ACT’s failed charter school protest in tweets
Last weekend ACT had a protest against charter schools and spent in the vicinity of $10,000 to get maybe 50 people to attend. They should have gone to Labour Hire.
Media
Open Mike 01/05/2018
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Daily Review 30/04/2018
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Then and Now.
Claims that “Russian bots” helped Labour during the 2017 UK General Election…
Open Mike 30/04/2018
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National’s fiscal ineptitude over Auckland transport
National has responded to Labour’s ATAP proposal by refusing to accept there is a problem, drumming up anti Auckland resentment in the rest of the country and claiming they would have done the same thing.
Open Mike 29/04/2018
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The Schnews.
Apologies to the Schnews that was actually a pretty good wee publication that came out of Brighton, England.
Feedback please
A minor moderation shake-up.
Doofus of the week – April 28, 2018
This week’s winner is a National MP who has perfected the ability of cutting and pasteing but has no idea about the dark art of social media.
Open Mike 28/04/2018
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Daily Review 27/04/2018
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Grotesque.
People from Douma have been to The Hague and spoken of their experiences on the night of a supposed chemical attack by Syrian forces.
Open Mike 27/04/2018
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Guest Post: How many working groups did the last National Government create?
A Guest Post from Luke C where he analyses National’s creation of working groups in the last Goverment and comes up with a surprising conclusion.
Open Mike 26/04/2018
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Open Mike 25/04/2018
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Daily Review 24/04/2018
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Workers’ Rights. Our Rights. And a Government Breaking Bad.
Time for the government to pull its head in.
Freedom of Speech and Expression
Bollocks and bullshit lands on shits and giggles.
Bottom feeding fish
Yesterday the Herald said something stupid about Clarke Gayford, reported his response and then reported at how the country was divided by the article.
Open Mike 24/04/2018
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Daily Review 23/04/2018
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Open Mike 23/04/2018
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North Korea
When enemies are all around…
Jacinda Ardern is just like Donald Trump
In a gross example of click bait journalism a senior political commentator at a major media outlet has claimed that Jacinda Ardern and Donald Trump are similar.
Open Mike 22/04/2018
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An Opportunity Missed? A Failure to Listen? And Whose Advice was Privileged?
The conclusion that I am left with is the bureaucrats have once again gained control of the social work profession and want to manage social work and social workers under a neoliberal managerialist ideology.
Kieran O’Donoghue, Associate Professor in Social Work, Massey University
Doofus of the Week – April 20, 2018
Doofus of the week this week goes to a television personality who is upset that his sexist comment that employers should be allowed to know what their female employees breedings plans are was taken out of context.
Open Mike 21/04/2018
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Daily Review 20/04/2018
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The right to free speech
This week has seen a number of examples where right wing and religious men have said stupid things and then had their statements defended on the basis that free speech should be protected.
Open Mike 20/04/2018
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Daily Review 19/04/2018
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The Daily Show on Sean Hannity
Trevor Noah on the Daily Show gives the most concise and funny description of Sean Hannity’s problems concerning Donald Trump’s lawyer’s issues.
Open Mike 19/04/2018
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