The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 20th March 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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Interpreting the new Roy Morgan Poll
National’s popularity is kept high due to the property prices going up. Middle class support stops the moment that bubble pops, the Opposition still has some way to go to beat National – but it’s far less pessimistic than the mainstream media or Matthew Hooton are braying.
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Herald bashing of Andrew Little is extraordinary in week PM lies about Jihadi Brides & Police smash Hager’s property
So what would you expect to be the main story of the week that the Political Editor and Editorial of the largest newspaper in NZ focus on?
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GUEST BLOG: Maire Leadbeater – Change in the air for West Papua? Melanesia leads the way.
It is great to watch the Solomon Islands establishing itself as a champion of human rights for West Papua.
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No surrender to injustice
Another Israeli West Bank land grab: “the latest step in what appears to be an ongoing process of land expropriations, settlement expansions and legalisations of outposts . . .” [US State Department spokesman John Kirby]
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NZ mainstream media surprised corporations have enormous power
I like Matt Nippert, he is one of the best journalists we have, but the surprise so many of his peers seem to have had at his piece on how multi-nationals avoid paying tax says more about them than the corporations.
It’s like some have just discovered Santa Claus isn’t real.
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The real issue is the exploitation of migrant labour by big business
The Labour Party has been trapped into appearing as being opposed to migrant workers in New Zealand.
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Waatea 5th Estate – “Oil Exploration in Aotearoa”
Joining the panel this evening is Greenpeace Activist Steve Able and via Skype, Environmental Activist Nandor Tanczos and Anti-Deep Sea Drilling Activist Mike Smith.
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US-Palestinian authors to address NZ audiences in April
Internationally renowned journalists Ali Abunimah and Ramzy Baroud will visit New Zealand next month to appear as keynote speakers at…
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Is Labour Trying To Be NZ First-Lite?
Due perhaps to an ongoing lack of vision on the part of our theoretically ‘lead’ Opposition party, we’re quite used to thinking of Labour as being a watered down version of the beliefs of others.