The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 23rd June 2019
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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The real issue the media missed in the Burnham Inquiry this week
Our top spook agency has misled the only civilian oversight they are forced to comply with and actively attempted to prevent that only check and balance from seeing the full scope of evidence over an alleged war crime. This is an extraordinary abuse of power, yet the opportunity paint Hager out as a liar seemed more important to news producers.
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By not attacking Iran, has Trump just committed the cardinal sin of Amerika?
Can we all just universally agree, as New Zealanders, that if Trump gets tricked into a military conflict with Iran – we point blank refuse to get dragged into it.
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: David Hisco, Police over reaction, Luxon, Boris Johnson, ACTs freedom of speech play & girls playing rugby
THIS WEEK: David Hisco, Police over reaction, Luxon, Boris Johnson, ACTs freedom of speech play & girls playing rugby
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 22nd June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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When Christine Rankin is defending Oranga Tamariki, it’s time to burn Oranga Tamariki to the ground
We know that the Ministry for Vulnerable Children was a simplistic neoliberal solution to the complexity of poverty and child abuse. Focusing on rescuing children from environments that big data predict are abusive rather than the wrap around services a whanau requires to keep their child is a cost cutting measure.
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The Liberal Agenda – Once Were Warriors – 25 years on. A Pakeha experience.
There has been a lot of discussion recently on Stuff.co.nz about the 25 year history of Once Were Warriors, that quintessential New Zealand film that went beyond the shaggy dog antics of Goodbye Pork Pie and Came a Hot Friday or the dystopia of the Quiet Earth or Sleeping Dogs or the pure creepiness of Vigil and The Navigator to enshrine itself as a chapter of our cultural history that to this day still resonates with all the fury of its opening night.
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Trump was going to launch a strike against Iran? What madness is this?
Iran is not our enemy. American foreign policy is.
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Political Caption Competition
Who bakes to celebrate stolen children?