Sentences with phrase «political blackmail»

It also ensures security of supply in its broadest sense - that is to say it renders an economy less vulnerable to political blackmail by countres that don't like us.Not sure how we get to ths desirable nirvana however.
At the end of June 2015, SBAC supporters plan to use similar political blackmail to force passage of House Bill 2214 during the final days of the final 2015 Special Session.
The temptation for political blackmail would be in solidly in place.
His single tenure was covered in a mountain of mendacity by the manipulators of sectional press and political blackmail.
«Time after time, the discretionary funding system has led to bribery, political blackmail and a boatload of big legal bills paid for by taxpayers,» de Blasio said.
Calling the practice «political blackmail,» Conners said, «I am never surprised by how low the state will go to punish local governments.
What started as wilful distraction is ending up as the ultimate political blackmail.
Access to natural resources, especially in the South, is monopolized by the few and is subject to political blackmail and threats of war.

Not exact matches

CEO Alexander Nix was suspended within days after he was filmed by undercover reporters from the UK's Channel 4 bragging about ways to win political campaigns, including through blackmail and setting «honey traps».
North Bay Village, a normally quiet Miami - Dade city of about 7,000 residents, is now home to a political firestorm over allegations of voter fraud and blackmail linked to its at - large commissioner.
«This act of blackmail and deliberate tarnishing the image of perceived political enemies won't help the image of the EFCC and it won't get it result.
Not least Germany's open blackmail of the Cypriot government demonstrates that the Merkel government, especially in an election year, is not bothered by potentially damaging political consequences in another, crisis - ridden, country.
The Telegraph's ability to blackmail and strong arm the political establishment to do its bidding seems to be fading by the day.
About 15 minutes into the Channel 4 undercover video here chief executive Alexander Nix, managing director of CA Political Global Mark Turnbull, and chief data officer Dr. Alexander Tayler appear to be slyly suggesting they're ready and able to broker the use of prostitutes and bribes to entrap and blackmail a client's political rivals, and imply they have in fact also successfully completed such assignments in Political Global Mark Turnbull, and chief data officer Dr. Alexander Tayler appear to be slyly suggesting they're ready and able to broker the use of prostitutes and bribes to entrap and blackmail a client's political rivals, and imply they have in fact also successfully completed such assignments in political rivals, and imply they have in fact also successfully completed such assignments in the past.
The lawyer for a Russian woman charged with blackmailing former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that the disgraced former pol wielded «political influence» at the outset of the drama and should have been arrested.
Having said that, strange developments from Osun West Senatorial District are sufficient enough to compel objective observers to inquire when cheap blackmail took over as a spice of influence on which political actors would always want to ride to power.
This is just as the party described as cheap blackmail the decision by the Kogi State government and the PDP Governors» Forum to blame political interference for the delay in releasing bailout funds for the state.
«You can hate the Fulani, you can call them all sort of names, you can blackmail their spineless political leaders, you can conspire to wipe out the entire Fulani leadership in a single day, you can stage a coup and «orkarize» (excise) the core Fulani states from Nigeria, you can hate them to he'll, but you can never beat them.
It said using blackmail to intimidate the political class in the South East does not mean there are no more men of good conscience who can rise up to criticise evil when they see one.
Last year, he published «Numero Zero,» a political thriller about a blackmail - obsessed newspaper in modern Italy.
Under these circumstances it was accused of blackmailing a journalist at a daily newspaper and threating to reveal information for his political connections in 2008.
It's called Horizon and includes crisis response for «Political Threat, Disappearance, Violent Crime, Blackmail & Extortion, Terrorism, Wrongful Detention, Hijacking, and Kidnap for Ransom;» however, it still won't provide rescue when you need to be plucked from a mountain, but it is less money than Global Rescue or Ripcord.
In videos covertly recorded by reporters at Britain's Channel 4 News, now - suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix boasted about bribing and blackmailing his clients» political opponents, at one point suggesting he could «send some girls around» (read: sex workers) to a rival candidate to generate damaging material against them.
Cambridge CEO Alexander Nix was suspended by his company last week after British reporters published covertly recorded footage showing Nix boasting about bribing and blackmailing political rivals.
Cambridge Analytica executives are filmed offering illegal political intimidation services to its prospective clients, suggesting bribery and blackmail involving Ukrainian sex workers.
The boss of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics firm at the centre of an international storm over the misuse of Facebook user data, has been caught on camera bragging about how the company could blackmail political candidates with sex workers, and telling a prospective client that it has been secretly operating around the world to campaign in elections.
Even if you don't live in a dangerous political climate, truly private nonprofit donations and anonymous payment channels are great for all kinds of people who want to avoid discrimination, blackmail or malicious hackers.
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