2003: The Fart Tax
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Twenty years now since the Fart Tax. Farmers protested on 4 September, 2003, a Labour 5.0 attempt to tax them $8,000,000pa. Labour wanted the money to fund one of their scams under the heading ‘research on stock flatulence.’ The farmers just called it a ‘fart tax’. Future National 5.0 MPs were prominent in the protest, […]
Read more..August 31, 2023
The List/Pass
By NZB3
What in the Western World is going on here? To new-release movies just hit my alerts list within as many days. They appear to be the same film but in each case feature the two different favorite demographics: The Black Man and the White Woman. I haven’t seen anything this devious since Black Man and […]
Read more..August 30, 2023
Marc Barnes’ Retardation Religion
By NZB3
My best philosophical revelations are frequently revealed by observing people who went the other way. Some of my oldest and most carefully thought out Core Beliefs don’t even register with me until I trace back someone’s behavior to the fact that their own Core Beliefs are totally opposed to mine. For example, as an Anarchist, […]
Read more..August 29, 2023
1920: Cook Strait Sky Captain
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 25 August, 1920, South Islanders made history over 7 hours by flying from Christchurch to Trentham. This trip of the Canterbury Aviation Company’s Le Rhone Avro aircraft carried 3 warmly-clothed men in an open cockpit. Pilot Euan Dickson had the company engineer as well as the company’s Deputy Director with […]
Read more..August 25, 2023
ACC: “Have a hmmm”
By NZB3
“Have a hmmm” The Government health insurance agency, ACC, is liable every time a New Zealander had an ‘accident’ (though that word is used very liberally.) As a direct result of being our Big Brother the ACC, of course, tries to limit financial liabilities by using some of its budget to lecture the public about […]
Read more..August 25, 2023
1852: From Patriarchy to Potted Plants
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
For the nation of New Zealand to survive we must reproduce or else, as obvious as it is to have to say, we will perish. A rate of 1.61 births per woman (2020) is below replacement rate which, again, obviously, means we have a declining population. Unwilling to let our economy shrink (and their tax-take […]
Read more..August 24, 2023
Government accused of manipulating news with paid content on TVNZ and STUFF
By NZB3
Apologies to the street I was walking down early yesterday morning when I yelled out “I DID!” Had my headphones on at dawn taking a stroll while listening to Sean Plunket interview Chris Trotter on The Platform. One of them had said you’d be considered mad to think this was happening and nobody suspected it […]
Read more..August 24, 2023
Debating people with horrible ideas legitimizes them
By NZB3
Vincent Geloso, Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University, said an interesting thing 4 hours ago about debate and legitimisation. Ref. Facebook (22/8/23) “I dislike the argument that debating people with horrible ideas legitimizes them.” he said. Leaving to one side that he put his argument in the form of what he “likes” or […]
Read more..August 22, 2023
1918: The Otira Tunnel Was Already There
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The Otira Tunnel Project started inauspicously in 1908 with Prime Minister Joseph Ward igniting the first charge on a cold and very wet day. Officials kept their speeches brief and soon retreated. State history records that the first break-through was also at the hands of a politician: Minister of Public Works Sir William Fraser on […]
Read more..August 18, 2023
Promoting library expertise and value for teaching Aotearoa NZ’s histories
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
You would not think it a school librarian’s job to convince any of the teachers or departments that they had expertise, knowledge, and value. If they didn’t why did the school build that library and hire that librarian? If they don’t have those abilities fire them! So why is the Department of Internal Affairs running […]
Read more..August 15, 2023
1908: Phony Baloney Balneology Boom
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 13 August, 1908, the new bath house at Rotorua was opened by Premier Joseph Ward with a golden key. This impressive Edwardian (Tudor in style) building is still with us today and known to us as the defunct Rotorua Museum. That building was only an intention¹ in late 1902 when […]
Read more..August 13, 2023
$20,000 Robo Turtle
By NZB3
“Meet Cornelia, the Kiwi-built robo-turtle”says Newstalk ZB newsvertising. “It looks like a turtle and swims like a turtle, but this Kiwi-built green machine is more robot than reptile.” Because, Jamie Morton (reporter,) it is 100% AUT robot turtle and 0% reptile. But you were going for a Star Wars riff and I can respect that. […]
Read more..August 9, 2023
