The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 29th March 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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lslamophobia: From Hollywood to Christchurch with hate
The media has had a lot to do with shaping negative attitudes towards Muslims. A recent University of Alabama study found terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists receive 357 percent more media coverage than attacks committed by non-Muslims.
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All employer-assisted migrant workers deserve a chance to have a pathway to residency
We are a union of 7000 financial members. We estimate that up to one-quarter of our members could be on…
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The Liberal Agenda – Bryan Bruce – Delay to Brexit and my Trade Doco
Just an update to everyone who contributed to “Trade Secrets” my documentary on “free” trade and the “free” market.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Claire Trevett’s remarkable blindness
It’s hard to not say something when a deputy chief political editor for the NZ Herald writes that Helen Clark failed to do anything about gun reform laws, and even NZ First who have been in opposition before October 2017….but leaves out the big blue elephant in the room.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Turn that frown upside down Mike
Mike Hosking wrote to his “miserable bugger” audience on NewsTalk ZB today that with GDP at 0.6% growth for the last quarter and with an annual growth barely above 2% , money was increasingly not going to come from the once “Rock Star Economy” to pay the “useless”.
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The Roots Of His Rage: Can Winston Peters Save NZ First?
SO, WHAT DOES NZ First do now? The Goddess of History hasn’t just foot-tripped Winston Peters and his party, she’s hurled them bodily into a very deep hole. The Christchurch Mosque Shootings have disabled just about all of the “hot-button” election issues upon which New Zealand’s right-wing populist party has depended since its inception. Robbed of its ability to rouse conservative voters against “Maori Separatism”, the “Asian Invasion”, and “Islamic Extremism”; where does NZ First go? How does a right-wing populist party do populism without right-wing slogans?
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Audrey Egg Foo Young
You may have been forgiven for thinking Audrey had nothing at all to say about the terrible events recently, because she seems to have skipped over these matters.
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Latest ETS changes impotent without inclusion of agriculture – Greenpeace
The Government has announced another range of changes to one of the country’s core policies to combat climate change, the…
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Generation Zero calls on Govt to rethink public transport
Generation Zero are today launching a new report which criticises NZTA’s public transport fares policy and calls for a new…