May 11, 2025 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

Slum Surveillance

By NZB3

New Zealand’s history is the history of slum housing. In general, a Liberal/Labour Government builds slums and then a National Government knocks them down. For example, Central Government built State Houses in 1905 (Liberals) and 1937 (Labour 1.0.) Unowned, there is no incentive to look after the non-properties so they usually degenerate into slums. A National […]

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March 30, 2020

COVID-19

By NZB3

Lately everything I do seems to explode and burn down the moment I turn my back on it. The walls are coming down, sometimes with moments to spare. It’s like some movie cliche where the the good guys casually stride away without looking at the explosion happening in the place they stood moments before. Let […]

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March 29, 2020

Greenstone Takeaway

By NZB3

The day after I took this photo in Hokitika there was a theft nearby. The German guy who sells Thai food to the international tourists (go figure) by the beach had his greenstone menu-holder stolen and wants people to know… “Today we had a nice Lady, she came with an old Man and she steal […]

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March 13, 2020

Another Trained Racist

By NZB3

Like Auckland and other centres, Wellington’s Metlink contrives to pay their skilled staff less than New Zealanders are willing to be paid by importing immigrant workers. No wonder they keep going on and on about diversity and anti-racism! It’s branding, self-preservation. (This is also why Auckland’s bus services are on strike today. The migrants brought […]

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March 3, 2020

Slave Culture and Abortion

By NZB3

What’s the Slave Culture approach to abortion? What some see as murder the psychology of the SC views as commonplace as discarding chewing gum or having a haircut. It seems one of life’s mysteries. The Theory of Moral Cultures predicts that K-selected kids are always wanted and r-selected kids are not. The two K-selected cultures (Honour Culture […]

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March 2, 2020

Slave Culture Going Hungry

By NZB3

Rangiatea Church, est. 1851, was burned down 144 years later by Francis Shaw. Rangiatea had been built at Te Rauparaha’s initiative, an emblem of putting the old hostilities to rest between Maori and Maori and Maori and Colonist. It was a very special place that featured in the architectural annals of New Zealand until 1995 when […]

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February 25, 2020

What A Wonderful World

By NZB3

Anarchists are the ones who appreciate diversity and pluralism and multiculturalism in their proper and authentic sense. The State has a nose for sniffing out what people prize and value, and a talent for levering those things to gain and keep power. All the confidence tricks and propaganda used to rule us draw their power […]

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February 4, 2020

“Australia, Let Us Back In!”

By NZB3

Eighty years¹ after New Zealand broke away from Australia to become its own State, many Kiwis are now trying to get back to the shelter of former political administrators. According to Alisha Rouse of the Daily Mail Australia, they, (who she never names,) are asking for actor Russell Crowe to pitch in and help. “The expats say ‘racist […]

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February 3, 2020

Considering Historical Justice

By NZB3

I’ve had a bit of push-back about sentiments expressed in the previous post, Social Justice. My argument is that Justice is supposed to be dispensed according to the facts of the case not the facts of the race. It’s an Individualistic outlook. Our Western justice system is still running on the fumes of this outlook, […]

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January 21, 2020

Social Justice

By NZB3

Individualism is not a value shared by all. For millions of years, humans lived in and for the tribe. The concept that one owned one’s own life and had individual rights was a revolutionary breakthrough idea so new that few even in 2020 have embraced it. In terms of human development, all our babies are […]

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January 20, 2020