December 22, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

They’re All Grifters Aren’t They?

By NZB3

The post from Peter Cresswell’s blog Don’t feed the grifters (March 2023) accurately identifies a species of Tourist Grifter that New Zealand receives from time to time. Posie Parker put in a little effort visiting Auckland and walked away with publicity and extra donations that money can’t buy after the stationary riot in Albert Park. […]

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April 26, 2023

The Affordable Prime Minister?

By NZB3

Reporter: “Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, can I first ask you…” PM: “I’ll just stop you there and ask you to stop dead-naming me. My new name for this General Election will be Our Most Respected and Beloved and Affordable Leader.” Reporter: “I didn’t know you could..” PM: “And Three Waters is now to be referred […]

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April 15, 2023

Social Desirability Bias

By NZB3

How to explain ‘Woke Capital’ or ‘The Wokeforce’ as I also like to call it? Why are famous brands sidling up to Woke ‘Current Thing’ values to sell more doodads? For example, Jack Daniels and Bud beer in the States are re-branding to be more Drag Queen friendly. It seems so self-destructive that my mate […]

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April 12, 2023

Reality Check Rata

By NZB3

Reality Check Radio is upon us and it’s not half bad. I’m actually a little taken aback. I couldn’t find non-Statists or non-mainstream thinkers to join in with. Especially during the COVID Panic the majority have simply obeyed. Yet now, out of the blue from my point of view, there are dozens of shows on […]

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April 9, 2023

Social Crisis takes priority over Temporal Crisis

By NZB3

In current years the Social Crisis takes priority over any temporal crisis. We’re working some stuff out. Eventually the blow-back from this negligence will create a series of Temporal Crises we will be unable to ignore. Whatever we have worked out about our interior structure will be set in stone for the next 4 generations; […]

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April 6, 2023