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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: 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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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-to-sentence-bradley-manning-today/2013/08/20/85bee184-09d0-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html
  • Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/PSATSFV.PDF
  • Lengthy prison term for Bradley Manning http://en.rsf.org/united-states-lengthy-prison-term-for-bradley-21-08-2013,45087.html
• 4:05 – Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow
  • Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa
• 8:20 – Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/19/us-usa-security-snowden-guardian-idUSBRE97I10E20130819
• 9:10 – Lavabit.com owner: ‘I could be arrested’ for resisting surveillance order http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order
• 12:20 – Laws That Target Homeless Imperil Programs That Feed Them Outdoors http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/30/156328035/philadelphia-bans-serving-food-to-the-homeless-in-public
• 14:35 – Raped and Impregnated at 14, Girl Must Now Share Parental Rights with Her Attacker http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/raped-and-impregnated-14-girl-must-now-share-parental-rights-her-attacker?paging=off

18:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Republican and Democratic State Lawmakers (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/nightline-fix-abc-news/why-texas-bans-sale-tesla-cars-140842349.html

22:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire:Lu Ann Ballew (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.wbir.com/news/article/283997/2/Judge-orders-babys-name-be-changed-from-Messiah

This Week’s Quote: “I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.” —Calvin Coolidge

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/man-whose-wmd-lies-led-to-100000-deaths-confesses-all-7606236.html
  • Truth About War http://truthaboutwar.org/
• 2:35 – Report slams denied ambulance call death http://www.thelocal.se/39930/20120327/
  • Heart attack victim dies after ambulance denied http://www.thelocal.se/39656/20120314/
  • Boy’s call about fatal fire dismissed as ‘prank’ http://www.thelocal.se/39494/20120305/
  • 17-year-old dies after ambulance no-show http://www.thelocal.se/39022/20120209/
  • Man dies after ambulance call went unanswered http://www.thelocal.se/38842/20120201/
• 7:15 – Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona http://gizmodo.com/5898585/itll-soon-be-illegal-to-troll-in-arizona

8:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: C0nc0rdance (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oygQVhu30s

• Butt-tax blowback http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/butt_tax_blowback_QC2Bti6DW6m4Fe9mmF4iVI
• The Political Interests Paradox http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/the-political-interests-paradox

23:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: NYC Department of Education http://io9.com/5896836/nyc-dept-of-education-wants-to-ban-the-word-dinosaur-from-standardized-tests

This Week’s Quote: “Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education.” —John Alexander Smith

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Co-Host: Lord T Hawkeye http://www.youtube.com/lordthawkeye

0:35 – Discussion: Occupy Wall Street

• Gov. Gary Johnson Among the Occupy Wall Street Protesters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmW4uBYyFns
• Peter Schiff Speaks for 1 Percent at Occupy Wall Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGL-Ex1CD1c

News of the Bogus:

• 11:20 – Ener1 Delisting Continues Energy Department Aid Woes http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-02/ener1-delisting-continues-energy-department-aid-woes.html
• 14:48 – It Wasn’t Government that Fixed Your Clock: How Two Private Citizens Developed Standard Time http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/it-wasnt-government-that-fixed-your-clock/
• 23:10 – Aleksa Lundberg, Swedish Transgender Actress, Mourns Forced Sterilization http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/transgender-forced-sterilization_n_1071328.html

27:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Diederik Stapel http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=massive-fraud-uncovered-in-work

29:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ken Mercer http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/105425/highlight-audio-clip-boiling-point-radio-august-20-2011/

This Week’s Quote: “Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don’t deserve to control my life?” —Ashleigh Brilliant

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