New States movements, etc.: I\'ve got the impression (possibly wrong) that the New States thing is largely someone sitting at his computer trying to bring together a bunch of other new states movements together, and expanding upon it. For instance, I know of no autochthonous separatist movement in the \"River-Eden\" area, and he seems to suggest that too. (In fact, as I understand it, Wodongarites are not keen to merge with Albury, without even getting rid of the line in between them... But I am not from Wodonga, and have no particular links with the place, other than the fact that my Uni has a campus there so I\'ve had some lecturers who\'ve lectured there, and mentioned their experiences in my classes.)
IIRC they produce about the same GDP.
I think that figure contains the contributions of the UK, Denmark and Sweden, which I wished to exclude. Though Denmark and Sweden might, in fact, be willing to have closer political relations with the continent than the UK.
The recording groups are globalising too, the DMCA clause and extended copyright got into Australia law via the US-Au FTA.
Such clauses were the whole point of the USA FTA (AFTA US? lots of ways to pun!), from America\'s perspective... (I mostly added this paragraph to be punny, rather than to contibute anything.)
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