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Ukraine has evacuated another 34 persons, including 15 children, from the territory of Syria through Lebanon. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
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Residents of the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan, Kazan, reported the sounds of explosions coming from a local gunpowder plant. Prior to that, a drone attack was reported. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
The U.S. and Germany’s defense chiefs, Lloyd Austin and Boris Pistorius, discussed further support for Ukraine and the upcoming meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the Ramstein format) during a phone call on Friday. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
President Volodymyr Zelensky has canceled his decree appointing Emine Dzhaparova as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to International Organizations in Vienna. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have established in their structure a separate unit dealing with the protection of cultural heritage. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
The Netherlands and its partners have invested over €200 million in the Tallinn Mechanism, the main task of which is to strengthen Ukraine's digital security. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
"No man is a failure who has a billion dollars."Ruben Bolling (The Tom the Dancing Bug Review)
Imagine. You heard the on-the-hour radio news bulletin while you got dressed that morning. You glanced at headlines on your phone on the way to work. You read the paper while you waited for your coffee in a cafe. Each encounter was, typically for the mainstream news, filled with death and doom – and accompanied by a familiar feeling. Of being slightly on-edge. Anxious.
But after each snippet, you also heard or read a warning: ‘Too much negative news may cause a distorted view of reality and harm your mental health.’ It was enough of a reminder to try to balance things out. So you sought out some constructive news that evening. A few hopeful headlines online as the kids had their bath, and later, an uplifting current affairs documentary. Things felt steadier. Calmer. More positive.
Since the mandatory health warnings for majority-bad news media outlets were introduced, you’ve been much more aware of balancing your media intake so that you get a wider perspective on problems and progress. For the first time, you’ve really thought about it. Less doomscrolling, and more conscious solution-seeking. You’re surprised at how much you accepted negative news to be normal, and how much better your mental health has felt as a result of the shift.
This is the vision of Seán Wood, CEO of Positive News. While the idea of health warnings on news outlets is tongue in cheek, the principle of such a measure is the need to help people to more consciously manage their media diet. “It might help us grow our understanding of how our brains are compelling us to consume the news because it triggers, essentially, our survival response – our desire to know about threats.”
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a publication of the powerful rightwing #Claremont #Institute,
where Anton is a senior fellow,
and whose growing influence during the Trump era has seen it described as the “nerve center of the American right”.
💥On 8 December, Trump’s transition team announced that Anton would be appointed director of policy planning at the state department.
Anton also served in a communications role in Trump’s first-term national security council from February 2017 until April 2018,
resigning the day before neoconservative John Bolton assumed the role of national security adviser.
After leaving the first Trump administration, Anton did not abandon Trump,
but continued writing about US liberal democracy in bleak terms.
In "Up from Conservatism",
a 2023 anthology of essays edited by the executive director of Claremont’s "Center for the American Way of Life", Arthur Milikh,
Anton wrote that
“the United States peaked around 1965”,
and that Americans are ruled by
“a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion,
and media figures who police those boundaries”.
Anton continued the discussion in sections headed
“The universities have become evil”,
“Our economy is fake”,
“The people are corrupt”,
“Our civilization has lost the will to live”.
His and Yarvin’s conversation was ostensibly about his 2020 book,
"The Stakes".
That book was controversial even on the right for its prolonged consideration of autocratic “Caesarism”
as a means of resolving American decadence.
In the book, he defined #Caesarism as a “form of one-man rule:
halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.
He adds, though, that
“Caesarism is not tyranny, which, strictly understood,
is a regime that usurps a legitimate and functioning government”,
whereas Caesarism implements “authoritarian one-man rule partially legitimized by necessity”
– that is,
“the breakdown of republican, constitutional rule”,
adding that
“a nation no longer capable of ruling itself must yet be ruled”.
He writes that a
💥“Red Caesar” could be attractive to
“the reds” in the Republican coalition,
who he says are
“under constant rhetorical, political, and, increasingly, physical attack,
especially in blue states”,
-- making them “more likely to turn to a Caesar”.
Anton stops short of openly calling for authoritarian rule,
but in general, he writes that the advantages of Caesarism include
“continuity and stability”
and “the prospect of avoiding conflict”,
and that it “tends to engender calm”.
#CurtisYarvin #MichaelAnton
#RedCaesar