American Overkill
By Christine Rose
The new Sheriff is patrolling the global street, pulling out his guns at every turn. Unconcerned about overkill, a more secure world through superior American firepower seems unlikely.
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DITCH DOUBLE-DECKERS (& HOSKINGS TOO)
By Stephanie Honeychurch
As a co-organiser* of Waiheke Island’s Ditch Double-Decker protest and as someone involved with the petition to remove these buses from Waiheke, I believe that Mike Hoskings has completely misrepresented this issue.
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My front row seat to a miscarriage of justice – the Colin Craig vs Jordan Williams verdict
I was involved in this defamation trial so was front row for most of this and it very much shook my faith in our Jury system. When I sat down in front of that Jury I suddenly realised that for most of them this was the most important thing any of them had ever been involved in.
Which in of itself was deeply concerning.
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What To Do About Window-Washers
By Curwen Rolinson
The people engaging in window-washing are, for the most part, unemployed and to a certain extent possibly unemployable. They may be subsisting on a benefit [which, let’s remember, even the Minister of Social Development herself implicitly stated one couldn’t survive on without engaging in criminal behavior]; and one has to wonder – if prevented from attempting to earn a bit of extra cash window-washing, where else might they go in order to try and make ends meet.
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The MetService that cried cyclone
You can’t tell your largest City that they are about to be hit by a huge storm that doesn’t eventuate because the next time it happens, they won’t believe you and that matters because we know from global warming that these extreme weather events are going to occur more and more often and if you have a cynical population who don’t believe the warnings, that will cost lives.
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American Overkill
The new Sheriff is patrolling the global street, pulling out his guns at every turn. Unconcerned about overkill, a more secure world through superior American firepower seems unlikely.
Read More →What To Do About Window-Washers
The people engaging in window-washing are, for the most part, unemployed and to a certain extent possibly unemployable. They may be subsisting on a benefit [which, let’s remember, even the Minister of Social Development herself implicitly stated one couldn’t survive on without engaging in criminal behavior]; and one has to wonder – if prevented from attempting to earn a bit of extra cash window-washing, where else might they go in order to try and make ends meet.
Read More →Battle For The Heartland: Understanding America’s Unrelenting Hostility Towards All Things Russian
WHAT THE HELL’S GOING ON?! As events in the Middle East spiral out of control, and the prospect of a shooting war between the United States and Russia moves from possible to probable, that’s the question more and more people are asking.
Read More →This is the most horrifying thing I have seen in the media so far, this year in the context of all that is happening with education & the military
While we are witnessing the death of millions in Syria and millions more around the world, and the images of dying children are being bandied about and while we are alarmed and indignant and looking for some answers, here is a picture of the army putting military grade assault rifles into the hands of our children.
Read More →Latest West Papua journalist blacklisting another serious violation by Indonesia
The blacklisting of Jack Hewson, a freelance journalist working for Al Jazeera, shows the Indonesian government’s paranoia towards foreign journalists.
Read More →New Rules on the Global Economy
The government’s attempts to revive the Trade Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) have, as predicted, failed. Instead, the government is now putting its faith in negotiating numerous Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It’s more of the same, ignoring the lessons from the TPPA debacle.
Read More →Trumpwatch: One minute closer to midnight on the Doomsday Clock
Despite a previous poison gas attack in Ghouta, Syria in 2013 – for which the Assad regime was implicated, but not proven – there is little actual firm evidence that the Syrian government was responsible for the gassing at Khan Sheikhoun on 7 April.
Read More →Why Bill English is wrong to support Trump’s air strike on Syria
The rapidity with which Bill English fell in behind Trump’s unilateral strike on Syria shows how little the NZ government values the UN Security Council, despite just having completed two years on it. New Zealand sidelined the Security Council and supported a US strike contravening the UN Charter. Article 51 of the Charter allows one nation to strike another only in “self-defence”. America wasn’t being attacked by Syria.
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The MetService that cried cyclone
You can’t tell your largest City that they are about to be hit by a huge storm that doesn’t eventuate because the next time it happens, they won’t believe you and that matters because we know from global warming that these extreme weather events are going to occur more and more often and if you have a cynical population who don’t believe the warnings, that will cost lives.
Read More →How is this MOAB any better than a Sarin gas attack?
Trump’s gotten a taste for bombing and the cheering corporate media that goes with it…
Read More →My front row seat to a miscarriage of justice – the Colin Craig vs Jordan Williams verdict
I was involved in this defamation trial so was front row for most of this and it very much shook my faith in our Jury system. When I sat down in front of that Jury I suddenly realised that for most of them this was the most important thing any of them had ever been involved in.
Which in of itself was deeply concerning.
Read More →Who should really freak out about Labour’s new ‘President’s Club’
Newshub, who were earlier today trying to u-turn on a fake news story about an alligator were still able to get their teeth into Labour’s new high roller funding programs, the ‘President’s Club’. Here’s Lloyd Burr doing his best Paddy Gower impersonation with all the huff and puff of an asthmatic meth smoker..
Read More →If National won’t investigate historic abuse by the State is it time to boycott NZ products because of human rights abuse?
Now the Government has refused to investigate, conscientious New Zealanders must consider waging an online campaign asking overseas consumers to stop buying NZ products because of human rights abuses that have occurred and are being hidden by the Government.
Read More →The thing I love most about the Sonny Bill Williams sponsorship fiasco
Looking into the eyes of the boofhead sports broadcasters as they try to conceptualise SBWs ethical stance is just one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on NZ television.
Read More →Anyone claiming to know what is happening in Syria is pretending
For the love of all that is holy, Pentagon backed factions in Syria are currently fighting CIA back factions in Syria…
Read More →Sean Spicer’s Hitler comment – The mouthpiece of the President is as braindead as the hairpiece of the President
The mouthpiece of the President is as braindead as the hairpiece of the President.
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Must hear radio: Radio NZ interviews a neo-con Hawk
Washington neo-con hawk, Ambassador Dan Fried, promoting the American imperial hegemonic efforts against Russia and Syria and why expansion of NATO into former Soviet states is a “good thing”.
Read More →SOCIAL MEDIA: Autopsy of United Airline’s apology
So in the wake of the horrible images of United Airline security staff beating and dragging a passenger off one of their planes, here is how United Airline’s ‘apologised’
Read More →Is this relationship that Public Address has unearthed commercial?
The connection of all this lifestyle home ownership porn being rammed down our throat by the NZ Herald has been exposed by Public Address as being all through one company, Ron Hoy Fong and his “coaching family” Ronovationz…
Read More →Stuff should be ashamed of themselves for pimping corporate farming interests
This is nothing short of a character assassination and a reminder that Fairfax is there for corporate interests. The Dairy Industry has gone from being an abuser of our environment into being an abuser of science, we just can’t let these sanctimonious pricks get away with this.
Read More →TV Review: Sunday’s ‘the price of milk’ special and the backlash against Mazda
I don’t ever bother watching Sunday on TVNZ, it just has never interested me as a genuine source of current affairs, but I must admit to having my interest grabbed by their one hour special on Sunday which looked at the true cost of Dairy farming in NZ.
Read More →YOUI WINS 2016 ROGER AWARD – For The Worst Transnational Corporation Operating In Aotearoa/New Zealand
Youi was a finalist because, as the nominator wrote: “Youi uniquely, does not do business online. Very deliberately, they insist on everything being done over the phone. Once engaged in conversation, their call centre staff insist on being given the caller’s credit card details on purely spurious grounds. Once the company has those details, it starts taking money off the card or out of the caller’s bank account.
Read More →Remember sleepy hobbits – this is the media company who want a newspaper monopoly in NZ
…for Christ’s sakes people, Fairfax’s Australian owners are telling you to their face that their editorial position will be the one that benefits their corporate masters, not our fourth estate obligations. How much more clearly do you need it spelt out to you?
Read More →Let’s never forget what MediaWorks did to Journalism in NZ
…no wonder NZers are so utterly blind to what is happening in their country.
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GUEST BLOG: Stephanie Honeychurch – DITCH DOUBLE-DECKERS (& HOSKINGS TOO)
As a co-organiser* of Waiheke Island’s Ditch Double-Decker protest and as someone involved with the petition to remove these buses from Waiheke, I believe that Mike Hoskings has completely misrepresented this issue.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Time to rethink immigration
It’s time that we were honest about why the Government have opened the flood gates of immigration and it’s time we were honest about how we are going to change it.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Martin Luther King, We Need You Today!
In April 1967, FIFTY YEARS AGO, Dr Martin Luther King spoke at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, NYC, warning of the moral failure of a country addicted to war.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Pat O’Dea – Anyone who supports the Assad regime in Syria cannot be a friend of the Palestinian people
In reply to Chris Trotter and other New Zealand Leftists and Liberals rushing to excuse, or explain away, the Syrian Regime’s aerial gas attack on the liberated Syrian province of Idlib.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Housing crisis not helped by smug speculators
We need Government that uses its powers to rebalance the extremes of free market capitalism, and we need politicians who aren’t frightened to say words like free market capitalism.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Andra Jenkin – Fighting and Freedom
Trump supporters make strange bedfellows. With two of the named supporters who allegedly assaulted three protesters at a Trump rally being the leader of a white supremacist group and a member of the Korean War Veterans Association.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Selwyn Manning – Lieutenant General Tim Keatings Operation Burnham account highlights key legal concerns
It appears the official account , if true, underscores a probable breach of legal obligations – not necessarily placing culpability solely on the New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) commandos on the ground, but rather on the officers who commanded their actions, ordered their movements, their tasks and priorities prior to, during, and after Operation Burnham.
Read More →GUEST BLOG: Danyl Strype – Some Home Truths About House Shortages, Housing Affordability, and the Generation Gap
Geoff Simmons of TOP (the Opportunities Party) recently wrote a guest blog for TDB, in response to some rather harsh criticisms of TOP and its millionaire founder Gareth Morgan by regular TDB writer Chris Trotter.
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Happy Easter – let’s crucify consumerism
For me Easter isn’t about the rebirth of the Christ child as human manifestation of God, it’s about the largest unbroken block of holiday time we all get. For me Easter is about family, about friends, about spending quality time with the people in your life who the busyness of working for the man robs us of.
Read More →Shift: Rainbow Youth Hui
InsideOUT is excited to announce their national rainbow youth hui, Shift, will be running again this month. The hui follows on from the success of Shift 2016 and aims to bring young people of minority sexes, sexualities and genders from all over the country together. “Shift provides a unique opportunity for young people in our […]
Read More →Medical Cannabis Rally & March announced in response to Bill English’s oddly ignorant views
‘We are marching to show Bill Engish that we do not condone his callous and inhumane attitude towards patients. We demand an immediate moratorium on prosecuting patients and supporters until this fiasco is resolved.”
Read More →PUNK IT UP-date! Saturday 8 April 2017 at the Kings Arms, Auckland City
Hot off the heels of The Damned support slot, Leatherhead are ready to become part of Saturday’s line up at the Kings Arms.
Read More →TDB – 2017 NZ International Comedy Festival Picks – the perfect dozen
It’s that time of year again, and the incredible range of comedy talent on display is proof of just how far the NZ comedy scene has grown and developed. There’s just so much to choose from, getting a dozen picks is incredibly difficult, but here are the 12 acts TDB thinks you need to see this season…
Read More →Time For Independence From A Crumbling US Empire
The advent of President Donald Trump in the US provides an unprecedented opportunity to take a good, hard look at Aotearoa’s place in the world. And to ask the question – why are we still a loyal member of the American Empire?
Read More →THEATRE REVIEW: Resident Alien
Resident Alien
Completes a season at Basement theatre,
6.30 pm
Until the 1st April
STAKE YOUR CLAIM – A review of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s Hit and Run
The construction of this book was a painstaking and dangerous enterprise. John Stephenson risked life and limb by returning to the villages and interviewing survivors, and assembling the family trees of the dead and wounded. Empty shell casings from Apache helicopter cannon rounds were collected and photographed. A series of locally sourced stories from the Pajhwok News Agency, pointing to civilian deaths and casualties were filed. And, as mentioned earlier, a locally documented list of the dead and wounded was obtained and photocopied. By triangulating this material with the admissions of anonymous sources throughout the SAS and NZDF, Hager and Stephenson have built a powerful case.
Read More →The Daily Gallery View All →
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 15th April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Political Caption Competition
Lying the unfriendly lies is the choice of a new generation
Read More →TDB Top 5 International Stories: Friday 14th April 2017
5: Could New Zealand Really Ditch Dairy for Weed?
4: Stephen Cohen: This is Most Dangerous Moment in U.S.-Russian Relations Since Cuban Missile Crisis
3: “Mother of All Bombs” Never Used Before Due to Civilian Casualty Concerns
2: China: Military force won’t halt North Korea threat
1: Chechens tell of prison beatings and electric shocks in anti-gay purge: ‘They called us animals’
TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 13th April 2017
5: Please Stop Smearing Victims of Police Brutality
4: Allan Nairn: Civilian Deaths Are Spiking in Syria & Iraq as U.S. Launches Unrestrained Bombing Raids
3: MSNBC’S RACHEL MADDOW SEES A “RUSSIA CONNECTION” LURKING AROUND EVERY CORNER
2: ‘Charging Bull’ sculptor calls for New York to remove ‘Fearless Girl’ statue
1: Putin slams Trump ties as top diplomats spar on Syria
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 13th April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Bill English crying “crocodile tears” over flood devastation, says Greenpeace
As the country braces for Cyclone Cook, the latest and the most devastating in a series of extreme weather events, Greenpeace NZ has slammed Prime Minister Bill English for crying “crocodile tears”. Greenpeace campaigner, Kate Simcock, says it’s “disgraceful” that the Prime Minister has visited the communities and families affected by extreme flooding at the […]
Read More →Parliament must act to limit extreme weather impacts – Forest & Bird
· Parliament has a chance this afternoon to do something to prevent more of the destructive storms that have been lashing the country, says Forest & Bird. “In the past month we’ve had three huge storms that have left hundreds of people homeless, and have also destroyed the habitats of our precious native wildlife,” says […]
Read More →121 years of working for gender equality – why aren’t we there yet? – National Council of Women
Today marks Founders’ Day for the National Council of Women – 121 years today since Kate Sheppard founded the gender equality organisation. Did Kate Sheppard realise, when she founded the National Council of Women (NCW) in 1896 – when New Zealand was so far ahead of the rest of the world in giving women the […]
Read More →Judgment: Williams v Craig – jury damages award
IN THE HIGH COURT OF NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND REGISTRY CIV-2015-404-1845 [2017] NZHC 724 BETWEEN JORDAN HENRY WILLIAMS Plaintiff AND COLIN GRAEME CRAIG Defendant Hearing: 5 December 2016 (final submission received 17 February 2017) […] 12 April 2017 JUDGMENT OF KATZ J […] Introduction [1] Following an almost four-week trial, a jury found that Colin Craig, […]
Read More →Rt Hon Winston Peters and Security Council Resolution 2334
In a Press Release on 12 April, the New Zealand First Leader, the Rt Hon Winston Peters, described as a “false claim” the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s confirmation thatsupport for Security Council Resolution 2334 was consistent with established New Zealand policy. In spite of being a lawyer, the NZ First Leader seems unaware of the consistent […]
Read More →Cross Party MPs Call on Government to Condemn Violence Against LGBTI Community in Chechnya
The Rainbow NZ Parliamentary Network, a cross-party group of MPs, has written to the Minister of Foreign Affairs calling on him to ask Russia to investigate the detention and alleged murders of (perceived) gay men in Chechnya. “The stories we are hearing from Chechnya are deeply disturbing,” said Green Party MP Jan Logie. “The Rainbow […]
Read More →Statement from Jordan Williams
Responding to this afternoon’s judgment by Her Honour Justice Katz in relation to theWilliams v Craig defamation claim, Jordan Williams, says, “The Judge has offered the choice of her resetting the damages, having another jury trial, or we can go to the Court of Appeal. Over the coming days, my lawyers and I will be […]
Read More →Prime Minister must act on his Chief Scientist’s advice and protect our fresh water – Fish and Game New Zealand
The Prime Minister is being urged to listen to his own science advisor and show strong leadership by protecting New Zealand’s fresh water from unthinking development and exploitation. Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman has just issued a wide-ranging report on the state of the country’s fresh water in which he warns some waterways […]
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