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A former administrator at the West Valley Water District in Rialto alleges in a lawsuit that he was fired in retaliation for complaining about misconduct and malfeasance, including death threats and coercion by board directors.
After its involvement in the farcical Russia hoax and its coercion of Twitter and Facebook to censor The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, nobody trusts the FBI not to keep lying to protect itself.
“All major elections in Taiwan since 1996 have seen similar influence operations from China,” she said, noting these include the use of military threats and economic coercion.
Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/taiwan-leader-says-china-invasion-unlikely-for-now/
Any resulting romances would have been built on deceit, or coercion to address one’s sexuality when they’re not ready to.
As an adult, I learned about coercion and consent through positive role models, friends and healthy relationships.
At its summit in Hiroshima in May, the G7 major western imperialist states, recognising China’s lead in this regard, made a statement against Chinese economic coercion and invited several non-G7 states including Brazil, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
China’s foreign ministry stated that it will not accept “finger pointing” and “coercion” from the United States over its relations with Russia.
Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news/us-accuses-china-of-arming-russia/
China urges G7 not to be ‘accomplice to economic coercion’
Democratic Alliance has dismissed the shutdown as “much ado about nothing”, saying the court interdict stopped violation of South Africans’ rights by means of intimidation, violence or coercion.
Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/shutdown-will-hit-taxpayer-in-the-pocket/
“Depictions of degradation, sexual coercion, aggression and exploitation are commonplace, and disproportionately targeted against teenage girls,” she said.
Experts working with domestic abuse victims say pets are commonly used as a tool for coercion against women and children.
He was convicted of incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and for the negligent homicide of one of his infant sons.
In a 6-3 ruling, the justices wrote that “tolerance, not coercion, is our Nation’s answer” and that all Americans, including religious ones, should be able to freely express their beliefs as they see fit and “not as the government demands.”
Source: https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/31/recap-religious-liberty-wins-2023/
In August, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee warned in a report that ministers should “recognise the threat that the Chinese Communist Party could use economic coercion to influence UK decision-making by targeting strategically critical sectors”.
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/12/31/china-behind-some-of-north-seas-dirtiest-oil-rigs/
In contrast, a court may consider it invalid if there’s evidence one side signed it under coercion.
No one should be surprised that union coercion hurts workers, along with small business owners, taxpayers and retirees.
Raimondo said in May that the United States “will not tolerate” an effective ban on China’s purchases of Micron memory chips and is working closely with allies to address such “economic coercion.”
Source: https://houstonianonline.com/us-commerce-secretary-to-visit-china-to-strengthen-trade-ties/
“Rather than doubling down on failed approaches of violence and coercion… I urge everyone involved to step out of the illogic of escalation that has only ended in dead bodies, shattered lives and utter despair,” Turk said in a statement.
Romanian authorities and the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism said the alleged victims were forced to perform pornography through 'physical violence and mental coercion'.
She stated, “he used his disposition as the aunt’s husband to gain access to the child for sexual activity and the threat and coercion were to maintain control over the child.
Source: https://leadership.ng/doctor-used-threats-to-force-minor-into-sexual-activities-witness-tells-court/