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Comment:Open mike 24/06/2023
Date published: 11:58 am, June 24th, 2023... forward to your response. Best Adrian Thornton
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Comment:Open mike 24/06/2023
Date published: 11:52 am, June 24th, 2023"The end-result is a hardcore of Trump followers whose world-view swings around Trump's latest handful of 'alternative facts'".....yep that is true, however it is exactly the same as RNZ, CNN, BBC, Washington Post (etc) readers and listeners whose own ...
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Comment:Open mike 24/06/2023
Date published: 9:15 am, June 24th, 2023If anyone still still held on to any illusions that Biden, the Clintons, the Democratic party, the heads of the CIA and FBI were not just a bunch of lying, corrupt sacks of shit who make Trump look like a fucking amatuer…. House Judiciary Committee hearing...
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Comment:Open mike 21/06/2023
Date published: 1:49 pm, June 21st, 2023I am not quite sure why people are still handwringing over Labour's lack of movement on banks-supermarkets-fuel industry....Labour have made no secret that their economic ideology is laissez faire Free Market Capitalism...I mean seriously, just like ...
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 8:05 pm, June 20th, 2023"The fact is that Obama is an unindicted war-criminal" as is every POTUS since WW2... there is good reason why the USA is seen as the biggest threat to world peace in the world....because they are! People Worldwide Name US as a Major Threat to World Peace....
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 7:57 pm, June 20th, 2023You do understand you can both be anti US proxy war in Ukraine and neither support or like Putin and also point out Cortez's and the Democrat's and their supporting media (sadly including RNZ) outrageous double standards/hypocrisy on anything to do with ...
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 7:34 pm, June 20th, 2023I hear you....it sure is a minefield at times.
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 3:58 pm, June 20th, 2023Roger that Tiger Mountain.
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 3:56 pm, June 20th, 2023Hi there Morrissey...good to you here see on TS, I haven't been on much myself lately...got banned for some reason I forget right now, but I am sure it was important to someone at the time, so anyway thought that was a good enough reason to take a longer ...
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 1:53 pm, June 20th, 2023@Tiger Mountain..."whether you support Mr Assange personally or not. I support him as a fellow human, flawed..." yeah I don't really go along with that, it is just a fact that there was a concerted effort to discredit Assange by pretty much all Western MSM...
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 12:53 pm, June 20th, 2023"The USA is obscenely vindictive"...you got that one right, look at their treatment of Cuba, Afghanistan, Venezuela to name just a few...and the MSM just go right along with it...soon or probably already the Liberal media will be wringing it's hands about ...
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Comment:Open mike 20/06/2023
Date published: 7:52 am, June 20th, 2023Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange & the Death of Journalism "Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted, reporting on the inner workings of power will ...
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Comment:Open mike 19/06/2023
Date published: 11:03 am, June 19th, 2023Thanks, will check that link out.. ..yeah it is kind of ironic that the massive sanctions piled onto Russia by the West, is looking like it could well be in the future, be historically regarded as the tipping point that ended Western hegemony...a real self...
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Comment:When You Pay Peanuts, You Get Propaganda
Date published: 9:11 am, June 19th, 2023Thanks for having the RNZ logo up there next to the title Propaganda...when it comes to geopolitics RNZ pretty much does nothing but regurgitate western propaganda....and just look at their outrageous bias when it comes to covering Trump vs Biden...it is ...
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Comment:Open mike 19/06/2023
Date published: 8:19 am, June 19th, 2023China’s Xi Jinping backs ‘just cause’ of Palestinian statehood "A solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict lies in the establishment of an “independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital”, Xi was quoted as ...
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Comment:Open mike 15/06/2023
Date published: 6:18 pm, June 15th, 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0UjWcMvCHg
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Comment:Open mike 19/03/2023
Date published: 4:02 pm, March 19th, 2023"And given how extensively Ivermectin is used as a human medicine, mis-characterising it as "horse de-wormer" or "pet medicine" is blatantly dishonest"....+1 RL, haven't you noticed (I am sure you must have) that Joe90 just regurgitates, pretty much ...
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Comment:Open mike 16/03/2023
Date published: 6:14 pm, March 16th, 2023"I was a hedonist who enjoyed every pleasure, but now I'm a Buddhist … irks me"...me too, personally, he has always annoyed me, so I have never really watched or listened to him much...but I know enough about him to know that his main crime as far as the ...
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Comment:Open mike 16/03/2023
Date published: 8:52 am, March 16th, 2023"All power to the teachers for their strike today!"....+5 from this household!!
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Comment:Open mike 16/03/2023
Date published: 8:48 am, March 16th, 2023Talking about The Guardian...here is the sort of reactionary shit that they are well known for on the progressive Left... Guardian Columnist’s Latest Attack on ‘Heretics’ "George Monbiot has been regularly smearing icons of the progressive left, writes ...
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Comment:Saudi/Iran peace deal brokered by China
Date published: 8:15 am, March 16th, 2023@tsmithfield...you do understand that having a Guardian link on the subject of the Ukraine war is about as useful as having an RT link right?...in other words, mostly pointless, that is if, it is actually truth and facts you are hoping to convey to other ...
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Comment:Saudi/Iran peace deal brokered by China
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 ...
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Comment:Open mike 13/03/2023
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/...
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Comment:Open mike 03/03/2023
Date published: 12:37 pm, March 3rd, 2023In 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...
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Comment:Open mike 03/03/2023
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...
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Comment:Open mike 03/03/2023
Date published: 8:28 am, March 3rd, 2023Looks 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 ...
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Comment:Open mike 25/02/2023
Date published: 7:52 am, February 25th, 2023The 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 ...
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Comment:Open mike 10/02/2023
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.
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Comment:Open mike 10/02/2023
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 ...
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Comment:Open mike 10/02/2023
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.
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Comment:Open mike 11/02/2023
Date published: 12:28 pm, February 11th, 2023Being 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...
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- Seymour fronts up on Snapchats with school kids
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- Daily crossword, Wednesday 19 JuneThe post Daily crossword, Wednesday 19 June appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 week ago
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