TDB Political Caption Competition
Plutocracy in action
Author: The Daily Blog
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Tourism model extracts economic value but gives little back
It’s short sighted to market our brand to overseas tourists on our natural beauty and heritage when biodiversity is declining, many of our animal ‘attractions’ are threatened with extinction, and rivers and bays are too polluted for swimming.
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TheDailyBlog.nz Top 5 News Headlines Monday 22nd February 2016
Bush Drops Out, Al Qaeda Has Seized Another City, Clinton regains momentum, Edward Snowden would be willing to return to US + Syrian cities reel from deadly bombings
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 22nd February 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Collins, Slater & the intimidation of journalists
The Star Chamber has swung into action over my TV3 interview. They want to video TV3 personnel as they carry out the interview, but TV3 isn’t having a bar of it .
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Black Brothers and Good Ole Boys: Bernie Sander’s Winning Combination?
— IF BERNIE SANDERS is to win the US Presidential Election he’ll have to win the support of two crucial…
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Partition is apartheid – reunify the Holy Land
At first sight, for many well-meaning people, the two-states ‘solution’ would seem to be the most rational and just way…
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So this is ‘job creation’ by foreign ownership?
. . This is not the news that towns and regions across the country want to wake up to; ….
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Michael Joseph Savage and Universal Welfare Reform
The capstone achievement of the Savage-led ‘social security’ reform was a genuinely ‘universal’ superannuation that caught the imagination of middle New Zealand; the world’s first explicit demogrant, a ‘universal basic income’ for all older New Zealanders.
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GUEST BLOG: Kevin Hester – Diametrically opposite responses from Anglo Saxons and Indigenous people of the Pacific to climate crisis
I have just toured the North Island of NZ with U.S. climate and methane researcher Jennifer Hynes author of “ The Arctic Methane Monster” and “ The Demise of the Arctic”, raising the alarm about the methane discharges from the melting permafrost and sub-marine clathrates which threaten to completely destabilise the energy balance of our biosphere