Europe s Poisoned Chalice of Growth

Tony Blair s Poisoned Legacy

is gored with a poisoned knife

Koizumi had real successes in these reform efforts, which significantly transformed a malfunctioning Japanese state that was in the grip of pork barrel LDP politicians, bureaucrats, and big business elites. Koizumi had relied on the bureaucrats to implement his reforms, but he did so at the price of postponing an overhaul of the civil service, which became a poisoned chalice that he passed on to Abe.

We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food.

It poisoned his blood. He died when I was 11.

And Judy saw her landscape being destroyed and her water poisoned.

It's very difficult to be healthy on a planet where we've poisoned the earth and the sea and the air.

That's a bunch of mice that had been poisoned by our scientist friends down in Texas, at Brooks Air Base, with anthrax.

Maduro himself invoked the rumor that the Israelis poisoned former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. He could just as well refer to Egypt s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who dropped dead of a heart attack in 1970 Nasser s confidant, the journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, always maintained that the president had been poisoned by his deputy and successor, Anwar El Sadat.

So will transatlantic relations remain as poisoned as they are now if Kerry wins? Is Texas swagger merely to be replaced by the distinguished disdain of a Boston Brahmin?

In fact, US prestige has suffered much since 2008. America s national politics is so poisoned by provincial partisanship especially among Republicans, who have hated Obama from the beginning that democracy itself looks damaged.

And so one of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

The global economy is overrun with such poisoned packages. As a result, banks distrust one another and have mostly stopped lending to each other, which jeopardizes economic activity by severely reducing the availability of credit to businesses.

If we want to avoid betraying those Members that believe in the Organization and in its ethical foundations, we have a moral obligation not to allow the reform of the Security Council to be decided in this unhealthy and poisoned environment.

He could just as well refer to Egypt s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who dropped dead of a heart attack in 1970 Nasser s confidant, the journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, always maintained that the president had been poisoned by his deputy and successor, Anwar El Sadat.

The problem is that everyone writes history in their own manner, and that there are no scales that can fix the precise point at which the remedy of unifying patriotism turns into the lethal poison of rabid nationalism. Weimar Germany blindly poisoned itself.

A dearth of water fuels ethnic strife, as communities begin to fear for their survival and seek to capture the resource. In Darfur, recurrent drought has poisoned relations between farmers and nomadic herdsmen, and the war we are helplessly witnessing today follows years of escalating conflict.

Last year, Japan s committed investment projects in China fell 24 from 2006, while actual investment volume decreased by 25 , partly owing to regulatory changes in China regarding foreign investment. Recent food safety issues, such as the poisoned dumplings cases, have clearly heightened the Japanese public s sensitivity about Chinese exports.

This inevitable process poisoned political life and the media, which led to a strange state of limited freedom and a mafia like environment. The shadings differed from country to country in the post communist world, but the new generations rising in these societies now seem to be fed up with it.

If a great power forgets this, or loses the ability to act accordingly, it begins to decline. It is almost tempting to think that America s great Cold War opponent, the Soviet Union, with its sudden disappearance 15 years ago this month, left its own Trojan horse for America the poisoned gift of unilateralism.

The global companies operating in the delta have spilled oil and flared natural gas for decades, without regard for the natural environment and the communities impoverished and poisoned by their actions. One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels twice the size of the BP spill.

Meanwhile, the local population has remained impoverished and beset by diseases caused by unsafe air, poisoned drinking water, and pollution in the food chain. Local lawlessness has led to gang warfare and persistent illegal tapping into the pipelines to steal oil, leading to further massive oil spills and frequent explosions that kill dozens, including innocent bystanders.

For too long, intemperate historical debates often driven by biased newspaper accounts have poisoned bilateral relations. Now, as another war of words heats up, Japanese and South Korean leaders need to step back, recognize where the real interests of their people lie, both today and in the future, and calmly begin to take the measures required to ensure durable reconciliation.

The big difference between the Malthusian conservative critics of social insurance in the early nineteenth century and the Chicago critics of the 1970 s is that the Chicago critics had a point Providing public support to the worthy poor, and then removing it when they began to stand on their own feet, poisoned incentives and was unlikely to lead to good outcomes.

Consider, for example, that, because GM crops require less chemical pesticide, fewer farmers and their families risk being poisoned by runoff into waterways and ground water. From 1996 to 2009, the amount of pesticide that was sprayed on crops worldwide fell by 393 million kilograms 1.4 times the total amount of pesticide applied annually to crops in the European Union.

Japan could go a long way toward helping its neighbors overcome the poisoned past that it shares with so many of them as a result of its old imperial ambitions. Just as US President Richard Nixon s unyielding anti communism uniquely suited him to establish diplomatic relations with China, Abe, an affirmed nationalist, may be the Japanese politician best able to blend contrition for the past with forthrightness about the present.