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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – In Silk Road Appeal, Ross Ulbricht’s Defense Focuses on Corrupt Feds http://www.wired.com/2016/01/ross-ulbrichts-defense-focuses-on-corrupt-feds-in-silk-road-appeal/
• 13:18 – Banning GM Salmon Is a Terrible Idea http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/banning-gm-salmon-is-a-terrible-idea/
• 23:37 – Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-proposals-18-trillion-1442271511

28:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jeb Bush http://www.businessinsider.com/jeb-bush-cybersecurity-2016-1

37:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/pr/former-drug-kingpin-serving-multiple-life-sentences-receives-additional-20-year

This Week’s Quote: “Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” —Kenneth Boulding

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:34 – The No Fly List Isn’t Just Broken, It’s Insane. You Must Read This Before You Talk About Gun Control. http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/12/07/42000/
  • Dem governor moves to ban no-fly list gun sales http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/262797-dem-governor-moves-to-ban-no-fly-list-gun-sales
• 8:06 – France is considering a ban on Tor and public WiFi http://www.businessinsider.com/france-is-considering-a-ban-on-tor-and-public-wifi-2015-12
• 12:06 – Venezuela’s opposition wins legislative majority http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/07/venezuela-opposition-victory/76909468/

16:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Reich http://robertreich.org/post/134670682190

26:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, et al http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2015/12/07/no-monsanto-is-not-going-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity/

This Week’s Quote: “Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.” —Lois Lowry

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-transcript-shows-how-a-judge-justified-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence
• 15:02 – Doctors Without Borders wants airstrike inquiry http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/asia/doctors-without-borders-afghanistan-airstrike/
  • Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days  http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again
• 21:48 – Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates  http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
  • At HLS, a conference on the free market mindset http://today.law.harvard.edu/at-hls-a-conference-on-the-free-market-mindset/

27:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Doug Saffir http://ctboom.com/connecticut-cracking-down-on-e-cigarettes-but-not-quite-enough/

34:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Francisco Rangel http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/10/02/venezuelan-governor-suggests-eating-fried-rocks-amid-shortages/

This Week’s Quote: “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be…Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself—educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” —Doris Lessing

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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