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Comment: Sepuloni: Labour to increase Jobseeker benefit
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:35 pm, May 3rd, 2021
We lost the battle of controlling the narrative when we allowed ourselves to be termed 'consumers' and not Citizens...and therein lays the crux of this battle...these free market Liberals (ie Labour/National) don't give a fuck if you are white/black/yellow ...Comment: US to offer millions in new funds to take on China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:07 pm, May 3rd, 2021
"The real problem the US has with China is nothing to do with human rights. It is about strategic competition, and for the US that is a zero-sum game." exactly right, except you forgot to tag in Australia and the UK into that sentence. As I have said ...Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:10 pm, April 28th, 2021
You know only boring people get bored easily..well that is what have observed of my life time anyway.Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:00 pm, April 28th, 2021
Siobhan, myself and few other lefties we know who started reading TS about the same time, were/are all big fans of your‘transcripts’ Morrissey and would get great enjoyment out of reading them and then recounting and laughing about our favourite bits when ...Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:37 pm, April 28th, 2021
"You gotta love the double standards of a blow happy referee." +1...except I also think it is actually very damaging to the general atmosphere of TS.Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:32 pm, April 28th, 2021
What the hell does it matter to you if he posts it on The Standard?...if you don't like then don't read read...there problem solved.Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:29 pm, April 28th, 2021
"So how come you tolerate the likes of Joe90 simply posting up Twitter messages every day?"...that is because Incognito mostly agrees with Joe 90 and never with you...as has become plainly obvious over the previous months the only debate incognito can ...Comment: Australia is picking a fight with China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:15 pm, April 28th, 2021
Thanks for this piece MS, I am also pleased that we have distanced ourselves from the disgusting racist, jingoist cold war rhetoric that is being emanated not just by Australia but also the USA and the UK against China, I hope that NZ will also distance ...Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:34 am, April 27th, 2021
"I would vote for Sue Bradford as PM any day of the week"...+1.Comment: Climate change. It’s still happening.
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:13 am, April 27th, 2021
Most Kiwis don't take climate change seriously, that is just a plain fact... ..."an exciting year for the two hottest segments in New Zealand's new vehicle industry. The two segments are SUVs which now account for an astonishing 43 per cent of all new ...Comment: Open mike 27/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:21 am, April 27th, 2021
Here is a quite amazing BBC interview where Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Environmental Advisor to the UN shuts down their anti China rhetoric in real time.... "Professor Jeffrey Sachs, a current serving Environmental Advisor to the UN, said that the ...Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:03 pm, April 26th, 2021
“the USA/CIA did not “hand over” Nelson Mandela, as you asserted, but “tipped off” the SA authorities. What a difference it makes when you use the appropriate words and description!”… ...what an absolutely and completely bizarre statement, it is hard to ...Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:23 pm, April 26th, 2021
@Tiger Mountain, I agree completely JC biggest fault was he was naturally so inclusive and for some reason didn't seem to understand that the Blairite Liberals in Labour were his sworn enemy, and he should have dealt with them accordingly. He was the best ...Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:55 pm, April 26th, 2021
Ad, have you ever mixed with people who live along the East coast of the upper North Island of New Zealand?..plenty of them live to a large extent by hunting and gathering...from the sea and the land, growing and hunting...and I don't mean all the boomers ...Comment: Open mike 25/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:36 pm, April 26th, 2021
I know this is going to controversial, but for a short while, during about the middle of Trumps presidency, I watched a few of his speeches from beginning to end, and I have to admit he was actually pretty funny sometimes and there was something else at ...Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:25 pm, April 26th, 2021
I choose my reading material carefully..it does not and rarely has included Time magazine...though I found that copy of Time with Thelonious Monk on the cover in an opp shop many years ago..that was pretty cool.Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:05 pm, April 26th, 2021
Time magazine has never seen a US lead intervention or war it did not like, so I wouldn’t take the piece of shit rag too seriously if I where you.Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:01 pm, April 26th, 2021
" You are both so predictable." ...coming from the guy who is always beating the same drum...but then so do we...you beat the the drum for some sort of contemporary liberal 'soft' imperialism while we beat the drum for international liberty, equality to ...Comment: Open mike 26/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:32 am, April 26th, 2021
By the wolf I assume you mean those small former soviet states stopping western corporate hegemony from taking over their countries?Comment: The five eyes beat up
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:11 pm, April 24th, 2021
“Weakness is joining the megaphone diplomacy of the playground bullies!”..exactly right, what no one seems to mention is that it is quite obvious that the Uyghurs are being cynically used as a political football by a whole bunch of western countries, their ...Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:36 pm, April 24th, 2021
@ Brigid +1 "Perhaps Kim you could stop producing it." That was exactly what thought.Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:55 pm, April 24th, 2021
Yes I noticed her half hearted tone during that exchange as well..I don't believe there is any question about RNZ's producers or management, they represent New Zealand's own version of The Guardian, who have proved that they are one of the greatest threats ...Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:23 pm, April 24th, 2021
Hi Morrissey, yes I tuned in especially to see how Kim would handle that interview, it went pretty much as I expected, Kim knows enough to know when she is on the wrong side of history, so was never going to seriously tangle with Robinson on Assange, just ...Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:59 pm, April 24th, 2021
Thanks francesca, I wasn't aware of those developments in that story. This state fueled propaganda is getting pretty out of control...I just had my official complaint to RNZ over their coverage of the Douma poisoning rejected because the stories are over ...Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:11 am, April 24th, 2021
Yes you are right, every year it seems that MSM, and sadly pretty much all so called Liberal MSM entrench themselves further as nothing more than voice boxes for war, conflict and division when called upon to do so. When the most effective medium for ...Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:49 am, April 24th, 2021
And while on the subject of Liberal fake news…here is a great piece from one of the very few remaining US journalists that is worth a damn..Matt Taibbi Rachel Maddow is Bill O'Reilly After hyping a fake story for a year, cable's leading anchor doesn't ...Comment: Biden is serious about climate change
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:12 am, April 24th, 2021
Micky you must be an incredibly optimistic guy (and that is an admirable trait)..however, seriously, if Biden wouldn’t/couldn’t (depending on your view) even get that desperately needed minimum wage increase that was widely supported and popular and that ...Comment: Open mike 24/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:44 am, April 24th, 2021
Turns out yet another bit of anti-Russian cold war propaganda disseminated by the rabid war mongering Liberal press and their useful idiots is just another piece of fake news…anyone else see a pattern forming here? U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put ...Comment: Open mike 23/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:30 pm, April 23rd, 2021
The Bay City Rollers and The Nolan Sisters?...I never in a million years would have thought of putting those two acts together, but as you have mentioned it I have thought about (briefly) and it sounds not quite right, what makes you think they would have ...Comment: Open mike 17/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:27 pm, April 17th, 2021
Holy hell, you people are really living in some sort of self induced Conspiracy la la land...here is a link that might help you.... Conspiracy Theory Addiction Center https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/conspiracy-theory-addiction/
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