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Groser loses WTO Idol and competes for TPPA X Factor
Last month Tim Groser failed to make the final cut for the new Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). We can expect him to be more like a bear with a sore head than usual. He clearly...
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What went wrong in Iceland?
Two years ago I was in Iceland for a conference on Crisis and Renewal in Welfare States. It was fascinating, sometimes inspiring and often depressing as critical academics from various parts of Europe...
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NZ Taiwan FTA
Privatisation of state power reached its zenith last week. No, it was nothing to do with Sky City, Christchurch building permits, or GCSB (that I know of). The negotiation and signing of a binding and...
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TPPA & the rise of the mass surveillance state
People have been asking me how the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) ties in to the GSCB Bill. There are many different angles. Gordon Campbell written an excellent explanation of link...
View ArticleCunliffe moves Labour off the fence on the TPPA
There has been a deafening silence from the Labour opposition about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) – until now. At his first press conference as Party leader, David Cunliffe said the...
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Mad Hatters and Insane Trade Deals
Painful as it may be, even Tea Party clouds have a silver lining. The trade ministers and political leaders of the other eleven countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations put...
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As tides are turning, Groser launches charm offensive
When the Dominion Post calls on the government to release the draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, you know the tide is turning. The government knows it too. Until now Key and Groser...
View ArticleTPPA hit by double whammy
Click here to sign the petition at ItsNotRight.org.nz What a difference a day makes! Two king hits on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement yesterday. The late August version of the intellectual...
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TPPA ‘trust me’ is not good enough for democracy
It’s been a great month for the campaign to stop the corporate deal of the century (although there are bound to be many more!) More than 26,000 messages went to Groser and Key from the ‘It’s not...
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Another month, another Wikileak – For God’s sake release the text!
Wikileaks has kicked off the year for the battle to stop the TPPA juggernaut by posting its third leak in three months. This time it was the draft environment chapter and a report showing the twelve...
View ArticleNational Government loses $5 billion-plus fig leaf for TPPA
Source: Professor Jane Kelsey – Release/Statement: Headline: National Government loses $5 billion-plus fig leaf for TPPA ‘The fig leaf of over $5 billion in gains to the New Zealand economy from the...
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EXCLUSIVE: What Obama suckered Key to agree on the golf course …
What I like most about John Key (which is not a lot) is his speeches. He is really quite guileless in letting us know what he thinks. At last week’s Australia-NZ business bunfight Key’s speech showed...
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Why you must march against the TPPA on Saturday 29th
The first round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement was in Melbourne on 15 March 2010 – four years almost to the day. Four years is enough. Believe me, four years IS ENOUGH!!!! Kiwis in at...
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Great work on 29th and the ANZAC spirit deserts the TPPA
Groser and co would have been spitting tacks last week as the ANZAC spirit deserted the TPPA negotiations. Australia has done a deal directly with Japan which undercuts the demand for Japan to...
View ArticleMainstream media silence on investor-state dispute settlements in the TPPA
I am writing this in the midst of a strategy meeting of activists from over thirty countries to discuss how to build on the current momentum to put an end to the foreign investors’ ‘bill of rights’ in...
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In the shadow of TPPA lurks TISA – and another GFC
Remember the global financial crisis? Banks ‘too big to fail’ were allowed (not) to regulate themselves. Toxic products traded in an unregulated shadow banking system proved worthless. Households were...
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Which Party Would (not) Walk Away from a Crap TPPA?
Trick question. Any TPPA would be crap. But a future government will try to sell it to us anyway. It is clear that there won’t be any deal until well after the election and the new government is...
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US ‘CERTIFICATION’: THE ULTIMATE OUTRAGE AGAINST DEMOCRACY
The US is driving the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). The demands it makes on behalf of its corporations have dominated the negotiations. US officials now chair many of the more...
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Who said Kiwis couldn’t get a fire in their bellies over an arcane...
An amazing team of activists has taken the campaign on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to local governments throughout the country. Their latest triumph came last Monday when the...
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The time for TPPA weasel words is over
Almost every day of the election campaign there has been a policy announcement that would potentially run foul of what I understand is currently in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA):...
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