New research shows need for government-led house building – Labour Party
Research by economist Shamubeel Eaqub shows the need for the government to lead the building of affordable starter homes, as…
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Mainstream media finally catch up to mass surveillance concerns over beneficiaries
The counter productive problems with National’s mass surveillance of beneficiaries is that vulnerable people who are already too terrified to engage with any Government agency will actively avoid getting any help so that the neoliberal welfare state can’t track them down and punish them.
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The evil that is Fonterra
While Fonterra get NZs favourite rugby boof head to sing their praise in TV and while the industry tries to hide the damage they do to our water and environment by flooding the country with cow shit, these buggers have been caught doing this…
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EXCLUSIVE: Dear Netsafe – you can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands
Netsafe demanded that I respond within 48 hours as to whether or not I would comply with their requests for censorship, so let me respond publicly to Netsafe.
You can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands. The content you have asked to be censored is not defamatory and allowing secret censorship of political blogs is the most dangerous and disturbing part of your powers.
This blog ain’t for turning
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Keating and English’s colonial response to the SAS raid
Defence Chief Tim Keating and the Prime Minister exhibit the “colonial” reflex in completely ignoring the villagers as a source of information. Bill English looked at a few American videos of the battle and considered that to be enough to reject any inquiry. Keating didn’t consider evidence from the locals as relevant enough to mention.
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Political Caption Competition
Paula Bennett unhappy that she has been shrunk to the size of a blue Oompa Loompa due to Government cutbacks
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 6th April 2017
5: Why Would a World Leader Eat Canned Spaghetti on Pizza?
4: REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP’S TIES TO BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE
3: Idlib hospitals overwhelmed after suspected gas attack
2: Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon stripped of national security council role
1: “The Assad Regime is a Moral Disgrace”: Noam Chomsky on Ongoing Syrian War -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 6th April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Gas Attack In Khan Sheikhoun! But why would Bashar al-Assad blow himself up?
JUST ONCE, it would be nice to encounter a Western journalist willing to challenge the “International Community’s” official line. Someone willing to acknowledge that the term “International Community” is, itself, a cynical misnomer intended to cloak the self-interested policies of the United States and its Nato allies in the highfalutin language of global solidarity.
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Latest income and welfare changes fall short of addressing need – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that although the Government has increased the minimum wage and benefits yearly, the latest…