There Is More Money For Nurses – Social Credit Party
Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s claim that any new pay offer to nurses “would have to be made using funds already…
Year: 2018
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Industrial action at Premier Bacon – E tu
About 150 workers at Wairarapa company, Premier Bacon will begin industrial action just after midnight tonight (12.01am Tuesday, 26 June)…
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Fonterra’s link to “dirty secret” in Indonesia – Greenpeace
Fonterra is about to take another hit to its international reputation, this time over rainforest destruction and cow feed. A…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 26th June 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Does The National Party Know Anything About Genuine Conservatism?
IF THE NATIONAL PARTY was a genuine conservative party, Simon Bridges would no longer be its leader. In a genuine conservative party, the outcry against his performance on Radio Hauraki last Friday (22/6/18) would have extracted his resignation within 24 hours. A great many voices would have joined the outcry against Bridges’ boorish denigration of the prime minister and her family, and for a great many reasons. Let’s examine just a few of them.
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Why denying Sarah Huckabee Sanders service doesn’t make us champions
People get that denying Sarah Huckabee Sanders service at a restaurant for personal convictions is exactly the same as refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding right?
I appreciate everyone is angry and righteous, but we are all failing here.
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Why amplifying Simon Bridges comments will probably help him
While Bridges needs calling out, I don’t think woke twitter has the nuance to do that without creating more support for Simon.
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It’s not a ‘fake’ photo, your offence is fake!
If your only defence for Trump is that this photo didn’t result in the parent being separated from the crying child, then your need to not be offended by this cruelty has overtaken basic decency – it’s not a ‘fake’ photo, your offence is fake!
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If we can admit Housing NZ meth policy was an abortion, why can’t we also check the neoliberal welfare agencies other sacred cows like inane WINZ Office security?
If we can admit Housing NZ meth policy was an abortion, why can’t we also check the neoliberal welfare agencies other sacred cows like inane WINZ Office security?
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US Withdrawal From UN Human Rights Council Is Cold War Caricature
The US having issues around ‘inconvenient truths’ on human rights being brought up at the UN is not exactly a new phenomenon. This cartoon from the height of the Cold War depicts then-US President John F. Kennedy facing off against then-Premier/First Secretary of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev.