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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday – 8th March 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Is the Pandemic a plague on free market Capitalism?
Beyond the human damage and economic implosion this is going to cost until a vaccination is actually produced, the philosophical and political criticisms to free market globalisation which has given crumbs and suicide nets to many while amassing enormous wealth for a Transnational few will start sounding louder as the pandemic deepens…
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MEDIAWATCH: Thank Christ someone is calling out woke fatwa Twitter cancel culture in NZ
…we should be ashamed a Casino banned a philosopher from speaking because free speech is now defined by the Invisible Council of Enlightened Outrage!
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Warren supporters won’t back Bernie – Identity Politics and modern political culture doesn’t work like that
Under Identity Politics, an ally is just someone who hasn’t oppressed or triggered you yet.
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Hypocrisy and political cultural resentment: The desperate last stand of Shane Jones
if all Shane has to offer is his usual Shakespearian word salads from the Great Waa Waa of the North, he’s not going to sate the lust for radical change that a growing segment of the voting population are demanding.
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Mining fiasco highlights Green Party impotency
Nothing manages to sum up the impotency of the Greens in power quite like any decision by the Ministry captured Minister Sage or this fiasco over mining…
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MEDIAWATCH: Precious Journalists behind Paywalls shouldn’t throw RNZ rocks
Nothing is more gloriously tedious in the schoolyard of life than bitchy media companies playing Mean Girls with one another and then competing to virtue signal their outrage olympics as to who has been hurt the most.
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Remembering Jeanette Fitzsimons, a great Green
The news of Jeanette Fitzsimons’ death is so sad for me as a friend and former parliamentary colleague. She symbolized Green politics and was totally committed to the welfare of the planet and the people on it.
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On Trump’s Nixonian “Peace With Honour” In Afghanistan
So over the past few days in Afghanistan, there’ve been more than six dozen Taliban attacks and the US has resumed airstrikes against them. Yet I seem to keep running across people hailing Trump as some kind of visionary diplomatic savant (as opposed to the *other* kind of savant) who’s scored some kind of history-diverting coup in securing a sort of ‘peace with honour’ deal in Afghanistan.