“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 […]
Read more..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 […]
Read more..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 […]
Read more..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 […]
Read more..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 […]
Read more..January 23, 2025
Government Airline Messes With Wrong Cat
By NZB3
Without government airlines who would transport our pets safely to Australia? And back. And then back again, all in one trip! Messing with Margo Neas, a Communications Manager, came with some international headlines blowback for the ‘national carrier’ Air New Zealand. Mittens is one of the few New Zealand cats to have her own Press […]
Read more..January 23, 2025
Government Wigs
By NZB3
Part of the reason we can’t have a State, no not even a little one, is that it always grows and ends up controlling and fowling up everything. One crisis at a time, each seemingly “kind” or “necessary” or “urgent” popular need is grasped upon by politicians on the make to expand their powers. In […]
Read more..January 21, 2025
Parklife
By NZB3
Just listening to Radio Hauraki. (Hau-rak-ie not ‘Hoe-raki.’) A Blur song came on and a lyric struck me… “I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too It gives me a sense of enormous well-being (Parklife) And then I’m happy for the rest of the day Safe in the knowledge there will always be […]
Read more..January 8, 2025
Rakaia Ripoff
By NZB3
How about half million dollars for a government mini-golf course in Rakaia? Ashburton District Council are making a ridiculous demand on their tax livestock. If there was a market for such a thing why not suppose free people could come up with such a business? Do holes in the ground and some astroturf from the […]
Read more..December 20, 2024
Hyperscale Data Centre
By NZB3
This just in about the new Hyperscale Data Centre coming to Westgate, West Auckland. Apparently the woman pulling the strings (or public-facing) is Vanessa Sorenson. Was only half-listening to her “interview” (really PR for ZB and probably comes with a recepit….) and forgot why I hit play. It was because I’m interested in West Auckland […]
Read more..December 13, 2024
