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Comment: Open mike 02/03/2024
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:41 am, March 2nd, 2024
Good ol' George Galloway....on the right side of history yet again...while yet again another piece of shit Western Centrist (left) Labour Party show their complete lack of moral compass....it was asked on this site a few days ago "What is Left?".....well ...Comment: What’s Left?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:04 pm, February 28th, 2024
"If Labour want to be a true party of the left, they need to ditch the entire neoliberal economic model"....the Labour Party of NZ are Free Market fundamentalists who are as embedded to the ideology of 'NeoLiberalism' as National, ACT...that is a plain ...Comment: Open mike 20/02/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:25 am, February 20th, 2024
What is Louise Upson’s financial status? Is she the one with interests in a number of farms? Wealth does colour one’s entitlement. For Christsake, who for no reason other than pure evil would advocate that cancer victims need to be “ work ready “ ? These ...Comment: Open mike 15/02/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:53 am, February 15th, 2024
He hasn't got a clue or is the worst served PM by advisors in history. He turned up at a well known Marlborough wine company in the campaign sprouting the same target of doubling production only to be rebuked by the owner who pointed out that that was ...Comment: A Trump-led Withdrawal from NATO
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:11 pm, February 14th, 2024
Consider that the US owns a large portion of European productive capacity, from Ford, GM and a huge amount of IT concerns, walking away from Europe would collapse the US economy with all the ensuing chaos that would entail. The comment that it doesn’t do ...Comment: Open mike 13/02/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:24 am, February 13th, 2024
Why are so many so intimidated as to not call that which the IDF is doing by its rightful name, genocide, ethnic cleansing, invasion and land theft ?Comment: Open mike 08/02/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:51 am, February 8th, 2024
Mike the Lefty yesterday in the Treaty post mentioned the disquiet is not just from Māori, if anyone was wondering just start with Doug Graham, JimBolger and Jenny Shipley. I posited last week that an “intervention” may occur from the Nat’s old guard for ...Comment: Toitu te Tiriti
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:36 pm, February 7th, 2024
I presume you are assuming that the Prime Minister can read , note; have not included ‘understand’ , anything more complex than a very short list of bullet points. Sorry Incognito, for the brain fade.Comment: Toitu te Tiriti
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:25 pm, February 7th, 2024
OK,very sorry. Hot day in the hills today and not paying attention. [error in email still present - Incognito]Comment: Toitu te Tiriti
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:33 pm, February 7th, 2024
If any CEO gave an almost identical speech to a shareholders meeting two years in a row he would find himself out on his arse pretty quickly. It is a sign of laziness, an out-of-touchiness and arrogance, a sort of “” I’ve got your money now I’m just going ...Comment: Christopher Luxon is no John Key
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:31 pm, February 1st, 2024
Maybe somebody should investigate the manner of his leaving!Comment: Christopher Luxon is no John Key
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:03 pm, February 1st, 2024
Don't agree SPC, a person who has attained the positions that Luxon has had should be a fast learner, he's not, ergo, he's an idiot who has one trick that has kept him afloat and that trick is bullshit with a side dressing of flannel.Comment: Open mike 30/01/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:57 am, January 30th, 2024
I have read of some comments recently by the likes of Doug Graham and Chris Finlayson and most surprisingly Jenny Shipley on their disquiet of the current National off-hand treatment of te aou Māori, and wondering if we could but hope for an intervention ...Comment: Open mike 29/01/2024
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:51 pm, January 29th, 2024
"The GOP is taking on Biden over his post Gaza plan for a restoration of the peace process" You are obviously aware that Biden is arming Israel with 2000lb bombs and thousands probably tens of thousands main tank round + lots lots more, which are both the ...Comment: The week Luxon lost his moral mandate to lead
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:55 pm, January 29th, 2024
Don’t like their chances Robologic, I believe a considerable number of young Māori have done their time in the Special Forces and know how to go about their business quietly and efficiently.Comment: Labour and the Democrats
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:48 am, January 29th, 2024
Really?...Biden seems very impowered when I comes to arming Israel to commit genocide..... Biden administration sidesteps Congress again for emergency arms sale to Israel ‘A disservice to the American public’: Democrats rip Biden over weapons sale to ...Comment: Labour and the Democrats
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:19 am, January 29th, 2024
"deeply unappealing"...coming from you...LOL Well at least I link to sources...unlike you most of the time. And when you do, and when I do bother to check on them, which is rarely, because I know exactly what I will find...they are of course the usual Neo- ...Comment: Labour and the Democrats
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:23 pm, January 28th, 2024
@Ad..."Do Labour and the Democrats have something in common?" surely it must be becoming obvious to you that the 'Centre" is an political ideology all on it's own....it and should not have the Right/Left tagged on to it's name, this 'Centre-Left' ...Comment: Labour and the Democrats
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:01 pm, January 28th, 2024
"Stop writing shit comments that I can tear into so easily and I'll stop trying to encourage you to lift your level of commenting."...thats good coming from you...the guy who writes volumes of words on Geo-Politics that time and again only display a total ...Comment: The Government is planning to cut tobacco excise duty
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:01 pm, January 25th, 2024
I'll bet the tobacco industry money to NZ1, Act and the Nats is well hidden. What are the chances that it was channeled through dairy owners and the like by way of "rebates "to the sellers which were expected to be sent on to the parties. Come on Gower et ...Comment: Open mike 19/01/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:06 pm, January 19th, 2024
Have you seen how much it costs to put them in kennels for a fortnight Herodotus ? Its cheaper to cyrogenicly freeze them and chuck them in the fridge while you're gone and thaw the buggers out when you get back.Comment: Open mike 19/01/2024
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:53 am, January 19th, 2024
It maybe what Blinken et al are afraid of is Israel turning into a real multi player shit fight and having to find space for batcrazy fundamentalist Israeli refugees in the US who would present real problems for the Democrats in particular. It probably can ...Comment: What If Trump Wins Again?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:56 am, January 16th, 2024
BTW Ad...here is the type of person you seem to be happy to align yourself with in the defense of NATO....but then again brutal illegal sanctions in service of Western interests never seem to bother the Liberal Imperialist class conscious....as it turns ...Comment: What If Trump Wins Again?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:05 am, January 16th, 2024
"It's not just me thinking like this".....this is the best your thinking partner can offer on Gaza... "Many are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Haven't seen any calls on Hamas to surrender." Maybe you need to find yourself a slightly smarter 'thinking' ...Comment: Open mike 15/01/2024
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:19 pm, January 15th, 2024
Thanks Morrissey....great thread, thanks.Comment: Open mike 15/01/2024
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:18 pm, January 15th, 2024
The USA has no morals...only it's own interests..end of story.Comment: Open mike 15/01/2024
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:09 pm, January 15th, 2024
Watching atrocity after atrocity, brutality after brutality, massacre after massacre all being proudly conducted right out in the open, with the deranged IDF filming themselves...the Israeli politicians calling daily for even more violence... ...the ...Comment: What If Trump Wins Again?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:02 pm, January 15th, 2024
You are quite mad.Comment: Open mike 15/01/2024
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:35 pm, January 15th, 2024
Ahed Tamimi's interrogation video released... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okBRaBsFFCo If she was a pretty Ukrainian girl you can be sure this would have been a lead story on The Guardian, BBC and RNZ.Comment: What If Trump Wins Again?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:11 pm, January 15th, 2024
"Biden is moral and reasonable than Trump"....this is actually said without the slightest flinch, about the primary enabeler of the most violent, brutal, disgusting genocide....and not after the fact, while it is still actually happening...how many ...
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