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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Tuesday 7th March 2017
5: Advocate: Trump’s New Muslim Travel Ban Will Be As Unlawful As First Executive Order
4: Why Universities Really Should Be Dominated By Left-Wingers
3: Trump signs new Muslim travel ban excluding Iraq
2: Democrats Now Demonize the Same Russia Policies that Obama Long Championed
1: John Oliver on Trump’s wiretapping claims: ‘Stupid Watergate’ -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 7th 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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Government giving wrong message to women on 8 March – NZNO
NZNO says it is short-sighted of the government to not support the first reading of the Domestic Violence – Victim’s…
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Iron sands hearing moves to New Plymouth – Environmental Protection Authority
Public hearings on a proposal to mine iron sands off the coast of Taranaki move to New Plymouth for four…
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Transport Minister Cut the Pork Barrel Politics in Northland it’s a Bridge too Far – Grow Northland Rail
Transport & Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges needs to show the people of Whangarei/Northland some long overdue respect. Jetting in…
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Top 10 NZ TV news shows
Q+A and The Nation return for 2017 this month, so the line up of political news shows on TV amounts to a dozen shows in Election Year.
How depressing.
So here’s the 12 NZ mainstream media news shows ranked from worst to best
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Bill English wants to raise the age of Superannuation
English has clearly fumbled Superannuation and rather be seen as being too weak to change things, he’s decided to go all in and signal a rise in eligibility to 67.
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West Papuan students stage anti-Freeport protests in Indonesia
Demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-West Papua) have staged protests across Indonesia, demanding the right to self-determination and the closure of the PT Freeport gold and copper mine. This is the mine that the $20 billion NZ Superannuation Fund was forced to pull out of in 2012 after sustained protest about its “unethical” investment in the US-based company.
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Compare Superannuation outrage to whisper about beneficiaries being spied upon
What English has in fact created are neoliberal welfare state agencies that are more aggressive than a Police Dog on meth. The beneficiaries are terrified of talking to any government agency now because that information goes to everyone and suddenly the beneficiary who is asking for help from Housing NZ are then facing a bill from WINZ for a relationship they didn’t disclose.