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Co-Host: Blake Pettys

News of the Bogus:

• 2:23 – Koch network condemns Trump ban on refugees and immigrants https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/29/koch-network-condemns-trump-ban-on-refugees-and-immigrants/
• 6:25 – Uber was right to disable surge pricing at JFK http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/01/uber-was-right-to-disable-surge-pricing.html
• 14:58 – Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister. https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

21:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Cockrell Hill Police Department https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170131/07340236595/police-say-no-evidence-value-was-lost-ransomware-attack-except-maybe-some-stuff-defense-lawyers-might-find-useful.shtml

27:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nicholas Berthaume https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/01/federal-reserve-staffer-caught-mining-bitcoins-at-work-fined-5000/

This Week’s Quote: “Killing innocent people in retaliation for the sins of other people isn’t justice—it is terrorism. The terrorists were wrong to kill Americans to satisfy their grievances against American foreign policy. And to react to them by killing innocent foreigners would also be terrorism.” —Harry Browne

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Kim Dotcom Finally Launches Extradition Defense https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-finally-launches-extradition-defense-151102/
• 8:37 – Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
  • ‘Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption’ – Baroness Shields http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/28/government_will_not_pass_laws_to_ban_encryption_says_baroness_shields/
  • X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/
• 22:23 – DOD’S Compressed Natural Gas Filling Station In Afghanistan: An Ill-Conceived $43 Million Project https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/special%20projects/SIGAR-16-2-SP.pdf

29:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Environmentalists http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canadian-researcher-targeted-by-hate-campaign-over-fukushima-findings/article27060613/

34:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Simon Maloy http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/charles_kochs_power_trip_billionaire_libertarian_sees_no_problem_in_buying_the_sort_of_government_he_prefers/

This Week’s Quote: “The energy potentially available to us is for all practical purposes unlimited; but access to it is blocked. It is blocked, above all, by anti-technology sentiment, environmental paranoia, and interference in natural markets. Beyond these obstacles, there is little that science and technology cannot eventually overcome. We further believe that pollution and destruction of the environment is not an essential by product of technology; on the contrary, more science and better technology are needed to keep the environment clean.” —Petr Beckmann

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – The U.S. Government And The Sinaloa Cartel http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1
• 2:16 – In 2009, Half the World’s Polio Cases Were in India: Today, There Are None http://world.time.com/2014/01/12/india-polio-free-for-three-years/
• 7:02 – Ex-Fullerton Officers Found Not Guilty In Beating Death Of Kelly Thomas http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/01/13/jury-reaches-verdict-in-trial-of-ex-fullerton-officers-charged-in-death-of-kelly-thomas/
  • Jurors’ verdict on O.C. officers may hinge on grainy video http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kelly-thomas-20140111,0,1008152.story

14:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Weather Channel http://www.thewrap.com/weather-channel-directv-carriage-sam-champion-tca

• Weather Channel Tries ‘Public Safety’ Blackmail to Hike Its Fee from DirecTV http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/01/12/weather-channel-tries-public-safety-blackmail-hike-its-fee-directv

17:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Rachel Maddow (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9JD2UByv9s

This Week’s Quote: “Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.” —Thomas Sowell