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Comment: Open mike 19/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:13 am, October 19th, 2023
At least the ABs can win.Comment: Open mike 18/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 7:29 am, October 18th, 2023
So Isreal is bombing hospitals now.Comment: Daily review 17/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:29 pm, October 17th, 2023
He was offered Speaker because of the restrictions on the role. They tried to shut him up but Peters is 50 Shades more cunning than those ChaosCreators.Comment: Daily review 17/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:25 pm, October 17th, 2023
And the Baldheaded Bully as an ex-AirNZ mate told me that is what Luxon was called there, is still at it., in an interview yesterday when he was asked about his 7 houses and $4 million p.a AirNZ income just exactly how much he was worth, his very first ...Comment: Open mike 14/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:13 pm, October 14th, 2023
", dealing a major blow to local revisionist powers, such as Iran, and global ones, such as China and Russia, that wish to supplant a rules-based order with one based on “Might makes right".... are you being serious or just taking the piss?...rules based ...Comment: Open mike 14/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:57 pm, October 14th, 2023
@Anne... "Guardian. Both have been my 'go to' news outlets for years because by and large one gets a fair minded view of most news stories." ....both the Guardian and the BBC have proved themselves to be nothing more that guard dogs of the Liberal/ ...Comment: Open mike 14/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:52 am, October 14th, 2023
Good to see Western democracies working so unbiased and fairly in this time of crisis.... The West is banning pro-Palestinian protests Waving Palestinian flag may be a criminal offence, Braverman tells police France orders ban on all pro-Palestinian ...Comment: Open mike 12/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:54 am, October 12th, 2023
Reports of Israeli 'white phosphorus' use in Gaza https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-report-israeli-white-phosphorus Suffocation and Isolation 17 Years of Israeli Blockade on Gaza "Rather than undertaking its duty of protecting ...Comment: Open mike 12/10/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:43 am, October 12th, 2023
There is no serious Left wing political party active in New Zealand....Centre and Centre Right.....The Centre is a political ideology...which is what Labour is.Comment: Daily review 11/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:41 pm, October 11th, 2023
This is going to be decided on the overseas vote. I can hear the screaming from the right already to cancel the kids who are away for more than 6 months. My 30 year old rang tonight to say he thought that the Greens are going to go big and the above ...Comment: Managing Expectations: Community transmission of coronavirus in NZ was inevitable
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:39 pm, October 10th, 2023
I’m pretty sure I can remember Jacinda saying that as soon as a vaccine was available and as many people as possible were treated then normality would resume and then we would then need to learn to live with the virus. There was never an expectation that ...Comment: Winston Peters? I barely know him
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:32 pm, October 9th, 2023
If they call an election because they are incompetent losers it is not a great platform to go to the people on, they would be dog tucker BTW, can anybody remember “ Bugger the pollsters “. I’ve got a feeling.!!!Comment: Open mike 06/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:07 pm, October 6th, 2023
Katalin Karikos story is exceptional, born very poor she was a brilliant student and has apparently been working since university at 18 on mRNA technology, almost 50 years of dedication. A huge personal thank you to her for my friends and family who are ...Comment: National set to renege on Paris Agreement
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:11 am, October 5th, 2023
Labours piss-poor messaging is probably the reason for its fall in popularity. Whoever is in charge of it should get their arse kicked, it seems to run on a premise that nobody should be offended or alarmed. The clean car discount should be messaged for ...Comment: Open mike 03/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:28 am, October 3rd, 2023
Anyone get the irony of theNats complaining about how unfair life is because their Lead Sook is accused of running scared while they plan to slash the poorest’s income and sack up to 15,000 people before Christmas. Arseholes!.Comment: Open mike 02/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:31 pm, October 2nd, 2023
Hes Running Scared, ( wish I could link the sound track) . Nothing worse than being bested by a crook bloke on his sickbed , yes he is a gutless sook.Comment: Why won’t Winston Peters answer straight forward questions about NZ First policy?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:56 pm, October 2nd, 2023
Fair enoughComment: Why won’t Winston Peters answer straight forward questions about NZ First policy?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:27 pm, October 2nd, 2023
Bullshit, he just needed to answer the question and not threaten to sack a presenter by demanding to be Broadcasting minister and God knows how many other portfolios. Beneath him few of his lineup don't even know which way up to hold a piece of paper.Comment: Open mike 02/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:57 am, October 2nd, 2023
Nelson and the Coast couldnt organise a toke-up in a dope factory, ffs they cant even get water to go where they want it.Comment: Open mike 02/10/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:52 am, October 2nd, 2023
Luxons bluster and apparent nervousness and grasping at straws, like the "who's on top language one " and NZF phonecalls, make me think that maybe he knows something that we dont and that their own polling is not as on-track as the media presume. Not by ...Comment: Hipkins goes on the offensive
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:31 pm, September 29th, 2023
Good on ya mate! and it feels good!Comment: Hipkins goes on the offensive
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:22 pm, September 29th, 2023
If you want to win, offer to help the hard workers of the LECs and Greens. Now is the time with 2 weeks to go for small signs to go up on fences, or make your own because they work. Signs are only good for 2 weeks after that they are wallpaper. Make it ...Comment: Hipkins goes on the offensive
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:12 am, September 29th, 2023
Yeah…wouldn’t it have been so much better getting through Covid with a Nat/Act/NZF government. Do you really think that Luxon and Peters and Seymour wouldn’t think that they knew more than the scientists and medical professionals. The only ones to do well ...Comment: Daily review 28/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:15 pm, September 28th, 2023
Luxon has an answer for every problem caused by his “ reckons”, and it,s …..VOLUNTEERS. Watch this space, the next thting from that added head will be no super unless the over 65s do a number of hours helping clean up his shitfights. You heard it here ...Comment: Tax or quality public services – which is more important to NZ voters?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:02 pm, September 28th, 2023
A wealth tax posited in the run up to an election is electoral suicide but while many may think its a good idea, pretty much everybody thinks they will be, or wants to be, wealthy to varying degrees and voting for a wealth tax can be seen as self-defeating ...Comment: Open mike 27/09/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:25 am, September 27th, 2023
Predictably Western media/govt recent whitewashing of the well known Far Right extremist elements within both the Ukrainian military and politics, ends up with the Canadian House of Commons, including Trudeau, giving several standing ovations to a former ...Comment: Even Mike Hosking thinks that a National-Act-NZ First coalition would be an absolute disaster
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:44 pm, September 26th, 2023
Winston is a very clever politician he has courted the drongos each with their 500 or 1000 or so supporters to just get him over the line but I think only one is in the first six lineup and that one is looking a bit shakey. If Winston does get in the phone ...Comment: Open mike 22/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:22 pm, September 22nd, 2023
NZ oil is exported as it is very low in sulpher and is used amongst other tasks for smelting steel and high grade chemicals and is worth a lot more per barrel than the low grade stuff used for processing into diesel and petrol. Just economic sense. The ...Comment: There is no recession in New Zealand
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:02 pm, September 21st, 2023
Jeez.. I wish they would give me a go at writing Chppys speeches. He needs to get pissed off about the lies, he needs to tell Luxon the next time he uses the gangs are Labour bullshit that he, Chippy, is angry and well pissed off about the constant lying. ...Comment: Where are National’s costings?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:56 pm, September 17th, 2023
Seymour on QandA said those with addiction problems will be denied welfare and when pushed on how they get over addiction his reply was " volunteers " teaching them the right way to live. Fuckmedead, he is such an dangerous idiot.
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