Latest Snowden revelations – we are America’s Nark in the South Pacific

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The latest from Leaksource…

New Zealand’s electronic surveillance agency, the GCSB, has dramatically expanded its spying operations during the years of John Key’s National Government and is automatically funnelling vast amounts of intelligence to the US National Security Agency, top-secret documents reveal.

Since 2009, the Government Communications Security Bureau intelligence base at Waihopai has moved to “full-take collection”, indiscriminately intercepting Asia-Pacific communications and providing them en masse to the NSA through the controversial NSA intelligence system XKEYSCORE, which is used to monitor emails and internet browsing habits.

Last year, Mr Key refused to say whether the GCSB uses XKEYSCORE.

The documents, provided by US whistleblower whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveal that most of the targets are not security threats to New Zealand, as has been suggested by the Government.

Instead, the GCSB directs its spying against a surprising array of New Zealand’s friends, trading partners and close Pacific neighbours. These countries’ communications are supplied directly to the NSA and other Five Eyes agencies with little New Zealand oversight or decision-making, as a contribution to US worldwide surveillance.

The New Zealand revelations mirror what the Snowden documents showed in Europe, where the US and Britain were found to be spying on supposedly close and friendly neighbouring nations in the European Union.

The Herald has collaborated with US news site The Intercept to report on the New Zealand-oriented Snowden papers. They reveal the secret activity called signals intelligence – the interception of private phone calls, emails and internet chats – globally.

The sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind were conned by a media who were more interested in reporting Kim Dotcom’s supposed failure to show his evidence of Key knowing about him before he said he did, rather than focus on the plethora of evidence that showed Key has lied about mass surveillance.

Watching the editor of Metro, senior journalists and the homicidal chipmunk Patrick Gower attack Glenn Greenwald and Kim Dotcom after the Moment of Truth was the final moment for me where I lost any respect for the so called fourth estate in this country.

As damaging evidence is drip fed via the new collaboration of investigative reporters Hager, Fisher and Nippet, those great bastions of media integrity who were so vocal to denounce Kim Dotcom on the night get quieter and quieter.

It’s never been easier to trick sleepy hobbits.

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21 COMMENTS

  1. +100…”As damaging evidence is drip fed via the new collaboration of investigative reporters Hager, Fisher and Nippet, those great bastions of media integrity who were so vocal to denounce Kim Dotcom on the night get quieter and quieter.”…

    New Zealand’s reputation has been damaged under John Key

    …and those purported on the Left who attacked Dotcom also need to feel ashamed of themselves

  2. You have said everything Martyn and you are right,the evidence is right there before us. People are depressed and selfish out of anger.

    Paula Rebstock is an American on the boards of everything Key controls,she is just getting big salaries for sitting in her seats doing nothing but be controlled and used by Key.
    Most of National mps bought and controlled by Key.
    Police and Judiciary probably owned and paid for by Key.
    If we want to change thinking in NZ it has to come from change in government. How can people not be concerned and worried and thinking of themselves,the attitude is no one gives me anything why should I care about them,so sad .
    This government has caused massive depression and stress on the people ,and Key dosnt care in fact he is delighted,his plan is working.
    National lost out big time in Northland so maybe the worm is turning,
    maybe we do have some control ,lets enlarge the control.
    We are millions he is one,his minions will fade away when they know the head controller is losing power, he wont protect them when he leaves for USA,his attitude will be i’m in it for myself stuff you .

    The so called supporters of Key will realise the harm he’s caused. He was sent to NZ by the corporations and banks to hand NZ over to them, why are we sitting around and allowing him to do it, wake up NZ before its too late.

    • ELLE;
      Yes,Martyn is right and agree with what you have said.
      And there is a way forward.

      There is a tide of Nationalism swelling not only in Europe but Scotland,Ireland,Wales and right in the ‘heart of the beast’ England
      with UKIP, Nigel Farage’s party that has gained a sizable 16 seats in
      the EU parliment. See Q&A today. Elections due.

      Your quote:”National lost out big time in Northland so maybe the worm is turning,maybe we do have some control,lets enlarge that control.”
      Here is how;
      CLEANGREEN’s quote;
      “Winston has mellowed and is now left of where he was 20 yrs ago, because we have seen him in Napier and Gisborne and personally talked to him and as he was expressing his social policies that he was discussing seemed to be more fitting coming out at the public meetings was stuff only someone like Mickey Savage would have said, back in 1937, but I heard Winston talking this way now, as he regards we have moved to far to the right and this is harming everyone so I guess he had seen the damage and is ready to fight for a reversal of social decay permeating our society during Key’s watch.”
      iain mclean says:
      April 1, 2015 at 9:31 pm

      CLEANGREEN;

      “Time to become street smart with voting strategically as we learned in Northland.”

      Bang on the mark! Words straight out of my own mouth.

      Excellent to hear, with personal contact, just what is
      Winston’s thoughts in regard to the future direction NZ
      has to take in order to regain our health and strength
      of old.
      I have suspected this for some time now and your
      confirmation has spurred me to say this to the many
      readers (and others) that seem to still have some niggleing doubt’s about his trustworthiness and intentions.
      Put there, may I suggest, by the ‘Right’s very own
      mouthpiece. The spin of the MSM.
      They seem to be repeating the word ‘age’ a lot.
      Subtly chipping away already. Is that all they’ve got?
      Don’t fall for it.

      1. Winston was the man who went against his own party
      (nats at the time) to expose the tax haven in the Cook
      Islands that was bleeding NZ of much needed revenue.
      This took great courage knowing the damage it would
      cause to his own reputation and expense. ie the wine box.

      2. He helped set up NZ’s own Kiwibank with Anderton.
      Much to all the squeals from the foreign banks and
      National.

      3. He helped to facilitate the breaking of Telecom’s
      monopoly that was overcharging both NZ business and
      citizens. 15 bloody years of it!
      It took only 10mths in Europe for proper competitive prices to be achieved.

      4. He fought for the Gold Card for pensioners that many countries had already. (benefits much more overseas)
      This is meant to be a small recognition of the contribution these people have made to the welfare of NZ, especially after a depression and two world wars.

      5. He is the only one pointing out the damage endless
      immigration does to, not only our housing market,but the
      driving down of wages and conditions to an already low
      wage economy.
      Christchurch rebuild is a classic example. International
      Corporations mostly bringing in their own cheap labour when we have unemployment here.

      6. And he is the only one ever talking about our own
      Sovereignty, economic or otherwise.

      Does this look like the actions of a man that is just worried about himself ahead of his Nation?
      Of course not.

      And now he is talking about proper funding of Railway,
      started by Clarke Gvt but trashed by Key and co.

      In his interviews after the by-election I thought we saw
      a very composed man. His outrage at why the board of
      a natural port, with plenty of empty supporting land, would say they don’t want a railway link.
      This is in league with the closing of the obviously vital
      link between Gisborne and Napier.

      I thought we saw a ‘Statesman in Waiting’ !

      Before some may start hollering, please ponder this;
      If Winston keeps cool and proves himself in Northland
      and, has Martyn has suggested, becomes the voice of the provinces he could also become much more leading
      into the 2017 elections. (or before?)

      I believe that,at this moment in time, there is no other
      politician in the house capable of taking Key and co down.
      Crucially, he needs ALL of our support. Nats included.
      Shout down the MSM when they start their antics.
      Don’t believe a word of it.
      We would be all be fighting to take back our country.

      He has Foreign Affairs experience and contacts that
      would come because of it.
      He has Treasury experience.
      He is a lawyer.

      And here is the important bit;
      Syriza came to power in Greece in a very short space of time. They are turning back the EU’s programs!
      This is what can happen when citizens are that feed up
      with austerity programs that they know are completely
      unnecessary.
      They know they are being asset stripped,raped and pillaged by the few.(> 1% actually).
      Looks like the BRICS Bank will come to their aid.
      No need for the IMF with their predatory policies.
      And China has just launched a Development Bank for Asia that will work in tandem with above.

      The Europeans are rushing to join too,much to USA’s
      protest and warnings. On Aljazeera today.
      The IMF is about to come to it’s demise.
      Australia is already in on it.
      And Winston has the ability to negotiate for NZ through all this as well.

      All that needs to happen is enough of NZ to swing in
      behind NZfirst.
      What an appropriate name for our mission.

      Enough support to out poll Labour so Winston becomes
      Prime Minister. (hands over mouth please)
      With Little in full control of his caucus (Goff gone) I am
      sure he would make a great Deputy. Winston would ‘train’ him.
      Purge all the ‘advisers’ working for the ‘right.’

      30% NZF, 25% Labour, perfect result.
      We could take back our country in short time.
      It is not a pipedream.
      It is already happening in Europe.

      We have to give Winnie any benefit of the doubt (not mine) if we are to end this nightmare soon.
      Think of our children and grandchildren.

      I believe CLEANGREEN and have sensed it for a long time.
      Good post Martyn and Cleangreen.

      Cheers.
      – See more at: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/03/31/national-the-greens-worst-nightmare-nz-first-becoming-the-voice-of-the-provinces/#sthash.E1oLlxtU.dpuf

      Winston is a Nationalist. Lets ALL get on his wave.

      UKIP;
      “Fractured Britain:The Election Campaign of 2015”
      http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1504/Soooo5/fractured-britain-the-election-campaign-of-2015.htm

      Cheers.

        • All of the above …Winston is one of the last of our old time politicians from the Keynesian economics school – in general.

          And though at the time …many didn’t like Muldoon…he was a big influence on Winston in the early years…and both had an affinity for the Kiwi battler…

          A phrase we don’t often get to hear these days….maybe it implies too much that we DON’T live in a ‘ rockstar economy ‘….and betrays the fact that there are glaringly obvious signs in society that there is something really , really not right going on…

          Kiwi battler…you know ,…the Aussies aren’t afraid to use that phrase…for them its the the ‘ Aussie battler ‘…

          They also are like we USED TO BE – stand up and tell it like it is. Not snivel in a corner accepting any shit dished out to us by these neo liberal thugs.

          I also like the concept of sovereignty… and the fact that Peters is not afraid to constantly remind and embarrass these globalist’s with that ‘ peculiar ‘ concept.

          I’m glad he won Northland and set the ball rolling.

  3. I have been left gob smacked at the lack of outrage from FJK’s supporters. It appears that Washingtons’ man on the ground, the smiling assassin is doing his job well. I remember the times when NZer’s weren’t so busy sitting on their arses to get out there and protest. I am so disappointed in the numbers turning out, it seems they will even sit by and watch the dreaded TPPA put into action here. Suckers. I got a laugh out of the ‘homicidal chipmunk’ though.

  4. It is very disturbing that NZ has come to this. The USA is no longer a democracy but is totally under the control of the Military Industrial Complex, the Neocon figures who appear whoever wins the election, Democrat or Republican, and the corporates who are driving the Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific trade agreements. NZ should be establishing its own stance in the world and not Kowtowing to a Washington that is totally self serving and further from the peace loving ideals that NZ’ers aspire to than the old Soviet Union. Indeed Washington is aiding and abetting Nazi groups, descended from their WWII ancestors, in Ukraine. The rise of China and Russia and their possible cooperation with Europe in a huge Eurasian bloc has spurred the USA to risk all our lives in a game of high stakes nuclear poker with Russia. Their own economy has been ruined by mis management and money printing (QE) and therefore their control of the world economy is slipping from their grasp. China plans a new Silk Road from Shanghai to Europe so the sea routes controlled by the US Navy will no longer be as important This is why the US are sabotaging the Minsk agreements and helping the morally defunct Ukrainian government of Poroshenko. Unfortunately Russia is a formidable Nuclear armed adversary and only a fool would send Troops to exercise with the Azov (Nazi) Ukrainian battalion or send their NATO puppet army on a sabre rattling “Dragoon Ride” along the borders of Russia. Despite the propaganda spread on the mainstream media about “Russia’s aggression” which is untrue as they have consistently sought peaceful solutions in Ukraine as well as wishing to protect the ethnic Russian population. (Remember MH17 and how the NZ media, the BBC and CNN blamed Russia along with Obama Cameron and Abbot. Ukraine has been shown to be clearly responsible yet there is no acknowledgement of this by any of these parties) This suggests who you should believe in the ongoing propaganda war.
    I for one do not want the security services paid for by my taxes acting to support the fools in charge of the biggest danger to our security on earth the warmongering United States of America.

  5. Every word rings total truth Martyn,

    We should be very worried where this charlatan is taking us to, as he is doing someone else’s dork work for them.

    We are also becoming a target for this activity.

    We need to get rid of bad rubbish with a label of Key attached.

  6. and when will the Royal Commission start on investigating the fact that the GCSB spied on likely candidates for the World Trade Organsiation to help Tim Groser …is that not only unethical but underhanded as well ?

  7. “What?

    Hhmm, yawn, yawn, snooze, snooze, dream, dream and doze off into another sleepy day and night. Fourth Estate, wtf is that? Never mind, I rather sleep and dream, of yet another world, somewhere, in the Never Never Land.”

    So says sleepy hobbit number 1,245,396 out of the larger crowd.

    Our Conclusion:

    RIP MSM, RIP freedom and democracy, RIP “Fourth Estate”, and RIP Hobbits

    • The media is referred to as the Fourth Estate of government. Carlyle attributes the origin of the phrase to Burke in a Parliamentary debate on the opening of the Press Gallery. The first three are the Lords Spiritual (bishops), the Lords Temporal (House of Lords) and the Commons. Burke said the Fourth Estate is the “most important of all” and there you have it in a nutshell: it is the propaganda wing of the government, one of the Ideological State Apparatuses, most usually in the private sphere.

      As Althusser says,

      “The distinction between the public and the private is a distinction internal to bourgeois law, and valid in the (subordinate) domains in which bourgeois law exercises its ‘authority’. The domain of the State escapes it because the latter is ‘above the law’: the State, which is the State of the ruling class, is neither public nor private; on the contrary, it is the precondition for any distinction between public and private. The same thing can be said from the starting-point of our State Ideological Apparatuses. It is unimportant whether the institutions in which they are realized are ‘public’ or ‘private’. What matters is how they function. Private institutions can perfectly well ‘function’ as Ideological State Apparatuses.”

      (“Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses [Notes towards an Investigation]” First published: in La Pensée, 1970; Translated: from the French by Ben Brewster; Source: Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, Monthly Review Press 1971)

      Make no mistake: the press and the State are in cahoots. If that’s your source of information, you’re not only swallowing the poison they feed you, you’re adjusting your thoughts to the ones they want you to have; that you need them more than they need you and that you are powerless without them, when in fact the reverse is true.

    • The entire NZ MSM is on the take, and under the thumb of bully boy Steven Joyce put your money on it.

    • RIP NZ? NEVER! ‘We are Mickey Savage’. An old man I knew cried the day Mickey died. Can you find a NZ’r who will cry when JK dies and for the same reason?

  8. Yep, Key is the US and God knows who else’s Pacific nark!

    If he can benefit from it, Key will act as nark, pimp, whatever you like to call it, without hesitation!

  9. The fact is Snowden is a traitor and cannot be trusted. He has admitted to not having read all of the material he has released, and that has put lives at risk. The continued collusion of the left with Snowden, Dotcom etc is damaging you more than you can possibly know.

    • And I’m sure you will agree there was a little mustachioed man in Germany 60-70 years ago who set himself up as an ‘ authority ‘ as well.

      And the people loved him. At first.

      And then he turned out to be the traitor…and could not be trusted.

      That was after his ideology murdered 6 million Jews in death camps. And left that nation in tatters. And was responsible for starting a war that claimed the lives of around 55-60 million.

      And I would suppose you would think that a German born Jewish defector called Albert Einstein was also a traitor and could not be trusted because he opposed the ‘authority ‘ of the little dictator of Germany.

      Maybe he shouldn’t have been awarded that Nobel Prize in Physics as he too , was a turncoat …and according to the Nazi’s…a traitor that couldn’t be trusted.

      N.Wall ?…..you are a class A fool and a total moron.

  10. @ Nwall – so John Key and his cronies in government aren’t damaging us more than snowden’s whistle blowing?
    It is blindly obviously this government just doesn’t give a damn, and are going along with a pre-laid / pre-paid plan. There is nothing in it for New Zealanders.
    I am all for storming parliament – probably not leading the charge, but happy to be ‘in there’. I’m also happy to vote strategically if need be, and all ready boycott the MSM. I also spread the word to whoever will listen.

    • +100 to the general sentiments…eg..”vote strategically if need be, and all ready boycott the MSM”

      ….but not sure about the “storming parliament” …not a wise move i would say !

      ….and would play right into the hands of the right wing John Key Nact govt to increase police force against protesters

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