Gript Media Podcasts

TRSI 180 - The death of George Nkencho

A discussion of the events leading up to the shooting of George Nkencho; when and why it is appropriate to ask a Guard to risk their life; the protests after the shooting; and the potential danger of the comments made by some academics and politicians who seem determined to position the shooting as being due purely to race.

TRSI 179 - You should be angrier about this

Israel vaccinated in 1 day what Ireland hopes to vaccinate in 2 months; Leo says he doesn't know why there are delays beginning vaccination; Der Spiegel reports that EU corruption means there will be nowhere near enough vaccines to go around; and why we should be focusing on vaccinating the elderly rather than health care workers.

Corona: Germany and Europe Could Fall Short on Vaccine Supplies - DER SPIEGEL
https://twitter.com/dfatirl/status/1344932122679779328

https://reason.com/2020/12/18/vaccine-cdc-essential-workers-elderly-racial-covid-19/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/health/covid-vaccine-first-elderly-workers.html
https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/casesinireland/epidemiologyofcovid-19inireland/COVID-19%20Daily%20epidemiology%20report%20(NPHET)_20201230_website.pdf
With First Dibs on Vaccines, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’ - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

TRSI 178 - A life of nearly infinite beauty

Gary talks about the year in review, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, suicide, and the difference between pain and suffering.

TRSI 177 - No, CETA does not give companies the right to overturn laws

A new B&A opinion poll puts SF as the largest party; the difficulty attacking SF TD's for speaking positively of the IRA when the state was founded on violence; and why the CETA trade agreement is causing so much trouble for the Greens.

 

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/in-focus/ceta/ceta-chapter-by-chapter/#:~:text=The%20Comprehensive%20and%20Economic%20Trade,between%20the%20EU%20and%20Canada.&text=CETA%20will%3A,workers'%20rights%20and%20the%20environment

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_2334

Sunday Reflection 42 - The Annunciation

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the annunciation and God's plan.

TRSI 176 - Stand up and fall down for your principles

A new report on hate speech and hate crime recommends expansive new hate speech and hate crime laws, but contains nothing on protecting free expression; a medical body has called for gambling on sports to be banned; and China has adopted an American tradition and started using forced labour to pick cotton.

Report on Hate Speech and Hate Crime - 39:30

http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Legislating_for_Hate_Speech_and_Hate_Crime_in_Ireland_Web.pdf/Files/Legislating_for_Hate_Speech_and_Hate_Crime_in_Ireland_Web.pdf

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bf5a6549f87704e72f6df9b/t/5fdb568f97e50c3a7e345b82/1608210064170/EBI+submission+to+the+hate+speech+consultation.pdf

https://www.irishpsychiatry.ie/external-affairs-policy/college-papers-submissions-publications/positions-policies-perspective-papers/gambling-disorder/

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/china-cotton-forced-labour/china-accused-of-forcing-570000-people-to-pick-cotton-in-xinjiang-idUSL8N2IV38N

TRSI 175 - Kill one as a warning to the others

TDs, maternity leave, and the defrauding of expenses; unconscious bias training is on the way out in the UK, but still popular in Irish government departments; the government just spent 140,000 euro of public money on trying to get favoured people elected; and the need to destroy An Taisce for the good of the country.

 

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dobbin/files/an2018.pdf

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/sick-certs-maternity-and-women-tds-1.4434382

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/indexrk.htm

Sunday Reflection 41 - The witness who proclaimed the coming

Father Luuk Jansen, from St Mary’s Church in Cork, brings us his Sunday Reflection. This week he discusses the beginning of the Gospel of John.

TRSI 174 - Interview with Dermot Dorgan of ISAG

Michael sits down with Dermot Dorgan, a member of the Independent Scientific Advocacy Group (ISAG) - a group campaigning for "Zero Covid".

 

https://www.isagcovid19.org/

TRSI 173 - Oh that Caravaggio

Families are now apologizing for the opinions of their dead relatives; the fairest option is to allow the COVID-19 vaccine to be sold on the private market; and is giving TDs maternity leave just a way of making it easier for TDs to defraud the public?

 

http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/Historical_Documents/Carlyle_1849.html
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1971war/1278-chuck-yeager.html#gsc.tab=0