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The Origins of Black Lives Matter Part 2: Intellectual Heritage

The Origins of Black Lives Matter Part 2: Intellectual Heritage

The first post of this series explored the complex web of front groups financing the Black Lives Matter movement. This post explores its ideological roots and its real goal: “anti-racism” is the lying bait. The switch is the complete overthrow of the American republic as a capitalist liberal democracy. As

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The Origins of Black Lives Matter Part 1: The Money Trail

The Origins of Black Lives Matter Part 1: The Money Trail

In some parts of the Wokesphere, they’re slowly starting to wake up to the reality of the Black Lives Matter movement: namely that it is not, as it claims, an “anti-racism” movement, but a deeply racist, revolutionary communist movement dedicated to nothing less than the overthrow of America. The

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1971: Tiwai Point

1971: Tiwai Point

Rick Giles AHNZ The History of New Zealand through a Libertarian Anarchist lens. Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter is a Government programme of National 2.0. So is the Manapouri hydrodam powering it. The dam was built by low-paid, slack, alcoholic, itinerant workers from overseas (eg. Tim Shadbolt and his brother.

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On the Metaphysics of the Destruction of Statues

On the Metaphysics of the Destruction of Statues

LB I have seen a lot of talk on this subject by people of the Right recently and while I do agree with the overall consensus that the act of removing and tearing down monuments dedicated to Confederate generals and other great men of America is a disgrace and tantamount

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The Nga Tahu Trail

The Nga Tahu Trail

Admin We3 I enjoyed yesterday’s article Arthur’s Pass No Picnic although I wish it was longer. I was born and raised in Hokitika. There is some variation in the reason why Hokitika got its name but essentially it was named by a war party from Nga Tahu who

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Arthur’s Pass No Picnic

Arthur’s Pass No Picnic

Annette Bulovic peelingbackhistory.co.nz Upon seeing this wonderful painting of the road between Canterbury and Westland it reminded me of a very interesting – and mostly unknown additional adventure concerning Arthur Dudley Dobson and his now much-beloved passage through our Southern Alps. Arthur was barely 23 years old when the

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Government Comes to New Zealand: Chapter Six Part Seven

Government Comes to New Zealand: Chapter Six Part Seven

GOVERNMENT COMES TO NEW ZEALAND A British ship is wrecked on the coast of Taranaki and is attacked by the Maori. Twelve are killed or wounded, one woman and two children are captured, and a few survivors escape back to Australia. A warship is sent out from Sydney to rescue

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1847: The Colonial Bank of Issue

1847: The Colonial Bank of Issue

AHNZ ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Back in 1847, Governor George Grey’s Government got its fingers into the business of banking. Grey created something called The Colonial Bank of Issue which was a colonial version of the latest State bank we have: Kiwi Bank (est 2001.) Private New Zealanders, of

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Has America Run Its Course?

Has America Run Its Course?

Doug “Uncola” Lynn thetollonline.com In this four-minute video below, American young people were asked questions about American history. Listen to their answers and you’ll know how our nation was lost. Even if you only have 30-seconds, start at the 3:54 mark and hear a teacher admit how

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1939: New Zealand Listener

1939: New Zealand Listener

Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz On the 30th of June 1939, the first edition of the New Zealand Listener magazine was published. A major magazine in this country for just over 80 years, it expired in April 2020. How did it become such a prominent publication? First the Government

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Historical Report on Hamilton Street and City Names

Historical Report on Hamilton Street and City Names

Rick Giles ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz Last month, June 2020, Hamilton City Council famously tore out the statue of the man their city was named after, Captain John Hamilton. They did this because they understood that the temporary flare-up of Black Lives Matter protestors had the agenda of vandalising the

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Consistency, Please!

Consistency, Please!

In the light of all the ongoing hooha from the BLM lot, and assorted bandwagon-jumpers in New Zealand, I found myself thinking about where the outraged protests, statue-defacing and clamour for renaming anything deemed offensive by the braindead mob, might extend. At the higher end, what about Queen Victoria, for

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It Really Was Real Socialism That Killed Venezuela

It Really Was Real Socialism That Killed Venezuela

Every time a socialist experiment collapses into ruin, repression and starvation, the invariably well-fed, bourgeois enthusiasts of socialism in the West chirp, “But that’s not real socialism!” The latest object lesson is Venezuela. Just over a decade ago, Venezuela was the latest cause celebre for the left. Socialists the

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Portrait of Hemi Pomara as a Young Man

Portrait of Hemi Pomara as a Young Man

Elisa deCourcy Australian National University Martyn Jolly Australian National University It is little wonder the life of Hemi Pomara has attracted the attention of writers and film makers. Kidnapped in the early 1840s, passed from person to person, displayed in London and ultimately abandoned, it is a story of indigenous

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