Daily Blog May Donations Drive – last day today
We’ve seen this month the media consolidation that is occurring that will see one Newspaper Monopoly – you know how bad the mainstream media are now, what will happen when they get even more powerful?
Author: The Daily Blog
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Budget entrenches society’s pathologies
This budget and this government were never going to provide the structural tools and address the structural challenges of a deregulated, speculative, unequal society. Addressing the chasm of income disparity would require the removal of privileges, the redistribution of advantage.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – Another Open Letter to Board of Waikato DHB re: Nicky Stevens
Dear Bob – we have noted from your reply that you have not yet been able to bring yourselves to say ‘sorry’.
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Why Poetry? / Why Breathe? Poetry Day 2016
So when Phantom Billstickers said they were supporting New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, my eyes lit up, and so did the sky, and a half a rainbow appeared over the Auckland Old Folk’s Ass in Gundy Street off K’road.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday – 28th May 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Waatea 5th Estate – Friday night Political Wrap of the week
Joining us to wrap the Political Week
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MUST READ: Budget 2016: What Bill English Didn’t Say In His Speech.
BILL ENGLISH’S LATEST BUDGET is a masterful exercise in deception. He has done everything he can to mask the effects of the most rapid expansion in New Zealand’s population since the 1970s. The monies allocated to the core centres of state expenditure – Welfare, Health and Education – barely match the rising numbers they are expected to serve.
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Urge Iran to Free Nazanin
I am writing this knowing full well that, one day, it might land me in an Iranian jail where Nazanin is at the moment.
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EXCLUSIVE: State house sell-off in Tauranga unravelling?
In none of the Minister’s correspondence was he able to provide specifics as to where State houses were in the “wrong place”. The ‘best’ he could do was list five regions; Auckland East & South; Auckland North West & Central; South Island, Central North Island, and Lower North Island.