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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Tuesday 28th March 2017
5: The Conservative Christian Moms Pushing for More Legal Weed in Texas
4: Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for 15 days
3: LAWSUIT SEEKS TRANSPARENCY AS SEARCHES OF CELLPHONES AND LAPTOPS SKYROCKET AT BORDERS
2: More Than 1,000 Civilians Reportedly Killed by U.S.-Led Airstrikes as Trump Expands War on Terror
1: Climate change: ‘human fingerprint’ found on global extreme weather -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 28th March 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dirty laundry
There’s a pattern. The government lets companies regulate themselves until they get exposed for causing damage to the public interest. Deny, fudge, delay, until there is enough of an outcry that it starts to be politically damaging. At that stage, the government does just enough to make the public think that the problem is sorted. But not enough to stop the companies from making big profits.
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STAKE YOUR CLAIM – A review of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s Hit and Run
The construction of this book was a painstaking and dangerous enterprise. John Stephenson risked life and limb by returning to the villages and interviewing survivors, and assembling the family trees of the dead and wounded. Empty shell casings from Apache helicopter cannon rounds were collected and photographed. A series of locally sourced stories from the Pajhwok News Agency, pointing to civilian deaths and casualties were filed. And, as mentioned earlier, a locally documented list of the dead and wounded was obtained and photocopied. By triangulating this material with the admissions of anonymous sources throughout the SAS and NZDF, Hager and Stephenson have built a powerful case.
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On NZ First’s Anti-Smacking Referendum
I’m therefore going to break ranks somewhat with many of the other voices on the liberal left and respectfully suggest that maybe Winston IS on to something here, and that there is, in fact, a case to be made for getting rid of the present section 59.
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Nothing To Them. Tim Keating hits back at “Hit & Run”
In the words of Jon Stephenson: “Is [NZDF Chief] Tim Keating really saying there were two raids using identical aircraft, in identical places with identical commandos, that left behind identical munitions in that one village, then [in] a village two kilometres south? Seriously?”
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Dunedin Satanists doing more for homeless and child poverty than NZ Government
You now shit has gotten pretty bad when the followers of Lucifer are being more productive in alleviating the pain and suffering of homelessness, child poverty and domestic violence than the National Party.
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NZDF Press Conference – not so much double speak as triple speak
Ok, so the NZDF have come out with their 5th version of events,
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Labour and Greens fiscal management rules offer no change – AAAP
Labour and Greens new Budget Responsibility Rules for fiscal management demonstrates a lack of commitment to the low paid and…