1941: Intelligent Cereal Boxes
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
I’ve been thinking about the picture cards that used to come in Sanitarium Weetbix cereal boxes. They were part of the ‘internet’ of their day. I think every digital application we use today has an analogue equivalent in the past. Much of the spam and many of the very same jokes that pass around were […]
Read more..April 22, 2022
Ashley Bloomfield to Retire
By NZB3
The medical theatre part of the Cinders and Ash duo, Ashley Bloomfield, is to “retire” according to headlines. That word, retire, conjures up an image of an old man literally retiring to his rocking chair in the provinces leaving politics alone. Perhaps he’ll just put on an apron for the local school PTA not to […]
Read more..April 20, 2022
1950s: Free Gift Inside
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The decline of civilisation can be traced back to when they stopped putting toys in cereal boxes. If a society decides to carry a large underclass of low-IQ people then it requires breakfast cereals to match. Part of that product, from the 1950s to 2000, included the Free-Gift-Inside and Collect-The-Whole-Set! toy of the moment. From […]
Read more..April 18, 2022
1929: One Day Flight
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Zealand was excited to participate in the new age of aviation. If only the Government would get out of the way! Today in history, 15 April, 1929, history was made when two men flew from Christchurch to Auckland in a single day. Auckland Aero Club committee member Spencer Mason and club instructor Major Gerald […]
Read more..April 15, 2022
Another Police Virtue Signal on Wheels
By NZB3
Again? Gay car, farmer car, Pacificar, Maori car and now this. Urban cancer virtue signal police wheels….”A desire to support a good cause and a love of motorbikes has a West Coast Road Policing Officer taking on the Southern Alps on two ‘very small wheels’ in support of the Cancer Society….an endurance event which is […]
Read more..April 15, 2022
Nationalisation of Tar
By NZB3
Government has decided to take over the bitumen import business in New Zealand because it doesn’t trust private enterprise. Z Energy is backing off and wishing them luck. Because New Zealand can’t make its own oil-infested rocks now we must ship in the expensive and heavy stuff. Because Labour 6.0 had Marsden Point oil refinery […]
Read more..April 13, 2022
The Three Rules of Believing
By NZB3
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.” Hermann Hesse, in this quote, didn’t need to tell us that the most trivial-fool-business-gold-pleasure-world is that of the politician. Prime among politicians in […]
Read more..April 12, 2022
1898: Easter Encampment at Westport
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 11 April, 1898, a great gathering of Nelson Defense District volunteers were camped at Westport. A sort of scouting jamboree but not for kids, for adult men. And not just scouting, but all aspects of kicking arse and defending our nation. Similar encampments were simultaneously occurring at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. […]
Read more..April 11, 2022
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
