TRSI: Recent Episodes
Gript
IBEC calls for taxes to increase; the Fiscal Advisory Council is deeply unhappy; and calls for a reduction in speed limits are both ill-conceived and unneeded.
https://www.fiscalcouncil.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Pre-Budget-Statement-2024-..pdf
https://www.rsa.ie/news-events/news/details/2023/01/01/13-rise-in-road-deaths-recorded-in-2022
Man makes tragic mistake of getting on a plane in Russian airspace; the Pareto Principle for habitual criminals; and grade inflation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtQNULEudss
This week we discuss the financial troubles of two titans of the property sector, the Peter McVerry Trust and Evergrande.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Firish-personal-finance-flowchart-v2-1-v0-sx1ensn284c91.jpg%3Fs%3D8b79a0fb56bd5bb031b966ce89aeec813d3aa353
Let's have a closer look at SF's new housing submission; the PR problem of tourists being brutalised by criminals; and financial literacy in the Irish population.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/freespeechireland/979702
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/08/09/edge-of-misogyny-in-criticism-of-helen-mcentee-is-unmistakable/
https://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2023/EOB_PRS_submission1.pdf
Gary has returned from his travels and climate change is the agenda for this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qPwfICdqXQ
The hate speech bill has been pushed back after an unexpected backlash, but it's far from dead; RTE decide respectable people don't need to be asked to provide evidence; and the safe access zone bill begins its march through the Oireachtas.
A key plank of the Government's housing policy hasn't worked for the last 11 months, the end (maybe) of affirmative action in America; and the polls show both the government and RTE are in a spot of bother.
Gary Kavanagh sits down with Bryan Fanning, Professor of Migration and Social Policy at UCD, to discuss the professor's latest book, Public Morality and the Culture Wars; immigration; LGBT rights; abortion; and coercive public morality.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BHSWHDNJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
The hate speech bill was debated in the Seanad this week, and despite the lack of media attention the debate demonstrated the full value of the Seanad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0Tj8dnrYw
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2023-06-13/10/#spk_78
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1669275401397456898
https://www.lawlibrary.ie/bar-reviews/the-bar-review-june-2023/ - Page 100 for piece on hate crime bill.
A transgender cyclist is currently 300km ahead of their nearest rival in a 2500km race taking place on the west coast; and excise increases are mostly due to the government wanting you to be miserable.
Welcome to the Official TAW ride in Ireland - TransAtlanticWay
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-builds-26-storey-pig-skyscraper-experts-warn-of-disease-outbreak-risks-101669458362447.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/huge-covid-protests-erupt-chinas-xinjiang-after-deadly-fire-2022-11-26/
https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2022-11-17a.316&s=salman#g349
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/18/mike-bloomberg-forced-to-apologise-after-boris-johnson-speech-criticising-china
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2022/105/eng/initiated/b10522d-p-c-sent.pdf
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/10/22/the-big-chill-the-silencing-effect-of-sinn-fein-legal-threats-against-politicians/
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/10/22/democracies-must-regulate-social-media-before-it-is-too-late/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eht1MLU3r5A
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
With Michael over in Italy sampling wine Gary mutters aimlessly about authoritarianism.
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
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
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/
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/
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
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
https://gript.ie/sexual-crime-rates-have-increased-by-75-since-fg-elected-in-2011/
https://data.cso.ie/product/RC
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/large-energy-consuming-firms-preparing-for-gas-rationing-in-winter/
https://gript.ie/pro-life-rally-slams-censorship-as-council-refuses-posters-advertising-event-attack-on-democracy/
https://gript.ie/county-council-reverses-ban-on-pro-life-posters/
https://gript.ie/iccl-incorrectly-claimed-they-cannot-legally-accept-donation-of-e100-or-more/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/most-oppose-trans-women-competing-in-female-sport-41809229.html
Darragh O'Brien is right that there is a risk to social cohesion, but doesn't seem to realise the risk comes from his own Government's actions; clothing yourself in the dead to own the TERFs; Roe v Wade falls; and FF and FG combined still trail behind SF.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/2022/06/17/trans-equality-together-responds-to-liveline/
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/rwanda-link-rise-irish-asylum-27239846
Savage Eye - John Duffy
https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/media/13486/evaluating-the-impact-of-minimum-unit-pricing-in-scotland-on-people-who-are-drinking-at-harmful-levels-report.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/07/needle-spiking-europe-britain-france/
https://extra.ie/2022/06/05/news/politics/former-minister-says-four-out-of-five-fine-gael-tds-seats-at-risk
https://gript.ie/fact-check-donohoe-previously-called-usc-an-emergency-measure-promised-to-abolish-it/
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-4905
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_3oFRcTNHo
https://gript.ie/anti-misinformation-think-tank-spreads-trans-misinformation/
https://www.hse.ie/eng/about/who/healthwellbeing/our-priority-programmes/heal/food-pyramid-images/daily-meal-plan-a4-michael-age-52.pdf
https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/state-to-double-imported-emergency-power-generators-amid-new-supply-fears-68f3b3e8
https://www.businesspost.ie/houses/all-local-authorities-to-be-contacted-over-potential-mica-problems-ad521130
https://gript.ie/significant-methodological-issues-with-recent-study-on-non-religious-teachers-fears/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/non-religious-teachers-hide-beliefs-for-job-opportunities-study-1.4868122
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40862486.html
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_international_surrogacy/2022-04-21/3/#spk_20
Author realizes her new book contains gross inaccuracies on live radio
https://gript.ie/no-a-new-study-did-not-show-that-non-white-offenders-get-longer-prison-sentences/
https://www.iprt.ie/site/assets/files/7076/iprt_the_rights-_needs_and_experiences_of_foreign_national_and_minority_ethnic_groups.pdf
The Minister for Justice has made illegal two things that were already illegal; the Government appears to be striving to cause resentment of Ukranian refugees; and the ICCL is back to claiming to be 100% independent, but it's not the Irish public who pay their wages.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/casual-contempt-for-donnelly-exposed-as-watt-lets-mask-slip-1.4847975
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/nowhere-for-10000-ukrainian-refugees-to-stay-by-end-of-month-cabinet-told-in-secret-briefing-41528511.html
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/emmanuel-macron-could-lose-frances-presidential-election/
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-refugee-crisis-cannot-be-treated-as-opportunity-to-show-how-lovely-ireland-is-1.4839320
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tanaiste-leo-varadkar-trying-to-give-fine-gael-edge-with-centre-right-policies-d65s088wr
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/pat-leahy-the-squeezed-middle-are-back-and-they-re-mad-as-hell-1.4842198
https://gript.ie/fact-check-donohoe-previously-called-usc-an-emergency-measure-promised-to-abolish-it/
Roast Tomato and Smoked Bacon Soup
Ingredients
40g butter
8 tomatoes roasted
1 onion
1/2 leek
2 celery sticks
3 garlic gloves minced
2 stock cubes
100ml double cream
100ml balsamic vinegar
150g smoked bacon
Method
1 - In an oven tray place the tomatoes with the balsamic vinegar and a place of salt and sugar, roast in the oven at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
2 - In a saucepan saute of the smoked bacon, onion, celery and garlic in butter.
3 - Add the tomatoes to the saucepan with the stock, cubes and simmer for 40 minutes.
4 - Add the double cream and blend.
5 - Add a pinch of sugar and taste for seasoning.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crowes-slating-of-irish-freedom-party-followed-planning-dispute-kswpr607m
https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf
https://edmundburkeinstitute.ie/over-55-of-irish-people-have-not-heated-their-homes-at-some-point-in-the-last-year-due-to-energy-prices/
https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/all-time-mens-fastest-100m-list/
A companion unobtrusive - Rush - The Spirit Of Radio
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-02-10/11/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/anti-abortion-protesters-say-divine-providence-led-them-to-gather-to-pray-at-hospital-on-day-of-terminations-41335329.html
https://gript.ie/prayer-vigil-participant-recording-shows-ellen-coyne-twisted-my-words/
https://gript.ie/fact-check-donohoe-previously-called-usc-an-emergency-measure-promised-to-abolish-it/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/cost-of-living-rise-overtakes-housing-crisis-as-main-worry-41317989.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/coalition-urged-to-follow-swedish-move-to-cut-car-fuel-taxes-amid-rising-energy-bills-1.4794135
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40797189.html
https://mugwump.substack.com/p/do-longer-prison-sentences-work?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40792437.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/non-eu-students-protest-over-discriminatory-amnesty-for-undocumented-immigrants-rd8d7kqpm
https://www.finegael.ie/zero-tolerance-for-needle-spiking-needed-to-protect-women-doherty/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60069229#:~:text=A%20senior%20police%20officer%20says,with%20needles%20on%20nights%20out.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/women-surge-to-self-defence-classes-as-clubs-offer-free-lessons-nx06snx2v
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sky-self-defence-training-told-women-dont-be-there-jzqxrb9m2
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/ireland-is-safe-women-are-scared-both-of-these-statements-are-true-41268326.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/us-hopes-to-walk-bosnia-back-from-the-cliff-as-serbs-step-up-secession-threat
The Wolfe Tones, Late Late Show Debate, RTE - Part 1
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/smear-of-being-called-far-right-1.4752265
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/majority-seeing-untrue-or-doubtful-online-information-cso-says-41122734.html
Letter to Greenpeace - https://www.supportprecisionagriculture.org/nobel-laureate-gmo-letter_rjr.html
Response - https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/6866/nobel-laureates-sign-letter-on-greenpeace-golden-rice-position-statement/
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-isshisi/householdinternetsecurityandinformationintegrity2021/backgroundnotes/
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/tensions-grow-as-nphet-members-must-now-ask-government-for-permission-to-appear-on-tv-and-radio-41117138.html
https://gript.ie/amnesty-shock-department-has-no-official-estimate-of-how-many-illegal-immigrants-are-in-ireland/
https://gript.ie/exclusive-government-has-no-plan-to-cap-number-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-granted-amnesty/
Paddy Manning sits in for Michael to discuss the ongoing attempts to have DCU academic Mark Humphrys fired, and the joy of the Green Party conference.
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/350b7-health-in-ireland-key-trends-2021/
https://www.businesspost.ie/politics/how-ireland-inc-is-changing-tack-as-sinn-feins-path-to-power-opens-up-4bfb3fc9
https://gript.ie/new-bill-would-let-state-detain-suspected-potential-covid-spreaders/
https://gript.ie/the-government-knows-its-electrical-vehicles-numbers-dont-add-up/
https://medium.com/drax/what-is-electrical-frequency-and-why-does-it-matter-fb60ae883246
https://www.aclu-wi.org/en/news/aclu-responds-not-guilty-verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-case
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/cf31d-statement-from-the-national-public-health-emergency-team-sunday-31-october/ - CMO statement
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-11-17/57/ - ICE ban illegal
https://workersparty.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Why-nuclear-power-is-necessary-A-discussion-document.pdf
https://www.businesspost.ie/coronavirus/state-seeks-to-bypass-scrutiny-on-bill-that-could-extend-covid-powers-until-june-7cee4a12
Daniel Shaver shooting bodycam footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-17/9/#spk_25
Green Party submission - https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/204798/f863b219-368a-4628-9b91-fb4fcb1727e1.pdf#page=null
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/far-right-could-use-political-discourse-defence-in-hate-crime-bill-to-justify-prejudice-7zcmlh0vs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NmZlp2XuBw - Jamie Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh13ch_e3eA - BlackAdder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueyCT8fN64M - The power station money
https://ww1.daft.ie/report?d_rd=1
https://gript.ie/quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes/
https://gript.ie/reality-of-climate-change-is-your-mother-being-gang-raped-extinction-rebellion-co-founder/
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/finn-mcredmond-no-end-in-sight-to-the-new-age-of-anxiety-1.4718455
https://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/47e77-consultation-on-irelands-draft-state-report-to-the-un-committee-on-the-rights-of-the-child/
Smuggling Bill - https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2021/105/eng/ver_a/b105a21s.pdf
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/claire-byrne-challenges-ireland-s-climate-strategy-people-are-being-asked-to-pony-up-a-lot-1.4725869
https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/residential/arid-40732509.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/retrofitting-bill-could-come-to-average-of-56-000-per-home-1.4720943
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/major-media-brands-sign-up-to-climate-content-pledge-during-cop26-41011663.html
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xlEbMab_dRs4Wx3nESYT0bkFb2LluuBHjA9lOEyeWqY/edit - Extinction Rebellion founder piece
Israeli document on Addameer - https://4il.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/blood-money-European-funding-palestinian-ngod-A-case-study-Addameer.pdf
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-11-03/3/#spk_9
https://www.presscouncil.ie/Decided-by-the-Press-Ombudsman/9722021-mr-hermann-kelly-and-the-journal
https://gript.ie/editorial-on-the-irish-freedom-party-the-press-ombudsman-has-gotten-it-badly-wrong/
https://gript.ie/ben-scallan-why-is-rte-a-member-of-a-climate-change-activism-group/
https://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc - What is fascism?
https://www.eirgridgroup.com/site-files/library/EirGrid/Winter-Outlook-2021-2022.pdf
https://freopp.org/we-calculated-return-on-investment-for-30-000-bachelors-degrees-find-yours-1f2f3c5e6dac
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/let-s-talk-about-acceptable-covid-death-rates-before-restrictions-kick-in-1.4707096
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/respiratory-virus-puts-more-pressure-on-hospitals-38mc3gqw2?t=ie
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210913-the-little-known-virus-that-surged-in-children-this-summer
https://www.businesspost.ie/ireland/rise-in-cost-of-living-alarms-94-of-voters-red-c-poll-finds-53657482
https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/21/needle-spiking-everything-we-know-after-women-targeted-in-nightclubs-15461751/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/teen-girls-are-developing-tics-doctors-say-tiktok-could-be-a-factor-11634389201?
Shot - https://twitter.com/VitoGesualdi/status/1451071305789292548
Chaser - https://twitter.com/VitoGesualdi/status/1451311741233610764
Family Guy: Joe's New Surveillance Van
"How Did They Catch You in 4K?!" but it's in 4K.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/poll-shows-high-degree-of-public-resistance-to-many-potential-climate-action-measures-1.4694287
https://www.imt.ie/news/93-of-irish-consultants-say-they-would-work-abroad-over-accepting-slaintecare-contracts-jmhs-study-09-10-2021/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/letters-in-full-what-chief-justice-said-to-mr-justice-seamus-woulfe-over-golfgate-dinner-and-his-reply-1.4404867
https://gript.ie/why-rte-should-apologise-for-their-misinformation-about-poland/
https://www.thephoenix.ie/article/simon-and-sarah/
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-10-06/11/#spk_169
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/will-gender-diversity-boards-really-boost-company-performance/
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2021/124/eng/initiated/b12421d.pdf
https://twitter.com/WilliamsJon/status/1444344806994497536
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/sl%C3%A1intecare-meetings-were-largely-a-waste-of-time-1.4688830?mode=amp
https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1440436189404614664/video/1
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/agenda-ireland-needs-cheaper-homes-not-bigger-mortgages-wwhrxqj8v?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1632677329
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/surge-in-eirgrid-payments-to-avoid-power-blackouts-bqxhpmqvj
https://www.businesspost.ie/companies/ireland-could-lose-new-intel-plant-as-energy-and-water-services-feel-strain-85e558ea
https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/latest-news/thousands-to-be-hit-as-energia-announces-third-price-rise-40860626.html
https://www.businesspost.ie/health/tony-obrien-the-apparent-slow-collapse-of-slaintecare-deserves-more-than-a-shrug-of-the-shoulders-e09c5c9d
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/slaintecare-chief-who-quit-says-reform-is-impossible-40864990.html
Norm trying to shill - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mafhr9-lFUM
Norm gets kicked out of Iowa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBKlXR3BbDU&t=2s
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/irelands-health-system-isnt-as-underfunded-understaffed-or-underresourced-as-we-think-40852002.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-31978271 - John Prescott comes in from the left.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58024296 - Scottish drug deaths.
https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Next-5-years-.pdf
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/zappone-was-not-lobbying-when-she-sought-un-special-envoy-role-anti-corruption-watchdog-says-c6de3ad2?auth=login
https://gript.ie/anti-corruption-watchdog-denies-ministers-claim-it-said-zappone-did-not-engage-in-lobbying/
https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/electricity-system-amber-alert-issued-this-morning-f772c7e6
https://www.businesspost.ie/climate-environment/ryan-considers-new-rules-to-improve-air-quality-in-urban-areas-dce39b61?utm_campaign=article&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=web
https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publications/Mask_RCT____Symptomatic_Seropositivity_083121.pdf
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-councillor-deletes-milkshake-these-racist-vermin-tweet-40810277.html
https://extra.ie/2021/08/29/news/politics/brian-leddin-slurs-against-women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcc2t21xlxE
https://www.ign.com/articles/y-the-last-man-hulu-fx-binary-tackling-transgender-issues
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/soaring-pay-puts-waitrose-lorry-drivers-on-a-par-with-lawyers-r5673lbls
https://www.businesspost.ie/energy/balance-of-power-why-irelands-electricity-supply-is-threatened-and-what-can-be-done-to-bolster-it-d8fbf07a
https://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/publications/ida-ireland-economic-benefits-of-data-centre-inves
https://gript.ie/exclusive-government-has-no-plan-to-cap-number-of-illegal-immigrants-to-be-granted-amnesty/
https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/26/afghanistan-helpline-redirected-callers-to-washing-machine-company-15156117/
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/555a928a-06a8-11ec-89b3-29a9a04e8645?shareToken=93be4692c0e358916b35ef44444a3ef0
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58317555
https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1431282869654204420 - The forbidden image
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/undocumented-migrants-in-ireland-offered-once-in-a-generation-amnesty-40775476.html
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
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
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
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.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/ourview/arid-40354553.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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
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
https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/27/bosnian-serbs-will-shut-down-government-over-genocide-denial-law
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2021/0726/1237408-climate-change/
https://www.thejournal.ie/obrien-says-e600000-is-not-an-affordable-home-as-concerns-loom-over-poolbeg-development-5507344-Jul2021/
Fracking saves the environment - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielmarkind/2020/11/23/the-united-states-and-the-paris-climate-agreementswhat-does-the-data-say/
https://despair.com/collections/demotivators
RTE's climate group membership - https://gript.ie/ben-scallan-why-is-rte-a-member-of-a-climate-change-activism-group/
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/climate-change-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-the-media-choose-to-overlook-40686853.html
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/were-fat-and-getting-fatter-but-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it-40684928.html
Live footage of one of Michael's mood swings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkJd5oQXt4g
O'Toole's piece - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-ian-bailey-deflects-us-from-the-reality-of-violent-misogyny-1.4624916
Projected deaths in UK from missed healthcare - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(20)30388-0/fulltext
HPSC's last report on the weekly COVID-19 epidemiology - https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/surveillance/epidemiologyofcovid-19inirelandweeklyreports/COVID-19%20Weekly%20Report_Slidset_HPSC_%20Week_18_WEB_20210511.pdf
Irish COVID-19 hub - https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/
Dutch COVID-19 hub - https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/varianten
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/bitter-and-angry-fianna-fail-are-now-a-laughing-stock-40663668.html
https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416536109459329026
https://twitter.com/NextIrishGE/status/1416534480093843462 - B&A poll
https://thecountess.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-Countess-Irish-Gender-Poll-2021.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jul/30/health.mentalhealth
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1407445604029009923
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/voters-see-fianna-f%C3%A1il-as-deeply-divided-internal-research-shows-1.4618579
https://gript.ie/cork-county-council-forced-labour-and-genocide-merely-differences-in-values/
https://twitter.com/G_L_Kavanagh/status/1414645006707707912
https://psmag.com/magazine/the-lucrative-art-of-chicken-sexing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fidel-castros-horrific-record-on-gay-rights
12:19 - Fianna Fail results
35:41 - Where are the free Irish voters?
47:48 - What is to be done with Martin?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/
Bohemia glassworkers in the time of the Third Reich; the media has picked their candidate to win the DBS byelection; and a kind word for Malcolm Byrne as he calls China out.
The mad kings of NPHET declare lockdown shall continue until they are satisfied with our tribute; and the Irish Times decides Viktor Orban is too extreme to let him talk to their readers, but the genocidal CCP are just right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWZs8l2AMps
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1405157995068207109
https://whereyourmoneygoes.gov.ie/en/2015/
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2021/06/15/Ireland-Selected-Issues-460785
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/confessions-of-a-phoney-pollster-and-a-guide-to-other-political-dark-arts-40529610.html
Forstater judgement - https://legal.equalityhumanrights.com/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/Maya%20Forstater%20v%20CGD%20Europe%20and%20others%20UKEAT0105%2020%20JOJ.pdf
In a year heavy with silly ideas an Irish NGO has gone for gold by saying it wants to give the government the power to remove candidates from elections if they say the wrong things; Ze Germans say they're coming for our EU Veto; and the lab leak theory makes a glorious return to respectable discourse.
We sat down with Dr Theo Boer, professor of Health Care Ethics at Groningen Theological University, to discuss euthanasia, assisted suicide, the cultural impact of euthanasia on the Netherlands, and the future of medical care in this area.
The Citizens' Assembly goes off the rails; a Scottish feminist up in court for transphobic tweets shows Ireland how FG's hate speech bill will be used here; FF remain unable to do basic due diligence on their election candidates; and the Belarus situation has been resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210531133639/https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1880004.shtml
https://gript.ie/gravy-train-how-public-money-keeps-the-iccl-in-business/
https://gript.ie/over-100000-in-public-money-to-be-given-to-anonymous-far-left-group/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM&list=PLD5OhzwvKKtOPs27ZJUjJ4Euw793mHgub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyuM0PODuY&list=PLD5OhzwvKKtOPs27ZJUjJ4Euw793mHgub
Perjury bill - https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/112/eng/ver_c/b112c18s.pdf
https://twitter.com/OCallaghanJim/status/1396459170136825862
https://www.nuigalway.ie/media/irishcentreforhumanrights/files/reports/ICHR-Report-International-Human-Rights-Impacts-of-Fracking.pdf
The High Court has refused to hear a case on religious COVID-19 restrictions, arguing it is moot - we argue the judgement is nonsense; the HSE hack, which no one will be blamed for; and what achievements have Irish politicians actually had over the last decade?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ap-collaboration-nazis-reporting-news
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/thousands-attend-rallies-in-irish-cities-in-solidarity-with-palestine-1.4566435
Arlene Foster and the DUP demonstrate the danger of getting what you wish for; and public confidence in the Government's ability to handle COVID-19 improves, but SF continue to move up in the polls.
https://twitter.com/AlanFarrell/status/1390818311638765576
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993.pdf
https://www.cochrane.org/CD013705/INFECTN_how-accurate-are-rapid-tests-diagnosing-covid-19
FF have some thoughts on housing policy; the Government has pumped millions into Irish media; April vaccine target missed by 160,000; and Mick Wallace says China is a normal country.
http://books.imprint.co.uk/book/?gcoi=71157100341290
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Agender-Transgenderisms-Struggle-Societas/dp/1788360583
Musical drama 'The Wings of Songs' showcases beautiful Xinjiang
https://www.lawlibrary.ie/News/Statement-of-the-Four-Bars-on-PRC-Government-Sanct.aspx
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-40275344.html
https://www.legalcheek.com/2021/03/china-bans-magic-circle-chambers-over-alleged-human-rights-disinformation/
The EU goes to court; man pokes bear, surprised when mauled; the party of law and order decides to reward breaking the law; and the nanny state comes for bridal parties.
https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/what-we-do/meetings/voting-results-citizens-assembly-on-gender-equality/full-list-of-recommendations.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20190331155445/https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/News/RED-C-Internal-Audit.pdf
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/171/made/en/print
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2021/si/168/made/en/print
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/General_Scheme_Criminal_Justice_(Hate_Crime)_Bill_2021.pdf/Files/General_Scheme_Criminal_Justice_(Hate_Crime)_Bill_2021.pdf
https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-68-what-exactly-are-antifa/
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ohhib - Spitting Image Election Special
The most informed view on the North you'll hear this week; Israel can't pay its bill; Ireland South continues its support for Iran; the HSE just did exactly the same thing as the Beacon Hospital; and how 0-4 and fuck the consumer is the Irish way.
https://gript.ie/allow-children-as-young-as-10-to-consent-to-sex-lgbt-ngo/
https://iwhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Beijing-25-Feminist-declaration.pdf
https://extra.ie/2021/04/01/news/irish-news/vaccine-booking-system-abused - DM story
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/hse-chief-vows-to-look-into-health-worker-jab-figures-40272499.html
https://www.thejournal.ie/hse-vaccine-allocation-schedule-beacon-5398577-Apr2021/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/non-medically-vulnerable-groups-to-get-vaccine-in-exceptional-circumstances-1.4528591
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1379107540475248647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDP8SnPVA0
https://gript.ie/minister-arrested-during-sunday-service-by-gardai/
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardaifurious-over-farcical-hunt-for-quarantine-absconders-40254914.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/public-s-loss-of-faith-in-fairness-of-vaccine-rollout-must-be-addressed-1.4522357
It's a good day for racists as the Government embraces the one drop rule; good news as unemployment falls to a mere 24.8%; the EU accidentally raided a facility shipping vaccines to the third world; and despite what Government TDs may have told you we are nowhere near hitting our vaccination targets.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40249778.html
https://inar.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2020_iReport.pdf
https://www.wsj.com/articles/europes-gang-that-couldnt-shot-straight-11616193641?st=iify3a6dmiv89fu&reflink=article_email_share
https://tcdlaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/religious-services-and-rule-of-law.html
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/it-would-be-a-mistake-to-dismiss-anti-lockdown-protesters-as-outsiders-just-look-at-the-facts-40218416.html
https://www.irishcatholic.com/gardai-fine-fr-pj-hughes-for-celebrating-public-mass/
https://gript.ie/revealed-how-newstalk-disappeared-a-criticism-of-the-zero-covid-group/
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/integrated-information-service-vaccination-programme-dashboard.html
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2018/act/9/section/5/enacted/en/html#sec5
https://www.youth.ie/get-involved/campaigns/vote-at-16/#reason-7
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-idUSKBN2B507C
https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n627
https://tcdlaw.blogspot.com/2021/03/religious-services-and-rule-of-law.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/there-are-no-spare-vaccines-available-for-ireland-to-lobby-for-1.4506889
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/politics/coronavirus-astrazeneca-united-states.html
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-double-covid-vaccine-order-from-pfizer-biontech/46436302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
https://gript.ie/watch-senator-ronan-mullen-raises-isag-leaks-in-the-seanad/
https://gript.ie/recent-journal-fact-check-actually-non-fact-checking-content-international-fact-checking-network/
https://gript.ie/quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes/
More on Moonshot's recent study of the far-right in Ireland, particularly the Irish Time's coverage of it; fact-checking the Journal; and Dr Seuss is out, but Mein Kampf is still in.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/unusually-high-proportion-of-young-males-researching-far-right-topics-1.4500287
https://moonshotcve.com/far-right-search-traffic-in-ireland-2021/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wbjZDtR2e0
I've Got a Little List (with lyrics) / The Mikado / Gilbert and Sullivan
https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/integrated-information-service-vaccination-programme-dashboard.html
Another chance to wheel out the phrase 'mostly peaceful protest'; what exactly it means to be far-right during the great realignment; the Irish media and the failure to ask questions; and new polling show FF the only way is down.
https://gript.ie/look-for-ways-to-increase-insecurity-anxiety-and-uncertainty-zero-covid-document/
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-the-eu-and-uk-astrazeneca-contracts/
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/33/health/
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/stephen-collins-outbreak-of-eu-bashing-among-irish-politicians-is-a-serious-overreaction-1.4488669
https://gript.ie/uncertainty-and-doubt-behind-the-scenes-of-the-zero-covid-campaign/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQoVHqveQ98
9 more weeks of lockdown; the unemployment rates hits numbers that don't even look real; and the wonderful revelation that there's nothing stopping you from privately buying vaccines.
The Taoiseach's trip to Washington has gone all mean girls; it's not clear what Simon Coveney actually does; the importance of dose versus vial when negotiating a contract with Pfizer; and the Citizens' Assembly turns its eyes on the place of women.
Vaccinations numbers collapse; the NUJ thinks public funding of journalism won't damage journalism; EU diplomate humiliated by Russial; and how Russian energy is similar to a temperamental lover.
https://www.edelman.com/sites/g/files/aatuss191/files/2021-01/2021-edelman-trust-barometer.pdf
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/state-support-for-journalism-is-in-the-public-interest-1.4481394 https://gript.ie/irish-vaccination-numbers-appear-to-have-collapsed/
https://www.rt.com/russia/515015-borrell-moscow-visit-fallout/
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/our-place-in-the-new-european-pecking-order-is-now-clear-1.4476266
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/blabbermouth-tiernan-rant-wasnt-anti-semitic-his-remarks-on-genocide-were-purely-parodic-26570291.html
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/impugning-the-mother-and-baby-commission-does-not-serve-victims-1.4473277
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1954/1954-h/1954-h.htm
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/offensive-moi-1.745364
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0202/1194573-myanmar-aung-san-suu-kyi-crisis-coup-2021/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blood-and-the-moon/
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europe-s-vaccine-disaster-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-seeking-to-duck-responsibility-a-1197547d-6219-4438-9d69-b76e64701802
https://gript.ie/the-eu-accidentally-released-an-unredacted-version-of-the-astrazeneca-contract/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/840230/Revised_Protocol_to_the_Withdrawal_Agreement.pdf
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_302f - Between recording and release the AstraZeneca contract was released.
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/curevac_-_redacted_advance_purchase_agreement_0.pdf
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_pascal_soriot_ceo_astrazeneca_coronavirus_covid_vaccines-284349628/
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-vaccine-europe-hit-commission-target-rollout-5-times-faster/
https://www.icgp.ie/speck/properties/asset/asset.cfm?type=LibraryAsset&id=468202EA%2DDD0D%2D4CF6%2DA65F3806460A2447&property=asset&revision=tip&disposition=inline&app=icgp&filename=ICGP%5FTrans%5FHealth%5FQRG%2Epdf
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/Biggs_ExperimentPubertyBlockers.pdf
https://gript.ie/exclusive-ashton-dog-pound-searched-by-gardai-over-animal-welfare-concerns/
https://api.cqc.org.uk/public/v1/reports/7ecf93b7-2b14-45ea-a317-53b6f4804c24?20210120085141
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/stormont-bemused-by-republic-s-stonewalling-over-covid-data-1.4463253
https://www.thelocal.fr/20210111/frenchwoman-who-was-declared-dead-goes-to-court-to
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_143
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/uk-gender-identity-clinic-that-treated-irish-children-rated-inadequate-1.4464550
Koen Stoop is the EU Policy Coordinator of the World Uyghur Congress, an international organisation which represents the Uyghur people. Koen talks about the ongoing repression of the Uyghur people, a situation a growing number of politicians and academics have said constitutes genocide.
The Indo has published 3 articles, in 1 day, attacking Mary Lou for liking Woody Allen and they haven't even asked her which of his movies is best; how the Government has taken inspiration from the life of Tchaikovsky for their latest bill; and of course vaccinations and more on the Mother and Baby home report.
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d4b3d-final-report-of-the-commission-of-investigation-into-mother-and-baby-homes/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/mitch-mcconnell-trump-impeachment.html
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/doctors-fear-being-left-last-in-mish-mashed-approach-39951606.html
https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1347969772177264644
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/12/21/if-it-hadnt-been-for-the-prompt-work-of-the-medics-fsb-officer-inadvertently-confesses-murder-plot-to-navalny/
https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/bf337-covid-19-vaccination-strategy-and-implementation-plan/
https://gript.ie/smes-the-people-powering-ireland-how-local-business-is-or-is-not-surviving-in-a-time-of-covid/
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/government-expects-year-end-budget-deficit-of-19bn-for-2020-1.4450574
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0105/1187758-pandemic-unemployment-payment-numbers/
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/no-more-room-for-slippages-or-delays-in-vaccine-rollout-nursing-homes-ireland-1059774.html
https://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/labourmarket/monthlyunemployment/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/why-is-ireland-s-covid-vaccination-campaign-off-to-such-a-slow-start-1.4450008
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.
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)
Gary talks about the year in review, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, suicide, and the difference between pain and suffering.
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
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
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://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
http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/Historical_Documents/Carlyle_1849.html
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/history/1971war/1278-chuck-yeager.html#gsc.tab=0
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/remote-working-works-but-there-will-be-a-price-to-pay-1.4426495
https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/what-we-do/about-the-members/leadership-meeting-members-resource-material/irish-human-rights-equality-commission.pdf
https://www.citizensassembly.ie/en/what-we-do/meetings/recent-developments-to-promote-gender-equality-in-ireland-anne-marie.pdf - the worst one
https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2020-12-02a.5 - Student Nursing Dail debate transcript
https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2020/1201/1181739-puberty-blockers/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/london-court-ruling-casts-doubt-on-puberty-blockers-for-under-16s-1.4424620
https://gript.ie/landmark-case-finds-children-highly-unlikely-to-be-able-to-consent-to-puberty-blockers-sex-changes/
https://lecheilednd.carrd.co/
https://gript.ie/podcasts/trsi-68-what-exactly-are-antifa/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvAEMz64O9c
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62002CJ0200&from=EN - Chen v Home Secretary case
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2018-11-21/21/ - Seanad debate on Lanour's Bill
https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/124/eng/initiated/b12418s.pdf - Labour's Bill
http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/INCA%20Dec2014.pdf/Files/INCA%20Dec2014.pdf - Original Act
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/up-to-2-000-cancers-may-be-lost-because-of-covid-disruption-1.4420581
https://gcn.ie/irish-lgbtq-community-stand-irishsolidarit-transphobia-trans-day-remembrance/
https://gcn.ie/hate-crime-bill-2020/
https://gript.ie/the-criminal-justice-hate-crime-2020-bill-is-beneath-the-dignity-of-the-seanad/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19723-8
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.16502?af=R
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/abortion-survive-scream/
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/thousands-unborn-foetuses-incinerated-heat-uk-hospitals-9212863.html
The Criminal Justice Hate Crime bill was debated in the Seanad yesterday; Dublin City Council Councillors discovered they actually love people being homeless; and China moves to the trolling America stage of diplomatic relations.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/the-big-interview-workaholic-micheal-martin-on-christmas-restrictions-covid-19-vaccine-and-the-noise-around-the-job-39747949.html
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.525.174&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/compared-men-women-view-professional-advancement-equally-attainable-less-desirable#:~:text=Women%20listed%20more%20life%20goals,7%25
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/letters-in-full-what-chief-justice-said-to-mr-justice-seamus-woulfe-over-golfgate-dinner-and-his-reply-1.4404867
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/full-text-of-denham-report-concerning-mr-justice-s%C3%A9amus-woulfe-1.4369637
https://gript.ie/gay-sex-russia-and-sinn-fein-the-secret-obsessions-of-varadkar-whistleblower-chay-bowes/
https://twitter.com/JoshShapiroPA/status/1322640510637477889
https://twitter.com/JoshShapiroPA/status/1323686382401843201
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/exit-polls-president.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8588031/Scientist-angers-Twitter-accused-sexism-racism-saying-roundworms-useless.html
Damien English just wants us to free our bodies; America's long nightmare draws to a close on Tuesday; the Economist has some disclosure issues; a 3 year delay on checks for breast cancer; and France has been having some decapitation issues.
https://www.rte.ie/news/analysis-and-comment/2020/1023/1173584-virus-test-endurance/
John Kerry's 2016 take on the Middle East peace process didn't age very well
No, we're not going to link to Hunter Biden's sex tape.
https://assets.gov.ie/93272/2c5f1621-4233-47d8-adce-96e9b9b2ffc1.pdf
https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1318632532716457986
https://www.thesun.ie/news/4208026/alan-farrell-football-match-crash-compo-claim/
https://twitter.com/RMcGreevy1301/status/1316674955879297025/photo/1
Michael sits down with the political advisor and bioethics expert David Mullins about the passing of the Dying with Dignity Bill. They talk about the bill itself, the lack of debate about the bill in the Dail, why the amendment to put it to a special committee failed, and what comes next.
https://gript.ie/barbie-kardashian-the-story-tusla-wants-to-keep-a-secret/
https://gript.ie/i-was-left-with-ptsd-former-assistant-to-lorraine-clifford-lee/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/nearly-90-of-women-have-not-responded-to-cervical-screening-invitations-1.4377785
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/hundreds-clash-in-violent-exchanges-at-dublin-protests-1.4377808
https://projectsouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/OIG-ICDC-Complaint-1.pdf
https://playerwelfare.worldrugby.org/gender
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/future-of-people-driving-around-country-in-private-cars-is-fantasy-built-on-cheap-oil-1.4376109
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/irish-times-poll-majority-of-people-believe-pandemic-will-get-worse-1.4376070
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/1008/1170186-microsoft-excel-covid-cases-uk-government-mistakes/
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40061816.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQMMPFtoG4
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40060616.html
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40059962.html
https://irishheart.ie/news/budget-2021-the-irish-heart-foundation-calls-for-new-tax-on-e-cigarettes/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-palestinians-israel.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzMahrucH04&t
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20201002-PartyMembership.pdf
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/david-mcwilliams-the-better-the-economy-does-the-more-covid-19-spreads-1.4363635
https://gript.ie/photo-barbie-kardashian-irelands-homicidal-girl/
https://www.courts.ie/viewer/pdf/e363c19e-6e79-4e35-a3fe-d5e8dee785fe/2019_IECA_109_1.pdf/pdf#view=fitH
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/dr-martin-feeley-young-and-healthy-majority-need-to-be-allowed-to-live-1.4362503
https://gript.ie/british-academics-suppression-of-covid-19-unfeasible-and-is-leading-to-significant-harm/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
Michael sits down journalist and author Ed West to discuss his book The Diversity Illusion. They talk immigration, the idea that there are topics you can't debate, and the trade-offs we have to make to have a diverse society.
https://www.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2020/09/Princeton-Letter-9-16-20-Signed.pdf
https://gript.ie/cork_friendship_uighur_jiangsu/
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/the-far-right-rises-its-growth-as-a-political-force-in-ireland-1.4358321
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/covid-19-government-to-discuss-right-to-protest-says-coveney-1.4354408
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/israel-uae-bahrain-sign-game-changing-normalization-deal-watch-live-642368
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/trump-hails-dawn-of-a-new-middle-east-at-white-house-ceremony-1.4355815
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/the-irish-times-view-on-donald-trump-s-peace-plan-emboldening-israel-s-far-right-1.4155401
Xi Jinping takes time out of his genocidally hectic schedule to shill Cork; Gary marvels at the wonder that is our health service; and the latest polls confirm FF is polling at close to single digits - a situation which can be put nearly entirely at the feet of Martin and those who agree with his strategy.
https://www.dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/environment/publications/Documents/55/Waste_Action_Plan_for_a_Circular_Economy.pdf
Turning publicans into spies; Nancy Pelosi didn't know she couldn't do that; why you shouldn't assume the neutrality of information gatekeepers; Israel's making friends in the Middle East; and why we don't deserve the trade portfolio from the EU.
The Charlie Hebdo attacks, in which 12 people were killed by Islamic terrorists; reminiscing about the magazine of Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula; and Ireland's self-inflicted issues with picking an EU commissioner.
https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1298502384654651392 - Video of man with rifle being chased, falling, shooting.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298529196549869568/photo/1 - Aftermath of the shooting, man shot is holding a firearm.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298479865813798912
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1298372704555249664 - rioters demand people raise their fist in the air, woman refuses.
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1298381476233347074 - rioters demand people raise their fist in the air, man refuses.
https://twitter.com/JoshBreslowWKRN/status/1267799939163308033 - 4 police officers in St Louis hospitalized after shots came from crowd of protesters.
https://i.imgur.com/dgbUvyl.gif
Another fine week for Fianna Fail, who are apparently the only party in government and absolutely to blame for the consequences of all of the actions of the previous government.
The Burke family wins their case against the government on predicted grades; golf remains the most dangerous sport for politicians to get involved in; and Stephen Donnelly tries to talk about an incredibly important concept when dealing with COVID-19 but somehow manages to swallow an entire trampoline.
https://www.facebook.com/CSPAN/videos/1437084406680795/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=qTJzPeg8if4&feature=emb_logo
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/13/media-crush-kamala-harris-395020
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/middle-east/us-urges-arab-and-muslim-states-to-follow-uae-deal-with-israel-1.4329814
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53770859
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/there-is-no-conflict-between-human-rights-and-public-health-measures-1.4217915
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/legislation-against-hate-speech-is-ill-advised-and-counter-productive-1.4112340
Michael sits down with Benjamin Boyce to discuss the 2017 Evergreen University fiasco that led to the firing of Bret Weinstein. They talk progressive racism; the nature of power; the impact of the breakdown of stable, normative morality; and what Evergreen can tell us about the future of America.
The sealing of the forbidden zones of the country is complete; the nature of racism; Pakistanis with hurls; and how there's nothing more Irish than the pure, perfect hatred for a village 3 miles away.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0805/1157398-children-low-birth-rates-fertility/
https://gript.ie/police-bodycam-footage-of-george-floyds-death-leaked/
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Review_of_Protections_for_Vulnerable_Witnesses_in%20the_Investigation_and_Prosecution_of_Sexual_Offences.pdf/Files/Review_of_Protections_for_Vulnerable_Witnesses_in%20the_Investigation_and_Prosecution_of_Sexual_Offences.pdf
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2020/07/30/4049160131241488932/960x540_MP4_4049160131241488932.mp4
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2020/07/30/5005474934801646650/960x540_MP4_5005474934801646650.mp4
Ireland's favourite race expert has some thoughts; Israel Folau refuses to bend the knee; the defenders of Ireland's CCT rate seem to be losing their nerve; and why Charlie Haughey was the best leader this country ever had.
Michael talks to Professor Glenn Loury, the first African-American to become a tenured Professor of Economics at Harvard University, of Brown University. They talk about the idea that America is an institutionally racist country; race and policing in America; and racial identities.
Nubian princesses go into storage; RTE asks if there's anything to be said for defunding the police; and a man who wanted books banned from schools admits he's never read the books, but says he has seen the movie.
https://www.thejournal.ie/larry-bass-shinawil-dancing-with-the-stars-5159769-Jul2020/
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/would-these-irish-ads-persuade-you-to-wear-a-face-mask-1.4310766
https://www.independent.ie/style/voices/this-is-the-summer-of-the-himbo-the-golden-age-of-big-dim-lovely-boys-39366261.html
Putin Elevator Portrait Gets A Rise Out Of Riders
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40021184.html
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/twelve-year-old-pupils-do-not-understand-complexities-of-racially-charged-classics-says-councillor-seeking-removal-of-books-39393404.html
https://gript.ie/peter_tatchell_see_no_evil/
Grades are being leveled, a woman gets a years wages for cutting her finger on a wine glass, and Gary questions the need for health and safety standards whilst Michael records in the middle of a road.
Gary sits down with Bev Jackson, one of the founding members of the LGB Alliance. They discuss the aims of the LGB Alliance and how it came to be, gender theory, Stonewall, and the abuse people like J. K. Rowling get for speaking out on this issue.
It's been a bad week for Irish media on various fronts, Orwell faces cancellation for failing to speak positively of the USSR after WW2, and the wonderful history of the Molotov bread basket.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Teachers-Take-Katharine-Birbalsingh/dp/191290621X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1594383295&refinements=p_27%3AKatharine+Birbalsingh&s=books&sr=1-1
Michael sits down with the journalist, author, and broadcaster Peter Hitchens. They discuss the fall of the USSR; revolutionary politics; how the current political climate compares to earlier revolutions; why Britain should have stayed out of World War 1; and if there's any hope left for conservatives.
Michael talks to Professor Deirdre McCloskey, of the University of Illinois at Chicago. They discuss the idea that the West became the richest and more powerful region of the world because of slavery and colonialism.
The heartwarming tale of Sun Qian, a women who rediscovered her deep love for the Chinese Government whilst being tortured in a Chinese jail; two new reports say China is committing genocide, we explain why that doesn't matter and why nothing will be done, and Reddit becomes a racist website.
FG somehow convinced FF to take over the country just before everything has the highest chance of falling to pieces, and FF even took Health and Housing, so let's talk about that.
Michael sits down with author and assistant editor of UnHerd, Ed West, to discuss what it's like being on the wrong side of history.
In order to have a peaceful show Gary and Michael move from their unusual controversial topic selection to discuss race, religion, and that new sexual assault survey that's got everyone in a tizzy.
If you enjoyed listening to Colin you can find some of his articles below:
https://quillette.com/2020/06/07/jk-rowling-is-right-sex-is-real-and-it-is-not-a-spectrum/
https://quillette.com/2018/11/30/the-new-evolution-deniers/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dangerous-denial-of-sex-11581638089
https://twitter.com/meganrabundis/status/1272735796949213184 - Full video of the shooting.
00:00 - Ming's fish trouble
7:15 - Household assistants
18:15 - According to the Irish Times de Valera wanted Ireland to rejoin the British Empire
41:55 - The BBC a tale of two protests
1:15:37 - Niall Collins has some more thoughts on the Jews
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/statues-are-not-a-neutral-narration-of-complex-events-1.4277548
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/editorial/the-irish-times-view-on-historical-monuments-the-statues-keep-falling-1.4277950
https://www.the42.ie/black-lives-matter-to-replace-players-names-on-shirts-5122234-Jun2020/
https://www.businessinsider.com/siri-google-assistant-rebut-all-lives-matter-2020-6?r=US&IR=T
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52954899
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53031072
https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1271075607955288064 - Letter to Priti Patel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84YPbucaxA - Lenny Bruce "How To Relax Your Colored Friends At Parties"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaRqDc41IFQ - Lenny Bruce "Are there any niggers here tonight?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igYL5w0ZVc8 - BrassEye - Culture and Race
https://babylonbee.com/news/unity-at-last-kkk-and-rich-liberal-join-in-celebration-as-black-neighborhood-burns
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8398095/BBC-blasted-Black-Lives-Matter-protests-largely-peaceful-headline-despite-27-officers-injured.html
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1707753042 - Murray Hill Riot
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/there-is-no-conflict-between-human-rights-and-public-health-measures-1.4217915
https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ICCL-Investigation-Abortion-Safe-Zones.pdf
https://www.gotoquiz.com/political_compass_english_civil_war_edition - It's just nice to see the Levellers included
We had planned to have a wonderful discussion of a women walking her dog in a park but we've had to adjust the programming as America seems to have caught fire.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/ - the full text of the executive order.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/explainer-did-the-taoiseach-ignore-public-health-rules-by-going-on-a-picnic-1.4263129
https://gript.ie/chinese-recommendation-brazil/
https://indianliterature.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/overcoat_by_nicolai_gogol.pdf - A translation of Gogol's short story 'The Overcoat', considered one of the finest pieces of Russian literature ever published, for those of you who read the show notes. It's not related to the show at all, it's just a great read I wanted to pass on to you as a thanks for listening.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/23/india-china-border-skirmishes/ - Foreign Policy on Ladakh
https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/china-s-tactical-play-in-ladakh-isn-t-just-about-the-boundary-analysis/story-aJy8XQDURYzT6nN70GsxzK.html
https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/100-tents-machinery-for-bunkers-china-bolsters-its-presence-in-ladakh-india-maintains-aggressive-posturing/596150
https://www.education.ie/en/Circulars-and-Forms/Active-Circulars/cl0037_2020.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS--6mzw3eo - the best cover of Eleanor Rigby ever recorded.
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2016-05/cp160048en.pdf - Menthol cigarettes are just too good for sale.
https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/born-leader-martin-has-proved-he-can-perform-in-adversity-39194050.html - Niall Collins on why the FF leadership should stop beating him.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1188817.shtml - Winning hearts and minds through superior firepower.
Michael talks to Dr Ida Milne, a historian of disease with a particular interest in the Spanish flu and the author of Stacking the Coffins Influenza in Ireland 1918-19.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020-05-13%20ODNI%20to%20CEG%20RHJ%20(Unmasking).pdf
Irish Heart Foundation research on vaping - https://irishheart.ie/publications/e-cigarette-flavour-options/
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-krise-bundesregierung-zweifelt-an-us-these-zur-entstehung-des-coronavirus-a-51add7cf-96b6-4d04-a2d0-71ce27cff69c - Der Spiegel piece on German Intelligence
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/21765449 - Interview with the CMO
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/who-denies-coronavirus-cover-up-phone-call-between-xi-jinping-and-dr-tedros - Washington Examiner piece on WHO's denials
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html
NYT response to the open letter from historians.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/09/nyti-m09.html - World Socialist Web Site response to the Pulitzer win.
The leaving Cert is now in a state of flux; and Bewley's isn't closing because of the rent or anything Johnny Ronan did to them; it's closing because it's a terrible cafe.
Sweden has avoided putting the entire country into lock-down as the countries around it shut down en masses. But is it the right option or is the Swedish policy grossly negligent?
Politicians and civil servants quietly pray that the Swedish death toll keeps climbing and never comes down; the head of the UN says that COVID-19 happened because there wasn't enough UN; and a child is traumatized by homework.
https://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/160/
Joe Biden hilariously falls asleep during a town-hall with Hillary Clinton; Joe Biden less hilariously accused of seriously sexually assaulting a former staffer; and Australia pushes back against China.
FG and FF have come up with new and innovative ways to bankrupt the country; FF are pushing for the state to just buy the media; the hottest new trend in economic thought is magical money; and the Phoenix gets into a spot of bother for its hiring practices.
00:00 - Masks and the Venice Carnival
15:40 -Keelings
33:50 - Sinn Fein and Venezuela Taco video
38:15 - The Greens in Power
Irish Times on facemasks - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/scientists-tds-call-for-change-in-policy-on-wearing-face-masks-in-public-1.4235435
Mark Paul on Keelings - https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/government-has-failed-keelings-and-its-workers-1.4236276
Der Spiegal on renewable energy in Germany - https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-on-the-road-to-a-renewable-future-a-1266586.html
16 Tons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk
By international comparison Ireland has the 9th highest death rate from COVID-19 in the world, but do the numbers stack up, is there a data collection issue, or should we just mindlessly put on the green jersey and forget how numbers work?
https://www.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/simon-harris-i-cant-see-people-in-packed-pubs-again-as-long-as-this-virus-is-with-us-39139011.html
Martin plays fast and loose with the FF membership as he looks to get through the FF/FG deal without a vote; the legal profession salivates as people push the idea we should just let teachers award Leaving Cert grades based on their opinion of the student; and Simon Coveney announces we'll be giving four times more money to the WHO for reasons.
FG and FF look ready to get into bed with each other, but why would FG want to go in with FF when it's currently going up dramatically in the polls and wields nearly dictatorial levels of power despite being unelected?
A good week for China (The Republic of); the Chinese organ harvesting business; The Irish Council for Civil Liberties continue to debase themselves; and in review the HSE may have helped to kill a lot of elderly people.
Public health officials continue to try and suck every last bit of joy out of life, this time by saying we should close all off-licenses; the WHO's view on mask wearing 'evolves; identity politics now seem old-fashioned and quaint; and maybe we should dissolve the UN.
Sam Bowman, former Director of the Adam Smith Institute, talks about the economic consequences of COVID-19; if a lockdown was the best option for countries to take; the price of saving 230,000 lives; and if the State should pay the wage bill of companies that agree to keep their employees employed through this crisis.
China increases its influence over the UNHRC; harvesting organs in China for fun and profit; new research from Yale argues for universal wearing of cloth masks; and it turns out the HSE telling nursing homes to remove their restrictions on visitors was a terrible idea as we now have 40 outbreaks of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
The Chinese are reported to be harvesting organs from political and religious prisoners in order to carry out transplants on COVID-19 victims; the HSE says health workers are literally too stupid to wear masks; and Fine Gael is probably not using a bot network on social media.
Skip to 06:44 if you don't like inane chatter.
Chinese companies bought up massive amount of medical supplies and shipped them back home, Chinese medical supplies to Europe don't work, a petition to remove the head of the WHO reaches over 500,000 signatures, Taiwan says it told the WHO about human transmission of COVID-19 3 weeks before the WHO announced it, and a spokesperson for the WHO has a ridiculous interview after he refuses to accept he can hear any question that has the word Taiwan in it.
How to live in this alcohol free beer version of a lockdown we find ourselves in, COVID-19 is basically just the flu if the flu was twice as easy to pass on and caused you to drown in your own fluids, the Chinese hold the moral responsibility for deaths from COVID-19, and a reminder that the head of the WHO was once accused of covering up 3 separate cholera outbreaks.
Celebrities have started to sing the worst song ever written in order to make you think they're actual humans, why we shouldn't be sad that John Lennon was shot, Singapore is doing something that is technologically interesting but civil-rights wise challenging, and trying to answer the real question - should we allow the police to beat teenagers at random.
Skip to 13:55 if you don't want to listen to a 14 minute explanation on why Imagine by John Lennon is the worst thing ever written.
The economy is in the process of imploding, the prison service is releasing hundreds of criminals onto the streets, people are legitimately saying that you can be racist to a virus, and Paddy Cosgrave, the man who organised an international tech conference without working WIFI, seems to have become some sort of Chinese courtier. We discuss the week's most pressing nonsense.
Leo's handling of the COVID-19 crisis has led to praise from people who are very far from friends of FG, but will voters reward FG for their handling of the crisis or, like Churchill, who Leo quoted in his recent National Address, will they say Leo and FG are no longer the men for our time?
A short history of Antifa, from their beginnings as Antifaschistische Aktion, a part of the German Communist party in the 1930's, to the modern day, looking at what exactly they mean when they say 'fascism'.
3:55 - Flatten the curve
11:55 - British Response
25:55 - Burkean
Orwell "What is Fascism?" - https://orwell.ru/library/articles/As_I_Please/english/efasc
Is there a seasonal element to COVID-19 infections and does the Irish publishing industry understand the concept of free speech?
New projections from the HSE say 1.9 million Irish people could be infected with COVID-19, with 50% of cases expected over a 3 week period, but what will that do to our hospitals and our mortality rate? Also Gary informs Michael of his expected mortality rate from COVID-19 due to his hypertension.