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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Man critically wounded during UW protest; ‘person of interest’ in custody http://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/man-critically-wounded-during-uw-protest-person-of-interest-in-custody
• 8:30 – Obama’s Cyber Legacy: He Did (Almost) Everything Right and It Still Turned Out Wrong http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2017/01/obamas-cyber-legacy-he-did-almost-everything-right-and-it-still-turned-out-wrong/134612/
• 15:05 – Proposal to ban Vietnamese communist flag on San Jose property draws opposition http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/23/san-jose-proposal-to-oppose-displaying-flag-of-vietnam-draws-opposition/

21:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Concerned LastPass User” https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everything-in-your-vault-8722d69b2032

27:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FDA http://gizmodo.com/the-fdas-newly-proposed-gmo-rules-are-nonsense-1791519749

• FDA proposal to regulate gene edited animals is ‘nonsensical’ https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/01/23/is-the-fda-being-nonsensical-uc-davis-animal-geneticist-criticizes-new-guidance-genetically-altered-animals/

This Week’s Quote: All the food we eat—every grain of rice and kernel of corn—has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops.” —Michael Specter

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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: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Cops Aren’t Stopping the Looting in Ferguson, So the Protesters Are http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protestors-stop-looters-ferguson-police/
• 7:20 – Rules prevent solar panels in many states with abundant sunlight http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-no-solar-20140810-story.html
  • A PETITION From the Manufacturers of Candles, Tapers, Lanterns, sticks, Street Lamps, Snuffers, and Extinguishers, and from Producers of Tallow, Oil, Resin, Alcohol, and Generally of Everything Connected with Lighting. http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• 14:33 – Georgia county won’t pay medical bills for toddler burned by grenade in botched drug raid http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/georgia-county-wont-pay-medical-bills-for-toddler-burned-by-grenade-in-botched-drug-raid/

19:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: San Francisco http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change

• Bottled Water Companies Could Be Contributing to California’s Drought http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2014/08/14/bottled-water-companies-could-be-contributing-to-californias-drought

Idiot Extraordinaire: Summerville (SC) High School & Summerville Police http://www.nbc12.com/story/26319685/cops-summerville-high-school-student-arrested-after-writing-threatening-message-on-assignment

This Week’s Quote: “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” —Ben Franklin

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus: