The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 23rd September 2016
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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Auckland Live International Cabaret Season: The Chet Baker Journey A night with the James Dean of Jazz.
The Chet Baker Journey is an intimate show that intersperses fragments of Chet Baker’s prodigious career and self-destructive life amid his musical jewels. Join us for this acclaimed musical biography starring the award-winning singer and actor, Tim Draxl
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CPAG: Grandparent caregivers need greater support
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that If New Zealand’s new Ministry Oranga Tamariki is truly committed to supporting vulnerable…
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Immigration and Auckland Housing – why Unitary Plan is flawed and bubble burst prediction
A prediction. On the basis of the sluggish Auckland rental market, the end of the Auckland property bubble could be sooner rather than later. (I’m picking October 2017, a month or two after the 2017 general election.) The ‘correction’ will come when enough people who have bought in Auckland for capital gain realise that they will have to sell soon, or risk the consequences.
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Dave Macpherson – ‘Devolution’ of Mental Health services gathers pace
For ‘devolution’, the reader can insert ‘corporatisation’, or ‘’dismemberment’, or a host of other descriptions of the cuts to community and public health services that new right philosophies are delivering.
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Political Caption Competition
Labour Party face seduction over Kermadec’s
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 22nd September 2016
5: 27 U.S. Senators Rebel Against Arming Saudi Arabia
4: Boris Johnson: ‘strong’ evidence Russia carried out strike on UN convoy in Syria
3: Protests Erupt over Police Killings of Terence Crutcher & Keith Lamont Scott in Tulsa & Charlotte
2: Poll: Most US voters ‘disgusted’ with presidential race
1: UK Government Money to Tackle Rogue Landlords Is Being Used to Arrest Tenants -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 22nd September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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“Better Now Than Later!” – Nato Deploys 4,000 Additional Troops To Eastern Europe
The decision to deploy an additional 4,000 troops to Russia’s eastern borders has been undertaken in an attempt to both intimidate and deter Putin from contemplating a lightning-fast repossession of the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Street Harassment
There’s a hand on my arm. Gripping my arm, pulling me back. I sway slightly in my heels. Both adrenal glands, perched above my kidneys, deep in my viscera, squirt their load of adrenaline into my bloodstream. My pupils dilate, my heart rate and breathing increase sharply. All of a sudden I’m not sleepy, I’m not thinking about my day. I’m right here, right now. Deadly calm.