@snlester Great response. Litigious ISDS framework certain to create new avoidance strategies. More obscure government intervention in FDI.
RT @snlester: “Defenders of the [ISDS] system haven’t really offered much evidence of the problem they are trying to fix.” http://t.co/JOuc…
@snlester Will TPP members have a right to exclude ISDS as a condition of “approval†of (non-tobacco) foreign M&A’s, greenfields FDI?
”..HRC is subject to ministerial direction” & to partisan appointment (@timwilsoncomau), but shd have a long leash::http://t.co/hDFshndh8K
“[I]ntervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards”. Another on the long tragic list::http://t.co/CkcKnwp5Nu
iccwbo @iccwbo @USCIB Symposium has now kicked off. 6 reasons why @wto #TFA implementation matters #MiamiTrade pic.twitter.com/G9UEVGi3Av
“Prison Sentences Much Longer than Juries Would Like”. Grist for public choice analysis of sentencing laws?::http://t.co/sqSJ35laTv
Hope this rosy view of Shanghai free-trade zone is right. Many AUS-CHN FTA services commitments anchored there::http://t.co/JeK5t92yUK
Brief, useful data, right approach IMO; @SincDavidson slides on tax facts, reform::http://t.co/fDufbptJtJ
“This was a message that should have been delivered in Parliamentâ€::http://t.co/P6144vXwrQ
The Queen’s Governor-General cannot compose even a simple declaration in our language. “It is notified that…†Ugh!::http://t.co/k3veAc4dpV
Abbott wants more powers but it seems snoops have already stolen SIM encryption keys to listen to your phone calls::https://t.co/Mh5t4R4Y8a
@morvjn If you mean that now we find it easier to suspend our disbelief in murder than our disbelief in ideas as the origin of power, yep!
Two years re-watching 150+ episodes of The West Wing. So optimistic, earnest. Such fine writing, drama. Still… the world did not change.
“Australia has close to the most progressive redistribution system among developed nations”. Interesting data::http://t.co/k2hzD34JAi
Most sickening thing about the Hep. A link to berries imported fm CHN is the knee-jerk protectionism of AU growers::http://t.co/pIGSahlF9y
RT @snlester: Governments “shall not, by exchange action, frustrate the intent of the” GATT http://t.co/eDgwbcz5U2 So, FWIW, we have curren…
My 2009 novel Cloud of Lies (Amazon) describes governments’ addiction to malware, snooping & effect on open Internet::http://t.co/X9N22AnsNw
“The stupidest thing I’ve ever done is stop taking the drug”[http://t.co/IEuBKdqoBE article on ageing and rapamycin:: http://t.co/Z2dGqj8SVz
Abbott’s unjustified $15m (cumulative) review threshold on foreign farm investment hurts, farmers, ag. bus., growth::http://t.co/xJpccnyJIY
Wait! Google maps is only ten years old?!::http://t.co/F4QeKy464u
“Abbott isn’t… able to repair the budget deficit, nor drive … the reforms necessary to get the economy goingâ€:: http://t.co/XPhr7mBmb9
Will future global economic ‘governance’ respond to, or hinder @iccwbo support for free enterprise and open markets? http://t.co/kbUxzN655i
Incremental rice, pork quotas, beef ‘safeguard’ triggers, zombie auto duties! Is this a “21st century” trade deal!?::http://t.co/uLXUAISV4Z
RT @themetresgained: David Uren is like a breath of fresh air. Doesn’t matter who the leader is. This needs fixing http://t.co/jHNUGL5XtX
The G-20 evidently can’t do its job (navigate out of the financial markets mess) so it strikes poses. China next-up::http://t.co/pcjANNHA1p
@kw_watson @snlester cold-filtration, a.k.a. ‘ultra-filtration’. Around for years. Coke/Nestlé make bucketsa $ fm hyped water, why not milk?
Transformative? Alas, yes. W/out China, #TPP threatens A-Pac trade blocs. RT @dikenson: Clayton Yeutter on the #TPP: http://t.co/wgsk91L0Rg
The 16C “time of troubles†in Russia’s national mythology; a perspective on Yeltsin, Putin and Ukraine::http://t.co/dV4wADddod