The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 26th March 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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Worse than “fake news” – sloppy news!
Sloppy as in: where a supposedly reputable mainstream media outlet presents a news story, but with a glaring error. Case in point, TVNZ’s story on 25 March, reporting that “$1.7 million of taxpater’s money had been spent last year on airfares and escorts to deport overstayers – more than in any of the last five years”;
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections Is Cramming Them in Tighter Than Sardines!
Corrections is dealing with the muster crisis by double bunking in cells that were not designed to hold more than one prisoner. They have not done this to date because they had legal advice and know that putting two prisoners in cell so small they barely have room for one is a recipe for disaster and may very well contravene section 23 (5) of the Bill of Rights Act which mandates prisoners be treated humanely and with respect for their dignity.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Labour fails 100 days test
We take a look at the promises from the Labour party when campaigning and on taking office – what will these really deliver for working people? As we argued in previous issues of Class Struggle, Labour forming a Coalition with openly capitalist parties means it cannot claim anymore to be a party that represents workers.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Facebook & Israel
Facebook has been in our NZ media news recently. But there is another issue human rights activists have with Facebook. That is, Facebook’s cooperation with Israel’s suppression of Palestinians’ right to communicate.
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Political Caption Competition
Elitism at its most pointless.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 25th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Are Labour and NZ First Partners in Populism – Or Not?
POPULISM VERSUS RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT. The Regions versus Metropolitan New Zealand. NZ First versus Labour. Shane Jones versus Grant Robertson. “Oh yes, Ladies and gentlemen, there’s Trouble: Trouble with a capital ‘T’; and it’s brewing right here in Political City!”
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Dr Liz Gordon – The definitive guide to NOT scrapping school deciles
Why else would they push out a simple, dependable system and replace it with a complex one fraught with issues of privacy, a creepy whiff of the state knowing more about you than it should, and having to increase state expenditure on funding systems, by tracking every child every year on a wide range of indicators? (Sorry about the long sentence).
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Major milestone as Cadbury production ends – E Tu
Today marks a significant milestone at Cadbury, as the final production run – of Pineapple Lumps – rolls off the…