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Comment: Open mike 16/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:14 am, March 16th, 2021
So it is looking more and more like the worlds press were co-opted (rather like the invasion of Iraq) into supporting a illegal military strike by the USA,the UK and France in Syria off the back of a OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:04 pm, March 14th, 2021
I assume Morrissey was alluding to this kind of waste.... Report: US wasted billions on cars, buildings in Afghanistan "A report released by the U.S. government’s Afghanistan watchdog has found that America has wasted billions of dollars in the war-torn ...Comment: Open mike 14/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:07 pm, March 14th, 2021
Interesting interview with an old school diplomate re; China/USA (ie the rest of the western world).. Biden’s China Policy: A More Polite Trump – Amb. Chas Freeman "Retired Ambassador Chas Freeman, Nixon's translator during his 1972 trip to China, says U.S ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:26 pm, March 14th, 2021
Of course you see the logic in not actually fighting for anything important, let alone fighting for the very thing your own Biden/Dems promised again and again and Again only a few months ago...you have been trained well....so very well, I wish my dogs ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:43 am, March 14th, 2021
Fuck you you really are a chump...seriously, come on man, if Biden was actually serious about cutting poverty in a meaningful way he would have pushed through the minium wage like he promised... Malcolm X Speech: "You're A Political Chump!" https://www. ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:48 pm, March 13th, 2021
well that was a comment that went nowhere much and said even less...as usual. We all know you have no empathy for any human suffering that is sanctioned by the West and approved by a compliant western media…nothing new to see here. Where exactly did you ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:05 pm, March 13th, 2021
…or this Biden continuation of the USA’s wars and interventions across the globe… “Imposed by the United States, European Union as well as other countries, the sanctions have sparked economic, humanitarian and development crises, devastating the entire ...Comment: The Unbearable Lightness of the Bright-Line Test
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:16 pm, March 13th, 2021
Good piece there Incognito, thanks. I agree completely with your assertion here " If this Government thinks that extending the bright-line test is going to make any difference, they will need to get their heads checked. In fact, I believe they know and all ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:33 pm, March 13th, 2021
Well obviously it goes without saying that you are quite OK with the most powerful nation on the planet being led by an old guy clearly displaying some sort of early onset degenerative age related condition….as we all well know when it comes to being a ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:21 pm, March 13th, 2021
Quite a good piece on the Great White American Cup here... America's Cup is about wealth and privilege, not diversity "At the moment the America’s Cup looks like a regatta for white blokes of immense wealth and privilege. I looked at the crew list for ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:13 pm, March 13th, 2021
President of the USA and apparently the free world looks like he really should probably be in a rest home or at the very least not the leader of the most powerful country in the entire world… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdNm-rvodZUComment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:41 pm, March 13th, 2021
"It's all very reminiscent of the way 9/11 troofers operate" well you would know all about that pal, as that is where your Russuagate conspiracy has taken you...down the rabbit hole where not lights shine.Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:53 am, March 13th, 2021
Yeah I guess all the media coverage of this in the US is because he was so transparent that he was being paid US 60,000 ($83,500 NZD) by the Dems to Troll...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:24 am, March 13th, 2021
Thanks, wonder when this story will get some coverage on MSM (as the original attack and US response did), wouldn't it be nice to see Kim Hill interview someone about this for instance?Comment: Open mike 13/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:24 am, March 13th, 2021
Turns out the Democratic party had paid trolls trying to influence the US elections, now isn't that ironic...though I am sure this beautiful irony will sail blissfully above some heads.. "Majid Padellan, who runs the nearly 900,000-follower-strong Twitter ...Comment: Open mike 09/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:48 am, March 9th, 2021
" Let alone that the primary function of media is to report facts, with criticism being very much a secondary function of communicating opinions." ...are you serious or taking the piss? or are you really actually saying that you actually believe media has ...Comment: Open mike 09/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:15 am, March 9th, 2021
Here is an interesting clip with Aaron Mate' unpacking the common knowledge and complicity within the US government that they were directly supporting ISIS and Al-Qaeda in their proxy war in Syria, and even though these statements by various US officials ...Comment: UBI experiment success
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:35 am, March 7th, 2021
" It's that most liberals actually want Labour instead. I'm in the process of writing about this, I reckon the political work for the next few years is to shift the culture around that." Why would you bother trying to shift liberals and not put serious ...Comment: National is focused on the issues that matter to Kiwis
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:23 am, March 7th, 2021
"acceptable perhaps back in the 1940s and 1950s but no longer acceptable now. So a decision to no longer print the books is not something that should attract controversy." So if we use your logic, I guess Shakespeare is next on the list then.... when, ...Comment: UBI experiment success
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:41 pm, March 6th, 2021
AAhh Robert Reich, nice guy with some great insights for sure, but always a company man to the bitter end... Robert Reich vs. Chris Hedges on Tackling the Neoliberal Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4cXH3Fil8Comment: UBI experiment success
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:38 pm, March 6th, 2021
@weka, I do vote Greens (without much enthusiasm, sorry) for reasons probably not worth going into now, the Greens have almost no buy in with the working classes or disenfranchised, have been pretty shit at getting youth/students to come out and vote in ...Comment: Biden can reset with China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:04 pm, March 6th, 2021
"every time Germany becomes powerful enough to dominate the rest of Europe, all of the other states set aside their bickering and differences to confront Germany and take it down" I haven't seen that happening, where have you observed this 'taking down of ...Comment: UBI experiment success
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:37 pm, March 6th, 2021
There are two points here that correctly point to the reason why the UBI is a very dangerous concept in today's environment... "Those are neoliberal models, and we need to be extremely wary of them. They’re designed by economists intent on keeping the ...Comment: Open mike 06/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:39 am, March 6th, 2021
After listening to Kim Hills interview with Matthew Remski on 'Conspirituality' I sent this email... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018786402/matthew-remski-conspirituality Good morning Kim. I see that when you asked your guest ...Comment: Open mike 04/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:19 am, March 5th, 2021
@ McFlock No reason to occupy East Germany? Well I guess just after having over 26 million of it's citizens butchered, it's towns burned to the ground, it's major cities flattened and it's economy destroyed by the most brutal regime in the history of this ...Comment: Open mike 04/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:33 pm, March 4th, 2021
"This is the underlying, irreducible geography that is essential to understanding Russia, a combination of a realistic fear of invasion, combined with a map that demands they expand in order to counter that fear." I agree with your conclusion, except that ...Comment: Open mike 04/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:43 pm, March 4th, 2021
Interesting piece from Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, worth a few minute to read, especially for a few of the 'lefties' around these parts... Humanitarian Imperialism How corporate media sell regime change, Intervention and war to progressive audiences ...Comment: Open mike 04/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:48 pm, March 4th, 2021
Maybe if you settled down a notch and read the article you would get the context...dummy.Comment: Open mike 04/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:58 am, March 4th, 2021
Some truths about post war Russia that for some reason seem to get overlooked, but are vital to contextualize any conversation about Russia today, and why we are spending so much time debating Russia at this moment I am not sure?...anyway a bit of ...Comment: Open mike 03/03/2021
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:23 pm, March 3rd, 2021
That was a good overall look at the situation Sabine, I guess the takeaway is, that if The National under the leadership of Collins tracks left of our left party (not left, actually centrist liberal) then we know we have got some real problems...whatever ...
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