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Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:55 am, October 11th, 2022
Yeah, like people whom you think are half smart seriously informing you that the Russians are shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant...that they control!…sabotaged their own (just completed) Nord stream infrastructure...and now would have you believe that ...Comment: Open mike 09/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:05 pm, October 9th, 2022
Of course no news of the protests to free Assange on MSM liberal new….why am I not surprised… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkLYUQtTHZ8Comment: Open mike 09/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:03 pm, October 9th, 2022
turns out celebrating suicide bombers killing themselves and innocent civilians is quite ok for imperialist liberals now…why am I not surprised.Comment: Open mike 09/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:59 pm, October 9th, 2022
"There is reason to believe that the damage to the Kerch bridge may have been from the Russian side rather than the Ukrainian"...FFS....probably same crew of Russians who blew Nord stream too I guess...as usual logic has to go on the rack and get tortured ...Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:56 pm, October 7th, 2022
" I don't think the Waffen SS would have been impressed by many of them"...you obviouly don't know the history of the Waffen SS, it is an historical fact that by 1944 the Waffen SS would have welcomed them with open arms. There was a Ukrainian Waffen SS ...Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:18 pm, October 7th, 2022
"Well they are not in the Ukraine"...by this statement we can assume you are in at least tacit agreement that your self described "arsenals of democracy" and by extension their countries of origin have and are in the business of fucking up countries around ...Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:31 am, October 7th, 2022
Oh there is plenty that is true...just not much of it is coming from you today.Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:27 am, October 7th, 2022
Nice try....I think you well know that the symbol is 100% understood to be the Divisional insignia of the notorious 2nd Waffen SS Div....now also widely understood to represent the insignia used by the Ukrainian Azov unit....end of story.Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:21 am, October 7th, 2022
OK I will spell in out nice and slow for you....every time your great white "arsenals of democracy" (ie; western arms) are employed around the world, the local populations who also happen to usually be Coloured, suffer...is that clear enough for you.Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:09 am, October 7th, 2022
I am not justifying anything...just pointing out that if you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas, that is all.Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:05 am, October 7th, 2022
"I do worry about the way you seemingly promote the symbols used by the Azov Batallion"...I worry about the most sophisticated and deadly arms being sent to known extremist Far Right militias/units in the Ukraine without the slightest oversight... This is ...Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:48 am, October 7th, 2022
"The Azov battalion was purged of it's Nazi and extreme elements in the extensive reforms undertaken by the Ukrainian army post their defeat in the 2014 war with Russia" I see, you seem to well informed...how about some serious (ie; not western MSM) links ...Comment: Open mike 07/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:44 am, October 7th, 2022
The long term blowback resulting from the Wests and its compliant (to put nicely) media apparent short term memory lapse around the virulent European far Right and more specifically the various well known and documented self-proclaimed Ukrainian para ...Comment: Open mike 05/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:06 pm, October 5th, 2022
"So much bitching moaning and hyperbole!!"....I would like to see you go and say that to one of the families living in their cars on our Napier waterfront....yes National are bad, that goes without saying...but understand that Labour have tied themselves ...Comment: Open mike 05/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:57 pm, October 5th, 2022
"The Hastings-Napier Heretaunga Plains are doing great".....not sure if know this, but the Napier water front on the Awatoto end is the semi permanent base of the homeless who live in their cars and tents..often whole families...most of our motels are ...Comment: Open mike 05/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:03 am, October 5th, 2022
Yep, true that, we moved to Hastings about 20 odd years ago, and this town was in a very sorry state indeed...consequently commercial rents where low in the city back then as well, so starting a business was at least a viable option. Also now I think about ...Comment: Open mike 04/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:21 am, October 5th, 2022
" Negotiating with Putin is lunacy" ....that statement is what is lunacy.Comment: Open mike 04/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:36 am, October 4th, 2022
Thanks for that, though it is a shame that the author fails to point to the complete and conscious dismemberment (led by all UK media..non more so than 'Liberal press led by The Guardian) of any serious Left Wing opposition that could be a foil to the ...Comment: Open mike 04/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:55 am, October 4th, 2022
I assume you mean this Churchill...not sure if I like the sort of company you are keeping there pal... Churchill urged US to ‘wipe out’ Moscow with A-bomb "former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill privately became an advocate for an Anglo-American ...Comment: Open mike 04/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:57 am, October 4th, 2022
No free speech allowed in Labour UK..no surprise about that I guess... Labour conference delegate suspended after opposing arming Ukraine "A LABOUR conference delegate who spoke against uncritical support for the Ukrainian government on Tuesday has been ...Comment: Open mike 29/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:15 pm, September 29th, 2022
"because it is uninformed speculation"...that is what the MSM is in the bussiness of doing...and on this very subject..today, as we speak. Why would anyone destroy their own infrastructure that they have just finishing spending the last few years building ...Comment: Open mike 29/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:23 am, September 29th, 2022
...exactly right, wonder why that is?Comment: Open mike 29/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:08 am, September 29th, 2022
"Given the debacle now unfolding in the UK, our MSM is strangley uncurious as to the link between Chris Luxon and the "highly opaque" extreme neoliberal UK think tank the Policy Exchange:"….my thoughts exactly.. ..but then our MSM, and without the ...Comment: Open mike 27/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:01 am, September 27th, 2022
An unbelievably stupid reactionary economic policy…and in the face of a brutal winter that many millions of British citizens will probably never forget...it is hard to imagine any sane person enacting trickle down economics at this point, she has gone ...Comment: Open mike 27/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:46 am, September 27th, 2022
I guess RT were referring to this Cuban missile crisis… “The planners therefore faced a serious dilemma: they had in hand two somewhat different proposals from Khrushchev to end the threat of catastrophic war, and each would seem to any "rational man" to ...Comment: Open mike 27/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:17 am, September 27th, 2022
One of those rare UN speech that isn’t just hollow hyperbole and empty rhetoric….the Global South is once again showing the way forward for Leftists around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbiIoIAgxws Also check out the UN speech of Honduras’ new ...Comment: Open mike 26/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:32 am, September 26th, 2022
"Which way will the new gen go I guess is the question–Trumpism or a rejuvenated class politics and organisation?" That is exactly the question...one of the biggest problems we have on the Left in NZ and in the West generally is that we all live in more or ...Comment: Open mike 26/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:00 am, September 26th, 2022
If anyone is still under the illusion that Centrist Free Market Liberalism as expressed by Labour Parties in the UK, NZ, and in many other western countries under different names, is not an ideology in of itself....an ideology that in the face of impending ...Comment: Open mike 20/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:52 am, September 20th, 2022
Amid Tributes to Queen Elizabeth, Deadly Legacy of British Colonialism Cannot Be Ignored.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD8eMpmlkhIComment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:42 pm, September 19th, 2022
Nope, just not interested engaging in drawn out, pointless debates with defenders of known sex abusers.
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