Bay had become an ocean inlet and Georges River and Cooks River were two separate rivers, according to botanist Frances Bodkin, a Dharawal elder who was told the story by her mother.

Given there have been no major changes in sea level since this time, Nunn and Reid suggest this story and others are at least 7000 years old and may have been preserved for several hundred generations.

#aborigènes #peuples_premiers #australie #climat

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"Joan Clarke, woman who cracked Enigma with Alan Turing" On la connait surtout comme « la copine de Turing » mais elle était, elle aussi, cryptanalyste. Il est difficile de dire quelle a été sa participation à la lutte victorieuse contre l’#Enigma : tout était secret, à #Bletchley_Park, et les historiens ne sont pas trop penchés sur elle.

#cryptographie

Can Civilization Survive “Really Existing Capitalism”? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
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[ffa-no-ads]For decades now, Noam Chomsky has been widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive (linguist, philosopher, social and political critic) and the leading US dissident since...

#Noam_Chomsky :
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#Dissidents in the East European communist countries were supported by the Western powers and they did not suffer extraordinarily in comparison with opponents of Latin American regimes, U.S. linguist and left-wing activist Noam Chomsky told a press conference.

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To illustrate his point, Chomsky referred to an address #Havel delivered in the U.S. Congress in 1990, two months after he was elected Czechoslovak president.

Chomsky said the dissident Havel addressed the Congress shortly after the government army killed six prominent intellectuals at a university in #Salvador. The administration of U.S. President #Ronald_Reagan supported the Salvadoran army and far-right government, while the Soviet Union supported the rebels, he said.

In this situation, Havel praised the United States as the defender of freedom and the Congress strongly applauded him, Chomsy said.

#Etats-Unis

Chomsky: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, State Power Ignores Its Massive Harm
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►http://www.democracynow.org - World-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MITProfessor Noam Chomsky traveled to Japan last week ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima...

Web Exclusive: Noam Chomsky In Conversation With French Filmmaker Michel Gondry | Democracy Now!
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At the world premiere of the new documentary “Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?” in New York City, filmmaker Michel Gondy sat down with the subject of the film, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and activist. The discussion took place on November 21 at the DOC NYC Festival. The discussion was moderated by Anthony Arnove.

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Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?: Quand Gondry rencontre Chomsky
Par Victor Garcia (LEXPRESS.fr), publié le 28/11/2013
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Dans une vidéo publiée sur le site du New York Times, Michel Gondry commente plusieurs scènes de son « documentaire animé » Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy ?, une discussion avec le philosophe américain Noam Chomsky.

Stop Saying Columbus ’Discovered’ the Americas—It Erases Indigenous History
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The reality of course is that South and North America were not ‘new,’ Australia was not ‘empty’ before Europeans arrived and Machu Picchu was not ‘discovered’ in 1911. ‘The phrase ‘discovery’ of America is obviously inaccurate,’ wrote the linguist and philosopher Professor #Noam_Chomsky. ‘What they discovered was an America that had been discovered thousands of years before by its inhabitants. Thus what took place was the #invasion of America – an invasion by a very alien culture.’

#langage

Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek and Lacan: Empty ‘Posturing’ | Open Culture
▻http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/noam_chomsky_slams_zizek_and_lacan_empty_posturing.html

Noam Chomsky’s well-known political views have tended to overshadow his groundbreaking work as a linguist and analytic philosopher. As a result, people sometimes assume that because Chomsky is a leftist, he would find common intellectual ground with the postmodernist philosophers of the European Left.

Big mistake.

In this brief excerpt from a December, 2012 interview with Veterans Unplugged, Chomsky is asked about the ideas of Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. The M.I.T. scholar, who elsewhere has described some of those figures and their followers as “cults,” doesn’t mince words:

What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in any of this stuff, not in the sense of theory that anyone is familiar with in the sciences or any other serious field. Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can’t. So I’m not interested in that kind of posturing. Žižek is an extreme example of it. I don’t see anything to what he’s saying. Jacques Lacan I actually knew. I kind of liked him. We had meetings every once in awhile. But quite frankly I thought he was a total charlatan. He was just posturing for the television cameras in the way many Paris intellectuals do. Why this is influential, I haven’t the slightest idea. I don’t see anything there that should be influential .

Now online: the historic Chomsky (EN) - Foucault (FR) debate (& EN subtitles) | ROAR Magazine
▻http://roarmag.org/2013/05/chomsky-foucault-debate-full-video-subtitles

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sCRdF2tVI

(With full transcript of the debate)

In 1971, with the Vietnam war in full swing and radical social movements destabilizing the social, political and cultural order throughout the Western world, Dutch philosopher Fons Elders invited two of the world’s leading thinkers — the American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky and the French social theorist Michel Foucault — to debate a thorny and perennial question: is there such a thing as an “innate” human nature, and if so, what are its implications for our ideas about power, justice, revolution, and the shape of the ideal human society?

#philosophie #philosophy #debate #Gespräch #discours

Noam Chomsky on computers, internet & military
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Noam Chomsky, is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and political activists. He talks about MIT and computers, internet & military. Undercurrents filmed him in discussion with activists in 2004 in London.

“Dryboarding” and Three Unexplained Deaths at Guantánamo—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
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Did the three Guantánamo prisoners who died the evening of June 9, 2006, succumb to the misapplication of a controlled-suffocation technique called “dryboarding?” That prospect was raised last week in a report by Almerindo Ojeda, a linguistics professor who heads the University of California at Davis’s Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, and who is the principal investigator for the center’s Guantánamo Testimonials Project. Earlier this year, after reading the “Guantánamo ‘Suicides,’” reports from Seton Hall Law School and the responses from the U.S. government and its defenders, Ojeda decided to undertake his own review of the case. After combing through published accounts and prisoner interviews, and meticulously reconstructing heavily censored government investigative materials, he emerged skeptical of the conclusion advanced by the Pentagon that the prisoners committed a perfectly synchronized triple suicide.

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A story in a second Carolina paper also caught Ojeda’s attention: a study by the Charleston Post & Courier’s Tony Bartelme of the struggle by naval commanders to get their “special” prisoner, Ali Saleh Al-Marri, who had been held for six years in the special housing unit of the Charleston brig, moved to Guantánamo.

In early 2004, a group of interrogators dubbed “the contractors” spent day after day inside a special wing in the Navy’s brig in Hanahan. Their goal: Squeeze information out of a suspected terrorist from Qatar named Ali Saleh al-Marri…

Al-Marri later told his attorneys that interrogators stuffed a sock in his mouth and taped his lips shut with duct tape. Al-Marri said he loosened the tape; the interrogators taped it more tightly. When he started to choke, the interrogators ripped off the tape. Al-Marri’s attorney in Charleston, Andy Savage, calls this technique “dryboarding.”