The Battle to be GM free is under threat from the National Government in New Zealand.

KW: It’s almost too hard to believe but it is consistent with a government out of touch with reality, on a suicidal policy bent and that showed them hastening to sign NZ up to the TPPA treaty that would gift NZ sovereignty to foreign courts with decisions made by corporate appointed judges over the possibility that…

NZ likely to be offered one-on-one trade deal with United States – Business – NZ Herald News

KW: Why has it taken Donald Trump to correctly recognise the danger of the TPP deal that would have pinned New Zealand to the nuiances of big corporates that have no interest in N.Z. apart from dominating our markets and ordering what we can and can not do ? Trump and his advisors regard the Pacific…

John Key was known as the smiling assassin. And people still liked him | Alex Frankel | Opinion | The Guardian

KW: An interesting opinion peice on the departed. I’m not sure that I think his self annoited successor Bill English is going to enjoy the same easy road as Key appears to have driven not that I pass criticsm on English but without poster boy Key National has lost a lot of leverage I suggest….

As TPP Dies, Asian Nations Salute Their New “Free Trade” Leader: China | Zero Hedge

KW: The death of TPP has immediate effect once Trump take power, he says. The American agreement with all its fish-hooks giving multi-nationals supremacy over soveriegn laws is a slap in the face for the National Government and John Key particularly as a supporter of globalist agendas and the U.S. effort to block the rise…