New research shows need for government-led house building – Labour Party
Research by economist Shamubeel Eaqub shows the need for the government to lead the building of affordable starter homes, as would happen under Labour’s KiwiBuild policy, says Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford. “Mr Eaqub’s research shows that it was government participation in house-building that created our home-owning society. To save the Kiwi dream of owning […]
Read More →Mainstream media finally catch up to mass surveillance concerns over beneficiaries
The counter productive problems with National’s mass surveillance of beneficiaries is that vulnerable people who are already too terrified to engage with any Government agency will actively avoid getting any help so that the neoliberal welfare state can’t track them down and punish them.
Read More →The evil that is Fonterra
While Fonterra get NZs favourite rugby boof head to sing their praise in TV and while the industry tries to hide the damage they do to our water and environment by flooding the country with cow shit, these buggers have been caught doing this…
Read More →EXCLUSIVE: Dear Netsafe – you can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands
Netsafe demanded that I respond within 48 hours as to whether or not I would comply with their requests for censorship, so let me respond publicly to Netsafe.
You can censor The Daily Blog the day you take the keyboard from my cold dead hands. The content you have asked to be censored is not defamatory and allowing secret censorship of political blogs is the most dangerous and disturbing part of your powers.
This blog ain’t for turning
Read More →What century are we living in?
I don’t know this woman personally. All I know is that this is a frightening case for its insights into the judicial system.. Shamed for all the world to see in the media, this so called “benefit fraudster has “appealed her sentence in the High Court. Her original sin and conviction was for living with someone that MSD has deemed to be her partner.
Read More →Keating and English’s colonial response to the SAS raid
Defence Chief Tim Keating and the Prime Minister exhibit the “colonial” reflex in completely ignoring the villagers as a source of information. Bill English looked at a few American videos of the battle and considered that to be enough to reject any inquiry. Keating didn’t consider evidence from the locals as relevant enough to mention.
Read More →Political Caption Competition
Paula Bennett unhappy that she has been shrunk to the size of a blue Oompa Loompa due to Government cutbacks
Read More →TDB Top 5 International Stories: Thursday 6th April 2017
5: Why Would a World Leader Eat Canned Spaghetti on Pizza?
4: REP. JAN SCHAKOWSKY CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO TRUMP’S TIES TO BLACKWATER FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE
3: Idlib hospitals overwhelmed after suspected gas attack
2: Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon stripped of national security council role
1: “The Assad Regime is a Moral Disgrace”: Noam Chomsky on Ongoing Syrian War
The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 6th April 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Read More →Gas Attack In Khan Sheikhoun! But why would Bashar al-Assad blow himself up?
JUST ONCE, it would be nice to encounter a Western journalist willing to challenge the “International Community’s” official line. Someone willing to acknowledge that the term “International Community” is, itself, a cynical misnomer intended to cloak the self-interested policies of the United States and its Nato allies in the highfalutin language of global solidarity.
Read More →Latest income and welfare changes fall short of addressing need – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that although the Government has increased the minimum wage and benefits yearly, the latest increases are a poor reflection of the actual increased costs of living faced by low-income families. The new adult minimum wage went up just 50 cents to $15.75 per hour on April 1, falling far […]
Read More →Political Caption Competition
Hey God, can you smite Winston Peters? I’ll keep cannabis illegal.
Read More →TDB Top 5 International Stories: Wednesday 5th April 2017
5: Trump Might Make Tourists Hand Over Their Phones and Passwords
4: ‘Chemical attack’ in Syria draws international outrage
3: Full Interview: Noam Chomsky on Trump’s First 75 Days & Much More
2: Donald Trump’s Pick to Oversee Big Pharma Is Addicted to Opioid-Industry Cash
1: Bill O’Reilly faces new pressure as 12 companies pull ads from Fox News show
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Spanish corporate giant Ferrovial makes millions from Australia’s torture of refugees on Nauru
A major corporation with ties to New Zealand is making millions running the Australian Government’s refugee “processing” centre on Nauru, Amnesty International said today. The system amounts to torture of refugees and people seeking asylum. A new briefing, ‘Treasure I$land’, exposes how Spanish multinational Ferrovial and its Australian subsidiary Broadspectrum are complicit in – and reaping vast profits […]
Read More →Tell Ben & Jerry’s: Stop Doing Business in Settlements
Today is ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day, and our member group Vermonters for Justice in Palestine is once again calling on all those concerned with Palestinian rights to take part in a national solidarity action to call on the company to end its complicity in Israel’s occupation. VTJP is asking that […]
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