GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How about a Maximum Wage?
I’m really not a fan of the American Army, however there is one thing about it I do quite like. The top General is paid about 10 times the salary of a Private.
Year: 2019
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Political Caption Competition
The new season of the Handmaid’s Tale is bleak
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 20th June 2019
5: Why Hong Kong Won’t Back Down
4: ‘Credible evidence’ links MBS to Khashoggi’s murder: UN report
3: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION THREAT
2: Big Tech’s War for Your Wallet: Facebook Sparks Outrage After Announcing Plans for Digital Currency
1: US beekeepers lost 40% of honeybee colonies over past year, survey finds -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 20th June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Latest Afghanistan whitewash is making me an anarchist
We have a neoliberal welfare state where the stick is the only carrot. It resembles sadism more than social policy.
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Children stolen by the State are worse off in State care than if left with family
No one is saying that a child in danger should be kept in danger, of course not, but that’s not what we are seeing with these uplifts, an enormous percentage of these children do NOT need to be taken into care and without appropriate oversight and providing parents with the legal aid necessary to have their rights argued, there can’t be any genuine resolution here.
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Why is MBIE and the government allowing Restaurant Brands to cheat workers of their annual leave?
Other companies have paid staff back for the 15 years back to the holidays Act law change in 2003 that seems to have created the incentive for companies to simply ignore what was required by law which has led to massive underpayments for workers.
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Can America beat Iran in a war? Maybe not.
…American over confidence could see Trump blunder into a conflict that could escalate and cause such an enormous amount of damage to the US navy that Trump has to escalate to reap vengeance.
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This image is why announcing a climate crisis is a bullshit response
If the Oceanic pump shuts down, catastrophic events immediately start to unfold.
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Foundation sets up givealittle page for Afghan villagers – Human Rights Foundation of NZ
The Human Rights Foundation of Aotearoa New Zealand says the withdrawal of the villagers of Naik and Khak Khudday Dad from the Operation Burnham Inquiry is a sad indictment of the way the Inquiry has been conducted. The lawyers for the villages announced the withdrawal this morning and the Human Rights Foundation has decided to establish a givealittle page to support the villagers’ needs, including finding suitable housing (they have had to abandon their villages), for their health and for the education of their children