The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 18th 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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When will NZers wake up to the magnitude of damage National’s immigration policy has caused us?
The Left and Progressive movement must wake the fuck up to what National’s neoliberal free market immigration policy has actually done in 8 years and Bernard Hickey’s must read column today helps add numbers to urgency of that change…
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Catherine Delahunty and Stefan Browning step down – Green Party renewal
Catherine Delahunty and Stefan Browning stepping down from the Greens at the next election is a mixed blessing and speaks to the new shifting power blocs in the Green Party conclave.
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Did the NZ Government just have 2 Terabyte’s of information hacked?
An astounding claim late this week from Kim Dotcom that appeared on a news blog that few will have heard of has been ignored by the mainstream corporate media in New Zealand. The claim is that 2 terabytes of information has been hacked or ‘leaked’ from the National Party and that it will appear in the 2017 election.
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Damage control better for business than for dolphins?
After years of fishing industry denial that their practices pose any harm to Maui dolphins, this week two significant New Zealand fishing companies announced they were aiming for Maui-safe fishing methods on the North Island West Coast by 2022.
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Don’t believe the lies about the unaffordability of National Super
Right-wing commentators and big business advocates want to see government spending on any welfare that goes to the people as of right slashed.
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Political Caption Competition
The theme to Jaws in 4 pictures
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Saturday 17th December 2016
5: TEAM TRUMP: The four types of people in the president-elect’s cabinet
4: IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW DONALD TRUMP WILL DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT, READ THIS LEGISLATIVE ROADMAP
3: China seizes US naval drone in South China Sea
2: A Legislative Coup in NC? Rev. William Barber on GOP Stripping Power from New Democratic Governor
1: Clinton accuses Putin of acting on ‘personal beef’ in directing email hack -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 17th December 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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What a ‘Typical’ Mission Client Looks like – Auckland City Mission
Brianna* has been sitting on the footpath outside the Auckland City Mission since 4:30am this morning. She’s 35 years-old, a…