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657 bio-hacking (2014-10-02)

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0:00:00JCD: “I can’t jump in an F-16 and take off.” (0:49:44)
0:00:35Ebola in Texas, Alex “The Seed Man” Jones’ masks; Tom Frieden: “I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of ebola …”, “ultimately, we are all connected by the air we breathe”; answering tweets on CNN; Zoe Chace variations on /i.ˈbo̰ː.la̰/, ACC: “she’s clearly a gray”; colonial powers Africa “re-divvification”; Nancy Writebol mild case or malaria, ACC: “where is the footage, where are the bodies dead in the street?” vs Palestinians
0:24:33Holly Williams in Syria taking cover behind a chicken wire fence, “the only Kurdish armored vehicle we saw was a homemade one; it had been improvised from an old bulldozer”; McCain and Lieberman on Hannity, Lieberman advisor on Counter Extremism Project with Frances Townsend, possible Kagan connection, McCain on Obama’s “BioB”, “blame it on Bush”
0:44:27British Home Secretary on EDOs “extremism disruption orders” criminalizing membership, “tens of thousands of foreign fighters”, “devise new methods to kill indiscriminately”, EDO campaign promise; ISIS social media recruitment: “come to jihad, bro”, jihadi mac & cheese
0:58:02Pentagon spokeshole Kirby on misplaced mass media optimism: “no one should be lulled into a false sense of security by accurate air strikes”; 60 Minutes Obama interview: “this is not America against ISIL; this is America leading the international community to assist a country with whom we have a security partnership with”, “the overwhelming majority of Muslims believe in climate change are peaceful”, boots on the ground “Whack-a-mole”, ISIL “folks”, Clapper “meets the bus”, “many of them are poor, many of them are illiterate”
1:14:11Obama: “we are the indispensable nation”, “that’s how we go, (stammer), that’s how we roll”, ACC: “that’s how we rooooll, finally, yeah!” (CotD); United 93 “let’s roll”
1:23:20Producer Segment: No Agenda Karma app update; NA C-SPAN call-in
1:43:37Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Harrison Bergeron summary
1:47:30National {Domestic Violence Awareness, Disability Employment Awareness, Breast Cancer Awareness, Substance Abuse Prevention, Arts & Humanities, Cybersecurity Awareness} Month
1:49:57Year-old clip on “degrading the capabilities of the Assad regime”; Kerry’s chemical weapons proposal “rhetorical”; rundown of coalition contributions, British Brimstone missiles, “Redskins” vs Native American military hardware nomenclature
1:54:42Coalition of the willing contribution breakdown: $90k from Estonia to support displaced families, mines from Hungary, Belgium: “we are positively inclined to contribute”
2:05:17Homeland Security bleeding human resources, Chertoff Group “shadow DHS”
2:07:45Julia Pierson grilled by Issa & Chaffetz over fence-jumper, Stephen Lynch: “I wish to God you protected the White House like you protected your reputation here today”; Hillary’s Secret Service purge; Lynch invokes ISIL; compliments from Eleanor Holmes Norton; Chaffetz set-up on elevator gun incident; ACC: DHS as Microsoft, rise of the contractors
2:34:47Producer on Pennsylvania manhunt shutdowns; Valerie Jarrett The Good Wife cameo
2:40:24Scorpion: “there’s computer hacking and more recently bio-hacking”
2:43:06Donation Segment: No Agenda QSO party; Ars Technica discovers Executive Order 12333
2:56:04FAA pushing NextGen system in wake of Chicago air traffic control tower fire; NPR’s Nick Carr on automation and “miswanting”; tongue clicking
3:02:27Hong Kong police chief two-to-the-head; Kerry and Chinese Foreign Minister on “umbrella revolution”; Neil deGrasse Tyson: “if you don’t believe in climate change you’re an idiot”; JCD flying to Los Angeles