Podcast for 3 March 2014

[MrBogosity]

[mp3]http://podcast.bogosity.tv/mp3s/BogosityPodcast-2014-03-03.mp3[/mp3]


Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 - On the UK's Equating of Journalism With Terrorism https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/19/uks-equating-journalism-terrorism-designed-conceal-gchq/
• 4:10 - Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/12/james-clapper-says-transparency-helps-terrorists-like/
• 10:55 - Why Reddit moderators are "censoring" Glenn Greenwald's latest bombshell  http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partner/
• 15:10 - Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/
  
  
  
  • WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Has Cost The Met Police £5.3m During Ecuador Embassy Stay http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/25/julian-assange-policing-cost_n_4853130.html
• 20:46 - Whistleblower Edward Snowden elected as new rector of Glasgow University http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/whistleblower-edward-snowden-elected-new-3161134
• 22:17 - Government Monitors in Newsrooms? http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms
• 24:23 - New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena -- and they're fighting back http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/new-jersey-slaps-mit-bitcoin-hackers-with-subpoena-and-theyre-fighting-back/

28:10 - Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) http://www.businessinsider.com/senator-calls-for-bitcoin-ban-2014-2

34:51 - Idiot Extraordinaire: Jesse Jackson http://www.examiner.com/article/jesse-jackson-claims-semi-automatic-rifles-can-blow-up-railroads

40:17 - Twitch Plays Pokemon conquers Elite Four, beating game after 390 hours http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619740-93/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/

This Week's Quote: "At the end fiat money returns to its inner value—zero." —Voltaire

[evensgrey]

When governments start trying to keep people from using anything but government-created currency, it usually means the government expects something bad to happen to that currency soon, and is preparing to block people from abandoning it.

[MrBogosity]

When governments start trying to keep people from using anything but government-created currency, it usually means the government expects something bad to happen to that currency soon, and is preparing to block people from abandoning it.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. They just don't like competition. If you don't like the solution they try to jam down your throat, they get bitchy.

[Ibrahim90]

somehow, some way, the idiot guy from Egypt I mentioned in fail quotes is smarter than Jesse Jackson....that is very very disturbing, in light of his fame.