The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 15th April 2018
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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It is ten seconds to midnight
As predicted by many, Trump has not waited for an investigative team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to carry out it’s work. This despite an OPCW team having already landed in Damascus to conduct it’s investigation.
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Dr Liz Gordon – How to bring down prison numbers (the definitive guide)
Many of us have been advocating a policy-led reduction in prison numbers for a long time. Instead, there has been a policy-led increase in prison numbers. I have talked before about the effects of Christie’s law, that has seen the number of people held in prison before their trial rise by 1,000 to 3,000. Most of those are neither a flight risk nor a danger to the rest of us. Some of them are not guilty and will be found so at trial.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawaira discussing Nelson Mandela’s funeral
Hone Harawaira discussing Nelson Mandela’s funeral
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Political Caption Competition
The National Party – all platform, no results
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 14th April 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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NZDF inquiry: Justice for survivors, accountability to the UN – Amnesty International
In response to the Government’s announcement of an inquiry into the allegations made in the book “Hit and Run”, the…
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NORML’s unsubmissive submission on behalf of impatient patients
Hearings on the Government’s medicinal cannabis law reform bill continue throughout April and May, with NORML New Zealand this week delivering an unsubmissive submission on behalf of impatient patients.
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Dave Macpherson – Massive growth in mental health ‘crisis contacts’ – likely to be nationwide
The official response to this foreseeable crisis has been pathetic – a combination of denial and claims that the problems were under control. While former Minister Jonathan ‘Dr Death’ Coleman has now scarpered from Parliament (good riddance), the new Labour Minister of Health David Clark clearly has a hell of a lot of work yet to do to convince us that the mental health crisis is being properly dealt with.
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One minute to midnight?
At the time of this blogpost being written, the US has not initiated a military response in Syria. As at midnight of 12 April, a little blue marble called Planet Earth is still in one piece…