Short embed video of Podesta at link:
2020 New Zealand election a ‘juicy target’ for major hack - John Podesta
Tova O’Brien 10/03/2019 (3-10-2019)
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“There are other actors in the region including China that may have a high degree of interest in being able to penetrate what the private conversations of people in NZ politics and NZ Government are looking at,” Mr Podesta says.
New Zealand is a member of the Five Eyes spy network, a powerful intelligence club made up of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and us.
He says we’re a “juicier target”, and should guard against hacked information being weaponised as fake news.
“What’s new is this weaponisation - the use of social media to spread discord, lies, dissatisfaction - that’s I think what you’ve got to look out for,” he says.
Mr Podesta played a starring role in one of the great conspiracy theories of the election - his hacked emails included an exchange about a Washington DC pizza joint called Comet Ping Pong.
“[The rumours were] that HC and I were running a child porn ring, which had no basis in anything, but a guy showed up with a gun and ended up shooting up a pizza parlour,” he says.
This is a cautionary tale from someone who understands too well the influence and damage hacking and fake news can do.
New Zealand is not exempt - and Newshub understands it’s something the Prime Minister is seriously concerned about.
Mr Podesta is in New Zealand for a Global Progressives event.
Global Progressives
“gun violence”
Conspiracy
hacked
FVEY
privacy issues
hacked information being weaponised
fake news
They’re on to us, [They] will “save” the world from us. /Sarc
Mr Podesta is in New Zealand for a Global Progressives event.
Former White House adviser John Podesta praises ‘superstar’ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
11 Mar, 2019 9:49am
Hillary Clinton’s former presidential campaign manager has labelled Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern a “superstar”.
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“She’s made an impression on the world. She’s somebody that people are paying attention to.
“I think they look to her as someone who has found a way to directly connect and make people feel like they are bonded to their political leader,” he said.
“I think she combines an approach that is dealing with building a fair, more inclusive, more sustainable economy with someone who is exciting and young and brings her baby to the United Nations.”
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“They need to be comfortable in their own skin, authentic, telling their own story, giving the reason why they understand what’s happening to families in America and why people feel like the system is rigged for the top and not working in their favour and they have to draw from their own experience to do that.
“They [voters] want to know how you are going to approach things, react to things, feel things and I think she [Ardern] has been pretty good at that so far.”
Podesta also gave his views on United States President Donald Trump, saying he is “completely unfit and unqualified to be President of the United States”.
bonded
fair
inclusive
sustainable
exciting
young
(appeal to women’s issues)
feel
Trump bad man