The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 4th April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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I don’t need to carry in KFC and pretend to care when it’s not a climate event
You would think, that a government that cared about its citizens, would be doing something about climate change. or at the very least trying not to make things even worse.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/91174483/live-cyclone-debbie-remnants-hit-nz
But not this government
https://www.nzpam.govt.nz/permits/petroleum/block-offer/2017/
A new gas attack on civilians by the Syrian regime.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/91216572/suspected-syria-gas-attack-kills-dozens-including-children-activists-say
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/attack-syria-kills-35-people-170404075153415.html
I wonder. Will the centrist, The Standard be saying anything about this latest war crime by their besty?
Either in defence, or condemnation?
The Standard has run several posts in support of the regime, claiming that the regime is a victim of US and Western regime change, and the the rebels are all foreign agents.
Along with this pro-regime editorial line, The Standard authors have banned commentators who have pointed out the regime’s long links to US and Western imperialism.
Before Len Prentice gets all antsy and claims that this is not their editorial line,
The Standard has refused to accept posts sent to them that try to balance The Standard author’s extreme reactionary right wing views in support of a regime that engages in genocide and torture.
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( should we be vigilant in NZ of this privatisation virus rort?)
https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/383060-episode-max-keiser-1052/
“Max and Stacy discuss the pension crisis too big to ignore, and the taxpayers on the hook for it all.
Max interviews general practitioner, Dr. Bob Gill, about his new crowdfunded documentary, The Great NHS Heist, and why Obamacare is definitely not universal healthcare as any European would recognize it.”