GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Martin Luther King, We Need You Today!
In April 1967, FIFTY YEARS AGO, Dr Martin Luther King spoke at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, NYC, warning of the moral failure of a country addicted to war.
Guest Blogs & Sponsored Posts
Guest and sponsored opinion pieces published on The Daily Blog, offering diverse perspectives within clear editorial guidelines.
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GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Anyone who supports the Assad regime in Syria cannot be a friend of the Palestinian people
In reply to Chris Trotter and other New Zealand Leftists and Liberals rushing to excuse, or explain away, the Syrian Regime’s aerial gas attack on the liberated Syrian province of Idlib.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Housing crisis not helped by smug speculators
We need Government that uses its powers to rebalance the extremes of free market capitalism, and we need politicians who aren’t frightened to say words like free market capitalism.
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GUEST BLOG: Selwyn Manning – Lieutenant General Tim Keatings Operation Burnham account highlights key legal concerns
It appears the official account , if true, underscores a probable breach of legal obligations – not necessarily placing culpability solely on the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) commandos on the ground, but rather on the officers who commanded their actions, ordered their movements, their tasks and priorities prior to, during, and after Operation Burnham.
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GUEST BLOG: Danyl Strype – Some Home Truths About House Shortages, Housing Affordability, and the Generation Gap
Geoff Simmons of TOP (the Opportunities Party) recently wrote a guest blog for TDB, in response to some rather harsh criticisms of TOP and its millionaire founder Gareth Morgan by regular TDB writer Chris Trotter.
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EXCLUSIVE GUEST BLOG: Karl Pearce – Ministry of “Vulnerable Children” is wolf in CYFS clothing.
The new Ministry for Vulnerable Children (MVC) is being launched today but is it at all different to the former organisation that is Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS)?
I received a document hours ago showing the latest management structure of the new organisation MVC?
Within this Document is both a large number of “vacancies” as well as a large number of “acting” roles. Showing how quickly and haphazardly the new department has been organised, however what is more concerning is those who were in the old structure, are a part of the ‘new and improved’ structure.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Crime, burglaries and how failed politics impacts your community
Let’s be clear, there is no easy solution to crime. Anyone telling you that more cops and locking people up for longer is the solution is lying to you. Crime is made far worse by failed politics and stupidly thought out policy so if we want to be serious about reducing our crime rate we need to look far closer at what is driving that crime.
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GUEST BLOG: Damon Rusden – “The anti-smacking bill – why you should support it”
The “anti-smacking” bill was never about taking away your right to discipline your children. It was about taking away legal sanctuary for those who abuse children.
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GUEST BLOG: Paul (the bloke The Standard banned for 3 years) – Terror attacks and war crimes
Last week, two serious news events dominated our airwaves. The way these stories were disseminated tells us plenty about the way we, the New Zealand public, are fed propaganda.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Rip, Shit, Bust: The Pike River Mine Disaster and the Role of the Unions
Pike River was a failure of the unions to insist on health and safety conditions for the miners under both Labour and National Governments. The deregulation of industry was started by the 4th Labour Government under Lange. It was symptomatic that under Labour the unions fell into line with its policies and failed to put up a serious fight against the monetarist deregulation of the economy at the cost of many workers lives.