The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 1st 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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GUEST BLOG: Melanie Webber – Free trade and education
In the panel on a knowledge at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Melanie Webber looked at challenges confronting internationalised education.
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Political Caption Competition
People who have the basic personality skills to actually have consensual sex however do not recommend this book.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 27th February 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Nicky Stevens’ parents to present case to Waikato DHB today for legal suppor
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in March 2015 while in the care of Waikato DHB, will be presenting…
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Time for a rent freeze
Today you can hear the greedy swearing how Landlords could always punish the tenants and greedily recoup the costs of even the most basic health improvements to their revenue producing assets – like putting in a heater or underfloor insulation.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – There is a better way
Today’s generation of young adults are the first generation in recent history who will be substantially worse off than their parents .
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GUEST BLOG: Aroha Mead – what free trade means to Aotearoa
On the panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Aroha Mead, from Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, reminded us what it means to live in Aotearoa.
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GUEST BLOG: Geoff Simmons – The Tax Tweaking Group
If we care about poverty, the best a Capital Gains Tax does is raise a bit of revenue for the government to spend. We have to hope like hell that money gets spent on the real problems facing the country like child poverty, rather than middle class welfare like free tertiary education.
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How Big Is Your Army?
POLICE NUMBERS just topped 13,000. Forty years ago there were fewer than half that number – considerably fewer. Astonishingly, we now have almost as many cops as we do soldiers. At last count the New Zealand Defence Force numbered 14,921. Put those numbers together and the state’s coercive potential turns out to be not far shy of 30,000 highly-trained and fearsomely-equipped men and women. Those who allow expressions like “revolution” and “class war” to trip so merrily off their tongues should be required to explain where their 30,000 highly-trained and fearsomely-equipped men and women are currently hiding – just waiting for the word.