The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 21st September 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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New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill 2016- CAFCA
Submissions to the Select Committee on the New Zealand Intelligence and Security Bill 2016. What should we be concerned about?…
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NZ Herald/Fairfax merger and the burning of the public square
From Paul Henry in the morning to Mike Hosking at night with a merged right wing newspaper monopoly in the middle. An unbroken chorus of neoliberal mythology masquerading as successful fact.
We have become a one media state.
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Spiralling Inequality Proves National Not To The Left Of Labour – But Someone Arguably Is…
There’s nothing wrong with operating to the economic left of Labour. But it seems fairly patently obvious that that’s not what National are doing. If there’s any dyed-in-the-wool Cold Warriors out there in the audience, they may perhaps choose to disagree – but running a fairly broadly social-democrat economic policy is not supposed to substantially increase inequality by benefiting economic elites at the expense of just about everyone else.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Tuesday 20th September 2016
5: What We Know So Far About Bombing Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami
4: Central bankers group issues stark warning on world economy
3: Weapons Makers Hold Lavish Lovefest for Pentagon Official Who Manages Arms Sales
2: Nader: Trump is a Freeloading, Pontificating Empty Suit Who Has Cheated on Everything He’s Done
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 20th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Build The Surge For Chloe Swarbrick!
I remember meeting Helen Clark for the first time when I was an undergraduate student at Otago. She was just six years older than me, but I could tell, even back then, in the early 1980s, that this junior political studies lecturer from Auckland was going to play a major role in New Zealand’s political history. I defy anyone to watch Swarbrick’s performance on last Sunday’s Q+A and not reach exactly the same conclusion.
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Political Caption Competition
Steven Joyce playfully tells children that if they can’t solve the puzzle, he will arrest their parents
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 19th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Child Poverty and Social Injustice seminar in Wellington, 21 Sept
Despite a common urge to cling to the ideology of New Zealand as an egalitarian society, we are not all…