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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – On the UK’s Equating of Journalism With Terrorism https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/19/uks-equating-journalism-terrorism-designed-conceal-gchq/
• 4:10 – Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/12/james-clapper-says-transparency-helps-terrorists-like/
• 10:55 – Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest bombshell  http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partner/
• 15:10 – Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/
  • WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Has Cost The Met Police £5.3m During Ecuador Embassy Stay http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/25/julian-assange-policing-cost_n_4853130.html
• 20:46 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden elected as new rector of Glasgow University http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/whistleblower-edward-snowden-elected-new-3161134
• 22:17 – Government Monitors in Newsrooms? http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms
• 24:23 – New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena — and they’re fighting back http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/new-jersey-slaps-mit-bitcoin-hackers-with-subpoena-and-theyre-fighting-back/

28:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) http://www.businessinsider.com/senator-calls-for-bitcoin-ban-2014-2

34:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Jesse Jackson http://www.examiner.com/article/jesse-jackson-claims-semi-automatic-rifles-can-blow-up-railroads

40:17 – Twitch Plays Pokemon conquers Elite Four, beating game after 390 hours http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619740-93/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/

This Week’s Quote: “At the end fiat money returns to its inner value—zero.” —Voltaire

Sorry, no podcast this week due to an illness.

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

Ed and Ethan 97: http://edandethan.com/podcast/ed-ethan-97-the-michael-w-dean-variety-hour-volume-ii/

News of the Bogus:

• 0:39 – Texas grand jury refuses to indict homeowner who shot deputy during marijuana raid http://txcann.com/2014/02/06/texas-grand-jury-refuses-to-indict-homeowner-who-shot-deputy-during-marijuana-raid/
• 2:55 – Canadians Won’t Be Able To Afford Medical Marijuana Anymore http://www.leafscience.com/2014/02/07/canadians-wont-able-afford-medical-marijuana-anymore/
• 4:57 – Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA Surveillance http://reason.com/24-7/2014/02/12/rand-paul-files-suit-against-obama-over
• 8:58 – Why you’re wrong about communism: 7 huge misconceptions about it (and capitalism) http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/why_youre_wrong_about_communism_7_huge_misconceptions_about_it_and_capitalism/
  • Christianity Debate – YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSLkQnCurgs

31:37 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Isocracy Network http://isocracy.org/node/107

36:26 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Iraqi Suicide Bomb Instructor http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/middleeast/suicide-bomb-instructor-accidentally-kills-iraqi-pupils.html

This Week’s Quote: “Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.” —Robert Heinlein

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:03 – Gibson Commemorates Fed Raid with Government Series II Les Paul http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/01/gibson-commemorate-fed-raid-with-governm
• 3:44 – School ditches rules and loses bullies http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/school-ditches-rules-and-loses-bullies-5807957
• 9:37 – Elementary school takes lunches away from students owing account balances http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/elementary-school-takes-away-students–lunches-due-outstanding-balances-on-accounts-174726995.html
• 11:22 – Kentucky Senate passes bill to let computer programming satisfy foreign-language requirement http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20140128/NEWS0101/301280100/Kentucky-Senate-passes-bill-let-computer-programming-satisfy-foreign-language-requirement

16:11 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: California http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/29/california-regulator-seeks-to-shut-down-learn-to-code-bootcamps/

19:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Suze Orman https://www.change.org/petitions/mandate-the-credit-bureaus-to-include-debit-card-holders-information-on-credit-reports

This Week’s Quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” —John F. Kennedy

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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