Aaron Gilmore Resigns From Parliament.
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Ryan Boswell from Prime News just tweeted this….
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“It’s with a heavy heart and great sadness that I announce my intention to resign from Parliament” Aaron Gilmore
AND HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY EVERYONE. GOOD NEWS DAY.
World Changer Georgina Beyer Needs A New Kidney STAT.
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Well, shit. But is treatable so good. She seriously just needs a new kidney as soon as possible.
Georgina Beyer is seriously ill.
The first transgender Member of Parliament has told the Woman’s Day she has been diagnosed with chronic kidney failure. Jonah Lomu suffered from the same condition.
The diagnosis came just days before the 55-year-old was to announce her intentions to stand as Wellington mayor.
She will need to have kidney dialysis four times a day for the rest of her life until she gets a kidney transplant.
Martyn Bradbury Launches ‘The Daily Blog’ – A Collective Of NZ’s Best Bloggers.
TheDailyBlog.co.nz will bring together 30 of the best left-wing bloggers and progressive opinion shapers in NZ all onto one site to critique the news, the media, and politics to provide the other side of the story.
http://joyb.blogspot.co.nz/
THE DAILY BLOG IS HERE IN BETA.
THE TWITTER ACCOUNT IS HERE.
FULL STORY AT TUMEKE HERE
This has me hard. These people have some of the best minds in NZ. And all so human, as in their writing comes from the heart. And such minds!
Professor Jane Kelsy – one of NZs best known activist academic
Phoebe Fletcher – media lecturer and political commentator/blogger
Coley Tangerina – From the Wellington Feminist whanau
Sue Bradford – Former Green Party MP and social welfare activist
John Minto – MANA Vice President and one of NZ best known anti-racism activists
Gareth Renowden – one of the best climate change bloggers in NZ
Frank McKasky – political blogger
Robert Winter – political blogger
Lynn Prentice – Editor of the Standard
Morgan Godfery – the best Maori blogger in NZ – blogging at Maui street
Queen of Thorns – hilariously sharp feminist blogger. Pure superstar.
David Slack – Metro satirist and anarchist cyclist
Efeso Collins – Pacific Island Broadcaster and commentator
Dr Wayne Hope – one of the best media academics in NZ
Amanda Kennedy (burnt out teacher) – blogging debut from an ex-teacher blogging on education beyond the class room
Matt McCarten – General secretary of UNITE and political commentator
Aaron Hawkins – Radio 1 morning breakfast host
Wayne Butson – General Secretary of the RMTU
Marama Davidson – leading the Idlenomore movement in NZ
Chris Flatt – General secretary of NZDWU
Chris Trotter – blogger, commentator and author
Selwyn Manning – journalist and commentator who helped set up Scoop.
The Liberal Agenda – weekly wrap up of cultural and community events liberal folk like to do when not fighting the revolution.
Just an amazing line-up. People I read all the time. We need information getting out and this seems a brilliant and easy way of doing it. The site, The Daily Blog, launches March 1. No bloody idea what I shall be able to add, but by Gods it will make me take my game up a notch. Thanks Martin, brilliant idea. i want to post this scene from the brilliant ‘Land and Freedom’. Even when things look really bad, and NZ seems destined for disaster if National keep up, we must keep going and fight, spread information and facts. And get through this time.
WATCH – ‘Don’t Drone Me, Bro’ – CIA Confirmation Hearing Of John Brennan Hears Another View.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee briefly postponed the confirmation hearing for CIA director nominee John Brennan after demonstrators disrupted the proceedings. “Brennan killing civilians with drones,” one sign held up by a protester read. Others took turns jeering, “torture is always wrong” and “you are a traitor to democracy.” Another attempted to call attention to the number of civilian casualties caused by US drones.
Australia Condemns ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill In Uganda And Nigeria – New Zealand Does Nothing.
http://www.truthwinsout.org/
Strange that Australia, where gays have zero rights, their politicians will happily condemn these governments, but in NZ, where gays have equal rights, nothing has been heard from our politicians. How very awkward and embarrassing.
Foreign Minister Bob Carr today said Australia had lodged formal diplomatic protests against proposed legislation in Uganda which would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment, and in Nigeria where new laws would impose a 14 year sentence. “These anti-homosexuality measures are a disgrace to human decency and should be withdrawn,” Senator Carr said. “Australia has consistently opposed these Ugandan and Nigerian laws. “We’ve conveyed this message directly to these governments and urged them to think again. “And we’ll continue to voice Australia’s opposition if these matters are returned before the Ugandan or Nigerian parliaments in 2013.” Senator Carr said Australia had formally objected to the proposed laws in talks with Ugandan and Nigerian officials in November 2012. This follows earlier protests by Australia in 2010, 2011 and in January 2012.
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