Ripples in History
Question: What is the difference between Free Trade and Fair Trade?
Answer, later.
Year: 2019
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Notre Dame burning while Labour walk away from CGT – why Danyl Mclauchlan is the most important political writer of our age & how to save Queen Jacinda
Jacinda symbolises a modern progressive democracy, her being pregnant and a mother while in power added with her compassionate rhetoric and incredible emotional intelligence that guided a nation through an atrocity are too precious to throw away but she must take on the free market establishment if her symbolism is to mean anything.
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Planned funding cuts paint a grim picture for disabled care – IHC
IHC is incredibly relieved Ministers have intervened to block the Ministry of Health going ahead with $30 million of funding…
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OIA papers show $30 million funding cuts by Ministry of Health blocked – Disability Support Network
Disability sector thanks Ministers for intervention Government urged to act on long overdue funding boost Thousands of disabled New Zealanders…
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Political Caption Competition
Explaining the great mystery of American politics
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 22nd April 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Monday 22nd April 2019
5: The evolution (or not) of school shootings in America
4: Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Mass casualties in churches and hotels
3: THE BEST HOT TAKE ON THE MUELLER REPORT IS FROM 1796
2: The Mueller Report: Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston on Trump-Russia Ties, Obstruction & More
1: ‘There was utter chaos’: Sri Lanka left reeling after wave of bombings -
Winston Peters and Neo-liberalism, Beat Compassion and Cool.
No wonder Winston Peters objected to the Coalition Government being called Labour-led. Because, on matters of most importance, it’s led by New Zealand First. And even though Fortune Magazine this week said Jacinda Ardern was the second most powerful leader in the world, that would make Winston the first.
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Why Extinction Rebellion are right
…more and more people of conscience are willing to be arrested to force the climate change debate. If every person genuinely concerned about climate change joined Extinction Rebellion protests every weekend and shut down roads and clogged the judicial process with thousands of arrests, the Government would be forced out of their bullshit Carbon Neutral by 2050 complacency.
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TVNZ current affairs upgrade
As news from social media gets regularly denigrated with the same derision as smoking in cars with babies, the large broadcasters are starting to steer back towards journalism rather than light weight pap.