The Coronavirus has put the spotlight on three people in high places who are not up to carrying out the tasks their positions demand. Two are attached to political institutions and one is a Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has a goal of also being a member of one of these organisations so all three could theoretically be put in the same basket. These three all subscribe to the far-left ideology of a socialist Marxist one-world government: in other words a one-world Venezuela. What Venezuela has become is either not on their radar or they care not one jot. The implementation of the ideology is the end game and to hell with the consequences.
No doubt you’ve worked out who the Prime Minister is by now. Ms Ardern completed a degree of Bachelor of Communication Studies in Public Relations and Political Science at Waikato University. She started her working career as a researcher in Helen Clark’s office and later moved, via working in a soup kitchen in New York, to working for Tony Blair as a policy advisor. In 2008 she was elected President of the International Union of Socialist Youth where she managed to utter the word comrade fifteen times in a seven-minute speech.
She entered Parliament as a list MP the same year.
Her degree in communications and public relations stood her in good stead in the aftermath of last year’s Christchurch massacre, although masquerading as a Muslim to grab world attention was perhaps a step too far. However, it is this sort of nonsense that shows up her priorities and clouds what little judgment she might possess. When the Coronavirus first reared its ugly head and things needed to be shut down she prevaricated. The reason was that the first anniversary of the massacre was due along with the chance to give her fancy dress another airing. That was the catalyst that has brought us to where we are now.
No doubt what was uppermost in her mind was the global attention she would get from her left wing media luvvies at the likes of the BBC, CNN and the rag called The Guardian; also those glossy magazines she has managed to destroy. What should have been uppermost in her mind was the prompt closing of the borders and the rolling out of stringent testing. Had she gone, as she continually parrots, early and hard, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that a lockdown could have been avoided. Being a small island country we were best positioned of any to do this.
What we can safely deduce from this is her premiership is all about pursuing her ideology and garnering a global image for when she hikes it to New York. What a coincidence Air New Zealand swapped their London service for a New York one. I hope they reinstate it when they’re up and running again. A one-way ticket on the inaugural flight would be just the ticket, if you’ll pardon the pun. If working in the real world consists of wrapping fish and chips in Morrinsville and an overseas soup kitchen, then I’m sorry but that just doesn’t cut it when it comes to running a country. And it shows.
The second person with meagre credentials is Ursula von der Leyen. She was recently appointed President of the European Commission. She studied economics at the University of Gottingen and at the London School of Economics. She studied at the Hanover School of Medicine where she graduated as a doctor and has also taught there. In 2015 researchers reviewed her 1991 doctoral thesis and found that 43.5% of the thesis pages contained plagiarism. In 23 cases citations were used that did not verify claims for which they were given. She was publicly accused of intended plagiarism.
Von der Leyen entered Parliament in 2003 and from 2013 to 2019 was the German Minister of Defence. According to Hans-Olaf Henkel, a former German MEP, she has left the Ministry of Defence in a shambles – in ruins. She is now in a job that pays $60,000 per month and so far in the current crisis has not taken a salary cut. Von der Leyen was considered the best of only two people who were considered. The mind boggles!
Number three is the head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. He hails from Ethiopia. He completed a PhD in community health in 2000, which I suppose gives him an ounce more credibility than our own David Clark. A former health minister, he first came to prominence in his home country when he served on the politburo of the Marxist-Leninist Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
He was previously a great admirer of Robert Mugabe and had him appointed as a goodwill ambassador, a decision he was forced to revoke after a global outcry. Like Mugabe, he has enjoyed a good working relationship with the Chinese Communist Party and was elected Director-General mainly due to their support. In the current crisis, he has praised Xi Jinping for his rare leadership and China for showing transparency in its reaction to the virus. Not surprisingly he is facing calls for his resignation.
Ask yourself, how do these people get to these positions? Ardern, firstly because the previous leader of the party was a disaster and secondly she was the chosen one out of two possibles. Likewise, von der Leyen was the chosen one out of two. Tedros got chosen for being, to put it crudely, a Chinese boot licker. This is a sorry state of affairs and does nothing to build confidence in those in high places.
Oh, I almost forgot “The Donald” Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. There is still hope!
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