The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 19th September 2016

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  1. I have just been listening to RNZ and the story about fish dumping.
    when will lobbying come up in the story?
    It is the elephant in the room.

    A compulsory, transparent, publicly available lobbying register must be instated.

  2. I have just been listening to RNZ and the story about fish dumping.
    when will lobbying come up in the story?
    It is the elephant in the room.

    A compulsory, transparent, publicly available lobbying register must be instated.

    • +100…I heard that story as well…. a comment from an insider is that it is not working and apparently industrial ships grind up unwanted catch into fish meal !….this includes dolphins!!!

    • Half-a-dozen bull elephants are charging round the room, and are about to demolish everything, including the building.

      Here’s the biggest one:

      Daily CO2
      September 17, 2016:  401.93 ppm
      September 17, 2015:  397.49 ppm
      Up 4.44 ppm date-to-date versus the recent average of 2.11 ppm.

      ‘Nobody’ notices, especially no one in our corrupt and dysfunctional political system.

      If our so-called leaders are not even bothered about the future of humans, what makes you think they are bothered about fish?

    • GSAYS yes 1000%.

      We should hold this criminal Junta to account for their promotion of plundering our resources without penalties by business as we would loose our equipment and have a large fine imposed also.

      Shameful bloody NatZ tax haven Government haven’t done anything about that either!@!!!!!!!$%^&*()_+t.

  3. While the elderly New Zealanders and others in pain suffer because this government and Peter Dunne has denied them legal access to medicinal cannabis or medicinal marijuana…there are political lobby groups involved and big Bucks..pharmaceutical companies and the alcohol industry

    ‘Opioid use decreases in US states that legalize medical marijuana – study’

    https://www.rt.com/usa/359655-marijuana-laws-opioid-usage/

    “New research shows a decline in the use of opioid painkillers in US states that allow people to treat pain with medical marijuana, affirming the fears of Big Pharma who have been vigorously seeking to frustrate efforts to legalize the herb….

    “Given the growing opioid overdose epidemic, campaigning against medical marijuana is morally repugnant.”

    “We cannot allow prescription drug companies to block the legalization of #medicalcannabis http://huff.to/2clBjZY”

    “Addictive painkiller profiteer donates $500k to fight cannabis legalization in #Arizona http://on.rt.com/7oux”

    …”Insys isn’t the first pharmaceutical company to be found bankrolling anti-marijuana legislation though with a number of alcohol and pharmaceutical companies “heavily” invested in such laws in a number of states, according to The Intercept.

    https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/beer-pot-ballot/

    ‘Americans consume vast majority of the world’s opioids’

    http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all-of-the-global-opioid-supply.html

  4. I’m feeling kind of sick after watching the last 12 hours of mainstream US media try and link Trump to the New York bombing.

    The establishment has gone full retard.

    • So true they are especially CNN, and that channel used to be the honest channel once??

      Hillary Clinton is as bent as a spoon, at least Trump fought his way against the corporate’s and when he did she turned against TPPA after he did.

      Who is the leader there???.

        • I am most definitely not a Trump or Clinton supporter. Iv never endorsed either. The only thing either would do to stick there necks out is Trump would bail out Deutcha Bank and Killary would bail out Golman Sachs.

          That said when moments after the bombing they cut live to a lone reporter that happened to be on Hillarys plane as it was in transit spewing absolute rubbish. It forced me to stay up in protest. The establishment has gone full retard by actively indoctrinating Americans against Trump which seems to have backfired with Trump 5%+ ahead in the polls.

          This race is truely sickening

  5. How about imagining the fallout if it 80 American troops were ‘accidentally’ killed by Russian backed Syrians.
    The news cycle would grind to a halt with apoplexy.
    Radio New Zealand would have been on the phone all morning to its collection of American ‘experts’.
    There would be talk of WWIII. There would be tears of unadulterated joy over at the Daily Mail.
    But, you know, it was just some Syrians killed so, who cares, right??

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-usa-idUSKCN11N0PT

  6. So legalisation of medicinal marijuana or cannabis is NOT the problem for the elderly and those in pain in New Zealand ….but corporate capture BIG PHARMA prescription opiods is! ( are New Zealand politicians also captured ?)

    ….BIG PHARMA is a multi billion dollar pain killer industry and it opposes the legalisation of medicinal marijuana or medicinal cannabis!

    THE PROBLEM in the USA:

    ‘Americans consume vast majority of the world’s opioids’

    http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all-of-the-global-opioid-supply.html

    https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/legislative-activities/testimony-to-congress/2016/americas-addiction-to-opioids-heroin-prescription-drug-abuse

    http://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addiction-disease-facts-figures.pdf

    THE PROBLEM in NEW ZEALAND:

    While the elderly New Zealanders and others in pain suffer because this government and Peter Dunne has denied them legal access to medicinal cannibas…there are political lobby groups involved and big Bucks..pharmaceutical companies and the alcohol industry

    ‘Opioid use decreases in US states that legalize medical marijuana – study’

    https://www.rt.com/usa/359655-marijuana-laws-opioid-usage/

    “New research shows a decline in the use of opioid painkillers in US states that allow people to treat pain with medical marijuana, affirming the fears of Big Pharma who have been vigorously seeking to frustrate efforts to legalize the herb….

    “Given the growing opioid overdose epidemic, campaigning against medical marijuana is morally repugnant.”

    “We cannot allow prescription drug companies to block the legalization of #medicalcannabis http://huff.to/2clBjZY”

    “Addictive painkiller profiteer donates $500k to fight cannabis legalization in #Arizona http://on.rt.com/7oux”

    …”Insys isn’t the first pharmaceutical company to be found bankrolling anti-marijuana legislation though with a number of alcohol and pharmaceutical companies “heavily” invested in such laws in a number of states, according to The Intercept.

    https://theintercept.com/2016/09/14/beer-pot-ballot/

  7. If Labour want to up their vote, they will have to zero in on an issue that a wider section of New Zealand care about. Those who are infuriated over the the housing situation are already in the camp, while anything relating to immigration is just a dog whistle for New Zealand First and will never benefit either the Greens or Labour.

    For me, the kind of issue that resonates with the wider public is the problem with water, pollution, drinking water, sale of water without return, but especially the future of our recreational rivers.

    I read an item in the Press today on a hyper-polluted river in the Christchurch area and must admit I had an entirely visceral reaction.

    Nothing speaks louder to all Kiwis than the loss of our birthright, our Summers swimming in the local waterhole.

    A project that sets out to attack this problem, however long it takes, in a muscular, assertive way will actually resonate across party lines. A big policy announcement to genuinely clean up our act, and to put real money behind it, rather than the lip service we currently see, would also resonate with blue-greens in a way housing (crashing the market) never will. And this time around we are going to need some of them too, I sorry to have to tell you.

    I don’t mean to suggest a reversal of policy on housing, of course, but if we believe it is a game changer, we are kidding ourselves – as the polls seem to attest.

    • Nick you believe those phoney polls still?????

      Get real they are all cooked amd have no credibility for gods sake.

      I have enquired how they certify their process and they don’t.

      That’s why most overseas counties now ban them but not here so wonder why??

      I even got one company stating they cannot confirm if the results they use are correctly carried out??@#$%^&*()_

  8. ANOTHER DUMB NATZ IDEA. – Less rail = more trucks and road deaths coming, if we don’t restore rail services again.

    The New Zealand Herald

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11712753

    Huntly triple fatality: Three dead in car crash, including two children among victims
    Updated less than a minute ago 3:06 PM Monday Sep 19, 2016

    A woman who was one of the first to scene of a fatal crash in Huntly has described how she found a young girl distraught in the back seat of one of the vehicles involved.The witness was in the gaming room of the Essex Arms pub which is just metres away from State Highway One, when a silver sedan crossed the centre line and collided with a Mark Grey Carriers truck just after 2.30pm.

    “The whole building shook.”

    DID YOU SEE THE CRASH? SEND US AN EMAIL

    She ran to the scene and said the truck driver, who was uninjured, got out of his truck and was immediately on the phone to emergency services.

    The woman ran to the car and she and other witnesses pried open the front passenger door where a badly injured woman in her late 20s was sitting.

    A girl, aged 9, was sitting behind her.

    “[The little girl] was quite upset. She was in the back and she was worried her mum was going to die. Her brother – well I presume it was her brother – was half lying on her.”

    There was another boy next to him and she thought they looked about 11 and 13 years old.

    She and a motorist who had been travelling directly behind the car before it crossed the centreline and spun helped unlock the girl’s door. A Huntly doctor and her assistant helped the girl to their car and tried to calm her down.

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