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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Dutch Court Rules That IP Blocks Are Ineffective Against Piracy http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/01/28/dutch-court-rules-ip-blocks-ineffective-piracy-unblocks-pirate-bay/
• 5:13 – US oversight panel: Gov’t should stop collecting phone records; program illegal, ineffective http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/23/us-oversight-panel-govt-should-stop-collecting-phone-records-program-illegal/
• 10:00 – Fired red light camera exec says bribery widespread at Redflex http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-01-23/news/ct-redflex-red-light-bribery-20140123_1_redflex-holdings-ltd-company-policy-camera-company
  • Jacksonville’s red-light cameras http://jacksonville.com/slideshow/2014-01-29/jacksonvilles-red-light-cameras
• 14:19 – Man in jail for marijuana is allowed to leave once a month to smoke marijuana http://txcann.com/2014/01/26/man-in-jail-for-marijuana-is-allowed-to-leave-once-a-month-to-smoke-marijuana/
• 16:04 – Amanda Knox Verdict: Italian Court Finds American Student Guilty Of Murder http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/amanda-knox-verdict_n_4689258.html

21:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Daily Show http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/the-daily-show-minimum-wage_n_4688134.html

• Workers with Disabilities http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/sec14.asp
• TV tricks of the trade — Quotes and cutaways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07NMglQX6gE
• Richard Dawkins stumped by creationists’ question (RAW FTGE)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKryi3605g

29:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: China http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-01-23/news/46514138_1_internet-qihoo-sina-com

This Week’s Quote: “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.” —Judy Blum

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Security mishandled pipe bomb, dumped its contents http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/24/security-mishandled-pipe-bomb-dumped-its-contents
• 2:53 – NSA reforms are little more than window dressing http://offnow.org/2014/01/17/nsa-reforms-window-dressing/
  • Rating Obama’s NSA Reform Plan: EFF Scorecard Explained https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/rating-obamas-nsa-reform-plan-eff-scorecard-explained
• 9:20 – Marijuana Legalization Scares Us, Panicked DEA Official Tells Senators http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/17/marijuana-legalization-scares-us-panicke
• 13:06 – Top 10 Most Dangerous Jobs in the Country: Police Officer is NOT on the List http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-top-10-dangerous-jobs-country-tanks/

18:14 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Air Force http://gizmodo.com/5978125/air-force-uses-martin-luther-king-junior-to-promote-nuclear-warfare

• Archive of the Air Force’s post http://web.archive.org/web/20130216164341/http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123333051

20:59 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Economic Policy Institute http://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-statement/

• Minimum Wages and Employment http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~dneumark/min_wage_review.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” —Murray Rothbard

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – The U.S. Government And The Sinaloa Cartel http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1
• 2:16 – In 2009, Half the World’s Polio Cases Were in India: Today, There Are None http://world.time.com/2014/01/12/india-polio-free-for-three-years/
• 7:02 – Ex-Fullerton Officers Found Not Guilty In Beating Death Of Kelly Thomas http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/01/13/jury-reaches-verdict-in-trial-of-ex-fullerton-officers-charged-in-death-of-kelly-thomas/
  • Jurors’ verdict on O.C. officers may hinge on grainy video http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kelly-thomas-20140111,0,1008152.story

14:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Weather Channel http://www.thewrap.com/weather-channel-directv-carriage-sam-champion-tca

• Weather Channel Tries ‘Public Safety’ Blackmail to Hike Its Fee from DirecTV http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/01/12/weather-channel-tries-public-safety-blackmail-hike-its-fee-directv

17:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rachel Maddow (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JD2UByv9s

This Week’s Quote: “Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” —Thomas Sowell

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220
  • RSA Response To Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media-2/rsa-response/
  • At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/07/at-least-six-security-experts-boycott-prominent-security-conference-over-nsa-ties/
• 6:28 – E-Cigarettes Packed With Marijuana Oil Set To Boom In Colorado http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pot-boom-e-cigs-sales-set-soar-colo-article-1.1567304
• 13:40 – The UK “Porn” Filter Blocks Kids’ Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html
  • BBC News – Porn filters block sex education websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582
  • Porn filter blocks website of MP who campaigned for it http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/porn-filter-blocks-website-of-mp-who-campaigned-for-it-50013120/
• 21:10 – Little Support For Snowden Amnesty http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/01/02/little-support-snowden-amnesty/

29:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sherri Tenpenny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraJJp6A7Eo

34:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Young Turks (nominated by Nicholas Henson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxCMsdYwcg

This Week’s Quote: “The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern; every class is unfit to govern.” —Lord Acton

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2013 Wrap-up:

0:32 – GOP fighting cellphone freedom http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/12/17/cellphone-airplane-fcc-plane-phonecalls-column/4080271/

2:30 – Nominated by T dog: Paul Krugman http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/

5:58 – St. Louis Church Ordered To Stop Handing Out Hot Meals To The Homeless http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/12/05/3026611/louis-homeless/

7:24 – Slate: How Libertarians Failed Gay Rights http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2013/12/30/libertarians_and_gay_rights_the_party_failed_to_take_a_stand.html

• Libertarian Party 2012 Platform http://www.lp.org/platform

11:39 – Nominated by Charles Thomas: Ethan Couch Sentenced To Probation In Crash That Killed 4 After Defense Argued He Had ‘Affluenza’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html

15:08 – Why There Is No Such Thing as a Good Atheist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pastor-rick-henderson/why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-good-atheist_b_4442287.html

• Secular morality http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Secular_morality

23:08 – Nominated by Tim Dyson: Barack Obama

24:28 – Silver Cluon Award: Pastor Tyler Smither http://intheparlor.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/what-you-believe-about-homosexuality-doesnt-matter/

29:18 – Nominated by BlameThe1st: PIV is always rape, ok? http://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/

34:46 – Nominated by R.E.H.W.R.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0DsifS9D58

37:25 – Nominated by Jonathan Loesche and Dave Turcotte: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/07/how-video-games-can-help-us-overthrow-capitalism/

51:49 – Winner: [SPOILERS!]

This Week’s Quote: “Once you learn that you must earn the love and respect of others, you’ll never expect the impossible and you won’t be disappointed.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 4:06 – Why You Might Want to Rethink Going Gluten-Free http://gizmodo.com/why-you-might-want-to-rethink-going-gluten-free-1475646469
• 7:07 – Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-google-bus-in-s-f-mission/
  • UPDATE: Union organizer shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown
• 17:39 – Michigan ‘Rape Insurance’ Bill Passes Into Law http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/michigan-rape-insurance_n_4428432.html
• 20:37 – ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html

26:40 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jim Edwards http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-libertarian-paradise-would-be-hell-on-earth-2013-12

• List of businesses that accept Bitcoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

41:53 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Judge Jean Boyd http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html

This Week’s Quote: “Responsibility is the price of freedom.” —Elbert Hubbard

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:44 – Sylvia Browne: Dead Psychic’s Legacy Riddled With Failed Predictions, Fraud http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/sylvia-browne_n_4317470.html
• 7:52 – Bitcoin campaign donations have regulators scratching heads http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bitcoin-20131130,0,6288919.story
• 12:56 – Beyond GDP: Get Ready For A New Way To Measure The Economy http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/29/beyond-gdp-get-ready-for-a-new-way-to-measure-the-economy/
  • The Problem with GDP – YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFv_tJs6Jq8
  • The Economics of a Pure Gold Standard by Mark Skousen http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Feconomics-of-a-pure-gold-standard-mark-skousen%252F1102718420
• 18:13 – Man says police officer threatened to kill his dogs http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/
• 26:25 – Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268
  • Rat study sparks GM furore http://www.nature.com/news/rat-study-sparks-gm-furore-1.11471
  • Elsevier Announces Article Retraction from Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-article-retraction-from-journal-food-and-chemical-toxicology
• 33:21 – Federal Regulation Could Redefine The Word ‘Organ,’ Jeopardize Bone Marrow Donations http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2013/11/25/federal-regulation-could-re-define-the-word-organ-jeopardize-bone-marrow-donations/
  • DownsizeDC’s Write the Laws Act https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/

41:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Pope Francis http://world.time.com/2013/11/26/pope-francis-denounces-idolatry-of-money-and-tyranny-of-capitalism/
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html#No_to_the_new_idolatry_of_money

47:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Audreanna Phelps http://gawker.com/5812477/woman-sees-god-in-her-leg-veins

This Week’s Quote: “And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.” —Jean-Baptiste Say

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Jakob Morris (AnCapBrony) https://twitter.com/AnCapBrony

Follow-up: Password Security

• Facebook Warns Users After Adobe Breach http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/11/facebook-warns-users-after-adobe-breach/
• Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

News of the Bogus:

• 12:55 – Cops Called for Underboob Cosplay Controversy http://kotaku.com/cops-called-for-underboob-cosplay-controversy-1464257715
• 15:01 – DOJ Refuses To Let Tech Companies See Legal Arguments It’s Making Against Them http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131112/22472025222/doj-refuses-to-let-tech-companies-see-legal-arguments-its-making-against-them.shtml
• 17:49 – Raising the minimum wage is all the rage, but the winners aren’t who you think http://rare.us/story/raising-the-minimum-wage-is-all-the-rage-but-the-winners-arent-who-you-think/

24:43 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/05/obama-denies-you-can-keep-it-videotaped-promises/?sc=1850820228461930801

• House approves bill to allow people to keep insurance http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/15/house-cancelled-plans-bill/3576071/

29:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Faith Salie http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57563689/

This Week’s Quote: “Politics is an extension of war by other means…Once you know which side you’re on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side…People who would be level-headed about evenhandedly weighing all sides of an issue in their professional life as scientists, can suddenly turn into slogan-chanting zombies when there’s a Blue or Green position on an issue.” —Eliezer Yudkowsky

Note: The Bogosity Podcast will be taking two weeks off for the Thanksgiving holidays. (All right, all right, and the Doctor Who 50th anniversary as well!) See you in December!

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Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Daniel Wilcox http://www.youtube.com/Tnu1138

News of the Bogus:

• 0:37 – Greenpeace Golden Rice stance baffling http://www.producer.com/2013/10/greenpeace-golden-rice-stance-baffling/
  • Feeding Edge | The Big Picture Video Gallery | The Escapist http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/the-big-picture/2541-Feeding-Edge
• 6:10 – US court rules proxies, IP switching illegal http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/08/21/proxies-illegal/1
• 12:04 – 4 On Your Side investigates traffic stop nightmare http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml
• 17:24 – NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html
  • Brandon Downey – Google+ – This is the big story in tech today: https://plus.google.com/108799184931623330498/posts/SfYy8xbDWGG
  • Mike Hearn – Google+ – The packet capture shown in these new NSA slides shows… https://plus.google.com/+MikeHearn/posts/LW1DXJ2BK8k

25:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Canada http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-commissioning-study-on-prospect-of-3d-printed-guns-1.1506739

• British police seize gun parts manufactured from plastic on a 3D printer http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/the-canadian-press/131025/british-police-seize-gun-parts-manufactured-plastic-3d-print
• World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun http://blog.solidconcepts.com/industry-highlights/worlds-first-3d-printed-metal-gun/

30:58 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Adobe http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/11/04/anatomy-of-a-password-disaster-adobes-giant-sized-cryptographic-blunder/

• The top 50 woeful passwords exposed by the Adobe security breach http://grahamcluley.com/2013/11/top-50-passwords-adobe-security-breach/
• xkcd: Password Strength http://xkcd.com/936/
• xkcd: Encryptic http://xkcd.com/1286/
• Take Action Now: Check If You’re Affected by the Adobe Breach http://blog.lastpass.com/2013/11/take-action-now-check-if-youre-affected.html

This Week’s Quote: “Everytime our leaders say, ‘We must make sure this will never happen again,’ they do something to assure that it will happen again.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/travel/faa-portable-electronic-devices/
• 5:13 – FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-fbi-seize-money-770/
• 15:26 – Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance
  • “The Incredible Bread Machine” by R.W. Grant http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/flint/4thr/TomSmithsIncredibleBreadMachinePoem.txt
• 22:18 – As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government
• 30:05 – Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/federal-prosecutors-in-a-policy-shift-cite-warrantless-wiretaps-as-evidence.html

35:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Buchheit (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.nationofchange.org/public-beats-private-six-reasons-why-1382448019

59:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Diane Feinstein http://thestateweekly.com/sen-feinsteins-proposed-bill-would-incriminate-anyone-speaking-against-nsas-spying-and-courts/

• Feinstein Claims NSA Spying Program Could Have Prevented 9/11 Attacks http://thestateweekly.com/feinstein-claims-nsa-spying-program-could-have-prevented-911-attacks/
• Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is ‘not surveillance’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/dianne-feinstein-defends-nsa-data-collection

This Week’s Quote: “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” —Thomas Jefferson