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Comment: Open mike 09/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:13 am, August 9th, 2022
As predicted, the US led war in Ukraine is not as cut and dried as some would have you believe, and with the avalanche of weapons pouring into the Ukraine seemingly being only marginally monitored, into what was only a short while ago openly known as the ...Comment: Open mike 09/08/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:04 am, August 9th, 2022
Yes..what about them...committing war crimes as we speak...that was the question, how about you just answer that instead of deflecting?Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:20 pm, July 30th, 2022
God you are one dimensional...a flat piece of paper would have more contours than the thinking you bring to this topic.Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:17 pm, July 30th, 2022
I have no idea what your comment means...."posturing off their suffering"..what do mean by that? I have said from the start that there needs to be a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible..."it's going to be horrific for Ukrainians either way but ...Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:20 pm, July 30th, 2022
No he said exactly what I have said all along...The Russians (Putin or any other future Russian leader) will never leave the Ukraine unless either defeated militarily, which is not going to happen (except in the fantasies of some uniformed virtual ...Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:08 pm, July 30th, 2022
So just to be clear, I assume you are saying that any political voice going on Tucker Carlson instantly negates them from any political discourse, because of some of Carlson's political views that you (and I) disagree with... ...however I am sure that you ...Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:12 pm, July 30th, 2022
Yes the Israeli's literally get away with murder....as we can all quite plainly see, you can when you are protected by the biggest gang boss on the planet.Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:54 pm, July 30th, 2022
"You cannot negotiate peace with someone who does not want it"...Red Logix projecting as usual. Red really is the text book example of the modern Liberals seamless shift into becoming the most aggressive War Hawks on the planet...nicely put into it's ...Comment: Open mike 30/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:06 am, July 30th, 2022
Here is probably one of the most insightful, balanced and nuanced overviews on the War in the Ukraine that I have come across…if you have any real interest in this conflict and you are getting sick of all the straight up propaganda being shoved down your ...Comment: Open mike 29/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:32 pm, July 29th, 2022
The thing that really grind my gears about The Guardian is that, even after being exposed time and again as being nothing more than Free Market Imperialist Trojan horse that more than any other news source really undermines any serious progressive movement ...Comment: Open mike 29/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:32 pm, July 29th, 2022
Corbyn should have purged all the Centrist out...but he was and is too much of a inclusionist to ever do that, I guess he didn't realize that Centrists are as fundamentalist about their ideology as any communist ever was about theirs....still it was ...Comment: Open mike 29/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:23 pm, July 29th, 2022
"Labour need Dempsey as leader not Smarmy Starmer"...Yes they do, either him or Mick Lynch...then we would instantly get to see The Guardian and all other so called 'Liberal' press show their real colours, and do the job they are their for..undermining ...Comment: Open mike 29/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:06 pm, July 29th, 2022
Of course The Guardian are in no position to take the moral high ground on this (or anything I can think of), no can or should forget that it was The Guardian who actively led the charge to undermine and destroy Jeremy Corbyn, that has now given the UK ...Comment: Open mike 29/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:32 am, July 29th, 2022
So it turns out organic AI is already working quite smoothly and efficiently in service of the state as we speak…just watch the host of this show mechanically outline what she has been told to say and think about Unions and Workers….then for the next ...Comment: Open mike 25/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:24 am, July 25th, 2022
Nicaragua's President Ortega: US/EU waging war to stop multipolar world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4nHsVRC1Fs I guess the countries surrounding the US know this to be true better than most....Comment: Open mike 22/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:06 pm, July 22nd, 2022
Like I said..let your fingers do the walking...I can't be bothered trolling through endless pages of pro war propaganda to find something that is so plainly obvious to anyone serious to see and understand....or maybe more importantly not massively biased ...Comment: Open mike 22/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:16 am, July 22nd, 2022
Look at the maps...Comment: Open mike 22/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:15 am, July 22nd, 2022
"I'll think you'll find that once his army is in tatters and routed from the battlefield".....it never fails to amaze me how well propaganda works. Ukraine are and losing right now as you read this...their poor boys are being slaughtered by overwhelming ...Comment: Open mike 22/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:00 am, July 22nd, 2022
I hardly see pointing out Western MSM's outrageous pro war/no negotiating stance is gaslighting..but then you seem more than happy for the Ukrainians and Russians to die like dogs in and unwinnable war, so your response is of little interest.Comment: Open mike 22/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:36 am, July 22nd, 2022
Here is a piece that should be required reading for pretty much every Western journalist writing on the Ukrainian conflict…but then it seems to be quite clear that responsible, contextualized reporting is not what they are there to deliver…. Calling Putin ...Comment: Chinese Capital in the Pacific
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:38 pm, July 20th, 2022
@Tiger Mountain +1 "That is why I am an internationalist–“Neither Washington, Moscow or Beijing”Comment: Chinese Capital in the Pacific
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:35 pm, July 20th, 2022
I might well be a fuckwit RL, but at least I am not a racist fuckwit.Comment: Open mike 20/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:33 pm, July 20th, 2022
"Can this be true "....It seems pretty certain to me that Labour is going to get completely smashed in the next election. Everywhere I go and everyone I speak to seem to express a deep dissatisfaction with Ardern and Labour, and often coming from quite ...Comment: Chinese Capital in the Pacific
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:51 am, July 20th, 2022
Interesting to note that the industrial and manufacturing component of the post war Western Capitalist ‘democratic’ ideology you defend so vigorously on this forum has been enabled to grow over the past few decades almost exclusively through the ...Comment: Open mike 20/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:25 am, July 20th, 2022
Well whatever meagre creditability The Guardian might have had left in any serious critical thinkers minds, can now be well and truly disregarded (although why anyone would take it seriously at this point I don’t know)… The Guardian is The Guard Dog of ...Comment: Militarising the Pacific
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:36 am, July 19th, 2022
Good piece Mike, thanks, it is always nice to see and read some counterbalance to the tsunami of hysterical anti-China rhetoric and propaganda which is passed off as serious news....it's hard to pick what is worse, the dismal warmongering MSM coverage of ...Comment: Open mike 05/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:01 pm, July 5th, 2022
Those "slavers" are actually the low hanging fruit IMO, but I guess they are brown with little to no power in NZ so easy to pick off with no danger of any local industry blowback...however the bigger picture is exactly that industry that had been openly ...Comment: Open mike 05/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:13 pm, July 5th, 2022
You do understand that Liberals like you who still cling to the fantasy of Russia helping Trump become POTUS, thereby effectively calling the 2016 election a stolen election put you squarely and absolutely in the same camp as the Right Wing nut jobs who ...Comment: Open mike 05/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:00 pm, July 5th, 2022
I will read those, thanks. I used to have all the stats and information regarding local bin picking pay rates, rain days (over picking season) average bin pick per day etc going pretty far back, from which I was able to extrapolate the average wage per ...Comment: Open mike 05/07/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:57 am, July 5th, 2022
Yeah, it has been interesting and quite amusing to watch the local HB growers (nearly all corporates now...sadly), scramble for workers post covid and somehow all of a sudden find that, actually they can afford to pay probably the most physically hard ...
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