First, the unquestionable sincere love and reverence Muslims have for Prophet Muhammad notwithstanding, we are well aware how certain groups or governments manipulate crises of this kind as a safety valve for both their restive populations and their own political agenda.
Yet there is widespread suspicion that the government is manipulating the crisis precisely to deflect attention from the political chaos.
A Baton Rouge prosecutor accused the public defender of manipulating this crisis to "get rid of the death penalty". Judge Hunter concluded his ruling with these words.
And Mr. King, who can manipulate this crisis in any way that occurs to him, becomes a kid in a candy store.
The memos, which Enron supplied to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERCC) and which the commission made public Monday, give fresh ammunition to California officials who have alleged that energy traders and out-of-state companies Enron as well as Dynegy and Duke Energy –caused or manipulated the crisis.
With it at long last becoming evident in at least some Western media that Syrian rebels -- who burned civilian evacuee buses this week -- were manipulating the humanitarian crisis for military gain, Russia, Iran and Turkey (which backs the Syrian rebels) have agreed to settle the Syrian Civil War in meetings early in the new year.
Michael Steele, the Republican Party chairman, claimed that the president was "manipulating this tragic national crisis for selfish political gain".
Released through the HarperCollins imprint of William Morrow and Company, Savage argues in the book that "Americans are boiling mad over the way Congress and this Marxist/Leninist-oriented President are manipulating the current economic crisis to nationalize businesses".
But, upon the grand duke's election as emperor at his brother Joseph's death in 1790, Tuscany, left to his son, Ferdinand III, erupted in violence as hostile clerics and civil servants manipulated the European crisis of the 1790s against Leopold's reforms.
It takes the shape of a triangle connecting three points: Clarksdale, a market town in the Mississippi Delta, genesis of the exodus; Chicago, the ill-starred promised land, its destination; and Washington, the seat of power from which politicians manipulated and mismanaged the resulting crises.
