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Taxpayer funded marketing?
Submitted by dave on Fri 22 Apr 2016 - 9:10There's been quite a bit of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth about the fact that multinational megacorps don't pay tax, in NZ or anywhere else, really. And I think it's our fault.
TPPA Select Committee Presentation
Submitted by dave on Thu 31 Mar 2016 - 16:00I presented these notes to the Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Trade select committee in the Christchurch City Council chambers from 14:55-15:05 on 31 March 2016.
TPPA Select Committee
Submitted by dave on Tue 29 Mar 2016 - 13:26The Select Committee listening to presentations related to the TPPA is the "Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee". It is currently made up of
TPPA Submission
Submitted by dave on Mon 7 Mar 2016 - 10:09The TPPA is not a Free Trade Agreement. That is simply a superficial pretence for foisting upon the citizens of the participating countries a set of clubs with which multinational corporations can beat us.
Why Microsoft is nowhere in mobile
Submitted by dave on Tue 9 Feb 2016 - 14:00A decade ago, Microsoft was at the top of their game.
The TPPA in a Nutshell
Submitted by dave on Thu 4 Feb 2016 - 17:115000ish pages of TPPA text recently made public after years of top secret negotiations, was written by a group of 600ish US-based multinational corporate lobbyists and lawyers for the benefit of th
Historical Perspective: the US and FTAs
Submitted by dave on Tue 2 Feb 2016 - 11:47In response to my most recent blog post on the TPPA and its flawed underlying principles, my father sent me a fascinating reflection on actual FTAs to which the
The TPPA: Flawed in Principle
Submitted by dave on Mon 1 Feb 2016 - 13:39A few people in the NZ (and worldwide) are getting upset by the increasingly intense grass-roots rejection of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).
The Toxicity of Public Multinational Corporations
Submitted by dave on Thu 28 Jan 2016 - 14:15If you live in the connected western world, their cloud of brand identities is in your face all the time. They are (most of) the airwaves. They are the chain stores.