1841: Cornwallis
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Cornwallis, on the Waitakaries side of Maunkau Harbour was once intended to be a great Auckland township. Today substantial houses and suburban-style dwellings are displacing the summer holiday batches that used to be the mainstay. Into the 1960s Cornwallis still had a post office and store (ref. image.) All of that changed during the 1970s […]
Read more..October 27, 2020
1938: Labour 1.2
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The first Labour Government (Labour 1.0) came to power in 1935 and they were not a one-term thing. Michael Joseph Savage’s party was re-elected in a great landslide on 15 October 1938 which New Zealand would see again only in 2020 with the re-election of Labour 6.0 under Jacinda Ardern on 17 October 2020. In […]
Read more..October 23, 2020
Cross-Dressing Robot Man
By NZB3
Mark Bryan is an American Boomer, a robotics engineer living in Stuttgart, Germany. He’s just made international headlines on the basis of being a serial cross-dresser these past 3 years despite being a married father of three. What’s up with that? Bryan is Acting Out a Psychodrama, turning the world upside down in order for […]
Read more..October 22, 2020
1857: Superintendent William Moorhouse Elected
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 27 October, 1857, Charles Bowen was in a fury with his fellow Lyttleton Times editor. The contest was on for who would be the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province, James Fitzgerald having moved on. The 1857 contest was between William Sefton Moorhouse and Joseph Brittan. The two contenders were nominated at the Town Hall […]
Read more..October 22, 2020
“Change That Sticks”
By NZB3
Labour 6.5 are upon us now, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won a second term in a landslide. Ardern’s plan now, of course, is identical with that other famous Millennial political leader, President Business, from the Lego Movie (2014.) He commanded his Micromanagers to assemble the entire economy into his own vision, then glued all the building […]
Read more..October 21, 2020
Entrenched Power
By NZB3
“The NZ right has never entrenched power or changed anything in its favour once elected. The next time we win, we must do so.” That’s all either side ever does. Destroy whatever the other built as much as possible, re-build it all to bias themselves. Politics is the art of getting away with it, of […]
Read more..October 20, 2020
1966: US President in New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand History, 19 October, 1966, the President of the United States himself came by for a visit. You might think that the man prosecuting a very unpopular war against Vietnam at the time would be hated but, no, it was too early for that. US Relations was still pretty great and POTUS, Lyndon […]
Read more..October 19, 2020
1971: New Zealand’s Heritage: The Making of a Nation
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The zenith of a great wave lifted the population of New Zealand’s social ocean after the War and had yet to break by the end of 1973. Powerful currents of sustained economic growth, diffused prosperity, Progress, and high Social Capital nurtured a great outpouring of nation-building energy. We felt like a nation, perhaps more than […]
Read more..October 17, 2020
The Voter’s Illusion
By NZB3
Boy, if They could get you to think this worked just imagine the state the world would be in today! “Voting is the illusion that we can repair a car by changing the driver” Scratch that. Just look out the window. Post syndicated from http://NZB3.anarkiwi.co.nz/2020/10/17/the-voters-illusion/.
Read more..October 17, 2020
The Vote Shredder
By NZB3
Don’t forget to put your vote in the shredder this Saturday, October 17th. It encourages the politicians to keep up their good work! Perhaps most importantly, every time you think of doing something for your community you’ll stop and remember you already think you have! Relax, leave it to the professionals to run New Zealand, […]
Read more..October 16, 2020
Advance Voting
By NZB3
When businesses approach you, or give you products and services you didn’t ask for, it’s an uninvited direct sale. You can change your mind and cancel any purchase agreement for any reason within five working days. This is the law, under the Fair Trading Act (1986.) The principle is that, sometimes, people get caught […]
Read more..October 16, 2020
Lower the Voting Species
By NZB3
May as well lower the voting age or even lower the voting species! Once was a time the Consent of the Governed was sought from mature minds, from our Intellectual Self. Our sober, thinking parts were consulted when it came to decisions about the use of force or the direction our society ought to go. […]
Read more..October 15, 2020
