We get the chance to swing at Labour for their latest fumbled PR and what looks like a signal of further centrism. School lunches remain on the agenda as one student gets second degree burns. And multiple high profile political roles are on the way out.

This episode’s co-hosts
Simone, Kyle

Timestamps

0:00 Opening

0:45 Labours Fumbling

8:24 Campaign Mode

21:46 Aggressive Centrism

24:38 School Lunches

34:14 Minister of Health

41:05 Fired Over Trump

48:07 Closing

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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We discuss genocide, tracking the history of the concept and definition into the present day.

This episode’s co-hosts
Kyle, Kieran

Timestamps

0:00 Opening

2:29 Raphael Lemkin

10:52 A Process 

16:20 Divided Genocidal Actions

18:52 Mass Killing

24:39 Colonialism

28:35 Legal Prohibition

35:30 Charging Genocide Against the US

41:10 The Crime of Crimes

44:53 Prosecution
56:55 Resistance

1:02:00 Displacement 

1:07:58 Freedom of Movement

1:11:04 Logic of Genocide

1:13:36 An End to Genocide

1:16:58 Closing

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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The media/pol class are finally admitting that Luxon is not fit for purpose, while his coalition partners go from disaster to disaster, and his own Ministers propose wildly destructive policy. Meanwhile, NZ still isn’t anywhere near close to the speed of decline faced by the US.

This episode’s co-hosts
Simone, Pmax, Philip, Kyle

Timestamps

0:00 Opening

1:20 Luxons LinkedIn Speak 

7:46 School Lunches

12:35 Citizens Arrests

36:31 Woke

42:05 The U.S Empire

1:01:12 Closing

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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Last weekend Destiny Church was directed by their leader, Brian Tamaki, to undertake terrorism. They duly complied, storming a library to attack a children’s story event, injuring at least one person and forcing children and caregivers to barricade themselves in a room. We discuss the conditions that led to this and the need for a strong, ongoing response in the face of a political and media climate that, at best, isn’t interested.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/19/destiny-church-appeasement-doesnt-work-time-to-bring-them-to-heel/

This episode’s co-hosts
Kyle, Angela

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

1:15 Destiny Church

14:31 Giving Space to Negative Discourse 

21:05 Protesting

28:15 Day of Power

41:00 The ACT Party

45:06 Gay Bashing

47:53 Predictions

56:32 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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We discuss the destruction of public services in Education and Health and the purely extractive nature of neoliberal privatisation. We then peer through time (at the current situation in the US) to understand where these decisions by the National Party coalition government are going to end up.

This episode’s co-hosts
Kyle, Gigi, Ginny, Simone

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

4:04 School Lunches

12:55 Compass

18:57 Health Ministries

29:20 Trans Healthcare

34:48 Difference in Institutions 

37:32 People Get Squishy

42:55 Terminology

53:38 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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We weigh in on the accelerating fascist destruction of the administrative state in the US and consider how this impacts NZ, possible steps to take, and the way that media and politics here is being set up in a way to clear the path for rabid extraction and decline, particularly via the ACT Party.

https://mickhall.substack.com/p/natos-strategy-engaging-civil-society

This episode’s co-hosts
Josephine, Kyle, Oliver

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

0:44 Accelerationism in Power

13:32 Imperialism 

24:30 Restructurings 

28:01 New Zealand's Standing

34:00 Funneling Ideology

41:36 Non-Career Enders

49:05 Locking Up Journalists

54:00 Guy Williams

59:49 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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We talk education and ECE reforms, the issues with Labour alongside the role of unions, and the news about ex ACT Party President Tim Jago having name suppression lifted after 2.5 years, following his convictions for sexually abusing two teenage boys in the 1990s.

Content warning for sexual abuse, rape (confined to the last 20 minutes)

This episode’s co-hosts
Philip, Simone, Pmax

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

2:01 Education Rant

21:17 Labor Woes

32:02 Failure to Inspire

49:02 Unions

1:01:25 Tim Jago

1:17:15 Closing

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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We discuss the current state of western politics, modern day fascism and its roots.

https://ongenocide.com/

Afterword: a couple of extra thoughts from Kieran

Firstly, I was unduly harsh about Karl Popper’s Open Society and its Enemies. I disagree strongly with the central premise of the book, but I recall thinking that there were some good valid points made by Popper.

Secondly, I regret not expanding more on the simplistic, anti-intellectual and emotive aspect of fascist politics – or at least the public-facing part of fascist politics. Like neoconservatives, fascists like to feed simple narratives to people in a very direct purposive way. This is another reason that the sophistication and simple brute force (in terms of scale and access to resources) of public relations techniques has actually helped create a generalised fascism.

Modern communications techniques show exactly what psychological buttons to push to get the desired results. Not only does the professionalisation of political rhetoric make fascist-style manipulation open to anyone with money, it makes it virtually compulsory among major political parties. Their reliance on oligarchy money and institutional power means that they cannot organically represent democratic wishes, so they must create political backing through such manipulation – hence the culture war.

In the simplistic political discourse thus created, nonsense is more effective than reasoning. Calling concerns over climate change “woke”, for example, is like throwing red meat to the faithful who are conditioned to respond to a very amorphous non-specific notion of what is good and what is bad. This sort of appeal to gut instinct is very characteristic of fascism and it may be the most dangerous thing we now see because the anger that is provoked by a meaningless term cannot be argued with.

This episode’s co-hosts
Kieran, Kyle

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

2:09 The Undercurrent

3:54 Political Binary 

14:11 Putting on a Persona

23:59 Tying in the Last Four Years

28:44 The Will to Power 

32:35 David Seymour

37:01 Victimhood

44:10 Embedding Journalists

47:50 Scratch A Liberal

55:04 Absurdities

1:02:54 Urgency and Might

1:09:18 Right Wing Fracturing

1:13:18 Meddling With The Numbers

1:19:21 Seymours Love of Liberal Ideology

1:21:33 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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With Trump’s inauguration so close what did the Biden presidency offer the world and what impacts might we see under a president roundly labelled as an outright fascist? Why are all the political parties in “western democracies” so avidly breaking institutional norms for reactionary reasons?

This episode’s co-hosts

Branko, Kyle

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

1:03 Branko on Biden

7:09 Trump Side Effect

18:34 Lack of Media Pressure

25:20 “Man Removed For Asking Questions”

29:23  Why NZ Should Care About US Politics

31:45 What is Freedom of Press

36:24 A Legacy for Stage Setting Trump

44:08 Overturning Political Norms

50:58 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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We speak with Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab about the history of Palestine and the work of Palestinians and Palestine advocates in NZ over the last 18 months.

https://www.aljazeera.com/where/palestine/
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/
https://www.ochaopt.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bashsoftware.boycott&hl=en_NZ&pli=1
https://bdsmovement.net/

This episode’s co-hosts
Kyle, Katrina

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

2:30 Starting Advocacy

8:00 How This Gets Back to the West

16:41 The Wrong Leaderships

21:08 Media Control

25:28 Anti-Semitism

34:56 Benefit of the Doubt

49:33 “Condemning Hamas” 

55:14 Lack of Pressure

58:06 Advocacy at the Political Level

1:02:02 Policy Asks

1:06:40 2025 Plans

1:11:59 Gathering Pacific Support

1:20:54 Find Out More

1:22:46 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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