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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – NASA’s Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown
  • Mars Landing Videos, and Other Casualties of the Robot Wars https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/mars-landing-videos-and-other-casualties-robot-wars
• 4:45 – Britain refuses to give Assange safe passage, despite Ecuador’s asylum offer http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/15/britain-threatens-to-storm-embassy-to-arrest-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-says/
  • UK police descend on Assange’s embassy refuge http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/uk-police-descend-on-assanges-embassy-refuge-20120816-249pe.html
  • Julian Assange extradition: Ecuador ‘willing to co-operate’ with Britain http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/17/julian-assange-extradition-ecuador-embassy
• 8:00 – Latin America Leaders Unite to Decriminalize Drugs for Personal Use http://www.escapefromamerica.com/2012/07/latin-america-leaders-unite-to-decriminalize-drugs-for-personal-use/
• 10:25 – How Obama’s healthcare reform boosted abstinence-only sex education http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/15/obama-healthcare-reform-boosted-abstinence-only-sex-education
  • The Read the Bills Act https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/rtba/
• 12:20 – General Motors Is Headed For Bankruptcy–Again http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiswoodhill/2012/08/15/general-motors-is-headed-for-bankruptcy-again/

15:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Prosecuting Attorney Michael Valentine http://freekeene.com/2012/08/15/what-happens-when-a-prosecutor-declares-legal-war-on-the-press-telerecording-police/

• Jury Deems Ademo GUILTY of Wiretapping for Seeking Accountability http://www.copblock.org/19254/jury-deems-ademo-guilty/

19:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: AlfonZo Rachel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvYDC32IrdU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzdVZV1nEVo

• Constitution Lecture 9: Separation of Church and State http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWBG8byqqUI

This Week’s Quote: “I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.” —Benjamin Disraeli