Toy Story 4
By NZB3
No spoiler warnings; That was your spoiler warning. Toy Story 4 did not make my young alibi happy. A sophisticated kid, he blames the director and the writers for the choice to break up the gang. Woody the cowboy toy does something he is not happy with. As for me, I respect the choice. Woody […]
Read more..June 30, 2019
Old Colonialism and New Colonialism
By VJM
‘Colonialism’ is one of the dirtiest of dirty words nowadays, bringing to mind images of Belgian Congolese getting their hands chopped off for failing to meet the day’s rubber quota. The problem with this simple sentiment, as this essay will explore, is that colonialism is still going strong. We used to plunder the world for […]
Read more..June 29, 2019
1981: The Anderson Bay Hoax
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The grief the Children of Parihaka were told to feel in their 2012 documentary was generated from lies. And the Mayor hopped on board as politicians always will. These people were sympathising with a myth, bonding with bullshit. It’s not authentic but contrived in every case, not just the Anderson Bay hoax. [Ref. Extract from […]
Read more..June 29, 2019
1881: Wait A Minute Chester! (or, After Parihaka)
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
It’s become a regular repetitive refrain that history revisionists such as the Race Relations Commission preface their propaganda with. “Know your history – Kimihia ō kōrero tuku iho”…. “Chester Borrows: Learn your history, no matter how unpalatable it might be”- 1/June/2018, NZ Herald Perhaps Borrows in this piece is interviewing for a seat on some […]
Read more..June 29, 2019
1912: A Bazaar Permission Slip
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
‘When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.‘ So it always has been. Archives New Zealand have been regularly posting permission requests like this one from the public asking The State if they can please organise themselves socially in such benign ways as holding a […]
Read more..June 28, 2019
Overcoming the Black Pill
By VJM
Many are familiar with the paralysing despair that seems to leak from the stomach, into the bloodstream, and into all the other organs, especially the brain. One looks around and examines the world, and the resulting despair makes life seems hopeless and pointless, and suicide like a viable way of ending the suffering. Those who […]
Read more..June 27, 2019
1958: The Black Budget
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history: 26 June, 1958: The Black Budget Labour Government 2.0 was a crumbling shambles held together by party discipline. Just a one-term wonder, Labour had barely managed to lick National in the election at all and would be booted out in election 1960. I think everyone agrees that Nordmeyer’s Black Budget was the […]
Read more..June 27, 2019
1925: Maori Boomerang Discovered
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Along with the Tamil Bell, the Korotangi, and the Coberg Stump comes this Muriwai beach boomerang. Discovered in 1925, it’s one of those amazing and seemingly anachronistic objects that defy mainstream understanding of New Zealand history. William Powell, the discoverer, was a self-taught naturalist who gave himself an Anarchist education like all the best Kiwis do. […]
Read more..June 26, 2019
Signs That A New Spiritual Order Is Arising
By VJM
With every era that passes, old orders fall and new orders rise. Some of these old orders are military, some are technological and some are spiritual. With every Great Month that passes, a pre-existing spiritual order falls and a new spiritual order rises. This essay explains how we find ourselves now in such a time […]
Read more..June 25, 2019
1840s: Bad Boy Adventures in New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Jerningham Wakefield (1820-1879) born 199 years ago on this day in history His mother did not survive the birth, leaving Edward Gibbon Wakefield the surviving parent. So he never really stood much chance at a happy life. By the age of 7, JW visited his father who was locked up for attempted abduction of a […]
Read more..June 25, 2019
1990s: Social Capital Tanks
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
A child buying groceries solo…”This Is Not Neglect. Not a Crime. Not Abnormal. WE Are Abnormal” I must disagree. It’s not brainwashing as to the limitations of our children, it’s a rational calculation based on our knowledge that the Social Capital is so low in our own communities now. “The idea that kids can’t do […]
Read more..June 23, 2019
1954: Fourth World
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
65 Years ago: Today in history, 22 July, 1954, New Zealand was changed forever by two teenage murderers in Christchurch. Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme broke the accepted pattern of crime in New Zealand. Even today, female privilege keeps our eyes on the crimes of men and how to punish them. When the duo bludgeoned […]
Read more..June 22, 2019
