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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 20th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Opening up our prisons
All of our prisons in New Zealand are high security in the sense of razor wire, single entry, lots of staff, strong security focus, stab-proof vests and so on. There is an inescapable dehumanisation about our prisons, whether intended or not. They are really expensive to run but not so good at development or rehabilitation, or family contact and job-finding.
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Ongoing drug-test sanctions contradicts Government’s rhetoric on drugs – AAAP
Reports that two-thirds of beneficiaries who fail drug tests are still having their benefit sanctioned contradicts the Government’s so-called health…
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Sanford’s latest gambit a bid to protect profits, not dolphins – World Animal Protection
World Animal Protection describes an overnight announcement (19 August, embargoed until 6am 20 August), by fishing company Sanford as a…
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Will the economic meltdown hurt Trump? Really?
We tell ourselves that Trump will lose because we want to believe it, but Trump was elected because of economic anxiety, how much more enraged will his electorate become when they truly feel that anxiety become economic reality?
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The slumping failure of the cannabis reform movement in NZ
Some might suggest fringe Christian fanatics Family Fist have pumped out propaganda and that has changed things, but I don’t for one second think it’s God squad or their moronic whining, I think it’s something far more damaged.
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I’m getting the same feeling about local elections I did with the Census
Bryce Edwards thinks as little as 30% will vote in local body elections.
I think he’s being optimistic.
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Why the massive ice melt in Greenland should terrify you
We are seeing the last canary die in the coal mine. Catastrophic climate change is here, we have run out of time. Our collective denial has made it impossible to stop climate change, our only hope now is radical adaptation.
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Judith Collins – Foot in Mouth Award? Or something more sinister?
Former Police, Corrections, and Justice Minister in the previous John Key government, Judith Collins, has been ridiculed on social media after posting a comment on Twitter that was patently untrue;