Pat and Rod Save the World

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Pat and Rod discuss (1) the situation with Greece and Germany; (2) the Rolling Stone journalism debacle; and (3) "The Jink" documentary.

Suicide pilots, Middle East conflagration and alleged pedophile rings. We never promised it'd be happy talk.

Pat is joined by Dave Carter (@daspex) to discuss: (1) the Israeli elections; and (2) the movement towards real time broadcasting on the web.

Pat and Rod discuss: (1) foreign fighters in the Middle East - on both sides; (2) the Congressional letter to Iran; and (3) a tribute to Terry Pratchet.

Pat and Rod discuss the ideas of Yuval Noah Harari as presented on www.edge.org (http://edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional). Harari argues that technology will render a great many people superfluous to the predominant economic model, and that they might have less power to change that than we think.

Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the killing of a prominent Russian opposition leader; (2) developments on net neutrality; and (3) developments in Australia's meta data regime.

Pat and Rod discuss (1) the situation in the Ukraine; (2) the Chapel Hill shootings in the United States; and (3) Dominic Strauss-Kahn's proclivity for sex parties.

Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the ISIS execution of the Jordanian pilot; and (2) the measles outbreak in the United States, and what that says about society at large.

Pat and Rod conduct an uninformed discussion of the role of religion in human history.

Pat and Rod discuss (1) The film "American Sniper" as propaganda; and (2) the death of the Saudi king.

Pat and Rod discuss (1) the massacre in Nigeria perpetrated by Boko Haram; and (2) the implications of human rights for artificial intelligence (assuming it can be created).

We've fixed the problem with our podcast for the week ending 11 January, so you can now listen to it. Thanks to the people who let us know.

Pat, Rod and Alice (from "Tea With Alice" - http://alicecomedyfraser.com) discuss the terror attacks in France.

Pat and Rod discuss (1) the hostage situation in Sydney; (2) the hacking of Sony by North Korea on account of "The Interview"; and (3) Stephen Colbert's final show.

Pat and Rod discuss the report released on the, ahem, activities of the CIA. They stray into the topic of drones too.

Pat and Rod discuss (1) economic news out of the United States and China; (2) the waning Hong Kong protests; and (3) censorship: public and private.

Pat and Rod discuss (1) a new Kickstarter project to fund a probe to land on the moon; (2) no indictment for the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; (3) and foreign fighters fighting against ISIS. Show notes: Lunar Mission One Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunarmissionone/lunar-mission-one-a-new-lunar-mission-for-everyone/description More details on how they plan to fund Lunar Mission One: http://www.lunarmissionone.com/index.php/lunar-mission-one/project-funding The Mars One Mission: www.mars-one.com/ Predominantly factual news report on the killing of Michael Brown: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/25/why-darren-wilson-said-he-killed-michael-brown/?hpid=z2 Statistics on grand jury indictments: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/24/the-rarity-of-a-federal-grand-jury-not-indicting-visualized/ The comments by Mayor Giuliani on Ferguson: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-24/giuliani-i-saved-more-black-lives-than-any-previous-mayor Western fighters join the struggle against ISIS: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/11/24/how-western-foreign-fighters-are-being-recruited-online-to-join-kurds-against-islamic-state/

Pat and Rod discuss the events of the week including (1) the exposure of the tabloid journalist known as the "fake sheikh"; (2) the immigration executive orders announced by Obama; and (3) the allegations swirling around the previously beloved Bill Cosby.

Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the probe landing on the comet; (2) just the tip (Iraq); and (3) how the media misses stuff (and other related matters).

Pat and Rod discuss the wide, wide world of drugs.

Pat and Rod discuss: (1) the success of intransigence in United States politics and what the significance of that is; (2) recent privacy scandals in Australia, and what "disclosure in the public interest" actually means; and (3) Elon Musk's comments on artificial intelligence.

Pat and Rod discuss Putin's adventurism in Northern Europe, mercenaries and adventure tourism.

Shortly after Roman civilisation fell, the inhabitants of the area looked up at the aqueducts and wondered what the hell they were. Pat and Rod contemplated this and got talking about a way to backup civilisation so that surviving humans have knowledge to work with "after the fall". Show notes as follows: Younger Dryas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas Global Catastrophic Risks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risks The Wikipedia Data Set http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#The_data_set Foundation of Jericho http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho Most Spoken Languages http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=most+spoken+languages Students designing A-bombs http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science

Pat and Rod talk about Ebola, ISIS and Islam more generally. To check out the "Real Time" clip we refer to for the last segment, go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60

- Hong Kong protests; - the ebola virus; - a little bit on the US Secret Service; and - the problems with representative democracy.

Pat and Rod discuss surveillance in the Australian context with the latest moves by the government front of mind.

First podcast on the news for the week ending 20 September 2014