What the new NSA spying revelations really say about the GCSB

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Here is the document…

nsa-fy13-semiannual-report

…it shows that the NSA were sending an engineer to the GCSB spy base to build a “Special Source Operations” site. These allow the NSA to mass surveil anything they want in a country.

As David Fisher points out…

The SSO is the division of the United States’ National Security Agency which carries out cable tapping and has vast resources to trawl and capture massive amounts of internet content and electronic communication, including the PRISM system.

…so at the same time as Key is ramming through mass surveillance powers to the GCSB enabling them for the first time ever to legally spy upon NZ citizens after the GCSB is caught illegally spying on NZ citizens, we have NSA spooks in NZ building the very mass surveillance system that the NZ Intelligence Agencies tell us they don’t use.

This of course is on top of the mass surveillance powers Key gave the NZ Police when they were caught illegally spying on citizens as well. This massive upgrade of spying powers by the Police help explain why we have silently allowed 7 corporate hacker servers to be established inside NZ for the Police that effectively allow them to mass spy on the entire population of the country.

We have allowed the Intelligence communities in NZ to grow at an alarming rate with unchecked powers. The GCSB and SIS have both had increases in budget by 250% and 174% within a decade and Key has reorganised the following intelligence apparatus to answer to a small clique of security goons he controls; the Organised Crime Intelligence Unit, Financial Intelligence Unit, Strategic Intelligence Unit, National Bureau of Criminal Intelligence, Identity Intelligence Unit, Threat Assessment Unit, Police Terrorism Investigation and Intelligence Group and the Special Investigation Group.

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NZ has always been used as a test market and I think that the NSA wants NZ to be a the first test country under total surveillance to see how it works in reality. Think of it is a Big Brother franchise you can never get out of.

This isn’t a left wing or right wing issue, no Government should have this level of power over its citizens. The GCSB meetings that were to be held in Auckland Wellington and Christchurch have been scaled back to just one city now. We decided with the big meeting looming on September 15th at the Auckland Town Hall, that we would focus on the one central city we hadn’t visited last time, which is Christchurch.

We will have 2 meetings in Christchurch, the second one will be live streamed on The Daily Blog.

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Christchurch – Tuesday 19th August
MEETING 1 – 1pm Canterbury University, Undercroft (bottom floor James Hight building)
Chair – Martyn Bradbury
Speakers – Russel Norman, Mike Treen, Murray Horton from ABC, other speakers TBC

MEETING 2: 7pm – Cardboard Cathedral, Latimer Square
Chair – Martyn Bradbury
Speakers – Russel Norman, Mike Treen, Murray Horton from ABC, other speakers TBC

The more NZers know about what Key and his Government have secretly been up to with the American’s, the more disgusted they will be.

5 COMMENTS

  1. “Governments need very few secrets and citizens have the right to a great deal of information.  Citizens need this information in order to fulfill their role.  And they have the right to this information.  Instead we are witnessing an inflation of secrecy around the world; a desire by governments and public servants to hide and obscure their actions.  This security obsession may be in fashion today in Japan, in the Americas, in Europe.  That doesn’t make it right.  Democracies are built on three things: citizens, their freedom of expression and the transparency of their governments.  Each democracy has its particularities, but all share these three elements.  Weaken them and you undermine democracy.  When the state holds back too much information, it forces citizens to release that information in other ways. The blame lies with those who undermine transparency, not with those who increase it.” John Ralston Saul

  2. Shon Key isn’t our Pry Minister for nothing.
    I found the following quote and it occurred to me that Our Beloved Leader is more infamous than we Antipodians might have realised.

    “The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), released by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013, lists both sociopathy and psychopathy under the heading of Antisocial Personality Disorders (ASPD). These disorders share many common behavioral traits which lead to the confusion between them.
    KEY traits that sociopaths and psychopaths share include:

    A disregard for laws and social mores
    A disregard for the rights of others
    A failure to feel remorse or guilt ” etc, etc….

    They know the bugger well it seems

  3. Yes, i agree, New Zealand is one big testing ground.
    I believe John Key is a plant by the US government, with Crosby Textor taking up the challenge and mass marketing him to an entire country. New Zealand fell for it.
    Key and National, have in the pass six years, dragged NZ through the mud. Working only for the US, the Chinese and their mates on various boards of big business. Average New Zealanders are paying a huge price in all aspects of life.
    This election really is make or break for this fair land.

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