The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 21st May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Month: May 2019
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Review: Game of Thrones- 8 year review – 5 stars (spoiler alerts)
No other show has managed to imprint the way GoT has culturally. It permeates social media and popular culture in a unique way that manages to slot effortlessly into the multi narrative world social media now provides.
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The People’s Budget to screen 8pm Sunday 2nd June
Comrades – are you sick of neoliberal economics ruining our changes of a truly transformative progressive economy?
Me too!
Here’s what Bryan Bruce and a I have been working on, The People’s Budget 2019…
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The Liberal Agenda – The People’s Budget 2019 – Friday 31st May
WHAT: The People’s Budget
WHERE: Otahuhu Town Hall
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Do we really want a Christian Zionist being the tail wagging a National dog?
Despite the overwhelming meaninglessness of this unprepared Government, Labour + Greens + NZFirst are lights years more preferable than a Judith Collins led National Party returned to power with a fanatical religious zealot holding power.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: Ngaro in Botany, Christchurch call, Police admission on social media watchlist, Game of Thrones Finale, Water Issues
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: Ngaro in Botany, Christchurch call, Police admission on social media watchlist, Game of Thrones Finale, Water Issues
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The Quiet Australians revolt
Electing a Prime Minister who once entered Parliament proudly holding up coal forces us in NZ to reconsider the open immigration policy we have with Australia before the climate crisis shit really hits the fan.
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Big Oil infects the civil service
The rules are written by the greedy Big Oil industry, they are set to benefit them, not us the people and the sooner we acknowledge how infected our public service has become the sooner we can start purging these interests from setting the rules.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Oh no, not more exams!
The Minister intends to fix the terrible workloads that this causes, not by reducing the qualification burden but by shifting from internal to external assessment and thus reducing the assessment burden on teachers.
Of all the reforms possible, he has chosen the worst one. I will debate this with anyone. I have studied assessment systems for over 30 years and I know as much as anyone about them. So here is the truth about assessment systems in five easy lessons. -
GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Hate in the time of the Internet
Twenty- two years ago I made a documentary about mass murder in which I had the harrowing experience of interviewing the families of the mass murder victims. Back then (1997) I recommended banning military style semi automatic weapons and registering ALL guns, as did Justice Thorp in his report published around that time.