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"I believe there's deep seated trouble throughout New Zealand" - Sir David Joseph Dobbyn

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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: The CRL Sans Rose Tint Investigating what the project, past new trains and train stations, could mean for Auckland's future, and whose shaping it smithkstead.substack.com/p/the-crl-sa...
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The CRL Sans Rose Tint
Looking past the hype at what else the CRL might bring, and the future of Auckland CBD
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
if you want to know who the new zealand state is really catering to right now, these are satellite images between 2021-2026 of a property 20 mins northeast from queenstown and 4 mins from arrowtown
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: analysing the manifestos of the San Diego shooting last month, and discussing the new generation of Christchurch copycats www.exitfromaffco.com/p/sons-of-ta...
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"Sons of Tarrant" - The San Diego Shooting, Pt. 1
Analysing their manifestos, and the new generation of Christchurch copycats
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
are you part of a progressive left wing org ? as we head towards the election @1of200.bsky.social will be trying to platform as much cool organising and implementation as possible hmu if you want to discuss campaigns, ideas and solutions in a podcast or livestream format
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
thiel associate rod drury built a bunker-style meeting house in queenstown to host “very influential people”. a source told EFA that a special facility was also built to handle classified info. collins denied when we asked her, but FVEY meetings are held 10 min up the road when in queenstown
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Cool Hand Fluke @nzrossvideo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This is a really big deal. it feels like Key cut a deal with the devil. Thiel got citizenship and we got fucked
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
read this!
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
EXCLUSIVE: EXIT FROM AFFCO can reveal NZ Police used Palantir after the Christchurch massacre to "analyse data including social media returns". How did they enter NZ, and why are we growing closer with a company accused of mass surveillance and war crimes? www.exitfromaffco.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: How Palantir found itself used in the wake of the Christchurch massacre
New Zealand Police's"free trial" of Palantir software, the company's increasing presence domestically, and who helped make it happen
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
if you haven't yet www.exitfromaffco.com
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Exit From Affco | Smith K. Stead | Substack
"I believe there's deep seated trouble throughout New Zealand" - Sir David Joseph Dobbyn. Click to read Exit From Affco, by Smith K. Stead, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
thank you for 200 subscribers on EXIT FROM AFFCO so far. it's honestly a lot more than i expected for 8 months in, unbelievable that close to 40% of the entire NZ population is now subscribed
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
of course "prominent NZers" get their own version of moving to australia for better opportunities, but those opportunities are escaping 18 sex abuse charges and getting to holiday in the philippines
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
when the news broke last year, multiple groups came together to deliver a letter to the mosque that would have been targeted by ronndog keefe, alongside flowers and a paua scarf. "may you feel the embrace of collective care and strength around you in this time."
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
15/3, 7 years on: Tarrant, his under-discussed connections to and influence on the global far-right, and Christchurch's legacy as the most impactful fascist terror attack of the 21st century www.exitfromaffco.com/p/christchur...
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Christchurch, March 15, 2019: 7 Years On
Tarrant, his influences, connections, and Christchurch's long shadow over fascist terror
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: NZ's first convicted 764 member, a short history of the Satanic fascist cult network, Ronndog Keefe's crimes and his foiled terror attack against Muslim men www.exitfromaffco.com/p/a-soldier-...
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A "soldier of Christ": 764's first NZ convicted member
A history of 764, Ronndog Keefe's heinous crimes, and a foiled terror attack on Muslim men
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: a whistleblower has claimed that he reported the Bondi shooters to ASIO in 2019 due to their connections to pro-ISIS networks in Sydney, 6 years before the Bondi shooting, and ASIO ignored his warnings www.exitfromaffco.com/p/its-offici...
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It’s official: ASIO got 15 people killed.
New claims from a whistleblower: ASIO knew of the Bondi shooters, but made a choice not to do anything
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
i'm glad the new zealand legal system is accomodating to these israeli men's trauma response (drug trafficking) ❤️
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
i'm just so glad NZ police would agree to meet with (on his request) an israeli police attache stationed here in april 2025, including the directors of the national intel, organised crime, financial intel, and national security group
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
BREAKING: we now have photos of the israeli fruit juicer
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: Jeffery Epstein and Lawrence Krauss’ planned (but cancelled) trip to New Zealand in 2010, Krauss’ attempts at a Epstein-funded institute at Otago Uni, and a wider discussion on Epstein, Aotearoa, and why elites keep flocking here www.exitfromaffco.com/p/epsteins-p...
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Epstein's (planned) New Zealand trip and Otago Uni institute
Jeffery Epstein, and his associate Lawrence Krauss's obsession with New Zealand
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
read the full piece here: www.exitfromaffco.com/p/epsteins-p...
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Epstein's (planned) New Zealand trip and Otago Uni institute
Jeffery Epstein, and his associate Lawrence Krauss's obsession with New Zealand
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
while epstein's NZ plans were relatively shortlived, it's interesting to consider what attracted krauss to the country in the first place, and what an epstein-funded university institute in otago would have meant
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
krauss sends one more desperate email to epstein in november, asking for word on his decision around the institute, with epstein replying: "re new zealand„ I can’t get behind it."
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
in emails between krauss and otago university he later forwards to epstein, he discusses setting up an institute where him and his soon-to-be second wife would be employed, with initial private funding provided by an unnamed financier (epstein, who he hadn't asked yet)
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
later in 2012, krauss begins badgering epstein to discuss krauss' plans to spend "6 months a year" in NZ by setting up an institute, asking him to help save his life
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
before i forget, these are excerpts from the latest EXIT FROM AFFCO piece on epstein, krauss, and new zealand, which you can read here: www.exitfromaffco.com/p/epsteins-p...
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Epstein's (planned) New Zealand trip and Otago Uni institute
Jeffery Epstein, and his associate Lawrence Krauss's obsession with New Zealand
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
krauss tries to confirm plans a few weeks later ("3 interesting days of talking, and viewing"). however, sadly (for krauss, luckily for us) epstein blows him off to visit dubai
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
soon after, krauss and epstein discuss plans to visit new zealand in october later that year, with epstein confirming his availability
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
in 2010, while visiting NZ on a speaking tour, scientist lawrence krauss emailed his associate (and long-time patron) epstein about trying to get epstein to meet a "university president". krauss was then visiting otago uni
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
celebrity physicist lawrence krauss, jeffery epstein's planned trip to new zealand in 2010, and a (scuppered) institute at otago university: a thread🧵
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
this was apparently from an earlier tranche but epstein was in talks back in 2012 with auckland uni professor and nabokov researcher brian boyd to pay him to write his "wish list" book on lolita
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
i am very curious who this "peter" who was emailing epstein about the 2018 NZ banksy exhibition is
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
don't know if this has been previously reported, but it seems that brice and karen gordon, the NZ couple who managed epstein's zorro ranch, were also managing little st. james
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
2010 email to epstein: "[REDACTED] is sick at home... New Zealand looked cute today) [REDACTED] is 19 but I look younger than her) I like [REDACTED] more... Will ask her out this week)"
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
epstein to google co-founder larry page: "when you are next on your island give me a call and come visit. I would like to take you up on your invitation to test your new zealand catamaran. next step?" the boat was bought from NZ businessman douglas myers
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
apparently new zealand wool was not high quality enough for the carpet in the lolita express
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
collins is stepping down, but that doesn't mean she's done. she's positioned herself to remain a crucial node (and likely lobbyist) in the nascent NZ mil-tech industry she's helped build up over this term. read her speech notes from a 2024 NZ Defence Industry Assocation meeting below
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: following the Bondi attack, the AU gov is investigating "antisemitism and social cohesion" instead of the failures of intelligence agencies to stop a massacre carried out by a man "known" to ASIO (by William Evans) www.exitfromaffco.com/p/the-bondi-...
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The Bondi shooting and dodging accountability
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, and the intelligence coverup it perpetrates
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Another banger from smith, this is hands down *the* substack to be signed up with to understand what's happening in the backrooms of nz politics
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
OUT NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: as a warning for this upcoming election year, a piece from 2024 on the treaty principles bill, the conservative counter-reaction to māori sovereignty, and the global/national forces behind seymour and his policies www.exitfromaffco.com/p/the-haka-i...
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The haka in Parliament and the Treaty Principles Bill
David Seymour, the Atlas Network, and the latest attempt to snuff out Māori sovereignty
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
sunday marked 180 yrs since the end of the battle of ruapekapeka pa, and the 1845-46 northern war between ngāpuhi and the british crown. the pa was so impressive to british officials that in 1851 a model was commissioned and gifted to the world's oldest defence think tank, RUSI
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
a NZ charter yacht first mate and his colleague / wife might have been at epstein's private island when the FBI raided, as photocopies of both their passports/IDs, her luggage, resume, and an air NZ ticket were photographed as part of the search
photocopies of Phil Baker's New Zealand passport and drivers' license, and his wife Myla Trestiza's Filipino birth certificate, Social Security card, drivers' license, passport, and green cardmyla trestiza's resume amongst luggage, with an air NZ flight ticket in the backgroundzoomed in photo of ticket (NZ 8, Auckland to San Fransisco) phil baker's bio on the website crew list for the te manu yacht
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
with very little pushback or attention, NZ's foreign and military policy is rapidly aligning with the new military alliance the US is building against china, one that seeks to gut each country to pour money into the defence industry and use them as cannon fodder for the empire
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✧°・:* izzie *:・°✧ @winterwhe.at · 19/12/2025
"• We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity;" ah yeah okay support for white supremacy is official US national security policy.
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
OUT NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: the Trump admin's National Security Strategy document from earlier this month, and how New Zealand's government is already acting out on it and falling in behind the American empire www.exitfromaffco.com/p/new-zealan...
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Caught in a "Kill-Web": New Zealand and America's 2025 National Security Strategy
The Trump admin's new military and foreign policy direction, and New Zealand falling into lockstep
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1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Here it is!! With significant work from one of our contributors we're soft-relaunching the 1/200 newsletter this summer Includes a round-up of links for progressive articles AND what we hope will become a more substantive "gig guide" of upcoming protests, strikes and petitions Please share!
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Common Sense - 13/12/2025 — 1/200
Kia ora all, welcome to the first issue of the (rebooted) 1/200 Common Sense newsletter. This newsletter aims to collate the important Aotearoa news of the previous week, and any upcoming events or ac...
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The historical context is also key to understanding just how deeply rotten and corrupt these institutions are; smithkstead has the rundown for us
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NEW FROM EXIT FROM AFFCO: A discussion about the Jevon McSkimming / IPCA report, a look back on a few oft-forgotten police scandals, and the cultural rot deep inside the NZ establishment open.substack.com/pub/smithkst...
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McSkimming, and more skeletons in the Police's closet
Another episode in New Zealand police's culture of silence
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Smith K. Stead @smithkstead.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
hello new zealand police, we the israeli police are just gifting you this kitchen appliance for you to plug into the wall in some sort of office. oh you're putting it in the national HQ? that's wonderful, thanks
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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Wouldn't really need to do this in NZ because almost the entire press pack is already effectively compromised or obeying in advance :) declassifiedaus.org/2025/10/31/r...
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Revealed: Secret Plans To Introduce Media Censorship In Australia
Moves to restrict what journalists can report on defence and intelligence are underway – and journalists need to get up to speed fast.
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FookyFBSandcat @funkypuffin56.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Great piece from @smithkstead.bsky.social Mossad and the Fake passport saga. Or one of the NZ ones....there are many examples globally www.exitfromaffco.com/p/israeli-pa...
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Israeli Passport Bros - Mossad & New Zealand, Part 1
The comedy of errors that led to an Israeli passport theft ring in Auckland falling apart
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