Pride Festival Cancelled
By NZB3
It’s a simple idea. Protected people in society seek to be assured that their protectors are doing their job; They are strong and they are ready to exert deadly force in the line of duty. Are our official strong-men, The Police, and our un-official strong-men like gangs and armed martial males tough enough to keep […]
Read more..April 15, 2019
1904: Education Compilation Act
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In Lord of the Rings the big bad guy, Sauron, created the One Ring of Power to rule them all. The idea of technological institutions can, like magic rings, replace human leaderships and charisma is a fatal conceit. We know we can get someone else to carry our physical burdens and even have labour-saving devices […]
Read more..April 15, 2019
1700s: Slave New Zealand
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
I’ve been thinking about this True Political Spectrum graph. It’s pretty good. However, I’d reserve 100% for another segment of the wedge to the left of total power: Tribalism. All powerful, all controlling. To live among bickering battering barbarians and then to have Alexander the Great come along and Empire-up your town would be a […]
Read more..April 13, 2019
Could Labour Win An Absolute Majority in 2020?
By VJM
A new Reid Research poll has put the Labour Party on 49.6% support, with the National Party languishing well back on 41.3%. Although this no doubt reflects a polling boost from the Christchurch mosque attacks, it raises an interesting question: could Labour govern alone after 2020? Dan McGlashan, author of Understanding New Zealand, examines. No […]
Read more..April 12, 2019
Selectionism: The Prejudice That The World May Not Be Ready For
By VJM
People are always chimping out over all society’s prejudices: sexism, racism, homophobia etc. are all variously blamed for the world being an unpleasant place to live in. While all of these prejudices have certainly contributed to the miseries of the past and present, there’s one prejudice that few are aware of, and even fewer have […]
Read more..April 12, 2019
1978: Punk
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Punk Rock became of New Zealand in 1978, the year The Enemy became Toy Love°. Lagging behind in the history cycle as always, Punk Rock was already up and running in the USA and then the UK really took to it. Ramones, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Stranglers, The Clash. Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols sang […]
Read more..April 12, 2019
1863: Mass Deaths in Otago
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Central Otago Diggers had a damn hard winter in 1863. Scores of men died on the goldfields from the cold and snow but it was only the beginning of the death toll to follow. At Gorge Creek a camp of diggers was cut off by snow (perhaps 6m deep) from their supplies at Roxburgh and […]
Read more..April 11, 2019
1851: New Zealand’s First Census
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On November 1st, 1851, the Settler (European) population of New Zealand had its first national census. It would be a century before Maoris were counted the same by the bean counters of The State. We were not alone¹. The British Empire conducted a national census upon England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales in March of the […]
Read more..April 10, 2019
Understanding the Honk Meme
By VJM
There’s a new meme making waves in cyberspace. Based on the original Pepe the green frog meme, this new form adds a multicoloured clown wig, a red clown nose, a novelty bow tie and a eerie, distant smile. The meme is normally presented with the word ‘Honk’ or similar. This essay explains the honk meme. […]
Read more..April 9, 2019
Hollywood celebrities donate to Christchurch appeal
By NZB3
Hollywood celebrities donate to Christchurch appeal; NZ Herald They all get ACC. And after that.. Well these poor Muslim victims must be buried under a mountain of food and money and clothing and crap a mile high by now. And the more flowers and gift-food that comes in their door the more they will be […]
Read more..April 8, 2019
1992: A Thing Well Made
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Look at the way this gun fits the crook of your arm. To make a thing like that you’d need to know what you were about.. Society today has learned to ‘blank out’ the fact of sexual dimorphism in humans for various cultural reasons attached to the present ascendency of the SJW (Social Justice Warrior.) […]
Read more..April 8, 2019
1987: The Death of Shoe Salesmen
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history: April 5, 1987, Fox TV launched with Married … with Children. Using a footware lens on history this is a pretty good marker for our society changing from a Dignity Culture that valued goods to a throw-away consumer society¹. The institutional phenomena of measuring a customer’s feet was a gimmick, I would speculate. […]
Read more..April 7, 2019
