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Comment: Open mike 30/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:27 am, August 30th, 2021
@vto, +1, the unethical commodification of domestic housing in what has proved to be nothing more than a capitalist pyramid scheme is a wake up call..or so you would think, burning the planet down around us in the last hundred years in the name of ...Comment: Open mike 30/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:08 am, August 30th, 2021
The USA are the modern masters at creating terrorism and terrorists.... "Nine members of one family were killed in the US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighbourhood of Kabul, according to a relative of those killed reported by CNN. The ...Comment: Open mike 30/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:52 am, August 30th, 2021
That was the eulogy RNZ should have run,....thanks TM.Comment: Open mike 29/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:08 pm, August 29th, 2021
Good article, though it looks a lot like that even if Uber is dead or dying it's unholy remains would stalk the planet, zombie like for a long time after...Comment: Open mike 29/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:56 pm, August 29th, 2021
As if the tragedy couldn't get any worse, new reports by the BBC state that eyewitnesses saw US forces gun down civilians in chaos after Kabul bombing.... https://www.rt.com/news/533326-us-soldiers-shot-kabul-airport-attack/ https://www.rt.com/news/533241- ...Comment: Fuck-knuckles, cock and piss, balls does not breach BSA guidelines
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:57 am, August 26th, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UaSseFa2Q4Comment: The mysterious socialist hermit kingdom
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:07 am, August 26th, 2021
"the problem is that this is a walk in the park compared to what will be needed to battle climate change"... exactly right, and ironically enough an actual real life Socialist governing structure would probably be the most humane and inclusive way to ...Comment: Open mike 24/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:06 pm, August 24th, 2021
The worst election result for New Zealand in it's post war history IMO..the end of the NZ Labour Party as a serious political machine for workers and the dispossessed, marked the introduction and ascension of centrist third way neo-liberalism into New ...Comment: Open mike 24/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:22 pm, August 24th, 2021
Good job by govt there, the way we treat all sea animals is usually pretty horrific...now they need to get on to banning big game fishing which is without doubt the most disgusting and violent 'sport' legal in this country...once the cruelty of it is ...Comment: Peak Globalisation
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:39 am, August 24th, 2021
I haven known and interviewed people who actually lived through the period of having the first electric light bulbs installed (in the UK and Ireland), as far as I recall they were amazed at the new technology of course, but never mentioned it being ...Comment: Open mike 22/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:27 am, August 22nd, 2021
"The Korean war should have been our the last US war of choice that we supported. But no.You would think, that our experience in Vietnam would have taught us a lesson? But again no. We just had to send troops to the US bloodfest in Afghanistan. And we are ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:25 pm, August 18th, 2021
@Iprent, Well first off, at least we can agree about something..we both don’t respect each other enough politically to really care what the other thinks about them in those terms…though, credit where credit is due, I do resect the time and energy you have ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:41 pm, August 17th, 2021
I am not sure if RL would be insulted by being labeled liberal imperialist Hawk? why don't we ask him to respond?..his foreign policy politics follow all those terms quite closely?...how would you describe his foreign policy politics in your words, maybe I ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:03 am, August 17th, 2021
"The Cold War is long over" Really, you must have not been following world politics for a while… Russian minister: US-Russia ties worse than during Cold War https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-fm-us-russia-ties-worse-cold-war-77362821 A ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:32 am, August 17th, 2021
Hi Scud, sorry but yes it was as clear as mud (well to me anyway)....First I am not disputing the well known and reported demise of the AAF however…. I take it you are saying that this army, that has been supported, trained and supplied by the most ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:30 am, August 17th, 2021
Well I would, however it seems that those numbers don't seem to obtainable (that I could find) outside of that one super compromised source.Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:23 pm, August 16th, 2021
@Al1en, I think I would like to see a more impartial player divvy out those numbers myself.....Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:47 pm, August 16th, 2021
Your comment does not explain how the Taliban re took the entire 'occupied' country of Afghanistan in two weeks, pretty much unopposed?...It would be easy to imagine that if it had been local troops bringing western Democracy to that country in the same ...Comment: Women, the Taliban and sex based rights
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:32 pm, August 16th, 2021
"What has shocked everyone is that most people expected that after 20 yrs of occupation, trillions of dollars of expenditure and buckets of blood, that the Afghan government might have stood for six months or maybe a year – not two weeks." " The only ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:07 am, August 16th, 2021
Some breaking news... Hamid Karzai forms transition council with Abdullah and Hekmatyar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYAvKn3yxtYComment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:02 am, August 16th, 2021
Good comment, thanks +1Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:59 am, August 16th, 2021
Yep, the US Calvary sure have a long and proud history to fall back on... [image resized]Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:49 am, August 16th, 2021
You seem to have forgotten to include Obama in your list of US terrorist leaders who have been torturing the people of Middle East....and pretty much everywhere else they set foot. There were ten times more air strikes in the covert war on terror during ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:33 am, August 16th, 2021
Exactly right +1, the USA has once again shown the world that it is the most extremist, violent and aggressive nation on the face of this planet today. This interview says it all at about 2;30into this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eq7BLmZDJs He ...Comment: The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:52 am, August 16th, 2021
The Taliban walk back into power right across Afghanistan unopposed, a point of vital significance left out here...and btw the USA created that terrorist threat that you say they "defeated" another point of importance left out of your narrative...and of ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:01 pm, August 15th, 2021
ahh the good old days when you could call someone a cunt on TS, btw I would have sided with Chooky in that debate, but I have to go to work now so won't take that any further. The moderation in that link was really good too, not overbearing constant and ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:05 am, August 15th, 2021
OK then Mr empathetic..how about you direct us all to your comments where you display your deep rooted “sympathy” for thousands of women and girls killed in US drone strikes..or this illegal US/UK invasion generally?...or is it as I suspect, as per usual, ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:29 am, August 15th, 2021
….oh thats right, according to your world view, US bombs kill and rip apart Afghan woman and girls bodies in a far more humane way…just like they have been doing for the past twenty years.Comment: Open mike 14/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:14 am, August 15th, 2021
What the fuck is up with you commenting on the contents of my comment before the ten minutes 'editing' time is up? "I do see an analogy, at least one, between moving a portrait of Churchill and the reporting by RNZ and Kim Hill on Assange"...I don't. ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:05 am, August 15th, 2021
As usual western MSM report just part of the news......(including our own "progressive" RNZ National) Turns out the US withdrawal from Afghanistan involves bombing the country with Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, while also spreading terror and death with ...
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