June 7, 2026 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

The Lockdown Election

By NZB3

All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go to Auckland. I’ve got snow chains in the car because to get to Christchurch airport I must cross the Southern Alps. A rental car is waiting for me today in Auckland and a burst of effort should get enough work done for me to be done […]

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August 12, 2020

“Is this a COVID election?”

By NZB3

The battle lines are drawn between two narratives for New Zealand’s 2020 General Election. They could change, and that would be less boring, but I think these two competing scripts are here to stay now. It will come down to which story the voters believe. Is it National’s story about who they are and who […]

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August 10, 2020

Politicians Confiscate Marriages

By NZB3

Forming a pair bond and raising a family is a key application of any individual’s right to Freedom of Association. Naturally, The State want to control it. The most Anarchist wedding contract you can have, in my estimate, is the one with the least red tape; A Registry Wedding. You and your fiancee should be […]

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August 9, 2020

Kindergarten Cop Cancel

By NZB3

Film Kindergarten Cop (1990) banned by in USA from Portland screening… The State has a long tradition of making movies to lie to the population about its broken Education System. The truth is that they are dysfunctional and broken just like the rest of our Socialist/”Mixed” economy and in direct proportion to Government interference. Currently […]

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August 6, 2020

The Wanker and the Nurse

By NZB3

Two remarkable judgements were made last week which teach us about the New Zealand we live in. It’s not good! One on trial was the West Wave Wanker and his sentencing was so light we don’t even know his name. The second was nurse Deborah Kathryn Hugill whose career has been terminated and everyone knows who […]

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August 2, 2020

Space Jobs

By NZB3

Southland to suffer a massive blow as its heavy industry, the electric smelter, threatens to close (Basically a well-paying State welfare program but a cheap one that props up an economy and many support industries.) National will promise to save the plant before this election is done and the people will rejoice. Judith Collins will […]

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July 17, 2020

Labour 6.0: The Politics of Fear

By NZB3

Wow, so this is how it’s going to be? What’s worse, the lack of imagination or the resort to force? Let’s back up and start this post again.. Yesterday, the Opposition party, National, enthroned a new leader. I wrote about that new leader’s potential first moves (ref. Judith’s Gambit.) As predicted, Judith Collins’ campaign has the […]

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July 16, 2020

Judith’s Gambit

By NZB3

Mum and Dad are home to relieve the babysitter! General Election 2020 just became contestable as the Opposition party, National, just got themselves a leader. I’m the only one thanking Muller the Plumber. I know what he did for his party. Officially though, and in the State Shared Fantasy, the role of leader was hurting Todd […]

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July 15, 2020

53 Days: Muller the Plumber

By NZB3

Don’t think I ever said this on record but I’ve always considered Todd Muller to be a Stalking Horse for the true next leader of the National Party. Just a Kiwifruit Crapitalist…not even sure what he’s doing being an MP in the first place. Seems more like a plumber who shows up in blue over-alls, […]

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July 14, 2020

Collectivist Appropriation

By NZB3

From a Collectivist point of view (which the mainstream currently holds) what happens to one happens to all. So ‘we’ all went through these things, as the Prime Minister has it.. “Over the last 15 months, we have been through a lot together – a terrorist attack, a volcanic eruption, a global pandemic and now […]

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July 13, 2020