It explicitly named Russia and China as malign influences, and declared that the Russians had used technology "to undermine the legitimacy of democracies".
When it comes to reuniting a fractured country and rolling back the twin, malign influences of the military and Buddhist chauvinism, Suu Kyi's powers are strictly limited.
Even though Mr. Thein Sein has ostensibly put the country on the path to democracy, Myanmar is hardly free from malign influences.
At least in horseracing, which has been suffered from the same malign influences, there remains a healthy respect for the nags themselves, from the trainers if not the punters.
If you were making a chart of malign influences on popular music over the past 40 years - scat singing, nu-metal, the dark and fateful moment when Gary Lightbody turned to his friends and said, "I'm going to form a band called Snow Patrol" - then cocaine would come high.
If you have pretensions to be a serious gangster, you want to associate yourself with them," says Chris Burbank, head of Salt Lake City police.Such malign influences, even if they are mostly imagined, pain those who have found homes in the interior.
