An estimated 25,000 marched on Saturday to block New Zealand’s participation in the secret Transpacific Partnership Agreement (aka TPP or TPPA). Kiwis are really sick of being dictated to by the United States
Three hundred people marched in New Plymouth, the largest protest since I’ve lived here.
For more information read Taranaki Daily News
The Most Revolutionary Act 
Good to know people ARE Waking up 🙂
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Yes. Isn’t it?
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Reblogged this on Finding Truth In an Illusory World.
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This is grrrreat!…. 😉 Nice pick of you too… Is it that cold in NZ??…. We about cooked in Minnesota!
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It’s still winter here in NZ. Theoretically spring comes Sept 1, but in New Plymouth winter can last till November.
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Haven’t you heard ….. people don’t count. Ask the Greeks.
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The Greeks made the mistake of putting their trust in electoral politics. Hopefully Kiwis are too cynical to trust our politicians.
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Too bad The Donald couldn’t make it. –from the news:
[Trump] blasts politicians for being “stupid” to let Mexico and China take away factories and jobs. That is a clear anti free-trade agreement message and he even dusted off H. Ross Perot’s 1992 metaphor of NAFTA’s loud sucking sound (watch) of jobs leaving the country. Progressives and conservatives can be united to defeat the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). …
When it comes to the economy, the issue that Trump keeps coming back to is re-industrializing the U.S. He calls it rebuilding America and the American Dream. That is what he is talking about when he says repeatedly that he would stop Ford from building a $2.5 billion automobile factory in Mexico instead of in the U.S. The way he says he would stop Ford cold is by threatening Ford with a 35% tariff on imported autos and parts coming into the U.S. from the proposed Mexican plant. Trump says that he would renegotiate U.S. trade agreements and he has slammed the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Trump called U.S. politicians stupid for allowing the outsourcing of U.S. factories and jobs to China. In his no nonsense style, the way he put it is that the U.S. gave China everything plus now we owe them $1.5 trillion dollars in accumulated debt. He ridiculed policy makers as incompetent for allowing that to happen. Trump shines for the crowd when he brags about being a rich businessman that knows how to be a tough and a smart negotiator. He says he will use those talents for the benefit of the American people.
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Trump is right, as Perot was, about the loss of the US manufacturing base. It’s a great pity he wasn’t saying this stuff pre-2008, instead of building his TV career. Now that the recession has drastically dropped US wages, manufacturing is returning – labor costs in China are getting too high: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-flips-the-script-on-jobs-reshoring-finally-outpaced-offshoring-in-2014-2015-05-01
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Remain alert Kiwis, their institutional efforts will become more deceptive and obscured to implement their world wide agreements and policies…
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It’s hard to imagine Wall Street getting any more deceptive than they are now, but I suppose you are right.
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Such a hopeful post, Stuart!
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Yes, indeed. In Christchurch protesters took their march right through Westfield mall, which is technically private property: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/71160687/Shopping-centre-management-praise-respectful-TPPA-protestors
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