Internet
MANA campaign launch disrupted by NZ media
Internet
MANA's electoral campaign was launched today, but disrupted by the
media scrum.
First off - the Party's video of the campaign launch
Internet
MANA Launch - Meet The Future
Then, a discription of events by Martyn ('Bomber') Bradbury
Internet
MANA announce free tertiary education & full employment – media
ego blocks it
Martyn
Bradbury
24
August, 2014
I
was looking forward to the headlines. The headlines were a train
wreck .
Internet
MANA launch their campaign after an extraordinary road tour and after
gaining 4% in the Colmar Brunton Poll, today should have been the
start point for a momentous occasion in progressive political
history.
It
was, but sadly most won’t know it.
The
venue is packed and full. Much talk about Dirty Politics and the
astonishment at how Key and Co have managed to get away with so much.
The early voting campaign they are about to launch will be the most
sophisticated in NZs political history and I think will ensure them a
shot at 5%+.
The
energy and the passion is vibrant. There is an air of excitement that
rarely seeps into the moribund monolithic larger parties. Change and
hope are here.
“We
are going to take NZ back from the Americans’ roars Kim Dotcom
after he reels off what has become a well worn speech he has given up
and down the country over the last few months. He tells the
delightful story of hacking NASA (to find out if there are aliens),
hacking a bank (to give Greenpeace $20million) and hacking the credit
rating of a politician. Hilarious stuff, but I noted how TV3s Brook
Sabin stiffened as he heard these stories. I don’t think many of
the media there had heard these tales before and suddenly sensed a
scoop in connecting Kim to the recent hacking of Slater.
That
ugliness comes later. But I remember thinking to myself, ‘he thinks
this story is something new’.
For
the record, I don’t think Kim had anything to do with the hacking
of Slater’s computer. Nicky Hager is a man of integrity and honour,
and if he says the source was not Kim Dotcom, then it was not Kim
Dotcom. My own personal theory is that it is activists loosely
associated with Anonymous NZ who have taken utu on Slater for his
horrifically insensitive comments about a young South Island man who
died in a car crash.
Back
to the event.
Internet
MANA have just announced full employment as a goal. The place goes
nuts. It’s Laila’s turn now. She is one of the great progressive
politicians of our generation and watching her gather an army to do
battle on the political battlefield is one of the most exciting
things in left wing politics right now. The lofty aim of full
employment is tempered by economic plans to use ACC reserves to work
for job creation. $1.4b per year to go into community, council and
Iwi projects to build jobs.
What
Internet MANA are doing here is demanding a different relationship
between Government and its people. It’s a realisation of
responsibility, that the Government has a responsibility to its
people to see full employment as a genuine goal rather than using
high unemployment as a means of driving down wages overall.
To
put the cherry on that cake, Laila reinforces the free tertiary
education policy. For those who would complain that tertiary students
shouldn’t get that kind of subsidy, I’d point out that every
graduate needing a student loan passes the cost of servicing that
loan onto everyone else in the cost of the services they end up
providing – the only person who wins from students loans are the
bloody banks! Making Gen Y as indebted as Gen X isn’t progress,
it’s time to provide for younger generations the way we provide for
the older generations.
Huge
roar when Laila declares Internet MANA will stop the TPPA.
It
was a success. It was clever. It was passionate.
I
was looking forward to the headlines. The headlines were a train
wreck.
The
media thought they had a scoop with Kim’s hacking tales and
immediately started a feeding frenzy that Internet MANA weren’t
prepared for. The horror at watching an amazing set of policy
launches getting boiled down to questions that had nothing to do with
those policies prompted a response by Pam that while entertaining,
managed to get used to eclipse the entire event.
Free
tertiary education and full employment just got knocked off the
headlines because media want to do stories about them and their ego.
They were told Kim wasn’t giving interviews, they threw a wobbly
about that and went into feeding frenzy mode and made the entire
story about them and not about free education and full employment.
At
least National had their bullshit housing policy covered before the
media got stonewalled trying to ask legitimate questions about actual
evidenced behaviour of Key’s staff and Ministers. Internet MANA
didn’t get the same curtesy.
Internet
MANA might get around 5% this election, and that would be an
extraordinary political win, but if the nation gets to hear about
free tertiary education and full employment it could be 7%.
It’s
a kick in the guts that the nation didn’t get to hear that tonight.
The
NZ presstitutes, Cameron Slater's media sluts – could take a lesson
from RT News on how to do proper journalism
‘Super-hero’:
Kim Dotcom’s Internet Mana party campaign kicks off
RT,
24 August, 2014
The Internet Mana campaign has kicked off in New Zealand, with the new political party founded by the Megaupload owner promising 100,000 new jobs, free higher education, and 100 percent renewable energy by 2015.
Kim Dotcom was named the nation’s "newest super hero" and he expressed high hopes for the party. "I can tell you right now we will get over 5 percent in this election," he said, as quoted by the New Zealand Herald.
24 August, 2014
The Internet Mana campaign has kicked off in New Zealand, with the new political party founded by the Megaupload owner promising 100,000 new jobs, free higher education, and 100 percent renewable energy by 2015.
Kim Dotcom was named the nation’s "newest super hero" and he expressed high hopes for the party. "I can tell you right now we will get over 5 percent in this election," he said, as quoted by the New Zealand Herald.
New
Zealand should get rid of close ties with the US, according to
Dotcom.
"We're
going to take this country forward and take this country back from
the Americans," he
said also addressing the country’s premier John Key: “We
are going to stop your national disaster. [...]There is no rock star
economy in New Zealand."
During
the meeting, the party’s policies were announced.
If
elected, Internet Mana pledges to spend $1.1 billon per year over the
next five years to set up short-term jobs for young people, young
single parents, students, and the long-term unemployed. This would be
achieved via community projects, such as school food programs, waste
management, and recycling initiatives, the One News media outlet
reported.
'
“There
is a need to act rapidly and on a large scale to provide meaningful
work in communities and to develop a digital and technology savvy
workforce on which our economic future will depend. Internet MANA is
promising an explosion of creativity and entrepreneurship at all
levels,” the
party’s press release stated.
“We
will resource job-rich, community economic development initiatives,
short term job creation and a significant plan for the development of
a world leading digital industry workforce,” it
also read.
A
digital workforce is also expected to be created, with 50,000
permanent jobs, and a budget of $400 million a year.
Internet
Mana also plans to cancel students’ loans debts.
Dotcom
described Laila Harre, who heads the party, as “an
amazing leader.” Harre,
in her turn, praised the "humanity,
compassion and capacity for sheer hard work" of
Hone Harawira and Kim Dotcom, the founders of the party.
"Today
is a celebration of the possible," she
said, as cited by the New Zealand Herald.
However,
the meeting ended in uproar when the subject of hacking was
mentioned.
Dotcom
made reference to hacking in his speech, saying he had hacked
the“German credit rating system,” and journalists wanted to ask
him if it was linked with Dirty Politics, a book based on the letters
to and from blogger Cameron Slater, containing communications with
New Zealand’s premier and the country’s ministries.
Afterwards,
Dotcom’s press secretary Pam Corkery reacted angrily, using strong
language against journalists, saying:
“He
doesn't want to. He said three times, 'I don't want to give you an
interview.' He's not a candidate. He doesn't owe you anything.”
Here
is the version of events from TV3 journalist, Brook Sabin who proved disinterested
in reporting anything about Internet MANA's policies, but were there
only to interview Kim Dotcom and who broke up the procedures when
they were met with an understandable refusal.
Go
Pam Corkery, for calling a spade a spade!
You're
my hero of the day!
To repeat her words the TV3 journalist is a puffed up little shit
The journalist Brook Sabin is National MP Mike Sabin's son
Pam Corkery is a journalist herself and formerly and Alliance MP
One
of her great lines is” "Politicians are, by and
large, far more self-deluding, devious, bloated, insecure, egocentric
wankers than I had feared."
Internet
Mana launch ends in chaos
3 News,
24 August, 2014
To watch TV3's disgusting "news" coverage GO HERE
The Internet Mana election launch has ended in disaster, with Kim Dotcom running from the building as journalists were sworn at.
24 August, 2014
To watch TV3's disgusting "news" coverage GO HERE
The Internet Mana election launch has ended in disaster, with Kim Dotcom running from the building as journalists were sworn at.
It
all started after Dotcom made reference to hacking in his speech, and
when journalists wanted to ask him more, whether it was linked with
Dirty Politics, it turned ugly.
Internet
Mana press secretary Pam Corkery was not happy journalists wanted to
talk to Dotcom.
"You
puffed-up little s**t," she said. "He doesn't want to. He
said three times, 'I don't want to give you an interview.' He's not a
candidate. He doesn't owe you anything. When will you glove puppets
of Cameron Slater just piss off?"
Dotcom
denies he's the hacker behind Dirty Politics, but at the party's
campaign launch today said this.
"I
hacked our German credit rating system and put our Prime Minister's
credit rating to zero because I didn't like the guy," said
Dotcom. "You have all figured by now there's another Prime
Minister I don't like."
But
he didn't want to talk about his comments afterwards.
The
abuse started when we were filming, explaining Dotcom was in hiding.
"We've
talked about jobs today and people living in poverty." said
Corkery. "You want to interview Kim, who said no interviews,
about a 19-year-old story. You work in news!"
And
while that was going on, Dotcom ran to a waiting car to make a quick
getaway.
Earlier,
at the start of the launch, we briefly caught up with Dotcom to ask
if he knew anything about the Twitter account Whaledump, which claims
to be the hacker behind the Dirty Politics book.
So
the Internet Mana launch ended in disaster, with talk of hacking,
Dotcom running off and media abuse.
Internet
Mana says it wants to disrupt this campaign, and it has now taken
that to a whole new level.
And TV1 "coverage"GO HERE
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