1835: The Voyage of the Beagle
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 21 December, 1835, the voyage of the HMS Beagle brought her to New Zealand. Captain Robert FitzRoy is famous to us as our second Governor. ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’ was written about the ship’s scientific expedition and the text launched the renown of Charles Darwin. The previous captain of the Beagle […]
Read more..December 21, 2021
It is a kind of death
By NZB3
Most people (even some Libertarians) want to be in the in-group more than anything. The prospects there are good. Access to markets and all that. That in-group has narrowed a fair bit of late. It got Woke. At university we had a paper that taught us about this in terms of R.K.Merton’s theory of anomie. […]
Read more..December 21, 2021
Anomie and COVID
By NZB3
As 2021 comes to the close of another COVID year it’s proper to look back at what has happened to New Zealand society. Readers will know my usual model for considering different archetypal groups and how they interact is the Theory of Moral Cultures (TMC). The four types (Dignity, Victimhood, Slave, and Honor) are created […]
Read more..December 20, 2021
1850: Pilgrims Landing
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history on the morning of 16 December, 1850, the Charlotte Jane arrived at Lyttleton. The first of the 4 New Zealand Company immigrant ships for Canterbury had arrived and would be followed by Sir George Seymour, Randolph, and Cressy. Lyttleton was no more than a little village of some 60 houses […]
Read more..December 16, 2021
2015: Story
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Carrying on the theme of deleted TV3 current affairs shows…’Story’ 10 August 2015-16 December 2016. “At the end of 2016, I basically left TV3 at the end of that horrific current affairs show Story I was working on, where we were pretending to do current affairs at 7pm, which as we all know doesn’t happen […]
Read more..December 16, 2021
How The Political Party Works
By NZB3
This picture shows how political parties appear to work to the Statists who excuse what they see. A stove with a live burning, heating nothing. The pan on the wrong element with broken egg shells in it. The raw egg has fallen below the pan onto the stove top beside a dead burner. It appears […]
Read more..December 11, 2021
1918: Surafend Massacre
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 10 December, 1918, the Surafend Massacre. The New Zealand and Australian camp in Palestine was subject to ongoing thefts and raids by the adjacent sand people. One day one of the Arab thieves became too bold and killed one of our warriors in the course of stealing from him. After military police […]
Read more..December 10, 2021
1963: Bassett Road Machine-gun Murders
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 7 December, 1963, a dispute in the hospitality industry led to two men being shot dead at 115 Bassett Road, Remuera, Auckland. The murder weapon was set to single shot mode not rapid fire but the type of weapon fed into the gangster romance that made the case infamous. That, […]
Read more..December 7, 2021
1860s: The New Zealand Death
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Drownings in New Zealand, at one time, became so pronounced that it began to be referred to as The New Zealand Death. As often happens in mainstream history writing an idea is blindly copied examined, its truth taken for granted. One influential writer sets down an idea and it becomes repeated and quoted over and […]
Read more..December 5, 2021
1885: A Damning Epitaph
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Here is a grave stone in Ahaura Cemetry, West Coast, that tells a story for the generations. John Cressey had drowned in 1885 aged just 14 years, another victim of what our history often calls The New Zealand Death. In pioneering days, it is said, our people died so frequently of drownings that this term […]
Read more..December 4, 2021
1981: Rixen
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Between 26 August and 4 December, 1981, ex-employees of the Rixen Manufacturing in Levin occupied the factory. This is New Zealand’s longest industrial sit-in in our history. It gained them nothing. Why did they do it? There is no rational tactical advantage to flogging a dead horse. Rixen’s owner, Ken Dungey, had evidently been unable […]
Read more..December 3, 2021
Kayfabe Army
By NZB3
‘In a surprising joint press statement today, the New Zealand Army and New Zealand Police and Julie Anne Genter all denied involvement in recent publicity photos.’ Of course they didn’t. But we are expected to believe three recent events were not part of at least three separate Public Relations desks in efforts to make the […]
Read more..December 3, 2021
