The expectations of the person calling/emailing/web browsing are only part of the equation. The other part is whether that expectation is "reasonable" So what would a reasonable person expect? 70% of kiwis survey by Stuff Ipsos recently believed their ...
The mechanics of how you communicate is not the point. What does count is whether you have an expectation of interception and whether this is reasonable. When 70% of Kiwis surveyed say they expect spy agencies to intercept then you have a societal change ...
Tim Groser has said publicly that expects that all of his phone calls to be intercepted. That expectation could mean the GCSB could spy on him and any other New Zealander with similar expectations. And still we have many media outlets (and David Shearer) ...
"Sir Bruce Ferguson describing XKeyScore and saying – essentially – we do hoover up the information, but we don’t look at it without a warrant." That may or may not have been the case under his watch which ended in 2011, but as this NZ Herald column by ...
Labour released their conservation policy last week. It contains a firm pledge to extend no mining protection under Schedule 4 to all conservation land between Thames and the Kaimai rail tunnel. A huge swath of high value DOC estate. see this map https://...
the NSA budget here... https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1200866/foreignpartneraccessbudgetfy2013-redacted.pdf shows that the NSA spent $US 14.5 Million in 2011, $US 28.17 million in 2012 and $US 10.5 million in 2013 on a cable ...
Understood. But whether it is 50 or 100 warrants, this just provides a diversion from the mass unwarranted surveillance which is going on by tapping into undersea cables - including phone call data. That is why Key is deviously correct when he says GCSB ...
The number of warrants issued, while disturbing, is a smokescreen. The real issue is the unwarranted direct access pipes into actual infrastructure and in particular the Southern Cross cable which carries 95% of NZ's internet traffic. That is how mass ...
No brainer response from Labour here. Encourage voters to vote for Hone, and give Kelvin Davis a higher place on their List. Similarly with Annette Sykes, and kill off the Maori Party. The other no brainer. Would we really want the likely under- performing...
why has the MSM in NZ ignored the story that Afghanistan may be the Nation which has been subject to the mass collection of the content of all mobile calls by the NSA and possibly other Five Eyes partners such as GCSB? Greenwald has released documents ...
David Cunliffe on Frontline this morning cuts to the chase on the crucial issue.... The PM's credibility deficit regarding what and when he knew about GCSB spying on Dotcom. http://goo.gl/ljIDQ1
Another massive gamble is that the projected revenue from royalties will actually eventuate in 10 or 20 years time (should any oil actually start to flow). There are huge assumptions from the Govt that royalty rates will remain as high as they are today. ...
Dotcom saying he has Jewish heritage was edited out of the Brook Sabin TV3 News interview yet Gower harps on about Key's Jewish Mum a manipulative blatant beat up then
Latest NZ Energy Quarterly Report NZ oil production is down 18.3% in last year ! You can see in the chart how the steep decline began in 2007. The decline is accelerating and at this rate local production will be near zero by 2020. 6 wasted years under ...
Many kiwis were outraged when our nuclear free policy was being undermined in Washington and many will be similarly outraged that our spy laws are being written by US spies now they know ... with the NZ Herald, TV3 and Radio NZ giving the story legs today
Its not an either or argument. Almost without exception international internet and telcos are collaberating with spy agencies. What makes Fisher's story stand out is that for the first time NZ owned companies are implicated ? The muted response from ...
Fisher's article is important for being the first time the MSM has connected Edward Snowden's revelations back to New Zealand . The article has opened a can of worms -- it is just not US, Aussie and UK internet and telcos which are collaborating with Spy ...
No confusion -- Fisher is effectively saying Southern Cross / Telecom are in donkey deep with US spy agencies -- why else would they use US spy access to foreign cables such as Southern Cross's as a bargaining point to encourage then to stay linked to ...
so will Key now attempt to bully Austin Forbes QC who penned the latest Law Society statement which again slated the GCSB bill as remaining "flawed" and for use of SOP without public chance to comment? http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/gcsb-bill-remains-...
Its likely a forlorn hope but will the media and the Opposition take the delay to investigate and expose the NZ connection to Snowden's leaks ? Such as .. 1. does the GCSB have the use of the XKeystore program -with which a low-level analyst can hack ...
What is missing is the bigger picture arising from the latest Guardian revelations. It’s almost certain the GCSB had already has accessed Dunne's and Vance' phone calls and emails anyway without relying on Parliamentary Services. Why almost certain? ...
There is much more to the new spying powers than cosying up to the US, important as that is to Key. As this Guardian article points out -- the surveillance state is in part to control dissent and anti-government activism over climate and energy shocks - ...
George “the reverse Cassandra” Monbiot has been sucked in by the US- centric shale oil bonanza hype. Simple as that David Strachan sums up the reality of "peakonomics" here.. http://www.davidstrahan.com/blog/?p=1562 "Slower oil production combined with ...
The recent boost in production has come in part because of a boom in shale oil production, especially in North Dakota. But even if shale oil production continues growing at a fast clip, U.S. production is likely to increase only a bit over the next few ...
all those socialist greenies you mean like the IMF, US and German military, IEA, Lloyds of London, Chatham House NZ Parliamentary Library Research unit, the Oz report referred to and scores of others many from Conservative Energy think tanks ....which ...
Agreed AFKNT. Its at least a start to be "aware" of these issues of oil depletion and climate change , but quite another to have coherent policies you are willing to go to the public with that actually make a difference. Time to walk the talk
Treasury and NZ economists downgrade "growth" forcasts.....what took them so long? We are witnessing the end of "growth" at least as measured by the absurd measure of GDP Watch listen and learn with this wee gem of a video -- just 5 minutes the ...
You are on to it. Check out this excellent presentation on “Peak Oil Recessions and the End of Growth” which pulls all these strands together http://dl.dropbox.com/u/31214727/Peak%20Oiloct2011.pdf If you wish to get involved with shaping a steady state ...
"Our petroleum estate is under-explored. An independent valuation has put a value of $8 billion to $12 billion on potential future royalties from oil and gas production." Pure guesswork based on even more guesswork. How can you possibly "value" a royalty ...
on Schedule 4 they will consider expanding the area on the Coromandel off limits to mining to the southern Coromandel DOC estate eg the area inland from Whangamata where Newmont Waihi Gold are drilling now and want to mine. This is high value ...
"The economy has grown by just 0.4 per cent since John Key took office. (Source: Statistics New Zealand, Gross Domestic Product)" so have we seen the end of "growth". The end of cheap oil and extreme levels of debt worldwide suggest we have. Time for ...
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