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Beefy said:
German media say secret documents reveal the US has pressured the EU to approve a transatlantic free trade deal. The reports say Washington may block easier car exports if the EU doesn't open up its agricultural market.

German media say 240 pages of text from secret transatlantic free trade talks obtained by Greenpeace show that the US is pressuring the EU.

Washington was blocking European car exports into the US to force the 508-million-population EU to buy more environmentally risky US farm produce, claimed the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (SZ) newspaper and two German public television channels. Greenpeace said it would publish the material later on Monday, contrary to strict secrecy maintained by US and EU negotiating teams during three years of talks on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
http://www.ttip-leaks.org

US proposals include an obligation on the EU to inform its industries of any planned regulations in advance, and to allow them the same input into EU regulatory processes as European firms.

American firms could influence the content of EU laws at several points along the regulatory line, including through a plethora of proposed technical working groups and committees.

“Before the EU could even pass a regulation, it would have to go through a gruelling impact assessment process in which the bloc would have to show interested US parties that no voluntary measures, or less exacting regulatory ones, were possible,” Riss said.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/01/leaked-ttip-documents-cast-doubt-on-eu-us-trade-deal
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The bigger the cog, the longer it takes to turn
 
Three Labour councillors have been suspended over social media posts about Israel.

Nottingham councillor Ilyas Aziz and ex-Blackburn mayor Salim Mulla are both said to have shared a post which suggested the state of Israel should be relocated to the US.

Burnley councillor Shah Hussain said he would "fight" his suspension for a tweet sent to an Israeli footballer.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-36185694

Mulla was the guy who said about Israel made ISIS.

Shah said this:
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Donald Trump suggests that his Republican rival Ted Cruz had a father who was linked to JFK's assassin. Ted Cruz retaliated by calling Trump a pathological liar.
The latter is probably true, but would you want either as the head of the most powerful nation on Earth.? Give me Hilary or indeed Bernie, every time. Or perhaps Obama can do a Roosevelt and go more than 2 terms:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-36192806
 
Clinton should win, and probably will, though I expect it to be a lot closer than some people think.

People hate Trump, and people love Trump. The republicans have to try and unite around him and get Conservatives to vote for him.

People dislike Clinton, and don't love her. Though she seems like an uninspiring, but safe pair of hands.

That's the lesser of two evils.
 
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