The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 13th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2018
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Deaths from Police car chases are our mass shooting public policy failure
Surely public policy should hold public safety above all else, yet Police Chase Policy manages to have an open ended kill threshold – why is that?
It’s because we are a juvenile culture with all the maturity of a can of coke-cola.
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Labour and NZ First sign up to TPPA – “is this capitalism with a human face”?
New Zealanders have just cause to doubt whether their own government would have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to a multi-national with deep corporate pockets to launch a lawsuit against us.
We caved in the face of French demands to release two agents convicted of sabotage and murder.
We caved to (apparent) threats from Warner Bros to move production of The Hobbit to another country. (The threat turned out to be baseless – but it nevertheless succeeded in ‘spooking’ the public.)
We (apparently) caved to demands from a lone Saudi businessman.
And then there was this curious event in June 2013, when the Chinese government may have exerted heavy pressure on the National government over a proposed fta with Taiwan – an island-state it considers a “renegade province”;
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Get A Grip: Forcing A Handshake Is Not a Right
I’m not quite sure what was going through the head of the academic at the University of Auckland who sought to coerce a Muslim student into grasping hands with him, although for him to then go to the subsequent effort of attempting to run the poor girl through the University’s official complaints process for alleged sexual discrimination presumably suggests that it was quite some level of (faux) outrage.
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David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill is an affront to humanity and must not proceed.
The bill has been promoted as providing the option for a terminally ill person who is suffering intolerably to get assistance to end his or her life in a dignified manner at a time of their choosing. It isn’t. Seymour’s Bill is much broader with wording which opens a wide spectrum of people suffering from a wide variety of conditions to the scope of the proposed legislation.
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FFS – the Young Nats weren’t being racist! Ignorant, bigoted and privileged, sure – but not racist
…screaming ‘racist’ at the Young Nats for a meme that isn’t racist manages to eclipse the real issues and the substantive history of why we owe the Pacific.
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Ngāti Rangi signs settlement with the Crown – Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations
The Crown has signed a deed of settlement with Ngāti Rangi, settling the historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of Ngāti…
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Capitulation in TPPA-11 raises fears of more to come – Professor Jane Kelsey
‘The so-called Joint Declaration on Inclusive and Progressive Trade, released by New Zealand, Canada and Chile alongside the signing of…
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Job cuts further proof Minister must fix tertiary funding – Tertiary Education Union
Toi-Ohomai job cuts further proof Minister must fix tertiary funding model Plans announced today by the management of Toi-Ohomai Institute…
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Nuclear investments: Super Fund, banks and Serco … – Peace Movement Aotearoa
The 2018 Don’t Bank on the Bomb report was released last night. The report is produced by PAX – a…