THE FIGHT TO SAVE CITY CARE IS NOT OVER YET! – Keep Our Assets Canterbury
KOA Will Be At Christchurch City Council Meeting This Thursday, December 15th The Christchurch City Council finally saw sense and…
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Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line at risk – Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (Reporters Without Borders / Pacific Media Watch): On International Anti-Corruption Day today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is highlighting the…
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Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters – Pacific Media Watch
Dr Alexandra Wake MELBOURNE (Asia Pacific Report / The Conversation / Pacific Media Watch): As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck…
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MUST READ: No Drama – No Change: John Key’s Comfortable Legacy
For those of us who live and breathe politics, the general indifference of our fellow citizens is perplexing. It shouldn’t be. Most people have enough to do just keeping their personal, working and family lives on an even keel. The idea that they should devote more than a moment or two of their precious time to the machinations of politicians would strike them as nuts.
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Political Caption Competition
Key’s last Christmas Card has received some criticism
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Sunday 11th December 2016
5: Rudy Giuliani Is Not Going to Be Secretary of State
4: Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
3: Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil set to be Trump secretary of state pick – reports
2: Syria’s war: What went wrong in east Aleppo?
1: Inside Exxon’s Great Climate Cover-Up: From Early Climate Change Researcher to Epic Climate Denier -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 11th December 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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MUST READ: Charter Schools in a Post-Truth Era
For many on the neo-liberal Right, education is a business not a public good and therefore should be no different to electricity supply (semi-privatised); Air New Zealand (semi-privatised – again); or a whole host of other services and assets that were once owned by the tax-payer but have been sold off over the last thirty years.
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Political Caption Competition
Seven Sharp is to Journalism what vomit is to romance
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Saturday 10th December 2016
5: Alabama inmate appears conscious for 13 minutes during execution procedure
4: Hundreds of men from east Aleppo go ‘missing’
3: Trump’s Labor Pick, Fast-Food CEO Andrew Puzder, Opposes Minimum Wage Increase & Paid Sick Leave
2: Election hacking: Obama orders ‘full review’ of Russia interference
1:A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs