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posted by janrinok on Monday August 29 2016, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-surrendering-to-corporations-for-now dept.

Common Dreams reports

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said [August 25] that the U.S. Senate will not vote on the 12-nation, corporate-friendly Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) this year, buoying progressive hopes that the trade deal will never come to fruition.

[...] McConnell told a Kentucky State Farm Bureau breakfast in Louisville that the agreement, "which has some serious flaws, will not be acted upon this year".

Common Dreams also reports

Germany's Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister said that the controversial Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has "de facto failed", admitting that negotiations between the U.S. and E.U. have completely stalled.

"Negotiations with the U.S. have de facto failed because, of course, as Europeans, we couldn't allow ourselves to submit to American demands", Sigmar Gabriel told the German news station ZDF [1][2] in an interview that will air at 7pm German time [August 28], according to Der Spiegel. [1]

"Everything has stalled", Gabriel said.

[1] In German [2] Content behind scripts

Reported by BBC, in English.

In 14 rounds of talks, the two sides had not agreed on a single common chapter out of 27 being discussed, Mr Gabriel said. "In my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it," said Mr Gabriel.

He suggested Washington was angry about a deal the EU struck with Canada, because it contained elements the US does not want to see in the TTIP.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @01:58PM (#394672)

    Trump promises to slap huge tariffs [reuters.com] on goods imported from China (45 percent) and Mexico (35 percent). So that's about the opposite of TTIP/TPP.

    Unless he was being sarcastic.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @03:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @03:51PM (#394772)

    If only republicans would stop being bigots. Not saying Trump is, but he's intentionally presenting an act attractive to bigots. Other people become bigots this year, or perhaps they always were but just hiding it under a congenial veneer.

    It's a sad state of affairs. We've all been skillfully played by the MotU.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @05:05PM (#394816)

      Bigotry is at the core of their politics.

      It goes back to when the Dixiecrats [wikipedia.org] all bailed out of the Donkey party during the Voting Right/Civil Rights era that sought to end Jim Crow.
      (Harry Truman desegregated the military and Strom Thurmomd ran for president in 1948 as a segregationist.)

      Next came Nixon's Southern Strategy. [wikipedia.org]
      Reagan continued with this when he made his first speech as the GOP candidate at Philadelphia, Mississippi [wikipedia.org] (where civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner had been murdered; see also "Mississippi Burning").

      Lee Atwater made a science of dogwhistle politics. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wikiquote.org]
      Now, Pachyderms didn't even have to say the actual words.
      They could speak in code and all of them knew what racist attitudes were being expressed.

      Again, racism is at the heart of the GOP.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:34AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @12:34AM (#395020)

        So according to you, one day they might not actually be racist, but because of code words that supposedly exist, and are counted by their political opponents according to some hidden conspiracy theory style list, they can always be painted as racists forever.

        Because everything's a dog whistle. Protecting middle class jobs (from competition with brown people)? Protecting America (for white people)? Balancing the budget (by not paying money to/for brown people)? Opening the gates of commerce (to enrich white people at the expense of brown people)? Creating tariffs (to protect white people against brown people)?

        Any political statement can be turned into a racist slur. I could do a five finger exercise and duplicate this for any party you care to name. So how about, instead of fabricating a fairy-tale to support mudslinging, you pay attention to substantive racism?

  • (Score: 1) by boxfetish on Monday August 29 2016, @11:17PM

    by boxfetish (4831) on Monday August 29 2016, @11:17PM (#394989)

    Not sarcasm, but rather faux populism. He doesn't give two shits about the working class. He will never impose a tarriff on a damn thing, nor will he speak out against any trade deals once elected (a long shot anyway).