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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: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Monday August 29 2016, @11:08PM
Really?
I hate the Clintons. Bill let the banks loose to cause Great Depression II: The Fattening Of The Elites, and Hillary is a mother fucking Wallmart executive who still speaks glowingly of the Waltons and Walmart. Bitch probably wrote the handbooks on union busting for them. Then she fucked around with medical blowing smoke up our asses that she cared, only to take money from Big Pharma and become their apologist. I'm not moved by anything she is saying politically now when the history of her 20 years or so in politics is so strongly anti-worker and anti-American.
Ultimately corrupted? Dude, they're fucking there already. She entered the race a corrupt piece of shit.
All of that being said, people will vote for her because THEY DON'T WANT HITLER . I might vote for her depending on how close it is, not as a vote for her, but a vote against Hitler.
I'm of two thoughts of mind:
1) Let's have the whole fucker burn down, start a civil war, kill everyone at the top, and then recover our country.
2) Let's elect that bitch, lock her ass down to the Progressive platform, and stage huge marches and riots in every city the very moment she tries heading to center.
#1 has the potential for far more change, but also completely eliminating any goodwill we had with the world. Also, highly likely that will we be in wars and have greatly destabilized the rest of the world (NATO). Ludicrous as it sounds, we could be in war with Mexico. Or Canada. Who fucking knows.
#2 has the potential for safe change in a relatively stable environment, even allowing for the fact there might be mass unrest on the Republican side of things.
I can very easily see why someone may vote for the bitch. That fucking cunt even has a possibility of getting mine. Trump is a mentally unstable lying moron and I can't get around that. Not even with my deathwish fuel'd desire to see revolution in this country and real change that finally benefits the poor and the middle class, which covers the bulk of working class America.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.