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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

0:40 – News of the Bogus: Bitcoin Special

• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
• Community Disagrees with Mike Hearn, as He Sparks Bitcoin Classic Adoption http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/01/16/mike-hearn-wrong-bitcoin-classic-now/
• Gavin Andresen on Twitter: “@binarybits @OctSkyward Yes, Mike is too pessimistic.” https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/687900588210663424
• Austin Hill on Twitter: “Bitcoin is not dead,we are going through a similar process that early IETF & ICANN went through” https://twitter.com/austinhill/status/688446351105916929
• Bitcoin Blocksize and The Future http://belshe.com/2016/01/18/bitcoin-blocksize-and-the-future/

29:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Joseph I. Cassilly https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160104/07032833235/state-prosecutor-says-forfeiture-reform-is-legislators-funding-drug-dealers.shtml

• COLD SHOCK: Warming up your car illegal! http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/cold-shock-warming-up-your-car-illegal/
• Kansas Police Ticketing People For ‘Illegally’ Warming Up Their Cars http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=49634

39:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Facebook https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160106/06042833250/facebook-nixes-picture-bronze-mermaid-statue-showing-too-much-skin.shtml

• An Illustrated History of American Money Design http://gizmodo.com/an-illustrated-history-of-american-money-design-1743743361

This Week’s Quote: “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tommy Smothers

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 1:02 – What Happens When All The Police In A Town Are Removed https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/10/1/what-happens-when-all-the-police-in-a-town-are-removed.html
  • Top 10 Reasons Why the Mafia is Better than the State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErlI34-0so
• 5:33 – Santa Fe Springs Family Fights City To Keep Backyard Playground For Special Needs Daughter http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/10/07/santa-fe-springs-family-fights-city-to-keep-backyard-playground-for-special-needs-daughter/
• 10:03 – Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/government-says-federal-agents-can-impersonate-woman-online
• 15:09 – TSA desecrates woman’s ashen remains during warrantless urn search http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/shannon-thomas-tsa-lawsuit/
  • 19th Airport Joins Screening Partnership Program http://dailysignal.com/2014/10/01/dropping-tsa-19th-airport-joins-efficient-private-screening-program/
  • Bradford’s History of ‘Plimoth Plantation’ by William Bradford – Free Ebook http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24950
• 24:36 – Manure fertilizer increases antibiotic resistance http://www.nature.com/news/manure-fertilizer-increases-antibiotic-resistance-1.16081
• 30:52 – Economists explain why they love Uber so much http://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/9/30/6873389/uber-economists-poll-consumer-welfare-efficiency

35:32 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Dr. Oz http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/dr-oz-autism-and-gmos/
Spurious Correlations http://www.tylervigen.com/

45:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: European adult industry http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/oct/05/sex-sell-decline-british-porn-xbiz-regulations-children

This Week’s Quote: “[W]e published a whole series of studies of regulation and its effects. Almost all the studies–perhaps all the studies–suggested that the results of regulation had been bad, that the prices were higher, that the product was worse adapted to the needs of consumers, than it otherwise would have been…I can’t remember one that’s good…There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad.” —Ronald Coase

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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