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An Autocratic Ruler needs to control the following to maintain a tight grip over both power and people->
1. Education
2. Religious Interpretation
3. Taxation
4. Currency
5. Military
6. Monopoly Permits
7. Land
8. Unions
9. Publishing and Broadcasting
10. Property Rights
Of course, this is an expandable list!
Many are arguing that I should add more to it.
I just added a few domineering aspects, tools and policy interacting methods of governance, which a ruler might bring into use!
You may add more to the above suggestions.
In modern times, no leader, in the so-called developing world, outside the Fascist Southern European Region, the NAM Nations, LATAM Markets, and the OIC Bloc, had exercised so much control, across all walks of life, other than Late Lee Kuan Yew of #Singapore
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This thread will follow Feb 5 2021 thread [India
#FarmersProtests Goes Vogue] exploring sudden #celebrity uptake - as gov't struggled to contain #resistance.

Here we can study #GlobalCitizen & structure/mechanisms of such NGOs, financed to serve corporate/imperial interests. ImageImageImageImage
#GlobalCitizen model: nurturing of #celebrity worship as a "pop & policy" model to harvest/exploit targeted youth demographic. Via partnerships w/ #Rihanna, celebrities, influencers, athletes, - it intends to become world's "leading international voice, educator, & influencer". ImageImageImageImage
#GlobalCitizen is the Global Poverty Project, Inc.
UK: "We are a sub recipient of funding from the #Gates Foundation (via Global Poverty Project Inc)."

2019: $8,445,887.00 "To mobilize global public support for the Sustainable Development Goals" #SDGs

gatesfoundation.org/search#q/k=Glo… ImageImageImageImage
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1)¿#Sabíasque el #MuseodelAire de #CuatroVientos inauguró en 2016 una sala dedicada al ‘Conflicto en el Norte de África’, con aeronaves, equipos y uniformidades utilizadas por la #AviaciónMilitar 🇪🇸 entre 1913 y 1927? Si quieres conocer la historia sigue leyendo. #DentroHilo
2)La sala recrea cómo era la vida en un aeródromo español durante la contienda. Muestra lugares emblemáticos como el Monte Gurugú y también mapas del Norte de África, ideados para que el visitante reconozca dónde se encontraban los diferentes puntos clave del Ejército en el Rif.
3)En la sala se muestran réplicas de 5 aeroplanos que combatieron en la región de 1913 a 1927. El #MoraneSaulnier G, aparato que surcó los cielos realizando la primera travesía mediterránea entre Túnez y Sicilia en 1912 y enviado como regalo del Conde de Artal a Marruecos.
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#TodayinHistory in 1945, 75 years ago, with the cessation of hostilities in Luzon between the Allied & Japanese forces, the Northern Luzon campaign & the liberation of the entire island of Luzon has been completed. #WWII #WW2 #PH #history #MacArthur (THREAD) Gen. Douglas MacArthur and ...
Context: The Philippines, on the verge of independence from the United States by 1946, was invaded by Japan beginning in December 1941 to early 1945. Having reclaimed Manila at great cost, the Japanese had been on the retreat from March to June 1945. tmblr.co/ZtGCUx1eyYcws
The last Japanese holdouts in the Cordilleras were successfully compromised, so much so that while remnant Japanese forces were still there, they could no longer mount a counter-offensive vs. the campaign of the U.S. troops & Filipino guerrillas.
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