The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 28th January 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Trump’s campaign and presidency has been marked by a series of exaggerations, half-truths, and outright lies. One of Trump’s most recent lies is his allegation of massive voter fraud in the US 2016 presidential elections;
The worst thing about the New Lynn candidate selection is the appalling toothlessness of that great liberal organ The Standard who have spinelessly been pulling their punches in criticising Labour because the mildly interesting Greg Presland is standing.
A recently-aired documentary by Al Jazeera, ‘The Lobby’, reveals the Israeli Embassy’s furtive dealings with British parliamentarians and political parties. It took a Middle East news channel to expose the extraordinary lengths to which Israel and its supporters will go to bury the truth and control minds, when neither the British security services nor news media were onto it.
It reads like a Women’s Day exclusive after a couple of Gin and Tonics, it totally ignores what was revealed at the Moment of Truth and the role the mainstream media itself played in refusing to acknowledge what was revealed.
You know when Labour are close to power, because they start stealing all of National’s get tuff on crime dog whistles.
Here in New Zealand, National’s funding cuts have not been restricted to the Health sector and NGOs. Government agencies from the Police , Radio NZ, to the Department of Conservation have had their funding slashed (or frozen – a cut after inflation is factored in).
President Trump will denounce his political opponents as enemies of free speech and democracy. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies will crack down hard on anti-Trump agitation. More ominously, the President’s most vociferous supporters will militarise themselves into special protection squads. Presented to the American public as “self-defence” organisations, the actual purpose of these goon squads will be to intimidate and/or terrorise progressive individuals and groups into silence.
It’s a cat show. There’s cats. (also some snazzy dancing). Brought to you by the hearts, brains and souls of…
Malcolm Evans – CIA