By Olivia Pierson
[First published on Insight @theBFD 3/10/19]

When NZ PM Jacinda Ardern addressed the United Nations last week, she did her usual spiel on the challenges of addressing climate change, the horror of the Christchurch massacre and her ongoing efforts to have online hatred and violence curbed (which also includes speech that she doesn’t like).

This PM’s obsession with the climate change hoax is as well-known as it is infantile, but what struck me most was the stark absence of any kind of patriotic sentiment in Ardern’s leadership voice. She carefully presented the case that it is nationalism, which she tried to pass off as tribalism, that stands in the way of her global crusades. This is not a patriotic woman. 

“There is a simplicity to the notion of sovereign guardianship.  For decades we have assembled here under the assumption that we narrowly cooperate only on the issues that overtly impact one another. We, the political leaders of the world, have been the authors of our own domestic politics and policies[…] but the world has changed.”

Translation: Ardern believes that national sovereignty is “simplistic” and our traditional cooperation as individual nation states is “narrow.” She also appallingly implies that political leaders of the world should not be the authors of their own domestic policies because “the world has changed.”

“Undeniably, we are living in a time where our greater reliance on one another has collided with a period of greater tribalism […] and this is where we return to the concept that challenges our modern political environment. We are being asked to make decisions that are local but with consequences that are global. This is what Climate change asks us to do.”

The great irony of a woman as far Left as Ardern complaining about tribalism is quite astonishing. 

The Left, Ardern’s ideological kin, are the ones who have called down the scourge of group identity politics upon our heads, from ‘I Feminist’ to ‘You Male Patriarchy.’ Now we have persons of colour, black minority, brown minority, white privilege, toxic male, female victim, queer, gender-queer, trans-gender, gender-fluid (yuck), inter-gender, demigender, intersex and all that other weird positioning that PC persons like to “identify” themselves with, in all their intersectional insipidness.

But I digress.

Ardern’s big point was this:

“Our globalised, borderless world asks us to be guardians not just for our own people, but for all people.”

Our world is not borderless, any more than it is property-less, thank god, and those who seek to make it so are anti-civilisation, unpatriotic saps and communists. We are not born to the world, but to a family, within a tribe, within a town, within a city, within a province, within a nation. We belong somewhere intimate before we make our place in the wider world, and even then, no matter where in the world we are, we are still always within someplace, within some province, within some nation, unless one is making a home on the moon, as moonbats of Ardern’s ilk probably should.

To do away with the individual sovereignty of nations is to do away with the whole concept of citizenship. 

As if she were trying to cast herself in the role of world fairy-godmother, by placing her emphasis on standing as an abstract, fantasy guardian for all people in a borderless world, Ardern sacrifices the very real future of her own localised citizens, thereby betraying one of the most precious values our ancestors bitterly fought for with their blood, sweat and tears, down through the ages stretching back to the ancient Greeks: citizenship within an independent and sovereign nation.
 
Patriotism is a virtue and always has been.  It doesn’t follow that every patriot is virtuous. But the leader of a country who does not possess profound feelings of love for their own homeland above any other land –  and with it, a deep, single-minded commitment to protect that nation’s flourishing – is a person who is not to be trusted. That person will sell a nation’s history, culture and traditional values down the murkiest river quicker than a globalist can say “George Soros.”

This is the gravity of the harm Ardern is currently doing to New Zealand, damn her.  She is not a patriot, evidenced by her total obsequiousness to the United Nations and all its anti-nationalist agendas.

American author, Robert A Heinlein, made one of the greatest modern speeches imaginable on the topic of patriotism, which he gave to the US Naval Academy in 1973.  It’s titled “The Pragmatics of Patriotism.”

Heinlein made the extraordinary point that patriotism was another way of saying “women and children first.”

Men go to great lengths to save their women and children in emergencies because women and children are essential to the survival of a country to carry on its bloodline; the race, the nation. By contrast, men are rather expendable. Patriotism is not only felt as a bonding sentiment, it’s a profound biological loyalty toward the survival of your people, a group too large to know individually. 

Heinlein states correctly that “a man [or woman] who is not patriotic is an evolutionary dead end.” This is the reason that unpatriotic leaders are untrustworthy.  Their primary reason for becoming a leader is not because they profoundly love their country or its citizens. They have another agenda going on instead.

Here’s Heinlein:

“Today, in the United States, it is popular among self-styled ‘intellectuals’ to sneer at patriotism. They seem to think that it is axiomatic that any civilized man is a pacifist, and they treat the military profession with contempt[…] One of their favorite quotations is: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’

What they never mention is that the man who made that sneering remark was a fat, gluttonous slob who was pursued all his life by a pathological fear of death. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man’s evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual. A man who is not patriotic is an evolutionary dead end. This is not sentiment but the hardest of logic.”

The next time you hear our PM, or any other globalist, speak about open borders, borderless worlds, the perils of nationalism or sovereign guardianship being “simplistic,” ponder Heinlein’s words about patriotism.  There’s nothing simple about it – other than being simply natural to the survival of the country that you love. 

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By Olivia Pierson
[First published on Insight @theBFD 26/9/19]

What a week thus far in politics – and it’s only Wednesday! 

The UN General Assembly always brings world issues to the forefront for a time, but this week was unusually striking for the level of outright insanity on display. 
The definition of autism is: “a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behaviour.” 

Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist who is obviously very unwell, was allowed by her handlers (including her odd parents), to engage in a public meltdown at world leaders during the UN Climate Summit with her now infamous “How Dare You” speech. 

Simply stunning was the fact that so many world leaders, including our own PM Ardern, offer hearty congratulations and support to the overt exploitation of this clearly suffering girl. 

Greta, who actually has been diagnosed with autism, selective mutism, depression and anxiety, plus an eating disorder to boot, is nonetheless thrown onto the world stage to dramatise like a performing monkey her hysterical belief that we are “at the beginning of a mass extinction,” a conviction which the adults in her life have brainwashed her into holding, thus throwing some light on why she has so many mental health issues for one so young.
 
I, along with many other people watching this girl steadily unravel, call this the cold and sustained abuse of a minor. Her trauma is one of the saddest public spectacles I’ve ever witnessed. If ever there was a kid who needed to be put to bed for a spell of normalcy with a hot water bottle and a nice cup of camomile tea, it’s Greta. This poor child appears to be only one meltdown away from needing to be committed to a mental institution, yet the grown-up world of climate alarmists around her disgracefully don’t seem to give a stuff. 

Also this week, regarding the ongoing tensions with Iran, Secretary Pompeo has been saying unequivocally that the vicious drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities on September 14th, which effects the stability of the world oil market, was an act of war committed by Iran – even though Houthis rebels claimed that they did it. Pompeo maintains only Iran had the technological capability to make the attack as successful as it was. Iran’s leaders only fight wars by proxy and lie through their teeth that they have any involvement. This is nothing new. 

What is new, is that President Macron, Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister Johnson, who have pathetically been doing their best to keep the JCPOA Iranian deal alive, despite US withdrawal from it, have all made a joint statement about the attacks saying that: 

“It is clear for us that Iran bears responsibility for this attack. There is no other plausible explanation. We support ongoing investigations to establish further details.” 

Macron has been urging President Rouhani to meet with President Trump as soon as possible, a role that Macron also tried to play last month at the G7 summit, when he had Javad Zarif flown in as his personal guest in order to spring a surprise meeting on President Trump. Trump refused to meet with Zarif in that particular context. 

Yet, two days ago, Zarif, sat down for an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, where he declared, “We believe we need to start working together for peace, for confidence-building, for de-escalation, for exchanges, and even for a non-aggression pact.” 

Amanpour asked, “Are you saying that President Rouhani in this heightened atmosphere of tension would be willing, here at this general assembly, to meet with President Trump?” 

Zarif responded, “Provided that President Trump is prepared to do what is necessary.” 
No meeting between the two presidents has taken place to date. 

Today, President Rouhani had a sit-down interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace. Unsurprisingly, Rouhani denied outright that Iran had anything to do with the September 14th attacks. He maintains that it was the work of Houthis rebels in Yemen, thus taking US and European world leaders for fools. 

To top off this week’s political insanity, the Democratic Party has again announced (as they have done with the repetitiveness of honking geese since Trump was elected) that they are pushing forward to impeach him, based on a murky piece of evidence from yet another anonymous leaker. If this sounds familiar, that might be because it follows almost the exact pattern of the so-called Russian collusion narrative, only this time Democrats are accusing the president of Ukrainian collusion. 

The Democrats are hoping that a leaked conversation by phone between President Trump and Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, will expose some kind of illegal activity on Trump’s part. The Democrats claim that a quid-pro-quo took place between the two leaders over information on Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in exchange for military aid from the US to the Ukraine. The US has been consistently helping Ukraine since Trump was elected. 

As always with the politically autistic left, the cringe-worthy lack of self-awareness and the obvious projections are remarkable. 

Just as they were the ones who actually colluded with Russians, i.e the fabrication and purchase of the ‘Steele dossier’ – a misnomer if ever there was one (it should be known as the ‘Democratic Committee dossier’) and the Uranium One deal, which not only saw 20 percent of US uranium production placed under the control of Vladimir Putin(!), but also a deal which included substantial financial kick-backs to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as Obama’s Secretary of State! 

So now we have the situation where Hunter Biden, a recovering drug and alcohol addict, is involved in two highly questionable business deals, one in China and one in Ukraine, while his father was Obama’s Vice President. 

Hunter served on the board of BHR Partners, a massive private investment fund which saw China donate 1.5 billion dollars to his private equity firm which he co-owns with his friend Chris Heinz (the ketchup empire) – Chris also happens to be the step-son of John Kerry, who served as Secretary of State after Hillary Clinton. 
As Peter Schweizer wrote in his book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends”: 

“So their sons going into business together in June 2009 was not exactly a bolt out of the blue. But with whom their sons cut lucrative deals while the elder two were steering the ship of state is more of a surprise. 

What Hunter Biden, the son of America’s vice president, and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (later to be secretary of state), were creating was an international private equity firm. It was anchored by the Heinz family alternative investment fund, Rosemont Capital. The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.” 

This may explain why Obama’s administration was so consistently soft on China’s trade cheating. 

In the Ukraine, Burisma Holdings, Ukraine’s largest private gas company, paid Hunter up to $50,000 a month to sit on its board. In 2014, it was investigated for money laundering and corruption, and Hunter Biden was accused of taking three million dollars, allegedly laundered through Cyprus. Daddy Joe pressured the government to fire its head prosecutor, which happened, then approved a second prosecutor and boasted on camera that he’d done this by threatening to withhold a billion dollars worth of loan guarantees.
 
Collusion and corruption are just a normal day at work for Democrat officials, this is obviously why they automatically assume everyone else does it too.
 
To put this latest impeachment hysteria to bed, President Trump is expected to release a transcript of the conversation with President Zelensky tomorrow, but Democrats are already saying that it won’t be enough to make them drop the impeachment bone they’re slobbering over in a collective frenzy. 

We know that Democrats do not have the grace, courage or moral sense to let President Trump serve his elected time in office, they’ve been talking impeachment since his inauguration day, resorting to every dirty trick in the book from illegal surveillance and fake sex scandals, to foreign collusion and even trying to spin the accusation that the president is a Russian asset. Now they want the world to believe he’s also a Ukrainian asset, which presents an obvious problem to their narratives when one remembers that Russia and Ukraine are currently fighting a war.
 
With issues on the table for President Trump as globally important as the role Iran will or will not play toward world peace in the future regarding their nuclear capabilities, that Democrats once again choose to try to delegitimise his presidency during the very week that world leaders are in town for the UN General Assembly is staggeringly unpatriotic and appalling. This is symptomatic of clearly hating your president more than loving your country. But as the president stated in his UN address, “The future does not belong to globalists, the future belongs to patriots,” one can only hope that these One World Order Bolsheviks once again get their comeuppance in the next election.
 
Between Greta Thunberg, Iranian leadership and the Democratic party, political autism in the 21st Century is not just on the rise, it seems to be a disorder that is utterly paramount within their particular circles. 

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