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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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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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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: 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: Jim Goebel

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Norway to ‘completely ban petrol powered cars by 2025’ http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/norway-to-ban-the-sale-of-all-fossil-fuel-based-cars-by-2025-and-replace-with-electric-vehicles-a7065616.html
• 7:12 – EU countries refuse to back new license for glyphosate weed-killer http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-eu-glyphosate-idUSKCN0YS0Y0
  • EU stance on glyphosate leaves farmers ‘frustrated’ http://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/farming/eu-stance-on-glyphosate-leaves-farmers-frustrated-1-4147826
• 14:29 – Copyright Office’s Proposed Notice and Staydown System Would Force the Internet Archive and Other Platforms to Censor the Web https://blog.archive.org/2016/06/02/copyright-offices-proposed-notice-and-staydown-system-would-force-the-internet-archive-and-other-platforms-to-censor-the-web/

22:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The NSA https://news.vice.com/article/edward-snowden-leaks-tried-to-tell-nsa-about-surveillance-concerns-exclusive

• Ask your elected representatives to pass DownsizeDC.org’s “Write the Laws Act” (WTLA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/

Silver Cluon Award: Gilbert Arap Bor (see next story)

32:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Green Party https://risk-monger.com/2016/06/08/how-to-starve-africa-ask-the-european-green-party/

• Open Letter to the EU Parliament from a Kenyan Farmer: “Leave Africa Alone” by Gilbert Arap Bor http://globalfarmernetwork.org/2016/06/open-letter-to-the-eu-parliament-from-a-kenyan-farmer-leave-africa-alone/

This Week’s Quote: “The world faces a choice, by spending a relatively little amount of money on proven solutions, we can help poor farmers feed themselves and their families and continue writing the story of a steadily more equitable world. Or we can decide to tolerate a very different world in which one in seven people needlessly lives on the edge of starvation.” —Bill Gates

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:46 – Advocacy groups criticize proposed security change at Albany airport http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Advocacy-groups-criticize-proposed-security-7941060.php
• 5:11 – “Game-Changing” Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/federal-study-links-cell-phone-radiation-cancer
  • Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposures) http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.full.pdf
• 13:45 – NHS: Why isn’t the chickenpox vaccination part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule? http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-vaccine-questions-answers.aspx#routineschedule
  • Chickenpox Vaccine Not Responsible for Rise in Shingles, Study Says http://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20131202/chickenpox-vaccine-not-responsible-for-rise-in-shingles-study-says

20:16 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: DePaul University http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-admins-surrender-to-violent-protesters-shutter_us_57454738e4b00853ae7b5ae3

• DePaul’s president expresses discontent following Yiannopoulos controversy http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/25/depaul-president-holtschneider-letter/
• Milo Yiannopoulos at DePaul University 5-24-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-MnRyIoQY&feature=youtu.be&t=46m18s

29:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Hillary Clinton http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/did-the-clinton-email-server-have-an-internet-based-printer/

This Week’s Quote: “When someone gets something everyone is due by right, they are not privileged because others did not get that something. Racism or some other form of discriminatory bias may well be at work, but it’s not a ‘privilege’ to be treated civilly. Let’s see to it everyone is so regarded.” —Jim Babka

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:45 – The Court of Appeal: thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se to be owned by the state http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/hovratten-piratebayse-ska-agas-av-staten/
• 3:43 – Donald Trump on the debt: “You never have to default because you print the money” http://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11639292/donald-trump-default-print-money
• 9:08 – Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ivy-league-economist-ethnically-profiled-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ar-BBsK6RQ?li=BBnb7Kz

15:57 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paramount Pictures https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160508/00545234378/fight-over-copyrighting-klingon-heats-up-gets-more-ridiculous.shtml

25:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Colorado State University-Pueblo https://reason.com/blog/2016/04/19/female-student-said-im-fine-and-i-wasnt

This Week’s Quote: “Charges of harassment are made so carelessly and on such slight grounds that we now have a genuine witch hunt on many of our campuses…Every man now stands to be accused if he’s ever been alone in a room with a woman.” —Christina Hoff Sommers

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Co-Host Takeover 2: Electric Boogaloo

With Dave Turcotte, Jakob Morris, and Charles Thomas

• 1:23 – The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/
• 9:37 – Actors in Pornographic Films Fight Proposal to Enforce Safety Regulations http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/us/actors-in-pornographic-films-fight-proposal-to-enforce-safety-regulations.html
  • Dear New York Times https://medium.com/@MissLoreleiLee/dear-new-york-times-9f64155b5e19
• 15:23 – Where’s The Fair Use? – Nostalgia Critic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI
  • TEAMFOURSTAR AND YOUTUBE: Where’s the Fair Use? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eHbJ9U8YLY
  • Where’s the Fair Use? – AlphaOmegaSin #WTFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoQM_Z-CUc
  • Make YouTube Great Again – AlphaOmegaSin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3HTQGzAzw
  • Why the DMCA is Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_84-p4kac
  • Early Copyright History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aOHpn_vqQ
  • Pirates Spend Much More Money on Music, Study Shows https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-music-study-shows-160226/
  • Creators frustrated with Copyright Office’s outdated technology, procedures http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20150623-story.html

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

0:40 – News of the Bogus: Bitcoin Special

• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
• Community Disagrees with Mike Hearn, as He Sparks Bitcoin Classic Adoption http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/01/16/mike-hearn-wrong-bitcoin-classic-now/
• Gavin Andresen on Twitter: “@binarybits @OctSkyward Yes, Mike is too pessimistic.” https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/687900588210663424
• Austin Hill on Twitter: “Bitcoin is not dead,we are going through a similar process that early IETF & ICANN went through” https://twitter.com/austinhill/status/688446351105916929
• Bitcoin Blocksize and The Future http://belshe.com/2016/01/18/bitcoin-blocksize-and-the-future/

29:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Joseph I. Cassilly https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160104/07032833235/state-prosecutor-says-forfeiture-reform-is-legislators-funding-drug-dealers.shtml

• COLD SHOCK: Warming up your car illegal! http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/cold-shock-warming-up-your-car-illegal/
• Kansas Police Ticketing People For ‘Illegally’ Warming Up Their Cars http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=49634

39:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Facebook https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160106/06042833250/facebook-nixes-picture-bronze-mermaid-statue-showing-too-much-skin.shtml

• An Illustrated History of American Money Design http://gizmodo.com/an-illustrated-history-of-american-money-design-1743743361

This Week’s Quote: “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tommy Smothers