The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 25th September 2016
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Lets make it compulsory to vote in NZ General Elections
…enrolling to vote and how to vote should be taught in schools as well as civic education….information about political parties and politicians
…everyone who doesn’t vote should be fined $100 as punishment( plus six of the best)
…even if they are on their deathbeds the rellies can pay!…
VOTE or ELSE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AjVsHMXt_w
Agreed Chooky best get opposition MPs to file an order for hearing to change the electoral Act as it takes months so they need to move on this now if Keys clowns go for an early election.
Another excellent interview on RT: the great American journalist Chris Hedges interviews the Italian economics analyst Loretta Napoleoni , who specialises on investigating and following the financing of terrorism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Napoleoni
‘Refugee trafficking with Loretta Napoleoni’
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/360308-kidnapping-industry-middle-east/
“Chris Hedges tracks the evolution of the kidnapping industry in the Middle East post-9/11 with Loretta Napoleoni, author of “Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multibillion-dollar Business.”
RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the Islamic State’s involvement in the lucrative business of trafficking migrants fleeing from war-torn lands.”