54: Māori MAGA (w/Joe Trinder and Anke Richter)
Matthew sits down, across 9,000 miles of mostly ocean, with journalist Anke Richter and reporter and Māori rights activist Joe Trinder to discuss the mind-bending rise of Māori MAGA in the COVID-free sanctuary of Aoteoroa, aka New Zealand. Led by former blues musician Billy Te Kahika, conspirituality has seeped from music and cultural festivals and straight into national politics, where white supremacists manipulate Māori post-colonial distrust of settler governments to boost vaccine hesitancy and milk paranoia.
In the Ticker this week, Derek dunks on Deepak Chopra’s “Lovetuner” penny-whistle, which will change your DNA for $58 and a few toots. Julian reports on Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying as they drift farther into conspiratorial pseudoscience and advocate for whiz-bang COVID cure-alls over vaccines.
Show Notes
Exploring the Actual Science Behind Why Music Makes Us Feel Good
Anke Richter bio
Anke Richter on cults
Anke Richter on conspiracy theories in New Zealand
How alternative festivals became platforms for conspiracy theorists
Luminate Festival organisers criticised for promoting far-right conspiracy theorists
Anti-conspiracist campaigners take aim at ‘Mothers for Freedom’ event
The self-proclaimed ‘political prisoners’ in managed isolation
Anti-lockdown group of academics criticised for promoting conspiracy theorists
The scientist and the rabbit hole: How epidemiologist Simon Thornley became an outcast of his profession
E-Tangata The rise of Māori MAGA
Billy TK: False Profit
Sue Grey in the High Court: on Plan B’s support for an anti-vaccine court case : BioBlog
Former far-Right leader plans leaflet drop of Covid-19 vaccine disinformation
