November 22, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play

By NZB3

Political involvement is your birthright as a free person. You are not required to ‘vote’ or ‘participate’ in order to gain or keep it. The following is the reaction of Miss Ri Theodore, a debater and student politician. Let’s see what kind of ideas about civics are coming out of the schools of higher learning these […]

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September 13, 2019

Government English, Government History

By NZB3

Would you trust a Government School with your child’s education? “In Canterbury about 150,000 adults have no or only Level 1 qualifications, meaning they have a reading age roughly equivalent to a 14-year-old.” “Across New Zealand, it is estimated that more than 1 million adults have literacy difficulties in their everyday lives.”- New Zealand’s ‘basic skills […]

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September 12, 2019

The ‘Catch 22’ of Voting

By NZB3

Understand something: The State doesn’t want you, the individual, to have power in your own destiny. Your preferences, your goals, your future doesn’t belong to you so far as The State is concerned. Same goes for your children. Facebook offered me free credit to boost a post. By sentiment I’m against paying for views because […]

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September 12, 2019

Teach Our History?

By NZB3

Anything The State turns its hand to will wind up achieving the opposite of its stated aims every single time. That holds for teaching history as well as for Race Relations, BTW. There’s nothing you can’t make worse by adding more Government to it! The Human Rights Commission is overstepping its brief by lobbying for […]

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September 10, 2019