Public Furniture
By NZB3
What’s going on here with these public obstructions, one’s a rock blocking homeless people from laying down in a shelter the other is a park bench with bars to so the same. In America, probably. One one hand, government is paying itself to service you with public furniture and you should be thankful even though […]
Read more..February 14, 2021
Is Our Government a Terrorist Organisation?
By NZB3
The difference between a cult and a religion is the level of success. The difference between a pirate and a government is the same. Well then, is our Government just a highly successful terrorist organisation? Sure, there are elections. Branches of Government such as the House, Executive, Judiciary too. The Fiscal Responsibility Act. Nice short […]
Read more..February 13, 2021
1983: Coast to Coast
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The South Island’s annual Coast to Coast triathalon was first run on February 26 and 27, 1983. It’s the world’s longest-running multisport race.¹ After a long relationship with failure, director Robin Judkins had really done it this time. Judkins had found a way to make money and share something he loved all at the same […]
Read more..February 12, 2021
1957: Rock Around The Clock
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Rock and Roll music came to New Zealand in about 1955, especially under the flagship song “Rock Around the Clock” performed by Bill Haley & His Comets (1954.) It became participatory as a musical movement in 1957 when Kiwis performed their own first Rock’n Roll songs. This is very standard. New Zealand generally lags behind […]
Read more..February 11, 2021
1912: Back to the Future
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
“Well, Doc, it’s destroyed. Just like you wanted. But why did you send me to 1912 New Zealand??” Back to the Future III (1990) has an uncanny simularity to something that really did happen in Christchurch 1912. Doc Brown and his young friend’s time-traveling car is accidentally destroyed when a train scatters it into wreackage […]
Read more..February 10, 2021
1974: Freemans’ Farm Nationalised
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
As per usual, what was once private land has been taken over by The State. Once private farm land, Freeman’s Cottage and the block of land once farmed from it is now ‘owned’ by DOC. It’s a strategic bit of land, the gateway to Farewell Spit. The Government’s explaination for the 1974 purchase was that […]
Read more..February 9, 2021
Save Animals From Exploitation
By NZB3
We live in Slave Culture times as demonstrated by the headline news. Some recent evidence comes from the lobby group SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation.) They want to combat the theft of your pets by getting you to have worse pets! This is directly out of the Slave Culture playbook. The SC is willing to […]
Read more..February 7, 2021
1916: “The Devastating Hun”
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Being ‘from one of the ANZACs’ you can be quite sure this was a Government bit of propaganda. Another one of the State’s cards provided to the soldiers to write home on. “The Devastating Hun” was part of the dehumanisation of the German people, the better for us to go to war with them. The […]
Read more..February 2, 2021
1931: New Zealand Broadcasting Board
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The State thrives on giving itself credit for things it was barely involved with or actively impeded. As with telegraph, telephone, and television, private and free people discovered and developed radio technology in New Zealand. The Government simply muscled in to expropriate and control what free Kiwis had already set up. This is the story […]
Read more..February 1, 2021
Social Media Double-Think
By NZB3
Guest Post: If a platform is truly content neutral, then we should see the individual users as 100% responsible for whatever they do on it. On the other hand, if a social network selectively chooses what is or isn’t OK, then that’s what should open the door to considering them complicit in said content. Facebook […]
Read more..January 30, 2021
1990: The New Adventures of Black Beauty
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The New Adventures of Black Beauty (1990) was a New Zealand children’s TV show of just one season. One of the most amazing things about the show was that it was a continuity of the British production: The Adventures of Black Beauty (1973.) It even brought back the characters and same actors for Dr Gordon […]
Read more..January 29, 2021
1842: State vs Media
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The State has been meddling with New Zealand media since the beginning of history. The New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Auckland’s first newspaper, was shut down on April 6th, 1842, because it offended Governor Hobson. This only happened after strong attempts to infiltrate and control what that paper had to say. “…the colonial administration…made […]
Read more..January 28, 2021
