The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 3rd February 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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DairyNZ backs down as Greenpeace launches new video
As DairyNZ backs down from a public fight over a controversial TV ad, Greenpeace has released a new video about…
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No Pride in Prisons March to Join Rising Tide of Discontent With Corrections
Prison abolitionist group No Pride in Prisons will hold a march to Mount Eden Corrections Facility on Saturday, February 11…
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Greenpeace says it won’t let up on pressuring the dairy industry to stop expanding and polluting more rivers
Dairy NZ has abandoned an appeal against a Greenpeace TV ad linking industrial dairy farms with polluted wayerways. The original…
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Israel’s anti-nuclear whistleblower more deserving of NZ citizenship
No self-respecting country sells its passports to rich people who don’t even live there, which is why it was so bad to grant NZ citizenship to the American multi-billionaire Peter Thiel.
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It’s not a “perceived conflict of interest” – it’s corruption
What this situation shows most clearly is the complete lack of public service ethos in these individuals. It is a lack of ethical behaviour which now pervades the senior levels of our public services across the country – both in government and local body organisations.
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Trump 1984: We have always been at war with Australia and Oceania
…what’s most disgusting about all of this is two political leaders arguing over human beings who they have thrown aside like garbage.
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Dear NZers – when Key was in power you didn’t care about 5 Eyes and allowed him to get away with mass surveillance – how do you feel about Trump having that power now?
Now our anti-intellectual messiah has gone, are New Zealanders really that bewilderingly dense to allow Trump to have this level of power over our economic, cultural and political sovereignty?
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BREAKING MEDIA ALERT – Meet the Indian students the government is deporting
The lawyer for the Indian students being deported by the government has told the students that their appeals have been rejected and that police are on their way.
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Bill English’s ghoulish Police State promise for NZ
English kept trumpeting reduced welfare stats as if that was a great thing when we know that all these agencies have done is find reasons to disqualify beneficiaries from welfare, they have no idea where these people have gone, all they’ve done is successfully deny a benefit. That’s not a solution, that’s a recipe for disaster, but it was perhaps English’s solution that was most concerning, half a billion dollars to the bloody Police!