2015: Story
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Carrying on the theme of deleted TV3 current affairs shows…’Story’ 10 August 2015-16 December 2016. “At the end of 2016, I basically left TV3 at the end of that horrific current affairs show Story I was working on, where we were pretending to do current affairs at 7pm, which as we all know doesn’t happen […]
Read more..December 16, 2021
How The Political Party Works
By NZB3
This picture shows how political parties appear to work to the Statists who excuse what they see. A stove with a live burning, heating nothing. The pan on the wrong element with broken egg shells in it. The raw egg has fallen below the pan onto the stove top beside a dead burner. It appears […]
Read more..December 11, 2021
1918: Surafend Massacre
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 10 December, 1918, the Surafend Massacre. The New Zealand and Australian camp in Palestine was subject to ongoing thefts and raids by the adjacent sand people. One day one of the Arab thieves became too bold and killed one of our warriors in the course of stealing from him. After military police […]
Read more..December 10, 2021
1963: Bassett Road Machine-gun Murders
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 7 December, 1963, a dispute in the hospitality industry led to two men being shot dead at 115 Bassett Road, Remuera, Auckland. The murder weapon was set to single shot mode not rapid fire but the type of weapon fed into the gangster romance that made the case infamous. That, […]
Read more..December 7, 2021
1860s: The New Zealand Death
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Drownings in New Zealand, at one time, became so pronounced that it began to be referred to as The New Zealand Death. As often happens in mainstream history writing an idea is blindly copied examined, its truth taken for granted. One influential writer sets down an idea and it becomes repeated and quoted over and […]
Read more..December 5, 2021
1885: A Damning Epitaph
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Here is a grave stone in Ahaura Cemetry, West Coast, that tells a story for the generations. John Cressey had drowned in 1885 aged just 14 years, another victim of what our history often calls The New Zealand Death. In pioneering days, it is said, our people died so frequently of drownings that this term […]
Read more..December 4, 2021
1981: Rixen
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Between 26 August and 4 December, 1981, ex-employees of the Rixen Manufacturing in Levin occupied the factory. This is New Zealand’s longest industrial sit-in in our history. It gained them nothing. Why did they do it? There is no rational tactical advantage to flogging a dead horse. Rixen’s owner, Ken Dungey, had evidently been unable […]
Read more..December 3, 2021
Kayfabe Army
By NZB3
‘In a surprising joint press statement today, the New Zealand Army and New Zealand Police and Julie Anne Genter all denied involvement in recent publicity photos.’ Of course they didn’t. But we are expected to believe three recent events were not part of at least three separate Public Relations desks in efforts to make the […]
Read more..December 3, 2021
1951: Death of Peter Buck
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Died today in history, 1 December, 1951, a very great New Zealander, Peter Buck. He stands here with a monument in Tahiti. In death, Buck sort of became a monument himself since his ashes are incorporated into a monument in Taranaki. The son of an Irish policeman, Buck had a Maori mother so also inherited […]
Read more..December 1, 2021
Anarchy and Speculation
By NZB3
Humans do not know everything like some omniscient god. Even in a Deterministic universe the state of knowledge isn’t yet enough for us to figure out all outcomes and even if we could it would not be time well spent. Therefore, we speculate. We guess. We estimate. We have opinions. We form stereotypes. None of […]
Read more..December 1, 2021
