Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Surveillance

  • Groser’s bid for WTO role pure vanity – and involving the GCSB pure self-interest

    Joint reporting by the NZ Herald and The Intercept has broken the news this morning that the GCSB was involved in spying on other candidates for the WTO director general role,…

  • Hager’s revelations have the authoritarians worried

    The Sunday Star-Times is reporting interesting things coming out tomorrow: https://twitter.com/sundaystartimes/status/573944664081850368 You can always spot the stories which have the supporters-of-the-status-quo worried: https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/573949709938634752 https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/574007328468377600 I hate to break it to…

  • They hear everything you say

    The Herald reports: #snowdenNZ : The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations More from mickysavage at The Standard: NZ spies on its Pacific neighbours and The…

  • How to respond to Charlie Hebdo?

    Twelve people have died in the attack on French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo, and the response from many people – from a New Zealand perspective fairly divorced from the immediate…

  • Let slip the dogwhistles of war

    In discussions, potential possibility, no commitment, carrying out a scoping mission – the plan to send NZ military forces to Iraq to combat Islamic State is only the vaguest of…