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Co-Host: Jim Goebel

News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/34539a748b3745ffb92451472f814ffa/apnewsbreak-irs-says-thieves-stole-tax-info-100000
• 13:17 – Surgery-bot can be hacked to HACK YOU TO PIECES http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/28/packet_of_death_how_to_crash_a_surgical_robot/
• 19:32 – How Movie Studios Exploit Video on Demand Services http://torrentfreak.com/how-movie-studios-exploit-video-on-demand-services-150524/
• 34:16 – Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t: #Gamergate’s Well-Paid Talking Heads https://archive.is/QERdD

50:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tegiminis http://simplikation.com/why-sealioning-is-bad/

1:02:57 – Silver Cluon Award: “This is how gerrymandering works” http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/2xgqss/this_is_how_gerrymandering_works/

• This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see – The Washington Post
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/
• America’s most gerrymandered congressional districts http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/americas-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts/
• 5 Ways U.S. Democracy Is More Rigged Than You Think http://www.cracked.com/article_20705_5-ways-u.s.-democracy-more-rigged-than-you-think.html
• Strike While the Ire is Hot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_eiUWKU3E

1:15:19 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Attorney: Spy chief had ‘forgotten’ about NSA program when he misled Congress http://thehill.com/policy/technology/241508-spy-head-had-absolutely-forgotten-about-nsa-program

This Week’s Quote: “Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we’ve been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.” —Edward Snowden

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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: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/supreme-court-bans-warrantless-cell-phone-searches/
• 4:41 – Supreme Court Rules 6–3 Against Aereo http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/25/supreme-court-rules-63-against-aereo
• 21:29 – Blocking sites like Pirate Bay a futile chase: iiNet http://www.businessspectator.com.au/news/2014/6/24/technology/blocking-sites-pirate-bay-futile-chase-iinet
• 27:37 – IRS Fired Email-Archiving Firm After Lerner Crash http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/22/irs-cancelled-contract-with-email-storage-firm-weeks-after-lerners-computer-crash/

31:47 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lindy Morrison http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-pirate-bay-must-be-fought-for-the-sake-of-exploited-musicians-20140623-zsiqo.html

• Just As Many Musicians Say File Sharing Helps Them As Those Who Say It Hurts https://www.techdirt.com/blog/casestudies/articles/20130116/09224321702/just-as-many-musicians-say-file-sharing-helps-them-as-those-who-say-it-hurts.shtml

36:49 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Obama Administration http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/24/pentagon-official-the-obama-kill-memo-is-out-and-libertarians-were-right-its-murder/

This Week’s Quote: “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” —Edmund Burke

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers http://m.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers
• 4:17 – Citing decades-old claims, feds seize tax refunds http://overlawyered.com/2014/04/federal-government-seizes-tax-refunds-citing-decades-old-claims/
• 11:40 – Ron Paul’s Group Fined by IRS for Not Handing Over Donor List http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/16/ron-pauls-group-fined-irs-not-handing-over-donor-list
  • 501(c)(4) organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29
• 13:45 – Organic Marketing Report: Why Consumers Pay more For Organic Foods? Fear Sells and Marketers Know it http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AR_Organic-Marketing-Report_Print.pdf

22:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Kirby http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html

• Genetics and the myth of vaccine encephalopathy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603512/

Idiot Extraordinaire: J. Pepper Bryars http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/libertarianism_isnt_an_alterna.html

This Week’s Quote: “What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse…People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.” —Eugene Gendlin

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Co-host: Tim Dyson http://www.youtube.com/lordthawkeye

News of the Bogus:

• 0:36 – Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
  • PRISM (surveillance program) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
• 7:25 – Chuck E. Cheese Busted For Gambling? New Florida Law Prohibits Gaming Machines For Prizes http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/27805/20130515/chuck-e-cheese-gambling-games-florida.htm

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• 11:35 – Analysis: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/15/us-usa-obama-liberties-analysis-idUSBRE94E06I20130515
• 16:35 – Cop Shot Litter of Kittens in Front of Screaming Children http://www.alternet.org/cop-shot-litter-kittens-front-screaming-children

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Biggest Bogon Emitter: Surprise, AZ Police Department http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_west_valley/surprise/surprise-man-charged-with-dui–documents-show-a-drug-recognition-experts-said-no-impairment-present

Idiot Extraordinaire: City of Hartford, CT (nominated by Daniel Wilcox) http://news.yahoo.com/barber-paid-hugs-kicked-conn-park-170423520.html

• Anthony Cymerys, Barber Evicted From Park After Giving Haircuts To Homeless For Hugs, Allowed Back http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/anthony-cymerys-free-haircuts_n_3441536.html

This Week’s Quote: “A scandal is when you find out how a State agency or bureau really works. Firings and reform are the minimalist tools to salve your anger. Then, it’s time to get back to scandalous behavior, this time more shrewdly disguised from you.” —Jim Babka