Posts by Alfie
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
shorter Bruce Ferguson on Campbell Live. I think he left his intelligence behind when he left the service.
Ferguson just continued the spin on Morning Report. 'Snowden is a traitor... blah... blah... nothing to see here folks. Moving right along.'
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to kiwicmc,
You're right. The papers relate to something called Cortex which appears to be some sort of anti-malware / cyber-attack detection or prevention software. There's nothing about tapping into the Southern Cross cable or the mass surveillance which resulted.
The papers are merely a smokescreen from an increasingly desperate government.
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Key on RNZ just now explaining why he 'cancelled' the NSA/GCSB Speargun operation.
We were afraid that some people might interpret it as mass surveillance. It's not. It's the protection of peoples' data.
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The Intercept stories are online.
Greenwald & Gallagher - New Zealand Launched Mass Surveillance Project While Publicly Denying It
Snowden - Snowden: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Isn’t Telling the Truth About Mass Surveillance
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The Herald has one of their polls running - Who do you believe - John Key or Kim Dotcom? and at the moment it's running...
Kim Dotcom - 67
John Key - 38Expect comments to be closed shortly.
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Bugger. I was experimenting with adding an image and it popped up on the wrong post. The caption should read, "Electric fences don't put off country folk."
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Brodie Davis,
Here's the Herald story.
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There really does seem to be a whole story about Jason Ede that is gone completely missing.
Agreed. If we accept that Rawshark gave the remaining info to "journos", then we have to assume that somebody has probably decided to can it. I wonder exactly who is sitting on the rest of the whaledumps?
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Toby Manhire has a piece in the Guardian called New Zealand PM deceiving public over spying claims, says Glenn Greenwald. There's a good quote from Greenwald on Key's style of leadership.
"I've done reporting of surveillance all over the world and a lot of governments haven't liked what I've said, but I've never seen a head of government lose their dignity and get down in the mud and start chucking names to discredit the journalist in order to discredit the journalism."
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Jake Starrow,
To postulate that a government must govern in the interests of all is based on a flawed perception.
Bugger! There goes democracy as we'd hoped it might be.
