The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 5th 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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Moment Liam Dann realised his ‘Don’t Panic’ column last month may have been optimistic
For the last decade, to avoid the horror of systemic financial market collapse in 2007/2008, $30Trillion has been printed and pumped into the global economy falsely creating the lowest inflation rates for 5000 years. That seems about as far removed from the concept of sound market fundamentals as The AM Show is from intellectual curiosity.
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Without even small environmental wins, justice is a distant dream
As the ‘left’ moves to the centre, I find myself on the further margins of the spectrum. Here I am, left of Labour and greener than the Greens, looking for everyday solutions as well as system level change to solve the problems of our era. I can’t see how incremental and conservative capitalist prescriptions can ever be the remedy for environmental collapse, economic inequality or social exclusion at their present scale.
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Why Matt McCarten is the real reason why Simon Bridges is wooing the Greens
What many on the Left, and certainly within the political punditry, don’t appreciate or understand is that Labour’s victory last year was set in motion a year earlier by Matt McCarten’s ‘Big Tent’ strategy that aimed at expanding Labour’s voter base while eliminating National’s support partners.
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The Nation Review: Dear Matthew Hooton – your boy Simon needs you
Simon passed so much evil legislation in 9 years, it’s hard for him to keep track of them all.
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Political Caption Competition
Seven Sharp – broadcast from inside TVNZ’s womb
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 4th 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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The latest abomination from WINZ
The horror of WINZ is once again laid bare with policy so draconian and counter productive, you just have to label it evil…
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Justice depends upon truth
On Wednesday, 21 February this year, Israeli Army bulldozers arrived to destroy the the home of Atta Jaber and lay waste to what was left of the land that had been in his family for 800 years.
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Ummmmm – James Shaw seems confused at the Summer Policy Conference as to why the Greens got smashed so let’s spell it out for him
At their Summer Policy Conference this weekend, The Green Party announced that they would ban any and all kickbacks for their MPs, meaning Yoga Corporations, Big Tofu and The Bicycle Industrial Complex will be outraged!