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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

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Co-Hosts: Tim Dyson and Charles Thomas http://www.youtube.com/user/Dukect

News of the Bogus:

• 1:18 – From the Start, Signs of Trouble at Health Portal http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/politics/from-the-start-signs-of-trouble-at-health-portal.html
  • Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You To Know How Costly Its Plans Are http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/
  • ‘So gloriously inept it circles back to amazing’: Obamacare website so bad the ‘error page has an error’ http://twitchy.com/2013/10/12/so-gloriously-inept-it-circles-back-to-amazing-obamacare-website-so-bad-the-error-page-has-an-error/
  • How to successfully register for health insurance on HealthCare.gov http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/10/tips-for-creating-heathcare-gov-acount/index.htm
  • Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website http://washingtonexaminer.com/canadian-officials-fired-it-firm-behind-troubled-obamacare-website/article/2537101
• 13:30 – The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/
• 16:00 – NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html
• 24:50 – In U.S., Perceived Need for Third Party Reaches New High http://www.gallup.com/poll/165392/perceived-need-third-party-reaches-new-high.aspx

30:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tom Watson http://www.salon.com/2013/10/21/dont_ally_with_libertarians_ideologues_co_opt_an_anti_nsa_rally/singleton/

• Stop Watching Us – A Coalition Against Mass Surveillance https://optin.stopwatching.us/

41:40 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rep. George Miller http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4468346

This Week’s Quote: “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept.” —Frank Herbert

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Great Libertarian Novels That Aren’t Atlas Shrugged http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=2197.0

News of the Bogus:

• 18:15 – The rise and fall of Silk Road http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/the-rise-and-fall-of-silk-road/31845
  • Why the FBI Can’t Get Its Hands on Silk Road Kingpin’s $80 Million Hoard http://business.time.com/2013/10/11/why-the-fbi-cant-get-its-hands-on-silk-road-kingpins-80-million-hoard/
  • Bitcoin bounces back after shutdown of Silk Road site http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Bitcoin+bounces+back+after+shutdown+Silk+Road+site/9000011/story.html
  • Arrested Silk Road Vendor Speaks Up But What Were The Police Really After? http://atlantisblog.org/arrested-silk-road-vendor-speaks-up-but-what-were-the-police-really-after/
• 23:46 – UNITED STATES v. ONE SOLID GOLD OBJECT IN FORM OF A ROOSTER http://www.leagle.com/decision/1962307208FSupp99_1287
• 27:58 – Syria rebels executed civilians, says Human Rights Watch http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24486627
• 30:25 – Two dads fight to be legal parents http://www.theprovince.com/dads+fight+legal+parents/8966671/story.html
• 35:55 – DOJ To Sue North Carolina Over Voter ID Law, Voting Restrictions http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/30/north-carolina-voter-id-doj-lawsuit_n_4013976.html

40:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Deputy Dan” http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/10/09/riverside-cop-tricks-autistic-teen-into

48:14 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Entz Elementary School officials http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/23596179/2013/10/02/officer-dropping-off-daughter-at-school-asked

This Week’s Quote: “Let all people come in, and vote fairly; it is to support one or the other party, to deny any man’s vote.” —John Holt

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Shutdown Theater: NPS Orders Closure Of Park That Receives No Federal Funding http://libertycrier.com/shutdown-theater-nps-orders-closure-park-receives-federal-funding/
  • White House Ordering Hundreds of Privately Run, Privately Funded Parks to Close http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/10/02/shutdown-white-house-ordering-privately-run-privately-funded-parks-to-close/
  • Rushmore blockage stirs anger in S.D. http://siouxfallsbusinessjournal.argusleader.com/article/20131004/UPDATES/310040047/S-D-officials-object-feds-barring-visitors-from-highway-viewing-areas-near-Mount-Rushmore
  • Troops Forage for Food While Golfers Play On in Shutdown http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/troops-forage-for-food-while-golfers-play-on-in-shutdown.html
• 11:10 – Obamacare On Hold http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanedk/10100703256/
  • Trader Joe’s To Drop Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare: Memo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/trader-joes-obamacare_n_3902341.html
  • UPDATED: Obamacare Poster Boy Chad Henderson and His Dad Didn’t Really Buy Insurance http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/04/obamacare-chad-henderson-father/
  • Most Obamacare enrollment applications flawed http://www.cnbc.com/id/101087965
• 28:35 – How Snowden’s Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/03/228878659/how-snowdens-email-provider-tried-to-foil-the-fbi-using-tiny-font
• 34:05 – All signs point to the obvious with the War on Drugs as supply is up and prices are down http://txcann.com/2013/10/02/all-signs-point-to-the-obvious-with-the-war-on-drugs-as-supply-is-up-and-prices-are-down/
  • The temporal relationship between drug supply indicators: an audit of international government surveillance systems http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/3/9/e003077.abstract?sid=779f6f3f-d4e6-4643-a14c-01de5a8a3ef3
  • P&T Doughnuts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u59-PoxbwE

40:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ed Schultz http://www.mediaite.com/tv/serious-racism-here-ed-schultz-insists-gops-shutdown-showdown-motivated-by-hate/

47:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Saleh bin Saad al-Luhaydan http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2013/09/28/Driving-affects-ovary-and-pelvis-Saudi-sheikh-warns-women.html

• Saudis fear there will be “no more virgins” and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068810/Saudis-fear-virgins-people-turn-gay-female-drive-ban-lifted.html

Catch-22: 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%252Fcatch-22-joseph-heller%252F1100216099

This Week’s Quote: “The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.” —Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

News of the Bogus:

• 3:54 – Climate change report: “extremely likely” sure humans are responsible http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/world/climate-change-report/index.html
• 11:27 – Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/close-the-nsas-back-doors.html
  • RSA Tells Its Developer Customers: Stop Using NSA-Linked Algorithm http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/rsa-advisory-nsa-algorithm/
• 15:50 – Has zero tolerance gone too far http://www.wavy.com/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far

21:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jason Linkins and Sean O’Neal http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24/altas-shrugged-kickstarter_n_3982081.html

27:34 – Silver Cluon Award: Don Lemon (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.businessinsider.com/cnn-host-don-lemon-ive-read-the-cdc-study-on-guns-and-it-made-me-rethink-my-views-2013-9/

33:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nancy Pelosi (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1309/22/sotu.01.html

• DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/

This Week’s Quote: “We need to understand that the more government spends, the more freedom is lost. Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.” —Ron Paul

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:27 – Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Navy Yard shooting shows need for video game registry, not gun control http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/17/fox-news-hasselbeck-navy-yard-shooting-shows-need-for-video-game-registry-not-gun-control/
  • Grand Theft Auto 5 hits $1 billion in three days, sets new record http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/20/4752380/grand-theft-auto-5-hits-1-billion-in-three-days-sets-new-record
• 6:50 – Charter schools need to be true to mission http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/12/3189376/charters-future.html
• 11:55 – ‘Breaking Bad’ creator: ‘Streaming video-on-demand saved the show’ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s166/breaking-bad/interviews/a510120/breaking-bad-creator-streaming-video-on-demand-saved-the-show.html
  • Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc
• 19:56 – CBS 2 Investigation: Underground — And Illegal — NYC Dinner Parties http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/11/cbs-2-investigation-underground-and-illegal-nyc-dinner-parties/
• 27:45 – Senate panel brings federal law one step closer to kneecapping bloggers http://www.examiner.com/article/senate-panel-brings-federal-law-one-step-closer-to-kneecapping-bloggers
  • Bill to protect journalists clears Senate panel http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-shield-law-20130913,0,4553946.story
• 33:31 – U.S. measles cases in 2013 may be most in 17 years – CNN.com http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/health/worst-measles-year/index.html

36:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Matt Walsh http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/09/13/christianity-has-done-more-for-science-than-atheism-ever-could/

• Frazz Comic Strip, July 28, 2013 on GoComics.com http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2013/07/28#.UjyDIBC2Ygs

45:37 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Brynne Larson and Tess and Savannah Scherkenback http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23986595

• Sexually Transmitted Demons a Menace Say Teen Exorcists http://guardianlv.com/2013/08/sexually-transmitted-demons-a-menace-say-teen-exorcists/

This Week’s Quote: “The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.” —J.K. Rowling

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche, Tim Dyson, and Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 1:43 – Obama tells nation he’s pursuing diplomacy with Syria http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/10/obama-syria-prime-time-speech-russia-france-congress/2791373/
• 4:48 – Google rejects music industry request to remove Pirate Bay homepage http://rt.com/news/google-pirate-bay-removal-704/
  • Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-uses-pirate-sites-to-determine-what-shows-to-buy-130914/
• 12:15 – State judge rules Indiana’s right-to-work law unconstitutional http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/state-judge-rules-indiana-s-right-to-work-law-unconstitutional/article_100077d0-6ee9-5d33-88bf-0bc261c9ae3e.html
  • Lake Superior Court Ruling on Right To Work http://www.scribd.com/doc/166888508/Lake-Superior-Court-Ruling-on-Right-To-Work
• 14:46 – Iowa grants gun permits to the blind http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/iowa-grants-gun-permits-to-the-blind/2780303/

25:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Rose http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html

• Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html

35:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nick Hanauer & Eric Liu (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/libertarians-are-the-new-communists.html

This Week’s Quote: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” —Ernest Hemingway