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Comment: Open mike 02/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:03 pm, November 2nd, 2022
My Pleasure...The Guardian, BBC, The Washington Post, NPR, RNZ etc ets...infact every Liberal MSM media source that I can think of, except maybe The Independent...are complicit in undermining and defaming every single serious Left Wing person or project ...Comment: Open mike 02/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:51 am, November 2nd, 2022
To most of the worlds population it is understood to be exactly what its actions prove it is, a US led Western neo-imperialist hegemony...but you can call it what ever you like...from where you sit.Comment: Open mike 02/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:43 am, November 2nd, 2022
Are you serious,,,a TV1 documentary on the evils of dis-misinformation…..a must see, well maybe to better understand who your enemy is guess. MSM are the largest single disseminators of the most damaging mis- disinformation and neo-imperialist propaganda ...Comment: Open mike 02/11/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:10 am, November 2nd, 2022
Why any serious progressive Leftie would still think that anything that this completely rogue Nation does militarily, is done with any kind of holistic or altruistic intent, would by now, have to be completely delusional….or mad...or both. US Deploys ...Comment: Open mike 26/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:52 am, October 26th, 2022
Here is a very good overview at China today..from Defense Politics Asia, who also happen to do the best and without doubt the most neutral/unbiased daily coverage of the Ukraine conflict...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ZYO9xKInsComment: Open mike 26/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:50 am, October 26th, 2022
"Luxonomics = Trussonomics, Stick it on a billboard"...come election time some of those might well make an appearance on some local political billboards...not put there by me of course!Comment: Open mike 24/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:12 am, October 24th, 2022
The Leader of the Free World.....or so we are lead to believe, tells us "America can be defined in a single word"...here it is, straight from the horses mouth.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqiOeiG4VNo [note: Joe Biden has a lifelong speech impediment ...Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:11 pm, October 21st, 2022
Yeah that's true, but not too many of them get to form their very own offical battalions with their very own Waffen SS inspired unit banners and insignia to wear and to fight under...Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:01 pm, October 21st, 2022
Re; "Show us all just one serious neutral link that proves Zelenskyy has dealt with the proven Far Right problem in Ukraine or more specifically the military" ...no I didn't think so....This is the third thread that I have asked for any link to verify that ...Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:46 am, October 21st, 2022
It is a holiday here in the Bay so I am going out to ride some hills and valley roads now, will answer when I get back…as long as I haven’t stupidly ridden myself into the ground which I have a bad habit of doing to myself for unknown reasons.Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:33 am, October 21st, 2022
Yep it's all fake...you just keep on telling yourself that....oh that's right you don't need too..all those MSM news sites (linked to above) that only a short while ago told you that there was a serious Right Wing problem in the Ukraine, are now telling ...Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:14 am, October 21st, 2022
We must be talking at crossed purposes because I am saying that (many) “Pākehā are racist and selfishly guarding their inherited advantages” but I also strongly agree that “historical forces particularly the settler state are more powerful than individuals ...Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:40 am, October 21st, 2022
I understand and agree with most of what he is saying, I just don't agree with that part.Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:34 am, October 21st, 2022
Turns out there are still one or two Extreme Right elements still operating within the Ukraine military…..which is strange because according to various commentators on this forum the Far Right problem widely acknowledged and reported on before this ...Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:28 am, October 21st, 2022
I didn't take it out context...it's what he said at the start of a line of thread to contextualize his own argument/point.Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:52 am, October 21st, 2022
@Sanctuary, Exactly right +1Comment: Open mike 21/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:50 am, October 21st, 2022
"This isn’t because Pākehā people are racist selfishly guarding their inherited advantages"...not sure I agree with that...why does he think half or more voters in this country vote National/Act?..has he ever worked on a large construction site?..I can ...Comment: The lettuce won
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:27 am, October 21st, 2022
No, actually on one wins...what do the population of the UK get at the end of all this Kier Stamer, just another Centrist areshole with no moral compass just like the rest of them...workers and the poor still lose either way. The only reason she went so ...Comment: Open mike 18/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:49 am, October 18th, 2022
“This will no doubt also be condemned across traditional and social media”….yep, that is for sure..MSM including pretty much all traditional ‘Left’ leaning media have proved themselves to be nothing more than ultra-aggressive guard dogs of the Capitalist ...Comment: Open mike 18/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:26 am, October 18th, 2022
MSM Propaganda Alert!!! BBC at it again…in this BBC article on the Venezuelan migration problem, the economic fall out as a direct result of US imposed sanctions ( a benign term for a weapon of war) is not mentioned or referenced once as a cause for the ...Comment: Open mike 17/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 1:37 pm, October 17th, 2022
Sorry I forgot to add that the neocolonial hegemony defended so valiantly by our friend is of course also extremely racist….as was recently encapsulated rather nicely in a recent speech by EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell… "Europe is a garden," Mr ...Comment: Open mike 17/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:59 am, October 17th, 2022
So yes just to clarify... Jacinda Ardern and Labour have not ruled out working with Winston Peters and NZF.Comment: Open mike 17/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 11:55 am, October 17th, 2022
@RedLogix I like the way the guy who has been the biggest defender of the 20/21 Century Western Capitalist/Imperialist project here on the TS…an ideological project that in its brief tenure as chief hegemony of the planet has squandered the one and only ...Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:48 pm, October 11th, 2022
"You were pushing the proPutin material"...exactly where did I do that?...please do copy and paste a line or two from my comments today and show us all the outragous "proPutin material" you speak of...Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:46 pm, October 11th, 2022
"Their salty tears are so delicious I'd gladly slurp them from their faces with my large and raspy tongue".....and that would suit you perfectly...being such a willing a lap dog of Western Imperialism and all.Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:40 pm, October 11th, 2022
I didn't say or even imply anything you said in the later part of your comment...I only pointed out the way MSM..BBC, The Guardian, RNZ etc choose the civilians that they deem worthy of feeling empathy for and the civilian lives which they don't. And it is ...Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:36 pm, October 11th, 2022
"whine about civilian losses"....man you are one sick individual...I was just pointing out how MSM propaganda projects the worthiness on one life over another depending on which way they are directing their propaganda....of course that simple logic ...Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:56 am, October 11th, 2022
It is a world gone crazy when the only sane politician in US politics turns out to be Donald Trump…but then it turns out that the Imperialist war Hawks on both the Right and more importantly the Left(?) seem quite OK in risking total annihilation to ...Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:48 am, October 11th, 2022
Yeah I already looked him up before I commented....there are plenty of smart people who are just not that insightful.Comment: Open mike 11/10/2022
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 8:31 am, October 11th, 2022
I wouldn't take anyone seriously who would even hint at this conflict ending "quite quickly".... Russia-Ukraine war could end ‘quite quickly’, says Professor Lawrence Freedman ...just because guy speaks in a nice British accent doesn't mean he knows what ...
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