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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – David Cameron announces resignation as UK votes to leave EU http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/europe/uk-eu-referendum-results/
  • What will happen now that Britain has voted to leave the E.U. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/23/what-actually-happens-if-britain-votes-to-leave-the-e-u/
  • Will Boris Johnson become U.K. prime minister in 2016? https://www.predictit.org/Contract/2467/Will-Boris-Johnson-become-UK-prime-minister-in-2016
• 11:43 – ‘We Will Be Back’: Democrats Vow to Continue Gun Control Protests as House Adjourns http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-house-vows-continue-gun-control-protests-house/story?id=40045649
  • Justin Amash on Twitter: “Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor. They…” https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/745679387450871808
• 17:53 – Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html
  • FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ET AL. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-981_4g15.pdf
• 25:38 – Non-US encryption is ‘theoretical,’ claims CIA chief in backdoor debate http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/17/non_us_encryption_is_theoretical_claims_cia/

30:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Glenn Stone http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/stone/stone_glover_2016_golden_rice.pdf

• Activists played ‘no role’ in delaying Golden Rice’? Evidence challenges anti-GMO claim https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/06/15/activists-played-no-role-delaying-golden-rice-evidence-challenges-glenn-stones-claim/

37:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Gersh Kuntzman http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/15/gersh-kuntzman-ny-daily-news-writer-firing-ar-15-g/

This Week’s Quote: “Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.” —Robert LeFevre

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Co-Hosts: Daniel Wilcox and Sarah Fin

News of the Bogus:

• 2:14 – 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shooting
  • Top 10 Myths About Mass Shootings http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/12/18/top-10-myths-about-mass-shootings/
  • Do citizens (not police officers) with guns ever stop mass shootings? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/03/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/
  • Mizzou race activist hijacks Orlando vigil as gay community rebukes her http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27839/
• 22:21 – Nation-State Routing http://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/
• 29:14 – Senate Votes for Equal Slavery for Women https://fee.org/articles/senate-votes-for-equal-slavery-for-women/

35:26 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Myriad Genetics https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160527/08591934566/myriad-genetics-refuses-to-accept-that-people-have-right-to-access-their-own-dna-sequences.shtml

41:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Wayne State University http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/06/12/wayne-state-drops-math-general-ed-requirement/85648592/

This Week’s Quote: “The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we’re doing exactly what the terrorists want.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:34 – The No Fly List Isn’t Just Broken, It’s Insane. You Must Read This Before You Talk About Gun Control. http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/12/07/42000/
  • Dem governor moves to ban no-fly list gun sales http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/262797-dem-governor-moves-to-ban-no-fly-list-gun-sales
• 8:06 – France is considering a ban on Tor and public WiFi http://www.businessinsider.com/france-is-considering-a-ban-on-tor-and-public-wifi-2015-12
• 12:06 – Venezuela’s opposition wins legislative majority http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/07/venezuela-opposition-victory/76909468/

16:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Reich http://robertreich.org/post/134670682190

26:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, et al http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2015/12/07/no-monsanto-is-not-going-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity/

This Week’s Quote: “Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.” —Lois Lowry

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Here is ISIS’s statement claiming responsibility for the Paris attacks http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9734794/isis-claim-paris-statement
  • French oppose military intervention in Syria and don’t trust Francois Hollande to carry it out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10278076/French-oppose-military-intervention-in-Syria-and-dont-trust-Francois-Hollande-to-carry-it-out.html
  • NOP Poll of British Muslims http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/291
  • As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml
  • Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrorist.html
  • Paris attacks: CIA’s John Brennan says there had been ‘strategic warning’ of Paris attack http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/paris-attack-warning-cia-john-brennan-215922
  • In a crisis, people will believe the worst about Uber http://qz.com/550415/in-a-crisis-people-will-believe-the-worst-about-uber/
  • What’s Going On With The Protests At The University Of Missouri?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protests-university-of-missouri_56401af5e4b0307f2cade647
  • Black Activists Double Down on Hate with #F***Paris Hashtag – Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/15/black-activist-double-white-hate-fparis-hashtag/
  • Black Son of a MULTIMILLIONAIRE, STILL the SJW victim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phA_mGxR4-A
  • CNN New Day Saturday – Tom Fuentes https://iqmediacorp.com/ClipPlayer/?ClipID=0d0e5a03-1bd4-450f-9834-8b8099d98d78
• 31:29 – A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html
• 35:00 – Martel Police Body Camera Virus Found Embedded into Camera http://www.goipower.com/?pageId=40

38:39 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anne Frank Fonds https://torrentfreak.com/anne-frank-scandal-an-underreported-copyright-monopoly-abuse-151115/

• Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades http://boingboing.net/2015/11/14/copyfraud-anne-frank-foundati.html
• Anne Frank gets co-author to extend copyright http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Anne-Frank-gets-co-author-to-extend-copyright-434409
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://hpmor.com/
• BlameThe1st | FanFiction https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6244873/BlameThe1st

49:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Klein Collins High School http://www.houstonpress.com/news/drug-test-proves-high-school-girl-wasnt-high-school-suspends-her-anyway-7926436

This Week’s Quote: “Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we’ve seen—the Internet—has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don’t get in the way of this ideology.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever
Special Appearance By Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – At Virginia shooting, NRA, where were good guys? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-virginia-tv-crew-shooting-huppke-20150826-story.html
  • Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/
• 19:24 – Google ordered to remove links to stories about Google removing links to stories
  http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/08/google-ordered-to-remove-links-to-stories-about-google-removing-links-to-stories/
  • Google Disappears Techdirt Article About Right To Be Forgotten Due To Right To Be Forgotten Request https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/13495432050/google-disappears-techdirt-article-about-right-to-be-forgotten-due-to-right-to-be-forgotten-request.shtml
  • As Part Of Its War On Encryption, Russia Briefly Blocks All Of Wikipedia Over One Weed Reference https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150814/07293231941/as-part-war-encryption-russia-briefly-blocks-all-wikipedia-over-one-weed-reference.shtml
• 27:11 – Government Dismisses Its Case After Warrantless Airport Laptop Search http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/government-dismisses-its-case-after-88947/

30:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Twitter https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150824/11143432048/twitters-excuse-shutting-down-services-that-highlight-deleted-politicians-tweets-is-painfully-ridiculous.shtml

35:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Eskow http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eskow20150821
How To Argue For Immigration Restrictions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0mx-uGH_HA

This Week’s Quote: “Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.” —George Santayana

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 7:43 – Study of 100 Billion Animals Finds GMOs Safe http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/comprehensive-study-100-billion-animals-finds-gmos-safe-livestock
  • Freakonomics » Outsiders by Design http://freakonomics.com/2014/09/18/outsiders-by-design-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-2/
• 12:30 – Islamic State recruitment soaring in wake of U.S. bombing #SorrySyria http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.616730
  • War Is a Racket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
• 17:15 – Kerry: No End to the War Even if We Destroy ISIS #SorrySyria http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2014/09/25/kerry-no-end-to-the-war-even-if-we-destroy-isis/
• 35:35 – FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2014/09/25/68c4e08e-4344-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html

42:09 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Press and social media #BBGunControl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9FtNOV6Qhk

52:38 – Idiot Extraordinaire: City of Peoria http://www.vice.com/read/the-police-raided-my-friends-house-over-a-parody-twitter-account

This Week’s Quote: “The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world.” —Václav Havel

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News of the Bogus:

• 1:46 – ‘Six Californias’ plan may make 2016 ballot http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/15/six-californias-tim-draper/12661161/
• 7:06 – The curious grammar of police shootings http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings/
  Right to a Gun vs. Right to Health Care https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ggkimWfFk
• 15:38 – Anarchist Protestors Blocked Uber Cars in the Streets of Seattle http://valleywag.gawker.com/anarchist-protestors-blocked-uber-cars-in-the-streets-o-1568739346

22:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Damon Linker http://theweek.com/article/index/264546/how-liberalism-became-an-intolerant-dogma

30:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Dawson http://mikedawwwson.tumblr.com/post/91854168921/santrevl-hound-actual-armedplatypus

• https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084575885570048
• https://twitter.com/mike_daws/status/489084892979142656

This Week’s Quote: “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose this movement.” —Abraham Lincoln

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche and Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:52 – Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf
• 18:17 – EPIC says Facebook ‘messed with people’s minds,’ seeks FTC sanctions – Computerworld
  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9249553/EPIC_says_Facebook_messed_with_people_s_minds_seeks_FTC_sanctions
• 22:17 – Pirate Bay Founders’ File-Hosting Site Wiped From Google http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founders-file-hosting-site-wiped-from-google-140628/

26:35 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Connecticut Regional School District 14 http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/30/ct-school-district-apologizes-for-blocki

36:16 – Silver Cluon Award: The Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.dailydot.com/politics/blimp-nsa-utah-eff-mass-surveillance/

42:16 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal http://www.zdnet.com/paypal-freezes-out-protonmail-asks-if-startup-has-government-permission-to-encrypt-email-7000031116/

This Week’s Quote: “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” —William O. Douglas

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Key Senator Leahy drops patent reform bill for now http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/21/us-usa-patents-congress-idUSBREA4K0T920140521
  • Infamous scanner “patent troll” seeks sanctions—against the government http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/infamous-scanner-patent-troll-seeks-sanctions-against-the-government/
• 7:37 – Madagascar Against Monsanto: Madagascar Pranks March Against Monsanto – What is the difference? http://madagainstmonsanto.blogspot.com/2014/05/madagascar-pranks-march-against.html
• 15:50 – U.S. Food Inflation Running at 22% http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/24/U-S-Food-Inflation-Running-at-22
  • Deflating Food Package Sizes is Evidence of Inflation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7BOdS3unpg

20:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Martinez http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/father-of-victim-in-santa-barbara-shootings-to-politicians-i-dont-care-about-your-sympathy/2014/05/27/8a030d10-e5ad-11e3-a86b-362fd5443d19_story.html

• Brady Campaign 2013 Scorecard http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/default/files/SCGLM-Final10-spreads-points.pdf

31:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Big Earl’s Restaurant http://happyplace.someecards.com/lgbt/a-tx-restaurant-slurred-and-banned-a-gay-couple-and-theyre-sticking-to-it-their-yelp-page-is-now-fabulous/

This Week’s Quote: “Segregation was enforced in the South precisely because so many people were opposed to segregation. You don’t pass a law to force people to do what they would do anyway…Without a law mandating segregation, the first white company to hire black workers and serve all customers would have set in motion a train of events that would have made segregation impossible.” —Harry Browne

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – On the UK’s Equating of Journalism With Terrorism https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/19/uks-equating-journalism-terrorism-designed-conceal-gchq/
• 4:10 – Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/12/james-clapper-says-transparency-helps-terrorists-like/
• 10:55 – Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest bombshell  http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partner/
• 15:10 – Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/
  • WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Has Cost The Met Police £5.3m During Ecuador Embassy Stay http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/25/julian-assange-policing-cost_n_4853130.html
• 20:46 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden elected as new rector of Glasgow University http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/whistleblower-edward-snowden-elected-new-3161134
• 22:17 – Government Monitors in Newsrooms? http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms
• 24:23 – New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena — and they’re fighting back http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/new-jersey-slaps-mit-bitcoin-hackers-with-subpoena-and-theyre-fighting-back/

28:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) http://www.businessinsider.com/senator-calls-for-bitcoin-ban-2014-2

34:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Jesse Jackson http://www.examiner.com/article/jesse-jackson-claims-semi-automatic-rifles-can-blow-up-railroads

40:17 – Twitch Plays Pokemon conquers Elite Four, beating game after 390 hours http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619740-93/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/

This Week’s Quote: “At the end fiat money returns to its inner value—zero.” —Voltaire