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  1. The circle is complete

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 4:16 pm, September 17th, 2014 -  139 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, internet, john key, Spying
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    From “There’s no ambiguity. No middle ground. I’m right. He’s wrong”
    to
    “[Snowden] may well be right” in just 4 days. Impressive.

  2. Jackal: A conspiracy theory too far

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:15 am, September 17th, 2014 -  114 comments
    Categories: election 2014, internet mana party, john key, national, same old national, Spying
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    Over the last month John Key has been displaying behaviour of being  a raving right wing conspiracy theorist. Over the weekend megalomaniacal John Key even said that he wants the governor general to stage a coup to allow him to remain in power. The Jackal summarises recent nutty right wing conspiracy theories from the PM and others.

  3. A Matter of Simple Logic

    Written By:  Bryan Gould -  Date published: 4:54 pm, September 16th, 2014 -  103 comments
    Categories: election 2014, john key, Media, Spying
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    One of the few journalists to do his job properly over the course of the dirty politics scandal has been Guyon Espiner. He has, without in any way breaching his duty of impartiality, seen it as his responsibility on Morning Report to put questions to, and demand answers of, the Prime Minister – and, when […]

  4. NZ Inc: Frightening the invisible horses of the market

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 12:15 pm, September 16th, 2014 -  15 comments
    Categories: capitalism, Economy, election 2014, infrastructure, labour
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    The Herald is scathing of Labour’s NZ Inc policy, which defies all logic and reason by assuming that there are better ways to build our economy than flogging off profitable assets, built by New Zealanders, to foreign investors.

  5. Media roundup

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:42 am, September 16th, 2014 -  64 comments
    Categories: accountability, International, Media, Spying
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    NZ Media has got the message, leading with coverage of the Greenwald / Snowden evidence of mass surveillance of New Zealanders, and the surprise revelation of two US “spy bases” in NZ. Best coverage by Andrea Vance. Updated with a link to video of last night’s event.

  6. A brilliant (if flawed) event – Key must resign

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:06 am, September 16th, 2014 -  71 comments
    Categories: accountability, defence, election 2014, International, Spying
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    From Key we have changing stories, irrelevant distractions and refusal to comment. From Snowden we have compelling first person testimony and supporting documents (uncontested by any other Five Eyes leader). New Zealand is under mass surveillance.

  7. The blowoff stream

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:02 pm, September 15th, 2014 -  348 comments
    Categories: election 2014, internet mana party, john key, Minister for International Embarrassment, same old national, video, youtube
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    The queue is enormous. But here is the feed. Thanks Selwyn for the link….. 19:05: Liala Harre has been improving her speaking since I last heard her. Introduced the speaker guests. Looking at the progressive achievements of the NZ past. 19:07: Glenn Greenwald is first up. 19:10: Greenwald calls John Key an adolescent 🙂 John […]

  8. John Key On Trial

    Written By:  Bryan Gould -  Date published: 4:35 pm, September 15th, 2014 -  27 comments
    Categories: election 2014, International, internet mana party, john key, making shit up, Minister for International Embarrassment, Politics, same old national, Spying
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    The latest instalment in the saga of John Key’s struggle to maintain his image as someone above suspicion has produced the amazing spectacle of a Prime Minister in free fall. Faced with the threatened revelation that he has been – not just economical with, but contemptuous of – the truth as to whether or not […]

  9. Key changing his story (again)…

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 12:37 pm, September 15th, 2014 -  60 comments
    Categories: election 2014, john key, Spying
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    Well well – Mr “No middle ground. I’m right. He’s wrong” is changing his story. He now admits that surveillance did go ahead…

  10. The enablers

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 12:30 pm, September 15th, 2014 -  14 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, democracy under attack, election 2014, internet, Spying, telecommunications, us politics
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    Under pressure from Glenn Greenwald’s revelations, John Key, using various smoke screens, is starting to reveal his complicity in working with the GCSB & its 5 Eyes partners, to extend the scope of their spying. Could the Southern Cross Cable Network not have known their systems had been tapped? Update: Statement by Southern Cross Cables

  11. John Key planned our mass surveillance

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:07 am, September 15th, 2014 -  65 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, john key, national, same old national
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    John Key and National let the GCSB spend 12 months on plans to conduct our mass surveillance.  Without telling us.  And he intends to release the details now only for political considerations. Without Glenn Greenwald’s presence we probably would never have learned about this.

  12. VRWC rises from the grave

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 8:35 pm, September 14th, 2014 -  29 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, Deep stuff, International, spin, Spying
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    They’re at it again. David Farrar has a guest post from fellow VRWC member Charles Finny about FiveEyes, arguing that it’s kept us safe in foreign wars and Labour did it too. Which of course is not the point of the current debate about massive government surveillance of innocent citizens. Farrar then gets himself tangled in knots – if Dotcom is right Labour did it too – but he’s not of course says Farrar.

  13. John Key - spy vs lie

    NRT: “National security” or “National’s security”?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:18 pm, September 14th, 2014 -  35 comments
    Categories: john key, Spying
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    information is supposed to be classified only for valid reasons of national security. The information Key wants to release is likely classified SECRET or TOP SECRET. Its worth remembering that Key and his office are already under investigation by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security for politically-motivated declassification decisions.

  14. “Moment of Truth” – Preview

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:32 am, September 14th, 2014 -  67 comments
    Categories: accountability, defence, election 2014, john key, Spying
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    The positioning re Kim Dotcom’s “Moment of Truth” has started this morning.

  15. The extent of public interest hacking?

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 11:46 am, September 10th, 2014 -  35 comments
    Categories: accountability, democratic participation, internet, Spying
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    Last year, there was a major hack, in which data from some GCSB staff, parliamentary staff, police, & others were copied & stored in various places globally.  Surveillance technologies can be used by both state agencies and its critics. Update: Some 2013 history & Anonymous

     

  16. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 7:18 am, September 3rd, 2014 -  37 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    If John Key has nothing to hide, sure he has nothing to fear from a full government inquiry into Dirty Politics?

  17. Does Key want it?

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 12:07 pm, August 29th, 2014 -  66 comments
    Categories: john key
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    Last night there was one participant in the debate who looked disinterested and unhappy to be there: John Key. Has he had enough?

  18. 60 tweeps to follow this election

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 9:30 am, August 26th, 2014 -  4 comments
    Categories: election 2014, Media, twitter
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    Bryce Edwards had his go at a list of the top 100 tweeters to follow this election, but with only 24 women making the cut he faced terrible accusations of “a perceived lack” of gender balance. The silver lining is that his follow-up post was chock-full of the women who complained! Pesky, pesky women, as […]

  19. Labour policy

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:46 am, August 25th, 2014 -  24 comments
    Categories: labour, Satire
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    Because of the technical illiteracy of the political committee that appears to have run the development of the Labour website, their extensive list of policies tends to be unreachable. I eventually found the useful page and I’m giving their website a hand using The Standard’s search engine optimization.

  20. Timeline: Key responsible for SIS release

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:16 am, August 25th, 2014 -  30 comments
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    [Reposted] Key is responsible for the release of SIS briefing notes to Cameron Slater – one of the main issues summarised in Dirty Politics. Here’s the timeline in detail.

    Update: Hooton and Williams on Nine to Noon – Key not credible

  21. Polity: Proof

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:48 am, August 21st, 2014 -  100 comments
    Categories: john key
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    Here’s a tweet from Felix Marwick this morning that blows a big hole in John Key’s denials about not knowing about the strangely rapid OIS releases from the SIS to Cameron Slater. What is the bet that he is going to argue that he had a sloppy memory lapse – just like the one that he keeps accusing Phil Goff about? Updated: Phil Goff’s response.

  22. Muddying the waters: transcript Key on RNZ

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 9:31 am, August 18th, 2014 -  81 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, democracy under attack, election 2014, john key, national, radio, slippery
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    Guyon Espiner’s interview on Radio NZ today, exposes the moral failings of John Key’s leadership -as Key attempts to divert, & justify the dirty game that NZ politics has become under his watch.  Partial transcript of the interview: to be continued  Updated: Transcript completed

  23. Rob Gilchrist On Nicky Hager

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:24 pm, August 17th, 2014 -  88 comments
    Categories: articles, Media, Politics
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    Unmasked by Hager, former activist and police spy Rob Gilchrist says “It may come as a surprise but I have the utmost respect for Mr Hager, He doesn’t write ’baseless allegations’, ’what-ifs and fanciful speculation’ Mr Hager is also not a ‘conspiracy theorist‘, he’s just extremely good at finding conspiracies.”

  24. The Credibility Stakes: John Key vs Nicky Hager

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 2:12 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  58 comments
    Categories: john key
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    BLip comments on John Armstrong’s article yesterday. Then he updates his “Honest Man” list about John Key and his limited understanding of the truth.

  25. Bracing for the book

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:40 am, August 13th, 2014 -  104 comments
    Categories: accountability, capitalism, democracy under attack, election 2014, john key, Spying, us politics
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    Nicky Hager has certainly got the attention of political circles in NZ, by announcing his (untitled) book launch today at 5.15pm. J[update: 3 news Livestream of book launch] Update: Title “Dirty Politics” – on attack politics – implicates John key & Slater]

  26. Hager, fear & the surveillance state

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 12:55 pm, August 12th, 2014 -  82 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, election 2014, Spying, telecommunications
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    Nicky Hager’s latest book will be unveiled tomorrow. I look at his research interests, & his approach to investigative journalism; plus Hager’s speech on the GCSB Bill, & opposition party policies on state surveillance services.

  27. Roads ‘n’ rules

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:18 am, August 12th, 2014 -  20 comments
    Categories: community democracy, democratic participation, election 2014, equality, poverty
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    The Kumeu candidates debate last night covered topics ranging from the very local, to the global: local roads and round-a-bouts, through the internet, poverty, health, jobs and education, to climate change, the TPPA, and the GCSB. Roads and rules were a recurring theme. [updated: stuff video; links to Green Party speeches]

  28. Government Inquiries – Not Throwing Light But Closing Down Debate

    Written By:  Bryan Gould -  Date published: 3:18 pm, July 23rd, 2014 -  8 comments
    Categories: john key, national, national/act government, spin
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    As a young MP in the British House of Commons in the late 1970s, I rapidly became aware that half the political stories in Fleet Street originated with the Press Association’s indefatigable political correspondent, Chris Moncrieff. I was regularly button-holed by Chris as I crossed the Members’ Lobby and asked to comment on the latest […]

  29. Imperator Fish: Read the law

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:28 pm, July 18th, 2014 -  6 comments
    Categories: accountability, crime, humour, police, Satire, Spying
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    Imperator Fish discovers that the official legal website for law in NZ has been hacked. The law that the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) used to look at complaints about the interception of communications for Kim DotCom, political parties, and anyone that the police deem as being suspicious was obviously incomplete. So the IPCA used some invisible law in their ruling. Who cares what the real law is anyway?

  30. IPCA review of the illegal spying on Kim Dotcom

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:36 pm, July 17th, 2014 -  6 comments
    Categories: corruption, democracy under attack
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    The IPCA has upheld the Police decision not to prosecute members of the GCSB for illegally spying on Kim Dotcom.

  31. NRT: Dysfunctional

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:48 pm, July 2nd, 2014 -  6 comments
    Categories: Spying
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    In short, a report on our intelligence services says that they don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t know why they’re doing it, and they’re not doing it well. NZSIS can’t do its core job – security vetting – in a timely fashion, GCSB can’t even count, and they hate each other. Plus they’ve got poor financial management practices and no idea of how much stuff they own to boot. And then they wonder at the level of public hostility?

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