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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-pirates-caribbean-nsa-recording-every-cell-phone-call-bahamas/
  • ‘Country X’: WikiLeaks reveals NSA recording ‘nearly all’ phone calls in Afghanistan http://rt.com/news/160988-wikileaks-nsa-phone-afghanistan/
• 7:18 – Secrets, lies and Snowden’s email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email
• 12:37 – White House vows CIA will not stage fake vaccine programs https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-vows-cia-not-stage-fake-vaccine-220506787.html

15:21 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anton Purisima http://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/05/2-undecillion-dollar-demand.html

• $2 Undecillion Lawsuit https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

17:58 – Silver Cluon Award: Tyler Vigen http://www.tylervigen.com/

21:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Being Liberal https://www.facebook.com/592589870775439/photos/a.592592887441804.1073741828.592589870775439/795910880443336/?type=1

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This Week’s Quote: “The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge.” —Carl Sagan

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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