(via bluprnt)
There's a sobering interview with John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".
He lays out very clearly how the corporate world wraps a country into economic dependancy.

" ... out of the 100 largest economies in the world, 52 are corporations; 47 of them are U.S. corporations – they're not countries, they're corporations."

"This empire that we've created that's made so many people around the planet angry, that's resulted in destitution for billions of people on this planet: 24,000 people starve to death every day; 30,000 children die every single day from lack of medicines for diseases that could be cured and we have to take responsibility for that. We can change that and we will change it. But we'll only change it when we really come to understand what's going on."

It's scary stuff, and then we have the new Overseas Investment Bill currently in parliament which is designed to make it easier for NZ to be controlled by outside interests.