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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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 29 2016, @02:53PM
It's unclear exactly why
Yeah that is kinda a common theme of the Clinton presidency.
As a physics style thought experiment you could swap in Hillary or Al Gore or well, Jimmy Carter, and I'm not sure anything would have turned out different.
Or in all honesty swap in Bush the First.
I had to LOL at the % of college grads statistic, I don't think high school kids waited to decide what to do with their lives until they saw who was elected president. That's a result of immigration and real estate and taxation policy from quite literally a generation ago in the 70s which was baked into the cake when the parents were having sex resulting in those kids.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday August 29 2016, @03:30PM
No, but they did base their decision, in part, on the availability of scholarships and student loans, both of which were expanded significantly by the Clinton administration.
As for crime, the Clinton administration certainly tried some stuff, like introducing community policing, and providing funding for localities to hire more cops. The reason I say we're not sure if that helped is because we have no proven explanations of why crime started dropping in the early 1990's (theories range from more aggressive policing to abortion legalization 18 years earlier to lead levels to anti-drug propaganda in schools).
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @04:59AM
It probably had to do with leaded gasoline being phased out starting in the 70s, so in the 90s you had teenagers and young adults growing up without lead poisoning.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 30 2016, @04:43PM
That is one of the ideas I specifically mentioned in my post. I'm a fan of what's commonly known as the lead-crime hypothesis, but definitive proof is very difficult for anything like this.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.