Sentences with phrase «like shadow governments»

He said when payments are made through authorities like DASNY, they are in essence operating like shadow governments.

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Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Labour shadow minister Gloria de Piero said: «No one should use deeply offensive language like this,» while Helen Grant, the government's sports and equalities minister, described the remarks as «completely unacceptable and very disappointing.»

Abolish the shadow government of so - called «public authorities» and off - budget, under the radar private corporations draining the public treasuries like the SUNY Research Foundation and HRI (Health Research Incorporated).

Speaking through his media aide, Paul Mumeh, Mark said the EFCC or any other agent of government were chasing shadows because the property was dully offered for sale, bided for, and he purchased like any other person would in line with Federal Government's Monetization Policy that was started during the time of President Olusegungovernment were chasing shadows because the property was dully offered for sale, bided for, and he purchased like any other person would in line with Federal Government's Monetization Policy that was started during the time of President OlusegunGovernment's Monetization Policy that was started during the time of President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Rachel Reeves, shadow work and pensions secretary, told her government counterpart he had «something like a Midas touch, where everything he touches turns to a shambles».

Critics have said that the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice, like de Blasio's Campaign for One New York, created a shadow government apparatus, in this case where government employees did work for lobbying groups and consultants were paid for their efforts by the MCCEJ while also representing Cuomo's campaign.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.

Jenny Chapman, the shadow minister for exiting the EU said: «The government can call it whatever colours they like — the fact is, their plan for Brexit is completely blank.

The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said it looked like a «horse and coaches is being driven through the government's ban».

From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.

It looks like Russia will be the next government to usher its blockchain community out of the shadows into a cryptographic economy.