How to survive an Alt Right and Woke Christmas this year
Christmas, that time of year when you are forced to spend long periods of time with extended family who might believe all sorts of crazy shit.
Most Recent Blogs
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What happens when more Wall St meltdown causes KiwiSaver stampede?
I’ve already heard some banks have moved from just allowing you to do this online to needing to go in and meet a bank staff member in an attempt to slow this momentum. The thinking is you are less likely to do it if you have to go through a staff member first.
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TDB Political & Media Awards 2018 – Christmas Omnibus Special Edition
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 all together in one hilarious combo of gleeful hate and love. Trigger warning, there are so many triggers in here it may as well be a bag of fucking handguns.
Not for the sensitive, strictly no emotional support peacocks.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 23rd December 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Have my coins, we all need change
As well as the usual worthy, weekly calls from the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation, the Deaf Foundation, Foster Kids, Greenpeace, and a suite of non-governmental organisations doing important work ameliorating social, environmental, and physical ills, this week I was also called by UNICEF, asking for weekly donations.
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – To legalise or prohibit?
What simply does not work is the system of severe penalties for producing, transporting and selling substances deemed illegal. Even signs in some airports I’ve past through where signs clearly display the death penalty for trafficking; don’t stop the flow.
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Latest climate change news and it’s just so much worse than you thought – our last hope is the coin toss of AI
Hi folks, I know we are all fighting over very, very important petty shit like Police in pride parades and Māori Santas – but this is your friendly reminder that the fucking planet is melting…
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China and NZs slow dance into conflict
NZ-Asians face the most overt racism in NZ, there is a huge tension building beneath the mild surface of NZ society, and we aren’t prepared for when it ruptures.
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The first strategic blunder by Labour for 2019?
What happens if another Labour Party member decides to throw their hat in the ring for the Mayoralty?
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Waatea News Column: Climate Change is here now – what will we do?
News last week that the latest studies show Antartica is in danger of melting should shake us from any complacency that climate change is some distant event at the end of the century.