The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday – 11th December 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2019
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Labour almost as good as National at eroding our civil rights
If we were handing out medals for eroding human rights in NZ, National by far are the gold medalists.
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What the measles epidemic, Australian bush fires and floods from the weekend storm tell us about NZ in a dangerously warming planet
I don’t think NZers ‘get’ how big the climate crisis really is. How enormous the impact of endlessly pumping pollution…
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Trump Impeachment a circus with too many clowns and what I truly fear
The Trump Impeachment is a sad and torturous affair made more petty by Republican tribalism and Democratic impotence.
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Adrian Orr is preparing NZ for the next great economic depression – will Australian Capitalism, neoliberal NZ quislings & Labour’s intellectual cowardice allow him?
What might save Labour from Grant Robertson’s intellectual caution is the type of event Orr is desperately attempting to insulate NZs economy from.
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New Zealand Volcano Update and Jacinda’s leadership
Currently right wing NZ activists are filming themselves entering book stores to turn a biography about Ardern around and are loading it onto twitter using the hash tag #turnardern
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“Starting your clock” on Israel’s history
In any discussion of the morality of Israel’s conduct, it is immaterial when you “start your clock” on the history of the Zionist state.
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Political Caption Competition
Nativity scene under Trump
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 10th December 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Waatea News Column: ODT Cartoon outrage misplaced
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.