Wondering Why Politicians Vote Against The People? NSA Blackmail Might Be your Answer.

In this excellent and well sourced post Washington’s blog details how the NSA collects data in order to blackmail and terrorise people it doesn’t like but also how sexual (mis)conduct from high profile politicians and judges, to name a few, is being used to blackmail them into voting and judging court cases to suit the […]

On The GCSB, Spying And The Panopticon Effect Or Why Nicky Hager Is Naïve And We Are All In Danger

I have met Nicky Hager and been to lectures and speeches of his. I have corresponded with him via email on various occasions and subjects and I really like his intelligence, his professionalism, integrity and attention to detail.  I also really like him on a personal level and contributed twice to his legal fund. I […]

Some Journalist’s Questions To Clare Curran And The GCSB: What About That Southern Cross Cable Outage On 9 Nov 2012

The biggest ever NZ Internet outage occurred on November 9 2012, when apparently an unauthorised person was able to make unauthorised changes to the software managing the Southern cross cable connection to the wider internet in Sydney. What’s more, that person could do so without notification and did so with catastrophic consequences. So if I […]

NSA Spying On 122 World Leaders…. That We Know Of!

So I wonder if John Key was on that list too? Documents show that Britain’s GCHQ intelligence service infiltrated German Internet firms and America’s NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. Is it time for the country to open a formal espionage investigation? […]

Spies Mum Over US Money Donations? That Tells You All You Need To Know!

Here is my point. Their English sister organization had to admit they received funds from the US after Snowden revealed they had been given large wads of cash by their US counterparts and the GCSB doesn’t want to say if they did. Well who is their Paymaster? The one they don’t want to talk about […]

My Choice 31-10-2013

Here is my choice for 31-10-1013: On India: India: Taken Over by Foreign Banks? Mass Poverty and Social Inequality in India: The Devastating Impacts of the Neoliberal Economic Development Model On Freedom of press, information and will conspiracy theories end democracy? Are conspiracy theories destroying democracy? General Alexander doesn’t like your freedom of speech US […]

27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine

“I don’t believe it’s in the public interest to go into the operational programmes used by GCSB or SIS,” says Mr Key. Chances are that if you are reading this blog, you are on the list. Chances are that if you are reading this blog at least some of these 27 terrifying quotes from Edward […]

Whistleblower: NSA even collected credit card records

In case you are wondering: Eschelon and other assorted spy apparatus do this to everyone everywhere. Ex-analyst believes program actually the remnants of ‘Total Information Awareness,’ shut down by Congress in 2003 On Wednesday night, when former NSA analyst Russell Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that the Bush administration’s National Security Agency spied on everyone […]

AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates ‘Infrastructure for a Police State’

Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate’s vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others. [Wednesday]’s vote by Congress […]