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Comment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:04 pm, November 4th, 2023
"Sometimes there is a warning to leave and make the areas unpopulated, sometimes not." ...Link pleaseComment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:46 pm, November 4th, 2023
"and hamas founding documents and rhetoric openly aiming to wipe out all Jews in the middle-east".. like what Israel is actually doing now to the Palestinians right now as we speak.. "modern Ukraine has never attacked Russia".....no just the Russian/ ...Comment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:09 pm, November 4th, 2023
Several killed in Israeli attack on ambulance convoy: Gaza Health Ministry "Palestinian health ministry says several killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli attack on ambulance convoy." Dozens of people were reported killed and injured Wednesday ...Comment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:09 am, November 4th, 2023
"Left 41.6 Right 46.7. 55 seats versus 60 seats (excluding NZF)" Correction...Centre 41.6 Right 46.55 seats. There is no meaningful Left Wing political party in New Zealand that I know of.Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:54 pm, November 3rd, 2023
The Israeli Zionists don't and have never wanted a political solution...haven't you worked that out yet?Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:51 pm, November 3rd, 2023
" beheadings, mutilations, that hamas committed"....please provide an link that proves these allegations please. So Hamas are terrorist and the IDF are not? Your use of language tells me you are RNZ/Guardian and BBC reader/listener.Comment: Labour’s leadership
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:27 pm, November 3rd, 2023
A lot of people are "ashperationel " and hence have a tendency to believe any old shit a oily grifter tells them. Remember its a loss of only 10% or so of the vote to the Nats and given the huge tax promises I'm surprised it wasn't more.Comment: Open mike 03/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:54 am, November 3rd, 2023
At least all that shit worked and did the job it was supposed to.Comment: Open mike 02/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:56 am, November 2nd, 2023
What makes you. presume a Nat paid the donation..? More a leftie action I would have thought..Comment: The Injustice of Blackball
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:40 am, November 2nd, 2023
The lesson is that extractive industries have a limited lifespan, often it is too late for those involved to realise and make. other plans, they just move on as we have done for the last million years.Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:42 am, November 1st, 2023
"As I see it, both are to blame"... ...why would you say that? Israel is illegally occupying land...and that is according to the UN not me.. Israel has also been holding 2 1/2 Million people in an open air prison and that is according to Human Rights Watch ...Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:05 am, November 1st, 2023
Hundreds of casualties as Israel targets refugee camp in Gaza https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/hundreds-of-casualties-as-israel-targets-refugee-camp-in-gaza-interior-ministry/3039193 "A series of Israeli airstrikes on a refugee camp in northern Gaza on ...Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:34 am, November 1st, 2023
Shocking that there are so few comments on this thread.....or is it?Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:33 am, November 1st, 2023
Looks like the Yemenis are showing us all yet again that they are one of the few nations of real strength and moral courage.... Yemeni Ansarullah declares war against Zionist regime "General Yahya Saree, the spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces said in a ...Comment: Open mike 30/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:09 pm, October 30th, 2023
Government is now so broad and complex and requiring in depth knowledge of everything from international affairs, economics and cultural sensitivities and the many interactions and machinations of such as well as the huge amount of daily reading required ...Comment: Open mike 29/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:11 am, October 29th, 2023
That’s what bloody happens when you change the government. Useless bloody Nats it’s all their fault.Comment: Open mike 29/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:31 am, October 29th, 2023
You know things are desperate when an ED nurse of 40 years experience complains “ What’s going on, the games gone soft” over to much TMO interference.Comment: Open mike 25/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:57 pm, October 25th, 2023
How many are returning NZers? Are they counted as immigrants, I was under the impression Kiwis who had been away for a while were counted as such.Comment: Open mike 25/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:53 pm, October 25th, 2023
Bill English has already publicly had to remind him that he will be running a country not a company.Comment: Open mike 24/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:36 pm, October 24th, 2023
Why does Gaza remind me so much of the Warsaw Ghetto? The Zionists have certainly learnt a lot from the Gestapo.Comment: Open mike 24/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:24 pm, October 24th, 2023
Why Hipkins did not push the poisoned water line during the campaign is beyond me. The roll call of Queenstown, Wellington, Auckland, Hawkes Bay and numerous others too small to mention, like just in Marlborough there is Havelock, Seddon, Renwick and ...Comment: Open mike 22/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:49 pm, October 22nd, 2023
If Britain is anything to go by dont expect public charging stations to be much cheaper than petrol. Topping up at home is by far the best option We had a Polestar, read Chinese Volvo, for 4 days around the south of England and in conversation with a ...Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:34 pm, October 21st, 2023
true that.Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:59 am, October 20th, 2023
Mulligan could bore for New Zealand.Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:53 am, October 20th, 2023
Thanks, It was my pleasure.Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:49 am, October 20th, 2023
Yeah, but as we all know, the Right wing only defend free speech when it has affected them personally....an issue which I might add, the Liberal class has kindly gifted them truck loads of ammunition on....with the Liberal class (and their media) who ...Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:06 am, October 20th, 2023
.....Kia ora Adrian, Just to let you know ... to chat anytime about it Adrian. Regards DXXXX Head of Radio ...Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:52 am, October 20th, 2023
RNZ has been shit on Geo-politics for a long long time.....talk about thumb on the scales...not too much fair and balanced reporting from RNZ in this dept...sadly.Comment: Open mike 20/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:58 am, October 20th, 2023
... /afternoons/audio/2018911682/bookmarks-with-adrian-thornton Best ...Comment: Daily review 18/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:24 am, October 19th, 2023
Like just shrugging their shoulders and saying "Yeah, just take as much of our land as you like ".
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