The Daily Blog Open Mic Monday 28th September 2015

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  1. spot the differences..!

    this morn we hear that thomas piketty and joseph stiglitz are joining a gaggle of other economists..to flesh-out the anti-austerity polices essential to corbynomics..

    ..this so corbyn can present to the voters a clear and coherent blueprint of what he/labour would do..and most importantly..how it would be paid for/sustained..

    ..and of course so corbyn can use this blueprint as a hammer with which to deal to the tories..to emphasise the differences between labour and the tories ..and what he/labour/corbynomics would bring about..

    ..a weapon his to use in the four yrs up to the next election..

    ..here in new zealand..our neoliberal labour party has to keep its’ neoliberal-sustaining/fuck-the-poor! policies secret until just before the election..’cos if they don’t..the other neoliberal/fuck-the-poor! party will ‘steal’ them..

    ..can anyone else spot the differences..?

  2. This is very interesting …whether you have a member of family or friend OR YOURSELF with an addiction…whether it be gaming or alcohol or drugs or anything else eg bloody blogs

    ‘Neuroscientist Mark Lewis – addiction is NOT a disease’

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201772363/neuroscientist-mark-lewis-addiction-is-not-a-disease

    “Professor Marc Lewis is a former drug addict, who recovered and now specialises in addiction. His latest book, The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is not a Disease, has divided the medical profession, as refutes the medical view of addiction as a brain disease, arguing that it is simply a learned habit that can be broken.”

    • having in the past been addicted to most things between alcohol and heroin..(and including meat/cheese etc..)

      ..i hafta say i never thought my addictions were a ‘disease’..(they were just things i was addicted to at that time..and that i eventually gathered enough willpower to enable me to quit..)

      ..and to claim it is a ‘disease’ to me has always seemed a cop-out on the part of the claimer..

      ..’i can’t help myself..i have this disease ‘y’see’..

      ..and i know all too well..that is all just so much bullshit..

  3. A hymn to the indigenous peoples around the world who are the TRUE GREENIES

    “If there is to be any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle every day to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them…

    Arundhati Roy , 2010

    Naomi Klein, ‘This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. the Climate’ (p.291)

    https://www.google.co.nz/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=robbie%20robertson%20ghost%20dance

  4. Gordon Campbell…says it all:

    “So thanks to the Greens, the Red Peak design has now been added to the options for the flag referendum in November. Wow. In one fell swoop the Greens’ Gareth Hughes has (a) rescued Prime Minister John Key from his personal flag fiasco (b) got the government out of a tight corner of its own making (c) agreed to vote with National to block Labour’s attempt to get a yes/no question added to the November referendum and (d) handed the Key government a club with which to beat the only other party – Labour – with which the Greens can hope to form a government in 2017. Was Red Peak such a compelling cause that the Greens needed to expend so much political capital on it?…

    …there is every sign – some of it reflected in polls only last week – that the public didn’t want anyone to ride in and save the flag referendum. They want to bury it. Given the options, the public prefer to keep the current flag, Red Peak or not. And the public really don’t want to pay the full $26 million for the two referendums that the Greens have now ensured they will have to underwrite in full…

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/72238958/low-support-for-new-zealand-flag-change

  5. I spend more time at this blog site than other potentially worthy contenders – but it struck that there is a factor that I hadn’t properly realised and that is that this site is very easy to read.
    The typography may not look as slick as others but the usability is great. The text colour to background contrast is really good and there is plenty of (white) white space.

    • there is also a Wild West atmosphere on the Daily Blog which I like….people can be pretty radical…and pretty rude in their opinions

        • @ e-clectic & Chooky – agree with you both here. Love the Wild West reference Chooky 🙂 Spot on there.

          TDB is the site I feel most comfortable visiting and I do visit a few others. Straight up, open, non threatening and very easy to navigate. Well that’s my opinion for all its worth!

          Go TDB 🙂

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