Dr Liz Gordon: A low-trust nation
What if you believed that people you know, or meet on the streets, or live next door to, are actively plotting to steal your handbag, improve their lives at your expense or occupy your space?
Year: 2019
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Save The Ship!
WHAT WOULD YOU DO if you discovered a deranged crew-member deliberately endangering the onboard atmosphere of your spacecraft? Obviously, the delicate mechanism responsible for scrubbing the air and keeping it breathable is absolutely crucial to the survival of the ship’s entire crew. If you allow the saboteur to continue his destruction, everyone on board will die. What is your optimal course of action?
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On John Roughan’s Curious Distaste For Journalistic Privilege
Now, I hesitate in the extreme to term The Herald’s John Roughan a “genius”. Yet every time I read one of his more “ideological” columns, that sort of sentiment seems to spring to mind. A sort of more-cynical/paranoid version of the famed ‘Hanlon’s Razor’ – “never attribute to malice, that which can adequately be explained by stupidity”.
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Political Caption Competition
GRANT: Here’s what I’m giving you James, sweet fuck all nothing. Sign up to the promise to our overseas Corporate Overlords that we won’t borrow any money and we will let you into the Government.
JAMES: But what do we get Grant?
GRANT: I told you, nothing.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 27th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Tips to buy Instagram likes and know its benefits
Today, Instagram is considered as the most popular social networking site all around the globe. It is mainly used because…
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Yay – National are going to screw Gen Xers on our superannuation!
Yay! The first generation of user pays, Gen X, are now going to have to wait longer to get their…
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What National’s new policy to burn everything to the ground in the worship of the free market really represents
…The Dark Art of politics now is not in the proposal and debate of ideas, it is the promotion of anger as policy which is communicated to potential voters based on the outrage it generates amongst identifiable tribal protagonists.
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Suicide rate hits all time record high and we NEVER ask why because we are cowards
Our under funded social infrastructure, our ‘me first’ consumerism, our 30 years of neoliberal mythology, our disconnection from one another, our untreated pain, our lack of hope from grinding poverty in a first world country, our damaged masculinity, the intergenerational consequences of colonialism, our unspoken rage culture, our inability to express emotion beyond anger – all of this demands questions we don’t want to hear as a society and the shame of suicide continues to hide and smother any healing.
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The Liberal Agenda – TYRANNY AND TERROR: THE PHILIPPINES UNDER DUTERTE – A FORMER INSIDER’S VIEW
Prof. Judy Taguiwalo, Ph.D, is a Filipina social activist and former professor at the University of the Philippines, who was…