Every time the NZ Police get caught using interrogation techniques that imprison an innocent person, they scream and cry and wail that they have learnt their lesson and won’t frame innocent people for crimes they didn’t commit. Well, another brilliant expose Stuff has highlighted how often the NZ Police used a corrupted interviewing technique to continue framing people for crimes… The high-profile homicides and the troubled interview method A controversial interviewing technique has been abandoned by police, but not before it was used in five homicide investigations, and influenced various ot ..read more

Dear BSA and TVNZ To say last weeks Q+A interview with the Israeli Ambassador was the worst ‘journalism’ TVNZ ever produced doesn’t;t go far enough. I love Jack Tame, on any given Sunday he presents one of the best TV current affairs shows in the game and I believe he is one of our best interviewers, but even the best can have a terrible day at the office, so terrible I am compelled to complain to the BSA directly. As a blacklisted from the mainstream media political blogger, I despise the BSA, a panel of  media lepers judging a beauty contest, but Jack’s interview was so bad it demands a ..read more

I’m glad Damien has finally caught up to my criticism of puberty blockers post the Cas report.. Soooo are we going to talk about puberty blockers for Trans Teens? …now my permanent guest on The Working Group podcast (the number 1 weekly political podcast that is not funded by NZ on Air), Damien Grant is wrong on most things, indeed the Media Council only last week reminded us of this… The NZ Media Council upholds complaint about Hamas opinion piece against Stuff …Damien’s farcical defence of Israel is so ridiculous he may as well be their honorary ambassador to NZ the way John Key is for China ..read more

International Workers Day Tell the greediest Government in our history: Workers across the country are united! Decades of progress can’t be undone in months! No more job cuts to fund tax cuts for the wealthy! We can do better! We expect better! Auckland – Britomart Te Komititanga Wellington – Midland Park Christchurch – Bridge of Remembrance Palmerston North – The Square Join your friends and colleagues to resist the attack on workers E t? t?ngata, hui me k?rero ..read more

$95 billion US foreign military aid package, includes $ 8 billion for the Pacific  The $95 billion US foreign military aid bill is currently in the Senate and will be signed off by President Biden soon.  Most news coverage has been about the aid for Ukraine and Israel but hidden away in the bill is $8 billion of military aid for countries in the Indo-Pacific region.  Aid that includes the following key expenditure:  $3.3 billion to build dry docks and facilities to support operating submarines in the region. $2 billion in the Foreign Military Financing Programme for allies ..read more

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day. The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog,  3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing. All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section. EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your c ..read more

In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land 08:00, 25 April until 08:00, 26 April 2024 [Source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group] Gaza Strip Air strikes: Heavy aerial bombardment on buildings, homes and many facilities. Attacks: All over Gaza, there are air strikes, heavy gunfire, tank and artillery shelling, as well as missiles fired from Israeli forces and military occupation, especially in Khan Yunis. The Israeli Navycontinues to fire missiles, targeting facilities and buildings along the shoreline of the whole of Gaza ..read more

Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of the bodies show evidence of torture, mutilation, and mass execution. Some have been found stripped naked with bound hands, while others still had medical tubes attached to them indicating that they were likely buried alive. In the same week the United States pledged a further $1 ..read more

In recent weeks, the head of the Islamic Republic regime in Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (the IRGC) have launched an unrelenting assault on the rights and freedoms of women in Iran (Project Light). They arrest unveiled women at metro stations, scrutinise the clothing and veils of female students at university entrances, and prevent them from entering universities. Officers on board the newly dispatched Morality Police vans, as part of the regime’s Project Light, harass and arrest women on the streets, sometimes sexually assaulting them. Amidst this atmosphere of terror, the I ..read more