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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

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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