Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 264 - Less of a statistic, more of a guess

The new amnesty for illegal immigrants is based more on guesswork than evidence; banks turn on OnlyFans, OnlyFans turns on sex workers; and Twitter refuses to turn on the Taliban.

 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/undocumented-migrants-in-ireland-offered-once-in-a-generation-amnesty-40775476.html

TRSI 263 - Michael on auto-pilot

The ICCL now thinks political databases are bad; the Journal fact-checks a claim from Aontu and you'll be shocked to learn how that worked out; the alcohol prohibitionists are at it again; and the perfect is the enemy of the good when building houses.

 

https://www.thejournal.ie/abortion-factcheck-5521191-Aug2021/

TRSI 262 - I can mash-potato, and I can do the twist

Mashed potatoes; hording vaccines for booster shots will kill substantial numbers in poorer countries; and everything is going well in Afghanistan.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anpro-Stainless-Potato-Perfect-Vegetable/dp/B07HF1NS12/ - A ricer, it'll improve your life.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-40360784.html
https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/what-driving-covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-sub-saharan-africa
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02158-6
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/13/covid-booster-jabs-for-rich-countries-will-cause-more-deaths-worldwide-say-experts
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2021/08/17/the-taliban-has-access-to-us-military-aircraft-now-what-happens/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EoI-6lQFIE - Title song

TRSI 261 - We advance funeral by funeral

Rolling blackouts likely this winter as the Government continues to shower itself with glory; and how not put together an academic survey.

 

https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/blackouts-loom-this-winter-as-emergency-plan-is-abandoned-f5281ae2
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40357121.html
https://maynoothuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/gathering-information-on-anti-choice-protests

TRSI 260 - A very aggressive application of statistical analysis

Nature is healing in Libya and Afghanistan; rent caps are having exactly the impact the Government were warned they would have; and even the ERSI agrees that the Government's carbon tax plans will hit the poorest.

 

https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210730-muammar-gaddafi-s-son-suggests-he-may-run-for-president-in-libya

https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-afghanistan-taliban-26d485963b7a0d9f2107afcbc38f239a?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

 

TRSI 259 - Take up the white progressive's burden

Fianna Fail continue to defy reason; progressive politicians don't think minority students should have to be able to read before graduating secondary school; and are people without children less invested in the future of their country? 

 

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/08/gov-kate-brown-signed-a-law-to-allow-oregon-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-or-do-math-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.html
https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-114-katharine-birbalsingh/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/aug/22/controversial-michaela-free-school-delights-in-gcse-success#:~:text=Compared%20with%20other%20non%2Dselective,the%20national%20average%20of%2022%25.

TRSI 258 - Clear and unambiguous that the laws are unclear and ambiguous

The Examiner has some, borderline incoherent, thoughts on vaccine hesitancy; and the Zappone thing is bringing more attention to the fact that the Government have been actively misleading the public.

 

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40354553.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

TRSI 257 - The past is a different place

A reminder of a time when Micheál Martin thought parties had to stand for ideas, policies, and principles; a new report says COVID-19 was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology; and the bishops finally stand up to the government. 

 

https://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0624/626038-fianna-fail/
https://gop-foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ORIGINS-OF-COVID-19-REPORT.pdf

TRSI 256 - Scorpions and frogs

RTE needs more money, says report by firm who list RTE as a client; FG turns on itself over Zappone appointment - Martin looks on impotently; and with civil servants working so hard it's no wonder the Government are spending public money on researching the 4 day working week.

 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/minister-rumbled-in-extraordinary-leak-ruse-over-katherine-zappone-job-fury-40708099.html
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/rtewill-need-to-be-rescuedstatesnew-consultants-report-40704307.html
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/med-schools-are-now-denying-biological
https://aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog
https://mobile.twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1421787842884288530

TRSI 255 - With the Balkans no news is good news

PODCAST: Paypal is going to give third party groups access to customer’s financial transaction history in order to combat hate; Bosnia is having a full and frank discussion about genocide; & Katherine Zappone’s employment continues to be an issue for FG.

 

https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/27/bosnian-serbs-will-shut-down-government-over-genocide-denial-law