The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 7th July 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2017
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Notice to all Posters
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar
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Morbid Symptoms: Neoliberalism’s Room for Manoeuvre Keeps Shrinking
TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS TODAY. The first came from the New Zealand Initiative and purported to be about improving our education system. The second came from the Supreme Court of New Zealand and had the effect of stopping the Ruataniwha Dam in its tracks. On the face of it these two announcements have nothing whatsoever in common. What links them, however, is the way in which both demonstrate how dramatically Kiwi neoliberalism’s room for manoeuvre has shrunk.
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National’s Budget Surplus is a sick illusion
This ‘budget surplus’ is a sick illusion built upon underfunding the needs of the vulnerable and the poor who don’t vote.
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Herald & Fairfax Watch: We are in denial over the why of suicide in New Zealand
The Herald are copying Stuff by running big current affairs campaigns. This week Stuff is looking at cannabis reform and the Herald are attempting to talk about suicide.
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White Wednesdays: an emerging resistance of Iranian women against the compulsory hijab
A new campaign designed to challenge the compulsory hijab law in Iran is encouraging women to show their support by wearing white headscarves in public every Wednesday.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Don’t vote for the ruling class
Election fever is on the rise. Paraphrasing Lenin, elections are those things when every few years we rise up as alienated subjects and entrust our lives to a bunch of the paid servants of capital. That makes us slaves of capital. Bourgeois parliament is a fig-leaf for bourgeois class rule in a state that is the “organising committee of the capitalist class”. Elections therefore only legitimate capitalist class rule in the name of democracy, which, when examined, turns out to be a fraud.
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Malcolm Evans – Bill English thankful for SBW
Malcolm Evans – Bill English thankful for SBW
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 6th July 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Paula Bennett’s initial social media response to allegations asks more questions than it answers
This is Paula Bennett’s initial response on Facebook to the allegations made against her…