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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:

• 0:45 – 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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News of the Bogus:

• 0:45 – Why Target Is Raising Its Starting Wage to $10 Per Hour http://fortune.com/2016/04/18/target-10-dollars/
• 3:21 – After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington https://theintercept.com/2016/04/18/after-vote-to-remove-brazils-president-key-opposition-figure-holds-meetings-in-washington/
• 8:42 – An Inspection of Border Force Operations at Manchester Airport https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2803760/An-Inspection-of-Border-Force-Operations-at.pdf

11:46 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Congress http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/276286-on-obamacare-is-there-one-set-of-rules-for-congress-and

15:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Apple http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/

• (0Day) Apple QuickTime moov Atom Heap Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-241/

This Week’s Quote: “Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.” —Daniel Webster

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 1:19 – WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/whatsapp-is-now-most-widely-used-end-to-end-crypto-tool-on-the-planet/
  • Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/
• 12:23 – Reddit’s Warrant Canary just died https://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/reddits-warrant-canary-just.html
  • We are ACLU lawyers and Nick Merrill of Calyx Institute. We’re here to talk about National Security Letters and warrant canaries, because Reddit can’t. AUA. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dcm55/we_are_aclu_lawyers_and_nick_merrill_of_calyx/
• 21:51 – 5th Circuit Denies Prosecutor’s Appeal of Misconduct Finding, and throws out Forfeiture Because of Prosecutorial Vindictiveness http://www.prosecutorialaccountability.com/2016/03/25/tx-5th-circuit-denies-prosecutors-appeal-of-misconduct-finding-and-throws-out-forfeiture-because-of-prosecutorial-vindictiveness/

28:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160401/06514734076/fbi-doesnt-want-to-share-details-exploit-it-deployed-while-running-child-porn-site.shtml

34:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

This Week’s Quote: “All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.” —Henry Hazlitt

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – In Silk Road Appeal, Ross Ulbricht’s Defense Focuses on Corrupt Feds http://www.wired.com/2016/01/ross-ulbrichts-defense-focuses-on-corrupt-feds-in-silk-road-appeal/
• 13:18 – Banning GM Salmon Is a Terrible Idea http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/banning-gm-salmon-is-a-terrible-idea/
• 23:37 – Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-proposals-18-trillion-1442271511

28:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jeb Bush http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-cybersecurity-2016-1

37:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-drug-kingpin-serving-multiple-life-sentences-receives-additional-20-year

This Week’s Quote: “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” —Kenneth Boulding

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Co-Host: Jim Goebel

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Why A $70,000 Minimum Salary Isn’t Enough For Gravity Payments http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidburkus/2015/08/02/why-a-70000-minimum-salaries-isnt-enough-for-gravity-payments/
• 9:45 – Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionals join forces in SD, OK http://www.oppositionnews.org/articles/2015/q3/libertarians-greens-constitutionals-join-forces-sd-ok/
  • Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) https://www.facebook.com/okvoterchoice
• 24:00 – He Beat the IRS in Court, But They Still Won’t Make Him Whole http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/he-beat-the-irs-in-court-but-they-wont-make-him-whole
• 34:53 – Bad Arguments for Socialized Medicine: American Lifespan Statistics Edition https://mpalumbo.liberty.me/bad-socialized-medicine-arguments-american-lifespan-statistics/

43:06 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/13/in-economic-address-hillary-clinton-calls-out-gig-economy.html

51:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/03/venezuelan-president-blames-us-for-supermarket-riot-that-left-one-dead/

• Amid Shortages, Venezuela Forces All Food Distribution into State Hands http://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/07/23/amid-shortages-venezuela-forces-all-food-distribution-into-state-hands/

This Week’s Quote: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” —T.S. Eliot

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:40 – After Five Years, Dodd-Frank Is a Failure http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-five-years-dodd-frank-is-a-failure-1437342607
• 11:46 – Experian Hit With Class Action Over ID Theft Service — Krebs on Security http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/experian-hit-with-class-action-over-id-theft-service/
• 19:45 – Researcher Receives Copyright Threat After Exposing Security Hole https://torrentfreak.com/researcher-receives-copyright-threat-after-exposing-security-hole-150715/
• 27:50 – Errata Security: My BIS/Wassenaar comment http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/07/my-biswassenaar-comment.html
  • Wassenaar Arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement

36:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: University Of Toronto http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/university-toronto-teaches-students-cancer-good

46:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: U.S. National Institutes of Health http://freebeacon.com/issues/taxpayers-have-now-spent-3-5-million-to-find-out-why-lesbians-are-obese/

• Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat http://dev.cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat

This Week’s Quote: “Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Dept. Of Defense Defends Strong Encryption While Its Impetuous Child — The NSA — Continues To Lament The Coming Darkness https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150703/14441931535/dept-defense-defends-strong-encryption-while-impetuous-child-nsa-continues-to-lament-coming-darkness.shtml
  • Computer Security Experts Release Report Slamming Proposals To Backdoor Encryption, As FBI Makes Latest Push https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150707/16415031577/computer-security-experts-release-report-slamming-proposals-to-backdoor-encryption-as-fbi-makes-latest-push.shtml
• 14:05 – FBI & Homeland Security Now 0 For 41 In Predicting Imminent Terrorist Attacks On The US https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150706/23473631567/fbi-homeland-security-now-0-41-predicting-imminent-terrorist-attacks-us.shtml
• 21:08 – What the 2004 Athens Olympics venues look like today http://www.businessinsider.com/2004-athens-olympics-venues-today-2015-7
  • 2022 Olympics Host Cities Dropping Out http://www.businessinsider.com/2022-olympics-host-cities-2014-5

28:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2015/07/02/sen-baldwin-1st-amendment-doesnt-apply-individuals

35:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Si Robertson http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/duck-dynasty-star-si-robertson-atheists-dont-exist-because-they-use-calendars/

This Week’s Quote: “Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” —John Perry Barlow

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson http://lordthawkeye.deviantart.com/

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – New WikiLeaks documents reveal the inner workings of the Dr. Oz Show http://www.vox.com/2015/4/20/8455401/sony-wikileaks-dr-oz
  • Naturopathy Leaks http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/naturopathy-leaks/
  • What’s the harm in naturopathy? http://whatstheharm.net/naturopathy.html
• 21:40 – Sarah Silverman Admits She Made Up a Wage-Gap Story, Then Calls Critics Maniacs http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416974/sarah-silverman-admits-she-made-wage-gap-story-then-calls-critics-maniacs-katherine
• 26:30 – Teen Sexting Investigators Have Their Heads in the Cloud http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/17/police-search-dropbox-for-teen-sexting

32:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mark Hertsgaard et al. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416918/no-farmers-dont-use-80-percent-californias-water-devin-nunes

38:46 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Earth Day Environmentalists http://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2/

53:23 – Tag: Environment – Wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Environment

This Week’s Quote: “We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” —Stephen Schneider