The New Statesmen recently published Ardern Unexamined, a review of Ardern biography, a Different Kind of Power where it mused that Ardern was more concern with how her politics looked. As opposed to being concerned with politics itself.

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For a few moments I got excited as thought at last someone going to pull back the packaging on brand Ardern in a way where they will neither rant off like a stereo-typical red neck 50 plus male with receding hairline and shrinking penis or gush saccharinely about her saintly ‘Kindness” like a 50 menopause Karren living her second teen crush vivaciously thorough the page of the kind of magazine you find in a hair salon in an upper middle class suburb promoting Oprah Winfrey or whatever the celebrity of the moment might be.

Both cardboard cuts ultimate fall flat of the task of telling the truth behind Brand Kindness and the true agenda of Jacinda Ardern.

Sadly, the article failed to be anything but a rehash of Ardern’s own bullet points. For while the Statesman writer saw through Ardern new book A Special Kind of Power as lacking depth (and it went on about Prince Andrew way too looooong) the writer failed to avoid the trap of getting the left-wing cheer leading and right-wing pitchfork and vitriol version of Ardern are both guilty of falling for the trap of the cult of banality. Namely whether you love or hate the subject not the point of the puppet show. And in fact, the brand is working exactly how it’s meant to work (as agent of polarization), when neither the fans nor the foes really looking beyond the curtain to examine whose hands is up the puppets ass. Fact is neither side in their bias have analyzed Ardern beyond their own expectations or inbuilt bias for that is the very goal of Punch and Judy Politics.

This is not the first time I have profiled Ardern in-depth.

In 2016 I provided the research for ‘Ardern in Seven Minutes’ which scored more than 2 million hits until it was taken down. A victim of its own success as copy caters selectively plagiarized the viral video along with a former colleague to again push their own agenda –

One that was ultimately economically closer to the kind of right-wing neoliberal policies Ardern really represents. For underneath the progressive socialist veneer of kindness unchallenged the reality of Ardern’s 12-year administration has been in lock step with the Rogernomic’s dream of Act founder Sir Roger Douglas. Douglas polices, based on Chicago School of Economics, ultimately gave birth to the kind of Third way politics pushed by the New Labour party under Ardern’s first post university boss Tony Blair in 2001.

Which leads me to the kind of things I wish folk would mention about Ardern be they left or right but don’t.

So here the Truth About Brand Kindness in 15 points or less.

1. What she did for Blair Exactly. And how and She gEt the job – teaching Blair how to spin UK style Rogernomics Neoliberalism.

A: Ardern worked for the Better Business Regulation head by Sir William Sargent the UK leading Brand guru and Spin Doctor consultant whose job in nutshell is describing bombed out building in war zones as ‘little fixer upper in fast moving neighbor-hoods’.

Put bluntly Sargent became the king of selling right wing economic bullshit as left-wing social progressive facial cream.

Sargent founded Framestore in 1986 and he would be hired to spin Blairs version of Rogernomics Neoliberalism (also known as The New Zealand Experiment) The Third Way.

Jacinda Ardern was one of several Waikato and Victoria students sent to teach Blair the art of selling Neoliberalism. She was according to the Labour Party own biography handpicked by New Zealand Prime Minister and UNDP Secretary Helen Clark.

BBR was no less than the Ministry of Regulation now being pushed by David Seymour of the Act Party that Sir Rodger Doulgas founded. Let that sink in. And when you have finished reading Labour policy papers of Public Private Privatization take look at the Act parties’ position on the same concept. There not a lot of difference between the two.

2. What exactly was the name of the Soup Kitchen that kind Jacinda Ardern worked for in New York.

A: Robin Hood Foundation and it might explain Ardern obsession with Prince Andrew

She worked in New York between working as “senior policy adviser” and coming home to work for Phil Goff the Neoliberal zealot, who would give National the number they needed to pass the Free Market based TPPA before Goff went onto become mayor of Auckland New Zealand super city. To be clear Ardern’s mentor “Ostensibly, Phil Goff is the most socially-conservative, rightwing leader the Labour Party has ever had” (Bryce Edwards veteran New Zealand political commentator).

All we know for sure is Ardern worked at a soup Kitchen in New York. This presented as a cute little foot note in Ardern bio where she took a gap year off after work with Blair where apparently, she showed signs of stress. The soup kitchen myth is made to look Ardern again look kind and caring. But when pressed for details officials become evasive and no one want to name where the kitchen was located or what it was called.

But there is one NZ ‘soup’ kitchen Ardern can be connected to which in recent years has lost a lot of it sheen and that the Robin Hood Foundation which is also linked to Princie Andew a regular visitor to Jeffrey Epstein mansion in New Yok where the foundation is based. The foundation connection to NY merchant banker Julian Robertson (and indirectly Jeffrey Epstein) the Foundation and Ardern unfolds in the following manner.

The Robin Hood Foundation CEO and co-founder is John Griffin a friend and business partner of The Wizard of Wall Street New York Hedge fund boss Julian Robertson.

In 2022 Griffin offered Jacinda his mansion at Cape Kidnapper (a story of colonial exploitation) when Ardern was meant to have married her partner DJ Clarke Gayford. The wedding, which was to have included a long list of celebrity and rich listers, got postponed until 2024 for unknown reasons. This was around the town that Gayford got caught trying to secure covid RAT test for his DJ friends using Ardern’s name. A time when a number of visiting DJs (part of a music festival organized by the radio station Clark worked for) were tracked breaching Covid quarantines and visiting the seedier parts of Auckland at night. While Griffin’s private jet fled New York and Covid for New Zealand just days before the US declared coronavirus a national emergency, was declared officially, according to flight data. Griffin’s private jet, a Bombardier Global 6000, landed in Queenstown, New Zealand from Newark, New Jersey, on March 11, after making a stop in Honolulu, flight data shows. Four days later, the plane flew from Queenstown to Gisborne, where Griffin owns the mansion, he lent Ardern for her wedding. The Covid quarantine would be declared officially in New Zealand on March 19, 2020, the anniversary of the 2019 Christchurch shooting.

Julian Robertson is known as the Wizard of Wall Street and is the man who worked with National PM John Key to market New Zealand as a billionaire bolt hole and investment fortress. A policy which Labour largely replicated under Ardern.

When Key elected changed charity tax laws so refund of 2.5% max donation of 5000 lifted to 33% return no limit. Whistle-blower Jarrod Theobald of IRD warning this system was instantly and systematically abused by wealth powerful people downplayed in media ahead of Keys own ties to tax-haven money laundering trust exposed.

Key, appeared to be learned from Robertson, and passed laws so kindness became a way of avoiding taxes and winning influence. A technique pioneered by none other than the Robinhood Foundation which in turn had close ties to Jefrey Epstein the former JP Morgan hedge fund banker. Epstein is said to have advised the charity, and he also created the system of money laundering used by the later disgraced New York based Global Clinton Initiative which likewise used charity and kindness to help billionaires beat the tax man as they robbed from the poor and kindly gave the tax cut to the rich.

And like the Christchurch Foundation which gobbled up nearly 11 million in donations, following the 2019 Christchurch shooting (which Ardern used to launch her brand of kindness worldwide) very little money ever reaches the poor. As instead it ends up in being gobbled up by running cost or is donated in turn subsidiary causes while earning the main charity even more tax refunds. The charity was also co-founded by another Epstein associate Glen Dublin who appeared in a sealed deposition where a victim of Epstein said she had been Epstein’s “sex slave” while a teenager forced into an encounter with Dubin. Dublin denies the allegation.

3. Who groomed Ardern on her climb up the ladder? Well, if you want to argue left wing influences you could pick Helen Clark. Except Clark in fact first tabled the TPPA which Labour promised to walk away from due to the excessive authority it gave corporations. And of course, the TPPA Bill got passed by National and then ratified by Ardern after her mentor Goff crossed the floor without consequences in 2016. And while she worked for Brand Spin doctor William Sargent, she also worked with Tony Blair’s chef fixer Sir Ronni Flanagan a man its joked know where all of Labour’s dead bodies lie namely because he put them there to being with.

Asides form helping Blair lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq Flanagan was placed in charge of the review of police complaints which was widely called a whitewash.

This follows numerous corruption and claims of brotherhood of far-right police and conservative politician that was placed under the umbrella review of Operation Tiberius . The Flanagan police review, which Ardern the daughter of senior police officer in New Zealand took part in, later recommend using the system of internal review used by the New Zealand police. This was called the Independent Police Complaints Association, which former Dunedin police detective admitted to ex undercover cop Peter Willams on tape was they’re not to protect citizens from abuse but to “whitewash” and protect the police from its citizens.

Gibbons, who now works for ACC, is one of several Dunedin CIB detectives that appeared in a review of policing where the chief justice found out those investigated had hired a PI to try and dig up dirt on her. The review noted a culture of corruption in the Dunedin CIB (much of which stems back to when former UK detectives were exported to Australia and New Zealand in the 19870s following UK police corruptions and public outrage) but ultimately did little to make changes. This would later have ramifications when the same police officers were linked to mass intelligence failures resulting in the death of 51 people when right wing supremacist Brenton Tarrant opened fired at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019.

4.  Whats is The Ross Ardern Niue Paradise Paper affair?

The Prime Minister’s father former senior police officer Ross Ardern was High Commissioner in Niue when it was revealed several investors in Scenic Hotels (formerly the Travel Lodge part owned by Saudi Arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi) including American rich-lister Earl Hager man had made donation to the National Party.

abour’s leader Andrew Little asked the Auditor General to investigate how a hotel chain founded by a National Party donor came to win a management contract for Niue’s Matavai Resort, and said there needs to be more transparency over the deal.

Andrew Little who then was sued for defamation and had to resign as the head of the Labor Party. Ardern’s daughter Jacinda was then picked (having never being elected by popular vote as a list candidate) it was later concluded that Little in fact had not defamed Hagerman but by then the damage was done. The role of Ross Ardern in this affair was virtually not mentioned by any media outlets at the time.

5. What was Ardern role in Labour TPPA betrayal.

A; Ardern permitted Goff to cross the floor and gave National the number to pass the TPPA. The TPPA is not only a trade deal, but its Investment State Settlement Dispute permits corporations to sue government if their profits are messed with. That even when the profit is made by harming the health of a nation’s citizens or the environment. While the ISSD also jeopardizes indigenous sovereignty. A point Ardern fans dismissed during the 2016 elections but was the very reason that Canada Inuit managed to halt the TPPA in its initial form. The TPPA then became the CPTPP and Ardern would lie and say the CPTPP ISSD clauses had being removed.

Ardern TPP Lie is on par with Helen Clark misrepresentation of the 2004 Foreshore act. The legislation became the opening gambit for Atlas network mining companies wanting to bypass iwi representation and no doubt helped Clark in her run for the job and the UNDP Secretary General in 2008. Unsurprisingly Ardern has done little to stop mining companies who wish to mine the seabed and fore shore with New Zealand staying opposing a moratorium on mining when Ardern was PM while Niue and Tuvalu where Ross Ardern was high commissioner have likewise wooed seabed-based mining operations.

6. What was Arner role in approving on-line gun sales prior to the 2019 Christchurch Shooting.

A; Globally Ardern wearing a Hijab became the poster girl for gun reform – perhaps the single biggest lie of Brand Ardern. Few of Frame Store media outlets that made sure Ardern brand was getting sold to the world, with the help of celebrity like Opray Winfrey and other Robin Hood Foundation ‘donors’, have reported how Brenton Tarrant got hold of his guns (after Dunedin detectives failed to act on numerous complaints about the gun club where Tarant trained). Or reported how the post shooting gun seizure only netted 5% of the target military semi-automatic which ended up in the hand of gang and saw gun homicide jump 100% after the 2019 shooting.

A 2017 investigation by the Dunedin CIB, aka the Key stone cops, of more than 25000 round hundreds of firearms stolen from the pistol club who vouched for Brenton Tarrant only recovered a few weapons. The club had been subject to complaints, along with report of weapons being sold at Dunedin pubs purchased online since 2015. This is the same year the Otago University went into lockdown after threats were made on social media platform 8chan & 4chan using the same typos Brenton Tarrant exhibited in his manifesto. Police later claimed they were not watching those platforms though the Otago University lockdown against shows this was not true.

Ardern sat in the committee which approved online firearms sales

8. Brand Ardern also got international approval, courtesy of the Framestore manufacturing consent machine for flattening the curb. How fair is that praise?

Not very and without going into the science the real issue is that while Ardern strenuously criticized those who did not comply each day, she breached the rules as she gave media briefing, posed for selfies as did several of her minister (on multiple occasions) and the Labour government own science publicist Suzie Wiles the pink haired academic who heralded from UK Imperial College of Economics.

A spectacular case of do as we say not as we do.

9. Was the science behind the Ardern approach sound.

A. Again, not really.

New Zealand accepted the science of the UK SAGE strategy based on etymologist Dr Neil Ferguson who later breached covid to have an affair. This is even when it numbers where later proved to be cooked. And the UK, driven by the Imperial College of Economic policy response stopped being medical and became about maximizing profits. As mean while Boriss Johnson own Covid parties at number 10 likewise reflected the staggering hypocrisy.

11. Following the Christchurch shooting in 2019 Disney decided to make a film called They Are US. This set out to make Jacinda Ardern the hero of the day. Who exactly was involved and what was the response of the Muslim community.

“Guled Mire, an advocate for Muslim New Zealanders, said when he was alerted to news of the film, he thought it was someone trolling him. “I thought it was some kind of satire, I couldn’t believe it. ”He said the film should be shut down, saying it was “absolutely insensitive” and “feeds into this problematic white saviour mentality”.

They Are Us was to involve brand guru William Sargent Framestore and Nicky Cairo who also directed Mulan, a movie which thanked the Chinese secret police and was shot one valley over from where the Islamic Uighur were incarcerated in indoctrination camps. As for the response from the Muslims community did it match the image Ardern created of caring compassionate leader? Or was it seen as opportunist and contrived?

12. How about Ardern’s decision to keep the terms of Pfizer contract even more secret than the TPPA?

The Ministry of Health, Minister for COVID-19 Response, and Minister of Finance received multiple OIA requests for copies of the contracts between the Government and pharmaceutical companies for the supply of Covid-19 vaccines. These requests were refused on the grounds that release would unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of the companies, and that the contracts were subject to confidentiality obligations and release would therefore be likely to otherwise damage the public interest (sections 9(2)(b)(ii) and 9(2)(ba)(ii) of the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA)).

The Chief Ombudsman investigated a group of 17 complaints he received about these refusal decisions. He formed the opinion that there were good reasons under sections 9(2)(b)(ii), 9(2)(ba)(ii) and 9(2)(c) of the OIA to refuse the requests for full, or redacted, copies of the contracts, however the public interest in transparency and accountability required the release of summary information in aggregate form which summarizes the nature of the commitments made by the Government across all the contracts.

The Ombudsman recommended that the Ministry of Health work with officials from Pharmac and Treasury, and in consultation with the COVID-19 vaccine suppliers, to develop a summary statement for public release by 18 September 2023.

That publication of a summary never happened. But to be fair to Ardern the current government also refuses to release this information or publish a summary, and a current request makes clear none of the Ombudsman recommendations of a summary were ever for filled.

Withstanding we are increasingly learning that the Pfizer contracts go beyond commercial sensitivity its beggar belief that the public should be so willing to accept the terms stipulated by the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson to accept zero transparency or accountability from the same corporate culture that has given us both the TPPA and Palantir. The consequence of that action is only beginning to dawn on many while the poor record of Pfeifer in regard to being next to only Glaxo Kline who Jacinda sister use to work for, Schering Plough and Johnston & Johnston (whom our current Prime Minister father worked for) in breaking on breaking the record for most lawsuits filed and won for misleading the public speaks for its self.

Following 9/11 the American government, via the Patriot Act, gave the arms industry a blank cheque which again as we look at Palantir we now realize was mistake and has not made the world any safer. Too little attention has been paid to the civil liberty and potential long consequence the entire planet may pay for having for the second time in less than 30 years, placed our faith in private enterprise with no checks and balances.

13 What exactly is Ardern actual profession training in.

Ardern degree is in communication from Waikato what we call a spin doctor.

This key fact does not get the exposure it deserves, and I am sure brand Ardern would be uncomfortable if it did. A spin doctor is in the business of being more concern with how a brand looks. As opposed to being concerned with how a brand actually performs.

14. How much of a progressive is Ardern in reality?

If we consider her record not just with Blair, the TPPA, and series of conservative neoliberal mentors who groomed her the answer is again not very. Fact is Ardern despite having a 12year majority failed to make any major social reforms in either housing poverty or health. Even under worldwide health crisis in Ardern third term, if you subtract 400 million needed to effectively privatize health care even further, marketed as reform (in reality it took already proven failure and entrenched them), she. managed to spend less on health than years previous. None of this get mentioned by Oparah Winfrey or the other Frame Store Robinhood Foundation PR agent who have helped Ardern build her brand as she looks likely to run for the top job at the Un in the coming future.

Her post graduate degree in spin (after being trained by PR sith lord Sargent and Flannagan) was providing the by the Masonic Lodge a highly conservative organization with very close ties to the police, the organization her father worked for. In fact, it’s so close the lodges chequers pattern appears on the hat band of every police officer in Commonwealth nations. And it was this conflict of interest which formed the basis of Operation Tiberius (which mainstream media accepts as a hard fact) which she would help “review’ with a finding of carry on as usual.

Ardern became the president of the youth arm of the International socialist party, a fact both her foes and friends offer up as proof of her socialist progressive credentials.

Yet that also faills when you take a close look beyond the packaging. The ISO imploded around 2010 after it was exposed as front for the CIA who used it to infiltrate pressive scene in campus around the West to promote regime changes in countries they oppose from within. It’s not that Ardern herself is being accused of being a spook, but the reality is she belonged to an organisation which in socialist circles was deemed corrupted by neoliberalism decades even before Ardern chose red lite to ads to her CV something kind of edgy good for impressing the kool kids but thateqially was hamless enough to right of as the fad of teen when in more affluent company

Fact is the politburo is not widely known for hosting a lot of Dames who like to go to Buckingham palace and sip from golden cups while wearing princess cloak. She does like to play dress up.

Ardern is no Norman Kirk the socialist New Zealand Labour leader helped bring kiwi together who once said people just want a roof over their heads, food on the table, a job with a sense of purpose”. She and the army of slick professionals, who markets her from the shadow’s, present a package of kindness compassionate progressive. But that’s all it is a facade. For in reality does not stand up under scrutiny.

She succeeds for two reasons.

One: those who claim to also be progressive fail to put that brand under scrutiny.

Two: those who claim to oppose her work hand in hand with her promoter to deflect scrutiny away from her corporate agenda and history on not promoting socialist cause but in reality, helping corporate globalism remove the checks and balances that a truly kind society is built up

BEN VIDGEN — The Consulting ‘Oartistic’ Dyslexic Detective.

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