The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 27th August 2018
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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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – A NOTE TO WAIKATO HOSPITAL
I just picked up this message from my cousin. I’ve taken out all the family stuff. but I’ve left in her comments about the care my aunty received while she was at Auckland Hospital. I’m posting this because of all the unnecessary grief Papa Carl Perkins and his whanau went through while he was at Waikato Hospital.
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Let’s be honest about New Zealand’s ‘Paedophile village’ shall we? WARNING: You won’t like the answer
First of all, why the Christ is this being called a ‘Paedophile village’? It immediately scares the living bejesus out of locals and sets the nation at unease. It suggests a malignant tumour of a community that must be treated with the same mercy as you treat cancer, i.e. none at all.
‘Paedophile village’ is the very worst of the mainstream media selling clickbait.
Why not call it ‘Utter-failure-of-social-policy village’? Because that is truly what this represents.
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Game theory and NZ Coalition Politics : Agenda Setters, Co-operation, Triumph and Suckers
By applying Game theory, Nested games and the Prisoner’s Dilemma to current NZ politics, we can see that NZ First is playing the sharpest game; it’s triumphant in many policy and funding allocations. Meanwhile the Greens celebrate relatively small wins, with no real incentive to defect, playing the sucker in Labour and New Zealand First’s game.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Who is this Woman? Why was she on board? What’s it to her?
I hope you are aware of Mike Treen’s ordeal. He, along with other passengers and crew on the Freedom Flotilla boat Al Awda, was hijacked in international waters and forced to go to Israel. Mike was brutally tasered, while being arrested. Why has there been no public and political outrage here in NZ? What is the matter with us?
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Political Caption Competition
Dear Jesus…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 26th August 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Gerry Brownlee, David Farrar, and Brett Hudson win Hypocrisy Awards
Ms Curran’s gaffs have sparked the usual and tedious pious pontification from the National Opposition benches. Former Christchurch Re-build Minister, and airline security hazard, Gerry Brownlee, climbed the rarified heights of Mount Moral Highground to demand Ms Curran’s sacking;
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668 NZers took their own lives last year – the malaise at the heart of us
The refusal to ever acknowledge that the 30 year neoliberal experiment in society, culture and economics has reaped a bitter harvest of mostly men who are so alienated from themselves that their loneliness and grief swamp the daybreak of the present.
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5 Main Ways You Can Go Instead of a Regular Job
There are many people who are extremely tired by regular jobs. Aren’t you? Apart from the routine, doesn’t your boss…