Australia's Trade Minister says a version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) '12 minus one' could still be an option for the remaining countries wishing to ratify a deal.

read more crap from Ciobo at:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/rural-news/2017-01-24/us-withdraws-from...

The TPP is a Lawyers paradise and a citizen nightmare under the auspices of selling three clams more to someone else. It is a child of right-wing politicians who are desperate to remove democracy from your underpants.

This morning, Donald Trump formally withdrew America’s inclusion in the Trans Pacific Partnership. And yet so desperate is the Turnbull government to be seen to be doing something about the economy, and so blindly accepting is it of the benefits of trade agreements, that it remains determined to pursue a TPP even without the USA, and without any knowledge of whether such an agreement would benefit our economy.

One of the more ironic things about the TPP is that the Turnbull government uses the same language to argue for it that Donald Trump does to argue against it. This is because both are arguing about the benefits of trade deals in a very one-sided and half true manner.

Donald Trump says he is not against trade – he’s against “bad deals”. In the statement put out by the White House signalling the US government will withdraw from the TPP, it noted it would sign any new trade agreements so long as they “are in the interests of American workers”.

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/24/turnbull-and-the-t...

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President Donald Trump came to power just in time to prevent billionaire George Soros and Bill and Hillary Clinton achieve a Trans Pacific free trade deal hidden from the public, Wall Street hedge fund manager and financial analyst Mitch Feierstein told Sputnik.

"George Soros and Clinton Inc. were nearly able to declare ‘Mission Accomplished’ on their vision of establishing an opaque ‘New World Order’," Feierstein, a hedge fund manager who has spent 38 years working in the New York, Tokyo and London global financial markets, said on Tuesday.

On Monday, Trump announced that he was scrapping the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that his predecessor President Barack Obama had sought to complete during his eight years in office.

"Forget Soros's New World Order for now because a new sheriff, Donald Trump, the 45th US President arrived on in Washington promising to drain the swamp. TPP is a now history and it will be interesting to see who is naked at low tide," Feierstein noted.

The top-secret TPP free trade agreement was one of the worst trade deals ever crafted by Washington’s pay-to-play culture of corruption, Feierstein stated.

"How could any rational individual or sovereign be supportive of a secret ‘trade deal’ with zero transparency and legal language drafted by multi-national corporations?" he asked.

The TPP was deliberately crafted to ensure a form of "globalization" so that these same corporations who designed the "rules" could operate in the dark with total impunity while stripping member nations of their sovereignty and denying consumers of all their rights and protections, Feierstein explained.

"TPP was Obama’s ‘Crown Jewel’ achievement after 35 years of failed neoliberalism funded by oligarchs for the benefit of oligarchies," he observed.

Feierstein is a British-American investor, banker and writer who has worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and currently works as a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post.

https://sputniknews.com/politics/201701261050016570-trump-foiled-soros-w...

Yep... Actually the battle is more sinister... The battle is between Uncle Rupe and Soros, but don't tell anyone. We've been on this for quite a long time now. See all the toons on this site mentioning these two men and their rivalry... including: the soros connection...

Most journalist would have no idea of the conspiracies these two men are involved in to battle out their influence on the world. Mitch Feierstein is the fellow who wrote Planet Ponzi...

Malcolm Turnbull has walked back a commitment to ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement in parliament because it is not clear whether the legislation will pass.

The Coalition began the week calling for a clear statement from parliament to ratify the agreement. In a statement on Sunday, the trade minister, Steve Ciobo, said “ratification of the agreement is the strongest message we can send on the importance of the TPP”. 

“It would be a clear statement from the Australian parliament that we reject protectionism and that open markets are the path to long-term sustainable job creation.”

read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/26/malcolm-turnbull-cools-...