The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 6th February 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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Much has been made of the number of people “fleeing” Venezuela.
It probably doesn’t matter what type of government existed in Venezuela but a price decline of that magnitude in a country that gets 90% of its foreign exchange from oil would have been a disaster.
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Hey Russel Norman – did you get your invite to the Shane Jones Waitangi Party?
If that’s true, it brings us back to the question, what on earth does the fishing industry have over Shane Jones?
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – How you respond to Don Brash
There is an enormous amount of online anger about Don Brash speaking at Waitangi this year. On July 2017, I gave a speech at the very same Rotary Club Don Brash gave his infamous Orewa Speech at.
This is how we should respond to Brash.
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Waatea News Column: Waitangi Marae shows more commitment to Free Speech than Massey University
The country has been shocked and surprised at the grace of the Waitangi Marae by inviting Dr Don Brash to speak at the Waitangi Forum Tent on Tuesday.
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Hands Off Venezuela!
VENEZUELA DESERVES DEMOCRACY, but that is not what Venezuela is going to get. What it will get – as the whole world is currently witnessing – is a brutal assault on its people by the world’s most powerful nation. Venezuela is being threatened with economic strangulation, civil war and, should these stratagems prove ineffective in dislodging the government of President Nicolas Maduro, a full-scale military invasion led by the United States itself.
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Māori Climate Commissioner: The Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand (PEPANZ) are not the future
“One of the few bold measures this Government has done to combat climate change, banning future oil exploration, is being attacked by Big Oil who are desperate to hide the fact they are now a sunset industry”.
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GUEST BLOG: Bill Rosenberg – Tax & Finance
The second panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Should Look Like was on the Internationalised Economy. This contribution is from Bill Rosenberg on financial stability and tax.
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On Venezuela And Judith Collins’ Sudden Inexplicable Enthusiasm for Democracy
There are a few things to be said about this attack-line from the National Party’s Judith Collins. One of which, is that Collins either doesn’t know, or more likely simply doesn’t care about the facts of the situation. Juan Guaido did not contest the 2018 Venezuelan Presidential Election. It is therefore impossible to truthfully call him the “rightful winner” of said Election.
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GUEST BLOG: Louie Encabo – Failure of UN Compact Protests Proved Disinformation Campaign Did Not Work
Weeks after New Zealand voted in favour of the United Nations Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, a supposed grand protest against it took place.