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Comment: Open mike 06/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:19 pm, August 6th, 2023
I used to work in the movie industry and if an art director came up with a fairly ridiculous idea for a set that the producers couldn't or didn't want to pay for, we in construction were quietly told to price it, quadruple it and double it again so that it ...Comment: Open mike 06/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:05 pm, August 6th, 2023
So as its Monday tomorrow get ready for the latest revelation from the rights Disinformation Project, we have been warned that there will be one a week until the election. Maybe the first was the anynomous More Yelled At Staffers in the ministers office, ...Comment: Open mike 02/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:40 pm, August 2nd, 2023
@ Phillip ure... "I'm lazy…i find that rnz + the guardian pretty much keeps you/me up to speed"....that explaines a lot, thanks for the insight...but then I guess you did say that you were lazy. The Guardian has proved that it is nothing more than a trojan ...Comment: Open mike 02/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:21 pm, August 2nd, 2023
" BBC World, ZB, RNZ,"...that explaines a lot, thanks for the insight.Comment: Open mike 02/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:40 pm, August 2nd, 2023
I’ve been lucky enough to be nice andwarm in Europe for the last 6 weeks but back to the cold now and we don’t know how lucky we are, the UK is fucked, it s despondent, discouraged and hugely expensive. CHain stores like W H Smiths, ( books etc) have had ...Comment: Open mike 31/07/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:35 am, July 31st, 2023
High speed rail to Northland makes very little sense as it is only a short distance and once there one would need to rent a car to get to the myriad townships and beaches that rail or daily public transport will never ever get to. The other consideration ...Comment: Should We Worry About Green and Maori Party Taxes?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:04 pm, July 30th, 2023
Years ago I read a comment by an American politician who said the problem with raising the taxes on the rich is that it gets the most push back from the poorer classes because everybody thinks they are going to get rich. As Ad alluded to at the start," ...Comment: Should Labour take GST off fresh food?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:01 pm, July 28th, 2023
Stop believing bullshit, anybody can "give "anything to National which the Nats have had made up so that Labour has to deny it. A Labour MP has said privately that there is going to be one of these red herrings a week until the election so they are on to ...Comment: Open mike 27/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:57 pm, July 27th, 2023
The Ukrainians will never take back any more significant land from the Russian now. The progressive Left is mainly pro a negotiated end to this conflict because they are some of the few out side observers that seem to be willing to acknowledge/comprehend ...Comment: Open mike 27/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:52 pm, July 27th, 2023
Here is a well balanced piece on the bogged down, and increasingly untenable Ukraine counter offensive... Did the US know the Ukraine offensive might fail, and if so, when? This also begs the question of whether Washington will recognize when it must start ...Comment: Open mike 26/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:13 pm, July 26th, 2023
But am not discussing Putin here, I am discussing Biden...we get to hear all the bad things about Putin (and Trump) quite regularly enough on western MSM don't you think? To bad our media seems to believe it is in the business of creating, molding and ...Comment: Open mike 26/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:02 pm, July 26th, 2023
"And this is why trump must face the legal consequences from his actions… If only to protect american democracy" You can't really be that naive...can you?Comment: Open mike 26/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:42 pm, July 26th, 2023
Like so much that Joe Biden has anything to do with, it looks and smells very much like something really dodgy...even the Washington Post is going to cut Biden free soon it seems.. Yet we’re still left with a motley collection of odd and unsavory figures ...Comment: Open mike 26/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:18 am, July 26th, 2023
Are you actually seriously equating this moment in history with the Nazi invasion of Europe and Russia?....holy crap buddy, you must have drunk even more of the Cool Aid than most of the new Liberal pro war crew around these parts....and that really is ...Comment: Open mike 26/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:22 am, July 26th, 2023
AAhh Joe Biden, possibly the most corrupt POTUS in our life time....this guy has no shame... Gallery Sold Hunter Biden’s Art to Major Dem Donor Appointed to Special Commission by President Biden "The New York art gallery representing Hunter Biden’s ...Comment: Open mike 25/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:37 am, July 25th, 2023
Here is an example of exactly how much the "West' actually care or value Ukrainian lives (as if we already didn't know) ... "Meanwhile, for the United States and its NATO allies, these 18 months of war have been a strategic windfall, at relatively low cost ...Comment: Open mike 11/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:05 pm, July 11th, 2023
As usual your links are just straight misinformation and propaganda...does it ever occur to you to had least try and inform yourself with some even semi legitimate information? ...."Fedorov also said that Russian troops continue to mine the Zaporizhzhia ...Comment: Open mike 11/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:37 pm, July 11th, 2023
"Just a spat between comrades. No big deal"....I hate to say this, but it seemed obvious that the initial "coup" that the Western media and many on this site just couldn't help themselves from frothing at the mouth about...was an internal dispute that ...Comment: Open mike 03/07/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:46 am, July 3rd, 2023
Act might not hit 17%, but it is looking like they are going to do pretty damn good, better than the Greens for sure....which mainly comes down to the sad fact that Seymour seems to actually understand how to do politics quite well...and the Greens don't ...Comment: Hipkins in China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:57 pm, June 28th, 2023
Yes I agree NZ has done pretty well negotiating the dangerous waters between the rising trading giant of China and the unhinged specter looming menacingly over the globe of the USA as it desperately clings onto is fast fading hegemony....all the while ...Comment: Hipkins in China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:26 pm, June 28th, 2023
You lie down with dogs you get up with fleas my friend...and remember the tiny little flea can sometimes be carrier of the plague.Comment: Hipkins in China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:24 pm, June 28th, 2023
The small and downtrodden often rise up and cut the heads off the powerful too...Comment: Hipkins in China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:49 am, June 28th, 2023
"We are going to have to continue to respect governments that we privately loathe".....I assume you are implying the country in realpoitik land that most of the world regard as the primary existential threat to world peace..therefore stability...the USA.. ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:59 pm, June 27th, 2023
"you appear to have little to no knowledge outside of propaganda outlets that a replete with bullshit".... Says the guy who's only link in his long...long boring rave is sourced with information provided by Conflict Intelligence Team...an organization that ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:57 pm, June 26th, 2023
Look I appreciate that you obviously have a deep understanding of this subject…I would like to think I have moderate to pretty good understanding of this subject myself….I have studied Russian military history reasonably well, as I am sure you must have, ...Comment: Open mike 26/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:03 pm, June 26th, 2023
"Seems you are asking someone else to prove a negative that you are asserting yourself?"....no I am just saying that a lot of people around here shoot their mouths off with barely even half facts and half truths....and that maybe some should be a little ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:46 pm, June 26th, 2023
Couldn't reply on that other thread... https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-25-06-2023/#comment-1956553 "I haven’t seen any reports that looks like more than a probe with a few armoured and limited infantry yet". I do not believe that is what is happening ...Comment: Open mike 26/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:38 pm, June 26th, 2023
I am not saying I want anything...I am saying I haven't seen Putin or anyone else in Russian high command give (or heard that they gave) the order to engage Wagner...? So to be clear, you haven't seen any evidence of what would have been the single most ...Comment: Open mike 25/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:26 pm, June 26th, 2023
I have no idea where you are sourcing you information on the unfolding Ukrainian counter offensive.,..maybe you could enlighten us with a few links please...because what you are telling us is happening, and what I understand to be happening have little ...Comment: Open mike 26/06/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 26th, 2023
“they would refuse to fire at the rebels” How do you know that the Russian military wasn’t under orders not to resist?, please provide a link to confirm that assertion. I have seen no evidence of 2000 Wagner fighters killed in a Russian air strike…have you ...
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