{"id":3649,"date":"2015-03-10T05:58:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2015-03-10T05:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T16:58:40","slug":"stop-the-tppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3649","title":{"rendered":"Stop the TPPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg\" alt=\"Minto\" width=\"82\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg 82w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-80x56.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana Vice President John Minto<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3650\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Trojan horse\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse-495x371.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse-161x120.jpg 161w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Trojan-horse.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has an innocent sounding name but it\u2019s very dangerous for New Zealand and must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>The government says it\u2019s just about increasing trade but they are not telling the truth. It\u2019s really a bill of rights for United States corporations to come and plunder our economy.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal goes ahead we will be paying more for things medicines, movies and music and our government will not be able to pass laws to protect New Zealanders rights to decent health and education. If the government does anything which could reduce the profits of foreign companies they can sue our government in overseas tribunals for billions.<\/p>\n<p>For example the Australian government is being sued by tobacco companies because their government wants to enforce plain packaging for cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure there are plenty of MANA flags at demonstrations around the country against the TPPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana Vice President John Minto The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has an innocent sounding name but it\u2019s very dangerous for New Zealand and must be stopped. The government says it\u2019s just about increasing trade but they are not telling the truth. It\u2019s really a bill of rights for United States corporations to come and plunder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}