1865: New Zealand Governor Commits Suicide
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 9am, 30 April, 1865, Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy committed suicide by cutting his own throat open with a razor. FitzRoy was New Zealand’s second Governor and also captain of the famous HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage that also visited New Zealand. About 20 years after being Boss of New Zealand, the […]
Read more..April 30, 2020
Normalising Fear and Anxiety
By NZB3
Propaganda like this (left) was paid for by viewers like you. The US funds $400-500 millions to the WHO each year. New Zealand contributes less than $6 millions. “It is normal to feel fearful and anxious during this time.”- World Health Organisation The WHO is literally normalising fear and anxiety. They follow it up by […]
Read more..April 30, 2020
1918: The Storming of King Edward Barracks
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 29 April, 1918, Christchurch was in an uproar. In the thick of World War One, our State had activated the Second Division lottery ballot. Conscription to fight the Great Wrong War was now applied to married men. Division One had applied to the unmarried or recently married, the childless, widowers […]
Read more..April 29, 2020
“I cant see the Government shutting down the country for nothing”
By NZB3
Governments seem to make all sorts of screwy decisions. They fix things that aren’t broken, remove things that work, introduce entire institutions and even industries with no practical purpose. Non-Anarchists (Statists to some degree) just shake their heads and wonder why. “Why,” they say, “turn the economy to cinders and ash? Well- let’s give them […]
Read more..April 29, 2020
1893: The Death of Ballance
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand History, 6.19pm, 27 April, 1893, Premier John Ballance died in office. Ballance immigrated from Ireland in 1866 and set up his own newspaper, The Wanganui Herald, rising to power and renown. By 1875 he was an MP and soon became 2IC to Premier George Grey himself. Their platform relied greatly […]
Read more..April 27, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine
By NZB3
Americans and New Zealanders are very different people. The strain of Statism in the American runs far more deep than in his Kiwi cousin. When US President Donald Trump remarked that a particular medication, Hydroxychloroquine, held promise he was attacked all over the world. Likewise, even more recently, POTUS pitched an question to an advisor about […]
Read more..April 27, 2020
“Money is a spook”
By NZB3
As we come out of Lockdown it has become clear that many of the protected class think it will all be business as usual. They think we’re all going to go right back to work as if it’s all just been some Christmas holiday. In reality, New Zealand’s over-valued economy has been on thin ice […]
Read more..April 27, 2020
1915: Evacuation of Gallipoli
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On December 20th, 1915, the last men left Anzac Cove in the evacuation of Gallipoli. This postcard (left) was provided by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the troops to send home. Apart from season’s greetings, it also serves as a faint to the ‘enemy’ that the Anzac invaders would stand their ground. Two young […]
Read more..April 25, 2020
1920: “Inane Maories danced & made weird noises at me!!”
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 24 April, 1920, The Prince of Wales visited New Zealand on a tour of about a month. At the time, and for years after, we thought he really loved us and enjoyed his time. Little did New Zealanders really know what a future king’s private thoughts are while performing his […]
Read more..April 24, 2020
“You think we are all in our jobs voluntarily I take it?”
By NZB3
The philosopher who is below average at telling necessary conditions apart from sufficient conditions better be an above average cartoonist. Existential Comics can draw but his ideas…..terrible! I’ve been having a conversation about what he got wrong in thinking that an entrepreneur is supposed to be able to create wealth in a vacuum.. “if the […]
Read more..April 23, 2020
Egalitarian Lock Down
By NZB3
A minor theme during this Lockdown has been the plea of regions to have their economic liberty restored rather than held back by Central Government. Why should the West Coast or the Chathams or Stewart Island or Gisbourne etc. be in detention in involuntary solidarity with everyone else? It’s one minor theme for all of […]
Read more..April 22, 2020
The ‘Contact Tracing’ Contract
By NZB3
The State broadcaster today interviewed the State contractor (who I’m sure was paid handsomely) recruited by the Government to put an academic seal of approval on what Labour 6.0 surely desire to do regardless. The Freudian slip by the Fourth Estate is the symbol for all you need to know about the new Government program called ‘Contact Tracing’. John Campbell on TVNZ Breakfast […]
Read more..April 21, 2020
