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At least 600 of them have been abducted and tortured by state terror agents this year.
Many more economic agents face serious credit and solvency problems, including millions of households in the US, UK, and the Eurozone with excessive mortgages, hundreds of bankrupt sub-prime mortgage lenders, a growing number of distressed homebuilders, many highly leveraged and distressed financial institutions, and, increasingly, corporate-sector firms.
Jordanian agents were instrumental in providing the intelligence that enabled US forces to kill Abu Zarqawi, the mastermind of the Amman bombing.
He argued that the indictments would probably be based on cell-phone records, and that Israeli agents had penetrated the Lebanese cell-phone network.
Without common institutions, Europeans cannot be defended from the exploitation and anti-social practices that big business and its political agents portray as economic common sense.
Nor are they subjected to the same rigorous toxicity studies as other pharmaceutical agents.
As a result, it is still unclear whether dosage, duration of use, or parallel intake of other agents determine differences in their effect.
For example, within the Russian Federation, a law that entered into force just over a year ago requires non-governmental organizations that engage in “political activities” to register as “foreign agents” if they receive any funding from abroad.
Because registering as foreign agents would be to identify themselves as the equivalent of spies, few organizations have done so.
Defense of the nation against dangerous outsiders – and their domestic agents, whether real or imagined – provides a powerful bond.
The son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was reported to have hired US lawyers, bankers, and real-estate agents to move more than $110 million into the US between 2004 and 2008, using the money to buy a $30 million house in Malibu, California, a Gulfstream jet, and countless luxury goods.
And although the agreement with Russia led in August 2014 to the destruction of more than 600 metric tons of chemical agents, Assad and his allies carried out some 20 chemical attacks on the Aleppo, Idlib, and Rif Damascus governorates between July 2014 and the end of Obama’s presidency.
Government guarantees certain services but private agents provide them.
Such partnerships turn voluntary associations into 2effective agents of the state.
Governments promise all sorts of things and invite, support and guarantee private or not-for-profit agents.
Petty jealousies or simple greed can swiftly turn unexceptional citizens into agents of barbarism.
It is the work of sophisticated networks, not unlike organized crime (with which corrupt agents are often integrated).
But in most cases, entry strategies have been set, serving as important stabilizers for financial markets and economic agents.
Iran’s Troubled RiseAmerica’s decision to target Iranian agents in Iraq who may be involved in supporting violent militias is but another sign of the massive influence Iran is exercising in that troubled country.
Meanwhile, both senders and recipients (through their agents) will spur the use of verified e-mail addresses, with messages “signed” and stamped with metadata to validate their source.
And when populists have an opportunity to write a new constitution, why should they not ride roughshod over any opposition, which, by definition, must comprise the enemies of the people (who often are accused of being foreign agents)?
The goal of Poland’s peaceful revolution was freedom, sovereignty, and economic reform, not a hunt for suspected or real secret police agents.
If a hunt for agents had been organized in 1990 when the democratic revolution began, neither Leszek Balcerowicz’s economic reforms nor the establishment of a state governed by law would have been possible.
At the same time, the fact that police agents must intervene in places with which they are not familiar severely impedes their effectiveness.
Less well understood is why some agents do the opposite, tending toward order and structure.
Effective treatment and cure of MDR-TB requires prolonged use (typically two years) of a combination of drugs, including second-line drugs that for the most part are less potent than first-line agents, more toxic, or both.
Aggressive agents were marketing the loans with no heed to borrowers’ capacity to repay.
Post-mortem examinations of their brains revealed deposits of prions – the infectious agents that cause scrapie, kuru, and mad cow disease.
While the quality of their meat remains to be assessed, they can provide a safe source of biological agents – such as therapeutic antibodies and growth factors – for use in human medicine.
The entire region is going through a dangerous process of “Somaliazation,” with an expanding chain of non-state agents, mostly radical Islamist groups, challenging the idea of the state almost everywhere.
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