Dave Lane

NZ and the D5 Charter

Submitted by dave on Mon 23 May 2016 - 9:10

A couple months ago, I became aware of the fact that on 9 December 2014, our Minister of Internal Affairs, Conservation, and Health,

TPPA Select Committee Presentation

Submitted by dave on Thu 31 Mar 2016 - 16:00

I 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 - 13:26

The 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 - 10:09

The 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 - 14:00

A decade ago, Microsoft was at the top of their game.

The TPPA in a Nutshell

Submitted by dave on Thu 4 Feb 2016 - 17:11

5000ish 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 - 11:47

In 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 - 13:39

A 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 - 14:15

If 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.

Non-nerd upgrading intolerable Windows 8... to Linux Mint

Submitted by dave on Tue 8 Dec 2015 - 23:00

My brother (from the US) left today after a quick visit with our family tacked on to a business trip.