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The blind leading the dead
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 16th December 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Political Caption Competition
We’ve just had confirmation from the Situation Room, Mike Hosking, Sean Plunket, Matthew Hooton and Cameron Slater have all been shot dead by special forces.
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We will miss Mike Hosking at 7pm the way we miss cancer
I think Mike appeals to those who already have and his quaint musings on working hard and not helping beneficiaries because that only enables them when you feed them slips effortlessly into the cultural norms rich people convince themselves of when they have to step over beggars to get into Louis Vuitton stores.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz: Regulating or Liberating Cannabis?
The NZ Drug Foundation has published its Briefing Document on Drug reform for the incoming Parliament. The indications are that its approach is one that the Government might favour because while it argues for decriminalisation to remove the worst aspects of our demonic cannabis laws, it also recommends heavy regulation of “production, consumption and sale”.
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Grant Robertson’s “Mini Budget” Presents Progressives With A “Maxi-Problem”
IT’S OFFICIAL – there is now no prospect of this government living up to its promises of introducing “transformational” change. Thanks to Grant Robertson, the Labour-NZ First-Green Government will, with one exception, be fundamentally indistinguishable from the Clark-Cullen ministry of 1999-2008.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 15th December 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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$639 million upgrade poses question of whether we need frigates
The frigates Te Mana and Te Kaha are a huge drain on the taxpayer. They cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year in running costs and regular upgrades. The current electronics upgrade is now priced at a whopping $639 million.
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Why I do not welcome euthanasia in New Zealand
When I look at the horror our mental health system, prison system & welfare systems have become for the most vulnerable via chronic underfunding & indifferent staff – I fear how euthanasia will mutate in that cruel environment.
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Medicinal cannabis: good news, bad news
Good news! The Labour-led Government will introduce legislation to “legalise medicinal cannabis”, this side of Christmas. Bad news! Based on early hints about the content of the reform, patients are fearful about whether the changes will go far enough and whether they will have to continue to resort to criminal activity.