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Comment: Open mike 16/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:26 am, April 16th, 2022
So in short Putin would conceivably deploy nuclear weapons specifically to avoid 'escalating hostilities"?.....that makes no logical sense what so ever....sounds more like straight out Fear Mongering. Further...that piece of 'military analysis ' from ...Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:11 pm, April 13th, 2022
OK, one final thing…It has been interesting to note that as your lust for war has increased your maturity level has decreased by almost equal amounts..of course this should be hardly surprising, when man allows his most base instincts control his emotions ...Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:03 pm, April 13th, 2022
As you make little to no sense anymore, and have become a unhinged warmonger, which I suspect was always bubbling just below the surface.....I am happy to oblige you in that request...have a nice war relaxing in your soft armchair in your warm safe house ...Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:22 pm, April 13th, 2022
"In war we ask men like Scud (almost always the men) to put their lives directly on the line." No not 'we', not people like me, it's people like you who tell men like Scud to go to war...and always have. [FFS! This was a solid discussion thread until you ...Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:06 am, April 13th, 2022
With negotiators like you, who needs enemies?....interesting how so many arm chair warriors seem so willing to fight an unwinnable war to the last Ukrainian...and bring us all to the edge of WW3 while they are at it...nutters one and all.Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:50 am, April 13th, 2022
"You are only looking at the symptoms, not the causes"..are you serious? nearly every thing I post about the war in the Ukraine is about the causes, about historical context...that is exactly what is lacking in all MSM coverage of this conflict...you would ...Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:35 am, April 13th, 2022
Thanks for your input...it was really insightful...It’s hard to understand why the Ukrainian negotiations teams haven’t scooped you up with such profound and multidimensional insights like that...go figure.Comment: Open mike 13/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:58 am, April 13th, 2022
Interesting new interview from Arron Mate' with acques Baud. Former intelligence officer with the Swiss Strategic Intelligence Service who has served in a number of senior security and advisory positions at NATO, the United Nations, and with the Swiss ...Comment: Open mike 12/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:25 am, April 12th, 2022
Here is a documentary by French journalist Anne Laure Bonnel on the horrors of the civil war that has been raging in the Donbass since 2014. Thousands of Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians were targeted and killed by Ukrainian Nationalist troops with ...Comment: Why trust in the media is declining
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:59 am, April 11th, 2022
“This is a deeply important subject. It deserves more than the likes of Mike Hosking throwing unbalanced barbs at the Government for failing trust in the media primarily linked to the polarisation caused by the likes of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch” It say ...Comment: Open mike 08/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:35 pm, April 9th, 2022
RL ...."deserves nothing but contempt. It is exactly equivalent as telling us Hitler was wonderful and failing to mention the Holocaust".... It is like this bit from that same article was written especially for you RedLogix..." A lot of people have ...Comment: Open mike 08/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:49 pm, April 9th, 2022
RedLogix...are you drinking something that is reverting you to your youth...you sound a teenager, and a fucking stupid one at that...grow up you idiot, or stop commenting to me please.Comment: Open mike 08/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:37 pm, April 9th, 2022
RedLogix...I don't mean to be mean of rude here, but seriously, the more you talk these days, the more you sound like you have nothing to say...from my end it's all a bit sad really. Even though I rarely agreed with you, I used to quite respect you, at ...Comment: Open mike 08/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:28 pm, April 9th, 2022
Thanks Ad, much of that piece is taken from Geoffrey Roberts book, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. Here is a link to an extremely interesting and enlightening interview with Roberts on his historical overview of Stalin as Political ...Comment: Open mike 08/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:23 pm, April 9th, 2022
@ RedLogix... "Exactly what did Russia have to fear by becoming part of Europe" You seem to forget that the USSR proposed joining NATO in 1954, and even went so far as to amend their original proposal to include/exclude points that were rejected by NATO in ...Comment: Open mike 09/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:40 am, April 9th, 2022
Not " whattaboutism" just a couple of actual facts...do you people remember what they are?....but then again they are of probably no interest or use to you now that you have so honorably and selflessly "picked a side" I guess? It's like you have seamlessly ...Comment: Open mike 09/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:18 am, April 9th, 2022
But on a more serious note..it's interesting to note that your so called defenders of Democracy in the Ukraine today, both the USA and the UK were both supporters of that Fascist, Franco..even when they were fully aware of all of his atrocities... ...but ...Comment: Open mike 09/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:23 am, April 9th, 2022
I Love it how the screaming Header for that piece is... Stream of journalists resign from Russia's state TV amid Ukraine invasion ..then two lines down it's more like...."a steady but quiet stream" Looks like your news outlets must be learning quickly from ...Comment: Open mike 09/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:13 am, April 9th, 2022
The New Triptych of Cheerleaders for World Wide Nuclear Holocaust.... Western MSM. US Neo-Con lead NATO Expansion Dummies on The Standard Yet More Dummies on The Standard Here is a perfect comedy clip that perfectly encapsulates the insane US media war ...Comment: Open mike 08/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:07 am, April 8th, 2022
"So is the Greens constitution about to be changed so that Chloe can roll Shaw?" That would be the best thing the Greens could do at this point....if the Greens are serious about being a serious Progressive political party, giving voters an actual ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:57 am, April 7th, 2022
" that many claim to the truth is with them and them alone. A definition of a cult"....that sounds a lot like western MSM....link me to one serious debate or discussion on western MSM from someone serious, pushing back against the 'Russiagate' conspiracy ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:43 am, April 7th, 2022
So we can assume by your none answers to my questions, that you find MSM content on Ukraine to be, on the whole, fair and balanced then? "those inclined to seek another perspective"...you see that is the problem...that 'perspective' you mention is the main ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:40 am, April 7th, 2022
So have they increased their oil imports from Russia by 43% or not...I guess that is the question, regardless of what overall percentage it is?Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:26 am, April 7th, 2022
"The idea that the western MSM, not any other MSM such as in China or Russia, cannot be relied on for truth is a definition of partisanship – not truth seeking"...When exactly did I say or imply that? I am happy use any western MSM and any other MSM ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:19 am, April 7th, 2022
“Whatever the source, address the content” ...I would agree in normal times, however as western MSM have willfully become a propaganda arm of the Ukrainian govt, exactly where does one even start to address the content, when that is the starting point? ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:07 am, April 7th, 2022
No RedLogix, unlike you I haven't picked a side....if I were in the Ukraine (but not a Russian speaking Ukrainian in the Donbass) I would be fighting the Russian today you can be sure of that....however I am not in the position, so I (and you) have the ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:46 am, April 7th, 2022
Great, more poverty porn from the Herald...yuk. "There should be a register of bad tenants and a bad landlords so people can avoid either renting to them or becoming their tenant" Have you, or do you know anyone who has trying getting into a rental lately ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:37 am, April 7th, 2022
I am not going to get into armchair speculation on this matter....you and others on this site would do well to remember this old adage "The first casualty of war is the truth"...as I keep trying to remind people, all western MSM have declared war on Russia ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:16 am, April 7th, 2022
Why am I not surprised..... Zhao Lijian: "..... in a contrasting move to its (the USA) pressuring of European countries to not buy Russian oil, the US increased crude oil supplies from Russia by 43 percent, or 100,000 barrels per day, over the past week ...Comment: Open mike 07/04/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:06 am, April 7th, 2022
While we we wait for actual proof of culpability to this horrific event from actual professionals in this field, (trial by a biased media is proof of nothing)...don't you find it somewhat incongruous that no MSM have covered this horrific event (please be ...
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