KW: After Amalgamation failures in Northland, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington is the National government attempting to do this via the backdoor while everyone watches the Rio Olympics?…….. Submitted by a reader It seems that Laurence Yule is planning to force amalgamation on Hawke’s Bay.  The following letter was in the Dominion Post: Letters to the…

KW: Wake up folks! This is the most significant piece of legislation of John Keys career. People who expose possible criminal actions or cover up of our government will be silenced with imprisonment. The denial that it is not spurred on from the Edward Snowden leaks is really lame because ‘nice Mr Prime Minister John…

KW: The question for the Hastings District Council and the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is WHY are you allowing the Heretaunga Aquifer to be exploited by corporates exporting water that they pay nothing for? https://youtu.be/FQvkGOlNPrE

KW: ….But why? Going to visit NZ troops in Iraq is one thing even though NZ is in Iraq obeying the command of the US. However, it is US Washington neocons who command the US military and they act on behalf of Israel. Neocons are Zionist Jews in the main who believe in an Israel…

KW: Anyone thinking that the NZ TPPA agreement is all about ‘free trade’ should wake up. The US is pressuring the Europeans now even before the that agreement is signed to concede to corporate pressure on GMO issues and becasue TPPA has the ISDS (Investor State Dispute Settlement) clauses in it allowing corporates to challenge…

KW: There will be no difference here in New Zealand where under TPPA corporates like Monsanto will be able sue to have their GMO products used even if there are local laws or declarations banning GMO products. Source: GMOs Produced through “Gene-editing”: European Commission Fails to Regulate New GMOs after Intense US Lobbying | Global…

KW: John Key is a smart man of that there is no question. However, he is also a strong advocate of the United States and its corporate culture having been a foreign exchange trader with Merrill Lynch even becoming appointed a member of the foreign exchange committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York….

Kiwiwatch: There is a high degree of hypocrisy displayed by Maori with this article once more displaying the distortion of the backward looking Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand politics. Fixing the wrongs of British imperialism is one thing and rightly so that injustices are repaired, albeit by the current residents of New Zealand rather…

Source: Hypocrisy | NZCPR Site

While this article relates to India it has special ramifications for New Zealand and the TPPA agreement that the National government ell us is such a great story. Whatever is said by those arguing the agreement is a ‘free trade agreement’ it will empower corporates – and they will do what they want whenever they…