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John
Key is Washington's man in Parnell. It is important for the world
toknow that NZ has been captured by this fascist. Forget any
preconceptions you have about NZ; we have been consumed by the empire
of evil.
Great
to see Sputnik covering this no matter how much it shames this Kiwi.
---Kevin
Hester
New
Zealand Prime Minister Retracts Vow to Resign Over Mass Surveillance
In
August 2013, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key vowed to resign if
it was ever proven that his country’s government spies on its own
citizens. After top-secret documents revealed that New Zealanders
indeed were targeted by a mass surveillance program, Key reneged on
that pledge.
10
March, 2015
Key
made his promise after evidence emerged showing that New Zealand was
actively participating in the “Five Eyes” mass surveillance
program exposed by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward
Snowden.
Key
issued his denial, and the conditional vow to resign, as assurances
that a new bill he advocated would not increase the surveillance
powers of the country’s spying agency, the Government
Communications Security Bureau. That bill ultimately passed by one
vote, in part due to the prime minister’s guarantees that the new
law would not permit mass surveillance.
Recently
leaked documents allege the GCSB is an active member of “Five
Eyes,” a surveillance alliance that includes electronic
eavesdropping agencies from New Zealand, the US, the United Kingdom,
Canada and Australia.
The
Government Communications Security Bureau's intelligence base in New
Zealand's Waihopai Valley
New
Zealand’s role is to spy on small, friendly island nations in the
Asia-Pacific region and collect data at a GCSB station in New
Zealand’s Waihopai Valley, according to documents. That data is
shared through an NSA surveillance system called XKEYSCORE, which
analyzes data intercepted from 150 different locations worldwide.
On
top of contradicting Key’s assurances that the government does not
spy on New Zealanders, the leaked documents show that the GCSB’s
domestic surveillance operations have dramatically expanded under
Key’s administration.
A
former director of GCSB under Key, Sir Bruce Ferguson, admitted last
week that the agency engages in mass surveillance, then discards the
information it is prohibited from collecting.
“The
whole method of surveillance these days, is sort of a mass collection
situation – individualized: that is mission impossible,” Ferguson
told Morning Report.
On
Monday, Key told Morning Report he could not confirm nor deny
Ferguson's claims, but said the advice he had received was that GCSB
was 100% compliant with the law.
Now,
with a heap of evidence making GCSB’s spying practices undeniable,
Key has chosen not to honor his vow to resign, saying he will not
step down if it is proved – which it has been – that the GCSB
carries out mass collection of New Zealanders’ communications.
During
an appearance on New Zealand Radio, Key was asked if there is “mass
collection of personal data of New Zealand citizens in the Pacific or
not?”
Key,
who was just elected to a third term, responded: “I’m just not
going to comment on where we have particular targets, except to say
that where we go and collect particular information, there is always
a good reason for that.”
When
asked late last week whether New Zealanders have a right to know what
their government is doing in the realm of digital surveillance, the
prime minister said: “as a general rule, no.”
There's something seriously wrong in this country when a bloke can't even hit a nail with a hammer
John
Key’s Nail
10
March, 2015
He
nailed it - or did he? John Key's trip up north over the weekend to
boost candidate Mark Osborne's chances of winning the by-election got
attention for a whole other reason.
A
GIF (moving image) posted to image sharing website Imgur.com of John
Key's woeful attempt at hammering a nail has received more than
700,000 views, making it the most popular piece of New Zealand
content on the site currently
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