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But will they be able to stand up to the powerful lobby of big banks and their shadowy allies?
It is likely that this operation was propelled from Pakistan through the Lashkar e Tauba, a terrorist organization sustained by hatred of secular India and backed by shadowy Pakistani agencies and street support.
Now it is simply about money – particularly campaign contributions, but also the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street, as well as the vast pro-megabank interests that pour millions of dollars into think tanks and other, more shadowy organizations.
The coexistence, in the same depressed economy, of these two types of businesses gives rise to unexpected opportunities for shadowy trades without which countless businesses might close their doors permanently.
And it is very possible that, behind closed doors, Chinese officials are already testing their ability to manipulate some of the shadowy figures surrounding Kim, who appears increasingly paranoid about the possibility of a coup.
The Saudi-owned satellite news channel Al Arabiya has also reported the hacking of its Twitter feed by the “Electronic Syrian Army,” a shadowy group most likely comprised of free-lance operatives with the direct or indirect support of the Syrian government.
As The New York Times recently revealed, Facebook is so desperate to protect its business model that it hired a shadowy PR firm to spread anti-Semitic misinformation about one of its leading critics, the financier and philanthropist George Soros.
As someone with some background in politics, I understand the strategy of today’s government: create an extreme threat, first and foremost through shadowy associations with fascist organizations, and then say to citizens, “You can’t deal with this threat on your own, so you should trust us to figure out what to do with it.”
In films like Apocalypse Now and Platoon, shadowy enemies lurk in an hallucinatory darkness of fetid swamps and jungles.
When the sheer enormity of the Jewish Holocaust was revealed, these ideas slithered back into the shadowy world of the extreme right.
None of the youths I talked to could give any clear explanation for their actions, except to say that an Islamic schoolteacher known as Ustadz So had recruited them into a shadowy militant movement.
DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa – the party’s shadowy power broker – resigned from his post simultaneously with Hatoyama.
A shadowy mafia-style company, Sheriff, owns most of the economy.
And the ongoing Karmapa saga, with its shadowy politics and intrigue, could turn out to be only the opening act – a foretaste of what may come when two dueling Dalai Lamas emerge after the incumbent passes from the scene.
While it is legitimate to demand that the Brotherhood become a regular legal organization, rather than a shadowy network fronted by the Freedom and Justice Party, criminalization of political activity has no place in a constitutional democracy.
The government employs a host of new legal regulations, a shadowy internet police force, and a powerful hardware-based national information filtering system.
This may mean eliminating shadowy “tax havens,” tapping phone lines, and identifying individuals considered highly dangerous.
The movie’s release sparked international intrigue, drama, and shadowy geopolitical power struggles.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when Japan posed a serious challenge to the United States’ global economic primacy, films such as Rising Sun, starring Sean Connery, and Black Rain, starring Michael Douglas, portrayed Tokyo in classic film-noir terms – shadowy, menacing, and peopled by grotesque composites of corporate titans and Yakuza gangsters.
After all, the choice of the European Commission’s president is negotiated secretly between EU heads of government, and the head of the European Parliament is selected on the basis of shadowy inter-party horse-trading.
Direct but shadowy information tends to lead to “disease mongering” – the creation of diseases in order to boost prescriptions.
Some specific advances, unprecedented in the shadowy world of intelligence agencies, have accompanied this rhetorical commitment to privacy.
Terror is a shadowy enemy.
Saddam Hussein heads a state, not a shadowy terrorist outfit.
They often invent shadowy networks of “elite” forces ranged against the ordinary, decent American.
This may or may not bring shudders of horror, but will certainly not occur outside the law or in some shadowy offshore location.
In the populists’ portrayal, “globalists” are a shadowy cosmopolitan elite that seek to destroy national sovereignty in the name of a self-serving agenda.
By blaming nameless shadowy, faceless characters behind the curtain and shadowy cabals, all these leaders have a ready excuse for all of their own failures.
When Trump and his supporters rant in campaign rallies about shadowy cabals of international financiers who undermine the interests of “ordinary, decent people,” some might interpret that as a common anti-Semitic trope, especially when an image of George Soros is brandished to underline this message.
In terms of shadowy influence-peddling, China’s actions have been particularly concerning.
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