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Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:13 pm, January 8th, 2023
You do know that having a CNN link to a story on the Iranian riots is about as useful as having an PressTV link on Jan 6th riots....why don't you try finding some serious news sources to link us too on these important stories, instead of this endless ...Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:44 pm, January 8th, 2023
Temp ORary..Argue my points if you can...but I suspect you're far too lazy...if that is the case then maybe don't bother commenting at all until you have something interesting or constructive or funny to add...it might be interesting to see if any of those ...Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:38 pm, January 8th, 2023
Are you actually being serious?...NATO’s primary objective has always been one of antagonism toward Russia…and remember here that Russia had seriously tried to get NATO membership in 1954 a year after Stains death and before the formation of the Warsaw ...Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:34 pm, January 8th, 2023
Yep he sure does.Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:35 pm, January 8th, 2023
See joe...here is an actually coup, going on today, right now, one that will actually badly effect the poor and working class....guess it just wasn't part of your twitter feed...... "The US ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, as ...Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:19 pm, January 8th, 2023
No one who knows me has ever accused me of being, or even supporting pacificism as an ideology (though I do in principle, and in a perfect world of course) …no, I am all for armed revolutions and national defence in the right circumstances. The problem ...Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:13 pm, January 8th, 2023
"the only socialist in the village"...well I wouldn't say that, but I will say you sure as shit ain't one.Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:17 pm, January 8th, 2023
So the sad result of the GOP speaker action this week is that it has now become clear that certain elements within the GOP are more anti-war than anybody within the Democratic party...this is how far to the Right the Liberal (left) has become. McCarthy’s ...Comment: Open mike 08/01/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:01 pm, January 8th, 2023
I think you are confusing riot with "coup"…maybe go ask all your new pals in the US security state what a coup actually looks like….I would list US backed coup’s but the list would be too long more like …”chickens coming home to roost” as once said…. "coup ...Comment: Will the 1923 record be beaten?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:07 pm, January 6th, 2023
@Macro...so what?...what exactly has that got to do with my comment?Comment: Will the 1923 record be beaten?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:05 pm, January 6th, 2023
@DB Brown (an insipid beer I seem to remember, so a well chosen handle)... Are you fucking serious? I wasn't "referencing' or "getting into bed" with Matt Gaetz you idiot...if you actually read my post I was using the way he is extracting concessions from ...Comment: Will the 1923 record be beaten?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:41 am, January 6th, 2023
I see...and what Left Wing extracted concessions have they achieved??...I seem to remember that AOC and The Squad in general got elected initially exactly because they promised to "Make POWER Uncomfortable"...they bend at the knee to power at the slightest ...Comment: Will the 1923 record be beaten?
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:04 am, January 6th, 2023
All this makes clear is that there is a highly motivated and operational, independent Right Wing faction within the Republican party that is willing to use it's leaverage to get what it was sent there to do by it's voters, and if that means saying fuck you ...Comment: Celebrating 50th Anniversary of PRC recognition
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:34 am, December 23rd, 2022
Great piece Mike, thanks for offering Standard readers an actual progressive Left Wing geo-political world view, and for reminding us what a strong and independent NZ Labour used to look like. Keep up the good work..independent, sane voices like yours are ...Comment: Open mike 19/12/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:52 pm, December 19th, 2022
God you can't be really as naive as you are making out...are you? What I think isn't important. what happens in the real world is...and in the real world, indisputably, every single political party (and those acting for them) in the world, including the ...Comment: Open mike 19/12/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:34 pm, December 19th, 2022
"timing news to influence election results is a corruption of the democratic process."...you do understand that every single political party in the entire world does that exact thing when given the opportunity right?Comment: Open mike 19/12/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:50 pm, December 19th, 2022
"Maybe some in the media were just unwilling to be played"....the media is there only to report on the news and information in receives, end of story...who are they to decide if or when the public should receive that information?...unless of course that ...Comment: Push Back Against Tyranny and Win
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:08 am, December 19th, 2022
In reply to your school yard analogy... The only people who seem to be expressing bizarrely juvenile and frankly disgusting views around negotiations in the Ukraine are war lovin’, fight to the last Ukrainian, are mostly Liberals like yourself…and the ...Comment: Push Back Against Tyranny and Win
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:50 am, December 19th, 2022
"supposed US imperialism"......75-80% Of Foreign Military Bases Are American I know you are not paid by the US military....but you should be.Comment: Open mike 19/12/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:58 am, December 19th, 2022
I agree 100% with Caitlin Johnstone on who Elon Musk actually is..however his revelations confirming what most already knew, the collusion to supress the Hunter Biden story six days before the US general election are very important…and we all know that if ...Comment: Open mike 19/12/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:24 am, December 19th, 2022
Here is a good clip with long time Democrat and anti war activist explaining how the Democratic party and by extension the Liberal class have become captured by the US war machine.....and sadly, as have many good people on this very site... https://www. ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:30 pm, December 15th, 2022
Not really a petty bet..more like putting your money where your mouth is. Vietnam and Afghanistan are not that similar at all, for obvious reasons.Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:44 am, December 15th, 2022
Didn't think so...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:30 am, December 15th, 2022
"It is entirely possible to walk and chew gum at the same time" " If the Minsk Accords had worked well and good" that the fucking point, she said herself that they (the German govt) were not there to facilitate in enabling that to happen, but to buy time ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:02 am, December 15th, 2022
What I want or think has no bearing on this subject...I only hope that they can at least start to have meaningful and direct negotiations with each other of some sort, without interference from the West, and most especially the USA.Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:12 am, December 15th, 2022
Okay...I bet you $100 right now that this war will be still going on in six months and that Russia will have taken more ground that it has as of today....Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:09 am, December 15th, 2022
And here we all were, being led to to believe by Reflogix (and on many occasions I seem to remember) that "whataboutisim" was not a creditable counter in a debate...well that is unless it is him doing it seems. ....and now here we are, witnessing Redlogix ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:35 am, December 15th, 2022
"The problem with a ceasefire is that it requires good faith on both sides. The way Ukraine would view a ceasefire is that it simply gives Russia a chance to train up more forces and refit itself" You do know that is exactly what Ukraine and NATO did right ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:54 am, December 15th, 2022
Okay lets get to this… 1.The Economist article was a pay for view so that one is no good…though I will say that judging from the language I could read it wasn’t a promising start. Meduza I am not even sure why included this article as it only pointed out ...Comment: The Zelensky Dump
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:23 pm, December 14th, 2022
"and what appears to be some pretty deliberate attempts to do untargeted press-gang call-ups in areas outside of European Russia"..links please Without unbiased verification to your above allegation,...it might turn out that it is you whom is "somewhat ...
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