Victimhood Culture vs. NZ Sign Language
By NZB3
The Victimhood Culture quest for new things to be offended about goes ever deeper into uncharted territory. Now they’re so hungry for new food they’re reforming New Zealand Sign Language to be more PC! As it turns out, it’s a rich vein of delightfully non-Politically Correct discourse to tap too. You can see for yourself […]
Read more..August 27, 2019
1891: Land and Income Tax Assessment Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today is a black day in New Zealand History, especially for Anarchists. 27 Aug 1891, the Land and Income Tax Assessment Act passed into law. The taxing of income per se had begun. So had the principle of Progressive Tax: From Each According to His Ability. [See above: toon of Ballance, the Rain-Maker- shooting a […]
Read more..August 27, 2019
1988: Life Education Trust
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Life Education was an early Dignity Culture institution (1988) to help sew DC values into Millennial kids. From the start they had the typical DC agenda to be funded from the people rather than at the taxpayer’s expense. That’s probably why they still survive today. Life Education works with rather than as the Department of […]
Read more..August 27, 2019
Localism
By NZB3
The State is paying for propaganda advertisements to fool you into thinking its local branch offices are not part of the State at all. Instead of referring to themselves as ‘Local Government’ they say ‘Localism.nz’ ” If you believe locals should have more say in the decisions that affect local communities, that’s localism.” By referring […]
Read more..August 27, 2019
1871: First Commercial Diarying
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand history has been intermingled with dairy products almost since the start. Captain Cook probably had goat milk and introduced pigs and chickens to New Zealand. However, not until 1814 did Samuel Marsden first introduce cows. Auckland Fencibles formed The Howick Pensioners’ Co-operative Cow Company in 1848 but it didn’t take.¹ New Zealand’s first commercial diary […]
Read more..August 26, 2019
North Canterbury Irrigators Attacked Again
By NZB3
North Canterbury farmers’ are under attack from politicians who want to change the rules about the use of nitrate fertiliser use. Ben McKerchar of of West Eyreton describes Ecan’s shifting of the goalposts as draconian, demanding, unrelenting and unreasonable. The proposals already throw a spanner of uncertainty into the region’s future. When the axe does […]
Read more..August 26, 2019
What Is ‘The Great Awakening’?
By VJM
As if echoing down from the mountaintops, the term “The Great Awakening” has been heard with increasing regularity in cyberspace. Because most of us are under the delusion that we currently live in a time of unprecedented knowledge and awareness, the term is often confusing. This essay explains. Humanity has been living in the dark […]
Read more..August 25, 2019
The First Shall Be Last And The Last Shall Be First
By VJM
The phrase “The first shall be last and the last shall be first” is mentioned in many different spiritual or religious contexts, perhaps most famously in the Bible. It refers to a Nietzschean revaluation of all values, where the existing social order is completely inverted. This essay takes a detailed look at the various ways […]
Read more..August 23, 2019
1938: Jessie Mackay
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 23 August, 1938, the death of Jessie Mackay. Social Justice Warrior, Feminist, school teacher, main stream media journalist and editor. Treacherous Victimhood Culture witch. Writer, prison reformer, land socialiser, single woman with no children, political activist. Khaleesi of the suppressed brown people, finger-wagger at the white people. Born of hard-working parents who […]
Read more..August 23, 2019
1994: The Stackhat Deception
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
How many times does New Zealand have to rediscover the Peltzman Effect? When risk is subsidised humans engage in MORE not less risk. The phenomena is also called Offsetting Behaviour or Risk Compensation and our mandatory cycle helmet laws are a great example of such Unintended Consequences. Less Cycling, More Injury! National 4.0 made helmets compulsory in […]
Read more..August 22, 2019
The Advertising Standards Authority is Becoming the Ministry of Truth
By VJM
In George Orwell’s 1984, one of the major departments of the Big Brother government is the Ministry of Truth. Ostensibly, the purpose of this division is to determine truth from falsehood, and to discourage the latter from being spoken or written. The reality, of course, is much more sinister. New Zealand is seeing the emergence […]
Read more..August 20, 2019
1907: Vote Machine
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Here’s an interesting bit of history about how the mechanics of voting work from 1907… “This automatic voting machine, designed by Mr William Dall, was one of several different kinds produced in New Zealand in the early twentieth century. Citizens cast their votes either by depositing discs or manipulating a knob, handle or lever to […]
Read more..August 20, 2019
