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Comment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:25 pm, September 19th, 2022
Well I for one are not going to waste any more time on this subject...if you are fine with a sex abuser participating in the abuse of sex slaves (of any age or sex) and facing no legal ramifications for those crimes because of his wealth and position that ...Comment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:04 pm, September 19th, 2022
"And we are referring to a female over 16 and under 18 by the way" No we are not...you and I have no idea how old the girls were who where abused by Prince Andrew (favorite son of and protected by Queen Elizabeth)...over what appears to be years of that ...Comment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:46 am, September 19th, 2022
I was referring to the British Imperialist project as being like a predator, not Andrew..but as it so happens, Andrew is himself a well known podophile...and was protected from facing justice by his mother...Queen Elizabeth. Queen ‘to spend millions ...Comment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:37 am, September 19th, 2022
"Am I missing…something regarding the status quo?" This bit is American centric…but you get the idea… It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dBZDSSky0Comment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:42 am, September 19th, 2022
"We need a fierce new republicanism, not the twee deference of liberal anti-monarchism"..+1 A week has now ended of enduring the most disgusting display of slavish boot licking I have witnessed by New Zealand media in my life time… But now, finally Queen ...Comment: Open mike 19/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:23 am, September 19th, 2022
Testing...my comment keeps disappearing?Comment: Open mike 10/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:07 am, September 10th, 2022
Yep, I swapped my Sid Vicious t-shirt (that I printed) when I was about 13 to a pommy punk for his Crass t-shirt...crass were my political awakening and I never looked back. Love them or hate them (which many did) they had an original and unique sound... ...Comment: Open mike 10/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:36 am, September 10th, 2022
That's suits me just fine.....I really like Crass... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZPu-lS7dI ...and am also in solidarity with the Republican Irish, and all other nations that have suffered under a long and brutal history of devastating British Royal ...Comment: Open mike 10/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:07 am, September 10th, 2022
Two takes on the death of a Royal..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kul5_XVEktI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PSdxFccfgNI I know which camp I am in....Comment: Open mike 09/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:27 pm, September 9th, 2022
Trump you all with this one...perfect... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PSdxFccfgNIComment: Open mike 09/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:50 am, September 9th, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrAPOZxgzUComment: Open mike 06/09/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:16 am, September 6th, 2022
Doesn’t really look like the US led sanctions on Russian are working out to well for the average citizen in Europe, in fact it is shaping up to be an unmitigated disaster for them…while, ironically, at the very same time, and as a direct result of those ...Comment: ‘Training’ for an early grave
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:41 pm, September 5th, 2022
Good piece there Mike Smith, thanks. Of course the usual 'Standard' war mongering liberal imperialist crew come straight on to batter you with their usual regurgitated BBC, NYT, WoPo etc half truths, misinformation and straight out propaganda (and of ...Comment: Open mike 26/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:30 am, August 26th, 2022
@PsyclingLeft.Always, " I'd like to know what do you do?"...I do plenty don't you worry...we (Siobhan and I) have had a bookshop in Hastings for about a decade, The Little Red Bookshop, that is a well known spot locally for political debate and ...Comment: Open mike 26/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:17 am, August 26th, 2022
"Of course I do not absolve some of Labour…..the rogernomes were in boots and all…" You know Labour is still a Third Way, Free Market political party today right? There ain't no free Universities coming from that type of "Labour" Party any time soon...the ...Comment: Labour poised to resolve housing supply crisis
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:10 pm, August 25th, 2022
Oh they can acknowledge those things just fine, but they (sadly for us) can't do anything about any of those things you rightly point out, because they are Third Way Free Market fundamentalists, so consequently cannot operate outside of the rigid ...Comment: Labour poised to resolve housing supply crisis
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:18 pm, August 25th, 2022
"It is possible that within the next year New Zealand’s housing supply crisis will be resolved"...well I guess locally, we will know, if there isn't the constant flow of people (including lots of whole families) living in their cars/vans on Napier's ...Comment: Open mike 25/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:22 pm, August 25th, 2022
"how the news media allowed themselves to be used as war propagandists in the run-up to the war in Iraq"....exactly right, and ever since the USA set the Middle East on fire in that illegal war...pretty much all MSM, but most especially the Liberal MSM, ...Comment: Open mike 25/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:53 am, August 25th, 2022
Remembering a real American patriot…. "War Poisons Everybody": Legendary Historian Howard Zinn on His 100th Birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmcdWTxyHkComment: Open mike 23/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:20 pm, August 24th, 2022
Not all the skinheads/bootboys were like that (except the CHCH ones, which mainly were)...just as not all boffhead rugby jocks are violent thugs when they are drunk...but lots were.Comment: Open mike 23/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:12 am, August 23rd, 2022
And yet it is Biden/Democratic Party strategy to actually fund and boost some of those same ultra Far Right Republicans over more moderate Republican candidates, some who are even pro choice…. Democrats have been boosting ultra-right candidates. It could ...Comment: Open mike 23/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:48 am, August 23rd, 2022
For those of you out there following the constant and seemingly unending stream of Liberal hypocrisy…here is a good one that needs to be remembered during the upcoming Brazilian elections... So as we all know, Glenn Greenwald is persona non grata in the ...Comment: Open mike 18/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:15 pm, August 18th, 2022
"It would be very foolish for the US to hand over substantial money to the Afghan Taleban without enforceable conditions. The Taleban want full untagged control of aid funding, and there ain't no donor going to agree to that"...and yet the Western world do ...Comment: Open mike 18/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:16 am, August 18th, 2022
I agree, however I see that up to now, the main thrust of the law and pubic anger has been directed at the ‘middle management’ (or lower) so to speak, ie; the people who were directly responsible for organizing the crews etc (the easy low hanging fruit of ...Comment: Open mike 18/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:45 am, August 18th, 2022
Here is an example of the self proclaimed defenders of world democracy in action….the very same one that the Liberals class both here in NZ (and on TS) and abroad and their media, offer their support for in terms of it's foreign interventions…. As Afghan ...Comment: Open mike 13/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:14 am, August 13th, 2022
Just to remind ourselves that there are two types of Labour parties that have little in common ideologically … The Socialist Democratic type as represented by Jeremy Corbyn, at one time Bernie Sanders and it could be said recently in NZ by David Shearer. ...Comment: Open mike 10/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:45 pm, August 10th, 2022
@Tiger Mountain...Roger that +1Comment: Open mike 10/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:40 am, August 10th, 2022
UK unions leading the way....when (New) Labour and The Guardians man Keir Starmer show their real colours.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpmWWazPbHsComment: Open mike 09/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:18 pm, August 9th, 2022
"Adrian, though you have accused me of it more than once, I am not a partisan supporter of one bloody imperialist bloc over another".... Well that's very strange, because that is exactly what nearly everything you write on the matter of geo-politics ...Comment: Open mike 09/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:16 pm, August 9th, 2022
Also no harm...actually one could say it is important, to keep reminding ourselves and other of Western MSM media imperialist driven narratives on wars....as this piece from Fair.org points out quite nicely.... Invasion News Fits on Front Page More When an ...
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