Lux Luthor — Part 1: Operation Overwealth
Political Puppet Grooming, Traffic Duty and a Pilot Test for the Wealth Gap Ruler
This heretical dispatch re-examines Christopher Luxon’s high-octane propulsion to the role as leader of the National Party — from brand marketer to airline CEO. It reveals a highly-networked global élite stealthily pimping planetary policies, while mass populaces, including Kiwis, are lined up like ducks for vote harvesting.
Few Kiwis know that Luxon’s former employer, Unilever, co-funded the Bilderberg Foundation — along with the CIA — a key global-policy shaping group for Western élites, the agendas of NATO and propaganda disseminated through the Economist.
Similarly, most Kiwis remain unaware that Luxon’s participation in the Microsoft CEOs Summits in the mid-2010s, as well as his invitation to a $13,000 dinner with former US President Barack Obama numbering 13 mortals, and his subsequent selection as Chairman of the inaugural Prime Minister’s 13-member Business Advisory Council — were chess plays in political grooming to become a ‘rook’.
The grand chessboard game involves inflicting ‘managed conflict’ with the application of a ‘Hegelian Dialectic’ social engineering to cause clashes between two opposing ideologically-driven forces, so that a ‘synthesis’, or a desired final solution, is created. The idea is to use the crises to forge a fusion of capitalism and communism to control populations. This hybrid system is techno-feudalism.
After Luxon moved into the political realm by standing as a National Party candidate in the 2020 election, the former Air New Zealand CEO appeared to undergo a ‘pilot test’ to see how he weathered a fleeting ‘scandal’. In February 2021, a business unit at Air NZ was found to have performed maintenance work for the Saudi Royal Navy, while Luxon was CEO. The media treated Luxon with kid gloves, while PM Jacinda Ardern named Price Waterhouse Coopers as auditor, and called a snap three-day lockdown for Auckland (city of Air NZ’s HQ), due to only three cases.
Former Māori Television editor, Steve ‘Snoopman’ Edwards locates Luxon’s recent rhetoric that “the wealthy aren’t the problem” with triangulated lenses comprised of scholarship that surveys oligarchic coalitions, who transform economic wealth into political power. By American standards, Luxon’s $4 million annual salary while captaining Air New Zealand placed him at the threshold of oligarch status.
Crucially, oligarchs can only exist in societies with extreme wealth disparities, and they thrive in crisis-ridden societies. Ergo, the super-wealthy cause crises, including poverty. Super-rich oligarchs convert their concentration of economic wealth into political power, which is why oligarchies can’t be undone by democratic procedures.
Therefore, part 1 “Operation Overwealth” of this three-part series, Lux Luthor Redux, climbs above the clouds to metaphorically cruise at 13,000 feet over the South Pacific archipelago to show the long grooming of Unilever’s former head of North American Deodorants & Grooming corporate portfolio, as a useful élite idiot.
The Luxon File — An Overview
Christopher Luxon’s career trajectory appears on paper to be remarkably ‘tidy’ since he has worked for relatively few employees for a man who was born in 1972. His employment record at Unilever, Air New Zealand, and for the NZ Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council — prior to being catapulted to the position of National Party’s leader, December 1st 2021 — creates the appearance of good optics.
However, a closer scrutiny of the orbit Luxon has been drawn into, reveals links to New Zealand’s Rich Listers, ruling class technocrats and Wellington political élite, as collaborators with a global élite ‘superclass’. This technocratic élite essentially treat governments as ‘policy distributors’ since the political, economic and legal frameworks are largely worked out by billionaire-funded think-tanks, foundations, and universities and discussed at international summits, conferences and workshops, before they reach the public’s attention. Monopoly is a game with consensus theatrics.
Moreover, the inter-élite linkages between think-tanks, forums and councils reveals empire-forging geopolitical chess moves. Luxon’s participation in a business delegation to Switzerland in 2017, which was sponsored by the New Zealand Initiative think-tank, is fascinating in light of his subsequent pivot to politics. His linkages to the highly-networked global élite, and their global policy-shaping agendas, reveals the extent that New Zealand has been drawn into an emergent global empire.
This sketch of machinations reveals NZ’s thin-layer of ruling class élites, who criss-cross with crisis events that result in an uncanny upward transfer of wealth, while the economy was, and continues to be, transformed into a Techno-Feudal plantation.
Conspicuously, New Zealand’s ruling class élites display a detectable performative crisis management rinse and riff modus operandi that echoes the ‘Monopoly Game’ of ‘officials from crises past’, whose corrupt activities evaded the scrutiny of prosecutors during the Halcyon Days of the corporate heist of New Zealand, circa 1984-1996.
Against this storeyed backdrop, and in his bid to be prime minister of a political party that has been in the thick of managing New Zealand as a crisis-ridden society — Christopher Luxon treats the public as a gullible target audience for vote harvesting.
While his competitors do more or less the same, National has the advantage that their main rival, Labour were in power during the Corona Crisis. Kiwis will likely associate the hard lock-downs with the Labour Party, and pin their harvestable hopes on National, since most have failed to learn the key lesson: politicians are human farmers.
And, New Zealand has a plutocratic government serving a civil oligarchy.
A Performative Reset, a Hat-tip and Lux Luthor’s Assets
» Political Puppet Grooming to be a Useful Élite Idiot.
During Christopher Luxon’s first press conference as National leader in December 2021, he claimed he and his deputy, Nicola Willis, were the “reset” the National Party and New Zealand needs. Bloomberg reported in February 2022 that Luxon lists former U.S. President Barack Obama and former New Zealand Prime Minister John Key as the leaders he most admires. Was that a hat-tip to their influence and lobbying behind the scenes to secure his meteoric rise to leader of the National Party, and to remind New Zealand’s Establishment that he essentially had their endorsement?
After-all, Luxon was brought into the orbit of Obama during his visit to New Zealand in March 2018, when the former US President was host for 12 dinner guests, that occurred thanks to the NZ-US Business Council and the former Merrill Lynch banker and NBR Rich Lister, John Key. The NZ-US Business Council approached Air New Zealand to assist with funding Obama’s visit, and subsequently Air New Zealand brought in Westpac and Mastercard to co-sponsor the trip with New Zealand’s flagship carrier. Obama gave a speech at a ‘free dinner’ event to approximately 1000 invited guests organized by the NZ-US Business Council at an undisclosed location in Auckland. The director of NZ Inc, Fran O’Sullivan, is the advisory board chair of the NZ-US Business Council, and was a founder-director of the Council in 2001.
Intriguingly, on June 19 2019, Luxon said — when it was announced he was resigning from Air New Zealand — that his association with Key over the years “involved … lots of things at the New Zealand Inc level.” The ‘New Zealand Inc’ term appears to be short-hand for the coordination of state managers and private sector executives, who work on behalf of NZ’s Civil Oligarchy and their foreign counterparts.
The scant details of the small private dinner were ‘leaked’ to the protegé of Duncan Garner, Patrick Gower, which communicated the optics that Key was working his ‘networks’ to pave the way for Luxon, since the natural bias of the two then-NewsHub political cubs was (is) toward the favorite of big business, the National Party.
Twelve people dined with Obama, making 13 for dinner in all, which had included a stay at The Landing, an exclusive lodge — costing $13,000 a night — that is owned by developer Peter Cooper, who’s net-worth was $780 million, Gower said. (The real reason Duncan Garner and Patrick Gower shared the 2012 Best News Reporter award, was because they essentially acted as ‘one voice’ — with the complicity of three newsrooms — to save John Key’s political career during the ‘Teapot Tape Scandal’ in the midst of the 2011 election campaign, as I showed in my investigation, “Play Punch Journalism”). The Landing’s exclusive guests included film-director Sir Peter Jackson, Sir John Key and Lady Bronagh, former US Ambassador Mark Gilbert and wife Nancy Gilbert, and Air NZ chief executive Christopher Luxon and wife, Amanda Luxon.
And while the former Prime Minister John Key played golf with Obama, and dined with Christopher Luxon — his preference for the next National Party Leader and future Prime Minister — the then-leader of the National Party, Simon Bridges, had to put on a brave face when he spoke by telephone to Mr Obama. Optics is everything.
Like Luxon, Obama also had a meteoric rise. In Obama’s case, his selection was also about optics. It is thought Obama attended the 2008 Bilderberger Conference. The Bilderberg Foundation was established in 1952 as a key global-policy shaping group for North Atlantic Western élites, that discusses pressing issues over the coming year. Amid, the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 and 2008, Americans were livid that Wall Street had blown an epic housing bubble that popped, causing millions to lose homes.
Fascinatingly, on 1 June 5 2008, when Illinois Democrat Senator Barack Obama was neck and neck with New York Democrat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the presidential race, Obama and Clinton gave the accredited press the slip and they disappeared for a few hours. The disappearance of both presidential candidates coincided with the Bilderberg Foundation’s conference at the Westfield Marriott Hotel in Chantilly, Virginia — the state where the CIA is headquartered and just a stone’s throw from Washington DC. Yet, media insiders were with the Bilderbergers.
Among the official attendees at the 2008 Bilderberg meeting were: Condaleezzza Rice; US Secretary of State; George P. Schultz, former Secretary of State, and Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institute; David Rockefeller, former Chairman Chase Manhattan Bank; Henry Kissinger, Kissinger & Associates; Keith Alexander, US Director NSA; Ben Bernanke, Chairman Federal Reserve; Timothy Geithner, President New York Fed; Henry Paulson, Secretary US Treasury; Peter A. Thiel, CEO Palantir; Jessica Mathews, President Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute; and Paul Gigot, Editor The Wall Street Journal; Donald Graham, Chairman of The Washington Post — as journalist Daniel Estulin revealed.
Following the Bilderberger meeting, Obama edged ahead of Clinton with the last primaries on Tuesday night of June 3, when Obama ‘earned’ enough delegates’ votes to secure the Democratic nomination. In “America at its Best”, The Economist reported June 5 2008 that Clinton and Obama expended well over 12 months contesting the presidential nominee spot. Intriguingly, The Economist added that in any other country, the leading contenders would have been decided behind closed doors or with a limited franchise within a short time. An intervention was required, evidently.
Crucially, the Economist had insider access to the Bilderberg Group’s 2008 meeting; two of its reporters, Vendeline von Bredow and Adrian Wooldridge, also attended. The Economist’s owner, the Economist Group is part-owned by stockholdings owned by the Rothschild, Cadbury, and Schroder dynasties, as well as through a Netherlands-based holding company, Exor, owned by the Italian Fiat industrialist family, Agnelli. The Agnelli’s have a long association with the Bilderberg Group, and the Economist has been the forum’s mouthpiece for managing perceptions to manufacture consent.
Subsequently, Obama was neck and neck with Republican Senator John McCain, until the week of the staged collapse of Wall Street’s fourth largest investment bank, Lehman Brothers, on September 15 2008. The US and UK media coverage subtly framed Obama as the more capable candidate to steer America through the crisis.
However, when Senator Obama was on the campaign trail, he was questioned about the Council on Foreign Relations. In the documentary, Invisible Empire: The New World Order Defined, Obama can be seen stammering his way through an answer. Obama admitted he had given a speech at the CFR think-tank, before he belittled the questioner, saying he didn’t carry a membership card and that no-one was wearing tinfoil-hats. Obama resorted to ridicule as a means to deflect away from the truth.
Obama could’ve said the Council on Foreign Relations is one of the key global policy-disseminating groups, whose key people run government regardless of elections.
On October 30 2008, five days before the US election, The Economist endorsed Obama for the presidency. Featuring the lanky dapper Chicago Senator with the headline, “It’s Time”, The Economist reasoned the merit of Barrack Hussein Obama as president “would salve, if not close, the ugly racial wound left by America’s history and lessen the tendency of American blacks to blame all of their problems on racism.”
Indeed, the logic underpinning the meteoric rise of Obama to the US Presidency was astutely described by KRS One in a 2009 documentary, The Obama Deception. The African-American rapper said America was on the “verge of revolution”, amid the 2007 and 2008 Global Financial Crisis. By placing “a black man in the White House”, KRS One said, the global élite had staved off an uprising. KRS described this shrewd political move as “crowd control”. In effect, Obama was hired as a crisis manager.
It is, therefore, ironic that Obama inherited the watch as ‘crowd manager’ in what was essentially a crisis management role of a Wall Street created crash. Especially, given that by dining with Luxon, he was endorsing the Air NZ CEO’s pivot to politics.
Particularly, since Luxon may well inherit the deepening crisis that was inflicted upon New Zealand when the Ardern Administration failed to call-out the obvious geopolitical game that underpinned the Great Corona Hostage Crisis, to strategically sabotage households, businesses and public sector services. Oligarchs thrive in crises.
Intriguingly, when thirteen bankers met with Obama at the White House on Friday 27 March 2009, they were told by America’s first black president: “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” Obama’s task was to impress on the thirteen Wall Street bankers that they desist from bragging in the public media about their enormous bonuses, following the tax-funded public insurance bail-outs of their banks, as the authors of the 2010 book, 13 Bankers, revealed. The bankers pitched in.
This was not the first time that the financial-political oligarchy symbolically communicated with the prime number thirteen, via Barack Obama. When a $700 billion bailout bill was voted down in the US House of Representatives, Obama was assigned the task of convincing 13 ‘black caucus’ Democrat members of the US Senate, as The Washington Post reported in an article headlined, “Bush enacts historic financial rescue: House passes plan by wide margin, but stocks keep falling”.
The primary number, Thirteen, symbolizes ‘unity and fraternal love’, and has long been used for ‘procuring marriage agreements’ among brotherhoods across the world, as occultist Aleister Crowley stated in his book, Liber 777, and W. Wynn Westcott asserted in his work, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues.
By embedding events with ‘Thirteen’, coalitions of élites signal unity among a brotherhood; that they are advancing a syndicate game to signal promises and threats, telegraph caution and control in the inevitable scandals, while exploiting crises. If other players are not seen to be posting themselves as ‘hostages’ with such encoded signalling — defections can be expected on the next moves, as game theory predicts.
Game theory was developed during the Cold War to stabilize the power structures of the Russian Empire and the American Empire. In their paper, “Resolving social conflicts through hostage posting: theoretical and empirical considerations”, Gideon Keren and Werner Raub noted that “tacit communications of threats and promises are two major message strategies used to influence the behaviours of others”.
Thus, in October 2018, when Christopher Luxon was appointed chairman of the Prime Minister’s 13-member Business Advisory Council, this chess move was consistent with game theory. Luxon’s appointment appeared to not only signal succession for the National Party and that the existing leader, Simon Bridges, was a place-holder puppet. But, also it seemed to communicate the stability of the two-party dominated MMP system for the ruling class of New Zealand, and its foreign overlords.
Especially, because the appointments were ‘officially’ made by Jacinda Ardern, who was groomed for the role of prime minister by the billionaire-funded World Economic Forum — since she was selected for the WEF’s Young Global Leaders programme on 13 March 2014, after her tertiary education was paid for by New Zealand Freemasons.
The newspaper chain, that has a name suggesting it will pimp anyone’s wares, Stuff, also reported that National Party MP, Simon Bridges, had been inducted into the WEF’s Young Global Leaders program at a prior time. Thus, without the NZ public comprehending the machine behind grooming of political leaders to narrow the choices for future general selections, Ardern and Bridges were ‘breakfasted’ at TVNZ.
Like Obama, Ardern’s skyrocket assent was manufactured to gain popular consent.
As Snoopman observed in 2017, in seven weeks, the media manufactured her image, and achieved what the CIA has long-known: it only takes a month to indoctrinate a population. Even Forbes called the election for Ardern three days prior to polling day.
The founder of the World Economic Forum, Professor Klaus Schwab, is a man who has groomed many world leaders to think, speak and inflect with one voice. There are many ‘fun facts’ that the global media cartel omit when covering the summit at Davos in Switzerland; the first in the annual migratory travels of the sub-species known as the Global Élite, or the Superclass, and amusingly, the Illuminati Lizard Overlords.
It turns out that future US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, opened doors for Klaus Schwab. The backstory to Schwab-Kissinger connection leads to a web of the global power élite, where it becomes apparent the degrees of separation are so thin, you could count them with as many fingers as the ‘rabbit ears’ of Churchill’s ‘Victory’ hand signal — at most. Particularly fascinating is the CIA links to the World Economic Forum founder, Klaus Schwab, and his three mentors: Kenneth Galbraith, Herman Kahn and most especially, the ‘Prince of Darkness’ himself, Henry Kissinger.
At Harvard University, a 26 year-old Klaus Schwab attended Professor Kissinger’s “International Seminar”, which was funded by the CIA via a known conduit — as journalist, Johnny Vedmore, shows in his investigation headlined, “Dr. Klaus Schwab or: How the CFR Taught Me to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”.
All three men were members of the New York-based global policy-shaping think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). At the time that Shwab founded the World Economic Forum, the CFR was dominated by the banking and oil oligarch, David Rockefeller; the Council’s chairman from 1970 to 1985. During the 1970s, the Council on Foreign Relations’ members and their British counterparts wrote scholarly papers, held seminars and work-shopped to forge a ‘1980s Project’, which was a blueprint for a new capitalism to re-assert the dominance of the then-North Atlantic Capitalist Class.
This technocratic capitalism was later mis-identified as neo-liberalism. It was the same Council on Foreign Relations that conducted the Rockefeller Foundation-funded War and Peace Studies Group (1939 to 1945), to advise the US Government, based on the idea that America would emerge as the dominant power from WWII.
At the time that Schwab was groomed by the three CFR members — Galbraith, Kahn and Kissinger — the Council was chaired by John Jay McCloy (1954-1969). McCloy — who had shared a box with Adolf Hitler and Herman Goering at the 1936 Berlin Olympics — not only made the post-WWII Operation Paperclip to repatriate Nazis scientists to the United States, a full-blown operation to engage in weapons projects, scientific intelligence programs, and chemical/biological warfare.
In 1945, among the many new branches of the expanding American military and intelligence network, the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) was formed, with the express goal of recruiting Nazi scientists. From 1945, McCloy organized its State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, influenced Truman to drop the Atomic bomb while preserving Japan’s Emperor, worked on presidential commissions to establish the CIA and its White House policy action arm, the National Security Council, and the containment policy of the Soviet Empire.
And finally, with his appointment as U.S. high commissioner of Germany in 1949, McCloy championed the Nazi scientist program. Naturally, McCloy’s Frankfurt HQ was located between the CIA office floors in the same building; as above, so below. In 1951, McCloy released from prison convicted Nazi war criminals, including Otto Ambros, a director of I.G. Farben, the merged chemical cartel of six companies — one of which manufactured Zyklon B, the gas used to exterminate millions of Jews in the slave labour camps across Germany and occupied territories.
Therefore, Schwab was in the company of men who were working for a superstructure operating at pay-grades well above that of presidents, prime ministers, premieres, governors, aldermen and mayors to reforge the world onto a technofeudalist trajectory.
Crucially, Kissinger, Kahn and Galbraith opened doors for Schwab to lobby American and European élites to back his World Economic Forum project for its launch in 1971.
But, you wouldn’t learn this from just watching ‘the news’ or listening to Schwab.
While Kissinger’s contributions to thermonuclear strategic planning in the postwar period and Galbraith’s public role as an economist are well-known — Herman Kahn’s role is less well known. In addition to forecasting the development of nuclear technologies, Kahn also identified the need to specifically train individuals with leadership potential separately from those who attend the prevailing standard educational models. Khan is widely believed to be the real Dr. Strangelove.
Kahn’s vision to develop a two-track education system to groom élites eventually saw its manifestation in programs like the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders academy. As such, education became more systematically asymmetric to better serve the global power élites’ project of world system transformation.
The global power élites’ formation of cartels, their imposition of debt-based monetary systems and their spreading of worker income taxation — while forging a world tax haven complex — is all designed to kill the creative dynamism of free enterprise. To oligarchic coalitions, what matters is accumulating capital at faster rates than their rival coalitions, to transform economic wealth into political power to forge empires.
In his 2018 book Giants: The Global Power Elite, Professor Peter Phillips , identified twenty asset management firms and banks at the center of global capital: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, J.P Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of NY Mellon, Bank of America, Barclays, Allianz, Capital Group, Morgan Stanley, AXA, Prudential, Amundi, FMR, Wellington Capital Management, Northern Trust and BNP Paribas. The world’s super-rich have accumulated so much wealth, that their needs for maintaining faster than average capital accumulation are immense, and require regime changes through war, coup d’état and juntas, Professor Phillips said.
In other words, capitalism is a private political system that uses economic means to control society and exclude as many people as possible from access to land, in order to translate the epic accumulation of economic wealth into political power — as readings of the books, Capital as Power, Oligarchy and The Politics of Money make plain.
This superclass ‘globalist bloc’ orbits in an exclusive world of policy dissemination — in pursuit of stealthily forging a global empire. It it this ‘globalist bloc’ that any future New Zealand prime minister will be drawn into, unless Kiwis successfully resist.
The global power élite apply a‘Hegelian Dialectic’ of social engineering to divide and conquer with two opposing ideologically-driven forces, in order to create a ‘synthesis’, or a desired final solution. The inherent contradictions are intentional.
This Hegelian Dialetic has relevance for humanity’s present situation, because, for example, the systems of capitalism and communism have been pitted against one another in countless conflicts, big and small. Yet, the conflicting forces of capitalism and communism are not intended to result in either system being the victor. Rather, the idea is to use the crises to forge a fusion of their cunning inventiveness to control populations, with a hi-tech hybrid totalitarian system of techno-feudalism.
Luxon — like so many useful idiots who are drawn into the orbit of the global power élite — fails to realize that the world is still in the Third Hundred Years’ War.
A Hundred Years’ War occurs when there are tectonic shifts in the world system, brought about by scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and new organizational hierarchies that competing ruling classes fight over — to dominate the trajectory of structural forces. Every empire needs an instrument of expansion.
This present epic age of conflict began as a fight over the control of gold and diamonds in Southern Africa with the Boer War of 1899-1902, in order to fill a war chest for the new prize, oil. The technologies, institutions and administrative systems to exploit oil as a resource, became the new instrument of empire expansion.
It is my contention that this epic ongoing global war now seeks to destroy household autonomy, wreck free enterprise and construct a totalitarian universal empire through domination of the Chip Revolution, which began in 1959. As the new instrument of expansion, the computing chip is set to collectivize all previous instruments of expansion, including slavery, feudalism, and credit creation, in the ongoing Third Hundred Years’ War — that began as a struggle over the control of oil in 1899.
The current trajectory has provable historical precedents of diabolical machinations by Western Élites, who built-up Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany and Communist China.
In his book, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Professor Anthony Sutton explained the totalitarian socialist state — whether international socialist (communist), or national socialist (fascist) — was the perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists. After the American ‘Robber Barons’ forged cartels, Sutton said Wall Street insiders comprehended by the early 1900s, that the most efficient way to forge a monopoly market without contest, was to “go political” and compel society to work for the monopolists, under conditions of unfettered political power, individual coercion and spellbound by ideological persuasion that their toil benefits society.
In an epic plot with brinkmanship, plot twists, and betrayals, British, German and American bankers, along with other élites, conspired through networks of Freemasonry in their attempts to forge competing utopian visions of universal empire, as readings of Gerry Doherty’s and Jim Macgregor’s Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War, and Anthony Sutton’s Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Nicholas Hagger’s The Secret History of the West — together make clear. Plots involved infiltration, bribery and intrigue.
The backstory of the rise of American capitalism’s ‘partners’ gets worse.
In June 1980, David Rockefeller met with the chairman of China International Trust and Investment Corporation, Rong Yiren, and senior executives of 300 major US corporations. And from the mid-1990s, Western tech-companies invested in R&D centers, supplied technology transfers, and skilled personnel. Scores of Fortune 500 companies established headquarters in Beijing’s new Central Business District that not only kick-started China’s rise as an AI power, as independent journalist James Corbett laid out in his excellent 2015 report, “Deal With the Devil: How the Global Elite Re-colonized China.” The rise of China as the world’s factory, was not merely about outsourcing of cheap labour. China is the West’s totalitarian test facility.
The brutal truth is that Anglo-American capitalists spawned the worst totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century, to control their development, create vast industrial conglomerates and stoke the conditions for mass genocide, war and arms races.
Thus, when the Leader of NZ’s National Party claimed the wealthy aren’t the problem, he could not have been more wrong. Oligarchs pay élites to engineer crises.
» The ‘Luxon Gas Lighting Company’ and Lux Luthor’s Assets
While at Air New Zealand, Chris Luxon was the highest paid chief executive of all New Zealand listed companies, earning more than $4 million a year. In his 2011 book, Oligarchy, Jeffrey Winters argues that the cusp of a wealthy individual becoming an oligarch in the United States is reached with an annual income of $4 million. In the 2015 documentary, Requiem for an American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power, Noam Chomsky, a life-long critic of the American Empire, admitted he had under-estimated how much resources America’s capitalist class devotes to maintaining its power, through a highly paid professional class.
This is not to say that Luxon is an oligarch; he’s a corporate élite-turned politician.
In 2014 and 2015, Luxon’s soaring success as Air NZ’s CEO meant he was invited to attend the select club of Microsoft’s CEOs Summit, as Stuff Business reported in a 2015 article headlined, “Air New Zealand’s innovation inspired by Silicon Valley, Disney and Four Seasons”. The big names in attendance at the 2014 conference in Redmond, Washington State, were: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Reed Hastings of Netflix, Jeff Immelt of GE, Ursula Burns of Xerox, John Donahoe of eBay, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed, Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post. The big names in 2015 were: Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Reed Hastings, and Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter Inc.
In 2015, Luxon was named New Zealand CEO of the Year at the Deloitte Top 200 CEO Awards. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Luxon was the only Kiwi to be selected to attend Microsoft’s CEOs Summit, comprising ‘130 global thought leaders’.
Thus, the airline CEO who was selected by Air NZ’s board after 13 months with the company, was subsequently chosen for the MicroSoft Summits, a confab between ‘global thought leaders’ numbering 130; a multiple of the recidivist prime number.
In 2017, Luxon travelled with 40 CEOs to Switzerland as part of a business delegation sponsored by the New Zealand Initiative, which was formed out of a merger between two think-tanks called the New Zealand Institute and New Zealand Business Roundtable (NZBR), a think-thank that oversaw the rewriting of the rules of ‘Monopoly: The New Zealand Edition’; not the game, but the economy in the 1980s.
The previous year, then-Prime Minister John Key framed New Zealand as an Asia-Pacific “Switzerland”. This idea, however, was not new as the NZ Herald’s business writer Fran O’Sullivan, well knew, when she wrote the article “Key’s vision — Switzerland south”. The CEOs trip to Switzerland was organized by O’Sullivan who is a director of NZ Inc, which is a business intelligence consultancy. O’Sullivan is one of New Zealand’s most experienced journalists, and is also a lead columnist for the New Zealand Herald, as well as a former editor of the National Business Review magazine.
In the mid-1980s, merchant bankers Michael Fay and David Richwhite shared with investors their utopian vision for New Zealand: a ‘Switzerland of the South Pacific’.
In late 1986, the pair floated a company called European Pacific Banking Corporation that was based in the wealth secrecy haven of Luxembourg, which subsequently became the centre of scrutiny in the 1990s ‘Wine Box Scandal’ — as retold in The Paradise Conspiracy. The utopian vision of Fay Richwhite merchant bankers was to transform NZ into a ‘foreign exchange capital’, or Switzerland of the South Pacific.
While Switzerland is world famous for being a ‘neutral state’, the story of how it came to be under the protection other European countries is little known (as is worth a brief segue). In 1815, and with the fall of Napoleon I, the Sionist-dominated Congress of Vienna established Zurich as a Sionist financial headquarters and an enduring hidden Anglo-Swiss Banking Alliance began. British Masonic Bankers — then dominated by the House of Rothschild, who controlled the then-privately-owned Bank of England — would only back the plan if they gained control of Swiss banking.
Thus, in the 1980s, NZ ‘Inc’ was earmarked as a Swiss-esque tax haven archipelago for the super-wealthy. The reforms were geared to benefit the rich, despite the sales pitch.
Brazenly, Lange Labour Government Finance Minister Roger Douglas — who was widely credited with being the ‘architect’ of the economic shock therapies, dubbed ‘Rogernomics’ — bragged in a private dinner conversation in December 1986 that the idea behind the ‘free market’ reforms was to transform New Zealand into a Switzerland of the South Pacific. Douglas said a top strata of wealthy would rule and in 25 years time, most New Zealanders would not be able to afford to live in N.Z.*
In other words, NZ’s finance minister was complicit in the reformation of an oligarchy, by his instrumental role of inflicting a matrix of crises, designed to coerce Kiwis to uproot and take flight on Air New Zealand to find new soil to forage for roots.
The brutal truth is New Zealand’s modern oligarchy was forged in a dozen years when the nation was mangled in a planned heist of the economy. Despite Luxon making the headline claim, ‘the wealthy aren’t the problem’, the famous MIT scholar Noam Chomsky observed more generally in the 2015 documentary, Requiem for an American Dream, the “concentration of wealth yields a concentration of political power”.
Like other political lawmakers, Luxon’s financial and asset disclosures to parliament provide a modicum of detail. Digging by journalists has revealed Luxon’s properties — a family home in Remuera, a Waiheke Island bach, an apartment in Wellington, his electoral office and three investment properties in Onehunga — have a combined value of $21.145 million. Luxon’s Remuera home was valued at $7.68 million in 2022.
The current value of his Waiheke bach is $7.36 million. His apartment in the capital is valued at $1.07 million. Luxon’s statutory disclosure in 2021 reveal four beneficial interests in, and trusteeships of the Rae Family Trust (trustee). However, this trust does not appear in the 2022 and 2023 disclosures, while he presently has four retirement schemes and deposits with the ANZ Bank. In 2019, he was Air NZ’s 18th biggest stockholder in the airline, with more than $12 million worth of shares.
Ergo, with properties valued at $37 million, and with accounts of undisclosed value, Luxon may be close to, or above, the $50 million threshold of the NBR Rich-List.
Wealthy are Not the Problem — The Gasman Certifies the Oligarchy are Blameless
Expediently, on 26 April 2023, Luxon deflected blame from the super-rich to the Labour-led Government, in reaction to the timed release of two reports by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) and the New Zealand Treasury into the tax burden of the rich, and the general population, or ‘tax herd’. Tax farmer-aspirant Luxon said:
“Be under no illusion. It’s not the wealthy that are the problem here, the problem here is the Government that had economic policies that led to massive inflation in asset classes that are nominal, they haven’t always been realised. Remember, the gains are only realised when the assets are sold.” — Christopher Luxon, 26 April 2023
These government reports followed years of inaction by NZ’s tax department. The IRD found in 2013 that 107 out of 161 “high-wealth individuals”, who owned or controlled more than $50 million worth of assets, declared personal income of less than $70,000 (the threshold for the top tax bracket of 33 cents on the dollar).
Meanwhile, working class Kiwi tax slaves pay 20 percent income tax, and since they spend all earnings to survive, the universal 15 percent good and services transactions tax (GST) escalates their cumulative tax rate to 35 cents on the dollar.
Indeed, it will become clear in the rest of this ‘episode’ that the super-rich are the problem. The super-wealthy operate as oligarchic coalitions to transform their economic power into political power, as Jeffrey Winters stated in Oligarchy.
Oligarchs can only exist in societies with extreme wealth disparities, and they thrive in crisis-ridden societies. In short, the super-wealthy cause crises, including poverty.
Left to their own devices, oligarchs form empires and pursue world domination.
Thus, if Luxon were over the $50 million threshold, the optics would look bad.
It’s not inconceivable, that the National Business Review magazine might turn a blind eye in compiling its Rich List. According to veteran journalist, Graham Adams, it was rumoured that John Key entered the Rich List at the threshold level of $50 million in 2008, because this was deemed to be a seemly amount of wealth — for an ex-banker.
Amid the scramble for the party leadership, John Key lobbied for ex-Air NZ CEO, as NewsTallkZB reported in “John Key hits the phone for Christopher Luxon”.
Key’s succession endorsement for Luxon was crucial and carried potency.
In the simpler times of 1998, John Key was invited to a New Year soirée at the Pauanui beach house of National Party President, John Slater, in order to recruit the banker into politics — as Bevan Rapson’s 2005 report, “Golden Boy”, in Metro disclosed.
But first, Key was seconded to Gotham on an assignment to the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, from 1999 to 2001.
It turns out the Federal Reserve is a privately-owned banking cartel with a monopoly market over the US currency, while Americans unwittingly pay income tax to service the interest on the public debt. Eustace Mullins’ book, The Secrets of the Federal Reserve: The London Connection, is perhaps the best for showing the linkages of the banks, trusts and dynastic families that own the Fed’s stocks, earning a 6% dividend.
With this knowledge, a reading of the Federal Reserve’s the structure on the Board of Governors’ website reads like a ‘rules playbook’, where the banker in the end always wins the game of Monopoly. There are twelve regional Fed Banks, while the governors’ headquarters is essentially located in District 13, Washington D.C. Thus, Monopoly begins to look like ‘The Remnant Republic Edition’ in a prequel to The Hunger Games, where 13 districts comprise a totalitarian super-state.
Thus, Key’s scoping mission to become future-prime minister occurred in the early days of 1998, before Key had earned the nickname, the ‘smiling assassin’, for smiling while firing hundreds of Merrill Lynch staff in London after the bank fared poorly in the wake of the Russia Ruble Crisis of 1998. (As London head of Merrill’s global head of foreign exchange he reportedly had a salary and bonuses package of NZ$5m p.a.).
While working at Bankers Trust, Key bet against the value of the ‘Kiwi’ ahead of Prime Minister David Lange’s sacking of his Finance Minister, Roger Douglas, on December 14 1988. It appears Key also worked with the famed currency trader, Andrew Krieger, who shorted the value of the NZ dollar in the aftermath of the 1987 Sharemarket Crash. In their article, “$300 Million Profit in One Forex Trade — The Story of Krieger and the Kiwi”, The Duomo Initiative claimed that John Key was one of Krieger’s co-workers at the time. (The Duomo Initiative are working with Krieger).
It turns out that the offshore market in New Zealand dollars was developed by future Neo-Feudal Rich-Lister, Alan Gibbs, and future Reserve Bank Governor, Don Brash (1988-2002), in 1971-72 at a time when currency speculation was being pioneered.
The Chase-NBA New Zealand merchant bank was formed between the Rockefeller-controlled Chase Manhattan Bank of New York and the National Bank of Australia, and its foreign exchange was headed by Gibbs. Broadbank’s first offshore market trading was headed by Brash, and was formed in a joint venture between Broadlands Dominion Group and Wells Fargo Bank of San Francisco.
It was this offshore market in New Zealand dollars that would become the mechanism of coercion during the political-bureaucratic-financial coup of mid-1984, when ‘currency speculators’ attacked the N.Z. dollar (as I show in part 2: “High Flyers Club”).
During Key’s time as prime minister from 2008 to 2016, Peter Goodfellow became president of the National Party, while also a director of fishing company, Sanford Ltd.
In 2005, when Brash was briefly the leader of the National Party — thanks to a right-wing coup orchestrated by rich-listers with ties to the NZBR and the ACT Party — the Goodfellow family net-worth was estimated at $410 million.
When Key quit in 2016, the Goodfellow’s net-worth had increased by $190 million.
Yet, despite the optics, NZ’s media cartel smelt nothing fishy about the Goodfellow family having one of their own heading the National Party, while an ex-banker — who once shorted the NZ dollar — was at the helm of NZ’s neo-feudal plantation economy.
Presently, the nation’s richest 100 families and individuals are worth $72 billion.
In a RNZ interview with Guyon Espinor in 2022, Luxon said he admired the billionaires who used their wealth to help the world. As an example, he cited Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and said he had met Bill Gates at the Microsoft Summits.
Because Espinor is a media missionary, Luxon got an easy pass. Gates had bragged at the beginning of 2020 that he made a 20 to one return on philanthropic investing. By funnelling ‘donated’ money that would otherwise be taxed into ‘charitable grants’, the Gates Foundation has been part of a broader oligarchic project, that included the Wellcome Trust among others, to expand a vaccine market, such as through GAVI. In turn, Gates invested in Big Pharma. The Great Corona Hostage Crisis was a bonanza.
In 2009, Bill Gates took part in a 2009 “Secret Billionaires’ Club” meeting with Ted Turner, Warren Buffet, David Rockefeller Sr, Michael Bloomberg, and Oprah Winfrey. The objective was “to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population.” This may sound benign, until you realise that super-rich oligarchs never fund projects to investigate their crimes of power to accumulate such wealth. Because oligarchs cannot exist without immense disparities in wealth, their philanthropy — which is used to steer the politics of whole societies in their favour — is predatory. As dissident journalist James Corbett revealed in his 2020 documentary — Who is Bill Gates? — the background of the Covid Bandit, Bill Gates, his family and their ties to the Eugenics Movement shows that the Western Empire Syndicate has a stealthy agenda to control the world’s population with a two pronged approach.
One prong of this eugenicist vision is limiting general population growth such as through injecticides and other pharmaceuticals, and chemical compounds in foods and nanotechnology with stealthy sterility functions — as their track record indicates.
The second prong of population control is about maintaining social control on a permanent basis through investment in a technological super-structure of ‘global governance’ with SMART-Grid infrastructure and mega-cities. These projects, which are hardly on the public’s radar as looming threats to the liberty of open and free societies, are marketed to with benign-sounding ‘sustainable development’ rhetoric.
The roll-out of a Techno-Feudal system with chipped immunity passports, mass biometric data collection and the deployment of 5G telecommunications technologies are crucial infrastructure to track, trace, tax, toll, tithe, ticket and tether everyone on the planet. The philanthropy of Bill Gates is not altruistic, but predatory eugenics.
Therefore, the fanboy fawning over a practising eugenicist is ugly ironic, given Luxon purports to be a devout Christian who claims his faith has “anchored” him.
Particularly, as he claims to find abortion and euthanasia abhorrent. The Ardern-Government rammed through legislation to legalize terminating babies up to full term, during the Corona Crisis and held a referendum to ratify a euthanasia regime.
Thus, while the world was thrown into a coordinated euthanizing democide that included the use of Remdesivir and Midazolam, under the bogus cover of emergency treatment for the deliberate release of engineered nano-pathogens, ironically the world’s top mortality category — abortions — outperformed deaths attributed to the Corona Bogey. In a new war on the weak, the old, sick and the unborn were scuttled, while gas-lighted feminists — who have typed essays, articles and books about the ‘patriarchy’ — gave away their body autonomy in a heart beat to the Tumbleweed.
To witness women become ideologically-blinded, gas-lighted and fear-filled at the onset of the Corona Cult, and lose the swagger they gained as a result of the positive side of a 150 year-long feminist movement — and switch to virtue signalling with masks, pointing phones at QR codes and cueing on social distancing spots — was like being a character in a dystopian movie where the extras thunk I’m one of the crazies.
The Overlords’ spectacular power to inflict totalitarian edicts worked only because most human monkeys don’t know the signs of a reset to jolt the planet’s trajectory.
Indeed, by December 31st 2022, between 132 million and 228 million foetuses were aborted, compared to 6.72 million deaths clocked up for the Corona Democide (since its origin was attributed to Patient Zero, in Wuhan City, China, on November 17 2019).
As I showed in my article, “How Abortions as the Leading Cause of Death in Corona Era Reveals ‘Save the Grandmothers’ Meme to be Weaponized ironic Gaslighting”, the Gates family pedigree is entwined with eugenicists such as the Rockefellers. For example, John D. Rockefeller III founded the Population Council with Frederick Osborn, a long-time director of American Eugenics Society. William Gates Sr succeeded Alan Frank Guttmacher as chairman of Planned Parenthood, who had simultaneously served as director of the American Eugenics Society.
The dark history of Planned Parenthood and its horrific institutionalization of genocide on America’s African and/or Hispanic communities was laid bare in a 2017 report “The Effects of Abortion on the Black Community”. The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) noted in this report that almost 80% of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities were strategically located within walking distance of African and/or Hispanic communities. CURE estimated that more than 19 million black babies had been aborted since 1973.
In that year, the US Supreme Court ruled in case called Roe v. Wade that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. Since that decision, the lives of nearly 57 million pre-born babies have been extinguished in the United States to the year 2020.
The planet’s Overlords obsess over ways to convince as many human monkeys as possible, to believe the world has an over-population problem. Such psychological projection of blame deflects from their control over immense economic resources, formidable political, martial and commercial networks and capacity to inflict crises.
Conspicuously, oligarchs don’t betray their own networks identifying the super-wealthiest and their assets, by leaking data of the global oligachy’s hidden wealth.
Luxon’s Career Trajectory, Controversy and the Oligarch Overlords
» The Career of ‘Lux Luthor’ in the Orbit of the Global Power Elite
Mr Luxon’s expertise is in aggressive brand growth, marketing and advertising. He worked at Unilever for 18 years, was CEO of Air New Zealand for seven years, and was made the inaugural chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council in 2018, before being chosen as the leader of the National Party on December 1st 2021.
When Luxon was finishing his Masters of Commerce in Business Administration at the University of Canterbury, he was selected for Unilever’s management trainee programme. While he was head of Unilever’s North American Deodorants & Grooming corporate portfolio, he entertained dreams of someday becoming NZ’s global brand manager. “That would be the ultimate brand manager’s job,” he said.
In 2008, Luxon became President and Chief Executive Officer of Unilever’s Canadian operations. Unilever’s executives have attended meetings of global policy-shaping institutions such as the Bilderberg Foundation, the World Economic Forum, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the Trilateral Commission.
The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant, Unilever, which is headquartered in London, is among many transnational corporations whose top executives or board members are categorized as being part of the ‘transnational capitalist class’ (TCC), who are variously termed as the ‘global power élite’, the ‘superclass’, or the ‘globalists’.
Their stated objective is to forge a global governance system — often described by the term, a ‘New World Order’, or its variants, such as an International Rules-Based Order. Unilever’s leaders have attended meetings of global policy-shaping institutions such as the Bilderberg Foundation, the World Economic Forum, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and the Trilateral Commission.
This elite ‘globalist bloc’ orbit in an exclusive world of policy formation that once numbered 6000, according to David Rothkopf’s 2008 book, Superclass.
The world’s super-rich have accumulated so much wealth, that their needs for maintaining faster than average capital accumulation are immense, and require regime changes through wars, coups d’état and juntas, as Professor Peter Phillips found while researching the superclass for his 2018 book, Giants: The Global Power Elite. In his seminal 2011 book, Oligarchy, Professor Jeffrey A Winters’ stated that a “very well-paid mercenary army” comprises a Wealth Defense Industry, who follow the oligarchs’ directives as orders. Wealth defense is designed to maintain the conditions of “extreme material inequalities.” It turns out that Unilever and the CIA funded the inaugural meeting of the secretive global policy-shaping group, the Bilderberg Foundation, in 1952 at Hotel de Bilderberg, Oosterbeek, Netherlands.
Since 1954 the Bilderbergers have hosted an average of 130 participants annually to discuss pressing issues, possible plans, and viable solutions suitable to the North Atlantic oligarch’s military alliance formed in 1949: NATO. In April 1972, David Rockefeller who was the chairman of the New York-based global policy-shaping think-tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (1970-1985), presented his idea of a new alliance between the wealthy and politically connected of America, Europe and Japan to the secretive Bilderberg Group, which convened in Knokke, Belgium.
Subsequently, in July 1972, Rockefeller hosted 250 oligarchs and élites at his country estate in Pocantico Hills, Hudson Valley, New York, to propose a new global-policy shaping think tank called the Trilateral Commission. This new global-policy shaping group was designed to formulate policies, strategies and tactics to establish a ‘new world economic order’ between America, Europe and Japan, that would usurp the sovereignty of national governments through incremental changes rather than the frontal assaults of the past. By joining forces with oligarchs from Japan, the Trilateral Commission’s task was to drive the roll-out of the “1980’s Project”, which included globalizing ‘neo-liberal’ ideology, in order create a worldwide technocratic system.
At the time that Luxon was President and CEO of Unilever Canada, Unilever’s CEO was Paul Polman. In 2019, Polman was interviewed as the new chairman of Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, which was founded by Wafic Rida Saïd, who facilitated the Al-Yamamah arms deal between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia in 1986. (On Polman’s watch, NZ’s Health Director General Dr Ashley Bloomfield, became a student of the leadership program at the Saïd Business School).
Polman stated it was imperative that capitalism evolve to meet the crises that beset the planet. This ‘evolution’ rhetoric is akin to a cloned twin of the World Economic Forum’s propaganda about how the ‘Great Reset’ opened up by the Covid-19 crisis.
According to Schwab, Prince Charles, and others, the Great Reset was an opportunity for an evolutionary paradigm shift of the world system to ‘stakeholder capitalism’, marketed to deliver a sustainable, resilient and equitable world. Since Leopards can’t change their spots, they must don new clothes to beguile the gullible.
The World Economic Forum saw the opportunity in the Covid-19 crisis to accelerate a Fourth Industrial Revolution, which blurs the boundaries between the biological, the physical and the digital realms. Brazenly, the chess moves by the ‘superclass’ occur under the subterfuge of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
After leaving Unilever, Luxon subsequently was named CEO of Air NZ in 2012 after 13 months with NZ’s flagship carrier. Air NZ began life in 1961 when the NZ Government acquired full ownership of Tasman Empire Airways (then jointly owned by the Australian and New Zealand governments) at a time when the noun ‘empire’ had become bad optics for brands. On April 17 1989, the air carrier was sold for a song — along with great swathes of the ‘Kiwi Family Silver’ to corporate raiders — and in Air NZ’s case, for $660m to a consortium led by Brierley Investments, founded by Sir Ron Brierley, who went on become a convicted trafficker in child sex abuse imagery.
In September 2018, Luxon publicly apologized to customers for a challenging year. The biggest challenge, Luxon said, had been the unscheduled global maintenance issues with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines that power 787 Dreamliners. The disruptions affected up to five out of 13 of the planes were grounded for servicing.
Christopher Luxon resigned his post as CEO of Air New Zealand on 19 June 2019, or precisely seven years to the day, after he was named the airline’s chief executive officer. Luxon opined that a mixture of public and private sector ownership of an airline meant it was possible to benefit from the best of both worlds.
Given Air NZ’s history of losing money like an addicted gambler to a casino that deals the cards 24/7, it was a fascinating observation made by the outgoing chief executive.
Air NZ-Saudi Royal Navy Scandal — A Pilot Test for a Prime Ministerial Candidate?
After Luxon moved into the political realm by standing as a National Party candidate in the 2020 election, the former Air New Zealand CEO appeared to undergo a ‘pilot test’ to see how he weathered a fleeting ‘scandal’. Notably, the media didn’t dig.
Air New Zealand took on a $3 million third party contract to carry out maintenance work for the Saudi Royal Navy through it’s business subsidiary, Gas Turbines.
In June 2019, when he resigned as CEO of Air New Zealand, he brushed off concerns about his post as chairman of the Business Advisory Council amid ‘rumours’ he was being groomed as the National party’s next leader.
At the time, a former Beehive staffer, Ben Thomas, who worked for public relations company Exceltium, questioned whether Luxon could continue in the role given his public statements. “Once you’ve decided that politics is an ambition, you probably can no longer glide effortlessly into meetings as a colourless technocrat, offering objective advice to the Government of the day,” Thomas said.
On February 8 2021, a ‘scandal’ emerged involving a business unit at Air New Zealand that was found to be performing maintenance work for the Saudi Royal Navy, while Luxon was CEO. Air NZ’s Gas Turbines, which specialises in servicing military marine engines and turbines, had evidently, through a third party contract, carried out work for the Saudi Royal Navy. The Crown-owned 1 News, which broke the story on February 8 2021, reported that Air New Zealand’s shareholding minister Grant Robertson claimed he was not aware that Air New Zealand had been supporting the Saudi military until contacted by the Crown’s flagship newsrooms.
In other words, the Finance Minister was actually saying it was ‘news to me’ when the Crowned-owned news channel contacted him for comment.
Robertson said it was an operational matter for Air NZ and he would not comment further. For their ‘scoop’ story 1News interviewed defence policy specialist Paul Buchanan from a milk and toast geo-political analysis consultancy, the 36th-Parallel, who said: “It’s indisputable that the (Saudi-led) Coalition has committed war crimes on an industrial scale so getting involved in the Saudi Arabian military in any way shape or form — even if it’s not supplying them with weapons — is pretty fraught.”
A US-supported 5-year long offensive inflicted on Yemen by Saudi the United Arab Emirates, was exacerbated by a naval and air blockade has prevented fuel, medicine and food from entering the country, resulting in mass starvation and a cholera epidemic. By 2018, an estimated 85,000 children had died of starvation, with infected 500,000 people infected with cholera. And about 100,000 people were killed in the conflict, which included intensive bombing by Saudi warplanes.
Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) were named as the auditors of an ‘independent’ inquiry by Jacinda Ardern, which was itself a choice fraught with bad optics.
Particularly, since PWC is one of the West’s ‘big four’ accountancy transnationals that essentially act as a market monopolizing cartel, and have a presence in the global tax haven complex, acting as part of the wealth defence industry for the world’s oligarchs.
Ironically, Luxon admitted five days after the scandal broke that it “was a mistake” that Air New Zealand did not have a process where its chief executive, or other executives, would be told about all military contracts. The contract in question was $3 million and the threshold for executive level sign-off was $5 million.
This was deeply ironic given that Luxon was the high-flying CEO of the airline had also been the inaugural chair of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council.
On February 11 2022, Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran was asked to name the full list of countries whose militaries have contracts with Air New Zealand. He has previously told RNZ Air New Zealand still had “about 10-20 contracts still ongoing in regards to engines for militaries, involving about five or six countries”, but only named the US, Australia and NZ. The next day, Foran said in a statement, engine repair work was underway for the Australian, Canadian, Taiwanese, Turkish and United States navies at its Auckland workshop, but these were now under review.
“Over the past decade, engine repair work has been completed for navies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Taiwan, Turkey, the United States and the recent one-off piece of work for the Royal Saudi Navy,” Foran said.
In late 2020, new notification requirements were set in place for export permits under the Customs Act from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, but these requirements did not apply to contracts entered into before September 2020 (when the notification requirement was expanded for certain military-related exports).
Late afternoon on February 14, Valentine’s Day, New Zealand’s Chief ‘Crisis Management’ Minister, Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern, pulled a 3 day snap lockdown at Alert Level 3 for Auckland, a city of 1.6 million pawns, on the slimest of justifications: 3 ‘mystery’ cases. Air New Zealand is headquartered in Auckland, along with one of the global accountancy cartel’s ‘Big Four’, Price Waterhouse Coopers; the auditor.
A fairly astute appraisal of the gaslighting taking place appeared in the Spin-Off, where guest writer recounted a litany of lies, numerous scandals where NZ assisted global imperialism and how such scandals are treated as fleeting minor news, if they registered at all. The Lebanese-Australian writer, Amal Samaha, observed “the Air NZ scandal was only different because government shares were part of the equation, and the national carrier is central to New Zealand’s brand.” Writing on February 19th 2021, Samala said he was concerned the inquiry would find blame with a box-ticker four levels down, and exonerate the executives for a five-year long business model.
He said forgetting was a “national specialty” and was in play when Corona “struck”.
Thus, due to ideological group-think blinkering, Samaha and The Spin-Off failed to see that Corona Tumbleweed levers could be pulled at any time, because ‘Cindy and Covidians’ response units in the Beehive, along with the Ministry of Truth ‘Health’, controlled the decisions, the data, and the narrative. The Corona Hostage Crisis was the gift that kept on forgiving the corruption when it surfaced, because quarantines, city-wide house arrests, and closures of businesses were just a pandemic presser away.
On March 16 2021, Air New Zealand said that NZ’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed business permits were not required for exporting the specific type of engines (GE LM2500) it was working on, as Australian Aviation reported in a story headlined, “Air New Zealand work for Saudi navy didn’t break export laws”.
Air NZ’s media release dated 9 April 2021, stated, “Air New Zealand has received the report into its Gas Turbines business from independent external advisers PwC.” The press release stated Air NZ’s Gas Turbines employees adhered to all revenue contracting management oversight processes, controls and obtained the necessary approvals, when entering into the third-party contract for the Royal Saudi Navy.
However, the statement headlined, “Outcome of PwC review into Air New Zealand Gas Turbines business”, made no mention of the other contracts, transactions or procurements for the NZ, Australian, Canadian, Taiwanese, Turkish, Norwegian, Taiwan, and US militaries, the airline may have been involved in. Was this fleeting scandal a public test for Luxon to see how he performed under media scrutiny?
Or, was this Air NZ-Saudi Royal Navy scandal engineered as a way to create subterfuge for evidence laundering? Or both? Were there more damning records of military contracts that needed to disappear from Air New Zealand’s visible accounting records as a majority-owned Crown commercial trading entity?
In other words, was a ‘leak’ to TVNZ arranged as the least suspicious way to get transaction records laundered, while at the same time the transaction was small enough to provide both plausible deniability for Luxon, and to test his grit?
To put it in an applied game theory context, the fleeting scandal that threatened to embroil the former CEO of a national airline fleet with 13 Dreamliners, and who had become chairman of the current prime minister’s 13-member business council was saved from disgrace by the same prime minister — when she announced an ‘independent’ inquiry with one of the Big Four accountancy cartel firms named as the auditor. It appears that the scandal was engineered so that the National Party’s new leader would be compromised. After all, Luxon had become CEO after 13 months with the airliner, and his status was catapulted by rubbing shoulders with Barack Obama over dinner for 13 people at a lodge costing $13,000 a night.
Ergo, a political marriage was signalled with the prime number 13 to stabilize the body politic amid the Great Corona Hostage Crisis and the ‘scandal’ was managed.
And was this fleeting scandal also a subversive penetration ritual to normalise New Zealand companies doing business with NATO allies? And thereby, to manufacture consent for the ‘New Zealand Inc’ to be an adjunct for military belligerence ahead of a rumble between the world’s great powers? After all, Luxon added that making chief executives aware of the company’s military contracts would be a “good challenge” moving forward, as well as considering the ethical ramifications of such deals.
Ergo, in this fleeting scandal involving Air NZ’s Gas Turbines, Kiwis were gas-lighted.
Like so many scandals in the laid-back South Pacific archipelago, New Zealand’s media missionaries lose interest, as if they are on the spectrum of autism after a triple shot MMR vaccine laced with Thimerosal mercury preservative — instead of caffeine.
Conclusions to Operation Overwealth
This heretical dispatch has emphasized that the National Party Leader’s assertion about the wealthy not being the problem, is false. Either, the wannabe Prime Minister doesn’t have a very bright light inside his skull, or he was brazenly gas-lighting. The super-wealthy, if left to their own devices long enough, will form coalitions, or an oligarchy, to defend their wealth. Since oligarchs can only exist in societies with great economic inequality, it follows that they fund special vested interest groups, including political parties, to keep mass populaces divided. Indeed, oligarchs thrive in crises.
Democratic processes are ineffective at dismantling oligarchies, as Mr Winters found.
While Chris Luxon is not wealthy enough to be considered an oligarch, his political puppetry groom game demonstrates a corporate élite who has been propelled with high octane jet-setters’ fuel into the political realm. Luxon’s attendance at an exclusive $13,000 dinner with Mr Obama, numbering 13 mortals, and his subsequent selection as Chairman of the inaugural Prime Minister’s 13-member Business Advisory Council — demonstrate a newly minted rook groomed for the chessboard.
This grooming followed his selection as the new CEO of Air New Zealand after only 13 months with the airline. During his time as Air New Zealand Chief Operating Officer, Luxon was selected as the only Kiwi to attend Bill Gates’ exclusive Microsoft CEOs Summit, that number 130 global ‘thought’ leaders, Thus repetition of the recidivist prime number 13 associated with Luxon, can be traced to his propulsion as head of New Zealand’s flagship carrier. As I have shown, the number Thirteen (and its multiples) are used by Gotham’s and London’s banking oligarchy, as well as by the political oligarchy of Washington, in the District of Columbia, the 13th district of the Federal Reserve banking cartel. Ergo, the global élites encode events to signal moves.
Part 2, “High Flyers Club”, shows how New Zealand was re-engineered between 1984 to 1996 from a centrally-planned inefficient economy controlled by Wellington bureaucrats, into a tollbooth economy centrally-planned by Big Finance, Big Agencies, and Big Think-Tanks — delivering financial impoverishment for most. This blitzkrieg economic warfare forged the modern oligarchy, and set the nation on a course to neo-feudalism — forever paying taxes, tolls, and tickets to oligarchs.
* Confidential source in private conversation with three witnesses.
Steve ‘Snoopman’ Edwards is a dissident journalist, who worked at indigenous broadcaster, Māori Television, for 14 years as an editor of news, current affairs and general programmes. His first job, as ‘Snoopboy’, was delivering the Auckland Star.
Thankyou Snoopman. An Angel sent me here and for that i am greatful. I join all those who are picking at this fraud. Unravelling the deception and exposing the serpents to the light. We now see how plundered we are as a nation. Now we can see our way back. Thankyou for your contribution to completing our globalist jigsaw pacific edition. Together with the other parts we can really view the picture. A foul web of greed and deception. Good people never did agree to such foulness. We did never agree to stand under utter serpentine fraud. Their treaty is shattered. Voided. From here i see no governance or document apart from He Whakaputanga. Our original founding treaty. Prepared and signed in good faith and honour. The other document is now known to be prepared and driven by snakes and fraud. No honour. No honesty,and we see the result. A homogenised captured mass ruled by fraud and force. This can no longer stand. Good people must now refuse to accept this evil. As we rise in spirit the snakes will perish and we will once again rejoice but this time will be like never before. Bless you Brother for the light you share. The dominoes are now falling. 👍