Dear NZ Labour – California just legalized pot & you know what? Civilization as we know it didn’t fucking end
Show some courage you cowards!
Martyn Bradbury
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Why America can not get involved in Iranian protests
Playing God in other people’s country with all the unforeseen blowback is how we got into this mess, I support democratic reform and respect for human rights for the Iranian people, I sure as fuck don’t support America (whose sanctions have helped cause this latest civil unrest in Iran by the way) poking around and playing God again.
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Twitter Watch: Rachel Stewart takes to NZ Twitter in best 2017 thread
Here’s to a year where Twitter becomes a vehicle for communication that side steps the mainstream media corporate gatekeepers and becomes less of a public shaming avenue for frustrated angry liberals keen to virtue signal their way to identity politics heaven.
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Lorde’s apology & ignorance, unfair hard left criticism, claims of hypocrisy and the power of Israeli propaganda (cough-cough plus Brian Edwards)
There has been an enormous amount said about Lorde’s decision to not play Apartheid Israel. There have been hypercritical claims from some on the hard left that her stance is empty and self interested and there have been claims from pro-Israel critics she is being hypocritical.
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MEDIA WATCH: How lucky are we to live in a country where the entire Summer news cycle is about autocide
We urgently need to examine our deeply repressed culture as to why our autocide rates are spiralling up. This is a symptom of a much deeper malaise and until media start asking those questions we will be doomed to repeat this grim tally every Summer over and over and over again.
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Dear Kelvin Davis – why was one of our bloggers choked unconscious in prison?
As Minister of Corrections, The Daily Blog urgently requests that you investigate the violence used on one of our Prisoner Rights Bloggers, Arthur Taylor.
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EXCLUSIVE: Daily Blog Prisoner Rights Blogger in his own words being choked unconscious by Prison Staff
…The Daily Blog is calling upon the Minister to investigate how our blogger came to be beaten unconscious and forced into a transfer while he is making valid complaints agains the staff who are abusing him.
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BREAKING: Daily Blog Prisoner Rights Blogger choked unconscious by Prison Staff
They choked him unconscious folks – that’s YOUR prison system in the year 2017.
We will not let Corrections get away with this.
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TV REVIEW: Kim Dotcom – Caught in the Web
What Goldson has created with this documentary is one of the most important things any documentary maker can achieve, a meaningful reflection on a current political issue that at the time was eclipsed with anger and ignorance.
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Why being Carbon neutral by 2050 is meaningless sophistry
I think it’s lovely and nice and respect the importance of positive sounding rhetoric to help move the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind towards giving a shit.
But let’s be honest.
It’s meaningless sophistry.