I’m recovering from an illness; I’ll get the 2012 end-of-year podcast up as soon as I get my voice back. Thanks for your patience.

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – BPI court order sees legal Pirate Bay site blocked by some ISPs http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/bpi-court-order-sees-legal-pirate-bay-site-blocked-by-some-isps-1116867
  • Pirate Bay Launches Dedicated “Promo Bay” Website to Plug Artists http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-launches-dedicated-promo-bay-to-help-artists-121129/
• 4:05 – Food Trucks Still Not Free of Restaurant Ties http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9715
• 7:05 – Bigfoot DNA Tests Prove Hairy Creature Exists, Genetic Researcher Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/bigfoot-dna-proves-creature-exists-genetic_n_2199984.html
  • ‘Bigfoot’ is Part Human, DNA Study Claims http://news.discovery.com/human/bigfoot-genetic-test-121127.html
  • DNA Diagnostics Better Business Bureau Review http://www.bbb.org/east-texas/business-reviews/laboratories-medical/dna-diagnostics-in-timpson-tx-24003140

11:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/11/30/democratic-rep-amend-constitution-to-allow-control-of-speech/

19:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Melody Hensley (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://flic.kr/p/dzzKqo

• TruthAndOblivion’s video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ob0AKW8Bs

This Week’s Quote: “I think the only real difference between a riot and a revolution is the latter is better organized.” —Will Dayble

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Guest Host: Tim Dyson http://www.youtube.com/LordTHawkeye

News of the Bogus:

• CFTC Charges Ireland-based “Prediction Market” Proprietors Intrade and TEN with Violating the CFTC’s Off-Exchange Options Trading Ban and Filing False Forms with the CFTC http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6423-12
  • 2008 Presidential Election: Actual results and forecast http://electoralmap.net/2012/2008_election.php
• Walmart Workers Revolt! (Workers Decline to Participate) http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/23/walmart-workers-revolt-workers-decline-t
  • Wal-Mart protests draw hundreds nationwide http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/23/news/companies/walmart-protests/index.html
  • Walmart walkout: Protesters arrested at Paramount location http://www.dailynews.com/ci_22054148/walkmart-walkout-protestors-planning-arrests-at-paramount-location
  • Wal-Mart Black Friday walkout: How bad will it be? http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2012/1119/Wal-Mart-Black-Friday-walkout-How-bad-will-it-be-video
• Empty Embrace… Hurricane Sandy Victim Upset After Being Played By Obama http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/empty-embrace-hurricane-sandy-victim-upset-after-being-played-by-obama-video/
  • http://reason.com/blog/2012/11/19/no-country-on-earth-would-tolerate-missi

Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Moraga (California) school district http://www.alternet.org/12-year-old-rape-victim-called-negligent-and-careless-school-district-legal-papers

Idiot Extraordinaire: Lori Phillips http://www.wbtv.com/story/20189948/mom-young-daughter-got-disturbing-book-from-elementary-school

This Week’s Quote: “As long as I was in Washington I never met anybody that I thought was good enough, who knew enough, or who loved enough to make sexual decisions for anybody else.” —Joycelyn Elders

No podcast this week due to the Thanksgiving holidays.

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 – “Coca-Cola” Model for Delivering Malaria Meds is a Success, Should be Continued, Say Public Health Expert http://www.princeton.edu/research/news/features/a/?id=8912
  • “From Financing to Fevers: Lessons of an Antimalarial Subsidy Program,” Science 338(6107):615-616, DOI: 10.1126/science.1231010 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6107/615
• 2:45 – Man tasered by police while trying to save burning home http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/282664/4/Man-tasered-by-police-while-trying-to-save-burning-home
• 5:00 – Woman ‘denied a termination’ dies in hospital http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/1114/1224326575203.html

7:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jillian Berman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/papa-johns-obamacare_n_2123207.html

• Breaking Down Centi-Millionaire ‘Papa’ John Schnatter’s Obamacare Math http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/11/12/breaking-down-centi-millionaire-papa-john-schnatters-obamacare-math/

12:00 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578122632560842670.html

• Hostess to Liquidate, Lay Off 18,500 After Crushing Union Fight http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2012/11/16/hostess-brands-moves-to-wind-down-operations-sell-assets
• Hostess Brands closing for good http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/16/news/companies/hostess-closing/

This Week’s Quote: “Given the results of the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs, if the government starts a War on Abortion, in five years men will be having abortions.” —Harry Browne

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News of the Bogus:

• Italian scientists guilty of manslaughter in 2009 earthquake http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/10/22/italy-earthquake-scientists-trial.html
• Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant creates just 400 jobs http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/29/hiring-stats-elusive-in-latest-energy-failure/
• Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9C6×99EnFVdFuXw_B8pvDRzLqcA?docId=CNG.e740b6d0077ba8c28f6d1dd931c6f679.5e1
• Publisher Thomas Nelson decides to pull David Barton’s controversial book on Thomas Jefferson’s faith http://www.worldmag.com/2012/08/lost_confidence
• Electronic nicotine delivery systems, including electronic cigarettes http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/75811/1/FCTC_COP5_13-en.pdf
  • World Health Organization Urges Countries to Ban Electronic Cigarettes Because They “Normalize” Smoking http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/10/world-health-organization-urges.html
• Cop Tasers Little Boy http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/10/30/51809.htm

Biggest Bogon Emitter: Peter Morici http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/economic-impact-hurricane-sandy-not-bad-news-150458002.html

Silver Cluon Award: Julie Borowski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAkdHzpXXo0

Idiot Extraordinaire: Chris Matthews http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-matthews-goes-on-obnoxious-rant-against-idiots-who-vote-third-party-or-stay-home/

This Week’s Quote: “As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.” —Paul Craig Roberts

Sorry, I’ve had a lot of computer problems I’ve been unable to resolve, which means no podcast this week.

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Election Special:

Guest: Jonathan Loesche (FSBlueApocalypse)

Free & Equal Presidential Debate: http://freeandequal.org/updates/rt-presents-final-us-presidential-debate/
The next debate: http://freeandequal.org/updates/winners-of-october-23-presidential-debate/

Candidates:

5:00 – Virgil Goode: http://www.goodeforpresident2012.com/

15:10 – Jill Stein: http://www.jillstein.org/

• Contributing supporter: Thomas Ricks https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kind-of-a-talk-show/id387824096

25:30 – Gary Johnson: http://garyjohnson2012.com

• Contributing supporter: Chiyen Chendra http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFz6eouUHNpjgHcbr5jqRlw

33:30 – Mitt Romney: http://www.mittromney.com/

40:00 – Barack Obama: http://www.barackobama.com/

• Contributing supporters: iluvatar003, 216trixie http://www.youtube.com/user/216trixie
• I.C.E.’s “How to Steal an American Job” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1d4xjU8DpQ

This Week’s Quote: “Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.” —H.L. Mencken

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News of the Bogus:

• Study finds pirates spend 30% more on music than non-sharers http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/17/study-finds-pirates-spend-30-more-on-music-than-non-sharers/
• Nutrition Board Casts Net Far Beyond Paleo-Diet Blogger http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=9589
• Amtrak snack bars lost $84.5 million last year; $833 million in 10 years http://washingtonexaminer.com/amtrak-snack-bars-lost-84.5-million-last-year-833-million-in-10-years/article/2510864
  • Federal Spending by the Numbers – 2012 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012
• Texas schools punish students who refuse to be tracked with microchips http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: the Nobel Peace Prize Committee http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19921072

Idiot Extraordinaire: Robert Wright http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/why-i-refuse-to-refuse-to-vote-for-obama/263116/

This week’s quote: “Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil, and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.” —Penn Jillette

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:25 Lunch lady slammed for food that is ‘too good’ http://m.thelocal.se/43656/20121006/
• 2:45 Video shows naked student before he’s shot http://www.chron.com/news/article/Video-shows-naked-student-before-he-s-shot-3940349.php
• 6:30 Cops tase man for having seizure http://rt.com/usa/news/man-seizure-police-sheeley-049/
• 8:45 Official: Pakistani teen blogger’s shooting a ‘wake-up call’ to ‘clear … danger’ http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/11/world/asia/pakistan-teen-activist-attack/index.html

Biggest Bogon Emitter: 11:00 Bonnie Kavoussi http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/lies-about-the-federal-reserve_n_1948346.html

• M1 money stock graph: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1?cid=25
• ”Money. Whence It Came, Where It Went” by John Kenneth Galbraith http://www.scribd.com/doc/102379402/Money-Whence-It-Came-Where-It-Went-John-Kenneth-Galbraith
• Source for gas prices: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2012_fotw741.html
• Source for gold prices: http://www.kitco.com/charts/historicalgold.html
• ”Has the Fed Been a Failure?” http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/42040177
• HuffPo’s 11 Myths About the Fed, Refuted http://www.libertyclassroom.com/huffpos-11-myths-about-the-fed-refuted/

Idiot Extraordinaire: 26:00 Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-house-science-committee-member-evolution-big-bang-%E2%80%98lies-straight-from-the-pit-of-hell%E2%80%99/

This Week’s Quote: ”But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.” —Job 13:4