The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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In this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory and Tony are rejoined by Director of the global movement for a right to housing, The Shift and former UN Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha. They discuss where the financialisation of housing is at globally, how the real estate funds are still devouring up our homes. We take on the idea that we need Build to Rent REITs to provide housing, and layout how we can ensure housing should be delivered as affordable and as a human right, and why we should put it in the Irish Constitution.

Leilani outlines how governments have gotten into the business of producing homelessness. A great listen.

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Barra Roantree on the Reality of Inequality Podcast:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-89153383

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The have's and the have not's. Wealth inequality is the rat that has chewed up the social contract, but is a wealth tax going to address it and if not then how do we pull on the levers available in our current system to do so and perhaps most importantly, what are the implications for social cohesion if we don't?

Joining us again in the tortoise shack to talk about these big questions is listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy. We talk why what looks good in theory doesn't work in reality and we go through some of his 30 (yes 30!) solutions to fixing the imbalance. Another belter from Richard.

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Hannah Mccarthy on Israel - Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-89511729

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Lough Neagh is one of the largest lakes in Europe and provides 43% of the drinking water for Northern Ireland. Yet it is in such a terrible state ecologically that wildlife are dying from drinking from it. So what gives?

We spoke to journalist Tommy Greene, who covered this slowly unfolding disaster before it became BIG news. He tells us about the strange ownership structure of the lough, the reasons it's inhospitable to life and the need for joined up thinking to fix it. There are, as we discover, two types of chicken shit; one that infects the water and one that infects our politics.

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RTE is Bankrupt podcast:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-89356544

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Grab a beverage of your choice and settle in for a long but very, very good one with Irish-Russian Denver Colorado-based Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev, who returns for a chat about Housing and the Banks. But because it's Constantin and us it goes a lot broader than that. We talk about the climate change playing out in front of our eyes, NAMA 2.0, Bidenomics and the Presidential 2nd place nominee competition, his local Trumpometer and the media revisionist history commentary following Putin's killing of Yevgeni Prigozhin. A belter.

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Joining us in the tortoise shack is Sinn Féin TD and his party's spokesperson for Mental Health, Mark Ward. We discuss his accidental route into politics, his treatment for MS, what he believes can be done right now to improve access to mental health services and what he thinks Sinn Féin would do if they were in government.

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Global Housing Crisis pod with Leilani Farha is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-89158593

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Longtime listeners will be familiar with Deputy Vice Leader of Portugal's Socialist Party, Joao Pina and his devout socialism in what is their 8th year in Government. We talk about their recent exit from the Energy Charter Treaty (Ireland needs to follow suit), their struggle to get on top of the housing crisis, how they're tackling Air BnB, continuing to increase the minimum wage, the Spanish election results and the Orcas wrecking yachts off the Portuguese-Spanish coastline.

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John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy at Queen's University Belfast School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics. In this episode of Shrapnel the lads talk to John about his research on loyalism, encouraging self-discovery and organic intellectualism, agonism, Britishness in a new Ireland and generous majorities.

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Wealth Tax Pod:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-88796012

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It is clear that RTÉ is in business terms insolvent and as Martin said on the Sunday Show, it can't continue on in its current guise. So what next?

Our guest on the tortoise shack is Solicitor, data expert and historian of RTÉ hobbyist, Simon McGarr, has an idea! He outlines a way to decouple the National Broadcaster from commercial interests, deliver public service and broadcasting and remake the institution an independent entity. And it's not a patreon model.

Read more here:https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-road-from-perdition/

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Richard Murphy on Wealth Taxes is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-88796012

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It's a few weeks since we talked South and Latin America, but with a Presidential election candidate assassination in Ecuador, an aspiring Bitcoin Bro dictator making moves in El Salvador and a far right mad man on the rise in Argentina, we had to get our friend in the region, journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, to bring us up to speed.

So much to cover, both good and bad. But mostly bad.

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Sinn Féin's Mark Ward on CAMHS:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-88539656

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As promised here is the 3rd and final part from our Tortoise Shack Live at the Sugar Club show from Thursday July 20th, and it's a bit special. Dept of Health civil servant (currently suspended) whistleblower, Shane Corr, joined Roman and Eoghan from the Ditch onstage to talk about the treatment meted out to those who rock the boat and what it's like to be ostracised for doing what is right. A must listen conversation.

Stay tuned 'till the end for a lively Q&A featuring Sam Mcilwaine and Emma DeSouza.

The Electoral Commission breakdown with Kevin Cunningham and Harry McEvansoneya is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-88495722

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