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Comment: Open mike 04/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:59 pm, April 4th, 2021
Thanks for that information, although I think RNZ has been dumbed down dramatically over the past decade, it is still of some use and could even be hopefully revived again one day if we ever get a genuine progressive left wing govt (probably not in my life ...Comment: Open mike 04/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:47 pm, April 4th, 2021
Can't say there one royal alive today that I know of, that would term sexy..can't get the thought of all that royal inbreeding out of my mind I guess...sort of ruins the moodComment: Open mike 04/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:28 pm, April 4th, 2021
Well here I was on a sunny Easter Sunday afternoon, just having a little bit of fun with the new revelation, that it turns out that a bunch of TS commenters are in very very close geo political alignment with the UK conservative party, which, after all the ...Comment: Open mike 04/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:26 pm, April 4th, 2021
Here is one that is bound to get the juices flowing for some of our local Putin antagonists (but in all likely hood secret admirers)..... Vladimir Putin is voted Russia's SEXIEST man: Survey of 2,000 Russians finds president is country's most good looking ...Comment: Open mike 03/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:47 am, April 4th, 2021
@ Eco Maori , thanks for that. I really love that Folkways stuff, have been collecting it for many years.,,haven't got that one though, strangely I haven't even seen it in NZ, and I have been a record collector since I was a young man....just found one on ...Comment: Open mike 03/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:14 am, April 4th, 2021
FFS man "Oh – you mean Putin is not nationalist? Or racist?"...I know Putin is a probably a racist and is definitely a nationalist...but he is not the man that the west and you guys are spouting as some sort of Russian arch angle ready to free the Russian ...Comment: Open mike 03/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:05 am, April 4th, 2021
That was pretty good, thanks...reminded me of Samurai Jack (one of my favourite modern animated series).Comment: Open mike 03/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:50 pm, April 3rd, 2021
Oh do you mean the racist nationalist Alexey Navalny that Amnesty International dropped because of his known racist rhetoric...the Navalny who was funded by the US backed National Endowment for Democracy (a known funding route for the CIA) in his Russian ...Comment: Open mike 03/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:20 pm, April 3rd, 2021
Great quote, plenty of people on this site have never seen a western regime change war that hasn't got them all juiced up....these free market liberals are just as jingoistic, ruthless and bloodthirsty as any right wing conservative as it turns out.... ...Comment: Open mike 03/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:42 pm, April 3rd, 2021
The BBC World service is most certainly a propaganda tool of the UK government.. " BBC World Service is not regulated by Ofcom. Instead the BBC is responsible for setting its overall strategic direction, the budget and guarding its editorial independence ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:23 pm, April 2nd, 2021
"Stop your moaning and lift your game" .... going to end your comment with that, really?Comment: The SIS is worried about foreign interference – so what’s NATO doing in our back yard?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:07 pm, April 2nd, 2021
Very good piece M.Smith, and also very timely. Thanks. This might be of interest... As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties "In its opening months, the Biden administration has targeted Russia and China with belligerent rhetoric, new ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:55 pm, April 2nd, 2021
I assume you censored my comment...shame, it suited them perfectly. I will keep an eye out and see if you apply your censorship fairly in the future.Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:50 pm, April 2nd, 2021
Actually lets see what Putin has to say about Russiagate himself, it seems that unlike Biden and Boris Putin has no problem sitting down with hostile foreign journo's... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGUgcC3dbOYComment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:51 pm, April 2nd, 2021
"occasionally find common ground with a conservative UK foreign office," Slightly more than occasional... Julian Assange Venezuela Navalny Syria regime change Russiagate China Libya (when it was happening) Ukraine etc etc etc...man you and Boris (and ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:44 pm, April 2nd, 2021
@greywarshark...yes it is very sad that out Labour government now is Left only in peoples imaginations...the are a Free Market liberal party...just check out what is happening to our public Libraries and Universities across most of NZ...not only are Labour ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:36 pm, April 2nd, 2021
You are starting to sound like some sort of unhinged anti Putin fundamentalist here Stuart Munro..anyway I will say this again, and hopefully for the last time...show the readers of The Standard just one time I have said anything pro Putin or have linked ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:26 pm, April 2nd, 2021
@Jenny how to get there So lets be clear here, are you saying that allowing the OCPW/USA/UK/France falsify OCPW documents and reports that allow for military strikes in Syria is OK with you because Assad must be removed by the western intervention if ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:44 am, April 2nd, 2021
Something I didn't know until today, the BBC world Service is unregulated....so in other words, can publish or provide to other countries news services like New Zealand's, news that has no regulatory oversight what so ever... " BBC World Service is not ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:24 am, April 2nd, 2021
Yes they do... Posted: 12 February 2021 " Maya Garner, a spokesperson for the IUNW commented: "The UK and its allies, which played a key role in the removal of Colonel Gaddafi's murderous regime in 2011, have failed to do enough to stabilise Libya, while ...Comment: Open mike 02/04/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:03 am, April 2nd, 2021
Here is a piece from a few days ago when it was the tenth year since a western alliance of the USA, the UK and France bombed Libya, under the pretense of a humanitarian intervention...the result today being worse than one can imagine..and as is the case in ...Comment: Open mike 31/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:57 am, March 31st, 2021
Ask Kim Hill to ask that question next she does a piece on this, or any news/current events show on RNZ for that matter, I am sure they will be only too willing to shift from the established narrative.Comment: Open mike 31/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:46 am, March 31st, 2021
Quite a good wee clip... Defending Glenn Greenwald and Critiquing the Post-Left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-lxwBTXUwComment: About Grant Robertson’s bright line tax statement
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:50 pm, March 28th, 2021
@ "Labour, 3 years late and still no spine." shuffling seats on the Titanic is how this Labour govt will be remembered for by future generations when this housing debacle is examined. Just like their climate change policies....ultimately meaningless.Comment: The housing crisis and the Government’s response
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:24 pm, March 26th, 2021
"The spectacular near-silence from the media about housing five days after the announcement shows that this government has hit the sweet spot." Holy Crap..Labour effectively shuffle some deck chairs aboard the Titanic, and you encourage everyone to take a ...Comment: The housing crisis and the Government’s response
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:04 pm, March 26th, 2021
All renters would infact be better off if their right to a warm and secure home was not controlled by a failed so called free market that is openly propped up by govt intervention unlike any other private business in NZ. Rent and everything to do with ...Comment: Open mike 24/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:25 am, March 24th, 2021
I know this US leaning, however speaks to the same systemic problems in our own media...often just spouting US,UK Govt talking points without even the hint of a critical eye having once glanced over it. Russiagate Rolls On, Giving Biden Political Cover " ...Comment: Something big but not like that
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:33 pm, March 23rd, 2021
Exactly what was "some pretty radical responses"? that you would like to point out to us during this what is effectively a state emergency?Comment: Government announces plan to help first-home buyers maintain the housing crisis
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:12 pm, March 23rd, 2021
"But they are ideologically blinded - opposing the market is not an option, so they try market solutions." That is about all we need to know, as I have mentioned many times, Labour are lead by Free Market fundamentalists ... "The most influential strain of ...Comment: Something big but not like that
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:26 am, March 23rd, 2021
@ Tiger Mountain, " not more banksters telling Jacinda and Grant “how it is” unfortunately that exactly who Ardern and Robertson seek out for advice, along with all NZ MSM, thereby creating a closed loop of rigid thinking about the economy in both ...
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