Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 333 - What’s a little VX between friends?

America plays hardball with China's tech sector; nuclear war is unlikely because tactical nuclear weapons are actually pretty lacklustre; cancle culture, conformity, and the strange case of the Jihad Rehab film.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/inside-the-shameful-cancellation-of-jihad-rehab-2/

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a046202.pdf

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2022/10/15/john-cleese-hes-not-the-free-speech-messiah-hes-a-very-naughty-boy/

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-10-14/biden-s-chip-restrictions-on-china-show-shift-in-us-views-on-technology

TRSI 332 - Technically it’s an episode

With Michael over in Italy sampling wine Gary mutters aimlessly about authoritarianism.

TRSI 331 - Aristotle said a lot of things

Mary McAleese discovers the joys of realpolitik; and the government's commission has decided that you, and everyone you know, are not paying anywhere near enough tax.

 

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/7fbeb-report-of-the-commission/

https://gript.ie/are-the-chinese-public-security-police-operating-a-station-in-dublin/

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/trinity-college-pulled-dalai-lama-honour-after-mary-mcaleese-raised-china-fears-41997509.html

TRSI 330 - Frack Leitrim

Energy prices continue to predictably skyrocket, and the ISD continues to spread its wings in the Irish media.

 

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/misinformation-enoch-burke-5862004-Sep2022/
https://gript.ie/anti-misinformation-think-tank-spreads-trans-misinformation/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/secret-cabinet-memo-warns-home-energy-bills-could-treble-to-6000-a-year-41977857.html

TRSI 329 - One short step from self-awareness

Fighting hate is big business these days, at least until you get sued.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_dRw62qVLs
https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-116-bev-jackson-of-the-lgb-alliance/
https://gript.ie/no-vat-paid-on-contributions-to-rte-brainstorm-project/
https://gript.ie/no-there-is-no-report-showing-a-rise-in-the-far-right-in-ireland/

TRSI 328 - Is there something to be said for another review?

Michael ruminates on the meaning of free speech as the guards release the 'hate crime' figures for 2021; and the government is apparently shocked and appalled to find some unknown entity has allowed Ireland's energy crisis to get this bad.

 

Beavis Butthead enlightened with white privilege

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/government-launches-review-of-power-supply-crisis-as-cabinet-anger-grows/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/shiny-new-idea-of-30-income-tax-rate-would-be-change-for-changes-sake-nd85v7qt7

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leo-varadkar-fine-gael-has-won-the-argument-on-tax-9qxv6tlb3

https://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-interview-housing-budget-5843774-Aug2022/

TRSI 327 -Magic Words

Another bleak winter appears to be coming; and the people who tell you speech is violence are closer to the man who stabbed Salman Rushdie than they perhaps realize.

 

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/08/13/fintan-otoole-irish-society-is-about-to-experience-levels-of-energy-poverty-unknown-in-modern-times/
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/dbe48-policy-statement-on-the-importation-of-fracked-gas-published/
http://iae.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IAE_Energy_Crisis_2022.pdf

TRSI 326 - Gentlemen I bring you the abyss

Two peoples divided by a common language; apparently we're now basing our laws on online surveys less than 40 people bothered to fill out; prices go up and up; and the trouble with magpies. 

 

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sunday-independent-poll-this-will-be-the-winter-of-our-discontent-41894896.html

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/abortion-in-ireland-5827270-Jul2022/

 

https://www.abortionrightscampaign.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Too-Many-Barriers-Report_ARC1.pdf

TRSI 325 - More of a suicide bombing than a negotiation

Recorded instances of sexual offences and rapes have gone up dramatically, and there seems to be no solid explanation as to why; and SF continues to dominate FG and FF in the polls.

 

https://gript.ie/sexual-crime-rates-have-increased-by-75-since-fg-elected-in-2011/
https://data.cso.ie/product/RC

TRSI 324 - It’s all just energy

Dutch farmers take a government proposal to seize their farms poorly; Sri Lanka was briefly a world leader in organic farming before it started to run out of food; and a weakening euro means no cheap oil for you.

https://www.businesspost.ie/news/large-energy-consuming-firms-preparing-for-gas-rationing-in-winter/