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News of the Bogus:

• 0:45 – Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in ‘most severe ever’ rationing in the NHS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/obese-patients-and-smokers-banned-from-all-routine-operations-by/
• 4:58 – Markets Are Breaking Down India’s Caste System, Turning Untouchables into Millionaires http://thinkaboutnow.com/2016/09/1008/
• 12:44 – Why I’ve Paused My Blogging at Forbes http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2016/08/why-ive-paused-my-blogging-at-forbes.htm

16:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Nebraska and Kansas police deputies https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160828/23232235375/court-to-cops-residing-state-where-marijuana-is-legal-does-not-automatically-make-motorist-suspicious.shtml

25:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Warner Bros https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/

This Week’s Quote: “The police aren’t hired to protect you. They’re hired to keep an eye on you to see what you did that was wrong so that they can book you. That’s their function. They are not protectors. They are not hired to be protectors. They are hired to keep an eye on all of us as potential criminals. Now, do you think they’re going to make you safe? They weren’t hired to make you safe.” —Robert LeFevre

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Don’t Blame Capitalism for Your Pricey EpiPen https://fee.org/articles/don-t-blame-capitalism-for-your-pricey-epipen/
  • Adamis Pharmaceuticals Receives Complete Response Letter From FDA For Its Epinephrine Pre-Filled Syringe NDA http://ir.adamispharmaceuticals.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=99350&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2175190
  • Lobbying Spending Database – Mylan Inc, 2016 | OpenSecrets https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000027765
• 11:30 – The reasons why Colin Kaepernick should stand during the national anthem, ranked. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/29/the_reasons_why_colin_kaepernick_shouldn_t_stand_during_the_national_anthem.html
• 25:17 – Libertarianism Has Been Refuted http://tomwoods.com/blog/libertarianism-has-been-refuted/

31:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The ATF http://www.ammoland.com/2016/08/atf-reclassifies-wetted-nitrocellulose-as-explosive-materials-under-federal-laws/

39:05 – Silver Cluon Award: Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160828/22071335374/head-anti-counterfeiting-lobbying-group-says-hes-going-to-make-counterfeit-techdirt-t-shirts.shtml

42:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Union https://fee.org/articles/european-ruling-against-apple-and-ireland-vindicates-brexit/

This Week’s Quote: “The European Union is very popular with politicians, because it’s very good to politicians. It was created for their benefit. It’s not so good to voters, because it denies them a voice—another reason it’s popular with politicians.” —Pat Condell

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Jakob Morris, and Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• John Oliver’s Anti-Charter School Rant Is Clever, Glib, and Uninformed https://reason.com/blog/2016/08/22/john-olivers-anti-charter-school-rant-is
• Five Reasons Measles is Better Than Autism http://www.modernalternativehealth.com/2016/08/19/five-reasons-measles-is-better-than-autism/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: MY123, Slipstream, and Pretty Much Everybody http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/uefi-secure-boot-hack.html

• Security Now 573: Memory & Micro Kernels https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-573.htm

Idiot Extraordinaire: The Democratic National Committee https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160815/09190935246/democratic-national-committee-creates-cybersecurity-board-without-single-cybersecurity-expert.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door.” —Kevin Mitnick

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:53 – Hack Brief: Hackers Breach the Ultra-Secure Messaging App Telegram in Iran https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hack-brief-hackers-breach-ultra-secure-messaging-app-telegram-iran/
  • Telegram Hack – Possible Nation State Attack By Iran http://www.darknet.org.uk/2016/08/telegram-hack-possible-nation-state-attack-by-iran/
• 6:17 – The FDA is prohibited from going germline http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/545.full
  • DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
• 10:25 – Kickass Torrents Asks Justice Department To Drop Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/17581635187/kickass-torrents-asks-justice-department-to-drop-case.shtml

16:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Clinton Body Count” Conspiracy Theorists http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

31:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/18065135188/no-new-study-does-not-say-uber-has-no-effect-drunk-driving.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• Japan knife attack: At least 19 dead http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/world/japan-knife-attack-deaths/
• Obama signs bill requiring labeling of GMO foods https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/obama-signs-bill-requiring-labeling-of-gmo-foods/2016/07/29/1f071d66-55d2-11e6-b652-315ae5d4d4dd_story.html
• The KickassTorrents Case Could Be Huge https://www.wired.com/2016/07/kickasstorrents-piracy-case/
  • Kim Dotcom’s lawyer will also represent alleged KickassTorrents founder http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/kim-dotcoms-lawyer-will-also-represent-alleged-kickasstorrents-founder/
  • Top Torrent Sites Respect Copyright Takedowns, Just Like Google https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites-respect-copyright-takedowns-just-like-google-120604/
  • The Pirate Bay vs KickassTorrents: TPB Ignores DMCA Takedown as KAT Deletes 2400 Torrents in Minutes http://en.yibada.com/articles/128214/20160601/the-pirate-bay-vs-kickasstorrents-tpb-ignores-dmca-takedown-as-kat-deletes-2400-torrents-in-minutes.htm
  • Content Removal Regulations https://web.archive.org/web/20160710224701/https://kat.cr/dmca/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: Salon.com (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.salon.com/2016/07/31/the_moral_case_for_hillary_clinton_even_if_you_might_dislike_her_this_isnt_the_year_to_back_a_third_party_candidate/

Idiot Extraordinaire: Jill Stein http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2016/08/jill-stein-thinks-wi-fi-could-be-dangerous-for-our-brains/

This Week’s Quote: “Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.” —E.O. Wilson

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Co-Host: Ibrahim Zallum

(Apologies for the audio quality. There were issues with Ibrahim’s microphone that hopefully will be sorted out before his next appearance.)

News of the Bogus:

• 1:28 – 2016 Nice attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack
  • Death Toll From Terrorist Attack in Nice, France, Rises to 84 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/attack-nice-bastille-day.html
• 7:32 – Turkey’s Weekend of the Long Knives http://observer.com/2016/07/turkeys-weekend-of-the-long-knives/
  • Military coup was well planned and very nearly succeeded, say Turkish officials https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/military-coup-was-well-planned-and-very-nearly-succeeded-say-turkish-officials
  • Why Turkey’s latest attempted coup was different. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/07/why_turkey_s_latest_attempted_coup_was_different.html
  • Turkish President Returns to Istanbul in Sign Military Coup Is Faltering http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/military-attempts-coup-in-turkey-prime-minister-says.html
  • Was Turkey’s coup attempt just an elaborate hoax by Erdogan? http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/turkey-military-coup-attempt-more-questions-than-answers.html
• 22:17 – Microsoft Wins! Govt Can’t Force Tech Companies to Hand Over Data Stored Overseas http://thehackernews.com/2016/07/user-data-spying.html

27:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Environmentalists http://www.smh.com.au/business/innovation/green-cars-in-spotlight-as-lithium-demand-causes-flamingo-flocks-to-shrink-20160710-gq2eef.html

33:33 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/politics/cleveland-police-baton-rouge-security-open-carry/

This Week’s Quote: “The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 2:04 – The U.S. commitment to the Persian Gulf is outdated http://www.reuters.com/article/us-persian-gulf-commentary-idUSKCN0ZN2DB
• 10:00 – NSA Labels Tor and Tails Users as Extremists http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nsa-labels-linux-tails-users-extremists/
• 14:38 – South Dakota cops collect urine samples through forced catheterization; is it constitutional? http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/south_dakota_cops_collect_urine_samples_through_forced_catheterization_is_i/

17:59 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama  http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/12/no-president-obama-its-not-easier-to-buy-a-glock-than-a-book/

27:39 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vladimir Putin https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-security-agents-two-weeks-to-produce-encryption-keys-for-the-internet

• VPN provider cuts off service to Russia after servers seized http://www.pcworld.com/article/3094370/vpn-provider-cuts-of-service-to-russia-after-servers-seized.html

This Week’s Quote: “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” —Sun Tzu

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – New Zealand town with ‘too many jobs’ offering packages of land and homes for $165k http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Zealand-town-with-too-many-jobs-is-offering-8337340.php
• 4:28 – Georgia publisher jailed after filing open records request https://www.ajc.com/news/local/north-georgia-newspaper-publisher-jailed-over-open-records-request/CFPXD1Mcgk0lqXOvOf9rHK/
• 12:33 – Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT https://fee.org/articles/homeschoolers-creaming-other-students-on-the-sat/
• 17:26 – Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police http://wreg.com/2016/06/30/disabled-st-jude-patient-sues-airport-and-tsa-after-bloody-scuffle-with-airport-police/

21:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.ocala.com/news/20160630/nations-first-known-self-driving-car-fatality-happened-in-williston

27:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: James Comey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html

• 18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793#f
• Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05/washington-has-been-obsessed-with-punishing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

This Week’s Quote: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” —Desmond Tutu

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real https://heatst.com/uk/exclusive-brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-a-4-chan-prank-bbc-report-it-as-real/
• 7:19 – Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn’t Prove Anything https://torrentfreak.com/judge-dismisses-movie-piracy-case-ip-address-doesnt-prove-anything-160627/
• 11:46 – Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer
  • Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer

19:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160628/05570734838/hillary-clintons-tech-policy-plan-includes-some-empty-broadband-promises-continued-war-encryption.shtml

• Top Donors data for Hillary Clinton, 2016 Cycle https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000019&cycle=2016&type=f&src=c

26:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Comodo Group, Inc. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

This Week’s Quote: “Before September 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras…would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.” —Jeffrey Rosen

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – David Cameron announces resignation as UK votes to leave EU http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/europe/uk-eu-referendum-results/
  • What will happen now that Britain has voted to leave the E.U. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/23/what-actually-happens-if-britain-votes-to-leave-the-e-u/
  • Will Boris Johnson become U.K. prime minister in 2016? https://www.predictit.org/Contract/2467/Will-Boris-Johnson-become-UK-prime-minister-in-2016
• 11:43 – ‘We Will Be Back’: Democrats Vow to Continue Gun Control Protests as House Adjourns http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-house-vows-continue-gun-control-protests-house/story?id=40045649
  • Justin Amash on Twitter: “Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor. They…” https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/745679387450871808
• 17:53 – Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html
  • FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ET AL. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-981_4g15.pdf
• 25:38 – Non-US encryption is ‘theoretical,’ claims CIA chief in backdoor debate http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/17/non_us_encryption_is_theoretical_claims_cia/

30:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Glenn Stone http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/stone/stone_glover_2016_golden_rice.pdf

• Activists played ‘no role’ in delaying Golden Rice’? Evidence challenges anti-GMO claim https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/06/15/activists-played-no-role-delaying-golden-rice-evidence-challenges-glenn-stones-claim/

37:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Gersh Kuntzman http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/15/gersh-kuntzman-ny-daily-news-writer-firing-ar-15-g/

This Week’s Quote: “Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.” —Robert LeFevre