{"id":3691,"date":"2015-03-12T05:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2015-03-12T05:54:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:54:27","slug":"tiriti-o-waitangi-is-vital-to-defeat-tppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Tiriti o Waitangi is vital to Defeat TPPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3520\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ruebentaipari\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari-495x372.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari-161x120.jpg 161w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ruebentaipari.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mana Movements Rueben Taipari Porter is the only candidate in the by<br \/>\nelection proposing to use Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the document that<br \/>\nwill save Northland from the TPPA which will take away local business<br \/>\nchoices.<\/p>\n<p>The TPPA has been criticised for its secrecy and lack of transparency.<br \/>\nThe TPPA would eliminate tariffs and other barriers to goods and<br \/>\nservices trade and enforcement of patents and copyrights.<br \/>\nThe TPPA can hinder access to affordable medicine in the developing<br \/>\nworld and can force you to buy inferior medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The NZ Government denies the claims, Trade Negotiations Minister Tim<br \/>\nGroser saying opponents of the deal are &#8220;fools&#8221; who are &#8220;trying to<br \/>\nwreck this agreement&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and<br \/>\nregulations to the TPP&#8217;s rules, even limiting how governments could<br \/>\nspend their tax dollars.<br \/>\nThe TPP proposal includes the setting up of corporate tribunals, which<br \/>\ncan be used to attack domestic public interest laws.<br \/>\nTPPA is a &#8220;Trojan horse in a global race to the bottom, giving big<br \/>\ncorporations and Wall Street banks a way to eliminate any and all laws<br \/>\nand regulations that get in the way of their profits.&#8221;<\/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=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taipari Porter believes that only Te Tiriti o Waitangi can protect<br \/>\nNorthlands freedom of choice. In 1840, two partners signed Te Tiriti o<br \/>\nWaitangi. This historical document can help us by using the articles<br \/>\nwithin this document to combat all the secrecy and deals without the<br \/>\npeople who are asking questons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mana Movements Rueben Taipari Porter is the only candidate in the by election proposing to use Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the document that will save Northland from the TPPA which will take away local business choices. The TPPA has been criticised for its secrecy and lack of transparency. The TPPA would eliminate tariffs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tiriti","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691"}],"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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}