The Daily Blog Open Mic Thursday 7th January 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Is it just me or is the news these holidays far more crap than usual?
The institutionalised lying, the organization for cheating, and in this case, the endemic bullying – it’s the system stupid.
In New Zealand, as in most developed countries, poverty is measured relative to 60% of the weekly median income. The question remains: why measuring relative poverty matters when it does not necessarily relate to hardship the way absolute poverty does.
The ministers from the twelve countries who negotiated the the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will sign it in New Zealand on 4 February, a government spokesperson from Chile has confirmed.
What does all of this mean? It means the massive money printing programs only stalled the inevitable corrections to the bubbles that money has created. Add in the impacts of climate change and we have all the ingredients for an economic depression.
Thank goodness the millions we are paying in bribes and the barbaric mass executions won’t stop our march towards selling human rights abuses meat.
As far as the NZ Herald is concerned, it’s never been a better time to live in NZ…
As we stumble towards another Waitangi Day and with the current rancour over a woman assaulted for using Te Reo , let’s ask the question ‘how racist is NZ really’?
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