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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