The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 14th 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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Key’s shameful support of Fiji arrests
Key’s posture is that human rights don’t really matter, or at least are secondary to maintaining warm relations with repressive governments.
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Reinventing Auckland, Simon? If Only We Could!
Aucklanders elected representatives turned out to be equally mischaracterised. Far from being the people’s democratic tribunes, Auckland’s elected councillors proved to be little more than powerless pawns. The real game was controlled by legally cocooned CCO boards of directors – over whom the so-called “Governing Body” (including the Mayor) exercised no effective control whatsoever.
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Economic lies about the “rock star economy”
The business media is all in an excited state over the fact that the headline growth rate for the New Zealand economy is going to around 3.5% for the year ending June. What they don’t tell you is that because of the artificial boost to the population as a result of the government opening the taps for new migrants the actual annual per capita growth rate is only 0.6%.
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New Zealand First Is NOT Neoliberal – A Response To Frank Macskasy
I ordinarily have a lot of time for Frank Macskasy. His pieces are usually trenchantly researched and thorough. On top of that, he was the first journalist to ever give me a proper interview.
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GUEST BLOG: Kieran Kelly – The Empire Paradox: More Power is More Weakness
In response to my recent article on US imperial wars some people objected to my characterisation of the US empire.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Youth Suicide in Aoteroa: Who Killed Yellow Ribbon?
January next year will mark 10 years since the suicide of our son Bruno, who was never hospitalised for his depression, but which left us with may questions about why young people are patronised by the state rather than empowered to fight suicide among their peers.
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BREAKING: In the Interests of Democracy – AUSA + The Daily Blog presents the ‘Anti-Debate’ live streamed 7pm Monday 26th
The Live Stream will commence 7pm here on www.thedailyblog.nz – bringing you exclusive live streamed current events in NZ. We can bitch about the media or we can be the media.
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IS THE POPE CATHOLIC? – 5.30pm tonight Ika
Enjoy a delicious Ika meal (seafood, meat and vegetarian options) and take a look into the Catholic Church.
Doors open 5.30 pm, meal approx 6.15 pm followed by discussion. $32 including your main meal.
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Malcolm Evans – the truth of the rock star economy
Malcolm Evans – the truth of the rock star economy