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Comment: Open mike 18/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:48 am, June 18th, 2021
One of New Zealand's most original artists and musicians passed away yesterday, my good mate Fane Flaws...Fane was always a willing comrade in any and all hair brained action or event I went to him with, he was one of the most beautiful, madly creative and ...Comment: The America’s Cup is just another spinoff
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:55 am, June 17th, 2021
I loved the way Dalton said the NZ offer was "completely reasonable" but not enough, so one is only left to assume that the amount they imagine that they require must be therefore completely unreasonable. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/americas-cup/ ...Comment: Open mike 17/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:47 am, June 17th, 2021
Here is a excellent interview with a brave and as it turns out, one of the few remaining actual Left wing politicians in western politics today, Clare Daly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4-3yThNDTg&t=12sComment: Fear and loathing in cycleland
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:22 am, June 17th, 2021
Those two men are Louison Bobet and Jacques Anquetil, two of the greatest (and stylish) riders in cycle racing history, the photo was taken somewhere about 1958-61.Comment: Fear and loathing in cycleland
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:24 pm, June 16th, 2021
Not all of us wear lycra Micky...some are still I am pleased to say concerned with aesthetics as well as progress, they are not mutually exclusive.Comment: Open mike 16/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:46 pm, June 16th, 2021
Great news for the Progressive Socialist left..... Pedro Castillo is declared the new President of Peru https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAgrM-bqQ2EComment: Open mike 14/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:53 pm, June 14th, 2021
Here is a very excellent interview with author Jenny Chan, talking about her book on contemporary industrial Chinese workers and the dire conditions in the mega factories they work in while making so much of what we all consume….strangely enough this issue ...Comment: Open mike 11/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:27 am, June 11th, 2021
Why anyone with even one working critical thinking brain cell still working within their cranium allows themselves to gets caught up this new anti-China frenzy, when it is so blatantly obvious it all so much bullshit I don't know… I mean seriously are ...Comment: Open mike 11/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:24 am, June 11th, 2021
I grew up for quite a few years in Waiheke island during the early 1970's...it has given me a life long suspicion of hippies....a pretty dodgy crew from what I observed.Comment: Open mike 10/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:31 am, June 10th, 2021
Good news for the Left, Socialists look to be winning in elections in Peru, despite vicious attacks and smears from the local MSM....of course. Socialist Castillo clings on to tight lead in Peru election as count nears end https://www.reuters.com/world/ ...Comment: Open mike 08/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:56 am, June 8th, 2021
Here is a good conversation with the important political author Thomas Frank on the current Liberal obsession with censoring anything that moves that does not agree with their world view…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3wMlPI278Comment: Open mike 08/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:50 am, June 8th, 2021
"some of the inclines are punishing."...that is how you get strong, you have to learn to love the hills...or get a e-bike!Comment: Open mike 08/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:40 am, June 8th, 2021
True that, you should have seen the over the top, heavy handed police presence around here in Marewa during the lockdown...then you would walk up to Napier Hill, up there you wouldn't even see a cop.Comment: Open mike 04/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 4th, 2021
Of course you fail to mention that any Left Wing project that gets fairly elected in Latin America will be instantly made to suffer terribly through all kinds of nefarious mean and ways by the neo liberal imperilaists and their cronies, so neither you nor ...Comment: Open mike 04/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:20 am, June 4th, 2021
These scandals are useful as an opportunity for an outsider to snatch a glimpse into the fetid mind of the National party politician…..confirming what we already know is their primary thought pattern, just nasty shit.Comment: Open mike 04/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:12 am, June 4th, 2021
...Aaahh...good ol' Ad, you are like The Standards ghost of Thatcher for Free market Liberlisim…No turning back!! Pedro Castillo Can Help End Neoliberalism in Peru https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/06/pedro-castillo-peru-libre-keiko-fujimori-runoff-election- ...Comment: Open mike 03/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:17 pm, June 3rd, 2021
"the people you refer to are what I would call centre lefties" ...aahhh No, the people referred to as 'Liberals' are Centrists, which is it's own quite defined and distinct ideology. And we know this because as we have seen with our own eyes, the way the ...Comment: Open mike 03/06/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:03 am, June 3rd, 2021
Here is one for tour local Imperialist Liberals, you know who you are.... Two Centuries Of ‘The Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’ https://www.medialens.org/2021/two-centuries-of-the-imperialist-warmongering-hate-filled-guardian/ ...Guard ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:56 am, June 1st, 2021
I am sure some of them do, however unlike you, I guess they understand that without addressing class issues first and foremost, any battles fought on those fronts you mentioned will only be of limited use to them but as per usual will of course will ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:36 am, June 1st, 2021
Well I lived and brought up my children on the notorious 'Ave' in Flaxmere for a few years, now live in Marewa in Napier, with the Mighty Mongrel Mob across the road and up the street (just to give you a flavor of the neighbourhood) , so I am actually ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:47 pm, May 31st, 2021
The problem with what you just said is that 'systemic inequality' is almost exclusively class based, so I fail to see how addressing 'inequalities' can be achieved in any meaningful way without addressing the class component?...sounds like those young ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:01 pm, May 31st, 2021
What are you talking about, what new media empire were Biden/Dems up against that Obama or Hillary wasn't?Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:14 pm, May 31st, 2021
I agree that there seems to be a general slow steady swing away from neoliberalisim, and the very term itself it has become a tainted word that is for sure, hence, IMO, the centrists reluctance to cut their ties to the word and vibe of the 'left' and just ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:00 pm, May 31st, 2021
I agree, however that wasn't really my point, my point was that Trump was lined up to win that election, despite being so epically fucking awful and then even with the Trump/Covid disaster movie happening as the election is being played out, Biden sill ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:02 pm, May 31st, 2021
"and Judas goats like Blair or Douglas could only delay reform, never establish anything permanent." That's true, but even these 30 odd years of this one political/economic ideology with little to no inbuilt moral or social code, and only seemingly ...Comment: Open mike 31/05/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:46 am, May 31st, 2021
Hi Morrissey, don't know if you saw this from Matt Taibbi?, it is of course a very very long list... Master List Of Official Russia Claims That Proved To Be Bogus https://taibbi.substack.com/p/aaugh-a-brief-list-of-official-russia This was also worth ...Comment: Open mike 31/05/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:42 am, May 31st, 2021
@Sanctuary "Edwards is not stupid, yet he continually – and deliberately in my opinion – continues to conflate "liberal" with the left" This is THE major problem of the Left today..ie separating with extreme prejudice who and what are the Left in most ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:28 am, May 31st, 2021
OK, fair enough, so that was a bit misleading, I guess I should have framed it thus... Clinton and Blair, whom both, while being leaders of the traditional Left leaning parties of their respective countries, by abandoning the working classes in favour of ...Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:12 am, May 31st, 2021
The only reason Trump lost that second term by a landslide was because of Covid...you would do well to remember that fact.Comment: Bryce Edwards: The State of the political left (in the Age of Outrage)
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:05 am, May 31st, 2021
“In a sense you could say that the “political right” won the “economic debates” of the 1980s and onwards – setting up an economy that we’ve still got, that is structured in favour of wealth, business and elites. Meanwhile, the “political left” have won the ...
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