The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 30th December 2016
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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THE ADVENT OF THE EGO ACTIVIST
If you do not know what an Ego Activist is let me explain. You will have one, or if you’re unlucky, more than one on your timeline. But even if you don’t interact in social media the fact is this year they even infiltrated main stream media.
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On Cassus Belli-aching with Israel
There are many reasons why states may be said to go to war with one another.
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So is this day 3 or 4 of Israel’s war against us? Does anyone know yet? Where the hell is Bill English?
There should be a unified call from the Opposition to expel the Israeli embassy for their threat if Bill English won’t front.
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This scene is why Princess Leia was such a pop culture feminist icon- RIP Carrie Fisher
…to many of us Princess Leia was the first real embodiment of a feminist character whose equality with men wasn’t even in question. The groundbreakingness of Fisher’s role reset pop culture narratives and gave us a glimpse of a different voice.
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Israel threatens war and NZ mainstream corporate media go silent – what real fake news looks like
I appreciate the graduate student C team is wheeled into staff the news room over the Christmas period, hence their breathless updates on the bloody holiday road toll, but surely someone in charge has to appreciate the magnitude and enormity of Israel’s language and threats toward us?
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Dear Israel – take your blood drenched embassy with you
What Israel are doing to the Palestinian people is the great crime of our collective generation. The things they do every day to humiliate, imprison, mutilate and torture the Palestinian people in an economic, cultural and social manner is an abomination.
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Now NZ has shown courage against Israel at the UN, will NZ Herald give Malcolm Evans his job back?
We can’t trust the gutless, toothless and self interested NZ Press Council for ethics in Journalism, but seeing as we as a National have surprisingly stood against Israeli aggression at the UN, don’t we owe it to the activists who have fought against Apartheid Israel and who have suffered for that stance the chance to have injustices to them wiped clean?
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Imagine what we could do if the NZ corporate media focused on suicide the way they do the bloody holiday road toll
This is lazy journalism, it’s not news. Imagine what we could do in this country of the media focused on the suicide rate the way they do the bloody holiday road toll.
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Dear Aaron Smith – PLEASE fly to New York and have sex in a UN toilet
How is a slavish worship of consumerism on Boxing Day and the continued tedious update of our holiday road toll anywhere near as important as NZs leadership on criticising Israel?