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Co-Hosts: Jakob Morris and Daniel Wilcox

1:09 – Election Special:

• Election Betting Odds by Maxim Lott and John Stossel https://electionbettingodds.com/
• PredictIt | Election 2016 https://www.predictit.org/Home/Election2016
• BlameThe1st: http://blamethe1st.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-voted-for-gary-johnson.html
• Jonathan Loesche: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2016-sep-the-case-for-gary-johnson
• Doug Casey’s Top Five Reasons Not to Vote http://www.internationalman.com/articles/doug-caseys-top-five-reasons-not-to-vote
• Triangulation 271: Election Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_to6XbkdJI

34:53 – News of the Bogus:

• You Can Legally Hack Your Own Car, Pacemaker, or Smartphone Now https://www.wired.com/2016/10/hacking-car-pacemaker-toaster-just-became-legal/
  • Crypto guru Matt Green asks courts for DMCA force field so he can safely write a textbook http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/30/green_asks_protection_from_dmca_lawsuits/

39:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The MPAA and RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-and-riaas-anti-piracy-plans-harm-the-internet-161027/

• uBlock Origin – An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

44:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Egyptian President Abd el-Fattah al-Sisi (nominated by Ibrahim Zallum) http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/10/29/sisi-criticized-saying-fridge-nothing-water-ten-years/

• After Saudi Minister, Bahraini Official Mocks #Al-Sisi’s Fridge http://bhmirror.myftp.biz/en/news/34464.html
• #Al-Sisi_Fridge Rating No. 1 on Twitter Trend Chart https://www.middleeastobserver.org/archives/25759

This Week’s Quote: “We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.” —Kin Hubbard

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – FCC To Consider Rule Change That Could Help Restart Aereo http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/237167/fcc-to-consider-rule-change-that-could-help-restar.html
  • Tech Transitions, Video, and the Future http://www.fcc.gov/blog/tech-transitions-video-and-future
• 13:57 – Police Chief Accuses Secret Service Of Misconduct http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/newschannel-5-investigates/Police-Chief-Accuses-Secret-Service-Of-Misconduct-279207151.html
• 20:25 – Months after new regulations imposed, pedicabs struggle http://nocronies.com/months-after-new-regulations-imposed-pedicabs-struggle/

29:36 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: E.R. Dickson Elementary School http://rare.us/story/you-wont-believe-what-happened-to-this-kindergarten-student-after-she-drew-something-that-vaguely-resembled-a-gun/

36:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Political “Moderates” http://www.ballot-access.org/2014/10/political-science-study-shows-that-moderates-usually-have-a-mix-of-extreme-opinions-of-the-left-and-right/

• How Ideological Moderation Conceals Support for Immoderate Policies: A New Perspective on the “Disconnect” in American Politics http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~broockma/ahler_broockman_ideological_innocence.pdf

This Week’s Quote: “Those words, ‘temperate and moderate,’ are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.” —Thomas Paine

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – 86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers http://m.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/86m-full-time-private-sector-workers-sustain-148m-benefit-takers
• 4:17 – Citing decades-old claims, feds seize tax refunds http://overlawyered.com/2014/04/federal-government-seizes-tax-refunds-citing-decades-old-claims/
• 11:40 – Ron Paul’s Group Fined by IRS for Not Handing Over Donor List http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/04/16/ron-pauls-group-fined-irs-not-handing-over-donor-list
  • 501(c)(4) organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29
• 13:45 – Organic Marketing Report: Why Consumers Pay more For Organic Foods? Fear Sells and Marketers Know it http://academicsreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AR_Organic-Marketing-Report_Print.pdf

22:51 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Kirby http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/post2468343_b_2468343.html

• Genetics and the myth of vaccine encephalopathy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2603512/

Idiot Extraordinaire: J. Pepper Bryars http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/libertarianism_isnt_an_alterna.html

This Week’s Quote: “What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse…People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.” —Eugene Gendlin

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220
  • RSA Response To Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media-2/rsa-response/
  • At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/07/at-least-six-security-experts-boycott-prominent-security-conference-over-nsa-ties/
• 6:28 – E-Cigarettes Packed With Marijuana Oil Set To Boom In Colorado http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pot-boom-e-cigs-sales-set-soar-colo-article-1.1567304
• 13:40 – The UK “Porn” Filter Blocks Kids’ Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html
  • BBC News – Porn filters block sex education websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582
  • Porn filter blocks website of MP who campaigned for it http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/porn-filter-blocks-website-of-mp-who-campaigned-for-it-50013120/
• 21:10 – Little Support For Snowden Amnesty http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/01/02/little-support-snowden-amnesty/

29:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sherri Tenpenny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraJJp6A7Eo

34:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Young Turks (nominated by Nicholas Henson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxCMsdYwcg

This Week’s Quote: “The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern; every class is unfit to govern.” —Lord Acton

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-to-sentence-bradley-manning-today/2013/08/20/85bee184-09d0-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html
  • Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/PSATSFV.PDF
  • Lengthy prison term for Bradley Manning http://en.rsf.org/united-states-lengthy-prison-term-for-bradley-21-08-2013,45087.html
• 4:05 – Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald-guardian-partner-detained-heathrow
  • Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-miranda-detained-uk-nsa
• 8:20 – Britain forced Guardian to destroy copy of Snowden material http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/19/us-usa-security-snowden-guardian-idUSBRE97I10E20130819
• 9:10 – Lavabit.com owner: ‘I could be arrested’ for resisting surveillance order http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-lavabitcom-owner-i-could-be-arrested-for-resisting-surveillance-order
• 12:20 – Laws That Target Homeless Imperil Programs That Feed Them Outdoors http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/30/156328035/philadelphia-bans-serving-food-to-the-homeless-in-public
• 14:35 – Raped and Impregnated at 14, Girl Must Now Share Parental Rights with Her Attacker http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/raped-and-impregnated-14-girl-must-now-share-parental-rights-her-attacker?paging=off

18:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Republican and Democratic State Lawmakers (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/nightline-fix-abc-news/why-texas-bans-sale-tesla-cars-140842349.html

22:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire:Lu Ann Ballew (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.wbir.com/news/article/283997/2/Judge-orders-babys-name-be-changed-from-Messiah

This Week’s Quote: “I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.” —Calvin Coolidge