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Given the rising risk of conflict in Asia – owing to a
toxic
combination of rapid GDP growth, an arms race, historical resentments, rampant chauvinism, territorial disputes, and a lack of effective institutional arrangements for conflict resolution – Europe should welcome a stronger US presence in the region.
Indeed, it is now clear that governments prevented a full-scale collapse of the financial system in 2008 by transforming
toxic
private debt into public debt.
The EU’s proposed standards regulating
toxic
emissions from coal plants are even less strict than China’s, Greenpeace reports.
The power plants will pollute the waters with
toxic
coal ash, bring constant coal-barge traffic, and require the dredging of riverbeds.
As the threat of climate change grows increasingly menacing, influential institutions like the WHC must take a stand against the
toxic
and insidious legacy of dependence on coal and other fossil fuels.
Likewise, Die Linke’s call to abolish NATO, together with its cozying up to Russia, has left the party politically
toxic
in most of western Germany.
A true loss would be inflicted on a bank’s creditors only if the write-off losses on
toxic
mortgage loans exceeded the bank’s equity.
Nowadays, even if another EU member agrees with the UK, it might not say so, in order to avoid being tainted by our
toxic
brand.
Allowing the use of chemical weapons to go unpunished not only could reverse one of the few promising developments in the Syrian conflict; it also threatens to undermine international norms on the use of
toxic
gas and nerve agents, increasing the possibility that they will be used in terrorist attacks.
A fact-finding mission established by the OPCW in April 2014 found “compelling confirmation” that a
toxic
chemical – most likely chlorine gas – was used “systematically and repeatedly” as a weapon in villages in northern Syria.
Persistent allegations that non-state actors are using chemical weapons in Syria and northern Iraq are of particular concern, as they raise the possibility of
toxic
chemicals being used in terrorist attacks.
Manufacturing nerve agents is a complex process, but extremists can easily deploy
toxic
industrial chemicals – such as chlorine gas – if they have them in their possession.
The threat that
toxic
gas or nerve agents will be deployed in a conflict between countries has been all but eliminated.
Throughout the Western world, a
toxic
mix of physical, economic, and cultural insecurity has been fueling anti-immigration sentiment and politics precisely at the moment when the disintegration of post-colonial states across the Islamic crescent is producing a refugee problem on a scale not seen since World War II.
There are four basic approaches to cleaning up a banking system that is facing a systemic crisis: recapitalization of the banks, together with a purchase of their
toxic
assets by a government “bad bank”; recapitalization, together with government guarantees – after a first loss by the banks – of the
toxic
assets; private purchase of
toxic
assets with a government guarantee (the current US government plan); and outright nationalization (or call it “government receivership” if you don’t like the dirty N-word) of insolvent banks and their resale to the private sector after being cleaned.
And the very cumbersome US Treasury proposal – which combines removing
toxic
assets from banks’ balance sheets while providing government guarantees – was so non-transparent and complicated that the markets dove as soon as it was announced.
In death, Vemula has achieved something he could not have imagined: He has become a national hero, his tragedy emblematic of the
toxic
durability of caste in India’s development narrative.
As an illustration, current regulations for GM foods, if applied to non-GM products, would bar the sale of potatoes and tomatoes, which can contain poisonous glycoalkaloids; celery, which contains carcinogenic psoralens; rhubarb and spinach (oxalic acid); and cassava, which feeds about half a billion people, but contains
toxic
cyanogenic alkaloids.
The principle even applies to foods: Large amounts of nutmeg or licorice are notoriously
toxic.
Indeed, many of the alternatives would be more
toxic
or require more tillage, resulting in damaging soil erosion, increased CO2 emissions, decreased crop yields, greater production costs, and higher consumer prices.
Thus, banks losses on their
toxic
assets and their capital needs will be much larger than recently estimated, which will worsen the credit crunch.
Who were the ultimate buyers of these
toxic
products, and why did they buy them?
According to the ILO, dangerous machinery, long working hours, and exposure to
toxic
pesticides makes farm work one of the world’s deadliest jobs; more than 170,000 agricultural workers are killed every year on unsafe farms, twice the mortality rate of any other industry.
Protectionism, anemic saving, and deficit spending make for an especially
toxic
cocktail.
Even when the drugs do work, they are relatively toxic: azoles and polyenes are nephrotoxic (damaging to the kidneys), and echinocandins are hepatotoxic (damaging to the liver).
Moreover, America has been exporting its problems abroad, not just by selling
toxic
mortgages and bad financial practices, but through the ever-weakening dollar, in part a result of flawed macro- and micro-policies.
By contrast, countries that loosened monetary policies and reflated not only stabilized their financial systems more effectively and recovered faster, but also avoided the
toxic
protectionism of the day.
Just a few months ago, the bilateral relationship had sunk to an all-time post-war low, owing to a
toxic
cocktail of territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Japan’s handling of its wartime history (particularly prime ministerial visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine), and Chinese fears about Japanese rearmament.
The biggest banks were badly run in the years leading up to the crisis of 2008 – exhibiting a
toxic
mixture of hubris, incompetence, and excessive leverage – and their governance problems today are worse than they were in 2005 or 2007.
Premature deaths from breathing in small particles and
toxic
gases, and the pain and suffering from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, do not have a market price.
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