February 23, 2025 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

Mr Peters Goes to China

By NZB3

So big Red China won’t even allow black men on their movie posters? And, they’re making moves on our Cook Islands. And a battle armada has appeared off the New South Wales coast which has already started diverting our air traffic. Our response is sending Winston Peters, a black man, to China next week. Things […]

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February 22, 2025

Submissions

By NZB3

I’ve had an interesting back-and-forth with Reality Check Radio’s Facebook page admin about the merits of making submissions to government Select Committees. It applies to participating in State Democracy Theatre in all respects too and in that I certainly include elections. On Friday they posted; “LAST CHANCE: Gene Technology Bill feedback closes MONDAY! Maree just […]

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February 17, 2025

Deathbed Anarchist Confessions

By NZB3

An old Labour 3.0 and 4.0 politician died earlier in the year, Russell Marshall. This bit jumped out at me… “Mr Marshall had grown disillusioned with politics, saying that he found that much of what happened in Parliament was little more than a charade.” – Otago Daily Times (15 February, 2025) The Statists often say […]

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February 15, 2025

Hostage Puppy

By NZB3

I wake up this morning to a dramatic headline from Three News: “…President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the humanitarian agency, USAID. It comes as the United Nations warned millions of people would die if the funding was pulled as planned.” You can watch the full clip on their site here. Or, I’ve clipped it […]

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February 9, 2025

Chinese Tiger Trouble

By NZB3

As the Trump Administration flexes in their hemisphere it seems that China is doing the same over here in ours. The USA has been insisting on more power and influence over the Panama and even making designs on Greenland and Canada (check out great Jordan Peterson’s take on that.) The Colombian President announced that his […]

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February 8, 2025

“That tide has turned—or if it hasn’t yet, it’s turning.”

By NZB3

Well that’s an interesting admission to mark the ending of what I call ‘Aotearoa New Zealand Culture’. Mike Hosking said on his Newstalk ZB radio show this morning some words I wasn’t expecting. He, or one of his script-writers, put it quite well- the ‘currently cool’ SJW and Woke Virtue Signalling about all things “Māori” is […]

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February 7, 2025

Government’s Free Lunch

By NZB3

“This week, headline after headline bitched about the new ‘free’ school lunch programme. ” wrote Lindsay Mitchell yesterday. “School lunches are already well-catered for with $261.86 cash assistance. Parents are double-dipping.” So, this new solution makes no moral sense. It’s an example of the Amnesiac Samaritan principle where we have already solved a problem at […]

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February 3, 2025

Miss Lee or Misled?

By NZB3

Melissa Lee, before becoming a politician, was a great presenter on Asia Downunder (1994-2011.) I remember watching her anchor and rather than flick away I had to watch because the team she was part of was making great, informative television. Then she turned to politics. Lee was at the wheel as Minister for Media and […]

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January 27, 2025

Peter Gluckman’s Mask Slips

By NZB3

Peter Gluckman is New Zealand’s biggest science grifter. From 2009-18 a new job was invented: Chief Science Adviser to the Prime Minister. AKA The Court Scientist. He shilled for John Key, Bill English and Jacinda Ardern and didn’t care who he sold his science to. Reminds me of a song Don Henley lyric: I can […]

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January 24, 2025

Nick Smith’s Anti-Trump Campaign

By NZB3

Local government elections 2025 are coming but the campaigning has already started. Leading the way with international headlines is Nelson Mayor Nick Smith’s made-up plight of Ernest Rutherford. “President Trump claimed many achievements for the USA (scaling mountains, braving dangers, ending slavery,..) without saying his country was the only one or the first one to have done […]

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January 23, 2025