Not having read the thousand or so pages of the TPP Agreement could someone who has please explain: What court/s will have jurisdiction in these matters?
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Its a good question. I have found the following interesting links. I believe its governed by what they term International Common Law. A bit like the law of the sea. And its resolution comes under the ISDS system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invest...ute_settlement
http://itsourfuture.org.nz/eminent-j...-sue-in-tpp-2/
http://itsourfuture.org.nz/eminent-j...-sue-in-tpp-2/
"Litigation to overturn government policy.
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Don't see any connection with the TPP at all. Can you enlighten me , please?"
My take on the article is that the litigation by the 29 states and various companies doesn't challenge legislation, it challenges a regulation by the EPA (as ordered by President Obama). A regulation by the executive arm of govt isn't legislation.
This is a quite brilliant speech in parliament by Gareth Hughes. One of the best orators in the beehive & certainly leaves Little & Key for dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cpgO9pg-48
I thought it was a great speech on paper too, a few parts could have been written a bit more tidily. But add all that up (what a double-dealing, slimy person we have as a PM), you wonder why Gareth wasn't delivering it with more oomph. He looked a bit tired, and the house was nearly empty. So all we have is the average video, the text behind it is very powerful though. There should be some useful election slogans in there.
If we want change, everyone who is concerned about NZ, needs to do something towards the 2017 elections.
Look EZ, not even sure, whether our view on John Key is so much different. You see him as an embarrassment. While we might still have a different view on the level of embarrassment, I do agree in principle.
Where our views seem to diverge is when we look at the available alternatives. I do see anything the disorganised pile of Leftish parties in NZ have to offer these days as far worse than a John Key run government ... and I think your problem is - as long as you consider the throwing of dildos as a major political victory, you might have problems to convince the majority of New Zealanders that Mana / Green / Labour / Internet have anything desirable to offer.
Yes, there are some good people (David Shearer, Kelvin Davis, perhaps Phil Goff and others) - but they have little to say.
Come the next election - National does not need to be good, it just needs to be better than the alternative - and this unfortunately is not difficult to achieve given the disgraceful behaviour of the Left.
If you want to see at any stage again a government with some Leftish participation back in government - what the Left needs to do is to improve its own act, embrace the Centre and to start listening to the people. Political posturing and throwing dildos at senior politicians is unlikely to cut the mustard, but they are of course welcome to continue on this path. This is a democracy after all. Just shouldn't complain later on that they have not been warned.
BP, I'm not sure where you're dragging this rubbish up from, but are you trying to say that there is no-one on the leftie side of Labour's ranks who has any chance at all? Even compared to the blithering idiots in National's ranks? National is holding itself in power with money, they buy votes with money, they conduct dirty politics in the social media, they contract in neoliberal lobbyists C-T to make it work. If they don't get enough cash in from big business, they take taxpayer borrowings and splash it around. How hard is that?
Conversely, Labour paid off a lot of old debt and ran the country superbly for nine years. You are just doing the C-T bidding by repeating that unfounded rubbish every chance you get - FP does it, too. Must be something in the water down on the Mainland.