The Daily Blog Open Mic – 23rd April 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Locked Out with Craig Renney
The first episode looks at the cost of power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBW97EicrEU
Looks, sounds, really interesting – it is going to add to my paranoia but that is just one psychological state on offer at the moment and far more interesting and lively than most of the others. So thanks for the introduction.
Any word on upcoming protest actions around Auckland this week? With the way recent policies are heading, it feels like more coordinated community response is needed.
Nice to get out into the sunshine, protesting would be secondary to that health benefit which is all that results from getting out onto the street. The upper strata are so up themselves there is no further to climb now that we have conquered Everest.
Groups and people from all over the nation gathered and smart arses in Parliament like Trevor duck just treated it as a limp joke. Instead of looking on it as a people’s effort at honestly fronting the authorities and who would have been able to make some valid points if listened to! The whole thing showed how the smarts have got to a point that they cannot relate to those further down the ladder. Nelson’s mayor has been in politics all his life, and still clings on – he used to talk about ‘rent a crowd’ when thinking of protesters who are just a nuisance, block roads. Citizens POV, listen, develop better agreed systems, implement and retain – too rational.
What do we know about this? Is there anything that we can do to prevent these barbarians of neoliberalism from destroying our motherland and instead leave it healthy?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/558821/why-some-of-our-biggest-exporters-are-worried-about-the-gene-technology-bill