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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @03:38PM
Please. Clinton is a 'professional' alright, a professional criminal.
Even an idiot like Trump couldn't possibly be worse than giving that bloodthirsty harpy the presidency again.
While I'm not in full agreement with your premise that Clinton is a professional criminal (I would say professional politician, which given our corrupt, money take all politics, should be criminal, but technically isn't because politicians control the laws.)
I have to disagree with your suggestion that a professional criminal is worse than an amateur. I would much rather be mugged by a professional criminal than the crazy guy who can't talk coherently, changes what he's saying mid sentence, all while waving his gun every which way. The first one will take your money. The second might just kill you accidentally, or on purpose, whether or not he gets your money.
Of course, my preference would not to be mugged in the first place. But according to the mass-media and both major parties, I don't have any other options.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @12:59AM
Ahh, the professional writes the laws..
And it just so happens, the new law allows them to just kill you and take all your stuff anyway.
I'll take my chances with the obvious incompetent I saw a mile off.