The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 30th March 2017
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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Further information on “Operation Burnham” – McLeod and Associates
29 March 2017 Rt. Hon. Bill English Prime Minister Parliament Buildings Wellington 6160 New Zealand b.english@ministers.govt.nz BY FAX: (04) 817…
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Israel’s Gaza blockade is illegal and inhumane – Palestine Human Rights Campaign NZ
A Shalom Kiwi Press Release celebrates the fact that the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) upheld a complaint concerning TVNZ coverage…
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Us and Them: The Fatal Divisions of Exploitative Culture
OURS IS NOT JUST A RAPE CULTURE: it’s a Kill Culture, a Rip-off Culture and a Lie Culture as well. But, rather than attempting to reconcile ourselves to living in a multiplicity of malign cultures, it is probably more helpful to think of ourselves as inhabiting a single Exploitative Culture. One in which human-beings are consistently treated as means to another’s end – not as ends in themselves.
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Community joins the picket line as car part workers strike – First Union
Community joins the picket line as car part workers strike Disgruntled distribution centre workers at BNT (Brakes and…
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MUST WATCH: An Inconvenient Truth 2 – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power | official trailer
An Inconvenient Truth 2 – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power | official trailer
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Press release from Nicky Hager
Location confusion must not detract from civilian casualties, a dead girl and serious breaches of defence force rules
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Hit and Run authors reply to defence force presss conference
The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Tim Keating presented the NZDF response to the book Hit and Run at a press conference on Monday 27 March 2017. For 45 minutes he and his colleagues suggested that everything in the book was incorrect.
The Hit and Run authors have now had time to study the defence chief’s statements. Our conclusion is that the NZDF criticisms are wrong – with one exception – and that they have failed to address almost everything of substance in the book. This is what a cover up looks like.
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Chorus penny-pinching costs jobs at Broadspectrum – E tū
Infrastructure workers carrying out the fibre roll-out have been massively let down by Chorus, as their employer Broadspectrum proposes redundancies…
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Labour/Green Economics – these fiscal rules aren’t the beginning of the end
The breakfast launch of the joint Labour/Greens fiscal rules policy last week was pleasantly surprising. They actually haven’t boxed themselves into a rigid set of rules. At the outset they downplayed the use of mechanical orthodox indicators like surpluses and net debt to judge success: