The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 27th March 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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Teaching Their Parents Well
Forty years of right-wing counter-revolution has left its mark on the Baby-Boomers. For too many of them it proved a lot easier (and much more profitable) to give up the fight for a kinder, gentler America. For those “of tender years”, the trick will be to convince their parents and grandparents that the March For Our Lives is a march for their lives too.
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Huge Human Rights Review Tribunal win not just for Kim Dotcom but for all NZers
Our Democracy is only as strong as the checks and balances placed upon Executive power and this entire fiasco against Dotcom has highlighted the terrifying lack of accountability to that Executive power.
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Labour’s 4000 Mt Albert Kiwibuild a huge win for new Government
…what this shows is that this Government is focused on cutting deals that will see them actively step in to be the lender of last resort in ensuring people can buy the houses. It is a realisation that the State must be far more active in the house building process than the joke free market situation National allowed to create their speculative property bubble.
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Time to take on Oil industry, Tax big sugar, end intensive farming, restrict booze & crack down on pokies
Jacinda needs to show courage and make some huge calls that put the people first and the not the corporate interests of the vice industries be they oil or booze, sugar or gambling. Self-regulation is a joke and an excuse to do nothing, Jacinda must ask herself if the State is there to protect the interests of people or the vice pimps.
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If only the NZ media could focus on War Crimes the way they focus on golf games and cheating cricket
…I am so embarrassed by our media sometimes.
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Dave Macpherson: What can happen to self-entitled health sector bureaucrats, or what goes round comes round….
Three years ago the stars of four men who had responsibility for the care of our son – and a lot of other people – were in the ascendency: ‘Dr’ Nigel Murray the well-fed DHB CEO; Bob Simcock the laid-back DHB Board Chair; Chai Chuah the bean-counting Health Ministry boss; and ‘Dr’ Jonathan Coleman the ‘all care, no responsibility’ Health Minister.
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Political Caption Competition
Clarke Gayford’s Hipster Lite look didn’t deter the Prime Minister
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 26th March 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Worse than “fake news” – sloppy news!
Sloppy as in: where a supposedly reputable mainstream media outlet presents a news story, but with a glaring error. Case in point, TVNZ’s story on 25 March, reporting that “$1.7 million of taxpater’s money had been spent last year on airfares and escorts to deport overstayers – more than in any of the last five years”;