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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: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 1:30 – Office of Personnel Management didn’t encrypt feds’ data hacked by Chinese http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/personal-data-of-4-million-federal-employees-hacked-118655.html
  • Federal Data Breach: Can the Government Protect Itself From Hackers? http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/federal-data-breach-can-government-protect-itself-hackers-n370556
• 8:00 – Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com https://popehat.com/2015/06/08/department-of-justice-uses-grand-jury-subpoena-to-identify-anonymous-commenters-on-a-silk-road-post-at-reason-com/
• 15:49 – According To The Government, Clearing Your Browser History Is A Felony https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150606/16191831259/according-to-government-clearing-your-browser-history-is-felony.shtml

23:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lily Goldberg http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/why-are-there-fewer-libertarian-women-because-anarchist-men-are-disgusting/

• The Anarcho-Capitalists Are Right About Everything, But I Still Won’t Sleep With Them http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/the-anarcho-capitalists-are-right-about-everything-but-i-still-wont-sleep-with-them/

32:28 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie Sanders http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/26/sorry-bernie-sanders-deodorant-isnt-starving-americas-children/

This Week’s Quote: “When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.” —Stefan Molyneux

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Co-host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 2:09 – What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ
  • Brianna Wu’s GTA rape tweets https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/555874686085496834
  • Brianna Wu on Twitter: “When I was 20, my parents handed me $200,000 to start an animation business. I learned more from that experience than anything in college.” https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/422793818749288448
• 18:47 – Torrent Site Blockades Are Disproportional, Greek Court Rules http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-blockades-are-disproportional-greek-court-rules-150121/
• 22:50 – Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/joe-nocera-is-vaping-worse-than-smoking.html
  • New Study Reports High Levels of Formaldehyde in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-study-reports-high-levels-of.html
• 32:36 – 12-Year-Old Girl’s Hair Causes OUTRAGE, Wait Until You Hear Why http://madworldnews.com/12-year-old-girls-hair/
• 38:49 – People can be convinced they committed a non-existant crime in just 3 hours http://www.sciencealert.com/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-non-existant-crime-in-just-three-hours

50:01 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1800bf6744eb4b3f91a75817d54a2a46/fact-check-obama-claims-credit-incomplete-recovery

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
• State of the Union: Barack Obama Rebutted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGNwpFq4WY

58:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: National Sheriffs Association and the Fraternal Order of Police https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/27/google-asked-to-muzzle-waze-police-stalking-app/

• Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic – Android Apps on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en

This Week’s Quote: “Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.” —L. Neil Smith

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Co-host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Male rape in America: A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women.
  http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html
• 14:25 – Federal Court: The Police Can Stop and Search You for Behaving Innocently http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-bodine/federal-court-the-police-_b_5223918.html
• 26:42 – Teen Dead After Alabama Police ‘Shoved Sharp Object Into Throat’ to Retrieve Drugs http://appalachianareanews.com/teen-dead-after-alabama-police-cut-throat-open-to-retrieve-drugs/

32:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Milwaukee County Deputy Joseph Quiles (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://fox40.com/2014/05/02/sober-driver-arrested-for-dui-after-deputy-crashes-into-her/

38:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias (again), Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl (nominated by BreadGod) http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy

This Week’s Quote: “I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights, human rights are all that I recognize.” —Sarah Grimké

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Live Spreecast video: http://www.spreecast.com/events/bogosity-podcast-for-12-may-2014

News of the Bogus:

• 3:01 – 17 Facts To Show To Anyone That Still Believes That The U.S. Economy Is Just Fine http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-30/17-facts-show-anyone-still-believes-us-economy-just-fine
• 21:32 – How Net Neutrality Hurts the Poor http://theumlaut.com/2014/04/30/how-net-neutrality-hurts-the-poor/
• 29:10 – Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Emails Reveal White House Hid Truths About Benghazi Attack http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/05/03/former-cbs-reporter-sharyl-attkisson-ben

34:13 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Undercover Police Officers in Madison, Pittsburgh, et al http://www.fastcompany.com/3029754/most-innovative-companies/undercover-police-are-targeting-uber-and-lyft-drivers-to-send-a-me

39:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: NYPD https://www.vocativ.com/culture/media/nypd-twitter-campaign-backfires-catastrophically-within-minutes/

This Week’s Quote: “The end move in politics is to pick up a gun.” —Buckminster Fuller

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – $9 Billion in ‘Stimulus’ for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs–$9.8 Million Per Job http://cnsnews.com/news/article/9-billion-stimulus-solar-wind-projects-made-910-final-jobs-98-million-job
• 2:08 – Utah girl jailed and strip searched for hair-cutting prank http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/23/utah-girl-jailed-and-strip-searched-for-hair-cutting-prank/
• 5:45 – Children taken from mom in pot raid inflame Butte County ballot debate http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/30/4524455/kids-taken-from-mom-in-pot-raid.html
  • Oroville mom’s hearing opens with testimony about husband’s pot plant production http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/12/4554873/oroville-moms-hearing-opens-with.html#storylink=cpy
• 8:40 – Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html
  • Elderly patients ‘helped to die to free up beds’, warns doctor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9343428/Elderly-patients-helped-to-die-to-free-up-beds-warns-doctor.html
  • NHS must come clean over use of ‘death pathway’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8930951/NHS-must-come-clean-over-use-of-death-pathway.html
  • NHS “Heading for an Iceberg” Warn Hhealth Officials http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/327772/NHS-heading-for-an-iceberg-warn-health-officials
  • A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6133157/Dying-patients.html

15:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman (two in a row! Nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/a-mythical-anniversary/

18:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Accelerated Christian Education (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/how-american-fundamentalist-schools-are-using-nessie-to-disprove-evolution.17918511

This Week’s Quote: “It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.” —Richard Feynman

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Newspaper that helps homeless is thriving http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/dec/24/4/paper-that-helps-homeless-is-thriving-ar-340169/
  • Tampa Epoch homeless newspaper to keep publishing http://www.examiner.com/article/tampa-epoch-homeless-newspaper-to-keep-publishing
• 4:30 – In 8-0 Ruling, U.S. Supreme Court Allows Immunity Protections for Secret Service, Law Enforcement to Trump Free Speech Rights of Americans https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/us_supreme_court_allows_immunity_protections_for_secret_service_to_trump_fr
• 7:20 – Scores in N.C. are legally ‘innocent,’ yet still imprisoned http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-13/innocent-incarcerated-prisoners/55585176/1

12:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman (again!) http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/estonian-rhapsdoy/

• President Of Estonia Slams Paul Krugman: ‘Smug, Overbearing & Patronizing’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/06/estonia-krugman-toomas-hendrik-ilves_n_1575937.html

21:15 – Idiot Extraordinare: Rachel Maddow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta7kLhnx_Uc

• Gender Wage Gap Final Report https://archive.org/details/GenderWageGapFinalReport
• What Do Wage Differentials Tell Us about Labor Market Discrimination? http://www.nber.org/papers/w11240.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.” —Elinor Ostrom