Open mike 17/09/2022

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      1. 1.1.1

        Fark…it would be like some kinda fwit tag team . Aaron seems pretty chill..but that might well have released a rrraargh : )

      2. 1.1.2

        City council candidate Steve Walker was scathing.

        "Without even factoring in the impracticality, inconvenience and stupidity of the suggestion, it's quite clearly a Trump-esque attempt to tap into the disgruntled minority who believe that Dunedin should remain a 1970s backwater, giving no regard to safety, our zero-carbon ambitions and the fact that people are the economic powerhouses of the city and not cars."

        https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dcc/radich-teams-george-st-call-under-fire

        Have you any knowledge of Steve Walker ? Cause he's talkin' SENSE : )…

        1. 1.1.2.1

          To PLA : at 1.1.2

          Steve Walker a most commendable guy!…..proven hard worker, caring and doesn't blow his own trumpet.

          1. 1.1.2.1.1

            doesn't blow his own trumpet.

            Oh thanks for that. Always good to hear someones local knowledge ! And as I first linked there is "Vandervis Guy" who blows..

            a Trump-et : )

    1. 2.1

      Great election advertising for Gilmore.

      He sounds like a famous American businessmen/politician, operating the same way and having similar personal qualities.

      He deserves prominent massive hoardings all around Wellington after the election. They could carry simply his photo ( he'd love that) and one word: 'BEWARE.'

          1. 2.2.1.1.1

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Gilmore#Departure_from_Parliament
            Nats 'strong team' just keeps getting better – Key's greatest political 'legacy' smiley

            Former National MP Aaron Gilmore – please stop listing me in rogues' gallery of disgraced MPs [13 August 2022]

            He's despairing over the company he has been thrust into this week by interviewers seeking answers from National's leader Christopher Luxon over the party's selection process.

            "Aaron Gilmore, Jami-Lee Ross, Todd Barclay, Hamish Walker, Andrew Falloon and Jake Bezzant," said Simon Shepherd to Luxon on Newshub Nation this morning.

            Radio NZ's Guyon Espiner threw the same names at Luxon on Wednesday, calling them a "rogues' gallery".

            Gilmore, now 48, winces.

            He quit Parliament in 2013 after an infamous altercation with a waiter in Hanmer Springs that involved a few drinks and claims of influence exerted in an untoward way.

            It seems mild compared to another National candidate who masqueraded as his own girlfriend, using intimate images of her to encourage sex chat with men.

          2. 2.2.1.1.2

            John Key was a good judge of character except when it came to his own flawed one, when he pulled that ponytail, for example. Key’s behaviour always was superbly hypocritical, which made him such an effective Leader of the National Party.

  5. 5

    Suspension of Sanity over yet?
    When are we allowed to discuss Aotearoa having a new Head of State that does not live here, takes millions in cash as backhanders from despots, has appointed an even more corrupt brother his deputy, married a 19yr old for breeding purposes only, a Head of State that no one here elected?

    How did we end up with not just a foreign king as HoS and a crock of a human being?

    This adds insult on top of insult.

    Is there any platform in Aotearoa up to having this debate?

  6. 6

    But no sex with locals or livestock, m'kay…

    https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1570667432276295681

    One foreign volunteer fighting for Ukraine, speaking anonymously, told MEE that many Wagner mercenaries have been taken prisoner recently, and about 30 of them were Russians who used to be inmates.

    The source said in total around 400 Russians have been captured in recent weeks, and as their interrogations were conducted by Ukrainian officials, available information on the captives was limited.

    “The majority of the former Russian prisoners fighting in Ukraine have been convicted of military crimes, or [were] involved in military crimes, or [are] those who did not obey orders,” the source added.

    The source also said his unit, which is participating in the steamrolling Ukrainian counteroffensive around Kherson and Kharkiv, has in recent days come across Russian troops with no military experience.

    A second source familiar with the issue told MEE that Wagner has given its worst equipment to the prisoners it brought to fight in Ukraine.

    "They usually drive these people to the front as bait,” the second source said. “We know that 500 to 600 prisoners were collected and brought from Russia in this way in the last months."

    The source added that the Russian prisoners claiming to be freed inmates are mostly troops seized after being left behind by their forces, and appear to have no combat experience.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/wagner-group-russia-prisoners-captured-ukrainian-forces

    1. 6.1

      Doesn't seem like a super promising recruiting method. Corral a bunch of guys who don't like being told what to do and throw them into a war they don't want to fight, for a regime that threw them in prison.

      1. 6.1.1

        The strategy is to cause the Ukranians to capture, then be obliged to contain, Russian prisoners, thus soaking up resources and keeping a dangerous brood of thugs on their soil.

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