January 11, 2025 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

Disruptions in Wellington

By NZB3

Glad to see ex-politician and Anarchist Rodney Hide supporting the pro-freedom protests at Parliament. “I support the protest 100 percent,” he says, on his blog BASSETT, BRASH & HIDE. I support it 100% too within the context it exists in. The proviso is that I would prefer people be Anarchists and not Statists. Watching the […]

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February 10, 2022

“Never been more than 11 COVID-19 patients in ICU at any one time”

By NZB3

The mainstream, aided by the media, aided by government PR, keep re-inforcing that narrative that a molecule is holding us hostage and not ourselves. ‘COVID means this,’ ‘Delta did that,’ or ‘Omicron means that..’ The truth has always been, as it always must be, that we are responsible for how we respond to any crisis […]

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February 9, 2022

Agreement With Government Gives Me A Strong Voice

By NZB3

Green Party co-leader says that agreement with Labour 6.0 gives his party a “strong voice.” Now that is what I call saying “yes” to power! It’s downright Orwellian Double-Speak to say that Agreement = Strong Voice but here we are. To be precise, James doesn’t think he means capitulation/submission/obedience is what makes him strong. He […]

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January 19, 2022

Car Fires By Vehicle Type

By NZB3

I’m not especially interested in the national debate between conventional engines vs. electric. This picture (left) came up though and a couple of mistakes occurred. I made the mistake of making a throw-away statement I never thought anyone would respond to. Then someone else made the mistake of responding to it. So, waste not want […]

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January 15, 2022

The ‘Yes, And’ Politics Game

By NZB3

Improvisational Comedy has been a mainstream part of Western Culture for many decades now: An impromptu spontaneous, un-scripted, comedic performance based on no plan just a set of rules. Back in high school we called it ‘Theater Sports’ but since then Improv’ Comedy has become more widely known along with its basic formula. This comedy […]

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January 13, 2022

Angry Ratepayer Radio Rebuff

By NZB3

Francesca Rudkin usually does weekend infomercials disguised as news interviews but is filling in during prime time on radio Newstalk ZB. On Monday she opened up an interesting topic about ratepayers violently revolting against their political and bureaucratic staff. Apparently it’s now so bad that Rudkin felt the need to specify that “physical abuse” ought […]

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January 12, 2022

“We do owe one another a living”

By NZB3

The idea of having to earn a living implies that we don’t deserve to have our needs met simply by virtue of having these needs. To break it down a bit, we don’t deserve physical fitness or quality friendships or wealth or a long life or shelter or clothing or any values unless we embody […]

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January 9, 2022

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

By NZB3

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘆𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗱’𝘀: ‘𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗱’. – Guest Post by Rose Clark, 8 January 2022 This post has been a long time coming. It is the longest post I have ever written – those who have read the book will understand why so many words are needed. […]

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January 8, 2022

“Fuck White Supremacy”

By NZB3

It’s always got to be anti-women’s-violence or anti-gender-based-violence or anti-child-violence. Why can’t we just be anti-violence? The implication is that identitarian categories that don’t have International Days of Activism named after them are OK to do violence upon. “Yesterday in Parliament, we all wore orange to raise awareness of the 16 days of worldwide activism […]

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December 29, 2021

Don’t Look Up

By NZB3

New release: ‘Don’t Look Up’ now on Netflix. Yes, The Guardian review is right that director Adam McKay goes on a self-indulgent smug Victimhood Culture parade. That probably resonates with a certain set such as the Hollywood cast acting the movie or, one would have thought, The Guardian. Not so much with the old Conformity […]

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December 28, 2021