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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

“Housekeeping” PPV: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4zige4_housekeeping_shortfilms

News of the Bogus:

• 2:00 – ‘Tolerant’ educators exile Trump voters from campus http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/11/14/trump-liberal-college-campuses-michigan-yale-glenn-reynolds-column/93765568/
• 11:30 – U.S. Copyright Office Undecided About Future of DMCA Takedowns https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-copyright-office-undecided-about-future-of-dmca-takedowns-161114/
• 17:05 – Security bods find Android phoning home. Home being China http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/android_phoning_home_to_china/

22:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161113/14342136032/hillary-clinton-looks-her-campaigns-many-missteps-decides-to-blame-james-comey-her-loss.shtml

30:10 – Silver Cluon Award: Matt Masur (nominated by Dallas Wildman) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-could-replace-president-trump-with-little_us_5829f25fe4b02b1f5257a6b7

35:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Janet Hull and Christina Sarich

• AminoSweet® – Get The Facts Straight From The Start http://www.janethull.com/healthynews/blog/2014/05/aminosweet-get-the-facts-straight-from-the-start/
• Aspartame’s Name Changed to Amino Sweet: A Toxin is Still a Toxin http://naturalsociety.com/toxin-name-still-deadly-fda-changes-aspartames-name-amino-sweet/
• Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1931610/
• Five Facts Natural News Got Wrong About Aspartame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpmQRHq4qmQ

This Week’s Quote: “The more amiability and esprit de corps there is among the members of a policy-making ingroup, the greater the danger that independent critical thinking will be replaced by groupthink, which is likely to result in irrational and dehumanizing actions directed against outgroups.” —Irving Janis

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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: Ibrahim Zallum

News of the Bogus:

• 1:24 – Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive cloud services blocked in Turkey following leaks https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/10/08/google-drive-dropbox-blocked-in-turkey/
• 5:40 – Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/10/16/doj-demands-mass-fingerprint-seizure-to-open-iphones/
• 14:36 – Pushing to the very edge of safe Li-ion charging http://www.powerelectronicsnews.com/technology/pushing-to-the-very-edge-of-safe-li-ion-charging

25:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: University of Cape Town “Fallists” (nominated by BlameThe1st) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SiRNibD14

• Watch Leftist Students Say Science Is Racist and Should Be Abolished http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/14/watch-leftist-students-say-science-is-ra

37:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: IoT device manufacturers https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powered-todays-massive-internet-outage/

This Week’s Quote: “Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works…bitches.” —Richard Dawkins

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Jakob Morris, and Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• John Oliver’s Anti-Charter School Rant Is Clever, Glib, and Uninformed https://reason.com/blog/2016/08/22/john-olivers-anti-charter-school-rant-is
• Five Reasons Measles is Better Than Autism http://www.modernalternativehealth.com/2016/08/19/five-reasons-measles-is-better-than-autism/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: MY123, Slipstream, and Pretty Much Everybody http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/uefi-secure-boot-hack.html

• Security Now 573: Memory & Micro Kernels https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-573.htm

Idiot Extraordinaire: The Democratic National Committee https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160815/09190935246/democratic-national-committee-creates-cybersecurity-board-without-single-cybersecurity-expert.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door.” —Kevin Mitnick

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:53 – Hack Brief: Hackers Breach the Ultra-Secure Messaging App Telegram in Iran https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hack-brief-hackers-breach-ultra-secure-messaging-app-telegram-iran/
  • Telegram Hack – Possible Nation State Attack By Iran http://www.darknet.org.uk/2016/08/telegram-hack-possible-nation-state-attack-by-iran/
• 6:17 – The FDA is prohibited from going germline http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/545.full
  • DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
• 10:25 – Kickass Torrents Asks Justice Department To Drop Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/17581635187/kickass-torrents-asks-justice-department-to-drop-case.shtml

16:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Clinton Body Count” Conspiracy Theorists http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

31:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/18065135188/no-new-study-does-not-say-uber-has-no-effect-drunk-driving.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 2:04 – The U.S. commitment to the Persian Gulf is outdated http://www.reuters.com/article/us-persian-gulf-commentary-idUSKCN0ZN2DB
• 10:00 – NSA Labels Tor and Tails Users as Extremists http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nsa-labels-linux-tails-users-extremists/
• 14:38 – South Dakota cops collect urine samples through forced catheterization; is it constitutional? http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/south_dakota_cops_collect_urine_samples_through_forced_catheterization_is_i/

17:59 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama  http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/12/no-president-obama-its-not-easier-to-buy-a-glock-than-a-book/

27:39 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vladimir Putin https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/07/07/putin-gives-federal-security-agents-two-weeks-to-produce-encryption-keys-for-the-internet

• VPN provider cuts off service to Russia after servers seized http://www.pcworld.com/article/3094370/vpn-provider-cuts-of-service-to-russia-after-servers-seized.html

This Week’s Quote: “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” —Sun Tzu

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – New Zealand town with ‘too many jobs’ offering packages of land and homes for $165k http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Zealand-town-with-too-many-jobs-is-offering-8337340.php
• 4:28 – Georgia publisher jailed after filing open records request https://www.ajc.com/news/local/north-georgia-newspaper-publisher-jailed-over-open-records-request/CFPXD1Mcgk0lqXOvOf9rHK/
• 12:33 – Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT https://fee.org/articles/homeschoolers-creaming-other-students-on-the-sat/
• 17:26 – Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police http://wreg.com/2016/06/30/disabled-st-jude-patient-sues-airport-and-tsa-after-bloody-scuffle-with-airport-police/

21:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.ocala.com/news/20160630/nations-first-known-self-driving-car-fatality-happened-in-williston

27:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: James Comey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html

• 18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793#f
• Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05/washington-has-been-obsessed-with-punishing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

This Week’s Quote: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” —Desmond Tutu

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real https://heatst.com/uk/exclusive-brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-a-4-chan-prank-bbc-report-it-as-real/
• 7:19 – Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn’t Prove Anything https://torrentfreak.com/judge-dismisses-movie-piracy-case-ip-address-doesnt-prove-anything-160627/
• 11:46 – Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer
  • Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer

19:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160628/05570734838/hillary-clintons-tech-policy-plan-includes-some-empty-broadband-promises-continued-war-encryption.shtml

• Top Donors data for Hillary Clinton, 2016 Cycle https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000019&cycle=2016&type=f&src=c

26:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Comodo Group, Inc. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

This Week’s Quote: “Before September 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras…would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.” —Jeffrey Rosen

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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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News of the Bogus:

• 0:46 – Advocacy groups criticize proposed security change at Albany airport http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Advocacy-groups-criticize-proposed-security-7941060.php
• 5:11 – “Game-Changing” Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/federal-study-links-cell-phone-radiation-cancer
  • Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposures) http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.full.pdf
• 13:45 – NHS: Why isn’t the chickenpox vaccination part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule? http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-vaccine-questions-answers.aspx#routineschedule
  • Chickenpox Vaccine Not Responsible for Rise in Shingles, Study Says http://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20131202/chickenpox-vaccine-not-responsible-for-rise-in-shingles-study-says

20:16 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: DePaul University http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-admins-surrender-to-violent-protesters-shutter_us_57454738e4b00853ae7b5ae3

• DePaul’s president expresses discontent following Yiannopoulos controversy http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/25/depaul-president-holtschneider-letter/
• Milo Yiannopoulos at DePaul University 5-24-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-MnRyIoQY&feature=youtu.be&t=46m18s

29:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Hillary Clinton http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/did-the-clinton-email-server-have-an-internet-based-printer/

This Week’s Quote: “When someone gets something everyone is due by right, they are not privileged because others did not get that something. Racism or some other form of discriminatory bias may well be at work, but it’s not a ‘privilege’ to be treated civilly. Let’s see to it everyone is so regarded.” —Jim Babka