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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:57 – MPAA Wants to Kill Domain Name Privacy, For Some https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-wants-to-kill-domain-name-privacy-for-some-150709/
  • CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-forced-to-censor-anti-censorship-site-150710/
• 9:45 – Bogus “Copyright Trademark” Complaint Fails to Censor the BBC https://torrentfreak.com/bogus-copyright-trademark-complaint-fails-to-censor-the-bbc-150712/
• 15:51 – Hacking Team Shows the World How Not to Stockpile Exploits http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hacking-team-shows-world-not-stockpile-exploits/
  • Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/08/hacking-team-emails-exposed-death-squad-uk-spying/
  • Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU’s Chris Soghoian https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/09/hacking-team-employee-jokes-assassinating-aclu-technologist-christopher-soghoian/
  • Hacking Team used shockingly bad passwords http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-wonder-hacking-team-got-hacked/

26:26 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Energy Information Administration http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/study-wind-farms-even-more-expensive-and-pointless-than-you-thought/

34:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/27/revealed-tsas-closely-held-behavior-checklist-spot-terrorists/

This Week’s Quote: “We can’t keep weapons out of prisons; we can’t possibly expect to keep them out of airports.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-life-prison/
  • Errata Security: Ulbricht’s judge punished him for political dissent; you should find this outrageous http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/some-notes-about-ulbricht-verdict.html
  • Why Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence Is A Miscarriage Of Justice http://theantimedia.org/ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence/
• 15:00 – Obama Administration Files Totally Clueless Argument Concerning Software Copyrights In Supreme Court Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml
• 25:21 – I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here’s How. http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800
  • xkcd: Significant https://xkcd.com/882/
  • Chocolate consumption and risk of diabetes mellitus in the Physicians’ Health Study http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/101/2/362.abstract
  • Dietary Intake of Saturated Fat Is Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Events or Mortality in Patients with Established Coronary Artery Disease http://jn.nutrition.org/content/145/2/299.abstract

38:21 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Los Angeles Labor unions http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/05/27/los_angeles_15_minimum_wage_labor_unions_want_to_be_exempt_from_it.html

45:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/understanding-tsa-math.html

• How The TSA Let Through So Many Explosives – CONAN on TBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH5JZyrcU0g

This Week’s Quote: “At $8 billion per year, the TSA is the most expensive theatrical production in history.” —David Burge

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte https://www.patreon.com/user?u=384100

News of the Bogus:

• 1:40 – How Indiana’s RFRA differs from federal version http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/31/indianas-rfra-similar-federal-rfra/70729888/
  • Indiana General Assembly, 2015 Session https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/568#document-f6915f8f
  • Connecticut to Boycott Indiana Over RFRA, Forgets It Has Its Own http://spectator.org/blog/62230/connecticut-boycott-indiana-over-rfra-forgets-it-has-its-own
  • Religious Freedom Restoration Act (passed by Democratic congress and signed by Bill Clinton) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Freedom_Restoration_Act
  • 775 ILCS 35/  Religious Freedom Restoration Act. (voted for by Barack Obama) http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2272&ChapterID=64
  • Backlash is swift and furious after Indiana pizza restaurant owner brags about ‘no gays’ policy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/backlash-is-swift-and-furious-after-indiana-pizza-restaurant-owner-brags-about-no-gays-policy/
  • WATCH: This Indiana Pizzeria Won’t Cater Gay Weddings http://www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2015/04/01/watch-indiana-pizzeria-wont-cater-gay-weddings
• 19:26 – Federal agents charged over alleged Silk Road Bitcoin theft https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/31/federal-agents-charged-over-alleged-silk-road-bitcoin-theft/
• 24:08 – “Innocent until proven guilty” is officially dead http://rare.us/story/innocent-until-proven-guilty-is-officially-dead/

31:09 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Nick Bilton http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/style/could-wearable-computers-be-as-harmful-as-cigarettes.html

48:32 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Social Justice Warriors http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shulevitz-hiding-from-scary-ideas.html

• Stephen Bendelow on Twitter: “@RichardDawkins @coolestdudeva By saying “we are all Africans” you are stealing the identity of a largely oppressed people. Not cool.” https://twitter.com/StephenBendelow/status/583595761583161344

1:07:22 – Tag: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2nlmwx&s=8

• Anita Sarkeesian’s “positive female character” https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/86/10/static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/3/35153/1785254-the_scythian.png
• Patton Oswalt throws a Twitter tantrum in defense of Trevor Noah http://www.dailydot.com/lol/patton-oswalt-twitter-tantrum-defending-trevor-noah/

This Week’s Quote: “The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” —Albert Einstein

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/
• 5:06 – Senators Unveil Bill To Legalize Federal Medical Marijuana http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/senators-unveil-bill-to-legalize-federal-medical-marijuana/
  • North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Approved by House of Representatives http://thejointblog.com/north-carolina-bill-to-legalize-medical-cannabis-approved-by-house-of-representatives/
• 9:23 – Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/homeopathy-ineffective-study-concludes
• 13:16 – Wikipedia Is Suing the NSA http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/wikipedia-is-suing-the-nsa-20150310

18:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tamil Film Producer’s Council http://torrentfreak.com/movie-group-to-kill-piracy-by-not-releasing-movies-for-months-150309/

21:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Andrew Hennells https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/10/armed-robber-caught-after-boasting-about-planned-stick-up-on-facebook/

This Week’s Quote: “I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.” —Edward Snowden

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 1:55 – Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty on All Charges http://cointelegraph.com/news/113433/ross-ulbricht-found-guilty-on-all-charges
• 8:50 – 2 Bridgewater Teens’ Snow Shoveling Biz Put On Ice Due To Ordinances http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/nj-teens-offering-shoveling-services-stopped-by-cops-due-to-town-ordinance/
• 11:48 – The FCC has changed the definition of broadband http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7932653/fcc-changed-definition-broadband-25mbps
  • The Cost of Connectivity 2014 http://newamerica.org/oti/the-cost-of-connectivity-2014/
• 25:29 – Cop who stole nude photos from arrested women’s phones escapes jail https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/29/cop-who-stole-nude-photos-from-arrested-womens-seized-phones-escapes-jail/

28:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/a-lesson-in-corrupt-press.html

33:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike LaSusa http://www.salon.com/2015/01/29/nightmare_libertarian_project_turns_country_into_the_murder_capital_of_the_world/

• Honduras Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption http://www.heritage.org/index/country/honduras

This Week’s Quote: “If anyone thinks they can get an accurate picture of anyplace on the planet by reading news reports, they’re sadly mistaken.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

0:28 – More Election Results: http://alibertarianfuture.com/2014-election/libertarian-issues-won-2014-including-marijuana-legalization/

News of the Bogus:

• 6:13 – Italian Appeals Court Overturns Guilty Verdicts in Earthquake Trial http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/europe/italian-appeals-court-overturns-guilty-verdicts-in-earthquake-trial.html
• 9:28 – The Netherlands built a bike path entirely out of solar panels http://www.vox.com/2014/11/11/7193737/solar-power-bike-path-netherlands-solaroad
• 15:03 – Beyond Silk Road 2.0, over 400 ‘dark web’ Tor sites seized by FBI http://www.zdnet.com/beyond-silk-road-2-0-over-400-dark-web-tor-sites-seized-by-fbi-7000035604/
• 21:19 – DeBoer v. Snyder http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/14a0275p-06.pdf
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeBoer_v._Snyder

32:49 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jonathan Gruber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adrdmmh7bMo

37:26 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Food Babe http://bogosity.tv/bogus_archive/the_article_food_babe_doesn't_want_you_to_see.html

• Sahara – Humidity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara#Humidity
• When You Drink Too Much Water Too Fast, What Can Happen? http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/water-intoxication
• Monosodium glutamate – Safety http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Safety

This Week’s Quote: “There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.” —Bertrand Russell

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Judge won’t stop shut-offs, says no right to free water http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/09/29/bankruptcy-judge-expected-rule-water-shut-offs/16414323/
• 10:34 – Pirate Bay Goes To College: Free Textbook Torrent Downloads Soar Amid Rising Costs http://www.ibtimes.com/pirate-bay-goes-college-free-textbook-torrent-downloads-soar-amid-rising-costs-1692247
• 19:31 – Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/dark-net-drug-markets-kept-alive-by-great-customer-service/
• 30:50 – Brown Vetoes Bill Limiting Drone Surveillance http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/09/28/brown-vetoes-bill-limiting-drone-surveillance/

37:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.theskepticsguide.org/not-black-holes-do-not-exist-part-2

47:46 – Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/

56:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt K. Lewis http://theweek.com/article/index/268686/why-the-libertarian-boom-is-bad-for-traditional-conservatives

This Week’s Quote: “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love…If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power.” —Carl Sagan

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:16 – U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422% http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/08/28/u-s-hikes-fee-to-renounce-citizenship-by-422/
• 7:07 – Dominica Will Be First Nation with Universal Bitcoin Possession http://panampost.com/belen-marty/2014/08/28/dominica-will-be-first-nation-with-universal-bitcoin-possession/
  • Dominica Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption http://www.heritage.org/index/country/dominica
• 14:13 – Illinois Libertarians Lodge Criminal Complaints Over Armed Intimidation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/illinois-libertarians-lod_b_5737462.html
  • Rauner Camp Brings A Gun To A Petition Fight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-ibendahl/rauner-camp-brings-a-gun-_b_5709799.html

22:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Truth-out.org http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25877-you-dont-know-what-libertarian-means

• How to Fix Health Care Without Spending a Dime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhJ73JuWJY
• How To Argue For Universal Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuq8Zgwrwk
• How Social Security Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATsbbIJD3ew
• Social Security Follow-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaG-A6ezMQ

52:22 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Helmetta, NJ http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2014/08/30/nj-town-introduces-ordinance-ban-recording-public-officials-embarrassing-video-cop-goes-viral/

This Week’s Quote: “The camera is the new gun. There’s nothing that government dislikes more than the light of day, and cameras recording what the government is doing…we have the right to know everything that they do and why they do it and when they do it, and how they’ve taken our freedom.” —Andrew Napolitano

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Support is Ending for Windows XP http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help
  • Windows XP support will be available after April 8—just not for you http://www.pcworld.com/article/2139929/windows-xp-support-will-be-available-after-april-8-just-not-for-you.html
  • Setup Limited Users in Windows XP http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1838566,00.asp
• 7:40 – The IRS has called bitcoin property, but the Financial Crimes Enforcment Network calls it money
  http://upstart.bizjournals.com/news/technology/2014/03/28/irs-calls-bitcoin-property.html?page=all
  • IRS Virtual Currency FAQ http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf
  • FIN-2013-G001 http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html
• 11:21 – Lawsuit: Man Arrested, Searched For Marijuana Solely For Having Colorado License Plate http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/03/28/lawsuit-man-arrested-searched-for-marijuana-solely-for-having-colorado-license-plate/
• 16:54 – McCutcheon v. FEC http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-536_e1pf.pdf
  • Here’s a Plain-English Explanation of the Huge Supreme Court Decision That Was Made Today http://www.policymic.com/articles/86763/here-s-a-plain-english-explanation-of-the-huge-supreme-court-decision-that-was-made-today

21:00 – Silver Cluon Award: James Wilson and Perry Willis https://secure.downsizedc.org/blog/the-untold-truth-about-the-mccutcheon-decision

25:04 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Adam Weinstein http://gawker.com/arrest-climate-change-deniers-1553719888

32:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: San Francisco Google Protesters http://mashable.com/2014/04/06/google-ventures-kevin-rose-san-francisco-protesters/

This Week’s Quote: “I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.” —John Adams

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus: