The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 14th August 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The power to take your children from you is the most coercive power there is, it is a power that demands the highest thresholds of check and balance, none of which exist within Oranga Tamariki.
Is it a bird?
Is it a Plane?
No, it’s Adrian Orr, Captain Socialism!
The Right have exploited Chinese immigration to prop up the speculative property bubble so the middle classes felt like millionaires and to enable the sale of cheap milk powder to China which has trapped our Dairy Industry with intensification debt while the Identity Politics Left attacked anyone criticising Chinese immigration as racist xenophobes.
Shane Jones says that Shane Jones is one of the greatest NZers Shane Jones has ever known and Shane Jones says that Shane Jones is angry at dirty filthy urban liberals who attack his cherished Fishing Industry.
…the real reason why there has been a scalp here, unlike the other screw ups, is that in the other examples it’s normally poor brown people suffering so Wellington Bureaucrat’s don’t get punished if they can pronounce Te Reo correctly, but in the Census issue it impacts vast amounts of public spending in white rich places, so someone must be punished.
Our current political spectrum can not respond fast enough to the radical cultural, economic and societal adaptation required to prepare us for the realities of the climate crisis, we need to be on a war footing, instead we are drunk on the couch chilling with Netflix.
If Bridges and Hosking have their way, they would demand Police remove the protesters, the protests would swell beyond the ability of the local pigs to control and Bridges would need to send in the army with Hosking cheering from the sideline.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: Trick question. There isn’t a difference.
In the wake of the recent white nationalist terror attacks in El Paso and New-Zealand the book, The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right is more relevant than ever. There is a global spread of white supremacist ideology across social media. The ideology is motivated by fear, bigotry and division. Hadley Robinson-Lewis recently sat down for a chat with David Renton during his international book tour.