The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 9th March 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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UN report calls Israel to account
While Palestinians are forced to live under such brutal, ideologically-driven Israeli military dictatorship, the mainstream news media and western politicians continue to behave as though it isn’t happening.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Simon says…
Simon Bridges has a new mantra – that the recently released tax review is “ an assault on the Kiwi way of life.” It’s a piece of political rhetoric that piles one myth on top of another to avoid reality.
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Waatea News Column – The new stolen generation of Māori children
Where is the outcry over this ramping up of seizing children and what extra resource has been put in place to protect those children once they have been taken?
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UPDATE: Labour are now as compromised to our Chinese Overlords as National are
Do our Chinese Overlords really have the power to simply stop evidence being heard in a New Zealand select committee? It would appear they do.Labour should hang its head in shame.
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Why Raymond Huo Wants Prof Brady Blocked From Speaking To His Select Committee
Placing Huo in charge of what has turned into the effort to track, monitor, and where possible, to *counter* PRC malfeasance within our polity – is not entirely unakin to asking a mosquito to go off and find the cure for malaria.
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Separating The Singer From The Song
BACK IN THE DAYS when I boasted much more hair and carried far fewer kilos, I was right into (as we said back then) writing songs. One of those songs, The Other Side of Town, opened like this:
Well, the street has been my teacher
And poverty my nurseOh dear, how my family and friends chortled. “You wouldn’t know how to live out on the street if your life depended on it!”, snorted one.
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Insurgents In Jammu And Kashmir Are Not Liberators – They Kill Muslim And Hindu Alike
So earlier this evening, a terrorist attack took place in Jammu; hospitalizing at least 28, of which I’m told, some have already died. This attack was carried out in a similar manner to other such outrages over the past ten months – with a hurled grenade.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 8th March 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Simon Bridges: “No ifs, no buts, no caveats, I will repeal this CGT”
“…No ifs, no buts, no caveats, I will repeal this CGT as Prime Minister of New Zealand ” – a statement so categorical that it made John Key’s 2008 commitment never to raise GST, look timid;
“National is not going to be raising GST.National wants to cut taxes not raise taxes.”
Except, he did.
In October 2010, Key’s National government increased GST from 12.5% to 15%.