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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

0:27 – Update: Twitch Plays Pokémon beats Pokémon http://www.anandtech.com/show/7822/twitch-plays-pokmon-beats-pokmon

News of the Bogus:

• 9:00 – Subway: Stop Using Dangerous Chemicals In Your Bread http://foodbabe.com/subway/
  • Azodicarbonamide – WHO http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?codlan=1&codcol=38&codcch=16
• 18:47 – Obama aiming for ‘unilateral disarmament’ http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/obama-aiming-for-unilateral-disarmament/?cat_orig=politics

25:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Mark Gongloff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/bitcoin-user-demographics-libertarian-men_n_4874727.html

35:15 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/02/24/the-tsa-is-looking-for-bitcoin/

• Auditing Shooting Rampage Statistics http://dailyanarchist.com/2012/07/31/auditing-shooting-rampage-statistics/

This Week’s Quote: “Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” —Nelson Mandela

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 2:31 – On the UK’s Equating of Journalism With Terrorism https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/19/uks-equating-journalism-terrorism-designed-conceal-gchq/
• 4:10 – Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/12/james-clapper-says-transparency-helps-terrorists-like/
• 10:55 – Why Reddit moderators are “censoring” Glenn Greenwald’s latest bombshell  http://www.salon.com/2014/02/28/why_reddit_moderators_are_censoring_glenn_greenwalds_latest_bombshell_partner/
• 15:10 – Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/18/snowden-docs-reveal-covert-surveillance-and-pressure-tactics-aimed-at-wikileaks-and-its-supporters/
  • WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Has Cost The Met Police £5.3m During Ecuador Embassy Stay http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/25/julian-assange-policing-cost_n_4853130.html
• 20:46 – Whistleblower Edward Snowden elected as new rector of Glasgow University http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/whistleblower-edward-snowden-elected-new-3161134
• 22:17 – Government Monitors in Newsrooms? http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/why-is-obama-administration-putting-government-monitors-in-newsrooms
• 24:23 – New Jersey slaps MIT Bitcoin hackers with subpoena — and they’re fighting back http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/new-jersey-slaps-mit-bitcoin-hackers-with-subpoena-and-theyre-fighting-back/

28:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) http://www.businessinsider.com/senator-calls-for-bitcoin-ban-2014-2

34:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Jesse Jackson http://www.examiner.com/article/jesse-jackson-claims-semi-automatic-rifles-can-blow-up-railroads

40:17 – Twitch Plays Pokemon conquers Elite Four, beating game after 390 hours http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619740-93/twitch-plays-pokemon-conquers-elite-four-beating-game-after-390-hours/

This Week’s Quote: “At the end fiat money returns to its inner value—zero.” —Voltaire

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News of the Bogus:

• 4:06 – Why You Might Want to Rethink Going Gluten-Free http://gizmodo.com/why-you-might-want-to-rethink-going-gluten-free-1475646469
• 7:07 – Protesters block Google bus in S.F. Mission http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/12/09/protesters-block-google-bus-in-s-f-mission/
  • UPDATE: Union organizer shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown
• 17:39 – Michigan ‘Rape Insurance’ Bill Passes Into Law http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/michigan-rape-insurance_n_4428432.html
• 20:37 – ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/atf-uses-rogue-tactics-in-storefront-stings-across-the-nation-b99146765z1-234916641.html

26:40 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jim Edwards http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-libertarian-paradise-would-be-hell-on-earth-2013-12

• List of businesses that accept Bitcoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade

41:53 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Judge Jean Boyd http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/11/ethan-couch-sentenced_n_4426722.html

This Week’s Quote: “Responsibility is the price of freedom.” —Elbert Hubbard

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:44 – Sylvia Browne: Dead Psychic’s Legacy Riddled With Failed Predictions, Fraud http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/sylvia-browne_n_4317470.html
• 7:52 – Bitcoin campaign donations have regulators scratching heads http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-bitcoin-20131130,0,6288919.story
• 12:56 – Beyond GDP: Get Ready For A New Way To Measure The Economy http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/11/29/beyond-gdp-get-ready-for-a-new-way-to-measure-the-economy/
  • The Problem with GDP – YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFv_tJs6Jq8
  • The Economics of a Pure Gold Standard by Mark Skousen http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=bq4dyGzuN7w&subid=&offerid=239662.1&type=10&tmpid=8433&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%252Fw%252Feconomics-of-a-pure-gold-standard-mark-skousen%252F1102718420
• 18:13 – Man says police officer threatened to kill his dogs http://fox4kc.com/2013/11/27/man-says-police-officer-threatened-to-kill-his-dogs/
• 26:25 – Study linking GM maize to rat tumours is retracted http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268
  • Rat study sparks GM furore http://www.nature.com/news/rat-study-sparks-gm-furore-1.11471
  • Elsevier Announces Article Retraction from Journal Food and Chemical Toxicology http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/elsevier-announces-article-retraction-from-journal-food-and-chemical-toxicology
• 33:21 – Federal Regulation Could Redefine The Word ‘Organ,’ Jeopardize Bone Marrow Donations http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2013/11/25/federal-regulation-could-re-define-the-word-organ-jeopardize-bone-marrow-donations/
  • DownsizeDC’s Write the Laws Act https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/

41:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Pope Francis http://world.time.com/2013/11/26/pope-francis-denounces-idolatry-of-money-and-tyranny-of-capitalism/
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html#No_to_the_new_idolatry_of_money

47:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Audreanna Phelps http://gawker.com/5812477/woman-sees-god-in-her-leg-veins

This Week’s Quote: “And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.” —Jean-Baptiste Say

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – FAA allowing most electronic device use throughout flights http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/travel/faa-portable-electronic-devices/
• 5:13 – FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust http://rt.com/usa/bitcoin-fbi-seize-money-770/
• 15:26 – Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance
  • “The Incredible Bread Machine” by R.W. Grant http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/flint/4thr/TomSmithsIncredibleBreadMachinePoem.txt
• 22:18 – As Europe erupts over US spying, NSA chief says government must stop media  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/25/europe-erupts-nsa-spying-chief-government
• 30:05 – Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/us/federal-prosecutors-in-a-policy-shift-cite-warrantless-wiretaps-as-evidence.html

35:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Buchheit (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.nationofchange.org/public-beats-private-six-reasons-why-1382448019

59:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Diane Feinstein http://thestateweekly.com/sen-feinsteins-proposed-bill-would-incriminate-anyone-speaking-against-nsas-spying-and-courts/

• Feinstein Claims NSA Spying Program Could Have Prevented 9/11 Attacks http://thestateweekly.com/feinstein-claims-nsa-spying-program-could-have-prevented-911-attacks/
• Feinstein defends NSA data collection and insists program is ‘not surveillance’ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/dianne-feinstein-defends-nsa-data-collection

This Week’s Quote: “No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth.The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.” —Thomas Jefferson