COVID Masks are Gang Patches
By NZB3
One of the visible features of the COVID-19 crisis has been the waring of surgical masks. These, like much of this political crisis, are not there for health reasons alone. It’s also about theatre and superstition. They signal to others that the waringer is serious about the political fantasy and that’s quite separate from any […]
Read more..May 6, 2020
1838: Fanatical Flogger Founding Father Falls
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 12 May, 1838, the death of Samuel Marsden (72yo.) Marsden had been a major player in the New South Wales sphere of influence (which included New Zealand) since arriving in our part of the world around 1800. Like men before him and after, Marsden tried to be the Big Boss of […]
Read more..May 5, 2020
Mixing Art and History
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Last year, 2019, Porirua Museum put together an exhibition about exploration to New Zealand. According to the director, Reuben Friend, ” it was the first time the Museum had used an art exhibition to tell a historic narrative.” However it seems to me a dangerous slippery slope to blur the boundaries between art and history. […]
Read more..May 3, 2020
Money for Nothin’
By NZB3
As Anarchists feared, the post-COVID “help” from The State is going to be worse than the alleged ailment it sets out to cure. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand have added a bunch of zeros to their special spreadsheet and nobody stopped them.. “Twenty years ago this would have been called unconventional monetary policy. Now, […]
Read more..May 1, 2020
1865: New Zealand Governor Commits Suicide
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 9am, 30 April, 1865, Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy committed suicide by cutting his own throat open with a razor. FitzRoy was New Zealand’s second Governor and also captain of the famous HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin’s famous voyage that also visited New Zealand. About 20 years after being Boss of New Zealand, the […]
Read more..April 30, 2020
Normalising Fear and Anxiety
By NZB3
Propaganda like this (left) was paid for by viewers like you. The US funds $400-500 millions to the WHO each year. New Zealand contributes less than $6 millions. “It is normal to feel fearful and anxious during this time.”- World Health Organisation The WHO is literally normalising fear and anxiety. They follow it up by […]
Read more..April 30, 2020
1918: The Storming of King Edward Barracks
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand history, 29 April, 1918, Christchurch was in an uproar. In the thick of World War One, our State had activated the Second Division lottery ballot. Conscription to fight the Great Wrong War was now applied to married men. Division One had applied to the unmarried or recently married, the childless, widowers […]
Read more..April 29, 2020
“I cant see the Government shutting down the country for nothing”
By NZB3
Governments seem to make all sorts of screwy decisions. They fix things that aren’t broken, remove things that work, introduce entire institutions and even industries with no practical purpose. Non-Anarchists (Statists to some degree) just shake their heads and wonder why. “Why,” they say, “turn the economy to cinders and ash? Well- let’s give them […]
Read more..April 29, 2020
1893: The Death of Ballance
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in New Zealand History, 6.19pm, 27 April, 1893, Premier John Ballance died in office. Ballance immigrated from Ireland in 1866 and set up his own newspaper, The Wanganui Herald, rising to power and renown. By 1875 he was an MP and soon became 2IC to Premier George Grey himself. Their platform relied greatly […]
Read more..April 27, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine
By NZB3
Americans and New Zealanders are very different people. The strain of Statism in the American runs far more deep than in his Kiwi cousin. When US President Donald Trump remarked that a particular medication, Hydroxychloroquine, held promise he was attacked all over the world. Likewise, even more recently, POTUS pitched an question to an advisor about […]
Read more..April 27, 2020
“Money is a spook”
By NZB3
As we come out of Lockdown it has become clear that many of the protected class think it will all be business as usual. They think we’re all going to go right back to work as if it’s all just been some Christmas holiday. In reality, New Zealand’s over-valued economy has been on thin ice […]
Read more..April 27, 2020
1915: Evacuation of Gallipoli
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
On December 20th, 1915, the last men left Anzac Cove in the evacuation of Gallipoli. This postcard (left) was provided by the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the troops to send home. Apart from season’s greetings, it also serves as a faint to the ‘enemy’ that the Anzac invaders would stand their ground. Two young […]
Read more..April 25, 2020
