The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday – 20th December 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Most Recent Blogs
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GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – The madness of health system restructuring in a pandemic
Three main pillars were described in the ‘health reforms’ for New Zealand’s health system announced by Minister of Health Andrew…
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Thought for the coming year
On 22 October, the Israeli Defence Ministry declared Defence for Children International–Palestine (DCIP) to be a “terrorist organisation”. This was…
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A Chris Trotter rewind – 20 years of LOTR
As LOTR turns 20, I think the best political cultural evaluation of the movie and the Shire that is NZ was written by Chris Trotter back in 2016…
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20 years of LOTR, its biggest plot failure & the present day torture of MIQ diaspora
I always felt that Peter Jackson left out the best part of our taxpayer funded Aryan fantasy documentary ‘Lord Of The Rings’ when he cut the ‘Scouring of the Shire’ where Frodo returns home to find the very evil he had fought to protect the Shire from had already settled in.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – $1.5 million in compensation for 10 months solitary confinement
In 2017 I issued proceedings against the Attorney-General as representing Corrections seeking up to $1.5 million in compensation for 10…
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2021 – The Year a Bat won Bird of the Year & why being Left wing was so hard
I predict Hectors Dolphin for Bird of the Year 2022.
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LONG-FORM REPORT: Creating the citizen economy
Taxation is the mechanism for redistribution of wealth to combat inequality and for redirecting resources to build a society. But our current tax principles though largely hidden or not understood by ordinary people, lie at the root of all our current inequality and struggling economy. Struggling at least for ordinary people. This article shows our current tax principles are central to our economic problems. Understand and fix tax and we are on a path to greater economic security and wealth for all, a ‘citizens economy’.
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We hit 90% double vaxxed while lunatic antivaxxrs protested – this is us at our Kiwi best!
It says something about the wonderful character of Kiwis that on the same day 2000 AntiVaxxer lunatics were marching in Wellington that we as a country hit the 90% vaccination target.
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Government Urged to Save Long Distance Passenger Trains
The Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) is calling for a national public transport authority to coordinate and help fund urban,…