A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
THE Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is described as follows by Ralph Nader in conversation with Chris Hedges — both individuals of high repute.
“The most audacious corporate power grab in American history . . . It allows corporations to bypass our three branches of government to impose enforceable sanctions by secrettribunals. These tribunals can declare our labour, consumer and environmental protections (to be) unlawful, non-tariff barriers subject to fines for noncompliance. The TPP establishes a transnational, autocratic system of enforceable governance in defiance of our domestic laws.”
TPPA is nothing less than a cunning plan implemented by corporate moguls through their political cronies. In fact it is not even cunning, it is blatant money/power grabbing.
Politicians like John Key will no doubt in due course retire with their knighthoods for services to “God, King and Country” and a packet of lucrative directorships.
A few global elites will profit magnificently while the vast majority will spend generations un-doing the mess, assuming they will survive the economic scrapheap and evolving environmental nightmares.
I was led to believe that TPPA was about promoting trade, however I note at least two elements which are clearly about profit. The proposal concerning medicines is totally about profit, as is the extension of copyright periods.
