The Right-Wing Attack Dogs and Winston Peters on TPPA

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The Jokes On You

It would appear that a 'Night of the Long Knives' is heading for Winston courtesy of the Nat attack dogs.

It began with Patrick Gower and Duncan Garner looking as if they would burst into tears after weeks of telling the nation Winston had no chance of winning the seat in Northland.

A variation of corporate media, which emerged in 2008, then 2014, elections as pro National media whores, who had the experience to know better, repeatedly broadcast poor poll results of Labour chance in general elections. This is despite any pundit knowing the swing voters never make their mind up until the last moment. End result a sucked in public who did not bother to vote, having already being mislead into thinking who had won and lost. which ended up giving National a win but by a very slim majority. In North land 2015 however voters were not being fooled and they were on the war path feed up with regional corruption in the police, council and the rank and file of national North land buddies.

Now with a series of scandals heading National's way National knows it has a problem in the heart land seats. Down South it's simple give them a secure job at Tiwhai and all is forgiven ( I wonder what Dunedin wiill get) but in North-land the NZ First social media page continues to grow larger every day. At this point I believe Natioanl will pull close to 12 seat perhaps as many as 16 seats in the next election.

So what better man to do a hatchet job on ever increasingly popular Winston Peter's than Brook Sabin, the son of no less than disgraced National MP (who would end up loosing his his seat to Winston) Mike Sabin.

And don't be fooled by the headline Brook Sabin gives Winston

http://www.3news.co.nz/…/peters-nz-first-will-decide-2017-e…

Beneath the headline the content turns out to be a thinly veild attack on Winston as Sabin selectively edits to make Winston out to look corrupt and cranky.

How in the hell Brook got to do this piece is a mystery apparently his bosses at TV 3 have never heard the phase "conflict of interest"

Then again this is nothing new for Sabin and no suprrise to those familar to his zampoliti style of reporting.

http://thedailyblog.co.nz/…/another-media-gaffe-this-time-…/

and increasingly the norm of what we have come to expect when it comes to our corporate based media. A neo liberal form of nepotism that rewards rating failing program involving Nat pets Paul Henry and Hoskings as long as the tow the party spin but which axes anti Nat but rating performing shows like Campbell who expose their true nature.

http://www.postmanproductions.org/?p=4415

http://www.stuff.co.nz/…/Newspaper-defends-ponytail-gate-jo…

To any one who has followed Sabin's career and overt tendency for political bias this is no surprise as previously he declared war on Kim Dotcom (as Mana held the seat daddy wanted). Prior to that he could be found protecting John Banks as not guilty before a verdict had even being made (one which got Banks off due to a flaw in the defense handling of evidence not the prosecution).

And when news of the Kauri plunder made national headline in a story broken oddly enough by journalist from down South (yours truly) Sabin would be there to make sure the P and Political elements got played down will and proper so the story could quickly die a silent death (or so they wish).

No mentionin in the Mediaworks (for whom Sabin works) version of P, Head Hunters, National party potential conflicts of interest, or Orivda - 'nothing to see folks move along'. Just a very curt piece edited selectively from a NZ first press release. The rule at Mediaworks is clear you can report but don't investigate and that way you can be seen to do your job even though you know you dam well haven't.

http://www.3news.co.nz/…/swamp-kauri-exported-under-legal-l…

But Sabin is not alone David Farar who also has extensive National ties is also there to lend Sabin an air of credibility in his attack on Winston.

"The Herald reports:

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has claimed the world-famous Huka Lodge near Taupo has been sold to Chinese buyers and suggested Prime Minister John Key had a hand in smoothing the process.

Mr Peters made the claim during his state of the nation address on Auckland’s North Shore this afternoon.

“While you’re here media, let me tell you something, Huka Lodge has just been sold to the Chinese … and I want you to go and ask John Key what role you had in this?

“Was it not true, Mr Key, that you assured them `there won’t be a problem, we’ll smooth it out for you’.”

Farar then quotes Sabin 'expose' "Huka Lodge says 100% false it has been sold to Chinese investors. Not on market".

3:02 PM - 21 Feb 2014

Er sorry?

Let me get this right it has ben sold and it has been sold to the Chinese is this in fact not what Winston just said?

Were is the lie?

Other than in the lie now being spun by Farar a man on National's literal pay roll.

To bad like Sabin he failed to disclose his history in regard to affiliation with National.

Or reveal the very dubious history of previous owner Paul Allen a man who shred company record in the 1990's afterr they linked him to arms and uranium sales, breached trade embargo and who like Ruth Richardson a member of the notorious WWF Club 1001 (while follow NZ franchise Small Luxury Lodges of the World Wharekauha in the Wairapa was owned by Sir Roger Douglas, Right wing UK Torries, and those outed as funding warlords guilty of genocide in Eastern Africa).

The good news is, in this age of Dirty Politics, if National's attack dogs have you in their focus then you know you must be doing something right so keep doing it.

The great news is this is all getting very predictable and the public are not buying the spin any more.

So this time around the jokes is on the media whores who loose even more credibility every time they try and pull this kind of tired old stunt

http://www.3news.co.nz/…/swamp-kauri-exported-under-legal-l…

From Winston Peters on the TPP

TPP deal failed because it was about protectionism, not trade

Winston Peters

Stuff,

5 August, 2015

OPINION: Far from being "breathless children", the term Tim Groser used to disparage the concerns of New Zealanders, there is a nursery rhyme, which describes his failure as Trade Minister: The Grand old Duke of York.

Groser expensively marched the TPPA to the top of the hill, only to march it all the way back down again.

And remember how it goes: "And when they were only half-way up, they were neither up nor down."

Despite the soothing assurances since, anyone with a modicum of foreign policy nous knows the Trans-Pacific Partnership is on hold until after the November 2016 United States Presidential elections.

In the coming days and weeks, we will discover the reality that, for now, the TPPA is dead in the water.

We also have an opportunity to take stock and go to those countries who share our view that "fair trade" is not about trading away either sovereignty or exporters.

Instead of reinforcing failure, a smart trade minister would go back to the original "Pacific 4" agreement from whence the TPPA sprung.

New Zealand First voted for that agreement because it was all about trade.

In other words, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei and Chile did not need nefarious Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions and corporate privilege to secure a highly-successful free trade agreement.

We see no reason why Australia and others will not want in on an expanded "Pacific 4".

So what of Canada, Japan and the United States?

They would become candidate countries aware that it is about trade and not "comprehensive investment outcomes".

Yet leaving the hardest trade issues to the last moment was never going to end well. John Key, Steven Joyce and Groser have achieved nothing after seven years of taxpayer-funded negotiation.

The TPP negotiations tipped over because America was unhappy over the intellectual protection of pharmaceuticals.

America also had major issues with the "risk" posed by Australia's sugar industry, while Canada wasn't prepared to budge on its heroically-subsidised dairy industry.

Meanwhile, Japan showed the same stubbornness over rice and its car industry further aggravating the Americans, who wanted to export dairy to all TPP countries without New Zealand "unfairly" getting access into the United States.

Just before it fell over, the Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said the deal was 98 per cent of the way there.

Yet if the TPP was instead DNA, that percentage is how similar we humans are to chimpanzees proving the last 2 per cent matters a lot.

It is also not hard to agree with the Australian Financial Review headline Protectionism wins and US leadership goes missing.

This is a gift, the AFR says, to China.

Key's foreign policy redefines running with the hares and hunting with the hounds.

While he puts our young men and women into harm's way in Iraq and holds the Western line in the United Nations, he is inching China's way.

Earlier this year, he committed $125 million towards the Chinese-led Asian Development Bank.

On the MH17 resolution, the New Zealand government and commentariat espoused faux outrage over Russia's use of the veto.

Yet there was total silence over China abstaining on the MH17 vote as there has been about the disputed Spratly Islands.

Meanwhile, our doors are wide open to a tsunami of Chinese money to buy up farms and houses.

Few will comprehend the scale until it happens, but any attempt by National to control it will fail given China has "most favoured nation status."

There is nothing as antiseptic as "I told you so" explaining New Zealand First's reluctance about the long-term implications of the China free trade agreement.

An agreement which remarkably goes well beyond trade.

Exporters, farmers and belatedly Federated Farmers, all came to realise that Groser had his pen out in Hawaii and was willing to sign them away.

The only thing stopping him was the TPP collapsing under the weight of self-interest.

The United States has always been obsessed with international investor protections, which is why these negotiations, from a US perspective, were always going to be about much more than trade.

So let's go back to basics and secure an agreement that is about both free and fair trade with like-minded countries.

An agreement that like the "Pacific 4" delivers trade benefits for this country without trading away our sovereignty to achieve it.

Winston Peters is the leader of New Zealand First, the MP for Northland and a former Treasurer and Foreign Minister of New Zealand.