Guest Post by Colin Todhunter
Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s prime minister, grabbed the global limelight a few years ago, making headlines by stating she wanted to put “kindness” into politics. In 2019, Foreign Policy, a publication closely associated with the Atlantic Council and the US State Department, published the article ‘The Kindness Quotient’, a glowing promotion of Ardern.
The strategic marketing of Ardern in various publications has focused on her likeability, pro-environment stance, compassionate values and collaborative nature. To further appeal to liberal sentiments, she was said to represent everything Trump is not.
Ardern belongs to a set of global leaders who were groomed for their positions through the World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leaders programme. Yes, that WEF – the elitist organisation where hard-nose billionaires and their handmaidens gather to set out policies aligned with powerful business interests.
The charm offensive that Ardern’s promoters undertook was an investment. She delivered on COVID and is now expected to sell more questionable policies to the public.
Arden recently stated at the UN:
As leaders, we are rightly concerned that even the most light-touch approaches to disinformation could be misinterpreted as hostile to values of free speech that we value so highly.
She went on to state:
How do you tackle climate change if people believe it does not exist? How do you ensure the human rights of others are upheld as they are subjected to hateful and dangerous ideology.
She continued by saying speech (that the authorities disagree with) can be a weapon of war.
During COVID, Ardern urged citizens to trust the government and its agencies for all information and stated:
Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth.
Throughout that period, in the US, Fauci presented himself as ‘the science’. In New Zealand, Ardern’s government was ‘the truth’. It was similar in countries across the world – different figures but the same approach.
When anyone in power or any institution lays claim to ‘the truth’, history shows we are on a slippery slope to silencing thought and dissent that we disagree with.
Like other political leaders, during COVID, Ardern clamped down on civil liberties with the full force of state violence on hand to ensure compliance with ‘the truth’.
Clearly, Ardern is not alone here. Trudeau, Biden and others display Orwellian undertones as they talk of the need to challenge ‘misinformation’ and those who question ‘the truth’. The thin end of a very wide authoritarian wedge.
It seems critical analysis and open debate are fine as long as those involved keep within the framework of what is deemed supportive of the narrative. Chomsky was correct on that.
We are often urged to ‘trust the science’ and accept that the ‘science is decided’ on various issues. We heard this on the COVID issue, when we were told governments are ‘following the science’, while they and the big tech companies censored world-renowned scientists and opposing views and opinions. In ‘following the science’, conflicts of interest were rife and notions of objectivity, open disclosure and organised scepticism – core values of scientific endeavour – were trampled on.
Those who questioned the COVID narrative were smeared, shut down and censored – the playbook of Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Ag and authoritarian governments down the years.
Is anyone who questions and wants a more open debate on climate change or whether such change is occurring as stated or will lead to ‘extinction’ to be charged with disseminating misinformation?
Is questioning the orthodoxy of the zero-carbon policy agenda to be shut down and those who challenge it to be labelled ‘extremists’.
Ardern asks: How do you tackle climate change if people believe it does not exist?
But it is also pertinent to ask: How do you tackle it if you accept it exists?
Even if we accept humanity is in trouble and facing a genuine climate emergency, people should at least be able to question the current ‘green’ agenda based on a ‘stakeholder capitalism’ strategy (governments and others facilitating the needs of private capital) that has co-opted genuine concerns about the environment to pursue new multi-billion-dollar global investment opportunities – described in the 2020 report Nature for Sale by Friends of the Earth.
If you read that report, you might conclude that we are witnessing a type of green imperialism that is using genuine concerns about the environment to pursue a familiar agenda of extractivism, colonisation and commodification – the same old mindset, greenwashed and rolled out for public consumption.
For some, things seem set to remain the same – business as usual.
Economic crisis
But in March 2022, BlackRock’s Rob Kapito warned that a “very entitled” generation of people would soon have to face shortages for the first time in their lives as some goods grow scarce because of rising inflation.
We have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice.
He, of course, was referring to ordinary people, not the high-flying class of the mega-carbon-footprint multi-millionaires and billionaires who will continue to live life to the max and cash in on their various investments and ventures.
Kapito talked about the situation in Ukraine and COVID being responsible for the current crisis, conveniently ignoring the inflationary impact of the trillions pumped into imploding financial markets in 2019 and 2020 (dwarfing the crisis of 2008) and a moribund economic system his ilk have milked dry to the point of collapse.
Kapito is a co-founder of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager which exerts enormous influence on monetary policy in the US and Europe. According to Salary.com, Kapito, as the president of BlackRock, made $26,750,780 in total compensation in 2021. Of this, $1,250,000 was received as a salary, $9,700,000 was received as a bonus, $15,125,180 was awarded as stock and $675,600 came from other types of compensation.
Neither Kapito nor any of the hegemonic, unimaginably entitled and unelected billionaire class will have to experience any hardships in the coming years. No, they will be responsible for inflicting it on you. The same class of people who designed and profited from a strident neoliberalism based on deregulation and privatisation – a system now in collapse and responsible for the current crisis and the immiseration of hundreds of millions.
In the 1980s, to legitimise the neoliberal agenda, governments rolled out an ideological onslaught, pressing home the notion of individual rights and the primacy of the market. Now, there is a new ideological shift towards a great reset – again being driven by neoliberalism; this time, its collapse.
Arden’s utterances on the dangers of free speech, the singularity of ‘truth’ and the implicit shift towards authoritarianism must be viewed within the context of managing the economic crisis. What she says reveals how the financial and political elites based on Wall Street, in Washington and in the City of London are thinking.
The authorities fear blowback in terms of mass dissent and uprisings. Liz Truss, the UK prime minister wants to place ‘legal curbs’ on striking trade unions as many of them take action to counter the ‘cost of living’ crisis. There is also the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act which came into force in June and threatens citizens’ rights, not least the right to protest.
It therefore comes as no surprise that, today, individual rights and free speech are under threat. The ultimate control mechanism would be linking central bank digital currencies to personal carbon footprints, spending and dissent in an age of economic turmoil. Trudeau gave the game away on that when he hit protesting truckers where it hurt most – denying access to their bank accounts.
How long before ‘misinformation’ and challenging ‘the truth’ becomes thought crime and – as Jacinda Arden might put it – ‘cruel to be kind’ actions are taken against those who challenge dominant state-corporate narratives?
Well, not long because we have already witnessed it during the last few years.
Tyranny is the type of ‘kindness’ we don’t need.
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Jack, err I mean Jacinda, is a man, baby.
I thought it was open knowledge, but records of it seem harder and harder to find.
It seems clear to me that the Cabal is grooming tranny’s for controlled service, military, .gov, corporations, educators. There must be some mental element the Cabal prefers, something to do with broken perception of reality making them ideal for whatever nightmare they have planned to inflict on the rest of us.
The whole “war is fluid” bit.
Good news is sex-change surgery isn’t absolutely necessary to becoming more fluid.
Bad news is fluidity-capacity is inborn. Everybody gets what they get.
And sticky conservative types just get bent out of shape.
Human/rat hybrid of some sort.
And now things are “….moving at the speed of science.” What will these assholes think of next?
Too many useful idiots, in all countries. They get their “news,” from reading headlines and then go back to their igadgets. They vote this shit in, not like voting really matters.
I had an interesting conversation with a Deutchbag from Siemens about the sick charade that the pandemic is. Our Indonesian host was appalled and muffled from behind his mask something about the minister of health says. To which we rolled our eyes and walked away. No use for facts with this university-credentialed dolt. I’m seeing a lot of blue v. white collar ideology conflict in power plants and steel mills in Asia. Maskless in Asia is fun.
Only thing that bitch can do is eat an apple through a picket fence
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First they came for Kayne , and because Catturd was a virtue signaling moderate , he said nothing…
BREAKING: Kanye West DEBANKED by Chase days after controversially implying Jews control finance and created cancel culture…
BREAKING: Bank of America Cancels Popular Conservative Twitter User Catturd’s Bank Account #BankofAmericaIsCommieTrash
uh…about that 4th amendment , bruh…
True Fascism!,you know what comes next……..
The more easily answered question — who is NOT doing it?
If she doesn’t mandate you to death she will gum you to death.
Ardern is a murderous, Luciferian sociopath. She needs to be locked up where she can do no further harm to humanity. Parasites like Kapito need to have their ill-gotten gains forcefully seized.
There is a quicker and 100% effective way where she can do no further harm to humanity than locking him/her up. Lampposts and rope come to mind, bridges and rope or the ever popular form used by the French people in the late 18th century.
TN, isn’t it notable that when a such methods fall out of favor society spawns evil faster than medusa’s old hairdo. Most of our current day problems would clear up real quick if we were less tolerant of choices that in past days would have earned one a good stoning. Just think, not just bad politicians– criminals, unelected bureauocrats, pedophiles, rapacious bankers, poisoners, race baiters, gender-confused, human traffickers, hired liars, and tyrants great and . All gone. Call it a decentralized justice system; some call it wild west. I’d take my chances over what we’re living in now.
She’s an incarnation of the goddess of death and destruction, Kali.
badda bang…
We have allowed elected representatives elevate themselves to a status position where they see themselves above all others as leaders with privileges once set only for the phony royalty .
They are elected as employees , the hired help and need to have the blow hard wind knocked out of their inflated egos .
Perhaps an old book lesson “The Good Book Up Side The Head”
It’s not phony Royalty, it swore an oath of allegiance to the Crown and The Privy Council, not the people, and that is who it serves.
How about a necktie rather than a bow tie?
Well past the time to vote her off the island(s). Let the tribe speak.
England, Canada, Australia & New Zealand …….. has such a gaggle of fuktard “leaders” ever been assembled at one time in the history of the world?
Not until the WEF came along.
The Five Eyes.
Working in concert, spying on the other’s citizens for the host countries.
Evil.
Corrupt.
Conspiratorial.
The big boys club of western civilization.
Voting?
Bah! It’s a rigged game, and the students paying attention to those revealing truthful information are quite aware of that.
Baggy Eyes and his kid need to be eliminated. Likewise, Gates and Schwab.
Quite the reason that many who are not in the club, being sick of the
big bad bullies and their hegemony, have not sanctioned Vlad, and are
rooting for his success in Ukraine, and development of an alternative to
the SWIFT banking and transaction system.
“You will hear of wars, and rumors of wars. Such things must be. But I
am not of that world. Watch. Be vigilant, for when the time of my return approaches.”
Interpretation: Get right with your Creator.
“Do not worry. Do not be afraid. But put on the armor of God, and the helmet of righteousness. Then you will see me, coming on the clouds of darkness.”
I wish more people would read and subscribe to a freedom.
“She continued by saying speech (that the authorities disagree with) can be a weapon of war.”
Are Tranny story hours weapons of war? I’d say, yes, they are.
Yep, just like Pride month, just like black heritage month, just like mexican heritage month, just like CRT, just like pronouns, just like election fraud, just like the entire plandemic…and on & on & on…
“…and when we lie, we will lie with kindness”
Santa Claus on steroids.
People lie.
You misspelled Satan.
The kindest thing that could ever happen in politics would be for the politicians to gather together and reenact the Guyana tragedy, by ingesting enough Jim Jones punch to ensure their demise. They are truly a species the world would be immeasurably better off without.
Yes! Great idea! Just tell them that it is safe and effective. Mission Accomplished.
Is there really enough rope or trees?
Translation: “How do you brainwash and abuse people when they are waking up?”