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Top U.S. officials shared a batch of evidence to support their claims that the Kremlin is engaged in an active and aggressive push to influence the vote in favor of Trump. In a rare move, the Justice Department disclosed internal Russian strategy meeting notes that U.S. intelligence agencies had obtained, which reveal granular details about the Kremlin’s strategy.

One Russian document listed “target audiences” including residents of swing states, such as Arizona and Pennsylvania, Hispanic and Jewish Americans, gamers, and users of the social-media site Reddit. It also detailed efforts to create online communities to unite voters who shared perceived Republican values.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-accuses-russia-of-spending-millions-to-influence-u-s-voters-be531b99

— В чем специфика и особенность политической философии Ильина? Она действительно близка к фашизму?

— Нынешний российский режим Ильин в первую очередь привлекает апологией государства. Ильин — государственник в чистом виде. Он считал, что государство должно быть не только политическом институтом, но и моральной силой; государство должно воспитывать своих граждан, бороться за их душу. В этой борьбе оно не должно быть ограничено какими-то формальными рамками закона.

Это превышение закона ради сути закона Ильин в своих текстах называл «любовью». То есть государство должно «любить» своих граждан. А когда ты кого-то любишь, ты пристрастно к нему относишься, можешь применить к нему, например, насилие для того, чтобы помочь обнаружить лучшее в себе.

С этой точки зрения Ильин близок к фашизму, прежде всего итальянскому. Потому что фашизм в значительно большей степени, чем немецкий нацизм, был сосредоточен на такой духовной основе государства.
https://meduza.io/feature/2024/04/25/ivan-ilin-lyubimyy-filosof-putina-kotoryy-simpatiziroval-fashistam-v-rggu-rabotaet-politicheskaya-shkola-nazvannaya-v-ego-chest-ee-vozglavlyaet-aleksandr-dugin

1. Cities of China* — 626m cameras to 1.43bn people = 439.07 cameras per 1,000 people
2. Hyderabad, India — 900,000 cameras for 10,801,163 people = 83.32 cameras per 1,000 people
3. Indore, India – 200,000 cameras per 3,302,077 people = 60.57 cameras per 1,000 people
4. Delhi, India — 449,934 cameras for 22,547,000 people = 19.96 cameras per 1,000 people
5. Singapore, Singapore — 109,072 cameras for 6,080,859 people = 17.94 cameras per 1,000 people
6. Moscow, Russia — 214,000 cameras for 12,680,389 people = 16.88 cameras per 1,000 people
7. Baghdad, Iraq — 120,000 cameras for 7,711,305 people = 15.56 cameras per 1,000 people
8. Seoul, South Korea — 144,513 cameras for 9,988,049 people = 14.47 cameras per 1,000 people
9. St. Petersburg, Russia — 75,000 cameras for 5,561,294 people = 13.49 cameras per 1,000 people
10. London, England (UK) — 127,423 cameras for 9,648,110 people = 13.21 cameras per 1,000 people.

«Tрудные задачи» предшествуют не только браку, но и сирене царей, воцарению героя. Ниже мы увидим, что воцарение сопровождается умерщвление старого царя.
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Причина насильственной замены старого царя новым кроется в том, что царь, который был одновременно жрецом, магом, от которого зависело благополучие полей и стад, при наступлении старости или незадолго до нее, как полагали, начинал терять свою магическую потенцию, что грозило бедствием всему народу. Поэтому он заменялся более сильным преемником.
Нам кажется, что фольклорный материал дает право на утверждeние, что этот преемник должен был дать доказательство своей магической силы, и что здесь также кроются корни «трудных задач».

-- В. Пропп. Исторические корни волшебной сказки.

The officials’ outfits were among the most notable recurrent patterns in their media appearances to announce these actions. They used face masks and wore a light-yellow jacket, which is used only in emergency situations in Korea. In a society where wearing less than a formal suit in such media speeches is unthinkable, the casual pattern and outstanding colour of the jacket immediately drew viewers’ attention. Moreover, the fact that all the officials, regardless of gender and rank, from the President to the Secretary of the health department wore exactly the same jacket also signalled solidarity and unison in the face of danger rather than normative hierarchy. From February 2020, Mun Chae-in, the President, and other government officials were often shown visiting hospitals, factories and markets wearing masks and the yellow jackets, thus signalling that life can continue but attention must be paid to the prevention of the virus’ spread.
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Seoul has a unique democratic protest culture and several mass protests in the early 21st
century achieved their goals; among them, the notorious weekly rally to impeach the president
in 2016-7. The commonly generalized view expressed in world media that Koreans are docile
citizens because of their Confucian heritage (for example, Escobar 2020; Purnell 2020) does
little to address the actual reality. As my recent ethnography about protest in Seoul shows
(Sarfati 2018), the Korean public has proved its power over policy makers through their mass
dissent practices, which made the current government especially sensitive to the outcomes of
dire conditions.( Read more... )

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Obtaining extensive public cooperation proved no less crucial than the professional management of the health system and bio-science.


--- Liora Sarfati, Signalling ‘Crisis’ in an Affective Manner: Government, Media and Public Cooperation during COVID-19 in South Korea. Urbanities, Vol. 10 · Supplement 4 · September 2020.

https://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Vol.-10-Suppl.-4-September-2020.pdf#page=78

But the strongest and most apparent reason why the multitude hated him was based on the matter of the tenth of the spoil of Veii, and herein they had a plausible, though not a very just ground of complaint. 5 He had vowed, as it seems, on setting out against Veii, that if he should take the city, he would consecrate the tenth of its booty to the Delphian god. But after the city had been taken and sacked, he allowed his soldiers full enjoyment of their plunder, either because he shrank from annoying them, or because, in the multitude of his activities, he as good as forgot his vow.
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The Senate voted, not that the booty should be redistributed, for that would have been a difficult matter, but that those who had got it should, in person and under oath, bring the tenth thereof to the public treasury. This subjected the soldiers to p115 many vexations and constraints. They were poor men, who had toiled hard, and yet were now forced to contribute a large share of what they had gained, yes, and spent already.... The soldiers were filled with indignation at the thought that it was the goods of the enemy of which he had once vowed a tithe, but the goods of his fellow citizens from which he was now paying the tithe.

--- Plutarch, Lives. Camillus:7-8.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html