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New Zealand Protests over spy bill fashioned to NSA standards.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10904351New Zealand held protests in eleven cities against the internet spying bill that is suspected of being tailored to comply with NSA designs. This GCSB (Government Communications Security Bureau) is a prelude to the TPP that is now proceeding in secret negotiations and the details of which are reportedly to be withheld from public scrutiny for four years after its implementation. This is the effect of the exporting of US corporatism and the effects it has upon a small country. Even New Zealand is growing in the resentment of the exporting of a US agenda driven by corporate interests instead of democratic principles.