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...According to Monmouth, nearly one in five Americans believe Swift is part of a covert effort on Biden’s behalf. My only quibble is with the word “covert”....
...Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, branded Kissinger as an amoral operator whose methods were covert and secretive....
...Almost every week, it seems, another covert operation comes to light, showing how far Russia’s intelligence agencies have penetrated Europe....
...I’ve long been a fan of Edward Wilson, whose elegiac novels should be better known....
...The first is deep moral repugnance for various Kissinger-Nixon acts of realpolitik — the covert bombing of Cambodia that helped spawn the Khmer Rouge, the support of Pakistan in its bloody attempts to suppress...
...Labour donor Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotricity, is applying for a judicial review of the legality of the current lenient treatment....
...I think it’s Graham Edwards....
...The extralegal tactics of the CCDI and China’s security agents include coercion and covert overseas missions, including kidnappings. Additional reporting by Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong...
...outcome is that Ukraine will descend into a quagmire in which the west funds a bloody Ukrainian resistance to an intensifying Russian incursion that directly occupies Donbas and spreads westward by means covert...
...Xi’s campaigns, according to western government officials, have deployed a playbook of extralegal coercion and covert overseas missions, including kidnappings, to compel fugitive Chinese political and business...
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...The MP for the Outer Hebrides constituency Na h-Eileanan an Iar cited accounts of the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn — where Scotland’s king Robert the Bruce defeated the army of England’s Edward II — saying...
...“It is vital that the west maintains its unity in the face of this threat from Russia — and that means we have to have the EU fully on board,” says Edward Fishman, an adjunct fellow at the Center for a New...
...In fact the American glass artist Dale Chihuly, who began his career in the 1960s, describes himself simply as a “sculptor”....
...Nicholas II of Russia, Edward VII and George V of Great Britain, Chulalongkorn of Siam and the Duc d’Orléans were among its early patrons....
...This Christmas will be difficult for Rolls-Royce workers in Barnoldswick, a town on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales in northern England....
...The dunking of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbour and the graffiti that have appeared on Confederate, Churchillian, colonial and generally racist commemorations across the world...
...And as we all know from the revelations of Edward Snowden, the US has extraordinary tools of its own on the cyber side....
...Additional reporting by Edward White...
...Active Measures is predominantly an exercise in clarity, shining a light on covert operations and exposing the lies previously reported as truth....
...“Once the health system gets pushed beyond its breaking point as in Italy, then the number of deaths goes up,” says Dale Fisher, professor of infectious diseases at the National University of Singapore....
...“If you are a mixed insurer, what you gain on the annuity book will more than make up for losses on protection,” said Mr Edwards....
...Rohde extols the Church reforms, but then notes they were quickly flouted, with almost no legal consequence, by William Casey, Reagan’s director of central intelligence who orchestrated the illegal covert...
...“The unscheduled nature of the announcement highlights the bank’s eagerness to be on the front foot and is taken by investors as a commitment to further easing as necessary,” said Edward Park, deputy chief...
...“We used the lead time that China gave us by its massive shutdown to really refine our readiness,” said Dale Fisher, professor of infectious diseases at the National University of Singapore....
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