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Comment: Open mike 13/01/2025
Written By: westonIve been cheerleading - Date published: 10:35 am, January 13th, 2025
Ive been cheerleading the magnificent Houthi for a while now they are so obviously the bravest tribe on earth to my mind in the battle against the Saudi's with their brittish and American backers to now against Israel with their American backers .To stand ...Comment: Open mike 13/01/2025
Written By: weston - Date published: 10:16 am, January 13th, 2025
Not wrong there hunter 70 % of Hamas's recruits are orphans apparently . Always fascinating how the "extremist " label is so easily tacked onto the word Arab but not onto the other religious extremists in this case Israel .Did you know that for ex Hamas do ...Comment: Open mike 13/01/2025
Written By: weston - Date published: 7:05 am, January 13th, 2025
Gaza war day 463 no end in sight .Justin Podur reports Israel and American planes bombing an open air demonstration in Sana'a so with all the contraventions of late regarding international law mostly if not almost entirely by those so called democracies we ...Comment: President Biden’s Accomplishments
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:49 am, January 12th, 2025
Really and all the dead mothers an children the non combatents the israeli torture camps the mad ethno supremist racist apartheid ruthless suppression of palistinian rights the with holding of aid the killing of health workers bombinng of every hosp the ...Comment: President Biden’s Accomplishments
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:14 pm, January 11th, 2025
His legacy will be as a genocide enabling cunt of the first order mostly against palestinians but not exclusively His state department vomit inducing especially the lying scumbag weasel worded Blinken .The damage inflicted on Ukraine by this pack of ...Comment: Open mike 11/01/2025
Written By: weston - Date published: 10:53 pm, January 11th, 2025
And one of the first things assange said when released was that wikipedia wasa bullitin board for the CIA . He would know doncha think joe ?Comment: Open mike 11/01/2025
Written By: weston - Date published: 10:46 pm, January 11th, 2025
Second that second round of chemo me one spray last yr six months chemo for non hodg remission second spray silly me afta getting sick garden gets out of control so spray again an wouldnt ya know here we go again !!! Was my condition made pos by the jab ...Comment: Open mike 30/12/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:36 am, December 30th, 2024
So looks like another gas crisis looming for Europe more challenges ahead for Europe's woefully unclever leaders smart enough to get themselves elected but in the end couldnt organize themselves a hot bath !!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghqg8dtl9gComment: The Pogues wrote the best Christmas song ever
Written By: weston - Date published: 10:28 am, December 26th, 2024
Ruther have And the the band sang walzing matilda ...meComment: Open mike 06/12/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:05 am, December 6th, 2024
Sum them up in one word SCUMComment: Open mike 30/11/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 4:24 pm, November 30th, 2024
What a pantomime the press conference was !! Its a wonder the the admiral wasnt wearing his sword as well as the silly costume You would think with all the flags filligree and frippery it was a wartime announcement !! A bit more info is provided in the vid ...Comment: Caption contest
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:31 pm, November 29th, 2024
The seagull in a suitComment: Open mike 18/11/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 12:00 pm, November 18th, 2024
Just for you then TM here is an account of the death of the palestinian surgeon dr Adnan Bursh in an Israeli prison .Theres no " good bit " but the vid is very short so shouldnt strain anyones attention span overly . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ...Comment: What happened?
Written By: weston - Date published: 1:37 pm, November 10th, 2024
Boo hoo hoo Trump won an Kamela lost oh boo hoo hoo sob what will we do now . Well at least Trump is likely to continue to support the genocide in gaza and Lebanon so thats good right ??? Supporting and enabling ethnic cleansing by dropping 2000 pound ...Comment: Open mike 03/11/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 2:54 pm, November 3rd, 2024
maybe you should give it another listen BG You can even read the transcript !!The vid i posted covers it comprehensively an then some .oh and just a small point its not usual to give a person facing a firing squad a rifle ? ! ....Comment: Open mike 03/11/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 10:45 am, November 3rd, 2024
And then theres the spectacle of virtually the entire MSM across America whipping up the bullshit story of Trump supposedly fantasizing the death of Liz Chaney by firing squad except clearly he didnt !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITiZHTs78CkComment: Open mike 03/11/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 10:36 am, November 3rd, 2024
As it comes down to the wire the desperation of the DNC becomes ever more obvious ; they must be pulling their hair out when pictures emerge of Biden appearing to be biting the leg of an infant although tbf lol he could have just been trying to get a wiff ...Comment: Seven days and counting
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:21 am, October 29th, 2024
No i dont both parties are morally degenerate when it comes to supporting Israel why anyone would recommend voting for either of the bimbos at the head of them is beyond me .Comment: Seven days and counting
Written By: weston - Date published: 9:39 am, October 29th, 2024
Yep vote Kamala totally agree team !! Theres still far too many hospitals operating in Gaza in fact arresting their staff stripping them to their underwear and confining them in a pit is too good for them !!may as well toss in a few grenades and be done ...Comment: Daily review 24/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 6:27 pm, October 24th, 2024
Israel continues to kill and kill some more in Gaza , Afaik only the Electronic Intifada covers its killing spree so comprehensively .Jon Elmer's " resistance report " starts about 141 and in this episode gives lots of detail of the killing of Yaya Sinwar ...Comment: Daily review 22/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 9:16 pm, October 22nd, 2024
I guess this guy got his robotic delivery and pityless demeanour from slitting endless chicken necks at processing factory every day for his whole life .cant imagine what else could have destroyed the human in him .Comment: Daily review 22/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 6:56 pm, October 22nd, 2024
As groups of extremely racist killer jews also known as Zionists rampage around the middle east sometimes in IDF uniforms and sometimes not , different kinds of battles are being fought on home fronts on campuses within universities on the streets in the ...Comment: Open mike 20/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 12:34 pm, October 20th, 2024
Surely noone would be unclear about Trumps leanings by now would they? The perennial question for me is always how can such persons as Kamala and Trump remain so seemingly indifferent /ignorant so bereft of factual knowledge as neither can see the utter ...Comment: Daily review 18/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:50 pm, October 18th, 2024
Vid to go alongside the above comment .this is the condensed version of a much fuller documentary from the same filmmakers . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo813rYm8gComment: Daily review 18/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:35 pm, October 18th, 2024
Personably i couldnt give a FUCK about a person any person telling another to FUCK OFF and i think its weak and pathetic to hide simple swear words in fact slang behind lots of xxxx etc The word FUCK is in the dictionary ffs !!People all around the globe ...Comment: Open mike 03/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 12:59 pm, October 11th, 2024
Maybe if i was interested in editing my own fantasy id be more impressed with Wikipedia meantime i agree with Julian Assange when he remarked recently that it exists "as a bulletin board for the CIA " and no doubt other entities carrying out the empires ...Comment: Open mike 03/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 1:33 pm, October 4th, 2024
I fail to see why you would think the events around the Holodomor of 90 years ago have anything to do with the present day US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine .Stalin is long dead as is the soviet union . if you dont think that hundreds of thousand of Ukrainian ...Comment: Open mike 03/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 2:05 pm, October 3rd, 2024
Where would Ukraine be if it hadnt been provided arms ; I thought about it for a nano second Adrian an i would say that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men would still be alive and trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure would still be intact .You ...Comment: Open mike 03/10/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 1:31 pm, October 3rd, 2024
Russia needing to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine ; They dont need to theyre prevailing as it is with conventional weapons . Saying putin is desperate just reflects your own desperation imo theres zero evidence of that and why would there be ?His country ...Comment: Daily review 26/09/2024
Written By: weston - Date published: 11:47 pm, September 26th, 2024
As the mask slips steadily from the face of the psychopath day by day and as the river of blood grows deeper and wider so does the vail slip steadily day by day from the eyes of the world looking on in horror .This army that likes to call its self " the ...
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From 1 January 2025, first-time tertiary learners will have access to a new Fees Free entitlement of up to $12,000 for their final year of provider-based study or final two years of work-based learning, Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds says. “Targeting funding to the final year of study ...2 weeks ago
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The post Daily crossword, Tuesday 14 January appeared first on Newsroom. ...3 hours ago
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Close to 2000 New Zealanders died carrying student loans in 2024, with the Inland Revenue Department having to wipe $28.8 million in unpaid debt.Both the number and value of loans being written off due to the holder dying has tripled over the past decade, government figures show. In 2014, $9 ...1 day ago
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 13 January
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- Daily crossword, Monday 13 January
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- View from The Hill: Dutton’s 2025 launch still leaves voters needing answers on key policies
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s Sunday “soft launch” of his campaign for election year was carefully calibrated to pitch to the party faithful while seeking to project enough nuance to avoid alienating centrist voters. It ...2 days ago
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The bipartisan support in parliament for the Foreign Interference Bill is a warning that there is no constituency in the New Zealand ruling class for the maintenance of basic democratic rights. There has been no critical reporting on the bill in the ...2 days ago
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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk France’s naval flagship, the 261m aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, is to be deployed to the Pacific later this year, as part of an exercise codenamed “Clémenceau 25”. French Naval Command Etat-Major’s Commodore Jacques Mallard told a French media briefing that ...2 days ago
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