The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday – 30th April 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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Daily Blog April Donations Drive – last day today
Brothers and Sisters, if you think The Daily Blog is an important voice in the NZ media landscape, then we need your contribution now in the last day of April
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Hilary Barry quits TV3 – now what reason do you have to watch Paul Henry?
Many who were attached to Campbell Live forgave TV3 because Hillary was still there, but with her gone, watch for the next ratings collapse in News and on Paul Henry’s show.
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Why a political revolution in 2023 is the only way house prices will fall
The reason this will all change is because millennials, Gen Y and X are waking up to the scam they’ve been served up and the intergenerational theft that has allowed it to happen. Politics stops being some disconnected thing when you bear the brunt of it.
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Who They Gonna Call? If the going gets weird in 2017, the Right will turn to Winston Peters
Ray Parker Jnr’s catchy lyrics to the themesong of the 1984 hit movie, Ghostbusters, have taken on a special resonance in recent days, as a series of extraordinary revelations have further shaken John Key’s already unsettled government.
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Will Bernie Sanders supporters really vote for a corporate friend of the military industrial complex like Hillary Clinton?
I suspect that what is happening on the democratic side of the American election will have more of an impact as to whether or not Trump wins than a Republican contested convention.
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To the barricades Kiwis – Key is letting a filthy US War ship into our waters – rage and prepare to fight now!
In November this year, an American warship will be entering Auckland Harbour for the first time in 32 years for the 75th anniversary of the NZ Navy. I remember protesting against the last warship visit when I was ten years old and I’m damned if I’ll simply sit quietly by while National and their corrupt followers cheerlead the American empire back into our waters!
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NZs worst employer – AFFCO Talleys – is butchering worker rights – again
News that NZs worst employer, AFFCO Talleys, are now trying to kill off any social media criticism of their despicable work practices, union busting and appalling work and safety record is just the latest round of this disgusting company gleefully crushing worker rights.
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How do you tell a mate they are racist and hateful? The Australia problem
The racism that has denigrated aboriginals is one thing, a sceptic wound that can be covered over by history and a ‘we didn’t know any better’ type of attitude, but what Australia is doing to refugees right now has no pretence of history to hide the horror.
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Good Policy is rarely done on the run
After years of neglect John Key now thinks a selective land tax just might be called for to curb the tearaway housing bubble. The best that can be said is that he has opened a window of opportunity for debate.