The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 10th April 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: Willie Jackson – Our ‘third world medical infrastructure in a first world country’
Is the National Party writing the news these days?
Everywhere I look I see nasty right wing hit job after nasty right wing hit job aimed at the small missteps made by our new Government get inflated into enormous mountains while real issues that impact the people who voted for us are minimised.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – What Thomas Piketty and Matthew Hooton (don’t) tell us about the Labour Coalition
Thomas Piketty has discovered that all post-war elections in France, UK and US have been won by one of two political parties with a small margin of victory in all cases. He has worked out that both two main rivals represent the 1% leaving the 99% unrepresented. He predicts that these twin capitalist parties will be replaced by two parties that essentially represent Wall St and Main St. He calls them “multiple elite parties”.
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Marama Davidson as new co-leader of Greens: NZ finally has its own flaxroots Corbyn & Sanders
Conventional wisdom is that the Greens need to pick up votes from National. The constant hunting for the mythical blue-green voter has haunted Green strategists because the compromises required to get National Party soccer mums to vote Green beyond the aesthetic of identifying as a Green supporter is simply too large to work.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 9th April 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Newsflash: apparently our public hospital system is in crisis?!
Regardless of headlines, the content confirmed years of media reports and countless blogposts on The Daily Blog, The Standard, and elsewhere, that New Zealand’s public healthcare system was critically under-funded; over-stretched; and staff were burning out from over-work. The story confirmed nine years of National’s gross under-funding and mis-management of the health system as successive ministers demanded that DHB managers and health-workers “do more with less”;
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MUST READ: Russian Spy Drama Symptom of and Distraction From Bigger Geopolitical Play
I prefer to live in a country that makes its international relations decisions based on firm, independent evidence rather than speculation. Let’s not forget the rush to war based on allegations of Weapons of Mass Destruction. It doesn’t have to be ‘you’re either with us or you’re against us’, it can be a case of wait and see – at least until Wednesday when the UN Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons releases its report into the incident.
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Political Caption Competition
Who has got 2 angry fists and is about to smash you in the gut if you remind the voters of how right wing Democrat policy really is?
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 8th April 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.