1968: Wahine
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
If 1968’s tropical cyclone Giselle hit New Zealand today we would probably mumble that it was proof of Global Warming Climate Change or something. Combined with a sub-Antarctic storm coming the other way poor old New Zealand took a terrible battering. Worst of it all was what happened to the Picton to Wellington ferry on […]
Read more..April 10, 2022
Operation
By NZB3
Governments are simply opportunistic parasitical organisms out for all they can get. The Kiwi resembles the sleeping and prone character in the Milton Bradley board game Operation. While the New Zealander sleeps, the politicians carefully extract his organs while trying very hard not to raise the alarm! — Ref. 2011: NZ Productivity Commission, AHNZ […]
Read more..April 9, 2022
1986: I Came, I saw, I Concorde
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 6 April, 1986, concord came to New Zealand. The pilot was Captain J. Cook! (John Cook.) Palmerston North businessman Kenneth Irons set the visit up in this KZ7 Honour Culture era. His plans for a fly-over were to feature Foxton first of all but to the disappointment of all they were cut […]
Read more..April 7, 2022
1970: Skyhawk
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On 17 May, 1970, New Zealand’s first 10 Skyhawk attack aircraft were wheeled from the port of Auckland through the CBD and down the Western Motorway to Hobsonville Airbase. It’s the sort of scene we’re used to seeing put on by some foreign country, probably Communist, trundling its arsenal of various missiles down Main Street. […]
Read more..April 1, 2022
