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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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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: Alex Fauble

News of the Bogus:

• 0:36 – “…no one can hack my mind”: Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/soups2015/soups15-paper-ion.pdf
• 13:06 – Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn’t Exist http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-replication-2014-5
• 19:42 – Hillary Clinton Keeps Making Untrue Claims About Her Use of a Private Email Server http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/12/hillary-clinton-keeps-making-untrue-clai

27:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Oracle http://archive.bogosity.tv/no-you-really-cant-mary-ann-davidson-blog.html

38:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Scotland http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/09/scotland-to-issue-formal-ban-on-genetically-modified-crops

This Week’s Quote: “I now say that the world has the technology—either available or well advanced in the research pipeline—to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called ‘organic’ methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.” —Norman Borlaug

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Senate Bill Prohibits Government-Mandated Backdoors http://www.informationweek.com/government/cybersecurity/senate-bill-prohibits-government-mandated-backdoors/d/d-id/1317926
• 4:20 – In the ‘global struggle for Internet freedom,’ the Internet is losing, report finds http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/04/in-the-global-struggle-for-internet-freedom-the-internet-is-losing-report-finds/
• 9:02 – Did Rep. Moran Read 1,648-Page Defense Bill? ‘Are You Kidding?’ http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/did-rep-moran-read-1648-page-defense-bill-are-you-kidding
  • The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/rtba/
• 17:02 – Another reason to avoid reading the comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-another-reason-to-avoid-reading-the-comments/2014/11/28/b37a9f30-7722-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html
  • Vinegar valentines: An old tradition of sending mean cards anonymously http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/13/vinegar_valentines_an_old_tradition_of_sending_mean_cards_anonymously.html
• 24:34 – A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html

31:06 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: US Government http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-is-not-a-fugitive-court-hears-141209/

38:13 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Kevin Sabet http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/10/new-anti-pot-argument-dont-legalize-monsanto-gmos/

This Week’s Quote: “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.” —Stephen King

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – Like your health care policy? You may be losing it https://news.yahoo.com/health-care-policy-may-losing-184734527.html
• 3:00 – EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787/EU-to-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html

• 6:00 – Topless Women in Public Not Breaking the Law, Says NYPD http://www.policymic.com/articles/42359/topless-women-in-public-not-breaking-the-law-says-nypd

9:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rand Paul http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-rand-paul-aggressively-courting-evangelicals-to-win-over-gop-establishment/2013/05/12/d917ccb4-b8af-11e2-b94c-b684dda07add_story.html

13:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Hungary http://www.realfarmacy.com/hungary-destroys-all-monsanto-gmo-corn-fields/

This Week’s Quote: “It is a terrible tragedy of life that the innocent so often have to suffer for the sins of the guilty.” —Harry Browne