Activists convicted but receive no punishment – Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists convicted but receive no further punishment over 10-hour occupation of the Tangaroa The five Greenpeace activists who stormed…
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TheDailyBlog.nz Top 5 News Headlines Sunday 14th February 2016
Sanders Campaign Raises $6 Million in 24 Hours After NH Primary, sex robots could make hundreds of millions unemployed, Syrian Rebels Say a Ceasefire Is ‘Not Realistic, Objective, or Logical’, Syrian army tightens grip on Aleppo amid peace doubts + Henry Kissinger’s War Crimes Are Central to the Divide Between Clinton and Sanders
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 14th February 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Dear NZ – let’s just send poor kids straight to jail
We hate poor children right? We blame their parents for being hungry (despite welfare purposely calculated so that beneficiaries are hungry), we blame parents for their kids freezing to death in cold houses (despite privatising state houses and subsidising slum lords) and we blame poor kids for underachievement (despite under resourcing public education).
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Denying Helen Kelly justice
..what a shallow, baseless society we have become when the war on drugs trumps basic reason.
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Tourettes – No Losers @ Winz
No Losers @ Winz, an objective and rational critique of New Zealand’s welfare system, will be the first single off the album.
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Why we need an alternative to Story and Seven Sharp at 7pm weeknights
Where the 4th estate has failed, the 5th estate must succeed. Next week a new current affairs show to go up against Story and Seven Sharp at 7pm will be announced. If you want to help this new endeavour – spread it on social media.
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Defending Free Tertiary Education: Chris Trotter responds to Dr Oliver Hartwich’s defence to the user-pays university
let me respond in kind by declaring that my own experience of free tertiary education threw up not one case of a recipient who did not value their opportunity to explore the life of the mind in their late teens and early twenties. Quite the reverse, actually.
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If the answer is Crusher Collins, the question must be ‘what would make things worse’
…I don’t use the word fuckwit often, but it seems the only possible response to this foolish idea.
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TheDailyBlog.nz Top 5 News Headlines Saturday 13th February 2016
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Face Off, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad vows to retake whole country, Obama plans intervention in Britain’s EU referendum, Pentagon Is Betting Big on Space Warfare + Syria: Russian PM warns of world war if troops sent in