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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Study: No Scientific Basis for Laws on Marijuana and Driving http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/study-scientific-basis-laws-marijuana-driving-38998447
• 7:34 – Linksys WRT routers won’t block open source firmware despite FCC rules http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/linksys-wrt-routers-wont-block-open-source-firmware-despite-fcc-rules/
  • ASUS firmware will change the verification method http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-firmware-will-change-the-verification-method.32357/
• 16:21 – Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/
  • Sorry, Venezuela haters: this economy is not the Greece of Latin America http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezuela-not-greece-latin-america-oil-poverty

29:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Gizmodo or John McAfee http://gizmodo.com/john-mcafee-apparently-tried-to-trick-reporters-into-th-1776765480

38:07 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/9/nyc-de-blasio-forces-bars-serve-pregnant-women/

This Week’s Quote: “If the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.” —Milton Friedman

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Royal College of Physicians Says Vaping Saves Lives http://reason.com/archives/2016/05/02/royal-college-of-physicians-says-vaping
  • FDA Will Require E-Cigarettes and Contents to Be Reviewed http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-brings-cigarettes-federal-authority-38897397
• 15:19 – WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/
• 19:42 – The Proper Channels For Whistleblowers Are Still A Joke https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160312/14052833886/proper-channels-whistleblowers-are-still-joke.shtml

25:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Craig Wright http://archive.bogosity.tv/wright/

• How Craig Wright Privately ‘Proved’ He Created Bitcoin https://www.wired.com/2016/05/craig-wright-privately-proved-hes-bitcoins-creator/
• Satoshi: That’s not how any of this works http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/05/satoshi-thats-not-how-any-of-this-works.html
• Errata Security: Satoshi: how Craig Wright’s deception worked http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/05/satoshi-how-craig-wrights-deception.html
• Steve Gibson on Twitter: “I sure hope this clown is NOT Satoshi. Get a load of this latest spew of nonsense:” https://twitter.com/SGgrc/status/727566800116846592
• I’m Sorry. http://www.drcraigwright.net/

43:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/burr_feinstein_bill_prompts_protests/

• Darik’s Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing http://www.dban.org/
• Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser https://www.justsecurity.org/30740/feinstein-burr-bill-bans-browser/

This Week’s Quote: “Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.” —Robert LeFevre

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:32 – England’s Doctors Walk Out of Emergency Wards in First Ever All-Out Strike https://news.vice.com/article/englands-doctors-walk-out-of-emergency-wards-in-first-ever-all-out-strike
• 10:56 – Veteran’s off-the-grid trailer condemned by Huntsville http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/06/veterans_off-the-grid_trailer.html
  • Judge tosses one case against off-the-grid trailer, but owners aren’t home free yet http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/09/judge_tosses_one_case_against.html
  • Marine veteran loses court fight, but vows not to move home http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/11/marine_veteran_loses_court_fig.html
• 22:08 – The FBI paid more than $1 million to crack the San Bernardino iPhone https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/21/the-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-crack-the-san-bernardino-iphone/

25:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Opera Software http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/free-vpn-integrated-opera-for-windows-mac/

32:27 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cindy Prior (nominated by evensgrey) http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/qut-student-faces-200000-bill-in-facebook-post-racism-row-20160415-go7951.html

This Week’s Quote: “The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged ‘services’ and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.” —Robert Higgs

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Venezuela energy crisis: President tells women to stop using hairdryers and go with ‘natural’ style to save electricity http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-energy-crisis-president-tells-women-to-stop-using-hairdryers-and-go-with-natural-style-to-a6976246.html
• 8:31 – School’s new policy bans parents from walking children to school http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story
• 13:27 – Supreme Court Rules Against Freezing Assets Not Tied to Crimes http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/politics/supreme-court-rules-against-freezing-assets-not-tied-to-crimes.html

23:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Brian Bergstein https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601145/what-if-apple-is-wrong/

31:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-says-youtube-is-running-a-dmca-protection-racket-160412/

This Week’s Quote: “Our trend in copyright law has been to enclose as much as we can; the consequence of this enclosure is a stifling of creativity and innovation. If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 1:19 – WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/whatsapp-is-now-most-widely-used-end-to-end-crypto-tool-on-the-planet/
  • Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/
• 12:23 – Reddit’s Warrant Canary just died https://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/reddits-warrant-canary-just.html
  • We are ACLU lawyers and Nick Merrill of Calyx Institute. We’re here to talk about National Security Letters and warrant canaries, because Reddit can’t. AUA. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dcm55/we_are_aclu_lawyers_and_nick_merrill_of_calyx/
• 21:51 – 5th Circuit Denies Prosecutor’s Appeal of Misconduct Finding, and throws out Forfeiture Because of Prosecutorial Vindictiveness http://www.prosecutorialaccountability.com/2016/03/25/tx-5th-circuit-denies-prosecutors-appeal-of-misconduct-finding-and-throws-out-forfeiture-because-of-prosecutorial-vindictiveness/

28:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160401/06514734076/fbi-doesnt-want-to-share-details-exploit-it-deployed-while-running-child-porn-site.shtml

34:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

This Week’s Quote: “All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.” —Henry Hazlitt

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:36 – Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/paris-terrorist-attacks-burner-phones-not-encryption/
  • House bill wants to crack down on prepaid ‘burner’ phones http://www.zdnet.com/article/california-lawmaker-wants-to-crack-down-on-pre-paid-burner-phones/
  • Bruce Schneier: Focus on terrorists, not tactics https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/bruce_schneier_focus.html
• 13:40 – Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-16/venezuela-to-shut-down-for-a-week-as-electricity-crisis-mounts
• 19:42 – Texas House Panel Approves Full Legalization Of Marijuana In ‘Unprecedented’ Move http://realhealthtreatments.info/texas-house-panel-approves-full-legalization-of-marijuana-in-unprecedented-move/

23:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: New York http://www.coindesk.com/months-bitlicense-bitcoin-still-startups-await-approval-new-york/

28:31 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Judge Amanda Sammons http://www.knoxnews.com/news/crime-courts/defendants-barred-from-entering-court-arrested-for-being-late-records-show-2d7ac08e-4a20-4080-e053-0-371336111.html

This Week’s Quote: “The similarity of arguments against the abolition of slavery and arguments against the abolition of government (as we know it) should shake the faith of all Americans who still labor under the misconception that ours is a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ From where I stand, it looks distressingly like an institutional complex that rests on the same shaky intellectual foundations as slavery.” —Robert Higgs

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – After Apple, WhatsApp Under Fire from US Govt Over Encryption http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/whatsapp-encryption.html
• 7:15 – Appeals Court Says Backpage.com Is Not Liable For Sex Trafficking Done Via Its Site https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160315/08201233910/appeals-court-says-backpagecom-is-not-liable-sex-trafficking-done-via-site.shtml
• 17:53 – EU Court Of Justice Advocate General Says Open WiFi Operators Shouldn’t Be Liable For Infringement https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20160316/13090133923/eu-court-justice-advocate-general-says-open-wifi-operators-shouldnt-be-liable-infringement.shtml

22:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama https://youtu.be/FhFibpHSJFE?t=1h21m17s

• Obama tells tech community to solve encryption problem now or pay later http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/11/11207480/obama-sxsw-2016-fbi-apple-encryption
• Obama Just Made His Dumbest Comments on Encryption Yet http://gizmodo.com/obama-just-made-his-dumbest-comments-on-encryption-yet-1764388286
• No, you backoff on backdoors or else http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/03/no-you-backoff-on-backdoors-or-lese.html
  Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says

35:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Dianne Feinstein https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160309/23380133854/senator-feinstein-revives-stupid-idea-that-internet-companies-are-materially-supporting-terrorism-if-isis-members-use-their.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” —Louis Brandeis

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

0:58 – News of the Bogus: iPhone Special #NoBackdoors

• US trying to force Apple to unlock ‘about a dozen’ other iPhones, says WSJ http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097044/us-forcing-apple-to-unlock-dozen-iphones-says-wsj
• APPLE: The FBI screwed up its investigation and now we can’t unlock the shooter’s iPhone http://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-says-government-lost-access-to-shooters-iphone-backup-by-changing-passcode-2016-2
• CountyWire on Twitter: “The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI’s request.” https://twitter.com/CountyWire/status/700887823482630144
• FBI Admits — It was a ‘Mistake’ to Reset Terrorist’s iCloud Password http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/reset-icloud-passcode.html
• In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/27/468308775/in-fighting-fbi-apple-says-free-speech-rights-mean-no-forced-coding
• FBI Director — “What If Apple Engineers are Kidnapped and Forced to Write (Exploit) Code?” http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/fbi-apple-unlock-iphone.html
• Police chief: There’s a “reasonably good chance” not much is on seized iPhone http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/police-chief-theres-a-reasonably-good-chance-not-much-is-on-seized-iphone/
• Carole Adams, mom who lost son in San Bernardino shooting, sides with Apple http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/20/carole-adams-mom-who-lost-son-in-san-bernardino-sh/

19:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Venezuela https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inflation-poverty-food-shortages-venezuela-heads-toward-disaster/2016/02/11/10aad5b4-d035-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

• Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine by R.W. Grant https://mises.org/library/tom-smith-and-his-incredible-bread-machine
• Bastiat’s famous Candlestick makers’ Petition http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• USDA ERS – Interactive Chart: Food Expenditures http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures/interactive-chart-food-expenditures.aspx
• Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth

27:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Greenpeace http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/27/food.foodanddrink

• Greenpeace GM crop attack declared legal http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-gm-crop-attack-declared-legal-698440.html

This Week’s Quote: “Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.” —Ramez Naam

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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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2015 Wrap-up:

• Was 2015 a Bad Year for Campus Free Speech? Let’s Ask the Experts https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/28/was-2015-a-bad-year-for-campus-free-spee
• 191 million voters’ personal info exposed by misconfigured database http://www.databreaches.net/191-million-voters-personal-info-exposed-by-misconfigured-database/
• ‘Chicken pox party’ anti-vaccination mom: ‘Illness is meant to eliminate the weak’ http://deadstate.org/chicken-pox-party-anti-vaccination-mom-illness-is-meant-to-eliminate-the-weak/
• TSA to Stop Accepting Driver’s Licenses from 9 U.S. States http://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2015-12-30/tsa-to-stop-accepting-drivers-licenses-from-9-us-states
• Future or Ruin: The Argument for Eugenics | Augustus Sol Invictus https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/future-ruin-argument-eugenics-augustus-sol
  • Invictus for United States Senate https://imgur.com/ssgSQn7
• 11 ways to test if libertarians are hypocrites http://www.salon.com/2015/11/30/11_ways_to_test_if_libertarians_are_hypocrites/
• Rand Paul is just this desperate: Why his pathetic lies about the safety net are so destructive http://www.salon.com/2015/10/26/rand_paul_is_just_this_desperate_why_his_pathetic_lies_about_the_safety_net_are_so_destructive/
• Charles Koch’s brazen lie: I’m not powerful, I’m just a humble “classical liberal”! http://www.salon.com/2015/08/05/charles_kochs_brazen_lie_im_not_powerful_im_just_a_humble_classical_liberal/
• I gave up Ayn Rand for Bernie Sanders: How I grew up and traded libertarianism for a progressive “socialist” http://www.salon.com/2015/07/20/why_libertarians_should_love_bernie_sanders/
• Rand Paul, dorm room philosopher: Why his “slavery” nonsense is so outrageous http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/rand_paul_dorm_room_philosopher_why_his_slavery_nonsense_is_so_outrageous/
• Libertarianism is for white men: The ugly truth about the right’s favorite movement http://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/why_libertarianism_is_so_popular_on_the_right_its_the_last_bastion_of_white_male_dominance/
• Elon Musk will not save us: Why libertarians waiting for a superman are wasting everyone’s time http://www.salon.com/2015/05/28/elon_musk_will_not_save_us_why_libertarians_waiting_for_a_superman_are_wasting_everyones_time/
• Rise of the techno-Libertarians: The 5 most socially destructive aspects of Silicon Valley http://www.salon.com/2015/04/12/rise_of_the_techno_libertarians_the_5_most_socially_destructive_aspects_of_silicon_valley_partner/

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” —Clarence Darrow