The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 6th May 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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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 6th May 2019
5: Julián Castro Thinks His Path to the Nomination Is Through Nevada and Texas
4: Netanyahu pledges ‘massive strikes’ in Gaza as death toll rises
3: RIGHT-WING ISRAELI AUTHOR WRITES “THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM” — AND ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSES ITS PITFALLS
2: Mass. Judge Refuses to Halt Pro-Palestinian Event at UMass Featuring Roger Waters & Linda Sarsour
1: More than 20 dead as violence flares between Gaza and Israel -
5 reflections on a week of the Herald’s Paywall
Here are some reflections on the first week of the Herald’s paywall.
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My concerns around the agreed media protocols of covering the terrorist trial
Am I the only one concerned at how the entire mainstream media have colluded together to cover the white supremacist trial?
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Political Ramifications of Jacinda’s wedding (why Simon Bridges is safe as leader now)
The only way Simon Bridges could counter this is by personally entering Pike River Mine and finding the Ark of the Covenant while healing sick children.
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Finally something to cheer from Labour (warning – it’s tiny but what else do we have?)
Luckily for the Government they have a wedding to plan and the middle classes attention will quickly slip away from their egalitarian pretensions to what wedding dress designer Jacinda will be wearing.
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Mental Health Inquiry & Afghan Inquiry – two more whitewashes & more evidence of a corrupt neoliberal public service
The Left have looked to the state as the great leveller of Capitalism’s inequalities and with so many vocal left twitter union voices working inside those very same public services in Wellington, the point blank refusal to recognise and challenge this is conveniently ignored by those who are paid by those same agencies. What is required is a purge within the public services and Politicians with the courage to stand up to the bureaucrats alongside a political agenda to truly reform the State Services Act. We could start with every Māori Politician releasing the full uncensored Māori Mental Health report and daring the public service to fine them $10 000.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – We need an escape plan
The more I watch the Labour coalition government ignore the recommendations of the working groups it has set up (at considerable cost ) the more it’s clear to me that the Ardern/Roberston government is going to make the inmates of our neoliberal prison a little more comfortable with warmer cells to rent (for example) , but they are not going to open the prison gates.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Help the little guys fight the big guy
Sustainable Otakiri has four days left to meet the costs of Sustainable Otakiri taking the Chinese owned company that wants to bottle .1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year (that’s 2,451, 960 bottles each day) to the Environment Court.
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The Liberal Agenda – New Zealand Public Television Trust: Transforming cities with technology?
If you use one of those “free” electric scooters or bikes you are giving someone valuable data about your movements around the city. Is that something that concerns you – or not?