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Comment: Saudi/Iran peace deal brokered by China
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:08 am, March 16th, 2023
"Russia breaks into a further series of Balkanised 'stans'. At which point Europe will be more free to expand"....you put your finger on it right there ad, this a widely held Western hegemonic World view point, a view which has been pursued by many at the ...Comment: Open mike 13/03/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:05 am, March 13th, 2023
"I am making a very important statement'....say what you want about this man, but the trolling king, Wagner CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin turns out to have some pretty good comic timing...`even under heavy incoming fire. https://www.reddit.com/r/ ...Comment: Open mike 03/03/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:37 pm, March 3rd, 2023
In case you missed it ...here are the defenders of Western hegemony that I am pointing out...but you might know them already I think..they are the same ones who just gave us 20 years of war Afghanistan..even today arm and facilitate an endless civil war in ...Comment: Open mike 03/03/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:56 am, March 3rd, 2023
"The Ukrainians exploit the resulting Russian weakness with counter offensives that reclaim huge amounts of Ukrainian territory"...I very much doubt that is going to happen...but what do I know. I do know this though..the Leopard tanks, in the numbers that ...Comment: Open mike 03/03/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:28 am, March 3rd, 2023
Looks like Bahkmut is about to fall to Wagner PMC forces…5000+ Ukrainian troops (many just territorials) in danger of encirclement, will Volodymyr Zelenskyy give the order to withdraw in time?..time is running out fast. Here is an update from Defense ...Comment: Open mike 25/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:52 am, February 25th, 2023
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just released a report on it's view on 'US Hegemony and Its Perils' it makes for an interesting read, especially in light of it's origin, it's is some of the most pointed and direct jabs at the US I have seen ...Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:42 pm, February 11th, 2023
"using the language of the old Soviet regime…Western hegemony…imperialist, etc, does wave some 'Red Flags', so to speak"...I don't see a problem with that language...if the shoe fits etc.Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:34 pm, February 11th, 2023
"Well, you don't even-handedly rail against both corrupt camps"...that would be because I live in the camp where there nothing but endless wall to wall pro war propaganda spewed out from all media, so the first issue at hand in my view is to add in some ...Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:27 pm, February 11th, 2023
"Ah, yes! Your infamous projection is on full display again"....ah yes our very own armchair Freud...unfortunately for us, not a very perceptive or insightful one...still good for the occasional laugh though....so not a complete loss.Comment: Open mike 11/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:28 pm, February 11th, 2023
Being aware of and fully understanding the (recent) historical geo-political background and context to what has resulted in an avoidable and pointless bloodbath..often referred to as the Russia/Ukraine war, and pointing out those plain facts, is not in any ...Comment: Open mike 11/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:55 am, February 11th, 2023
Thanks weka.Comment: Open mike 11/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:02 am, February 11th, 2023
Good link..thanks. "It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called western democracies, that Sy Hersh, arguably the greatest living journalist, cannot get this monumental revelation on the front of the Washington Post or New ...Comment: Open mike 11/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:50 am, February 11th, 2023
Sorry I didn't mean to have all Karl Roves political play books actually all come up on TS then...I just wanted a link....if a mod wants to fix that, go ahead, thanks.Comment: Open mike 11/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:45 am, February 11th, 2023
You mean this Oliver Alexander??....I hope not, if it is, maybe try getting a bit more serious in future and vetting your sources a little more closely. "Oliver Alexander, a Danish businessman working in a beachfront apartment in southern Portugal, is ...Comment: Open mike 11/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:35 am, February 11th, 2023
So finally some parts of serious Western MSM are calling bullshit on what was the greatest political/media conspiracy of modern times..of course I am talking about Russiagate, the totally fabricated Democrat/Clinton/CIA fueled media led fantasy of ...Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:31 pm, February 10th, 2023
RL has said some stuff that has made my jaw drop..it seemed to me that he really believed that everyone in the world wants to live like western white man....ie; like him.Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:16 pm, February 10th, 2023
"the Russian Federation is still a workers' paradise"...I have never thought, let alone said nor typed such a thing...try again.Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:03 pm, February 10th, 2023
They might well have in the past (probably in pre Trump era, which seemed to have broken a lot of good peoples heads) ...but not lately, and when I say lately I mean for as long as I have read TS, which is a few years.Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:45 pm, February 10th, 2023
Useful idiots...the only two words you have said all day that I agree with Incognito....yes it is a sad but true fact that the Liberal left has without question, become the Useful idiots and willing servants of maintaining Western Hegemony...and at any ...Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:13 pm, February 10th, 2023
"You can call it the Putin Lovers’ Nest, if you like"....so infantile..yet of course. also so unsurprising coming from Incognito.Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:16 am, February 10th, 2023
"You really are a completely gullible idiot"...I have seen where you source your news from, so that coming from you means fuck all. "I am get tired of this, especially as you never engage about actual proof of actual actions" ...I have responded to your ...Comment: Open mike 10/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:49 am, February 10th, 2023
If you didn't know already, it turns out the US is a terrorist state with a terrorist leader Joseph Biden.....the most aggressive one in the world, these guys make ISIS look like kids in the playground....as exposed by one of America's and the Worlds most ...Comment: Open mike 09/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:00 am, February 9th, 2023
" pathologically ignorant"....I like that one...describes quite nicely one or two people here and there.Comment: The great reset
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:38 am, February 9th, 2023
"This isn't what I voted for."....."I expect more than this from any government and especially a Labour government" No this is exactly what you voted for...Adren said quite clearly that she (and by extension Labour NZ) are “pragmatic idealist(s)”....if ...Comment: Open mike 09/02/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:01 am, February 9th, 2023
email to RNZ... Good morning. It is unclear why RNZ does not even mention once the ‘suffocating’ US led sanctions that are still being illegally leveled against the Syrian Government and civilian population even while facing the massive aftermath of this ...Comment: Jacinda Ardern has announced she is standing down as PM …
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:04 pm, January 19th, 2023
What a fucking cop out.....you lead your party into the unwinnable election and then resign, that is the honorable tradition, but just like that other cynical careerist Key, puts her CV before her country and jumps ship before the hammer falls....I always ...Comment: Open mike 15/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:48 pm, January 15th, 2023
“The guy's an idiot….From backing Pol Pot, to backing Bashar Assad' to backing Vladimir Putin. Not exactly a stellar record.” FFS…Chompsky didn’t ever “back” the Pol Pol, or did he ever “back” Assad nor does he “back”Putin today…as per usual with the ...Comment: Open mike 15/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:36 am, January 15th, 2023
Well you can be sure that when the US and it’s Allies finish with this war, they will abandon the Ukraine and its disabled war vets faster than it even abandons its own….Ukraine, in what ever form it remains, will be completely broke..the IMF will rape it ...Comment: Open mike 15/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:26 am, January 15th, 2023
@KJT..."Instead of just having a choice of two Oligarch financed, ruling parties" +1Comment: Open mike 15/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:24 am, January 15th, 2023
Probably the greatest living American intellectual, Noam Chomsky on NATO…..“Gorbachev made a serious error’....You don’t make gentleman's agreements with savage, violent powers” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvAAwiyxJMw Interesting how the (the guardian/ ...
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