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2016 Wrap-Up:

0:40 – Year in review

Idiot of the Year nominations:

• 7:39 – Jakob Morris: #BlackLivesMatter http://heatst.com/culture-wars/black-lives-matter-slams-christmas-asks-why-black-people-go-all-out-for-christmas/
• 9:06 – Travis Retriever: Saintclare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co5QpPXyTBs
• 13:14 – Charles Thomas: Social Justice Warriors
  • Wonder Woman not ‘feminist’ enough for Social Justice Warriors http://nypost.com/2016/12/13/wonder-woman-not-feminist-enough-for-social-justice-warriors/
  • Steve Martin Attacked for ‘Sexist’ Tweet in Remembrance of Carrie Fisher http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/29/steve-martin-attacked-for-sexist-tweet-in-remembrance-of-carrie-fisher/
• 16:36 – Chris Hangartner, Tim Dyson, and Daniel Wilcox: The news media
  • Yes, Political Correctness Helped Elect Trump: What Skeptics Need to Know http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/19/yes-political-correctness-helped-elect-t
  • Celebrities Blaming Donald Trump For Violence In Syria http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/19/hollywood-is-now-blaming-donald-trump-for-destruction-in-syria-but-not-barack-obama/
  • The Tainted Election http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/opinion/the-tainted-election.html
    • Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/
  • How to Rig an Election http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/how-to-rig-an-election.html
• 23:20 – Venezuela
  • Chaos in Venezuela as Nicolas Maduro flip-flops on currency withdrawal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/chaos-in-venezuela-as-nicolas-maduro-flip-flops-on-currency-withdrawal
  • The Secret, Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining https://fronteranews.com/news/latam/the-secret-dangerous-world-of-venezuelan-bitcoin-mining/
  • Venezuela seizes 4 million toys to distribute to the poor http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/venezuela-seizes-4-million-toys-to-distribute-to-the-poor-1.2901289

This Week’s Quote: “Venezuela reaches the final stages of socialism: No toilet paper…Venezuela has demonstrated that ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ is pretty much like socialism in the 20th century.” —David Boaz

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:55 – Court: ‘Falsely’ Accused ‘Movie Pirate’ Deserves $17K Compensation https://torrentfreak.com/court-falsely-accused-movie-pirate-deserves-17k-compensation-161206/
• 7:39 – UN rules for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to be freed http://www.geopolmonitor.com/breaking-un-rules-julian-assange-freed/
• 10:53 – Phone encryption: Police ‘mug’ suspect to get data http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819

15:16 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Accomack County (Virginia) Public Schools http://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/virginia-schools-ban-to-kill-a-mockingbird-huckleberry-finn-for-racial-slurs/472065070

• Classic novels pulled from Accomack County Public Schools http://wavy.com/2016/11/30/classic-novels-pulled-from-accomack-county-public-schools/
• Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

23:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The US Copyright Office https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161201/18084736170/every-website-needs-to-re-register-with-copyright-office-who-cant-build-functioning-system.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Take the addition, the changes, the copyright’s turn, take the changes to copyright’s scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never.” —Lawrence Lessig

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News of the Bogus:

• Fruit smugglers ‘upgrade’ Russian border road http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-37166353
  • Fruit Smugglers Build a Road over the Russia-Belarus Border Overnight http://www.autoevolution.com/news/fruit-smugglers-build-a-road-over-the-russia-belarus-border-overnight-110606.html
• Adobe to Pay $1 Million for Data Breach, Bolster Security, AG Cooper Says http://www.ncdoj.gov/News-and-Alerts/News-Releases-and-Advisories/Press-Releases/Adobe-to-pay-$1-million-for-data-breach,-bolster-s.aspx
• Muhammad Was A Feminist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/muhammad-was-a-feminist_b_12638112.html

Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161118/17160636087/president-obama-claims-he-cannot-pardon-snowden-hes-wrong.shtml

Idiot Extraordinaire: Jason Easley http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/09/proof-jill-stein-gary-johnson-cost-hillary-clinton-election.html

Tag: Joe Show – جو شو│الحلقة 23│الضباط داخلين الجنة – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8szud-pfEVA

This Week’s Quote: “I’m embarrassed for my country that in my entire voting life, there has never been a major-party candidate whom I felt I could vote for.” —John Perry Barlow

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

“Housekeeping” PPV: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zige4_housekeeping_shortfilms

News of the Bogus:

• 2:00 – ‘Tolerant’ educators exile Trump voters from campus http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/14/trump-liberal-college-campuses-michigan-yale-glenn-reynolds-column/93765568/
• 11:30 – U.S. Copyright Office Undecided About Future of DMCA Takedowns https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-copyright-office-undecided-about-future-of-dmca-takedowns-161114/
• 17:05 – Security bods find Android phoning home. Home being China http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/android_phoning_home_to_china/

22:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161113/14342136032/hillary-clinton-looks-her-campaigns-many-missteps-decides-to-blame-james-comey-her-loss.shtml

30:10 – Silver Cluon Award: Matt Masur (nominated by Dallas Wildman) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-could-replace-president-trump-with-little_us_5829f25fe4b02b1f5257a6b7

35:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Janet Hull and Christina Sarich

• AminoSweet® – Get The Facts Straight From The Start http://www.janethull.com/healthynews/blog/2014/05/aminosweet-get-the-facts-straight-from-the-start/
• Aspartame’s Name Changed to Amino Sweet: A Toxin is Still a Toxin http://naturalsociety.com/toxin-name-still-deadly-fda-changes-aspartames-name-amino-sweet/
• Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/
• Five Facts Natural News Got Wrong About Aspartame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpmQRHq4qmQ

This Week’s Quote: “The more amiability and esprit de corps there is among the members of a policy-making ingroup, the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and dehumanizing actions directed against outgroups.” —Irving Janis

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:43 – Victories for Eight of Nine Marijuana Initiatives Hasten the Collapse of Prohibition http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/victories-for-eight-of-nine-marijuana-in
• 7:30 – Brexit court ruling appeal date set for 5 December http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37913911
  • Brexit: Scotland backs legal case against UK government http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/08/europe/brexit-scotland-legal-case/
• 13:13 – Family reports finding razor blade in Halloween candy http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/gastonia/family-reports-finding-razor-blade-in-halloween-candy/346501950
  • Parents warned to double check Halloween candy, nails, thumb tacks & razor blades found in candy http://www.wilx.com/content/news/Parents-warned-to-double-check-Halloween-candy-nails-thumb-tacks–razor-blades-found-in-candy-399628841.html
  • Hamilton County sheriff investigating after blade reported in Halloween candy http://www.wthr.com/article/hamilton-county-sheriff-investigating-after-blade-reported-in-halloween-candy
  • Police urging parents to check Halloween candy after reports of sewing needles, razor blades found in candy bars http://globalnews.ca/news/3038102/police-urging-parents-to-check-halloween-candy-after-sewing-needles-razor-blades-found-in-candy-bars/
  • Police suspect razor blade hidden in child’s Halloween candy http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2016/11/police_suspect_razor_blade_hid.html
  • Poisoned Halloween Candy http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp
  • The Trick http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0011/0011_01.asp

24:36 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Aaron Blake https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2016/11/07/how-faithless-electors-are-messing-with-our-electoral-maps-explained/

30:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Brodhead High School https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/11/01/a-school-wanted-to-teach-teens-about-safe-driving-so-students-were-told-their-classmates-died/

• NBC15 Madison https://www.facebook.com/NBC15Madison/posts/10154609788818187?comment_id=10154609837108187&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D
• Scary — and ineffective http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-01-31/news/bs-ed-scared-straight-20110131_1_straight-type-programs-straight-program-youths

This Week’s Quote: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Hosts: Jakob Morris and Daniel Wilcox

1:09 – Election Special:

• Election Betting Odds by Maxim Lott and John Stossel https://electionbettingodds.com/
• PredictIt | Election 2016 https://www.predictit.org/Home/Election2016
• BlameThe1st: http://blamethe1st.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-voted-for-gary-johnson.html
• Jonathan Loesche: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2016-sep-the-case-for-gary-johnson
• Doug Casey’s Top Five Reasons Not to Vote http://www.internationalman.com/articles/doug-caseys-top-five-reasons-not-to-vote
• Triangulation 271: Election Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_to6XbkdJI

34:53 – News of the Bogus:

• You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now https://www.wired.com/2016/10/hacking-car-pacemaker-toaster-just-became-legal/
  • Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/30/green_asks_protection_from_dmca_lawsuits/

39:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The MPAA and RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-and-riaas-anti-piracy-plans-harm-the-internet-161027/

• uBlock Origin – An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

44:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Egyptian President Abd el-Fattah al-Sisi (nominated by Ibrahim Zallum) http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/10/29/sisi-criticized-saying-fridge-nothing-water-ten-years/

• After Saudi Minister, Bahraini Official Mocks #Al-Sisi’s Fridge http://bhmirror.myftp.biz/en/news/34464.html
• #Al-Sisi_Fridge Rating No. 1 on Twitter Trend Chart https://www.middleeastobserver.org/archives/25759

This Week’s Quote: “We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.” —Kin Hubbard

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Co-Host: Ibrahim Zallum

News of the Bogus:

• 1:24 – Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud services blocked in Turkey following leaks https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/08/google-drive-dropbox-blocked-in-turkey/
• 5:40 – Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/16/doj-demands-mass-fingerprint-seizure-to-open-iphones/
• 14:36 – Pushing to the very edge of safe Li-ion charging http://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/technology/pushing-to-the-very-edge-of-safe-li-ion-charging

25:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: University of Cape Town “Fallists” (nominated by BlameThe1st) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

• Watch Leftist Students Say Science Is Racist and Should Be Abolished http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/14/watch-leftist-students-say-science-is-ra

37:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: IoT device manufacturers https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/

This Week’s Quote: “Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works…bitches.” —Richard Dawkins

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 1:23 – New rules of the road for self-driving cars have just been released http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/19/12981448/self-driving-car-guidelines-obama-foxx-dot-nhtsa
  • Federal Automated Vehicles Policy https://www.transportation.gov/AV
  • Anatomy of an Economic Ignoramus https://mises.org/library/anatomy-economic-ignoramus
• 8:23 – DOJ Tells Forensic Experts To Stop Overstating The ‘Scientific Certainty’ Of Presented Evidence https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160921/07335535584/doj-tells-forensic-experts-to-stop-overstating-scientific-certainty-presented-evidence.shtml
  • 5 Types Of ‘Scientific’ Evidence You Won’t Believe Are B.S. http://www.cracked.com/article_23566_5-crime-evidence-myths-everyone-believes-thanks-to-movies.html
  • xkcd: Significant https://xkcd.com/882/
• 17:49 – Obama Vetoes Bill to Let 9/11 Families Sue Saudi Arabia http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/obama-vetoes-bill-let-9-11-families-sue-saudi-arabia-n652911
  • S.2040 – 114th Congress (2015-2016): Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2040

22:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: HP Inc. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/what-hp-must-do-make-amends-its-self-destructing-printers

• 7 Reasons Computer Glitches Won’t Go Away (Ever) http://www.cracked.com/article_18808_7-reasons-computer-glitches-wont-go-away-ever.html

27:28 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Various Conservatives https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/08/congress-has-just-one-month-to-keep-the-internet-under-us-control

This Week’s Quote: “‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is the stupidest freaking saying in the world. All of the amazing things that have happened throughout human history is because someone decided to take something that they thought was working fine, break it, and build something better.” —Bryan Lunduke

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News of the Bogus:

• Suspected terrorist attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota stir political debate http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-york-bomb-20160918-snap-story.html
  • If You Don’t Vote Democrat This November, Then Fuck You http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christian-gabriel/if-you-dont-vote-democrat_b_10425968.html
• 12 officers injured, fires set, as protests break out in Charlotte after police fatally shoot man https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/21/protests-break-out-in-charlotte-after-police-fatally-shoot-man-they-say-wielded-firearm/
  • Texas Town Experiences 61% Drop in Crime After Firing Their Police Department http://thefreethoughtproject.com/texas-town-sees-61-drop-crime-firing-cops-hiring-private-firm/
• Biofuels and the Law of Unintended Consequences http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/biofuels-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences/
• The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report
  https://tcf.org/content/commentary/house-intelligence-committees-terrible-horrible-bad-snowden-report/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Richest (nominated by Chris Hangartner) http://www.therichest.com/video/evil-people-who-should-be-banned-from-the-internet/

Idiot Extraordinaire: Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/17/people-are-justifiably-infuriated-with-how-jimmy-fallon-handled/

This Week’s Quote: “Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.” —Stanley Milgram

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:38 – The ACLU Is About to Launch a Campaign Asking Obama to Pardon Edward Snowden https://motherboard.vice.com/read/edward-snowden-presidential-pardon-campaign
• 8:40 – Chimpanzees choose cooperation over competition: Study challenges distinctiveness of human cooperation https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822155920.htm
  • How chimpanzees cooperate in a competitive world http://www.pnas.org/content/113/36/10215.abstract
• 16:30 – More Details On How Corporate Sovereignty Provisions, Like Those In TPP & TTIP, Are Dangerous https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160909/22583035479/more-details-how-corporate-sovereignty-provisions-like-those-tpp-ttip-are-dangerous.shtml

26:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Weirton, WV Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Protective League

• Cop Who Didn’t Shoot Black Man Fired for ‘Failing to Eliminate Threat’ http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/13/cop-who-didnt-shoot-black-man-fired-for
• LAPD Honors Officers Who Didn’t Use Deadly Force, Much to the Police Union’s Dismay http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/12/lapd-awards-officers-who-didnt-deadly

36:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vermont Bern Victims https://morningconsult.com/2016/09/13/bernie-sanders-popular-ever/

This Week’s Quote: “There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.” —Edward Snowden