Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line at risk – Pacific Media Watch
PARIS (Reporters Without Borders / Pacific Media Watch): On International Anti-Corruption Day today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is highlighting the…
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Pacific loses shortwave radio that dodges dictators – warns of disasters – Pacific Media Watch
Dr Alexandra Wake MELBOURNE (Asia Pacific Report / The Conversation / Pacific Media Watch): As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck…
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Basher Bennett and Bully Boy Bill – meet your new Prime Minister and Deputy
…our country has just witnessed the biggest con job of a Political manoeuvre to immediately replace a Prime Minister who suddenly ended his career and stepped aside for two politicians whose political thuggery towards the poorest and weakest amongst us are a matter of public record. Not only is this false coronation accepted but there is no scrutiny as to why Key has suddenly stood down.
How long can this status quo continue?
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MUST READ: No Drama – No Change: John Key’s Comfortable Legacy
For those of us who live and breathe politics, the general indifference of our fellow citizens is perplexing. It shouldn’t be. Most people have enough to do just keeping their personal, working and family lives on an even keel. The idea that they should devote more than a moment or two of their precious time to the machinations of politicians would strike them as nuts.
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Political Caption Competition
Key’s last Christmas Card has received some criticism
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Sunday 11th December 2016
5: Rudy Giuliani Is Not Going to Be Secretary of State
4: Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence
3: Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil set to be Trump secretary of state pick – reports
2: Syria’s war: What went wrong in east Aleppo?
1: Inside Exxon’s Great Climate Cover-Up: From Early Climate Change Researcher to Epic Climate Denier -
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 11th 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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MUST READ: Charter Schools in a Post-Truth Era
For many on the neo-liberal Right, education is a business not a public good and therefore should be no different to electricity supply (semi-privatised); Air New Zealand (semi-privatised – again); or a whole host of other services and assets that were once owned by the tax-payer but have been sold off over the last thirty years.
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Israel’s racist cruelty towards Palestinian children
UNICEF frequently reports widespread, systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment of Palestinian children by the Israeli Army, with armed soldiers seizing children as young as 11 years and taking them prisoner. Palestinian homes, even in UN refugee camps, can offer no security for terrified children, who are dragged from their homes, often in the middle of the night.
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English makes his first mistake as PM – having Paula Bennett as Deputy
The die is cast and Prime Minister English has made his first mistake which will deform the next 10 political months.