E tū condemns laser strikes targeting flights near Wellington and Auckland
The flight attendants’ union, E tū has condemned a series of laser strikes targeting flights near Auckland and Wellington airports…
Author: The Daily Blog
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TDB September Contributions drive – last days
The Daily Blog is the largest left wing blog in NZ and you know how dire the mainstream media has become so these few platforms left to fight back at the Government and corporate power are more essential than ever before.
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Paralympian Aine Kelly Costello – I am not a “Superhuman” and my blindness does not need to be “Cured”
Our language can’t exists in a vacuum, separate from our intentions. It is our job, as communicators, to constantly strive to make these two see eye to eye. That is #howeyeseeit
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Portrait of a Pākehā – LaQuisha St Redfern
I met Tatyana Kulida at the New Zealand Art Show, where I was interviewing artists for my YouTube series “A Taste of LaQuisha”. Her art was unlike the other art on display. It was from another era. An era, I later discovered, before photography, where a portrait painter would train as long as a doctor. Studying not only light and colour, but detailed human anatomy.
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Kelvin Smythe – Hekia Parata fighting for her job
For Hekia to use this populist, down-home stuff to distract from the way she has ripped the heart out of New Zealand schools, especially primary schools, and to further her plans for more rough surgery (better called the ‘big shakedown’), demonstrates she senses a problem of tenure, and she knows it.
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Thailand: A culture of torture under the military
Since seizing power in a 2014 coup, Thailand’s military authorities have allowed a culture of torture and other ill-treatment to flourish across the country, with soldiers and policemen targeting suspected insurgents, political opponents, and individuals from the most vulnerable sections of society, a new report by Amnesty International said today.
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`I’m comfortable with that’ A review of Gavin Ellis` ‘Complacent Nation’
Census figures reveal that the number of print, radio and television journalists fell from 2,214 to 1,170 between 2006 and 2013. Ellis notes that remaining journalists must respond to print, broadcasting and digital platforms as news budgets contract. Unsurprisingly, tabloid news values have predominated. Ellis` front page,weekday survey of five metropolitan dailies (during January 2014) showed that 60 per cent of the New Zealand Herald`s lead stories were about crime or emergencies.
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Malcolm Evans – Judiciary red carded
Malcolm Evans – Judiciary red carded
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Political Caption Competition – Hipster cop with a taser
Hipster cop with a taser – I can chill on my Instagram and fry protestors
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 29th September 2016
5: MH17: Missile fired from Russia-backed rebel area
4: Queensland’s Women’s Prison Is So Overcrowded Inmates Have to Sleep on the Floor
3: APPLE LOGS YOUR IMESSAGE CONTACTS — AND MAY SHARE THEM WITH POLICE
2: “I Called You to Help Me, But You Killed My Brother”: Police Shoot Dead Unarmed African-American Man
1: Two Aleppo hospitals bombed out of service in ‘catastrophic’ airstrikes