GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – CIA Whistleblower joins 2nd Internet Party #AntiSpyBill Panel

By The Daily Blog  /  August 20, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  No Comments

CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou was recruited from the high school he taught Jared Leto at. In the decades to follow, he travelled the world, recruited other spies in turn, and oversaw operations that captured Al Qaeda militants and sent them to Guantanamo Bay. Trained to keep secrets, there was one he couldn’t live with – his government was torturing people. Eventually, he shared what he knew with his fellow countrymen. Tonight, he will share it with New Zealand.

GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – and you, are you ‘comfortable’?

By The Daily Blog  /  August 20, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  4 Comments

“British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says he’s comfortable with the UK selling billions of dollars’ worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, which have been used to kill thousands of civilians in Yemen.” The quotation is from a The Nation Press Release , about a Lisa Owens  interview with Boris Johnson held on 29 July this year.  

GUEST BLOG: Te Reo Putake – Shaw Thing

By The Daily Blog  /  August 20, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  8 Comments

Now that the dust is settling on the Turei resignation, it might be time to have a dispassionate look at why she had quit as leader of the Greens.

GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – MĀORI PARTY’S WATER POLICY NONSENSE

By The Daily Blog  /  August 16, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  14 Comments

Every settlement with Iwi includes a clause stating that fresh water remains unresolved, yet Chris Finlayson is out blowing racist dog whistles pretending that this reopens Treaty litigation. We wouldn’t be in this position in the first place if National hadn’t forced the issue by selling off half our hydropower generating energy companies. Labour will clean up their mess by showing real leadership with all stakeholders in water.

GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is

By The Daily Blog  /  August 15, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  11 Comments

Let’s cut to the chase. I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is. We’ve been putting out policies consistently for the past couple of months and I’m proud of the policies that Labour have been coming out with.

GUEST BLOG: Tina Ngata – Je Ne Suis Pas Metiria

By The Daily Blog  /  August 13, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  29 Comments

Greens have strategists alright. Crap ones. Ones that develop a hashtag campaign which completely individualised Metiria at the same time as they were trying to say this was not about her. If it’s not about Metiria then where were the “I stand with beneficiaries” green/pink profile pics?

GUEST BLOG: Nandor Tanczos – Tribute to Metiria

By The Daily Blog  /  August 10, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  5 Comments

I was so sad to hear that Metiria Turei MP had resigned her co-leadership of the Greens. I think she is probably the most courageous MP of our generation and had the potential to completely transform our Government for the good. Sadly that is now unlikely to happen. Hypocrites and vampires have hounded her out, for things done over 20 years ago as a struggling solo mum.

GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – New Water Policy

By The Daily Blog  /  August 10, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  11 Comments

Our water is a treasure that has been abused, stolen and polluted for far too long and it is beyond time that someone had the political courage to stand up to the Farming lobby and water bottling companies.

GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – “A Guide To Politics: Rules on How to Survive”.

By The Daily Blog  /  August 10, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  27 Comments

“A Guide To Politics: How to survive”.

If you’re brown, don’t dream of conquering mountains.
If you’re a woman, don’t you start having an opinion.
If you’re intelligent, play that shit down.
If you have stretch marks, you don’t stand a chance.
If you have aroha, don’t share it with others.
If you extend your arms, it had better not be for a handout.
If you have a voice, keep it zipped.
If you have a skeleton, best you bury the whole house, not just the closet.
Also, learn to lie.

GUEST BLOG: Lizzie Cook – Christine Rankin’s Shameful ‘Legacy’

By The Daily Blog  /  August 9, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  18 Comments

At the time that Metiria Turei was dealing with trying to obtain a ‘living’ benefit, Christine Rankin was head of what we know as WINZ and her and her Deputy threw lavish parties and spent loads of money on doing up their offices. Allegations were that Rankin was incredibly lazy and did very little in the way of work.

GUEST BLOG: Vanessa Kururangi – No. I’m Not Green with Envy.

By The Daily Blog  /  August 9, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  37 Comments

I don’t believe for a second that she was thinking about becoming co-leader for a game changing political party. I can’t be convinced that she used a story about her situation back then as political leverage (she’s a smart cookie who knew the risk of this disclosure). I most certainly don’t feel she is unfit as a leader, or is an untrustworthy fraudster, nor do I feel ripped off – not by her at least. I feel NOTHING about this. Not a thing. I give no fucks that 20 something years ago, a person living as a pōhara, single parent, student, managed to get a few extra groceries by not declaring flatmates. It doesn’t even register on my richter scale of what is moral vs immoral.

GUEST BLOG: Lizzie Cook – Labour – Reducing others to cinders to advance yourself

By The Daily Blog  /  August 7, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  12 Comments

Greens do not ‘punch down’.

GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – Why You Must Attend 2017’s Moment Of Truth: #AntiSpyBill Sunday 8pm-11pm NZST 

By The Daily Blog  /  August 6, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  16 Comments

So tonight, some of the world’s brightest citizen heroes are coming together to once again shine a spotlight on the crimes of the spy agencies against New Zealand citizens and residents.  Barrett Brown, Kim Dotcom, Lauri Love, Lee Camp and other special guests will join myself to discuss everything that our government and their collaborators do not want us to talk to you about. Everything that the media will never say.

GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Jacinda and Kelvin change everything

By The Daily Blog  /  August 5, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  27 Comments

Now is the time to join with us and make a real change in New Zealand politics. With Kelvin as Deputy, it gives us the opportunity to get Maori issues to the forefront and with Jacinda as Leader, we have a real chance to do something meaningful on poverty, housing, inequality, education and mental health.

GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Jacinda’s mana shines through

By The Daily Blog  /  August 2, 2017  /  Guest Blogs + Sponsored Posts, Most Recent Blogs  /  18 Comments

We all owe Andrew our gratitude to give a fresh Leader the opportunity to step up, and what a magnificent job of stepping up did Jacindaachieve in her first press conference? Her mana shone through and she has given so many New Zealanders a new hope that Labour will win this election.