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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
Unfortunately, Snopes also promotes the myth that Bill Clinton was impeached for his (distasteful and inappropriate on multiple grounds but entirely consensual) affair with Monica Lewinsky rather than for perjuring himself about that affair.
Now, if you want a body count on the Clintons, they both have a LOT. Bill gets the blame for a great many of the people who died in both Iraq and the Balkans during his Presidency, particularly those killed by the bombings he ordered. Hillary gets an unknown (and possibly unknowable) number of US agents and handlers (and what's possibly the worst part of this is the fact that, given the way these things are done, it is entirely possible many of them didn't even know they were working for the US) who died as a result of her casually criminal usage of a private email server to evade Freedom of Information Act provisions applicable to her email as her doing so resulted in a large but (due to further illegal actions by Clinton) unknown scale leak of classified information, potentially affecting anything she handled through that illegal server. (And, since one of the compounding crimes was a failure to turn over all emails sent through that server, some of which are known to be irretrievable, it is impossible to know for certain what exactly may have been compromised, meaning it may be necessary to abandon intelligence assets and operations that are, in reality, entirely unaffected because there is no way to know they are unaffected.)