The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 21st August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Month: August 2017
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BOOM – Jacinda Ardern blows Town Hall apart with Labour launch
She then announced that she would change the Public Finances Act so that every budget had to announce not only the surpluses and deficits, but how many NZ children had been lifted out of debt.
Fuck me!
Somewhere Matthew Hooton, David Farrar and Jordan Williams all spontaneously burst into tears.
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Jacinda’s speech – Let’s do this – Labour’s election campaign launched
Jacinda launching her Labour Party election campaign as leader
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THE OPPORTUNITIES PARTY MAKES MAORI SEATS ITS ONLY BOTTOM LINE
In a speech at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawhahia today, Opportunities Party Leader Dr Gareth Morgan has made the retention of…
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GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – CIA Whistleblower joins 2nd Internet Party #AntiSpyBill Panel
CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou was recruited from the high school he taught Jared Leto at. In the decades to follow, he travelled the world, recruited other spies in turn, and oversaw operations that captured Al Qaeda militants and sent them to Guantanamo Bay. Trained to keep secrets, there was one he couldn’t live with – his government was torturing people. Eventually, he shared what he knew with his fellow countrymen. Tonight, he will share it with New Zealand.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – and you, are you ‘comfortable’?
“British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he’s comfortable with the UK selling billions of dollars’ worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, which have been used to kill thousands of civilians in Yemen.” The quotation is from a The Nation Press Release , about a Lisa Owens interview with Boris Johnson held on 29 July this year.
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GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Shaw Thing
Now that the dust is settling on the Turei resignation, it might be time to have a dispassionate look at why she had quit as leader of the Greens.
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We have a media more interested in Aaron Smith’s sex toilet texts than Bill English’s abuse of power texts
Aaron Smith’s sex toilet romp is actually more important to the corporate media than Bill English secretly paying a former staff member a small fortune to protect one of his MPs that National were dependent upon to get legislation through.
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Cowards Bill English and Jonathan Coleman flee protestors at Dunedin Hospital
It says something about how dire under funding in health has become that the Prime Minister and Minister for Health have to flee protestors like cowards.
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One Day Out with Green Team #5
As part of my contribution to the Green party election campaign, I joined the Green’s Billboard Team #5. Our team was assigned to the Rimutaka Electorate – and it was an eventful day…