The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 27th June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Author: The Daily Blog
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Political Caption Competition
Ummmm, why is the Minister dressed like a Batman villain?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Banking On ‘Business As Usual’
I heard Finance Minister Grant Robertson say on Morning Report today that he ” wasn’t expecting another financial crisis any time soon”.
Well, he and his advisors may not be expecting it, but surely one of the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis was that being so locked into maintaining ‘business as usual’ means we often fail to ask whether the usual way of doing business is the BEST way of doing it.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Wednesday 26th June 2019
5: U.S. CYBERATTACK ON IRAN JUST PUT A TARGET ON AMERICAN BUSINESSES
4: ‘Climate apartheid’: World’s poor to suffer most from disasters
3: SUNRISE MOVEMENT RALLIES OUTSIDE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS OVER CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE FAILURE
2: As Trump Imposes New Sanctions, Iran Says U.S. Has “Permanently Closed Path to Diplomacy”
1: Trump threatens ‘obliteration’ after Iran suggests he has a ‘mental disorder’ -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 26th 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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Confronting Racism In 1981 – And 2019
HOW VERY DIFFERENT the university campuses of 2019 are from the campuses of 1981. Thirty-eight years is a long time. There will be lecturers and tutors on campus today who weren’t even born in the year the Springboks came to tour. To those whose job it is to look back into the darker episodes of our past, New Zealand must seem like another country. Just how much that other country differed from the New Zealand of today was driven home to me while listening to RNZ journalist Katie Scotcher’s story on this morning’s (24/6/19) edition of Morning Report.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 25th 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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Are you going to walk the talk James Shaw, Greens? – Not Dead Yet Aotearoa
Green politicians are betraying disabled people by pretending their upcoming block vote for the End of Life Choice Bill complies…
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Global Day of Workplace Action to Climate-Proof Our Work – New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
On June 26 working people from New Zealand and around the world are taking climate action. “Climate Change is a…
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Govt’s new oil spill insurance cap still a drop in the ocean – Greenpeace
The Government is touting an increase in oil industry liability as a win for taxpayers, but Greenpeace says the new…