Gript Media Podcasts

40 - A Sunday review


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Join Michael Dwyer and Gary Kavanagh as they discuss various issues of interest that have come up over the week. Topics include: the release of President Higgins expenses and how they show his contempt for the Irish people; the idea of a constitutional right to resources; the Syrian war and Turkey's approach to the Kurdish issue, and how close it has become to Genocide; negative versus positive rights and the debate on conscientious objection; a constituional right to housing; and the German plan to allow a third gender on offical documents.
0:55 - Presidential expenses and Higgins's contempt for the Irish people and his promises to them
16:30 - The sycophantic response of certain parts of the Irish media to these expenses
18:15 - Hot Water off the coast
22:50 - Public ownership of resources
34:45 - The Syrian War
41:30 - Turkish approach to Kurds - How close to Genocide are they?
47:10 - Homelessness and the right to a house
49:30 - Positive versus negative rights and the debate on conscientious objection
1:01:30 - What does a right to housing mean?
1:07:30 - People Before Profit and the Great Mortgage Giveaway
1:09:10 - Does it mean anything to say that people support something when polled?
1:11:00 - German third gender / transgenderism
1:13:30 - The LGBTQIA acronym contains 27% of all letters in the English alphabet
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