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#GamerGate Special

Guests: Dave Turcotte, Jonathan Loesche, and Matthew Page http://superplexbros.com/

• 10 things you need to know about #GamerGate http://whatculture.com/gaming/10-things-need-know-gamergate-scandal.php
• The Gamer is Dead, Long Live The Gamer http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/09/01/the-gamer-is-dead-long-live-the-gamer/
• Borderlands 2 Writer confirms further corruption in Gaming Journalism http://superplexbros.com/borderlands-2-writer-confirms-further-corruption-in-gaming-journalism/
• Gamergate – Know Your Meme http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamergate
• Fraud in the Indie World: Fez investors outed as judges for title’s award http://gamesnosh.com/fez-investors-outed-judges-2011-igf-award/
• “I want a straight white male gaming convention”: Inside the culture war raging in the video gaming world http://www.salon.com/2014/09/08/i_want_a_straight_white_male_gaming_convention_how_a_culture_war_exploded_in_the_video_gaming_world/
• Lara Croft Evolution: http://tombraiders.net/stella/images/timeline/lara_croft_evolution_new.jpg
• Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming http://www.dailydot.com/geek/adult-women-largest-gaming-demographic/

This Week’s Quote: “Journalganda…it looks like news! But it isn’t. It’s propaganda…There’s nothing like journalganda to make you feel absolutely certain you are correct, no matter what your position…Real journalism can always be identified by the way it makes normal people sometimes feel very uncomfortable about the world.” —Charles M. Madigan

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:16 – U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422% http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/28/u-s-hikes-fee-to-renounce-citizenship-by-422/
• 7:07 – Dominica Will Be First Nation with Universal Bitcoin Possession http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/08/28/dominica-will-be-first-nation-with-universal-bitcoin-possession/
  • Dominica Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption http://www.heritage.org/index/country/dominica
• 14:13 – Illinois Libertarians Lodge Criminal Complaints Over Armed Intimidation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/illinois-libertarians-lod_b_5737462.html
  • Rauner Camp Brings A Gun To A Petition Fight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/rauner-camp-brings-a-gun-_b_5709799.html

22:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Truth-out.org http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25877-you-dont-know-what-libertarian-means

• How to Fix Health Care Without Spending a Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhJ73JuWJY
• How To Argue For Universal Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuq8Zgwrwk
• How Social Security Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsbbIJD3ew
• Social Security Follow-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaG-A6ezMQ

52:22 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Helmetta, NJ http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/08/30/nj-town-introduces-ordinance-ban-recording-public-officials-embarrassing-video-cop-goes-viral/

This Week’s Quote: “The camera is the new gun. There’s nothing that government dislikes more than the light of day, and cameras recording what the government is doing…we have the right to know everything that they do and why they do it and when they do it, and how they’ve taken our freedom.” —Andrew Napolitano

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – Police: Finding Pirate Bay Documents is Too Expensive http://torrentfreak.com/police-finding-pirate-bay-documents-expensive-140824/
• 8:47 – What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
  • Ferguson Turns Lens On Police-Involved Killings, But Some Facts Are Few http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-on-police-involved-killings-but-some-facts-are-few
• 23:27 – Overtaxed and over there http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587815-loopy-tax-rules-spur-expats-renounce-their-american-citizenship-overtaxed-and-over-there

31:34 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The WHO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11056964/Ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-indoors-says-World-Health-Organisation.html

40:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13774/20140823/white-house-cybersecurity-leader-proudly-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-cybersecurity.htm

This Week’s Quote: “It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Cops Aren’t Stopping the Looting in Ferguson, So the Protesters Are http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protestors-stop-looters-ferguson-police/
• 7:20 – Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html
  • A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• 14:33 – Georgia county won’t pay medical bills for toddler burned by grenade in botched drug raid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-for-toddler-burned-by-grenade-in-botched-drug-raid/

19:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change

• Bottled Water Companies Could Be Contributing to California’s Drought http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2014/08/14/bottled-water-companies-could-be-contributing-to-californias-drought

Idiot Extraordinaire: Summerville (SC) High School & Summerville Police http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment

This Week’s Quote: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” —Ben Franklin

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Ferguson police fire teargas and rubber bullets at Michael Brown protesters http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown
  • In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
  • ‘Overkill’: Images from Ferguson protest show cops treating city like a war zone http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/overkill-images-from-ferguson-protest-show-cops-treating-city-like-a-war-zone/
• 10:51 – New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html
• 13:47 – South Carolina Mom Calls Cops On 15-Year-Old Son After Finding Porn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html
• 17:23 – Burger Robot Poised To Disrupt Fast Food Industry http://singularityhub.com/2014/08/10/burger-robot-poised-to-disrupt-fast-food-industry/
• 22:08 – For Obama, Iraq Move Is a Policy Reversal http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-obama-iraq-move-is-a-policy-reversal-1407470613
  • Obama Vows ‘Long-Term’ War in Iraq http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/09/obama-vows-long-term-war-in-iraq/
• 27:15 – Tempe City Council Bans E-Cigarettes In Public Places http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/tempe-city-council-bans-e-cigarettes-in-public-places/

33:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Michael Yaki http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5810

38:11 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Mulgrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU6fLz7Fgg

• The Next Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.org/implementation

This Week’s Quote: “Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” —Bertrand Russell

Sorry, folks, technical difficulties + me being sick = no podcast this week. But on the plus side, here’s another video in my How To Argue For Statism series:

How To Argue For Universal Health Care

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 1:45 – Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/abstract
• 7:33 – World Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug Policy Reforms https://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2014/07/world-health-organization-calls-drug-decriminalization-and-broad-drug-policy-reforms
• 11:43 – TLC Wrongly Accused Hundreds of Being Illegal Cabbies in Past Year http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140721/long-island-city/tlc-wrongly-accused-hundreds-of-being-illegal-cabbies-past-year

20:32 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Verizon http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa/

• Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/why-is-netflix-buffering-dispelling-the-congestion-myth
• Level 3’s Selective Amnesia on Peering http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/level-3s-selective-amnesia-on-peering
• Verizon made an enemy tonight http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html

37:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Steve Shives (nominated by Jason Fennec) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOtMo1Z9NM0

• When Rhode Island accidentally legalized prostitution, rape decreased sharply http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/17/when-rhode-island-accidentally-legalized-prostitution-rape-and-stis-decreased-sharply/

This Week’s Quote: “Feminism has betrayed its roots and deteriorated into spurious artificial engineering. Rather than campaigning to help women, feminists today are more likely to be picking fights on Twitter, or dressing up petty grievances as proof of rampant ‘sexism’…If I ever was a feminist, I can’t be now…so ashamed and depressed am I by a once-laudable movement…I think any sensible woman will join me in feeling saddened by how irrelevant and niche modern feminism has become.” —Angela Epstein

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Co-host: Dave Turcotte

Dave’s appeal: Join Our Boys

• http://joinourboys.org/
• https://www.facebook.com/Joinourboys/

NHS Special:

2:44 – NHS to charge non-EU patients 150% of cost of treatment http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/14/nhs-charge-non-eu-patients-150-per-cent-cost-treatment

• IMTJ Medical Travel Awards 2014 http://awards.imtj.com/results
• Medical Tourism Statistics & Facts http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com/medical-tourism-statistics-facts
• Medical Tourism: A Cost or Benefit to the NHS? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0070406

12:33 – NHS crisis as struggling A&E departments fail to meet waiting time targets for A YEAR http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-crisis-struggling-ae-departments-3882288

18:29 – Forty per cent of adults advised to take statins under new NHS guidance http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10973432/Forty-per-cent-of-adults-advised-to-take-statins-under-new-NHS-guidance.html

• Statins: Are these cholesterol-lowering drugs right for you? http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/statins/art-20045772

25:41 – ‘The NHS dishes out boob jobs and gastric bands but won’t pay for my life-saving heart op’: Stroke victim, 28, must now raise £10,000 for private treatment http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2695696/The-NHS-dishes-boob-jobs-gastric-bands-wont-pay-life-saving-heart-op-Stroke-victim-28-raise-10-000-private-treatment.html

31:52 – Patients denied vital operations by NHS bodies, surgeons report http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/15/patients-denied-operations-nhs-surgeons-report

41:22 – NHS shamed into U-turn as cerebral palsy kids WILL get life-changing operations like Ben Baddeley http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-shamed-u-turn-cerebral-palsy-3876212

• About Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) http://www.stlouischildrens.org/our-services/center-cerebral-palsy-spasticity/about-selective-dorsal-rhizotomy-sdr

This Week’s Quote: “The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber…Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful “sovereign,” on account of the “protection” he affords you…The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves “the government,” are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman.” —Lysander Spooner

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News of the Bogus:

• 1:46 – ‘Six Californias’ plan may make 2016 ballot http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/15/six-californias-tim-draper/12661161/
• 7:06 – The curious grammar of police shootings http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings/
  Right to a Gun vs. Right to Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ggkimWfFk
• 15:38 – Anarchist Protestors Blocked Uber Cars in the Streets of Seattle http://valleywag.gawker.com/anarchist-protestors-blocked-uber-cars-in-the-streets-o-1568739346

22:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Damon Linker http://theweek.com/article/index/264546/how-liberalism-became-an-intolerant-dogma

30:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Dawson http://mikedawwwson.tumblr.com/post/91854168921/santrevl-hound-actual-armedplatypus

• https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084575885570048
• https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084892979142656

This Week’s Quote: “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose this movement.” —Abraham Lincoln

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Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html
  • Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-surveillance/
• 9:29 – In ‘sexting’ case Manassas City police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner, lawyers say http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/07/09/in-sexting-case-manassas-city-police-want-to-photograph-teen-in-sexually-explicit-manner-lawyers-say/
• 17:39 – Man who shot at cops acquitted http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Man-who-shot-at-cops-acquitted-5608077.php

22:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland http://www.avclub.com/article/insane-clown-posses-fbi-lawsuit-thrown-out-juggalo-206657

29:32 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FDA http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/08/health/smallpox-virus-found/index.html

This Week’s Quote: “The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.” —1977 U.S. Privacy Study Commission