NZB3 Predicts The 2020s
By NZB3
New Years day is upon us, welcome to a new decade: The 2020s. In these days of r-selected hegemony there aren’t many outspoken people willing to take responsibility for holding strong views at all. Not unless they’re establishment ones! Nor is a long time horizon, an eye to the future, a common trait these days. […]
Read more..January 1, 2020
1936: Savage’s Unconventional Family
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
New Years Day, Ellerslie Races, 1936: I stumbled upon this rare photo (left) of Mrs Elizabeth French standing beside newly elected Prime Minister Savage. I have wondered about Savage’s unconventional home life with his adopted family, the Frenchs. Alfred French crash-landed in 1894 when the SS. Wairarapa disastrously sank on the way to Auckland¹. His […]
Read more..January 1, 2020
VJMP Predicts The 2020s
By VJM
Earlier this week, VJM Publishing paid homage to science fiction author J R Mooneyham and his outstanding website. Because Mooneyham’s website relates to science fiction and to predictions of the future, we at VJM Publishing decided to pay more homage by imitating it. Here are our predictions for the 2020s. We predict that the current […]
Read more..December 31, 2019
1856: Politics and Politicians Dissected
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
In late May, 1856, an anonymous pamphlet was circulated in Auckland called Politics and Politicians Dissected. The author was Auckland’s Superintendent himself, Dr. John Logan Campbell.¹ The writing sheds some light on the Parlaimentarian of the day, a “pimp, a truckler, and a sham.” for the most part according to Campbell (image left.) The author […]
Read more..December 31, 2019
That’s Their Culture
By NZB3
That’s their culture. You have no right to judge them. “What’s the best counter argument?” Lucy’s premise [click image to enlarge] is that one cannot evaluate culture. If something has the status of culture then it is beyond judgement. Who are you, with your tiny individual brain, to contend with institutions and values laid down […]
Read more..December 31, 2019
1843: First Punch and Judy in NZ
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
The ‘Punch and Judy show’ goes way back to the roots of our modern culture. First performed in England in 1662, first performed in New Zealand in 1843¹. A common thread that primes us all as children, through art, to think about our society and culture in a particular way. From an 1878 synopsis…. “An […]
Read more..December 30, 2019
The Law of Assortative Reincarnation
By VJM
Some people, upon being told that consciousness survives the death of the physical body, say: so what? The really interesting question is what the order of reality looks like on the far side of death. This essay discusses an ancient concept – the Law of Associative Reincarnation. A person’s frequency of consciousness determines the sort […]
Read more..December 24, 2019
1905: Duelling Steamships – 7 Killed
By Anarchist History of New Zealand
Today in history, 23 December, 1905, 7 people were killed in Auckland’s worst transport fatality since the 1903 Tramway Disaster. Steamship crashed into steamship just off Devonport Warf in Auckland Harbour. Captain James Mewett vs. Captain William James Southgate SS. Claymore vs. SS. Kapanui. Steel vs Timber… How did it come to this? Alexander McGregor was […]
Read more..December 23, 2019
The Victimhood Culture Ends
By NZB3
As the SJW gobbled up the institutions of land-owning and male-only suffrage, he grew bigger and bigger. PC Pacman gobbled up other norms involving male exclusivity like Workingmens Clubs, the RSA, and Boy Scouts. It ate gendered language, declairing that girls can do anything by casting spells such as turning firemen and chairmen into firefighters […]
Read more..December 23, 2019
Has Firearms Confiscation Failed Like Cannabis Prohibition?
By VJM
The amnesty period for the recent firearms confiscation in New Zealand has just ended. Early estimates suggest that fewer than half of the recently-banned firearms have been handed in, which means that some 100,000 Kiwis are now criminals. This essay asks: if the New Zealand people aren’t going to obey the new firearms law because […]
Read more..December 22, 2019
Personality Cultures
By NZB3
Personality Cultures (eg Victimhood Culture and Honour Culture) are cognitively wired to perceive problems in the world in terms of social hierarchy. So, for the VC, concepts like ‘race’ and ‘colonise’ and ‘apartheid’ can only be apprehended as a function of what one group does to another group. All is Identitarian. Everything has meaning […]
Read more..December 22, 2019
He was no threat. We shot him.
By NZB3
Without The State who would settle non-threatening visitors to primary schools by discharging guns into them? Police report that they have shot a 31yo man and put him into “serious condition in hospital” after interrupting him in conversation on the grounds of a Hastings Primary School. The District Commander, Superintendent Tania Kura, says the man […]
Read more..December 20, 2019
