With
just about everything seemingly up for sale to overseas interests and the Federal and
Queensland governments trumpeting that
the nation and the state are “open for
business ” , Wikileaks has exposed
how powerful
forces , in
secret US talks , are planning to carve up the
Pacific under the
deceptively named Trans–Pacific
Partnership (TPP). Hands up how many
Australians have heard anything about
the TPP and its likely
ramifications for the nation .
Across the Tasman , the
Kiwis , seemingly more alert than we
Australians and concerned
about overseas ownership of their
country , have been demonstrating , see above , a graphic from a post in the
latest American
online NationofChange –Progressive
Journalism for Positive Change- which explains
what is happening . Wikileaks published
the full text of the intellectual
property chapter which includes the positions of all
the
parties, said to reveal massive corporate rigging . One
response to the
leak was a comment that Australian Julian
Assange should be a Nobel recipient . (See NationofChange for full details and other reports of
interest ).