While Edward Snowden has done heroic things to expose our government’s unjust mass surveillance programs, he’s unfortunately promoting the same theory of privacy that gave rise to those programs. Tune in to hear more. Other stories, too. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., I plan to discuss.
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Program Notes
Bialetti 6-Cup Stovetop Espresso Maker
Your Keurig Machine May Be Covered In Bacteria And Mold
Edward Snowden just made an impassioned argument for why privacy is the most important right HT Stuart Hayashi
I agree w/ @Snowden that privacy's important, but 4 law to be *objective* property & contract must be fundamental. Privacy's a *consequence*
— Amy Peikoff (@AmyPeikoff) September 15, 2016
Edward Snowden Says Disclosures Bolstered Individual Privacy
House Intelligence Committee Urges No Pardon for Edward Snowden
Dragnet NSA Spying Survives: 2015 in Review
Word Games: What the NSA Means by “Targeted” Surveillance Under Section 702
AP, Other Media, Sue FBI for Details on iPhone Hacking Tool
Toward a Society of Privacy (MP3 download)
Legalizing Privacy: Why and How (MP3 download)
Beyond Reductionism: Reconsidering the Right to Privacy
20 Guantanamo detainees freed by Obama suspected of returning to terror HT William Bush
U.S. signs record $38B military aid deal with Israel HT William Bush
White House raises refugee target to 110,000
Ivanka Trump: US must ‘catch up with the times’ on guaranteed maternity leave
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Campaign Systematically Overcharging Poorest Donors HT Glenn Jameson
How Bernie Sanders Die-Hards Echo Clinton Conspiracy Theories
Union Leader of New Hampshire Endorses Gary Johnson Over Donald Trump
Libertarians secure spot on all 50 state, DC ballots HT Rob Abiera
Christian bakers fined $135,000 for refusing to make cake for a gay wedding fight back HT Rob Abiera
Boeing 737 Max jets will launch the age of $69 one way trans-Atlantic fares and it should start in March 2017 HT Brian Yoder
HT Glenn Jameson
Don't Let It Go 
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/keurig.asp “They” say some true, some not. The bacteria can occur in any coffee machine/pot.
Sonya Healy
Right, but not in a cleaned, air-dried percolator. I’ll explain my interest in this on today’s show.
Libertarian Herman Mashaba elected mayor of Johannesburg
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/libertarian-herman-mashaba-elected-mayor-of-johannesburg/article31942363/
Herman Mashaba is a millionaire tycoon, an ideological libertarian and self-proclaimed “capitalist crusader” who lectures his listeners about the evils of big government and minimum wage.
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His highest value, he says, is “individual freedom.” He rails against the “culture of dependency” and excessive regulation in South Africa. “I’m just asking the government to leave us alone,” he says.
When a Globe and Mail interviewer suggests that he must be a lonely voice as the only libertarian mayor in the country, he laughs. “I was born alone. My life is not shaped by other people.”
The son of a domestic worker who was widowed when he was 2 years old, he grew up in poverty in a black township near Pretoria. In the apartheid era, when the white-minority regime made it difficult for blacks to enter business, Mr. Mashaba overcame the obstacles and made his fortune by creating a hair-products empire under the “Black Like Me” brand name.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/1928257054